Nothing Ventured and Nothing Gained - Part Five

Posted on Tue Mar 10th, 2020 @ 5:01am by Division Admiral Talon Yeager & Division Admiral Edward "Mackie" MacDougan & Captain Tristan Kendrick & Colonel Bronwyn Yamaguchi & Commander Pamela MacDougan & Commander Lakaris Dvald & Commander Shando Yeager & Commander T'Lee & Lieutenant Samantha "Sammy" Yeager & Post Captain Davijaan "Oddball" Yeager & Post Captain Duran-Yeager Syal & Fleet Captain Kell Donos & Command Master Chief Petty Officer Sine Donos & Post Captain Nomek & Post Captain Lenaris Dvald & Post Captain James Yamaguchi & Commander Gabriel Wounded-Knee & Lieutenant Colonel Alec Ross & Division General Xyler "Whirlwind" Danix

Mission: Mission 79: Sound Trumpets! Let Our bloody Colors Wave
Location: The Kilrogg System - Various Locations
Timeline: 0230Hrs - April 16th, 2392

Grosh'thar turned. "Gas any parts of the base you can.," he commented.

"Yessir." and with that, a smaller Gorn went to work.

Grosh'thar growled softly in approval. "Arm yourselves.." he commented. "When the gas has had time to work, we pop open that door and attack..". His subordinates rushed to find weapons.

Moments later the officer nearby turned. "The gas has worked, effectiveness is at a hundred percent." he paused. "ready to pop the seal on your command." as another Gorn meanwhile began handing out masks to various Gorn around him before handing one to Grosh'thar.
"We're ready sir."

"Good." Grosh'thar then accepted his weapon as he prepared for the battle to come. "Open the door and let's kill them."

As if on command, the door did exactly that and the Gorn launched forth, prepared to fight, defend their base and each other against the Klingons. Meanwhile, Bronwyn Yamaguchi knew that she was sending her troops into close quarters with the Klingons, something that she generally hated to do.

The tall and rather good-looking woman peered at one of the displays that had been set up at the command post, which was where she was now going to be remaining for the remainder of this fight. "I should have never accepted promotion," she grumbled as she tapped the display twice. "Second Squad, watch your corners... Klingons are in the crawlspaces around you and under you."

"Copy that." came the response. "I've been waiting to get killed all day." came an additional response that might have been funny to some but Bronwyn was not laughing and neither was anyone around her. "No thanks Bronson." came the rebuttal from another marine.

One of the techs came over with a PADD. "Colonel, the Gorn are launching a major assault near the engineering section."

"Makes sense... whose closest?" Bronwyn asked softly.

"The Fifth Infantry Battalion."

"Alright.. detail them to drop their present task and ask them to punch a hole through and link up with the Gorn if they can... I do not want that Gorn General demolishing his own base if I can help it."

"Understood sir." and with that, the tech turned and away he went back to his task and to give the orders to the Major commanding the Battalion.

Major James Web sighed softly as he tapped the com piece on his helmet which chance would have it was over his left ear. "Come again command.. you said punch through and link up with the Gorn?" he paused. "Confirm please?"

"Confirmed." came the voice of Colonel Yamaguchi.

"Understood... We're on it." Web responded. "Alright, my guys with me, watch for the Klinks and try not to frag any Gorn.," he explained before he moved towards the walls of the hallway he was advancing down, a dozen or so marines following him.

"Oh esto es demasiado fácil" came to the voice of Private Hablo Estevez which the translator turned into "Oh this is too easy."

Web raised an eyebrow. "I have no idea what you just said private.." he responded in a rather dry tone as a half dozen Klingons popped up and both sides began shooting at each other. "Fire in the hole." came to a voice as a grenade came flying, it landed near Webber who threw himself to the side as the warhead went off, it had been set to stun which had allowed the Federation to execute bloodless assaults, assuming nothing went stupidly wrong.

Web felt someone or someone's haul him to his feet. "Easy M,ajor.. we got four of them, the other two got gunned down.."

"Nice. Okay.." Web responded in a dry tone. "Well that cleared out the old cobwebs.."

There were a few laughs as clearly, the skipper retained his sense of humor. "Let's get going guys.." Web added a moment later as he resumed leading his troops down the hallway of the Gorn base.

The sounds of battle filled the air as Federation troops locked horns with Klingons who found themselves face to face with Federation Marines and angry Gorn soldiers but after about thirty minutes of brutal fighting, the Federation linked up with the Gorn troops and together, the two factions proceeded to eliminate every single last Klingon planetside. It took close to thirty minutes of brutal fighting but the end was never in doubt.

Meanwhile up on the Shinano, the medical personnel went into high gear as the wounded started to arrive, it was fast and brutal and before long, sickbay began to resemble a slaughterhouse with blood splattered in various places, the nurses and doctors tried to keep up as best they could with the wounded but they were only holding the line against death.

Lenaris sighed softly as he finished with one marine. "Another life saved.. save him to postop. Next!" the tall Bolian male called, they brought him a Klingon male wearing the full armor of someone from the Empire. Lenaris regarded the wounded Klingon. "Who is this guy... one of ours or one of theirs.?"

"Theirs." came the response which in Lenaris's mind was damning. "Take him over there. Starfleet's up first... I'll deal with enemy wounded after I heal all of ours first.." he was angry at this point.

Two orderlies placed a wounded Federation Marine before him. Lenaris looked down to find himself dealing with a Bolian female. "Easy. You're gonna be fine." He addressed her in Bolian.

"I don't wanna die.." she responded, also in Bolian.

Dvald gave the female the once over. "Klingon projectile.." he commented in English this time. "Nurse, I'm going to need-" and he rattled off several items. "This could get sticky."

"Copy that boss." the Bolian nurse responded, cool and calm in the face of the insanity that was ensuring around her before she took her leave to quickly round up the items that Doctor Dvald would need.

Up on the bridge. Fleet Captain Kell Donos watched the battle develop with a critical eye towards the safety of his own troops and ships. "Maybe I'm being paranoid... but Syal. Look at the Klingons formation... Is it me or?"

"Nope. They look like they are getting set to rush our lines." the small Bajoran female responded.

Donos tapped the com. "Admiral. Do you see what I'm seeing... along heading one eight one, mark two?"

"I see a battleship along that heading.. and.. yes I see it. Thank you Captain." came the response from Admiral Yeager.

Yeager tapped the display. "Yeager to Danix?" she inquired. "How are your guys coming along with their rearming and refueling?"

"Be another couple of minutes before we finish Admiral... then my guys will be ready to head back out.."

"I have a feeling you might be heading back out sooner than that... Looks like the Klingon fleet is getting set to rush us."

"Copy that Admiral. My guys will be in the air in sixty seconds." Danix responded. "Out." and with that, the com went silent.

Meanwhile over on the Klingon flagship, the Klingon in command sighed softly. "This assault was a waste... damn you J'mpok for forcing this fight with two enemies..." he grumbled more to himself than to anyone else.

Major General Kuzyk, son of Merlon growled softly. "Status?"

"Most of the fleet has already been destroyed, but most of the Federation force has been spent containing our attacks..." a younger officer explained. "Many of their starfighters have landed back on the large carrier that at the center of their fleet."

"For whatever good they did," Kuzyk responded back. "Very well, order all forces to finish preparations for an attack... we will fight our way out... and we will go through that carrier." he indicated the USS Shinano on the display. "Killing him as we go."

The younger Klingon smiled. "Yessir."