And Ever We Fight On
"And Ever We Fight On"
Helghan has been no stranger to war as for it was born out of the fires of it, now after years of bloodshed and war Helghan is on the brink of destruction. There armies lay broken in the bloodied, streets, there fleet burns in orbit and there cities all destroyed.
Now the end has come as it has been six months since the death of their nations farther, there leader, there god Scolar Visari after he was murdered at his palace but the ISA forces who also launched a nuclear attack against capital killing Thousands and Thousands.
Even after this Helghan made a surprise attack against the remaining ISA forces almost destroying their War machine but a small force of ISA soldiers broke though the lines and ruined the Last chance they had at winning.
One of the only remaining Helghast Armies are the Sixth Helghast army with also other from the Second and Third who were beaten back from the capital. From there things went downhill even more as Helghan High command started to fight with each other over power and ended up destroying the last hope Helghan ever had. And with this the Remaining forces of the Helghan Sixth army were forced out of the city by the remaining ISA forces as there Chain of Command had fallen apart.
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Equestria
Lyria was trotting down the street of ponyvile down to the bakers; the road beneath her was lovely and clean and was also surrounded small houses among other things which ponyvile had.
She let out a deep breath as she enjoyed Princess Celestia's sun, he pointed he head upwards and closed her eyes to get the nice warm ray of heat her face but as she did a shadow zipped past her face and almost as quick as it went by Lyria opened her eyes.
She shot her head all around her as to find the source to this shadow but saw nothing in the sky and continued on her path as she just thought nothing of it until she heard a dull thud behide him near the bushes making her jump abit.
She turned around to find a small smoke trail coming out from behide the bush, Lyria slowly made her way towards the bush putting her hoof out to push it away, was she found was..well she didn’t quite know what it was to be honest.
It was some type of metal? She couldn’t even describe it as she had never seen anything like this before, she moved her head forward to find there was some kind of writing of some sort on it but she couldn’t make it out and decided to come back for it later before turning around and trotting away.
What Infact it did say was “Helghan Probe Zero”
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Two Years Later Helghan
A man stood outside of what was left of an old office complex on the edge of the city the building itself was missing most of the top floors with desks and chairs along with other computer equipment flooding what remained of the floors and those which didn’t scattered across the street.
The man who was standing there was in his late twenty with brown hair and blue eyes which were both covered by his helmet and mask, he also wore heavy white armour with plates scattered around his knees and arms which suggested he was some kind of heavy shock trooper. A StA-52 assault rifle which was the standard rifle for the Helghast army hung from around his shoulder with ease swinging in the wind.
The masked man signed as he look forward toward what remained of a the city which he once called home as did many others once did as well, not the tide of war has taken it along with many other things which can’t be reclaimed. After giving one last glance he turned around see other soldiers scattered among him along the road, sitting on rubbles with a few of them sitting on top of a bus stop all chatting waiting for orders for the next move.
Most of them wore different Armour as suggesting each role that they had within the Helghast army some of them bore heavy machine guns with huge Brest plating and shoulder armour to counter act the harsh recoil of the weapon to soldiers wearing light battle armour with simple battle rifles. But this was mainly during the supply crisis that the Helghast army suffered during the ISA invasion as ISA destroyed most of the factory’s which only left surplus weapons and armour.
But this was what was left of the Sixth Helghast army, the man sighed heavily again before closing his eyes bringing his hand to his mask before rubbing it, although with his mask on it had little to no effect. He was obviously in deep thought about the situation which surrounded but his train of thought was cut off by a voice behide him.
"You Alright Captain Saber?" A metallic voice called behide him and in turn “Saber” slowly turned his body behide him to find another soldier wearing same Armour as him although his front chest plate was allot larger than his and even had “Death to the ISA” scratched into the front. Three large tubes where sticking out of his back which were Infact ammo for a BLR-06 Hadra MRL which was one of Helghans most advance Aint-tank rocket launchers fierce piece of kit in the right hands.
"I'm fine Winters, just didn't think it would end like this" Saber commented with a sigh as he turn to look at the sky which had small balls of flames where the ISA and Helghast ships had been fighting it out. But since the ISA made their assault on their home world the sightings of Helghast cruisers became less and less.
The man who stood behide him known as “Winters” paused for abit not knowing what to say for the first time in his life, both of the men has fought alongside each other for a long time and has never heard his Captain every say such a thing, it was almost one of the worst crimes a Soldier of this great nation could commit and on the other part he couldn’t stop but feeling sad about how the events had unfolded as after all this was their home with both of them having family in Helghan including children who he would never see again as they were dead or...worse.
An awkward silence fell over the two with the only distance and not so distance gunfire and explosions still suggesting small pockets of Helghast soldiers were still fighting the ISA.
Finally the silence was broken by Winters who cleared his throat before speaking "No matter how far we fall, I'll always stand behind you Captain" although it came out in a Metallic voice there was something different about it as to others it would just of sounded just a half assed promise, Saber knew Winters too well and knew that he meant it on his life.
Saber turned his whole body to face winters with a smile on his face, although his smile was hidden under his mask but that didn’t matter, Saber continued to then extend his arm out in front of winters body that in turn quickly noticed it and brought his own arm out to meet. Both giving a hard grip "Brothers to the End"
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Present day Equestria
A man laid still in the grass in some type of wooden area which was surrounded by flowers and all sorts of animal life, he had his head towards the sky was staring the blue sky with the odd cloud passing by though his mask in limbo of being half out cold and half in conscience and after a few moments the man brought his right arm up to his face pressing a button on his side removing his goggles as they had been damage by him shooting himself-.
The man Shot upwards, little too fast as he almost fell back down at the pain coming from his headache and to be honest it would probably knock most men out, but this man wasn't most men. He sat there on the green grass and bent his head forward using both hands as support as they cupped his face thinking of what happened
" Six Months Ago
Colonel Radec was lying on the floor of the Palace in the pool of his own blood as he held his chest with his left hand when the door behind him started to open leading to Vasari’s throne room. Radec Struggled to get up and started to crawl back leaving a trail of blood while breathing heavily though his mask trying to speak but only being able to say "I've" before heavily breathing again which rang out in the room.
Radec removed his pistol from his holster attempting to aim in down the Hallway on the other side at the ISA intruders who dared enter to place but failed to retain any strength to hold it down rang and then simply took one breath and pointed the pistol to his head
And that was all he remembered.."
“Radec” broke out of his flashback with his head still in his hands.
"I've Failed...."
Colonel Radec slowly removed his hands from his head and began to look around, this place was....strange. He never saw anything like this on Helghan not even as a child, the grass was so green and there were trees /every were/ and not a sign of any factors or anything which looked remotely Helghast. It was almost peaceful but before any more thoughts could pass through him he quickly shake his head violently and pressed the button on the side of his Helmet once again moving the goggles down.
Two red eyes beamed from his face as he sat there, he was almost like a statue as he sat on the green grass thinking of how he failed to protect Helghan and for the first time in his life Radec felt something he had never felt before in his life since he was a child.
Sadness
At that moment no thoughts went through his head of what had happened and even thought to kill himself again but his thought were cut short by the humming of someone in the bushes nearby. Radec didn’t bother to move but just continued to sit with his arms extended outwards, he had failed and didn’t care if someone was around and even hoped a little that a ISA soldier would jump though the bushes and kill him
But nothing came and after a few minutes the humming started to die down along with other strange noises through the bush and by this Radec turned his face into the direction of the sound and began to stand up to his full height showing off his armour
Radec began to move through the forest towards the sounds, he moved though the cover and into some bushes switching on his cloak making him unseen to all. He wasn’t going to fail again as he brushed the bush away from him with his hands he saw a small- Infact he didn't know what it was, it was a huge tree with flowers and a stream in front of it but it had windows and a door on it almost like that someone made a house out a tree.
“Strange” he thought to himself
He moved out of the bush with his cloak still on with the metal studs in his bottles crushing the grass and flowers beneath him, as he approached the house he noticed something moving in the window but couldn't make it out and only saw Pink hair moving from side to side. He was unsure how to approach as he knew that sort of hair colour was only allowed on earth not in Helghan.
Quickly he started to piece his mind together and thoughts of him that he might but some strange reason be on earth, after all this was just like earth looked in the pictures at he attempted to draw out his pistol from his holsters but only found it to be
empty.
“Must still be in the palace”
He quickly turned his attention to his upper chest where a long sharp knife was held in a sheath, he grabbed the handle and pulled with little noise as he tightened his grip on it and began to slowly walk towards the Cottage.
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Saber released his grip on winters hand still smiling beneath his helmet before turning his attention to what remained of the road and the buildings which surrounded them along with a huge group of Helghast Soldiers mingling around with each other as they talked among themselves.
They all looked so defeated, there uniforms and armour where dirty from the long weeks of fighting and some of their armour was hanging off them with bullets holes indented in a few of their chests although he was unable to see their faces he knew what expression most of them would of had on them.
Saber took a step and placed himself on an overturned coffee machine which allowed him to overlook all of them before clearing his throat
"Company!" A loud Metallic voice boomed over them from Saber who was standing on the coffee machine not soon after the soldiers shot their heads in his direction before standing up but only for those who were sitting down in the first place.
Before Saber could continue he was cut off by another voice.
“Hold on Captain Saber, I wish to speak first.”
Sabers and the others turned their heads in the other direction saw to what appeared to be a man standing out on a burned out car, Winter recognize him as lieutenant colonel Mustang as he held his hand upright towards Saber who in return nodded towards Mustang as he stepped down from the coffee machine.
Mustang than brought his attention to the soldiers around him it from where he was standing it looked like a sea of red eyes as hundreds if not more looked at him. After finishing his quick sweep he began to speak "As of now the Helghan Sixth Army is to evacuate the city along with what is left of the second and third Army’s along with the remaining Helghast Cruisers and then from there leave the Plant at once."
Silence.
That was all that was heard from the crowed as most of them didn't believe what the lieutenant colonel had just said; did he really mean leaving the plant? Our home World? Who would fight the ISA? And soon enough these thoughts rushed over the soldiers and it was clean of that to as they started looked at each other and whispered to each other but before any major conversations could happen the lieutenant colonel spoke again
"Soldiers!”
All of a sudden the whispers stopped and unlike before all eyes were on the lieutenant colonel instead of looking at each other.
"We have been tasked with a greater goal by our leaders" Mustang said as he began to pace up and down the limited space of the car on what he was standing on.
"A task which we cannot fail by any means and all shall be explained soon." he continued to say stopping in the middle of the top of the car with his hands behind his back and his chest out as almost as if he was proud of leaving Helghan. He turned to face the crowed once more
"Pre-pare to leave at once, Captain Saber report to me."
Captain Saber stood for a moment next to the coffee machine as the rest of the soldiers in front of him started to move around street picking up their ammo and weapons with a few of them carrying boxes as they made their way to their squads.
Lieutenant colonel Mustang moved towards the front of the can and jumped off the roof onto the bonnet and then onto the ground with his boots making a thud as it hit of what remained of the tarmac and began to make his way down the street were a small cafe or what remained of it had been turned into a forward command bunker with a few officers standing outside talking with each other with the odd soldiers rushing up for new orders.
Winters gave a small shunt at Sabers shoulders with his own before speaking "Thank god Radec didn't hear that" He said with a chuckle trying to lighten up the mood with no prevail.
"Look like it really is over" Saber said dryly before walking off down the rubble into the street before making his way towards the cafe. The streets were lilted with Military Equipment as they started loading all sort of gear into the Hover APCs and also Overlord Dropship what stood in the parked next to the café in the car park.
Saber approached the cafe entrance, the cafe itself was small and was built into a huge building as most buildings in Helghan where all just like this or were a huge factory it had two large glass windows (or well what was left of them) on each side and in the middle stood a door with a sign on it but seeing as the building had been bombed out the fire had removed the lettering on it and the same went for all that was inside.
Inside The Cafe were over turned tables and chairs with smashed glasses all over the floor, and all of the wallpaper and posters on the walls had been burnt, it the only thing still intact was the counter were lieutenant colonel Mustang and four other officers stood with a holographic map and some ships floating above.
But something was different about the four as none of them were from any of the normal Helghast units. Infact there were infamous chairman Stahl men. Chairman Stahl was head of the production of weaponry and amour for the army and was even rumoured to be building “super weapons” of some kind but during the war none of these weapons where ever seen so most took them as myths to keep up moral.
But the bigger question which was on Sabers mind was what were they doing here, only were they ever around when Stahl was and he doubted very much that such as man as himself would be in a bombed out café such as this. As Saber scanned them he saw different type of weapons he had never seen before and where quite interesting as they were the VC5 Arc Rifle and the StA-5X Arc Cannon which where only given to trusted guards within Stahl Circle of them, although he had never seem then in combat he had heard some things.
On the counter among the holographs among other things sat a small device of some sort which was also glowing, the device itself was like some type of cylinder with green goo floating around inside. Saber had never seen anything like this but before he could inspect it further he stood to attention and saluted the Lieutenant colonel.
"You wanted to see me sir?" Saber spoke and he lowered his hand but still stood up right.
"Yes, I want you to test something for me." The Lieutenant colonel spoke as he placed his hands on the counter leaning on it,
looking down at the strange device which lay before him.
"What is it that you wish me to do, sir?" Saber Counted.
“I understand that the turns of events have been. Hard” Mustang winced under his mask as he forced out that last statement before carrying on
“As of now we have been tasked with the future of our great nation.” He continued as he started to pace like he did once before outside “I want you to understand that what you are doing isn’t being a coward but being a hero in some sort of way.” He finished turning to Saber once again.
"I know it’s hard to take this all in but we don’t have much time” He paused “Helghan doesn’t have much time, this is why I want you and Stahls men to load this into the Helghast Cruiser, after that Major Federer will take over from there but I wish for you to remain in Command of the ship, understood?" Mustang said, looking at Major Federer while speaking who gave a nod as Mustang spoke before Mustang returned his gaze back to Saber.
"Understood, aren't you coming sir?" Saber said as he turned his eyes to look at the object before him.
"My place is here in Helghan." Mustang replied, looking at Saber eyes even though he had goggles on it seemed like he was staring right through his soul.
“Understood sir.” Saber brought his arm up in a salute as he spoke.
"Also one last thing before you go Saber, I have placed some auto logs and texts on the ship which will explain everything in good time, Dismissed.
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Major Federer Stood there watching Captain Saber Walk out of the cafe into the battle ridden street only leaving Federer standing there with his men and Mustang around the counter.
Federer wasn’t the only one watching Saber leave as Mustang waited till he was out of ear shot before speaking.
"Are you sure this will work?" he finally spoke when he felt it was safe enough as he turned to face from the table to face Major Federer.
"I can assure you that everything is in order, Stahl has worked on this for years although I don't know where the jump will take us." Federer responded with almost no emotion in his voice as he looked at the object. “But Stahl said that all that was needed to be known will be in the ship and that it shouldn’t be read until the jump is made"
"Anywhere is better than here Major, take your men and load up in the drop ship" Mustang said as he picked up the object turning to Federer holding it out in front of him.
“Yes Commander, we will leave as once” Federer spoke as he reached his hands out grabbing the object before placing it on his front plate pouch.
"Captain Saber will join you soon Major" Mustang continue to say as he let Federer take the object. Major Federer stood back raising his right hand up forward before bringing it back to his chest bowing abit, Mustang nodded in response as they left though the back door leaving Mustang alone.
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One year Ago, Equestria
Doctor Brander stood in large room which was surrounded by all sort of scientific equipment; in front of him was a large metal table with all sorts of paper work which he was sorting out with his magic making sure they were all in order. Brander himself was old aged unicorn which also showed with the bags under his eyes but they could have been from all the work he has done none stop or could even be both. He had a dark brown coat with a black star for a cutie mark.
Brander brought his hoof up to his eyes and began to rub them, ever since these strange things had been falling from the sky around a year ago it was ordered that the Royal Scientific corps be created, at first it wasn’t much of a big deal at the time as the first object didn’t really hold and value and the writing which they assumed it was couldn’t be read by any pony.
So if anything for a long time the Royal Scientific corps was taken as a joke until the second one hit around the same area, although this time it was different as it actually held something of use, unlike the other one which couldn’t be opened no matter how hard you tried this one had some kind of small door placed in the side with a strange kind of metal inside it.
The metal itself was stupidly strong and was most likely the strongest metal in the whole of Equestria image what we could be done with it, and that exactly what the Royal Guard did and six months ago when it was found they gave the Royal Scientific corps fifty thousand bits to build a huge compound a few miles away from ponyvile.
The compound was a large building which stood in the middle of no were and could be mistake for a barn for any pony passing
by, this was mainly due to compound being built complete underground with six stories from security to bathrooms. It was built underground to make sure that any of the projects couldn’t get out into the wrong hooves so to speak.
Branders thoughts where cut off by a young unicorn mare bursting into the room.
“Doctor Branders, Doctor Branders!” she called repeatedly.
Branders turned his attention from the table to the mare with a slightly angrily expression “What is it, you know I’m very busy not the Royal Gua-“
“We found enough one!” she blurted before he could finish.
Branders eyes widen at the news “Where?”
“One mile for ponyvile, the mail mare found it during her run!” she continued.
Branders trotted quickly to the door past the mare “Call the Science teams at once!” he ordered almost reaching the door.
“At once Doctor Branders!”
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Major Federer Came out of the back of the cafe along with his men, the car park behide the café was in total ruins with burnt out cars scatter around and where they weren’t they were replaced by Overlord drop ship all with "Stahl Arms" on the side with around Fifty men around them all doing different jobs from loading gear into them to checking the thrusters where ready.
As Major Federer approached the one ships one of the soldiers piped up.
“Sir, why did you lie to Mustang?”
“Because what he doesn’t know won’t hurt him, anyway he is staying here and we can’t afford the ISA to capture him and for him to give out information like that out” Federer replied not breaking his stride towards the ship.
“What about us?” Another one of the soldiers said.
This time Federer stopped and turned to face his men “I know it’s hard for you to understand, but have I ever let you down before?”
All three of the officers were silent
“Good” Federer turned around and walked towards the dropship and was greeted by one of the other soldiers who gave the same salute Federer gave Mustang before speaking.
"All arms are ready to go, the Cruiser is ready to take us aboard" His metallic voice said as he gestured around the car park.
Federer nodded and spoke once more “Move as soon as you’re ready.”
“At once sir” the soldier responded before walking off in the other direction
Federer moved his hand to the side of his helmet pressing the radio on "All operations are go, have the men load up as we leave A.S.A.P"
Not before long soldiers began to pile into the dropships where there Armour making clunky noises as they did. Other soldiers were rushing around take whatever they could carry into the drop ships before Boarding.
Major Federer walked over to one of the drop ship which was steadily filling up with troops, he took a step onto the ship along with his own personal men before the door behind him closed and the ship began to descend into the Air.
- - - - O O O O O - - - -
Saber walked out of the shop into the streets once again making his way over to Winters who standing with four others from his own anti-tank squad swapping jokes and stories, once such story Saber overheard as he walked closer.
“So me and Scope where sitting at the cross roads waiting to slot the retreating ISA right and just as that an APC comes gunning it down the highway, and fuck me how fast was that going” One of the soldiers to Winters right said as he looked towards Scope.
“Had to be around eighty if not more” Scope finished
“And just as it gets close we fired our rocket at it, hits the wheel and does a full three sixty flip” The other one continued
“Mate, you’ve had to of seen it.” Scope added in.
The group let out a small laugh before Winter noticed Saber and called to him.
“Captain Saber, what’s the news?”
At this the men stopped the banter and turned towards Saber.
Saber stopped in front of the men before speaking “We are loading up and going planet side in Ten, I want all of your gear on that ship now.”
“At once Captain” Winters replied as he and the others began to walk off before a female voice, although it was metallic you could tell it was a women.
“Captain Saber is it?”
Saber and the other turned to face a women in Helghast battle gear with a rifle hanging from her chest.
“Excuse me but why are you wea-“Saber started but was interrupted by the Girl.
“Before you ask, Radec himself allowed for women to join the Helghast army a while ago, we just finished training”
“We?” Winters added making Saber shoot him a look.
The women let out a sigh before continuing “Yes, We” we held up her hand and waved it behind to towards the other women
also dressed as she was and there was quite a few of them, she brought her hand back down and continued to speak.
“There are more of us but they are already on the ship and before you ask why I believe Mustang already gave you the answer.” She said a matter of factly.
Saber stood there for a few second before turning around to face Winters and his men “Didn’t I tell you to do something?”
Winters snapped back into reality “Oh er- Yes sir” and as that the soldiers disburse into their jobs.
Saber watched as the group disappeared before turning his attention to the girl who stood before him and started to speak.
“What is your name?”
“Lieutenant Rebecca” she replied with her hands behind her back
Saber raised his eye brows under his mask.
“Alight, Lieutenant Rebecca it seem you have more information about the situation than I do going to guess you have your own orders?”
“Of course captain” Rebecca said with a little bow of her head as she walked off in a different direction.
“Great” Saber thought to himself as he walked off towards his Command ship, the ship was bigger than most dropship as it held extra radio and command equipment. As he approached the ship he saw Winter and the other soldiers he met before loading boxes of ammo and weapons on board.
Winter noticed Saber walk towards him and he quickly dropped the ammo box he was holding to the ground before facing him
“Are we recruiting women now Captain?” Winter said as he stood upright to face Saber.
Saber waved his hand in a dismissive way “Don’t ask.”
“Alright Captain, but May I ask you something?” Winter replied as he watched Saber walk past him.
Saber halted as he pasted Winter and turned to him and began to speak “What is it Winters?”
“Well, it’s about all this” Winters spoke as he waved his hand towards the pile of boxes which laid before them before speaking again “It looks like pieces of junk, why aren’t we taking ammo and such?”
“I don’t know myself but I can assure you all will be explained once we make the jump, alright?” Saber said as he continued his way to the ship.
As Saber made his way he saw ten if not more dropships make their way up into space, but they were also followed by six large ships which where almost three times the size of the normal one.
“Must be that Majors crew” Saber thought silently as he stepped onto the ship who was soon followed by Winters and his crew a few moments later as he finished loading the final creates of equipment on board the ship.
After that the ship powered up taking to the sky, as they made their way to space the full destruction of Helghan could be seen as huge cites now lay in the fires of flames with the odd explosions going off.
Saber looked out of the back window and only saw a sea of flames for what was once his home world, he couldn’t help but feel sadness over take him as he left his family and friends to die..
- - - - O O O O O - - - -
Major Federers fleet arrived at the carrier, the carrier itself was one of Stahls prototype super carriers which stretched out for miles and could hold thousands and thousands of people, around it where similar cursers which protected it from and roaming ISA ships which would of thought to attack.
As they approached from the side the huge hanger doors began to open outwards while the ships began to dock onto the landing pad. As the ships landed there landing gear made a hissing noise at the touched down onto the runway and as the last ship made its way in the door began to close once again.
As soon as the door had closed the side doors of the dropships began to open and troops descended from them unloading all sort of equipment. The Six extra-large dropships were stationed at the east side of the wing are where being unloaded with extra care to make sure the vital equipment wasn’t damage.
Federers jumped off the ship with his boots making a metallic thud on the metal runway of the ship as he began to walk towards the bridge while the other followed behind him, as he made his way across the docking bay he was wave after wave of Helghast troops making their way picking up all sort of supplies and rushing them into the ships storage.
As he made it to the exit of the docking bay a large door opened leading into the long hallway but inside that hallway was another of Federers men standing at attention among other soldiers moving around but they didn’t seem bothered by Federers
presents.
“The Jump computer is reader when you are sir.” The man responded as the door opened
Federer continued to walk in without breaking his stride as he spoke “Good, I’ve been waiting for this for a long time, how many men did Chairman Stahl handed us?”
“Around One thousand if you include the other cruisers which we “collected” sir.” The soldier replied with a grin.
“Good, good.” We will need all the soldiers we can get after this, just in case things go wrong.” Federer replied smugly as he made his way towards the railway cart which helped soldiers move to and from places faster.
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Saber turned away from the window of the drops ship and sat down onto one of the remaining seat of the dropship, Winters saw his body reaction as his sat down on the seat.
“We will never stop fighting Captain.” Winter said
“That’s the problem, that’s all we’ve ever done Winters” Saber said in the heavy tone.
The dropships approached the carrier and soon enough as the docking doors opened again to let them enter, allowing the ship to hit the metal decking with a thud as the legs spread out.
The doors of the dropship opened to show a huge docking bay filled with soldiers and crew members walking around doing there various jobs, Saber took a step off the ship and was followed by Winters and his men as they made their way across the docking bay.
“Captain, me and the men are going to unload er, whatever these things are to the hull” Winter spoke from behide Saber they walked.
“No problem Winters, see you after the jump” Saber responded without breaking his stride.
“Yes sir” and soon enough his men peeled off to the side making their way towards ship again while Saber walked towards the bridge.
- - - - O O O O O - - - - -
Federer stood around the command module within the bridge, the bridge itself was much bigger than any normal Helghast ship mainly due to the fact it was almost five times the size of one and thus it needed to have a bigger bridge.
The command module flickered to life and three large holographic screens popped out in front of him with pictures and writing on them, Federer began to touch the screen and were responded by the text on the screen moving around before a hissing noise was heard as a claw extended from the bottom.
Federer placed the Green glowing device inside the claw which grabbed it and started to pull it back inside with the same hissing noise but afterwards a humming noise started as the command module took the device in, while this was all going on Saber walked in as the doors to the bridge opened.
“Captain Saber, you took your time” Federer responded to Sabers entrance without breaking his gaze on the screens.
“Nice to see you to Major Federer, could you give me a run down?” Saber spoke as he kept on walking to Federer
“Yes I do” He replied matter of factly “Stahl was nice enough to leave the whole mission brief among other things in your room”
“My room” Saber raised an eyebrow under his mask
“Yes, unlike other ships this one has quite a nice room for the officers seeing as we will be here for a while”
Saber didn’t respond and just stood there for a few moments; Federer noticed this and spoke again
“I suggest you make your way there before me make the jump, it will be a matter of time till the ISA find this ship and we can’t afford it to be damage there is a hyper jump seat in your room. All will be explained after the jump.”
“Right, I guess I’ll be off then” Saber turned around and began to walk out of the doorway he entered in.
“I’ll see you soon Captain” Federer said as Saber walked out of the room, he didn’t reply.
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“Attention, Attention, Attention all personal report to hyper jump stations-“
The speakers boomed over the ship over and over as Saber made his way through the corridor towards his room which was stationed at the top of the ship. As he made his way soldiers with other crew members rushed by him with their boots ringing out against the walls.
Saber approached an elevator and stood right in front of it before pressing the button on the side which lit with a green light surrounding it as he touched it, soon enough the door opened and he took a step inside as the doors closed behind him.
As the elevator went upwards to the top of the ship the speaks repeating the same message over and over again which was started to get on his nerves but luckily for him the trip wasn’t wrong as the door opened reviling his cabin which too much to his surprised was actually quite nice.
Saber made his way inside towards his chair which he grabbed with his hand and pulled it backward as it made a scraping noise as it moved across the floor.
“At least the speaker isn’t on in here” he muttered himself as he sat down letting out a sigh as he let took the weight off his feet.
“Captain Saber the jump seat is on the other side” A voice called out from within the room.
Saber jumped and began to swing around on his chair trying to find the source of the sound.
“I’m not in the room so don’t bother trying to find me, I’m speaking via the intercom Captain” The voice replied
Saber stopped spinning around and looked at his desk to find a small black box where the voice was coming from
“Major Federer?” Saber spoke to the box.
“Correct” It replied.
“Have you been watching me this whole time!” Saber blurted in anger.
“Up until now no Captain, but we are making the jump in about one minute so I’m just suggesting you sit on the other seat unless you wish to be thrown around like a ragdoll” The Box suggested
“Thank you Major Federer for the advice” Saber spoke as he stood up from his chair towards the hyper jump one across the room.
“Thinking nothing of it Captain” The boxs said making its last statement before going dead again.
Saber opened the bar which lay across the seat and as it raised he seated himself on the chair before the bar went down again.
Saber sat there for some time, waiting for the jump to start and just on queue the speakers came to life again giving one last warning about the jump
“Hyper jump in ten seconds, Nine, Eight, Sev-“
Saber let out a sigh as it counted down before muttering to himself once more
“Four. Three, Two”
“And ever we fight on..”
“One"