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Serco Velvet
EveN was amazed, Sheffield, who's real name he'd discovered was Shefa Filadonen, was walking up to the flight line of SCP's as if nothing was wrong!
"Er.." he cautiuosly queried his mentor, "You been in the SCAR bar five hours haven't you?"
"Nothing else to spend my creds on, young 'un" was the as-per-usual curt response.
Shef had drunk at least a dozen of those disgusting concoctions only he would/could drink, some 50/50 mix of dark black beer and Geira fruitwine called 'Serco Velvet', and had been rumoured to out-drink several young ex-itani pirates. EveN stood rooted to the spot, as he watched Sheffield clamber into his 'prom without a care in the world. Suddenly he shook his head and woke up, he had to jump to it to keep up as the flight leader, Viper88, was already taxying down the launch bay....
Pre flight checks done, he gunned his motors, was soon in space, and didn't have to play too much catch-up as Shef was, again, dawdling towards the wormhole behind Viper88.
"Take point, EveN" ordered Viper, once they had warped into B12.
Viper followed EveN, flying in a tetrahedral pattern, both avidly scanning their radars. Shef was just sitting at the wh. Nothing was happening. Sigh. Another boring patrol.
Suddenly the terse voice of Shef crackled over the encrypted radio link:
"Bandit, Blue Circle, Itani IBG, your'e 3'o'clock low!".
Viper's motors thundered into action, the noise of which EveN 'heard' due to the Spatial Acoustic Synthesizers that replicate any accelerations on the radar as 'sound'. Blue Circle was heading towards them fast, these experienced pilots were so quick, there was a green flash of neut3 fire and the enemy had fired at Viper, dodged and was hailing him! Quickly and instinctively now, EveN jerked his shiny prom down and to the left as a pair of Viper's sun's zipped across his front and rocked the Itani ship. But, as soon as it stopped spinning, it somehow spewed more deadly neutrons and caught him in his flank; EveN moved up, down, diagonally, he couldnt get the enemy off him:
"Keep still you bastard!". Oops, did he say that over the radio?
But then came the awesome crackle of gatling fire as Viper managed to exact revenge into the little ship. It momentarilly back-rolled, still firing though.
"Your kill, EveN", indicated Viper
EveN kicked the rudder bar, boosted then skewed towards his opponent and fired gat and a brace of suns. The Centurion just rolled out of the way and came back at him, EveN quickly fired his retro-rockets and rolled the same way...
"Wait, wait, wait; NOW!", he thought to himself, remembering the training, and pressed the missile firing button, first one then the other sun flare.
The first one curved off into space and Blue Circle was already out of it's way but the second was more straight and the Itani flew sideways into it, kerblam! With it spinning helplessly for a second, EveN squeezed off his AGT, the top of the enemy was perfectly exposed, and he got that gut-wrenching feeling again as the Centurion bucked under sparkles of fire, then exploded in a bright fireball. Viper88 swooped through the debris.
"Good Kill, EveN" Viper said.
Not too much damage to the Prometheus, Viper had similar damage, they headed back to the wormhole.
"I knew you two would get him". Sheffield was still there, you could feel the grin on his face, even through the 'ether' of space.
"Too drunk to fight, Shef?", EveN retorted, the adrenaline implants still going overtime.
"Eh, don't be daft," came the jocular reply "Neural-phase Alcohol Filters!"
EveN smiled, at last he had made Sheffield laugh.
"Er.." he cautiuosly queried his mentor, "You been in the SCAR bar five hours haven't you?"
"Nothing else to spend my creds on, young 'un" was the as-per-usual curt response.
Shef had drunk at least a dozen of those disgusting concoctions only he would/could drink, some 50/50 mix of dark black beer and Geira fruitwine called 'Serco Velvet', and had been rumoured to out-drink several young ex-itani pirates. EveN stood rooted to the spot, as he watched Sheffield clamber into his 'prom without a care in the world. Suddenly he shook his head and woke up, he had to jump to it to keep up as the flight leader, Viper88, was already taxying down the launch bay....
Pre flight checks done, he gunned his motors, was soon in space, and didn't have to play too much catch-up as Shef was, again, dawdling towards the wormhole behind Viper88.
"Take point, EveN" ordered Viper, once they had warped into B12.
Viper followed EveN, flying in a tetrahedral pattern, both avidly scanning their radars. Shef was just sitting at the wh. Nothing was happening. Sigh. Another boring patrol.
Suddenly the terse voice of Shef crackled over the encrypted radio link:
"Bandit, Blue Circle, Itani IBG, your'e 3'o'clock low!".
Viper's motors thundered into action, the noise of which EveN 'heard' due to the Spatial Acoustic Synthesizers that replicate any accelerations on the radar as 'sound'. Blue Circle was heading towards them fast, these experienced pilots were so quick, there was a green flash of neut3 fire and the enemy had fired at Viper, dodged and was hailing him! Quickly and instinctively now, EveN jerked his shiny prom down and to the left as a pair of Viper's sun's zipped across his front and rocked the Itani ship. But, as soon as it stopped spinning, it somehow spewed more deadly neutrons and caught him in his flank; EveN moved up, down, diagonally, he couldnt get the enemy off him:
"Keep still you bastard!". Oops, did he say that over the radio?
But then came the awesome crackle of gatling fire as Viper managed to exact revenge into the little ship. It momentarilly back-rolled, still firing though.
"Your kill, EveN", indicated Viper
EveN kicked the rudder bar, boosted then skewed towards his opponent and fired gat and a brace of suns. The Centurion just rolled out of the way and came back at him, EveN quickly fired his retro-rockets and rolled the same way...
"Wait, wait, wait; NOW!", he thought to himself, remembering the training, and pressed the missile firing button, first one then the other sun flare.
The first one curved off into space and Blue Circle was already out of it's way but the second was more straight and the Itani flew sideways into it, kerblam! With it spinning helplessly for a second, EveN squeezed off his AGT, the top of the enemy was perfectly exposed, and he got that gut-wrenching feeling again as the Centurion bucked under sparkles of fire, then exploded in a bright fireball. Viper88 swooped through the debris.
"Good Kill, EveN" Viper said.
Not too much damage to the Prometheus, Viper had similar damage, they headed back to the wormhole.
"I knew you two would get him". Sheffield was still there, you could feel the grin on his face, even through the 'ether' of space.
"Too drunk to fight, Shef?", EveN retorted, the adrenaline implants still going overtime.
"Eh, don't be daft," came the jocular reply "Neural-phase Alcohol Filters!"
EveN smiled, at last he had made Sheffield laugh.
/me is confused. Wasnt this posted in "Rise of the Feeniks"?
yea I thought so too I wondered where it went