Skyfire Avenue - Chapter 727

Chapter 727

Chapter 727: Terminator-Class, Surrounded

Admiral Brown had sworn off all alcohol until the alien threat was dealt with . He needed a sober mind, it was the only way to fight an overwhelming foe .

He was also responsible for the ship until its commander arrived . He’d received news a few days ago that the His Majesty the Terminator was locked away in seclusion . Once he exited his hermitage stronger, he would come to take personal command of the Bastion .

He’d careful gone over all the data recovered from the battle of the Starfields, where Tyrannosaurus, Heron and Arachnid were defeated at the hands of the alien worlds . He understood his foe well . Not only were they strong, they were legion, and some were frighteningly powerful by their own right . Tyrannosaurus’ Admiral had almost been cut down by just one of them .

Luckily Paragons from Skyfire Avenue had been on board . If they hadn’t, Tyrannosaurus likely would have fallen .

War was on the horizon, it could break out at any moment . The Northern economy was struggling under the weight of that promise . Society was in turmoil . If this problem wasn’t solved soon citizens would start to react negatively .

Admiral Brown sighed and shook his head . He was stuck out here patrolling the borders of the North, looking after two important planets . Luo was under guard by Tyrannosaurus and two other Bastions .

Terminator was a powerful weapon of war . Eventually the threat of its presence would be brought to bear against the alien planets . Whether or not they could handle its strength remained to be seen .

The screech of an alarm suddenly filled the air . An urgent blinking light called the captain’s eyes to the emergency communications line .

“Admiral, we’re getting strange fluctuations of universal energy . ”

He felt his heart tense up . Returning to his desk with long strides, he answered back . “Give your report . Where are the fluctuations localized?”

“Around us, sir . We’re surrounded . The fluctuations are strong and are already interfering with our instruments . Requesting permission to engage shields . ”

“Get them up,” he replied quickly . “Fifty percent . Prepare to increase speed . ”

Terminator-Class Bastion was the largest ship in all of human space . Shielding something that massive required tremendous energy, but these were special circumstances . It was no time to be stingy .

He fired off a series of orders . Terminator’s various ports and landing zones were closed while a white shell sprang up around the ship . Brown’s eyes were fixed on the port window as he gave his commands . His pupils contracted when he saw the enormous purple vortex .

It reminded him of something – an image the Skyfire scout team had recovered months ago . It was when…

“Shields at one hundred percent . Charge the main cannon – all hands to battlestations . Full speed straight up, spare nothing!” The orders came spilling from his mouth in a rapid stream .

He knew the danger they were faced with .

The white shell thickened until Terminator looked like a towering egg . Like Tyrannosaurus, this Bastion was large and circular, constructed to look like a small planet . Its main gun was situation on the bottom, hence why he ordered them to bring the ship over the vortices .

Terminator’s cannon needed time to charge . Even disregarding energy saving procedures it needed at least fifteen minutes . There was always a drawback to power .

As the Bastion rumbled, its pale surface was lit by three orbs of light that appeared around it . Three bloated, purple planets appeared in collapsed pockets of space-time . In the center of each world was a whirlpool that pulled at its surroundings .

Lauded as humanity’s greatest technological accomplishment, Terminator still had its limits . It didn’t have the energy or thrust necessary to free itself from the tug of three planets larger than itself .

“The alien planets!” Admiral Brown felt an icy hand grip his heart . He hadn’t expected the war to start like this, with the enemy appearing en mass before his very eyes .

“All guns, open fire!” He roared .

Terminator struggled mightily against the pull of the planets, but couldn’t get high enough to position its cannon . But that didn’t leave the mighty ship helpless . Countless beams of light erupted from the Bastion’s surface as its rail guns let loose . Its smooth surface became a spiked world of flaring weaponry .

The planets responded, reaching out for Terminator with tentacles the size of mountains . Several were shot away by the railgun, but still others landed staggering blows on Terminator’s shields . It blazed with rebounding white light .

It seems, in contrast to their trickery and planning ith Tyrannosaurus, the planets were opting for a full assault against Terminator .

“Admiral, shields at sixty percent . ”

“… forty-five percent…”

“… thirty-five percent… “

The tentacles were mighty, and each suction disk stripped a portion of the Bastion’s shields . Terminator was caught in a terrible web and the more it struggled the more tangled it became .

It’s over…

Admiral Brown delivered his orders mechanically, but he knew Terminator had already fallen . They had no reinforcements, and no way to flee . They couldn’t use their main cannon to blast a path . Stern resignation hardened the Admiral’s eyes .