“Fine Frank whatever you say. Knightstalker Bridge, come in. I know you are there Ghost this is Deck Officer, Agent Bryan Arkanis. Call sign verification code Ladies Man, Requesting Heavy support, 1 deployable heavy Battle tank. How copy, over?”

“This is Ghost, solid Copy, which load out you needing on that Heavy?”

“Anti Armor and shoot it out from the top loading bay please.”

“Alright Bryan, and good choice. Makes it easier to hold out since they don’t exactly have a lot of troops topside. Please mark targeted area tank will be out in 45 sec.”

“Roger, out.” Bryan says as he pulls a red pencil out of his pocket and points it at a small concentration of gang members.

“Hey Bryan, why did you choose from the top, I know it wasn’t any tactical reason…”

Frank says giving Bryan a smirk.

“It looks cooler, with the after burners flying and bits of earth flying everywhere upon landing.” Bryan replies, “now stealth squad form up, we will take control of the Behemoth type tank, clear ground enemies, and then mobilize back to the ship, Understood?”

“““Ayes Suh!!!”””

“Henry, Princess, get over here, Bryan toss me a shield.”

Frank says, as he catches activates the shield with the three of them inside as Bryan and his squad cloak themselves.

Then suddenly a giant hunk of metal and ceramic fell screaming through the sky coated in fire, 200 tonne’s of Graphene, Ceramic, and Mangalloy hit the ground. The Impact obliterates a crowd, turning the surrounding ground into glass from the afterburner heat before it springs back into the air and the hover pads kick in. the Behemoth slowly drifts back to the ground and floats 1 meter above the crater awaiting a crew.

“We will let ya’ll take care of this and meet up back in the ship. You need to hurry up and upload scarlet with the kernel so she can get Luna to read that floppy disc. We will follow on foot, cloaked of course.”

Frank Tells Bryan as he activates both his, Henry’s, and the Princess suits to ‘stealth mode’.

“Roger Skip, catch you on the flip side.” Bryan says giving a quick salute and leading his men to the Tank where they bulldozed through the side of the station and drove it straight to the ships’ port side loading bay. Spraying death and leaving a trail of destruction on the four turreted tank.

“Everyone Listen up, this is your Skipper speaking, we’ve got word from the Cap’n in need of hard decryption, all crew members’ weapons hot and permission to fire. It is time to reveal ourselves to the Galaxy, Authentication code as follows; Tango, Yuma, Romeo. Take care of the scum, and blast the music so loud they can hear it from the nine heavens.”

Switching back to a private channel, he contacts Ghost. While doing so suddenly super heated plasma bolts arced overhead leaving trails in the darkening sky, while massive explosions rumbled in the distance causing the very earth to tremble. Frank unconcerned by all of this continued talking.

“Oy Ghost run the vectors according to the estimated coordinate shift, once we leave atmosphere and get rid of some pests we will power through to one of the dark zones and I would prefer to be a straight shot so all you AI’s can work on getting Luna back to power”

“Roger Frank will co. Do you want some of the crew to bring a skimmer to pick you guys up?”

“No we can walk, it will give the other guys time to burn off the scum, ya know it’s a shame floppy’s are not standard equipment anymore, hell when was the last time we needed to read one of those damn things?” Frank says as he leads his trio through the massive hole in the port and past piles of flaming rubble.

A sudden bright flash chased away the darkness in the sky illuminating the now tattered remains of the large spaceport. As a large mushroom cloud bloomed in the sky. ‘A small scale particle disruptor? Wolfe and Scarr really want to show we mean business’ Frank thought to himself before Ghost responds.

“2nd Great War” Ghost Replies, “And it was regarding the location of the Kronos Class Monkshood.”

“Right, I remember that crap some whacko’s wanted to use it as a giant bomb.” while this conversation was going on the trio reached the side of the ship, Frank switched comm. channels

“Now calling Metreon, call sign verification Breaker”

“Go ahead Frank.”

“Beam me up, Scotty.”

Both Henry and Samantha look confused, internally they were both thinking ‘Scotty, WTF???’

“Fuck you Frank,”

“Look, we can banter later can we get inside all this radiation is making my skin tingle.”

“Fine, fine, I’m opening a whole in the hull.” An Immature giggle cackled over the comm. circuit as a large whole suddenly opened in front of them.

“Do you have the elevator ready, I would hate to tire out the princess with all those numerous flights of stairs.”

“Yep just walk on in guys yew will be at the bridge in a jiff.”

“Good, let’s get to the bridge.”

Frank said leading his trio up to rendezvous with the rest of the command crew, who at this point had already obliterated the resistance.

As they are riding up the elevator, Henry asks Frank

“Why the hell did you guys use a nuke in the atmosphere, aren’t you worried about the radiation and the populace?”

“Please Henry” Frank responds with a grin as his ears twitch in amusement. “It was only a small one, max radius of 1 quarter kilim, and the half life is only 30 minutes. Besides anyone wearing any sort of radiation resistant clothing, or even inside a ship would be just fine. All that excess radiation will rapidly dissipate into nothingness so no worries it is totally green.”

Henry muses for a moment before responding;

“That is the nice thing about space ports being out of the way I suppose, and no staff on site, all automated. No collateral in casualties.”

As they finally reach the Bridge the princess wonders to herself, how exactly they managed to discover all these things, and what the hell is a floppy???.