Cargo Bay
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"Ise-Taisa to assault teams, you are go for launch, repeat you are go for launch." she said as she sent the commands to open the cargo doors.
Behind the Tenba-Class Transporter, the cargo doors opened up, the atmospheric shielding glowed across the opening.
The two TASHAs stood up and waited for the craft to move out so they could proceed to the opending as they had been instructed to.
“Roger that Ma’am,” Freyja clicked off the comms and took one last over check of the instruments and gauges.
“Welcome aboard the meteor Express, please remain seated till the seatbelt light is extinguished, and above all enjoy the flight.” Boldness not normally heard from her coated her voice. She brought the power up to the engine systems and backed the shuttle out of the cargo bay. Once she cleared the bay she spun the shuttle around and backed it up.
The TASHA walked along behind the Tenba then folded themselves up at the entrance so they could be grappled with the Graviton Beam.
Oinari’s fingers flew across the control systems, bringing the graviton beam alive and aimed it onto the TASHA. Once it made the lock she proceeded to drag the walking tank into place against the rear hull. Once the tank was secured, Freyja activated the comms to the Aeon again, “Ma’am I am loaded, proceeding on with the operations, good hunting up here.”
"Good hunting, and watch your six." Katae replied as the Aeon put on a surge of speed towards a group of NMX warships coming on a new vector.
The Tenba was five seconds out from the planet at maximum speed, the navigation system, providing data with regards to the bombing targets and the prison.
Once the Aeon powered off Freyja kicked up the music that she brought with her, the rhythmic pounding could be faintly heard in the rear cabin.
“We are a go, Please sit back and relax.” Freyja oriented the shuttle almost directly at the planet, and adjusted the forward shields to maximize the reentry protecting. With almost a giggle she pushed the throttles up to their stops and powered for the surface of the planet below. “Today’s cruising altitude will be plus or minus a bit off of the hard deck.” Her plan was to get as low as she could around a 100 klicks out from the first target, and go low and fast.
When the Tenba slammed into the upper atmosphere, the super heated gases formed a flaming nimbus around the shields, While it was not a threat to the craft, it was rather spectacular to watch.
As the surface raced up at her she pulled the controls back to level out. She hugged the terrain at tight as she felt the shuttle could handle.
The AI adapted to the flight plan streaming data to Freya so that she could avoid obstacles. The tactical system providing a time to target indicator.
As the TOT counted down, she armed the first bomb and prepped the targeting data for where she wanted it to separate from the shuttle, the key to this trick was have it release just before she made the dive to the ground and slammed on the speed. “We are about to make the first bombing run, please remain calm and enjoy the fireworks, there might be some turbulence, so hold on tight.”
As soon as the clock reached the right moment she pulled back on the controls and shot the shuttle up high in to the air above the target. All she had to worry about was keeping the shuttle of the prescribed path, the shuttles AI would take care of releasing the bomb at the right moment.
One the shuttle jerked from the bomb release she pushed the nose back over and down and push the power up. She brought up a screen to show what happened to the target, she wanted to know where there was joy or not with the weapon.
As the Transporter streaked for altitude, a number of warnings sounded as defense systems sought the craft and to provide defense batteries with a solution. As she dropped the first bomb on the Logistics Engine, the tactical system showed a number of inbound missiles closing on her craft.
The Tenba from the Aeon's escort were following close on Freya's six, they each dropped one of their bombs a second after her's for more effectiveness. The escorts activated their
Dual Plasma Arrays to start taking out missiles coming towards them.
Freyja saw and heard the warning start to light up, she quickly activated the weapon systems and went hot. She left the AI to target the missiles as she flew the shuttle snapping it into a climb; she counted to 3 in her head and rolled it over in a barrel roll. Hoping to screw with the missile’s targeting systems. She jinxed left and right and aimed for the hard deck, She just hoped between the AI and escort’s shooting and her own flying that the missiles would be wiped out, or at least get confused.
Thirty seconds after the bomb dropped the sensor systems registed multiple massive aetheric detonations. They also warned of approaching wave and recommended more altitude and velocity.
Growling a curse at the advisements to tone down she snapped the nose of the shuttle back up and powered the engine systems to their max. She even leaned a hair forward like it was going to help. As the shuttle rocketed up, Freyja shifted the bulk of the shields to the rear to help cushion some of the impacts from the wave.
Acceleration caused the Tenba to leap, the shock wave continued to close, As the transporter reached maximum speed it began to outrun the blast wave.
"Escort three heading to our LZ, Good luck." came over the comm as one of the escorts banked away and headed towards their objective.
“Good luck Escort Three, Good Hunting, just holler if you need any back up.” Once the alarms stopped screaming at her and she knew that she had outran the shock wave she tipped back down and hugged the deck tell the next target was getting close. This time she was going to repeat her pop up and bomb plan but she made sure the AI was ready with the
Dual Plasma Arrays, in case of any anti-air missiles were fired. With the time on target clock counting down she pulled the nose up and repeated the actions she performed a few minutes ago.
The War Factor loomed ahead, the Transporter was targeted by multiple radars and multiple mission launches were detected. The Plasma arrays started streaming destructive energy to destroy the inbounds. But it looked like several were going to get through. The TTT count down approached 0.
Once the shuttle jarred from the release of the bomb, Freyja started into evasive maneuvers. Breathing normally and allowing the music’s beat to calm her, she jinxed the shuttle into a fast turn to the left and then dived for the deck. With the ground climbing up to meet her she cranked the shuttle around into a left hand turn and started corkscrewing along the ground. After a half second of this she brought it back up and heading straight for the sky. She was trying to keep a count on the missiles the AI was bringing down but she couldn’t concentrate on that and flying so erratically.
Even with the evasive moves, the shear number of inbound fired by the factory made it problematic. A number of missiles were destroyed by weapon fire coming from under the Tenba. Several of the missiles successful hit the Tenba, the shields absorbed the destructive forces, but were down to 20%. The system was recharging them but another successful volley and the transporter would take structural damage.
Another detonation was detected as the last bomb did its job. With it went the RADAR sites that were guiding the missiles.
Next stop the prison.
‘Damn’ she thought to herself. “Sorry about the close call there folks we are about to make our approach to the prison, please make sure all trays and seat backs are in their full up right and locked positions.” She brought the shuttle up 300 meters off the deck and brought the speed up. She was going to perform a high speed pass. Within a blink of an eye the prison flew past beneath them. Once far enough out she bank back around and started her final approach. She sent a quick message to Santô Juni :
Code:
Ma'am, here is the scans from the LZ it is now your call how we proceed.
The prison was a squat hexagonal structure. It appeared to be three stories tall, and each side was about 300 meters long. In front of the entrance to the prison, the following NMX forces were visible. Two Flayer Tankettes, several NMX Battle Buggies, and a number of NMX Type 31A Light Infantry, and one NMX Prisoner Handling Vehicle. There were also several cargo trucks parked near the structure.
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