Blood Red Shadows II: The Crimson Shade
Chapter 17: Chapter 17: Strike Force Vanoss
Previous Chapter Next Chapter*Fall Knight Yacht; 1 Mile off the coast of Los Santos, San Andreas; October 14, 2018; 9:15 PM*
"Vanoss! Come in, you f**k!!" Alex roared from the radio.
Vanoss winced, turning the volume down on his headset before replying.
"I can hear you, jackass!" Vanoss indignantly replied.
"Good! That yacht is armed to the teeth, and we can't get through them! Blow the f**ker up!!" Alex ordered.
"I know, bitch. Liss already sent us coordinates and shit." Vanoss rolled his eyes.
"Us..? Are you all there already?" Alex sounded surprised.
"We have Hydra jets, you Canadian Vegeta sounding motherf**ker!" Wildcat yelled.
"Actually, I just have a Tank. Lui's flying me in." Delirious replied.
"How many extensions do our comms have?" Blake wondered.
"Nine." Liss answered before signing off.
"Yeah, just blow them apart." Alex dismissively ordered before he himself signed off.
Vanoss turned his head to find several of his friends flying Hydra jets at his sides, that is, except for Delirious and Lui.
"Flying Tank, motherf**kers!! Ahahahahaha!!" Delirious laughed maniacally as he fired the first shot at the Yacht, blowing a chunk out of the ship.
"Haha! Nice!" Wildcat congratulated as his jet dove mere feet above the ocean to do a firing run. Gunfire ripped at the Yacht's hull, filling it with little holes as the ship continued to sink.
"I see the thing!" Vanoss, Nogla, and Moo flew at the ship's right before circling around and firing missiles at the gun. The ship was eventually reduced to a pile of scrap wood and bodies floating in the dark, cold depths.
"That was way too easy..!" Wildcat laughed, celebrating.
Vanoss checked his Radar, only to find numerous smaller ships and jets headed straight for them.
"Wildcat, you weren't wrong." Vanoss gaped right before everything started going to hell.
The PT boats fired tracers at their jets, with the enemy's aircraft quickly locking on.
"Delirious, I'll drop you off on another boat. I'm going to run back and get something else!" Lui dropped Delirious onto a quickly sinking PT boat as the helicopter suddenly veered to the right, as said monkey had leaped off and was parachuting onto the beach.
The sky above the Pacific that night looked like a massive fireworks show, with some of the more ignorant beach-goers clapping and cheering at the display.
"Evan, you got one on your tail!" Wildcat warned.
"I see him!" Vanoss pulled back on the controls, doing a loop behind the enemy and shooting his engine to bits.
"Moo, watch your back!" Delirious alerted as he fired a tank she'll directly at the enemy jet, blowing it to smithereens.
"There's a whole bunch of boats lining up!" Vanoss noted, the line formation of boats firing all at once trying to take them down.
"Oh, crap!!" Nogla yelled as he ejected, aiming his ship at a row of PT boats.
Nogla swam to one of the boats, throwing C4 at it's back and before swimming to another one and repeating the process.
"Everyone who crashes had to take care of the boats!" Mini yelled.
"AAAUGH, NOO!! I WAS TERMINATED!! Why do I have to speak with the f**king accent?!" Terroriser yelled, saying the last sentence in his normal voice and ejecting at the last second.
"I'm back!!" Lui screamed in his kid voice, flying the P-996 LAZER.
"Wow, Lui. That's a nice jet." Wildcat sarcastically droned.
"F**k off!" Lui retorted.
Vanoss's jet spun directly around, nearly colliding with an enemy jet and firing a missile at another. The enemy jet eventually exploded in a fiery blaze before splashing into the ocean's icy grip.
"That's the last one!" Basically yelled after the last jet disappeared from their radar.
"Nogla, time's up.. Let's do this." Vanoss nodded, putting on a pair of sunglasses.
The series of PT boats exploded one after the other, each erupting it's own fireball upon detonation.
"Uh... Guys.." Droidd began nervously.
"What..?" Delirious asked as well.
"There's one more dot... I think it's coming from under the water-." Moo noted before a large number of missiles tore his ship apart, sending him crashing into the ocean.
Vanoss only had to look outside the window.
"Holy shit."
A massive ship, at least the size of the Knight's Myriad, surfaced from under the water. The gargantuan mass of metal suddenly shifted, revealing hundreds of missile launchers.
"TARGETS IDENTIFIED. LOCKING ON. FIRING" A deep, mechanical voice bellowed as it's endless supply of missiles suddenly bombarded the remaining jets.
Vanoss quickly ejected, landing on a section of the metal behemoth as the rest did so in kind.
"You know what this shit reminds me of?" Nogla asked.
"If you say 'Pacific Rim', I'll throw you into a missile." Wildcat groaned.
Nogla stopped talking.
"What the hell is this thing?!" Delirious wondered.
"I have an idea! You remember how we fought the old Nikolai while he was in a mech suit from District 9?" Lui asked.
"Yeah.. Massive pain in the ass." Wildcat shrugged.
"And what are those on the thing's giant turrets?" Basically pointed to two large battery-like objects just behind the weapon's primary cannons.
"They look like giant double A batteries." Vanoss noted.
"Maybe if we have Alex send in some air support, maybe we can-..!" Terroriser began.
"Or we could just use our Air Strikes on them." Moo pulled out a smoke grenade, interrupting Terroriser.
"You think that'll work?" Droidd wondered out loud.
"I know what to do! Some of us call for attack choppers, and the rest of us will target the batteries!" Mini Ladd realized.
"I got this!" Vanoss announced as he called Merryweather on his phone.
"Vanoss, I heard you took down the yacht- WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING?!" Alex screamed through the radio.
"Calm down, Scrublord. We got this!" Delirious shot back.
"Alright, Mini and I just sent attack choppers, maybe they'll distract the thing!" Moo yelled as everyone pulled out flares.
"On three, everyone throw these... One, two, three!!!" Lui yelled as everyone began throwing flares.
The scene was utterly chaotic, the crew had leaped off of the mechanical beast and swam as far away as they could as Attack Choppers got blown apart by the Fall Knights' weapon, red smoke bellowing from it as Jets sped over, some of them being blown up, but most of them managing to hit the batteries.
"YEAH!!!" Everyone cheered as they reached the shoreline. They all started hi-fiving each other and hollering until the mechanical voice bellowed again.
"PRIMARY POWER SOURCE DESTROYED. BACKUP POWER AT 50%. TARGETING CIVILIANS WITHIN A 2 MILE RADIUS... ALL WEAPONS ARMED. INITIATE DEFENSE PROTOCOL 90210."
"... That can't be good." Vanoss gaped.
"Don't just stand there, shoot the missiles!!" Wildcat yelled, pulling out a minigun.
From where the weapon had been, they were easily within missile-destroying range and could probably stop most of them if they focused.
"Alex.. We may or may not need you to deploy flares. That weapon is about to tear the city apart." Vanoss informed.
"What?! We can't have that! Yang, Ruby, and I will help take care of the missiles. Cade, deploy flares the second the warning lights go on!" Alex ordered.
"FIRE."
Hundreds upon hundreds of missiles shot out of the weapon as Vanoss's crew shot the missiles, causing massive explosions by the dozen. Moments later, sniper shots pierced through many missiles at once along with several explosive rounds fired at the missiles, blowing up more and more, and finally, a massive purple electric blast blew up the rest of the missiles before a lightning bolt shut the weapon down completely.
By now, the weapon had sunk and all that was left of it otherwise was a massive cloud of smoke.
"Target disabled. Cade, we can move to our destination. Good job, guys. I need you to help the ponies, Blake, Weiss, Kat, and Liss take care of the ammo stockpiled at their target building. They're having trouble." Alex ordered as the freighter flew away.
"Okay... Anyone got a ride there?" Moo asked, putting away own his minigun.
"I'll call a guy for the rest of us. Delirious and Nogla are getting tanks. Lui, Droidd, Wildcat and I are gonna take a Valkyrie." Vanoss announced tiredly.
"Couldn't we just charge at them with a few technicals?" Basically wondered.
"Yeah. I'm calling about that right now." Terroriser pulled out a cell phone.
"Is it just me or is saving the world way too expensive?" Wildcat groaned.
"Aren't you guys using Shark Cards, or are you buying these with real-world money?" Vanoss asked.
"F**k you, Evan." Nogla deadpanned.
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