Diferencia entre revisiones de «Segunda Batalla de Alta»

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The '''Battle of Alta Second''' occurs on the day of [[DDF#Skyward flight|Skyward Flight]]'s graduation.{{book ref|sky1|48}}{{book ref|sky2|2}}

 

The Battle of Alta Second started in a small room in the [[Defiant Defense Force]]'s Flight Command building, as Admiral [[Judy Ivans]] and her aide-de-camp [[Rikolfr]] informed [[National Assembly Leader]]s [[Algernon Weight]], [[Valda Mendez]], and [[Ukrit]] that a large chunk of falling debris, containing hundreds of acclivity rings, would be disarmed within two days. She and the National Assembly Leaders knew the hard truth - the DDF would continue to spiral towards collapse unless they could find a way to field more starfighters than the [[varvax|Krell]]. Knowing a better opportunity might not come while they had the strength they had, the National Assembly Leaders and the Admiral agreed to throw all DDF ships at capturing the acclivity rings.{{book ref|sky1|i|3}}

 

The battle began as soon as the DDF Flight School graduation was over, as the DDF quickly launched eleven full flights and five scouting trios, totaling eighty-seven pilots. The DDF also called in all of its reserves from the [[deep caverns]]. The pilots approached the shipyard and Ironsides asked the scouting trios for fighter estimates on the Krell. The scouting trios determined that a first wave of Krell contained fifty starfighters, while a second wave carried another fifty starfighters. Both sides understood the titanic consequences the battle would have.{{book ref|sky1|48}}

 

Cloak told Ironsides that the bomber was moving extremely fast, had an escort of ten ships, and could easily get in blast range of Alta Base, so Ironsides ordered told her to engage it with just her flight of twelve scouts. Both the battle at the shipyard and around the bomber continued for some time, before Cloak finally reported that the bomber had been destroyed and that the lifebuster was falling to the ground and ordered all of the scouts to get clear before it exploded. It hit close enough to Alta Base that Spensa could hear the explosions from underground in [[Igneous Cavern]]; after it exploded, Ironsides congratulated Cloak, only to be told by [[FM]] that Cloak didn't make it out of the blast and that only three scouts survived. Ironsides then ordered the three survivors to return to the battle at the shipyard.{{book ref|sky1|48}}

 

Shortly thereafter, a woman from antiaircraft gun outpost fourth-seven reported that it, as well as outposts fourth-six and fourth-eight, had been hit by the lifebuster blast and destroyed. The gunner who gave the report then asked Ironsides if she had a nearby debris fall on her radar. The gunner took out a pair of binoculars and reported multiple Krell ships dropping through the debris field, right over where the destroyed antiaircraft gun outposts. The gunner told Ironsides to scramble the reserves, not knowing all the reserves were out fighting at the shipyard. Ironsides ordered Riptide Flight to return to Alta Base immediately, but their flightleader informed her that even at Mag-10 it would take over thirty minutes.{{book ref|sky1|48}}

{{Dialogue|Spensa|My weapons are gone. I have to ram it.|Ironsides|Understood. Saints' own speed, pilot.|attr=Spensa and Ironsides.{{book ref|sky1|50}}

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Instead of ejecting, Spensa was able to control her starfighter and guide it to the ground. She skidded into the ground just as Arturo informed Ironsides that he, Nedd, and Kimmalyn had successfully stolen their parents' private craft and were headed toward the Krell. Flight Command informed Spensa that a Krell ship was coming to destroy her wreckage, but she told them she was stuck in her straps. The Krell ship opened fire, only for its destructor blasts to be blocked by the shield of a W-shaped large fighter, M-Bot. Cobb called into Flight Command as Mongrel and told Spensa to hang on. Cobb slammed the Krell into the ground using M-Bot's light-lance, then skimmed towards Spensa's ship. Cobb got out and helped Spensa out of her ship, then told her she had to fly M-Bot and go take out the bomber. Spensa told him she could hear the Krell commands, so he told her to ignore the defect, that she wasn't predestined to destroy the DDF, but that she could choose to save it. M-Bot told Spensa he rewrote his code to identify Spensa as his pilot, thus forcing him to follow the commands of his new pilot and fight.  Spensa got in M-Bot and fired on his systems, everything but his stealth mode, so the Krell would see her coming.{{book ref|sky1|51}}

Ironsides and her junior admirals sat in the command room, weeping and praying as the lifebuster fell towards the ground. All the starfighters but one sped away from the bomb.

Spensa speared the bomb with her light-lance and shot away at Mag-16, passing through a group of DDF pilots. M-Bot calculated that they would make it outside the death zone of Alta Base, but that they would be in the middle of the blast. Spensa sank into the ship, feeling M-Bot's processors, then M-Bot told her that the biological component was engaged and that his cytonic hyperdrive was online. Spensa engaged the hyperdrive and shot away from the blast in a blink.{{book ref|sky1|53}}

 

Spensa entered a place of complete darkness, with billions of white eyes watching her, then came back to. M-Bot told her they were one hundred kilometers from the blast, with no evidence of time dilation. Ironsides contacted Spensa and told her to come back to base, but, seeing a gap in the debris field, Spensa rotated her acclivity rings and launched upwards, towards the stars.{{book ref|sky1|54}}

 

 

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