TDK Reaper

[marauder]

***OOC***

This is another phantom only story. If your not a phantom ask me via PM before posting.

***IC***

Honshu system, near the chugoku jumphole

A BHG hammerhead suddenly appeared as it jumped into the system, closely followed by a wyrm LF that immediately fired upon the bigger ship. A fierce fight started and was heading towards the destruction of the BHG fighter when a Kusari navy patrol, sweeping through the cloud hunting for Blood Dragons, arrived and attacked the LF.

"This is patrol gold 7, we've found a phantom operative and are requesting reinforcements." the patrol leader sent the brief message before diving at the twisting and dodging LF.

"Gold 7 we're on our way to you now, our escorts will be with you shortly." the replied was quick and broadcast in plain to the whole system.

'Great, that means it's a destroyer patrol.' Reaper thought bitterly 'Which means chimaeras.' a burst of neutron fire shot past his wing stub and vaporised a small rock.

The chimaeras appeared on the scanners and started closing rapidly. 'Time to nail this BH and run.' He curved around, tapped the thruster and started pounding the shields of the hammerhead with chaingun fire. The shields were draining, but not quickly enough. Reaper hit the reverse thrust and bought some more time, however this had kept him on a fairly level course for too long.

The navy dragons had line up on his tail and were now in range, their first salvo hammered the shield, as did the second. The third ripped through the shield and hit the mine dropper melting it and detonating the mines stored inside.

The blast thrust the wyrm forward and it ramned into the Hammerhead, which had been trying to turn to get a good shot off, so the LF hit the just below the port wing and buried the cockpit in the bigger ship's cargo hold.

"Good work Gold 7." the Chimaera wing leader said "We'll deal with it now."

"Thank you sir, we'll return to base now." Gold 7 leader replied.

The chimaeras used their thrusters to get closer to the drifting wrecks. "BHG pilot you are in violation of our space and will surrender yourself, your ship and all cargo to us now."

"I was coming to warn you guys!" the bounty hunter protested. "The phantoms ha.."

"Failure to comply will result in your destruction." the chimaera commander cut her off. "You have five seconds to start jettisoning your cargo,...5......4.......3..."

" !" the bounty hunter swore and opened fire on the closest chimaera. The shots hardly dented it's shield and the entire wing swung up and away, builting up speed for their attack run.

Reaper did the only thing he could think of...

He hit the auto-dock switch.

The damaged hulls of both ships creaked and rattled as they were flung through the jumphole, and they both broke up just before the jumphole collapsed. Scrap metal, hull plating, a snapped off wing, CM flares, H-fuel, weapons and two lifepods were the only thing that actually made it to the chugoku system.