The Scarman Enigma

[Sayne]

Los Angeles Orbit
Raven's Talon, "The Trueblood"

"Darkside members, go hot!" I yelled into the reciever and 10 heavily armed Raven's Talon Very Heavy Fighters decloaked along with five fully stacked bombers loaded with almost 20 million credits worth of weapons each. "Lets teach these Freedom Fighters what we can do!"

The first salvo of bomber fire hit the side of the Freedom Fighter flagship with such force that it started to move the huge mastif of a battleship sideways but did hardly any damage, they continued to swarm the huge ship while it tried in vain to hit the ships which were far too fast for the huge ships guns to manage. They attempted to send out fighters, but they were turned to space debris faster than they could reload their weapons.

"Darkside Bravo Company! Assemble on my Port wing, Alpha Company! Assemble on my Starboard wing, re-route all your ships systems to weapons and open fire on the area we agreed on!" I didn't say over comms, or else Merlow would have re-routed shields to that area. The salvo penetrated the shields and hit the junction. It erupted in fire and debris. "A friendly present from your old pal Robert! Sayne f***in' Jadyn!"

The Darkside members erupted in applause as plasma and depleted oxygen vented to space. I flicked several switches as the huge ship opened fire on my ship and my ship alone. I grabbed a hold of the ships controls and wrenched hard to the right, banking away from the plasma that shot past, superheated to the tempature of the sun. Cursing my own luck I hit a few more switches, re-routed power to engines and tilted the ship down to a steep angle and flew under the ships line of sight, launching torpedos at the belly of the ship and watched as the shields buckled more and more with each explosion.

"How do you like that Marcus?" I said with a smile to myself.

---

I've lost people who meant the world to me...and I'm still doing just fine.

I'm coming for everything they said I couldn't have.