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Shadow sent his Sabre into a spiral as more laser fire hissed against his shields.

Jesus, what did these Scythe pilots get me into this time?

I pulled up, then inverted and skimmed along the top of the SiN|Tech Frigate in front of him, dodging its laser batteries that were to close to target him. Barely before he had passed that obstacle, I had another fighter vectoring towards me with all weapons blazing. Red lights came on as the shield dropped, a whizzing noise sounded as a missile passed by just a little too close to my hull. I pulled back on the stick, then spun his fighter around, strafing leftwards. I opened up with my guns as I dropped onto the tail of another KNF Chimaera, chewing its hull and shearing its starboard wing off at the joint to the main fuselage.

Laser fire flashed everywhere, enough to give off light sufficient to brighten the sides of fighters, and larger ships. Fighters dove, climbed, weaved, and dodged their way through the firefight, with occasional explosions signifying the explosion of a fighter or similar vessel.

My shield had risen once again during this, but warning sirens went off as it was suddenly taken out, and my hull took a direct hit from a cruiser's laser. Luckily my armor was up to sustaining the blow, and I dived his ship behind a friendly Rheinland Cruiser someone had somehow acquired. I spotted one of the Scythe fighters firing at a Chimaera, but with another Chimaera right behind him, chewing away at his shields. Banking my fighter, I gave pursuit of the trailing Chimaera, lowering its shield and taking another chunk of its hull away before it had time to spin away from the attack. Unfortunately for the pilot, he spun away from me, giving me a perfect opportunity to drop right behind his exhaust trails and blast away at the fighter. The combined firepower of myself, and another friendly Scythe dealt the fighter its death blow, right as the pilot ejected out into space.

This dogfight had taken me a few kilometers from the main engagement. Turning I surveyed the battle. It wasn't as bad as it had started out to be. That is to say, it was no longer three Kusari Destroyers, a SiN|Tech Liberty Frigate, and a fighter all after him and him alone. Already, one of the Kusari Destroyers had been destroyed by the late-arriving Rheinland Cruiser, which was already in another slugging match with the other Destroyer, strafing and returning fire in equal amounts. As I was watching, both ship's shields buckled and collapsed, and explosions began to race across both ship's hulls as heavy lasers blasted against hull plates and weapon emplacements. Suddenly, the Rheinland Cruiser exploded and I saw the SiN|Tech Frigate hanging about a kilometer and a half off, firing its huge battlerazor weaponry into the burning hulk of the cruiser.

Fortunately for us, the destroyer made a pretty foolish mistake of trying to stop a smuggler in a bomber as it was fighting us. With the bomber to reinforce us, we would be able to do alot more damage to the remaining capital ships. Another of the Kusari Destroyers blew up in a large cloud of gas, fire, and debris. Just as it was appearing the fight was nearly over, yet another destroyer exited the tradelane, along with a Bretonia Destroyer. For a quick moment I wondered why the BAF had come to assist the KNF, then I saw the C.C.E logo christened on the side of the ship.

I hit the thrusters, and was jammed into my seat as the acceleration became too much for the gravity-generator to compensate for. Flying at two-hundred meters a second, I quickly closed range to the destroyers from the KNF and C.C.E. My interference was greated by a hail of laser fire concentrated on my position. I sent my ship into a weave, with random sharp-angle turns and dodged the fire by the two destroyed, and now the Liberty Frigate.

I began my strafing runs against the ships, as I was assisted by the smuggling bomber. Suddenly the two surviving KNF Destroyed broke off and headed away at cruise. Intercepted comm transmissions showed that they were ordered to retreat back to Hiroshima and its enhanced protection, all but abandoning Akita station to the defense offered by the Liberty Cruiser, as the C.C.E Destroyer also took off. We gave two options. The surrender of the frigate.. Or its death.

It refused by opening fire on myself and the Scythe next to me. Gaining a few hits on the hull for both fighters. However, we were quickly joined by the second Scythe who had finished dueling with the remaining Chimaera.

We proved ourselves to be adept at dealing out damage, though the frigate proved itself to be more than a mere barge driver as well. With damage being dealt to both sides, that were thinned drastically from battle, losing all its ships except the three fighters against the remaining frigate, we had a small upper hand in maneuverability and firepower. The onslaught proved to be too much for the frigate to defeat, and it took off at cruise, just as a Phantom Osiris battleship arrived on the scene.

I entered the tradelane to Sigma-13 and began to head back to Bruchsal. Later I learned that shortly after my departure, one of the Scythe pilots was forced to eject as a later arrival, yet another Kusari Destroyer, arrived and shoved two capital-class missiles up its engines. Tractored in by the other Scythe, who then retreated as the destroyer turned its guns upon him.

I opened my comm channel and mentally prepared myself to give a report of the incident to my commanders...

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