Joel says, “OK, men, this is it. We’ve been reading over the plans for this mission for months, we know what we have to do and we know where we have to go. After we have downloaded the DC file, we will then proceed to escape from the CSB-R1 base. Once we have escaped I will tell Edmund to lock the CSB-R1 base entrance doors so that nobody can follow us. We will then drive the RBMs back here and get inside the trailers of the Superdeal trucks. The trucks will take us to Skystone.”
Skystone is a private spacecraft station. In Skystone, spacecraft can get refuelled. Skystone also have hangars to hold spacecraft in protective storage. The Superdeal spacecraft transport ship that brought the Superdeal trucks loaded with RBMs is now in Skystone. Joel got some agents to make arrangements for his Superdeal spacecraft transport ship to be refuelled and kept in protective storage.
The transport ship that brought the Superdeal trucks loaded with RBMs flew to Skystone after it dropped off the trucks and departed the planet transport station of the first built glacitone dome. The Superdeal transport ship flew to Skystone to get refuelled and ready for its next departure and is now refuelled and ready to make a quick getaway. Employees in Skystone think that Joel’s Superdeal spacecraft transport ship is legitimate. They see Superdeal ships getting refuelled and departing all the time. They think that the Superdeal spacecraft transport ship will fly back home after the Superdeal trucks make all of their deliveries and come back on board. They don’t realise that the Superdeal spacecraft transport ship is owned by a corrupt federal agent, and is also a getaway plane for agents who are going to commit a horrible act.
“We will then board the Superdeal spacecraft transport ship with the trucks. The Superdeal ship will then fly us to PTS-R1. Once we have reached the planet transport station we will then take off from there and fly back home. Are there any questions?”
One of the agents enquires, “When do we activate the Space Drill rockets?”
Joel answers, “The Space Drill rockets won’t be activated until the manufacturers in the Space Drill station can build their first bit of glacitone and their first RB-7 robot; by the time that happens we’ll all be safe back on Earth. Guys, if we succeed in this mission we’ll all be millionaires. I want everyone to get into their RBMs and wait for my signal to attack.”
Eric promised to give Joel and his men millions when they get the DC file.
All of the agents get into the RBMs. Joel gets inside the front passenger seat of an RBM. Charles is in the driver’s seat, while Edmund and Johnson are in the back. Joel dials a number of a colleague on his planet communicator. The colleague answers the Balaxian cell phone.
Joel says, “We’re ready. Now it’s up to you.”
Joel hangs up the planet communicator after making that small statement. There are two earthling Windjet engineers who work in the spacecraft hangar of the CSB-R1 base. The two Windjet engineers are called Victor and Deacon. A Windjet engineer makes sure that all Windjets are operational and safe to fly. Victor and Deacon are in the spacecraft hangar of the CSB-R1 base. Victor goes inside one Windjet and Deacon goes inside the other.
Victor and Deacon start up the Windjets and make them move onto the runway. The runway is huge; there’s enough space that two Windjets could take off beside each other at the same time, but the commanders of the CSB-R1 base allow only one Windjet to take off at a time for safety reasons. The two Windjets that have been moved by Victor and Deacon out of the spacecraft hangar are side by side on the runway. The two Windjets thrust forward at the same time and start to build up a lot of speed on the runway.
The two Windjets have built up enough speed to take off. Both of the Windjets take off and fly into the air. From the spacecraft tower, Commander Maviral is surprised to see two Windjets taking off together.
Commander Maviral turns around and says to another officer, “What’s going on? I didn’t authorise those Windjets to take off.”
The two Windjets are at a distance from the CSB-R1 base now. Victor and Deacon set their Windjets to autopilot. They have turned their Windjets around and are now hovering in a single spot. From their cockpit windows Victor and Deacon have a clear view of the CSB-R1 base. Victor pulls out a remote-controlled detonator from his pocket and presses a button. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! The three remaining Windjets in the spacecraft hangar explode into pocket sized segments.
*
Everyone on the communication floor of the file hive building can see the explosions in the spacecraft hangar.
Connor sees the explosions and says, “What the hell?”
Lanken picks up a pair of binoculars from a desk. With the binoculars he can see a close-up view of the spacecraft hangar. Lanken sees that the remaining Windjets have been blown to bits.
Lanken says, “The Windjets; they’ve all been completely destroyed.”
*
Victor and Deacon are Windjet engineers, Windjet pilots and spies working for Joel. A while back Joel had arranged a meeting with them and asked them to work for him. Joel made them an offer they couldn’t refuse. Victor planted three remote bombs in the three Windjets that blew up in the spacecraft hangar. It was also Victor who planted and detonated the remote bombs in the five Windjets that blew up in the city earlier, as he was ordered to remote-detonate any Windjet that flew out of the CSB-R1 base. Victor and Deacon disabled the remote bombs that were planted in the Windjets they’re flying in before boarding. Joel ordered Victor to make sure that all Windjets were destroyed except for those two.
Joel wants the two remaining Windjets to be used as weapon backup. He supplied Victor with remote bombs, a remote detonator and Sound Comms. Joel was able to communicate with Victor by the planet communicator while the communication system of the CSB-R1 base was down because Edmund used his hacker software to give Victor’s phone network coverage, allowing him to make and receive calls.
Victor and Deacon are now wearing and using the Sound Comms, and are able to communicate with Joel and his crew.
Victor says, over the Sound Comm, “Deacon, let’s do this air strike.”
Deacon responds, “Roger.”
Victor and Deacon fly over the CSB-R1 base and drop bombs on the two rows of buildings along each side of the road that leads to the file hive building. Victor drops bombs on the buildings on one side of the road and Deacon drops bombs on the other side. KABOOM! Two air strikes at the same time.
The explosions of the two air strikes create a wave of fire through each row of buildings and look similar to the air strike explosion shown in the movie Apocalypse Now. Joel sees the explosions. The air strike explosions are the signal for Joel to attack the CSB-R1 base.
Joel shouts over the Sound Comm, “Let’s go!”
All of the agents driving the RBMs put the pedal to the metal and drive fast towards to the CSB-R1 base. All of the agents driving the RBMs now have their lights on.
*
The two rows of buildings that were attacked by bombs are on fire. A lot of injured Clandarian soldiers come out of the buildings, coughing. Some emerge screaming and on fire.
Clandarian soldiers are trying to put out the fires on other Clandarian soldiers. A soldier informs Lanken that the RBM storage facility has been completely destroyed. The only RBMs the soldiers now have are in front of the file hive building. Everyone on the communication floor of the file hive building can see the two rows of burning buildings and the soldiers coming out of them.
Lanken uses an intercom and says, “This is an emergency. I want everyone to get weapons and body armour from the weapon storage room and exit the file hive building immediately.”
Lanken wants everyone out of the building because he thinks that the two Windjets that dropped bombs on the two rows of buildings may try to take out the concrete file hive building. Everyone in the concrete file hive building hears and obeys Lanken’s orders. Lanken orders a soldier who has keys for the weapon storage room to open the room. Soldiers go inside, grab and don body armour, quickly arm themselves with assault rifles and proce
ed to exit the concrete file hive building.
*
Joel and his army are at the entrance doors of the CSB-R1 base.
Victor speaks into the Sound Comm and says, “Joel, don’t open the entrance doors yet. There is a group of soldiers and RBMs at the entrance doors.”
Joel responds, “Take them out.”
Victor says, “Deacon, we’re going to take out the RBMs at the entrance doors of the CSB-R1 base.”
Deacon replies, “Roger, proceeding to the entrance doors.”
Deacon and Victor fly over to the entrance doors of the base. As they do so, armed soldiers in the watchtowers and on the ground nearby fire at the two Windjets with their machine guns. Soldiers in the RBMs also fire at the Windjets by using the mini guns of the RBMs.
The windscreen of the Windjets is bulletproof. The ammo being fired from all of the soldiers’ guns bounce off the windscreen and pierce through the body structure of the Windjets. The Windjets open fire on the soldiers with machine guns and rockets. The gun shells fired from the Windjets make small detonations of remains on the ground and impale some of the soldiers, killing soldiers in the watchtowers and blowing holes in the watchtowers that are the size of basketballs.
Some of the watchtowers explode into wee scraps from the impact of the rockets fired from the Windjets. All of the soldiers who are at the entrance doors of the RBMs are getting slaughtered by bullets. One of the Windjets fires rockets at the RBMs that are close to the entrance doors of the CSB-R1 base. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! The explosions make the RBMs fly in the air.
Victor says, “Joel, you have a clear path at the entrance doors; you can open the doors now.”
Joel says, “Edmund, open the entrance doors.”
Edmund responds, “Yes, sir.”
Edmund uses his laptop and computer hacker software to open the entrance doors. The doors start to open. All of the RBMs loaded with corrupt agents drive into the CSB-R1 base after the doors have been fully opened. All of the RBMs are now inside the CSB-R1 base. Joel tells Edmund to close and lock the entrance doors again. Edmund closes and locks the doors using his laptop and computer hacker software.
The reason why Joel wants the entrance doors of the CSB-R1 base to be closed and locked is because he doesn’t want any soldiers to get out of the base and go for help or backup. Some of the soldiers who ran out of the two rows of buildings that were hit by an airstrike are armed with machine guns. Joel and his crew open fire on the soldiers with the mini guns of the RBMs.
Some of Joel’s crew wind down the windows of the RBMs, aim their machine gun/grenade launchers and assault rifles out of the windows and open fire at the soldiers. The soldiers return fire with their machine guns. Most of the soldiers are getting decimated by weapon rounds. The RBMs drive onto the road that leads to the file hive buildings. The corrupt agents in the RBMs pass watchtowers, burning buildings and Clandarian soldiers as they drive down the road that leads to the file hive buildings.
As the RBMs drive down the road that leads to the file hive buildings soldiers on the watchtowers and the ground are firing at the RBMs with their machine guns. The agents are firing back at the soldiers with their assault rifles, machine gun/grenade launchers and RBM mini guns. Soldiers are getting eliminated by shots left, right and centre. Lights on the watchtowers are being blown to pieces. Firearm projectiles are hitting the burning buildings. Grenade shells fired by agents are exploding beside soldiers, killing them instantly, and are also exploding when they hit the watchtowers and burning buildings.
Joel orders, “Victor, Deacon, take out those watchtowers.”
Victor and Deacon respond at the same time, “Yes, sir!”
The Windjets open fire on the watchtowers with machine guns and rockets. Some of the leg-stands of the watchtowers are blown to pieces, toppling them onto the road leading to the file hive buildings.
*
Lanken, Connor, Gabrielle, Dylan, Gragon, Tizer and all of the rest of the soldiers who were inside the file hive building are now at the barrier of RBMs that’s in front of the file hive buildings.
Through his binoculars Lanken sees the RBMs and the agents inside them opening fire at the soldiers.
Connor grabs the binoculars and says, “Let me see.”
Connor sees the RBMs and agents firing at soldiers; he also sees that the RBMs containing armed agents are driving towards the file hive buildings.
Connor says, “Lanken, don’t wait for these RBMs to come up here; you need to go down there and stop them.”
Lanken says to himself, Connor’s right. He tells everyone at the barrier that firing bullets at the windscreen of the RBM’s will make it difficult for the driver to see where to go and the best way to destroy an RBM is with a grenade round. He also commanded soldiers to take four RBMs and stop Joel and his crew in the middle of the road before they get close to the file hive buildings. Tizer, Connor and two other soldiers get into one of the four RBMs, which are loaded with soldiers.
The four RBMs accelerate fast, side by side, and are heading towards to Joel and his posse. The soldiers open fire on Joel and his crew with the mini guns of the RBMs. Connor and some of the soldiers wind down the windows of the RBMs, aim their machine guns out of the windows and open fire at Joel and his posse. Joel and his posse return fire trying to hit the soldiers aiming weapons out of the windows.
As the agents and soldiers fire on one another with their weapons, the small metallic missiles give off small sparks as they bounce off the RBMs, and create discharges of broken material as they hit the road. The agents and soldiers are also firing grenade shells at one another with machine gun/grenade launchers. The grenade shells blow up on the ground close to the RBMs. Connor takes out one of the agents’ RBMs with a grenade shell. KABOOM! The RBM explodes into kindling. The agents and soldiers driving towards each other in the RBMs are getting close to one another now. They have to put the brakes on or swerve past each other to avoid crashing into each other. An RBM loaded with soldiers crashes into an RBM loaded with agents. The rest of the RBMs swerve past each other. The remaining soldiers driving the RBMs apply the brakes, turn around and continue to pursue Joel and his crew.
Joel and his crew open fire on the RBM barrier that’s in front of the file hive building.
Lanken shouts, “Open fire!”
Everyone at the barrier opens fire with their weapons at Joel and his crew. Soldiers in RBMs who are chasing after Joel also open fire.
*
Joel speaks into the Sound Comm and says, “Victor, take out the guys who are chasing after us. Deacon, blow up this roadblock of RBMs that’s in front of the file hive buildings.”
Deacon and Victor respond, “Yes, sir!”
Deacon fires rockets and gun shells at the RBM barrier. KABOOM! The rockets explode, making soldiers and RBMs go flying through the air. There is no longer a barrier in front of the file hive building. Joel and his men drive past the area where the RBM barrier used to be. Six RBMs loaded with agents smash through the ground floor windows of the file hive building. Two agents driving two different RBMs swerve and make a hard right, and the agents in the remaining four RBMs swerve and make a hard left.
There is now an RBM barrier inside the concrete file hive building. Some soldiers are still alive following the explosion. Victor chases after the RBMs who are chasing Joel and his men. Victor opens fire on the RBMs with rockets and machine guns. BOOM! BOOM! Victor blows two RBMs into pieces. BOOM! Victor blows a wheel off of the third RBM with a rocket, making the RBM slide on its side.
Victor is being fired upon by soldiers in the watchtowers. Victor is out of rockets. He makes the Windjet hover in the one spot and shoot at soldiers in the watchtowers with machine guns. Soldiers in the watchtowers on both sides of the road are getting hit and killed. Some dead soldiers are falling out of the watchtowers.
*
Inside the RBM that got its wheel blown off by a Windjet, Connor says, “Tizer? Guys, is anybody conscious?”
Nobody r
esponds. Connor thinks that everyone in the RBM is either dead or unconscious. He decides to get out of the RBM as quickly as possible as he thinks that the Windjet could be coming back to finish him off. Connor climbs out of the RBM, which is lying on its side, and sees the Windjet opening fire on a watchtower. Connor fires bullets with his machine gun/grenade launcher at the Windjet.
The Windjet gradually turns around. Connor knows that if the Windjet gets a lock on him he’s dead. Connor fires a grenade shell at one of the afterburners of the Windjet. BOOM! The afterburner explodes into small bits. The explosion makes the piloting system of the Windjet malfunction. Victor has no control over the Windjet anymore.
The Windjet is heading straight for the ground. Victor is scared shitless; he sees from the cockpit window that the Windjet is going to hit the ground.
Victor shouts, “Noooooo!”
KABOOM! The Windjet hits the ground in a nosedive and blows into pieces. Soldiers on the ground near the RBM barrier explosion open fire on the last remaining Windjet. The Windjet returns fire on the soldiers with rockets and machine guns. Gragon, who was forced to the ground along with some other soldiers after the explosion at the RBM barrier, sees Gabrielle lying on the ground. Gabrielle is unconscious. Gragon sees the Windjet firing on soldiers.
Gragon grabs a machine gun/grenade launcher that’s lying on the ground, aims at the Windjet and fires a grenade shell. KABOOM! The Windjet explodes into little fragments. There are some damaged, fiery, smoky RBMs remaining after the RBM barrier explosion. Some soldiers are hiding behind them for cover. Gabrielle starts to regain consciousness. Gragon sees Dylan and Lanken using a damaged RBM for cover, grabs Gabrielle and both of them run for cover. Gragon, Dylan, Lanken and Gabrielle are now using a damaged RBM for cover.
*
Joel has ordered all of his agents to stay by the RBMs and kill anyone who tries to get inside the file hive building. He then orders Edmund and Johnson to follow him. Joel, Edmund and Johnson are armed with assault rifles.
Edmund and Johnson are also carrying Balaxian laptops in backpacks. Joel runs down a hallway that leads to the back entrance of the concrete file hive building. Edmund and Johnson follow. Moments later, Joel, Edmund and Johnson are at the back entrance of the building. The back entrance of the concrete file hive building has glass doors and windows. There are concrete pillars at a distance behind the doors and windows of the back entrance of the concrete file hive building.
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