Talk:AIF/@comment-13740085-20150323194955/@comment-13740085-20150323205210

Guy swallowed a curse. What the Hell is Aneph doing here? It doesn't really matter at the moment though, does it?

At this longe range, many of the shell impact the water, an equal result would occur if Guy tried to return fire. Anti-missile artillery knocked out a number of missile, but many make it through.

"Sir! The Horizons are under attack!"

"Come again," Guy was stunned. He would still have to wait a few more moments for the automated status updates to bring in more detailed information, but there was no time for that.

As a plan began to formulate, he was interrupted again by a chime, signaling an opening channel.

"Put it through," he commanded.

"Admiral, it's Captain Cooper of the Walker," the man on the other end of the channel began, the bridge of a Horizon class arsenal ship visible behind him, "we've been boarded by enemy special forces equipped with armored suits. We're trying to slow them with the damage control bulkheads, but they're blasting through them."

"Can you make it to the armory? It should have wea-," Guy started before he was cut off.

"There's no time, Admiral. They'll make it to the bridge any moment," Cooper paused, "sir, in the bedside drawer in my shore quarters back at base, is a letter to my fiancé. Give it to her for me, will you?"

"Daniel, don't you-," Guy began, before the door at the back of the room was busted down, troops bearing the distinctive flag of the Empire of Kevin on their shoulders barely visible. But they never stepped foot onto the bridge, as Captian Daniel B. Cooper turned the key activating the USS Walkers auto-destruct timer.

There's no time to react to a two second timer, and the channel cut to static. A calm quiet hung over the immediate vicinity of Guy, and the automated status update arrived: "USS Walker, auto-destruction successful"

No time to mourn. The system which defends the Americans from the formidable coalition airships is now down, the fleet is approaching 45% casualties, and three Colorado class super battleships are gone.

"Pull the fleet back to the east, and link up with the arsenal ships. Reboot the Iron Dome asap."