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Star Soldier
Ch. 1
Dear Jethro, I don't know how many weeks are left until I'm back. All can say is its classified and I miss you.
-Love Mara
Crew Quarters 0400
*Beep Beep Beep*
Mara slowly eased back into conciseness.
"**** me." God dam alarm, every god dam morning. She was woken up by that shrieking box of ****. Slowly she climbed out of her bottom bunk onto the cold hard metal surface of the quarters. A shiver ran up her leg and all the way up her spine reminding her of the reality she was in. Mara wasn't any supermodel but back home there was constantly some guy hitting on her at a bar, and usually she would hit back. She was about 5' 6” with dark hazel hair and a tan that screamed tropical vacation. Her other roommates Jen and Alesya were getting dressed for another day in engineering on the Hyperion Battleship.
"Ready for another fun day Mara?" asked Jen.
"Only if we kill some scum Caldari.”
“We'll get to see some action yet Mara, trust me on a mission this secret we have too.”
“Jen we've made 20 jumps in the past three weeks and haven't even found any pirates. This entire mission is going to end in boredom."
"Yes Sargent!" Alesya chimed in with a mock salute.
"I'm not on ****ing duty yet." Mara groaned and got up. Grabbing a quick shower she dressed and then made her way to engineering. Mara didn't think of herself as a great officer but just as one that did the job assigned to her.
Mara's feet clanked down the rungs on the ladder leading down to the capacitor. Each boot step echoing threw the gargantuan cavity that housed engineering.
"Sargent the capacitor recharge coils need cleaning." One of the new transfers stated saluting Mara as she reached the deck.
"Have private Simmons take them apart and clean them. There are spares in cargo bay 6."
“Yes Ma'am"
Mara made her way through engineering going over her check list, she'd been head of Engineering for a year now and with the war going on she hoped one day she could command a ship of her own. Suddenly the emergency warning system blared to life.
RED ALERT RED ALE-
Mara and most of engineering were tossed from one side of the ship to the other. As the large battleship was rattled to the core... literally.
"Every one get too your battle stations!" Mara hollered over the roar of a hundred different sirens all telling her the same thing. That they were about to get ****ed...
"Simmons scratch cleaning the cap's get 'em ready we might have to jump! Walter check the power couplers they might have been damaged. Everyone shape up its time to send the Caldari packing!" Everyone raced off to their jobs never missing a beat.
Mess hall 1400
The last few hours had gone by like a blur. When it was all over Mara went to the mess hall looking to finally get some R and R and find out what the hell just happened. Mara scanned the mess hall looking for some of the few friends she had.
"Hey Anthony what the hell hit us?” Mara said sliding down next to him on the otherwise empty table.
" Two stealth bombers uncloaked and tried to cook us. We got our shield boosters up in time though. We were able to take out one of the bombers but the other one got away... Are you ok, you look really beat up." Anthony said as if surveying a wreck.
"Seeing as how I'm covered in grease, oil and grit and just pulled a 10 hour shift, oh I'm just... great..."
"I'd say sexy" Anthony said massaging her shoulders.
"I hate you" Mara laughed.
"I hate you too" Anthony said slipping his hand around her oily jumpsuit. They made their way back to his quarters. As the ship made another jump continuing its journey threw the cold hard vacuum. Anthony peered threw the cracked door to his quarters.
"All clear." They walked in an Mara let herself fall onto his bunk.
"Wait... Mara... I don't know if we should to this...” Mara began pulling the zipper down on her suit, each of the little teeth making a clicking sound as the parted.
“You should know... I have a girlfriend back home..." The top of her jumpsuit slid off her torso.
"And i Have a boyfriend back home." Anthony closed the door behind them.
Ch.2
“These bastards have driven us from part of our home system. Killed and murdered thousands of innocent civilians. Our brothers and sisters have been slayed. Our parents and children lay dead in the streets. We will have our revenge against these bastards.”
-Captain Andersen's speech before departing on the mission.
Crew Quarters 0200
Mara was jostled our of her bunk by the explosion and was jolted awake when her head bounced off the deck plating.
“****!” Mara groaned picking herself up.
"This is captain Anderson enemy boarding parties have breached our defenses, prepare to fight off the enemy." Captain Anderson barked over the pa system.
"**** again..." Mara said as the grogginess melted away leaving the hard realty that the **** hit the fan. Mara pulled on her pants, slapped her pistol to her hip and ran out the door not bothering to get into full uniform. She made her way to engineering without incident. Sliding down the railings Mara hit the deck by the engine room and turned to her right. Bringing her pistol up she pulled the trigger sending a bullet threw the eye socket of an Caldari commando leaving blood splatter across the back wall. Mara peered around the corner to see Simmons crumpled against the wall. She quickly crept toward him as to not make any noise. Pressing her fingers to his neck she checked his pulse to find there was none.
"Those ****ing dogs..." I'll get them for this. Suddenly gun fire erupted down the hallway. Mara made her way to the sound of bullets ricocheting. Looking around the corner she saw 3 men holding off commandos from the cooling systems. Mara sprinted down the where they were taking cover behind supply crates full of spare parts for the capacitor.
"Soldier whats the situation!" Mara hollered over the eruption of gunfire."
"We got five tangos taking cover behind the counsels and doorway. We can't dislodge them." Mara looked around her for any idea, then the crate caught her her eye. Warning explosive energy discharge capacitor. That just might work! Mara thought. Mara smashed the side of the crate open with the butt of her pistol and garbed a module.
"Soldier when I throw this over there you shoot it, it should go off like a grenade!"
"Yes ma'am" Mara jumped up threw the module and hit the deck just as a spray of armor piercing bullets shredded the door control behind her. We'll that one more thing I'll have to fix. The soldier next to her popped up and sent a spray of bullets right at the module. It exploded like a firework on Gallente National Night. Mara and the rest of the men quickly made their way to the enemy positions. Where they found 5 charred corpses smoke wafting up from their still burning cloths and skin.
"Well Sargent looks like it worked." Suddenly on of the corpses gasped and let out a horrific painful moan. Mara leaped toward his body and grabbed him by the fridges of his tattered and burned suit.
"Hel... hel.. help me.."
"You ****ing bastard!" Mara punched him square in the nose, his head bounced off the deck.
"Pa.. pa.. please hel... hel..."
"You killed my brother! He was on Caldari prime teaching students when your god dam friends broke into the school and killed him!"
"I..."
"I'll send you to ****ing hell!" Mara pressed her gun to his blackened forehead.
"Sargent!" One of the troopers shouted. Mara pulled the trigger. The commandos brains sprayed across the floor.
"What is it trooper?"
"Nothing ma'am".
"Then move out, there are still others on the ship."
For 26 hours they searched the ship tracking down and killing all of the enemy commandos.
Mess Hall 0400
Anthony slumped down into the seat next to Mara in the mess hall. She was spooning mouth fulls of food into her mouth.
"Mara... I'm really glad too see you. Are you doing ok?" Anthony looked concerned examining her.
"I was grazed on the shoulder other wise I'm fine."
“Thank god... if you weren't doing anything later...I thought..."
"Anthony I haven't' slept in over a day now and if we did... i just might fall asleep."
"Of course, of course it was stupid, i didn't mean..." Anthony blurted out.
"Its fine. I want to release some stress too but now I need to rest." Mara got up and made her way to her quarters."
Crew Quarters 1200
*Beep Beep Beep Bee-*
"aaawwwwww...." Mara groaned as she slapped the clock to the floor falling silent either broken or the button was hit when the clock smashed to the floor. Another normal day.. or what ever the hell normal was Mara thought to herself. She showered dressed and went to duty on engineering. She spent the whole day fixing damaged equipment including the door panel that was almost shielded by her head.
Mess Hall 2200
"So Anthony hows gunnery holding up?" Mara asked sliding in next to him and the table."
"We sustained minimal damage to one 10 m cannon other wise were fine. That's the nice thing about Hyperion's. You lose 1 cannon and there are 15 left to shoot."
"How are you holding up?"
"I'm fine... however you saw more action yesterday so how are you doing?"
"I'm... I'm a soldier, we eat sleep, **** and kill." Mara said poking at what she was told was steak.
"Mara... what exactly is our relationship?"
"Were god knows where in deep space and could die tomorrow..."
"That's what I thought.. I"
"Shut up up let go to my place."
Ch. 3
My family is dead and I'm out here risking my life. I feel like I don't know what I'm doing anymore.
-Mara's personal Journal
Crew Quarters 0400
"Mara! Mara!"
"Whhaaaattt?"
"Get a new clock and tell Sargent Anthony he's going to be late." Mara rolled her head to the left too see Anthony snoring next too her.
"****..."
"Have fun last night?"
"**** you Jen..."
Engineering 0900
“Walter get down from that manifold the captain is going to make a speech soon to the whole ship.”
“Yes Ma'am” Walter stepped down the rungs of the ladder making sure to not lose his balance as it was still missing some rungs for the firefight a few days ago. Suddenly the pa system crackled to life.
“This is Captain Anderson speaking. These past few days have been chaotic we've fought off the enemy outside and inside this ship you have given your lives to strike back at the Caldari. And I thank you, for I know that what you do I no little thing. We are about to jump to our final destination, we are going to strike back at the Caldari and repay them a thousand time fold for what they've done. If you all continue to do your jobs to the best of you abilities we will pull through. I thank you for what you've done and what your about to do.”
“You heard the captain, get to your stations!” Mara shouted as they all broke off to their ready stations.
“Hey Mara what do you think were going to do?” Mike asked checking the coolant flow chart next to her.
“All I know is that we will finally have our revenge.”
The Ship jumped.
Star Soldier
Ch. 1
Dear Jethro, I don't know how many weeks are left until I'm back. All can say is its classified and I miss you.
-Love Mara
Crew Quarters 0400
*Beep Beep Beep*
Mara slowly eased back into conciseness.
"**** me." God dam alarm, every god dam morning. She was woken up by that shrieking box of ****. Slowly she climbed out of her bottom bunk onto the cold hard metal surface of the quarters. A shiver ran up her leg and all the way up her spine reminding her of the reality she was in. Mara wasn't any supermodel but back home there was constantly some guy hitting on her at a bar, and usually she would hit back. She was about 5' 6” with dark hazel hair and a tan that screamed tropical vacation. Her other roommates Jen and Alesya were getting dressed for another day in engineering on the Hyperion Battleship.
"Ready for another fun day Mara?" asked Jen.
"Only if we kill some scum Caldari.”
“We'll get to see some action yet Mara, trust me on a mission this secret we have too.”
“Jen we've made 20 jumps in the past three weeks and haven't even found any pirates. This entire mission is going to end in boredom."
"Yes Sargent!" Alesya chimed in with a mock salute.
"I'm not on ****ing duty yet." Mara groaned and got up. Grabbing a quick shower she dressed and then made her way to engineering. Mara didn't think of herself as a great officer but just as one that did the job assigned to her.
Mara's feet clanked down the rungs on the ladder leading down to the capacitor. Each boot step echoing threw the gargantuan cavity that housed engineering.
"Sargent the capacitor recharge coils need cleaning." One of the new transfers stated saluting Mara as she reached the deck.
"Have private Simmons take them apart and clean them. There are spares in cargo bay 6."
“Yes Ma'am"
Mara made her way through engineering going over her check list, she'd been head of Engineering for a year now and with the war going on she hoped one day she could command a ship of her own. Suddenly the emergency warning system blared to life.
RED ALERT RED ALE-
Mara and most of engineering were tossed from one side of the ship to the other. As the large battleship was rattled to the core... literally.
"Every one get too your battle stations!" Mara hollered over the roar of a hundred different sirens all telling her the same thing. That they were about to get ****ed...
"Simmons scratch cleaning the cap's get 'em ready we might have to jump! Walter check the power couplers they might have been damaged. Everyone shape up its time to send the Caldari packing!" Everyone raced off to their jobs never missing a beat.
Mess hall 1400
The last few hours had gone by like a blur. When it was all over Mara went to the mess hall looking to finally get some R and R and find out what the hell just happened. Mara scanned the mess hall looking for some of the few friends she had.
"Hey Anthony what the hell hit us?” Mara said sliding down next to him on the otherwise empty table.
" Two stealth bombers uncloaked and tried to cook us. We got our shield boosters up in time though. We were able to take out one of the bombers but the other one got away... Are you ok, you look really beat up." Anthony said as if surveying a wreck.
"Seeing as how I'm covered in grease, oil and grit and just pulled a 10 hour shift, oh I'm just... great..."
"I'd say sexy" Anthony said massaging her shoulders.
"I hate you" Mara laughed.
"I hate you too" Anthony said slipping his hand around her oily jumpsuit. They made their way back to his quarters. As the ship made another jump continuing its journey threw the cold hard vacuum. Anthony peered threw the cracked door to his quarters.
"All clear." They walked in an Mara let herself fall onto his bunk.
"Wait... Mara... I don't know if we should to this...” Mara began pulling the zipper down on her suit, each of the little teeth making a clicking sound as the parted.
“You should know... I have a girlfriend back home..." The top of her jumpsuit slid off her torso.
"And i Have a boyfriend back home." Anthony closed the door behind them.
Ch.2
“These bastards have driven us from part of our home system. Killed and murdered thousands of innocent civilians. Our brothers and sisters have been slayed. Our parents and children lay dead in the streets. We will have our revenge against these bastards.”
-Captain Andersen's speech before departing on the mission.
Crew Quarters 0200
Mara was jostled our of her bunk by the explosion and was jolted awake when her head bounced off the deck plating.
“****!” Mara groaned picking herself up.
"This is captain Anderson enemy boarding parties have breached our defenses, prepare to fight off the enemy." Captain Anderson barked over the pa system.
"**** again..." Mara said as the grogginess melted away leaving the hard realty that the **** hit the fan. Mara pulled on her pants, slapped her pistol to her hip and ran out the door not bothering to get into full uniform. She made her way to engineering without incident. Sliding down the railings Mara hit the deck by the engine room and turned to her right. Bringing her pistol up she pulled the trigger sending a bullet threw the eye socket of an Caldari commando leaving blood splatter across the back wall. Mara peered around the corner to see Simmons crumpled against the wall. She quickly crept toward him as to not make any noise. Pressing her fingers to his neck she checked his pulse to find there was none.
"Those ****ing dogs..." I'll get them for this. Suddenly gun fire erupted down the hallway. Mara made her way to the sound of bullets ricocheting. Looking around the corner she saw 3 men holding off commandos from the cooling systems. Mara sprinted down the where they were taking cover behind supply crates full of spare parts for the capacitor.
"Soldier whats the situation!" Mara hollered over the eruption of gunfire."
"We got five tangos taking cover behind the counsels and doorway. We can't dislodge them." Mara looked around her for any idea, then the crate caught her her eye. Warning explosive energy discharge capacitor. That just might work! Mara thought. Mara smashed the side of the crate open with the butt of her pistol and garbed a module.
"Soldier when I throw this over there you shoot it, it should go off like a grenade!"
"Yes ma'am" Mara jumped up threw the module and hit the deck just as a spray of armor piercing bullets shredded the door control behind her. We'll that one more thing I'll have to fix. The soldier next to her popped up and sent a spray of bullets right at the module. It exploded like a firework on Gallente National Night. Mara and the rest of the men quickly made their way to the enemy positions. Where they found 5 charred corpses smoke wafting up from their still burning cloths and skin.
"Well Sargent looks like it worked." Suddenly on of the corpses gasped and let out a horrific painful moan. Mara leaped toward his body and grabbed him by the fridges of his tattered and burned suit.
"Hel... hel.. help me.."
"You ****ing bastard!" Mara punched him square in the nose, his head bounced off the deck.
"Pa.. pa.. please hel... hel..."
"You killed my brother! He was on Caldari prime teaching students when your god dam friends broke into the school and killed him!"
"I..."
"I'll send you to ****ing hell!" Mara pressed her gun to his blackened forehead.
"Sargent!" One of the troopers shouted. Mara pulled the trigger. The commandos brains sprayed across the floor.
"What is it trooper?"
"Nothing ma'am".
"Then move out, there are still others on the ship."
For 26 hours they searched the ship tracking down and killing all of the enemy commandos.
Mess Hall 0400
Anthony slumped down into the seat next to Mara in the mess hall. She was spooning mouth fulls of food into her mouth.
"Mara... I'm really glad too see you. Are you doing ok?" Anthony looked concerned examining her.
"I was grazed on the shoulder other wise I'm fine."
“Thank god... if you weren't doing anything later...I thought..."
"Anthony I haven't' slept in over a day now and if we did... i just might fall asleep."
"Of course, of course it was stupid, i didn't mean..." Anthony blurted out.
"Its fine. I want to release some stress too but now I need to rest." Mara got up and made her way to her quarters."
Crew Quarters 1200
*Beep Beep Beep Bee-*
"aaawwwwww...." Mara groaned as she slapped the clock to the floor falling silent either broken or the button was hit when the clock smashed to the floor. Another normal day.. or what ever the hell normal was Mara thought to herself. She showered dressed and went to duty on engineering. She spent the whole day fixing damaged equipment including the door panel that was almost shielded by her head.
Mess Hall 2200
"So Anthony hows gunnery holding up?" Mara asked sliding in next to him and the table."
"We sustained minimal damage to one 10 m cannon other wise were fine. That's the nice thing about Hyperion's. You lose 1 cannon and there are 15 left to shoot."
"How are you holding up?"
"I'm fine... however you saw more action yesterday so how are you doing?"
"I'm... I'm a soldier, we eat sleep, **** and kill." Mara said poking at what she was told was steak.
"Mara... what exactly is our relationship?"
"Were god knows where in deep space and could die tomorrow..."
"That's what I thought.. I"
"Shut up up let go to my place."
Ch. 3
My family is dead and I'm out here risking my life. I feel like I don't know what I'm doing anymore.
-Mara's personal Journal
Crew Quarters 0400
"Mara! Mara!"
"Whhaaaattt?"
"Get a new clock and tell Sargent Anthony he's going to be late." Mara rolled her head to the left too see Anthony snoring next too her.
"****..."
"Have fun last night?"
"**** you Jen..."
Engineering 0900
“Walter get down from that manifold the captain is going to make a speech soon to the whole ship.”
“Yes Ma'am” Walter stepped down the rungs of the ladder making sure to not lose his balance as it was still missing some rungs for the firefight a few days ago. Suddenly the pa system crackled to life.
“This is Captain Anderson speaking. These past few days have been chaotic we've fought off the enemy outside and inside this ship you have given your lives to strike back at the Caldari. And I thank you, for I know that what you do I no little thing. We are about to jump to our final destination, we are going to strike back at the Caldari and repay them a thousand time fold for what they've done. If you all continue to do your jobs to the best of you abilities we will pull through. I thank you for what you've done and what your about to do.”
“You heard the captain, get to your stations!” Mara shouted as they all broke off to their ready stations.
“Hey Mara what do you think were going to do?” Mike asked checking the coolant flow chart next to her.
“All I know is that we will finally have our revenge.”
The Ship jumped.