VC Chapter 34-The Enemy's Enemy

Sector 1200

Planet 1201

January 26, 2052

Charlie walked down the vacant corridor beside Rumblelow as they headed towards the ship bay. Inside the bay were three Destiny corvettes in new coats of dark blue paint and an Apocrypha in repairs from the earlier battles.

“Those three ships are yours to command. More rebels you take down, the more you are rewarded.” Rumblelow pointed.

“The weapons?” Charlie tried to locate the weapons.

“All loaded with thermal beams and decent rear thrusters.” Rumblelow chuckled.

Charlie caught a glimpse of Parks standing in the command bridge watching him while Rumblelow was giving him the briefing.

“Vorzer's fleet is outside and waiting to escort you back to where you come from.” Rumblelow pointed at the distant ships beside the base.

“Thank you for your hospitality.” Charlie offered his hand.

“Well, thank you for taking the offer.” Rumblelow shook his hand.

Charlie turned his head to look at Parks one last time before he walked up the ramp into a corvette. Parks watched him with her arms crossed and smiled as Charlie gave an informal salute.

Charlie walked into the bridge of the ship and noticed it to be very similar to the Apocrypha layout.

“Vorzer is hailing us on communications.” the communications officer reported.

“Put him through.” Charlie replied.

“Charlie, don't you want to go home? I don't have all day.” Vorzer crossed his arms.

“Yeah...yeah. I'm new to the ship okay?” Charlie waved at the officers.

The three corvettes lifted off the ground and flew out of the bay towards a group of three Apocrypha cruisers orbiting the planet. The ships quickly joined formation and headed out to open space. Space began to warp around the ships as they began to make the jump to another sector.

“Coming out of warp now.” the officer alerted Charlie as he sat in the command chair wondering how he would explain this VEGA alliance he had negotiated.

The blue cloudy space surrounding the ships began to fade as the ship exited warp. The corvette flew into a large piece of debris and shook the ship sideways.

“Impact! Shields still holding” an officer reported.

“What the hell is going on?” Charlie looked out the window to see lots of debris floating in space.

The fleet of VEGA ships had jumped right into dead centre of a massive space battle. Revelation cruisers flew past them and fired at NB Bandit’s base while some Talons deployed to attack the invaders.

“Those are the Megalomaniacs!” an officer caught a glimpse of names on the Revelation cruisers.

“I thought they were the good guys?” Charlie watched as a MoB Fury battleship annihilated a base.

“No, they aren't. They are enemy to the corporation.” the officer replied as he watched Vorzer's fleet beginning to fire up its thermal beam weapons at the MoB ships.

 “More fleets incoming! These ships have MYRM markings on them. Who the hell are these guys?” an officer looked at the ship scanners looking dazzled.