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"Tangos coming in 2.8 Starboard side!" yelled a drop ship pilot as one of the larger flying reptiles tried to latch onto his ship

Hundreds of VALOR drop ships, walker barges and tank carriers along with a full compliment of escort fighters and a flag ship were all in high orbit descending upon the enemy planet. The air was thick with large grey clouds as flying armoured reptiles were attacking the VALOR ships with such rage that it couldn't be matched. VALOR one man fighters and the ship to fighter guns on the flag ship did their best to cover their important carriers but the winged beasts just latched onto to anything they could find making it too difficult for large weaponry to used so drop ships had to rely on marines firing from opened bay doors on drop ships to shoot off their borders.

"Keep in formation dam-"ordered a VALOR officer in the flag ship's bridge when he was cut off

"It's trying to break into my cock pit!" a pilot yelled helplessly as he watched what best could be described as a dragon from mythology was tearing at the reinforced glass windows on a walker barge. "Someone help us!" The dragon was covered in bronze plating with large runic pictures on its helmet, wings and stomach but the armour wasn't defending the massive beast it was a force field that absorbed all projectiles that were shot at it.

A much large dragon than the rest floated from the clouds into the view of the fast approaching VALOR attack force, the beast was covered in the same armour that all its children wore except for the fact it was larger than the entire VALOR force combined. The enormous beast's maw began to glow a huge bright red, lava drooled from its colossal fangs and when the intensity reached its highest the dragon matriarch fired a powerful fireball straight at the VALOR flag ship. The explosion tore out a huge chunk of its left side vaporizing and cauterizing anything in its blast radius, but the flag ship retaliated back by firing its main rail cannon into the chest of the winged beast, the shot broke the sound barrier and overloaded the protective shield of the dragon matriarch as VALOR fighters fired their ordnance at the enormous target sending it to a bloody mist as the medieval technology armour was no match against human rocketry.

One of the smaller dragons latched onto the side of VALOR drop ship with its bay doors still closed, the beast tore off the metal wall only to have its head exploded from a single round from the Vanquisher's right pistol. The black and red armoured human took out his second pistol and leaped off the side of his drop ship into the high atmospheric air. Without the need of a command his jet pack ignited with the blue thrusts rocketing him towards the nearest dragon that was ripping apart a VALOR drop ship that was flying erratically trying to desperately to shake it off.

The Vanquisher landed on the beast's back where its spine met its wings. The Vanquisher climbed upwards so it could reach its neck and with one hand he pulled the reptiles head to the right to expose its scaled neck and with his free hand he pulled a knife from his armoured boot and stuck it into the dragon's neck, the dragon could now not concentrate with the loss of blood and floated off the ship when a VALOR fighter zoomed by with its rail guns firing, the fly by turned the drake into paste as its much smaller shields couldn't protect it from a VALOR fighter.

"Unit 566, clear!" said the drop ship pilot as it flew back into formation

"We got more tangos coming up, there heading for the flag ship!"

"I can't get a lock!" yelled a VALOR fighter pilot

A dragon slashed the Vanquisher's backside but the large claw did nothing to his red and black power armour, the trophy clad warrior drew a knife from his left shoulder pad and began jabbing it into the drake with one powerful thrust after anther as he held it closer with his free hand and using his jet pack to stay near it. After anther stab that he lost count of, the knife got lost in the dragon's innards and without pause the Vanquisher just punched straight through the reptiles' stomach grasping open air before pulling back and taking anything he grabbed with him. The winged beast plummeted from the sky dead from being disembowelled by the Vanquisher who tossed the insides away as he looked for more targets.

VALOR drop ships still struggled avoiding the huge array of dragons that flew towards them from the planet's surface all varying in sizes and strengths but none as big as the one the flag ship took down moment's ago while the fighters did their best to curb as many targets as they could before they reached the fragile and valuable drop ships that continued to do their best as their marines on board fired their electricity powered weapons, even medics, spare pilot and engineers helped the marines as well using their side arms to ward off attackers.

"Stay on course!" yelled the fleet commander from his bridge on his damaged flag ship

"I've been hit, unit 6-77 going down!" a pilot said over the communication stream after a drake had ripped off the tail of his drop ship causing it to spin towards the planet with black smoke jetting out of it

The Vanquisher landed in a drop ship that was in bad shape, its troops on board were half eaten and the pilot was wounded but still doing his duty and driving the drop ship to at least deliver supplies to the ground forces. The Vanquisher put his pistols away and walked up to the pilot and saw part of the window was smashed opened, the pilot had a huge claw mark on his chest but he managed to get rid of the drake with his side arm.

"How far do you want me to take you to these bastards..." the pilot said, his helmet masked the uniqueness of his voice

The armoured warrior turned his head to the near death pilot who was putting every inch of his life into flying. "As close as you can..." responded the Vanquisher

The pilot put his ship into a nose dive into the planet, the clouds finally disappeared to reveal the mountainous world that awaited the VALOR forces, hundreds of battle ready lizard warriors covered an open plane that the drop ships spiralled in too. The Vanquisher held on as the pilot finally died in his chair when his drop ship crashed into the forming army in a huge fireball.

The lizard men warriors circled around the wreckage that claimed many of their lives, they examined for any survivors when the black smoke cleared to reveal the Vanquisher who walked unscathed from the burning wreckage as he drew his dual pistols once more.

** Chronicles of the Justicar II: The Last Stand**