Burning Twilight-Book One of the Dragon Chronicles-Chapter: Battle For Groom Lake
If you have yet to read the prologe i suggest you do. agian this is my friends book not mine. yet me know what you think and ill relay it to him some of the names in the chapter are real and some you might have head before. Well heres chapter one.
Section One: Birth and Rebirth
Chapter One:
Battle of Groom Lake
After eight years of battle with many victories and casualties on both Dragon and Human armies the Global Alliance was in its last hour. All that remained of its once glorious army was two thousand surface vehicles, all four submarine carriers, eight Nimitz class carriers including two Eclipse class stealth carriers, and six hundred thousand aircraft. Three miles below the Earth's crust is a secure facility called Area 51. Here fourteen of the surviving Global Alliance members gather and discus their next move. "We're down to an eighth of what we once had.
Our Air Force is all but gone, all our soldiers are either dead or captured. All our combat vehicles have been destroyed along with eighty percent of our non-combat vehicles. Half our surface fleet is gone too." The member representing Russia says. "Well you forget that we still have our entire submarine force." The Chinese representative says. "Still what do we do now, run, hide, make a heroic last stand, what?" one of the three UNATS representatives says.
The whole room erupts into chaos with communist countries accusing democratic ones of cowardice and democratic countries calling communist ones warmongers. Amidst all of this a group of at least eight people stand in a corner. Those eight are the best and brightest minds of their fields. One, a young aerospace engineer shouts, "Silence! I have an idea." The room quiets down. "Well let's hear it." The Spain representative says. "Alright now that I have your attention my plan is we take..." so the engineer outlines his plan.
Take two hundred thousand of the world's surviving free civilians load them onto an ark that will be built like a ship of war complete with its own air force and send them somewhere into the solar system. After hearing the engineers plan the fourteen members-some of them reluctantly-decide to go along with it. And so six years later the Night Fury Ark Transport-1 is completed right there in Area 51.
"Control to Gold One do you copy?" A flight controller's voice comes in through Gold One's helmet mike. "Go ahead control I copy you," Gold One replies as he banks his FA-220 in a slow turn. "We have reports of a massive dragon force approaching, can you confirm?" The controller asks. God One sighs and looks out of his cockpit. To the right of him sixteen miles away is a gleaming mass of aircraft.
To his left gleaming in the last rays of the sun in the darkening twilight are five hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine FA-220s circling Area 51, and even further back is a squadron of AG-6 Alpha Centaurs. "Yes control it's true I have a Dragon force of about Six million dragon craft. We're not going to be able to hold out long. How much longer before the AT-1 is finished loading." Gold One says.
"Uh...about two more hours, half the civilians have yet to board," the controller replies immediately. Gold One sighs heavily and switches to fleet comm. "All wings report!" He barks into his mike. "Green One standing by" "Blue One standing by" "Red One standing by" "Yellow One standing by" came the replies of the four other wing leaders.
"Alright gentlemen this is it. This is the final battle of the 117 Global Alliance Fighter Task Force. Over these past few years you all have gotten to know me. So all I have to say is if we have to give these bastards our lives WE GIVE'EM HELL BEFORE WE DO!" five hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine pilot's roar into their mikes, Gold One switches to broadcast mode and says, "Come and get us you heathens." The six hundred thousand aircraft line up in a staggered five high one hundred twenty thousand long firing line. As they do the dragon armada begins to move.
Gold One waits until they pass the eight mile marker before yelling, "Green Squadron FIRE!" Twenty four thousand Solar-6 missiles streak forward and impact the dragons. Twenty four thousand dragon craft are destroyed. "Blue Squadron FIRE!" Gold One yells again, and again twenty four thousand missiles streak from the Fighters and impact the dragons. Twenty four thousand dragon craft fall. "Red Squadron FIRE!" Gold One yells again and again twenty four thousand missiles hit and twenty four thousand dragon craft fall. "Yellow Squadron FIRE!" Gold One yells into his mike.
Again twenty four thousand dragon craft are destroyed. "Gold Squadron FIRE!" Gold One yells as he pulls the trigger of his joystick. Twenty four thousand dragons fall. "Alright all wings fire on my mark," Gold One says and after the other wing leaders acknowledge the order he continues, "Fire in five...four...three...two...one...MARK! ALL WINGS! FIRE! FIRE!" One million two hundred thousand missiles streak forward and impact the dragon armada.
Gold One orders another salvo then another until all missiles are gone. The explosions from three million six hundred thousand missiles impacting causes a massive smoke cloud. Gold One tenses waiting, suddenly a dragon fighter clears the smoke then another and another until a dragon air force of about eight hundred thousand reforms and begins to advance again. Almost simultaneously the controller's voice comes in, "This is Ark Transport One code name Night Fury we are fully loaded and ready." Gold One smiles secure in the knowledge humanity's free spirit would survive.
Minutes later the two armadas join in combat and the sky lights up with missile explosions fighters exploding and crashing into the Mojave Desert. Lasers and tracer fire crisscross across the sky between the two armadas. Nova bright flashes mark the mass drivers and rail guns firing. It is into this chaos that the Night Fury ascends.
"Weapons, charge up mass drivers, spin up the gauss guns, and charge pulse laser capacitors. Also once we clear the hangar fully just before blast off I want a full salvo from both missile batteries" Admiral John Verick-Smith says to Chief Weapons Ensign Tyron Makarov as he gazes at the tactical screen in front of him and the bridge crew while listening to comm. chatter between the wing commanders and individual fighters in each wing. The fighting is fierce and hundreds of dragons fall for every Alliance fighter lost. Though the Global Alliance fighters are fighting like cornered animals the sheer number of enemy aircraft is overwhelming them.
Makarov nods then sends the order to the other thirteen weapons officers. "Navigations give me max burn on our thrusters and as soon as we clear the hangar maximum thrust on our booster engines. I want to reach orbit in ten minutes five if you can" Admiral Smith says to Chief Navigations Officer Tanya Michaelson. Michaelson acknowledges the order then relays it to the six other navigations ensigns. The sheer size of the Night Fury coupled with gyroscopic stabilizers and inertial dampeners negates any sense of movement for all personnel inside the starship; however the bridge crew has huge view screens that span two thirds of the bridge that show the outside whooshing past them in a blur of black and gray.
As soon as the surrounding walls reach the Night Fury's midsection Smith orders, "Fire!" Makarov and the thirteen other ensigns power up their stations monitors. Their personal AIs paint primary targets with red diamonds and secondary targets with blue circles. Also any friendly units that are left are marked by green squares. All fourteen monitors are filled with hundreds of red, blue, and green combatants. Makarov spots two squadrons of D17s that are on an intercept course for the Night Fury.
He quickly taps the square in the lower left of his monitor brings up the nearest gauss guns and lasers rapidly highlights them then taps the fire command. He does all this in a span of seconds his hands nothing but a blur. Outside twenty pulse laser and thirty gauss gun turrets rotate and track the lead D17 squadron. Seconds later it disappears in a fusillade of laser bursts and tungsten titanium slugs. As more squadrons join in the assault Makarov and his teammates are put to the test as thousands of targets are now breaking off from other engagements to target the Night Fury in her desperate escape.
Then the Night Fury unleashes everything. The darkening dusk is lit up by the weapons of both factions. Minutes later the Night Fury clears its hangar and thousands of missiles streak from their batteries on the underside of the Night Fury and smash into the dragon forces. Seconds later there is a supernova bright flash of light followed by a sudden thunderous ground shattering sonic boom as the Night Fury engages its primary drives and shoots off like a black streak of lightning; the afterglow of its massive engines lighting up the sky for a full ten minutes.
Gold One watches the Night Fury blast off then continues to fight. Several minutes later with half a wing gone ninety percent of his maneuvering thrusters in op or destroyed, one engine half destroyed, and the other about to fail Gold One Finds the nearest dragon locks the FD-20 Drake into his sights and pushes his throttle to full after burn. Gold One's F-220A hits the FD-20 at Mach ten.
The extra weight causes the F-220A to nose over and hurtle to the ground. Both Aircraft hit the ground going Mach thirteen. Gold One's fighter goes through the FD-20 and keeps on going until only a third of it is left visible. Gold One is killed instantly. And thus ends one of the greatest fighter pilots and wing commanders the Earth had ever seen. He was surpassed only by General Gerald Cywinski. So also ends the Global Alliance as in the fighting all but two of the fleeing transports that held the fourteen members of the Global Alliance were destroyed. The battle of Groom Lake was one of the greatest Alliance victories. Six hundred thousand fighter aircraft and six hundred million dragon fighters killed to the last man and draconian not a single fighter escaped destruction that day
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