Fiction:Captain of Space and War/4

Rescue
Ramiron was back in the fight, the Rambulans were getting hard to defeat, as they didn't trust anymore on numbers and became more prudent on crossing the exchange of fire, however, the Rambo Marines were tired of defending themselves, Ramiron was loosing hope on a rescue party, explosions everywhere blinded the marines view, making them to fire crazy, not knowing where they were firing.

Ramiron prepared his electrical sword, this was the final stand, the artillery was getting to close, in his thoughts he began saying good bye to everyone he knew, Rambam, Kerika, his family, all his friends. The marines will follow him everywhere, it was time to demonstrate their loyalty, he closed his eyes, everything turned in slow motion for him, the place was crawling with explosions, plasma being fired, marines dying one by one, he got to order attack now, before was too late.

He gathered all the Rambo marines, all formed a line, all looked to the army that was mustering his final attack on a single charge, a massacre could be seen, could be smelt, Ramiron opened his eyes, and opened his mouth to let a word go out of it.

"Charge!" yelled, all the Rambo marines draw their blades as well and ran towards the enemy, the Rambulan began firing, the marines started to fall over the ground and die because of the explosions, Ramiron wasn't hit, not yet, and there were still many Marines to continue the attack, they moved forward, more, more and more.

The two races clashed, at the beginning the Rambulans panicked and retreated, but then they retaliated, surrounding the Rambo marines, along with the royal guard, Ramiron then concentrated on the fight, he saw three Rambulans running to kill him, but then two Marines attacked them from both sides and killed them, still the enemy was everywhere, they would need a miracle.

The USS Luna arrived at the coordinates, watching five Rambulan ships orbiting, two moved to intercept the Rambo vessel, Rambam was hurried, and did not wanted to fight the Rambulans yet, "Move us into low orbit, let's help our soldiers right there" said instantly.

"Aye!" said the Helm.

The Luna moved avoiding the two enemy vessels, trespassing the little blockade, the two pursued, the Luna moved to full impulse, they descended, faster and faster, that the circled plate hull of the Luna became red instead of grey, they were falling now, however, the Helm's plan on doing this had the expected effect, the Rambulans did not chased at that speed and used a slower way, the Helm started leveling the ship, still it went too fast, he added the breaks, everyone was pushed forward due the quick stop, the Luna began slowing down, and the Helm could level the ship.

"Well done Ensign" said Rambam crawling with sweat, as well as Kerika, who almost had a heart attack with all that risky maneuvering.

The ship got close to the battlefield, and saw the Rambo trough the screen, fighting until the last breath, Rambam panicked.

"Charge Phasers ensign, fire at will" said, then he remembered his ace on the other hand "COM inform Master Leezard that he now may descend to reinforce their position over there."

The Luna opened fire, causing a straight line of explosions and fire on the artillery lines, these vehicles turned to attack the luna, but their projectiles were too slow and the defense cannons of the hull destroyed them, the two groups down there seemed distracted by the intervention of the Rambo ship, but then continued the fight, the Rambo still were hammered, and the Luna the began to take fire from the two Rambulan ships that were chasing them.

"This is all we can do for them, we have to deal with this freighters, take us into the same orbit as they, and let's destroy it." said Rambam to the helm, the ship moved upwards, defending itself from the fire of those freighters.

"Come on!" screamed Ramiron "Help is here, our ship has come to rescue us, keep them at bay!"

The Rambo charged, pushing the lines of the Rambulans meters backwards, but the inertia was bigger, and they began retreating, they were surrounded. Suddenly, a plasma pulser of the Rambulans smashed against the Royal guard's head, falling, Ramiron opened his eyes trying to recover, he saw the Rambulan preparing to finish him off, but suddenly a bigger arm stopped, him, something purple...

A Nigtrion Warrior had saved Ramiron, lifting high the Rambulan and finishing off with a stab of his psionic blade, more Nigtirons arrived, being teleported from a shuttle, the ship could be seen flying across the battlefield and landing just on a hill behind the Rambulan army, the twenty Nigtrions were there.

"Come on Officer" said Master Leezard, "don't make one of my warriors to carry you to the evac-ship! "

Ramiron began doing efforts, his strength was pushed to the limits, but after few minutes, he was standing on his feet, few more, he was ready for the battle again.

"Listen Rambo!" said Leezard, "My brethren and I are gonna open you a pass through the enemy lines, you must run, don't stop until you get to it!"

The Rambo marines agreed, the Nigtrions turned, facing the enemy, the Rambulans were recovering from the first Nigtrion charge, they didn't know a Civatron, so they didn't had fear. the warriors flexed their legs, turned on their blades, their eyes turned icy purple, glowing psionic energy, the Nigtrions charged, making a Delta formation, breaking a point in a matter of minutes, the Rambo were behind, supporting with cover fire, but still making it to the shuttle.

The Rambulans were panicking as nothing they could do against the Nigtrions, they could not penetrate that defense-offensive strategy, was unique, never seen to be employed with such elegant way.

The Rambo made it to the shuttle, the Nigtrions stayed, as all looked to the sky, covering themselves from the fire of the Rambulans, their fighters were moving in the battle to their pilots, the fighters arrived, the Nigtrions get on them, and escaped the cross fire, but they returned and made all the Rambulans to suffer by bombarding them with their psionic phasers, the Rambulans began retreat, there was nothing else in the planet.

The Fighters returned escorting the shuttle, when they reached space, the fighters joined the Luna in the fighting, which was winning, since the Rambulans were freighters only.

The Rambulans were forced to retreat, and the shuttle made it back home, Ramiron was back, along with his marines, now he could finally rest on his quarters, the battle was over now, but he was wondering if the USS Luna was aware of the Labyrinth recover, if not, they would take a long surprise.

Already at the hangar, Rambam ordered maximum warp to the colony again, in order to heal the injured, Kerika was waiting for the Marines to come out, and see Ramiron, her friend again, he saw the Nigtrions to come out of their fighters first, she was the twice thankful for their help, maybe some day she could thank them in a way they could understand.

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