Marq rushed towards his drop pod with the rest of his squadron.
DROPPING DEMONHEAD BATTALION COMMAND CENTER AND HANGER IN 30 SECONDS ALL HANDS MAKE HASTE TOWARDS YOUR ASSIGNED DROP POD AND MAY GOD BE ON YOUR SIDE.
After the ship's AI said those words all the pods dropped and began descending down towards the Praxxon homeworld.
Marq was feeling an abundance of emotions: excitement, anxiety, courage and most importantly fear. Yet he didn't let the fear control him, instead he controlled it.
Just as he was processing his thoughts he heard a loud hiss and his drop pod began its descent. Marq began to look out of his window and what he saw was a beautiful orange planet with golden oceans. He could also see the greenish-blue clouds which seemed to match its surroundings.
Marq saw this and thought about how this reminded him of Earth. A peaceful and serene planet that was about to undergo change due to decisions made by beings higher on a governmental scale.
His people were about to commit the same atrocity just on a more controlled scale; it had already been told that those who were actively participating in this war were not to harm civilians or their property. .
Their mission goal was the removal of the harmful entities that caused the Mars attack. If deemed that the Mars attack was justified by the entirety of the planet then would they be allowed to exterminate the Praxxons without prejudice.
INITIATING LANDING SEQUENCE ALL HANDS BATTLESTATIONS.
Marq snapped back into reality with the AI stating that they were landing. He quickly got up from his landing seat and began to move towards the hangar control center. Marq quickly sat down and began giving out orders.
"Demonhead Squads One through Four launch drones and begin reinforcing air space around us and support the ground troops landing. Squads five through eight I want you to bombard these fuel bases while squads nine through ten will be bombarding these hangers. Maintain radio silence until complete" said Marq as he pointed at the map in the room.
The rest of you are our mechanics and medics for those using mental links with our drones.
Mental Link was basically using the power of the brain to have the drone instantly react towards anything the pilot thought, giving it better maneuvering.
Everyone in the room either hopped in their jets or either drone chairs and began to take off towards where they were informed to go.
It seemed like hours and everything was going well until the entire hangar started to shake and then KABOOOOOM!!
"SIR BREAKING RADIO SILENCE THEY ANTICIPATED THAT WE WERE COMING JIMMY AND MIKE HAVE BEEN SHOT DOWN AND I AM QUICKLY BEING CHASED AND SURROUNDED." said Jeff, a F-55 Genesis Pilot.
"RETURN TO BASE IMMEDIATELY" said Marq
"Roger sir I think i shook them…ARGHHHHHHH"
"Pilot, are you there? PILOT RESPOND." screamed Marq.
"Sir all the fighters have returned using the auto home function, and all pilots are deceased.
"Fuck get me a direct line towards the captial ship and recall….."
WEEEEEEEEEEEEWOOOOOOOOOOOOOWEEEEEEEEEEEWOOOOOOOOOOOO
Before Erik could even finish his sentence alarms rang in his ears the white lights all turning red making the room darker with flashing red lights. Finally all drone pilots were ejected from their seats except squads one through four.
"SIr breaking the radio silence squad one leader reporting a huge army is headed our way requesting orders." asked the squad leader.
"ALL REMAINING SQUADS ENGAGE CALL ALL REMAINING GROUND TROOPS TO THIS LOCATION AND PREPARE FOR EVAC."
"SIr we have the Admiral on the Holotable," said Henry.
Marq walked over towards the holotable and informed the admiral of the situation and that they would need to resort to the anti-matter cannon.
The admiral responded that the dropships are enroute to Marqs' location all he needed to do was hold out until they got there.
Just as the Admiral had finished talking the hanger exploded and Praxxons began marching in killing all the mechanics and pilots the remaining troops pushed Marq into a launch pod and aimed it towards the dropship's tractorbeam. As Marq was flying away he saw his friends and comrades in arms all blasted into nothingness.
Marq passed out and reawakened a war hero without his Battalions valiant efforts the anti-matter cannon would not have been charged in time and the war would have been lost.
What about the Praxxon homeworld of Voxaris it was completely gone, not a single Praxxon made it off alive.
Then nothingness and Marq woke back up in the body of Erik with a new outlook on what he had to do. He didn't want to have to go through those event again because he couldn't handle anymore.