Training

"Morphis activate the photon shield"

A young and calm voice sounded amidst the violent whooshing of winds and the constant beeping of mechanical warnings.

What followed was a blast from a compressed streak of violent energy colliding with a blue hexagonal shield of transparent photon energy filling the entire sky with bright flashes of light. Not even a second after impact a futuristic looking f22 fighter jet with short but power-packed turrets blasting out condensed beams of energy at inconceivable speeds of about eight thousand rounds per minute drilled its way out of the blast and continued speeding towards the island in the far distance.

Feral beasts and mechanical warriors were the defenders drowning out the blues of the sky and casting a shadow of horror over the entire island.

The jet that just escaped the blast continued its course shooting down beast after beast and mech warriors after mech warriors, Following after him were other fighters maintaining a triangular formation with the fighter known as morphis taking the lead.

The fighters continued on their course while downing the island defenders and also performing manoeuvres to evade the ever-firing surface-to-air missile systems stationed at the island, but the air defence of the island still couldn't keep up as their attackers had the advantage in firepower.

Alas, not all the fighters were lucky as an enormous eagle with metallic-like wings, claws and beak speeding around with its blood-red eyes suddenly increased its momentum with several flaps of its wings and rushed at an unassuming fighter with a fierce glint in its eyes, although the fighter had its hexagonal patterned shield out, the blaze eagle was relentless as its beak and eyes suddenly started emitting a fierce red light which later gave way to a resplendent white bringing with it several thousands of degrees of heat.

Without regard for its life the eagle continued to burn its core and kept rushing to the unassuming fighter, what followed was an explosion of heat and energy destroying the fighter and other beasts in the vicinity. This scene did not just happen once but twice then thrice, soon after all the beasts seemed to have turned suicidal, it was as if someone had pressed a button that increased the difficulty for these fighters.

The beasts that were initially struggling to keep up with their 12th-generation fighters were now rivalling them in speed, streaks of glowing lights were the heralds of massive explosions that took down jet after jet.

On seeing his comrades falling out of the sky one after the other the calm voice sounded once again "Morphis how long till we can get close enough to the island to disembark", in response a mechanical voice sounded

"With the current speed, it should be about 30 seconds",

The pilot seemed to be unsatisfied with its answer and asked again, "How long if we decide to burn our cores" The voice responded again,

"Approximately 10 seconds", This answer seemed to have satisfied the pilot as he immediately informed the rest of the fighters

"Squadron 3 burn your cores and head to the island at full speed, disengage immediately you reach shore, let's return their welcome with a boom"

"Aye sir"

"Aye sir"

"Aye sir"

"Aye sir"

The four remaining fighters responded and immediately after which they all pressed a particular button which caused the blue cores situated right under the cockpit to start vibrating rapidly allowing streaks of blueish light to run along the edges of the aircraft and bringing the energy shields closer forming a skin like surface over the entire aircraft save the thrusters.

Suddenly the already fast jets reaching about Mach 2.4 in speed got even faster reaching breakneck speeds of Mach 5.6. Approximately 10 seconds later the fighters reached shore leaving a deep red cloud of beasts blood in their wake, the jet had passed through the beasts before they could even explode their cores.

On reaching the shore the cockpit of the fighters immediately came off starting at the front causing the cockpits to continuously spin backwards, however, the pilots were still fine save for the slight dizziness of spinning backwards at inconceivable speeds as the cockpit was the strongest part of the aircraft, on looking closely one would be able to see tiny blue streaks running along the visor and the metallic base of the system, definitely this new technology was without a doubt very versatile. However, the ground group of defenders was not at all safe from the still-speeding jets with highly unstable cores.

Boooooooooooooom,

The jets with unstable energy cores crashed into the island shores one after the other causing terrifying explosions to ring about the island.

By the time the explosions were beginning to settle down the disengaged cockpits were already slowing down and in a couple more seconds they touched ground. A few seconds later the cockpit to the far right glowed a little and a particular blue streak that ran completely vertical, dividing the visor and part of the metallic part at the black dimmed and smoke or perhaps steam began to whiz out. Slowly the visor bumped out a little dividing itself into two perfect halves and slid open sideways.

A very muscular man stepped out somewhat sluggishly, he was about 7ft in height, with completely blond hair styled in a fade, and light blue eyes, he had a bushy moustache and beard forming borders around his mouth, and he had on a skin tight black suit not unlike those sea divers use the difference being the decorative lines that would have normally been on a divers suit were glowing a faint blue light on his. Similar to his, the other four cockpits that landed also opened as four other individuals stepped out, two were females and the other two were males.

The two females were identical to each other in fact as you guessed they were twins, light brown skin, one with deep red hair and the other with light blue hair. However, the one with blue hair packed hers in a neat bun she looked gentle and elegant while the other let hers flow freely over her shoulders and back, her facial expression were hmmm "ferocious?".

They were about the same height (about 5ft 9) and had the same violet eyes. The first male was somewhat skinny and was almost the same height as the burly guy, he had moderately long hands; spiky black hair, black eyes and an almost sadistic grin were the features that adorned his face.

The last guy however was the picture of beauty, his body was lean but well-defined, his muscles were densely packed together hiding away his strength. He had long white hair and fair skin, he had a pair of fiery red eyes, a small nose and a delicate mouth.

"ughh...captain lets not do that again" The burly man said as he kept hitting his head, he was one that played the role tank, the enhancer David Gofreet

the girl with the red hair sneered "ehh, all that muscle and you can't handle a little spin, hmmm truly pathetic", she as well as her sister were conjurers that could exploit the elemental energy in the atmosphere, Jane Hoffer.

" well Jane why don't you come over to my place when were done here and I'll show you what this muscles can do, you can even bring your sister if you'd like", on hearing this Jane's as well as Julie's (Jane's sister) face contorted in disgust.

"fufufufufu~" the skinny young man chuckled to himself with the same maniacal grin on his face as he kept looking at their captain, he was also an enhancer, the difference between him and David being his body was tuned to an assassin type, the madman Michael kruk.

The captain also known as Arius sighed and looked at his team and spoke unhurried

"we are the only ones again....well then continue as always".

Michael seemed to have been waiting for this as he immediately burst out with speed running about in an unorthodox manner as his arms were flaying behind him, soon after he reached his first target, a gigantic racoon with a stomp where his right forelimb should have been, having been taken from the explosion before stumbled as it tried to get up.

However, before it could even move a step further it lost its footing and fell face flat, Confused on what was happening it looked back only to find two deep gashes behind its knee one on each limb severing its hamstrings and taking away its ability to move. Stunned by the sudden development it hurriedly looked about seeking the one who attacked it, however the moment it shifted its head to look ahead it was stunned by the sight it saw.

A young man with his knees bent as he squatted and in his hands was a sphere that shone a dull blue covered in blood, with an expression that resembled a madman it licked the blood dripping from his hands and stood up rushing ahead to mutilate its brothers that had joined together to defend their home, leaving them in a state that allowed them to watch as he continued his slaughter.

"Ughh" Julie grimaced, sickened by the actions of her teammate

"Oi oi oi leave some for us man". David shouted as he made a grabbing gesture and a massive hammer manifested in his hands, then he followed after Michael using his massive hammer to pummel beast after beast. Soon after all the team of five had all set out into the midst of the beast.

Julie kept her distance from the beast as she stood elegantly and kept conjuring out ice rods with dangerously pointed tips a little more than half a meter in length and about five centimetres in diameter, her aim was true not missing a single centimetre away from their core, using no more than a spear for a particular beast, although the rate at which she conjured these spears were slow taking about two seconds for one and not being able to conjure more than one at a time, her lethality was in no way inferior to the others.

Jane on the other hand was more brutal in her approach, spamming fireballs at her enemies without rest, burning them till they stopped moving. Her firing rate was indeed quicker than her sister's but the damage she dealt was lower, put together with her lack of precision her kill count was invariably lesser.