Atatra crawled out of the mech cockpit, into the small bubble of calm air created by the engineering field that meant he wouldn't get blown away.
He grabbed a wrench and a soldering laser, and began to re-connect the ruptured plasma cannals, re-connecting them.
as each cannal was re-connected, the engines gained strength, until the last cannal was connected, and Ata had jumped back in the mech, applying a titanium foam cover.
Then he made his way back to the airlock, cycling the door, and docking his mech into one of the ionised charge slots.
'Atatra to Command bridge, the engines are up, but the enemies dropped some leeches and some mosquitoes on us, prepare for boarding parties!'
Back on the bridge, ridgedog and the modmob had been waiting for the all clear, with the command staff working around them, keeping the ship level.
'dispatch combat mechs and ghosts to defend, don't let them through!' ridge shouted at caboose from the other side of the bridge, as Atatra ran onto the bridge, clutching a glowing blue/yellow spear 'they're coming, and they have backup, i sense doom blades, 3 of them' Ata shouted over the din of the bridge 'and....oh...no...a Corrupt Banhammer wielder, this can't end well. Sejii, Kurv, Peter, you take decks 1-6, Cy, polter, CC, defend 7-10, i'll take the fighter bay with boose and poltah!'
Ridge looked up as Atatra shouted orders, but passed them with a wave of a hand, beckoning Six to help him with the command systems.
'boose, Ata and polter ran along the corridors leading to deck 11, Boose grabbing his Axe out of it's sheath, and polter's dagger materialising from her palm, in a ghost green aura. eventually the three emerged onto a large deck full of assorted fighters, bombers and the odd corvette.
As they walked further in, a booming voice filled the deck, reverberating off the cavern-like walls, the voice of one person, amplified by the energy of an ancient weapon 'So, ridgedog has sent his minions to take us down has he? what? 3 mere doomblades? not even a Banhammer? well this is going to be too easy!' the voice taunted, then suddenly, they heard a crack as the owner of the voice jumped down onto the floor, crouching on the floor, face towards the ground and clutching a Banhammer in the air. the three stared at the person in shock ' Tera, what are you doing here?!, ridge killed you when you stole Ceeyara and corrupted it, betraying us all!' boose shouted, staring at Tera in disbelief.
suddenly, Tera lunged at boose, swinging the blood red Ice Hammer, knocking boose flat and sending polter flying, where her body hit the wall with a crack, not able to ghost in time, she lay there unconscious, and Ata rushed over to her, with a worried expression on his face.
'Boose, you fight Tera, i'll protect polter!' Ata shouted, as boose propped himself up, groaning, while Tera looked on, smirking, as he span the hammer in his fist.
One of Tera's minions ran in, clutching his weapon, a corrupt doomblade, a lightning mace, 'Sir, i'll take out the spear wielder, you destroy the soldier!' Tera nodded in agreement, then lunged at boose, engaging the weary soldier in combat, with a series of ever quickening blows.
Ata looked back at his target to see the enemy leaping through the air towards him, about to bring the mace down on his head, with a grunt, Ata leapt to the side, coming to a stop roughly 5 metres from his opponent, face to face. As he looked on, the enemy's mace began to crackle with lightning, and as he raised it to strike, ata spoke, forestalling the attack 'How dare you!' Ata shouted, furious, glaring at the enemy.
'How dare i what? be a superior fighter?' he sneered, swinging his hammer absent-mindedly .
Ata raised his head, and looked him in the eye, 'How dare you use lightning against me!' he shouted, before catching the enemy by surprise and leaping at him, striking the mace with his spear, and as he struck the mace, it lost it's lightning, and appeared to become heavier for the wielder, 'what did you do?!' he gasped, struggling to hold the weapon up.
Ata did not reply, only saying one sentence, 'thunder and lightning, i am the storm!' before he was encompassed in a bubble of blue and yellow electricity, and with a crack of thunder, the bubble dissipated and ata shouted one word, 'SUPERCHARGE!'.
A huge explosion sounded around the bay, disrupting caboose and tera, who both turned to look at him.
As the smoke cleared, Ata became visible again, but his spear had changed shape, now crackling with lightning and thunder, and a large ball of plasma hovering between the blades. It also appeared that Ata had grown wings of lightning, skeletal in appearance the crackled with blue and yellow electricity.
With one move, Ata lunged at the enemy minion, moving faster than should be humanly possible, scoring multiple hits that burnt and froze at the same time, before he could react, the enemy was lying on the ground, groaning, his weapon devoid of any charge.
As atatra's Supercharge ran out, a huge peal of thunder rang out, and atatra collapsed, only managing to activate a small shield spell on caboose before he collapsed.
This left Caboose and Tera, face by face, both fairly shocked.
Tera spoke first, 'You have a storm guardian? capable of supercharge? luckily, he looks low level, and didn't last long enough to charge you, so i can just finish you off now, and sabotage this ship!'
then tera leapt at boose, but this time boose was ready, and instead of grabbing his axe from his sheath, he tapped a button on a small pad tied to his arm, before inserting a red chip, the size of an SD card.
As a ball of fire erupted from the slot on the pad, he shouted, 'Fireceratorps, go!' and the fireball formed into a large Firecerotops, a 3rd stage fire/ancient reptile Battanimal.
The battanimal looked at it's owner, then charged at tera, who leapt out of the way, surprised. 'What is that creature? some kind of experiment? wait...that's a Battanimal, they haven't been seen for centuries, how did you get a high level one? without Dar'krai finding out?' Tera shouted at boose across the hall, surprise, fear and anger all showing his conflicting emotions on his face.
unsure of what to do, the fireceratops charged, striking Tera flat in the chest, and bulldozing him to the ground, where he lay, groaning, and still shocked the way he remained until he woke up in a containment cell in the Afterchat's Brig.
