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Thirteen
Chapter Eighty-Six
Cains Vengeance
Part of Nelena Cain wanted to die and be with her daughter, but another part wanted to live for her friend Susan Ivanova. Her emotions were under lock and key at the moment, though, as she kept her cool and squeezed the trigger on her PPG rifle, turning the Centurion in her sights into a pile of scrap metal. Her first shot had taken off the machines head, and her second blew a sizable hole into the chest of the robot.
Her troops were held up in two buildings, which stood at forty-five degree angles to the oncoming Centurions. The intersection where they were at looked like a peace sign from Earth from up on high, but there was very little peaceful going on. As the troops on her right side drew the Centurion fire again, she took aim at yet another one and slammed a heated burst of plasma into the machines neck, sending the head flying and the torso reeling back towards the ground. Quickly, she ducked back inside to avoid the stream of bullets headed her way. Her chin, though, caught a fragment of the building that had been shot off and she was cut deeply. A medic rushed over, having seen it and her reaction to it.
Cain would have rather not had stitches put in her chin, but she bore up to the pain as the medic quickly did his work, then went back to his rifle and opened up on more Centurions. Cain ignored the pain on her chin and went back to work, sizing up another target and blasting a hole into it. Her rifles energy cap was drained, so she took it out and put a new one in. While she was doing that, she took out her Geiger counter to check on the radiation levels. The anti-radiation patches they were using these days were better than the ones previously developed by Earthforce, and it did help that the technomages had helped Earthforce develop ways to reduce the radiation levels on the Colonial worlds to help make this invasion possible. She hadnt understood how it worked, but she knew that her radiation patch hadnt needed to be replaced in the week and a half shed been on this world.
When the Centurions retreated due to being outflanked by another part of her force, she ordered everyone out of the building and east towards the city center, where the main headquarters of the Cylons was located. Their next objective, however, was a residential tower that gave the Centurions an excellent position in which to rain down fire onto her advancing forces. After ducking inside an abandoned restaurant and using the facilities, she cleaned herself off as best she could and joined the troops she was dispatching to sneak into the building and take out any Cylons inside.
Much to her surprise, no Cylons were inside the building. She had come to the conclusion that the Centurions had a way of just coming at them with brute force instead of using more proven military tactics. If she had been in charge of them, she would have had Centurions set up in several rooms to overlook the area and take out the approaching enemy from their superior location.
She wouldnt make that kind of mistake. Her troops entered the building and began to scope out the area. From the eastern side of the building, she could look out towards their final objective, the Sagitcorp building, where the Cylons were located. Here, they eschewed the local government buildings for this fairly modest skyscraper. That didnt mean they were not using those buildings for other purposes, as Cain found out from the reports streaming in from other parts of the city. More farms were discovered in those buildings and liberated, which pleased Cain. Anyone that they could recover alive was a blessing, and Cain intended to help as many of them as she could.
As night fell, she assigned troops to stand watch as the others got some rest. She undid her pack and collapsed on a bed inside one of the apartments. She activated her communications link and called Ivanova to see how things were progressing in Sagittaron City. Ivanovas forces had left at roughly the same time as Cains had, but they had a much longer journey than the general had to reach the capital, so they had just arrived there and began their incursion into the city.
Ivanova reported in, Were just now entering the university campus. They were holed up in the bell tower, so we took it out and denied them that firing position. How are things with you?
She hadnt told Ivanova yet of finding her daughter, so she took this time to do it. Oh my God! Ivanova said, Im so sorry, Nelena!
What better motivation to kill these bastards than for Sheba! You should have seen her hooked up to that machine! She was so thin and emaciated! Cain said, not hiding the emotion and tears in her voice.
Ivanovas voice was also tearful as she asked, Where is she now?
Shes back at base camp. When this is over, well bury her. Right now, this fight has become even more personal for me!
Just remember that were here to help you, Nelena. Dont forget that you cant beat them all on your own!
I know, but thanks for the reminder. I have to remind myself that this is far from over.
They talked for a while longer, and she clicked off and caught a few precious hours of sleep. When morning came, the Centurions decided that they wanted the residential building after all. The firefight was intense as the enemy tried to advance on the building, but they were unable to use their cover to their advantage as thermal grenades were shot down where they were hiding, blowing their cover up.
Even though they could see the Cylon headquarters from where they were, it was another two days before they could reach it. All the Centurions had been recalled to it for one last stand there. Cain called in some artillery units to plaster the building with bolts of hot plasma, and soon the building had plenty of smoldering holes in it. The barrage ceased when her forces were in place to rush the building. She called in the 183rd Airborne unit from Earthforce to land on the roof of the building and attack downwards through the building as her forces stormed the entrance and began to attack the enemy up from the ground floor.
It was brutal and bloody, and she lost a lot of soldiers in the firefights, but, in the end, they persevered. The last Centurions were caught up behind the counter in a seventeenth floor cafeteria and taken out. When it was over, a strange silence fell over the place. Cain entered the cafeteria, as those wounded were being stretchered out. Its over? she asked Sergeant Christian Volpe, who was in charge of this particular unit.
Yes, General Cain! The other forces report all opposition has ended inside the building as well as outside in the city. A few Centurion stragglers tried to sneak up on Takanamas unit, but she and her gang took them out with only a couple of minor injuries. Weve freed the city for you, maam! Volpe replied in his Creole drawl.
Cain nodded and left the area, heading back towards the residential building where she had set up her headquarters. Once she had completed her duties for the day, she managed to get to her room in time to collapse onto the bed and cry herself to sleep. Holding in the pain had been hard for her, as it would be for any person who lost a child. What was all the more damning was that Sheba had been pregnant at the time, according to the report from the coroner on board the EAS Lisbon, which had been one of the Omega-class cruisers assigned to the Sagittaron task force.
Cain left part of her task force behind and headed out with the rest towards Sagittaron City. She commandeered some shuttles from the spaceport in Ascella and flew her troops back towards the landing site, where they rested up for a couple of days before heading out to lend Ivanovas forces a hand in their final push towards the headquarters of the enemy on Sagittaron.
Before she left Ascella, though, she stopped by her old apartment for a brief visit. Glass was splattered about still, and a thick layer of dust covered everything. She collected a few small things before departing for the spaceport. One of the things she took with her was a small photo album with her mother, herself, and her daughter featured in the pictures inside. It was about all she had left of her past, and she kept it on her person as she marched away from the landing site and towards Sagittaron City. It would serve as a reminder of why she was doing this, and motivation when her fears and her doubts got the best of her. It would also be nice to show Ivanova those pictures when the battle was over, providing they managed to survive it.
Chapter Eighty-Six
Cains Vengeance
Part of Nelena Cain wanted to die and be with her daughter, but another part wanted to live for her friend Susan Ivanova. Her emotions were under lock and key at the moment, though, as she kept her cool and squeezed the trigger on her PPG rifle, turning the Centurion in her sights into a pile of scrap metal. Her first shot had taken off the machines head, and her second blew a sizable hole into the chest of the robot.
Her troops were held up in two buildings, which stood at forty-five degree angles to the oncoming Centurions. The intersection where they were at looked like a peace sign from Earth from up on high, but there was very little peaceful going on. As the troops on her right side drew the Centurion fire again, she took aim at yet another one and slammed a heated burst of plasma into the machines neck, sending the head flying and the torso reeling back towards the ground. Quickly, she ducked back inside to avoid the stream of bullets headed her way. Her chin, though, caught a fragment of the building that had been shot off and she was cut deeply. A medic rushed over, having seen it and her reaction to it.
Cain would have rather not had stitches put in her chin, but she bore up to the pain as the medic quickly did his work, then went back to his rifle and opened up on more Centurions. Cain ignored the pain on her chin and went back to work, sizing up another target and blasting a hole into it. Her rifles energy cap was drained, so she took it out and put a new one in. While she was doing that, she took out her Geiger counter to check on the radiation levels. The anti-radiation patches they were using these days were better than the ones previously developed by Earthforce, and it did help that the technomages had helped Earthforce develop ways to reduce the radiation levels on the Colonial worlds to help make this invasion possible. She hadnt understood how it worked, but she knew that her radiation patch hadnt needed to be replaced in the week and a half shed been on this world.
When the Centurions retreated due to being outflanked by another part of her force, she ordered everyone out of the building and east towards the city center, where the main headquarters of the Cylons was located. Their next objective, however, was a residential tower that gave the Centurions an excellent position in which to rain down fire onto her advancing forces. After ducking inside an abandoned restaurant and using the facilities, she cleaned herself off as best she could and joined the troops she was dispatching to sneak into the building and take out any Cylons inside.
Much to her surprise, no Cylons were inside the building. She had come to the conclusion that the Centurions had a way of just coming at them with brute force instead of using more proven military tactics. If she had been in charge of them, she would have had Centurions set up in several rooms to overlook the area and take out the approaching enemy from their superior location.
She wouldnt make that kind of mistake. Her troops entered the building and began to scope out the area. From the eastern side of the building, she could look out towards their final objective, the Sagitcorp building, where the Cylons were located. Here, they eschewed the local government buildings for this fairly modest skyscraper. That didnt mean they were not using those buildings for other purposes, as Cain found out from the reports streaming in from other parts of the city. More farms were discovered in those buildings and liberated, which pleased Cain. Anyone that they could recover alive was a blessing, and Cain intended to help as many of them as she could.
As night fell, she assigned troops to stand watch as the others got some rest. She undid her pack and collapsed on a bed inside one of the apartments. She activated her communications link and called Ivanova to see how things were progressing in Sagittaron City. Ivanovas forces had left at roughly the same time as Cains had, but they had a much longer journey than the general had to reach the capital, so they had just arrived there and began their incursion into the city.
Ivanova reported in, Were just now entering the university campus. They were holed up in the bell tower, so we took it out and denied them that firing position. How are things with you?
She hadnt told Ivanova yet of finding her daughter, so she took this time to do it. Oh my God! Ivanova said, Im so sorry, Nelena!
What better motivation to kill these bastards than for Sheba! You should have seen her hooked up to that machine! She was so thin and emaciated! Cain said, not hiding the emotion and tears in her voice.
Ivanovas voice was also tearful as she asked, Where is she now?
Shes back at base camp. When this is over, well bury her. Right now, this fight has become even more personal for me!
Just remember that were here to help you, Nelena. Dont forget that you cant beat them all on your own!
I know, but thanks for the reminder. I have to remind myself that this is far from over.
They talked for a while longer, and she clicked off and caught a few precious hours of sleep. When morning came, the Centurions decided that they wanted the residential building after all. The firefight was intense as the enemy tried to advance on the building, but they were unable to use their cover to their advantage as thermal grenades were shot down where they were hiding, blowing their cover up.
Even though they could see the Cylon headquarters from where they were, it was another two days before they could reach it. All the Centurions had been recalled to it for one last stand there. Cain called in some artillery units to plaster the building with bolts of hot plasma, and soon the building had plenty of smoldering holes in it. The barrage ceased when her forces were in place to rush the building. She called in the 183rd Airborne unit from Earthforce to land on the roof of the building and attack downwards through the building as her forces stormed the entrance and began to attack the enemy up from the ground floor.
It was brutal and bloody, and she lost a lot of soldiers in the firefights, but, in the end, they persevered. The last Centurions were caught up behind the counter in a seventeenth floor cafeteria and taken out. When it was over, a strange silence fell over the place. Cain entered the cafeteria, as those wounded were being stretchered out. Its over? she asked Sergeant Christian Volpe, who was in charge of this particular unit.
Yes, General Cain! The other forces report all opposition has ended inside the building as well as outside in the city. A few Centurion stragglers tried to sneak up on Takanamas unit, but she and her gang took them out with only a couple of minor injuries. Weve freed the city for you, maam! Volpe replied in his Creole drawl.
Cain nodded and left the area, heading back towards the residential building where she had set up her headquarters. Once she had completed her duties for the day, she managed to get to her room in time to collapse onto the bed and cry herself to sleep. Holding in the pain had been hard for her, as it would be for any person who lost a child. What was all the more damning was that Sheba had been pregnant at the time, according to the report from the coroner on board the EAS Lisbon, which had been one of the Omega-class cruisers assigned to the Sagittaron task force.
Cain left part of her task force behind and headed out with the rest towards Sagittaron City. She commandeered some shuttles from the spaceport in Ascella and flew her troops back towards the landing site, where they rested up for a couple of days before heading out to lend Ivanovas forces a hand in their final push towards the headquarters of the enemy on Sagittaron.
Before she left Ascella, though, she stopped by her old apartment for a brief visit. Glass was splattered about still, and a thick layer of dust covered everything. She collected a few small things before departing for the spaceport. One of the things she took with her was a small photo album with her mother, herself, and her daughter featured in the pictures inside. It was about all she had left of her past, and she kept it on her person as she marched away from the landing site and towards Sagittaron City. It would serve as a reminder of why she was doing this, and motivation when her fears and her doubts got the best of her. It would also be nice to show Ivanova those pictures when the battle was over, providing they managed to survive it.
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