novelzi Chapter 70 Watch Out For Ambushes
Chapter 70 Watch Out For Ambushes
I was positioned at the very back of the formation above the freighter, supporting the escort team with long range fire support should any pirates show up.
The only 'issue' was that after our first fight with those pirates, we met no other pirates on our way to the station.
It seems like Samson was right about this route having less pirates at least.
But it also had the effect of putting all of us on edge as we kept ourselves on our toes expecting pirates to suddenly appear at every turn.
Of course we had Reese's scanner to rely on but she did warn us that if any of the pirates had stealth modules installed on them, they would not appear on her scanners either.
I thought that she was talking about the one that makes their ship go invisible like that Voidshade guy but Amber told me that it was just some modules that prevent their ship from showing up on scanners.
Well, that just means we have to keep our eyes peeled in case some pirates suddenly appear out of nowhere which is why we're all on edge right now.
"We're almost there," Reese suddenly spoke through our comms. "Probably just another half an hour more at this speed."
"Perfect... I could use a real bed after this," Maurice grumbled.
"You and me both... Sleeping in a chair is so uncomfortable..." Clandice groaned.
Samson frowned at them, "Eyes peeled you two, we're not in the clear yet."
Maurice grimaced, "I don't think there would be any pirates here this close to the station right? If they were to make trouble here, the security forces from the station could arrive here to wipe them out."
"On the contrary, this is the best place to ambush people because they would let down their--"
A kinetic round exploded against the shield of the freighter before he could finish his words.
I thought it was just a normal explosive round until some kind of shockwave enveloped all our ships, forcing our travel drives to cease functioning and slow us down.
"Interdiction blast! Ambush! Ambush! Scatter!" Samson ordered.
We did as he instructed as we engaged our normal engines to fly away from Reese's freighter.
We weren't abandoning her of course, we're only putting distance between her so that the pirates could not concentrate fire in one place and wipe all of us out together.
I looked in the direction that the kinetic round came from and three ships flew out of the nebula to head straight for us.
Two Class A Fighters and a Class B Support Ship.
Support ships could be adapted to suit a variety of roles with one of them being an artillery platform like the one that I was looking at now. This one had a massive rail cannon turret mounted on top of its ship which would normally only be found on Class C ships and above.
They had three A Class ships which consisted of two bombers and one fighter, a B Class Heavy Fighter and a C Class Corvette.
That C class ship was the main issue here but I think with Samson and myself working together, we could take down this group.
I followed behind him, maintaining a set distance as I fired my photon laser at the smaller ships first.
They were clearly not expecting us to fly towards them instead of hunkering down so their coordination was a little late when my first shot hit them.
One of the bombers didn't even try to turn before my laser burned off the left half of the ship, sending it careening into space in an uncontrolled spin.
The second bomber managed to turn but it wasn't fast enough to avoid my kinetic shell fired from my railgun, punching a hole directly through its belly.
Samson was firing his kinetic mortars at the heavy fighter, the pilot desperately trying to avoid all the shots while attempting to get Samson within his weapon range.
The last A Class Fighter thought that Samson was too preoccupied to notice him and attempted to flank, only for two rockets to be launched from Samson's missile pods to head straight towards them.
They tried to swerve away but the angle was not enough to avoid the missiles as they blasted the small fighter apart.
The corvette started firing its laser turrets at us, a beam of pure energy blasting against Samson's shields.
As I thought, he was really tanky since he pretty much shrugged that attack off like it was no big deal.
The other heavy fighter had mistakenly thought the corvette's laser would have broken Samson's shields and tried to engage him, only to get a kinetic mortar shell in their face followed up by a rain of energy blasts fired from his chainguns.
The heavy fighter quickly exploded in a ball of fire and the two of us concentrated fire on the corvette.
The corvette was faced with a rain of kinetic shells and energy blasts that quickly drained its shields as it tried to repel us unsuccessfully.
Samson took most of the hits with his shields but they managed to bear through it without collapsing and I only took a few grazing shots that also did minimal damage to my shields.
I watched as the corvette's shields finally fell and our attacks started burning through the armour plating of its hull.
Samson then launched one of his torpedoes at the ship, swerving away to avoid another laser that the corvette tried to fire at him.
I watched as the projectile impacted the side of the corvette before a brilliant explosion lit up the space.
When the light subsided, the corvette had a big hole in its side that almost cut the ship into half.
Turning back to see how the others were doing, I found the other pirates had also been reduced to wrecks.
Damn. Not bad I would say.