Dead Cities and Deader Men (Operative Title)
Day 7 of 30
04/24/2020
“Target taken out, check fire, look alive for secondaries.”
“Hey kid, keep an eye out. Just in case something comes to snack
on that thing and it looks at us sideways.”
As a Tail Gunner he gets it. If we get chased it is his job
to hold it off. If something gets to us, he could be the first to go.
I rev up the engines and increase speed to half. Going about
32 klicks an hour, as fast as I want to risk it right now. Looks like we might
get clear when the kid taps my arm and points to the long range radar.
Something big heading our way from the side.
“All Guns Man, all Guns Man.”
Announce and turn us away from the closing monster. Big one,
about a hundred meters long I estimate. Close rate means we have maybe three or
four minutes before engagement.
“Look over there kid’ I point to a separate side display, “shows
status of all Guns. Green is manned, Yellow is manned but not ready, Red means
unmanned or disabled. Dead Gunner or Gun or some other mechanical.”
Pause, wait for him to respond back.
“Looks like Main Gun 1 and 2 are Green, all side Guns are Green,
both Tail Guns are also Green. All ready to go.”
“Good, we got a few minutes to go. Might have to shoot,
might not. There is an aux panel a second Driver can man. It is there below the
main drive panel. Pull it out and check it out.”
Back to checking the close rate, it slowed down for some reason,
we may get out without a fight.
“Check the Deploy Panel one more time, are the Suits ready.”
“Looks like 5 suits are Green, 3 are Yellow, 2 Red.”
“Likely the Red and Yellow are in the suits, just not fully
ready. Keep an eye while you look over the Auxes.”
Trial by fire, semi by fire for this one.
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