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The Disaster of New LA
Posted By: David C. Jacobson<jjacobson607@yahoo.com>
Date: 27 October 2003, 8:01 PM
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"What is happening here Sergeant?"
"The power dome is failing sir."
"Impossible", the Captain shouted out. He looked at the screen. The power level was at 28 percent and continued to rapidly fall.
An officer appeared at the door, gasping in breath. "Sorry to disturb you sir. 1st Lieutenant from the 6th Fire Squad is here to speak with you."
"Not now, can't you see we have a dire situation here?"
"But sir, its James. He says he knows about the dome."
"Wha......Let him in then."
"Ah, good to see you James," Paul sighed. Paul was the head of the defense sector in New LA He was of a good stature and stood about 5 foot 5 inches, and of a good age as well, he was still in his early twenties. He is the first to get his job at such a young age. Most are around their late forties and fifties, but Paul's strategic mind proved him well for the job.
James took a step forward and shook Paul's hand. "Same to you my good friend." James was the Lieutenant of the 6th Fire Squad. The 6th Fire Squad was the elite of the elite. Hardcore Marines who were the spearhead of any mission or assault. James was much older then Paul and of better physical condition.
"I know what is causing the Power Dome to fail," said James. Paul stood there wondering what it could be. "My squad and I encountered a coenvent Class B transport, a Phantom. A gunfight broke out and they retreated. We chased after them, as we knew that they wouldn't just turn around and run with a Phantom backing them. And we did find out why they ran, the hard way. A Coenvent Starship had entered the area and was heading towards this location. It destroyed my gunship, but the warthogs were intact. We rode them back here before they could get us with another shot."
"But how did they get past the dome? They would have had to be inside to do anything to the generator. A Coenvent Starship doesn't have enough firepower to blast through the shield", Paul yelled. James turned to the 3-D hologram of New LA and pointed to the East Gate.
"As we passed in our Warthog into the East Gate, the Coenvent shot their Ion Cannon into the Gate. As you know the gate takes around 50 seconds to fully open then close. That was plenty of time for them to get a shot in. The Ion blast obliterated through and hit the East Generator, turning it into nothing but dust."
"How come I was never notified about it?"
"Supreme Allied Commander Sephiroph knew that if you were to find out, you would raise the cities alert level to Code Red. He didn't want a citywide panic."
"There is over 79 million people in this city whose lives are at stake! Does he really think that this city would not notice a Coenvent Starship which is an eighth the size of this city?!?"
James stood there watching as Paul began to curse and slam his fist against the holoprojector table. "What do you propose to do about it then?" James asked trying to get his question in.
"I will deal with this myself," Paul said. He looked over to the holoprojector and saw the East Gate. He began to look puzzled. "Why can't I see what's happening on this damn map?"
"Sephiroph changed your map's radar frequency, so you couldn't find out this was happening. Like I said, Paul, he really doesn't want you to know. He even told me not to tell you, but I must help you. It is wrong not to." James clenched his fist, his hand beginning to tremble.
Paul patted James on the shoulder. "Thank you James. Now, let's get to work. Hermandez!"
"Sir!"
"Find the frequency that Commander Sephiroph is using and fast! We need to locate that Coenvent Starship."
"Yes Sir!"
"James," Paul looked very concerned, "Has Sephiroph at least have some defense cannons online?"
"Yes. He told me that he had already activated all twenty-four cannons to slow the ship down."
"Good. At least he has some brains," Paul whispered in relief.
"Sir, Commander Sephiroph is using 467,998.4c3 MHz!!"
"Thank you, Sergeant Hermandez," Paul quickly turned to the holoprojector and entered the frequency into the computer. The holoprojector began to hum as the screen changed. The 3-D hologram took form, turning into the city. One thing stood out in the hologram, and that was the Coenvent Starship. It was a massive size ship, taking up a good five sectors or more. Also on the map he saw all twenty-four cannons firing at the ship. The battle was taking place right before his eyes; Coenvent Banshees zooming around taking out cannon after cannon, Scorpion Tanks providing heavy support as Marines continue to hold their ground from opposing Coenvent troops.
James stepped closer to the holoprojector and noticed something. "Wait a minute here Paul....," James said in awe. "The starship is only in the Industrial Sector! Sectors B-34 through B-37!"
"You're right! The marines were able to hold them off. Great! Wait a second." Suddenly Paul's happiness turned to despair. He turned the holoprojector zoom to 800 percent. The hologram began to fuzz out again then reappeared as a much larger 3-D image. Paul quickly pointed to a spot and told the projector to zoom in more at that point. "No. Dear God, no."
James grabbed Paul and swung him around. "What is wrong Paul?" James shouted. "What is it?!"
Paul turned around and pointed to the hologram. "There. That is Weapons Storage Bay 88f. They have captured the weapons and vehicles there. All 178 Warthogs, twenty three Scorpion Tanks, two Pelican transports, and maybe thousands of weapons and armor! All in the hands of the Coenvent!" Paul slammed his fist against the holoprojector table. "Damnit! With our weapons and vehicles they can easily get to our other storage bays to steal more and use them against us!" shouted Paul as he slammed his fist yet again against the table. "We need to stop them where they are NOW!"
"I can take care of that. But, I need at least an hour to prepare. Can you stall them long enough for that?" James asked.
"Yes I can. I'm going to put the whole cities defenses on red alert. And don't worry, I will handle Sephiroph. Hermandez! Alert the entire defense web of the Coenvent Starship and tell them this is a code red," shouted Paul.
"Sir, yes Sir!"
Paul turned back around and looked James right in the eye. "Are you sure James you can get your boys in that ship and take it out?"
"Don't worry Paul. You just take care of your part and I'll do mine." James quickly turned and ran towards the door. As he ran through it he shouted "And I'll come back alive, I promise!"
The whole city begin to turn into a war zone as Coenvent Phantoms began to drop troops across the entire city. Over fourteen hours have past since the Coenvent Starship first entered the city, and the Coenvent already occupy thirty nine percent of the city. The Marines have held off enough to keep the Coenvent at check, however they won't be able to for long. Our casualties have risen to 2,000 and continue to rise. The Coenvent have lost an estimate of 700. The only chance they have now to fight off the Coenvent menace is James and the 6th Fire Squad. James was currently in New LA's main ship bay. He had already gathered his whole team and began to brief them on the mission.
"Alright Marines. You know that you are the best of the best, but even our great skill in all kinds of combat can't give us a chance of winning this battle," said James. James walked in a straight line back and forth in front of his team, all fifteen of them. "As I have said before, the Coenvent have already occupied a good proportion of our city and we can't hold them off to stop them from occupying the rest." James paused. He stopped and faced them, stood up straight and pointed right at them. "That's where you come in Marines. We will try to sneak aboard that Coenvent Starship and blow it to hell. Now, you guys have done this kind of thing before on our starships, but not on theirs. This is no ordinary mission. The Coenvent, as you know are ruthless sons of bitches that show no mercy to us humans. They will tear you limb from limb. So which means, if you hesitate to pull the trigger, you WILL lose your head," James shouted. "Now onto the mission briefing."
James walked over to the holoprojector on the middle of the ship bay and turned it on. The projector made a large whiz sound as it turned on. Its massive generators roaring to life as the massive holoprojector came to life. Suddenly a large 3-D map of the Coenvent Starship appeared before James and his team. The map was thirty five feet tall and forty five feet wide.
"Now, this is one of the ships exhaust shafts. It is small, but is big enough to fit us through it. It leads to the main power generator which we need to destroy. However, the shaft has a power door which seals off the shaft from the generator, since this is an auxiliary shaft. We can go down the shaft and blow the door, but that would turn on the ship's alarm systems, and we would have about 200 cannons on us. The generator is heavily guarded, so we are going to use a different way through. About halfway down the shaft, the ship's corridor tunnels meet the shaft at this point. This is the maintenance area. We will use this to get into the ship itself. After that we have to find a way to the engine bay. Once there, we will over heat the ship's engines and boom! The ship falls and gets blown to hell and fireworks light the sky." James paused once again and looked down. He turned back around towards the hologram and lifted his head.
"This mission will not guarantee success, nor will it guarantee that you come back alive. I do not know what it is like inside a Coenvent Starship. I haven't done a mission like this." James turned toward his team. "Now, for those who wish to risk their lives for the sake of 78 million people please step forward. If you don't, you will not be relieved of your duty, but you would have years of guilt and disgrace on your back." Suddenly all fifteen marines stepped forward. Their faces showed great confidence and will. "Good! The odds are against us boys, but we will bring that ship down! Now lets head out!" shouted James.
James rushed his team to the Marine Gunship marked 5574. The Marine Gunship was a wonder to behold. It was 107 feet long, fifteen feet high. It wings reached a great length of sixty eight feet. It had eight orb cannons, two in the lower front, one on top in the center, two on the sides, one located on each wing tip, and the last in the rear. The Gunship also had two massive Charged Particle Beam Cannons on top that served as the ship primary weapon. It's sleek design gave it incredible speed and maneuverability, and in all this, still had enough room to accommodate up to twenty troops.
"Every one locked and loaded?" James screamed as the ship's engines roared to life. "Good," he finished.
The ship began to rumble as the rear entry door sealed and it began to lift off the ground. It's engines started to turn bright white-ish blue as the throttle was thrown to full. The ship bay's door opened, shaking the entire building. Suddenly the Gunship took off into the distance, towards the Coenvent Starship, not knowing what was to come.
"Sir, the cities alert system has been raised to code red. It seems that Secretary Captain Davis has found out that you tried to hide the Coenvent Starship." whispered a Sergeant into a man's ear.
"Hmmm. So he found out. That doesn't matter. We will go along with our plan." The man turned around in his chair. "Is my shuttle ready for me?" the dark man asked.
"Yes Sephiroph sir, it is. Please follow me."
The dark man stood up from his desk and walked out of his office, accompanied by the Sergeant. Sephiroph is of an eerie image. He has long pure white hair that extends to his shoulders. He eyes are of a yellow tint which strike fear into those who dare to look right into them. He stood six foot three inches, and was moderately built. The most distinct part of his image was his cape. It wrapped around his neck following all the way down to his feet, dragging along the ground. The shoulder part of the cape extended up ward then out, creating a look similar to that of vampires.
Soon both men came to the end of the hall and stopped. The sergeant entered the pass code into the keypad near the door. The door then slid open and revealed the outside. They continued to walk forward to a small landing pad that was attached to the side of Sephiroph's towers.
Sephiroph's tower was the tallest building in the entire city and even reached the top of the Power Dome, now gone because of the generator's destruction. It was an amazing 9,800 feet high and had over 500 stories. At the top was the look out, Sephiroph's office. The design of the tower resembled that of a hexagon, which continued to get thinner until the very top which was larger than the last thirty floors.
In the middle of the small landing pad was Sephiroph's personal shuttle, a modified Marine Gunship for comfort. The rear door hissed and unlocked, popping out and slowing lowering to the ground. Sephiroph made no hesitation to get aboard and leave. Right before he entered the ship, the pilot walked to him and saluted.
"Good to see you today Commander Sephiroph sir!" the pilot stated in a military tone.
Sephiroph stopped and turned his head saying, "I'm in a hurry, so just get me to where I need to go." He continued into the ship until he reached his seat. Behind him followed the pilot and co-pilot. He quickly strapped himself in his seat and leaned back in relaxation. He thought to himself could have told Paul. Maybe it was that stupid Lieutenant James. It doesn't matter he thought. "Heh. Wait until I carry out my plan." he laughed. He lowered his head, crossing his fingers and gave a small little demented smile. The shuttle began to take off and fired its main engines. The landing gear then retracted and the ship took off into the far distance.
"Paul, what can you give me on the battle status?" James radioed. Paul looked at the holoprojector 3-D image of the battle. This isn't getting better he thought to himself.
"We are started to lose our ground. The Coenvent just keeping coming and are showing no sign shshhhhshsh..........."
"Paul?!?" James screamed. "Paul!"
"Sir, the signal has been lost," said an officer.
"What?!? Forget it then." James answered back.
The Coenvent now hold forty five percent of the city and continue to push back the Marines. The Marines have lost most of their forces and support and the casualties have risen to 12,000. And now the cities civilian casualties have risen to 768,000. Only a good 5,000 Marines with 500 supporting craft and vehicles are left to hold them off while James and his squad fly to the Coenvent Starship.
"Sir, the Coenvent Starship! It is so magnificent!" yelled Sergeant Jenkins. Their Gunship finally has found the Coenvent Starship and were inbound to the exhaust shaft.
The Coenvent Starship was nothing like they have ever seen before. It very streamlined, curved and rounded like no other. It was a silver-gray color giving it a blinding look when in the sun. It was very large at the back and got smaller toward the middle then got larger but as much as the back then got again smaller. It almost looked like the number eight with the hollow filled in and a flat end. The view from the side revealed that the ship was quite thin except for a large bump towards the back. Coenvent ships and transport were flying in and out of the bump. James knew that was the main ship bay.
James spotted something he didn't expect to be on a Coenvent Starship. There was a large purple energy pillar coming from the ship down to the ground. It was the gravity lift. The Coenvent used this as an easier way to get troops, ground support, and supplies to the ground. "That seems to be how they get large amounts of troops on the ground sir." shouted one of the other Marines.
"Appears so," James whispered. He walked up to the cockpit and looked through the windshield. " How long until we reach the drop zone?" he asked the pilot.
"About a minute sir. It's gonna be rough trying to get in there intact, so suggest you strap yourself in and hang on." responded the pilot.
James walked back to his seat and looked at his team. "Alright you heard him! Strap yourselves tight, and get ready for a rough landing" James shouted. His whole team quickly responded to his order and tightened themselves into their seat and held on to the handle bar on the side of them. James did not bother getting back into his seat, instead stood where he was and held on to the overhead bar.
Sergeant Jenkins looked at James. "Sir? Aren't you going to strap in?" he asked.
James looked back and smiled. "I'll be fine," he replied in a sarcastic tone.
"Here we go!" yelled the pilot. As soon as the pilot said it, every one grasped their seat tighter than before. James squatted a little as to give himself more support.
Their gunship began its evasive maneuvers as the Coenvent Starship engaged them. Quad-cannons from the under side of the Starship were giving the most pounding to the gunship, firing a devastating twenty energy bolts a second, equaling 1480 a second for all seventy four cannons together. The bolts exploded a little before contact to do the most effective damage possible. The gunship was literary flying in a hailstorm of energy fire, trying all it can to dodge the shots.
The pilot then spotted a large bay door opening, revealing the Starship's main Ion Cannon. A bright blue light started to appear at the tip of the cannon as it began to charge.
"What the hell is that sir?" muttered one of the Marines.
"Everyone hold on! The ship's Ion Cannon is about to fire!" James shouted in response. "Can you dodge that blast?" James asked the pilot.
"I'll try," answered the pilot.
The energy began to gather to the tip of the cannon in the shape of the ball. The exhaust ports on the side opened and hot steam and gas hissed out to keep the cannon from overheating. The energy ball then suddenly disappeared.
What just happened, James thought to himself.
The cannon then fired, all the ship's energy put through that cannon into a blast that could obliterate a city in one strike. The blast headed straight in the gunship's path. The pilot quickly jammed the controls to the right in hopes of missing the blast. The whole team just stared at it in fear of their soon deaths. The blast hit the gunship, but just enough to incinerate the left wing along with the engine.
"Damn! We lost the left wing and engine 2 is gone!" shouted the pilot.
The gunship began to tilt to the right as it no longer had equilibrium. The pilot turned the joystick to the left and kept pulling. The gunship gave no sign of recovering.
"Look! There! That's the shaft, straight ahead! Get us there!" yelled James at the pilot.
"I'll try, but the ship is doing to well." The pilot began to sweat as he tried to keep the controls still, to keep the gunship going straight. "She is in pretty bad shape sir."
The shaft was about 2000 yards away and was getting closer very quickly. James knew that they would crash into the side of the Starship trying to get to the shaft.
"Alright, the ship is in terrible shape and we are going to crash. So, everyone out of their seats, get your weapons and get next to the bay door. We are going to jump it to the shaft ledge!" James ordered.
"Are you crazy sir!? We can't make that jump! The ship is going to fast for us to get to it!" one of the Marines answered.
"You will do as ordered! Understood marines!" James screamed back.
"Sir, yes Sir!!" his whole team shouted.
They all unstraped themselves and stood next to the bay door. James walked over and pressed the control pad to open the door. The air in the ship's cabin began to get sucked out from the pressure difference. James looked out and watched as the Starship got closer with every second. Cannons were still firing at them, trying to take them done before they reached their target. The ground below seemed to whiz by as they flew towards the Starship.
"Alright Marines! This is the only chance we have to get on board! So we have to jump!" said James.
"Sir? Don't we have glider-chute or jump packs?" Jenkins asked.
"I didn't see use in them. I figured this ship would be able to get to the shaft in one piece," he answered.
"You WHAT?" the pilot yelled. "I'm sorry sir, but my piloting skills aren't that good!"
"Never mind now, Marines. We just have to worry about jumping to that ledge," James shouted.
The gunship was now very close to the shaft and was still leaning downwards.
"Ready!" James paused. "JUMP!"
His team jumped as the gunship clipped the shaft's outer ledge. They all slammed onto the ledge floor. The gunship crashed into the Coenvent Starship creating an explosion that didn't even breach the Starship's hull.
James quickly rushed to his feet and ran for the shaft. "Come on team! We need to get inside before the Coenvent realize we are alive!" he shouted.
Everyone got on their feet and ran with James into the shaft.
They waited right at the edge of the shaft to see if the Coenvent Banshees take the crash. The Banshees then turned around and flew away.
"Good. Let's go then, we have a mission to complete." James sighed.
The shaft was very dark and musty and almost seemed to never end. The floor was riddled with dirty water and exhaust deposits. James and his team had barely enough space to walk through the shaft with all their gear and weapons, but they knew it was the only safe way to get inside, so they dealt with it and didn't complain.
"Sir, we have arrived at Station Xebeles," the pilot said over the intercom. Sephiroph got up from his seat and walked over to the bay door as it opened. He passed through it and walked to the end of the hallway. At the end was an officer waiting for him.
"Welcome to space, sir. Glad to see to are ok."
"Is is the Station ready for the weapon preparation?" Sephiroph responded.
"Yes sir, it is. Please follow me." The officer opened the door to the station's control center. The control center was built like a circle and was very small. It had only four windows, which, too, were small. The whole room was cramped with computers and in the center was a holoprojector. At the opposite side of the room was a door which had a sign on it. Warning! Do not enter! Cannon generator room!
The officer escorted Sephiroph to the main computer. "Here you are sir. The main computer. The weapon is ready and armed as you asked for." The officer walked over to the holoprojector in the middle of the room and turned it on. The image began to take form and turned into the battle taking place in New L.A.
"Charge the cannon," ordered Sephiroph. The officer walked over to the main computer and began to activate the generators. The screen showed the charge progress bar. The timer read fifteen minutes.
"Sir! The intersection is up head," one of the marines whispered.
"Distance?" James asked.
"14.5 yards sir!"
"Alright, lets go! Follow me!" James waved his head to follow.
His team came to the door at the intersection. The door lead into the main corridors of the Starship. One of the Marines went to the door and tried to open it but it was sealed.
"On 3, we blow the door!" James ordered.
"The Coenvent will know we are here if they see a door fly through the halls going seventy miles an hour!" Jenkins responded.
"Doesn't matter. They will find out we are here either way. Now blow it! One, two, three!" yelled James. One of the Marines threw a frag grenade at the door and the team took cover. After five seconds the door blew off and fell to the ground. The wall around the door was gone due to the blast. Everyone got up and hurried to the door.
"We must hurry to the engine room. Coenvent troops will all over us soon!" shouted James. His teamed readied their weapons and followed his lead.
The Coenvent now control ninety six percent of the city and what marines are left have banded together and are holding resistance at Weapons Bay 46-C. Marine casualties are now 16,000 and the last 1,000 troops are at Bay 46-C. Civilian casualties are at 4 million. The Coenvent are holding most of the civilians as prisoners of war. A great portion of the city now lays in ruin, all leveled by the Coenvent and Marines fighting each other. However, forty-eight percent of the city is still intact, most of which is the cities great center. The Convent's last shot with their Ion Cannon before the gunship came destroyed Paul's HQ. If he is alive is still unknown.
"Come on! Hurry!" James screamed.
"Sir! Elites in front of you!" one of the marines yelled back.
James stopped and pulled his trigger of his Assault Rifle. Shells being ejected out of the side as lead was being pumped into the Elites body. The elites blood was splattered everywhere from the gunfire. The elite screamed and fell to the ground dead. Its body lay there lifeless. James noticed it had the same height as humans but have a much different body. It was wearing armor which disabled him from seeing what it really looked like. He also recognized that two-way split jaw, down the center and across.
"Sir, we don't have time for this! Let's go!" yelled Jenkins into James's hear.
James got up and continued on. After about fifteen minutes they reached the engine room. James wondered why there hasn't been must resistance. Maybe it's a trap he thought. They had to go, no matter if it was or not.
"Ok, let's blow the engines." James waved his team to enter but take care.
The engine room was very large with the four fusion engines at each corner. The fusion engines were pulsing, shaking the room just enough to create a hum.
James and his team were on the top ledge of the engine room. They quickly found a stairway and walked down it to the engines' control panel.
"Open up the exhaust ports to all four of the fusion engines." ordered James. He walked over the exhaust ports and waited. The marine at each of the panels opened up the exhaust port. The warning siren came on as they opened up and revealed each of the engines' core.
"Good. Now, one of you throw a grenade into the engine ports." James turned around and walked over to the stairway. "Still clear. Grand."
Jenkins walked to each port and threw a timer grenade in it. He walked to James and gave him the detonator. James took it out of his hand, and starred at it. This was too easy he thought. Something is wrong here.
One of the marines screamed and fell to the ground dead, a huge gash in his back. Behind him the air was distorted in the shape of an elite and the elite was carrying a energy blade.
"Sir! They are lots of them! All around us!" one of the Marines yelled.
"Kill them! Kill them all!" James ordered.
The fifteen of them began to shoot them, trying to hit what they can barely see. The elites yet killed another marine, cutting his head off before the marine knew he was there. Marine blood splattered once again as another Marine fell. Only one elite was dead in that room. They could barely see them, and their movement made it only worse. James and a few others began to run low on ammo, all of it wasted on the wall, shells littering the ground.
James then looked at his men and saw fear in their eyes. He knew that he couldn't let them all die. "Retreat back to the shaft! Now!"
They ran up the stairs to the corridors shooting behind them to slow the elites.
"This is the 1st Lieutenant from the 6th Fire Squad, we need an evac from the Coenvent Starship ASAP! Is anyone out there?" James yelled on his radio.
"Ah, Mr. James. It seems you failed your mission. So I will take this into my own hands," answered a strange voice.
"Sephiroph?!? What do you plan to do? The Coenvent can't be stopped! We tried to, but we got ambushed, and lost the detonator to our explosives!"
"Right you are. You see, I have built my own Ion Cannon, Station Xebeles. It is much stronger than that puny one on the Coenvent Starship. And I PLAN to exterminate them all!"
"You're crazy! You really plan to destroy this entire city to kill the Coenvent!?!" responded James.
"I must it is the only way! And I have already activated the cannon! In ten minutes it will be directly over the city!"
"Sephiroph! SEPHIROPH!!!" screamed James at the top of his lungs.
His team stopped suddenly to his voice. "Sir?" asked Jenkins.
"We must go, there is no time to explain." said James in a more clam tone.
Suddenly James heard a voice on his radio. "6th Fire Squad? James is that you? I'm on route to your location. Glad that you are ok."
"Paul? I thought you died?"
"I'm fine, barely, but ok." Paul answered.
James yelled at his team to hurry on to the shaft. When they reached the end of the shaft they found their ride. The quickly hoped aboard and strapped themselves in.
"Punch it! We have to get out of this city before Sephiroph cannon fires!" James yelled at the pilot.
"Sephiroph is using his Ion Cannon to destroy this city?" asked the pilot.
"What!?!" said Paul. "Is he that stupid! He would risk millions of people to kill that Coenvent Starship!?!"
"We can't stop him, now can we save the people. We only have three minute until it fires. All we can do is wait and watch." sighed James.
The cannon was now in sight. The bright light from the cannon's tip lit up the sky. The whole city paused as they waited, waited for the blast to fall upon them. And it did.
The cannon fired upon New L.A., burning through the clouds and smashing the ground. The energy blast entered the earth, causing a mass reaction. The ground turned bright red at ground zero, as the shockwave passed over followed by the main explosion. The whole city turned into a giant white and yellow dome as the explosion got bigger until it consumed the whole city, obliterating everything in its path. The explosion ended in a bright light which blinded James, Paul, and his team for a short period.
"I can't believe it." James said under his breath.
The city was now a molten crater. Nothing was there, not even the Coenvent Starship. Nothing. Even Sephiroph's Cannon. It overheated when it fired a full power blast and was destroyed. James stood up and walked over to the open bay door. He looked at the entire city and lowered his head. He turned around and walked back to his seat.
"Hey guys! They already have news of what happened!" yelled Jenkins. Jenkins turned on the news and began to watch the coverage of the battle.
"The battle of New L.A. between the U.S. Marine corps and the Coenvent resulted in a catastrophic ending. Supreme Allied Commander of the United Nations Defense Core , UNDC, fired his experimental Ion Cannon upon the city to destroy the Coenvent Starship. The blast destroyed the entire city, including Station Xebeles. With a total of over seventy nine million deaths, this has become the greatest incident to ever occur in World History."
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