Attack on Vader

Chapter 34

A kid lays on the ground in a battlefield as he reaches out toward the sky.

Falco: Hey... It's dangerous here... Fly away...

An explosion goes off only a few feet away from Falco.

Falco: Somewhere... far away.

Just then Falco brother runs up towards him.

Colt: Falco!

Colt gets down as he checks his brother.

Falco: Huh? What's my brother doing here?

Colt: Good! You're still talking!

Colt then picks up Falco as he puts his helmet on him. As he was doing that a soldier ran by getting shot in the back killing him. Colt then gets up with Falco on his back as he runs back to safety.

Colt: Time to run! Hold on!

As he and a few other soldiers are running back to safety they are getting shot at. All the soldiers around colt get shot at and die, once he makes it back to safety he trips as a kid pulls them both into the trench.

Magath: Report. What happened, Colt?

Magath and Koslow come out of a room as they ask what going on. Colt stands in from of them as he breathes heavily.

Colt: The Eldian advance squad has been wiped out. They took a direct hit from an artillery shell and got blown to bits.

Magath: What of the trench?

Colt: It's hopeless. We can't dig any further!

Magath: Oh? And who decided that? Are you trying to give me orders now, Eldian?

Koslow: Insubordinate mutt! You watch your tone with Commander Magath!

Colt: But, sir. If things keep going like this...

Off to the side the kids wake up Falco from his dream like state.

Zofia: Falco. You look like you're drunk.

Gabi: Guess he must've hit his head pretty good.

Udo: How much of the last four years do you remember, Falco? You know we're at war, right?

Blood comes down Falco head as he looks at the kids with a confused expression on his face.

Falco: Who are you people? Where am I? I don't get it. Wasn't I just flying around with a couple of swords in my hands? And someone that can pick stuff up with his mind. Whoo. Like that. And there were Titans, too-

Gabi dumps some water on Falcon's head as it wash the blood off.

Gabi: Okay. It sounds like we're gonna have to re-explain the entire operation. Just do your best to keep up, Falco. Here goes. This war's dragged on for four years now, but with this battle we can end it. All we have to do is capture Fort Slava. Well, to be exact, we have to destroy the Mid-East Allied Forces' fleet in the harbor beneath it. Once those ships are sunk, we'll have won this war for Marley. But Fort Slava defends the high ground overlooking the harbor, which means there's no attacking that fleet from land without control of the fort.

Falco gets his head wrap up by Udo as Zofia cleans off his face.

Zofia: So why can't the Marleyan fleet just attack them from the sea?

Udo: Come on, Zofia! Do you really think we can count on that navy to do a thing? It took them four whole years to establish any vestige of control over the sea!

Udo pulls back on Falco head making Falco uncomfortable.

Udo: And this shouldn't really be a surprise, but they lost half their damn battleships in the process! So of course they're too chickenshit to do a single friggin' thing until we've taken this massive death trap of a fort for them! Screw every single one of those stupid, incompetent cowards!