Collide: Two Realities Become One

part 30: Tekqoda is down!

"To positions! We're under attack on the ocean side 3o' clock get every available truck's engine running now!" The commanding officer of tekqoda platoon ordered.

Marines stormed to the ocean side of t kohe town while remaining marines started up the navistar 7000 transport trucks. They were supposedly be using humvee's or LAVs but some thought that in case of tekqoda village being taken over by enemy forces they needed a vehicle that can carry marines and civilians to safety that's why they used these trucks for transport instead.

The marines took cover from any available cover they can find. They saw massive blimps blocking the sunlight approaching tekqoda in a slow pace but their menacing size struck fear on the townspeople. The marines in the other hand fired at the blimps, they hit the hull of the ship but it was unfazed by it, their small caliber bullets were not enough no matter how many are firing at it and they don't have any MANPADS or any air-defence systems.

And in retaliation for the attempted attack the blimps fired their canons below the village and started dispatching their Biplanes. The canon balls struck through houses and markets with ease, some of the houses were set on fire and burned the other neighbouring houses with it.

The people were screaming around while the Biplanes shot repeating ballista arrows tipped with explosive magic, some unfortunate marines were hit on impact getting flung to the debris and were injured heavily. One marine was flung to a pile of wood and got his leg broken, and to make it worse for a marine a fire was slowly climbing its way towards him.

"Shit! Anyone! Fuck! Help me out here! Grumman here to actual! Im stuck in fucking debris and theres a fucking fire heading towards me!" The marine with panic filled in his voice.

The Biplanes, the harkans called it a Flying sword. It is a marvel of harkan technology and capabilities, with a top speed of 90 mph and a max altitude of 7,000 feet unlike any normal engine powered biplane this uses a combination of magic and steam magic, the biplane doesn't have a propeller because of science being completely non-existent in this world they instead use magic to propel the plane.

By using steam magic in its liquid form that basically acts like fuel to the plane its mixed with a highly reactive explosive magic that generates a very concentrated form of steam magic that ignites almost immediately creating thrust that is exerted out of the plane's rear like how a fighter jet works. The main weapon of the Biplane was a 15 round repeating ballista with explosion magic enchanted on the tip of the arrowhead.

Its explosion radius is equivalent to a grenade explosion upon contact with anything the seal keeping the explosion magic from exploding breaks creating a small shockwave. It's very deadly in numbers and also effective in killing wyverns but its armor is as weak as wooden armor since its made of wood with a little bit of steel.

The marines started firing all they had on the incoming Biplanes and managed to strike down one Biplane directly hitting the area where the fuel is causing the reactive magic to explode and engulf the entire biplane in fire. It fell and crashed down on a group of houses causing a massive wildfire trapping alot of civilians in the process.

The marines started digging their way through the burning debris to save the trapped civilians ignoring the heat. The other marines tried shooting down the biplanes but unfortunately one ballista arrow land on a group of marines injuring all of them. They were dragged away by backup marines that were sent by the commander.

"We're overwhelmed! We need to fall back!" A marine said while carrying an injured man while shooting at the air with his pistol.

The harkan ships meanwhile has docked on the shore and unloaded a ton of harkan musketeers, swordsmen, bowmen, cavalry, and siege weaponry along with mages. They overwhelmed the marines that were only equipped with rifles and a couple of LMGs but the number of enemy units was too much and so the platoon commander issued a retreat and return to italica to report their attack.