What you Leave Behind Part 4

[Red Laser]

Part 4

The Attack

The Major sat in his chair looking through progress reports he was en route to Boffin’s research base now located on an island. He felt safe with enough soldiers and his personal aides on the plane with him and a fighter escort which he could see outside his window. He had a Caesar salad on the tray in front of him and a Jack Daniels with coke for his lunch. He could hear comm. Chatter between the escort and his aides so far the skies were friendly but that could change it seemed in these days more enemies were crawling out of the woodwork and the good guys seemed so few in number. On TV screens there were news reports of a large fleet of ships invading a country and sightings of strange amphibious men all of which could be dismissed as fiction if you weren’t in the same line of work as the Major.
The Major put down the report and rubbed the bridge of his nose he could feel a slight headache from tension. Suddenly, there was a huge explosion and one of the escorts planes plummeted the Major looked out his window while ordering his aides to find out what was happening.

“This is Charlie Delta One I have been hit! I have been hit! My canopy is jammed I can’t get out. Wait is that a Robo…..” the Pilot said. Before he plummeted he saw a huge red shape with bat like wings bristling with guns. His plane nose dived and hit the water hard and wasn’t seen again. The other fighters veered off to engage the enemy but couldn’t see them they were very manoeuvrable so couldn’t be locked on. The Flight Commander tried to send a call out for assistance but his radio was jammed he managed to fire off some Sidewinders which hit one Roboskull but it didn’t take much damage unlike his own fighter which ended up in a fireball.
The Major looked aghast as one by one his escort was picked off he had known Major Don Richards for many years and knew he was a capable man when he assigned him as his personal escort leader but to see him die and not be able to do anything was too much. The security and aides withdrew their service revolvers and formed a cordon round The Major. The Plane plummeted as engines were disabled by the Roboskull’s strikes, the pilots tried hard in vain to pull up on the control yokes but to no avail. The Major and his men were thrown about one of his men accidentally pressed on the trigger of his revolver, stumbled dropped the gun which span just as the bullet left the chamber and went straight through to his brain. Suddenly, the plane stopped plummeting out the windows The Major saw Roboskulls had magno-clamped to the plane and were guiding it towards another larger craft. Two units of Red Shadows soon boarded the plane led by a grotesque masked man. One Unit went to the cockpit forced their way in and killed the pilots the second unit had a body bag which they propped to one side and proceeded to kill the disoriented aides and security. The Grotesque masked man saw the Major and cold cocked him with the butt of a pistol the Major briefly looked up and saw the face of the man who would torment him days later then he passed out.
The man who was The Kraken ordered some of his men to put a sack over the Major’s head and to bind him. The Kraken said sibilantly “Take the body out the bag and put it over here!” Two Red Shadows nodded and unzipped the bag and revealed a body identical in appearance to the Major’s. The Kraken gathered the reports up the Major had been looking over then ordered for the plane to be sank. The Roboskulls took off after The Kraken’s units had disembarked with him. They released the Plane when they had reached an altitude high enough for the Plane to sink into the deep depths and then flew off.

End of Part 4