C13(Power Stones Bonus Chap)

Aurora didn't know what happened but for the past two months, Dracula was acting like he was passed or something, and that creeped the f*ck out of her.

Of course, she had already seen this side of his before but it was only for brief instances.

Aurora thought as she watched Dracula from the corner of her view only to almost jump up from her seat upon hearing his ice-cold voice devoid of any emotion.

"Prepare to jump"

I ordered after I saw my holographic tables counter reach zero.

"Yes sir!"

The reason why I waited for a whole month without jumping is because for Einherjar it only takes a day to jump from the sol system to alpha centauri, unlike the home defense fleet which needs a whole month before it exits the hyperspace.

I thought while my officers were making the final preparations before the jump.

"All departments reporting green!!"

"The subspace drive is operating within the specified parameters!"

"Captain we are ready to jump!"

All of my officers focused their gazes on me as they did I gave the order.

"Jump!"

"Yes sir! Jumping to alpha century!"

The pilot reaffirmed my order loudly as he punched the holographic button on his console as he did the ship got enveloped in a white vortex only for it to disappear the next second like it was never there before.

Although it takes a whole day to travel from the solar system to the alpha century to those who are inside the ship only a second passes.

What greeted us instead of the dark empty starry space was the Briaan fleet whose warships were a mix of rocks and alloy which looked strange as f*ck to the human eye as they currently were performing orbital bombardment on the already devastated alpha century prime.

"130 heat signatures detected! 1 battleship 9 Cruisers, 30 destroyers, 90 frigates!"

"Distance 1000 kilometers!"

"Captain they haven't picked up our presence yet! We have the element of surprise!"

My officers reported one after another as the ship's alarms automatically rang out through the entire ship while its lighting turned to ominous red.

"Weapons lock on the cruisers and destroyers and get me firing solutions on the rest of the ships!"

"Ground and space control launch everything we have now!"

I barked my orders making my officers get busy again.

...

Karl who was still terrified seconds ago but calmed down immediately once he got inside his cockpit was currently busy performing his all-black Phantom class space fighters which looked like a sci-fi version of an F-22 raptor on steroids systems checkups.

With expert skill, as if he had already done it thousands of times, and in fact, he did it in VR.

[Operational system online]

[Weapons systems green]

[Defense systems green]

[Life support'green]

"Alpha phantom, I phantom 4 connection check over."

"Phantom 4, I Alpha Phantom loud and clear over."

Karl performed a connection check with his group's commander as he performed his fighter's system's last checkups.

[All systems-green]

Only to hear his commander's order.

"All Phantoms we have green light! I repeat we have green light!"

Hearing this Karl out a reflex that was already engraved deep into his bones thanks to the VR simulator.

Stepped on his pedal causing his fighter's engines to burst out with a gust of blue flames that blasted themselves into the raised take-off ramp behind his strike craft making him and the other 108 strike craft fly out from the ship's belly hangar protected by a blue energy barrier.

...

"Captain targets locked, sending over firing solutions!"

"Fire all our torpedoes!"

"Yes sir! Firing torpedoes from one to 100 ETA till contact one Mike!"

100 armored hatches on the ship's top behind the ultra-heavy mass accelerators that had electricity gathering inside their barrels opened up and 100 nuclear space torpedoes blasted out from the tubes with blue flames and darted towards the empire's fleet.

"Captain the enemy has detected us they are moving their bows to face us and are charging their weapons!"

My sensors officer cried out as she watched the empire's ships stop their orbital bombardment operation inside her console's 3D holographic projection.

"Noted! Weapons once the mass accelerator canons finish charging concentrate your fire on Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, and Echo groups! 2 slugs each frigate and 5 laser cannons!"

"Yes sir!"

...

Hans gave a last look to his children's photo glued to his knight class mechs cockpits ceiling and the next second he felt gravity start pulling him as his drop pod got ejected from the bottom of the ship behind the dozens of gunship-sized open hangars.

As he did he saw dozens of gunships full of marines get released by the metallic clamps and pass through the open bottoms hangars blue energy shields inside his drop pods cameras live video feed.

But the next second he saw the three top ultra-heavy mass accelerator cannons whose barrels were crackling with electricity to the point that they looked like they were about to explode any second.

Discharge their payload while dozens of red laser beams from the ship's top shot out all at once.

But soon he only felt the nausea-inducing shaking and only saw the planet's heavily polluted clouds.

...

Boom! Boom! Boom!

I heard the sound of electricity getting discharged ring inside my ears and felt the spaceship's hull tremble as the three ultra-heavy mass accelerator cannons fired their first rounds causing the ship's red lighting to dim down.

As the canons sucked up all the available energy they could to recharge themselves as fast as possible.

Three 900 mm nanocomposite slugs were flung out at a speed of 300 km/s towards one of the empire's frigates and after 20 seconds fired again while the double-barreled laser canons continued to pour out laser beams almost continuously.

"Captain the enemy has fired their torpedoes and they're releasing their strikecraft!"

"Ignore it and keep firing!"

"Yes sir!"

"Captain all strike craft and ground forces have been deployed!"

"Pilot punch it and set us on a collision course with the enemy flagship!"

Hearing my order the whole bridge fell silent.

"Pilot! You heard the order execute it!"

Aurora snapped as she stood up from her seat while grabbing her sidearm.

Seeing this the pilot gritted his teeth as he set the ship's thrusters to the maximum causing everyone to get punched into their seats by the sudden acceleration.

...

Karl watched the 100 space torpedoes finally enter the Xenos fleet's PDLC's (point defense Lazor canons) range.

As hundreds of PDLCs opened fire at the incoming space torpedoes their operating systems started evasive maneuvers allowing at least 30 percent thanks to their inbuilt energy disruptors to effortlessly pass through the Xenos shields which was another black technology "invented by Dracula that the empire didn't have.

30 mini suns appeared in the darkness of space after warheads detonated themselves as they did 7 cruisers and 3 destroyers got torn in half while dozens of strike craft that were too close got vaporized into atoms.

While the Einherjars first volley destroyed 1 destroyer after the slugs depleted its shields and the laser finished the job together with 9 frigates whose shields were weak enough for the lasers to punch through without the help of the slugs.

But just as Karl wanted to cheer the enemy's railguns slugs and UV purple-colored lasers finally arrived and made contact with speeding up Einherjars deflectors.

Shortly after the enemy's space torpedoes that numbered in the hundreds entered the Einherjars flak batteries range that started pouring out 40 mm APHE rounds nonstop making the ship look like a hedgehog.

...

"Deflectors strength at 70 percent!"

"Flak batteries 12, 25, 14, 18, 5, 4, 10, 30 and 36 are jammed!"

"30, 60, 90 space torpedoes are destroyed!"

"Laser canons 9,8 and 13 barrels just melted down!"

BOOOM!

Suddenly the entire ship shook.

"Status report!"

I barked.

"One of the torpedoes hit us! Our deflectors strength has dropped to below 30 percent!"

...

Karl's heart almost jumped up his throat after he saw one of the torpedoes detonate itself but before he could catch his breath his group's commander's voice once again sounded in his ears.

"Attention all phantoms! The enemy strike craft incoming! We are to engage their fighters and bombers while the other group protects our bombers!"

Immediately Karl's fighters operating system locked itself on four fighters as it did Karl fired his four missiles without hesitation.

"Phantom 4, Fox 1, Fox 2, Fox 3, Fox 4..."

...

As Han's altimeter hit 600 meters his red hot drop pods 3 parachutes deployed on themselves.

As they did his descent speed immediately slowed down.

Thankfully the entire time he and everyone else didn't encounter any anti-orbital firepower and it was quite normal after all who would expect someone who you were beating black and blue just a minute ago to stand up and pounce on you.

Plus the current empire's forces on the ground weren't defensive ones but offensive ones so they had no need for any AO weapons but it didn't mean that they had no AA capability at all.

Just as Hans thought he will be able to land safe and sound at his original drop point all of a sudden alarms blared out inside his mech's cockpit but it was already too late.

BOOM!

An anti-air missile fired by a briaan soldier hit his dropped causing its hot shrapnel to skewer his parachutes as they did his descent accelerated and deviated from the original trajectory.

"Fuck!Fuck!Fuck!"

Hans cursed loudly as he pressed the emergency release holographic button causing his drop pod to split apart and reveal his mech whose chemical maneuvering thrusters in its back immediately lit up.