Delta Squad - Civil War

Plans. Some are great and stand the test of time. They are talked about forever by the victors and the defeated. Even if they lost to such a well laid plan, there was no shame in it. These plans redefine the meaning of what it is to be a good leader, effective and powerful. They become historic strategy and inspire countless others who will only ever read about them.

These are the plans that give heroes and villains immortality. This is the stuff of legends and myths.

This was not that kind of plan.

Wyatt, their new leader, decided that it was time to meet one of their old but powerful enemies in a headlong charge. A blaze of glory. Everyone watched this and thought it was a bad idea, but bad ideas were the only game in town.

It was then, in mid charge, that something unexpected happened. The four remaining members of the squad vanished.

This sent panic throughout the ranks of both flying battleships. Erin prepared the attack. She gave the order, and everyone was ready to give it everything they had to fight the growing machine infestation that had taken New York City.

They hardly got the chance to begin when all of them witnessed the same thing: four streaks of light in the dark appearing again. Only seconds passed, it was as if they had never left at all. This time they were all reunited.

All five of them were charging straight into hell together.

Nobody knew what was going on. It didn’t make sense, and neither did the odd, fading rainbow light that surrounded them for a few seconds.

“The plan hasn’t changed, people. Battle stations,” Erin said through the intercom. Now was no time for questions. They had a fight on their hands.

“Wyatt. I know this was your stupid half assed plan. Charging into this kind of power is suicide,” Cody said as they flew headlong into almost certain destruction. The coldness persisted. Wyatt didn’t like it liked it less that he was on the horse with him again. There was a lot that didn’t make sense right now, and he was still trying to process all of it.

“Well, I didn’t see you coming up with any bright ideas. I didn’t think we’d be getting through this alive anyway. It seemed like the best way to go,” Wyatt replied.

“Yeah, and you didn’t even bother to see if the Leviathan or the Viper had a chance to, oh, I don’t know, set off a massive EMP attack before you did this? Congratulations, you’re an idiot. Now we have to do everything the hard way,” Cody said.

“Guys, we can still do it. Radio back to the ships to see what they can do. You can at least take care of all the machines. The living things are going to take a bit more work,” Blake said, tired of all their annoying bickering after only a few seconds.

Cody prepared to tell the two ships behind them the new plan, but he was distracted by a vast explosion that caused them all to stop and turn around.