text: No doubt the colonists would not buy your story about you surviving this long on your own. You would have much more luck helping with the fight here and fighting them head on when they touched down. You just had to raid and pillage their colonies enough so that they would submit to your rule. Doing it with espionage would take too long and put Anna in danger if you failed with your assignment. Even if you did fail with this guerilla war at least you would be doing it together.
  
  "I know you think that it would be better if I went off and did this, but trust me we'll have a much better outcome if we take the fight to them together and drive them off the desert. Afterwards we'll build up a army together and take control of what we can." You persuade, gently grabbing onto her shoulders.
  
  She looks down for a moment, thinking over what you've said. When she looks back at you, you see a bit of hopefulness in her expression.
  
  "Alright, you've been right on some things so far. So I guess I'll trust you on this shit Dipshit." She smiles.
  
  "Trust me, if our soldiers can get those outposts up, we'll be in much better shape. Hell we'll even build underground if we have too. It'll be a fun war for us I can tell you that."
  
  You then see Ruby start walking up to the two of you.
  
  "Hope I'm not interrupting anything."
  
  "Nah, why is something the matter?" Anna asks.
  
  "The opposite actually, Ryke's managed to get that radio working. Says well be able to listen in on the colonists now. He'll find out when they're dropping in on the planet soon."
  
  Anna beams with delight at this news.
  
  "That's great! Now we just got to wait for news on the outposts for when they come back and report. Should be any day now." Anna replies.
  
  Like Anna had predicted some of the troops had come back to report on their respective outposts on quads. They said that everything was turning out good and once they finished up the defenses that they would report back to H.Q. All that was left after that was to hold out and wait for the landing of the colonists, while hoping that none of your bases were targeted by the barrages of missiles or gas that wiped the pirates.
  
  Weeks later
  
  Word had spread throughout your troops that there had been spotted the landing of the colonists that was predicted by Ryker. A few more ships filled with feeling pirates had stopped by your H.Q looking to join up with you. You took them all in with open arms as now you had a sizable force of around thirty or so pirates with your own personal fleet of eight ships, they even managed to fix the one that got gotten damaged in the ambush with the help and leadership of Ryker who had the most knowledge in the area.
  
  Ruby managed the logistics and food supplies as more farms started to be set up creating a constant food supply for everyone. Though as the fear in the pirates had started to diminish as they started feeling more safe and comfortable, so did their restlessness, and their thirst for revenge against the invaders.
  
  Anna assured them that as soon as the time was right that they would have their chance to fight back. You and Anna started setting up some tactics and plans for how you conduct raids on the nearby colony. What you knew for now is that a total of six ships had touched down, all of them fairly big vessels that held a numerous amount of supplies and colonists as well as troops. Anna wanted to raid this colony before any more reinforcements could get dropped down. She also wanted to raid their weapons to have a better fighting chance along with taking a few hostages so that the remaining fleet up in space would hesitate before barraging you with their arsenal.
  
  "If we could take one of the higher ups hostage, then no doubt that they would be totally against firing on any of us since they wouldn't want to kill their own commanders." You suggest to Anna.
  
  "Then let's get this attack going as soon as we can before they set up too many defenses. I'll command our air units while you get the jeeps and hit them from the ground while taking any hostages you can find, we'll have to implant fear into them to break any morale they have. If we attack during the night then we'll have the element of cover and surprise. If the situation starts to lose our favor then we'll retreat with the ships covering our ground units." Anna explains.
  
  "When would you like to attack?"
  
  "Tonight." Anna grins.
  
  Later in the day.
  
  With air teams prepared and briefed on their mission, everyone else who wasn't on board one took a quad with a passenger on the back equippd with a rifle. The quads took point, following you as the ships hovered from behind. You could already see the bright lights that illuminated from the base of the colonists.
  
  You made your quad pick up speed as the pirate behind you clutched on harder. Ryker who was back at H.Q and was coordinating part of the assault radioed in to your earpiece.
  
  "We can either have the quads attack first with their speed or have the ships lay down a barrage of fire first. What's your call commander?"
  
  > speed up with the jeeps and attack first
  "We shouldn't blow our cover, we'll save the barrage for when things get too shitty and we have to escape."
  
  You switched communications to where all the assualt teams could hear you.
  
  "Quad teams, speed up with me, Anna watch over us and start raining hell once we get detected and they fire back."
  
  "Got it." She says.
  
  You pick up spee with your quad as everyone behind you picks their speed up as well.
  
  The pirate behind you clutches onto you harder as he mumbles in your ear.
  
  "Slow down a bit, the rifle is fal-." Before he could finish what he had to say, a large boom erupted through air that made your skin crawl. You no longer felt the pirate latching onto you as you felt that quad was lighter. Craning your head around, you could faintly see the corpse of the pirate that was sprawled out across the sand.
  
  Before you could give a warning to the quad team, a series of more booms erupted throughout the air as screams could be heard behind you.
  
  You didn't even feel the bullet when it was your turn to get hit, everything just instantly went black as you felt weightless.