White: b5 x d7 *checkmate*

Nearly half the deployed women had been lost. Morale was close to breaking. The area was littered with broken equipment, fire, tunnels causing partial collapses, and explosions over from fire and the burning freighters. The Amazons were about to break, only yells and threats from the redhead Colonel leading them maintaining discipline.

As she heard from Talon Flight, Colonel 'Scarlett' O'Hara would grin sadistically. "Confirm your analysis. Give the aliens a wake up. Concussions first."

"Talon Flight, Confirm targets. Deploying Concussions." Karen would calmly go to speak to the girls. "Standard. Ready to fire spread." WIth large numbers of their sisters and any sort of civilians that might be in the hive, and aliens fighting tooth and claw, infantry going to close quarters to clear them was considered a last resort. With aerial support.. Standard tactics were to deploy lines of ocncussion bombs.

It would give the humans imprisoned massive headaches and likely concussions and minor injuries. But for the aliens.. As bomblets dug over into the ground, they would start to release high shrieks of high yield sound, which would disrupt the Alien Queen's psychic commands to her hive. The bomblets would burrow - drilling into the ground underneath, goign to deploy thier way into the hive as soon as they confirmed it.

"Talon FLight to Command, confirm Hive! Bring the rain!" There was a flick of controls as then the bomblets after they had paralyzed the aliens would begin blasting out with dozens of needlers - high speed rail launched spikes the size of a pinkie. With visual sighting the micro-combputers onboard could bombard everything. Thousands of spikes would shoot out, evisercating aliens by the dozen. The Queen met well over three hundred barbed spikes erupting into her body, then micro-detonators shredding her with fire as she would scream a **** cry as the psychic control hold over all the aliens in the area would shatter!

"Confirm kill! Confirm kill!" There were cheers from Talon flight. Loud cheers.

Colonel O'Hara would sag in relief. "Confirm Talon Flight. Maintain perimeter girls. Medics, deploy with escorts to the hive. Get our girls out and get them ready for treatment. As soon as they're out, have disposal go in and take any samples they need to then melt everything with acid. Have a sensor team go over the freighters and pull their logs. Then set them on autopilot up to the sun."

The fight was over. Other landing pads would chorus in as the queen went down that the area was secure and no further signs of -active- Hives were being picked up. Now there was evacuating dozens and hundreds of girls from the underground, disposing of alien corpses, picking up genetic material for analysis, sweeping the starport meter by meter.. Decontamination teams would setup triage tents, cleaning the sobbing, victimized prisoners that had been recoveed and readying them for evacuation as soon as tehy were stabilized and cleaned.

Colonel O'Hara would close her eyes at a moment when no one was looking, as equipment was being picked up and salvaged. "Good work ladies. You all proved yourselves warriors today. Our losses will be mournded. But we saved our sisters and avenged them. You are /Amazons/." A slow cheer would start to break out along the comms as exhausted, beaten, battered, and shell shocked women would start to chant over with cries of victory from the various tribes of their homeworld. It had been a brutal fight, with heavy casualties, loss, pain, violation, suffering, and anguish.

But they had won. They had saved thier sisters at an atrocious price. But they had stopped a far, far worse scenario from happening.

This time. But for the next.. or in another realm of possibility? who can say?

WHITE WINS.

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