Unshitting a shitty situation

"So, how fucked are we?" asked the XO, all the platoon leader's eyes were fixed on Elissa, anticipating her orders. "It seems that very, Hendrick did you manage to raise the Battalion or our Black-ops partners?" Hendrick shook his head, "Nothing, I can't get through to anyone" he replied, distant explosions and flashes were visible from the palace's direction. "How can they block quantum entanglement communications?" Freya, the 2nd platoon leader asked. "That's irrelevant now" Elissa answered her, "All right, here's what we're going to do, our mission is still to kill the idiot, so we're going to do this, since it seems the black-ops are a no show." She looked around and received nods of understanding. 2nd's platoon soldiers up on the water tower began to fire, the railgun's ultrasonic booms echoed in the market, Elissa signaled Anna to asses the situation. Anna nodded and went on her way. "We have two more objectives to complete in the meantime, firstly we need to deal with the AA, which is clearly shielded since it survived the EMP bombardment, secondly we need to see if we can recover any of the downed shuttle's crew." She received affirmations from her subordinates. "Since it seems both of those objectives are in the same direction ,Xavier, you'll deal with the AA placements. Freya the shuttle is under you. John, you are auxiliary and rearguard. We move house to house, break walls if needed, I don't want to see anyone in the open. Be sure the enemy is by far more prepared than we thought, expect battledroids as well. Good luck, we move out in two minutes, Xavier I'm with you, John, Anna is with you and the 3rd platoon. Understood?" She finished, receiving acknowledgment from the platoon leaders.

Up in the water tower, Parsus and his fellow marksman, Tom were zeroing in on soldiers zeroing in on the shuttle's position. Through his railgun's scope he could see them shooting on the shuttle, everyone who dared raise his weapon would receive a bolt that annihilated him and anyone standing around him from the sheer kinetic energy he received on impact. He could feel a tap on his leg as the fiery XO crawled beside him. "How many?" she asked. "About a squad" he answered, shooting another bolt traveling at Mach 7 towards its target. "Boss, we're in luck, the shuttle landed just a few meters from the AA, it seems some of the crew is still alive" Anna sent the CO. "Don't forget to change positions boys" the XO told the two marksmen and jumped off. "She's right, we should move out" Tom said after she left, Parsus agreed. "That building looks good enough, ping the Sarge, tell her where we're moving to" Tom said as he released another bolt and stood up. Parsus scanned the area around the shuttle, it seems their shooting made the enemy cower and hide, then his heart stopped beating, the serial number on the shuttle belonged to the same shuttle he was in few minutes ago, it was Sara's shuttle.

"Didn't we say the suns here were red dwarves?" Sofia asked, "And your point is?" Elissa asked, waiting for Anna to jump back from the tower. "Then why is the sky blue?" Sofia asked. "For the same reason it's blue on any other nitrogen and oxygen rich atmosphere." Elissa answered, looking at her XO as she returned with the news and assessment of what is happening around them. "Heavy fighting in the palace, you sure you don't want to join them?" Anna asked the CO when they met, "They are a whole battalion there, they'll manage, besides I'm fairly sure the idiot ran to his bunker to hide now that his palace is under attack." Elissa replied. Taking a long look at her XO. "Sofia, did you take a look at the Captain" Anna asked, "No, what's wrong with her?" Sofia replied. "She's missing an arm if you hadn't noticed" Anna scowled her. "I won't be able to help, that's only fixable in the medical center, I'm sorry boss." Sofia said after doing a scan of her vitals. Elissa raised her left hand, "That's what our suit is for, now let's focus on moving and getting us out of this mess." she then looked at Hendrick, the communications specialist, "Hendrick, spin up your drone, I want to try and reach the Battalion in the old fashioned way" Elissa picked up a piece of paper, wrote a few words on it and waited for Hendrick to deploy his drone so she could attach her message on it.