Planet Protectors vs. BRaCU"Raid" #1
As in the last battle I wrote, bolded music is quiet and should have the volume turned up. I suggest you read this a little more slowly than you probably normally read stuff, as I tried to do my best to time the music's best parts for important parts of the battle.
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All was peaceful at BRaCU's base. Although it had seen conflict previously, the army led by Hocotatians was holding up remarkably well. However, one day its radar detected enemy forces heading straight for it. "Unfortunately...the radar is picking up signs of movement, sir." Kurt spoke in a hushed tone to John.
"What seems to be the cause?" the General replied in his usual calm manner.
"A massive group of enemy forces. (Why don't you go look for yourself instead of bothering me about it?)"
"Initiate our usual defense plans. We may not have been expecting this, but we can certainly retaliate."
"Yes sir. (Why do I always have to do it? Can't you do this sort of thing without bothering me all the time?)"
Before long, BRaCU's base was active and its troops were moving to their stations. Fighters and Bombers lifted off, engines roaring, and ChopRaiders took to the skies, their propellers chopping and raiding. An odd foggy unit had prevented the radar dish from identifying exactly what foes were advancing, but the Hocotatian military could certify at least that there were both ground units and aircraft.
The Fighters zoomed into the front line, meeting the foes head-on. They quickly reported all they could immediately see through their radios, and then moved out to their objectives. Snitchbugs, Custodian Catapults, Onions, Pikmin...this was not going to be easy to repel. Immediately, each Fighter targeted one of the largest foes they could and discharged their missiles on it. The three Onions were the targets, as they looked the most menacing. The Yellow Onion was the one they decided to go for. Air-to-Air Missiles thudded into its side and blasted it, dealing heavy damage to the strange creature. However, they were quick to respond. The three Onions focused on one of the enemies, spraying open electricity, heavy amounts of fire and even water all over it. The Fighter didn't have what it needed to withstand this, and abruptly crashed. However, the others didn't give up and spread out to attack all three.
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This maneuver caught the Red and Blue Onions off-guard, expecting them all to go after the Yellow, and it took them a moment to react. This was all the Fighters needed, and they took advantage of it to discharge their last missiles into the Yellow coupled with plenty of machine-gun fire. Such concentrated anti-air was a heavy strike for it, and with a squeak of despair, its flower stopped spinning and it fell down to smash on the ground. This was a critical blow to the Planet Protectors, and the Red and Blue Onions responded with righteous anger. The Blue sprayed fog all over the area while the Red threw fire, and this crashed two more Fighters. With only two left, they couldn't handle the heavy flying creatures, and thus retreated.
Next came the Bombers. In greater number than the Fighters, they were a terrifying sight to the Planet Protectors. Each moved out to its position and began dropping Bomb Shells on the unfortunate forces below. Several Custodian Catapults and the Burning Mamutas were wiped out due to the heavy number of them. Nonetheless, the Onions were hard at work and used their previous maneuver to destroy two Bombers. Unfortunately, not before additional forces of the Planet Protector forces were eliminated. With the Fighters retreating, however, they were hard pressed to defend themselves from the powerful Onions and had to leave before they took more losses.
The Planet Protectors, however, had not been idle this whole time. The Custodian Catapults had been moved into position and were bombarding BRaCU's defenses. Since they had been using twelve at the beginning, the Titanium, Steel, and Rock Walls and the Poison Traps had since fallen through excessive catapult abuse, and the Breadbugs were being sent ahead to gather up the materials. This coincided with the Bombers moving back to base, however, and many were bombed into the dirt. Nonetheless, barely enough made it to the base with their hefty defense to grab the Titanium materials and get back.
(Music)Next, the Custodian Catapults, though their number had fallen somewhat, drove into range of the SAM Site and enemy troops, with several ranks in front to defend from direct assault. Brown Pikmin burrowed underground to defend from another type of attack. Before long, the SAM Site was knocked out and BRaCU's troops were under siege.
The defenders were still sending in new units! ChopRaiders flew in next. Piloted with White Pikmin, they detected the Brown Pikmin and dropped their Bomb Shells directly on them, the high yield killing most even underground. "Rofl..." thought one of the pilots in his copter. But once again, the valiant Onions came in and drove the aircraft off. Still, even they didn't predict the Mecha Onion flying in for the final wave. This new threat immediately equipped its Gatling gun and drilled machine-gun fire into the others, seeing nothing made of Aluminum to damage. It also threw sporadic fire into the Planet Protectors' flying troops, mowing some of them down. This only damaged its Onion foes, though, as being outnumbered two-to-one quickly hurt its armor and forced it to fly away for repairs.
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Once the Custodian Catapults had cleared a path on the ground during the aerial war, the Planet Protectors began their most aggressive assault of the fight. The Sentry Drone was ready to report the forces, but even then it was difficult to defend from what was about to come. Attacking Super creatures charged ahead with the Blue Pikmin and Mamutas on each side, roaring war cries as they stampeded ahead.
The Golden Progg and Master Mamuta led the charge, whistling Pikmin to confuse them and cutting them down with the Mamuta's Stainless Steel sword. BRaCU's troops fell left and right, but they retaliated and regrouped as the General and Captains took charge, John and Kurt yelling orders while Jerred made stupid comments about what was going on.
Protector Snitchbugs buzzed over the enemies and dropped Bomb Rocks around, forcing BRaCU's commanding officers to retreat, but with its entire force now in a combined group, an aerial attack was not going to end well. Fighters and ChopRaiders came back to deal another blow, having resupplied. They drilled machine gun shots into the attackers with powerful Gatling guns while the Missile Frigate stayed at the rear of the base, unleashing Ground-to-Air Missiles, or more accurately named Sea-to-Air. Many of the attackers' flying troops fell in swathes, but their ground forces were doing better since the Bombers couldn't get clear runs off without killing their own soldiers. The Missile Frigate had to take its attention off of the aerial forces for a moment due to war creatures sneaking in the back, primarily a Crimson Pikmin. The Frigate's Ground-to-Ground Missiles, more accurately named Sea-to-Ground, drove them away, but the diversion of attention was important.
Once a sufficient defending force had been cleared, the Planet Protectors proceeded with their primary objective. Yellow Pikmin armed with Bomb Rocks rushed forward madly, not caring for their lives, in fact intending to lose them for their mission. They rushed for facilities with wild abandon, some getting cut down, others blasted to fragments, but others hitting home. Upon reaching a destination, a Yellow Pikmin would ignite its Bomb Rock and sacrifice itself to damage an enemy facility, and with so many kamikazes, several enemy structures fell, though the defending effort was great and saved BRaCU a lot of the additional losses it would have suffered had it not kept troops stationed in guarding positions. Their mission complete, the Planet Protectors ran for their lives and escaped with as many of their units as possible.
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As the smoke cleared, John and Kurt looked out on the fallen and the destruction. "Kurt, assess our losses and tell me all." John was by no means pleased, but a scheme was already forming in his head for how to deal with it all. A few minutes later, Kurt came back with his response.
"Sir, I believe that we've suffered the loss of a large number of defenses, aircraft, and troops. They also destroyed several facilities. However, the Missile Frigate is in perfect condition, a significant amount of our aircraft is still here, and plenty of the enemies were slaughtered. (Why the heck don't you go look for yourself?)"
"Terrorists..." John muttered under his breath, thinking of the kamikazes. That was not all the conflict that would eventually occur between the Planet Protectors and BRaCU, but for now both sides had to repair the losses and continue their plans.
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Losses: Planet Protectors-Yellow Onion
-30 days' damage: Red Onion
-50 days' damage: Golden Progg
-500 White Pikmin (-500 Pikmite armor)
-1,000 Blue Pikmin (-600 Pikmite armor)
-3,000 Yellow Pikmin
-800 Brown Pikmin (-800 Crawmadine armor)
-100 Mamutas (-100 Refined Crawmadine armor)
-250 Antenna Beetles (-100 Cramadine armor, -150 Pikmite armor)
-80 Bumbling Snitchbugs (-80 Pikmite armor)
-120 Swooping Snitchbugs (-120 Pikmite armor)
-100 Puffy Blowhogs (-100 Pikmite armor)
-40 Breadbugs (-40 Refined Crawmadine armor)
-4 Custodian Catapults
-2 Burning Mamutas
-1 Crimson Pikmin
Profits+1 Titanium (Breadbugs gathered it)
+200 Red Pikmin (Whistled)
+200 Blue Pikmin (Whistled)
+200 Yellow Pikmin
+400 White Pikmin
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Losses: BRaCU-1,000 Yellow Pikmin
-200 Orange Pikmin
-1,500 Red Pikmin
-600 Blue Pikmin
-300 Cyan Pikmin
-2,000 Black Pikmin
-1,000 Brown Pikmin
-1,000 Purple Pikmin
-600 White Pikmin
-3 Fighters
-2 Bombers
-1 ChopRaider
-10 days' damage: Mecha Onion
-Silver Mine
-Resource Storage
-War Machine Factory
-1 Titanium Wall
-1 Steel Wall
-1 Stone Wall
-1 SAM Site
-4 Poison Gas Traps
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I am quite sorry to both groups involved if this really didn't go as planned. The thing is, both sets of plans were insanely complicated in terms of length and conflicted each other quite a bit, and so I simply couldn't read over every little detail, check every part of the tech sections, and describe every little thing that went on. Be aware, though, I spent a long while reading over everything before I started. The biggest reason it probably didn't go 100% as predicted was because the plans were so well-formulated and countered each other almost perfectly. I can elaborate on what killed each group of troops if you guys want, since I couldn't include it all.
Notes:
-Hachi had 12 catapults. Since none had been eliminated at the very beginning, they did a bunch of damage until the Bombers pasted some.
-Rydon had 5 Fighters putting excessive fire on the Yellow Onion; it would not have fallen had there not have been so much anti-air against it.
-The reason a bunch of Protector troops died even with armor was because, among other things, Rydon had 280 days of sheer bombing power raining on them at one point.
However, if you have major complaints, please bring them up and we'll see if we can do something about them. Any comments on writing and music are greatly appreciated. Did my best and hope you liked it!