Getting these aliens aboard one of the ships was not that difficult. All 28 of he renegades and the others flooded inside the vessel that was not stuck. For a single how they, the Marines of the VUVR had to help them tug the Sloop out. Once they sent these renegades and aliens on their way the Vestrisians saw other forces land on the island. Allies of theirs sent some help in terms of military personnel. No more than fifty-six allies in total arrived to hold this part of the Platform Seas despite the possibility of death. One squad of twelve Elite troops were sent from Ruhonthra to help. A fire team of Scuba divers and a special trooper from Rovantia. Sent from Malvieth a team of three marines arrive with a marksman. Meze sent over a squad of fifteen of their special marines. Three Gnome volunteers, and a pair of Elf Marines came from Sercane. It appeared to be a long stretch to go, but they managed. One Military Biologist and Chemist Marine arrived all the way from Redrin along with six of their Elite troops. Seven marines of Alagen arrived with the Rovantians. Nahem sent over a single trooper with an armored vehicle. Seeing a small force of this size warranted some skepticism from Vampeete, and Captains such as Bartwai. Losing twelve Marines on this island appeared to be the least amount they expected to lose here. Left the company with one hundred twenty-seven Marines, Vampeete's company gathered weapons, gear, and their dead comrades. Within a span of 3 hand a half hours they took their time returning to HQ.
Upon their return to the Archipelago Vampeete's Company were greeted by the same units left to protect the circle of islands. All Marine units returned before them arriving with some losses, gathered thousands of guns and weapons. The platoon of 46 Marines who went northwest lost 4 Marines during their encounter with 17 flying mutant monkey demons on the small island's platform. In full detail they described what happened and the appearance of these demon monkeys. Each demon mutant had bat wings, fur all over their bodies except for their bellies. On their stomachs and chest they had scales. When that story was finished the 57 Marines who went south lost 6 men to the encounter of 3 blue demons, 8 spiked humanoids and their pet armored panther. The unit of 73 Marines who took a platform to the west encountered a force of 150 Ogres, and 5 Demons commanded by a weird Mastadon mutant. Losing just 5 Marines they did clear out the small platform discovering two sets of shields the Ogres prized and decorated the platform with. One set of 660 were called Perfergon Shields that looked like metal leaves. The other set were 229 claw shaped shields called Javexo Shields. As for the unit of 81 Marines their ventures brought them to an island the Rangers missed. During their exploration they lost 6 Marines to a horse sized sentient lizard cat dwarf kaiju who was angry at the CSO. Not bothering to process how they killed it their heads went to the unit of 41 Marines that went straight for a lone tower. Under the command of a former martial arts female instructor, these marines encountered 14 armed Ghouls holding a mad scientist hostage in a tower. Apparently the mad scientist was found in the tower drilling a Green haired, tan skinned, curvy, and busty sorceress forced to be his toy. All Ghouls were shout up, and the scientist got a nice bullet between the eyes. The woman snatched the Captain's guns from her holster. Bringing her over was nothing but a couple of hours of her shooting her mouth off until she gagged with a cloth. It was to shut her up until they arrived back at HQ. Some of the female Marines expressed their jealousy through their expressions on how she looked compared to them. They lost 8 Marines to the tall Ghouls.
Their largest group, the 253 Marines sent further south, came back at the same time as Vampeete's unit. In their encounter, they mentioned losing 7 Marines to 33 ISN marines under the command of some uptight, stubborn female Marine Captain. She shot at them first believing they served the Gantronese now. All 34 ISN members were dead now, including some lone Tessari Brute who held a dead Viceroy named Durrett. Under the command of Evusian born turncoat Captain Val 85 Marines lost 8 Marines in a single encounter with an Adult Red Dragon with an island to itself. None of them wanted to talk about the incident. Most Marines could tell the bodies were crisps by now. Whenever someone tried mentioning among them, they were slapped across the face or in the back of the head. Doing a full head count they had 869 Marines left in the battalion. For a total of five days they rested after performing the gun salute. Colonel Gleicher addressed them the day after the granted 5 day rest. Although they were here to investigate this area, their mission was to ensure the Gantronese could not use this route. Gleicher was about to speak when 4 aircraft roared overhead. Looking up at the four aircraft that cut him off they barely heard Gleicher's cursing. Greigorsson could read his lips as they insulted the aircraft that signaled the arrival of another fleet. Looking at the trident shaped wings Greigorsson identified them as Storm Titans, the preferred aircraft launched from their Carriers. He presumed a smaller aircraft carrier was here with a tiny fleet. His gaze on them could not last long as the aircraft flew towards the south.
"Listen up Marines. Those islands we cleared are going to be under allied control. Pushing past the furthest islands, we will see how far this sea of platforms stretches." a Major addressed the battalion. Colonel Gleicher had no words to speak, he was so angry with the Navy.
"Sir, don't we have reconnaissance planes to scout the area?" one Marine asked saluting before asking the question.
"Yes we do, but those will either be shot down or lost in the fog that appears." the same Major who filled in for Colonel Gleicher corrected the Marine.
"Thank you Major Mimmickson. Marines our Superiors in Ruhonthra and Home Base have sent a squad of 18 extra Marines. Everyone else are needed at the front lines. Some of the aliens who surrendered have chosen to aid us. Since they are trying to get away from the CSO and Order of the Beast we can only have one aid us, Avinne Yvonne the gunslinger. She has more cause to...kill these CSO and Order of the Beast. Her backstory involved a bit too much abuse, and violation. She will be taking you through the area." Gleicher explained to the battalion of Marines who were now rested, but uneasy about fighting these new aliens.
"Yvonne come on out and meet the Marines you will be escorting." Gleicher called out for their gunslinger escort.
A female standing at 8.8 feet tall with reddish hair exited one of the metal buildings. At first glanced this sexy female gunslinger appeared entirely human. When she came closer they noticed something was off aside from her height. Donning a weapons harness over a cotton green lace shirt, riding chaps over short trousers this female had a set of lizard scales in place of her eyebrows. This Yvonne had a set of four revolvers on her. Two Onway Revolvers, and two crude Vorcadam style. When looking at her hands that rested on her hips Greigorsson noticed she had seven fingers on each hand. Looking at the grips he noticed they were elongated. This Avinne Yvonne was a sight to behold, and a desirable one. If one could get past the eyebrows, and the seven fingered hands they would find her arousing. Checking her out it could be noticed the alien woman was more flat than most.
"Alright Marines, you lot are like children compared to my height, but don't let that deter our new acquaintance. Follow me, this archipelago was once a city-state the Order of the Beast and CSO formed." Yvonne informed them and began leading them to their transports.
With no other choice the battalion of Marines followed the giant female. Picking up gear and weapons they began their journey to the ships. When she passed all the transports and ships they realized she was transporting them by a different craft. Leading them to the other port islands she revealed a large craft of a different, but older design. Docked at the largest port this archipelago was some blimp airship attached to a larger craft anchored at port. Compared to the modern ships they sailed this aircraft looked outdated in the shape of a frigate. Greigorsson and a few others stopped to gaze at it like children gawping at a new bike in the window of a toy store. He had to be pushed along with the others to this immense craft they would be riding in. Through the crowd of Marines he spotted this Yvonne kick three goblins awake, who jumped into action. He was once neighbors to some Goblin family who were always prickly. They never bothered him, and he never bothered them.
Climbing the gangway to the ships outer deck they got a good look at the crew she assembled. Showing she travelled these waters often he spotted the crew was made up of mainly 200 Iperantosi Sailors armed with heavy guns. Their olive, red, tan, and brown skin never looked more pleasing to the eye, Fellow Calornese humans who did not side with the invaders. Under the command of their Majors and Captains, 887 Marines boarded the airship and found the passenger holds. Claiming a cot or hammock they prepared to sleep or rest while on board. Greigorsson found a yellow hammock next to where a cannon used to be. In its place was a dismantled machine gun the crew would no doubt use at some point. It took an hour for them get going since this craft was a massive beast. Laying in his hammock Greigorsson closed his eyes trying to block everyone out.
Yvonne's own Blimp airship the Insolence took almost two hours before it stopped again. Insolence came to a slow stop that appeared to drag on for a while. Yvonne had the blimp circle around an island that flew a colorful looking flag. Insolence circled around four times before settling in the waters at an island with four platforms, and a small town sized settlement on the island. Looking out the porthole Greigorsson saw they appeared to be near the end of the platform seas. Gathering what they needed for this mission the Marines disembarked from the airship on the alien metal dock port that was constructed on the island. On the dock they were greeted by aliens and humanoids from other worlds acting oblivious to their arrival. The first thing he saw was a pair of monster humanoids sitting at a wooden table. Some bull humanoid beast grew angry and started fighting an antlered humanoid warlord. Standing guard was a skeletal looking humanoid armed with a long axe. From behind its flank a green demonic orc dog attacked if over an exposed bone. Towards some taller buildings close to the tallest platform tower were several of those freaky tall moon gazers they encountered. On their left flank they also spotted water Nymphs with the bodies of crocodiles. As the Marines poured out of the air craft their large force caught the attention of these various aliens. Near the closest tower building a female caterpillar humanoid alien sent some white ox humanoids dressed in traditional garb. Seeing the hooves on these reminded him of the Zunia-Pucks back home. These humanoids had white fur on their legs whereas the humanoids either had brown skin, brown fur, or pinkish beige.
Yvonne's own sailors allowed the Marines to disembark completely before letting them know what was going on. Her voice echoed through a loudspeaker on the ship. In some different language she summoned the other alien inhabitants on the platform islands. Looking at each other the Marines decided to get into a loose formation with some space in between for others to fire between them. Over the course of nine or so minutes they watched 367 alien warriors of different races come see them. From behind the Marines, Yvonne's Sailors open fire on the gathered crowd. Their own Majors barked for them to open fire as well. Greigorsson did not get a chance to get a shot out as the other mowed down the crowd of aliens like a scythe cutting through hay. Checking the bodies of the dead they discovered scores of Gantronese troops among cat folk, duck humanoids, fish people, Goblina, Ogre spawn, reptilians, and various other humanoids they did not recognize. Taking a closer look at the buildings they spotted Gantronese flags draped over some doors. Dozens of survivors peaked out of the buildings to see if it was all over. One of the Iperantosi waved for them to come their way. Most looked like fox humanoids, cat folk, Dark Elves, Dwarf Goblin hybrids, and a group of 15 pirates who appeared to be putting on an act. One of them claimed to be nomadic tribes of Iperantosi. Looking over at the Iperantosi the Vestrisians could tell the big difference. A bunch of voices emerged from the crowd only to be silenced by Yvonne. Out of the smaller crowd a group of five mutant bunny humanoids pushed their way up to the vestrisians. One of them yelled up at the ship saying they had some Leviathan egg to check on. None of them knew how to fly a ship or drive a motor boat.
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