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put laser fire into the hull of the nearest ship and sent it toppling to the ground.
    The Geralos ships, powered by android technology, switched to defensive maneuvers and made to guard the mothership. It was as Rafian predicted, and the hundreds of tiny ships began to shoot at them with deadly intent as they in turn showcased some of the finest flying.
    Yuth and Tayden made the pattern of a vortex as they pulled off some of the most difficult maneuvers in synchronization. The Geralos ships could do little against this attack. The Phasers were too fast and too elusive for their laser fire to do much damage.
    A few of the Geralos ships shot one another as they reacted to the invasion of the phantoms and whytes. A few took to missiles that could lock on to the Phasers for better accuracy, but Tayden and Yuth were bobbing and weaving within their fleet and the missiles missed and clipped some of the meandering android ships.
    Camille YAN, arguably the top ace of them all—though Rafian would say differently—had her thrusters maxed out as she shredded their perimeter. Her phantom was a silver bullet, leaving fiery explosions in its wake, and the inexperienced Klemise, a Meluvian recruit, did his best to stay with her, his eyes so wide with horror that he dared not blink for fear of crashing into one of them.
    The Geralos command was familiar with the air superiority of the Alliance military. They had found ways to counter their skill in outer space, but on Vestalia it was different. Gravity, the difference in munitions, and the lack of cover from a battleship made things difficult. They had amassed their invading air force from numerous territories that they owned on the planet, but the Geralos that piloted them were not on the level of the seven aces.
    Rafian was almost to the mothership when he saw a missile catch Tayden’s phantom on the tail and send her spinning out of control. Several zip ships convened on her to finish her off, but Yuth Varience circled back and knocked them out with a scattering of kinetic gunfire. This observance took only a few seconds to see but Rafian knew that he mustn’t worry for his sub-commander. He picked up speed to gain the mothership and tried not to worry about Tayden Lark.
    When the missile clipped Tayden she knew that it was over. There was only so much a Phaser could do at that height and in the midst of so much aggressive fire. She could eject and risk being shredded to pieces by precision android laser fire, or she could try and land her ship, then run back to the city to help out on the ground. Even if she could break off to attempt a landing they would pick her apart. The only thing that had kept them alive so far was the speed at which they were flying through the nest of zip ships.
    A thought crossed her mind that she knew was mad, but considering the low odds of anything that was available to her at the time, she reasoned she had little choice in the matter.
    “Yuth, stick to the plan,” she commanded. “Klemise, break off of Camille and join Yuth in the middle. If I don’t see you all on the other side then I will be in the cloner, and if the cloner fails, then on another plane,” she said.
    “Quit the morbid schtill and finish the mission, Phaser!” Rafian screamed at her, and she blinked out a tear as the emotion overtook her amidst her increasingly smoking ship.
    “These shields have always been questionably weak,” she lamented as she maxed out the thrust on her boosters until the computer was screaming at her. The mothership loomed close as she spiraled towards it, and several ships came up behind her, peppering her already damaged tail with even more fire. “See you on the ground, Raf. Give them hell,” she said, and as her phantom became completely engulfed in flames, she pulled off her helmet, grabbed the necklace around her neck, and squeezed the crystal that hung from it.
    The explosion from Tayden’s phantom was unlike anything anyone had ever seen or