[Bozos of Bones]

Dropping out if warp, the dropship's pilot quickly assessed the situation and decided on his course: straight toward the fighter bay.
"Enemy wings deploying!" -the copilot said. Bakilas unbuckled and went to the cockipt room.
"Engage shields!" -the pilot ordered maneuvering the dropship to evade enemy laser shots.
"We have an active rocket lock! They're launching!" -the copilot said.
"I'll try to dodge it!" -the pilot said, watching on the screen for the rocket.
"Our two autocannons are armed and ready! We need two gunners!" -the pilot announced shouting.
"I'll take one!" -Bakilas accepted.
"I will man the other!" -Regicide sat down before the controls, gripping the joystick firmly.
"Three enemy interceptors converging! In weapons range in..." -the copilot warned, interrupted by Regicide -"Three seconds! Got them locked!" He pressed on the fire button on the joystick, and the autocannon unleashed a stream of phased rounds. The dropship maneuvered to evade the rocket, but was unsuccessfull. It was clear that the rocket will impact the hull.
"Can't shake the rocket! Brace for...!" -the pilot shouted. The second autocannon quickly turned and riddled the rocket with it's phased cannons. The rocket's fuel exploded, the rocket's explosive detonated not long after.
"Rocket neutralised." -Bakilas said. The two autocannons now turned their attention to the single interceptor left, and quickly turned it into metal scraps. Another wing of interceptors was flying towards them, their laser guns firing.
"Shooting! Shields are holding!" -the copilot reported. After tapping a few controls, the copilot's eyes widened- "Incoming heavy fighter wing! Three Phoenix fighters!"
Regicide's autocannon was hararssing one interceptor after another, not destroying them, but forcing them to evade and brake off attack- "I'm busy! Bakilas!"
"I'll get the fighters!" -Bakilas shouted, and muttered- "...or atleast die trying."
"The fighters are inweapons range! They're firing tempest missles!" -the copilot warned while the pilot managed a few controls.
"I'll try the Burn maneuver!" -the pilot announced. The dropship went to maximal speed, it's two auto-cannons firing away. When two hundred meters away from the incoming fighters, the ship turned hard about, shut down it's primary engines and let it's inercia glide it towards the fighters. Quickly, it's engined roarred and exploded, blue shots of energy erupted from the engines, burning the incoming fighters with super-heated plasma. One fighter exploded as it was consumed in the flames, while the other two managed to escape before destroyed, but severely damaged.
"Damage to left engine! Coolant system for left engine down!" -the copilot announced.
"Impressive maneuver!" -Regicide commented, as his auto-cannon shot down an interceptor.
"The fighters are coming in again! They've got reinforcements!" -the copilot warned.
"I need a few more seconds! Once we're inside their fighter orifice, they'll not dare to fire!" -the pilot stated.
"Incoming tempest missles!" -the copilot warned, hoping these would miss the ship, as did the last ones.
The missles crashed into the ship. Their small ordinances detonated into blasts which wrecked parts of the hull away.
"Shields down! Storage section one destroyed!" -the pilot announced as the damaged hoverdyne from storage section one flew into space.
The pilot hit the burners once again, and the ships engines shot the blue energy beams. The ship raced past the fighters, recieveing some of their laser shots.
"Left engine critical!" -the copilot warned the pilot.
"Eject it!" -the pilot ordered.
Moments after the engine was ejected, it burst into flames, producing an explosion which would have destroyed the dropship.
"Closing in on the fighter bay! We're too fast!" -the copilot screamed.
The pilot directed the ship downwards, towards the fighter bay floor. The ship was soon dragging across the metal floor, deeply scraping it. Parts exploded, flew away or got broken off by the objects the ship past through. Finally it stopped. Smoke and fires all around, the ship finally stopped. A door in the fighter bay opened and several mechs came out. Opening fire, they moved towards the shuttle. The two auto-cannons started firing on the drones, ripping their limbs away, destroying their weapons or disabling them.
After they've taken the mechs out, Regicide and Bakilas looked eachother, and then looked the pilot and copilot, dead in their seats, the copilot crushed by a falling metal beam, while the pilot riddled with bullets from the mechs.
Regicide got up from his seat, and leaned onto the cargo hold- "Anyone alive back there?"