WOLF

Written by: Nick Kish

2006-04-12

Triumvirate

01. Free   It's just before 2:00 AM in late July, 2038. David Singue had arrived back on the space station a few days before. He was spending time with his family and their new baby, Kurt. The intercom on the wall beeps, waking up David. He is notified that there had been an emergency and that he's needed in the command center. Upon arriving, he is told that one of the Skag soldiers had been freed from holding. The Skag carriers had been left in space and fitted with cameras and a guard post on each carrier. This basically made the Skag prisoners in the cargo holds of their own ships. David decides that he will have to investigate, so he calls Mike. When Mike arrives, David briefs him on the situation and they head for the Skag carrier.

02. New Ally   On the way to the carriers, David expresses how much he is proud of Mike and of how far he has come. Arriving at the station, David and Mike begin investigating the missing Skag. David begins viewing surveillance feeds from the previous night while Mike checks the records to find out which one of the Skag is missing. Mike finds out it is one of the Generals and reports the information to David. Then David narrows down the suspects from the videos to four individuals. After running background checks on them, he narrows it down to one. Mike asks how he could narrow it down to one by just looking for ID matches and running backgrounds. David replies that this one is the only one who is a known member of the Old World Order (OWO). David recognized that it was his old friend Kurt Naurl. David thinks that the OWO just made their first move in this war in aligning themselves with the Goriin and Skag.

03. Second Arrival   Around 6:00 AM, as David and Mike are wrapping up at the carrier and preparing to head back to the space station, David is notified that sensors just picked up the second fleet arriving on the other side of the Moon. The Goriin and Skag are much more prepared this time. As David and Mike are heading back to the station, the fleet is quickly approaching. David hopes that the new blockade, they had constructed over the past few months, holds. But the Goriin and Skag quickly rip through it and advance on the station. David and Mike's shuttle arrives just as the attack on the station begins.

04. Rampage   David notifies the command center that Mike and himself have arrived safely back on the station. They both head toward their fighters as the battle rages on all around. David is knocked over a few times by blasts to the sides of the station. Arriving at his shuttle, David jumps in and heads out into battle. Meeting up with Mike, David quickly surveys the situation. He starts to relay commands as he and Mike head into battle. They shortly find Liz and Poeh and the four of them work hard to salvage a counter-offensive. But the more prepared Goriin had already knocked out most of the main defenses. They too have had a few months to prepare for this battle.

05. Retreat   Everything that David and his crew had done in the battle seemed to be falling apart by the minute. David just can't get everyone organized in time to accomplish anything. The station is about to be completely overrun by the invading fleet and David's options are narrowing by the second. Realizing that they can't stop this force now, David orders a full retreat to Earth's surface. As much as he hated to leave the station, saving as many lives as possible became obviously more important. As the escape transports start leaving the station, David orders all available fighters to cover them as they head back to the planet's surface.

06. Invasion   David waits to escort one of the last transport ships from the station. David is surprised that once it is clear that the Humans are retreating, the Goriin and Skag leave the station behind and continuing right into thier invasion of Earth. As David begins escorting the transport ship with Poeh, he realizes that the prompt invasion leaves no time for the Human forces to organize themselves on the surface. David had heard of Skag invasions from Alcoer and Poeh, but he was not adequately prepared for the awesome sight laid before him. Escorting his transport ship, he glares to the side to see the gargantuan Skag leave their carriers and rampage the landscape. David looks around to see the sky blanketed with several hundreds of ships all entering the atmosphere at once. Once the retreat and invasion had begun, everybody had stopped shooting at each other. It had become a mad rush for the surface.

07. Severed   David and Poeh successfully escort their transport ship to a military base outside of Rio Grande, in southern Texas. David quickly realized why the Goriin and Skag had followed them, pressing on with the invasion. While Human forces were retreating and just landing the transport ships any safe place they could find, the Goriin had an organized invasion in full motion. The Goriin and Skag were landing on communication hubs and disabling them. Within a few hours, almost all long range communications had been disabled leaving the Human forces cut off from each other. David is glad to see a transport ship, escorted by Mike and Liz, arrive near by. Then Alcoer lands his fighter at the base. David quickly organizes everyone to bunker in and prepare for an attack that he know is coming. He sends out runners to a few bases that may have soldiers, including one to NYC, where his family is living.

08. Rio Grande   Four weeks had passed and still no attack. David had not been sleeping well for the past week because he is anxious for news of his family. Then, while David is checking the messages in the morning, the alarms ring all around the base, signaling an attack. David had put Mike in charge of the infantry as he knew Mike could handle it. David leads the pilots to their fighters and they take off for battle. As David gets into the air, he can see that there is a swarm of Goriin guarding two Skag soldiers. The fighters attempt to thin the swarm before they reach the outer defenses. Once they do, David leads the fighters to take on the Skag soldiers, one at a time. Everyone works well together and the defenses David had organized hold well. The fighters shortly kill one of the Skag and begin work on the next.

09. Capture   The Battle of Rio Grande rages on. David and the fighters have almost brought down the second Skag soldier. This soldier broke through the wall of defenses and started to decimate the base. The Goriin infantry started to pour through the hole, but it had created a choke point and the Human infantry make short work of them. Shortly after, the Skag soldier is killed with the combined efforts of everyone. Mike tells David that they have captured an unconscious and unknown Human soldier found behind enemy lines by Alcoer and Poeh, who had been separated from the group. Curious, David goes to check on this individual after landing. Upon seeing the man and hearing from the medics that he'll be okay when he wakes up, David orders that the man be placed in a holding cell.

10. Reunion   That night, David checks on the prisoner. Seeing he is awake, David enters the cell. He greets Kurt Naurl, who had also been tied to a chair. David has had a long history with Kurt and he knew that he only had one chance with him. David goes through a few pleasantries. Kurt asks him to get to the point. David and Kurt have a rather heated discussion over politics, the war, and friendship. When David realizes he isn't getting anywhere, he reminds Kurt of the millions of lives that have been lost in the war already, in part, due to the help of the OWO. This really strikes a chord with Kurt and David leaves the conversation there. As David is wondering if he made it through to Kurt, he is notified that a few of the runners have returned. He is told of a Goriin and Skag base about twelve miles to the Southwest. David begins to plan a counter-offensive to strike back at the enemy.

11. Switchback   After a week, David leads his forces from the base in Operation Switchback to attack the Goriin and Skag base. A few miles out, David receives word that Kurt had just escaped. David decides to let him go and press on with the attack. After a few hours, David begins his assault on a surprised Goriin and Skag. David leads the fighters over head and they begin their bombing runs. They certainly have the surprise and really take advantage of it. The Human infantry sweeps through the base while the fighters attack the Skag soldiers. The offensive is going well and the fighters are making short work of the enemy's ground forces.

12. Down   Shortly, the Goriin launch their fighters and the battle really heats up. The early dawn sky is thick with fighters from both sides. David is having a hard time staying air born and remaining effective. David can see the swarms of Goriin infantry are certainly keeping Mike's ground forces just as busy, but they are holding on. Then Liz, who was on David’s wing, is hit and starts to go down. David tracks her fighter and sees that it's heading behind the front line. David tries to protect her as she jettisons from the fighter and parachutes to the ground. David soon realizes that the tracking mechanism sewn into her flight suit was damaged in the landing and is not transmitting a signal. Mike wants to go in after her, but David says it is too risky at this point. This pushes Mike harder and he rallies the troops, while David rallies the fighters. They push forward and make up some ground.

13. Decision   The rally proved a success as they turn the tides. They push on and the signs of victory are beginning. Then David gets word that the runner from NYC came back in a plane and that the NYC base is about to be attacked. With his family in danger, David is quickly conflicted and obviously distracted. David wants to save his family but he just can't leave the battle. Mike tells him to go with Poeh to rescue his family. David assures Mike that he can win the battle and they take off. David and Poeh, both in the more advanced CHP fighters, push the engines to their limits and arrive in NYC in a little over an hour. Letting their presence known to the commanding officer, David asks where the citizens are being held. David heads in that direction while Poeh joins the struggling fighters in their battle, which has just arrived. Seeing that the hanger is rather unsafe, David decides that he needs to get his family out of there.

14. The Favor   David gets a jeep and drives his family off the base and down the freeway to the city. He needs someplace heavily armored and has the perfect place in mind. It is a very safe place owned by some one that owes him a big favor. A few rogue Goriin fighters spot them in the city and they attack the only vehicle moving in NYC. David swerves back and forth until one of the tires is hit and they crash into another car. David realizes that Jill was killed and his two sons, Daniel and Kurt, are crying and injured a little in the back, but they are still alive. After a minute, David pulls the jeep out and they get to the destination: a warehouse in Queens. David crashes through one of the doors and is shortly greeted by twenty men with guns pointed at them. David yells for The Father (Louis Carnine), who comes out shortly. David reminds him of the favor he owes him and The Father takes them to the bunker under the warehouse to ride out the invasion.