This is one of the two chapters with a title. It is also the only one where Seillon is not a major character. And how did this shit get on Google?

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McKinnon was off Senegal. He made it to the U.S. just minutes ago via a Mach 6.67 M38 Rallier, an Inquisition vehicle that made its way to Earth. But McKinnon had larger problems at hand.

He was in the city of New Fortune, a town which had previously been Franklin. Over the centuries, the town had been industrialized, destroyed by Seillon's father, and rebuilt and rechristened.

In the Southern District, many immigrants lived, born on Io's orbital platforms and moved here when the platforms overpopulated in 2623.

Enough history for you? Ok then.

McKinnon was entering New Fortune through the Southern District. He knew it was populated by affiliates of the Inquisition and decided it was a safe route. It wasn't. Fire was everywhere. On countless streets, immigrants were brought out of their houses, lined up, and slaughtered in turn.

"Halt!" cried an officer.

McKinnon froze.

"I need some identification."

McKinnon almost reached for his rifle, then remembered about his fake Earth papers. However, he checked his bag and realised he left his papers on the Rallier. He then took out his synth-Nexus Rifle (a synthetic one is more unstable) and shot the incoming guards. At the same time he grabbed the guard behind him and backflipped over him. As the fire from the blast met him, he shot the Nexus rifle again to propel him further up.

As the blast radius subsided he shot again and again, and when he ran out of ammo, he was 300 metres in the air. At this height, he could see an unobstructed view of the Instigator.

When he fell again, the guards had left and the immigrants were looking at McKinnon.

One said, "My name is Alesthane. You?"

"Private First Class Senilius McKinnon."

"What brings you to this hostile planet?"

"I need to talk to a soldier stationed here. My superior officer told me."

"I am sorry. We saw someone in a military uniform but he was executed."

McKinnon was appaled. He waited a few seconds then said, "Sir, do you have a plane?"

The reply was, "Right this way, sir!"

Seillon would not be pleased.

So sorry for the long wait. I got addicted to GunZ and then, well, I just lost my train of thought for IUF. So, finally, I got back on track and it took an extra few minutes to remember where i left off. So, this fifth part is gonna end up shorter, maybe.

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On her shuttle, the commander was watching footage of Seillon and him "seeing" the soldiers and kicking the grenade. The window was not mirrored, and there was no way to see the door from the bridge of the Instigator. But wait, what was that? She rewinded the video and played it frame-by-frame. Frame 192 showed Seillon standing still for a few frames. Something caught the commander's eye but she didn't notice it. Frame 203 showed Seillon kicking the grenade, but it was not until Frame 205 that the Terran squad could be seen. She returned to the 192-203 play-by-play when she saw the mysterious object.

A little into the play-by-play, the light around Seillon's eyes became distorted. It concentrated into one distorted beam, which in fact was so quick it could only be captured and play-by-played by a high speed camera. Nevertheless, as 195 became 196 and 197, the beam extended until it faded at the leader's body. By 198 he was already dropping the grenade on the floor. The beam of distorted light could only lead to one thing.

Seillon Damocles Douglass was a photomancer(this is a real word), with knowledge of the divination of light, to bend it, concentrate it, and use it as a weapon.

And indeed, Seillon was about to use this ability on the offensive.

He had just made a connection to Inquisition Command. He called, "Hello, anyone there?"

The answer came, "Hello, Sergeant Douglass, we sent all the reinforcements we could give you. What else could you ask for?"

"Sir, we need someone of a higher rank to engage the battlecruisers. Could you try and give us some more, please?"

The reply came, "You should have everything you need, Lieutenant Douglass."

Lieutenant! He now had the right to declare an attack on vessels legally under Inquistion laws. He picked up the Instigator's radio and said, "All frigates and cruiser turrets, fire at target delta-foxtrot-one-seven!"

The six remaining frigates charged up their turbolasers and began firing at a battlecruiser about to fire upon the Io Pride. The battlecruiser disappeared under the wave of red light and disintegrated.

Now, Seillon could use his abilities in full. Now, the battlecruisers' bridges were located about 900 metres from the bow, and only 350 metres from the stern. Seillon expertly navigated the light from a large field between the battlecruisers and the cruiser. The giant stream of distorted light was controlled towards the center of the battlecruisers then focused. It melted the critical points, weakest to attack, and destroyed four cruisers.

Now it was 2:00. McKinnon had landed near Dakar, Senegal, and the Commander was moving south in Western Sahara. There were 5 frigates left, the Io Pride being eliminated, and there were some thirty battlecruisers remaining. Seillon lost a great deal of stamina doing photomancy, and could barely breathe. The Jeanne's wreckage had spread over a large area and rained down in Morocco, the Mediterranean, Libya, and Spain. The Instigator was coming under heavy fire from the fighters, being too fast for the Photomancer's Beam, as Seillon called it, and the cruiser seemed on the verge of collapse as the ship lived up to the title of the book.

Thousands of soldiers could only wait and see as hundreds were killed in mere minutes. Then, Seillon realised that both factions would be supplied with reinforcements that could make this battle last weeks. There was only one way to make this battle conclude, but when could both sides play their cards right, and open up this chance for the end to come?

To Be Continued, and Maybe To Be Concluded (0.01% chance that it will be concluded in the sequel)

This turned out longer than I expected!

Notice how these stories keep getting longer? I can't believe I finished this one in a week!
This is the fourth installment of Instigator Under Fire. I switched to roman numerals. By the way, is the translation to spanish "[translation of Instigator] Detras Fuego"?
This is the one with the most action so far, and a crucial turning point. Did you know that the Terran Commander is a woman?
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The Jeanne was now detaching itself off of the Instigator to escape the blast zone. The battlecruisers were closing in, but before the bulk could manage to get within firing range, the Inquisition frigates closed in. Seillon was going senile, as with all the crew dead, he had to manipulate 15 sets of controls.

There were seven frigates: the Inquisitor, the Silverstreak, the Outer Void, the Io Pride, the Rising Star, the Eon of Serenity, and the Acclamator.

Seillon's lanky body was becoming a faint blur, almost invisible.

Aboard the Jeanne, the nameless commander of the Terran forces had come from the hangar, destroyed McKinnon's transport, and dispatched a platoon to come up behind the trio recently. She then drew a Nexus Rifle-a four-foot rifle that came with a 10.1x zoom scope and fired 8-inch hybrid sniper rockets, which had a 50-metre blast radius; she would kill her whole platoon to destroy these dangerous men.

PFC McKinnon would be killed no matter what he did. He could not run fifty metres in a split second.

It was currently 1:05 in Dakar, Senegal. The Instigator's shields were fading, and the battlecruisers were relentlessly firing their largest weapons, but at the darkest moment, the Rising Star made a daring move. As a battlecruiser fired a laser which would come out the stern of the Instigator, with Seillon being right in the middle of the projectile, the Rising Star flew right in the middle of the two cruisers and quickly activated its shields.

The explosion shattered the Rising Star. Six hundred and sixty-seven men died in a split second. The flaming wreckage began to drop towards Dakar.

Seillon finally decided to try and bring a stop to this madness. He fired the K2-9F 300' nuclear missile directly at Earth.

Unsuspecting the nuclear strike, the Jeanne began to escape to a safe distance from the carnage and headed toward a nearby settlement in Morocco.

Aboard the Instigator, seven locks gave a hiss and detached. The nuclear missile was turned at a 60-degree angle. The next second, five thrusters fired. Another second later, 300 feet of missile fired out of the hangar. A seismic shield activated and the missile went flying toward the Marianas Trench.

Seillon presumed that because the crust was at its thinnest in the Marianas, the missile could easily penetrate 5 miles with its 16 mounted missile turrets. The explosion in the mantle would be great in the mantle, and the resulting seismic waves would travel around the globe. The Pacific tectonic plate would have 6 other plates compressing it, and volcanoes would erupt in Nevada, New Mexico, Nebraska, China, Korea, Russia, and possibly even Bangladesh and India. Asia and North America would be in total chaos, not to mention the explosion from the falling frigate. Earth would destroy itself.

The Terran commander boarded her ship, but not before using the Nexus Rifle. A large explosion spread across the Jeanne. The ship was literally torn into pieces. Yet McKinnon survived.

As he fell through the atmosphere, McKinnon grabbed a piece of wreckage. A blast shield. He activated it.

To be continued...

Afterword: If you are reading this, START FROM THE BEGINNING. I put a bit of action in the story before this, and an opening to how the war started. In other news, thanks for reading :) .

Well, now this is going to be the last short segment of Instigator Under Fire. I'll still be going on with the series, but I developed the "brilliant" idea to write a longer part on Word, then pasting it here. Therefore, it will take longer. Either way, here is the third installment.

Oh, and I'm still trying to get the hyphenated line right :(
Please give me an exact number of dashes if you bother to count.
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Seillon was grasped and led off the bridge. Most of the crew had fought and had been killed. Seillon, however, was spared.

"Last time I met you, you were working for the Terran governments. Is this how you repay us?" the Terran commander asked."

"This is far from over. Our frigates are almost here. They will destroy the Jeanne," Seillon replied.

"Ah, but our battlecruisers are approaching too."

"Your point?"

Jedd One, aka Harold MacIntyre, had been a Terran but defected to the New Inquisition two years ago. He now was an expert assassin and was traveling behind McKinnon.

A split second after landing in the corridor, a security turret behind the trio fired three blasts. The first one hit the corridor wall. The second hit just above Jedd Seven's head. The third one hit a dormant security turret ahead. Rapidly, McKinnon pulled out his pistol and threw it at the turret. The stock clippped the circuitry box and cut a wire. The turret exploded.

One hundred ninety-nine metres.

Jedd Seven investigated the stretch of hallway ahead of him. No turrets, no guards. Strange, as this went directly to the bridge.

In space, the battlecruisers had come. The frigates were still on their way.

The Terran commander faced Seillon directly. Despite the commander being six foot five, Seillon was a foot taller and intimidated his captors.

The commander said, "Douglass, I w-will give one last chance. Surrender, or we get off and have our battlecruisers kill you instead."

"I'm not stupid," Seillon answered, "and I know that either way, I die. Do your worst."

Jedd Seven and One proceeded first. They had not bothered to look into the intersecting corridor. Instead, they opened the bridge.

Two Terrans had their guns trained on MacIntyre. In the corridor, a platoon had aimed at the others. Jedd Seven raised his hands nervously. He knew when to give up.

Seillon's captors had climbed back on the walkway to the Jeanne. Seillon quickly returned to the bridge. The power was back on.

As the battlecruisers charged their lasers at the Instigator, Seillon turned the shields back on. They had started the battle at 10:00, according to the place on Earth's surface they orbited. It was now one in the morning.

The white glow was back, and the cruiser seamlessly defeated the nearest two Terran ships. Moreover, the frigates arrived...

Alright, the first part is entry #2, I strongly suggest you read that first.
Anyway, enjoy the actual opening of the INSTIGATOR UNDER FIRE.
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The lone ship the Instigator clashed against the two thousand three hundred fifty-seven Defenders, fighterplanes armed to the bone with several kinds of machine guns, rockets, and bombs. On the other side, was the Instigator, with hundreds of missile batteries and a 300-foot K2-9F nuclear missile to deliver the final blow.

Aboard the bridge, Master Sergeant Seillon Douglas shouted, "All forward plasma shields feed full power!"

A crew member argued, "At that rate, all power will be gone in two hours," but Seillon answered, "Without it, we'll be dead in two hours!"

The crew member gave up and opened a safety panel behind which said FULL SHIELD: FRONT. He pressed the button.

There was a surge of light and a few moments later, a thick white outline surrounded the Instigator.

Meanwhile PFC McKinnon had scanned the nearby systems and had picked up a signal from Io. Now, a few tens of Sentinels approached the battle at Earth.

Near the Instigator, a few kamikaze Defenders smashed into a weak point near the starboard bow. A hole was made, and in seconds, the shield was subducted. The lights went off subsequently. Turrets ceased fire, and so did the Defenders.

The Earth fighters formed a quarantine around the cruiser and a large Earth frigate, the Jeanne, boarded the Instigator. Behind the Jeanne, McKinnon and his two wingmen landed soundlessly in the Jeanne's port hangar.

McKinnon, Jedd One, and Jedd Seven made there way through the infrastructure, scaling the girders of the frigate as not to get caught by the hallway detectors. Jedd One took out a fusion cutter and hotwired the rear door to open. The three climbed out, and though they were past the hangar turrets, they still had two hundred metres of frigate to cross.

Seillon stood stalwart as boarders sliced the Instigator's bridge door open. Without turning, he unclipped a hand grenade, did a backflip, and kicked it Chilean style into the cluster. Seconds later, it detonated. However, now he was unarmed, and there were several more guards approaching. This would be the dawn of a long battle for Earth...

To be continued...

The foremetioned battlecruisers and frigates come in later into play...

Just a short story i made up.

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3991 AD
The Instigator cruiser drifted slowly through the void.

A gargantuan behemoth, the 2-kilometre cruiser was made of sections of square pyramids and rectangular prism, armed with hundreds of weapons. The tip glowed with a red light, seemingly piercing through endless space.

Aboard the Instigator, Master Sergeant Seillon Douglas was observing the distant planet of a warlike place, to which the cruiser and several other frigates were traveling to destroy, along with others.

This was Earth.

"PFC McKinnon," Seillon suddenly said.

McKinnon could not understand. He had not made a single noise on the bridge, yet Douglas pointed him out without looking.

"We have picked up a recon plane. Thousands of cruisers are headed our way. Time of interception: 10 minutes," McKinnon replied.

"Very well. Wake up the troops. I shall go and hold them off as best I can."

Seillon pressed a button on the console. A light went orange. Alarms sounded throughout the Instigator. Soldier rushed through and manned the appropriate turrets. The whole ship was stirring.

McKinnon took a gravity sled and sped toward his Sentinel Fighter. He would go to the moon of Io and call for reinforcements.

A few moments later, thousands of USA, Chinese (?), and Russian battlecruisers fired upon the Instigator.

To be continued...

I did not use wikipedia

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