The Reflex Gun, Part 2

The Reflex Gun, Part 2

The Argo is submerged 300 meters below the surface of Pluto's equatorial sea.  Avatar orders Venture to discharge ballast and play dead at 400 meters.  The Argo comes to rest on an undersea mountain.  Gantz gloats and deploys submarines to finish them off.

The bridge crew meets Avatar on bridge three.  Nova picks up the submarines, and Wildstar assembles a crew to take out the recon boat to meet the Gamilons.  Sandor needs 8 hours for repairs.  Avatar orders missiles ready, and restores the ship to operational status, ready for the coming battle.  The ship rights itself.

The submarines make a torpedo run.  Several subs fall to the Argos missiles.  Watching on his monitor, Gantz is dismayed to find that they're still fighting back.

Avatar orders Wildstar to destroy the Gamilon base within three hours.  The recon boat breaks trough the ice.  Sandor is narrowing in on the reflex gun's position.  He tells them to look for the reflex gun's ventilation tower.  Oh, hey, the recon boat has wheels.

Receiving Sandor's message, Avatar decides to surface and use the Argo as a decoy--he plans to submerge as soon as they detect the reflection satellites moving.

Gantz sees the Argo surface and orders the gun to fire.  Nova sees the reflection plates opening and Avatar orders them to submerge.  The reflex beam bursts through the ice, bounces across its satellites--and is dispersed when it hits the water surface just where the Argo was.  Nova pinpoints the gun's position.  Avatar launches missiles at that position.  Wildstar's party sees the explosions and moves in on them.  Gantz realizes what they're doing and deploys fighters.

Wildstar, IQ 9, and his men get out of the wheeled boat and prepare to find the base.  Meanwhile, fighters are depth-charging the Argo.  Avatar surfaces and makes the Argo a target again to help them pinpoint the gun's position.  Gantz takes the beat.

Sandor sees the reflex beam fire from under the ice, and they zero in on its location.

Gantz starts to figure out what the Argo is up to--he realizes they're deliberately making themselves a target, but why?

Wildstar's team comes upon the base.  Wildstar is all set to start shooting, but they come upon Pluot's protozoans.  They, um, put them to sleep with gas.  The team makes its way through the massive ventilation shafts.  IQ 9 cuts a portal in the shaft wall and they come out in the generator room.  They enter a big empy chamber.  Sandor pulls Wildstar back from charging ahead and reveals that its boobytrapped.

The oxygen is starting to run out on the Argo.  Doctor Zane goes crazy.  Avatar tells everyone to calm down.

Wildstar's team traverses the boobytrapped floor climbing over it via rope.  IQ 9 trigers another electrical trap, but he grounds it out and the team finds the reflex gun, set their charges, and take off.

The Argo surfaces.  Gantz prepares to fire again, but has different satellites reflect the beam so it comes at them from a different direction.  All the while, the charges planted by Wildstar's team are ticking.  The gun fires and hits the aft section.  Avatar orders them to deploy the wings--ascend and tae the battle to them!

Nova detects an explosion ahead.  The reflex gun is destroyed.

Gantz realizes the gun has exploded.  Water rushes over and through the Gamilon base.  Gamilon ships evacuate.  Avatar watches the ships evacuate and is pleased that there will be no more planet bombs coming from Pluto.

Desslock is admiring his reflection when he receives news of the Pluto base's destruction.  He orders Gantz continue the fight and never return to Gamilon.

Avatar commends the Star Force and tells them that the most important phase of the mission is starting.  Venture and Nova take a shuttle to pick up Wildstar.  Wildstar and his team are hanging out the with Pluto protozoans as the shuttle lands.

Only 354 days left.