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Galaxian (Arcade Challenge)

There’s so many

Lieutenant Caleb Piers thought as he gunned his fighter to the left. His fingers hit a steady staccato as the laser cannon fired into the oncoming alien fleet. Three more exploded with a bang.
Then he swerved to avoid two oncoming missles.

” Hah too fast for you” he taunted at the green and red firefly like ships.

He then fired a steady stream of lasers while dodging to avoid more oncoming bombs, and watched as five more ships went super nova before his eyes.

Almost have them he thought

He pulled a fast aerial and quickly zapped the final three ships.

Awesome all that’s left is the mother ship

But unfortunately that ship had noticed too. The two pilots gunned for him with their engines full blast.

“So it’s a chase you want”

Caleb leaned on the controls performing a complicated series of loops and zig zags. Barely breathing as he lined the ship in his cross hairs, he fired. BOOM ! It went up in fireworks.

“Wooo” Caleb smiled

Then the reinforcements arrived

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