Neil was not unused to space flight (obviously), but jumping in and out of the RIP so many times made him feel as if his soul was taken out and stretched. His skin still crawled and he gripped the handle on the Highlander tightly with the unconscious nerves he had in his head. Leaving the RIP multiple times was something he wouldn't wish on anyone. Ok, maybe Aiden. But other than him. 

Once everyone was seat and they were shot out into orbit, Neil release the stabilizers and placed in the 3.19 Algorithm, the freely spinning ship now catching itself in the void and speeding towards the planet amid a hailstorm of lasfire. Once Neil put on the display of the planet, he saw what everyone else saw. A sea of fire and ground upheaval across the belt of the planet. "Well, I wasn't expecting that." Neil said, then turned to York. 

"Where the hell do you get your intel anyway?" 

"Agents on the ground and satellite ships." 

"Well they were not doing their job, this time." Neil replied, cranking up the sub-light engines and increasing the energy payload in the thrusters. Taya gripped the arms of her seat in anticipation, one of the laser coming perilously close to the Highlander. She and Sayeeda had seen Neil at work enough to know what was coming. 

"Thank you for flying with Firestorm airlines. If you need to go to the restroom it's already too late, sit down and shut up." Neil said, as if reciting a written statement. The Highlander burst out of outer area and sped into orbit, Neil furiously placing in algorithms and steering freehandedly as the ship display spun and jerked. 

"Multiple projectiles in sectors alpha, beta-!" Lonney called. 

"I know!" Neil replied, and pulled back on a lever that looked suspiciously like a terrestrial ground vehicle's parking brake, and sure enough the Highlander jerked suddenly, causing everyone to get pulled forward before laying back in their seats. An explosion rocked the void in what was probably kilometers away, but seemed as if it was just next to them. Neil pulled a line down and power surged further into the Highlander. "I need more of the Auxiliary, Lonney. Oh and, give me some music too." 

A [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVPSHhEJ8vA]background noise[/url] that sounded like a grating pipe suddenly turned into a guitar riff, and Neil grinned as the Highlander arced over a Chalcedon frigate. Even over the song, a loud beeping was evident. Neil looked at the radar and realized there were missiles on their tail. 

"Is that classical music?" Woods asked over the comm, bemused. 

"Everyone keeps saying that. This shit is new on Fortus." He replied touchily, and the troopers that now manned the lower guns of the Highlander shot down the initial missile barrage before Neil had to duck and weave past two others. The planet Saavran now loomed before them. Neil turned the ship downward, and sped straight forward into the equatorial firestorm. "Neil!" Taya screeched. Even York seemed a bit perturbed. 

"They are not heat seeking missiles." York said to him. 

It was too late. Neil had plunged into the flames at 10,000 kilomters per second, only to shoot up before engulfing the ship in magma. Even the void shields were nearly destroyed. But luckily once they crested the fire, the missiles were now confirmed gone. "No, but the plasma used in the mass drivers that accumulate in the fire should do the trick."
[@Penny]