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Post by Enoch on Aug 11, 2004 19:14:10 GMT -5
Silas wasnt interested in most of the information he was able to get. He didnt care about the defensive abilities, weapons, MS's gundam's or anything. He just wanted the communications link. Lilke before he got through security without a trace.
What he found surprised him. A faint signal from a Mobile suit was being received for quite some time, but no one answered it.
'This is Ishima Otogato. I need help and retrival ASAP.Over.'
It could have been a trap, plus the person who it was adressed to: commander Fox, was not there. He left late last night. In anycase Silas got the coordinates of the signal and sent a coded message back.
"To Ishima Otogato. Stay in your current position. There is a recovery team on its way. Give any data on current suroundings and situation. Transmit homing beacon for scanners. Repeat. To Ishima Otogato. Stay in your current position. There is a recovery team on its way. Give any data on current suroundings and situation. Transmit homing beacon for scanners."
Silas then sent a signal up to the fleet orbiting the planet. It was coded with the same code as he used before, so the chance of anyone tracing it was unlikely.
"This is Silas. Ezekiel, please respond. Transmitting coordinates. This is Silas, Please respond."
There was no answer. Whatever happened to him, The message was sent to his MA, so it would have been stored for later. All silas had to do now was get ready and wait.
He left his room and went to the medical office for his shot of morphine. He got less than he expected, but it was enough. The cigarettes would do the rest.
Silas headed to one of the hangars where his T-35 gunner MMS was stored. It was left in the corner, since they were running out of room with the new Gundam Zeta Plus's being shipped in.
He got in it and went outside to a hovercraft transport and hopped on. The pilot and copilot were startled by the shaking, and got out.
"What the hell are you doing?! Who the hell are you?"
Silas was quick to respond. "We're assigned to a recovery mission. Here are the coordinates, its not too far from here. This craft should have the range. The bosses arent expecting any trouble so im just comming along for small arms support." Sias handed over seemingly official documents with copies of the transmissions Ishima had made.
The Pilot looked through them without care. They never meant jack squat except for the details of the mission. What any high ranking oficial said didnt matter. Like any mechanic, paperwork was left to the pencil pushers.
"By bosses, do you mean commander Fox? This transmission is to him."
"Yeah, but he's busy with the rest of the gundams, so we are to go get this one so they can fix it up. And the sooner the better."
"Alright." The pilot yelled so he could be heard through the cockpit window. "James, get the thing started, ill hook down the MMS."
The co pilot gave a thumbs up and Silas jumped inside the Gunner as it was chained down. 'This was by far the best lie iv'e come up with. Heck, its half true, so they had to beleive it. Gabe might allready know of the transmission.' It didnt matter one bit, since the hovercraft was allready heading out over the landscape. The area was covered with black ang grey dust from the base and the city that had just so recently been disintegrated.
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Post by Ishima on Aug 11, 2004 21:09:54 GMT -5
He seemed to have woken up just in time. A message from some one had just come in.He assumeed it was gabe.:"Thankyou, I am positoned relativeley close to Alamed. My gundam is an arm, a leg, and torso.I have a broken arm and leg.I have reason to beleive my other leg is sprained severley. My thrusters are out and I can go nowhere. This is Ishima Otogato over and out.Thanks Gabe." Now all he had to do is wait.
Again.
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Post by Gabriel Fox on Aug 11, 2004 22:25:51 GMT -5
In the middle of the night, and in his dreams, Gabriel had several visions. Possibly it could have been the exhaustion from the battle and from the late afternoon training that had gone down between him and Hector that was playing tricks on his mind. But one thing is certain; the content of these visions was a tiny bit puzzling.
The first vision showed a hovercraft roving across the nuclear wasteland where Alameda used to be, and inside of this craft was Silas and two other men. As the vision progressed, a voice could be heard echoing in the background.
"This is Ishima Otogato. I need help and retrieval ASAP. Over."
The vision soon after began to fade away into darkness, when another revealed itself. In this reverie a dark shadow loomed in the distance, silhouetted against a view of the Earth. A dark and deep voice that could make the heavens tremble began to speak words of an indistinguishable dialect, but soon merged and moved into the English language...
"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
Suddenly an explosion of brilliant light lit up the vision, and the silhouetted figure simply disappeared. But the voice could still be heard, echoing its so prophetic message...
Gabriel awoke, shocked and dismayed. Just the content of the second vision made him tremble, for the figure that made itself known to him was one made of nothing but an absence of any sort of humility, and a pall of undeniable evil.
He was still dressed from the day's earlier tribulations, and decided he needed to make a visit to the makeshift MF headquarters inside of the HALO Industrial complex. Five minutes of a brisk jog and he reached his destination, to find only a small group of people on station.
"Silas left, didn't he. I don't sense his presence here any more."
"He did, sir. Didn't he get authorization from you?"
Gabriel knew then, what Silas' goals were. That name, Ishima Otogato, had to be someone of some importance.
"Yes. What did he leave for again? I'm just a little bit out of it right now."
"To pick up a man named Ishima Otogato, who is one of ours."
Gabriel nodded in reply, now understanding the purpose of his first vision. But the second one? What exactly did it mean?
He took his leave and made the trip back to his room, laying back down right next to the still sleeping Aimee.
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Post by Haulpschalter on Aug 12, 2004 18:29:46 GMT -5
Ezekiel walked into the hangar and looked around, it was cluttered and hard to find anyone. A crate moved out of the way and he saw miharu and Shadow
"HEY!!" he yelled but there was too much noise. Ezekiel runs up and the others heard his footsteps when he was a few feet away. "Hey" ezekiel repeats himself when he was close enough.
Miharu turns around to see him. "Hey ezekiel. How long can you stay before you have to go?"
"A few minutes." ezekiel looks over to shadow. "Your part of the team that was recovered right?"
"Yeah. What's it to you?"
"I heard you guys almost got your asses fried. Where is the other one? the report says only one was injured."
"He's inside his new suit. Playing video games. I'll go get him. Give me a minute." Shadow runs on to where Ain's suit is docked, walks atop the gantry next to the cockpit and knocks on the door.
Ezekiel says to Miharu "Yo, whats up with him. He doesnt look like the strong, silent type."
Miharu responds "I dont know, i just give the details. i didnt bother to look into their files."
Shadow yells, hoping Ain would hear. "Ain, get out here."
The cockpit door opens. "What's all the racket out there? I'm trying to beat this game..." Ain crawls out of the cockpit in which he stayed for the past 4 hours. Oh god. More missions huh?"
"Dunno. Let's just go and find out."
Ezekiel yells at them from the distance. "Yo! get your MS up and runnin!"
"Alright, fine. What for though mr...?"
Ezekiel walks up the gantry and inspects the gundam astray. Whatever Ain just said didnt matter. He was busy with his plan.
"Whoa! What're you doing? I don't even know your name" Ain walks over to stop Ezekiel.
"Look, im going on a mission that the captain doesnt want me to go on, so its entirely up to you if you want to go. Im gonna go on a recon of the area around the ruins of alameda. And i need an escort in case things get hairy."
"Hmm.. Sounds like fun. I guess I'll go."
Shadow walked forward. "I'll go too. What the hell, its not like I got anything to do here anyway."
Ezekiel looks at the Gundam and frowns. "But.. how long can your suit last in the atmosphere? You see, by recon i mean a low altitude flight mission."
"Mine? I have no idea. Most of the stats are unknown. All of its specs are quite above anything you'd expect from it."
"Ok then." Ezekiel jumps off of the walkway to a lower one, where a mechanic is plugging things into the gundam. "Hey, your the head mechanic right?"
Shadow thinks to himself. 'I'm gonna need a re-entry heat shield. I'll get fried if I don't have one.'
The mechanic was quick to respond. He was talking to an Ace pilot afterall. "Yes sir!"
"Good, how long can this thing stay in powered flight?"
"Not long sir, its not a jet or anything, this was meant for space combat. It does have plenty of propellant and energy, but it will have to stay relatively close to the ground. Im afraid its ceiling isnt as high as yours."
"Allright. Thats all." Ezekiel jumps up and climbs back up to the upper level. "Looks like well need a multistage operation for this one."
"Is this becoming more complicated than usual?" Ain asks.
'So they're not my escort anymore, now what?" Ezekiel starts thinking.
Shadow remains silent.
"No, not really, you guys need to drop down, but you wont be able to travel nearly as fast as the Double Zeta and my Mobile armor."
"Well. I don't know. The whole reason I was going to go with you would be to escort you."
'So they will need to drop on a strategic location to have any effect.' Ezekiel is now deep in thought. Their quesions kept him from dazing out. "Look, the escort option is out. besides, i probably wont need one, since the activity down there is a lot different from what we first predicted."
"As long as we get the hell out of here, it doesn't matter what we do. That's the way I look at it." Shadow stated.
"Really? I mean, the amatu's output is really off the chart. I don't think I'd slow people down." Ain says. He was worried that they would give him a crappy role from underestimating his abilities and that of his gundam. "But like i said, its stats are unknown."
"But if the area becomes hot, we might not get a shuttle down in time. You guys might get stuck, unlike last time. Miharu would know of the Amatu's performance abilities pretty good, since its engines were tested back at the factory."
"So, what do ya say miss?" Ain was allready on a bad note with Miharu, so he decided to act polite.
"Look, it has a high output, but you cant fly around in the atmosphere. Well, what i mean is, you can fly quite well, just looking at the engines and anyone can see that,..."
"Then, at which point should i drop, since i can't scout around in the atmosphere?"
"...but you have no lift vector, plus it doesnt have a..." she was interupted bt ezekiel.
"Ill look around first with my partner and his Double Zeta. If we find anything well tell you to drop down. So right now your just in standby."
"Where should I drop, though, if I am needed?"
"Wherever we are at the time, thats if we cant get away. You guys would probably take care of ground forces while we look around."
"Alright. Fine with me." Shadow says. Just like his name, he remains silent most of the time.
"Shadow and I? Alright. I need a few more actions under my belt."
"Since we are scanning the ground, we cant just fly around haphazardly. Oh, what about drake? how long will he take to get out of their?"
"Too long." Ain says.
"I see. Then hes out. So get everything ready and well contact you if anthing happens."
"Alright, sounds like a fair deal. Good luck to you." Ain shakes hand with Ezekiel and goes back to his gundam. shadow leaves down the ladder, followed by Miharu.
Shadow stays silent and moves on to get his Blaugeese prepared, parting company with the group. Ezekiel walks back through the door he came in and Leaves for the hangar where his Mobile armors is loaded.
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Post by Ishima on Aug 12, 2004 18:59:25 GMT -5
Ishima just remembered. He turned on his homing beacon to help gabe. He did not know that shinter forces would soon be scouting the area. He did not know that it was Silas who was coming for him.
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Post by Gabriel Fox on Aug 12, 2004 21:52:47 GMT -5
The time was nearing the break of dawn, as the artificial light of the underground city began a simulation of a sunrise. The air was crisp and fresh, unusual for the city's location and condition, and was filled with the sounds of birds chirping and distant horn honking due to the start of the early morning rush hour/shift change.
Bright orange streaks of sunlight shone through the semi-open blinds covering the windows of the hotel room, striking Gabriel in the face and causing him to slowly open his eyes. At first his surroundings appeared blurry, but soon sharpened after his eyes began to adjust. He slowly rose out of bed and walked towards the door, stepping past Leo's limp and totally knocked out sleeping body, opening the door quietly so as to not wake his comrade nor Aimee.
Gabe stepped onto the balcony, and peered at the amazing view of the city at daybreak, caught in a reverie of how Seven Cities used to look back before the Side 4 disaster.
"Why would anyone despise such a beautiful planet? Sometimes people forget that it is where all humanity, before the whole Newtype-Natural controversy, began. I guess maybe this is another reason why I fight with NA. Yes, some Naturals are prejudicial and uncaring, but so are some Newtypes... People get so caught up in their own bullshit lives that they forget where it was they all came from. They all need to realize that living in fear and living every day to conquer another people is no way to be alive. They say that in order to truly enjoy the pleasures of life, you must live every day like it is your last..."
Suddenly, a voice echoed throughout Gabriel's head.
"What if today is your last, Gabriel?"
He could feel a tremendous amount of pain radiating inside of his head, and began screaming in agony. He dropped to his knees, his eyes rolling back into his head, and his arms grasping tightly the bars of the balcony.
"B-BUT...WHY...ARE...YOU DOING THIS?!"
"HAHAHA, DON'T YOU SEE? IT IS MY PLEASURE, YOU PATHETIC, INSOLENT, HUMAN CARCASS! I WILL HAVE CONTROL SOON OVER THIS MISGUIDED GROUP OF ARROGANT MISCREANTS! I SEE YOU ARE HUNGRY TO KNOW THE FUTURE THAT BEHOLDS HUMANITY, SO SEE YOUR FILL!"
Millions of screams and voices began echoing in Gabriel's mind, as images of destruction flashed before his eyes. Countless lines of mecha slaughtering thousands, spilling their innocent blood upon a barren and scarred battlefield. The seemingly night sky lit up as bright as day with gunfire, as the moon appeared the color of blood.
"ENJOYING THIS TASTE OF THE APOCALYPSE, GABRIEL? DOES THE SMELL OF SPENT GUNPOWDER AND THE TASTE OF THE BLOOD OF YOUR COMRADES SATISFY YOU?"
Gabriel then realized the truth when the images flashing before him melded together to form the same black and void evil entity that he had seen several hours before...
He screamed himself awake, still spasming violently while in his bed. Leo was instantaneously alarmed and jumped to his feet, and could sense that something was terribly wrong with his friend...
Aimee responded quickly as well, screaming in horror when Gabriel began to levitate above the bed! The walls began to tremble and the ground began to quake, when he outstretched his arms causing large objects around the room to rise up into the air as well. A minute of this terror and commotion and screaming ensued, when finally and out of nowhere it all stopped. The objects that had risen to a significant height during this event came crashing to the floor, just as Gabriel fell back down on top of the bed. The trembling ceased, as well as the shaking ground. Whatever just happened, was over now.
Shocked, dismayed, and totally confused, Aimee and Leo slowly moved forward and surrounded Gabriel. Both helped him sit up. But it was as if he didn't respond to his surroundings, and was totally separated from reality. Leo attempted to snap his friend out of it by shaking him, but failed to accomplish his goal. Aimee began to cry, when all of a sudden tears began running from Gabriel's eyes. He blinked, and realized that the paranormal near-psychotic break he just experienced was caused by nothing more than a foreshadowing vision that took over a somewhat abnormal dream. He began to sob, and cried the hardest in his life. Aimee held him tight against her, as Leo stood by, holding his hand. According to what he sensed was happening by the indications that Gabe gave, he knew that this moment was quite possibly the most terrifying and haunting day of the man's life.
"God help me, please make it stop..."#nosmileys
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Post by Leo Cana on Aug 13, 2004 9:37:15 GMT -5
Gabe wasn't the only one suffering from strange dreams that night. He'd tossed and turned on the couch and at one point during the night he'd fallen off but it wasn't enough to wake him. Unlike Gabe though his dreams were hazy images that he could make out but he knew that it was something he didn't like. The only dreams that did stand out were the dreams of his Einhander missions, flying to Earth and fighting impossible odds.
A few times he woke up sweating but he didn't cry out, he just sighed and went back to sleep. But one dream that did stand out through the haze aside from the Einhander missions was one of the recent battle at Alameda. Through the night a strange sense of unease had settled on him, growing stronger as his dream of the fighting continued. He awoke to the sounds of Gabe and Aimee screaming, he bounded to his feet and ignored the fact that he was one the floor.
"Gabe? Gabe!" he shouted as he threw the door to his bedroom open and then stopped in shock. Gabe was still asleep but he was levitating! As were a number of items in the room, the only words to escape Leo's lips were. "You gotta be freakin' kidding me....."
All he could do was stand there and wait for it to end, when it did he and Aimee helped Gabe sit up, he shook the man to try and snap him out of his daze but it didn't work. He'd sensed that something bad had happened, that Gabe was changing inside and all they could do was wait.
While Leo was holding Gabe's hand and trying to comfort his friend that uneasy feeling came back to him as did the dream of Alameda. He nodded to himself as he made the choice.
"Aimee, I'm going back to Alameda. I'm just going to have a look around, I've got this nagging feeling that something is going to happen. Don't worry, I'll stay here a little longer first."
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Post by Gabriel Fox on Aug 14, 2004 23:39:30 GMT -5
Two hours had passed since the visions attacked Gabriel's mind, when he awoke again-this time normally and without thought. He immediately stood to his feet, staring blankly ahead into space. Aimee was puzzled at this fact, and attempted to question why he was doing so. But he did not answer, and seemingly didn't even acknowledge her existence.
Leo was fighting sleep next to the nightstand, when he noticed the peculiar behavior of his friend. He shook himself awake and stood to take a look.
"Gabe? You alright?"
"What exactly happened when I had my vision?"
"Umm...you yelled out in pain, then for some reason beyond me started levitating several feet above the bed, along with other objects inside of the room."
"Levitating?"
"Yeah. Levitating. As in your body floated in midair on its own."
Gabriel scratched his head and thought a moment. Suddenly an idea made itself known to him.
"Get my katana, and hold it out in front of you. I just need to see something."
Leo looked back awkwardly, sensing that his comrade had something on his mind. He had no idea what, but knew it was definitely important.
"Okay..."
After grasping the sword in his hands, he held it parallel to the ground. Gabriel turned to face him, slowly raising his hands and closing his eyes. Out of nowhere, Leo began sensing a sort-of energy imbalance as the sword slowly moved by itself to Gabriel's hands.
Leo looked on, utterly dumbfounded as to what just occurred. Aimee watched from the bed, also clueless.
"Leo, Aimee...I think I'm telekinetic..."
Leo stood silent, with his mouth dropped open.
"I noticed things like this happening before when I used to get bad visions, but for some reason the telekinesis was only short-lived after the stressful event. This must have been the breaking point, where something had to change inside of me. Leo, did you sense any energy fluctuation when the sword began to float?"
Leo nodded in reply, still shocked.
"Telekinesis involves energy relationships; the reason you felt the fluctuation was because I was using the energy stored within the katana and manipulating it with my mind. Its kinda hard to explain, but that is basically all is happening."
"But..."
"Things like this happen to powerful Newtypes, who happen to develop abilities other than ESP or telepathy. Do me a favor to test my theory-unsheathe the sword and try to cut me."
Leo was hesitant. "Are you sure about this? Because if you're wrong, you are going to be missing a limb or two."
"I'm sure. Go ahead and chop at me."
Leo shrugged and unsheathed the katana, pulling it back in his hands in preparation for the strike. Gabriel got into a ready position, with his hands to his sides. He gave the signal to go, and Leo sliced forward. Milliseconds before the blade was to connect, Gabriel shot his hand out in front of him, and effectively stopped the sword just an inch before impact. He nodded to himself, as Leo took a step back, flabbergasted...
"Wow, I guess I am telekinetic. Strange, isn't it?"
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Post by Ishima on Aug 15, 2004 17:04:25 GMT -5
OOC:telekineses coool
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"18. It's strange to me now that I think about it.I am only 18.Some pilots are younger.At the age of 15 I started pilot training.I have been piloting gundams for three years.And it feels like thirteen."
These among other thoughts went through Ishima's mind as he reflected on what he has done and what he intends to do.He knew each breath he drew might be his last. He began feeling dizzy before he passed out.
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Post by Leo Cana on Aug 15, 2004 17:29:37 GMT -5
Well that certinly had been weird.... That slice should have done more than just take off Gabe's arm, it should have killed him and yet he stopped it. It made him wonder if he could deflect bullets too......another test for another time. Leo set down the katana and reached into his jacket for his gun, a Jerico-41 which he'd picked up after the night in the hotel room.
While he checked the weapon he spoke. "Well, your abalities are growing. Much better than mine are at least, listen I had a weird dream last night. More weird than my normal dreams, this one stood out. I'm going back to Alameda to have a look around. Don't ask why, it's just a nagging feeling I have."
When Gabe looked at him worriedly Leo raised a hand to forstall him. "Don't worry I'm just gonna look around and see if anyone is sniffing about for us. If trouble breaks out I'll beat a quick retreat ok?" Gabe nodded, it was obvious that his friend was going to do this one way or another. Leo put the safty back on the gun and put it away with a small nod.
"Ok, I'm off then. Take care you two." And with that he was gone.
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Post by Enoch on Aug 17, 2004 20:57:32 GMT -5
Silas looked out the window. His t-35 gunner Middle mobile suit was chainged out and he was now sitting on top of the cockpit of the hovercraft transport.
'Gabe would know by now, that much is obvious. but he hasnt done anything yet. is hs plannign to let me go? has he really figured everything out?' Silas was in deep thought.
the mechanic yelled at him several times to get his attention. "Hey, Silas was it? we're almost there, we can see it, See?"
The mechanic pointed outward toward the desert ashes, and the crippled mobile suit stood out. "It will be another five minutes, we know just where they are since he is sending a homing beacon."
After five minutes the transport arrived, but the cockpit of the gundam didnt open, the pilot was too injured, maybe he was unconsious. Silas got inside his Gunner and the copilot unhooked the chains.
"Ok, ill tear off the cockpit door, yo copilot, you know how to pilot a mobile suit?"
"Just enough to walk it. I can get it to walk unto the platform so it will be faster than using the crane."
"Allright, ill get off then."
Silas used the gunners manpulators to tear off the cockpit door, and the Pilot Ishima was unconcious like he thought. The mechanic lowered the hovercraft onto the ground by cutting the engines and the skirt lost its air. The Co-pilot jumped into the cockpit as silas put Ishima into the hovercrafts cockpit.
The copilot walked the mobile suit rather clumsily onto the platform, and locked it down.
"Ok, we're ready to get the HELL out of here!" the mechanics yelled as he gunned the engines. He looked out in front of him and noticed Silas in his gunner standing outside, not on the platform. The mechanic shut down the engines and yelled in confusion.
"Yo Silas! What the fuck are you doing out there?! Were leaving!"
"Im staying."
"What?! You'll never make it back with the battery life of your suit! what the hell are you gonna do?"
"Lets just say i have a ride."
"What?!"
A loud engine roar was heard in the sky above, it was above the clouds, but the light from it shown through. It was going so fast that its external armor was red hot. It flew overhead and was not seen anymore. The sonic boom came later and shook all of the dust and ash off of everything.
"What the fuck was that!!!"
the objects engine noise lowered in pitch, but it started to raise again. The doppler effect clearly showed that it was returning, but this time slower. It passed through the clouds and went to a very low altitute and landed. Its red hot armor steaming.
I small window of a man smokeing a cigarette opened on Silas screen. "This is Ezekiel, its been along time Silas, hope your all right."
The mechanic picked up the the radio "Oh shit, its one of those machines! This is transport HC3S! This is transport HC3S! Come in Mother Base! Come in Mother..."
Silas aimed his 20 mm gun at the antenae on top of the hovercrafts cockpit and fired. The radio was down. "Im sorry, but i wont let you radio in. They allready know were here, so all you can do is leave. Ishima needs medical attention, and i couldnt leave with you on that platofrm because the gundam is on it. Please, just leave without anything more."
The pilot growled and turned the engines on. He turned the Hovercraft around and in a few minutes was gone. It was much slower now with the gundam on top, but it still went at a quick pace.
"Allright Silas, i think we kinda overdid our welcome, Lets go."
"Where.. how do i get in?"
"Get in the A section cockpit." The Machine opened up one of its 3 cockpits and Silas got out of his MMS. He jumped into the cockpit and the Machine lifted off into space.
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Post by Leo Cana on Aug 17, 2004 21:30:48 GMT -5
Leo had spent a few hours preparing for his trip to the surface, rather than wearing his normal clothing he'd dressed himself up as Nuclear survey specialist. He'd even taken the the time to have the proper documents drawn up, fake of course, to head to the site of Alameda and investigate the explosion. Gabe had mentioned that he was going down to the hangers to check out how the refits were coming along and then got train in the gym. By now he was probably doing that while Leo was in the elevator with his jeep.
He'd taken special care to have all markings and plates removed and replaced with ones used by Nuclear survey specialists. Some workers had suggested that he take a moutned gun on the jeep or perhaps a shoulder mounted missile launcher to protect himself should he be attacked. Leo had refused on the grounds that he wasn't going to get into a fight. The plan was to appear like a servey man rather than a member of the NA.
The elevator reached the top and opened into sunlight. It was well hidden behind a cliff, he climbed into the drivers seat and started it up. It was a long ways to Alameda, he'd be there within a few hours if he was lucky. The jeep rumbled to life and tore off into the sand, the elevator closed and was again covered in sand, rock and shadow.
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Post by Enoch on Aug 17, 2004 21:54:59 GMT -5
Shadow got the message from Ezekiel while he was waiting in his repaired Blaugeese, inside the heat shield, inside the capital ship. Ain, Shadow, and two shinter zakus were in the Heat sheild together waiting for departure.
'Mission successful. No backup needed.' The message burned into shadow like a cigareete smothered on his arm.
"Damn it all!" Shadow hit the control panel with his right arm. "I did all of this for nothing. Ain, im sending the signal to jetison us to earth. Well use the recon photos Ezekiel took to have a map of Alemeda, we cant get lost. It didnt look like there were many hostiles there, so lets destroy anyone we see. The ground team will be down shortly, so we can be first. What do ya say?"
Shadow held the button that would send the signal. Althought it was realy up to the launch crew, they had been ordered by Ezekiel to luanch whenever Shadow told them to, so it was all under his control.
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Post by Altron on Aug 18, 2004 15:08:27 GMT -5
"What do you say?" Shadow was still eager to go down there, even though we weren't needed. He was the rebel, but this was extreme. "I don't think so. Ezekiel doesn't need our help, so why give it to him you idiot?" "Shut up Ain. With or without you, I'm going down there to scout it out. But you know if you come with me, it'll increase my chances of survival. Remember that." "Or maybe, I could call Miharu, and you could spend some detention time with her for a while. That'll teach you to disobey orders, no matter how ignorant they seem." "You know, I really don't give a shit what Miharu thinks about me. She doesn't know shit, so I don't care what she says. Or you for that matter." "Fine. I'll go with you. Just remember, if we're about to die, I'm going invisible, and leaving. Got it?" "Sure," a smirk played across Shadow's face. He'd talked his friend into going with him on the recon trip. Even though it was only reckless. Not recon. "Proceed with the pre-flight checks. We should be leaving shortly." Shadow pressed the button - the signal for the launch. A few techs looked over at the pair. One raised an eyebrow. "What the hell? I thought Ezekiel already left." Shadow locked eyes with the tech, and gave him a stare to freeze his very soul. "Yes, but he needs our assistance. Just get us ready for launch. Make it in 3 minutes and counting." "Yes sir." Ain and Shadow climbed into their suits, strapped up, and checked all systems one last time before their departure. "You're all clear for launch. Whenever you're ready." "Then here we come," Shadow gave that mischeivious grin, and initiated the count down sequence. ...3... ...2... ...1... ...Take off... And soon, the 'dynamic duo' were on their way off to Alameda's foundation and rubble. Their ETA was 1 hour.
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Ishima
Advanced Pilot
wait, the key, it is the key... CHAOS REIGN
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Post by Ishima on Aug 18, 2004 17:51:07 GMT -5
When Ishima came round again there were two guys staring at him. "Whoelu" was the first thing to come out of his mouth.
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