Post by Aluez on Jan 1, 2011 22:56:42 GMT -5
OOC: This is a Solo thread to tell the tale of the crew of the Dauntless as they search for the Aluezi.
Three neutron stars. Three former lights of heaven, destroyed by Unity in an attempt to send a message to the Galaxy they were not to be challenged... it worked, for the most part. The 16 planets that were orbiting the stars, which were all under the control of the Greater Galactic Reich, all gone, nothing left behind except debris, and three dead stars.
"There is NOTHING here!" shouts one of the pilots as the patrol of three fighters made their way through yet another debris field, seeing nothing except the shattered remains of a planet, and the twisted, and mangled wrecks of a GGR fleet. "No Unitarian ships that were destroyed, no signs of life... nothing except stinking radiation from the super novas"
"Oh quit your bitching Tomas" says Rene as shi flew past a mostly in tact battleship, hir fighter's shields taking in the force of a few explosions from the ship, dropping a few drone mines behind hir craft before boostering off, the mines detonating against the battleship and causing a chain reaction behind hir fighter and destroying the already unstable battleship.
A ping came across the communications channel for the patrol. "Are you three just about done, we just picked up two ships entering the system from the other side of the debris field, we'd like to get a move on and cloak before they have a chance to notice us"
Rene grumbled a bit as shi tapped hir headset. "Almost done command, we have two more fields to check and we will be home just in time for dinner"
"Well do hurry up, the Reich could be listening" the channel then closed again. The fact that they could be listening was eerie enough for the squadrons to start to rush about, using everything they could to hurry their search up for the lost ship. If it was even here!
Tomas zipped up to Rene's left side and evened his craft out. "I say we should just head on back... it's getting too dangerous for us to stick around here. Even the radiation is starting to make our shields flux a bit.
"I know, I know, but it is our duty to find and recover this ship... to leave our job only ninety percent done means we failed. You can head back, I will hunt the fields until I am satisified..." Rene glared over at him and boosted ahead, getting up to about 900 meters per second in speed before cutting hir engines, beginning to drift toward the other field as shi activated hir cloaking device. One thing shi thanked their allies of Rheinland for was these beautiful machines called Valkyries. They were sleek, easy to throw together, could hold a vareity of weapons, and were faster than any other strike craft this side of the galaxy. Not to mention the addition of a cloaking device that hid them from heat, visual, radiation, and infra-red detection.
As shi approached the field, shi seen the two ships coming in fast, two missle cruisers... they weren't from the GGR from the looks of it, but from another power, an ally of the GGR: The Empire of The Rising Sun
"Crap..." shi mutters before hiding behind a large chunk of rock, hir cloaking device failing and showing a ghosted image of hir ship before it came back up. Maybe they didn't notice...
The two cruisers floated past hir scanning the debris field for something... did they notice? Was shi going to be caught? After the cruisers moved on, shi let out a sigh of relief, only to see the white plasma burners of fighters entering the field. Great... and shi couldn't take pictures or use any other equipment while cloaked!
Shi crept out before heading for the ship debris field, hir cloaking device being picked up and alarms sounding off as a missle locked onto hir fighter. "Shiiit!" shi uncloaked and dodged just as the rocket zipped past, exploding against the hull of the destroyed ship, spinning around and seeing hir opponent: Seven Zero Z-IV's.
"Attention Unitarian Scum, stand down or you WILL be destroyed!" barked the leader of the squadron as they surrounded hir. "It's over Ringtail Demon... We have you."
Shi couldn't help but smirk at their words, giving a wide grin as hir fighter spuna full 360, opening fire with all weapons and putting dents in them, before shooting upward as they retaliated, causing a few of their own men to go down in the cross fire. "You don't have jack SQUID!" shi laughs before divebombing the panicking fighters, blowing a third out of the void before odds really turned into a real dogfight.
"You WILL perish! This is Gamma six, requesting reinforcements, we have found the Unitarian Ringtail!"
Rene heard the reinforcements request and knew that was coming for trouble. "BRING IT ON YOU RED SUN BASTARDS!" shi shouts on all channels, knowing they would hear hir. Shi fell in behind a fourth Zero and opened fire with unguided rockets, blowing one of it's wings off and sending it into an out of control spin, before smiling when shi seen the fireball from the explosion.
The leader of the Zero's growled and fell in behind the Valkyrie, firing wildly before managing to blow out one of hir engines, grinning wide as hir ship went into a wild spin, only to gasp when hir rear turret fired back at him, scoring a cockpit hit, and blowing the craft into three different pieces.
Rene growled and fought for control of hir craft as hir left engine flamed and finally exploded, blowing a sizable hole in hir craft as shi took aim at the next craft as it foolishly dived at hir, firing wildly and missing every shot except one, which did nothing against it's shields. "May day, May day, this is Unitarian Heavy Fighter Black 10, requesting reinforcements on my position, I have lost my left engine and am under heavy attack"
"This is Black 10-2, we are headed to you, hold tight!" Tomas pushed his craft to the limit as he streaked across the void with other fighters following behind him, red plasma trails flying behind him as he burned his afterburners. He just hoped he would arrive before the enemy did... one damaged fighter could do only so much on it's own!
Rene used hir thruster and managed to avoid the second wave of attacks, hir shields going down and hir right wing being shot clean off as shi fired back at the remaining fighters. Three versus one shouldn't be a problem, but when versing Zero's? It was! It was like trying to shoot a fly that was going 10,000 meters per second! Shi screamed out and was sent spinning out of control again when shi was rammed head-on by one of the enemy fighters, which took hir other wing off. "You bastards think this is gonna stop me?!" shi continued to shoot before managing to shoot one down out of blind luck, which left... two to fight hir.
By the time shi got a bead on the next one, shi heard more alarms, siganlling uncloaking ships, but as well rockets locking onto hir ship. They arrived at the same time! Shi looked to hir left and seen about 60 enemy fighters, 12 bombers, and the two cruisers, and to hir right, were about 25 fighters, 3 bombers, and their battlecruiser and cargo carrier escorts. This was about to get VERY nasty.
Like two waves crashing into one-another, the fighter swarms crashed into one-another, fireballs filling the void as slugs flew about the battlefield, plasma bolts struck shields and ate into the hulls of enemy craft, and lasers pinged and tore through armor and shielding like they were nothing. The capital ships, were slowly turning their broadsides to one-another, already opening fire on fighters that dare stray too close.
The cargo carriers however, just hanged back and acted as mobile anti-fighter platforms for anything that came too close to the cap. Occasionally firing their mass drivers at the enemy caps, sending 1 Kg rocks and lord knows what else streaking across the battlefield at .9c
Rene slowly limped hir way back to the battlecruiser, docking and skidding to a halt before jumping out and collapsing on the deck, only to have a pair of medics haul hir butt up off the floor. Shi had a broken arm and two fractured ribs from being smacked around.
Jen shook her head slowly and watched the battle rage on before rockets and slugs began to ping off of the shields of the ship. "Return fire, aim for their reactors" she says before turning and heading for the lifts.
Bright yellowish-green beams of energy were fired from the side of the battlecruiser, followed by several ultraviolet colored lasers and slugs from medium range autocannons and railguns. The first of the cruiser's shields going down and a few rounds impacting against the armor, leaving pock marks all across the outer hull of the ship. "Direct hits confirmed on the RSE Yamato, 6 shells confirmed hitting near reactor. Shields down on target!"
"Go for the kill then My Comrades!" shouts Tomas over the comms channel before the bombers streaked across the battlefield, avoiding rockets and autocannon fire before launching a volley of torpedoes into the side of the ship, striking through to the reactor and causing the ship to begin to self destruct.
"Ship is down!" the bomber leader laughed before diving back into the fray of fighters, which was slowly turning in the favor of the Unity.
The fighters continued to swarm about the void, shooting at one-another while the occasional craft was sent spiraling out of control if not being blown to bits.
Once again, the Battlecruiser fired it's main weapons across the battlefield, blowing up several incoming missiles and torpedoes before going through the ship's shielding and hull, cutting the enemy cruiser in half.
The cruiser itself began to explode throughout it's infrastructure as systems overloaded, and the reactor of the ship went critical. Soon followed by a massive fireball that illuminated the system.
"Enemy capital destroyed, all fighters, lure the enemy strike craft closer and we will shoot them down. This battle is done"
The fighters turned away from their opponents and began to zip back toward their ship, quickly docking as auto cannons and flak filled the void with fire and metal, destroying the remaining troops.
Three hours after the battle
The pilots and crew of the ship had gathered in the ten-forward of the ship to celebrate their victory, everyone from Marines, to Star Forces to Information Bureau were happy they had survived another day... except for one droll figure that sat alone in the corner with a broken arm.
Rene sighed and rubbed hir eyes as shi still couldn't believe how stupid shi was... shi let hirself fall right into a trap laid by The Rising Sun. The Hybrid had seen worse, but that was no excuse for stupid actions.
"Hey you!" says a soft voice as someone walked up beside hir. "Why so gloom?" the female Arctic Fox sat down next to hir, poking a bit at hir arm. "It's a party, we're suppose to be happy because we won"
"I deserve no happiness right now, I was stupid and let myself fall into a trap"
Jennifer rolled her eyes and shook her head before hugging the Hybrid close. her Violet eyes closing half way as she cooed into hir ear. "Just shush... so what, you messed up, we all have done that" she smiled and lifted hir head to look into hir eyes. "You can still pilot a runabout... and speaking of which, I heard the Captain has a job for us"
Rene smiled as shi stared into her violet eyes, hir ringed tail coming around and curling around hir waist. "Well this is true..." shi shrugged a bit before looking away again, only to look back when shi heard the Captain may have a job for them. "Yea..? What?"
"We have three runabouts onboard, and according to him, he wants you, me, and two other crew members to take the runabouts with a squad of marines, and search the nearby systems. We could cover four times as much ground than our current strategy with one system at a time"
Rene blinked once again. They really wanted hir to pilot a runabout and go out on hir own? "That... sounds okay I guess, though why did he choose me?"
"Why not? You still got one good arm. Now quit moping and come on, he wants to see us as soon as we can see him" She stood up and dragged hir up gently by hir good arm, patting hir on the back before taking hir hand and heading for the bridge
On the Bridge
The two walked onto the bridge as Jennifer literally pushed Rene along, stopping hir in front of the captain.
"And what's the deal here?" Asks Walker, looking over his shoulder at the two as he slowly turned around to face the two, giving an Imperial salute to them both, a gold headband with four wings being seen on his head.
"Sir, shi believes shi is unworthy of the mission because shi fell into a trap" Jennifer gave a glare toward hir as she moved to stand beside hir, returning the salute.
Rene returned the salute, but said nothing. Shi was too embarrassed to speak.
"Nonsense! It's exactly why I want you to go on it, so you can spot traps before they happen" he smiles and reaches out, patting hir on the shoulder with a soft chuckle. "If it wasn't for you, we would of never gotten all the excitement we did. It's not every day we get to shoot at two Rising Sun cruisers and live to tell about it"
"But sir! I still a-"
"Shush, you are too worthy, now then. Your partners on this mission will be Jennifer, Kimmy, Christopher and S.A.D.A.R. Squad 13." he pats hir on the shoulder once again. "You go have fun now... I don't wanna see your butt back on this bridge by any less than three weeks!"
Rene gave a low grumble as shi heard that there was absolutely no way out of it. "...Sir!" shi saluted him before giving a forced smile, before turning away and walking toward the exit.
"Certain we shouldn't tell hir Rose is on the mission as well?"
"I'm sure shi'll find out soon enough..."
1 hour later, in the hangar
Rene was packing supplies into the craft, feeling a bit better seeing shi had killed some things on the holodeck before coming here. "Okay... food rations... ammo for weapons..." shi looked at the crates. "check, check... interchangable uniforms" shi looked at the wash rack. "Check!"
"A hug for your best friend?" says a voice from behind hir, before a rose colored Fennec-Cross hugged hir from behind. "I heard from a little birdie you were depressed" shi pouted a bit at hir. "Whuzzap?"
"It's nothing Rose, don't you have grunts to look after?" shi says, flicking hir tail about slightly as shi continued to go down the check list of things.
"Well DUH! I am a Sargent." shi smiled before walking up the ramp and sitting down at the conference table. The craft could easily hold 10 people without being a cramp... had the living space for them too. "But I do believe I have a surprise for you Renren"
Rene blinked and wriggled hir nose. "Yea? What surprise?" shi looked up from hir list as a paper airplane flew at hir, immediately catching it with hir teeth and grabbing hold of it with one hand, unfolding it to see what it was. "...you're fulla shit, you probably just did this to make me fe-" shi looked at the bottom of the paper and seen Walker's signature. "...oh... it... it is real" shi laughed nervously before grinning wide. "So I get to bug you all throughout the trip, huh?"
Rose chuckled softly. Shi and Rene had a hell of a history together... fighting together on Pyros IV, defending Sirius against a 4th Nomad war, serving in the peacekeeping efforts of Mirinas... and now this. As hir name would imply, hir body was covered in soft rose reddish-pink fur, and hir ears would glow bright red, as hir father's had done. Hir eyes were red, also like hir father's.
Rene however, was similar to Rose, but instead of being a red, shi was tan, with brown leopard spots all over hir body. Hir tail was long and ringed, just like a Lemur tail. Shi looked like a Fennec for the most part. Hir left eye was aqua blue, and the right bright gold.
"Alright you two, don't go getting mushy just before a mission" says Jennifer as she walked up to the two of them, walking up the ramp with another ammunition crate. "Apparently Walker is expecting us to start a war while we're away!" Jen's white fur honestly made her a ghost amongst the ship. Even people with white fur themselves did not compare to the ghostly white fur that covered the Vixen's body. Her eyes were Violet and seemed to glow in the light like two precious gemstones.
"Psh, those two will be at one-another's side throughout this trip!" a male Wolftaur came trotting up to the trio, two plasma cannons locked at his sides with a power pack attacked to his backs. Christopher was a very mean looking Wolf, and the fact he was a Taur didn't help one bit to make this battle hardened corporal any less intimidating. He has a bionic eye in place of his real one on the left side, an old wound that he had gotten from a wound in Europe thanks to a sniper. He was covered in pure black fur and had some severe scars here and there where one could see the past he had was hard. Yet under that hard exterior was a kind soul that wouldn't dare hurt anyone without a reason "Now uh... can someone PLEASE get this thing off me?"
Jennifer giggled softly and walked over to Christopher, unbuckling the equipment from him before lifting it up and off of him. "There!" she walked into the ship and put it in the weapons locker with the other weapons. "Why on earth did you have those on you anyways?" she asks, looking back at the Taur
Christopher chuckled a bit. "Because I needed to practice my targeting with this thing" he taps his eye. "I managed to shoot down a couple of those Zeros as they were buzzing about"
"Well that's just luck!" Rene stuck hir tongue out at Chris before giggling a bit, walking up the ramp and sitting down next to Rose, giving a happy sigh as she stared up at the ceiling, only to squeak when the face of a certain lemur took hir by surprise. "H-Hey love! You ready?"
Kimmy giggled and nodded happily before leaning in and picking up her fennec-hybrid. "Yes I am snookums! Lets find this wreck, then maybe..." she leaned in and whispered something into hir ear.
Rene blinked a few times when shi heard the whisper, giving a meek smile before giggling softly. "That'd have to wait till we return" shi stood on hir two feet before giggling a bit at the lemur.
Kimmy of course, was your Average lemur, and obviously taller than Rene. And also had a history with Rene, and Jen, and well... everyone! She made her earnings as a computer specialist and it was a common fact that there was not one system that she couldn't crack. She stood 5'2", average weight, green hair, and blue eyes.
Jen took a headcount once the rest of the Marine squad showed up, smiling when she seen it was an even 10, but knew in the case of Kimmy and Rene, there would be space for 11 people. "Hey, mind if I drag one of the students along?" she asks, looking at the other members, seeing most of them shrug. "Alrighty! I will be right back!" she then ran off, returning a few minutes later with a Fennec-Chakat hybrid.
Glowtail was 3'7" on all fours, and was an average looking chakat, other than for the large, glowing ears, and glowing tail tip. Shi was covered in tanish-red fur and has purple eyes. "Hello everyone!" shi grins wide and waves to them all. "I get to come along right?"
Rene nodded a bit in unison with Kimmy. "But of course deary," they both say before looking at one-another, both giggling before hugging one-another tighter.
"Well, shouldn't we get this show on the road?" asks Chris, perking a brow and walking up the ramp and into the cockpit, followed by the other marines who took random positions inside the ship.
"Fair enough, we got everything, so lets GO!" Jen grinned and padded up the ramp with the kitten, the doors closing once they were in.
The craft wirred to life and pulsed it's way out of the hangar, going for minimum safe distance before entering phase space, bound for another star system.
2 A.S./1010 A.U.
Former Trinary Star Cluster 88129
HADES GATES
HADES GATES
Three neutron stars. Three former lights of heaven, destroyed by Unity in an attempt to send a message to the Galaxy they were not to be challenged... it worked, for the most part. The 16 planets that were orbiting the stars, which were all under the control of the Greater Galactic Reich, all gone, nothing left behind except debris, and three dead stars.
"There is NOTHING here!" shouts one of the pilots as the patrol of three fighters made their way through yet another debris field, seeing nothing except the shattered remains of a planet, and the twisted, and mangled wrecks of a GGR fleet. "No Unitarian ships that were destroyed, no signs of life... nothing except stinking radiation from the super novas"
"Oh quit your bitching Tomas" says Rene as shi flew past a mostly in tact battleship, hir fighter's shields taking in the force of a few explosions from the ship, dropping a few drone mines behind hir craft before boostering off, the mines detonating against the battleship and causing a chain reaction behind hir fighter and destroying the already unstable battleship.
A ping came across the communications channel for the patrol. "Are you three just about done, we just picked up two ships entering the system from the other side of the debris field, we'd like to get a move on and cloak before they have a chance to notice us"
Rene grumbled a bit as shi tapped hir headset. "Almost done command, we have two more fields to check and we will be home just in time for dinner"
"Well do hurry up, the Reich could be listening" the channel then closed again. The fact that they could be listening was eerie enough for the squadrons to start to rush about, using everything they could to hurry their search up for the lost ship. If it was even here!
Tomas zipped up to Rene's left side and evened his craft out. "I say we should just head on back... it's getting too dangerous for us to stick around here. Even the radiation is starting to make our shields flux a bit.
"I know, I know, but it is our duty to find and recover this ship... to leave our job only ninety percent done means we failed. You can head back, I will hunt the fields until I am satisified..." Rene glared over at him and boosted ahead, getting up to about 900 meters per second in speed before cutting hir engines, beginning to drift toward the other field as shi activated hir cloaking device. One thing shi thanked their allies of Rheinland for was these beautiful machines called Valkyries. They were sleek, easy to throw together, could hold a vareity of weapons, and were faster than any other strike craft this side of the galaxy. Not to mention the addition of a cloaking device that hid them from heat, visual, radiation, and infra-red detection.
As shi approached the field, shi seen the two ships coming in fast, two missle cruisers... they weren't from the GGR from the looks of it, but from another power, an ally of the GGR: The Empire of The Rising Sun
"Crap..." shi mutters before hiding behind a large chunk of rock, hir cloaking device failing and showing a ghosted image of hir ship before it came back up. Maybe they didn't notice...
The two cruisers floated past hir scanning the debris field for something... did they notice? Was shi going to be caught? After the cruisers moved on, shi let out a sigh of relief, only to see the white plasma burners of fighters entering the field. Great... and shi couldn't take pictures or use any other equipment while cloaked!
Shi crept out before heading for the ship debris field, hir cloaking device being picked up and alarms sounding off as a missle locked onto hir fighter. "Shiiit!" shi uncloaked and dodged just as the rocket zipped past, exploding against the hull of the destroyed ship, spinning around and seeing hir opponent: Seven Zero Z-IV's.
"Attention Unitarian Scum, stand down or you WILL be destroyed!" barked the leader of the squadron as they surrounded hir. "It's over Ringtail Demon... We have you."
Shi couldn't help but smirk at their words, giving a wide grin as hir fighter spuna full 360, opening fire with all weapons and putting dents in them, before shooting upward as they retaliated, causing a few of their own men to go down in the cross fire. "You don't have jack SQUID!" shi laughs before divebombing the panicking fighters, blowing a third out of the void before odds really turned into a real dogfight.
"You WILL perish! This is Gamma six, requesting reinforcements, we have found the Unitarian Ringtail!"
Rene heard the reinforcements request and knew that was coming for trouble. "BRING IT ON YOU RED SUN BASTARDS!" shi shouts on all channels, knowing they would hear hir. Shi fell in behind a fourth Zero and opened fire with unguided rockets, blowing one of it's wings off and sending it into an out of control spin, before smiling when shi seen the fireball from the explosion.
The leader of the Zero's growled and fell in behind the Valkyrie, firing wildly before managing to blow out one of hir engines, grinning wide as hir ship went into a wild spin, only to gasp when hir rear turret fired back at him, scoring a cockpit hit, and blowing the craft into three different pieces.
Rene growled and fought for control of hir craft as hir left engine flamed and finally exploded, blowing a sizable hole in hir craft as shi took aim at the next craft as it foolishly dived at hir, firing wildly and missing every shot except one, which did nothing against it's shields. "May day, May day, this is Unitarian Heavy Fighter Black 10, requesting reinforcements on my position, I have lost my left engine and am under heavy attack"
"This is Black 10-2, we are headed to you, hold tight!" Tomas pushed his craft to the limit as he streaked across the void with other fighters following behind him, red plasma trails flying behind him as he burned his afterburners. He just hoped he would arrive before the enemy did... one damaged fighter could do only so much on it's own!
Rene used hir thruster and managed to avoid the second wave of attacks, hir shields going down and hir right wing being shot clean off as shi fired back at the remaining fighters. Three versus one shouldn't be a problem, but when versing Zero's? It was! It was like trying to shoot a fly that was going 10,000 meters per second! Shi screamed out and was sent spinning out of control again when shi was rammed head-on by one of the enemy fighters, which took hir other wing off. "You bastards think this is gonna stop me?!" shi continued to shoot before managing to shoot one down out of blind luck, which left... two to fight hir.
By the time shi got a bead on the next one, shi heard more alarms, siganlling uncloaking ships, but as well rockets locking onto hir ship. They arrived at the same time! Shi looked to hir left and seen about 60 enemy fighters, 12 bombers, and the two cruisers, and to hir right, were about 25 fighters, 3 bombers, and their battlecruiser and cargo carrier escorts. This was about to get VERY nasty.
Like two waves crashing into one-another, the fighter swarms crashed into one-another, fireballs filling the void as slugs flew about the battlefield, plasma bolts struck shields and ate into the hulls of enemy craft, and lasers pinged and tore through armor and shielding like they were nothing. The capital ships, were slowly turning their broadsides to one-another, already opening fire on fighters that dare stray too close.
The cargo carriers however, just hanged back and acted as mobile anti-fighter platforms for anything that came too close to the cap. Occasionally firing their mass drivers at the enemy caps, sending 1 Kg rocks and lord knows what else streaking across the battlefield at .9c
Rene slowly limped hir way back to the battlecruiser, docking and skidding to a halt before jumping out and collapsing on the deck, only to have a pair of medics haul hir butt up off the floor. Shi had a broken arm and two fractured ribs from being smacked around.
Jen shook her head slowly and watched the battle rage on before rockets and slugs began to ping off of the shields of the ship. "Return fire, aim for their reactors" she says before turning and heading for the lifts.
Bright yellowish-green beams of energy were fired from the side of the battlecruiser, followed by several ultraviolet colored lasers and slugs from medium range autocannons and railguns. The first of the cruiser's shields going down and a few rounds impacting against the armor, leaving pock marks all across the outer hull of the ship. "Direct hits confirmed on the RSE Yamato, 6 shells confirmed hitting near reactor. Shields down on target!"
"Go for the kill then My Comrades!" shouts Tomas over the comms channel before the bombers streaked across the battlefield, avoiding rockets and autocannon fire before launching a volley of torpedoes into the side of the ship, striking through to the reactor and causing the ship to begin to self destruct.
"Ship is down!" the bomber leader laughed before diving back into the fray of fighters, which was slowly turning in the favor of the Unity.
The fighters continued to swarm about the void, shooting at one-another while the occasional craft was sent spiraling out of control if not being blown to bits.
Once again, the Battlecruiser fired it's main weapons across the battlefield, blowing up several incoming missiles and torpedoes before going through the ship's shielding and hull, cutting the enemy cruiser in half.
The cruiser itself began to explode throughout it's infrastructure as systems overloaded, and the reactor of the ship went critical. Soon followed by a massive fireball that illuminated the system.
"Enemy capital destroyed, all fighters, lure the enemy strike craft closer and we will shoot them down. This battle is done"
The fighters turned away from their opponents and began to zip back toward their ship, quickly docking as auto cannons and flak filled the void with fire and metal, destroying the remaining troops.
Three hours after the battle
The pilots and crew of the ship had gathered in the ten-forward of the ship to celebrate their victory, everyone from Marines, to Star Forces to Information Bureau were happy they had survived another day... except for one droll figure that sat alone in the corner with a broken arm.
Rene sighed and rubbed hir eyes as shi still couldn't believe how stupid shi was... shi let hirself fall right into a trap laid by The Rising Sun. The Hybrid had seen worse, but that was no excuse for stupid actions.
"Hey you!" says a soft voice as someone walked up beside hir. "Why so gloom?" the female Arctic Fox sat down next to hir, poking a bit at hir arm. "It's a party, we're suppose to be happy because we won"
"I deserve no happiness right now, I was stupid and let myself fall into a trap"
Jennifer rolled her eyes and shook her head before hugging the Hybrid close. her Violet eyes closing half way as she cooed into hir ear. "Just shush... so what, you messed up, we all have done that" she smiled and lifted hir head to look into hir eyes. "You can still pilot a runabout... and speaking of which, I heard the Captain has a job for us"
Rene smiled as shi stared into her violet eyes, hir ringed tail coming around and curling around hir waist. "Well this is true..." shi shrugged a bit before looking away again, only to look back when shi heard the Captain may have a job for them. "Yea..? What?"
"We have three runabouts onboard, and according to him, he wants you, me, and two other crew members to take the runabouts with a squad of marines, and search the nearby systems. We could cover four times as much ground than our current strategy with one system at a time"
Rene blinked once again. They really wanted hir to pilot a runabout and go out on hir own? "That... sounds okay I guess, though why did he choose me?"
"Why not? You still got one good arm. Now quit moping and come on, he wants to see us as soon as we can see him" She stood up and dragged hir up gently by hir good arm, patting hir on the back before taking hir hand and heading for the bridge
On the Bridge
The two walked onto the bridge as Jennifer literally pushed Rene along, stopping hir in front of the captain.
"And what's the deal here?" Asks Walker, looking over his shoulder at the two as he slowly turned around to face the two, giving an Imperial salute to them both, a gold headband with four wings being seen on his head.
"Sir, shi believes shi is unworthy of the mission because shi fell into a trap" Jennifer gave a glare toward hir as she moved to stand beside hir, returning the salute.
Rene returned the salute, but said nothing. Shi was too embarrassed to speak.
"Nonsense! It's exactly why I want you to go on it, so you can spot traps before they happen" he smiles and reaches out, patting hir on the shoulder with a soft chuckle. "If it wasn't for you, we would of never gotten all the excitement we did. It's not every day we get to shoot at two Rising Sun cruisers and live to tell about it"
"But sir! I still a-"
"Shush, you are too worthy, now then. Your partners on this mission will be Jennifer, Kimmy, Christopher and S.A.D.A.R. Squad 13." he pats hir on the shoulder once again. "You go have fun now... I don't wanna see your butt back on this bridge by any less than three weeks!"
Rene gave a low grumble as shi heard that there was absolutely no way out of it. "...Sir!" shi saluted him before giving a forced smile, before turning away and walking toward the exit.
"Certain we shouldn't tell hir Rose is on the mission as well?"
"I'm sure shi'll find out soon enough..."
1 hour later, in the hangar
Rene was packing supplies into the craft, feeling a bit better seeing shi had killed some things on the holodeck before coming here. "Okay... food rations... ammo for weapons..." shi looked at the crates. "check, check... interchangable uniforms" shi looked at the wash rack. "Check!"
"A hug for your best friend?" says a voice from behind hir, before a rose colored Fennec-Cross hugged hir from behind. "I heard from a little birdie you were depressed" shi pouted a bit at hir. "Whuzzap?"
"It's nothing Rose, don't you have grunts to look after?" shi says, flicking hir tail about slightly as shi continued to go down the check list of things.
"Well DUH! I am a Sargent." shi smiled before walking up the ramp and sitting down at the conference table. The craft could easily hold 10 people without being a cramp... had the living space for them too. "But I do believe I have a surprise for you Renren"
Rene blinked and wriggled hir nose. "Yea? What surprise?" shi looked up from hir list as a paper airplane flew at hir, immediately catching it with hir teeth and grabbing hold of it with one hand, unfolding it to see what it was. "...you're fulla shit, you probably just did this to make me fe-" shi looked at the bottom of the paper and seen Walker's signature. "...oh... it... it is real" shi laughed nervously before grinning wide. "So I get to bug you all throughout the trip, huh?"
Rose chuckled softly. Shi and Rene had a hell of a history together... fighting together on Pyros IV, defending Sirius against a 4th Nomad war, serving in the peacekeeping efforts of Mirinas... and now this. As hir name would imply, hir body was covered in soft rose reddish-pink fur, and hir ears would glow bright red, as hir father's had done. Hir eyes were red, also like hir father's.
Rene however, was similar to Rose, but instead of being a red, shi was tan, with brown leopard spots all over hir body. Hir tail was long and ringed, just like a Lemur tail. Shi looked like a Fennec for the most part. Hir left eye was aqua blue, and the right bright gold.
"Alright you two, don't go getting mushy just before a mission" says Jennifer as she walked up to the two of them, walking up the ramp with another ammunition crate. "Apparently Walker is expecting us to start a war while we're away!" Jen's white fur honestly made her a ghost amongst the ship. Even people with white fur themselves did not compare to the ghostly white fur that covered the Vixen's body. Her eyes were Violet and seemed to glow in the light like two precious gemstones.
"Psh, those two will be at one-another's side throughout this trip!" a male Wolftaur came trotting up to the trio, two plasma cannons locked at his sides with a power pack attacked to his backs. Christopher was a very mean looking Wolf, and the fact he was a Taur didn't help one bit to make this battle hardened corporal any less intimidating. He has a bionic eye in place of his real one on the left side, an old wound that he had gotten from a wound in Europe thanks to a sniper. He was covered in pure black fur and had some severe scars here and there where one could see the past he had was hard. Yet under that hard exterior was a kind soul that wouldn't dare hurt anyone without a reason "Now uh... can someone PLEASE get this thing off me?"
Jennifer giggled softly and walked over to Christopher, unbuckling the equipment from him before lifting it up and off of him. "There!" she walked into the ship and put it in the weapons locker with the other weapons. "Why on earth did you have those on you anyways?" she asks, looking back at the Taur
Christopher chuckled a bit. "Because I needed to practice my targeting with this thing" he taps his eye. "I managed to shoot down a couple of those Zeros as they were buzzing about"
"Well that's just luck!" Rene stuck hir tongue out at Chris before giggling a bit, walking up the ramp and sitting down next to Rose, giving a happy sigh as she stared up at the ceiling, only to squeak when the face of a certain lemur took hir by surprise. "H-Hey love! You ready?"
Kimmy giggled and nodded happily before leaning in and picking up her fennec-hybrid. "Yes I am snookums! Lets find this wreck, then maybe..." she leaned in and whispered something into hir ear.
Rene blinked a few times when shi heard the whisper, giving a meek smile before giggling softly. "That'd have to wait till we return" shi stood on hir two feet before giggling a bit at the lemur.
Kimmy of course, was your Average lemur, and obviously taller than Rene. And also had a history with Rene, and Jen, and well... everyone! She made her earnings as a computer specialist and it was a common fact that there was not one system that she couldn't crack. She stood 5'2", average weight, green hair, and blue eyes.
Jen took a headcount once the rest of the Marine squad showed up, smiling when she seen it was an even 10, but knew in the case of Kimmy and Rene, there would be space for 11 people. "Hey, mind if I drag one of the students along?" she asks, looking at the other members, seeing most of them shrug. "Alrighty! I will be right back!" she then ran off, returning a few minutes later with a Fennec-Chakat hybrid.
Glowtail was 3'7" on all fours, and was an average looking chakat, other than for the large, glowing ears, and glowing tail tip. Shi was covered in tanish-red fur and has purple eyes. "Hello everyone!" shi grins wide and waves to them all. "I get to come along right?"
Rene nodded a bit in unison with Kimmy. "But of course deary," they both say before looking at one-another, both giggling before hugging one-another tighter.
"Well, shouldn't we get this show on the road?" asks Chris, perking a brow and walking up the ramp and into the cockpit, followed by the other marines who took random positions inside the ship.
"Fair enough, we got everything, so lets GO!" Jen grinned and padded up the ramp with the kitten, the doors closing once they were in.
The craft wirred to life and pulsed it's way out of the hangar, going for minimum safe distance before entering phase space, bound for another star system.