The Skyshadow

[Kingdoms of Cal]

Far up in orbit a small commonwealth spy satellite was doing a pass, monitoring the situation. It sent home what it had seen what the cruiser did next was critical, if it was a rough element of the government then it would fire. Any sane ship would fire if it saw a helpless surfaced sub and civilians in the water being attacked when they had not proved aggressive. Perhaps the Anean ships had been spooked by the deployment of the commonwealth fleets, but hey were still some distance off and this was international waters.

The commonwealth fleet had, thus far not directly engaged anyone aggressively. Though there had been miss-understandings, but once they were resolved the fleet did pull back.

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In the parliamentary complex the within a minute Defence Secretary, Sir Janco Dray left the committee he was in at a rate. Protector Inca was already watching the sat feed.

[The Anean Star Empire]

Admiral Burton Shakir, MPS Megamantics

The cruiser fired 3 shells at us. All of which hit. One of them took out the 2nd turret, one bounced off, and another took out one of the two useless smokestacks. Those are mostly for decoration anyway.

After sinking the sub, we kept firing as we headed north, toward Holmbergsvania. If they're smart, they won't block us. With our back to the cruiser, we fired 6 of the guns at them. The cruiser was sunk by the 4th.

The CEO is going to be pissed for sinking his ship.

A heavy cruiser turned to us and began to follow. I won't sink this one since he'd probably take a lot out of my check for this.

The machine guns and such continued to fire on the survivors, as planned, until we were out of range.

I sure hope IX can explain this one.

[aatuylva]

"Splendid Mr. Valsquez! Just splendid! It was magnificent! The raw power, the cunning, and the emotion on their faces, it was splendiferous! I just don't know how I could possibly repay you...oh, it's right about here, that's the spot.."

Tirano Jhonas. Short, wiry, and pale, he is perhaps the most atypical Accallian that there could ever be, and the garish coat he was wearing didn't help things. At the moment he was pointing to a spot on a map, near Holmbergsvania.

"A small alcove near Holmbergsvania...there, we will repaint the ship, and float into the port, a prop-ship for my film, Jungle Champion 3, and we'll coast into port, having filmed the scene we needed. All records will say we've been there for several days, all we have to do is touch your lot with a little make-up to look like the stunt doubles of the actors. In a few days, we'll switch out the ships after you've emptied your holds...and I've filled mine, and we can go about our business until the next shoot...sounds good to you? And...don't worry about evidence...I paid someone good money...to take care of that problem."

[Aluez]

"Very good" Aki smiled and flicked his tail slightly before looking at his navigation officer. "As soon as we are within range, lower our approach and touch down on the beach" he smiled before looking at the director. "Think we should spray paint the containers as well?"

[aatuylva]

"That would perhaps be best, I'll have one of my boys come up with a stencil that matches Aatuylvan freight containers or something...no worries, no worries..."

He paced back and forth, licking his lips before he jumped up.

"Yes!!! That's what I forgot, one moment..."

He began rifling through his pockets, presenting an aged bronze key to Aki.

"Here you go, the key to the chest containing your payment...I do hope it's enough, it takes quite a bit of arms to get so many diamonds...it is waiting in one of the freight boxes where we are headed."

[Aluez]

Aki nodded and took the key, slipping it around his neck after tying a string around it as he grinned down at it. "You could of put a diamond at the center of it too, but this is good" he smiles before patting the director on the back with a hearty laugh. "The Cali have no clue what hit them, and luckily no one will ever know themselves!"

[aatuylva]

He almost stumbled, a half-hearted chuckle coming from one of his assistants before he gave them an angry look.

"Yes..eheh. I think that's the cove there, now. My people are ready with the canisters, you can see some of them...almost home-free good friend, almost home-free.."

[Aluez]

Aki nodded and pointed at the navigational officer. "Down to the water we go!" he says as the ship began to slowly lower itself from the clouds above, gently touching down in the water before scraping itself up onto the beach and coming to rest there, the engines of the massive craft powering down before the crew began to paint over the markings of the containers with paint guns.

Judy hummed happily as she stood up and smiled at the director. "I have no idea how to thank you for funding us!" she grins before giving a bow to them both, walking out to get some fresh air.

[aatuylva]

"Oh, don't you worry Mr. Valsquez, just keep your ship around in case I need you for a quick getaway...ah, there we go."

A light crane had been set up and loaded a large freight container into the holds of the Skyshadow, the people quickly folding up the crane in order to drive it back into the caverns they had set up in.

"My make-up people should be here soon...I hope you don't mind the masquerade, it's for our cover..but you'll like the color I picked out for you, most certainly!"

[Kingdoms of Cal]

The commonwealth fleet changed it was acting as hunting group, but now the angle and satellite's had confirmed where the craft lickly to be. It was forming into an attack formation.

The angle II's left a string of pearls con tale in the stratosphere as they zeroed in became closer. and started to intersect

[Kingdoms of Cal]

OOC: tell that to the blackbird.

[aatuylva]

OOC Edit: If they're flying from wherever why don't you put that in your fscking POSTS?!
That's the beef I have with it. Instead of having the pilot get in, or receive orders to change flightpaths, you just have them pop up, which is annoying. Bah whatever.

[Kingdoms of Cal]

OOC: flying from Starrus nu at hypersonic speeds in the stratosphere, even a blackbird that is old tech there isn't a missile that can shoot one down. They are simply to high and too fast, well that and unlike satellites can change direction quickly. The Angle was a aurora like craft the angle II is an improved version, stealthy to a degree but still far to fast and high to hit.

[Holmbergsvania]

Holmbergsvanian Defense Minister Huron Koenig

Huron Koenig... an unlikely name for a lion, I thought. Oh well. Names aren't really much of a problem, especially now that I possessed the position of Defense Minister. A good job considering my rather humble upbringings in the suburbs of Port Penguin.

"Mr. Koenig, call on Line One- Rainier Wolfesberg Airbase" A secretary called from down the hall. I picked up the phone.

"Defense Minister"

"Hey Huron, this is General Ridgeway from the Port Penguin defense sector, Our PAVE PAWS array picked up a contact matching the description of a possible Cali spy aircraft moving into our airspace"

Huron groaned, Cal. Perfect. Spy plane. Also perfect. It could have been anyone else too, Even Aatuylva.

"We called you up because, well, sir, Cal is a neutral country"

"Not anymore. I have authority to defend the people of this great country, and a spy plane is a threat. Deal with it as you please, General."

"But sir-"

"Yeah, Reagan's job's gonna be a bit tough thanks to me, but oh well, Silly snow leopard needs to be taught how to manage a crisis sometime right?" Huron chuckled. Inter-agency shenanigans with the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

"Roger"

Rainier Wolfesberg Airbase, Port Penguin Sector

With the orders of General Ridgeway now fully set in, well, order, Two pilots ran to their F-22's, and were vectored onto the runway.

"Rapier Flight, this is Rainier Wolfesberg International Tower, you've got a green light for take-off, we'll vector you in, we've got that contact on our radar too. Fly runway heading, climb to 14,000. Watch for traffic out there too, We've got civilian airlines all over the place"

"Rapier Lead copies" The two planes full-throttled as they left the runway, headed into the bright blue skies.

[Kingdoms of Cal]

The Angle II did not change it's course as the fighters were not close enough. It was not clear if the stealth had been compromised yet. The angle II was running faster than most fighters could do, well any, it was a pure breed when it came to speed, and higher than the flight ceiling of any fighter that was not capable of space.

They were concerned that their first defence of stealth might have been breached, that information was valuable intelligence. Holmbergsvania's radar systems were more advanced than the commonwealth thought. The piolet had a paw on the throttles to really open up the crafts engines and run like hell.

The commonwealth liked to keep the actual abilities of the angle II craft quiet, so never had them open up over places where other nations might see the speed they could do.