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Post by raive on Dec 11, 2011 16:26:56 GMT -5
Torran nodded. "All right, Marcus. Thank you for letting me fly with you." He said his good nights to all three of them and made his way to his bunk, where he slept soundly.
When he got up, he quickly showered and showed up at the docking bay. "Marcus? You lead. I've not been to Venom in a while."
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Post by Ace on Dec 15, 2011 15:17:42 GMT -5
Marcus gave Torran a nod. "Ok guys, remember, today our mission is to simply observe the Venom military's activity. This is going to be a spy mission, more or less. So do your best to not be seen. That way Bowman's men will act normally and we will really see what their up to. Report all activities you see to me when we report back to the Great Fox. Now, let's fly!" Marcus concluded.
The Great Fox was just outside of Venom's airspace. Undetected by their radars. Once everyone was in their ships and out in space, Marcus addressed them one more time before the mission began.
(OOC: Nintendo never gave a name to Slippy's son or Peppy's granddaughter who are now members of Star Fox, so I hope you don't mind the names I came up with. If you really want, I have no problem changing them. I don't really care what they're called)
"Ok, I'm going to split you into teams, so we can cover a wider range. Falco and I will take the west side of the military base, Bunny and Trevor, take the south. Ace and Torran, you two take the east. We will meet at the north point. Alright, move out!"
The teams then flew off to their designated areas. Once Ace and Torran reached the east side of the military base, they landed on a flat area of a hillside, overlooking the base. Ace handed Torran a pair of binoculars and grabbed himself a pair as well from his Arwing.
"Ok, let's see what sorts of things Bowman is training his troops for." Ace said and looked through the binoculars.
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Post by raive on Dec 16, 2011 0:23:03 GMT -5
Torran made sure to stay behind Ace the whole time. Since the Gaian was a slower ship, he had to divert some energy from the shields to the engines, something he didn't want to do.
Upon landing on Venom, Torran thanked Ace and looked through the binoculars. "Hmmm... I see them doing standard drills, something like the Cornerian Army would do..." He then saw that anti-air artillery guns were being built around the perimeter. "Shoddy though their work is, those anti-air guns will be a problem if it comes to war. I think we should plant some grenades and destroy them, but Marcus's orders were to observe... hey, wait a second..."
He focused the binoculars. He blinked. "Oh... oh no... I thought they'd disbanded a long time ago." He was focusing on a group of three ships that looked eerily like his own - Wolfen. Two of them were nondescript, while the third had a rose painted on the side - almost like Torran's two crossed flaming swords. He ducked back into the ship, locking onto the insignia with his ship scanner. "Analyze."
The ship did it's work. "Relay to communicator. Link with Ace." Both of their communicators flashed as a disembodied voice spoke. "Target: Rose insignia. Verifying... verified as the insignia of Panther Caroso of Star Wolf."
Torran spoke grimly. "If Star Wolf is here backing up Bowman's troops, we're going to have to take them out. I heard that handling Star Wolf was a major challenge for Star Fox in the past. There are only three ships there... no, we should report back to Marcus. Do you see anything else, Ace? ...wait a minute." He refocused on the compound, seeing the three Star Wolf members. A female wolf, a female kangaroo, and a male panther. "That's them. I could probably snipe them if I had a sniper rifle and if I was trained. Ace, we have to report back to Marcus. And we have to go about it quietly. If they see us, we're dead."
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Post by Ace on Dec 17, 2011 0:26:32 GMT -5
"Wait, what?!" Ace was flustered by Torran saying he spotted Star Wolf down in the military base. So much in fact that he dropped his binoculars and grabbed Torran's in a hurry. "Crap, your right! Ok, let's get out of here carefully and tell Marcus about this. If we're seen, it'll be worse than death." Ace got back into his Arwing and waited for Torran to do the same. He did his best to take off silently, but something went wrong, the earthly ledge below them gave way when their ships left the ground. It caused boulders to crash down. And of course, this didn't go unnoticed.
Ember, down in the military base took immediate notice. "Wha in the world?" She squinted and blocked the sunlight from her eyes to see what happened. She then saw the unmistakable Arwing Alpha, the ship she loathed the most, even more so, it's pilot. "That saucy bastard!" Ember growled and then jumped in her Wolfen Outback and promptly took off after him.
"Shit! She saw me!" Ace said as he saw Ember's ship heading in their direction, full speed. His communicator signaled an incoming transmission.
"You have the balls to show up here, Goldwolf?!" Ember's voice rang out. She then locked onto Ace's ship and fired.
Ace performed a perfectly timed barrel roll and deflected it. Then did a U-turn and headed directly towards Ember and returned fire. "We can't run now, Torran! We have to take them out if we want to get away. And we'll have to do it quickly before Venom's air force has time to get in the skies!"
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Post by Shiori on Dec 17, 2011 0:45:05 GMT -5
OOC: Raive...I appreciate what you're trying to do but please don't forcefully make people join RPs by controlling their characters. I'll roll with it this time, but just kind of making my character appear without my permission is kind of rude
"Wait! where are you-" Shiori called after Ember. She let out a little growl of irritation. "You know there's no stopping her when she's so passionate about something..." Panther said, twiddling a rose in between his fingers.
"In any case...Star Fox is now here and we're going to follow her out. She has to be mad to blindly go out alone without knowledge of who all is out there" Shiori scrambled to her ship, followed by Panther in his. They flew out and found Ace and Ember duking it out and one other ship that neither of them recognized. The mystery ship would have to wait. Stray fire from Ember and Ace's ships were way too close to be getting distracted.
"Panther! Delta maneuvers!" Shiori transmitted. "Heheh...sounds fun~" He responded. The two maneuvered through the cross fire of the dog fight, trying to separate the space between Ember and Ace.
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Post by Ace on Dec 17, 2011 1:28:44 GMT -5
"Back off you, he's mine!" Ember said to Panther before he could even begin to lock on his lazer to Ace's ship. In a rage, Ember discharged a smart bomb. Ace knew what she was up to and immediately shot the bomb before it could come anywhere near his ship. The blast didn't completely destroy Ember's ship, but it was smoking heavily and beginning to stall. She began to spew all sorts of curse words and bang her dash board with her fists.
"What happened? What's going on!" Marcus had flown in with Falco. Bunny and Trevor were close behind.
"What was that explosion?" Trevor asked.
"What did you two do?" Falco said, obviously angry.
"Star Wolf? What are you...? Oh, it doesn't matter now, everyone get to the Great Fox! Venom's air force is launching! We need to leave, NOW." Marcus said and lead everyone into the docking bay - including Star Wolf. The Great Fox fled into space, and began to head home to Corneria.
Once everyone had exited their ships, Marcus addressed them all. "I want a report of what just happened. What you saw, what you did, where that explosion came from! Venom is after us now! General Peppy is going to be furious! We may have speed up this possible war now that we've been discovered!"
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Post by raive on Dec 17, 2011 1:48:02 GMT -5
(OOC: Yeah, sorry, Shiori. I'll try to be more aware of that next time. ^^; If it happens again I'll simply modify my post.)
Torran had made a speedy getaway as this took place. "Oh... no, no no..." and then he had let out a spew of curse words.
Oh, no, Ace and I are going to get flak for this...
Everyone was talking too quickly for him to understand; he followed orders and simply boarded the Great Fox. Once he got out, he hastily tried to explain. "Marcus, their sensors were very high-tech. They would have found us sooner or later. But here's what I saw. They were preparing more for a raid on them, not so much for a raid on Corneria. They were building anti-air guns."
"The explosion was a smart bomb detonation by... whoever the kangaroo is. I don't know her name. Luckily for us, her ship was badly damaged in the explosion."
The situation wasn't his fault, he knew - or at least not totally. But rather than heap the blame on Ace, he decided to take it unto himself. "Marcus, it's my fault. My ship has a bigger profile and gives off more energy. They followed my signature when we took off."
He was then interrupted by a communicator call. He answered. "Gale."
He was instantly hit by the sound of a deep, yelling voice - his commander. "What in the blazes did you just do! Peppy's all riled up and our sensors indicate that Venom's air force is massing! You idiot, you may have just exacerbated the war!"
"Sir, sir, let me explain, it's not my--"
"Don't go heaping the blame on someone else, Gale! I know it was you! And that other Arwing! Ace Goldwolf!"
"Wait... what? How could you possibly know that!"
"I have my sources, Gale, and you can expect me to strip away your mercenary tag away and have the Gaian destroyed! You could even be executed for this!"
At the words "strip away" and "execute", anger and rage blazed in Torran's eyes. "I will not let you do that to me."
"Or what, soldier!"
Torran shut off communications. "My career's in ruins, thanks to this. I'd rather go out guns blazing than be dishonorably discharged." He addressed the group as a whole with this statement. "I can buy you time. If I... if I..." he was losing momentum. While he wanted to do anything, anything that could salvage his career, it also meant dying in battle. Torran was not ready to take that step.
He sat down, defeated. "Never has something like this happened. All my missions have been successes... I mess up at something as big as this, and now look." He held his head in his paws.
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Post by Ace on Dec 17, 2011 2:10:55 GMT -5
"Alright, alright. Things are what they are now. Listen, Torran, I may not be able to take you on as a new member, but your certainty welcome to stay and fly with us if your general discharges you." Marcus said to the crestfallen tiger.
"And what about my ship? This idiot mutt blew my ship up!" Ember said in a rage.
"What? Your blaming me for what happened to your ship?! Your the one who came after me! You crazy - " Ace was defending himself, but then Marcus cut in.
"Knock it off! There will be no fighting on my ship!" Marcus then sighed and pinched the fur between his eyes. "We'll help fix your ship up, Ember. If you agree to stop these attacks on us."
"Hmph...no promises. You owe me parts though!"
"Fine, fine! Trevor, can you help her out?" Marcus asked the frog.
"Yeah, I can lend a hand." Trevor said, he was an expert mechanic like his father, Slippy.
"Ok, ROB, take us home." Marcus said to the robot pilot.
"Yes sir."
"So...Shiori, what were you and your team doing in Venom's military base anyway? Did Bowman hire you for something?" Falco asked her.
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Post by Shiori on Dec 17, 2011 15:17:03 GMT -5
Ember took a slap to the back of the head from Shiori who gave her a look of disapproval and mouthed "You need to chill". She yawned and addressed Falco's question. "Well that's to be seen at this point...Bowman wants us to help patrol their troops and supply aid if need be. Unfortunately for us as Star Wolf, we're a little low on cash so we need some extra income to pay for maintenance and supplies."
"But there's a lot more to it than that. Bowman seems to be getting pretty serious and is starting to mobilize his troops to nearby planets." Panther added. Shiori nodded and then looked around as if she were looking to see if anyone else was around. "I don't agree with what he's doing, but perhaps taking this job will give our team the opportunity to strike them down from the inside" She said a little on the quiet side "But I have to say...If this all stays our little secret, Bowman's downfall might become slightly easier. He can't know what Star Wolf is doing."
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Post by Ace on Dec 17, 2011 23:05:09 GMT -5
"Wait...so your playing the whole, double agent thing? Do you know how risky that is?" Marcus said, very concerned. "Well, we now know that Bowman is quite definitively trying to catch us off guard so he can gain quick control of the Lylat. Something like this just seemed like a matter of time ever since he gained power. I'm going to report all that happened to General Peppy. We should be back home at Corneria by tonight. Tend to your ships and just relax until we're home." Marcus then left the docking bay, followed by Falco.
"So umm...what are you gonna do now Panther?" Bunny said, as she held her hands behind her back and slowly swayed from side to side. Being unintentionally flirtatious. Panther straightened out in a proud looking manner and was about to answer, but Ember cut in.
"Panther is gonna help me fix my ship!" She said and then tossed Panther a wrench.
"Hmph, Panther does not get his paws dirty with oil grease." Panther said and crossed his arms. Ember shot him a look and he then walked over and began to help her remove a burnt plate on her ship.
"Yeah...what are your plans now? Looks like since Ember's ship is broken down here, you'll be staying a little while." Ace said to Shiori.
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Post by raive on Dec 17, 2011 23:23:43 GMT -5
Torran looked up at Marcus's remark. "I... thank you, Marcus. That means a lot. If I can still fly... it's my passion. I wouldn't want the Gaian destroyed."
He listened with rapt attention at Star Wolf's explanation. During the time, he wisely stayed quiet but was a little surprised that Star Wolf was just being hired, rather than playing by Bowman's rules by their own will.
They're a mercenary group, just like Star Fox. And both Star Fox and Star Wolf are cooperating now, it seems. Things may not be lost... except for my career. He sighed audibly. I guess the best thing to do is to wait it out.
He got up and walked over to Panther and Ember. "Ah... I'm pretty good at fixing ships. I built the Gaian over there using the frame of a Mk. III Cornerian Standard Fighter. Panther, let me take care of this, since you apparently don't want to get your paws dirty."
He examined the ship cursorily. "Hmmm... the damage seems to be mostly to the shield generators and the hull itself. The main engine, from the way it was smoking, seems to be damaged as well. All I'll need are these..." he wrote some notes down on a piece of paper and gestured to Trevor. "You're a mechanic as well, right? Or anybody else here's one? Somebody get me these parts so this ship can be flying again."
At first, he hesitated, but since they clearly demonstrated that they weren't hostile, he thought that there would be nothing to lose. "My name is Torran Gale. It's nice to meet you, Panther and...?"
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Post by Ace on Feb 6, 2012 0:13:56 GMT -5
Trevor responded to Torran, "I learned from the Lylat's best! My father Slippy! Lemme see your list." Trevor looked it over and then addressed Torran again. "Ohhh...we need to go get these parts on Titania. Because of her ship's model, they're a little on the 'hard-to-come-by' side. They shouldn't be too expensive, well...for us anyway...but I don't know if I can say the same for Ember, who will be the one buying these parts." Trevor put a lot of emphasis on that last part.
"Shut your mouth hole Toad! I can very well afford replacement parts!" Ember threw a wrench at Trevor, who skillfully avoided it.
"I'll ask Marcus to set course for Titania then." Ace said and left to locate him. He came back fairly quickly. "He says we should be there in a few hours. And to have me tell you to make yourselves at home." Ace directed that towards Star Wolf.
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Post by raive on Feb 6, 2012 19:20:01 GMT -5
Torran nodded, making sure to retire to his temporary quarters that looked as though they'd become permanent. Though as he walked, he had a sudden thought. He looked through his call log on his communicator, scanning it for the most recent call. He found it: Commander Etir. And the signal had come from...
Venom.
Torran stopped dead. What was his commander doing on Venom? He hastened to find Marcus or Ace. Once he found one of them, he would tell them.
He soon found Ace. "Ace! The call, the call from my commander... it came from Venom! He's on Venom!"
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Post by Ace on Feb 6, 2012 19:42:52 GMT -5
"Wait, but...I thought he sent you to do scouting there...why would he be there? Was he testing you or something?" Ace asked, just as flustered as Torran was.
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Post by raive on Feb 6, 2012 19:59:53 GMT -5
Torran's tail whipped in agitation. "I don't know, Ace. He... that could be it, but I get the feeling that something's wrong here... but that couldn't be. He's with the Cornerian military forces... Ace, do you think he might be in league with... with Bowman?" Torran was loathe to bring that up, but it was always a possibility.
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