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Uncharted Skies
Piemanlives:
--Scout Wing--
"Yeah," Davis took in a deep breath. "Kei would still kick both our asses."
"Yup."
There was a lengthy silence as the two of them circled about in the sky. Eventually Tranquility and the Crimson Dragoon passed them by on their way towards the downed airmen.
"Well, come on lets head back."
"Right behind you." Bit to the left there Antonio.
--Hanger Bay--
Davis and Antonio touched down on the deck in relatively short order after their mock dog fights. The hanger crews began working on their craft as the two of them went over to where Farris was... most definitely sleeping. The two of them shared a look before nodding with horrible grins on their faces.
--5 Minutes later--
Farris woke up from his short nap. It was then, he noted with absolute horror, that both Davis and Antonio's planes where sitting in their maintenance hanger. He sighed and brought a hand up to his face to feel what stupid prank they'd played, typically Kei was the professional of their group, of the few days they'd known each other at least. Still, Davis and Antonio had hit it off in ways one would expect two idiots to get together. Which was kind of insulting, Davis was a rather intelligent guy and despite his personality Antonio was a sharp one as well. His hand made it to his altered visage and he let out an even deeper sigh as he felt the fluffy beard on his face.
"Really?"
"Yes.""Pretty much yeah."
He looked back to see the two of them sharing a meal on a maintenance cart. The two of them smiled at him before going back to their food.
"Uhg." That was when he realized, "Wait, where's Kei and Courage."
The pair stopped eating, looked him, then to each other, the three of continued trading glances until Antonio shrugged.
"Eh." He held out a third sandwich. "Want one?"
--Galley--
"I have no duties right now." Amelia offered her arm out.
Ms. Belle was confused until she saw a familiar translucent blob float down from the ceiling. Andromeda grasped onto Amelia's upper arm before migrating up to her shoulder. Her dropped quietly as she addressed her.
"Shall we?"
Carn:
Ulric's Lab
"Fighting after amputation? It wouldn't surprise me. This is the first sample I've been able to take since we separated, roughly four years. Before that, over a period of two years I was able to get two dozen samples. I first noticed the irregularity after patching him up, his blood had that odd look. Unfortunately I didn't have the education, nor the equipment to take and examine a sample. This is the first post combat sample I've acquired, all the rest were taken at rest."
Galley
"And if you idiots ever do this again, then I will personally join in! Dismissed!"
After having chewed out the miscreant crew, Alister heads up to the bridge to discuss this with Reagan.
The crew is idle, they're itching for a scrap and are undisciplined. We need to divert that kind of energy, or there will be more incidents.
Hangar Bay
James and John roar with laughter at the sight of Faris.
"That's brilliant!"
"But we'd,"
"Have gone with,
"A more creative color."
BdrLineAzn:
Tranquility
Emil Ansager...hmm, Frey in thought as he eyes the man up and down, Oh code named Strayed from CRIES, no wonder he thinks I'm a Captain, deviated from missions one too many maybe he deviated from the briefings as well.
"Well welcome aboard Lord Ansager," he finally addresses the man, "Well escort you and your companion to our main ship where we can discuss your situation."
Waving a hand to the gunner, he places his weapon to safe and proceeds to unload it. One of the envies tosses a ladder over board where Emil and Selenia uses to climb.
"Captain Kasparov, I picked up two new passengers. We are going to head back to the Shadow." he says on the radio.
"Understood Commander."
"But don't worry, I'll send another ship out."
Laughter is heard as Alexi tries to make out his next sentence, Me worried, you Barons have a funny sense of humor."
Giving a small chuckle, Frey changes the frequency to the Bridge, "Bridge, Tranquility, Mr. Allen we retrieve the stranglers and are proceeding to Hanger Bay to dock."
"I will inform Hanger Bay for your arrival. And I assume you want a second escort out?"
"You know me too well."
"Copy, at the moment Mr. Culvin is available. He will be up shortly."
Satisfied, Frey lifts the Goldfish off the ground and follows Alexi's Galleon back to the transport.
Hanger Bay
After being informed of the details of the tank and actually be inside the vehicle, Courage and Kei return only to find a fully bearded Farris and two smug face pilots holding their laughter.
"And I thought my friends pranks are bad,mow do you manage with them?" he asks Kei.
"Yes how do you manage them Kei," says an exasperated female voice coming down the bay.
The pair turn and sees Kei's mechanic, Marie, walking toward them.
"Oh I don't know," Kei shrugs, "Someone must be the adult at times."
Galley
Catching up to the female before she exit the room, Belle asks the female, "Shall we what?"
Ulric's Quaters
Before continuing with more tests, the PA system turns on, "Captain Culvin, you are needed to relieve one of the escorts. I repeat, Captain Culvin you are needed to relieve an escort.", says Allen.
"Whooops look like I'm needed. You can try to find out but this is all I can do at the moment."
BdrLineAzn:
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Eagle's Shadow
As Frey nears the transport from its port side, the Hanger Bay door on this side opens and emerge a Junker. As the two ships pass, Ulric on the Junker waves to Frey who gives a simple two finger salute. Entering the transport, he soon cuts the throttles to allow the Goldfish to coax in slowly and be handled by the waiting crane operators. Several loud thuds indicating the ship as been latched properly, the massive doors start to close as the cranes manuver the ship into its holding berthing.
Once secured, Frey dismisses his crew with a nod and starts to de board the airship.
"Lord Ansager, if you and your acomplice would follow me. We have some things to discuss in my quarters." he calls behind him.
Frey's Quarters
After several minutes of walking from the Hanger Bay and to the living compartments, Frey shuts and lock the door behind him as he gestures to the seats in front of his desk.
"So why in the bloody skies are two CRIES operatives doing out here." he starts as he takes his seat.
C r o w:
Frey's quarters
While Emil remained standing up beside the chair, Selenia accepted the offer and sat down.
Crossing his arms on his chest, Emil simply answered:
"It's... complicated."
Selenia then started talking in Emil's place:
"I believe you know that C.R.I.E.S. stands for Corps of Recon and Intelligence Ex-State.
So not only when we're deployed in missions it is always out of the Baronies.
Hell, even when not on mission we must stay as far away as possible from the fjordland!
Except for a few days when every year we must report our discoveries to the HQ.
Our vessel got shot down on our way there.
Nodding in approval, Emil then added:
"Now, as she said, our current objective is to report our discoveries in any and every field to a CRIES royal high ranking officer, but, since it is far renown of your loyalty towards the Baronies, and you work too in an intelligence section, I'll have to give you this"
He said while bringing a little scroll out of a pocket.
Selenia then said, with a serious tone of voice:
"We fully trust that you already know about this organization known as the Birdmen.
This organization was born in Yesha, and then hunted out of it, for the fact that it was causing many troubles.
It's just a rumor going around deep in the underground, but it says that after the Yeshan Civil War, the Birdman have regained power."
Then Emil again added:
"Being the Arashi the natural enemy of Yesha, they know quite something about this sect, as we believe that they have fought against it many times in the past.
Apparently, they have indeed risen again recently,and even
some of our operatives have entered in direct contact with a little number of them while scouting.
We had a 100% casualty rate, so my intelligence section doesn't know much by first hand."
He then redirected the attention to the scroll: it had marks of burns and some little cuts.
"This little scroll had quite an adventure. In here are written the tribal stories that I managed to gather.
I actually don't know what is written exactly in here...
Because most of it is in Arash tribal language.
The last time I asked someone to translate it they tried to shoot me and then pushed my ship into an ambush. So that's also why I was in the middle of nowhere."
"Now, I notice that you are no longer a captain, and you have indeed been promoted, Mr. Frey, and I'd also like to ask what are you doing on the field too."
"Can we join your expedition?" Intromitted Selenia.
Emil facepalmed.
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