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C r o w:
Fighter craft 5

"Roger that."

Mirroring Davis' moves as much as he could, Emil directs his plane towards his designated bay.
He ends up being too slow and pending on the left side.

Emil turns left, looking to his wing that was hit.
"Damn you!" He waves his fist.

He was about to reach stall speed.

"Flak it."

Giving a boost to the engine he sends it at full speed to quickly close the distance between his craft's landing hook and the ships' one.

*clang*

The hook gets attached.
Immediately after he cuts power to the engine, while his plane is dangling.

As the craft is raised into its bay he says:
"For being the first time landing like that, I say it was good."

He then climbs out of the cockpit and sits near the plane, looking at it.

He then pats it on the side.

"Good boy."

BdrLineAzn:
Gunnery Deck, Port Battery

After hearing the order for the scouts to mobilise, Courage hurries up to the Gunnery Deck and ready the main guns. On his way the cooridors are filled with crew running to their stations with several running with him to the Port Battery. Once on station, the maintenance team has already loaded and place the guns into their firing positions where Courage hops into the front most Hawacha.

"Not another dull moment is it?" says a voice behind.

Turning, Courage recognises that it was Theodore Cutler bringing up a cart of rockets.

"Never is, " he replies as he turns back to get a glimpse of the skirmish.

Due to the angle of the gun and how massive the ship is, there is no way in telling what's happening in front of him unless the transport turns to starboard. After several minutes, a call over the PA systems orders e crew to stand down the Gunnery Deck and place a watch team topside. Sighing, Courage pull a lever by the side of his seat which reposition the turrent back inside the vessel and closes its hatch. With the help of Theodore, the pair unloads the Hawacha. With the last casing removed, Theodore carts the munitions away as Courage heads towards his him.

"Hey meet me up on the Weather Deck once you are down with that." he calls back.

"Where are you going?"

"Just getting a few things... Just get a team and meet me there."

With a shrug, Cutler continues on his way to store the cart and begins to muster their watch team from last night.

Renard/Courage's Quarters

Entering his shared space, Courage notices that his roommate haven't returned.

Man, he must have gotten hit good, he thinks to himself before going to his locker.

Opening, he retrieves his carbine and straps on the ammo belt across his waist. On his weapon, Courage also retrieves the scope for it and attaches it on the left side of the receiver. Sastisfies, he loads in one of the magazines and heads out to the Weather Deck.

Fifth Season

"Skies are clear at the moment, but proceed with caution to the wreck" comes the order from Allen to both escorts.

After the destruction of the Goldfish, both crews on the Galleon and Junker are on alert with their ships weaponry at the ready.

"That was quite a show. Thank goodness they are on our side," pipes Ulric to Alexi.

"Yeah, but keep your head up. Remember we are in the dunes, the sands always change and nothing is as expected."

Still going their speed and coarse, the pair arrives over the wreck. From their position, they notice that the hull is split in two and that some of the pieces are in the lake itself.

"Hmmm," Ulric goes while pondering the situation. Grabbing the radio he tunes in to the Bridge, "Shadow, we are over the wreck. So far the coast is clear and are landing to investigate."

"Copy Mr. Culvin. We are approaching the position as well."

Looking over his shoulder, he sees the transport flying at almost its maximum speed towards the two. Nodding, he switches channels back to Alexi.

"Think you can handle the wreck on the coast? My ship is equipped to make water landings for I'll check the lake."

"Sounds like a plane." was the response.

The pair breaks off where the Galleon slowly descends to the ground bellow. Ulric does the same but over the body of water where he pulls a lever next to his helm where two two long balloons inflate on either side of his lower hull. By the main engine, a rudder is lowered as cogs and pipes start to connect it to the helm.

"If you guys are still below deck, come up. Gonna be wet soon." he says to his crew.

Soon the Junker touches down, and with the inflated pontoons, float right on the surface of the water. Making sure all systems are responding properly, Ulric starts deflating his main balloon and securing both turning engines.

The crew stands perplexed as how an airship transformed into what is essentially now a boat. Seeing their confusion, Ulric manuvers the craft towards the floating wreck and calls to them, "Perks of being a researcher on an island."

Hanger Bay

Once all the planes have been retrieved, Marie and several others on the maintenance team goes up to the five planes sitting idle. Face palming, she notices the damage on two of the planes.

"We just fixed one this morning and already the spare is damaged." she mutters under her breath.

Carn:
Bridge

"I'll prepare my Squid to launch.  I'll maintain a high altitude circle over the wreck, and keep the swabbies on lookout.  After we're done, I'll swap with Alexi."

Turning around to leave the bridge, Alister makes his way to the hangar bay.

Hangar Bay

Walking up to the Kibeth, Alister surveys her state.

Not to bad, hull integrity is sound and armor is patched.  Wish I had time to prep her with more bombs, but the decrease in weight should increase my speed.

Climbing aboard, he looks around for idle crew members, spying a cluster he calls out.

"Going out in five minutes!  Any of you been on a Squid before?"

Roughly a half dozen hands go up.  The owners of all but one, looking rather green.  The remaining one happened to be the engineer who took the helm before.  Mentally sighing, Alister signals him, and two others to join him.

I really have to get his name.  He seems to be one of the few who has any idea of what to do.

C r o w:
Hanger bay

"Mhhh...Uh? What the...?" Emil looked around himself, he found the plane where he left, but he could only recognise the engineers, everybody else seemed to have gone away.

Yawning he looked around.

He found Selenia sitting next to him, checking, disassembling and then reassembling an SMG of hers.
"Oh, you are awake! I never thought you of being capable of taking a short nap."
Emil answer is largely incomprehensible and uuhed.
"I mean, you either don't sleep at all or you sleep like you are dead."
The uuhing continues.

"Your flying looked a bit rusty."

That comment totally woke up Emil.
"Oooh! Excuse meee! Sorry I didn't live up to your expectations Ms. Ace-fighter-pilot!"

"That's more like you now.
You wants to eat something?"

Emil tilts his head and grins.
"You found the galley?"
"Yeah, and it's almost official lunch time."
"Good, very good."
"You know, you should change out of that suit." Pointing at the pilot suit.
"Willco"

A minute later he comes out of the changing room wearing his usual duster and heavy anti-bullet armour.

"Lead the way dear, I swear that right now I could eat an entire galleon."

ShadedExalt:
Engineering:

Striding into engineering looking remarkably refreshed, he takes a look around, suprised that most of the damage is nowhere to be seen.  Grabbing a swabbie and dragging him along, he says, surprisingly pleasantly, "So, tell me what needs to be done, and whether anything was damaged in that last attack.  I'm raring to go, here."

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