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Koali:
In the cargo hold of The Eagle's Shadow

One of the barrels gave a slight wobble. A muffled "the hell?!" sounded from within.

BdrLineAzn:
Day 7

Frey's Quaters

All is quiet on the Eagle's Shadow as the crew enjoy their last day of leave in the Mecantile capital. That is until a pair of boots running through the empty halls ringing through the silence. Paper in hand, Charles takes a deep breath before knocking.

"Enter." came the muffled reply. "Ah, Mr. Banning what a surprise," starts Frey from his papers, "Thought you would be out with the rest of the Comm officers?"

Without a word, Chales walks toward the Baron and lifts the piece of paper for him to see. Puzzled, Frey takes it and reads the message.

"Recall the crew," Frey orders, "I want us in the air in the next three hours."

Nodding, Charles rushes out the office towards the Bridge.

Day 11

Eagle's Shadow, Location Unknown, South of Guild Border's

After receiving their message and leaving port promptly, a day after and both downed pilots are rescued after flying through Gura Lupulul. The next two days left Kei and Davis under medical supervision and a debrief with Frey. During the time, Frey announced the true intention of the mission to them and the rest of the crew. Now all hands are aware of the hunt to snuff out the remaining Birdman resistance with Briggs being the main target.

Weather Deck

Staring out in the vast unknown, Courage sits on several crates with his rifle by his side. Coming and sitting besides him Lorena stares out as well.

"So secret is out and we have all of this to comb through to find them. What a mission huh?" turning her head towards him

Without breaking his gaze, "After all the things they done, I hope we find them."

Birdcage, Location Unknown

After landing the stolen Goldfish within their secret hideout hidden amongst the ruins of an ancient city resting on top of a mountain. Jasper departs and is quickly escorted deep within the facility. Outside a pair of giant doors, they open to reveal a desk and chair behind a wall of numerous screens.

Walking and stopping right before the chair, Jasper looks up and notices that the screens showed different parts of the city. A cough is heard bring him back to the chair, "Apologise, but it looks like Frey and his band are now aware of our last location."

In a cool female voice, "Well, we should welcome they when they come. It would be rude of us not too."

Carn:
Carn's Quarters

While performing routine maintenance on his equipment, Alister allows his mind to wander.

So, we are over the edge of the map and are flying to fight monsters.  It's like some old story.

Suddenly the twins barge into Carn's room.

"Alister,"

"The crew,"

"Is getting,"

"Disgruntled."

Sighing softly, Alister quickly finishes then quickly runs a comb through his hair.

"Tell the men to meet me in the hangar bay.  Keep everyone off the bay doors, I'll speak to them."

Nervously looking at each other, the twins run off to gather the disgruntled crew members.

Alister finishes his attempts to make himself look more presentable, and grabs his weapons belt with his pistol and axe.

Can't say I blame them, they had no idea what they really signed up for.

Hangar Bay

The twins have successfully gathered the troublesome crew members into the hangar bay.  Standing to one side they assure the crew that Alister will explain things.

Entering, Alister is bombarded by shouted questions.  Ignoring them all, he quickly climbs up the catwalk, the twins at the bottom detering any followers.  After reaching a halfway point, Alister unhooks his axe and begins clanging the flat of the blade onto the metal handrail until the crew is silent.

"Men and women of the Eagle's Shadow, I know you have questions and concerns about our mission."

A grumbling assent can be heard from the crowd.

"I believe I have a satisfactory answer to your questions.  We are mercenaries.  We are paid to kill and be killed.  What does it matter if our enemy is human or not? We go to kill monsters, to win fame, glory, and loot.  But if any of you would like to leave, you are welcome to."

Alister smashes a button on the wall which opens the bay doors.

"Sadly we cannot afford to set you down, nor can we offer you a parachute.  We are miles south of all charted skies, if you survive the fall you will have to walk back to Guild territory.  You'd be easy targets for raiders and sky knows what else, any takers?"

The crowd looks at the opening ​in the floor and all step back.

"Good," Alister hits the button again to close the door, "We go to war.  The odds are good that the enemy will strike at us in the future, so we may as well hit them first.  Are you satisfied?"

After a few moments the crowd shouts out their affirmative.

"Good, keep your equipment in good condition, keep training.  As the information begins to flow, I'll see about trying to disperse more information on our enemies.  Dismissed."

Med Bay

Having taken the samples of Carn's blood back to the med bay, she continues to examine them periodically while tending to the crew.

The strain on his heart and lungs is enormous, yet it seems to have some compound to relieve them as well.  However created this was amazing, but why?  How did they plan to use this in the end?

Piemanlives:
--Weather Deck--

"Well, it's not exactly the worst of plans." Lorena said, shrugging despite it all.

"Still," She continued, "we're going to beat their faces in one way or another." Her forehead creasing in thought at her own statement.

"Well, that's the idea at least."

--Hanger Break Room--

"And that's yours, again..." Davis shook his head as the cards stared up at him, the sound of Kei sweeping the paltry change to her side of the table accompanying his disbelief, "Why do I keep playing you?"

"Because you're bored with nothing to do?" She raised an eyebrow at him as she shuffled and dealt the next hand.

"Right," Davis sighed as he checked his new cards, "so, since we're in it for the long haul how much do you want to bet that this entire fiasco isn't going to work?"

"I don't take a fool's bet." Her blunt response getting a chuckle out of him.

"Yeah I suppose you're right," Davis replied, nodding at her response, "kind of miffed they tried to kidnap us though, looking forward to dealing with them."

"'Kind of miffed' he says," She rolled her eyes at his choice of words, "and if they had actually experimented on us?"

"Well," He said, face scrunched up in fake contemplation, "maybe a bit annoyed."

The two of them shared a quiet laugh before a comfortable silence settled between them, only broken by the sound of shuffling cards and sliding coins. Davis leaned back in his chair as he lost the 9th hand, quietly content as Kei dealt the next hand. Antonio and Farris would be back soon from their flight, and it would be his turn to take to the skies.

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