Special Branch: Unbound
POSTED BY: seryn
UPDATED: Friday, June 23, 2006 23:10
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OOC as no-ones responded ill continue
"Are you sure?" asked Seryn as she bundled Citizen and Needy into the Nandi" It doesnt seem like the milk run you make it out to be"
"I'll be fine. Go. And make my landing soft"
Seyrn gave Wisp a last reassuring look then closed the hatch to the Nandi. As It detachted Wisp through his flying jacket over a chair near the back and Settled into the pilot seat.
His trademark grin was gone. Replaced by a look of cold determination, with a glint of fear in his eye. His hair was plastered to his face in all directions and sweat poured freely down his face.
He watched on Sensors as The Nandi entered Atmo and disappeared, and The Dagger disengaged the tractor beam beginning his descent.
The ship rumbled through the atmosphere accelerating too fast. Wisp had activated the deflector shields but knew they would fail soon. He fired the manuvering thrusters to slow his fall but it was like thowing deckcahirs off the titanic-ultimtely pointless.
"Your going in too fast slow down! You need to....." Wisp deactivated the Comm. He didnt need Safe telling him what he already knew.
The ship bucked throughly and a red warning light appeared accompanied by many alarms. The shields had failed. The interior became very hot now that the only thing between him and the atmosphere was the superheated hull plates.
Wisp through out his Wild Card. His only shred of science to cling to. He activated his one engine on full.
The Ship slowed to the correct speed but at the price of direction. The vessel was spinning in a wild corkscrew towards the ground.
Wisp closed his eyes for the breifest of seconds now that his gamble had failed. But at the last moment a thought entered his cranium. He saw a yellow light that he hadnt seen before. At a breif mile before the surface he pressed it. Two rockets screached from the plane exloding in a goey jelly on the surface which the vessel carrered into and stopped. perefctly okay. a metre above the floor.
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(ooc- sorry, I was trying to give someone else a chance!)
As the juddering and shaking of the breaking into atmosphere eased off to be replaced by the only marginally less queasy making buffeting of wind and air pressure drops, Seryn threw a reassuring look over her shoulder at the guys.
Needy caught the smile, and grimaced back, Citizen remained stony cool, to look at him, no one would have guessed that they had just snuck onto and planet crammed into a two seater (at a push) ship. As it was, only the lack of skin tight lycra distinguished them from the average bobsled team. She figured that was the effect he aimed for.
"Well, I think we can all agree,this thing has a max capacity, no matter what the circumst....
oh god...."
Wisp was in trouble.
She'd set one of the monitors to show the Issi's progress, and as they watched it became increasingly obvious that the other ship was in desperate trouble.
"He's coming in way to fast!"
"Can you get a visual?
"The comm isn't working...."
"He's through atmo...."
"What the hell is he doing?
"What?!"
"He's fired the engine, it'll send him spiralling, theres no way he'll compensate"
"oh gods, he's too close to the ground"
She had landed them, barely settling and killing the engines before they were all out of the Nandi, eyes straining into the sky, trying to see the doomed ship.
Strong slanting sunlight bleached out the landscape, they were in hill country, the Nandi had landed near an outcropping, hidden in the low ground in its shadows. She ran up-slope, hand shielding her eyes as she scanned the sky.
"THERE HE IS!"
All three of them followed the progress of the transport as it corkscrewed through the sky.
"oh, its too close, he'll never pull out of it."
As the transport neared the ground all three ran in the direction it would land.
"What is that?" Citizen pulled up short, prompting Needy to slow. Only Seryn kept running.
"They're rockets..." puzzlement clouded Needy's features "He fired rockets.. what is he doing?"
Citizen paused for the space of a breath "Something irritatingly clever I should think" He grinned "come on"
They ran, in front of them the transport roared past and disappeared behind the rise of ground before them. A few paces ahead, Seryn stood stock still and stared at the hill.
"There was no explosion."
"What?"
"No detonation, no little ones for the rockets, nor a large one for the ship. There would have been noise, a boom, a crunch, something. But there wasn't anything. What does that mean?"
Unable to think of an answer, they started forward again, steady paces took them to the top of the rise.
Below them in the shallow basin, the ISSCV sat, perfect, unbelievabley undamaged, upright, facing forward, glinting gently in the sunlight, perched atop a large, funky coloured gelatinous mass, which slowly melted as they watched, rivulets oozed away and sank into the sandy earth.
"the canny bast..."
As they watched one of the hatches opened, out of it climbed a figure, it hesitated, then leapt in an attempt to jump the ooze. Then stood and kicked the goopy mess from his shoes.
"WHHHHHOOOOOO HHHOOOOOOO!!!!!"
They started running again, at her yell of glee Wisp looked up and waved at them.
They reached him, hooting and yelling like madmen.
At one point Seryn looked at Wisp sternly, whacked him around the head like an errant school boy and attempted to lecture him on the dangers of lying to her and attempting to play the hero, but she barely finished before decending into laughter again. Citizen returned from a foray into the transport, clutching several bottles of beer, with a a small amount of ceremony he popped the caps and handed them round.
A while later they sat on the verge and watched the sun lower and the last of the goo ooze into the landscape.
"What is that stuff made from?"
"God knows. More interestingly, do you think they set out to make it or was it just a 'happy' accident."
"moreover, how exactly do you think the inventor died?"
"er, his
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Citizen took WYSB's hand. "Bloody show off." He said beaming. "Now I've got this great recipe for chinchilla enchiladas if anyone's hungry, we're all out of hot sauce because someone still hasn't picked up the consignment yet, but we can make do."
Citizen pulled a stick of chewing gum from his pocket. "Now a fire was it?" He said chewing slowly before spitting the gum on to a pile of leaves that spontaneously erupted in flame. "Alliance Special forces incendiary insurgency kit." He explained. "Found it stuck under a bus seat."
{OOC:
Quote:So... many... wierd science... refrences... can't... contain... self...}
I've also decided that wherever we go next we're having a few more join the team. And by that I mean girls. I am not going to be the only girl! So feel free to write one in at any time!)
More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
And as you know, these are open forums, you're able to come and listen to what I have to say.
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(ooc- so you want to build your own? DIY fan hey?
Right, in that case one small rule, they have to be characters - No window dressing sex slaves, you have to write them whole characters)
Seryn looks over at Citizen
"Now sweetie, where do you think you're going to get anything like a chinchilla from around here?"
Citizens chin starts to tip towards...
"Don't even think about it. One interesting fact about the vorpal strain of the rabbit family is that they're highly poisonous to most mammals reptiles and insects. Including humas"
(ooc - sorry, just heading off ideas before they start... ;D)
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Hodgins: Your robot reminds me of you. You tell it to turn it stops. You tell it to stop it turns. You ask it to take out the garbage it watches reruns of Firefly.
FozzieWash, You know what I always say: sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug!
KermieMal, I never Know what the heck you're talking about.
FozzieWash, Hey, look! They're sending us free lumber!
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OOC:
Hmmmm... Need more girls? Perhaps I need to bring Quincey to this thread.
Of course, she is the sexiest and flirtiest of the Brides, but there is more than that to her character.
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ooc- all are welcome honey! It'd be great to have her around.
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OOC: On the other hand, I'd hate to break up the Brides. They've been together since the previous gala pageant in thread 8. Hmmmm... Maybe a female yeti? 
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After much meriment,dirnking and consumation of barbeque protein conversation inevitabley turned to unmentionables.
"I Need WOMEN!!!" Shouted Needy, his career being directly connected to pleasing womenfolk.
"Ive got a perfect gadgety idea" Says wisp as he stumbles to his bag and extracts a small box about the size of a deck of cards. He opens it and plants several seeds into the ground and they grow into seven beautiful plant based females.
"YEAH!!!!" Shout Needy and Citizen in unsion from their drunken state and begin oggling the plant girls thourouglhy.
"This is disgraceful and sexist!!! I Cant believe you wisp your supposed to be the respectable hero type not the perverted kind!!!" Shouts Seryn with much finger wgging and pointing.
"Wait!" Says wisp as he goes over to one of the women and twists their ear 180 degrees so it faces the back of their head. The plant girl suddenly transforms in a blur of petals into a plant guy who begins massaging Seryn.
"Well....I'll let you off this time"
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(yeah, ok, very funny. Ha ha.)
Still in the process of cooking Safe and Seryn look up at the sound of Wisp ranting somewhere beyond the fire. They watch for a few moments as he scrabbles about in the mud.
"How many has he had?" she asks, nodding at Safe's beer.
Safe pauses to watch Wisps empty sail through the air. "I think that one was his first."
"So do you think we should worry?"
He grins, "tomorrow."
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OOC I resent the accusation that i am a lightweight!! Geeks can drink a lot too!!! So character development eh?
Anyway-Wisp watched as the fire flickered in front of him and looked back on his near death experience. Why did he always have to play hero?
He could never just watch the virgin get sacrificed to the sun god, or see the old lady walking over the railway lines in front of a train, He had to go and uphold honesty, shivalry, courage and courtesy....dumb ass.
Ever since he ran away from home he'd always helped others before himself. Even with his many women they were more important than himself. When he was first living on the street he had no problems robbing a faceless store to avoid starving but he couldnt bring himself to rob a real person.
Like the last knight of the round table of Earth that was. He Had to ride his horse and save the day. Never the king who got all the attention, or the high priest who ran the show, not even the jester who everyone noticed. He was the guy who saved the world and then got forgotten about.
Wisp finished his beer and threw the empty into the fire. He walked back into the ISSI and extracted his laptop and began scanning the planets information.
Suddenly a name cropped up.
A name he hadnt seen in years that he'd hoped he'd never see again.
If He was the white knight she was his wicked witch of the west. An old flame who instead of providing a happy memory of warmth served as a reminder of a time he got burnt.
She couldnt find out he was here. She just couldnt. End OF. Then how come he was sweating again?
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