17th Parallel Bar V2.0

[Aileron]

(OOC - I guess its time for me to shake things up a little. BTW, if this post doesn't seal it for you, from now on just consider my character from now on to be the intergalactic villain.)

 

Ithkul space, two light-minutes from the colony Antilles Sentile Minor...

 

Ail was approaching his destonation. He did a final check on all systems. Then, he turned around to look at his canisters behind him. Each metal canister almost glowing in the dark of space, all of them ready for their final voyage. Suddenly, a large blip appeared on Ail's radar. It was an Ithkul Light Carrier, each capable of lobbing L7 bombs at targets and carrying 5 Weasels. It hailed Ail.

 

"Unidentified aircraft. We are sorry for the inconvenience, but your transponder does not match any scheduled flights for today. Identify yourself and state your purpose." said the Ithkul captain over the com link.

 

"Ithkul Carrier, this is Whiskey Ice Cream Niner on approach to Antilles Sentile Minor. I'm carrying a shipment of medical supplies to Antilles Sentile Minor. I thought I filed this flight in your database." replied Ail.

 

"What the? This doesn't make sense. Antilles Sentile Minor is the Ithkul's main industrial center for medical supplies, why would they need to import..."

 

"But you don't understand! There is a pandemic of the Ithkul DISEASE on that planet and I have the only known CURE right behind me!"

 

Over the com link, Ail overheard an ensign in the background.

 

"Holy $|-|][7!! That guy has enough biological weapons on that ship to..."

 

Ail closed the com link. Moments later, Orange L7 bombs were wizzing by his ship. The Nightwasp easily dodged them and superior speed left the carrier far behind. Suddenly a crimson flash flew in front of Ail's eyes. Ail turned on X-radar, to see that all five weasels were attack his vessel. Ail turned his ship around, and fired two L3 bombs. The saphire bolts ripped through space, tearng one weasel apart and destroying two more with the shockwave. Ail then activated a repel. Launching the two remaining ships away from him. The light ships flew just outside radar range. At that moment, Ail dropped 5 decoys. The fast weasels easily closed, but each found 6 blips on radar, making them force to guess. They guessed wrong, and Ail was recharged and fired two more shots, destroying both f them.

 

A minute later, Ail was in orbit around the defenseless colony, and dropped his deadly cargo on the surface below. Ail then abandoned his ship, and flew back to Kanatis space in a HD space bike. By the time the Ithkul carrier caught up, Ail was long gone, and civilians on the surface were already showing signs of exposure.

[ReCoil!]

(ooc i was considering u a villain anyway but this just calls for some arse whooping ...mind u im out of action for the minute)

 

ReCoiL! looked up at Mr. Ious, and looked into the androids eyes....they seems to beam at ReCoiL!....he thought about it then asked the android to take a seat....

 

a) he needed to catch up with events...

he needed help to establish these new designs and the android would speed things up....

c) he might have a spare memory chip hiding in the cargo hold

 

While cupping the fireshot in his hand....and his body heat was making it glow surrounding his face in golden light...he asked the android to take a seat....

 

"Your the guy looking for a memory chip arent u?"

 

"Well i might be able to help you out, and i could kinda use some help with my ship....even though it is a personal thing ship repair, I need to get back up and running..."

 

After a while a monitor in the corner of the bar....suddenly made a loud noise making everyone look at it.....there was a silence followed by anxious whispers as everyone realized the terrible news that an Ithkul medical colony had been attacked by a bio-weapon..... and then there was a picture of the ship used by the attacker....it was a nightwasp.....

 

Then someone amongst the crowd shouted and ReCoiL! picked up the words "....that -*BAD WORD*-........gonna........pay.......", many in the bar were shouting agreement....

 

ReCoiL! said to Mr. Ious.....come with me.....i need a ship.....

[Tipme]

*looks back at his ship and notices it is sitll there....*

"hey manus!...letrs make this a strip bar!

[Aileron]

All eyes in the bar were on the moniter in the corner.

 

...already the death toll on Antilles Sentile Minor is in the millions from the mysterious virus. Ithkian officials believe this to be the work of the Second Edge, a terroristic organization which has attacked the Ithkul several times in the past. Genetic evidence obtained from the captured ship matches that of Ailius "the Aileron" Judkovsky, one of the five council members that lead this...

 

Suddenly, there was an explosion outside, and an HD space bike came flying in through the window sideways. It flew accrossed the bar and crashed into the back wall. Smoldering metal litered the ground. The rider was nearby lying on the ground with his coat on fire. Almost immeadiately, Ail stood up and took off his jacket. Underneath was a bright red body armor which looked to be a kind of formal military uniform, adorned with the symbol of a double edged sword in the center of the chest. At this moment, four men and one woman who were seated in the corner of the bar took off their coats, the men were wearing black, the woman red.

 

"Get down!" he shouted.

 

Moments later, a barrage of plasma bolts came flying in from the outside of the bar. Quickly, Ail kicked over a ferro-steel table, and all of them used it for cover, and were quickly pinned down by weapon's fire. One of Ail's lackeys pointed a plasma rifle at the shocked patrons of the bar.

 

"If one of ya'll move an inch, I'll blast ya to pieces!!"

 

The woman, the bars on her arms ranked her as a Luetenant, started to argue with Ail.

 

"Sir, I thought this was supposed to be a SECRET meeting"

"Tell Ithkul secret service that! Theres seven of them outside!"

"Were you followed?"

"Had X on the whole time, and no ships as fast as the bike is anyway!"

"You mean as that bike WAS. How did you not notice them for the ambush anyway?"

"Between all these 'mysterious' people running around, I overlooked the guy masquerading as someone's grandmother acrossed the street. Do you have the android's memory chip?"

"Right here sir," she taped her pocket. "Any suggestions on going out of here?"

"Where are you parked? Are you parked outside."

"No, I'm parked a few blocks away. Unlike some people, I follow the plan."

"Now is not the time for that. I figure we exit by the back way."

The Luetenant looked at solid wall in the back of the room. "There is no back way!"

"You just need the proper key!"

 

Ail's left arm then transformed into a fusion blasting cannon. A bright beam then shot out of his arm and towards the back wall. Steam, smoke, and sparks filled the room for a few seconds. When all of that settled, one could see that the wall was badly damaged, but intact.

 

"What the -*BAD WORD*-?"

"They seemed to have changed the lock, sir"

"Stow it right now, that's an order!"

 

Ail was running out of ideas. Then the fire alarms turned on, due to both the bike wreckage and the fusion blast. A deafening alarm sounded throughout that section fo the station. The Ithkul secret agents, having artificial hearing enchancements, covered their ears. At that moment, the Second Edge soldiers stood up and returned fire, killing three of the Ithkul and routing the rest. A moment later, the six of them ran out of the bar, down the street a few blocks, and into three SE Wyverns waiting for them. They took off and headed for the Second Edge secret base.

 

 

A few minutes later, automated station repair droids cleaned up the wreckage and repaired all the damage to the bar.

[Aileron]

Oh, I forgot to give specs on the Wyverns.

 

Generally, they are a large fast model of ship with poor rotation speed. They are equiped with powerfull weapons with L1 bombs (as a gun) and L5 emp bombs. Also, they have a very high energy bank (twice as much as a levi), and a wide array of specials. They come equiped with Stealth and X, but no Cloak. They are used exclusively by the S. E. One major setback with them is that the complicated systems require direct attention from a copilot.

[Tipme]

* GOES AFK *

< A BIG AFK SIGN APPEARS ABOVE RICEBOWL'S HEAD

BY DOING SO MY SHIP BECOMES SUPER MEGA INVINCIBLE NO-ONE-CAN-STEAL-IT MODE >

[ReCoil!]

ReCoiL! was in his docking bay with Mr. Ious when there was a loud explosion followed by several screams from the bar....ReCoiL! get out his Xbow, and made sure his defense drone was turned on and then pulled out his dagger.....running into the bar he noticed several dead Ithkul agents......and rubble being cleared away by some robots.....the hole in the back wall already being repaired...

 

He swore thinking of his ship and his limited options.....then suddenly he had an idea....He had a untested terrier back at his home on Earth.....an experimental one....which had all of his ideas already built and ready.....just waiting.....the problem was how to get it here.....he knew his firelizard was able to put a claw into his shoulder and teleport him out of fights....but he wasnt that large and it was never that far.....could she teleport all the way to earth....and bring a ship here?

ReCoiL! thought about what he wanted Zaranth to try....and a few seconds later she disappeared.....slowly they walked back to the docking bay....ReCoiL! was worried....the bond between him and Zaranth was strong....

 

When he got there he found a new terrier....fully armed....and sparkly in the bright light of the bay....but on top his firelizard alive, weak, and unconcious....He picked her up....and took her too the bar....

 

"She likes just about anything....especially spaghetti bolognese and milk though....please take care of her ill be back soon"

 

ReCoiL! stepped onto the finished article.....after living a month in 5 minutes....he was now ready to chase after this criminal...and now he had the tools to do it with....

 

He placed his hands on the outlines of the console, and where his hands were placed seemed to turn soft, and velvety, and they sunk in. Looking at them however they were on the surface. Yet to the sense of touch it was as if the desk surface had given way, and as if something was holding his hands softly and warmly. Then the connection with the computer was established, and their thinking merged.

 

He saw the room....and outside....all the surfaces in perfect clarity....his senses heigtened through the ships own...He knew that to control the ship, all he need do was use his will.

 

He then detected the universes magnetic field.....and the tiny electrical charges on the hull of the ship....its new power source - Gravity.....it was the same gravity drive used by sharks...but improved and modified for the terrier....now this ship had an unlimited supply of power....and had the most perfect control possible....no ship was faster or more manuevrable...

 

He then used the ships own systems to check the new plasma bomb launcher....that could now fire and produce plasma bombs at 0.25 bombs per second....The new system drew high-energy plasma from the ships gravity drive....and vents it into a small magnetic containment sphere mounted aboard a direct fire missile. Upon impact with the target the bomb's containment sphere ruptures and releases the near-fusion plasma into a single massive burst.....devastating to both shields and armoured hulls.....

 

But the greatest thing of all was the new shield optimization system....firstly combined with the computer and its targeting systems....it could detect all incoming fire...and redirect the shields to pump all their power against each individual impact....making the resultant damage 1/3 less....than with average shields....Even multiple cannon shots could be optimized against....

 

Also using the same targeting system, energy could be dumped into the shield array...and blasted...much like an ion beam at incoming bombs/ships....this new technology could prevent the massive damage caused by L4-7 bombs....

 

ReCoiL! now ready for battle used the new gravity drive the zoom out of the station....followed by a flotilla of other fighters....all wanting to sort out Aileron for his horrific crimes....sending a subspace signal to the Ithkul cruisers in the nearby sector they informed them of the fleets plans...to chase the Second Edge terrorists back to their base.....

 

All at once hundreds of ZTT drives made successive jumps

 

*Bling**BLi*BLi**ng**BLing*

 

The chase was on!

 

****I think Time travel comes under the !@#$%^&*le of superpowers. Sorry.****

 

 

(o.o.c sorry about the length lots to do...and i was enjoying myself which is what this is about)

[Raem]

The memory chip was inserted into Mr. Ious, where it prompted for the android's serial number and password, seeing as memory chips were not actual memory stores themselves, but they would store information in the universe's main database, which was protected from any and all threats. After entering the required information (which was hidden from sight inside the android's frame), Mr. Ious completely regained its memory.

*Turns to ReCoiL!*

"Yes...I remember now. I was 1 of the 4 Guardians originally created to protect humanity...I am protector of the Terran race."

*Beeps several times*

"I have just recieved word that the other Guardians have also been attacked...Something is going on and I need to get back fast, before anything big happens, can't be too safe especially while Aileron is running around unchecked. I'll be getting heading home now...Thank you for your kindness, I hope this will aid you in your battle."

*Teleports off ReCoiL!'s ship leaving behind an X-radar chip*

[ReCoil!]

ReCoiL! takes the chip from Zaranth who took it from Mr. Ious and teleported onto his ship.....he placed it into a space to the right of the console....and it was brought to life by the ship.....

 

ReCoiL! could feel a heightening of his senses through the ships and suddenly 3 ships were infront of him....Wyvern class.....they were fast....but not fast enough.....

 

ReCoiL! would let them think they had the upperhand on the speed though for now...and only engage his antiwarp to pull them out of the ZTT jump when they get to their secret base....

 

With the fleet of small fighters behind him....ReCoiL! kept informing them of where to jump...until eventually the 3 Wyverns pulled out of warp.....

 

ReCoiL! turned on the antiwarp.....the fight was on.....he quickly supspaced the co-ordinates to the fleet of fighters 20 seconds behind and the Ithkul cruisers 4 minutes behind....

 

The 3 Wyverns were heading to the huge base ( ooc i dont know if its an asteroid/whatever, your choice Ail), on his ships sensors, ReCoiL! could percieve hundreds of ships large and small around the base....all of the Second Edge....

 

Some massive capital ships were turning around...to bring their massive turrets to bear....but ReCoiL!'s immediate worry was the 5 fighters approaching.....Turning on the the Anti-Bomb shield system....ReCoiL! charged right through them...dodging some shots with the terriers incredible speed and maneuvrablility....Meanwhile he fired the rapid fire L1 bombs, and L3 guns across the side of 2 javelin class fighters.... punching through their shielding using the modified bombs... and ripping them apart...exploding into sparks and debris....

 

Using the ship with this new system was like being in the hands of a lover....precise and responsive...flexible...the ship and ReCoiL! joined mentally....together fighting and calculating....one being.....

 

ReCoiL! mearly thought of targeting the ship to his 4 0'clock with the new shield beam...and then suddenly raw energy from the gravitics was plunged into the shields and suddenly a bright blue beam cut through a warbird, destroying it instantly in a strange blue explosion.....

 

*Bling**Bling* - the entire flotilla of fighters arrived....and crashed through a second wave of Aileron's forces..... The fight was on.

 

 

****If you could please edit this and your previous post, taking into account that the whole time-travel thing didn't occur****

[Aileron]

[OOC-I'll assume the second post won't be changed much. I'm guessing Recoil will find another means of getting basically the same ship.]

 

Deep Space - Outside S.E. Mobile Station "Theta Seven".

 

Aileron approached his base. Suddenly from behind him, many com signals reported an attack from a single unknown target. Then, he recieved a pm from Lt. Case.

 

"Sir, should we turn around and engage?"

"No, that android's memory chip must be analyzed."

 

The three wyverns continued towards the fighter bay, as swarms of SE Wyverns and Nightwasps scrambled out of it. Apparently, that one fighter was a scout for a large Ithkul force attacking the base.

 

Ail and Lt. Case landed and entered the base. Then the Luetenant lost her patience again.

 

"We led them right to us!"

"The information on that android's chip is more important than this base."

"What is the deal with it?"

"That chip was in on of the four Guardian androids for Terran space. The android had found the location of the Ithkul secret weapons project known as the Arms of Justice. We don't know what this weapon is, but when its completed, the rest of the galaxy will be overrun.

The Ithkul learned of the Guardian, and stole the chip to see what the Terrans know. Your mission was to steal it for us. Now, this chip will be anaylized for the location of the project."

"And this "Arms of Justice" is more important than the secrecy of this base?"

"It is more important than even our MAIN headquarters. Take the chip down to the hacking departement. See that the data is analyzed ASAP. I'm off to the command room"

 

Ail headed up to the command room. As entered, he was greeted by the commodore.

 

"Counsilor on the deck!"

"Greetings Commodore."

"Congradulations on Operation Retribution. The citizens of Parsimony have finally been avenged."

"Now is not the time for celebrations. Now tell me, why the -*BAD WORD*- are the L9 guns not blazing!"

"Well sir, the #8 cannon got a large amount of static buildup. I had them all shut down for maintenance."

"You shut down all 20 guns because one had static buildup?!?"

"I thought others might have buildup as well."

"I can't take any more of this..."

 

Aileron raised his right cybernetic arm. Hundreds of wires shot out of his arm and wrapped around the commodore. Then, they tightened, and sliced their victim apart.

 

"The fool may have doomed us all. The Counsilor has the con. Activate all guns except #8."

"It will take five minutes to charge them, sir." replyed an Ensign.

"Pray that we have five minutes." Ail turned to the second in command, "Captain, free advice for you future career. First off, you don't have to worry about multiple cannons getting buildup, so the Commodore's reaction was unecessary. Secondly, never deactivate all of the cannons at the same time. I usually forgive people for their mistakes, but that level was too much."

 

The battle continued outside. The S.E. forces had the upper hand, using large straffing hit and run attacks against their slower opponants. Then, the Ithkul Cruisers arrived.

 

"Sir, I'm picking up a fleet of Ithkul cruisers on radar."

"We have to run, did the commodore deactivate the hyperwarp drive?"

"No, but the last cruiser has Anti-Warp activated. Our drive is too big for the fighters' anti-warp to affect us, but the cruiser's system is too powerfull."

"How long until the L9s are back up?"

"One minute."

"Can you target that cruiser?"

"Out of range"

"Alright, charge up the hyperwarp drive. Withdraw all the fighters!"

"Sir, the fighters are our biggest defense. Without them, all we got is the light battery guns! They will close in and blast us at point blank range."

"The batteries should hold for one minute. We need to get them closer anyway. Recall the fighters."

 

All of the SE fighters turned from the battle and returned to the fighter bay. The Ithkul fighters then closed in and attacked to station directly.

 

"Station shields an 90%!"

A robotice drone came in and started cleaning up what was left of the commodore.

"%"

"L9 guns online sir, target is still out of range!"

"70%"

Suddenly, the station started shaking

"whoa, 30%"

"The cruisers are now firing on us, sir"

"20%"

"Target in range, sir"

"Fire all guns!!"

 

A barrage of L9 guns shot out from the station, and instantly cut through the rearmost cruiser of the Ithkul fleet. Then, Ail sent out a message on all coms.

 

"This is Ailius Judkovsky of the Second Edge. I am truly impressed by the bravery you Ithkul have shown today. I apologize, but I must leave you with a hollow victory. I will close with a little 'magic trick'. Abracadabra. Now you see us..."

 

The station then activated its hyperwarp drive. The entire station then warped to another location acrossed the galaxy in an instaneous flash of light, leaving no clue as to where they went.

 

"...now you don't."

 

The Ithkul fleet was left alone in the middle of deep space.

[ReCoil!]

(ooc hope thats sorted....sorry i was just trying to make a way of being able to give chase....i think its only the time-travel u dont want....the ship specs are ok...they are like temporary shields in a way....)

 

ReCoiL! had been wondering why the heavy guns of the Second Edge hadnt been firing....but then he sensed them powering up..., the Ithkul fleet had arrived and was slowly approaching the base, firing everything....the last ship in the fleet had antiwarp on....ReCoiL! could feel its huge power filling nearby space....suppressing it....He knew exactly what the S.E. would go for....hmmm options and time were running out

 

So many waves of S.E. had attacked the flotilla of fighters, but they were all veterans and had fought in many battles.....only vets came from Manus' bar, and were fighting back hard against the odds....ReCoiL! needed to get aboard the base!

 

"This is ReCoiL! calling all friendly fighters in the vicinity....follow me im gonna punch into their docking bay!!!!"

"Gotcha....covering ur arse man...."

 

With this having been said....ReCoiL! flipped the ship over...and went straight for the docking bay....firing everything in front of him....taking 3 Wyverns out of action....and blasting a light support ship apart using the ion beam....then accelerating faster and faster...pushing the ship to its structural limit....he fired everything the ship had at the shields covering the bay...and made at least 15 bomb hits and masses of L3 gun fire rippled along the shield.....

 

Then taking the shields he mentally thought about blasting a beam forward.....he occured seconds later....then he thought about bending the shields into a cone around the front of the ship....making it into a ram.....the shields glittered with sparks.....then suddenly....

 

*Flash....Boom* The Farstar ReCoiL's ship punctured the bay shields making the emitters explode in a wave of sparks....then demonstrating the ships incredible control of the gravity forces he made it come to a dead stop...without even feeling the G-forces....and hovered....firing bombs at the inner gun turrets.....then landed*

 

Several other ships followed him and the more.....until there was at least 25 ships inside.....

 

*BOOOOMMMMMMM* they all looked out of the bay door to see the base fire several multicoloured bombs at the last Ithkul cruiser....making it disintergrate in a shower of sparks...the shockwave....knocking nearby ships away......

 

*Bling* the station went into ZTT jump.....

 

Several soldiers appeared from a blast door....but were blown apart in a red cloud by a L2 bomb fired from a nearby warbird....piloted by a lady...

 

Everyone was collecting their weapons and getting out....ready to attack the base....they must find the engine room!

 

"Everyone follow me....with several drones above his head....and his neural linked Xbow in his hand....they all followed him in through the blast doors....they were met by another wave of soldiers....but ReCoiL! fired a bolt at the first man....hitting him in the eye....while the rest were filled with a combination of beam/plasma/ballistic/fire weapons of all different sorts....the group was unstoppable.....they found a map on the wall and it showed them were the engine room was but they were suddenly met by heavy resistance....static gun platforms...and several defense androids....ReCoiL! kicked down a grate nearby....and went into a ventilation shaft leaving the others to deal with that problem....He crawled for 3 minutes his arms feeling the pain...until he was a above the massive ZTT driveroom.....it was lightly defended in here....because they thought it inpregnible.....but then ReCoiL! targeted one of the core-control devices nearby with an homing RPG bolt....comtrolling it using the neural it exploded and gases started to leak...everyone turned around....and started yelling that the ZTT drive couldnt hold out much longer.....then ReCoiL! jumped down...and several drones came after him having followed him through....then all started firing....at the several targets that turned around to see the handsomely strong man before them with a Xbow pointed at their heads.....

 

"Cease Fire!!!!"

 

"You shut that drive down now!!!!!" One of the men went to the controls and turned the drive off...the rumbling falling.....the ship slowly being pulled back to normal space....

 

A speaker in the wall suddenly erupted......

 

"What the -*BAD WORD*- are you doing get that drive back online!!!! This councillor is mad....he has already killed the commodore.....HURRY UP! with that ReCoiL! fitted an RPG bolt onto the Xbow and fired at the speaker....it created a large shriek and was silent....

 

The blast doors to the left opened suddenly....and the other group plunged inside...only to find ReCoiL! with the prisoners.....

 

Moments later the flotilla of little fighters erupted nearby to the base.....their ZTT drives only needing minutes to charge...whereas the cruisers needed at least half an hour for a small jump.....The fight was still on...but now the base had its huge turrets firing....

[Raem]

"Seems the enemy have begun cracking into our memory databanks...we better beef up security. I have no choice but to send myself into subspace and defend the Terran core. I know its dangerous, and there's a high probability that I will be terminated, but if I do die in there, all the information they need will be lost with me. Either way, the Terran race will be protected. Lets just hope ReCoiL! and the other vets can handle the crisis before any further damage is caused..."

*Changes form and enters subspace to guard the core*

"Never lose hope..."

[Aileron]

[OOC-Aw man, I was hoping for a breather, so I could go over history for a little bit.]

 

Ail gave a sigh of relief. The threat to the outside of the station has ended. Then, Lt. Cage entered the bridge.

 

"Sir, we've analysed the data we could access from the chip. The Arms of Justice is on Parsimony."

"Parsimony?!? The Ithkul have the gall to use the Terran's old tunnels!"

"Terrans?!?" replied an Ensign, "but Parsimony was origionally colonized by the Ithkul and is deep within their space."

"I'll explain later. What is the Arms of Justice, anyway."

"Its a device that can warp L4 bombs over long distances. They could strike any target anywhere in the galaxy."

"L4s?", interputed the Ensign, "Some doomsday weapon! A fighter could almost wield that."

"You don't understand. They can warp these things ANYWHERE. An L4 can take our a whole battleship if it blew up, say from inside the bridge, or just past the shielding on a reactor." responded the Lt.

"Okay, !@#$%^&*emble Aileron's Eleven. We'll leave in the captured Kanatis transport."

 

Aileron was about to leave the bridge. Suddenly, he recieved a com from the Warp Drive area.

 

"Sir, they infiltrated the base, and deactivated the Hyperwarp Drive!"

 

Aileron then got on the overhead com, annoucing to the entire station.

 

 

"Congradulations, pests, I didn't think you would get this far. I think I'll use this moment to enlighten you as to who exactly you are fighting for.

 

You see, many years ago, when the galaxy was still being settled, there was great tension amidst the Terrrans and the Ithkul. In anticipation of war, the Terrans set up a secret colony in Ithkul space as a possible foward refueling point for their fleet if they managed to invade Ithkul territory. This colony was Parismony, and it was manned by both military and civilians, and soon a whole secret city was built.

 

However, years later, the Ithkul intelligence learned of this facility. Soon after, 'settlers' came to 'colonized' the officially empty colony. The Terrans, ofcourse, could do nothing but disavow all knowledge of the colony. The Ithkul captured the colony, and many settlers with them.

 

Soon, they had in their hands a bunch of colonists with no idea where they came from, but officially didn't exist. They resorted to torturing the civilians. A few years later, they still had no idea where the settlers came from. However, those who oversaw the tortures became sadists, and began to torture us for no reason.

 

Decades later, the Ithkul government decided to release the colonists and try to follow them home. However, we successfully managed to dissappear into deep space.

 

The bible compares crimes to double edged swords. One edge hurts the victim, but the second edge returns the pain to the criminal. The Terrans were guilty of setting up a colony in Ithkul space. Their punishment was already given to them by the loss of their men and resources. However, the crimes of the Ithkul were not punished in return. That is, until we, the Second Edge, gave them vindication for their crimes against the settlers of Parsimony!

 

But their crimes so not stop there! As we speak, they are building a secret weapon. This weapon will be so powerfull as to disrupt the balance of power and put the whole galaxy under Ithkul rule! They are the threat to galactic peace, not us! Mark my words, this crime will not go unpunished!"

 

 

At the end of the speech, Aileron's eleven, a group of commmandos, he usually worked with, were !@#$%^&*embled. Ail order the jettison of the section of the base. He, his commandoes, including Lt. Cage. Left the base in an unmarked Kanatis transport, LEAVING NO TRACE AS TO THEM BEING GONE. [OOC- pay attention to that plz] He left command of the base to the Captain, leaving a recommendation that the base be abandoned.

 

The section of the base with the Hyperwarp Drive was jettisoned into space. Those aboard still had life support, but had no access to the rest of the base.

 

Suddenly, from around the corner. A new threat appeared to the Ithkul infiltrators. Mr. Ious II, the second Terran guardian android, had allegience with the S.E. and was on the base. It joined the battle, and quickly blasted five of the invaders with its powerfull fusion cannon.

[Tipme]

MEANWHILE

back at the bar ricebowl goes Un-afk and orders another radium ale anihilator....

[Manus Celer Dei]

*Manus serves drinks while Ithkul Intelligence operatives question him about the firefight in his bar*

 

*after the Ithkul agents leave, Manus posts a message on the station communications net offering a cargo charter to an unspecified destination*

 

*In the Alliance border system of Tau Hydra, the 2nd assault wing and 4th Tactical wing of the Kanatis 3rd fleet engage their ZTT drives, leaving the system apparently defenceless. League monitoring posts are unable to pinpoint their destination.*

[Aileron]

Back on the station, the Captain was nearly visably shaken. Ail shouldn't have left him with this command if this Ithkul project wasn't so important. Here he was, an underqualified commander facing the biggest battle in SE history. If he survives, he is going to demand a council position for this.

 

However, he didn't disagree with either of Ail's decisions. The destruction of this project was more important than this outpost, and the Commodore's mistakes cause the deaths of many SE fighter pilots. Estimates from the battle came back. About 25% of the SE and 40% of the Ithkul pilots did not make it back to their hangers. While the SE won, the Captain new that if this battle were repeated several times, the SE would run out of forces before the Ithkul.

 

The Captain put these things aside. He quickly sent a message to the section of the station drifting in base. All breathing defenders should make for the escape pods and rejoin the rest of the base. The androids should keep the invaders busy in the mean time. As the last person leaves, ALL of the escape pods should launched, and until then, they should require a genetic sample to operate. He also ordered the deployment of a giant mine field around the base. That way, when the Cruisers undoubtedly use their ZTT drives, they will warp themselves on top of some mines.

 

 

Aileron, meanwhile, was pacing back and forth. The Ithkul s-*BAD WORD*- had set up base on his childhood home, and thus the battle must be there. Ail looked at his robotic arms, just one of many reminders of the tortures he endured growing up.

 

Ail then turned on the news report. The Ithkul has quarentined all of their systems, and all civilian starports are closed. All other factions were mobilizing their fleet, all claiming to help combat the SE. Ail new better; Except for the Kanatis who survive off of the Ithkul presence, everyone would rather simply conquer Ithkul space in their weakness than strike at the SE for no profit.

 

The Luetenant entered the room.

 

"Sir, the android's chip gives no information on the base itself. We will be walking in blind."

"That facility is also the Headquarters for Ithkul Secret Operations. All we need to do is talk to an Ithkul secret agent."

"Where are we going to find an Ithkul secret agent?"

"The last place we saw one, ofcourse." Ail walked up to the pilot's room.

"Mr. Smith, take us to 17th Parallel bar."

This was strange, but the pilot was used to Ail seemingly erratic thinking.

"Yes, sir"

 

Since they were not far off, it only took them a few minutes to reach the station. They stopped a good distance away, and out of their cargo hold came two of the five Nightwasps well hidden inside the ship. They landed outside the bar, and four disguised people came out of the ships. Two of them went into the bar. One reached acrossed the bar, and grabbed four bottles of whisky. The other paid Manus. He gave Manus twice as much as the whisky was worth, but did not stay long enough to collect change.

 

The other two crossed the street. There was one old woman walking down the sidewalk. They snuck up behind her, put a pistol to her head, and dragged her back to the Nightwasp silently. Just then, the other two were running out of the bar. They got back in their ships, flew back to the transport, and continued their journey.

 

When they got on the transport and were off, they removed their disguises. Then, Ail walked up to the old woman, and took of his mask, revealing him to be an Ithkul Secret Intelligence agent.

 

"You were stupid enough to use the same disguise in the same place twice. Now, we will learn all that you know."

"You expect to torture the information out of me? I won't do as much as give you my name!"

"No, I'm not Ithkul. All those who have evolved beyond animals regard torture as a barbaric practice. However, you are not high enough on the evolutionary ladder to understand that."

 

Ail then grabbed one of the bottles of whiskey. He opened it and poured the entire contents into the agent's mouth. Then Lt. Cage took him to the brig, where he proceeded to sing like a songbird. It only took her a short time to persuade every piece of information she needed out of him.

[ReCoil!]

(ooc) im hugely confused hehe so pardon me if this is wrong lol

 

ReCoiL! suddenly felt the base screech and jerk....and felt this part of the base heave away from the other....this have had their ships on at least.....therefore he led the group of attackers back to their ships....but what to do then?

 

The S.E. had been wrongly treated....horrifically treated....but they shouldnt start killing millions of Ithkul....and what about after that? Can we be sure they will stop after the Ithkul?

 

"I dont know what everyone else thinks, but im not sure what to do....i suppose we should ask for the other half of the bases surrender and capture Aileron....but im not sure..."

"Lets just capture it......get this fight over with anyhow"

 

A few minutes later the S.E. had surrended.....with no shields and most of their turrets and fighters destroyed.... the Ithkul fleet arrived and suddenly their were several explosions....destroying on light cruiser...and heavily damaging another....am minefield!, they hadnt noticed that around their half of the base..they thought they were escape pods...!

 

After this the Ithkul demanded that Ailius ne handed over....they were answered by a wet behind the ears captain who meekly said that he didnt know who they were talking about....

 

Therefore the long and lengthy process of searching the base went underway...only to find that he was not onboard and must have slipped out during the fighting.....

 

By this team ReCoiL! had returned to the 17th parallel bar to think....and have a drink.

[Aileron]

[OOC-This font will help you read faster. Something I learned in Technical Communications class.]

 

Aileron awakened after his sleep. He did not wake up in a bed, but rather on the floor next to an engineering panel. Long ago, most of his vital organs were unable to function after a particularly painfull torture session. They were replaced by robitc replacements made out of a Neo-Kevlar. The power packs on this system could go 90 years, but Ail found his luck was better if he recharged before every battle.

 

He walked up to the bridge were the team was ready for the mission. The Ithkul agent was safely in stasis, and would be unconcious until the mission was over. Just then, Mr. Smith handed Ail a report from the base. It had been captured by the Ithkul fleet, but managed to inflict massive casualties in the process, more than the base was worth.

 

"Don't worry about that, headquarter undoubtedly has already launched a rescue mission of our prisoners. We have to focus on the mission at hand, or the sacrifice of the fallen will have been in vain."

 

On the planet below was the center of Ithkul intelligence as well as the storehouse of the Arms of Justice. The main facility was a few miles underground. There were three entrances. Each of which defended by a wide array of defensive guns. Attacking from the air would be suicide. On top of this, there was a blast door that would come down in an attack. It could withstand a L9 impact. However, the SE had to get in there, or the whole galaxy would be overrun by their hated enemies. However, first they had to get on the ground.

 

"Your clearence is good Three Juliet Niner. However, the starport is closed due to quarentine. You are to wait in orbit until further notice."

"Crud! We can't land, sir"

"Don't worry Mr. Smith, we brought the Nightwasps for a reason."

"Sir we can't sneak down, they have X-Radar all over the place."

"A little old lady told me their radar frequency, we can pretend to be one of them."

"They will still not allow you to land, and would probably want to talk to you on the way down."

"Military craft are allowed to land. Also, if we have stealth engaged, they will think we are a covert ops mission with radio silence."

 

A minute later, five Nightwasps flew down to the surface with stealth engaged. They dropped Ail, Lt. Cage, Cougar, Vince, and Bubba on the surface near one of the entrances, before returning to the transport. Mr. Jones, the SE's best hacker, oversaw things from the ship. A few minutes later, the five commandoes were hiding in an abandoned building looking at the entrance to the passage. Four guards were standing in front of the gate, and two autoturrents above them.

 

"Those guys are nothing, but if we raise the alarm, that gate goes down, and we won't be able to get in!" said the Lt.

"Mr. Jones, how well has the hacking gone?"

"I can get the turrets to attack Ithkul instead of us, but an't do anything to the gate."

"Hold on the turrents until my mark."

"Or until we get a plan."

 

A few minutes later, the Lt. had a plan.

 

"Sir, I got a plan, hold this please." she handed Ail her plasma rifle and started taking off her body armor.

"Luetenant?"

"I'm going to distract them, and you can sneak behind and keep the gate open."

"Shouldn't you have your armor on to draw fire?"

The Lt. handed Ail the armor, and started untying her boots.

"Oh, its one of THOSE distractions. You think thats really going to work?"

"You got a better plan?" asked the Lt. as she handed Ail her boots.

"Yeah, we wait hear until we come up with a better plan."

"Not good enough." The Lt. start taking off her shirt.

"Hey, Cougar, check out the new SE uniforms." Vince joked.

"Corperal Vincent, Lt. Cage is an officer and your superior. You will not make jibes about her."

The Lt. was now loosening her belt and pulling her pants down.

"Lt., I would advise against this. If it doesn't work, you will be captured, and they will be alerted."

"This will work. Men are pigs. Look, Cougar is already distracted."

She was now down to her underwear.

"Yes, but he isn't completely oblvious."

Aileron caught the Lt.'s bra.

"Its worth a shot isn't it?"

The Luetenant was now completely undressed.

The word 'shot' reminded Ail of the whiskey. He grabbed what was left of the bottle, and poured it on top of the Lt.

"If this doesn't work, pretend to be drunk."

 

The Luetenant then walked over to the base. Should stood the side, jumping and shouting to get the guards attention. The guards did not move, but only glanced out of the corner of their eyes.

 

A few minutes later, six more guards came out of the base. Two grabbed the Lt. carried her inside. The other's stayed by the gate.

 

"They doubled their guard! She gave us away!"

"Don't worry, Cougar. This is just standard protocal. Great, now we have to rescue her."

"Why do you tolerate her, sir?"

"She gets a good idea once in a while, this is one of her off days."

 

Then, an armored ambulance drove down a nearby street. Ail got the idea he was waiting for. He handed all of the Lt.'s equipment to Bubba, who put it in his pack. The commandoes secretly walked to a parking lot. They hotwired a car, and Bubba started driving down the sidewalk, until he hit a man walking down it. The rest of the commandoes hid nearby.

 

With remarkable timing, an ambulance arrived to take the man to the hospital. Bubba pretended it was an accident. When the parametics left the ambulance, the commandoes came out of hiding. Ail got in and started driving, the other three hung on the rear bumper. He drove to the base. The commandoes jumped off, and Ail started a mad rush for the door.

 

The guards shot at ambulance, but did not stop it. Ail drove it at full speed and crashed it into the frame of the gate. The gate came down, but the ambulance wedged it open. The autoturrents came on, but instead of shooting Ail and his lackeys, they shot the Ithkul guards.

 

The four of them regrouped, and entered the undergound base.

 

[Tipme]

*takes off his cloak to reveal him self as...A LITTLE TEENAGER!

"AHAHAahahahah...aha...ha...ha...h....yea..."

 

occ dude...guys..whats the point of reading each others posts...they dont seem to RELATE to eachother in anyway...

your just writing your own story...

[GhettoSmurf]

(OCC- the posts dont relate? good, cuz they're really long and i've been ignoring them, now i don't feel like i'm missing out on a plot line )

 

out of the corner of the bar comes the laughter of the smurf, staring at the not-so-mysterious teenager. the laughter eventually slows enough for the smurf to order another drink and try to figure out what has been going on around him.

[Tipme]

"Hey smurf boy..yea..im not a MYSTERIOUS guy..but i am a pro trained kanatis elite..at 17..im THAT good"

"hey look at this i got this from Darth Vader"

[Aileron]

[OOC-Actually, they are related somewhat. Recoil spent the last four or so posts specifically hunting me down. I was defending a base that he was attacking. Also, if you paid CLOSE attention (given the length, I don't blame you for not noticing), you will notice that Mr. Ious is implicated in the plot somewhat. I don't know what the heck the Kanatis fleet moving has to do with this, but I'll find a way to relate that later.

 

I'll grant that what I am doing at the moment doesn't seem to affect anybody. Nobody is close enough to do anything about it, and won't be affected by the results. Its funny you should mention that now, because the cards are going to fall down this post, and how this affects everyone will be made clear.]

 

Ail and his commandoes entered the base. Immeadiately inside, they began with their plan.

 

"Bubba, take these WPCs. (Warp Portation Charges) Go to the Ithkul treasury and used them to warp as much gold as you can to the transport above."

"Yes, sir"

"The rest of you, come with me we need to rescue the Lt."

 

The SE commandoes cut through the base like a hot knife through butter. The Ithkul's best troops were hunting SE throughout deep space, leaving only reserves and rent-a-cops in the facility. Hundred of guards could not stop the onslaught of the 4 best fighters in the SE ranks. The three soon arrived at the medical barracks, where the Lt. was lying on a bed, recovering from her 'drunken' state.

 

"Well, I see I should have followed your advice. How did you get in?"

"That's not important, I'll tell you when we have time."

"Do you have my clothes and equipment?"

"I gave them to Bubba, he is raiding the treasury."

 

The Lt. wraped a blanket around herself, and grabed Vince's and Cougar's sidearms. The four of them then continued to the core of the Arms of justice. An Ithkul technician was waiting for them, his finger perched over a large red button.

 

"You are too late, SE s-*BAD WORD*-! The Arms of Justice will be operational when I push this button!"

 

A wire shot out of Ail's arm, wrapped around the tech's finger, and ripped it off of his hand. Cougar then shot him in the head. Ail started handing WPCs to everyone.

 

"Sir, there must be some mistake. These are WPCs, not explosives!"

"There is no mistake. We are here to STEAL the Arms of Justice, not destroy it. Our techs are building their own version of this weapon as we speak, but cannot duplicate these three things" Ail pointed to several pieces of equipment around the room. "Other than that, take anything that looks complicated and hard to duplicate."

 

The SE commandoes attached the WPCs to the equipment. Moments later, Mr. Jones locked on to their signal and warped them into the transport above. The commandoes then left, having a few problems on the way out, but nothing they couldn't solve.

 

An hour later, they were back in the Kanatis transport. In the cargo hold was several billion credits worth of rare minerals, as well as vital equipment to make the Arms of Justice in their main headquarters. Suddenly, a large fleet appeared on their radar.

 

"Its the prison ships. They got the prisoners from our base in there."

"Act cool, we can't fight them, and for all they know we are Kanatis merchants."

 

Suddenly, several other cruisers warped next to the fleet. A small group of Seraphs, the covert ops cruisers used by the Terrans, had set up an ambush to rescue the SE prisoners.

 

"Deploy our Nightwasps. They probably don't need our help, but we could use a ride back to Terran space."

 

The battle was long and exciting, but the details unimportant. The Terrans rescued the SE prisoners from the Ithkul prison ships, and left no survivers to tell who attacked them. Ail's transport docked inside one of them, and the cruisers returned to Terran space with the SE inside, not as prisoners, but as comrades.

 

The Second Edge troops celebrated. The plan was successfull as much as could be hoped. They had the Arms of Justice in their possesstion, had delt a crippling blow to the Ithkul, and the galaxy still had no knowledge of their secret alliance with the Terrans.

[Raem]

[OOC- sorry I haven't been posting for a while, been a bit busy with this new toy I found (eJay )...I'll post again tomorrow...and yea, the posts do relate between ReCoil!, Aileron and myself...the rest of you guys are chillin with Manus (I had to go and sacrifice myself for the good of humanity...how pathetic)]

[Aileron]

[OOC-Manus is saying I can't have the Terrans backing me. I hope this makes him happy. Also, I'm giving up on the font, after some experimentation, I found it wasn't helping.]

 

Suddenly, the SE celebrations on the Terran Seriph 57 (covert ops ships are never named) was cut short. A group of Terran troops, guns at the ready came in. All, the SE soldiers were shocked. A voice, that of the Terran Head of Weapons Developmet Al Blake, came over the loudspeaker.

 

"Well, done Ailius, thank you for bringing the Arms of Justice to me. Now, you Second Edge Terrorists are under arrest for crimes against humanity."

"You back-stabbing s-*BAD WORD*-! Mr. Blake, we had a deal!"

"I don't deal with terrorists."

"Bull! I got the recording right here. You provided us with the biological agent, which we used to whipe out the colony. Then, we recover the Arms of Justice for you, and you provide us asylum."

"Yes, but now I have the Arms of Justice. I don't need to keep my end of the agreement."

"If so, we did you rescue my men from the Ithkul?"

"Too clean up the pieces. I can't have the Ithkul learning of our business together, can I. Besides, I didn't have the weapon then. Now, I do."

 

It was no use. Mr. Blake had played Ail like a harp, and this particular batch of Terran troops recieved enough money from above to ignore Mr. Blake's treachery. Soon the SE found themselves in new cells. Ail found himself in a special isolation cell, which dampened his cybernetics.

 

 

[OOC-This is where having an NPC sidekick comes in handy]

 

A few minutes earlier on the Kanatis Transport docked inside the Seriph, Lt. Case was a little behind. She had just finished final shutdown, and was putting her uniform back on when all of this happened. She looked outside to see SE being led to the cells by the Terrans. Quickly, she took back off the few fragments of clothing she had put on, and put all of her equipment away in the storage area. Then, she locked herself in the stasis chamber next ot the Ithkul secret agent.

 

A few minutes later, Terran soldiers were searching the ship. It was quickly secured, because no SE troops were on the vessel. In the cargo hold they found 5 Nightwasps, various SE weapons, lots of rare minerals, and crucial parts to the Arms of Justice. Further inspection revealed two prisoners. One was an Ithkul secret agent, drunk and dressed like a grandmother. He was obviously captured for interrogation by the SE. The other was nude woman. She claimed to be an Ithkul civilian captured by the SE and exploited in many a vile fashion before being crammed into stasis. However, this being a covert ops mission, they could not release either of them, and decided to take them back to Earth for the time being. The Ithkul intelligence agent was put into a cell, near the SE, but not with them. The woman had been through enough, and was to be treated well for the rest of the trip in the guest quarters.

 

 

After recieving some food, clean clothes, and a little rest, Lt. Cage waited for her opportunity. Suddenly, it came in the form of red alert being called. Apparently, the Seriphs ran into a fleet of Kanatis ships that wern't supposed to be there. Both fleets, not in a position to explain themselves, attacked the other. A fleet to fleet battle was raging outside the ship. She quickly headed towards the prisoner's barracks. There, only a skeleton guard was standing by the prisoners. She snuck behind one, grabbed his plasma rifle, and made short work of the guards. Seconds later, the SE forces were free.

 

They quickly went from room to room of the ship. For every man they killed, an SE replacement stayed behind. The replacement recieved and followed orders given on the overhead by the captain. The captain himself was far too distracted by what was going on the outside of the ship to notice what was going on inside the ship, especially since all the departments were resonding. Soon, the SE took the bridge, and Ail took command of the ship.

 

"See, THIS is why I tolerate the Luetenant. All hands break engagement, and make for deep space."

 

Seriph 57 broke engagement, and fled from the battle. It made for the deep space. Being designed for covert ops, this ship was well suited for hiding. It was the only cruiser model in the universe capable of stealth, and one of the fastest as well. Not only did it make it to deep space, but it did so leaving no sign of their presence and no trail to follow.

[ReCoil!]

ReCoiL! was sitting in Manus' bar waiting....just waiting to see what was happening...maybe he could find more off Mr. Ious but he didnt know where he was at the moment....so he was stuck here....no leads to follow and not sure what side he was on....so he sat for hours stroking the soft tissue under Zaranths mouth...and making her giggle with pleasure....then he asked her to teleport them to the ship....he thought he might take it for a spin...see what it could do...he hadnt had a chance yet anyhow...