[ooc]
I am occupying K2 for the duration as that is where the old IL research bases are.
M.A.R.S. base, Pyongyang
Beagle group watched as 3 raptors flew in ready to begin their assesment.
4 raiders followed in support.
The Raptors came in low so as to avoid missle fire. their support craft however were not so lucky as a missle flew from a Korean base the pilots never had the chance to react as their ship exploded gloriously.
the Raptors sanded quickly as the remaining Raiders agresivly patroled the area.
Free Pacific States Liberty City Downtown
Meanwhile
Being worth a couple of millions of Federate Credits a year had some advantages. For example, people around you had the tendency not to contradict your wishes, even if you were asking them to keep the circuit open far later than usual to allow you a motorbike-ride even if a friend phoned you at ten oclock in the evening requesting a bit of intelligence exploiting a friend of the old times at Shiro Academy.
Chuckling at the thought, Jordan Carlyle grabbed the mobile, dialed the code he had just received and which should have turned on some kind of uber-encrypting-Archangels technology and then opened the contacts list, selecting Heinrich The Great from the unexpectedly short list. The answer came no more than three seconds later.
«Nice to hear ya, Heinrich yup, Im fine, I hope you are too, but Im late for a date with my lover, so Ill go straight to the point, just as you like: they tell me youre going to nuke some East Pacifican nation or another again!» he chuckled.
— Begin quote from ____
ElfyCom! has entered the room.
OutbreakButterfly has entered the room.
ElfyCom!: Hey.
ElfyCom!: Vincoli says you were having problems with One.
OutbreakButterfly: Tell him that his ability to keep secrets is why he spent 20 years as a Lieutenant.
OutbreakButterfly: Actually, don’t. That would be rude.
ElfyCom!: So it’s true?
OutbreakButterfly: Yeah, I figured out what was wrong with him.
OutbreakButterfly: I am an idiot.
ElfyCom!: No you’re not
OutbreakButterfly: So we’ve been moving him around, right?
OutbreakButterfly: Anything’s better than going home.
OutbreakButterfly: So last week, he moved in.
OutbreakButterfly: With me.
ElfyCom!: I retract my previous statement
ElfyCom!: How did you miss that? How could you possibly miss that?
Madman21 has entered the room.
ElfyCom!: Don’t you know what that place DOES to people?
OutbreakButterfly: I’m sorry!
OutbreakButterfly: It’s not something I think about.
ElfyCom!: Think about it
ElfyCom!: Or the next one might just die
Madman21: scary talk
Madman21: hello?
ElfyCom!: Hi
OutbreakButterfly: Hiya!
Madman21: you’re going to like this
Madman21: So, i followed up on the mecha
Madman21: and
Madman21: This is hardcore
OutbreakButterfly: Eh?
Madman21: We’ve got it
Madman21: its being kept secure, but we’ve got a lot of info
ElfyCom!: What kind?
Madman21: Schematics, power systems, weapons
Madman21: The works
Madman21: they’re working on duplicating it
Madman21: prototypes worked out so far
OutbreakButterfly: Whoa.
OutbreakButterfly: Faster than I thought.
Madman21: i know
ElfyCom!: I need you to do this.
ElfyCom!: Get all the data that you possibly can.
ElfyCom!: Pull in any Army privileges you need, or those favors we talked about
Madman21: This is going to compromise me pretty badly
OutbreakButterfly: If our estimates are right, it won’t matter how compromised you are in a little bit.
OutbreakButterfly: When the time comes we’ll get you out.
Madman21: Like WoWfan?
Madman21: how is she, anyway?
OutbreakButterfly: Jammed.
Madman21: bummer
OutbreakButterfly: I can still reach her.
OutbreakButterfly: It’s just slow.
OutbreakButterfly: She’s in no danger. She’s staying put.
OutbreakButterfly: You, on the other hand…
Madman21: Can I go somewhere more peaceful next time?
ElfyCom!: One more thing.
ElfyCom!: You’ll be getting reports of airstrikes to the east in about…two hours?
ElfyCom!: It’s the Empire
ElfyCom!: Dunno what they want. Will let you know ASAP
Madman21: everyone wants a piece of the pie
OutbreakButterfly: I know!
RiverBlue9 has entered the room.
Madman21: Hafta run
Madman21: Bye
Riverblue9: o hai
Riverblue9: we needz 2 tlk
OutbreakButterfly: So yeah, I think “A Vision of Peace” was the worst movie of the year.
ElfyCom!: You can’t fault them for trying.
OutbreakButterfly: Yes.
OutbreakButterfly: Yes I can.
OutbreakButterfly: Seriously, I walked out after the shooting scene. The dialogue was terrible.
Riverblue9: lolwut
ElfyCom!: I’ll give you that.
ElfyCom!: But the ending
OutbreakButterfly: The problem was the ending!
OutbreakButterfly: It was 90 minutes of people talking!
OutbreakButterfly: It sucked.
Riverblue9: wut do u think about the war
OutbreakButterfly: WAR
ElfyCom!: WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR
OutbreakButterfly: ABSOLUTELY NOTHING
ElfyCom!: I SAID WAR
ElfyCom!: GOOD GOD MAN
Riverblue9 has left the room.
ElfyCom!: That
ElfyCom!: Was NOT RiverBlue9
OutbreakButterfly: I know.
ElfyCom!: He’s sold out.
OutbreakButterfly: Just as he was supposed to.
ElfyCom!: Eh?
OutbreakButterfly: I knew he would run screaming to the nearest occupation authority when I IMed him in the first place.
OutbreakButterfly: A pity he never saves anything and has a colorful criminal record.
OutbreakButterfly: And now his friends know that his “spies” are nothing but a bunch of Internet trolls.
OutbreakButterfly: I was hoping for a bit more, like, say, some information on Hyesan.
OutbreakButterfly: But completely discrediting anyone with the same idea will do nicely.
ElfyCom!: Ugh
ElfyCom!: Did he talk to WoWfan?
OutbreakButterfly: A different name, but yes.
OutbreakButterfly: Not a problem anymore.
ElfyCom!: I see
ElfyCom!: Very nice
ElfyCom!: But bringing One home was still stupid.
OutbreakButterfly: I know!
ElfyCom!: Anyway, I’ve got to hit the road in 10
OutbreakButterfly: Bye.
ElfyCom! has left the room.
OutbreakButterfly has left the room.
— End quote
Pyorgyang
The Korean soldiers were giddy with joy, sure they were not playing WOW but they just took out an enemy aircraft, too bad there were more of them and they were all heading toward that old research faciliyt outside town, well not so much old as unused for the last few years. It had originally been built 20 or so years ago by their former government Infinite Loop, but after independance interest in the base and its research dried up until finally Comrade Il closed it for the betterment of the people.
“load up men, we are going out to investigate the base those planes were going to.”
called out the Commander
the transport soaded fairly quickly and efficiently for men who only trained the barest of minimums.
Imperia, Emperor room
Heinrich, tired from a long day trying to solve the issue with Reziel, was rather upset, looking to a photo of his parents in a resort island, with the phrase “Wish you were here” written on it.
“How kind of him, sending me that when he knows i´m knee-deep in trouble…” He mutters to himself with sarcasm
Then the evening news shows a certain situation on FPS that makes his evening even worse…
After watching the entire footage of the event, Heinrich stand in shock, silent and unmoving in front of the scream, then he suddenly grab his comset and send an encrypted code to a certain phone, in order to talk with an old friend over a secure line.
“Jordan?.. Thanks, nice to hear you too. So, how are you?.. What! I didn´t even used nuclear ordinance this time… I mean, no, i´m not nuking anyone tomorrow. I´m just trying to get back the mecha stolen by those damn koreans… It was a prototype, Jordan. It is worth a war to get it back. But i trust that a compromise will be reached with your country. Nevertheless, i won´t delay you any longer with this. To make a long story short, a kid from my country dropped an AC on Shiro… Stop laughing, i said a million times the “gunman incident” was an accident. Anyway, i called you because this time the FPS government is really mad, so i´ll consider it a personal favor if you help him out of this trouble. Can you do it?”
«Wow Heinrich a mecha in the middle of Shiro. At least you had just kidnapped half the campus oh sure you did, Heinrich. I was there! Ive seen it well, technically I was experiencing the first symptoms of my crush for Jill, but I was vigilant enough to no, no developments of sort. You know Jill and come on, who cares. Weve far more important things to do. Ill spend a couple of words with the FPSian, perhaps Ill have a chat with GeniusTerrus, too. About the mecha, I had been told something about that and I already have a proposal. The fleet is stopping, but there are things moving, up there. The flagship will soon be boarded by a group of people who could be of help. Should you be able to arrange a low-profile visit with the Admirals, youll have the chance to discuss the details with an old friend of mine. I suppose this well, thats exactly the answer I had hoped for. Have a good travel and hail Arian on my behalf you too, Heinrich»
Putting the phone down, Jordan threw a quick glance at the clock. Almost ten in the evening. At least two phone calls yet to be done if not three. Jill. Sooner or later the situation should have been shaking his head, he grabbed the phone back.
«Carlyle Ill be there in twenty minutes. Its wet, so Ill need a new set of tires, could you please arrange thank you, Mike. I had no doubts!»
Please note in this thread the attack on Wagasaki happens tomorrow Late afternoon
Pyongyang MARS base
Kitsurabami watched as the Raptors landed, though she wanted to avenge her fallen comrade she was under orders not to fire on Korean Nationals and to disable weapons of any Kroean military she encountered so she stayed put using her Valkyries height to monitor the perimeter and hold a mobile Draydis unit, normally used only in space the military had been experimenting with using the Draydis on land in conjunction with standard Doppler radar.
And it was working, she watched a fat blip moving across the sky,
“Kitty to Beagles inbound Butterball, Beagle 3 check it out.”
“By your command” intone Beagle 3 in a flat monotone
teh black Valkyrie borke and streaked off toward the Blip, its active countormeaseres obscuring it from the Butterball* from above the plane surveyed the butterball then turned and streaked back to its holding pattern,
it transfered the readings to Kitsurabami, and added “Waresian Cargo plane, broadcasting in E2, J1&2”
Kitsurabami read it then said “keep tabs on the plane relay to me all suspicious activity”
The hill overlooking the base
Warpaladin of Venca Brax unFufadoo surveyed the base with his binoculars, he took teh lenses away form his eyes and reverted to Commander Ju Kim.
“well” he said by the markings they are from IL," he looks again “and rather than attackinc they appear to be bringing the base online, Lt Kim, contact the base and see what they say to do.”
Lt Kim got on his horn and called their home base after a few minutes of talking he returned to his commander,
“sir, General Kim said for us to make Friendly contact, they are already attempting to contact IL Command but the External communications net in out so he is trying to IM them.”
Commander Kim tucked his field glasses into their pouch “Ok men pack in and we will move to the main gates of the base and attempt contact.”
the men assembled at their truck and slowly backed away then upon reaching the main road they turned toward the main entrance and turned on their headlights and began driving.
*Butterball is just a code for a certain sized Draydis blip
[s]South-western Reziel AF base Vigilance
Meanwhile
«It seems in the end this behemoth will repay itself encrypt everything. We activate DefCon 2 procedures of communications and in the meanwhile, well tell the guys to be ready, should the situation become hotter»
The FPSian officer simply nodded to his Rezielan counterpart. In the end, there was nothing to say. Vigilance had been created for a single purpose: to be a never-closing eye and ear in the north area, thus covering the whole area of influence of the EPTO nations of Reziel and Really Nice Hats. The joint co-operation between the Grand duchy and its southern ally well, it had done nothing else but to improve and ease the whole project, which had now been friendly nicknamed the behemoth for rather obvious reasons.
Fifteen minutes after, the high commands of Liberty City, New Irem, Tasmin and Tricorne, together with the EPTO Northern and central ones, had received the alert message: potentially hostile Warrian troops were being deployed in central Korea.[/s]
OOC: due to warr’s decision to delete his post, this one of mine can well be disregarded
Mars Base
Kitsurabami Eyed the blip of the Warresian plane then it vanished
she cocked her eyebrows and tapped the display
nothing
“beagle 4 to pack did you see that blip vanish?”
“What Blip?”
“the waresian plane that was coming in from the west.”
“Who is Waresian?”
“Who?” asked Kitsurabami
“What were we talking about” asked Beagle 5
“no idea” said Kitty as she spied the Koreans approaching
“Look smart boys we have company, , , loud company”
Kitsurabami closest to the gate held up her hand, her Valkyrie mimicking her perfectly
"Halt " she said, the trucks brakes squeeked as it stopped,
Major Kim stepped out
“I greet you , , Giant Robot, I represent the Sun jon Il military base,” he points
"just a few miles from here, “we wish to make contact with your commander on behalf of the whot remains of the United Stotes of Korea.”
00C} I think that was a good way of dealing with the errant post
Imperial Palace, Terasu.
“I hear they’ve already begun distributing maps around schools with Terasun Hamgyong and Terasun Ryanggang marked on them.” Hiroko sighed with vague amusment and handed over the latest reports on the outside world.
“I would have renamed them but I think Hamgyong and Ryanggang sound alright for the moment and I didn’t want to seem too pretentious.” Jushiro lazily spun round in his chair while flicking through a scientific journal some academic had written on the resistance to various diseases that crodillians in southern Terasu possessed. “What of our dear Katō?”
Hiroko shrugged, “Well apparently General Zayel dispatched his best but Katō managed to disappear three hours before they arrived with one hundred and fifty eight of his men.”
“You should trust Zayel.” Jushiro stood up and dropped the journal on the desk separating himself and Hiroko. “We’ll give him a few days to reappear. If not we’ll just wait til he attacks someone. Not much he can do anyway, unless you’re not telling me something.”
Hiroko took a couple of steps backwards and lowered her head. “No, I don’t know of anything else. Although, I heard Fumio mentioning two of the prototypes went missing with him… But as we now know, their uses are limited.”
Several hours later
An encrypted message is sent to the flagship of Reziel´s fleet on Korea requesting a meeting with the admiral in charge.
The source, a lone AC in the middle of the pacific, cloaked with stealth tecnology.
In the cockpit, Heinrich smiled, thinking on how desperate his advisors will be when they realize he´s gone.
“I hate to admit it but, sometimes, i´m just like my father…”
M.A.R.S. base
Kitsurabami watched as the korean soldiers disebarked the truck just outside the gate, she shepped a bit closer and looked down,
Major Kim looked up at the mecha, “Good evening, I am major Kim, I represent the Pyongyang Military base, my CO, Colonel Kim has isntrutcted me to open communications with you as you are forces from Infinite Loop, may we come in?”
She contemplated it, their wisual scans showed no explosives so
"Of course Major Kim, she signaled one of the infantrymen on the ground to let them in then told another “Escort them to Barrack B, I will be there in a moment” then she turned atd walked to a tall tree by the barrack,
the man entered and a few moments later were joined by Kitsurabami and a few of her officers,
“I greet you comrade Koreans, I am Captain Kitsurabami, how can I help you?”
Antares Nimitz Class AC New Iremian flagship
Meanwhile Just outside Koreans waters
«With all due respect, Sir, the message is obviously directed to the Admiral dont you see? A meeting with the Admiral in charge there are no doubts. Therefore, if you could simply allow »
The Archangel gently shook his head and didnt move from the doors threshold, thus preventing the seaman to step out of the room.
«Im sorry, but it seems there has been a misunderstanding. Mine has not been a suggestion it was an order. And I expect you to obey it now»
«You cannot » began the seaman. But when a fifteen-digits code appeared on the Archangels electronic armband, he frowned interrogatively «And now what is it supposed to »
«If you could check the decoders, youll see this mean Im fully authorized to order you anything I need even to jump overboard, should it be the case»
«So if youre right, what Im supposed to do, again?»
«Answer the drakkengaardian give him full clearance. Captain De Corde is already waiting for him no names, please. Just forward him an authorized code for his transponder we do not want the Antares to shoot him down»
MARS Base
Kitsurabami pushed her chair back a bit, “So basically, your people want us te help defend Pyongyang?”
“yes miss, they feel that with the collapse, and with parts of the nation being eaten up by others as we speak, part of what we were needs to survive.” asnwered Major Kim,
Kitsurabami rubbed her chin with her hand, “Well I can contact my superiors and relay the message to them, but I cannot gaurantee you anything, to tell you the truth, we were sent to secure this base because of the secrets it holds.”
“I am aware of that, but please contact your commanders I will wait for a reply.”
Kitsurabami stood " I will do so I will be bac, , , " BEEP BEEP BREE
her Newton sounded interupting her,
she looked at the monitor, “LT Haru” she said
then held the newton to her ear
“Captain we need you down here immeadiately, when we began to move the pods, , , Well Hurry!” said St Haru
“On my way” she hung up teh newton,
“Gentlemen I will have to delay your request I have an emergency”
Mars base
Kitsurabami went to the opening outwardly it looked like a normal barracks but inside was a high security facility, Kitsurabami walked to the lift, and entered then entered her floor selection, normally just one floor but she chose 6, and decended,
14 floors down, she hated the subteranian stuff but her home, her creators were fond of hiding stuff they liked deep underground, kinda apropriate she thought as she pondered her love of the sun, she and Nei would have to take a vacation, perhaps to one of the naturist retreats in the Fish Islands.
The doors opened, inside she saw soldiers scurrying about with crates and assorted other military stuff, a trooper with the caduces on his lapel rushed to her,
“Captain, We have a bit of trouble.”
“Well speak up Lt. Little, what is wrong?”
"The Pods, we did just as Dr Aday said, we disconnected the pods in sequence, , "
he turned “well follow me please, Anywho, we did just as he said, and it worked on teh filnt 9 pods, their internal units kicked in and they are fine.”
they pased several of the pods, the size of large refrigerators, with glass frosted doors like some sort of overly cold Moxie cases set to freeze several score of perfectly good drink, “. . . and then when we brought this one on we di the same but it went into defrost.”
She looked upon the pod, the front was defrosting, this was serious, she rubbed a bit of the frost away inside was a form, she knew what this was, but , she didnt expect to see one so soon.
“What is the status Doctor?” she asked
“So far all is fine, status is tops”
“Open it”
“What?”
“Open it, did I stutter?”
“no maam”
Lt Little went through the checklist 13 step sequence and exhaled he didnt expect to have to open one of these, that was to be left to the techs back at “Hyrule Castle”
the case clicked, and slowly the sid released a bit of steamlike gas issued forth and the lid opened, as the gas cleared out, Kitsurabami saw a sight she had seen several times before, inside was a young boy, blonde, fair, and in her eyes perfect.
“he is alive?” she asked
“Yes he is just unconcious”
she looked at the pod, it’s labelwas still clean, AL-10, sample donor, K1-95
she gulped, “how many people know of this Pod?”
“Like I said, just us so far like I told you a moment ago.”
"Aah, Wait you have something on your hair, "
he leaned foreward and she took hold of his hair
“here” she gripped him, her eyes went dark,
~you will take this boy ond place him in my Valkyrie, you will report that Pod AL-10 was empty and probably never used, you will forget you spoke to me today, and you will forget all incidents invorving this boy, is that uderstood~
the trooper nodds
~you will upon completion of this set of tasks return here to the Lavatory, you will enter te womens lavatory and urinate then realize where you are and awaken forgetting all I have told you te forget, your embarassment will mask this.~
he again nodded and she released his head,
he stood, and she took a large duffel, “help me put him in here and be careful, I see so much as a scratch on him and I will cut off your ear.”
"of course, lets pad it with this blanket,
they worked for a few minutes, and gently placed the boy in the duffel, Kitsurabami glanced into the pod a small teddy bear laid by him, she picked it up and petted it, she remembered it, she placed it by him, , then pit his arm over it.
“I expect that bear to be there when I get home”
Lt Little picked up the duffel as though his ear depended on it.
as he left she sat down on the pod and picked at the label, tiny tears began to form on her eyes, as she pealed it off.
and crumpled it in her hand.
be beep
“Kitsurabami here” she wiped her eyes
“Sir, we have a line to the Home Row.”
“be up in a moment.”
— Begin quote from ____
ElfyCom! has entered the room.
EyesInSkies has entered the room.
Madman21 has entered the room.
EyesInSkies: hi
Madman21: hi
ElfyCom!: Hello
ElfyCom!: How’s the shipment?
Madman21: this is fascinating stuff
Madman21: Naturally, we all agreed
Madman21: They help defend the city, we look the other way while they move the kids out
ElfyCom!: kids?
Madman21: witches
EyesInSkies: I didn’t know you believed in that.
Madman21: kinda hard not to
Madman21: Samantha kids
EyesInSkies: Samantha?
ElfyCom!: I understand. I’ll explain later after I check with Outbreak.
EyesInSkies: Where is she, anyway?
ElfyCom!: Probably having crazy-time again.
EyesInSkies: Crazy…?
Madman21: ahem
ElfyCom!: Now V, apologize to the nice general.
EyesInSkies: No.
ElfyCom!: Suit yourself.
ElfyCom!: Have any of the pods, uh
Elfycom!: Hatched?
Madman21: no
Madman21: at least, not here
Madman21: no guarantees they won’t stay unhatched for long
ElfyCom!: Understood.
ElfyCom!: I’ll pass it along.
Madman21: we haven’t actually worked out the defense thing yet
Madman21: But the base is in the most likely angle of approach
EyesInSkies: At least, by sea
Madman21: yes
EyesInSkies: By land, not so much
EyesInSkies: But, Paul Revere quotes notwithstanding, that’s not where it’s coming from
Madman21: of course
Madman21: Anyway
Madman21: gotta go
Madman21: need to talk with some people about mech
ElfyCom!: You do that.
Madman21 has left the room.
EyesInSkies: And you wondered why I insisted on bringing Park into this
ElfyCom!: Remind me again, will you.
EyesInSkies: Oh, I will
ElfyCom!: You realize that you will almost certainly have to evacuate him.
EyesInSkies: Yes
ElfyCom!: Good. Have a crew ready on, oh, three hours’ notice.
EyesInSkies: Understood.
ElfyCom!: Thank you. Good day.
ElfyCom! has left the room.
EyesInSkies has left the room.
— End quote
Kitsurabami returned to the barracks,
“I apologise Major Kim pressing matters, My men tell me they have a line to my CO. so lets go.”
major Kim nods as Kitsurabami sets up a laptop and connects, an older man appears,
"Captain I greet you, and Major Kim good to see you again, "
Major Kim stands and salutes, “Colonel Ryotaro!”
"At ease major, " he says “and it is general now, I do hope you have been well these last ten years.”
“Yes sir, we have been well, if my wife were here she would send her love.”
General Ryotaro nods “So you wanted to speak with us about the situation there.”
“Yes General, my superiors have authorized me to seek aid from your nation, the outlying areas of the country hve already fallen to invaders, , and we wish to keep central Korea sape and free.”
“Well i am gonna go ahead and issue an order to Kitsurabami and her group to protect the area, and I will be sending reinforcements to back them up, I will go to the government and secure an official order too. you can tell your family to sleep tight tonight.”
Major Kim stands and bows “I thank you superior sir” he says.
Kitsurabami adds, “Sir I need to speak with you privately for a moment.”
she picks up the laptop and steps to the side, , ,
after a few mmoments she returns
“we will be on the project as of now, if you could go and prepare your people I would appreciate it.”