"Ahahaha, leave? Hell no. These guys sre on my shitlist. I woulda come regardless of your involvement. Besides, I still have to make a certain asshat my special friend"
-Nate Bishop & Auriel- For a military super carrier this Starrunner had an impressive number of movies. Scratch that, an impressive amount of good movies. When Bishop commented on this, Auriel rolled her eyes under the hood. "It's connected to the main UTC archival network, it has every movie in existence." Bishop nodded in agreement. "I know right? Next thing you know they'll tell me..." He flipped through the list in front of him and laughed out loud. "No way! They even have the entire Horrors of the Void and Mysteries of Venus collection! These were so bad they stopped making copies one week after production!" He pressed a button on a popcorn package, and as it popped itself a line came on comms. "Men? This is Captain Onyx. We will be shipping out for Lutia, a planet of the Splinter. The UTC has been pushed back on so many fronts, most forces are holding back to defend UTC space. But we are taking the offensive. This will be very dangerous, going in alone. Therefore, I give each of you the ability to leave of your own accord, with no consequences. Leave within the hour, after that, if you are aboard you are coming with us. That is all." Bishop pressed the audio messaging system and sent a message to command. "Let me know when we've arrived." With that he propped himself on the bed of his quarters with his hot popcorn, a soda, and nearly 20 hours of the worse crime to the history of cinematic universe to laugh through with Auriel's bored criticism with him. -Loren Kelley & Veronica- "Men? This is Captain Onyx. We will be shipping out for Lutia, a planet of the Splinter. The UTC has been pushed back on so many fronts, most forces are holding back to defend UTC space. But we are taking the offensive. This will be very dangerous, going in alone. Therefore, I give each of you the ability to leave of your own accord, with no consequences. Leave within the hour, after that, if you are aboard you are coming with us. That is all." Kelley looked up, then tapped a message to the captain on his digi-pad. He was sitting in the spare seat of Morain's room, with Veronica sitting by the bed itself. Morain was sleeping gently at the moment. The rider had taken it upon himself to return the favor, though with less zeal than the girl on the bed. He spends his days alternating training in the simulator, working out, cleaning himself, eating and then pop in for a quick visit to Morain when possible. She wasn't in a coma per say, but she is usually quiet and sleeping when he visits. To Captain Onyx, I, Loren Kelley, rider of the FRAME Fate's Edge, along with my SOUL, Veronica, awaits further orders of our objectives at Lutia. Respectfully, Loren Kelley. He also brings a fresh steak-fried chicken every day, instead of a pile of them, and today's meal rested on the patient's table in front of Morain with a bottle of juice.
It had been a long couple of weeks for Freya as she fought to struggle as to why she wouldn't remember her fianceé, for goodness sakes she even gladly taught him how to use a sword! That could only mean she accepted it. What could have happened to make her forget. She fought to find any blanks in her memory but she wouldn't be able to tell what any blanks are. That didn't mean she was any less committed to the mission. though after the Captain's idiotic speech she just went back to the hanger and began helping to tinker with her FRAME. The FRAME apparently built by her Fianceé's company. It still made her bright faced like a high school girl trying to imagine it. However the mission would go, this FRAME would be the key to success, she had to take care of it more so then any of her other partners. Agalia tried to be quiet to let her sister's mind wandered. She had no way to help and just watched over and helped her as she could through this strange time. It was all still a little wild.
< @Xanxas @Andraina @WanderingJester @Shadhunter > As the StarRunner made the final jump towards the planet, The riders were called to the briefing room. The entirety of the command crew was there, apart from Morain Desero, who was substituted by Michelle Williams. "Lutia." A hologram appeared in the center of the room as Captain Onyx spoke. "It seems to have been turned into a fortress-world. We have multiple primary objectives." Red dots appeared in orbit and on the planet. "Rider Unison? You will be assaulting the Orbital stations with Rider Bishop, Rider Gorgon and the StarRunner." < @Andraina @Shadhunter ( @WanderingJester ) > "Rider Arcadia. You will be assaulting the Manufacturing capital here with Rider Miribo." Yalei looked over at Kyras and smiled. < @Xanxas > "Rider Kelley..." He paused, his brow wrinkling. "You will assault the Military Mega-Facility Here along with Rider Hushion" Dunni perked up and looked about nervously, but kept quiet. < @WanderingJester > "All of you, get Arms from the armory. You will be needed to be able to act as infiltrators inside your targets. We will need information. Do not destroy the Main buildings, destroy the guards, enter the facilities and Hack into the COREs to gather vital intel on the Splinter." "One hour until arrival, Captain." Oracle said. "You have one hour to get prepared. Unless you have any questions, you may take your leave."
Freya saluted and dismissed herself after the briefing sighing as they made their way back to the hanger, several orbital facilities, her mission was absolutely insane. She was going to be the only one with a significant amount of speed between her and the two Bulwarks in her branch of the operation. Infiltration, Attack, Defense. She would be forced to participate in everything. This was going to be insane beyond all belief and then, THAT FRAME was being sortied. "Agalia," She said aloud, "Your thoughts?" Agalia sighed, "It's natural to have a bad feeling about this. Considering all of our other operations thus far. Now we're deep striking into enemy territory by ourselves." Freya nodded, "There is bold and there is reckless, we're already past Reckless, splitting up our already small forces, hell just on a sneak attack operation they sent 12 FRAMEs at us. What the hell are we going to do if they have 200 FRAMEs on planet?" Agalia sighed, "Just keep being you Freya. We'll find that Light that pierces the darkness together." OOC: Roll credits
-Nate Bishop & Auriel- "Lutia. It seems to have been turned into a fortress-world. We have multiple primary objectives." Bishop looked at the various lights on the map. "Rider Unison? You will be assaulting the Orbital stations with Rider Bishop, Rider Gorgon and the StarRunner." Bishop saluted while Auriel gave a slight nod to both the Captain and to Freya. "All of you, get Arms from the armory. You will be needed to be able to act as infiltrators inside your targets. We will need information. Do not destroy the Main buildings, destroy the guards, enter the facilities and Hack into the COREs to gather vital intel on the Splinter." Bishop smiled, he didn't like stealth missions, but they were necessary. "One hour until arrival, Captain." Auriel gave Bishop a look indicating that this was correct. "You have one hour to get prepared. Unless you have any questions, you may take your leave." Bishop saluted once more than turned around and left. He went to the armory to pick up some body armor, a personal hands free shield controlled by Auriel, some grenades and a silenced rifle with plenty of ammo. He also grabbed a silencer for his side arm and equipped it, just in case. With that Bishop went and suited up, getting into Archangel in order to begin the pre-launch checkups. -Loren Kelley & Veronica- "Lutia. It seems to have been turned into a fortress-world. We have multiple primary objectives." Kelley stood at attention, with Veronica in her mini size once more sitting weightlessly on Kelley's shoulder. "Rider Kelley... You will assault the Military Mega-Facility Here along with Rider Hushion." Kelley could see out of the corner of his eyes Dunni shifting uncomfortably in his seat. Somehow Fate's Edge's rider had found that his perception sharpened recently, though he had yet to empirically test this with a visual/audio reaction test. "All of you, get Arms from the armory. You will be needed to be able to act as infiltrators inside your targets. We will need information. Do not destroy the Main buildings, destroy the guards, enter the facilities and Hack into the COREs to gather vital intel on the Splinter." Great more foot fighting. "One hour until arrival, Captain." The ship shook slightly, or did Kelley just imagine that? No it definitely trembled just a faint vibration, but none of others seemed to have noticed. Strange. "You have one hour to get prepared. Unless you have any questions, you may take your leave." As some of the other riders saluted and left. Kelley stepped forward and spoke up. "Requesting permission to transfer primary command of the Military Mega-Facility assault team to Rider Hushion sir."
Kyras sucked in some air between his teeth. An entire manufactorum vs him and Yalei? He couldn't even use high explosives? Shit. Shitfuck. This was going to take everything he had, everything he could bring to bear. He immediately ordered as many of his constructs inside his FRAME as would fit, that being two wraiths, two acanthrites, and a swarm of the attack scarabs. "Unserstood sir!" He immediately headed to the armory, intent on grabbing all he could. He saw Yalei dmiling at him. She didn't get it did she? That they were essentially being sent to their deaths? He sighed. Well, his at least. he would try as best he could to keep her alive. No matter the cost.
< @WanderingJester (Kelley) > Duuni suddenly stood. "This is insane! I can't lead, and how do I know that he won't go crazy and slaughter me! Dammit Captain!" He was shaking with fear and anger. Onyx shook his head. "It is necessary. Rider Kelley, you are in charge. Rider Hushion. If he does anything against you, you have permission to disable him and send him back here." He said in a commanding voice that made Dunni fall back. "UNDERSTOOD!?" < @Andraina > Killian was waiting outside the hangar for Freya. "Hey, Frey-san." Shaking his head, he looked upset. "This is... crazy. I don't know what we are doing anymore, and I worry. About the captain, about the crew... About you. Just... please stay alive. I don't want to lose you again." < @Xanxas > Kyras grabbed the biggest gun he could, which turned out to be a tri-barreled plasma-beam emitter. Yalei came up behinds him to give hand him a shield generator, herself carrying one and some grenades. "Hey... don't worry." She kissed him on the mouth. We'll come out of this. You'll see."
"This is insane! I can't lead, and how do I know that he won't go crazy and slaughter me! Dammit Captain!" Why was he so afraid of death? "It is necessary. Rider Kelley, you are in charge. Rider Hushion. If he does anything against you, you have permission to disable him and send him back here." Kelley saluted, did an about face and left the briefing room. Behind him he could hear Captain Onyx screaming at Dunni. "UNDERSTOOD!?" How can he? Supernova's rider was so blind by fear Kelley was surprised the rider knew how to dress himself this morning. Still he understood the mission, and tried to understand his own limits. The mission must come first, always. That requires self control and discipline in the Fate's Edge. He walked to the armory, where he grabbed two stun police batons. These were at least balanced, unlike the stun mace. He also grabbed a satchel full of hacking devices with him along with a SOUL manned shield. Kelley didn't bother with body armor, as the rider armor of his FRAME would be cumbersome enough. He too grabbed a silencer for his pistol, though only as a last resort. Armed, Kelley walked towards Holding Bay 03, where Fate's Edge waited.
She rolled her eyes as he said such foolish things before embracing him, "You, just worry about making sure to take care of our home alright. Mother and Father will be with me. So don't worry." She said with a smile somehow holding her embarrassment until she got into her FRAME before screaming into her arm that was muffling her voice. Agalia giggled at the scene of her Big sister not being able to believe what she just did.
