Everflame 2 (FINISHED)

[tangletail]

Leo blinked a bit shuffleing slightly to the side to avoid a ship landing on him. He began to notice something different about himself, he was no longer actingly like the crowd who violently shoved passed him as they avoided the ship. He just stared on calmly at the shuttle as it landed next to him with a hard thump nearly the entire hull took damage right before his eyes yet he just stared at it erily before turning around walking to the private airstrip as he saw his ship pull in on its own through autopilot. As he moved closer to the ship people were looking at him, begging him, as the shouted to him to save one of them.

With a curt respond "No..." he casualy shoved people out of his way climbing onto his ships wing and into the cockpit after the hatch opened, and closed once he was fully inside. The ship it's self had a lazy design, its hull looked almost like a triangular pyramid with wings. Next to the thrusters were four windbooms with a set of thrusters of there own. There were two on top and two below. Painted with silver and blue. Unuseualy this ship had a set of its own guns, when most very personal ships do not have such a thing. In the cockpit, there was only one seat, it wasnt like he had a choice to take a passenger, but, that wasn't the case to him.

He placed a paw on his head growling at a migrane he now had, whispering to himself "Come on Leo... stay sane... stay sane.." he repeated to himself as he ignited the thrusters and shot off into space.

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

"Yeah it's a good enough job," Dougie said with a smirk, while Keiron skipped ahead past David's ship, over to the little boat. He spun around and spread his arms wide displaying the craft.
"I call it, the Lovebug." He made a little giggle, then pulled open part of the casing, revealing a control panel. He typed in a code and a small hatch hissed and crawled open.
"That code he put in is on that datapad the boss gave you," Dougie said, before heading forward into the ship while Keiron stood aside like a doorman. "Show her around, okay?" said the dingo.
"Yup yup." Keiron grinned while Dougie crawled through the hatch and headed to the cockpit.




"Well you should respect your mother's wishes," Reggie said with a stern grin, that slowly broke into a smirk. "But yeah, that is pretty cool, especially if you bought it yourself." He looked around, admiring all the different vehicles. "I worked as a kid, though I wouldn't have been able to afford this kind of stuff in a million years."




David looked over at the girl with an appreciative smile. "Glad we understand understand eachother. Personally, I talk to my ship, or at least the controls of it. I'm no good at the actual innards." he said. "Now quick quick," he clapped his hands together. "Let's get this all hooked and connected and integrated so I can go."






Up ahead, the door of the house opened, and ageing rabbit stepped out, keeping a tall, proud posture. He squinted over at them, and a smile moved his lips.
"Tabby, is that you?" he called.  Tabby grinned and her eyes had a flash of happiness as she began to run to the rabbit, laughing as she went.
"'Sup bunny!" She slowed as she reached him, and moved into a tight hug.





"Fool!" hissed the beast. It's claws wear gripping the nothing, holding on, almost as though it would fall. "The everflame stayed here, and now it has stopped. We can't feel it. The same will happen to you. The dimensional barriers are breaking, and we are becoming nothing but natural phenomena." The fire seemed to grow, and the body undulated, growing in intensity, like heaving breaths. "We can feel the others though. Vuranin, and those two new ones. I feel them. Vuranin is near, where is she? Who knows the location of the flame? Tell me, now."





Beside Leo's ship as he took off, a large, sleek transport, covered in regal insignia was being loaded with officials in suits. Paramedics rushed around, and a few swarmed beside a stretcher carrying a blonde human woman.

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Chronin almost roared his frustration as Tabby apparently lead him to some old rabbit hermit's hideaway. "I'm sorry for interrupting this reunion, but I still need to f-" Chronin's hair shot up as he pulled out his plasma rifle and aimed past the two and inside the house. He was able to stop himself from shooting, and put the gun back down while smoothing his hair back. "Sir, are your friends not coming out... I was told that two others besides us were visiting."



Vuranin stretched her arms as she stepped out of her room, and noticed that her building was seperated from everything and that another of the entities had appeared. She dropped her 'guise as she guessed that the new entity was the one that caused the damage.

The Sphere would probably have gotten Kateri some help during the 'attack', so I just need to keep these two occupied enough so she can get away. Vuranin let the smoke of her form envealop her and also let her size increase to the height of a seven-story building before teleporting right up to the beast.

"The flame went out, all that remains is to take the rock that housed it and leave. But since you just tore apart the Sphere that contained it, the rock is probably somewhere in the debris." Her crimson hair was almost like a lighthouse becon of her location inside the smoke her body gave off.

[Entaru]

Nero sneered at Vuranin as she appeared.  SO MucH FoR QuestioN OnE....AS FoR QuestioN TwO I KnoW AS MucH AS YoU DO...NothinG!  Nero turned to Vuranin.  AS FoR YoU...AwfullY ConvienienT HoW YoU AppeaR JusT AS YoU WerE NeedeD...

[KittKat chunky~]

Annie followed into the ship, smoothing down the creases in her parade uniform. It was uncomfortably tight, the reason why it had sat folded at the bottom of her drawers for several years now. Silently she cursed herself for not ordering a replacement. "Well. After a round of the ship, I have a few matters to sort out before I leave. One of the most important of which is finding where my own ship has gotten too..."



Blaze sighed, a deep sigh of impatient youth "I do respect Mum... She brought me up on her own for almost nineteen years. You gotta respect that..." His sigh turned to grin, glancing around at the other bikes "Yeah. Some of the stuff here is top-quality. Only reason I got this bike though is Tess; that girl can hammer down a price 'till even I  can afford it..."



Tess grinned, holding in a laugh "I've never been one for the controls, prefer to leave the flying to someone like Blaze..." She stood up, clambering out back into the harsh white light of the hangar "Someone who don't mind takin' the blame for every bump and scratch... I couldnt go flyin' the ships I fix, the whole point is I make money off the guys who crash all the time..." She winked, walking out of sight towards the entrance of David's ship...

[tangletail]

Leo took a glance to his side, flinching as he moved his index finger to the trigger that primed the weapons to his ship, a neat but impractical safety feature he always thought. But he sighed a bit seeing that it was just a transport ship shakeing his head some and removeing his finger from the trigger.

He flicked out a notecard, that held his ships Identification information written to it before reaching to the side typeing in the numbers for the transport and putting on his head set. "This is FOXALIVE 2322, requesting permission to dock. Please answer now waiting on standby..."

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

Asia glanced at the dragon with raised grey eyebrows, then back to Tabby.
"He seems nice, where'd you get him from?" he asked. Tabby giggled and lightly backhanded his arm.
"He's aight, just jumpy, you know what I mean? Anyway, yeah we heard there were these important people comin' here, right? And we were sent to find them." she said, swishing her tail.
"And then what?"
"I 'unno, they'll probs just tell us on pad," she replied, and looked back to Chronin.
"Right well, I think I know who you're talking about, but," he paused, then looked to the dragon. "They aren't here yet. They'll be here soon though, very soon."
"How d'you know that, man?" Tabby asked with a tilt of her head.
"Afgha," he said, nodding back into the house.
"Aaaah," she said, with a big exaggerated head roll. "Yeah that makes sense." Asia smirked and put an arm around her.
"So, do you want something to eat while you're here?"





"In the debris?" said the winged beast of blinding heat. "Very well, we'll search it all," and as it spoke, it grew even more, flooding the cosmos with its body, and began flowing through the debris, melting and devouring every chunk of the capital sphere, moving across space, vapourising everything as it went.





Dougie looked back and almost squirmed.
"Well... alright, but you don't have long, we really don't want to delay." He sighed, and pulled out his datapad, looking down at it. "You have about half an hour, and if you're not back then you get consequences, okay." He almost kicked his own leg in annoyance at this allowance before he continued the tour. "Anyway, this place really isn't much. Here's the bathroom, there's only one," he said, pointing to a tiny closet of a room, and then walked past to two other rooms crammed beside eachother, with barely room to walk. "And these are the bunks. You can choose, left or right. Me and Keiron will take the other." He looked back at her, with annoyance bubbling at himself. "Now go on, and hurry back, seriously this is important."




Reggie gave a little laugh and a sigh.
"You really like her, don't you. This Tess girl. Have you asked her out yet?"





David climbed down out of the ship and watched her walk around to the entrance. He looked around, unsure, then moved to follow her in.





"FOXALIVE, this is CAPITAL 0001, what is your clearance and purpose for docki..." the voice on the radio trailed out, but faint voices could be heard.
"What the hell is that? Is that... It's coming back, HOLY CRAP, GET GOING!"
"FOXALIVE, there is no time, we are getting out and so should you." The transport lifted up and sped out towards space, weaving through the debris. Behind Leo's ship, a bright golden light filled the sky.

[tangletail]

Listening closely to the voices on the radio he soon sighed not bothering to look back, as it would only waist time and set his thrusters to full throttle. He cought a glint of light up ahead as he caught up with the Capital ship and swore under his breath as he saw it was a giant chunk of glass. Pulling the triggers to prime his ships gun he heard the consol rang.
"Weapons to enabled... Enabled...Targeting systems to enabled...enabled... setting bombs to primed...primed... Wing blasters to prime... primed.., at large all systems enabled and primed."

Leo spoke over the radio takeing a quick glance behind him seeing the capital ship "Capital 001! Hold your speed, obstruction ahead!" before pressing a button on his consol several times. the two pairs of wing bombs on either side of the ship opened up slightly and shot out four bombs. each one collided into the glass and soon broke open a large enough hole for the capital ship to manuver through. He sighed a bit as he pushed both hand controls forward triggering the boost, and jetted through the hole in a rush.
"Obstacle clear! Proceed through the opening" he spoke over the radio before looking down to the consol seeing a warning showing that he had minimal hull damages.

[KittKat chunky~]

With a nod, Annie turned and walked back to the ship entrance "Dont worry, this wont take long..." she left the ship at a light jog, heading towards her room. She stopped, amidst a crowd of engineers and pilots, and slapped her forehead in frustration.




Blaze rubbed the back of his neck, his cheeks prickling and hot "Well... I just-" he groaned, kicking the steel platform with one scuffed boot "No. I'm just worried she aint gonna say yes. We been friends for long, sure, but I dunno if she feels the same way..."

A shrill beeping broke the conversation, the datapad clipped to Blaze's belt flashed twice urgently with a message icon. He unclipped it, skimmed over the message and frowned "S' Mum... She says meet her in the hangar, in ten minutes... Bring Reggie, she's gonna explain when we get there..." Blaze looked up at Reggie, shrugging "Dunno what that's about... She sounds pretty hot under the collar though..."




Tess walked through to the ship cockpit, running a hand across the steel corridor walls as she went. RUST-E waited for them inside, welding a small panel shut with one of his many articulated arms. Tess patted the droid affectionately on the domed head, gesturing to the controls of David's ship "Start 'er up... Slow cycle first."

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Chronin chewed on his lower lip as Tabby brought up the data pad on their objective. "Upon locating them, we either eliminate them, or simply relay their exact location. But since they're guests, I guess it would be rude to fire on sight. As for the food, it would be nice to have something after taking two days to travel here." He felt like he was chickening out of a fight, but this was also the first time he had to make a decision without the advice or orders from others. Chronin looked at the data pad and clicked the 'refresh' option in case they added any more parts to operation Dragonfly...

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

The voice through the comms roared back at Leo.
"FOXALIVE, please refrain from firing weaponry near a capital ship. We do not require your assistance!" The transport raced past the new debris, weaving past the mess of smaller asteroids. Any that hit, vapourised on impact. Up ahead, a enormous carrier bearing the GA mark warped into the nearby space, watching as the Beast swallowed vast chunks of metal, consuming it all as it crawled towards the transports.




Dougie winced as Annie left the ship, and he grumbled his way to the cockpit, where Keiron sat in the pilot's seat, chirpily flicking switches to prep take off.
"You'd best hold off on that for a little while," Dougie said, leaning over the back of Keiron's chair. The serval looked up and kissed the dingo before flashing a smile.
"How come?"
"I let her walkabout, probably saying goodbye to people." Dougie looked away with a frown, and gritted teeth. "If she doesn't come back in time, i am in so much trouble." Keiron grinned and reached up to stroke the dingo's cheek.
"Aww, you're so nice sometimes."
"Shut up." Dougie burst a little laugh and pushed himself off the chair to stand and look to the side, through the window into the hangar. "I'm too soft for this job," he said, giving a little sigh. He looked back to Keiron, who was staring at him with knowing eyes. "What?"
"You want to ask that question again," Keiron said.
"Well what's the answer then?" Dougie folded his arms, with an almost challenging look to the cat. Keiron shrugged.
"Depends if you want to retire in Alderia or Raven's Nest. If we quit now, we're headed for Raven's nest, and you're no good with the cold," said the cat with a chirp in his voice. Dougie sighed and looked back out the window, spotting Annie standing and waiting for her two boys. He sighed again, while Keiron swivelled round in his chair and stood up, walking behind the dingo and putting his arms around him. "Stop sighing." The both of them looked out, watching their VIP. "How long did you give her?" Keiron asked.
"Half-hour."
"See, you're not that soft," Keiron said with a smile. "Normally you give them a whole hour."
"Shut up."





"You can't know anything until you try it out," Reggie said, before the datapad beeped out, interrupting them both. He gave a sideward glance to it, and the message Blaze relayed, and then gave a nod. "Okay, let's get going. It's probably to do with those justice people she met this morning."





"Alright," David said, pressing in the commands and letting the engines roll into life, letting off a sweet hum.





Asia looked between the two of them. "Two days of that military food? That stuff is messed up." He winked and led the way inside the house. It was a simple two floor building, with sandy walls and thick rugs all over the floor, through a hallway into the living room. The room had two sofas and a small coffee table in the centre with assorted fruit, and in the corner, beside the fireplace, was a screen, showing old TV shows. "Please, take a seat," the rabbit said, and Tabby gestured for Chronin to follow to sit, while Asia headed back out the room to the stairs. "Afgha!" he called out. "Tabs' back, with a military friend!" Unintelligible mumbling could be heard in reply. Asia walked out to kitchen, then brought into the living room, a tray of meat. "We were saving this for the visitors, but they'll be here any minute now." He laid the tray on the coffee table, then sat down on the opposing sofa, facing Chronin and Tabby. "So," he said to Chronin. "You known Tabs long?"
Then, Tabs' and Chronin's datapad both beeped wildly. Pulling hers out, Tabby read aloud.
"Attention all military personnel, extra-dimensional forces have destroyed the capital sphere. Any person who comes into contact with such a being is ordered to fire on sight. Repeat, extra-dimensional forces have destroyed the capital sphere. Any person who comes into contact with such a being is ordered to fire on sight."

[tangletail]

The ship rang some before sounds of the wing booms closeing to hide the guns "Combat mode disengaged...standby"

"Sorry Capital 001, Im unable to survive collision with massive particles." Leo said with a slight grimace looking down at his hull seeing a gouge that had oil seeping out, left by a small asteroid some distance away. "Again, requesting permissions to dock Security clearance seven out of 10."

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Chronin's jaw dropped at the order, since he and his mother would technically be considered extra-dimensional if it came down to genetics. "Well, to be honest, only about four to five days. But, somehow I have not angered her enough to simply try to put a bullet through my head or cut my throat. The one time I've seen her fight in a shoot-out she handled herself rather well compared to the rest of the squad I was with." Chronin didn't mention that the only other people in his squad had curled up in the fetal position while both of them handled the gangs on their own. In moments it looked like he was forcing himself to remain calm even though his eyes shot all over the place and his hair was starting to rise up.

Auntie can handle herself. Auntie can handle herself he kept chanting in his head to keep his hands from clawing into the table.

[Entaru]

Nero frowned as the beast devoured what was left of the station.  With a sudden burst of black, Nero left his body to search the wreckage as well.  The black ooze of his corporeal body enveloped everything it could find.  The ooze made its way to the transports as well, with the presumption that the Everflame may be on board.

IF IT WaS ON ThE StatioN, TheN IT ShoulD BE ON OnE OF ThosE ShipS....TheY PrizE IT ToO HighlY TO LeavE IT ON ThE SpherE...

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Vuranin noticed the damage Nero was causing to transports, and tried to stop him since she didn't know which one had Kateri in it. She appeared in the path of the ooze, and her tendrils turned into a bowl that caught the ooze before it could dissolve the next ship. She could tell this was a passenger because of the amount of life Nero just sucked in right now. "Theres a difference between passenger transports and storage transports, attacking them indescriminatly gives the Everflame stone a chance to get away with the remaining ships. The bulkier ones carry storage since it takes less space to pack these mortals!"