Everflame 2 (FINISHED)

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Chronin had looked at the three, then at Tabby, only to shrug and walk right up to Howl. "On two conditions: the first is, I'm the one whos steering the ship..." He looks directly at her again with a small smirk on his face. "The second: Tabby is the only one who is allowed to come into my room, and only with my permission at the moment of knocking."


Vuranin snorted at Nero, and flicked her head back in a way that made her fiery mane fly about. "Of all people to say 'we', I hear it from the one who's self-isolation cost him his role as the 'Wall between'!! For the love of light, what was going through my head when I willingly took part of the blame for it as 'Retriever'!?!" Regardless of her ranting, she floated away from both of them and went into a meditative position so she could get the coordinates that Nero asked for.

[tangletail]

The feline immediately recoiled at the sight of the quils. Reaching forwards a bit to test one with a light poke he would then look at his finger witch had a small layer of skin."I figured my ship was probably destroyed" he groaned obviously not wanting to stay any longer. Being on such a ship ment they would be back to tear it apart like the others for who knows what reason. But he figured not to say anything takeing a glance back.

"Well if Im walking then am I not fine?" he asked the porcupine not wanting to let on he was on his last leg at the moment.

[KittKat chunky~]

Annie shrugged "I'm not particularly hungry." She glanced between Dougie and Keiron, tail flicking "When do you think we'l be back? If all goes well of course..."



"We where just wondering... If we could just help finding you a bunk?" He shrugged and looked anywhere but at Reggie, while behind his back Tess rolled her eyes.

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

Everyone looked to Tabby, and Asia gave a little smirk. She rolled her eyes.
"Don't push it, a'ight, you daft dragon." She gave a hint of a smile and shook her head, while Seeker turned her attention to Chronin.
"Yes," she said. "That is good, we shall do that, you can steer. Tabitha knows the way, right?" Tabby looked blank, and her eyes bounced around in her head as she thought.
"I think I do, yeah. Serra Draconis, right? It was a long time ago though, they might have moved it," she said, putting her hands to her hips.
"Not likely," said Afgha. "They unless recent events deem it prudent, it should still be there, under heavy guard."




The porcupine sighed in disapproval at the cat. "Okay then," he said. "If you can run non-stop for ten seconds, I'll let you go."





"Err, best case scenario, I would say a few days," Dougie said. "That's about right, isn't it?" he added, looking down to his mate.
"Yeah but, that depends on the instructions," Keiron replied, making Dougie shrug. "Most likely it'll take about a week, worst case, it'll take--."
"--Kitty," Dougie said with folded arms. "Be nice."
"Sorry" Keiron said, with a little shrug and grimace.




Reggie stared down at them as he stood up, towering over the two youngsters. His fists were still clenched tight but he hid that tension from his face.
"Fine, show me," he said, then sighed. "Thanks."

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Chronin edged his way past Howl, Seeker, and Asia as he reached up to the side of his head and looked around. "When we get to the ship, you will all need to wait outside while I look for a certain tiger. If I find him, thats what we'll be eating during the ride there..."

[KittKat chunky~]

With a slight sigh of her own Annie nodded "Alright-" She paused, glancing down at her smart-cut uniform. In the rush to find Reggie and say goodbye to him changing into something more appropriate had never really happened. She sighed again and glanced between apologetically Dougie and Keiron "You wouldn't happen to have something more appropriate, clothing wise, on the ship? Unless we're expecting formal meetings to be part of the plan..."



Blaze nodded, for once not grinning with mischievous eagerness "If you want I can show you around the carrier afterwards. The layout is pretty simple in this area so it wouldn't take long. As for a bunk..." He glanced across at Tess who shrugged.
"Theres plenty space. You've always got a ship or two who just never make it back, I reckon I can find something..." Blaze met the statement with a grin, despite his best attempts to stay straight-faced. He punched her lightly in the shoulder, she punched him back, harder, but grinning in return "C'mon. We go to central reception they'l sort something out all legit like..."

[tangletail]

Leo gave the porcupine a very blank stare, knowing full well this wouldnt end well. He began thinking if he should try and hope for the best or just go back. His stubborness finaly got to him and made up his mind. "Fine"

He turned away from the porcupine and took a step forward before doing his best to run. Not even two seconds in he let out an ack grabing his side and faceplanting into the ground with a loud thud. Tasteing a bit of blood coughed up he would then growl up to the porcupine trying to get up before cringeing from another pain in his side and falling back down "I hate you..."
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Another feline on a planet woke up in a daze. She tryed to stand up only to find that something was keeping her from doing so. Takeing a glance up she saw that rather large plate of metal was just above her, heavy enough to crush her, but a large bend in the metal floor kept it at bay. Moveing an arm forward pulling it back to be followed by another she dragged herself ontop of a blood soaked ground. Alarmed she checked over herself learning that it wasn't infact hers, and continued on concludeing it was some unfortunate soul.

Now free from the obstruction she pushed herself up and examined the area around her, finding her rifle lieing on the ground in a puddle of, more blood. Grabbing hold of it she shook the blood off and slung it onto her back were it snapped into place with the magnets and begin exploreing for an exit.

Finding a broken window in the hull, she pulled some wire free from the wall and tossed it out makeing a half decent repel line. She slowly climbed through the window and began her decent down to be greeted by a familiar cry from a dingo.

"Captain? Captain! Your alive?! Jeez woman I thought you were dead after seeing you without this" he said tossing her, her own helmet

"Thanks Mort" she said catching it and strapping it on before tilting her head back and forth "So whos all still alive?"

The dingo gave her a grim look "Only six others sir"

"Eh thats actualy a lot" she said practicaly skipping off now with a wide smile.

"Sir?!"

"Six survive a hyperdrive crash into a planet, one HECK of a story now isnt it?" she called to him waveing "Come on will you?! Jeez its like you ended up as one of the corpses I saw, No legs!"

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

The group nodded and followed Chronin out the door.
"Just so you know," Asia said. "I'll be coming to advise. I can't let Tabs do this without a little safety net, and instant messaging isn't so instant that far away." Tabby smiled back at him, and stuck to his side as they left the house. The cat looked back to the doorway where Afgha stood, watching them leave before turning back and heading up the stairs.
Seeker seemed to flow through the air up behind Chronin. "Where is your ship?"






Keiron shrugged and leaned back in his piloting chair.
"Well unless you like wearing mens clothes, I think you're stuck with that." He leaned back even more, looking upside down at her, while Dougie repressed a smirk. "But anyway, I think you look nice like that," said Keiron, while Dougie hid his face. The dingo's shoulders were quivering, and little shreds of laughter were coming out of him.





Reggie looked at the two of them with narrowed eyes.
"Okay, lead the way," he said, stepping aside with a sigh in him. "Something... good, might as well happen today." He repressed a snarl, and his hands were still firmly clenched into fists.





The porcupine shook his head with a sigh, and called others over with a stretcher.
"You know, you're only giving me more work to do," he said as theylifted Leo onto the stretcher and carried him over to one of the mattresses. THey checked the cat over, stroking and prodding him to check the damage. "You seem fine for now," said the porcupine, leaning over Leo's face. "But you have to rest or we're all screwed. But, while you're in such a vulnerable, perhaps you can answer some questions about what happened. We've been ordered to get information about the incident from any victims who can think relatively straight."

[tangletail]

Leo groaned as one of them poked his ribs moveing away from the hand. He glanced up at the procupine and to the side seeing images run through his head from the past events. He shook them away and returned his sight back to the porcupine nodding lightly "Fine, shoot" he agreed to the question.
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After ariveing back at the camp she took a look back at the crash sight and scratched her head "Boys... quick question. How the crap did this thing not blow?!" she asked the group of survivors, scanning over the crater left by the ship.

"Captain Ga'li! There are some others around!"

Brogalio turned her head with a wide smile "Eh? You sure?" she turned her body slightly and began walking towards the man who was fiddleing with his helmets scanner.

"Positive! A small group is walking around just north from here."

With a nod, she motioned to the dingo from before to follow and turning on her radar. He was correct as a few dots appeared showing a wide distance between them. "Come with me Mort." she said not waiting for a responce as she began to run out of the camp following the markers "On the hop Sergent!"

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Chronin had finished looking around about a minute after Seeker asked him where the ship was. "Judging from where Tabs and I traveled after encountering an earthworm, we will arrive at our ship in less than twenty minutes of sprinting if we go in this direction." He pointed in the direction of the ship's supposed location, then looked back at Howl and Seeker. "If either of you are a third as strong as Vuranin, Then it should be no problem carrying these three since I need both hands to fire my rifle with accuracy."

[KittKat chunky~]

Annie simply smiled, smoothing out the creases from her jacket and fiddling with the cuffs distractedly "I'm flattered Keiron, and at least one of us likes it." She sighed and turned to Dougie. It took all her self control not to laugh at Keiron as well, the pair where definitely very upbeat, and it was catching "You wouldn't suppose there's enough time for a shower before we arrive? Seems there where several things I hadn't time to do before leaving..."




Tess lead the way, sliding between engineers, pilots, mercenaries and officers with sinuous agility. Blaze trailed just behind, shooting glances across at Reggie. Annie had left him at the carrier several times before, so he was fairly used to it. But it seemed Reggie was taking it a sore blow. He gave a small sigh and instead turned his attention back to Tess.
It was then that he realised that the usual presence of RUST-E, was nowhere to be seen. Blaze glanced to either side as they walked but the little droid was in definitel gone. He grinned, as Tess lead them through a large pair of double doors.

The main reception was a-bustle with people. A large and high-ceilinged room, built around a circular desk at which several dozen clerks worked. Before each  of them stood lines of Mechanicus workers and Explorators. A constant tapping of fingers on keys and conversation filled the room as Tess lead the way.

The clerk, a young vixen with striking eyelashes and a bright smile, looked up as Tess approaced. The grin widened further as she spotted Tess, falling ever so slightly when Blaze walked up alongside her "Tessie, glad you could stop by girl. What's it today?"

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

"Well, we'll start with the basics," said the porcupine, as he peered over the serval's face. "Where were you when you saw that fire... thing?"





Seeker gave a pleasant smile, and bowed her head. "I am sorry, but I think we cannot help in carrying," she said, in her thick alien accent. Asia gave a smirk and stepped forward.
"Don't worry," he said. "Afgha's staying behind and Tabby can pull my old body along." Tabby looked  up at him and nodded, taking his hand. "She's fast enough and strong enough." The young cat grinned with pride.





Keiron frowned at the dingo, who gave him a little wink, before walking to Annie.
"Alright  girl," said Dougie, as he put an arm around her shoulders. "Walk with me, it's just up here." Keiron watched them leave, and squinted as he thought on that wink, before shaking his head and turning back to his controls. Dougie gave a glance back as he and Annie headed through the ship.
"I guess you would need a good wash after last night, eh." He said with a growing smile that wriggled on his face. His eyes seemed full of vibrant secrets. He looked back again, then turned to whisper in her ear. "I tell you what though, I think I might be able to help with the clothing issue." His ears constantly pointed back to Keiron, just in case. "I hope you like skirts."





Reggie strode behind Blaze, shuffling past others, and resisting the urge to growl and push. As they reached the clerk, he came up behind Tess, towering over everyone as he looked around the room.

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Chronin shrugged his shoulders, even though his smile hadn't faded in the slightest. "Since I went 'rogue', and majority says that our resident kitty-cat is carrying our advisor. I just have one thing to say:" He tightened up his legs and then made a rather large leap, leaving claw marks in the dirt as well as sending him a good thirty meters ahead of the group. "Try to keep up!!"

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

Asia groaned and rolled his eyes.
"Oh, God, there's always one isn't there," he said. Tabby giggled and set off to the trees, leaping into the forest, while Howl and Seeker set off at a light walk, before fading into the ground. Chronin could see them beside him, drifting through the trees as though the forest was merely mist.

[tangletail]

Leo closed his eyes recalling everything, takeing a moment to take a deep breath. "I was actualy the only one who truely saw the thing emerge. I was leaveing the quarentine area by the elevator and the power went out. The elevator stayed were it was deep inside the sphere and that fire beast started to appear from thin air inside the elevator. If it helps it also had a small chat with me." he said shuffleing upwards on the bed some to lean up not to comfortable with the porcupine stareing down at him like so.


Brogalios eyes shifted to the radar and grunted quicking her pace as the dots moved faster "Oh great there running!" she laughed hurtling herself over a log with the dingo following her.

"There what?! Great somethings chaseing them!" The dingo yelled out after her.

"Then stop talking and start sprinting!"

"You do know how far they are right?!"

"Yeah pretty fricken far, but if they want a race then this is a challenge I'm not loseing!" Brogalio laughed changeing her course slightly heading to what appears to be a small ledge that was to steep and smooth be scaled to easily by conventional means. Takeing a lounge forwards and planting her foot against the cliff and grabbing onto a small hold and began climbing untill she reached the top and continued running takeing a slight angle to catch them faster, with the dingo just behind her.