Hybrid Ascension: Ghosts of Lylat (Pokemon/StarFox Crossover RP #2)

[BusterBuizel]

Ghost looked at Althea and remembered something, "Voss, your rifle. If we get orders to head out you should probably go get it," he notices his squadmates running back to their rooms to ready their firearms, "I'm good, you go on. Open up your comms to squad chat."


"I'm on squad chat," Mikey informed.


"Ditto," Tanya as well.


"Dammit! And I thought we were done for today," Zak joined in.


"This is the UPFS Glacier, come in Venom. You are transmitting on a VIP frequency. State your name, callsign and emergency over," David continued.

[Otebon Albrecht]

Althea made a quick motion to turn on her comm unit. She smiled at Ghost and tapped her ear to say "I'm listening".


She turned quickly and quickly walked out of the room. Once she was in the hall, she ran. She burst through the door of her room and immediately began to take apart her Para rifle and began to stow it in it's case for transport.


A soldier's job is never done...

[Blackfang1002]

Tohaku chuckled as he relised who it was. "what are the odds of speaking to a ghost who doesn't want to be found?" he chuckled lightly as he thought of all the precautions he had taken over the last few months. For this to happen he should kick himself. "Ya found me so I might as well ask where you are. This was a channel I was given if I ever needed a helping paw.....or a firing squad."

[BusterBuizel]

"Tohaku! It's me, Fox. I'm on board of the UPFS," McCloud paused, "The Glacier?"


"Yes, The Glacier," May nodded.


"I am on board of the UPFS Glacier and we have recieved your beacon outcopy? We're tracking your signal now but assume the loyalists are on to you. We'll send over a squad to assist and evac ASAP. Get moving Toxic! Get outta there now!"


Mikey rushed back into the room, "Task Force Frostbite is ready to deploy sir! Olaris is also coming along for the ride as an honorary member."


"Good, now on to the briefing."


"Tohaku is located in here in the Red Forest Mountain Range. Our orbital platforms have surveyed the area and have found numerous loyalist insurgents dug in around the area. My twins will provide air support via Gu-1 gunship on this mission, so Zak you'll be in charge of the four man squad on the ground. You, Althea, Ghost, and Olaris will be dropped in via stealth cargo plane at low altitude. Can't use drop pods on this one, the insurgent AA systems are optimized for hard kill defense of orbital munitions and pods alike," May briefed.


"Roger that mom!" Mikey smiled.


"Black Wing Squadron will assist in Bomb Buizel runs against the AA encampments. Intel suggests a lot of Low Frequency Radar SAMs so keep your jammers and chaff at the ready. Once the AA is down the drop troopers will secure sights around the evac zone. At the same time, Frostbite will move in and make damn sure Tohaku is safe. Clear?"


"Clear as Tanya as a puddle," Ghost joked.


"Roger that, get to your transports," May finished, "Oh, and sweeties."


"Yes mom?" Mikey and Tanya asked.


"Let's finish the party some other time. Get some rest when you get back."

[Otebon Albrecht]

Althea listened to all of this while she threw some extra stuff into her jumpsuit's Personal pockets. She made sure that she had her small notebook, a few pens, the like as she never left home without them. The rifle and her tactical gear was already packed. That was the easy part. She could construct, deconstruct, and construct her rifle while blindfolded and falling to the surface of a planet in under a minute and a half (was necessary once...).


Once she was sure that orders were done being handed out, she clicked on the mic of her comm link.


"This is Althea. I'll meet you in the hanger I assume? I'll be there momentarily."

[Blackfang1002]

"Dad!?! I.....yes sir. Setting the R-Wing to self destruct. I'll hold my position but will prepare to uproot as soon as things go fubar. I'll be ready in 10 mikes......and......I missed you dad." a tear silently rolled down his cheek as he set the ship to blow and began marching toward the Evac zone. His body felt heavy but full of energy, renewed by the thought of seeing his family again. "See you soon pops."

[BusterBuizel]

"You heard the fox! Ten minutes Frostbite!" McCloud ordered.


"Sir yes sir!" Mikey and Tanya stepped into the teleporter to be beamed down into the planet. Inside the filtered airbase they readied their equipment and strapped on their re-breathers to ward off the terraforming sulfurous atmosphere.


"It's a miracle trees grow here," Tanya grimaced as she got into the gunner seat of the gunship.


"Lylatians were terraforming this planet. It still stinks but at least the air is kinda breathable," Mikey commented as he activated the craft, "This is Frosty Actual we're ready to take off and awaiting orders. Ground team are you set?"


"Negative Frosty Actual, Still gearing up in the hanger. Bo-1C cargo craft is still refueling," Zak informed, "Ghost! Althea! Hurry up you two luvdiscs!"


"Ready man! Everyone get in!"

[tangletail]

Olaris had detached his scouter from his head and allowed it to dematerialize into the storage unit strapped to his back that also contained his personal armor inside. He readjusted the tattered scarf he had around his neck so that it was now over his maw, then made his way to the hanger bay. “Could you give Tohaku a call and tell him that Olaris warns him that he -will- need an Ice pack or a medkit the moment I see him after all this time,” the fox said gruffly, clearly happy to finally see the Toxic Fox again, but at the same time agitated by his disappearance.

 
He saw the breathing units neatly laid out for those heading down to the surface, but he decided not to grab one. Not out of sheer stupidity but for being lucky enough to being one of the well adapted lylatians soldiers from the Lylat wars. “If we are not using a pod, then how are we landing on the surface. A parachute?”

[Otebon Albrecht]

Althea strapped the last stabilizer on her pack and tore out of the room just as she and Ghost were called "luvdiscs".


She ran down the corridors and towards the teleporters as her mind considered the connection between Ghost and her. He was pleasant and cute. He deserved a chance, at the very least.


"This is Althea," she said as she got onto the teleporter. She had never liked this machine. She knew they were completely safe, the technology had been perfected ages ago, but she couldn't shake the fear that something would go wrong and wouldn't come with her...


"I'm getting down to planet now. See you on the ship soon."

[Blackfang1002]

He set camp at the Evac point, ready for anything. Months of living on Venom has become bearable, allowing him to breathe the semi toxic air. He quickly popped his arm with an oxygen pack to help prepare him for the shift to a new atmosphere. "Almost sad to leave this rock" he thought to himself jokingly. He would soon see familiar faces and reunite with lost family. "Skyward and three stars to the right. A jump past the Gi-pon nebula and heaven isnt far away. Never told me what that meant old man."

[BusterBuizel]

Zak responded to Olaris, "Low altitude supersonic stealth cargo plane. All our cargo planes were once supersonic stealth bombers. C'mon! We've got eight mikes and every second counts!"


As they ground team boarded the transport craft the gunship team took off to scout the area and engage enemies. The single Gu-1 in the expert paws of Micheal Rivers would prove to be a formidable and effective close air support weapon.


"This is Frosty Actual, clearing away the low-freq SAMs."


"Copy that Frosty Actual, Big Bird Five is taking off with the ground team over."


The lumbering aircraft taxied its way to the runway with Zak and the others. The flight control tower gave the final thumbs up.


"Big Bird Five, you are cleared for takeoff!"


"Hold on muchachos, you're in for a trill ride," Zak smirked as he lowered a restrant harness over his vest. Ghost and Althea doing the same while Olaris doubted the acceleration capabilities of such a large, old aircraft.


"Roger that! BB5 full throttle!," The large craft went from a slow crawl to almost 60mph in less than a second. Olaris was thrown from his seat, surprised.


"Told ya," Zak chuckled, "Federation aircraft are very surprising and second to none. This thing can go up to Mach 2 in a normal nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere. We'll be at the dropzone in six mikes."

[Otebon Albrecht]

Althea made sure to take a jump seat near Ghost, if only to tease him during the flight. For example, as she had buckled herself in, she let her hand rest for a mere moment on Ghost's knee. She pretended not to notice the touch, but made sure that she could see his face in her peripheral vision the whole time.


When she felt the kickback from the jet as it roared to it's flight speed, she threw her head back and laughed in joy.


"You ready Ghost?"

[tangletail]

The fox had managed to regain his composure in his seat, and heaved out a sigh. Well now that the speed wasn't a concern, the landing bit would be if this aircraft could even manage to hold together. Now relaxing, the fox leaned back in the seat and gazed up to the ceiling humming to himself for a bit. “What exactly is the federation lacking in,” the fox asked seeing how most of the technology actually outmatches some of Lylats finest.

[Blackfang1002]

He waited patiently through the longest 10 minutes of his life, knowing anything could happen at a moments notice. His pistol rested nervously in his paw. "5 mikes.......Just 5 mikes." he watched his surroundings closely waiting for friend or foe.

[BusterBuizel]

"The Federation lacks directed energy weapon refinement," Ghost explains, "Lylatian energy weapons outmatch Federation attempts. Your laser rifles are extremely powerful and the bolts from your plasma rifles fly as fast as bullets. I noticed that your current sniper rifle is in fact a laser weapon, but for some reason it has the force and stopping power of an anti-materiel rifle. Not only that but the heavier, so called Demon Rifle, strikes fear into a lot of our soldiers and crewmen. That was one of the first and only weapons powerful enough to tear through our tanks plasma shieldings. And since it's an energy weapon our hard-kill defensive systems couldn't counter it. Your guys learned quick to put those in the hands of your AT soldiers. Oh, and by the way. We've improved your new machine gun for use with the Federation. The new-new one right here. Your guys call it the Casten, but the Federation reversed engineered it and gave it a new designation: the MG5. And yeah, I'm ready."


"Four mikes!" Zak exclaimed, "Mikey how's the strafing?"


"Low Freq SAMs are cleared! Mopping up the manual AA guns! Sis! Demon Launcher up on that building!"


"Oh shit! Where?!" Tanya frantically scanned, "I see him! He's got us locked!"


"Going cloaked! We'll pop out from another position!" The gunship's hardpoints retracted into the craft and it faded into a transparent state, hiding it from the launcher's laser guided targeting, "Tanya, switch to TV guided missiles once we're behind the hill. Then we pop out and kill 'em."


"Roger bro, then we proceed to take out the Orbital Defense Guns."