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

[Blackfang1002]

"Not about this..." he dropped to one knee and presented a plane dark gold ring. "Marry me Olaris. I never wanna be apart again." He smiled lightly as he looked into Olaris' eyes. "I forged this from Vemon gold. It's non-toxic and non- radioactive metal that is rare on this planet." he waited anxiously for his lover's response.

[Otebon Albrecht]

Althea, although visibly focused on the mercenaries leaving, was listening into the happenings on between the oddly-colored fox and her new Lylatian squad member. She couldn't help herself. She was trained to have complete focus on where she was placing a shot, but still catch on to the radio chatter. She couldn't BUT eavesdrop.


When marriage was mentioned, however, that broke her veneer of focus. She lowered her rifle and stared at the kneeling Fox.


What the... Couldn't you have found a better place to say that? Like on the transport shuttle out of here for instance!?!?

Althea forced herself back to the world around her. To be polite she ran a little out of their small ring to give the couple their privacy. She didn't wish to interfere with Orlaris (especially since she wasn't sure that he wanted her around when he said his answer...) and she wanted to find a spot where she could watch the mercenaries leave. If they were reforming and planning to come back, she wanted to be ready.


As she ran to find somewhere with some elevation, she flicked over to a private comm channel. "Hey Ghost," she said with a little effort. Her heavy breathing was only partially due to the recent exertion of battle. "Got a question I want to ask..."

[BusterBuizel]

"Later Althea, The dropship is here," Ghost noted the large craft entering the airspace and landing in the clearing, "Let's head home."

[tangletail]

 By all means the fox had found it completely  emotionally impossible to answer at the moment. How could he? It’s not often someone proposes to another in the middle of a battle zone where others had continued to shoot at you. Olaris had remained motionless, all previous thoughts completely demolished in such a brutal manner that one would think that the fox had suddenly died from where he was standing. Finally he managed to twitch, but only slightly as he uttered a few words in shock as a single laser had bounded off the fox’s personal energy shield that flared violently signaling it was about to break (fortunately he did leave with some kind of protection), “I… don’t believe I can answer this right now… I… I will have to get back to you on that.”
(Congrats! You broke Olaris, again BlackFang!)
 

[Otebon Albrecht]

Although somewhat disappointed by Ghost's refusal to talk, she didn't lose her smile at all. She turned and began to make her way to the landing zone however.


"I completely agree that it's time to head home," she said through an open channel. "But I call the seat next to Ghost."

[Blackfang1002]

"I.....I see. Then let's move. The transport is here." he said as the Evac arrived. He threw a new bit of tech he had scroung together, a concentrated beam blade, at a near by merc and dropped him easily. He grabbed Olaris' paw and charged toward the drop ship, a small tear dropping from his jaw. "Let's move people."

[BusterBuizel]

Back on the ship after a long mission the anthros and Pokemorphs all settled down for the long days ahead of them.  Everything was quiet with the exception of David who was working on unlocking the secrets of Lylatian energy weaponry.


"What a strange capacitor you have, my lovely... Your focus optics are quite queer and intriguing... Now how exactly do you work sniper rifle?"


"...Still talking to inanimate guns eh Davy?" Ghost leaned on the wall with Althea listening and giggling at David.


"BLAH! How long were you guys sitting there?! Oh damn! You made me drop a resistor assembly! These are fragile! And what are you doing here?"


"You know me Planet Prickly. I love energy weapons. Althea wanted to come along caz I heard you were working on a Lylatian sniper rifle," Ghost replied.


"Not just ANY sniper rifle. THIS! Sniper rifle!" David flashes them a blueprint of the dreaded Lylatian Demon Sniper, "If anyone can crack the secrets of this thing, it's me."


"What have you found so far," Ghost was meddling with the focus optics.


"Hey, can I kindly ask you not to toy this even though you're the quartermaster? I need to unlock the secrets of this thing first before I have you field stripping it," David swiped the lens from Ghost, "From what I discovered I found this to be an extremely unique and complex weapon. You see, this does NOT use plasma, lasers, or an EMP to harm targets. This is actually a solid-mass hologram rifle. It's dead on accurate and powerful, but it requires a lot of power to generate the projectile. It's amazing how such a small rifle can kill our most powerful armored vehicle with one well placed shot. If I can reverse engineer this for Federation use we'll reclaim an advantage over the Lylatians. Plus, I've got another project I'm concocting as we speak," David explained while still tinkering with the rifle, "Maybe if you could get that Lylatian scientist here I could have some help with recreating this."

[Otebon Albrecht]

When she had piled into the dropship along with everyone else, Althea's question died on her tongue. It just didn't seem to be the right time (especially with the question of marriage between the two Anthro Foxes hanging in the air) to be asking Ghost out to a date. So she stayed quiet and near Ghost until they landed. Once they were all docked back with the ship, she went to her room and got into something a bit more comfortable than combat gear.


When Ghost invited her to go and pester David as he looked at one of the most powerful rifle in the galaxy, she jumped at the opportunity.


She stood in the corner, more than happy to watch the scientist work, but Ghost had to poke away. She watched with a small smile as Ghost pestered the obviously engrossed David. She listened closely as David described the rifle and it's capabilities, amazed at how it works.


With a rifle like that, the 2+ mile shot that Tanya wants me to take would be a piece of cake. And forget compensating... I could hit the target's big toe and the force of the shot will disintegrate their body.

[tangletail]

Olaris had finally recovered from his apihphany of emotions, looking back to Tohaku silently. He knew the fox all to well. And he knew that the answer he had given him had easily hurt his feelings after such a long time. Now guilty, he didn't even know if he could speak to the other but he had managed to muster up the courage by some sheer miracle that... that just might possibly not be enough to repair the damage he had already created.


"My... my answer is yes," the fox rasped lightly.


The air was already filled with awkwardness, thankfully the other two had left to talk about some of Lylats weaponry designed by the very scientist that the Fox had once mentioned.

[Blackfang1002]

A light smile comes acrossed his face as he take Olaris into his arms. "I love you." he said weakly as he fell to the ground. "Med.......Medic." is all he could force out before blacking out. He was suffering from atmospheric sickness, the condition one gets when moving from one atmosphere to another of a different chemical make up. His body wasn't used to the clean and oxygen filled air of the ship as Venom was a mixing bowl of chemical compounds. He would need help ASAP.

[BusterBuizel]

"Oh Arceus! Tohaku collapsed!" Ghost rushed over to the fox and checked all his vital signs, "Atmospheric sickness. Requesting a medic to hallway A1 Block 1 ASAP!"


"Yes sir," in response an Audino Pokemorph rushed into the hallway to provide medical assistance, rapidly transporting Tohaku to the medical bay with Olaris right behind.


"I hope he's okay," Ghost starred as they turned the corner, "Guess Olaris is out for the Assassination mission?"


"Change of plan Mr. Lee," the President came into the hallway overhearing the fox, "Mission aborted. Some how they found out. Which means that we have a spy on board."


"Say what?!" Ghost glanced back at him.


"Don't say a word. I've already talked to my twins about this. Althea, read my mind so that I can keep this a secret and share it with Ghost."


The President mentally explained that the spy posed as an officer in the LRM. He had been on the ship for quite some time now and has even tried to sabotage the ship itself with RX4 charges stolen from the armory. Only a select few know about what's taking place and the only person capable of searching for them is Althea. No other psychic or pseudo-psychics were on the ship at this time. The spy even masked his scent with an anti-odor agent, increasing the difficulty of detection.


"David knows this too. He's complained about misplacing a few parts of the demon sniper over the past few hours. It's not like him to forget where he places things."


"Particle Transformer... Resistor Assembly... Focus Optics... Wait a minute..." David looked about as he noticed something strange in the corner of his eye, "...I'm hungry..." he lied.


(Althea! The spy is in the room using a stealth suit! He took the trigger assembly and the only way out is through the vents and the door! You two need to stay in here, I'll get my dad out.)


"Hey dad, why don't we leave these two alone for a while and grab some midnight snacks and cake. I insist!"


"Not now David, I should-" he paused as David turned his back to the room motioned his lips for his father to read, "You know what, I've got time." (Althea, you know what to do...)


As they left the room the door locked behind them. The Jolteon and the Buizel looked toward the vents and drew their concealed firearms.

[Blackfang1002]

Tohaku moaned and twitched lightly, his temperature 102. His dreams were rittled with painful memories. He drempt of the day he disappeared to Venom and the loss of friends to war. His body ached as he restlessly slept. His mind was lost in his poisonous slumber. Luck and time were required for his recovery.

[tangletail]

The fox let out a low sigh. He was leaned back against the wall with his left hand draped over the others shoulder. Being to venom several times during the war himself and having a prolonged exposure to the atmosphere after his armor's life support reserves had finally ran dry, he already knew of the painful condition that Tohaku was in. “Well... here we are again. A small chance I might loose you again... but I doubt it,” the foxed hummed quietly to himself but mostly to Tohaku which had probably fell upon death ears, patting the other's shoulder. “It's not a fun experience... I know.  But... if it's one thing a lylatian does have is the ability to adapt. You can pull through this I know... and in the process grow stronger. I can only hope... no I know this will happen.” The fox's head turned to the nearby nurse who had motioned for him to leave, and reluctantly obliged and entered the hallway.

 
The fox's head turned around slightly to glance back to the door before slowly strolling down the hallway in deep thought unaware of the current events at hand. A small feeling of a possible problem did occur in the fox when he saw Mr. Lee's grim expression. An expression that seemed impossible for a guy like him, but this could simply be a personal matter as far as the fox is concerned.

[Otebon Albrecht]

Althea saluted when the President came in and her eyes widened as he described the situation about the spy. She would never have done this without permission, but she cautiously reached out to her President's mind. She made sure to make her touch feather light (it wouldn't have done to have her bumble around like an elephant and risk harming some facet of his personality...).


When David opened his mouth, Althea caught his thoughts too. It wasn't that she meant to, it was just that she wasn't paying enough attention to shield from the thoughts of others. She was immediately glad that she did catch it however as David gave her a major clue.


As David and the President left, she sent a final message to them. "I will do what I can. Do you suggest I notify Captain Orlaris?"

Turning back to the now armed Buizel and Jolteon, she extended her consciousness to them and tried to touch their minds lightly enough to communicate but not enough to delve into their thoughts. "Please allow me to communicate with you in this way. I can link us for telepathic communication, but only if you let me in". Her parents had always warned her about violating the inner sanctum of a persons mind, and Althea did not, under any circumstances, want to do that.

[BusterBuizel]

"Go ahead!" the President gave the okay.


"Word of advice Althea, I've got a dirty mind so you'd best not delve in too deep. On the surface it may just appear like detailed blueprints and technical descriptions of the various Federation technologies, but what lies beneath will put off any psychic type that comes near me. That's what the internet does to you. Plus, I am a well known galaxy wide internet troll and prankster. So please, careful with the psyonic waves," David warned.


As Althea drew her handgun Ghost sat unaware of the situation, "Wait, what's going on? Why are we?... David You Troll! Let Us Out Of Here! Blah! I guess he's gone by now," awkwardly looking about the workshop he whistled and scooted closer to Althea. He smiled and his face put her at ease, but only for a moment, "Well I guess we're alone until Mr. Prickles unlocks us outta here. You know, out of all the times David locked in me places. I don't mind this one one bit. Although knowing David he's probably doing this and watching us right now as a sick experiment of 'put two specimens of both genders in an enclosed space and see what happens.' Pfft, that guy bugs me ya know? Hehe."


Ghost noticed something in her eye at caught his attention. The reflection off her irises revealed the spy uncloaking and drawing his silenced firearm. Althea was, in that one moment, caught off guard by Ghost's smile, "LOOK OUT!" Ghost tackled her to the ground and behind a crate. He looked awkwardly at Althea in the position they were in, "Ummm, KILL SPY! awkwardness later."


He drew his own magnum and fired upon the spy, who cloaked and hid further in the workshop.


Meanwhile, as David viewed the camera footage of the room he couldn't help but laugh at the sight of Ghost tackling Althea to the floor, "PFFT! Hahaha!"