Endgame Earth

[Cifero Windtail]

Jared stirred in his sleep and opened one blue eye. "So we'll be stopping soon?"

[Ventus Fall]

Himawari awoke from her vile, wretched daze and blinked.
Nova?

She turned her mic on and said: "Nova? Yes, it's me." She was breathing heavily. "I didn't really notice anything, but I trust you."
Suddenly she felt a pain in her side as if someone just stabbed her and she tactfully threw the radio to the seat next to her. She kept her left hand on the wheel and held her right hand at her side. As soon as she touched it, it hurt even more.
Himawari lifted up her clothes a little to see if there was anything visible as to what was wrong. And she did see something.
A huge bruise had appeared on her side.

"What the...? How did this happen?" She tucked her clothes back and used the radio again.
"Good place for a new HQ, sounds good to me. But do you already have plans for your next move? Over."

[MrRazot]

Warren looked out the window. He recognised the route they were taking as he'd once strayed out this far from the inner city to find supplies. At that time though the military base had been occupied and was too risky to try infiltrate due to the heavy guard. He wondered how it would be now.


Warren found an elastic band in his pocket and started toying with it.

[NovaAurora]

    Nova looked back at Jared. "Hopefully..." He then continued speaking into the radio. "Our next move will have to be to scope out the base and make sure that it's defensible. There are bound to be consumers all over here, and hopefully there will be some equipment, or weaponry, or something to help us fight them off or scare them off. I'm also hoping there will be extra supplies and stuff that were stored in there we can use. After we've established ourselves, then we can think about exactly what to do next." He turned off his radio and went back to driving through the snowy wastes.


   They had been driving for what Nova swore was more than just a couple miles. He began to have doubts that the fort was really there, but the sign said it had... He was about to radio Himawari and say that they were possibly lost, but just then the humvee crested a hill, and Nova saw to his astonishment a huge military installation laid out in a valley in front of him. There were many buildings scattered around, runways, bunkers, and a tall control tower in the center, all covered in a thin blanket of snow. There was an erie serenity to this place once devoted solely to violence. Carefully he drove down the steep incline and entered the base, the fence and gates to which were long since broken through or cast aside. He kept going straight down the main road, towards the large three story building near the entrance which looked like a good a place as any to start. He pulled up next to the somewhat crumbly, but still very sturdy looking, beige concrete structure and turned off the engine. "Well..." he said with a sigh of relief, "we're finally here."

[Cifero Windtail]

Jared pricked up his ears. "There's something out there... not sure if it's friendly or hostile, though."

[Byracka]

When then car engine died and sputtered Jave awoke with a twitch. Through his sandy eyes he first saw nothing more than blurry figures moving around. Before someone noticed him gasping he glanced around and saw a wolf bearing the characteristics of a dragon, a crat and someone close by him, an arctic fox. Was that everyone? No there was also a red fox carrying what appeared to be some kind of a sword. He was unsure whether there were more furs around or not, the strange black haired human that held him pinned a minute ago, or was it hours?, were nowhere to be seen.


Jave was overwhelmed by fatigue, but he had to resist the urge to fall asleep. He shrugged and rested his chin against his upper torso. With a raspy voice he said  “Good morning” to the other furs sitting in the vehicle.

[MrRazot]

Warren distracted himself from the elsastic band as they drove through the gates. He'd scouted this place, but never been inside it. It was astounding the transformation that had been made. But the quetion was what had caused such a fort to become abandoned like this. Thare wasn't even much rust. An army of bandits? An army of consumers? perhaps a new kind of consumer? Warren had heard campfire stories telling of such things and was always a possibility to take account of.



He tapped Nova's shoulder "There should be a garage further in" and pointed in the direction he remembered it being before sitting back in his seat.

[Takamei Edevane]

Ip followed in the convoy, over the rough frozen ground. The base had no evidense of activity, but tracks could of course been shrouded by the thick snow. He stopped the jeep as Nova's humvee came to a halt. Ip looked around scanning the area as he readied his weapon and stepped out into the freezing cold to go over to Nova. He approached the side of the humvee and knocked on the window next to Nova "We gonna scan the area? Too bloody neat to be left around like this; someone or something has gotta be occupying it" Ip looked up around at the buildings and white scenery. "Where we gonna start? before we freeze out here"

[Ventus Fall]

Himawari stopped right after Nova stopped and glanced at her side again. It stung really bad whenever she moved.
But she had to 'man' up, or else they would probably treat her as a weakling, or worse: leave her behind because she would be a liability. In this cold she wouldn't survive too well. She had no fur coat to protect her from this sort of environment, unlike the others.


She looked around and it came to mind that she had no thick coat lying around. She never assumed she would ever need one. In fact, everything she wore wasn't  exactly meant for snow and winter.
"Crap."
She just stared out of the window, seeing Ip walking towards Nova's car.

[Cifero Windtail]

 Zephyr gently picked up the girl and a blanket and got out of the car, then passed over to Himwari's vehicle and knocked on the door.

[FurryJunky]

With a light jerk from the halting vehicle she took a deep breath and looked down at the awakening fur, her ice blue eyes peering down at him. "Your awake..." she said simply before taking one last glance out the window. "Good timing... You should rest first, stay in the humvee for a few minutes, gather yourself and then all will be explained." Looking over the chair to see Nova she spoke a bit louder this time to be heard, "Maybe I should be one of the ones to scout the place... After all, it is my type of place right now.." Without waiting for a response she griped her rifle at the barrel and held it up as she swung the door open. Steeping out of the car there was a soft crunch of fresh snow under her as she took a few steps. Righting her rifle in her hands she held it with the barrel down on her left, looking straight ahead at the various buildings. "Where first?" she said as she walked up next to the driver side door, looking in.

[MrRazot]

Warren watched Katelyn get out of the humvee.
"I'll go too"
And he followed out into the snow and took a good moment to inhale the crisp air and stretch after sitting down for so long. He'd never actually been inside the compound and his memory wasn't serving him too well.
He was really hoping that there was no from of super consumer. The area was too clean, but then even the snow can hide things.

[NovaAurora]

    "Yeah, it is quiet..." Nova said slowly to Ip. "Warren has apparently been around here before, and claims that there's a garage further in. Personally I'd like to explore this main building first and see if there are any clues as to what the state of things are here." He looked down for a moment and scratched his chin in thought. "How about this," he said after a minute to the lot of them, "Warren, you and Katelyn can go further in and explore the garage if you want. Ip, you come with me, and we'll go investigate this large building right here. We need to find some place to be out of the cold where we can set everyone up." Then he turned around to look at the finally-conscious yellowish-orange fur they had rescued from the compound. With a friendly smile he said, "And you. So you are indeed finally awake. I'm sure you have many questions of me, and I have some of you, but right now is not the time for that." His smile faded into a more serious expression. "Tell me honestly, do you think you'll be ok to walk? If so, you should come with me, the humvee won't stay warm for long and we don't want to be burning precious fuel."

[Luke White-Heart]

Luke wobbled his way out of the vehicle, stumbling a bit as he tried to regain full control of his sluggish body. He went over to Nova and asked, "Is there anything I should do? I can help with...something."
He leaned against the humvee for support, his legs giving out on him somewhat.

[Byracka]

Jave was glad that the first eyes he met were those of that arctic fox looking down at him, he had always liked ice blue. It reminded him of the best days at sea when the endless grey shades of the ocean picked up the reflection of a clear blue sky. The arctic fox stepped out of the vehicle and right after that he was spoken to by someone else. This time it was the wolfdragon, he spoke with authority and sincerity, it was no mistake that it was the leader, it must be him that is Nova. Jave wiggled a couple of toes and bend a knee. “Yeah I will be perfectly fine to take a walk thank you” he said to Nova, glancing at him from the side. Jave rolled his shoulders and stretched. “Just one question, I awoke with a black haired human on top of me earlier, is she with you?”