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Post by dakota on Apr 11, 2012 11:54:05 GMT -5
0600 came early. At some point, Captain Fraser had slipped into the bunkhouse, but no one really knew where she had been. while everyone was rising, Takota found Det quickly standing over him, " Look, no hard feelings about last night. I'm an ass and get on people's nerves. Fact of life. But I don't blame you for coming to the XO's defense last night. Truce?" He smiled, offering a shake.
scope looked at Sam as he tied on his boots, " Late night Cap? you look wiped out worse than Shep."
Trassk winked his good eye at Sam, the other boasting a wicked shiner under the other. His gear packed and good to go, he tossed a can of the spiced jerky to each of the shags," I bet you won't refuse it this morning."
A knock came at the teamhouse door. " Colonel Falston wants you in debreif before you head to chow. Debreif in fifteen mikes."
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Post by Tori on Apr 12, 2012 0:27:24 GMT -5
Tori awoke suddenly with a lurch at the activity. A sleepy cat was impossible to rouse. A well rested feline made for a curious shagcat. She chewed the rest of her well-marinated rhino-buff nug and made her way to the head for a shower using Janxi's hunting shampoo. Then she spent a good 3 minutes brushing her teeth.
She returned in just 7 minutes, dressed in her naval fatigues, and the CNA-2 Janxi mended the night before. Her weapons were clean, charged and stashed ergonomically. She pulled on her rather dirty, muddy and battered boonie, before giving Capt'n Sam a nod. "G'mornin, Capt'n..."
Tori caught her can mid-air in a blur, as if she was Martin Brodeur. She stashed the can in her LBG. "Gracias, mi amigo! No, Mr. Trassk, we ain't turnin' nuffin' down. Thanks fer that." At that, she walked around the room sniffing out her new brothers-in-arms.
Mamacat watched the knock come.
She moved behind Sam, armoured tail swishing. She cradled her primary and said nothing else, ready to defend the door
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Post by Mierin on Apr 12, 2012 10:44:21 GMT -5
Sam nods at Scope, not reacting to Shep's wink as she replies, "I'm fine, thanks. Just a little tired." Smiling at Scope and Det, she says, "Welcome back." She nods at Tori and says "Good morning." Sam quickly washes her face and gets ready for the briefing and heads out when it's time.
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Post by Janxi on Apr 12, 2012 16:38:02 GMT -5
Like Tori, Janxi was in and out of the head in a flash, dressed in a clean MCCUU with her CNA-2 on top. She grabbed the jerky out of the air and added it to a pocket. Instead of a boonie, she pulled on a MC Recon watch cap. Utilities were for after chow.
She saw Six, figuring the captain slipped in late. She greeted her CO with a damp muzzle. "Heya Six. We got a problem. There's a rogue tiger goin' round an' he's gonna draw a lotta heat on us. We need to take 'em out."
She grabbed her JA-13 and strapped it on along with her sidearm in its holster. "Tori, you outta get one of these NG's. Yer standin' out in tha crowd!" She teased her small partner.
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Post by Takota on Apr 13, 2012 20:53:47 GMT -5
Having stayed up rather late watching movies Takota tries to sleep in a few minutes but the action within the room prevents that from happening.
Seeing Det there he moves to sit up as the borg starts talking. True to his word Takota does just as he says he would do. "It is I who should apologize. I should have handled myself much better than I did last night. What I did was completely uncalled for." the leopard says to Det after the borg speaks. He accepts the handshake though it is obvious the gesture is not something he is used to doing.
Takota waits for his turn in the shower and after a few minutes comes out in shorts with his brush in hand going through the usual morning routine of making sure his fur is kept in perfect order. Of course his mind quickly turns to the next order of business even as he continues his grooming ... food. Unfortunately the knock at the door and the announcement immediately after ruins that though.
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Post by dakota on Apr 14, 2012 3:46:31 GMT -5
Fifteen minutes later, the team was still groggy as it assembled for debreif. colonel Falston was a new face, but his body language was typical CS officer and the Colonel's young age clearly gave away he was a fast tracker in the officer machine. " Good morning people. Your mission is fairly straight forward." He tapped his comp and on the screen behind him popped up an image of a vehicle with a massive cannon on it. " This is a section of a Triax moblile command vehicle. They are modular with five components, but this is the one you are going after. One was en route to Lone Star for R&D from the NGR when their transport crashed. Someone has it operational as you might have heard about several planes and transports being shot down. Your assignment is to locate this vehicle and laser tag it so a CSN destroyer just off the coast can dropp a couple cruise missiles on it. " The image changed to a map. " This has already been forwarded to your personal computers. The X's indicate confirmed sightings, the O is the original crash site and the dotted line seems to be the area of operations. Last contact was last night at 1700 when it took a shot at a Death's Head that had gotten off course. A SkyHawk will be prepped to go in as soon as you can be airborne. Questions? "
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Post by Tori on Apr 15, 2012 19:54:53 GMT -5
"Sure are a bunch of frogs 'round this here swamp..." Tori muttered.
"Yes sir, Colonel." Tori stood when addressing the officer. "Do we have a last-known position on the tango? Also, if memory serves, tha Misfit's cannon module is wheeled. Howzit gittin' round in a swamp? Kin we get a map of tha ol' highway system? The raised roadbeds, and remainin' pavement might be enough support to roll it. It's gonna leave a trail we kin follow.
"We could also draw it out wif some Eagle UAV's..."
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Post by dakota on Apr 16, 2012 16:50:58 GMT -5
"That's been tried. Special Forces even sent us two of their Titanis UAVs and both were lost." The colonel replied, referring to a unmanned gunship project that was thought to be only a rumor. " I want a team on the ground to get on top of this thing so we can clobber it once and for all. Get in, tag it and get out. Should be simple deal for this squad." He smirked. " A road system map can be downloaded from the base computer system, but the thing is a hover model so it can cross firm ground, and it is big enough to push trees aside if need be. It was being send over as a test model for trials to see if the design was feasible as a possible replacement for the MARK IX artillery system as far as I can find out. We'll have a 7th Cav crew drop you close to the last known location."
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Post by Janxi on Apr 17, 2012 23:38:21 GMT -5
"If they push trees aside, den dey leave uh trail..." Janxi's tail swished with annoyance. "We gotta betta plan... If we roll in on hover cars, we can follow tha roads an' tha trails leff by tha cannon."
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Post by Takota on Apr 19, 2012 18:37:13 GMT -5
The walk to the debriefing is pure agony to a hungry cat that can see the chow hall and Takota is definitely hungry. He sits through the meeting listening to what is said but mostly interested in getting it over with and heading for some food.
Hearing Janxi's comment he can't help but grin thinking she must want to get out of the meeting and get some chow also. "I hope you know better than to get your hopes up too high for those kinds of luxuries." Takota says quietly as he leans toward Janxi. Other than that the leopard remains quiet and awaits the time when they can leave.
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Post by Tori on Apr 19, 2012 20:47:59 GMT -5
Tori yawned, revealing her needle-like teeth. They were designed to hook and shred whole fish, after all.
"Yeah, tha'd givvus an extra di-mention, mobile warfare. We can move quick, fight dis-mounted when we need, engage large forces and light armour wif heavy weapons an carry a bunch more stuff. Plus we ain't relyin' on an air asset to bring us to the heavy ainty-aircraff weapon frum hell. We're more mobile than wif Eve cuz we can roll on land, ford water and are way quieter. Only thing to worry 'bout on roads is IED's."
She began licking her paws, as even though clean, cats always groomed. Takota and Janxi could both hear her stomach growl.
"We ain't talkin nuffin fancy like that. Juss some Eagles to draw fire so we kin track it. Pushin' trees aside will leave us a nice trail, but some hover-jeeps make us faster."
She looks at her feet, her whiskers, tail and ears slump a little. Cats would know right away she was ashamed. Even "her humans," Shep and Sam would know she was bothered. "Reckon we need a briefin' on that tiger, too. We're gon' do him, too, iffen we get a shot."
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Post by dakota on Apr 21, 2012 8:24:12 GMT -5
"We don't have much in the way of hover vehicles on base yet, except a couple command cars that won't give much protection."
Shep intervened, " A SkyHawk should be able to ferry a command car, but it'll be a tight fit for three cats, three humans and a lard ass borg." He made an oomph as he caught an elbow from Scope. Luckily Det was out of reach.
The Colonel scowled, but changed the subject. " I understand your concern, but our rogue kill cat problem has been assigned to another squad. We haven't confirmed it yet, but we are quite sure the problem cat is male and the only two females on site are in this squad. No offense intended, but I don't use my people as bait, cat, dog, human or otherwise. If Lt. Norrin's squad is unable to contain the problem, I may have to consider, but otherwise that is all I am going to divulge at this time."
"Sir, it's need to know." shep said," That tiger gets a whiff of tori and Janxi and he's gonna be all over us."
"If I had more to give you, I would. All we know is he's male, he's big enough to tear juicers apart and he has what we think is Naruni weaponry. That and he's not ours that I know of, unless he booked it here from Lonestar on his own, but I'm doing some checking, not that Dr. Bradfords' people are any help."
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Post by Tori on Apr 21, 2012 10:10:13 GMT -5
"Sir, ain't no one else but Lone Star makin' kill cats, unless there's a mama and daddy out here makin' cubs themselves, and this ain't no cub. As fer Bradford, ya best not bring him up 'round a 'tess subject' like mahself. Mebbe he rifted in wif tha rats and them Psi-Xes..." She thought about what the pogue said upon seeing psi x aliens and shuddered more thinking about Dr. Desmond Bradford. For a brief second, her tail bristled and her hackles raised, while her eyes dilated. The other cats would smell her fear. She was terrified of Desmond Bradford.
"All due respect, Col. Falston an' to yew Shep, but me an Janx not only know he's gon' be all over us, but we're countin' on it. He's already aware uv us and plannin' to kill Tacky, Shep an' Sam. We're cats. We know we think.
"Janxi's mama tears juicers apart, bare handed, so yeah, we know 'zactly what we're dealin' wif. We know we're tha best bait yew got, an' don't mind baitin' at awl." Her terror subsided with a few glances over her shoulder, and she allowed herself a snicker thinking of the other squad's fate.
"He's a cat. He can avoid a human squad all day, pick them off one by one, and sleep comfortably all day and all night like Katniss Everdeen." Ask any shagcat, and she would tell you Katniss was a feline, not a human.
"Dogboys ain't gonna help ya, neither. Takes cats fer this job, and he's gonna come for us. You can send us out fer him, or we cain wait fer him. Only one sly-er than a tomcat... A shecat." Her tail swished, thinking of the joy of a the hunt. "No offense, Tacky."
Tori's demeanor fell when she learned there were no hover cars. "Well, if we had two, we'd take two... Guess we're ridin' wif tha instead of drivin'.
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Post by Janxi on Apr 22, 2012 19:32:12 GMT -5
Janxi yawned too. Her teeth were not needles like Tori's but long spikes designed for puncturing skulls. She added a stretch that would snap a human's back for good measure and stretched her paws, keeping her claws within her fingers. She was not trying to terrorize the colonel, just a sleepy and lazy shagcat.
"Good thought T. Mebbe he came in wif tha rats and tha Psi-X's."
She saw her friend was shaken up thinking about Bradford, and gave her a reassuring nuzzle followed by two licks between her ears. "I know yer a lab rat, but now yer're CSOG, and he is a pogue. Keep that in yer lil head, Smurfette."
She heard Tori out. Her tail went from side to side with patience and understanding. "She's right. Mah maw can slaughter juicers by tha hundreds, and has done did it. If one shagcat can do that, then we need to take him real serious.
"Flea's right. He's got this FOB surveiled, he knows we're here an' he'll come sooner than later. Now I think I know I got Tacky on my six, but that's juss gon' pra-voke 'em more.
"An' Tacky? We got yer six full on." Her tail gave a wider, slower swish, and she nuzzled Takota, purring.
"Katniss Everdeen?" Janxi chuckled as if saying "Wuf wuf wuf."
"He'll kill Norrin an' his team, or 'void 'em alltugether. They ain't his priority no more. He's commin' fer me an' Flatchest. Yew kin send us out fer him 'er fer that there gun, but our paths er'crossin wif Tony's soon, and I'm gon' puttim down. Two she-cats and one tom's yer best chance."
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Post by Takota on Apr 24, 2012 21:07:17 GMT -5
Takota remains quiet just listening to the others talk. He is used to just being told what to do and handed some equipment that the higher-ups probably thought was expendable so hearing that they would not be getting the vehicles they wanted was nothing new to him.
He listens a bit more closely when the talk turns to the rogue cat and he idly bats at other cat tails while he takes in the conversation and smiles when Tori and Janxi speak to him but still stays quiet. He's ready to eat and is afraid his rumbling stomach will sound like a mean spirited growl if he opens his mouth.
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