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 Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 8:04 am
~~ "We'll explain to you and Slippy when we get up there." Krystal told the rabbit, before looking over at Fox. "Peppy is going to kill you for going out when you were injured like that, whether you're healed now or not."
"Gramps is retired." said Falco, "He doesn't have any control over us, and even less now."
"Why do you call him 'Gramps'?" He's not that old, you know."
"He was on the original Star Fox team, with Pigma and Fox's father. Considering how long ago that was--"
"Oh, so now you're calling Fox's dad old?"
Fox rolled his eyes. "You two are what, eighteen and twenty?" He walked through a door, going up stairs. Krystal and Falco followed. ~~
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Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 8:21 am
Kaimei snorted. "If I didn't know better, I would have said you were a dysfunctional family, but considering what I had for a 'family', I can't really talk when my 'family' were like Freddy Krueger meets the Addams Family at the best of times," he said dryly, following them. He wasn't really surprised at Falco's semi-confused glance at him for a moment, realizing they didn't know what the heck he was talking about. Trust me, at times, it was like living with banshees, sirens and Freddy Krueger with an acid enema other times, he thought. Lucy shifted, rolling her eyes at the banter. Considering what we do for a living, it's surprising we're not 'crazy' as in insane, especially taking into account what we've dealt with, she thought.
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Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 8:53 am
~~ (Don't control my people, please <_<)
Reaching the top of the stairs, they were now in a large, circular room. It had some seats(ones like Krystal's sitting on in her picture), panels, a cresent-shaped desk with more gizmo's and buttons on it, and in general seemed fit for a setting in Star Trek. As you could imagine, it was the main control center for the Great Fox.
A short, green frog wearing a yellow jumpsuit walked in. He wiped his forehead. "Whew. They did some nasty damage to that stabilizer. But I managed to fix it."
"Good job, Slippy." said Fox, smiling slightly, "Where would we be without you?"
"Possibly rolling to the side of the ship due to a thirty-degree angle?" Falco suggested, sitting back in a chair and crossing his arms behind his head. ~~
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Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 9:13 am
Kaimei tilted his head, glancing around cautiously yet curiously. "I do wonder why they aimed at the stabilizers rather than the engines," he muttered.
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Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 10:46 am
~~ "Why'd they aim at the stabilizers, though?" said Falco thoughtfully, not hearing Kaimei saying pretty much the exact same thing**, "Another plan to slow us down?"
"Hum..." Fox crossed his arms, putting a hand on his chin like a scientist thinking.
"Where'd Lucy go?" Slippy asked, glancing around.
(**Two minds work alike...Pssh. Yeah right. I bet'cha Falco can read minds. XD) ~~
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Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:03 am
Kaimei shifted his weight. "I went to get something to eat," Lucy said wryly, keeping from giggling when she saw the black fox jump again before his eyes landed on her. She managed not to blush at his gaze when he looked away, her tray wobbling slightly before she realized it. "What if aiming at the stabilizers was some sort of distraction, possibly to recharge whatever destroyed and mutated Soleana?" Kaimei said, not liking the idea. "Or the other two, as well," Lucy said softly disliking the idea. "What did that beam do, anyway?" she said, trying to figure out what had happened. She noticed the newcomer's entire body tense, though she could guess at what had caused it.(If you ever meet someone you find ugly, say "T'as une tête a faire sauter les plaques d'egouts!"; it's a French insult that basically means "You've got a face that would blow off manhole covers!")
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Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:21 am
~~ "Lucy, I need to contact your father." said Fox suddenly, looking at her. "What's his current location?" ~~
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Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:33 am
Kaimei cocked his head slightly, uncertain what Fox was referring to. "You know him... he tends to hang around his workshop most of the time," Lucy said with a sigh.
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Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:48 am
~~ "I figured as much." Fox walked up the steps to the cresent-shaped desk, going behind it.
Krystal, Falco, and Slippy looked at each other, then at Fox.
He tapped in something on the keyboard. A large monitor on the wall directly opposite of the fox flickered on. It showed a veiw of a high-tech workshop of sorts. "Peppy! You there?" ~~
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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 6:57 am
Kaimei shrugged, half turning away. Peppy shifted, coming into view onscreen. "Does it have to do with you leaving the ship while injured?" he said, seemingly idle yet slightly stern.
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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 7:02 am
~~ "Look, you can chew me out later. Right now, I need help. Oikonny isn't dead." ~~
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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 7:29 am
Kaimei paused, glancing at the female rabbit, whom he noticed blushed slightly before her eyes widened slightly at her father's words. He doubted the older rabbit knew he and the female rabbit, Lucy, had been thinking along those very lines themselves. Peppy blinked, apparently caught off guard. "Do you have any idea how? It appears those disruptor cannons Lucy picked up are designed to mutate those exposed to it with certain genetic alterations depending upon what genes are placed within the disruptor core," he said, his tone thoughtful. "It is always possible he had an escape pod we did not know of," he said wryly, shrugging a shoulder. He blinked when he noticed the black fox, but didn't comment on him at the moment or the unusual armor he wore.
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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 7:49 am
~~ "That would explain the reptilian people which attacked us." said Fox, nodding.
"But I don't get how he would have escaped, even with a pod. We saw and heard him go down with that monkey-robot-ship-thing." said Slippy, "Remember? He yelled, 'Uncle Andross!'"
"Perhaps he survived the wreckage as it detonated, and got away while we were distracted by the Aparoid that appeared only moments later?" suggested Krystal, crossing her arms.
"What ever method the filthy ape used to evade us doesn't matter to me. I just want to make sure he doesn't do it again. So what do we do? Go up and blast the disruptor cores? Sounds simple enough."
"Easier said then done." replied Fox, glancing at the radars. "For one, there's high-class guard-mechs protecting each one, according to sensors. You worked with my father against Andross. His nephew doesn't seem to work much different. Star Fox rarely requires advice, but right now, we need some advice on a strategy." ~~
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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 8:00 am
Kaimei chuckled. "Strike from muliple directions, perhaps two or three different angles, both to confuse and distract him," he said quietly. He pulled out a small golden metallic disc no wider than than his thumb was long, roughly three inches, from a small pouch at his hip. The blue crystal in the center pulsed steadily and slowly as he flicked it into the air before catching it. "Electromagnetic disruptor... should scramble the circuits of those mechs just fine," he said. Lucy tilted her head, amused. He reminds me similarly to Slip and Papa... yet he doesn't seem to hide from everything to the point of being antisocial.. and what he comes up with can be useful, she thought. Peppy tilted his head, curious about the newcomer.
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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 8:23 am
~~ "While the electromagnetic disrupter sounds good, I had been considering the multiple direction strikes....Before I remembered Wolf trashed our ships. There's not enough time for any repairments."
"Well, mine is fine."
"That's true, but it doesn't help the rest of us."
"I almost wish that bloody wolf would show his face." mumbled Krystal.
Fox was quiet a moment, before saying in a low voice, "I don't....At all..."
"Wait....You don't think--?"
"It can't be a coincidence that Oikonny appears directly after Wolf attacks and half-demolishes our ships."
"But....Didn't Oikonny leave Star Wolf?"
"That doesn't stop them from forming an alliance, does it? But until we know for sure, we can't take action on that idea."
"Personally, I'd strike back anyway, whether I know it or not, but I'm not leader.." sighed Falco.
"I could try and fix the Arwings..." suggested Slippy.
"We'll have to manage without the Arwings this time around." Fox looked at Kaimei. "Do you have any air crafts?" ~~
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