Edwards Air Force Base Emergency Beacon mission -- RPLOG - RPLOG
Participants
Date
28/1/2017
Log
It's a quiet day outside the city of Fairhaven. The skies are clear, with a few puffy clouds drifting lazily along.
At least, it would be, if it weren't for the two agents arguing right outside an impressively large looking transport truck, designed to accomodate whoever decided to come along, diesel engine idling with a thunderous rumble of pistons firing and cams turning. The taller, burlier agent, a Doberman-morph, appears to be waist-deep in a fight with the smaller, scrawnier one, a severe-looking Owl-morph. They both are wearing standard Zephyr uniforms, and appear to be both male. The owl spots a few agents approaching in the distance, pointing it out to the doberman. Noticing the slew of agents approaching, he frowns, sighs, and stops arguing, while the smaller one smiles smugly and crosses his arms, waiting for the team to draw closer.
Light is walking up slightly ahead of the pack of agents, arms behind her back while walking. Female clad in a dark colored kimono along with her darker colors, revolver at side with a pack on her back with a red cross on it. She nods towards the two men while she continued onto her approach, humming along the walk towards them.
Firecracker, a pint-sized pale pink pony pegasus, drops down from above to land atop the truck. She looks down to the others from over the side as she happily chirps, "Hiya! I'm Firecracker! What're your names? And is the place for the stuff with the things?" She hangs her forelegs over the side of the vehicle as she watches more people arrive, giving a smile and a happy wave, introducing herself to each as they come.
Fenris trots up to the transport and snaps off a smart salute, then stands at ease with his thumbs tucked into the heavy utility belt around his thick waist and a pleasant smile on his face. "Heard someone needed help?" he says, polishing the copper badge on his chest that reads SGT CHUBBS. He smiles at the pony and points at said badge. "My badge says Chubbs!" he says, by way of introduction.
Naiko was the last to arrive for now. A large, sturdy looking completely mechanical robot. They slowly walked up to the transport truck, waving to all the agents around.
A Synthetic robotic voice echoed from the robot's speakers, "It's a pleasure to meet you all. I'm Naiko." The robot did also glance at the Tanuki for quite a little while, adding.. "Hmm. I think I recognize you!"
"Welcome, welcome! My name's Sherrod." The owl says, looking significantly more amiable since he 'won' the argument." On the other hand, however, the canine merely grunts gruffly. "My friend here is named Stu-" The doberman growls, warningly. "Simon, I mean. He's not feeling particularly friendly after he lost a bet just a little bit ago."
"Yeah. This is the trip for the stuff. And the things." The owl notes with a dry smile to the excitable pony, and offering a nod towards to chubby canine. "Welcome, yes... someone should need help, according to the radio. But we won't know until we get there."
The fox chuckles for a bit while she hears everyones name, "My name is light, and its a plasure to meet all of you." She listens in and laughs a little towards Sherrod giving the little situation that his buddy lost in. "A bet? Well thats a shame." Her laughs goes down to a snicker while she looked at Firecracker, turning around to Naiko then Chubbs. "A pleasure too meet you both aswell."
"Then what're we waitin' for?!" Firecracker shouts as she hops up into a standing position atop the truck, thrusting a foreleg forward to point onward towards adventure, "Onwards to adventure!" After her little announcement, she hops right off the side of the truck to land atop Fenris's head softly, ready to go! "Hiya, Chubsy! You all ready for adventurificationizing?!" she asks the group in general.
"Adventurificationizing is my middle name!" Fenris says, thumping his belly to make a sound like a bass drum! "Let's get a move on!" The tubby tanuki agilely heaves himself into the back of the truck, even with the pony settled on his head.
"Good! If things get a little ugly I'll do my best to help." Naiko clicks and whirrs, hopping on the truck. "Adventurifi..Cationizing? I'll make a note never to say that word out loud." They laugh, shaking their head lightly. "Onto... Adventure. Gods, I haven't said that word in a very long time."
"Everyone load up, then. Hop on the truck's back and we'll get to moving." Sherrod says, waving everyone on while Simon grumbles and gets in the truck's cabin, fiddling with a few knobs while all the agents hop in. "Nice to meet you all, at any rate. Hopefully, our mission goes without too much "adventure" and with minimal deviation. I'll give you all a full briefing once we're moving." He looks at Firecracker a little strangely, shrugs, and starts to hop in the passenger side of the cabin. Once everyone is actually inside, the truck gets to rolling, quickly getting up to a decent speed... except, in the back, there happens to be no windows. That's the problem with old trucks.
"Adventurficationizing? Thats a new one to hear, maybe it wont be that last one I hear either." Light giggles a bit before helping herself up to the back of the truck, settling inside and twiddling her thumbs while she waited for the briefing.
Firecracker rides Fenris's head right into the back of the truck along with the others, watching as the light disappears as the doors are closed behind them. "Oh! It sure is dark in here! That kinda makes it hard to play games while we wait! We can play charades! No wait... I Spy! Wait no, that doesn't work either. Marco Polo! That works!" The little pegasus hops off the tanuki's head and starts calling out "Marco!" as she pronks around inside the truck.
Fenris finds a seat and settles himself in, folding his hands over his round belly and tipping his uniform hat down over his eyes. It is only moments before he starts to snore gently.
It's a wonder how Naiko fits perfectly in the back of the truck, considering the robot's size. Their head emitted a faint red laser grid as it scanned everyone in the back of the truck.
"Sooo.." Nodding towards Firecracker and turning one of their shoulders' emergency lights, they exclaimed, "Polo? Am I doing this right? Also, I seem to have seen you often around Zephyr." Turning towards the Tanuki and nodding again, "Nope, still can't recall where I have-.. Well that was.. Fast.." And finally, to Light. "And you..." After a brief pause, Naiko tilts their head, adding. "Look pretty cool actually!"
"Advance teams have already secured the area around the base. Scouts are set up with rifles to pick off any ferals. The risk should be minimal to you all... provided you use common sense." Simon speaks, his voice gruff and harsh, compared to Sherrod's smooth, polite chatter. The trunk goes over a particularly large bump, and everything rattles.
