Lizzy smiled at Izzy and replied," Yeah but we could ramp up at any moment, yeah the Angels next few decisions will decide how bad this gets for them." Lizzy smiled and replied," Oh you know me I will, you stay safe your area seems like it took more damage than my fighter did. See you soon." Lizzy blew Izzy a kiss back then got out of the way she saw the Angel Admiral and just shook her head. " I thought I smelled something rotten."

  Shadow   took a  Sandwich and a soda,  Dana, was glad  to see him  back,,, Sneak was looking over    at Jax  and  the other 'young guns' after as they neared the  Table, after dropping off the captured Angel weapons

   Tyhe LC  Just jerked his  head  to her  and she grabbed  Sandwiches  and  soda   and hurried to greet them

 Beth came  down the scaffold  to sit  at the bottom step  Shadow gave her  a sandwich, Dana gave her a  soda..You got  Nicked Up?

 Yeah?  Just like the  Goodfellas  back home. excpet they used hard ammo.. The Angel creeps  don't understand stopping power.

  AP-LO looked  at Shadow  sitting on a crate with a  , wounded, woman with muticolored hair.That  Cannot be... That..that..Chiled is your  Tech Witch??

 She's not a child. she  is  less then a year younger  then our LC. They are from the streets of New York..along  with Admiral Roles  , whom you will meet soon. They , in a way, are  what Stem Kids would evolve  too, if people didn't  keep kidnapping them  for various  purposes..

  Hennings  said,she has  matured the last 6 years... she doesn't wear the heels,  nor the flirt dresses  , unless its to a party.. She is , easily.. the best  at what she does.

  there are  angel  grand children, who are older then her!

Ra'Na'Ta' brought his ship into the hanger and looked around before getting out. He was uncertain of who or what he should even do at this point. It was more chaotic than he would of thought, but then it was just after a battle. He got out of the ship with the few belongings that he brought with. He placed his sword at his side. He once again looked around took a deep breath. "This one wants to know which hairless one he is to see first now that the fighting be done to let them know This one is here?" He said to no one in particular just for anyone to hear and tell him.
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one of the crew chiefs  pointed to the Scaffold...way across the   hanger,That guy sitting with the  gils  with the  colors in her  Hair? That's  LC Shadoiw , he;s out  wing Commander, and, he was  the flight  leader of the aircraft you came in with...... The Black man a  little shorter the the Admirals there,  That's Captain Morris, he'll check you in and get yoiur   quarters

Ra'Na'Ta' listened to the man and looked in the direction. He made sure to mark each of them. "This one thanks you." He took his leave and made his way tot he people he was directed to.

Ra'Na'Ta' looked at the one called Captain Morris, then touched his paw to his forehead and bowed. "This one is Ra'Na'Ta' Abada of the Felrite Puuride. This one wishes to know what This one is suppose to do next and where This one can find his quarters at? This one has need of food as well."

 Captain Morris  Returned the  Salute.Welcome  Ensing Ra'na'Ta...I Am Captain Morris. I am the Adjutant . I work  with LC Shadow   when  we set the flights, and sorties and such, we also  confirm or   deny kills for your records

 he turns,   This is  Admiral Hack, The Hermes is his Flagship...Admiral Hennings... Captain  O'Rielly, who is  InCharge of the Hanger dec. Captain Si. She is the  Flag Captain of the  Fleets  as she sits in the command  chair of the Hermes. This....fellow ..is  AP-LO. High Admiral of the Paradise Home fleet.  All those  mentioned , gave nods  of acknowledgment .

  Come to the Table  they have varius sandwiches,  since the  rec dec  and Messes  are such down during   Jump offs. they walk a few yards

  LC, Old boy.  We have  the new pilot  that came in with you..

 Shadow   put his  half eaten sandwich next to beth, in its  wrapper, and wiped his hand extending  it..Welcome board  the Hermes  Ensign. Lt   Ariv should be around, there are a few  Felrite pilots  and troopers  on this  ship..you have to make due  with
 hot or cold sandwiches right b=now. But when this is over  we'll have a 'After party'..
 Captain Morris  will  set you up with  your quarters.

  Yes , well..  I wil let him eat and  drink first.... Ensign?   you see that   metal shed   pass the flightlines.. That's my  office.. the Kill boards  and Flight listing are posted there..howvere..I will have to see what the butcher's bill for this  will be...So? Get  something to eat, as it were, and  come see me.. He gave a Nod  and walked off  down the taped of    walk way. in the Middle of the  hanger   was chaos as  the  battered  grounds  crew,  welded  , melded  and  riveted  plates in. Cowlings popped opened   for   new belts   of 37 MMs.. fresh  power cells  were   put in  and olds one  sent to the chargers.

     Ranata? This is Dana,  She , along  with Sneak  and Amy  volunteer  to  have  food  and drink for   the hnager folks   when we  jump off,  they  may have as many kills  assome of the grounds crew.

  Dana smiled at  Ranata , the short . pixie type   cut of her brown hair  made her look a bit  younger, but..with Angel  food, who could tell well  Ranata?  we have    'hogie' style  sandwiches, with differant meats and   such in, we have a gamma  wave here to heat them up?

——> Med Tech

She would enter the compound with a weary look on her face as the rest of the team busied themselves with the necessary repairs to their suits as well reloading the weaponry in preparation for the next assault ”Velta, how are you feeling? Tarja would ask the petite Estonian woman, who was in the process of carrying the half empty ammo drums away to be refilled ”I feel good Corporal”
”Good, then get Hippers suit prepped your going on the next assault” Tarja responded, with a grin appearing on Velta’s face as she gave an enthusiastic already done and salute, over the moon to be back on the team after being on the sidelines for the last two outings ”Inga! Head down to med tech and salvage what you can of Paskins suit”
”Right away…um…are you alright Tar?” Inga asked with a concerned look, having spent enough time with Tarja to recognise when she was bottling things up. There was a moment of hesitation before Tarja quietly responded in Finnish ”not really…I’m afraid that I might have condemned a man to a painful death…Paskins he’s…he’s not good” she said with Inga offering her a sympathetic look as she replied in the same language ”It’s not your fault, you did all you could for him…now go and clear your head, ok?”  she said before heading off towards med tech to try and salvage what she could of Paskins suit, Tarja meanwhile would head to her cage and climb out of her suit.

After putting in a request for a replacement suit, she would take a moment to alter a few settings on the paint machine before beginning to prepare her suit for the next assault.

”yeah we may as well paint a big sign saying High value targets please shoot here” Izzy had sighed before settling down to work.

Exhibiting a level of multi-tasking that most would envy, Izzy would sit at her station with her headset on listening to the comms chatter as she used some kind of design software on her vidboard, pausing every now and again to input something into her station before continuing with what she was doing.

In reply to hanger Dec (msg # 39):

Ra'Na'Ta' gave his salute to each he was introduced to. He then came over to the table and looked at what was there. He shook his head looking at the hoagies. He nodded to him and looked at the shed marking it, then turned back to the table. "This one wishes to know what this hoagie thing is. It looks like meat between bread, but you hairless ones put strange things on it too.  This one has not had hairless food that often, but has tried it. The taste is different to This one. This one does not mean to offend, if This one did. I apologize. This one would rather just have meat, for now."


Ra'Na'Ta' thought for a  moment as he looked at the one called Dana."This one would like to know what was meant by as many kills. This one thinks that he is saying your food is bad. Is this one correct in that thought?"

Ra'Na'Ta' stood there looking at the food now a bit unsure, as he looked at those eating at the table.

 Taja...

  Andruss   was   frownign when he  finally sat  down on a   stand on stool, sipping  some  coffee.

 he  tossed his hypo Spanner in his box.   with a  sigh.

 Morgan chuckled  at him...Hey? You should be  happy?  wait  until we hit the dirt?.. then you have to wash you  mech as well as fix it!

  Tarja  gets  a COM  from Stefi...

  This  is LT Stefi.... Hipper  will recover.. but i have  my doubts  about  him making the next jump off. His wounds are  neat bad  enough to juice him.... Paskins  is......going through.. his treatment I will up date you soon...

 ...................

   Dana  smiles,  and  shakes her head,  Not our Rec Dec  food. never had   anyone die there yet..i mean? they have, because they crossed the LC or something, but never from the  food!

  These  are breads..  the  roundish ones   are  rolls... the  skinny ones, flat bread... not much difference. I prefer the rounder ones... depending on what you like...we have  Fush salad -like thing, we would  call it tuna  fish, but here aren't any  Tuna  with in Light years of us...most of these are  either  grown in the farm Tubes, or  Aura  or  Fuji. or some other Carrier/station...there are meatballs and cheese..or  with not cheese.. there  are   hoagies  with sald stuff in, and meat..or no meat..steak-like  meats,,  chicken like  meats.. and  there are  sauces  and such   as well as seasonings  to your
 tastes.. we do have  some feltirte salt, and other seasonings?..There is Soda , Coffee
 and various  teas... But? the Rec dec  can't cook  right now, so everything is sandwich -type stuff.


  Shadow  says   as he motions  for Beth to hand him his..This  is  called a 'club"..it has  meats  and  veggies and cheese..i put  mayo and salt and pepper on it.. It comes down you your   tastes.

 LT  Ariv   came over  as soon as  some one  reported the new 'cat'.

  Ahhh..You are  being the  New one, Yes?... I am LT Ariv,    I am  first of Feltrites  to join  Hermes   pilots... LT   Hirr  is  here some where, She is first to  lead Felrite troopers... If yioub be needed  to understand  strange was of  Humans,  un roll your  Vidboard, it will explain things   in Felrite way, so you are Not  Confused  by Human 's odd words..

 He   will fly with You this   Jump off.. or does he fly with Felrites?

 Shadow  and to chew  a bit before  he said,Well.. we are getting a fresh  batch of Pilots.. who knows  if they  even have  more the  10 hours  flight time. let alone  Combat... But this is  going to be 'all hands on dec... they'll feed us replacements  when we need them.... So  Ranata,  Do you want to Fly with Ariv..her  flight  has    Felrites, but mixed in  Human folks  because  Zolth wanted to keep  pilots  on thier homeworld... i feel  we may get more Felrites, even if we lose  this battle, because Paradise  isn't going to be in shape to attack anyone, except maybe raiding Convoys.

Having reloaded her weapons and replaced a greave which had taken a glancing shot, Tarja had been perching on her tool chest drawing on a scrap of paper with a pen in an attempt to relax and clear her head whilst she ran a diagnostic program when her comms unit went off. Answering it far too quickly she would listen as Stefi updated her on Hipper and Paskins condition, with it being much as she’d expected ”ok please tell me when…treatment…has finished” she replied before getting up and heading back into the main part of the compound.

Spotting Andruss she would quietly walk over to where he was and take a seat beside him and rest her head on his shoulder, still carrying the sketch she had made ”hey…how is mech? She working for you?”

 Meari was out of her armor working on reloading it as well as the other members of the team when Tarja arrived. Meari looked at Tarja, she had an idea of what she was talking about, they most likely had to use the serum on him, then one they gave Frakas, Will also got a dose when he took the blade for the Admiral, there where many other cases she didnt know about for sure.

 " Tarja you gave him a chance at a full recovery, I believe that is what he would have wished for himself and any of us. He is strong physically and mentally he will pull through, by the Purple clouds of Uden he will pull through." Meari then said something in Udenese that sounded absolutely beautiful and not typical of Udenese prayers it was highly emotional compared to the normally very cold emotionless prayers of the Udenese.

 Meari then went to work on her suit to make sure it was fully ready for the next jump off.

  Andruss..gave her  a pat on the back as he puy yjat arm around her,well?  I can use the  Creeper,  , but not  with  the Minigun . I'd  have to go in  with  flame and Pulse... I can use the Back up  with all three..b ut..well.. its not like the creeper.

...........

Ra'Na'Ta' touched his forehead to his paws. "Jobal kha'jay trevan (Bright Moon friend).This one is Ra'Na'Ta' Abada. I am honored to be in the firsts presence." He gave her a paw to his forehead salute. "This one is sure he will need your guidance. The hairless ones have many strange customs. This one tried to understand, but too many to make sense of."

When she asked about who he flies with he looked at Shadow. "This one will fly where This one is needed. It is why This one is here."
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Finishing up his post Flight duties Justin sent Alison a text to let her know he was back. Not knowing how long the Flights would be stood down before being sent out again Justin thought watching an oldies from one of those California Producers might be reasonable filler.

Roy gave Ap-Lo a grin that verged on feral.  "You only say that because he's not on your side.  I would rather have Shadow fighting beside me than any ten Demons...including Sergeant Zobaich, and that's REALLY saying something."  His expression took on more menacing overtones as he added, "You call him a war criminal...that could be considered high praise, considering the abominations and atrocities the Demons have perpetrated and the fact that you've chosen to fly under their banner rather than stand fast under your own.  When the criminals are calling someone else criminal, even by their standards, you know he's getting to them."

He snorted softly.  "Kinda puts gaping holes in that facade of cool detachment that your kind have been trying to keep up.  Sure, you're one of the oldest races in the Black...but in my experience, there are only two types of things that truly live up to the title of 'Old.'  There's those that are so deeply rooted and so strongly forged that they seem to stand strong in the face of everything...even time."

He gave Ap-Lo a measuring gaze, a hint of a smirk creeping across his face.  "And then there's those that have so eroded, usually from the inside, that they're ready to collapse and implode with just the right touch of pressure.  And your kind has been slowly imploding for a long time, now..."

  with a lok of shock, AP-L0, seemed indignant  to be  talked to in such a way, by a Non-Com.

  Hack chuckled   softly  at Rpy's  comment   and  nodded to the SM,Go get rest  and  food, SM. I'll be  making an announcement shortly.. But  first... I have to make good on a debt

  Ariv Nods to Ranata,we will   see what Shadow   , LC  says..I may depend on the   new pilots  and  how long they have   flown in the black..Yiu should  try, Steak..it is goof
 meat , you can get cheese..

 Hack waved the rest of the board  with him, Shade  Pushed  AP-LO  along  as if he  were nothing more  they  a hireling.

  Shadow    shrugged and followed  along.., Beth sighed  and went backup the stairs, as she  nodded to Izzy   to  start   the Monitors

   Hello  again,  Most high, regardless of whether  you choose  to answer  me, I  am making this announcement .. I really don't care  if you  answer, Nor  do i even care if you hear it... But you whole  world  is hearing it...and will see  if.  I like to keep my word, this helps   maintain respect...

 with his COM he told   Beth what vids to send...Here   we have the replay of the  ships you call Limbo... you can see the panic  and fear. people screaming, children  crying... and these? these  folks   followed you blindly, their   belief in you to the point of  zealots...and then..you killed them...  the destruction was shown.

 Killing helpless  prisoners, Is  not the  way to 'scare me off"  , Most High. Instead, it makes me angry, and   then i must seek vengeance ... so..Please...  watch..or  don't  watch..but its happening,  I wanted   2800  Officers, LTs  and   above...  we  seemed to
 have harvest  53oo,,,,

 so.. Consider  the  extra   folks...interest on account.  Captain  Grillmor? if you please..

 the vid   was from a  fighter Vidcam.. an captured  Angel  transport  flew   over the Capital ...Captain Grillmor  here... Static  feel off,  doing   the gator  death roll...

Now a camera  showed  officers   who had their  arms    zip  tied, the ship  rolled to the   starboard   side  and the officer  began to scream    as they slide  towards the carbo bay doors.. Legs  kicking  as  they  could not use their  hands.., about  2000 feet above the  capitol..then the  bodies   slipped out int the Atmo... falling  with the  beautiful  building rising  up, faster and  faster to greet them.

  screaming Bodie s burst like  ripe melons on a hot sidewalk, The transport   rose  back into the  black

 Now? Most  High..you have  2  hours  to  surrender, unconditionally  or we are coming down there, and Turn  Paradise  into  a brand new   ESN/APF  colony...

 that was murder, of   Angel who blood  is  more important they yours!

 well.... maybe we'll just   slide  down now..

 no...maybe the Most High will answer

With the arrival of Hack and the board Izzy would hurriedly place the vidboard on her lap to one side with its screen still showing, to anyone that cared to look, something that resembled a Delta winged aircraft albeit without a cockpit. With a few keystrokes she would have a connection to Paradise up, with her silently giving the admiral a thumbs up to signal that the camera was rolling.

She would quietly listen as the admiral spoke grimacing slightly at the footage of the mass executions of both the civilians at the hands of the Angels and the Angel officers at the hands of the ESN.

Once the admiral had finished she would cut the feed, before turning around in her chair to face Angel behind her ”Perhaps you should consider reading up on some Earth history, then maybe you would understand that we generally take a dim view on anyone that starts spouting off about the purity of bloodlines” she said with her suspecting that had they read a few history books then they could have avoided this entire situation entirely.

  Admiral Hennings,   gave  Izzy a nod, then a shrug,One thing to remember, Ensign. Those  books started with the seed of the book written by zealots and fanatics. As the  sadistic  overseers  watched   people   run about the desert, or start wars, in the names of those they  thought  were gods. ..or... for that matter   Demons and such..

 looking to AP=LO...niether side, thought  hujmans  would reach the point  where we could curise the stars. Even our Allies  would have  doubted it. But here  we are.. and now were are on  our  own Crusade. To sert things  right in The Black.

 You are  but children in  The Black, blundering around, You do not  know  what evils are out here...

Captain Si spoke up as she nodded to   Izzy as well.No where, In what i have been taught, is there the  doctrine, of 'protecting  Earth'  over the eons, earth was nothing more then a site to  gather materials, water  and   breeding samples..

 You are quite Beautfil Nil Si,,it was that  beauty that  made me want you at my side... or..under me...

Captain Si   stiffened, her  eye brow  narrowed..  Admiral Hack said...you are getting  close to the  Edge there, AP-LO.. there was no humor  in Hack's Voice.. Hennings and Rivets   stepped away. from the Admiral... AP-LO  didn't seem to see, nor  care the deadly  look in His eyes  as he  added to Nil...

 How did your  own breeding  experiment  work out?,  Could your not  Human hero Perform en.......

 Nil bared her  teeth as her   fist Balled  up,  But  AP-LO never Got to  Finish as  Hack's   round   house   caught the Angel  on the Side of the head, sending him to the Dec, The then Admiral on him, flailing  away.. Shadow turned to   grab  the Admiral ,  Rivets grabbed    Shadow in a bear hug...Ahhh..no ya  don't laddie, You get to beat on bad  folks all the time.. ye  shouldn't begrudge the Admiral

   Nil   watched , her  chest  rising and falling   with  deep breaths  as hate filled  eyes   focused on AP-LO who was too dazed  to   even protect himself.

 Hennings  watched  for a Bit, Shadow stopped  struggling, but Rivets  Held on..  SM?.... when you feel the need,  Please  Remove    Admiral Hack from our  Angel guest.

Zob had moved up to be with Orria up by the vid screens upon arriving he heard the commotion with the angel prisoner, "Well that didn't take long..." he shook his head and pulled up a seat next to Orria, "How you holding up?" he asked knowing its been a rough few hours.
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There was a bit of a shrug in response to Admiral Hennings reply concerning the early wars of religion and how the Angels had had a hand in them ”true but I was thinking of our more recent history; The war of Independence, World War Two, the fall of the Soviet Union, examples of how one group of hairless apes overthrew another group that had been oppressing them…plus it would have shown them how damn good at war we are!” she replied before watching the scene  between the admiral and AP-LO unfolding before her ”Mr AP-LO for a supposed superior being you know fuck all about humans…perhaps if you’d taken the time to research us mere humans you would have learned that insulting a human’s partner is a good way of losing your teeth!”

Tarja had paused when Meari had spoken to her, an uncertain look coming to her face as she replied ”I hope so…I just kind of wished I could have spoken to him first, treatment is…risky…and painful” with it clear that she was less than certain as to whether she had done the right thing ”…on plus side Hipper is recovering but won’t be ready for action so I told Velta to prep his suit” she continued in a weary voice before listening as Meari uttered a strangely beautiful prayer in what she assumed was in her native tongue before continuing over to Andruss.

With her head on his shoulder and his arm around her shoulders Tarja would nestle in a little closer to him, frowning slightly as he spoke of his mech ”That sucks…I know how much you like her…is there much left to do?” she asked, unsure as to how long it would be until the next phase of the campaign.

Ra'Na'Ta' had just grabbed a piece of steak when the commotion took place. He dropped the steak and instantly went into a aggressive stance his claws out and a snarl escaping his lips. He looked to Lt Ariv. "This one would like to know if This one should kill the thing under the Admiral? This one would not mind, though if the thing insulted his mate, then he shall have the pleasure of avenging his mate." He did not relax his stance and his tail twitch rapidly his eyes never leaving the thing under the Admirals assault.

  Andruss  shruggs,  The hardest  thing, is  me trying to get the  belt  gears  to work and  the new  generators  to accept the links.. the old one was pounded to  the 9 hells. The  easiest think it  to   replace the arm...  then try to   get the  synch . That could take too much time as well.. The fastest, easier thing, is  to  just ride the back up...

..............

 Ariv   took a bite of her hoagie,I think that Admiral Hack is  using this  to lessen his  build up energy, he  only  got to shoot a few enemies that dared   enter our  Dec.. The other Officers  do not look  concern.  Ans. Captain Si is a Female, so she is used to  the Hunt  as our  feamles are.  Admiral Hack, meverly  beat her to the  attack.

Ra'Na'Ta' looked at the one under the Admirals beating and with a toothy smile. "This one has never tried the thing. This one wonder how it's flesh would taste. This one wonder if after the Admiral is done beating it if This one  could play with it? The battle and now this little beating had made This one hunt surface once more."

Ra'Na'Ta' was down on all fours his lanky, powerful body stretching flexing his claws. He was eying the one being beaten like a mouse to be played with, as a chatter escaped his mouth.