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 Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 7:36 am
Pluto, a small frozen dwarf planet to which only the most dangerous criminals are sent to rot. The temperatures here are cold enough to completely freeze water in seconds. The prison here is called 'Operation Icebox' and the prisoners mine for Adrenaline Rock which is broken down and becomes Adrenaline. It has one moon named Charon. There are no domes on Charon.
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Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 7:13 am
"It's so cold -no- cold isn't the word for it...this type of cold has to be death itself. I need to get out of here. I can't even remember killing anybody...but I do remember some scenes of carnage. These visions haunt my dreams and they make me feel incomplete, as if I haven't done something; as if someone is waiting for me somewhere."
His words were interrupted by a couple of guards who went into his cell and dragged him out of it. "Akio Armand. The Warden wishes to speak to you."
Upon arriving at the Warden's office, Akio was thrown to the floor and the guards stood along the wall. "Akio or should I say, Bade, come in. I've been watching you for a long time and have decided to send you to a normal prison. You're not like the others here and I've seen that, so you are going to be sent to another planet. The shuttle will be ready in a couple of hours. Until then you will remain in your cell."
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Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 6:11 pm
Inbetween the Planets of Pluto and Charon, a small sleek black ship moved, at around x4 Speed. On it's side was embossed the Greek letter Sampi, in a crimson red.
Flying through the zone of space always gave Noah a bad feeling, he hated Charon most of all though, as he was always too swift to be sent to Pluto.
He looked out the window and shuddered. He was extremely lucky that the Deucalion left very little traces of it's path... or else he'd be back on Charon by now...
"Noah!" yelled a synthetic and harsh sounding voice. "Stop daydreaming man, we need to focus on getting out of here through the Kupier. Otherwise this Raid will be worthless. We've got buyers out there for our haul this time..."
It was Spatha, Noah's best friend and fellow pirate.
Noah smiled."Yeah, yeah Spatha. We're gonna be fine... Our flight path is perfect, there should be no interferences... Hey Gimel. Do you detect anything suspecious from either Planet."
"No... notta peep. It's all clear... God, I hate having to do this. For God sake, your pirates! I'm a respected linguist and communications technician..." said Gimel Pilcrow, who was a stubby little fellow with a nasty, sour tone and annoyed temperment.
"Because if don't... We're gonna toss you back to those nasty Bounty Hunters on Io... and they weren't to pleased that you escaped them last time..."
"Heh... He's right ya know." said Spatha with a mechanical laugh.
"Hmph, still doesn't mean I have to like it..." grumbled Gimel.
Noah Berman smiled. "Look, we've all got things were running from or we wouldn't be on this ship. So lets just work together and keep alive, alright?"
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Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 9:16 pm
On this planet, every second seemed like a lifetime so waiting a couple of hours was killer, but when it was over, Bade didn't seem too happy. He was met up at his cell by many guards who escorted him through the prison and into the shuttle where he was kept inside of a chamber with a liquid around his ankles.
Three...
..Two...
..One...
Blast off!!
With that, the ship hovered off of the ground, then took off into space and as it did the temperature inside rose and Bade was soon being encased in Venisium which would go all the way up to his neck and stop.
The shuttle was on course and everything was going well as they began passing Charon and spotted another ship on their radar. "Unidentified ship on radar, sending signals now."
On the Deucalion, they would hear beeping from their ship's videophone with the shuttle trying to contact them. Should they except it, they'd see a couple of army men on screen. "This is a restricted a sector and you are unauthorized to be here. Shut down all except your basic power systems and prepare to be boarded."
Back in the shuttle, Bade was unable to move or feel anything from the neck down. "This heat alone is killing me...I need to get out of this shuttle I-" he'd stop talking to himself and listen to the conversations amongst the guards and see them leave. "Please let this be someone coming to get me out of here...please."
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Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 7:13 pm
Noah sighed as he heard the beep of the videophone. He then turned to Spatha and then to Gimel as the message was relayed. "Open a channel, Gimel... I think we're about to have some fun."
"Noah! Are you insane?! They're gonna kill us if they get near, lets get out of here!" cried Gimel, however upon seeing the glare of Spatha, he complied and opened a channel.
Noah smiled into the screen and laughed. "This is The Ferryman, Captian of the Deucalion. I frankly don't give a damn about your orders and am going to continue onward... If you persue us or fire, we shall raid you and steal everything onboard your vessel and leave nothing for your spouses and children to bury!" He yelled loudly.
He paced back and forth then stared back into the screen. "Now, I would suggest that you little group of Tin Men retreat now, or be our newest prey. Retreat and continue onward to your destination, else we will be forced to take action upon you... and eradicate you. If you think I'm joking I would be more than willing to demonstrate." His cyberonic eye began to glow, signaling an extreme emotion charge in his mind, that of rage.
Spatha meanwhile smiled and charged the weapons. "All ready to go, sir."
He said. "Prepared to fire at will!"
Noah nodded, he enjoyed to play brashly with these military types, as he hated them ever so much... While this was occuring, Gimel was preparing a Multi-band Communications Disruption, as he couldn't have this ship calling for help.
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Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 6:24 am
"Oh no. Sir! It's the Deucalion, and you know the captain of that ship," stated the communications guy.
"Rgg. We're making an emergency landing on Charon. Hold on!!"
The shuttle would suddenly break its course and head for Pluto's moon of Charon.
Meanwhile, Bade could hear the sirens in the ship going off like crazy. "Ah my ears! Feels like my eardrums are going to burst." He stopped speaking and listened to the guards' conversation just before they ran off, leaving only one man.
"We're going to Charon? Wait, Charon I remember now...Project Genesis. It will be mine!"
Meanwhile, the shuttle was trying its best to avoid any fire that would be or was beign shot at it.
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Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 10:27 am
Noah cringed as the transport headed towards Charon.
"Damn it..." He muttered to himself.
"Noah, we have to persue them... otherwise they will only advance on us again if we ignore them." said Spatha in a calculated tone.
"He's correct.." said a female voice with a yawn, it was Elisa Galel, the Ship's Navigator, whom had been in her cabin sleeping. "Looks like a Class II Transport, they wont let us escape if they can get the upperhand on us, in the sense of timing or spacial terrain. Besides they might have something or someone of value there for us to take."
"Nice to see you woke up, Elisa." mocked Gimel.
"Oh shut up, Gnome!" she replied curtly.
Noah sighed, this was his crew... a bunch of misfit loons.
"Alright. We'll take them on... They shouldn't be that much trouble."
Noah then dashed over to the Helm and prepared to manually steer incase of a possible landing.
"All of you, get to your stations and hold on... This could get rough. Spatha, prepare a full spread of G-Mines, target their weapons and engines. Once thats done, Elisa locate their cargo hold and scan it for anything of value. Gimel, I want you to maintain the Communications blackout and extend it farther when we reach the surface of Charon. Lets do this."
Spatha nodded and replied. "Locking on specified targets with 90% available accuracy. Compensating as best as possible for the shuttle's sporadic movement patterns. Target sites are locked... "
The Androids hands moved quickly, imputing the various security codes and launch vectors. Once he completed this he smiled. "Mines are a go! Firing in 3... 2... 1! Mines are away."
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Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 11:40 am
"Captain, enemy grip mines incoming."
"Well get someone on those guns and shoot them down!"
"Yes sir, I'm on it."
The shuttle was able to blow one of the mines, but the other two hit their mark. The first was on the underbelly of the ship and the other was near the back, near the cells.
As they entered Charon's cold atmosphere, Bade began feeling mobile again. While getting out of the cell he felt the ship rocking and heard loud explosions, one that actually landing mere feet from his position. This hole was half under the cell and half under the outside of the cell. Liquid Venisium began seeping out of the hole as Bade climbed down and began this dangerous journey outside of the ship.
Bade held onto the cell door as he climbed out of it, then climbed up and out of the cell. He'd grip whatever he could to make his way to the door which was now opened because of a guard coming in to check on him. When the guard opened the door, he was sucked towards the hole, hit his head on the cell door and got sucked out of the ship only to be tossed back at the Deucalion.
Bade crawled across the floor and was finallly able to crawl out of the door, get his back against the wall on the other side and close it. A sigh of relief left Bade's lips as he found that he was free of that cell. "Not completely free, but it'll do for now." He held onto the walls as the ship flew spiraled out of control to the planet below. Bade looked around and decided to try to make his way towards the cockpit.
Before he could reach his destination, Bade ran into a guard who had a gun pointed at him. Just before Bade could be shot, both men were sent to the side of the wall when the ship made a hard turn. Bade landed on the wall, hard, but the other man hit the wall and shot his gun. The lasers from the gun bounced off of the walls and hit the shooter, who then fell over dead. Bade shrugged his shoulders, grabbed the man's weapon and continued on, almost to the cockpit.
"We can't keep 'er steady, we need to prepare for a crash landing!"
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Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 9:04 pm
"We were 67% successful in hitting the ship, however our exact targets were slightly off the mark." said Spatha.
"Hmm... It seems we've damaged them heavily though... So it works." replied Noah.
"Incomming Object!" yelled Elisa. "Looks like a-" She was cut off by the sound of the guard's body slamming against the visor screen. "Ooo...! A dead military guard, sweet..." she purred.
"Follow them in." said Noah, his voice shook with slight resistance. He hated Charon more than any place in the universe.
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Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 6:44 pm
The pilot of the shuttle was doing all he could to try and soften the crash, but he couldn't do much. "Abandon ship! Everyone to the pods!"
"But sir, what about the prisoner?"
"He's probably dead by now and if not then there's no time to save him."
"We can't just leave him in there. I mean...he's a-"
Just before the man could finish his sentence, the pilot interrupted by pushing the man out of the way. "Move it. I don't have time for this."
The pilot would open the rising door only to be rifle butted by the back end of a gun. After dropping to the ground in pain, the attacker flipped the gun around and pointed it at the co-pilot who was trying to convince the pilot to save the prisoner. "What do you know about me?"
"I..uh...we've gotta get out of here. We need to get to the escape pods on the side of the shuttle and fast. I'll tell you everything once we get to safety."
Bade, holding the man at gun point would lower the gun and nod, grabbing one of the pilot's arms and allowing the co-pilot to grab the other. "Alright, lead the way."
In less than a minute, an object would shoot away from the shuttle with about twenty seconds to spare before the shuttle went crashing into the invisible shield over the compound and exploding.
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Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 7:13 am
The escape pod landed and no-one was killed. Now, Bade and the co-pilot were sitting inside of the pod with the unconcious pilot on the floor. "We're pretty safe now...so talk," Bade said as he watched the co-pilot sigh a little.
"There will be patrols coming soon to check out this crash too."
"Don't worry...I'm counting on it, now talk."
"Alright but I don't know the entire story, just some of what I overheard from the warden talking to on the vid-phone. I heard him say that you never did kill your family or anything like that. He didn't say much else important except for that you were really screwed and he felt sorry for you."
Bade gritted his teeth when he heard this and clenched his fist in anger, but then breathed deeply and let it go. "Alright," he said as he began to leave the pod.
"Wait! You can't leave the pod."
"Watch me..."
"No, I mean you'll die if you do; you need an Enviro-Suit. There are two back here." The co-pilot would hand Akio a suit and leave the other where it was.
Bade quickly put it on and began to exit when he looked back at the co-pilot. "Aren't you coming?"
"No, I'll wait until the patrols get here. I should stay with the captain."
"Okay...suit yourself."
"Uh, wait. Where are you going to go anyway?"
"I'm going to head to the compound that I saw when we entered the atmosphere. They have something that I want in there." With that, Bade left the pod and started across this moon's surface.
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Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 7:40 pm
Suddenly, rockets decended upon the escape pod and blew it to pieces, leaving but a smoldering heap of death and molten metal... Metal which would quickly cool to form twisted shapes around that which once had been alive.
Soon following the rockets was the Decalion, it landed just ahead of Bade. All of the ship's weapons were suddenly locked on him and the Ship's main hatch soon swung open.
Out of it came forth a figure in a black Enviro-suit. From inside the suit, the figure smiled and then spoke. "So... where do you think your going? To Genesis? You alone wont make it there alive, not even if your skilled... I can sense your not one of those military pigs. Well, my cybertronic eye has already called up as much personal data as it can on you... Mr. Bade, is it? That's whom the records for this transport sight as being the passenger. And you are he... yes?"
Noah Berman chuckled. "It matters not who you are... really. Rather that you realize that your now under my command, at least for now. And I wouldn't protest... We can kill you and be gone before the Sensors even register our rocket attack. So Mr. Bade... Shall you come with me and serve the Ferryman or will you just die?"
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Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 9:08 pm
The quiet of the surroundings was suddenly broken by the rockets of the ship that had been pursuing the shuttle. "Damn it...they found me," he barely managed before being blown back onto his butt by the impact of another rocket. As he got up, he saw a magnificent ship landing before him and what looked to be the captain exiting.
Bade listened to what the man had to say and gritted his teeth. I know I had a plan...I just can't remember what it was exactly... he thought to himself before ungritting his teeth and putting his hands in the air. "I guess you got me. It's either go with you or die and you don't seem like the authority type. I'm sure as hell not going back to Pluto so I guess that my only other option is...," he trailed off as he heard an engine in the distance that was approaching fast.
"..to go with you." He quickly made his way up the ramp and past the Captain, bumping into him on the way up. "Oh, sorry," he said as he grabbed his own side and continued running with his hands down.
Bade would comply but only because of the circumstances. He did plan to take Project Genesis, but when the time was right.
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Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 9:43 am
Noah smiled as Bade submitted to going with him. "Good choice, Mr. Bade. You've made the right choice indeed... and your right also in that I am not much for authority. I am afterall, The Ferryman, Space Pirate of Renown and Vile."
He laughed at his own foolish title. "So I see you too are on the run... You'll fit in fine with the rest of us, as all of us are such. In time, you will hear our stories, as I hope you will tell yours. To start with, I will tell you about this ship, the Deucalion. It was made to act as an aide to the most secret series of ships made by our wonderous military... I and one of my crew stole it and it is much apart of our own stories... but that can wait till we are off this god forsakened rock. As for Genesis... If you want it, we might be able to come to somekind of... agreement, Mr. Bade. I pass through the sector often, and can supply you with the means to take it... Just not at this time. So come along now... We're heading out to Eris, as of now... You will be safe enough there."
Noah then motioned for Bade to follow him into the ship. Once inside Bade would have seen the amazing metalwork which lined the ship's interior, as well as the tons of crates which were scattered about the cargo hold...
"Welcome aboard, Mr. Bade." He turned and said to the man, whom he just met.
On the Main Deck, Spatha had detected another ship was approaching near their current position. He ran over to the Intercomm
"Noah!" He barked. "Another ship is entering the area on an intercept vector... How should we proceed."
Noah frowned and sighed as he heard Spatha over the intercomm. He reached for the nearby Intercomm. Port and spoke. "Get Elisa to plot the best course out of here that will keep us hidden. Make sure to keep a lock on that ship, I will be there in a moment to take over the piloting."
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Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 7:30 pm
Colton jammed a small raw piece of steak in his mouth as he approached Charon, a small stream of blood flowed down out of his mouth as he devoured the meat. He smiled as he saw the surface of Charon.
“I haven’t been here in a few years…” He said to himself as he whipped the blood from his mouth.
He flew his silver bullet as close to the planets surface as he could without putting him in danger of crashing into anything and started to scan the area.
"I know you are around here somewhere you god damn Ferryman, I have finally tracked you down and now your bounty is mine!" Colton said to himself as his shields turned on. “You will not leave this planet alive.” He said as he continued to search the planet.
Suddenly Coltons electric sensor locked onto Deucalion making a loud beeping sound. “There!” Colton then attempted to reach the Deucalion on his videophone as he prepared his ships weapons.
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