AW Ch 62 
Wow!Mar's been injured and now that worst of all combat weapons is almost in Zorin's cronies' hands- Gundams! Almost as terrifying as the 'God Guns' or the Angels' new toy- the r-- whoops! I almost let the neko outta the sack folks! This chapter will put two close tomos at loggerheads with each other and nai it ain't Vacuumhead and Firebrand either! Some old tomos returned and the Boss decides to head for Onsokamaru! Who's in sick bay and how did she end up there? Why is Yuri Donovan furious? Who are the newbies? Did the truckers succeed?
ANGEL WINGS
DISCLAIMER: OK Saiya darlin’, it’s all yours. First I wanna thank Mr T for the use of his Angels and stuff. Then I wanna thank everyone else who has been allowing us to use their creations here like Thom Beers for the use of his ice road truckers Hugh, Drew, Rick, Eric, Alex and Bear. I took the liberty of naming the 3WA academy in Furool City on Shimougou after Mr Haruka Takachiho in honour of his creations- the Angels. How was that, Yuri? Great, kiddo. Oh hai it sure was, Kei! Now since we left ya up in the air last time let’s get to Ch 62 without any further meandering, shall we? Why is Zack Zero back and oro does he want with Suba Marina Oki? Can Mandy keep her big mouth shut? A hint re the titles- Aw do ya expect me to spoil it for ya? Oro does this all mean? We’ll find out momentarily gang. The Boss Red Marshall’s on the warpath again! Here ’tis:-
CHAPTER 62
'Dead Air Time' or 'Mountain Mayhem'
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"Oh hullo there, Ryuuk. Thought it was you, pal. Oro (What) are you doing up here?" asked Gene, tossing Ryuuk an apple which he crunched greedily.
"Light's asleep and I'm bored. Wanna play some vid games or watch a Terran holovid with me, Captain?" asked the nightmare Shinigami hopefully.
"Might as well seeing as we're on 'George' anyway." replied Gene.
"Yeah, sounds good to me. Let's watch 'Dark Star' this time. I love watching Tom (Skerritt) talking to those bombs." drawled Han Solo whom Gene had thought asleep in his co-pilot's chair.
Before long the trio was ensconced in watching that ancient Terran holovid from the late 20th Century.
Meanwhile Ichigo and Fullmetal had drawn a double shift night patrol detail. Ed's younger brother Alphonse Elric had opted to tag along to keep his older brother out of mischief. After all Al felt responsible for his brother's punishment. 'Cowgirl' Ed, Moonie and her four scouts had been using Al's armoured 'body' for a drum. Fullmetal had smacked one of the scouts and when Moonie retaliated Ichigo had floored her. All of this had taken place in the rec room in full view of Wing Commander Yuri Donovan. Although a double guard shift was a severe punishment both of them were lucky that the Boss had been on the bridge during that little fiasco or it would have meant the brig for sure for the pair of 'em.
"It was your own fault, brother. You and Icchi didn't have to hit anybody. Reisie and her friends weren't hurting me at all. They were just playing me like a drum. What do you think Granny would say if she knew you were going around hitting little kids?" admonished Al.
"Little? That 'cowgirl' and Moonie are both a lot bigger than your brother, Alphonse! Come to think of it so are Rei and Mina. Mako and Ami aren't far behind them either. Dont forget, Al. We were protecting you!" yelled the soul reaper guy. Ed bristled and punched Ichigo's shoulder.
"Who the Hell are you calling a tiny little shrimp, Kurosaki!" he yelled. Al grabbed his brother.
"Brother! Stop that right now. Nobody called you anything. Leave Icchi alone!" scolded the suit of empty armour.
"OK! OK! You're always forgetting, Al that you're the 'Stone' dammit! What happens if one of those kids accidentally activates you? Have you thought of that, brother? We'd all end up in Never never Land. Aw I'm hungry. Let's eat, reaper boy." said Fullmetal.
"Let's wait until we finish our rounds on this level (4). There's a rep unit at the stern end of the last hallway." replied Ichigo. Ed nodded and they both double timed to catch up with Al.
Back in the suite that she shared with 'Stun Gun' Millie Thompson, 'Derringer' Merrill Stryfe and the quad of 'WOOHP' girls Neko Olson was trying (unsuccessfully) to place a relay call to a tomo (friend) of hers aboard the 'Shalimar' which was supposedly docked near 'Remus'. Since the 'Angel' was well within 'Daedalus's vapor cloud the nekomata trill got no reply. Neko frowned and tried on her vidcell unit. Nothing. She tried again. No such luck.
"Crap! I wonder who the Hell Dorothy's yakking with at three in the bloody morning! I'll try Roger instead." she said, however, after five more attempts she threw the vidcell at the bunk. Luckily it missed the wall and dropped on the mattress. Disgusted, Neko tossed off her kimono and crashed onto her bunk.
"Hey! 'Pinky' (Kome Sawaguchi the strawberry blonde teen was the ship's comm officer) said if we broke another vidcell she wasn't giving us any more! Be careful, 'Kitty Kat'!" yelled Merrill from her own bunk.
"Shoot! I can't even reach Tony Rome on 'Kagura' and he promised me a date after we get back to the Academy!" sulked Mandy. She wasn't really a 'WOOHP' spygirl although she did hail from the LA Valley area on Terran California. When the spies had been recalled to duty both Mandy and their boss Jerry Lewis had tagged along. Even 'Gloria' their personal 'CC' program had come aboard with them.
"Maybe you texted in the wrong code?" suggested Clover sweetly.
"I texted the right code, Blondie." snapped Mandy.
"Funny. I can't raise anyone on 'Dantoonine' and that's only a day from here." said Alex.
"Do you realize that a 'day' here means about 200 lightyears, Al?" giggled Sammy. She was the only one of them still wearing her flight suit. At midnight she had to spell the scanning officer upstairs. Besides Sammy wasn't the least bit sleepy. Being the electronics whiz of the team Sammy knew it could be the relay lines so she took Alex's vidcell apart and tweaked it a bit. She tossed it back to the brunette.
"Try it now, Al. See if you can raise 'Minerva'. Text Lalaru Davies. Remember we met her on 'Gallifrey' that time. Her code's 'LDD1' I think." said the redheaded spygirl.
Alex texted but got no reply. She tried seven more times then gave up.
"Maybe the main wireboxy thingamajig's screwed up. Go fix it, Sammy." ordered Mandy.
"Maybe you used up all your minutes, dumbbell." giggled the blonde spy.
"What minutes?" asked Millie.
"Clover's just being an asshole, Fatass." explained Mandy.
"Don't call Millie that, Mandy! Unless you want a belt in the chops!" said Merrill. Sammy pulled a flight jacket on over her jumpsuit.
"C'mon Alex. Throw something on over your jammies and we'll check the main relay controls on the first level. I won't get any peace until these vidcells are working again." said Sammy.
"OK. Just a sec." replied Alex who was yanking on jeans and a sweatshirt over her pajamas. She slipped on boots and grabbed her flight jacket and sonic screwdriver which Doctor 2 had given to her for Kurisumasu (Christmas) last year. Sammy hefted a tool box and tossed two pair of gloves to Alex.
"You carry those, Al. Ready?" asked Sammy and Alex zipped up her jacket and nodded. Both girls headed for the lift banks.
Dorothy Wainwright was a pert and cute android robot and she had appointed herself Roger Smith's maid whether he liked it or not. When Roger and his megadeuce giant robot 'Big O' were ordered into battle ('Paradigm City' fell under both 'UG', 'GC' and 3WA jurisdiction) Dorothy naturally tagged along with them. Roger's butler Norman had opted to stay behind and take care of the Smith mansion. Roger's old buddy Dan Dastun who had once been a chief on the 'PC Military Police Force' was now a high ranking officer, a commodore, of 'KASP' and he resided on 'Kagura'. Dan's military unit was under 'ISSP' command and was already headed for 'Romulus' at full speed.
Back aboard the 'Angel' Merrill glanced over at her roommie Neko and grimaced. "So you still can't raise anybody huh?" she said and Neko nodded. The trill was just about to throw her vidcell and then thought better of it and shoved it under her pillow instead.
Millie sat up from the holomag she's been reading on her PDO and popped half a dozen chocolate truffles into her mouth.
"Mr Gene said we wouldn't be able to use our vidcells until tomorrow night. Something about a 'Dead Loss Niblick' he said." explained Millie, cramming even more candy into her mouth.
"Millie! How many times have I told you not to talk with your mouth full? That stuff's gonna make you fat, girl!" replied Merrill. Neko had a strange look on her kitten-like face.
"Dead Loss Niblick? Oh Christ no! Not 'Daedalus Nebulae'! Is that oro (what) Captain Star said, Millie?" asked a stunned nekomata catgirl. Millie nodded while Merrill frowned and lit a cigarillo.
"Why? What in the Hell's so damned special about that place?" demanded the pert Insurance girl from Gunsmoke. Neko stared at her.
"For starters it explains why the Hell our vidcells are all dead. It's a gas cloud between 'Minerva' and 'Stegeros', one of 'Remus's moons. If we're real lucky we'll come out of it somewhere near 'Stegeros' and be about two hours away from 'Remus' by this time tomorrow night or we could be on the other side of the bloody galaxy. It all depends on which way the solar winds are blowing. It all means--" explained Neko.
"That the Boss is taking another damned shortcut." finished Merrill. The small brunette stuck her hand in the chocolates' box and pulled it out again- empty. "Dammit Millie! That's the third damned box tonight! Lay off the sweets for awhile!" stormed Merrill.
"It's the fourth box but who's counting?" giggled Neko. Merrill threw the empty box down the recycle chute.
"Truffles. Chocolate. Assorted. Box. Large." said Merrill and the replicator spewed out more candy.
"Take it easy or you'll lose your trim girlish figure, Merrill." warned Clover who was sipping a strawberry milkshake.
All over the mammoth starship vidcells were misbehaving. Finally Solo announced the reason why over the PA system. Soon thereafter 'CC' reported an overload of his memory banks in trying to keep up with the unusually heavy demand for holovids- mostly ancient Terran films and TV shows. Meanwhile Alex and Sammy had arrived at the main surface level and found the main grid relay control systems boxes. After perusing the conglomeration of relays and wiring for ten minutes Sammy pronounced them fine and dandy and admitted she had no idea why their comm equipment wasn't working. Without warning a heavy hand fell on each girl's shoulder and they were unceremoniously yanked to their feet.
"Ach Tung! Vatt are you zwei maedchen (two girls) doing down here? Vhy don't you go back upstairs und play mitt your toys? Gott im Himmel! (God in Heaven!) Haf you two nitvits taken anything apart? (The 'Green Baron' Fritz von Dekker shook them harshly and they shook their heads) You are lucky I found you und not der gross (big) doggie demon! Now get back to your rooms und play paper dolls or something safe!" yelled the Baron.
"We were just trying to fix the phones, Herr Fritz, sir!" snapped Alex whose pajamas were showing over her hiphugger jeans. He grinned and tapped a few keys on his PDO and held it out for them to see.
"See that planet there? That is 'Kagura' and that one is 'Remus' where ve are going. Der big cloud in between them is vhere ve are now and das ist vhy der communicators don't vork. It blocks der signals. Herr Solo just told us over those. (He pointed at where a PA squawkbox should have been and realized there were none on this main level because as a rule it was never used for anything. Then he smiled.) OK. Now I get it. No squawkboxes down here so you didn't hear the announcement. Can I trust you to go back to your quarters, liebchen (children)?" said the Baron and he released them. They nodded, saluted and dashed for the lift banks.
"Ach! To be a young vhippersnapper again. If only--" mused Fritz and he continued his rounds.
"Did you hear the news, guys? We got no vidcells until tomorrow night darn it!" sulked Mandy.
"Yeah. We heard. We ran into the old 'Iron Pilot' himself. I thought he was gonna turn us over to InuYasha but he let us go finally. I'm going to bed." replied Alex and she threw off jackets, boots, jeans and sweatshirt. Then she crashed onto her bunk. Sammy explained things to them and then she too sought the Land of Nod. Eventually all of the rest drifted off to sleep and peace claimed part of the 'Angel'.
Thrice Gene was tempted to forego 'George' and change course but each time Han's advice was the same. "Leave well enough alone, old buddy."
The next day seemed endless. Mealtimes were still as noisy as ever and the dining hall was packed for the dinner hour at 1700 (5 PM).
The evening bridge crew had the bridge under vampire control with Seras Victoria piloting the ship, Walter at the helm as navvie, Sir Integra Winifred van Helsing as comm officer and Alucard co-piloting for Vicky.
Integra lit a cigar and frowned at Walter. "What good's a comm officer if there's no communications?" she complained.
"About as much good as a pilot who cannot steer the damned ship. We're stuck on autopilot dammit!" fumed 'Police Girl' Vicky who was chain-smoking cigarettes like crazy.
"Those things will kill you one day, 'Police Girl'." joked Alucard.
"Ha ha. Very funny." replied Vicky who, like her master Alucard, was already dead, well, undead anyway.
Several levels below them on Sublevel 2 the 'Ice Road Brigade' had asked Nyssa and Kouga to teach them how to operate skysleds and skycycles. Kouga had agreed immediately but it had taken several blueberry milkshakes (liberally laced with Romulan Ale) before Nyssa had consented.
"Who's gonna go first?" asked the wolf.
"Me!" chorused Drew and Rick.
"OK. I'll take Rick. Nyssa, you can have Drew." he replied, shoving Rick inside 'Everest' while Drew helped a slightly tipsy Trakken girl into 'Matterhorn' and took his seat at the controls.
"Everybody buckle up and strap in." ordered Kouga.
"Wave your hand across the console." he instructed and a dubious Rick and Drew complied. The roar of the sleds' mighty engines was deafening in the confined space.
"Pull back on the throttle, that thing in front of you, Mr Drew." slurred Nyssa. The sled rose several feet above the deck.
Rick followed suit and Kouga pointed to the speed bar which was part of the steering arm.
Nyssa placed Drew's right hand over the 'Matterhorn's speed bar.
"Press down on the bar but not too--" said the youkai as the 'Everest' shot forward at almost 200 kph or 175 miles per hour!
"Lean your steering arm hard left-- now!" yelped Kouga as Rick barely managed to avoid crashing headfirst into the airlock portals.
Drew's sled was spinning wildly out of control after Nyssa had passed out and fell into his arms. Drew was panic stricken so he simply let go of the arm and the throttle causing the 'Matterhorn' to drop to the ground like a pole-axed steer.
Miraculously Rick suddenly got the hang of steering arm, throttle and speed bar. He was zipping around the walls and caterwauling at the top of his lungs when--
"Vatt der Sam Hell ist going on down here!" howled Fritz von Dekker who had only just finished dealing with two miscreant kids two flights up. The 'Green Baron' had been dispatched to check out the flashing amber lights from Sublevel 2.
"See oro (what) the Hell's going on down in the bays, Fritz!" were the orders trilled to him from InuYasha a few moments ago. The big hanyou was the new security chief.
"Ja sure, Herr Doggie Boy. Probably just a glitch in der systems of Mr 'CC' ist all it vill turn out to be." had been von Dekker's retort.
"Where's that mangy wolf, Kikyo?" and 'How the Hell should I know? He's your tomo (friend), not mine!" had filtered through Fritz's comlink before it had gone dead. Security HQ was Level 7 near Yuri's office.
Fritz reholstered his blaster and yanked Eric and Bear from beneath a shuttlecraft where they had both dove for cover from the runaway skysleds.
"Joyriding vere ve, yentlemen?" roared the 'Green Baron' in a voice of thunder.
END of Ch 62. Ch 63 'The Ice Minister Tells the Truth' or 'Zach Confides In Saiya' soon. Getting interesting eh? Wonder how our heroine’s gonna get outta this one? Read on and r/r/s away as always. Have a wunnerful day and sfn/sys/jm/Kami bless you all for your interest and assistance. Hooble-toodle-doo! Toodles tomos watashi-K&K
I dickered over this chapter’s titles. Let me know if I got ‘em right eh? Don't our gus and gals play some cool practical jokes on each other? All in good natured fun of course!
Hope ya had a happy and safe Guy Fawkes' Day! Happy Thanksgiving. Dunno if the Japanese even celebrate it but Naruto does.
A belated happy birthday to our fearless leader- Classic Kei who will be born 27 Nov AD 2121.
PS- I really do appreciate all your loyalty and support over the years my tomos watashi all! And you can take that to the bank folks!-K&K
See ya next blog post. Toodles-K&K
This chapter brings me up to date. Then I have to wind up this one and think about my next one folks- K&K
