Nova Chasers (A space Western role-play)

Suddenly, Rick swiftly made his way over to the cargo bay, where he saw Alistar and Avery, standing by what seemed like a whole cache of black market weapons, all in a pile beside them. It caught Rick off-guard for a moment, before he looked at Al.

"Yours, I presume?"

He wasn't expecting an answer, though. He kept walking straight to Al...and landed a hard haymaker right to his jaw. Obviously, the merc had no time to react. After he hit the ground, Rick cracked his knuckles and spoke up.

"That was for what you did to Cammi. Ave, bring him on board and to the meeting room. We're heading off soon."

Rick walked towards the briefing room with an air of confidence, as if finally out of his slump. He put a finger to his earpiece and spoke to the rest of the team.

"Bohr, Teal, Harris! Move your asses to the briefing room, stat. Bring anyone you need to. We're leaving this joint!"

I notice the man enter the room and nod to him

“yours, I presume?” he states simple in a no nonsense tone as he starts walking to me.

“yea its my light-” I start to answer but im cut off as he decks me, sending me into the cold steal of the deck.

"That was for what you did to Cammi. Ave, bring him on board and to the meeting room. We're heading off soon."

“Okay! MIGHT have deserved that!” I half shout half groan exaggeratedly from the floor holding up my arm, my face still on the deck to emphasis the point. Getting up and dusting myself off and rubbing my chin noticing the guys already gone.

“huh? Were did he, wait. …. what!? Im coming with ya guys?” I pause and take stock of my own situation and shrug

“well, as long as I get to blow something up later” I mumble to myself, not paying attention to what carrot top is saying as I grab betty from the table. Causing him to jump a little.

“oh would you can it, she never leaves my side, loaded or not. Deal with it.” I say holstering her, leaving the rest of my gear there as im lead to the meeting room by carrottop, or ave I think the fine captain called him.

“the guy didn’t have to hit me THAT hard, noway in hell I hurt the girl all that bad... twas just playin” I mutter to myself as I rub my quickly bruising jaw, unaware of her shoulder injury. All in all though, I think things are finally looking up, well interesting if anything.

Harris heard the sound of an impact, assuming it was a punch, Harris gave a sigh and walked out, seeing Rick walk into the meeting room and Avery standing next to the new guy who was on the floor at the moment. Harris gave a shrug and walked over to the loading ramp where they were.

As he got closer to them, he saw the guy take an odd firearm from the table piled with all sorts of weapons, Hmm, must be a gun nut like Clover, Harris thought to himself, But UNLIKE Clover, he actually has a large arsenal. By now, Harris was close enough to overhear what they were saying and caught something about the guy apparantly playing around with Teal. Instantly, the image of Teal crying in Harris' arms came back into his head and he clenched his fist as he startedtob walk a bit faster towards the man.

"Hey, what's up!" Harris said as he approached him, the man turned around and as he turned, Harris threw a straight punch right at his cheek, knocking the man onto the floor once again. Harris flicked his wrist and raised up his index finger. "Lesson One, don't be a jerk to a woman," Harris states before he turns around and starts walking towards the meeting room, he stops one more time and turns back to him. "Especially when they're wounded" Harris gave a scoff as he turned back and continued walking off and headed towards the meeting room.

During the quick nap he had, Clover remembered a bit of an old event he didn't want to remember so much. "Please.... when you can...." He then wakes up to find himself back in the briefing room.[color=#00FFFF] "Ya, i know. I'll visit them. Just. Not now."[/color] He wipes his face, trying to wake himself back into complete consciousness when his stomach grumbled again. [color=#00FFFF]"Damn, not again. Better calm this dang stomach of mine." [/color]He grabs a small opened chip bag from his backpack and eats a a couple chip as he looks at the screens of his laptop to see the progress. "Hmm, didn't realize that song was so short. and looks like we are making some progress. I better see if i can go further and get some better results." As he quickly typed and prepared the more scans and 'search engines' to start looking in a more broader level. [color=#00FFFF]"May as well see if I can grab some creds from a few rich idiots around here. Not like they'll miss it anyhow." [/color]

Through his scanning he found at least a handful of somewhat wealthy people around New Britannia.[color=#00FFFF] "Nice. So which one will be a very unlucky person today? Oh, almost forgot. better keep searching for those Anarchist wusses. And better find the time to work on that dang P-90" [/color]Clover then heard a faint thud outside. Though curious, he paid no mind and kept to his work and thoughts. He went on and continued searching for the Anarchists, while 'making' a few extra bucks.

"Yes, I'm Avery's friend, Jill. I'm sure he's spoken of me before. He should be back soon."

I nodded as I remembered his drunken rant on his adventures in NB, "Yeah, it was an interesting story."

"Speaking of the Devil..." I turned to see Alistar walking cautiously into the ship and Avery right behind with his gun in Alistar's back. My blood boiled with the sight of Alistar, but I was too embarrassed to speak a word to him so I walked to my room before they noticed me, "I'll see you later, Jill."

Once I got to my room I sat down and sighed. I sighed even louder as I realized how undressed I was. There was a bad feeling lurking in my gut as I searched through my bag for a new t-shirt. My heart started to race as I ripped apart the bag in a frantic search. My favorite shirt was gone, no it was destroyed by that bastard. As I realized this fact, I went into shock. I was wearing my favorite shirt, the shirt that had that special aroma that never seemed to disappear. The last special link I had left with him. I sat there on the floor with a plain face, just staring at the bag full of clothes. I picked up a blue baby tee and threw it on and I sat on the bed as a tightness grew in my throat.

His shirt was gone, he was gone.

There was so much stress on me right at that moment, the pain and disbelief. I felt like it was all over right at that moment. Everything started to crash down all around me with that single thought, His shirt is gone, he is gone. That ran through my mind over and over again and wouldn't stop.

The spell like state I was in was broken as my hand touched a leather jacket. I looked at it and sighed again. Suddenly I hear Richard's voice, commanding us to get to the briefing room. I quickly grabbed the jacket, pulling it on and got another ponytail holder. I threw my hair in a ponytail and at the same time I regained my sanity. I pushed all my emotions into a volt and walked over to the meeting room with a cherry and bright face. Once I arrived there, I sat next to Harris. I blushed as I realized how weird it might be to be wearing the jacket in front of him like that. Alistar was also in the room but I tried my hardest to ignore his existence and started a conversation with Harris as I waited for the rest of the crew to show up, "I know I said this before but, thanks for everything these past couple of days."

((If you need any help with the Anarchists, my char used to be with them.... Just an offer.))

After Mia packed in a hurry, I carried her luggage as we made our way through the crowds, her trailing behind me as we headed for the ship. It wasn't too far from where Mia's family had their shop. But it was terrible trying to force our way through the crowds.

After about 20 minutes of walking, I could finally see the ship in the distance. And I heard the Captain speak through the earpiece telling us to hurry to the ship.

"Well, that's a little easier said than done...", I complain.

As we got up to the ships door, the Captain's voice pipped on the earpiece again, this time telling us to get to the briefing room.

"Wow... he changes his mind quickly...", I criticize.

I quickly open the ships door, and help Mia into the ship. After shutting the door, I lead Mia into the briefing room. At first, I thought I was on the wrong ship, for I saw some guy sitting in the corner on his fancy holographic computer, with headphones. And eating chips. I put Mia's luggage down in the opposite corner of the room, and I draw my shashka. I approach the guy, who doesn't seem to notice me, and I point my sword at him.

After quickly taking off his headphones, "Who are you, and what are you doing here.", I demand.

With a blade pointed behind him and his headphones yanked off, Clover rose his hands and replied,[color=#00FFFF] "Hey hey hey! Is that how you people treat newbies on this ship?"[/color] Clover gently placed his headphones on his neck before he continued, [color=#00FFFF]"If you want to know who I am and why i'm here, then I'll give you a short introduction. Name's Kurogane Yuu. Better just call me "Clover". Reason, I'm your crew's hacker now; hired by Richard. Anything else you'd like to know, Joseph "Heretic" Bohr? Oh, if you want to know how I already knew you, I read your profile while I was searching for the Anarchists financial data. Seems like your not very liked anymore from what I remember reading."[/color]

Before Clover could continue blabbing on, Richard made sure everyone was here and paying attention to him before he began to speak on our next course of action. Clover then noticed the other people in the room, [color=#00FFFF]Wow, I must have been too into my work to have noticed these guys ent[/color]er.

Mia quickly packs her belongings into her small, blue luggage and allows Bohr to carry it as she locks up the shop. She follows behind him through the crowd for a while until they both reach what seemed to be a large ship. She stands for a moment and stares in awe at the ship. "This sure is amazing! I can't wait to meet everyone" She says in excitement.

Bohr looks at the Mia. "This great piece of work is called the Infinity, and you'll get to meet the captain and members on board soon enough." He replies.

Before they both entered the ship, Mia hears Bohr speak to someone through an earpiece. "I wonder who that was." She thinks to herself, then follows him to what he called the "briefing room". She looks into the room, and sees people waiting inside, either sitting down or standing.
He places her luggage down as she walks in. She smiles and was planning to introduce herself to everyone, but Borh had drawn a blade; he points the blade towards a boy with black hair, who was on a laptop, eating chips.

"Who are you, and what are you doing here?!" He threateningly questions.

Mia simply stands there, with an awkward stare at the two of them.

((OOC: this post starts off from where my last post ended))

Harris walked into the meeting room and spotted Clover, on his laptop, Harris left him be since he wass busy with what looked like hacking. Harris took his usual seat, 3rd one left from the entrance, and waited for everyone else to come, staring at the ceiling while thinking back to that old dream he had. . . He hadn't had that dream in ages, last time he had that dream was in the first few days in the GUA Military. As he thought back to it, he noticed Teal sitting next to him, when did she get there? Harris thought to himself, was I spacing out that much?

As he thought that, he noticed Teal wearing the leather jacket he gave her, well, it's good she's wearing that, the ship gets cold the most when breaching the atmosphere. Harris took a glance over to Alistar before looking over to Teal.

"I know I said this before but, thanks for everything these past couple of days." she asked Harris. He couldn't help but think about back then at the alleyway and, suddenly, the image of the young girl from then came into his head and he clenched his right fist and looked down onto the table. "Don't worry about it. . . It. It was nothing. . . ." Harris muttered, losing his usual up-beat attitude, dammit, why am I thinking about this now?

I sigh as I get up again rubbing my other cheek this time “Jesus Christ, I cant get a break today.” I mutter as I follow the carrot top to this briefing room, when we get there I pause taking inventory of everyone there, my gaze pausing on the girl from the alley, teal I think her name was, and the yet to be named captain. And ofcourse the carrot top, I just break off and lean in the corner next to the door nodding to them.

“as were obviously still waiting for someone, or some persons. Anyone care to introduce themselves? Names Alistar Mckeon, ex-fed solar marine and weapons enthusiast, you need something to go boom, im your guy. Or if you know a gal that needs a little loving, though, I seem to be off my game today.”

I say giving my trademarked wink and smile, waiting for face-faults.

“seriously through, bout the whole thing at the bar an alley, twas all a misunderstanding, some rookie head hunters after some cash. And the ally, I wasn’t intending to piss anyone off or hurt anyone, just a little fun was all” I pause when I see the captains deadly glare my way.

“oh come on! Seriously bro?” I say looking to the girl who has her head turned away, face red, though im not sure if its from embarrassment or anger

“all I did was play a few jokes, Its not like I crippled ya, didn’t even draw blood! Sheesh.” I huff looking away still unaware of her shoulder injury that reopened. When I notice the fair captain still glaring at me I return it, matching his intensity for a few moments before loosing interest and picking at my nails.


“by the way, I have yet to be told why im hear, I assume im being recruited, or drafted, its cool, only one condition though, ya let me make things go BOOM. And maintain your weapons ofcourse, hell put me in charge of em, you wont find a better weapons specialist this side of the quadrant.

[[hope i got your reactions right.]]

As Harris spoke, he started to drift off, "Are you okay, Harris?"

I touched his hand to get his attention and smiled when he came to, "You were zoning out there."

I could hear Alistar rambling loudly about nothing, as if anyone gave a shit about what he was saying. He spoke about the alley and something snapped as my mind flickered to him cutting my shirt off and hurting me. With the calmest face, I stood up and walked over to him. I stood one inch away from him and he seemed to get a bit awkward. With the calmest tone I spoke bluntly, "Stop...just stop. Never in my life have I seen someone so disgusting, and I've seen a lot of disgusting men, believe me. Never in my entire life have I ever met a man who was so oblivious to a situation. It sickens me and you know what?"

I took a breath as I was losing my composer for a moment, "You know what? If you ever lay another finger on me, it'll be the end of you. Oh, and fyi, you did draw some blood."

With that I moved my jacket and pulled my shirt off of my left shoulder exposing my wrapped shoulder, "Not even a day ago, was it even two hours since I got this injury? A spear, right through my shoulder, and you twisted it. You reopened my wound like an idiot, and if you ever pull some shit like that again, you better sleep with one eye open. If you EVER cut my clothes again, I'll kill you, and that's a promise."

I turned back around and walked to my seat, leaving him dumbfounded. I smiled sweetly and spoke again, "Oh and my name is Teal, nice to meet ya."

Harris gave a smirk as Teal layed it into Alistar, he tried to refrain from laughing as Alistar was left dumbfounded. Teal sat back down next to Harris, "Thnaks for that, Teal, I'm betting everyone was getting tired of him talking." Harris chuckled a bit, finally taking his mind off from earlier.

Harris noticed another new face inside the meeting room, a girl with long blonde hair and green eyes, Harris points to her with a joking smirk on his face, "Care to introduce yourself as well, miss? Seems like Mr Alistar is done with his." Harris says that and slowly turns over to look at Alistar, still dumbfounded.

((OK, big post coming through to bring all of us upto speed, and to introduce the next mission. So, like before, no posting till this is finished. Thank you.))

Rick walked into the room to see six men and two women, the people now connected to the Infinity. He noticed that the only persons of interest missing were Avery's main squeeze and the injured woman. He also noticed one Alistar McKeon blabbing away his qualities and taking his time to introduce his 'perfect' self to the rest of the team. Rick gave him glare while walking to the front of the room to deliver his speech, but before he could say anything, Teal went up to him and gave him enough of a talk-down. He smiled inside before getting everyone's attention to him.

"Aright, people! Settle down. That goes doubly for you two, Bohr and Clover. OK. I've got a few announcements. First of all, we have some new recruits. I had actually gotten a hand on their profiles, and I saw that the escort mission needed us to come here, where they were. So, I'd like to introduce you to your new teammates. The brat with the headphones is Kurogane Yuu, aka Clover. He may be young, but he's the best tech expert I found online, and he's gonna be our very own hacker on the Infinity. And the prick over here with the big guns and even bigger ego is Alistar McKeon. I don't expect any of you guys to be friends with him, or even talk to him a lot, but the fact is, he's the best weapons handler I could find on short notice, so he'll have to do for now, I suppose."

He then looks over at Bohr and the young blonde girl standing beside him in the room.

"Also, I believe the professor has found us someone else as well. I'll leave your introduction to you two later. Now, onto our next mission."

Rick brought up the projector again and ran a series of slides, starting with the picture of what looked like a desolate and abandoned battleship, one that seemed much larger in size than a typical one.

"Ladies and gentlemen, meet the S.S. Atlantica, now colloquially called 'Gunkanjima', appropriately so as it resembles the abandoned battleship-looking island from ancient Japan. This ship has been remote and lifeless for well over a century now, usually being used as a hideout for random pirates and bandits these days. Including..."

The next picture showed the profile of a gruff looking middle-aged man, with tattoos and piercings all over his face, and signs of battle scars everywhere. Though no one said a word, the expressions on everyone's faces showed that they knew this guy meant trouble.

"...this son-of-a-bitch. Meet Connor O'Riley. Slave-trader extraordinaire. He is the current occupant and controller of the ship, along with his bandit gang. They also have slaves with them, so you may as well say we have a hostage situation. I got this next mission from the planet Zyglrox, as the ship is close to the space near them."

He the looked to his teammates with a smile.

"They're going to pay top dollar if we take out all of those bastards occupying the Atlantica, even more if we can vent O'Riley himself and free the slaves. Pack your bags, boys and girls, we got ourselves a seek-and-destroy!"

((OOC: Not to sound like a CoD fanboy but the correcrt military term is search and destroy))

Harris observed the slides with great interest, especially the one that displayed Connor O'Riley, Hmm, an interesting speciman, I'll enjoy cutting him open. with that though, Harris raised his hand. "Our employers don't care what we do with Mr O'Riley as long as we eliminate him, right?"

"A search and destroy mission, huh? Just what I've wanted to vent some rage and anger. This would also be the perfect chance to try out the better warp device I almost have complete.", I say to myself.

"Captain, what about Teal? She just got injured, and shouldn't she rest before she gets into this fight? Or anyone else that got hurt for that matter?", I ask, worried about Teal's safety.

Harris looked over to Bohr, who had just asked a question, and instead of waiting for the captain's response, Harris answered "While it is quite bad that Teal had her wound re-opened," Harris gave a glare over at Alistar before continuing, "I don't think it'll be much of a handicap during this mission, her condition is stable for now and she hasn't lost a critical amount blood, if you want to be safe, perhaps assign her with a light duty, perhaps sending her to rescue the hostages." Harris gave a deep breath, "But, despite what I've just said, I think I'll need to stay with Teal in case her wound does cause problems." Harris took another breath before sitting back down.

"Care to introduce yourself as well, miss? Seems like Mr. Alistar is done with his." The silver-haired man asks.

"Oh yes, I should! My name's Miacera Sommers, just call me Mia. New Brittania's has always been my home, but I've traveled a lot on space trade routes with my father's trade. My family owns a textile and tailoring business that's in ruin now but I've been giving my all to fix all of that. I'm not yet certain if being recruited here will help, but I'm ready to take on anything here and ready for change." Mia says with confidence and resolution in her voice.

The attention in the room suddenly redirects to a man who had just entered. He was tall, and he wore a maroon-color shirt. The man speaks to them, "Alright, people! Settle down. That goes doubly for you two, Bohr and Clover. OK. I've got a few announcements. First of all, we have some new recruits. I had actually gotten a hand on their profiles, and I saw that the escort mission needed us to come here, where they were. So, I'd like to introduce you to your new teammates. The brat with the headphones is Kurogane Yuu, aka Clover. He may be young, but he's the best tech expert I found online, and he's gonna be our very own hacker on the Infinity. And the prick over here with the big guns and even bigger ego is Alistar McKeon. I don't expect any of you guys to be friends with him, or even talk to him a lot, but the fact is, he's the best weapons handler I could find on short notice, so he'll have to do for now, I suppose."

"Oh, he must be the captain." Mia thought silently to herself and continues to listen. She watches the slides and and listens to the briefing of next mission.

When the girl, teal sits back down a sigh and mutter “killjoy”

a few moments pass before the captain starts talking, I grin at the final words.

“FINALY! Something to blow up!” I say smiling and cracking my neck before getting down to busnis

“oi, captain dick, any information on there armaments? If you want me to be usefull here im going to need at least a basic load-out idea, weapons, body armor, ext, also, a general layout of the ship be nice, im guessing close quarts combat be the name of the game here. Also! Anyone who needs some custam ammunition ill be happy to oblige, EMP, HE, AP incendiary, make an order and ill get it to ya before the end of the day.” I say as I make mental ticks in my head, in a nonsense tone as I finally get serious.


“also, fine capin, im gonna need access to your armory if you don’t have any problems with that, give me an order and I can tell you what I can do with what you have. Though depending on the ship layout, and wither or not the old cargo holds and maintenance bays are going to be hot zones, id recommend a short to medium range load-out for everyone.” I say as I start analyzing the possibility in my head, not worrying to much about the mission variables, just the guns.


“oh, and one last question before I get crackin, please tell me you have a booze locker on this bucket somewhere.”

During the briefing, Clover sat and quietly listened while Richard explained the full details on the targets and objectives. The mission employers was from the planet Zyglrox, who were willing to pay a lot for the success of this mission. The primary objective is to kill a Connor O'Riley and his crew; the secondary is to rescue the hostages who were apparently slaves of that ship. After getting briefed on the search & destroy mission and seeing that everyone else was busy discussing about the mission; Clover went back to his laptop and resumed his work, only this time he wasn't doing any hacking.

He put on his headphones and pressed a small button on the side, which then brought up a pitch black visor that covered his eyes. Through those visors, he saw the room has become completely white and no one was around, but it still held a similar setting as the briefing room, big table and lots of chairs around it and his things still in the same place. The visors were a way for him to work in privacy while also making use of the materials he had stored in his 'storage system'. Though through the eyes of others, it makes him look like he is messing playing around with the air. Clover was too busy with his work to care about what others thought as he was doing a more detailed examination the P90.

After a couple minutes of examining the submachine gun, He stopped and whispered to himself,"I should start making the rounds I'll be using in this mission, probably 8 clips incendiary and 12 clips AP for the handguns. I wonder if I should test P90 in this mission? Maybe later, since I just cant seem to find that one thing that is hindering it to work properly." He then pulled up a selection screen labeled "workshop settings" and scrolled through it. "Ah, here we go" he chose the "Custom ammunition workshop" or 'C.A.W.' and in seconds his laptop vanished and was replaced with a ammo loader, some tools, loaded and unloaded bullets, and a few other miscellaneous materials. He pulled up a mini screen that said music, he set it to death metal music, then went away on making the necessary ammunition he needed.

As Richard explained our next mission, my mind fixated on the slaves that were being traded. To me it was sick and inhumane and I sincerely felt bad for them. Bohr spoke about my injury and I knew he was tired too. His injuries were quite severe as well and he more than likely just wanted to take a day to rest.

I turned to him to insure that I would be fine on the mission but Harris beat me to the point. The concern from the two men was very flattering and I was thankful for them caring. I blushed as Harris said that he would stay by my side for the mission, "That's fine..."

Suddenly I saw the boy in the corner with the computer and headphones start to move around. He seemed as if he was grabbing and poking the air, as if there was something there. I didn't try to make much sense of it but it was fascinating to watch. I smiled at the sight as the rest of the crew got ready for the mission.