Insane Cafe 3: The Curse of the Haunted Hotel

Nick22 · **Reply #8180 on:** April 04, 2011, 09:24:34 AM

briggins platyed the trumpet to rouse thse still sleeping ' early wakeup everyone.. lets get going.."
tiger and tigeress took thier seats at a table, both werebnot quite fully awake.. ; We're taking it to them today right? Tiger said looking at the others. ' robably re rake rhe rity, rhen ro rafter rhong' Scooby said between bites. ' relp rourrelf ruys' he said putting some of his food on to tiger's and tigeress' plates. ' thasnks ' tigeress grinned.
gabumon tentomon and Biyomon all took turns getting food.
" Where Spyro and Cynder?' stripetail asked as he entered the room, and noticed the dragons weren't there. " I haven't seen them..." Lilo said.

Serris · **Reply #8181 on:** April 06, 2011, 12:02:44 AM

"Pick up the pace a little!" the instructor shouted.

The trainees were running in the rear area of the fort where grass had been replanted and it looked like an athletic field.

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The rest of the Pelvanida crew were resting in the lobby in preparation for the assault.

"Deimos, I've cobbled together a group to head inland to fetch reinforcements," Dirk said.

Deimos nodded. "Wise move, Dirk."

"I'm coming too," Franz said, placing his container of ammunition down.

Dirk nodded. "All right, Franz welcome aboard."

Dirk, Al, Jose, Kurt, Hans, Franz and Werner headed to motor pool to get vehicles for their mission.

As soon as they left, Deimos's radio buzzed. He listened to the transmission and nodded.

"Good news! I've got some extra firepower for the assault on Cobia Bay!"

"Who is it?" Rime asked, checking his rifle's magazine.

"Captain Fairchild. He's on his way and he'll need to rearm and refuel here."

"We don't have a runway. All we have are some roads that got incorporated into Ft. Inglorious at the back," Zachary replied.

Deimos relayed that information to the captain.

"Capt. Fairchild knows that. He'll be fine," Deimos replied. The transmission ended.

"He must be a excellent pilot if he can land on a road," Rime pointed out.

Deimos smiled. "You have no idea."

(OOC - Captain Fairchild is the living A-10 Thunderbolt II ground attack aircraft. His name comes from the A-10's manufacturer.)

Nick22 · **Reply #8182 on:** April 06, 2011, 01:59:27 AM

Stripetail radioed Deimos " Good luck to all of you on your mission to find reinforcements. Just stay safe, alright? We're heading out in about 15 minutes..we're goingto finish taking Cobia bay and continue on from there.."

Serris · **Reply #8183 on:** April 06, 2011, 01:11:33 PM

The heavy gates at the front of Ft. Inglorious slid open as Dirk, Al, Jose, Kurt, Hans, Franz and Werner in two up-armored Humvees with heavy machine guns rolled out and headed inland to get reinforcements.

Several personnel were busy repairing battle damaged vehicles from a late night offensive into a small Chong stronghold. They had completely destroyed the stronghold but their vehicles were quite badly damaged.

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About ten minutes later, the sound of a jet engine could be heard throughout the hotel.

"Is that Captain Fairchild?" Zachary shouted over the roar of the engines.

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"Fort Inglorious, this is Captain Fairchild requesting permission to land," Capt. Fairchild said. Captain Fairchild looked like an ordinary non-living A-10 Thunderbolt II ground attack plane save for a totally opaque cockpit and two large brown eyes behind heavy bulletproof glass occupying that space. And of course, a mouth located above the 30 mm gatling autocannon.

He was circling over the large fort and awaiting permission to land. He had depleted most of his weaponry fighting his way here and he was starting to get hungry. As a living airplane he could both ingest JP-5 jet fuel and ordinary food.

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Stripetail's radio buzzed and Captain Fairchild's voice could be heard through it. "Fort Inglorious ground control, this is Captain Fairchild, Hotel-Kilo-Sierra requesting permission to land."

Nick22 · **Reply #8184 on:** April 06, 2011, 09:17:23 PM

" Permission granted Captain, you may land" stripetail replied 'refuel quickly, we;re on the move!" he added cutting off the connection.

Hunter abd Colleen were quickly eating some breakfast with the rest of the Rovers..
The digidestined were eating as quietly as possible.. ' Looks like another battle " Palmon said.. ' Indeed" Gabumon replied " we need to drive them out of the area.. which wil take time.."

Kor · **Reply #8185 on:** April 06, 2011, 09:43:39 PM

Exile & Blitz were eating with the other Road rovers. They had set Muzzle nearby so they could take turns feeding him.

"The food here is great." Exile said, "and it's nice and hot or warm too. Not always cold like some places."

Serris · **Reply #8186 on:** April 06, 2011, 09:44:08 PM

Captain Fairchild touched down in the impromptu runway.

Several of the ground crew had fuel trucks and the fuel hoses ready.

He then shut off his engines as the crew approached him.

"Oh yeah, I'll also need some additional 30 mm ammo and maybe a few air-to-air missiles and some laser guided bombs," he added.

The crew stared in complete shock as the A-10 Thunderbolt II started speaking to them. They did not move for several seconds.

"Don't just stand there! Move! I've got a mission to do!" Captain Fairchild snapped.

One of the men radioed Stripetail. "Ah, Stripetail, we've got a talking plane in the rear of Ft. Inglorious."

Nick22 · **Reply #8187 on:** April 06, 2011, 09:59:14 PM

a TALKING Plane? My , my this world is full of surprises. can he carry passengers?' Stripetail replied " I'm on my way out there to check on him, and get more details.. for now, give him fuel ammo, whatever he asks, we need all the help we can get at the moment..

Serris · **Reply #8188 on:** April 07, 2011, 07:57:49 PM

The leader of the men snapped out of the shock long enough to order his men to get moving.

Luckily, Capt. Fairchild was built like a regular A-10 so refueling and rearming him was no problem. Of course, when the fuel lines were attached, he did comment that the lines "tickled a bit".

In fact rearming him was easier since he automatically opened his lower hatch and carefully lowered the empty 30 mm drum magazine onto a lift. Then a new magazine was loaded into its place. The other weapons were attached onto the hardpoints on his wings.

Several minutes later, he was fully armed and fueled.

He then radioed Ft. Inglorious. "Fort Inglorious ground control this is Hotel-Kilo-Sierra requesting permission to take off."

Of course, he could use his built in radio as a crude form of telepathy.

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Deimos and his crew along with Ceela and some soldiers were heading to the motor pool and getting into the vehicles.

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Several miles outside Surf Point, a convoy of vehicles carrying supplies bound for the fort rumbled along a sandy beach road. The convoy was lightly guarded by some soldiers riding in Humvees but most of the truck drivers were civilians.

Suddenly, a roadside bomb that had been planted by Chong's forces detonated, setting one of the trucks aflame and wounding or killing several soldiers. RPG and small arms fire peppered the ground around the group as the soldiers tried to return fire.

One of the truck drivers climbed out of his wrecked truck and seized control of a machine gun turret whose gunner had been killed by the blast.

Nick22 · **Reply #8189 on:** April 07, 2011, 08:35:42 PM

Permission granted fly over to cobia bay and begin laying cover fire for ground forces. we will be leaving shortly" struipetail replied

_ alright everyone lets go! Shaggy said as he got up from the table..
Scooby dixie and Agumon headed out to the mystery Machine. " Lets finish what we started" dixie said
Spyro anmd Cynder were now more than 50 miles away from the hotel and flying rapidly through the air.

Serris · **Reply #8190 on:** April 07, 2011, 09:56:54 PM

"Clear!" Captain Fairchild shouted as he revved up his engines and took off. Granted, this was a slightly unusual request in that his usual mode was to support ground troops while they were attacking the city not before they started attacking.

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Mr. Bigmouth and Haresh entered the dining room and helped themselves to some leftovers.

"Okay, so now what do we do?" Haresh asked.

Mr. Bigmouth piled some hashbrowns on his plate. "We finish up our magical projects."

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The rest of the Pelvanida group and the camera crew were waiting in the motor pool for everyone.

"All right, let's do this," Deimos said, donning his battered helmet.

The rest of the group donned their armor as well.

"Well, the air in Cobia Bay's clear enough that we don't need protective suits," Rime said, reading from a PDA.

Nick22 · **Reply #8191 on:** April 08, 2011, 12:37:46 AM

Stripetail Went out of the doors and climbed aboard one of the vehicles. The Rest of the Omniderate filed into their vehicles and began preparing to leave " alright Everyone! Lets move out!" Stripetail called.
Scooby revved up the mystery machine and began pulling out of the fort.

Serris · **Reply #8192 on:** April 08, 2011, 04:32:31 PM

The sound of Humvees, APCs and the Mako truck starting up echoed through the air.

"Let's rock and roll!" the Bull trucker shouted as he pulled out of the motor pool with the other vehicles following.

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Inside the hotel, one of the radio officers burst out of the radio room (a converted meeting room) and rushed by some volunteers cleaning up the area and moving supplies.

"Commander Briggins! A convoy carrying ammunition, food and supplies was attacked outside Surf Point!"

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The convoy was totally in shambles and most of the vehicles were aflame but the remaining soldiers tried their best to fend off the troops.

Most of the civilian truck drivers chose to flee - and some were gunned down by Chong's forces (Chong had no compunction about attacking retreating troops or civilians). Some of the truckers snatched weapons from the fallen soldiers and tried their best to fight back.

Nick22 · **Reply #8193 on:** April 08, 2011, 10:53:43 PM

Tell Commander stripetail, and Prepare to send forces to repel any attacks on Surf Point" Briggins Replied.
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Ret rome ruick reep ruys' scooby said as they headed out on the road.. '"I'm readu " tiger said fromthe middle seat.. " Lets get to the city and clear out the defenders..

Serris · **Reply #8194 on:** April 09, 2011, 12:28:01 AM

The radio officer returned to the communications room and opened a channel to Stripetail. "Commander, we have reports that a supply convoy was attacked outside of Surf Point."

Several other technicians were coordinating the radio traffic for the badly damaged airport (which was now used as a drop zone for cargo).

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Captain Fairchild was cruising at low altitude and looking for any signs of danger.

A mile or so ahead of the convoy, he spotted several Chong troops preparing a large roadside bomb. He had been equipped with four Hydra 70 rocket pods - one containing incendiary (white phosphorous), one containing flechettes and the remaining contained "17 pounder" rockets (so named for the weigh of the whole rocket) - for attacking soft targets.

He then locked onto the cluster of troops and let fly with two white phosphorous rockets which struck their mark, causing a large explosion as the bomb detonated. Bits of flaming phosphorous flew into the air, which fell back to earth in comet-like trails. This was was visible to the convoy behind him.

He wished he could carry the bigger "Zuni" rockets but the base only had Hydra 70s. Of course, he could mount the CRV7 rockets but he didn't really like them because the spent igniters often struck him at and that hurt not to mention he hated inhaling the dense smoke cloud produced by them.

He wondered how his friends were doing. Granted, they too were living combat aircraft but he doubted they wanted to fight... Unless Chong invaded their land...

Speaking of which, he needed to meet the other personnel in Ft. Inglorious.

Nick22 · **Reply #8195 on:** April 09, 2011, 12:36:09 AM

Send forces to that area for support and rescue.. " Stripetail replied "We need to protect our convoyts.. and Obviously Chong hasn'rt given up trying to destroy out ability to fight him..
Alright everyone lets keep ghoing" Nani said as Stitch comntinued driving and began passing vehicles in front of him..

Kor · **Reply #8196 on:** April 09, 2011, 12:48:29 AM

Jason felt his wrist computer vibrate. He reached into a pocket and took out 2 small things the size of moles. 1 he put behind one of his ears and the other he handed to Guilmon who did likewise.

They both listened to the tardis give them a message. Jason put his wrist computer close to his mouth and whispered in another language, "Tell Brooklyn, Odysseus, Moran and Velma to meet us in the control room." Jason said, then he put away the receivers he & Guilmon had used. They then made their way back to his tardis.

Separably Brooklyn, Odysseus, Moran, & Velma got the messages and seperatly made excuses or slipped away to go to the control room of the tardis.

Serris · **Reply #8197 on:** April 09, 2011, 12:54:25 AM

The radio officer nodded and ordered both the helicopter gunship Ironleaf and the medevac helicopter Silver Light to get ready. A technician got some troops ready.

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In the lobby, several soldiers (again, some were just children) were getting their weapons and armor ready for the rescue mission.

There were also multiple volunteers and "guests" going about their daily routines.

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Out back in the airfield of Ft. Inglorious, the two helicopters started their take off sequence.

Several hundred yards away in a grassy field, Von's group was engaged in the two mile run.

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Captain Fairchild frowned as the smoke from his bombing target stung his nostrils (which was also his pitot tube).

He opened a radio channel to Stripetail. "Commander Stripetail, this is Captain Fairchild, I would like to discuss my lodging and other accomodations at Fort Inglorious."

Suddenly, his flank was struck by a burst of 20 mm anti aircraft fire causing him to scream in pain. He then wheeled around and spotted some soldiers, who somehow got a 20 mm antiaircraft cannon (thanks to Chong's mages) on the roof of an office building.

"You stupid f---ers! I'll blow your motherf---ing carcasses straight to hell!" he shouted at the attackers. More 20 mm shells headed his way but most of them missed but a few of them struck their mark.

He let loose with a volley of high explosive rockets, killing all the soldiers in the in the building and completely demolishing it.

Unbeknownst to him, he left the channel open, allowing Stripetail to hear everything - including the cannon fire striking him.

Luckily, he was as tough - maybe even tougher - than a non-living A-10. A little autocannon damage wasn't going to stop him.

Nick22 · **Reply #8198 on:** April 09, 2011, 01:02:08 AM

We can discuss this after the area is securev stripetail replied before hearing the sounds of battle echo from his radio.. And you'll need to get looked at after you've cleared out the enemy forces.." he added " i headed in your direction.. roughlky how many enemy troops do you project there to be in the area..
Tarrax flew high above them and pointed oiut the smoke risinf from where Fairchgild was engaging with the enemy..

Serris · **Reply #8199 on:** April 09, 2011, 01:31:59 AM

Captain Fairchild scoffed. "I'll be fine. A little autocannon damage ain't gonna do jack s--- to me!"

He then surveyed the landscape below him. Cobia Bay was approaching and the signs of war were very evident in the burnt out hulks of vehicles that littered the streets and several ruined buildings.

He was actually fairly far ahead of the convoy group.

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The Mako truck ran over a small mine, which jolted everyone inside. Luckily, the truck's armor easily withstood the blast.

But no one was prepared when the lead convoy vehicle, a Humvee ran over a roadside bomb that completely destroyed the vehicle and set it aflame. Spells, small arms fire and RPGs began to bombard the convoy, which was now stopped thanks to the blockage caused by the disabled Humvee. The surviving soldiers inside got out and began to trade fire with Chong's forces.

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The Mako truck rocked as an RPG struck it.

Zachary, Paul, Rime, Deimos Dr. Zanasiu, Ceela and Great Valley archers got out and took defensive positions.

Ceela nocked an arrow and shot an enemy soldier leaning out a window of a ruined shop.

Zachary killed another soldier armed with an RPG.