Darwin's Soldiers: Disruptive Selection

Nick22 · **Reply #1300 on:** April 18, 2010, 12:04:15 AM

so we'll have tobuy our guns elsewhere.. fine.. i had been hoping they'd sell guns there.. no such luck.. it appears.. I can see their point though.."

Serris · **Reply #1301 on:** April 18, 2010, 12:06:25 AM

Neville looked at the laptop. "Guys, the competition is starting at 1700 hours or 5 PM," he said.

Spc. Crota nodded. "I already signed up in person as did Cobalt Leader. The site is Czerka Tactical Arena at the borders of Culetson," he said.

"Okay, I guess we should get ready to go," Zachary said.

Alfred held a hand over his cellphone. "Guys, we've got to be careful around Jayden. His partner, Kiara may not be so nice to us," he said. He then continued speaking to Jayden. "Okay," he said, "we're planning to enter the Forest Cup Schutzhund competition. We'll tell you more when you arrive. Bye!" he said, hanging up.

"So what's the news?" Dr. Bailey asked.

"Jayden's coming over here."

Sgt. Masters lit a cigarette.

"Wait! I have a shotgun and rifle in my car, you could use those if you want," Neville said, overhearing Aisha's comment. "Actually, use the shotgun; I'm using the rifle in the competition," he added.

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #1302 on:** April 18, 2010, 12:47:57 AM

"Stern says he'd be willing to join the competition too," Shelton told the others. "Just got off the thought network with him."

Serris · **Reply #1303 on:** April 18, 2010, 12:48:22 AM

The explosion rattled the entire ship to the core. The engines and fusion reactor were completely destroyed.

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"What the hell!?" a technician shouted as the room went dark and shook, knocking technicians to the ground. The consoles were running on battery power as a blinking green indicator light showed.

"Start back up generators!" the head technician ordered.

Another technician did so. The lights and consoles flickered back on. "Bilge pumps are running but I'd say that buys us 30 minutes tops. Also, we can't fire any weapons," she said.

"Let's get moving to the lifeboats then!"

The head technician smashed a glass panel on the wall with a hammer kept for that purpose and pressed the button. Almost immediately, a piercing siren wailed and red lights periodically flashed through the entire ship.

The technicians then calmly filed out to the lifeboats.

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The heavily damaged tugboat got closer to the Surrounded Sea.

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Alfred nodded. "All right then," he said. "Also, Jayden's got a new partner, name's Kiara," he added.

"So shall we head to the Czerka Tactical Arena or drop off our clothes first?" Zachary asked.

"Clothes, we can't take all this crap into the arena," Dr. Zanasiu said.

Mirumoto_Kenjiro · **Reply #1304 on:** April 18, 2010, 12:55:27 AM

Water quickly filled every nook and cranny not sealed from the water. The greater explosion was from the fusion reactor, fire also shooting through the sub-levels of the ship and sucking every bit of oxygen.

The ship began to sink on the stern, the other end starting to lift from the water...

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Everyone on deck fell to the shaking force of the explosions. Vic almost goes over the guard rail, having to holster his handgun to climb back up. Deathwind drops Snow from the pain of her attack, but he uses his wings to levitate off the ship to prepare to attack with sonic energy. The Pelvanida experiment got to her feet and her hands were enveloped with white-hot fire...

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Although the fusion reactor was destroyed, a vertical-launch missile trained on the corvette erupts from its hold from a short, shooting up into the air to position itself on the small ship...

The frigate launches its own missile for the tanker's, and then another railgun projectile was fired for the tugboat...

(OOC: Oops...)

MrDrake · **Reply #1305 on:** April 18, 2010, 01:00:55 AM

"So, it starts at 5 tonight? If that's the case, then we better hurry" Shakila spoke up "That, and wait for Jayden and his friend....and I would imagine also Aimee as well, we can't very well leave her all alone either"

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Jayden turned to Kiara and Aimee "We've got to get going, my friend, Alfred" he spoke up, mainly to Kiara "He wants us to meet him at the Theobroma Coffee House" he motioned for the two of them to follow him "So come on"

Soon enough, the three had gotten into Jayden's car and headed off, heading to meet up with the others "So, how is the Alfred guy? Is an actual friend of yours?" Kiara asked Jayden.

"Yes he is, I do have a life outside of work after all" Jayden replied back to Kiara as he drove on still.

Serris · **Reply #1306 on:** April 18, 2010, 01:08:22 AM

Zachary looked out the window. It was starting to rain. "Well, I hope you guys like shooting in the rain," he said.

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Hans and Werner decided to call Dr. Zanasiu. "Hey, James, where are you?" Hans asked between bites of a bagel.

"Theobroma Coffee House," the reply came back.

Hans hung up and he and Werner headed out into the rain.

MrDrake · **Reply #1307 on:** April 18, 2010, 01:16:02 AM

Soon, Jayden had arrived with Kiara and Aimee, entering the coffee house.

Shakila looked over to Aimee in particular "About time you made it"

"Yeah, sorry, I had a bit of a snooze in the end" Aimee replied back as she sat down beside Shakila.

Jayden however, walked over to Alfred "That's her" he told the bison in regards to Kiara.

Kiara was just standing there, her arms folded at the moment, keeping quiet as she just watched Jayden, her eyes also looking to everyone else as well, as if she didn't really trust them all that much.

Serris · **Reply #1308 on:** April 18, 2010, 01:26:29 AM

Alfred stood up. "Pleased, to meet you Kiara," he said politely, extending his colossal hand to her.

The size contrast between the two was staggering to say the least.

Spc. Crota looked at Alfred. "Wow, he'd make a great basketball player," he said.

Sgt. Masters put his cigarette out in the ashtray. "He's probably put the basketball through the backboard," he replied. "The guy's got more muscle than pretty much all of Cobalt Squad combined,"

Neville looked at Jayden. "Ah, Jayden, Kiara, would you entering the Forest Cup Schutzhund tournament?" he asked.

MrDrake · **Reply #1309 on:** April 18, 2010, 01:31:27 AM

Kiara, reluctantly, shook Alfred's hand back, still not trusting any of them at the moment.

Jayden looked over to Neville as Kiara spoke up in regards to it "Ah yes, the Schutzhund competition, I remember it" she folded her arms once again "Would be good to have another go at it" she told them.

"Hmm, not sure about myself, I might try for it" Jayden added in.

"Sorry for asking, but what is this competition thing you're all talking about?" Aimee decided to ask them as she of course, had missied the rules and all and would like a brief explanation of it herself as she looked to Shakila.

"Don't look at me, I'm still a bit confused about it myself" Shakila told Aimee "Which is why i'm not joining in, mainly cause it seems like it's to do with guns and all, which I am no good at using, then again, I've never fired one before"

Serris · **Reply #1310 on:** April 18, 2010, 01:42:51 AM

At this time, Hans and Werner arrived, wet from the rain.

"We miss anything?" Hans asked.

"Not much, we're heading to the Schutzhund competition later," Zachary said.

"Yeah, I'll pass," Werner said.

Hans nodded. "Me too," he said.

"Aimee, the Schutzhund competition is a tactical shooting sport," Neville said. He then tilted the computer screen which was open to the Schutzhund homepage to Shakila and Aimee. "This will explain it a lot better than I can," he said.

MrDrake · **Reply #1311 on:** April 18, 2010, 01:52:50 AM

The Vulpine and Feline begun to have a read through the page as Kiara looked to Alfred again "How long have you and Jayden know each other? A year? Two years?" she decided to ask him to get an idea on how long they had actually been friends for.

Jayden sighed some "This is not going to go too well..." he muttered to himself in regards to what Kiara was asking Alfred.

Serris · **Reply #1312 on:** April 18, 2010, 01:59:08 AM

Alfred blanched. "Erm, about a week," he said.

MrDrake · **Reply #1313 on:** April 18, 2010, 02:10:30 AM

Kiara arched an eyebrow as she looked over to Jayden whom immediatly spoke up to say something "What he means is, it feels like a week when it's obviously been much longer than that"

"A week?" Kiara was not buying Jayden's lie one bit as she looked to him some "How long have you been lying to the FBI for?"

Jayden groaned "Long enough for them to not get properly involved with what's oing on"

Kiara sighed as she took out her cellphone "Our boss needs to know about this"

"No he doesn't" Jayden replied back, holding onto her cellphone as well to stop her from calling their boss.

Kiara was now hessitating "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't"

"What we're dealing with does not need the FBI's full involvement, for the time being, they need to be kept out of the picture, we do not this going down the toilet as one could say, and you know what everyone else in the FBI is like" Jayden told Kiara back.

Kiara glared some at Jayden "They are only following protocol"

"Which is the reason why we don't need them to know what has been going on, protocol will only make things worse than what they need to be" Jayden told Kiara.

Kiara hessitated once again "Okay, fine, but I am not pleased with what's been going on" she told Jayden, sounding a bit annoyed at the moment.

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #1314 on:** April 18, 2010, 07:26:06 PM

Shelton didn't even notice them come in. "All right, those of us who aren't in the competition should probably stagger themselves around the playing field perimeter as spectators, so we can watch all the entrances and exits and see if anyone suspicious tries to enter the grounds. We should also probably stay in pairs for safety's sake, and people with chips should be split up."

MrDrake · **Reply #1315 on:** April 18, 2010, 07:41:38 PM

Shakila put up a paw slightly when Shelton spoke up "Uh yeah, about that, what about those who aren't good with firearms?" she asked him "I mean, I can't use a gun at all, never have fired one, closest one I fired to a gun was one of those nailguns and that was it....and if people start shooting, i wont really be able to defend myself"

"I could watch out for Shakila" Aimee spoke up "I'm not really into the compeition myself anyway" she added in, looking to her "So yeah, I can watch her for you guys if you want"

Serris · **Reply #1316 on:** April 18, 2010, 08:46:07 PM

Alfred nodded. "Okay, shall we get going then?" he asked.

Zachary nodded. "The competition's almost starting," he said.

Neville shut the laptop down and handed it back to Shakila. "Thanks," he said

"Aisha, you can register right at the arena," Cobalt Leader said.

Hans, Werner, Cobalt Squad, Dr. Bailey, Neville, Alfred Zachary and Dr. Zanasiu walked out of the coffee shop into the pouring rain.

MrDrake · **Reply #1317 on:** April 18, 2010, 08:58:52 PM

Shakila gave off a small nod back to Neville as she put her laptop away and followed everyone else outside, stopping short of the rain with a bit of a groan "Great....raining...." she muttered as she wasn't a fan of the rain herself, only sort of rain she really did like was that that had come from a shower.

Aimee headed outside as well, into the rain herself and looked around "So, who's taking what car?" she asked anyone who could hear her.

"Well, Kiara and myself can take my care along with whoever else wants to join us" Jayden spoke up.

Shakila spoke up seconds later "If you can bring the car around, I'll join you two as well....don't want to get my laptop wet...."

Serris · **Reply #1318 on:** April 18, 2010, 10:13:59 PM

"Our car's back at the hotel," Zachary said.

"Speaking of which, Spc. Crota and Sgt. Masters probably don't want to ride in the back of my truck," Alfred said.

Spc. Crota and Sgt. Masters slithered up to Alfred.

"You know, you guys are lucky to have legs," Spc. Crota groaned. His lower body, even with the waterproof layer in his uniform was not comfortable in the rain slicked sidewalk.

Sgt. Masters lit another cigarette.

"We can take the competitors and employees - that is myself, Aisha, Cobalt Leader, Spc. Crota and Jayden - in my car," Neville said. He then turned to Spc. Crota. "Would you mind riding in the trunk?" he asked.

"You suck," Spc. Crota muttered. He then sighed. "Fine," he grumbled.

Neville then turned to Aisha. "Aisha, you can use my shotgun," he said.

MrDrake · **Reply #1319 on:** April 18, 2010, 10:21:31 PM

"There will be no need for me to go with you guys, I'll take my own car" Jayden replied back as he stepped into the rain and over to his car, bringing it over so that Shakila and Kiara at the very least could get in. He then looked over at the others, winding his window down "I'll meet you guys over there at the place"

Aimee thought for a moment as she just stood there in the rain "I'll go with you guys as well" she told Jayden as she soon jumped into his car.

"Alright, I have room for at least one more person" Jayden told everyone else "That is, if anyone wishes to jump in, if not, I'll head there now"