Posts #120 & 121 [Losarian Prodigy & StarAngel]

[Well, more double headers. In fact, a fair number of this next batch are double headers due to the varyingly smaller sizes of some of the individual posts. >.>]

Posted By The Losar (Member # 361) on :

Eventually, DWGM gave up on contacting the Nomad. Instead, he just placed one of the locating devices onto the Magnet Hill and left the alleyway.

[Looks like he really DID get a 'busy signal'. Shows how much the Nomad gives a crap about poor DWGM. :P]

He eventually made it to Dusty Dunes, having to swim across from Fourside since the bridge was unaccessable and (so DWGM thought) probably being watched.

[Damn, I suppose he is smart or paranoid enough to watch his back. ChaosGallentmon's death must've REALLY hit the poor tool hard. XD]

DWGM made his way along the shoreline. Along the way, he spotted something shining in the sand. He recalled seeing mining equipment in the desert earlier.

"Could that be gold?" asked DWGM aloud. He decided to check it out. Sure enough, half-buried in the sand, a seemingly valuable object was gleaming in the sun. It wasn't gold, DWGM noticed, but a small amber ball with a star in it. He picked it up and continued on his way.

[What's a good use of Dragonballs without the villians of the piece at least getting their hands on one of them for tension's sake? :P]

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Posted By StarAngel (Member # 672) on : 

[Well, Star finally returns after a hiatus of posts. :P]
 
Up in space, a group of fighters, nearly invisible, waited in a meteor field. They had been there for hours without action. Some pilots were already sleeping.

[I don't know how smart it would be to sleep at the cockpit of your star-fighters. Then again, I never piloted one, so natch. x.x]

Shine eyed her status. In about 30 minutes, her ship would run out of life-support resources, and everybody else's will probably end sooner. After Boris's ship had been frozen, they couldn't do anything without communication. Or so they thought.

[No wonder they've been out of it for a while. :P]

Shroud had set up a satellite beacon with only 1 channel, but it was enough. For endless hours upon hours they discussed their next move, and monitoring what the group down on Earth were doing. Shine sighed for the third time in her starfighter. It didn't happen often.

[Shine must generally be a lot more cheerful and open on normal terms. I guess Boris's status is really eating at her. >.>]

Suddenly, something in Shrine and Shroud snapped in unison, as if some memory between those two broke open from its cage. From their fighters, they could see each other through the windshield, which is what they did. "Get off the intercom for 5 minutes, everybody. I'm going to discuss a battle plan with Shroud." Shine said into her mouthpiece.

[Um... not to ruin your sibling-rivalry here guys, but WHY do you two need the channel alone? What kind of plan are you worried about them hearing? O_o]

Once everybody was off, Shine spoke again. "Shroud... I know you've been to pilot training with me. Do you remember something about gravity reversal?"

"Yeah, Shine... But what's gravity going to do about the Mother ship's current... situation?"

[Hmm... this might be going somewhere? Perhaps? :P]

"I don't know exactly, but perhaps... Their weapon is gravity-based? You know that gravity can be manipulated to change the speed and functions of matter. Nobody's tried it out, because it might've been dangerous..."

[Oh boy... this DOES sound pretty dangerous. It's 'Bad End' for sure if you get frozen by that thing.]

"So you're saying that we should try and preform the gravity reversal on the Mother ship?"

"It's work, if my theory's right."

[It's an IF, so either it will work out, or it'll go spectacularly wrong. XD]

"My sister was like this... I guess we can give it a try. But we'd be at the risk of freezing ourselves along the way."

[Shroud, what the hell are you on...? That didn't come out the way you think it did at the beginning. o.O]

"Better die trying than dieing."

"Wha-?"

"Never mind. Let's wait for the rest to get back on the intercom."

[Still don't get WHY you needed a totally private channel to discuss it... XP]

Shine and Shroud explained their plan about gravity reversal, and most accepted it. A handful were angry and afraid of the risk, but after a few catchy space quotes, they agreed. By that time, their life-support system was at about 6%, meaning they only had 10 minutes to do it.

[Well you doofuses need to do something, or your all decompress in the vaccum  and you don't want that, do you? :P]

They began the maneuver. As all the starfighters got into a circle with tractor beams crossing to the other side, the Nomad's weapons turned toward the group. Shine's hands started shaking. "Five... Four... Three...Two...One..."

[and... ACTION!! XD]

Her timing could not have been more accurate. Red beams sprouted out of the Nomad's cannons, and as they headed for the circle formation of the surviving starfighters, they shrunk into a tighter formation. As Shroud had expected, the large cannon aimed at the packed group, and fired.

[Well we goes nothing... >.>]

"Go go go!" Everybody seemed to yell at the same time. The feedback into the microphone was deafening, but everybody still did what they were supposed to do. As they spread out again, into the largest circle possible, the red beam blasted into the exact place where all the tractor beams had crossed.

[So they're using their own tractor beams to reverse gravity flow? O.o I have no idea if that could work in reality, but Sci-Fi folks... Sci-Fi. o.o;]

The effect was magnificent and beautiful to the eye. The blue-white of the tractor beams turned red, and seemed to be sucked into the red ball at the center. It grew larger and larger, turning a bright yellow at the same time. When it almost burned the fighters' positions, it launched right a the Mother ship, which had been on the other side of the fighter squadron.

[And caused the ship to promptly shrink down to the size of a mouse... Oh sorry, I'm thinking of my Misfits story for a second. XD]

The ship was enveloped by the yellow ball, and after a few moments, became active again. The intercom channels lighted up again on the interior of the ships, and they cheered in the different restored channels.

Boris's voice reached Shine's ears. "Alright, Shine, I'll wait for you."

"What are you talking about, Boris? We just unfroze you!"

["What?! Well... damn this is awkward..." ._.]

Boris's face appeared on her screen again, surprised. "Get everybody back to the ship, their life-support systems are incredibly low. I'll expect a full report when you get back. I am so confused."

[You and me both, Boris... :P]

Shine smiled. "Great, Boris. Guys! Let's go home."

Under heavy fire from the Nomad, the remaining fighters returned to the Mothership, to rejoice and to reversed the effects on Earth, once and for all.

Note: the gravitation reversal can't work on large mass, such as a planet. And I thought it'd be a good way to get back into the story, because I lost myself on the second page.

[Yeah, that's what friggin happens when you shy away from an active IF for more than 1-2 days at a time. You lose a LOT of headway. :P

Also, this is the return(sorta) of Boris as a character, but I think the author himself doesn't return yet, or at all for the reminder of the IF. Just a heads up.]

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