[GAME] Pacific Rim: Angel Brigade

[Scotty Rave]

The alarm. That sweet, sweet call to action. No more training, no more practise, no more tests or silly exercises. This was the moment he had been waiting for. Eddie Hood sprang from his bunk and pulled on his clothes with speed that suggested he had been electrocuted up the rear end with a cattle-prod. He only stopped to bang loudly on the outside of Rachael’s bunk, not really checking if she was there or not, and hollering, “Action stations, baby-love! Time to go break some Kaiju heads! Woo!” He then sprinted off up the hallway, whooping like an excited schoolchild running for the ice-cream van.

 

[Tigerhawk21]

Eddie's pounding had little effect as Rachael was in the bathroom at the time. Sliding out with ease, Rachael lightly whacked Eddie on the back of his head. They ran out together, Rachael's stoic silence a stark contrast to Eddies howling and whooping.

"Action. Fight!" Rachael growled as the duo charged toward the drivesuit room.

 

[Arieoelle]

When the call to arms came Amber and Riona were in the shatterdome's kitchen facilities. Riona had woken up in a nervous mood and had decided today was a day to make muffins.

in fact when the klaxon sounded the petite pilot was just pulling a tray of muffins out of the oven. She looked somewhat longingly at the pastries rich chocolate with toffee and caramel chips, to soon be frosted with the sweet cinnamon homemade icing Amber was mixing.

"I will be very upset if we don't get to try these" Riona grumbled "Damn Kaiju.... well at least they waited until we got them out of the oven"

 

[Milky Rose]

Amber, who had been reading a book in her room prior to being called over by Riona to make muffins, was hard at work mixing a sweet cinnamon icing using a recipe handed over to her by Riona. Cranking the whisk by hand, Amber watched as the once odd mix of powder and liquid flavorings became something creamy. This does look delicious. I wonder how Riona is doing on her end... she thought, glancing over to her partner, who was pulling out the batch of muffins from the oven.

However, as she did so, it was at that moment the alarm blared throughout the base, along with the call to sortie. This caused Amber to clench her hand tightly around the whisk, her eyes firmly upon her partner. "Let's destroy the Kaiju, so we can finish making these muffins," she told Riona, placing the whisk in the nearby sink as she rapidly grabbed some plastic film to place over the mixing bowl. Upon doing so, she quickly led the charge out of the kitchen and towards the hangar.

 

[Arieoelle]

Riona nodded in agreement to Amber and only hesitated long enough to scribble a note that would threaten a curse on anyone who stole the last muffin before scrambling to catch up as the pair to the hangar.

 

[Denjin_Zaboga23]

During the week that Perla and Marcus were getting to know each other, she, keeping her word, showed him some real Mexican cuisine and also wasn't shy in showing off her past times (including watching Westerns and Chanbara films, and practicing some of her old circus tricks) and likes. She had a feeling that Marcus was hiding a few things from her, but she wasn't angry about it. She just hoped she could crack through him completely, eventually.

The morning when the alarms went off, she was already up and had an idea on what they would eat (as she would make it herself), but this of course had to be put on hold. Well then, time to do this! She was actually dressed in something more casual for once, though, like Marcus, she had no time to change into her uniform, as time was of the essence here.

 

[Kain]

While on the way to the hangar Marcus saw a passing J-Tech walk right into a wall, gave him extra reassurance that Perla was right behind him. He was fairly certain she wouldn't let herself be late again, especially when not during the real thing but that little extra reassurance was nice, and it made him laugh a little. No doubt tension and excitement was high among the pilots right now, excited for this very moment, but in the back of their minds was the possibility of failure, and failure for them would be completely devastating.

"Ready partner?" he asked as they entered the drivesuit room. He didn't need to hear it to know it, they were as ready as they could be for this moment.

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As the Rangers were suited up and were being brought to the Conn Pods Marshall Stern took his usual place in LOCCENT, each of the staff had a large mug of coffee with them and he was no exception. "Pilots, no doubt you are fully awake now, and if you aren't you better wake up now, this is our first real engagement as a Shatterdome. The city is watching, and you can bet your asses the rest of the world has their eyes on us. I dont think I need to stress how important this is." he said to them all via the comm. "We have a Category 3 codenamed Guandao headed our way, biggest Category 3 I've seen, almost pushing the scale up to 4, to combat this we will be sending out all three Jaegers in a triangle formation." he explained. "At the center and in the front will be Iron Hound on the right will be Howler Magnum and on the left Ronin Hazard. Make us proud."

With that the techs went to work, preparing to have the Conn Pods dropped, and in the case of the Iron Hound inserted into their respective Jaegers. Next they began engaging the neural handshakes between each pilot duo.


This time the drift between Perla and Marcus was much smoother, even if their were aspects of himself he kept hidden they managed to sync up much better than before. It probably didn't hurt that there was a certain like minded feeling brought on by the situation.


Action time

Excitement for a real fight

Determination not to fail

Going to kick some kaiju ass



The Jaegers rose up from their hangar bays, picked up by a team of V-50 Jumphawks to be airlifted in the Kaiju's direction before being dropped off. When Marcus felt the Howler Magnum drop into the ocean it really sunk in that this was the real thing. Through the Jaeger's main display he could see something moving under the water, something big, undoubtedly their target. Almost reflexively the sting blade on the Howler Magnum's right arm deployed as the Jaegers close in on the movement beneath the waves.

((MY friends our first Kaiju: http://images.wikia.com/pacificrim/images/9/97/Kaiju.1.jpg ))

 

[Scotty Rave]

Although not the first kaiju Eddie had ever clapped eyes on, it was the first time he had done so this close and from this angle. He would be happy to say in his memoirs that the experience did not disappoint in the slightest. There was an edge of nervous anticipation that naturally comes with the experience, but the Ranger seemed to ride it like a wave, rather than shy away from it. ‘Guandao,’ the marshal said? Yes, he could see that. The hooked blades at either end did somewhat resemble the live part of the legendary Chinese weapon. No time to appreciate aesthetics, though. There was a rumble of pressure as their Jaeger – he could not think of her as merely a robot now – was released from the magnetic harnesses which tied it to the Jumphawk and struck the water with an apocalyptic splash. Once the initial shift was done with and his stomach settled, he gazed at the image of the monster on his display.

“Brilliant, we get to take point,” he said aloud. He transferred his thoughts across to Rachael as Iron Hound slouched forward, displacing tonnes of water in her wake.

All right, play time, darl. How’s about we pin the big bastard down from the front and let the others get at its sides?

 

[Tigerhawk21]

Agreed.

Rachael flex her hand and nodded to Eddie. Iron Hound charged forward toward the Kaiju with a silent roar from Rachael.

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((OOC: Sorry folks. RL been a drag and I haven't found the energy to post much. It comes and goes in random waves.))

 

[Scotty Rave]

The hulking mass of steel and surging power clamped its gargantuan fists around Guandao’s prominent horn. Eddie narrowed his eyes, sneering nastily through his handsome features, and willed the Jaeger to drive its knee up towards the monster’s lower jaw. “Eat this, you ugly mother!†he laughed, feeling the rush of whooshing air moving past the machine’s rising leg as if it were his own.