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Ultraman Daxium
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07-05-2012, 03:06 AM
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scikaiju
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Episode 8
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OP – Mercy Drive – Burn in My Light
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The streets of the city were quiet as a war was engaged in the skies above it. Razor Wings shot through the skies as they tried to shoot down the creatures that appeared out of nowhere. With triangle shaped bodies and a head that seemed to be built into their shoulders they zipped around the buildings making them harder to hit. Few of the pilots were brave enough, or foolish enough to try and follow the creatures. Razor Wing one had one of those pilots as it followed one creature before being forced to pull before he hit a building. “I swear these damn things are getting faster,” Bill said.
“Just concentrate on where you’re flying,” Hawk said behind him.
In Razor Wing two Ryo flew over the skyline until he spotted one n the open. “Jess four o’clock.”
“I see it,” she answered as she got a target lock on her sensors. “Firing missile.” A lone missile trailed after it and caught it as it exploded. As it fell to the ground Ryo and Jess noticed something about the creatures. “They’re getting lower to the ground.”
“I see them,” Hawk said over the line. “Ground team, are they in firing range yet?”
Standing by a Scan track in his newly acquired UNDF jacket, but left unzip, Ken hit the communicator built into it, “Just about Captain.”
“Fire as soon as you see the points of their teeth,” he ordered.
“You heard the man,” Ken told the others. When they looked at him it took him a moment to figure out why, “I mean roger.”
“Well work on it later,” Hawk said. Was that a chuckle? Please let that be a chuckle.
After a few more minutes the Razor Wings were able to force the creatures low enough for the Scan Tracks to get a lock. “Targets in range!”, somebody shouted.
“Let ‘em have it!”, Ken said. He put his fingers in his ears as the cannons mounted on the back of the Scan Tracks fired. He had to remember to wear that helmet one of these days. Several creatures took a hit. Those that avoided the initial wave tried to fly up but were met by the Razor Wings waiting for them. Another half hour saw the final creature taken out. “I would have ran out of bags a while ago,” Ken commented as he watched the Razor Wings in the sky.
“Hawk to ground units, the sky is clear. Help with the clean up duty while we make sure no more show up.”
“Scan Track…,” Ken took a moment to check the side of the vehicle , “fourteen acknowledge.” He hopped into the passenger seat saying, “Who wants to see a dead monster up close and poke it with a stick?” They found one near a school yard and pulled up a few yards from it. Getting out Ken had a vague flashback of Daxium fighting a larger version of this thing and started rubbing his left forearm a bit. Dax wasn’t getting any type of reaction from it, still Ken and the other pulled their weapons as they got closer. “Area’s clear,” Ken announced taking a look at his wrist scanner.
“Fuller,” one of the others said to the man still in the Scan Track, “pull her up.” Fuller acknowledged and turned the track around and backed it up. “Keep it coming,” he waved him on, “keep it coming. Stop.”
“This is going to suck,” Ken commented as a back compartment opened up. Trying to keep his hands away from the mouth he and the trooper picked up the creature and placed it in the compartment. “Don’t they supply gloves for this part?”, he asked shaking his hands.
“Take that jacket off!” Ken looked around as Commander Jamira came out of another Scan Track and made a beeline toward him. “I said take that jacket off now! You don’t deserve to wear it civilian. That’s an order!”
Ken held his ground, “Well here’s the thing, Captain Hawk told me to wear this whenever I’m on duty. Now in order to obey you I have to disobey him. And that’s a can of worms I don’t want to open.” He had a line about the Captain outranking him, but seeing how it looked like the Commander was close to strangling to him as it was he didn’t say anything.
“Watch your back civilian,” he sneered before storming off.
Once he and his Scan Track was on his way Ken hit his communicator, “Scott to Hawk, just to warn you Commander Jamira might be coming to you with some issues he has with me wearing this jacket.”
“It’ll be the fifth time he’s brought this issue up since I gave it to you a couple of days ago. Respect isn’t going to come overnight, it’s going to come a day at a time.”
“Understood, Scott out.” Ken looked at the retreating Scan track and whispered, “Not him either.”
“Creature is secured,” Fuller announced.
“Hey,” he asked the trooper by him, “what do they do with these things any way?”
“Some of them are dissected to study,” he answered. “Some of them are destroyed. Some of us think it what they make the chip beef out of for the SOS in the cafeteria.”
Ken made a face and held his stomach, “Don’t tell me shit like that, I had that for breakfast his morning.”
***
“The people are demanding answers.” Richardson sat there looking a little tired as the board members started trying to talk over one another. But that was the general consensus the best as he could gather. Fortunately Peter wasn’t one of the as he silently sat in his chair as he watched the others.
“I would hardly refer to reporters as people,” Richardson said during a lull in this particular storm. Naturally that comment started it all over again.
“Well they’re asking what the people want to know,” one of them said. “What are we going to do about Ultraman? Some polls say he’s as bad as those monsters. Especially after one of those weapons of his tore up that street. They’re still repairing the damage.”
“What he is doing is no different than when we fire a missile,” Richardson argued. “He’s just on a more massive scale then what we are.”
“And Ultraman does seem to be helping us with the monsters,” Peter piped in.
“So far,” another one said.
“And the moment he turns against us,” Richardson told her, “I will be the first to give the order to open fire. I know Captain Hawk and Alpha Team have been studying the giant for any sign of a potential weakness. And more than likely some of the other units are as well.”
“I know one of the bigger complaints is that our weapons don’t seem to be effective against giant threats,” Peter told them. “I know Dr. Williams has a team working on improving our weapons potency. But maybe it’s time to consider his other idea.”
“That super jet of his,” the first board member said.
“It could help ease the public anxiety,” Peter offered. “Especially if it works like he says it will.”
“Perhaps it’s time to look more into it,” Richardson said. Several board members nodded in agreement. Enough to get the motion passed.
A fourth member raised their hands, “Commander Jamira came to me about an issue he had.”
“Do you want to narrow that one down?”, Peter asked. “He does seem to have several. He didn’t get control of Alpha Team. He doesn’t like the fact we’re getting called like we’re the police.”
“It’s about the civilian wearing a uniform jacket.”
“Oh that one,” Richardson snorted.
“It was Captain Hawk’s idea after all,” Peter said taking the lead. “If he felt he deserves it this soon then I feel we should back him. This was the board’s idea after all,” he quickly reminded them when a couple of them looked like they wanted to argue the point. “We trusted his judgment so far. And we all know he wouldn’t do anything that would affect his team in a negative way. Beside this is a relative minor issue and not worth this board’s time and energy.”
“I agree,” Richardson said. “If anything this is an issue between Hawk and Jamira. The moment it affects our ability to protect the public then we’ll take the matter into our hands. Is there anything else?” He waited a moment for somebody to speak up. “Then I guess this meeting is over.” Everyone else packed what they had and left. Peter lingered for a few moments so he said, “Have I ever told you that I’m glad you are on my side.”
“Honestly Henry the only side I’m on is mine,” he said with a bit of a smile.
Richardson snorted,” You father told me the same things on a few occasions.
“Like father, like son as they say,” he said closing up his briefcase. “I’m still not a fan of this civilian operative nonsense.”
“I know Peter.”
He started leaving the room saying, “But even I’ll admit it revealed something I never expected.”
“I know,” Richardson said, surprising Peter a bit. “Who would have believed that nobody was a genius? I mean look at him.”
“I know, just a fascinating discovery isn’t it?” In the hallway he started smiling to himself, “But that wasn’t what I was talking about.”
***
In his quarters Ken sat at the desk in the room and opened his cell phone. Knowing Rose she’d keep that promise to hunt him down if he didn’t keep in touch. After a few rings she picked up, “Hello?”
Ken started smiling, “Hey Rose.”
“Hey yourself,” he could hear the smile in her voice. “So they actually let you have phone privileges?”
“I’m not a prisoner you know.”
“You were acting like one in the days before you left,” she shot back. “How has everything been going? You been showing those other mechanics how it’s done yet?”
“Not exactly, they put me on a field team.”
She was quiet for a few moments, “Are they crazy?!”
“I know. But at least if any of the vehicles on an assignment I’m right there to fix it.”
“That’s probably what they were thinking,” she laughed. “So you learn anything new about yourself yet?”
Outside of apparently being a genius this entire time? “Nothing yet, it’s only been a few weeks.”
“You can figure out something about yourself in a few weeks. Wait… the UNDF has some advanced comm. gear. Why didn’t you use that to call me?”
“They say I can,” he said poking at the computer at his desk. “I haven’t figured out how to get an outside line yet.”
“Well ask somebody then. Wait I’m talking to Ken ‘I can figure it out on my own’ Scott here.”
“Why does everybody make that sound like a bad thing,” he said getting a little annoyed.
“Because you can only get so far on your own. You’re part of a team now, you’re going to have to learn to work like you’re part of one sooner or later.”
“So they keep telling me.” He changed the subject, “How are things at the garage going?”
“We’re still pretty busy,” she answered. “Johnny’s been picking up the slack on the new model cars after you left. Jeff’s acting like he’s king of the garage.”
“When didn’t he?”, Ken asked half joking.
Rose laughed anyway, “Good thing I’m still around to keep him in check then. So,” based on tone of her voice he had a feeling he knew what was coming, “meet anybody interesting of the female persuasion yet?” And there it was.
The alarm went off just about then, saved by the creature alert. “Sorry Rose, duty calls gotta go.”
***
Running to the war room Ken got to the door the same time as Bill. They looked at each other for a moment before Bill said, “Actual team members in first civilian,” and he hurried his way inside.
“Bite me jackass,” Ken told him going in himself. That’s when he noticed Hawk was there staring at the two of them.
“Gentlemen,” he spoke, “and I use that term very loosely at the moment.”
“Sorry Captain,” Ken said. Hawk glanced at Jess and Ryo who quickly stood between them. This was going to be one of the larger struggles with this situation.
“What are we looking at Bridge?”, Hawk said looking at the ceiling. The table top in front of them started to glow and a holo image of the a mountain range appeared over it. A rather large dot appeared under it’s surface.
“We’re not exactly sure yet,” he said from his station. “The reading just popped up a few minutes ago.
“How does something that large just appear out of nowhere?”, Ryo asked out loud.
“If we could figure that out maybe we could intercept these things before they become active,” Hawk said. “Ken I don’t need a quip right now.”
“Wasn’t going to say a word,” Ken told him.
“The look on your face said otherwise,” Jess smirked.
“Is the object doing anything?”, Hawk asked before ken could respond.
“Not at the moment,” he said studying the readings. “It appears to just be sitting there.”
“Looks like we got lucky on this one,” Hawk commented. Taking a light pen out of the console he started drawing on the image. “I want a perimeter set up on the ground here. Bill, Ryo I want you to coordinate a plan for a sky net above it with the other pilots. If we catch it right we might be able to damage it as it appears out of the mountain.”
“I don’t suppose you guys have some mines or something?”, Ken asked. “We could place them around the creature and set them off as soon as it pops up.”
“There’s one problem with that plan,” Jess told him, “we don’t know where the creature is going to break through at.”
“And I don’t want to take the chance that we’d accidently leave some active mines behind for somebody to come across if they get buried once it emerges,” Hawk added. “It’s a good plan Ken, you just have to think a little further ahead.”
“So is the civilian flying on this one?”, Bill said shooting him a look.
Hawk looked at him, “He can fly with you since you’re volunteering.” Bill paled a little as Ken gave him a wicked grin.
“He’s pretty good on the ground,” Bill quickly got out, “he can do this on the ground.”
“I got no problem being in the Wing’s backseat for this one,” Ken said.
“Which is why you’re taking one of the Tracks,” Hawk told him. “I’ll fly with Bill in Razor Wing one. Ken you help coordinate things on the ground. And try to keep away from Commander Jamira, he’s still not happy with you wearing that.”
“You don’t have to tell me twice,” Ken said, then added, “sir.”
“You’re getting better at remembering that,” Hawk smirked. “All right people let’s catch this thing before it get it’s pants up.”
“Roger,” they all said, even Ken. Now if he could convince him to zip that jacket up and look a little more professional.
***
Within the hour Razor Wings and Scan Tracks launched from their respective bays from Castle. Inside the Avatar watched their progress on a monitor, highlighting the position of the vehicle Scott was in. His masters assured him this creature, Melba, would bring something different to attack Ultraman with. Of course they said that about the last monster they sent through. But they might be right with this one. Ultraman could fly but he had never seen him fight in the air. The only real question was how much of a nuisance were the troops going to be?
***
The perimeter went up around the mountain according to plan that Hawk had come up with. According to Bridge the creature didn’t change position the entire time. Which left them with a while bunch of waiting to do. As it was Ken was leaning against the hood of the Scan Track looking at the mountain. He could feel the creature inside from here. “I do not like this,” Dax had said in his head. “I should be trying to dig it out and destroy it.”
Glancing at the other guys in the Track he spoke low enough that they wouldn’t hear him, “We’ve gone over this Dax.”
“I know, it is just frustrating knowing that it is this close. We never had this problem before.”
“You’re the one who told me to trust Richardson.”
“Wade to Scott,” from his communicator brought him back to the here and now.
“What is it Jess?”, he said hitting it.
“We got a little pool going on,” she answered. “We wanted to know if you wanted in.”
“What’s the bet?”
“We’re trying to guess what Ultraman is going to mode shift into to beat this one if he shows up.”
“Mode shift?”
“That’s what we call it when Ultraman changes form,” Ryo answered. “What do you say man, you want in?”
“Maybe next time,” Ken said. “I still have to study the reports on those fights. Or do you guys call them encounters. And not to sound like the new guy but isn’t that against the rules?”
Bridge cut into the comm. system saying, “We got movement!”
“All units prepare to fire,” Hawk ordered.
Ken checked his wrist scanner for any stray life sign that wasn’t supposed to be there. He wasn’t getting anything outside of them with the range he got. He looked at the guys inside the Track, “You getting any stray blips on that thing?”
“If anybody is watching they’re staying out of range,” was the reply. Ken nodded, but he could have used it as an excuse to get out of thee and let Dax loose on whatever that thing was. “I got movement on the mountain,” the guy watching the scanner said suddenly. Ken’s hand started for the Spark magnifier thinking that people were on the mountain. Then he saw what they were seeing, the face of the mountain started breaking up. There was a monstrous cry as a head appeared, followed by a long neck with some sort of blade like fin.
“All units open fire!” Hawk shouted. They all locked on the head. It screams were cut off by the explosions. More of the mountainside broke away as the creature freed itself. It’s reptilian like body had claws instead of hands and these long protrusions like spikes coming from it’s shoulders. And these bright round glowing eyes that seemed to zero in right at Ken.
“That can’t be good,” he muttered. Those eyes seem to glow right before energy like shot fired out of them. Ken and the guys in the Scan Track ducked for cover as the ground seemed to explode around them.
“Lasers!”, Bill shouted as it started firing those shots at the other Scan Tracks. “It got lasers!”
“Ken,” Jess muttered as Ryo looked worried as well.
“Razor Wings take the heat off the Scant Tracks,” Hawk said. As ordered the Wings unleashed another barrage of missiles at the creature. It looked at the sky and fired at the Razor Wings who scattered to avoid it. The creature cried out one more time. Then leather like wings appeared from the protrusions and it took to the air. “It’s giving chase, scatter.”
“Damn thing faster than it looks,” Ryo grunted.
“We need some rear weapons on these jets,” Jess said as she looked back.
“Worry about it later,” Hawk told her.
“All Scan Tracks try to knock it out of the sky,” Jamira ordered. Those not caught in the original barrage did so. Those that were did what they could if the men and women inside were able.
Ken shook the dirt off of him, slowly getting to his feet. Holding his head he hit the communicator then looked at it when it didn’t make it’s usual beep, broken. “Hope I don’t have to pay for that.” Looking at the others in the Scan Track he called out, “You guys alright?” He didn’t get an answer. “Hey,” he said going to the window and saw that all of them looked lifeless. “Shit,” he cursed as he checked for a pulse on each man. He felt a huge weight lift from his shoulders as he got a pulse on all of them. “Don’t do that me,” he told them knowing he wasn’t going to get an answer. Looking up at the sky he saw the creature smash it’s claws into any Razor Wing within reach. “Stay right here,” he told the unconscious men as he took out the Spark Magnifier and held it over his head.
***
Appearing from a column of light Daxium looked up and Melba and took off after it, “Shiah!” The creature saw him and changed course to meet him. Daxium moved out of the way to avoid impact. He quickly turned around to fire off a Flash Bolt that hit it right between the shoulder blades. Melba cried out in pain as it started to fall to the ground. It was able to pull up before crashing and went at the giant again firing off those eye bolts of his. Forming the energy to block those initial shots he flew out of the way to avoid Melba’s head on crash.
Giving chase to the still flying Melba Daxium reached out to grab a wing when the monster turned around and smack one of those claws into his head. A grunt of pain escaped as he lost his balance for a split second. It was long enough for Melba to start flying around him trying to bash him out of the sky. The giant covered him up to protect himself. Dropping slightly to avoid one of those claws Daxium saw the opening to kick him in the gut. Melba’s body bent from the blow as the light giant started punching him in the head. He kept up the assault as the monster started falling to the ground. Then it stopped in midair and fired off those energy bursts. Daxium recoiled from the first couple of shots but then he got out of the way and started flying around the creature trying to avoid those energy shots. Seeing no other way out of this he took a few shots he fired off another Flash Bolt. The impact made Melba stop just long enough for Daxium to fly right into him.
Grabbing him around the waist Daxium pointed them toward some open ground and they crashed in a mushroom like cloud of smoke and dirt. Daxium slowly stood up waiting for the smoke to clear away enough that he could see the condition of his opponent. He was knocked back by those eyes blasts a second before Melba emerged from the smoke. The jewel started flashing red as he started back up but Melba knocked him back down and started clubbing him. Razor Wing one and two but fired some missiles that distracted the monster enough for Daxium to fly out of there. Going high enough that he could see Melba coming at him he put his hands to the jewel in his chest. Drawing in energy ashe spread them wide he raised his right arm and lowered his left. Bringing them together at the wrist he fired the Dimensional Storm Ray. The multi colored stream of energy hit Melba head on. Moments later he exploded. Daxium hovered there for a moment before flying off, “Shiah!”
A sphere of light formed that shrank down to a shape of a man and quickly broke apart as Ken stumbled forward by his Scan Track. “We have got to work on that landing Dax,” he said out loud. A groan from the Scan track caught his attention as he ran toward it. “Hang on guys,” he said as he hit his communicator. “Right busted.” He looked around to see some headlights coming in his direction. Waving his arms he shouted, “Hey! Over here! We got wounded!”
***
Another one down the Avatar thought darkly. The troopers had a chance to take their shots and do some damage as soon as Melba emerged. That cavern was a little too deep in the mountain for this one. He should have taken that into account. “What is it going to take Scott?”
***
Hours later Ken caught up with Jess and the others in one of the rec rooms. They looked happy to see him but something seemed off for some reason. Jess came up to him saying, “Ken, how are you feeling?”
“My head’s ringing little but they say I’m alright up here.”
“You’re a lucky son of a bitch do you know that?”, Bill told him. “I saw the area around blow up, I thought all four of you were dead.”
“I jumped behind the Scan Track,” Ken said. “I don’t know how they got hurt worse than me.”
“I guess your GLC is still working,” Jess joked. Instead of laughing they all just looked at her. “Good luck charm,” she explained.
“I guess so,” Ken shrugged. “That’s the one thing I don’t like about this set up. Before I joined, a monster showed up and I ran like hell out of there as fast as I could.”
“Welcome to the big leagues Ken” Ryo laughed.
“Oh before I forget,” he said after a moment, “who won the pool?”
Judging how they were all standing it wasn’t any of them. Which would explain the look he picked up earlier. “That would be me,” Hawk said coming up behind them. “Everybody was saying Hyper or Power mode so I decided to go for the apparent long shot. Luck was with me tonight.”
“You participated in a pool that’s probably against the rules?”, Ken said looking at him.
“It helped relieve a little of the tension that was building up,” he explained. “As long as it doesn’t go too far I’m willing to turn a blind eye to it.”
“We were about to get a late dinner in the mess,” Jess spoke up. “Are you coming?”
“Actually I told the guys with me in the Track that since we all survived I buy them a glass of whatever passes for beer around here.”
“Sounds like a plan to me,” Hawk said clapping him on the shoulder. “There’ll be a briefing for the mission in the morning so I expect you to be there.”
“I’ll be there,” he said going past them. He saw the other three come around the corner. “Hey what took you guys long?”
“My fault,” Fuller said. “I had them examine my head a little more carefully. I swore that when I came too for a bit you were glowing for a second.”
“Really?”, Ken said thinking fast. “Must have been how the light was hitting me or something.” Ken didn’t see that Hawk was still standing here and overheard them. He nodded to himself before heading to the mess with the others.
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ED – Shinedown – Fly From the Inside
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