Post Tenebras Veritas (Planes/Cars RP)

[adelphi prime.]

{I have to admit, I was thinking of Blade's own words in P:F&R when I wrote that post. XD And that's awesome Welkin! If you get the time you should take pictures }

Rush - Tags: Oskar, Shinn

"I still couldn't do it," he said, refraining himself from lashing out at both planes. "I'd rather myself destoyed than my enemy..." but he feared that he'd run if battle happened in Propwash again. He feared that he couldn't protect his town. Surely, surely the lives of the people of this town were worth more than his own. The pressure put onto him felt as if he were trying to be broken, which he wouldn't allow in his stubborn nature. It didn't help that night had fallen and he was tired, or that he hadn't checked in with Streak since the battle.

Otter & Luka - Tags: Blade, Horah

Otter jumped at Horah's voice, even if Luka had shifted slightly to allow Horah more room, as she was sitting quite a ways away from Otter to the point where her leash was nearly taut. "Oh!" he exclaimed as he startled, trying to recover as quickly as he could. "No... haven't learned anything at all. I, uh, I don't even really know what happened." The event was already distant in his mind, almost in a dreamlike way. It felt different to him than did the dread in the air from the moon, which in itself was fading as some people got somewhat used to it.

[Dusty Crophopper]

((Turns out it was too expensive for them to fly me down there, so I won't be doing it. Ugh! SO disappointed! Mind if I mess with Otter a bit here? XD ))

Dusty - Tags: Shadow, Radar

"Dusty Crophopper." Dusty said in response, nodding his front once. "Nice to meet you, Radar Harrison." He paused to let Shadow introduce herself, hoping Radar wouldn't jump all over him like some of his fans, though he seemed fairly even keeled.

Miles - Tags: Spray, Doc

The Rover sighed and glanced upward. "I already told this guy, but no... they were very nondescript... all black SUVs... Cadillacs I think. They were... in a more isolated part of the exercise yard. I was doing my laps and well... there were no guards... none at all. I thought there would be as they're usually along the wall there but there wasn't this time. I asked to get through, and they attacked me. Beat me until I was unconscious. I tried to drive off... but failed before I blacked out. I could've sworn I saw the lead guy just now but... well he's gone. And I'm probably just seeing things in the darkness anyway." Miles confessed. "Jumping at shadows and all that." he muttered.

He was tired... exhausted really... the pain meds and his long flight plus his attack had left him wanting to sleep... he'd probably be interviewed tomorrow at this rate. He tried to keep his eyes open, and looked over at Doc here, smiling a bit. "You don't like dead bodies but you're a doctor?" he asked, chuckling a little as he yawned. "Ugh! I don't know how I'm going to keep going! Sitting in my own oil and exhausted beyond all measure! Maybe I should be shown to my room or wherever I'm staying... is there anything else you wanted to ask me?" he glanced over at Spray here wearily.

Oskar - Tags: Shinn, Rush

"I... I'm sorry to hear that, Herr Rush." Oskar's face fell here, and he slumped as Skipper returned with the drinks.

"Here! Drink up!" he ordered, having ordered a Carona himself. Oskar stared at his drink sadly, and began sipping from it, slurping a little as he partook of the Dutch beer.

"I'm sorry you feel that way, Herr Rush..." Oskar said softly, almost inaudible over the din of the restaurant. "I hope you find peace... someday."

"Peace?" Skipper asked, looking between the two of them. "What is this, feel sorry for ourselves night? Come on! We don't even know what's going to happen next so no moping!" he snapped, narrowing his eyes.

Blade: Tags: Otter, Horah

"No... I don't know anything." Blade said. "Nothing at all. I was leading him to safety." He nodded in Otter's direction. "And I got wounded... haven't spoken with anyone who knew anything about this yet... but Dusty's right... we gotta come together... just like Otter said. As a united patchwork... we uh... we stand strong." Blade said. The TV at the cafe was on, and Blade listened in as reports from the new moon were coming in.

"Scientists can now confirm the new red moon has an orbit of 16 days, not 28 as our own does. It appears to be made of geological features very similar to Europa, Jupiter's moon, in that it has a silicate rock and water-ice surface. Oddly enough, it's atmosphere appears to consist of oxygen, which also mirrors Europa. It appears way more habitable than our own moon, but scientists are hesitant to send up manned spacecraft at this time, though are planning to do so in the near future..."

"How about that? It's got breathable air on it... strange." Blade shook his front. "This is just so.. bizarre. Breathable air on the new moon... it resembles one of Jupiter's... just... where did it come from anyway? Moons just don't appear in the night sky!" As Blade was talking though... Otter would've experienced something very, very strange.

It was like a veil would've lifted from his eyes... and his vision was restored... but he wasn't in front of Blade... or Horah... or even in Propwash Junction. Instead, he was in that same, blue place Dusty had been earlier... pinnacles rose all around him, topped out by... what could be described as strange looking buildings. They were shaped like semi-circles with serrated edges, and lights could be seen from within them. The blue hue bathed the rocky towers in its glow, and before him... Pike stood, sad eyed, dead looking... but he was there all the same. "Hello... Otter..." he said, his voice different... wispy... hoarse... "It's been a long time... hasn't it?"

[ZAFTPrime]

Doc - Tags: Miles, Spray

"I never had to deal with the deceased during my time in the medical profession." Doc shot back before he turned back to the task at hand, only to wind up backing away in surprise when he heard Miles mention his attackers were possibly Cadillacs. This was new to him. "You never mentioned your attackers were possibly Cadillacs." He noted before he frowned a bit as memories of his own attack began to come back.

Doc closed his eyes in thought before he opened them again. "I don't remember much, but I think one of my attackers was a black SUV as well. At least, the one who set the explosion off anyway. After that, everything is pretty much a blank or too fuzzy to recall. All that I know is that when I was semi-conscious, I saw a black SUV with a car that appeared to be from the early 20th century. They either never saw me, or just assumed I was unlucky enough to be hit by the explosive blast."

Shinn - Tags: Skipper, Rush, Oskar

Shinn snickered at Skipper's remark before he became serious and faced the older Corsair with his red eyes. "Look, Rush needs some time to come to terms with what happened in his past. Oskar is just trying to help him get to that point." He said before he sighed. "I just wonder how everyone else is doing right now. The rest of the Wrenches I mean..."

((Can Doc be yanked into a vision as well or something Cal? If not, eh, that's fine. It also stinks you can't go on tour right now. Glad you have the work though, so be grateful for it. This also means more time for RP! ))

[adelphi prime.]

[list=](Aw... I'm sorry to hear that. And I seriously am so excited to post this! 8D This is gonna be interesting, to say in the least.)[/list]

Rush - Tags: Oskar, Shinn, Skipper

Rush perked up a bit at Skipper's order, mostly in habit. He glared a bit at Shinn, feeling the comment to be so outright it almost enraged him. He relaxed some, however, or at least appeared to. He had nothing to say, so he let the focus be centered on someone other than himself.

Otter - Tags: Nobody-ish? Sorta deadbeat Pike?

"I..." the shock of being thrown into something so magnificent, yet radiating such a feeling of something along the lines of greif and dread, made the F-18 freeze. His eyes were fixed upon his surroundings, and he hardly noticed Pike at first. When he slid his eyes downwards, towards Pike, there was a cold that rushed through him. This was wrong. Pike was dead... for over a month now he'd been dead. Otter tried closing his eyes, but like opening them when blind nothing changed. The image didn't fade or falter, and that scared him more than anything. He was blind... none of this was real. He fought back whatever this was, striking out against whatever apparition this was, "You're dead... you've been dead for over a month... you're not real!" He felt he didn't really say the words, but that they rang out through the air like thoughts being read aloud.

[Dusty Crophopper]

((Yeah... it kind of sucks really. I really was looking forward to it. But I'm glad you're excited to post at least! Also I don't want to overuse it at the start. Most everyone will have one, but not right away, ZAFT. ))

Miles - Tags: Doc, Spray

"Oh... well I... couldn't remember at first. They weren't Range Rovers... I know that. Uh... but yes, I think they were Cadillacs." He paused to ponder what Doc had just said. "Wait... you said an early 20th Century car? I didn't see anything like that at Belmarsh. It was just... the three SUVs. Nothing else. They had... blunt objects they were going to use to apparently bludgeon me to death." He sighed. "I never... expected it to happen in one of the most secure prisons in Britain!" he admitted now, shaking his front unsteadily.

Skipper and Oskar - Tags: Rush, Shinn

Oskar closed his eyes, seeing the rage on Rush's face, but did not say anything further... they... or more correctly Shinn, was starting to push in the wrong direction too far.

Skipper narrowed his eyes. "Yeah well... a lot of us can't just 'get over it.'" He said with a mocking tone. "For Rush well... it's hard..." His voice softened here. "But he knows... or at least I hope he knows... that I don't hold anything from that time over him. Nor blame him for that fiasco. It was my fault... I gave the command... ultimate responsibility lies with me." Skipper said firmly now, looking over at Rush with softer eyes, his voice dropping out at the end there.

Pike and Blade - Tags: Otter, Horah

Pike looked at Otter with listless eyes... almost accusatory eyes. "Yes... I am dead... but I am real... this is not fake. This is..." He looked around him. "My new home. I'm stuck... I cannot move on... but you... caused me to come here... you... killed me..." he said in a choked, strained voice. "You Otter... you crashed into me... sent me over the side... why? Why am I here? Why can I not move on?"

As Pike spoke, a silver and maroon car moved beside the dead plane now, smiling in a very eerie way at the no longer blind F-18. He looked to be an early model... from the 20s perhaps, and while he was smiling, he didn't appear friendly. "Hello Otter. You've contributed to our cycle. Red replaces blue. We are red... you are blue. The death of your friend... helped our cause. He's stuck now... stuck with us. Unable to move on but he has been replaced. It is something so beautiful... it is our survival. Death of your kind is inevitable... but the more blue dies... the stronger red becomes..."

"Otter... why? Why did you kill me? Why?" Pike demanded, his voice dead and hoarse. He started to move towards Otter now, his eyes searching Otter's for answers. "Now I'm stuck! I can't move on! I'm... at their mercy!"

Out of the vision, Otter had seemingly gone into a trance like state, his eyes staring ahead and his lips moving occasionally, which freaked Blade out. "Otter?" He asked, concern flooding his features. "Otter?" he asked, more loudly this time, but Blade's voice could not penetrate into Otter's dream, and the F-18 would be incapable of hearing him... for now.

[adelphi prime.]

(This killed me... just... I had this song playing in the background while reading the bit with Otter... it was horrible. But wonderful. Just the beginning... well... everything... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNXayrqPeUM Also, sorry if my writing gets sloppy. At this point I'm seeing all this more as a movie or storyboard than anything. ...thank you intrumental...)

Otter - Tags: Pike

Otter couldn't meet Pike's eyes, but felt as if he couldn't move from his spot. "It was an accident!" he protested, "I... I didn't mean any of it! It was storming, I missed the wire... I don't think I could have redone that landing any other way!" The marroon car, however, Otter was glad to glare at, his currently seeing eyes growing harder and colder than they had been before. "You! You think this is beautiful? To have the dead like this? It is grusome, what you've done!" Seeing Pike and hearing him had released a rage the F-18 couldn't control, but if he tried to move forwards it seemed that the car only moved further away without even a thought or twitch. Pike's calling reverberated through the air, chruning Otter's emotions. He felt helpless... no... hopeless... no... he couldn't even describe it. "Pike! I... I... I CAN'T HELP YOU!" He screamed the words in a cry full of despare. His emotions turned back to rage towards the car, "You're MONSTERS! You fiends! Let him GO!" He tried in agony to lunge towards the car, ready to rip it to shreds. "PLEASE!"

Rush - Tags: Skipper, Shinn, Oskar

"It wasn't just you," Rush added softly, "you'd protested at first... it was to our -my- begging that you fell. That we fell." All he felt was defeated, but was grateful that Skipper was attempting to place the blame on himself. No matter the case, he still felt it was his fault in his heart.

[ShadowWolfCelica]

Shadow Tags: Dusty, Radar

Shadow remind expressionless as Dusty talked, the doubt once again settling in. She didn't beleive that she would ever come to like him, and this was something that was perhaps not helped by her some what stubborn nature. "Dusty.... I've been doing this a while, it doesn't get easier. Everything has to be taken with a pinch of salt and honestly, I hate all the criminals and low life's I have to deal with.... but you know, it's worth it to see them locked up. I'm sorry but... i wont change my mind. I'll hate him forever possibly. I don't care if he didn't start down at that path, he CHOSE to go down it, which makes it worse. He knew what he was doing" Shadow said here, looking to him.

She knew it would be harder for him to understand but she decided to let it go. It wasn't worth debating over. She looked to the other plane here, twisting her tire. "Shadow Carlisle" She said here, a slight sigh in her voice. "Trained Agent. Hopefully soon to be Superior, i would hope!"


((Yeah sorry Shadow's a bit.... limited. Not much I can think of for her right now.))

[ZAFTPrime]

((Okay. ))

Shinn - Tags: Skipper, Rush, Oskar

Shinn nodded, deciding to keep his mouth shut again. If he wasn't helping, best to remain silent again.

Doc - Tags: Miles, Spray

Doc blinked. "But how could they get in? Weren't you in one of the most secure prisons in the world?" Doc asked. He knew Miles had been attacked in prison, but he found it odd that someone could just enter such a facility and try to finish him off.

[Dusty Crophopper]

((Pretty good piece, I must say. Heheh, love this scene so far. ))

Pike, Mystery Car, Blade - Tags: Otter

The mysterious vintage car smiled at him, and did indeed reverse a bit, but not completely out of range. "But it is beautiful! You see... he can't be released... he's ours now... the cycle cannot be interrupted. It is us... or you. We need your homes... your lives... and we're going to take them. It's the only way... us or you... red replaces blue." He chanted, grinning now.

Pike seemed to pause, confused when Otter said he couldn't help him. "But... but you caused this." Pike insisted. "You caused this... now I'm trapped... trapped here... unable to live... unable to die... you caused this... you... caused this..." The vision suddenly began to fade, replaced by first a milky vision in Otter's eyes, then gradual blackness as his blindness seized him again, the blue world he was in going dark, but Pike's words still echoing in his ears:

"You caused this..."

"Otter!" Blade called again, trying to get his attention as the F-18 finally seemed to come out of the trance. "Otter! You all right?" Blade demanded, anguish written on his face which seemed to give way to relieved concern as the consciousness finally appeared to come back over the jet fighter now.

Skipper and Oskar - Tags: Rush, Shinn

Skipper frowned... then softened. "But it was my command... I ordered that we check it out... ultimate fault... lies with me." the old Corsair said softly to his former squadron mate. "A good commander... knows when NOT to give an order..." he urged gently. "I wasn't one..." He said regretfully.

"Herr Rush... it was a mistake... a mistake that cost lives yes... but we all make them. We are not perfect... we are fallible. You have to forgive yourself... you have to. I know it might not happen overnight... or right away but... you have to start the process. You can't hold it all in... it could consume you... and maybe... it already is..." His voice was low, gentle, much lower than Skipper's had been, and he only glanced at him occasionally, mostly staring at the table, or down at the ground as he spoke.

Dusty - Tags: Shadow, Radar

"Shadow I know but... maybe he didn't fully know... you don't know the full story because you don't know everyone in and out..." he pointed out to her here, his voice soft. "You haven't lived his life... and I know that... which is why I don't want to fully judge him harshly just yet... it's not like he perpetrated an attack like this after all... which took way more lives... and was blatantly wicked. I just... I understand. I'm not going to try and change your mind..." He said, moving away from her here and out into the light of the twin moons.

Sighing, he looked back. "I haven't eaten since breakfast... can I uh... get you anything? You want to go with me to get some food?" he offered, trying to perk up... though the day had clearly weighed on him in a very heavy fashion, and he was struggling to stay his usual buoyant self in the midst of all this killing and destruction in his hometown... to say nothing of the appearance of a foreign moon in their sky...

Miles - Tags: Doc, Spray

"I was! Yes! The doctor told me that... no one saw them come in... and no one saw them come out. They only occasionally got caught on camera but... for some reason... the cameras watching the main entrance were out at the time... and no one specifically remembers them driving in or out of that prison. It's all so... shady to me." Miles explained here. "I mean who are these cars? What did they want with me? How am I even involved in any of this?" he asked, looking around from left to right desperately.

[ZAFTPrime]

Doc - Tags: Miles, Spray

Doc frowned at this. "I wish I knew." Suddenly, this pain lanced across Doc's head and he winced. It was like...he could recall something about his own attack that had been repressed. "I...I think...I think the victim of my own attack had something big to say to us at the conference. He just said it would change how we perceived coming into existence, but that is all he said before the explosion hit. After that, it's just a blurry mess to me..." Doc seemed to calm down somewhat, but he was still disturbed by this. "All that I can recall after that is waking up and being in pain. I couldn't see very well due to oil covering most of my vision and the pain I was in. As I said, I only saw a car from the early 20th century before I blacked out and then when I woke up once more, I was in the hospital with the FBI outside my room."

He then sighed. "I don't have any answers as to why the conference was attacked either. It was as secure as h*** when I was there, but no one knew how they got in. I heard the cameras were down for some reason, but the FBI didn't know why. It's suspected it was an EMP device, but I highly doubt it."