Post Tenebras Veritas (Planes/Cars RP)

[ZAFTPrime]

Doc - Tag: Finn

Doc followed Finn up the shaft, pondering the favor as well. "I've never heard of it either to be honest. The FBI hasn't exactly been to every region of the world." Doc pointed out. "If the mainframe has answers, that should be good. We need them."

The ex-racer then spoke again. "I don't think the place called the Green Eye is just a random name. Based on what he said, it could be a town, city, or even a national monument or national park of some sort." Doc continued. "Of course, I could be wrong and it could be something else entirely."

Checking his camera, Doc made sure it was transmitting before he shifted his attention back to the shaft again.

[Titanic X 21]

Spray - Dusty, Shadow

Spray's eyes narrowed. Something about this didn't seem right, and his ailerons twitched a bit, but he kept a lid on his instincts. "You...will be sorry if this is a trap!" he snarled lowly. His engine revved a bit as he inched a bit closer. "I promise you that!"

He then turned to Dusty. "We'll back you up," he said seriously. "And we did come for answers. If this gets him to reveal them, we'll do it, even though I don't like it."

[ShadowWolfCelica]

Shadow: Dusty, Spray

Shadow listened in silence again, examining the body language of the other, trying to pick out any form of trickery. Well of course there was... it was clear that this stone was not some 'trinket' as he tried to palm off. She shook her hood a little, scowling. "I highly doubt you'll want this stone as some mantlepiece ornament... What does it really do?" She demanded here, wanting to make it clear she at least wasn't going to play ball. She backed up a little, talking quietly to Dusty. "Whatever it is, we shouldn't get it. It's clearly something he really wants, and i have no doubt it'll cause either more bad things to happen, or more cars will die... Dusty we can't do it. We can get info another way. We can! But We can't do this!" She reasoned here, looking to him for a few minutes, before returning her gaze to Carew.

Calypso: Miles

"Oh I suppose I get slightly nostalgic once every while but I can't say that ive ever felt the desire to actually go back. My life is a adventure filled as I make it, or as relaxing as i choose. No routines, no others only in your company for your money... what kind of life is that..." She recalled sadly. Her thoughts flew to her friend.... her friend who had died at her tires. She shivered, knowing that was actually the main reason she couldn't return. But she hadn't told anyone. And she wouldn't. No body could find out. "Besides, it was a better place there without me. My sudden disappearance didn't make sense sure.... and it was better when everyone thought i was dead. Which to my knowledge..... they still do" She spoke again, her gaze now fixed on the screens. "I can never go back to that" She muttered softly.

[Dusty Crophopper]

Dusty - Tags: Shadow, Spray

Dusty sighed, not sure who to go with here... he wanted answers, sure... but... Shadow had a point too! This Galac Stone... whatever it was... it might be trouble or spell bad news.

"It's a key... that's all you need to know..." Carew responded simply. "And it's not a trap... if I wanted to trap you... I'd have done so... like those two agents currently trying to infiltrate my mainframe." Carew said, looking right at Shadow. "I suggest... if you wish no... harm to befall them... you do as I say... of course... there are other ways of twisting your tires... Propwash... Junction perhaps?" Carew asked, looking over at Dusty, his eyes suddenly growing very cold.

Dusty gasped, and bared his teeth. "Now wait a minute... you leave my town out of this!" he snarled.

"Oh I'd love to you but... if I need to apply a little... pressure, shall we say... I know where to really hurt you." the Peerless said here, smirking in a not so friendly way now. "I made you a nice offer, and I suggest you take it... unless you want more travails to be visited upon your hometown..."

"You'd better not...!" Dusty rolled forward here, but Carew held up a tire.

"Please... I'm not looking for a fight... I'm also not looking to send innocents to their deaths retrieving the Galac Stone when I know YOU... are perfectly capable of doing so!" Carew said reassuringly.

"Why... me?" Dusty asked suspiciously.

"Because... you and your team can accomplish big things... others... cannot. So... I promise to leave Propwash Junction hereby forever alone... and YOU retrieve the Galac Stone for me... AND I allow the safe withdrawal of those agents in my air shafts." he said, gaze flitting to Shadow here. "So... is it a deal?" he asked, a sort of friendly smile back on his face here. "The longer you delay... the worse it's going to be for your friends..."

"Guys? Ugh! I want answers!" Dusty said. "Even if it means retrieving this Galac Stone... I think we should do it!" he said now, worried about Finn and Doc and where they were.

Finn - Tags: Doc

"Blast! He knows we're here!" Finn hissed. "But how? There's no cameras down here... the schematics showed nothing!" he insisted, feeling a whoosh of air as a steel grate suddenly slammed shut below them. "Mmmm!" Finn angrily growled, glancing behind him. "Proceed forward! Let's go!" He said, gunning his engine and driving rapidly up the shaft now as the grate began to move towards them, propelled by some unseen force. "Blast it all! Let's go!" Finn urged, reaching the top of the shaft and deactivating his magnets as he began to drive forward through another one. "Shadow he's got us pinned here! Toying with us perhaps! But I'm curious about this Galac Stone... I say we go for it! Could be our way of getting answers!" he exclaimed, looking in his wing mirrors to make sure Doc was following.

Miles - Tags: Calypso

Miles gasped as he suddenly shifted his gaze to the cameras, seeing Finn and Doc were in trouble! "Uh... hold on! Uh..." he desperately tapped a few buttons, trying to figure out where they should go. "That shaft leads into a uh... cafeteria looks like! You'll have to go higher if you want to reach the mainframes!" he radioed to them, looking to Calypso with nervous eyes. "They think... you're dead?" he asked, a bit astonished at this. "Why? Why would you... let them think that?" he asked, turning away from the monitors as she once again held his attention. "I... I never knew that!" he said. "But then again... you never really kept in touch with me after I made it big! You kind of just... well vanished!" he admitted here.

[ZAFTPrime]

Doc - Tag: Finn

Doc swore when he realized they had been found out. He followed Finn's lead, not even looking back when he heard the grate shut. His racing engine revved loudly as he kicked it into high gear. He reached the same spot as Finn and also deactivated his magnets and followed Finn. Doc perked up when he heard Miles tell them the shaft led to a cafeteria. "Finn, this shaft leads to the cafeteria. We need to go higher if we want to reach the mainframe!" He exclaimed before he heard Finn mention how they should go for finding this Galac Stone.

"Hold on! Are you sure about that?!" He asked as he came up beside Finn. "He could want it for some bad reason!" But Doc knew their lives depended on it, and he hated it. "Are two lives really worth more than millions...?" He murmured to himself. The Hudson Hornet was feeling nervous now, his heart beating faster than normal. As much as he hated to admit it, if they found this Galac Stone, they might receive more answers. "If it will get answers...then let's do it." He said as he contacted Spray and Shadow. "Spray, Shadow, Finn and I are pinned down. I don't like this, but if we need answers, then I agree with Finn and we go ahead with the favor." He said as he kept pace with the spy car easily. Doc hoped Miles was getting all of this. The black box also picked up his vitals and showed what they were on screen.

[Titanic X 21]

Spray - Dusty, Shadow

The bigger plane let out a whole bunch of swearing in his mind as he heard that. The fact that they were pinned down and he had somehow known of the infiltration team set his instincts on high alert and the FBI plane looked at Dusty and Shadow. "Looks like we got no choice," he muttered to Shadow, making sure to keep his wings spread protectively in front of the two smaller vehicles. "Threatening Dusty's hometown... And using it as leverage... He's practically forcing us in some way."

'On top of that, I need to get in contact with my team to find out more about this... Galac Stone!' Spray thought. 'o just hope they can...'

[ShadowWolfCelica]

Shadow: Spray, Dusty, Finn, Doc

Shadow grit her teeth as he mentioned about the agents in the shaft.... knowing in an instant that had been rumbled. She felt somewhat panicked as the Faultless radioed through that they had been pinned, desperate for them to be ok. She looked to Dusty here knowing that Carew well and truly had them backed up, and she would have to retract her former statement. Thoigh she drove past Spray and more toward Carew, her engine rumbling angrily. "And who do you think you are? You have NO right to do this to anyone. If you're so fantastic and powerful, YOU should get it" she snapped, getting closer. She heard Doc radio through now and she knew she would have to agree with them. She didn't want to... but her colleagues and Propwash hung in the balance.

"We will get your stupid stone...... ok? But I swear to the great manufacturer you harm another living being I will find you and put an end to you myself....." she snarled to him. "Now let the agents go.... now!" She demanded, having relented her earlier desicion. She made it clear she wasn't happy, but she wasn't about to take it lying down. "Can you guys hang in there?" She radioed in a concerned manner to Finn and Doc.


Calypso: Miles

At the sudden movements on the screens, it was also enough to drag her attention away aswell. The cameras also seemed to focus on a particular figure she didn't know. "Who's that?" She asked, pointing a tire toward Carew, though looked back to Miles at his mention of her vanishing. "Uh... well yeah everyone thinks I perished along with.... De'Rourke.... do you not remember him? The Ferrari.... freak accident so I heard...." she said here looking away. "I let them think that about me. It was for the best.... It was better I wasn't there. But you know.... I regret not keeping in contact.... I really missed you...." she mumbled here, crawling toward him here.

[ZAFTPrime]

Doc - Tag: Finn, Shadow sort of

Doc heard Shadow contact him back and he perked up. "We'll try." He replied. "I wouldn't count on it being certain, but we'll try to make it out."

Looking around, the Hudson Hornet then saw another shaft heading upwards off to the side. "Finn! I found another shaft! It's to your left. If we make it there, we could get to the mainframe!" Doc then turned in that direction, activating his magnetic tire covers and driving up the shaft. He used his side mirrors to check if Finn was right behind him, making sure the spy wasn't separated from him.

[Dusty Crophopper]

Dusty - Tags: Shadow, Spray

Dusty waited as Shadow approached Carew here, threatening him multiple times and seeming to really be quite angry with him. This elicited a smile from the Peerless. "Oh Shadow... I can't... there's an anti-magic barrier up around the place... and since all of you are too stupid to use magic..." he said, still smiling. "It's more YOUR kind of place than it is mine."

"Magic?" Dusty asked, not really sure he'd heard the car right.

"The same! How ELSE do you think I've been able to get into your heads?" Carew asked, smirking here. "Though... it's magic to you... it's actually... innate abilities to us." he explained. "Not sure I can be more... in depth than that, sadly." he said, shrugging his tires out to the side here. His eyes turned... dark again though, despite his smile when Shadow demanded two of the agents be released.

"I think I'll keep one for... insurance purposes... what other guarantee do I have you'll gather the Galac Stone?" Carew asked.

"Uh... my hometown for one..." Dusty murmured. "We're gonna need... both Finn AND Doc to get through this..." he pointed out.

"Perhaps... but let's see if they can make it out... on their own..." Carew said, still smirking.

Finn - Tags: Doc

But Doc had moved on ahead and before Finn could follow, another metal grate slammed shut behind Doc, cutting him off from Finn. "Blast it all!" Finn murmured, beginning to reverse now so he could use his laser. As the beam shot out, he cut it out suddenly, realizing Doc could be on the other side. "D****t! Doc! I could slice through this grate but chances are I'd hit you! Can't risk blowing it with a mine as that could cause serious damage to the vent and us too! Concussion alone could take us out!" He radioed. Suddenly, Finn detected an odor, an odor that was... not native to this vent. "I think he's trying to gas me! I'm going to switch to my rebreather but it won't last long! I'm gonna need to find another way out, unless you can somehow ensure I can't hit you with my laser!" As he said this, a gas mask popped out over his mouth, connected to his sides by pipes to an oxygen tank. He normally used this for diving, but it would work just as well here in a pinch. He glanced behind him in his wing mirrors... the cafeteria was that way... it was a viable option at this rate... if that too wouldn't have a fat metal grate blocking it...

Miles - Tags: Calypso

Miles by now was totally distracted from the screen as Calypso began making her way over to him, his heart suddenly crashing in his body as he gave her a nervous half-smile, though his eyes betrayed how happy he was to see her as well. "Oh... De'Rourke... yes! But... you weren't involve in that accident... were you?" he asked, blinking. "I mean people thought you died... with him? You were what? Out driving with him or something?" he inquired, not really sure on this. "I only... heard about the accident didn't really... get details but yes... I... I missed you too." he said, his voice flecked with longing as he drove closer to her as well, practically touching her. Before he even realized what he was doing, he closed his eyes, and drove forward just a little in order to try and kiss her, acting on impulse and hoping she wouldn't... reject him...

[ZAFTPrime]

Doc - Tag: Finn

Doc swore as he heard the grate slam shut. Looking back, he realized Finn was cut off. As he made his way back, he could hear Finn call out to him and mention he couldn't use his laser for fear of hitting him. Listening closely, the Hudson Hornet picked up on the hissing sound of the gas as well. "S***!" Doc hissed before he realized there was no way for him in ensure Finn wouldn't hit him with his laser. Any reflective parts on his body wouldn't protect him, and the top of the shaft was too far for him to make it to in time for the spy car to use his laser. Looking back at the grate, Doc spoke. "I can't make it in time to the top of the shaft for you to use your laser. Even at my fastest speed, it would be too late based on the rate of gas dispensing. You'll have to find another way out. I can get to the mainframe on my own."

Then Doc contacted Miles. "Miles! We have a problem! Finn's trapped and we need to make sure he has a way out! You need to find that path before he passes out from the gas!" The Hornet snapped, hoping the other car was listening. "MILES!"