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 Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:35 am
Mark looked at Twixi, a look of interest on his face hearing the remark about him not being an Initiate back then, "So he's been with the brotherhood before eh? Well I think I’ll try and get that information out of him... hopefully he's willing to tell me more about it." he said grabbing the cigarette from Twixi's lips and placing it on his ear as if it where a pencil. "No smoking in my Motor Pool," he said with a smile on his face knowing that he might get a slight rouse out of her knowing her personality.
Mark watched as the tank was parked into place on platform number three, hearing the remark about how he was lucky about having skilled help was infact the truth. "You have no idea how much metal gets wasted trying to help these new tribal’s! Seriously I honestly think a deathclaw could do better!" he said. "Tribal’s are alright in the sense of knowing how to survive, but then again like you said most don't even know their left from their right, let alone know how to piss strait," he said. "well looks like I’ll have to get to work, you can hang around if you want, there's a broken motorcycle over in the other area if you want to repair something" he said pointing over in another direction with his thumb.
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Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:25 pm
The intercom clicked to life and Alexi's voice was heard over the light static.
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Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:28 pm
Knight Commander Mark requested at Research Facility Room C
Knight Commander Mark requested at Research Facility Room C
Report as soon as possible
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Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 3:41 pm
Alex pouted humorously at Marks comment about smoking in the motor pool and carefully placed the Cigarette behind her ear until later. "I'd love to give you a HAND but i'm a bit short as it is." She said jokingly just as the Intercom crackled to life followed by the brief message to Mark.
"Well looks like you won't have time to work after all, i'll keep an eye on Initiate Azure for ya' while you go see what the space cases want. I'll make sure he doesn't accidentally blow something up, but you better get going you know how spazzy does Techs get if you take to long." She said with a bright smile as she gave the man a pat on the back.
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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 4:31 pm
Mark smirked hearing her remark, "Why don't you grab a wrench and a pair of pliers and put them-" Mark was cut off when the intercom in his Motor Pool crackled to to life requesting his presence in the Research Facility. Letting out a sigh Mark walked over to a what appeared to be a small cabinet filled with walki-talkies, flipping on one of them he handed them to Twixi. Holding the other in his hand he smiled at her, "I have a feeling that this might pertain to something regarding you" he said walking towards one of the doors that lead out of the Motor Pool, "I'm on channel two, if anything goes wrong give me a page, or vise versa!" he said closing the door to the Motor Pool behind him. Once exiting he looked at the area around him, seeing the patented area that was the courtyard and the scrap heap that had vehicle parts that needed inventoried.
A large group of mobile suits sat amongst the group of ruined vehicles. Standing to where he was Mark thought to himself, he let a small grin appear on his face before heading to the Research Facility.
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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 5:08 pm
As Mark left Azure poked himself out of the damaged tank. His face was unharmed by all the sparks going off inside the cockpit. His features softened a bit as he began conversing with an old member.
"It has been a long time Twixi... Though I hear you call yourself Alex now."
He hoisted himself out of the tank hatch and sat on the turret.
"You have also been promoted to Paladin, good for you."
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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:09 pm
Alex nodded and took the Walki-talkie and switched it on and stuck it in her belt as she watched Mark leave, as soon as he left Alex turned her attention back to the Tank and Azure.
"Well i thought it was time to drop the old Initiate Call sign and start using my real name, but yes it has been a long time Azure. I'm glad to see you back i was almost starting to get worried that you might have croaked some where out in the desert after all these years. And not really im just a Junior Paladin, but i'm sure i will make Paladin soon though." Alex said with a self assured smirk on her face as she walked up to the Tank and carefully climbed up on it and made her way up towards the hatch and stuck her head in.
"Heh, Mark sure didn't give you an easy assignment for your first job, looks like the entire panel needs to be switched and your probably going to need to call a tech to fix the wiring later afterwards. But other then that it looks like mostly interior damage nothing to fancy." She said as she pulled her head back out and sat down next to the Turret and carefully looked around to make sure there wasn't anyone of Mark's Mechanics around to squeal on her as she retried her lighter from her pocket and lit her Cigarette.
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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:25 pm
"I was never in danger of the Wastes."
Azure said smugly. He had been in the Brotherhood for about half a year before he left, and he was once a part of the Hunters, he had been around enough to know a thing or two. One of his hands flexed a bit and he looked at it.
"Though I do miss having a power fist."
He looked down on the tank that he was sitting on. It was mostly intact, having been repaired on the outside. The inside however...
"I should be able to repair it myself. Things were always breaking in the Crying Eye. You would be surprised how many strange creatures there are out there."
He said as he looked up toward the ceiling, indicating the stars above as his point of interest. Twixi was around when it was revealed that the Crying Eye Runic Hunters traveled to other 'worlds' of existence to acquire 'artifacts' and that this world was one of their destinations visited. However they didn't end up holding onto whatever they took, Ender saw to that.
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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:08 pm
"With the things i'v seen and done here i wouldn't be the least bit surprised at what kind of freaks are out there." She said as she took a slow drag from her cigarette and follow Azure's gaze up through the sun roof.
"I'm not one to pry into other people's pasts, but i'm glad your back Azure. And just between you and me i suggest keeping the whole incident on the down low around most of the newer kids. Allot of what we did back then would come of as a fairy tale and either get you locked up or forced into extensive psychiatric evaluations these days, and some wouldn't take to kindly to hearing why Ender exiled you in the first place." She said giving the man a light pat on the back before climbing of the Tank and wandered over to the work bench and grabbed a crow bar and a pair pliers and tossed them up to Azure.
"You'd best get back to work, Mark runs his Motor pool a little strict compared to how we did it. But then again we had alot more junk to go around back then." Alex said as she leaned up against the Work bench while they talked so she could easily hand him the tools he needed.
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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:19 pm
Azure chuckled as he dropped back into the tank and began dismantling the interior with the crowbar and pliers. His voice came out a tite muffled as he talked. Every now and then throwing a piece of electronics or damaged plating out of the tank. They all clattered to the ground on the other side of the tank from Twixi.
"I planned on it."
He opened, referring to the hiding of his past from the 'younger' members, being the majority.
"Repairing this tank will just take a bit of time. I have to replace basically everything in here minus the loader. This thing must've been hit by an EMP missile."
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Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 12:55 am
Walking around to the other side of the Tank, Alex started to carefully rummage through the scraps using a crow bar to lift the various pieces of junk as she looked around.
"Yeah most of this equipment doesn't seem to have sustained any major physical damage.. Looks more like it got cooked from the inside." She replied as she walked back to the Work bench and tossed the crowbar on top of it as she started rummaging through the assorted tools. Pulling out a small hand held Power measurement tool much like the Geiger counter and climbed up onto the tank and leaned down into the Turret hatch.
"Do me a favour and attach this to the power out let and tell me the readings, we need to know if the entire power source is dead before we start putting her back together."
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Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 1:03 am
Azure poked his head up just enough to see and grab the measuring tool before heading back down to find were to hook it up.
"I swear, making tanks powered by energy cells is just asking for trouble."
He said out loud as he clipped the device's cables to one of the wires that operated the radio, one of the few objects that still was functional.
"Ok, I'm turning it on."
He said as he flipped the power switch.
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Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 1:09 am
"Yeah i know, idiot move to convert it from Fossil fuel to Energy based source. But with the low amount of available fossil fuel we had to remodel allot of our vehicles to match our dwindling fuel source."
She replied as she leaned up against the turret as she waited for Azure to plug in the measuring device, taking the last drag from her cigarette and rubbed it out against the Turret.
"So what's it say? as long as its over 20 we're okay, if its below we need to change the core. God i hope the core isn't fried i hate changing that damn thing." She said letting out a loud sigh.
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Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 11:20 am
“Alex this is Mark, Did you happen to order a large sharp piece of metal be equipped to your arm, over?” crackeled a voice over the walky-talky of Alex's radio.
“Hey Alex… yeah with this prototype, and my current knowledge of how machines and human nervous system work… I’d have to say give me a few days to do some good research, along with building this thing… hope you don’t mind that over." he said.
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Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 2:04 pm
"My knowledge of this technology says that its within operating perimeters... at least, for another month or so."
He said as he popped back up with the measuring device. Long cables connected it to the radio's power source. He showed the needle that pointed to a spot just at the edge of the green background, almost dipping into the white.
"I think this core is one of the older models. I bet this tank hasn't even been serviced since we found it."
Just then he heard Mark's voice over the intercom. He listened until the message was over. After the comm went dead again, he smirked.
"Without Fenix and myself you all loose the ability to build/maintain technology."
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