[IC] Operation Hell's Fury (War of the Scales saga #4)

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" It takes a shit eater to listen to shit, and from the smell of it, you must eat a lot of fucking shit you flaming bitch." the woman said before Amber left to let out some steam. Soon the woman walked out of the shadow when Amber left and crossed her arms, she stood behind Spartan facing away from him, she soon changed from her crossed arms to putting her hands into her pockets. The woman's real name was Taeko " Yes it will be with your band of fucking misfits and killers, it's just like a merry old club house of freaks and deities, all we need are some angels and we'll be set." Taeko said to Machine man.

[NacNak]

Spartan looked back to Taeko for s brief second before looking back to his monitor
"if you have problem with the way we work, feel free to leave, the door's right there, I'm not stopping you" Spartan said as he finished his systems check before he turned to look at Taeko
"besides, it's not like there's anyone else offering to fix the problem we're trying to fix for them" he added as he lightly crossed his arms as he leaned on the wall behind him with a slight smile

[MonsieurShade]

As Jacque neared the ship, he noticed a familiar figure plodding down the hall with a scowl on her face. For a moment Jacque prepared himself for another attempt at a cheap shot from Amber, however it would seem that the fire beast was pissed at something else this time, though, given the particular look on her face, she seemed to be angry at a person. 'Well, that simply will not do...' Jacque thought as he stepped slightly to the side to allow Amber to pass, only to summon water from his bag and hover it around her neck in a wide ring once she was behind him. "Oi. Phoenix. Whoever you're pissed at, don't lose sight of your true enemy here. You are to die by MY hand, so don't go allowing yourself to be baited into a quarrel with someone else on this team like a fool. I will not be denied my combat.". Jacque smirked and retracted the water without touching Amber, then continued into the ship.

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Amber grinned slightly as Jacque walked away
"you know, you should really watch where you step water boy, next time you wont be so lucky when you try to play with fire" Amber said as she looked back to him, where he was standing was a glowing red circle with ancient symbols in it, it was a fire trap that was ready to be detonated, but the glow died down as Amber turned away from him
"and the same goes for you water boy" Amber said as she continued her way to the sleeping quarters

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Spartan looked back to Taeko for s brief second before looking back to his monitor"if you have problem with the way we work, feel free to leave, the door's right there, I'm not stopping you" Spartan said as he finished his systems check before he turned to look at Taeko"besides, it's not like there's anyone else offering to fix the problem we're trying to fix for them" he added as he lightly crossed his arms as he leaned on the wall behind him with a slight smile

" I would but you must not be watching the news, I don't have any problems with you tin can, but I hate that fire elemental bitch." Taeko told him.

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Spartan raised an eyebrow at Taeko when she said this
"oh? and what did she ever do to you?..." Spartan asked with a slightly more serous look

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" She waves her pride of being the last fire elemental alive and expects everyone to kiss her feet, I choose not to and hate people like that, and she tried hitting me with a fire ball when I was young making me think it was a baseball." Taeko said bluntly, she had a stoic look on her face and waited for Spartan to respond.

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Spartan held a slightly stern look as he listened to Taeko, frankly he wasn't impressed
"I think, that Amber coming from a royal blood line and being the last of her race, has earned her what pride she can have, and she's come a long way from expecting people to bend to her will, and I don't care if you like her or hate her, we're a team so your going to have to deal with her, and as for the flaming baseball....., I have my doubts..." Spartan said as he turned away from Taeko
"I'm going to check on something, see you around" Spartan said as he left the bridge and made his way to the cargo bay

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" Whatever tin can, go do what your going to do." Taeko said before Spartan left the area to go to the cargo area.

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Archer was near the two elementas when they chatted, she didn't care about the stupid quarrels that they had."You both should know being around you both is an Asperity, it's pragmatic that you nboth don't get along, but why don't you both just either avoid each other, or or just fuck and get it over with geez. I've only experinced this little rivially for a couple seconds and it's already stupid in my eyes. "

[MonsieurShade]

Rather than address the rune that had been beneath his feet moments before, Jacque tilted his head at Archer with a tired smile, "Well, aren't you a chipper one?" he stated with sarcasm before walking up to Archer. "I wouldn't expect a halfbreed as young as you to understand what a rivalry such as ours truly means. Part of it is due to a glorious war that took place fifty some odd years ago, one that elementals of all races did their best to keep from spilling into the human world. A war, the likes of which no mortal had ever seen!", Jacque's eyes glittered brightly as he recounted the victories of battles past. Jacque cleared his throat, "Sorry, got carried away. Her issue with me is that i'm essentially a war criminal, one who has literally literally murdered hundreds of thousands of her people. My issue with her- well, truth be told, there is no issue, I simply seek to either overcome another foe, or to be met with an honorable end at the hands of a worthy adversary. Though even then, these reasons are paltry to why we have to fight.". Jacque held his arms out wide and grinned, "Its like the Aesop fable of the scorpion and the frog. We do what we do because it is in our nature!".

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MonsieurShade said
Rather than address the rune that had been beneath his feet moments before, Jacque tilted his head at Archer with a tired smile, "Well, aren't you a chipper one?" he stated with sarcasm before walking up to Archer. "I wouldn't expect a halfbreed as young as you to understand what a rivalry such as ours truly means. Part of it is due to a glorious war that took place fifty some odd years ago, one that elementals of all races did their best to keep from spilling into the human world. A war, the likes of which no mortal had ever seen!", Jacque's eyes glittered brightly as he recounted the victories of battles past. Jacque cleared his throat, "Sorry, got carried away. Her issue with me is that i'm essentially a war criminal, one who has literally literally murdered hundreds of thousands of her people. My issue with her- well, truth be told, there is no issue, I simply seek to either overcome another foe, or to be met with an honorable end at the hands of a worthy adversary. Though even then, these reasons are paltry to why we have to fight.". Jacque held his arms out wide and grinned, "Its like the Aesop fable of the scorpion and the frog. We do what we do because it is in our nature!".

" Uhh the hell are you talking about ? I'm a pure blooded Demon and seen the earth when it there were 50 foot reptiles roaming around, and no it's not like a war it's like that shit version of dragon ball z, you two will fight it out soon then possibly become friends from fighting one another and probably even have a friendly rivalry where one of you will say, " I'll get stronger than you " all the time. If you want to know of something that would be Earth shattering, the rapture, the earth would be a battle ground and angels would fight demons, nothing is bigger than that." Archer said crossing her arms and flicking away some of her dark red hair.

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Spartan walked into the cargo bay and went to the Device, he kneeled beside it and looked it over, making sure it was tightly tied down for the trip
"alright, that should do" he said with a smile as he stood up, he then left the cargo bay to head back to the bridge
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Amber was at the front of the hovercraft, leaning on a railing looking out to the horizon with a bored look, Eve and Magnu weren't to far away, Eve was sitting next to Magnus while he slept
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at the bottom of the ramp up to the hovercraft a 3ft tall machine drove up to the bottom on the ramp, it looked up the ramp with a curious look in it's lens, it then looked behind itself to the castle behind it, it made a worried bloop sound as it thought of what would happen if it was discovered to be missing, it shortly dismissed this thought and decided to have a quick look around the hovercraft, it would be right off and no one would notice he had left his post to find out where the group of people were heading, it chimed an excited blip as it looked back to the hovercraft and drove up the ramp with its treads, only moments later it was onboard the hovercraft, it made curious bleeps as it drove at a slow pace around the deck of the hovercraft, looking at all there was to see
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Spartan had gotten to the bridge and went to the controls
"alright, lets get this show on the road..." Spartan said with a mild smile as he started to turn on the hover craft

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The giant airbag under the hovercraft began to inflate as the large fans turned on which filled the airbag, the engines roared to life as the systems powered up, the hovercraft shook as it began to levitate of the ground, faint trails of smoke came from the exhaust vents as the engine began to speed up, Eve's eye's widened slightly at the roaring of the engine as she grabbed hold of Magnus's arm, Magnus however had been woken up, his claws slightly dug into the metal deck of the hovercraft as it shook to hold himself still, Amber had tightened her grip on the railings as this happened, the drone that was driving around the deck unnoticed let out a frightened cry as it back itself up against a wall to stop itself from falling over the edge, it looked around as it noticed the deck was rising, the propellers on the back of the hover craft slowly spun up as Spartan had the hovercraft turn away from the castle, as soon as it was facing away from the castle, Spartan turned up the propellers up to full speed, the hovercraft then sped forward in the general direction of the dimensional rift, Magnus almost lost his grip on the deck as the hovercraft took off, Eve tightened her grip on Magnus while Amber almost lost her footing, the drone however had completely lost it's footing, it let out a high pitched cry as it was sent flying down the deck of the hovercraft and into a door that was left open, crashing into a pile of unopened boxes full off Styrofoam packing peanuts and training dummies
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Spartan couldn't help but grin as the hovercraft sped foreword
"it has quite the kick doesn't it" he said as he held tight to the controls
"if anyone happened to be left behind, I'm sure they can catch up, if they cant on their own, I hope they find the smaller hovercrafts left where we took off" Spartan said as he slowed the hovercraft slightly

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The co-pilot next to Spartan laughed at Spartan when he mentioned it had a kick to it's start up, Taeko left the bridge area and headed to a different area of the hovercraft, suddenly more soldiers appeared in the bridge loitering around doing random things, there were around 12 men all together, some were playing cards, smoking e-cigs, and talking to one another. Outside of the hovercraft it was the golden hour of the day, where the sky was a pale blue color with faint red cracks within the sky, suddenly storm clouds started to move in on the hovercraft followed up with a down pour of rain moving in, the sounds of thunder filled the air every twelve seconds with a light show of lighting in the sky.

" Looks like we got some rain coming in cap, don't worry I've been piloting machines like this for seventeen years, I can take navigate us through this." The co-pilot said to Spartan with a smile on his face, he was about to say something else to Spartan but briefly, the front window on the co-pilot's side shattered, and a figure in white entered through the window, the figure used the co-pilot as a surfboard with one foot on his neck and the other on his abdomen, the figure, rode him like a surfboard till it was in the middle of the bridge in the center of all the soldiers. Before the soldiers could ready their weapons, in one quick motion, there was an explosion that shook most of the hovercraft and took down the soldiers .

The figure was a young looking girl that looked 17, but she wasn't clearly human, she was an android, she had blonde hair and looked around the half destroyed room, the controls to the ship weren't damaged but the men that were lingering around the room were maimed and had some dismembered limbs, non of them were dead just badly injured and weren't in shape to fight back against the android, she soon turned to Spartan the only person uninjured in the room," You, are you apart of Jacob's crew, I need to know." the android said in an urgent tone, it was ready to attack Spartan or block one of his attacks if he tried to harm her.

[NacNak]

Spartans eye's widened as the window shattered, and he raised his arms to cover his face from the blast, when the smoke cleared Spartan looked at the crew, it angered him to see them badly injured, he then looked to the girl with a slight glare and grit teeth, she asked him a question, he was hesitant to answer for he was deciding whether to attack the her or play along
"..... that depends, who wants to know?...." he asked with a dead serous glare as he glanced at the person under the android then back up to her, his fists clenched tight as he stood still
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as soon as it began to rain Amber had grown an annoyed look, she then grit her teeth momentarily and she relaxed, she had made herself a heat shield, the rain was being vaporised before it reached her, but that's when she heard a window shatter, she looked up to the bridge and seen one of the front windows missing
"the hell?-" she said before their was an explosion, Amber watched a flames erupted from the broken window
"well, this just got interesting..." she said as she kept her eye's trained on the shattered window
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Eve had looked up when she heard the window break as did Magnus, when the glass fell towards then Magnus had used his tail to cover Eve from the glass, when the explosion happened Eve's eye's widened in worry, Magnus growled deeply as he watched the smoke rise from the window
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inside the hovercraft a pile of dented boxes with Styrofoam packing peanuts spilled out over the floor around and training dummy parts started to move, out from under it came the Drone, it shook off the packing peanuts sticking to it and looked out the door it flew through, it was storming outside and they were moving rather fast, the Drone made an "I'm in trouble" sound as it backed into the hallway and began to explore

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" Just answer the question, are you with his crew or not ? My creator is in trouble and sent me to tell Jacob important information, if this is another pirate ship then I'll just sink it like the others, please don't make my job hard, I'm just looking for his crew and him." The android sounded distressed like it was worried, which was really odd for a machine, the android aimed it's arm towards Spartan and a panel risen from it's wrist, two small barrels could be seen at the end of the panel, " Answer me please, I don't want to shoot you." the android said to Spartan.

[MonsieurShade]

Having been leaning on the wall inside the cockpit, Jacque had thankfully managed to avoid being tossed about the ship like a rag doll when it took off at breakneck speeds. However leaning on the wall had done nothing to shield him from the shattered glass as a figure crashed through the window and began to ask Spartan for his assistance. Jacque eyed the android with a combination of aggravation and interest as it made its plea to Spartan for his assistance, "I have to say, if you wish to convince someone to help them, there are better ways to go bout doing it than smashing through the window of their vehicle. Or is this some new method of communication for kids today?" Jacque asked as he began to pull shards of glass from his arms, grateful that they'd missed his face and torso. Once the glass was removed, Jacque quickly set about willing the rain that poured down on the ship around the cockpit to avoid frying the controls.

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Spartan glared at the android as he slightly adjusted his stance to a more defendable one
"............ yes I am one of his crew members, but as of recent events I'm now leading his crew, Jacob left to do something that was important concerning himself, and he left me in charge...." Spartan said as he looked to where the android was standing and slightly narrowed his eye's
"there, I answered your question, now lower your weapon....." he said with his teeth slightly grit as he opened his right hand slowly
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the Drone was driving around the hovercraft and it made it's way to the cargo bay, it made a curious bleep as he slowly drove of to a device, he droved around it and looked it over, it definitely stood out from the other objects in the cargo bay, but his curiosity towards it soon dispersed and he left the cargo bay

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NacNak said
Spartan glared at the android as he slightly adjusted his stance to a more defendable one"............ yes I am one of his crew members, but as of recent events I'm now leading his crew, Jacob left to do something that was important concerning himself, and he left me in charge...." Spartan said as he looked to where the android was standing and slightly narrowed his eye's"there, I answered your question, now lower your weapon....." he said with his teeth slightly grit as he opened his right hand slowly.the Drone was driving around the hovercraft and it made it's way to the cargo bay, it made a curious bleep as he slowly drove of to a device, he droved around it and looked it over, it definitely stood out from the other objects in the cargo bay, but his curiosity towards it soon dispersed and he left the cargo bay

The android lowered it's arm and looked to Jacque who called it a kid," I'm no kid, I'm 10 years of age, and the 12 ships that landed on fired before trying to speak to me, I just guessed that this strange ship would have people that would be hostile like the navel ships and Pirate ships were." The android sounded kinda irritated and angry when it spoke to Jacque, it turned it's head back to Spartan," When will he be back ? Will he be gone for long ? Who's in charge then ? " the Android had a barrage of questions that it expected Spartan to answer, while it looked at Spartan it scanned him with a faint red light, it scanned that Spartan had multiple weapons and wasn't human, it didn't bother scanning Jacque it could tell that Jacque was organic.

[NacNak]

Spartan eased up when the android lowered it's weapon, when the questions came, Spartan sighed quietly
"I don't know when he'll be back, he didn't say, and if you were listening, I said I was in charge..." Spartan with a stern look as he looked over the android, scanning her without her knowing
"now tell us why you need us, what does your creator need help with?..." he asked as he stood still, he's eye's locked onto the androids

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" I'll have to give you the whole story, me and my creator were outside of the small town where the dimensional rips were, after scouting out the entire town something attacked us, my creator told me to find Jacob's crew, he wanted me to tell you that the crisis is bigger than you think, there are creatures on the other side, they extremely hostile and attack with great power, but the're stationed only in the small town and don't plan on leaving it for some reason." The Android told him, it looked out one of the windows and back to Spartan.