Hanger's Outbreak!-INTERACTIVE STORY

[Sabre]

ok, i'll post some more



Sabor was still deep in thought when his comm unit beeped. Sabor was snapped back to reality like when he tried to sleep in english last week and they slammed a dictionary 2 inches from his head. He pressed a button and checked the channels, no vioce comm, must be a text message. He pressed another button and a thin green screen appeared in front of his face and he read the message. He was right, Ace was also here and he needed some help figuring this out. He looked around, making sure there was no threat, he finally remember the condinates to his wolfen and recorded them in a text message to himself in case he had to get the hell off of here and fast. He panted in fatique, he was trained in his merceanry class to ignore this in a survival setting. But he couldn't help it here, there was something about the atmosphere, something that made him ignore his little vigor tricks. He sighed, and started to follow Ace's directions, he said he had a shelter, and he needed get get there before he could rest, otherwise he risked being killed in his sleep. Suddenly, the corona started to flare again. "f**k" he thought knowing that a shadow was around here somewhere. The large trees started to blow, and ground started to shake. What was going on? He looked behind him, he expected to see another shadow to fight, but this was human, it was a shadow formed as a tornade. Sabor cursed and ran as fast as he could through the forest, he didn't remember the shadows being able to turn into natural diasters, only solid things, this might be the same shadows. Sabor cursed again hearing that the torando was catching up. He kept running towards the corinates he was almost there. Suddenly the shadow disppeared, and he reach a clearing he look from behind a tree fatique was catching up to him, he saw the shadow again. But in the clearing right in front of the corinates was Ace's base, well hidden. The Shadow was standing outside, engaged in a desparate fight with what appeared to be Ace, and it was in the form of...he looked to get a closer look. Sabor jumped backwards in shock, it was in form of him and standing outside base. Ace never liked to be alone, and being that he sent out corinates he probably was thinking that the shadow was him. When Ace went out to greet him, the Shadow must have attacked! Sabor cursed once again. Today was not a good day. Oh well. Ace was in trouble, and maybe he could help.

Uh-oh, Ace knew he had done it this time. His own shadow had nearly beaten him, and he knew good and well Sabor could outfight him on the ground any day. So Sabor's shadow...

Ace didn't have time to think on it anymore. He drew his rapier, and it was on. The Shadow immediately drew its twin sabers. Just like Sabor, Ace thought. Always use the swords, even though you're carrying a dang armory on your belt. He was the same way, though.

The Shadow used both sabers in a massive hack and slash move out of some slasher movie. Ace dodged the slow move and struck. His rapier went right through the Shadow.

"Well, what's plan B?" Ace asked out loud.

When going against his own shadow, it disappeared as soon as he had struck it. But, if that didn't work, then how the heck was he supposed to kill this thing?

The Shadow tried a jumping strike, but Ace dodged. Ace was in an all defensive posture now. If he couldn't beat him, he could outlast him. If he could only manage until the Moon's flare went down...

The Shadow did a spin attack right out of Legend of Zelda, but Ace could only block the strike. As he back away, the Shadow flung one of his sabers at Ace. Ace could only jump out of the way. When it completely missed and landed at an angle, Ace was happy that the blade wasn't meant for him. But, he felt a deep sense of dread when he looked at the angle. It was a 50-something degree angle, Ace forgot the exact number, but he did remember one thing: Sabor's signature move involved jumping off of a 50-something degree saber planted in the ground and performing a jump-strike on the way down. That move could slice through solid steel, a fact Ace knew from experience. Once, Sabor had gotten mad and attacked his arwing. It fell into three pieces.

Ace's fears were confirmed when the Shadow ran towards the planted saber at full speed. He jumped off of it into the air to an impossible height, and began to spin like a buzz saw.

Unbeknownst to both of them, a third figure had been watching the battle. When this new figure saw what the Shadow was doing, he knew he had to act. This figure knew that particular attack all too well.

Ace could only draw his rapier and use its heavily armored hilt to slow the attack. He knew he had been beaten. Already, this planet had defeated him. Ace closed his eyes and waited for the final strike.

The real Sabor was standing there with his saber outward blocking the attack, being that it was a rel saber and not made from shadow the shadow disapeared without a trace. THe moon turned back into the regular form again, indicating that the shadow have been returned to the moon. "You alright?" He said plainly, putting his weapons away. Ace nodded, scared to death. Sabor sighed and made his way for ace's shelter, that was big enough for both of them. "So you got my message?" Ace said once they were inside. Sabor sat down, sighing again. "So was that your first shadow?" He said leaving the question un-answered. Ace shook his haed vigorously. Sabor didn't think so. "You should be WAY more careful" He stated laying his tired body on the extra bed that ace had prepared. "Hmm, your pretty good at making shelters, but i always was the outsider, like to sleep outside in the grass, but that would be too dangerous." "What do you know about this place?" Ace asked knowing that Sabor kne something being so calm. Sabor explained about how the moon and the stars as effectiong this planet and reminded ace about the erathen solar system and explaine dthat venus was destroyed from these shadows and the sister-planet from earth was once alot like earth only more land. They went to sleep right after, and soon after that there was a noise inside the shelter, that woke both the boys up. "You didn't check this place before you set up shop?!" He said jumping to his feet

[ArwingAce21]

For the record, when I said that Sabre was better on the ground than I, that was because at Hanger72, he led the ground forces. Me? I'm the fly guy. I don't have Arwing in my screen name, a picture of a plane as my avvy, and focus on flight for fun.

[Sabre]

*looks at watch*...

[secrets]

Read the first part, need some time to get to the next part. Amazing! Equally amazing that this was written by two people as it flows as though one person wrote it.

[ArwingAce21]

Thanks Secrets! Aside from the obvious style differences, I'm shocked at how fluent we were able to get it to flow.

Sabre, is that all we wrote on it? Go ahead and post the last bit, if there is a last bit. Then, we can get Jeanne to announce that all members are welcome to add to it and modify it and such. It'd be cool to add in a bunch of people's avvys as characters.

[ArwingAce21]

Okay, there's STILL more that we have typed. Can ya tell how busy we were over the summer? /end sarcasm.

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"Of course I checked the place! I'm the Survival expert!" Ace shouted.

The two frantically looked around and soon discovered the source of the sound: A small rat had knocked over Ace's sniper rifle. The heavy rifle trapped the rodent, and one well placed shot from the six shooter silenced it.

"Sabor, since you're up, I had a few questions that I thought up. One, what causes these shadows to invade a planet? That moon can't be red normally; is the crimson tint like a 'planetary virus,' infecting individual celestial bodies? Two, these shadows...Mine was silenced as soon as my blade touched it. I stabbed yours several times, but it only took you one swipe to off yours. That means only the shadow's owner can destroy it. Now, what happens when we run into a shadow of someone who isn't close by? Third, you said that merely sent the shadows back to the moon. We need to get to the moon and take out the source there, don't we? Or is there more to your prophecy? Please, don't spare the details."

Ace and Sabor once again reclined on the makeshift beds and Sabor began another long explanation...

The story was long, but very interesting. Sabor had explained to Ace that the remains of the old Venus had once been like a second earth just with less life, during the time that humans were made, you could see that Venus was very close to Earth and was a sister planet to Earth. But one day, shortly after men created fire, Venus turned dark and slowly became engulfed by this darkness and the atmosphere imploded and turned out to be too much for any life that existed, but the dinosaurs that were still around needed the extra heat and energy that was radiated off the old Venus, the heat was greater, but Venus soon after drifted away. This was done by Venus’ moon, turning crimson and summoning unnatural creatures that quickly took over and disrupted the life cycle and the planet’s makeup along with it. This was a tragedy; the dinosaurs died from the sudden heat lose. The humans however, took this for granted; they developed and grew stronger and more intelligent. With time, Venus turned into the state it was today, thus seeming like it was like that all along. But history said otherwise. His ancestors found evidence that this had happened but no one believed them, but they passed down the story into the generations. This was proof that his ancestors had been right, and this was a miracle that they were re-living it. But, this was also horrible; they couldn’t get off like this they needed to stop this before it ends up the same. This planet would soon develop life, and these shadows wanted to take that away.

"So you're saying that it's up to us to save this planet and help its new beginnings of life develop into intelligent beings?" Ace asked, somewhat increduously.

"Yup. If my family discovered, verified, and have been trying to get others to believe it for years now, then it's true," Sabor answered confidently.

"Okay. Makes sense. So, first of all, we gotta keep ourselves alive long enough to get to a ship and go to the moon. From there, we can fight this 'Crimson Darkness' planetary infection at its source. I hope that this doesn't turn out to be something man-made. If a living being created an infection that could tap into a celestial body's life force and destroy that body's neighbors, we're up a creek. This planet is in the middle of nowhere. I seem to remember that the path we flew took us far away from Lylat and deep into the depths of the Thyrrenian System, which is much less developed than Lylat. However, if that infection was to get into the planetoids in Lylat, the entire system could be ravaged by these shadow fiends."

"Nice speech. But now I need some rest. I don't feel like dwelling on the finer points of infectious diseases infecting entire planets. Way over my head. You do the thinkin', I'll do the shootin'. Buenos Noches, mi amigo Ace."

Sabor collapsed onto the make-shift pallett Ace constructed, falling instantaneously into a deep sleep. Ace looked at this and shook his head.

"Heh, most people take around seven minutes to fall completely asleep. Sabor takes seven seconds," Ace mused aloud. "His bloodline has much resting on its shoulders. I hope he realizes the gravity of this responsibility."

Ace walked over to the hole he had left in to wall to look outside. He could clearly see the crimson moon; crimson because of some uber-infection that can bring down entire planets.

"I can only hope we are able to stop the destruction of this planet. More importantly, we must stop this infection of evil from spreading into Lylat. I must defend my home."

Ace left the ragged window and reclined on his pallett. He shut his eyes, and eventually fell into a fitful and restless sleep...

Sabor woke up from spitting hunger. he hasn't eaten since they got here and totally forgot about this human need. It was still dark, and Ace continued to sleep, slightly snoring. He better leave him be....did he bring any food? No, he better go out hunting. He left all his weapons except a saber, and borrowed ace's sniper rifle. He slowly went outside the cave, trying his best not to wake ACe up. He climbed up on top of the cave and turned the nightvision on his viser on. He set up the sniper and layed there without moving.

After a few hours he fell into a light sleep. the hard stone was really unconfrotable but he managed anyways. There was a noise in the bushes over to his right side. He adjusted to confront this animal. An artic wolf's head pecked out from the bush, making sure it was safe. Sabor cuckled, the wolf most likely wanted to raid the campsite for food. Little did he know that the only food that would be there was him. He shot the beast right into the heart. If it wasn't for the long barrel and silencer that would have been heard a mile away. A pack of wolves came out of the same bush wondering what have killed their leader. "shit" sabor thought this could be really good or really bad. He shot another shot at one. but missed and shot him in the lung, he would live but not for long. The wolves looked towards him, knowing where the metal death came from. He put the sniper don and drew his sword. He hoped that it wouldn't come to this but he threw the sword like a boomerang and cut the wounded wolf's head clean off. The blood was gushing and horrible and the rest of the pack was not happy, charging towards him, the boomerang sword didn't come back. He was in trouble. they jumped on the top of the cave, and charged as a whole. He kicked on in the jaw, breaking it and there was 3 left. This sucked and he needed a weapon. A laser shot from under the cave, making a clean laser hole into a wolf's stomach. Ace woke up, and he could have just shot his only partner, but luckily he didn't.

Ace woke up when Sabor went outside, as Ace was always a light sleeper. When he saw the great pains Sabor took to avoid waking him, however, he feigned sleep until Sabor was in his sniper's nest.

Ace sensed trouble coming, and decided to prepare for anything. He got up and put on his armor. He noticed that Sabor had taken his sniper rifle, but only that.

Ace grabbed his six-shooter laser revolver and crouched by the hole near the door. He knew the critters around here were rough, and he didn't want Sabor to get in over his head.

Several hours passed, and Ace was in a hypnotic state. Not asleep, but in more of a meditative state. The sharp zing of his sniper rifle's silenced barrel snapped Ace out of it. Ace used his superior night vision to see that Sabor had killed a wolf-like creature. It was as white as snow, but there was no snow near by. The wolf was out of its regular habitat.

Ace almost stepped out to congratulate his companion on the kill, but a metallic "shink" of a sword being unsheathed brought him back on the defensive. A whole pack of the displaced wolves was converging on Sabor's position. Ace saw Sabor's dilemma, and raced to cover him. He fired his six-shooter, but soon saw that the side arm wasn't gonna come close to the firepower he needed.

Sabor had one saber left, so Ace had some time to arm himself. He rifled through Sabor's gear, and soon found what he was looking for: the Desert Eagles.

Ace stormed out of the small shelter, guns a-blazin'. The pack of wolves never knew what hit them. With 5 wolves dead, Ace checked on Sabor to make sure he was fine.

"Relax, Ace. I'm fine. Nice save there, though."

"Thanks." He glanced at the dead wolves. "Looks like dinner is served."

"Yup. You get the fire going, I'll do the filleting."

Ace proceeded to use his exceptional fire starting skills to get a roaring blaze going, while Sabor sliced up the wolves into steaks.

After the meat was cooked, Ace brought up the oddity of the Artic wolves occuring in a temperate forest environment.

"It just seems so strange that those would show up in so warm a climate..." Ace pondered.

"Yeah, eco-nut. I don't care. It's just dinner to me."

"Hmm...maybe. Also, I was thinking, we may have to move our shelter. The smell of that meat will bring every predator in a 15 mile radius to us."

The all too familiar corona blazed up around the crimson moon, as if on cue.

"I believe it just did," Sabor said with a grim smile.

Ace and Sabor drew their blades in anticipation of their next shadow-beast encounter.

Sabor Grinned, and though of the thrill of the kill. He seemed to have adapted to this planet, he is a little more bloodthirsty then normal. They stood there in the dead silence waiting for something to apear, but nothing happened.

"...hmmmm" Ace said in a confused mood.

"THERE!" he said shooting his six-shooter in the bush. But nothing happened and nothing moved and he pointed at the bush to check it out.

They moved in and looked into the bush and got a nasty surprise. A violent spray of skunk right in their faces, blinding them both Sabor fell over and ace collasped near a tree.

The skunk changed into a human shape, but more wispy and fragile. He raided the camp and planted the worf meat on them and took the remains and threw it in the tree so that the wind would carry the scent even farther. He disapeared and the chuckling of his laugh was violently evil. This was bad. Ace was barely standing and wasn't going to be up for much longer. He had to do something before it attracts a unknown beast.

"Aaghhh..." Ace was trying to focus his eyes through the fog the spray put on them. Sabor was already out cold, and he would be soon, too, as the spray had a sleep-inducing agent in it too.

'Great,' he thought. 'A shape-shifting skunk. Now what?' He chuckled to himself, feeling completely helpless. And delirious. That spray was slowly shutting down his conscious thought processes.

But what to do? Their weapons had fallen no more than a few feet from them, but what use are they if they have no operator? The corona flared again, this time much brighter than before.

There was a dull roar in the distance, not of a creature, but of many creatures. It slowly rose, and peaked at the roar of a jet. But nothing appeared. Ace only heard the sounds of an army of shadows approaching.

As the ebony night of chemical-induced sleep overtook him, Ace's last conscious action was to stow a single Desert Eagle in his cloak. Ace passed out, his hand gripping his Rapier's hilt.

Footsteps of unknown sentries flooded the raided campsite. Hundreds of shadow creatures, all in the form of efficient foot soldiers, were marching in rank towards the unconsicous mercenaries.

A black blur blazed into the campsite. The figure stopped, glanced around furitively, as if unsure of it's actions. The shadow being tore the meat from Ace and Sabor, grabbed the two bodies, and dissappeared into a black mist with them.

As the soldiers came upon the site, the meat markers were there, but the prey was not. As they glanced towards one another in confusion, a larger sentry, mounted on a shadow beast similiar to a bear, just with horns of a crimson hue. The apparition gave orders in a silent language, and the entire legion dissappeared into a black mist.

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...A blurry view slowly came into focus. Ace's eyes adjusted to the dark environment slowly, groggily. The spray's effect had diminished, and he was soon able to take in his surroundings.

Stone walls, no light source save a crack in the ceiling letting in the ruby moonlight, a stone floor, and the sound of water dripping in the distance.

Ace groaned as he realized he was inside a cave. Surely a dungeon, as they had been captured. But, there were no shackles, no chains? What was going on? And where was Sabor?

A sound behind him caught Ace's attention. He wheeled around and jumped to his feet, but the sudden moment caused him to get light-headed and fall down again.

Sabor mustered a chuckle. Ace had turned to look at him, but the spray had left him unsteady as well.

"Well Ace, I think we made it, wherever we are."

"Good. You were out cold last I saw you."

"Where are we? In a prison? I thought we would be devoured..."

"Right after you passed out, the Corona flared again, and a legion of shadow beings were coming. It sounded like an army more than ravenous creatures."

"You sure? Well then, we better get out of here and orient ourselves."

Ace and Sabor stood, unsteady, but began to move clumsily.

"I hate poisons that mess with my motor control," growled Sabor.

An elvin figure appeared in front of them, blocking their movement. Its blazing red eyes and featureless face pierced their souls. The solid black shadow elf smiled at the two pilots.

The two mercs reached to draw their blades, but found none. They had been searched while unconscious. The sudden movement made both lightheaded, and they collapsed on the floor again.

The shadow being laughed in a voice that was unlike anything Ace or Sabor had ever heard before.

"Relax, my good men. My intentions are for your own good. I mean no harm, I merely removed your weapons to prevent self-inflicted wounds. The Yerrin's spray is known to ruin a mind. You have done well to survive it. Come, let me tell you of your situation..."

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Ta-Daaaaaaah!!! The part that Sabre and I have written is finally complete! Now, I officially declare this topic...

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OPEN TO ALL MEMBERS!!!

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If anyone wants to add to this, go for it. Feel free to add to the plot, make yourself a character, whatever. If Sabre and I haven't gotten too crazy yet, then y'all certainly won't. We are at a fairly critical plot junction, and I think Sabre and I will step aside for now and let one of y'all carry on for a bit. Have fun, this is YOUR story!

[secrets]

Interactive stories are such fun. There is one on line I took part in. We never did finish though. A sci fi. I'll see if I can find the link