Upon hearing about the Annexation of Chimera from Gary, the crew gets summoned over Miseryland. They get a Teleport over there via Queen Lakes Teleportation Mages. When they arrive there, Dark Master Oz, Queen Lake, and King Joe were all there ready for them. She escorts the whole crew to a Royal meeting room, and she gives everyone the scoop on whats going on. Ryan, who was not from this world, had no idea on the background on Mriya or Yulee and really didn’t understand the severity of the situation that’s going on out west.
“So shes kicked Yulee out of the seat of Palmlandia, I’d suppose Yulee would just move her Capital somewhere else then” Kannell said in the meeting.
“Shes in the process of doing that as we speak” Queen Lake responded back to her.
“Well I know one thing for sure, Shes not moving to Wyozonia” Zephyr said while crossing her arms.
“Why is that?” Ryan asked her.
“We as a race despise her. We only follow her because she created us and also because Bunnell doesn’t want us on her side, and I’m living proof of that. But the stuff shes pulled in the past on us is unforgivable” Zephyr tells him.
“Cheetoecchi isn’t fully on her side as well” King Joe said while pointing an island nation that looked a lot like Cuba that was to the West of Tourterra and Eyefore.
“If it wasn’t for the Succubi and Incubus invasion over there Cheetoecchi would be a neutral state free from Yuleeian influence” Dark Master Oz said while he looked over at Citra that was carefully walking into the room.
“So that only leaves Faterra or Deland as the only 2 places she can reseat her power of her Faith” Greena said while looking at the map and thinking about what her former ex-girlfriend/Boss would do.
“Haha, it’s probably going to be Faterra. I spent enough time locked up in prison over there to know they are crazy for her.
As soon as he said that a Man walks into the room. The man appeared to be a Hunter. He was dressed up in a Military uniform that looked to be of Faterrian origin. Ryan when he looks at this mans face gasps. This man looked like Craig Mabbit. As soon as he took off his hood Noodle jumps up and attacks the man with his fists.
“Traitor!!!” Noodle yells as he slams this man against the wall. Kannell then gets up along with the rest of the team and runs over to them. This other man head butted Noodle and knocks him down to the ground. While on the ground Noodle Grabs his legs and pulls him down. He and Noodle then start chocking each other out. When Kannell realized who this other man was she laughs and stops her team from intervening.
“Hold on guys, let them scrap this out between themselves” Kannell said while laughing.
“You’re the Reason why I went to jail!” Noodle said while punching this man in the head.
“I told you to finish that dude off before we crossed the PVP boundary!” The other man said while getting a chock hold on Noodle.
“I wouldn’t have had to second guess if he was alive or not if you didn’t suck ass at Aiming!” Noodle screamed while putting the death grip on this man’s neck.
Ryan sat back and was laughing so hard right now. He never thought he’d see the day these two would be in the same room, with him present.
“We were fucking friends Miles! Why did you have to go and Betray me! You and the others used me as a Scape goat, and I was the only one who got the prison sentence put on him! That’s not what friends do to each other asshole!” Noodle screamed at him while being chocked out by him.
“If you Didn’t instigate the fight like a retard we wouldn’t have been put into that Situation!” The other man said while yelling at him back with the last bit of air he had in his lungs.
Then like clockwork both of them pass out on the floor and let each other go.
“There we go! Much better!” Kannell said with a Smartass tone and a big smile on her face.
Greena smiles at both of them and casts [Shadow heal] on both of them and they both jump up screaming in pain.
They then get right back at it and start slap boxing each other rapidly like little angry schoolgirls. It was quite comical to watch for the first 30 seconds before Kannell gets in between Noodle and the other guy and makes them calm down.
Heavily breathing and pissed off Miles says: “As I was trying to say before I was rudely attacked by this idiot, I come with news that Yulee has already reseated her Factions capital in Faterra. Also, she is on her way with a large force of extremists into the Palmlandian capital of Manatee. Things are about to go from bad to worse” He told everyone.
For exactly 30 seconds there was total silence in the room. Everyone could feel the tension and severity of the situation.
“Hang on, if Yulee is leading a march into Palmlandia, this could be kind of a good thing” Queen Lake said while thinking about the situation.
“What do you mean Lake?” King Joe asked her.
“Well inter-faction civil wars won’t send the world into another Holy war. If a Yuleeian faction attacks another Yuleeian state that won’t send the whole world into chaos. We could still maintain control” She explained to everyone.
“Hang on. When is this invasion going to start?” She asked Miles.
“Tonight, at exactly Zero hundred hours” He tells her.
“Okay. We could use this to our advantage. Hey Miles, can you go get us some Uniforms from your country that will fit these guys?” Queen Lake asks him.
“Sure can” He replies.
“Okay great! We are going to seed these guys into your attacking force” She tells Miles.
“Okay. I’ll go grab some of those uniforms for you Lady Lake” He tells her while bowing his head to her. He then walks up to one of her Teleportation mages and she teleports him to Faterra.
“So, what are we doing exactly?” Ryan asked seeming confused.
“Ok I have a mission for you all” She told them all with a profoundly serious look.
“What is it Ma’am” Kannell asked seeming fully Alert.
“You all are going to Link up with the Faterrian Army that’s going to be marching into Palmlandia. On the border of the Ala-Ash/Palmlandian Border there are experimental war machines that Mriya brought in and put on standby in case Chimera didn’t surrender without a fight. I want one of those Machines seized and secured” Queen Lake ordered them.
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“Wait how in the hell are we going to do that?” Noodled asked while looking at the maps.
Kannell then Smiles at her boyfriend and points to Chimera on the map.
“You said they Seized the town, and took over a farm and converted it over to an Airfield?” Kannell asked Queen Lake while smiling at her.
“That is Correct. Why what are you planning?” She asked Kannell.
Kannell then just smiles at her.
Time: 20:00 Hours Location: Flood, Faterra
The team all were dressed in Faterrian Military Uniforms that consisted of Olive green, and Crimson red tiger strip patterns. They were all outside the port town of Flood, Faterra. They all hop on a ship all armed with their weapons and gear that Queen Lake, and King Joe gave them. The ship takes them out to sea and into the Channel of Mice, and they all sail for about an hour and Rendezvous up with a Faterrian Carrier vessel out into the Gulf of Atreyu. They all then transfer onto a Super-fast and Agile Super-Gryphon and run into a problem.
The top of the Gryphons saddle could only seat 4 people comfortably. Ryan comes up with a solution to this. Kannell, Greena, Noodle, and the pilot of this bird sat up top while Ryan and Zephyr Agreed to be Strapped into the spare Bomb rack pylons under the birds belly.
The Ships deck crew straps Ryan and Zephyr in and then Climb on top. Under the cover of Darkness, the Ship’s captain gives the Pilot permission to take off. Zephyr who was scared held Ryan’s hand tightly. Ryan who picked up on this, pulled out his phone with his free hand. He then puts on the song: “Fire It Up” By Escape The Fate on a mild Party mode. The bird then starts to hop forward and flap its wings hard. It then starts running off the edge of this Flat decked ship that had its masts Winched down to allow take off and landings. As soon as the bird ran off the edge of the ship it really started flapping hard, they start falling toward the water but at the last second it starts to gain altitude.
Ryan and Zephyr were terrified at the take-off from their point of view, but once they got Airborne they took some deep breaths and enjoyed the cool air on their face and enjoyed the music as the Pilot turned to a heading of 150 and kept climbing.
“Hey baby, that was close!” She yells over the music.
“Ya That scared me too!” Ryan shouts back to her.
“Hey, this song is pretty Kick-ass!” Zephyr said while rocking out to the song.
“That’s why I put it on!” He replies back to her while smiling at her.
“This Song makes me want to let my mom count to 3!” Zephyr said in joking manor.
Ryan Smiles at her chuckles a little bit.
As the Bird kept climbing higher the air got colder. But Ryan and Zephyr got a hell of a deal out of riding underneath the bird. The heat coming off this birds body was blowing off of it and onto them and the ride felt very mild compared to everyone who was riding up top. Zephyr’s wasn’t really phased by the cold, since she inherited her father’s Cold Resistance from him being a Wolf Lyieku, and her living her whole life in a freezing cold winter hell they call “Wyozonia”. As Ryan held her hand, he remembers the plan that Kannell drew up. When the song ends Ryan puts his phone back in his pocket.
He was a little worried since Zephyr only had like 80% of her mobility back, but at the same time she begged everyone to be able to join in on this dangerous mission. He was thinking about how they went out of the way to get this flight there, but then remembers when the operation starts everyone at the border will be tracked. If they went in with the ground troops that was going after Mriya, somone would see them leave formation and deviate toward a different town and send trouble their way. Dropping in from the air gives them more time while the rest of the army goes on the hunt to kill/capture Mriya under the orders of Yulee.
Ryan also began to think about this Faterrian Uniform he was wearing. Queen Lake and King Joe didn’t want to take a chance on if in the event that if in the event this mission does end in failure, their involvement would not be traced back to them. Faterra was the country that was leading this assault on them, so if they all die, they will die as Faterrian Soldiers with absolutely nothing being traced Eyefore or Tourterra.
As Zephyr held Ryan’s hand, she looks at the ground below her. Ryan couldn’t see anything but Zephyr being part cat could see the world perfectly in Indigo.
“Hey baby, don’t forget to turn on your Night vison when we drop” She reminds him.
“Oh, I forgot about that!” Ryan said as he felt his phone in his pocket. Ryan then reaches into his pocket and pulls out his phone. As he pulls it out, he accidently drops it out of the holes in his netting that he is strapped into. When Ryan gets his hands free and back in front of him, he Recalls his phone back into his hands before it even gets remotely close to the ground.
Zephyr was looking at him and was humming a familiar tone to him. She was humming “The Guillotine” from Escape The Fate. While she was humming that song, Ryan had a flash back on the first time he met her, and they got locked out of the city. She and him activated this song’s Buff and promised each other to not leave their side while they fought like hell to stay alive that night. As Zephyr was humming that tune Ryan smiled at her.
“So, what if I told you that song had a Part 2 to it?” Ryan tells her.
“I would believe you” Zephyr said in a sweet tone while smiling at him.
Ryan then smiles back at her and puts on the Song “This War Is Ours” By Escape The Fate on Max Speaker volume. He didn’t want to give away their position by blasting it on Party mode or Global. Since they were now nearing land. As he and Zephyr listened to the Song below the bird, everyone up top could hear it too, but just barely. The song gave everyone up top something to focus on and distract them from the fact that they were freezing their ass off. Everyone was cold and shivering and wishing they thought about this plan more. Greena on the other hand didn’t seem to care about the cold at all and wasn’t shivering.
This song for some reason seemed to piss off Noodle and he didn’t know why. The song also made him have a sick feeling to his stomach. He had a strange feeling that something bad was going to happen. He takes some deep breaths and that weird feeling in his stomach goes away.
They all then keep flying for a few hours looking at the moon, the Stars, the shadowy outlines of the mountains and hills below them. Everyone who was up top freezing was begging Ryan to keep playing some songs to distract them from the cold. So being a nice guy he does so for them all. Later on, in the flight Ryan had the song “Desire” From Ozzy Osbourne playing when he gets a heads up from the Pilot.
“30 minutes till we get to your drop point! Double check all your Equipment and make sure you are all ready to go!” The pilot warned everyone in a German accent.
Upon hearing this everyone up top straps on their gear and goes over the plan one last time. Ryan and Zephyr had a backpack full of chains and straps and adapters while the others had other gear for their portion of the mission.
As they Fly along the border of Faterra and Palmlandia Ryan looks at his phone. It was 1 minute to midnight. He could see soldiers on the ground from the air getting ready to Zerg rush Palmlandia.
At exactly 12:00 at night Operation Barbwire commences. Faterra soldiers charge across the Misty river and starts making their way to Manatee. When this starts the next song on Ryan’s phone Auto plays.
The next song up?
“Devils Daughter” by Ozzy Osbourne.
He could see the fireballs from the Fire mage’s and Arcane attacks from the Arcane mages light up the field. The bloodbath has started.
Ryan and his Squad were flying over this warzone and they were all glad they were bypassing it. For some reason Ryan was stuck on a weird feeling. Faterra had given the nickname of this Attack “Operation Barbwire”. This sounded so familiar to Ryan, but he just couldn’t lay a finger on why.
Then out of nowhere a huge fireball comes shooting up from underneath them. The fireball homed in on them and somehow the caster of this “AA” missile triggers the fireball to Detonate. Ryan had his phone in his hand getting ready to shut off this Ozzy song. The fire blast of this explosion hit under the bird and pissed off this bird who was going as fast as it could. The blast burnt away the support netting that held Ryan and Zephyr underneath the belly of the bird. They get disconnected and start freefalling.
Ryan who had his phone in his hand gets startled by the explosion and disconnection from the bird he accidently hits Randomize song on his phone and drops his phone from his hand. They were at 10,000 feet at the time of the blast and didn’t have purgatory on them nor did they get a Slow fall buff put on them from Kannell or Greena.
Ryan’s first priority was to grab Zephyr. He Grabs her and holds on tight. He does a swift maneuver in the Air and rolls over and gets her on his back.
He could hear his phone playing: “Get up, Get Out” From Escape The Fate playing and sees the Screen illuminated below him. He Recalls the phone into his hand and Zephyr holds on tight.
He Activates his Night Vision widget and he can see the world in an Amber color. He Starts leaning forward and they start falling forward toward a town he can see on the Horizon. He wanted to get out of the air as soon as possible and reduce the ability of somone being able to track him. He free falls until he was at 600 feet and then Activates his [Slow Fall] widget buff. This acts as a Parachute for him and Zephyr and then just like the lyrics to the song, Ryan and Zephyr who Started out Face down, hit the ground Running.