Anomalous Trip (Part II)

[Dragnoxz]

Dixie: “I don’t know how it works. But it works.” The chopper rises university the ravine, rolls to the left and circles back, passing the waterfall on the left. Up ahead are some lights in the distant, and a soft glow. It’s night, the sky is cloudy. On the right side far in the distance is another soft glow of a town, but there isn’t much left to the left, aside from orange glows in small areas (possibly fires). “I think that’s a town to the north east, 060. I want to investigate it’s You’ll need your gear from the temple.” She points the chopper toward the closest glow.

[slicsinatra]

“Let’s swing by and get my stuff. I need my weapons.”

[Dragnoxz]

Dixie: “I know. That’s where we’re going.” She talks over the headset. “Victor Tango November. Neltz. Im landing to pick up some gear.”

Neltz: “Roger. It’ll be clear.”

After a while she lands. Blades spinning.

Dixie: “Go.”

[slicsinatra]

I head to my bunk where I dropped my gear and get everything on.

[Dragnoxz]

It’s all there. Neltz stops you.

Major Neltz: “Here.” He hands you two extra mags and two grenades. “A little more security isn’t so bad.”

Dixie: “Caston. I’m having a strange feeling.” She speaks telepathically. You sense something too, toward a direction. It’s subtle, but it’s like a soft bubble to one side of your vision, and it vanishes when you look in a particular direction. “She might be in trouble. Hurry.”

[slicsinatra]

“Coming.” I check my weapons and make sure they’re both loaded and I hurry back to the chopper.

[Dragnoxz]

You arrive at the chopper. It’s still standing by. There is a feeling of dread that hits you. Something that was moldy wrong is now seriously wrong. The chopper slightly moves. You can tell it has upward tension and the wheels look like the chopper got lighter. There is an urgency in the air.

Dixie: “I think I know where to go, strap in !”

[slicsinatra]

“Let’s go.” I get in and strap in.

[Dragnoxz]

The chopper lifts up.

Dixie: “I thin-“ she’s cut off and stops speaking. You see yourself being pulled and yanked somewhere. You look down and see a gaping hole in your belly that goes from the right side of your rib to your knee. But the features of the body see not yours. It’s Farenvól. She’s showing you what’s going on, and the loss of blood is serious. She looks up at the sky and sees the clouds. The chin of a dark dragon can be seen, unaware of your ability to see it. It looks down and sadistically blows hot air onto her wounded body, and grins. You can see rib bone on Farenvól. She’s trying to resist fainting from the wound and pain. There is a high altitude stream of lightning that streaks across the sky from her perspective down to up (though she’s on her back being dragged). The path of travel it the direction she’s being dragged. “Where could she be where there’s lightning ?” Her answer is immediately revealed, when a streak of lightning from the chopper can be seen dip down and then back up from right to left, toward a soft distant glow in the clouds. “Caston. Are you seeing the visions too ?”

[slicsinatra]

“Yes. We need to kill that damn thing!”

[Dragnoxz]

Dixie: “They’ll hear us coming. If we had Hellfire missiles we could hit them beyond our sound. I’ll try to fly high and he’ll use FLIR.” (She means her copilot). “The big one we will see.” She begins to climb.

Co-Pilot: “What are we doing captain ?”

Captain Dixie: “Hunting the enemy. Use FLIR and search where I have my laser pointing.”

Co-Pilot: “Yes, captain.”

Captain Dixie: Be ready to fight. You’ll be firing rockets just like I showed you.”

Co-Pilot: “Another enemy dragon ?”

Captain Dixie: “Yes.” She changed to telepathic communication to you. “If these visions are her showing us, you’re the only one who can help her medically.”

The chopper begins to experience turbulence near cloud level. If you weren’t strapped in, you’d have hit the ceiling. She descends.

Co-Pilot: “Got eyes on something. They’re close to that other town. Large object flying. I think they can hear us.”

Captain Dixie: “Lock on with the FLIR camera. Put the reticule on default for everyone. Caston, if you’ve logged in to the choppers computer, open the FLIR option and click observer lock on reticule, it just says OLOR.” She then speaks telepathically and somehow you know exactly what she means. “That.”

[slicsinatra]

I ready myself and look at the scene ahead.

[Dragnoxz]

Dixie: “Did you figure it out ?” She asks telepathically. She speaks over the radio. “I’m going to fly in from the sun and shoot some rockets at-em. If he runs, I’ll come in low and hover.” She talks to you over the coms. “Caston, drop down with the cable and get her.” She then tells the others. “Gunners, focus rear. Anything unusual, shoot.” They all give their thumbs up. “He’s targeted. If FLIR loses lock he ducked below the terrain or changed to a humanoid.” She roll the chopper to put the chopper between the enemy and the sun. She then orients the craft to point the nose at the enemy and begins to dive, keeping the choppers shadow close to the enemy on the ground. “Hang on !” The ground begins to get closer.

[slicsinatra]

I situate my cable, and when it is stable enough I rappel down to her location to grab her.

[Dragnoxz]

The load master waves at you to hold before getting out. The chopper adjusts for accuracy and to lead the dragon. Woosh, chss-chss-chssssh ! A volley of rockets are sent. Two more shortly after and up ahead of the target, two more behind. Although you can’t see or hear the hits, you know by how the chopper quickly pitches up the hits did something. Right gunner begins aiming down. Left goner waves at you to deploy.

Roll Dex.