Anomalous Trip (Part II)

[slicsinatra]

“Can someone explain to me what needs to happen. I’ll try my best to help where I can. My team is concerned with our primary mission, but for some reason it keeps feeling like she wants me here.”

[Dragnoxz]

Captain Davis: “It’s ok. Neltz is going to send us back this afternoon, before the rains.”

Major Neltz: “We were approved to send them back, but the AC-130 is stuck. The Director has his own return protocol. He found you guys here out of a hunch. The US Army crew has no coordinates to their home, so they’re going to be with us for a while for when the others need rest. As for why the family needs to wait till this afternoon, the enemy is less active during the storms, and we use the lightning as interference to mask our returns time. On top of that we send decoy return devices to throw them off, reducing the chances their agents follow us with their wormholes. When they do, we deploy the VAD’s, or Vortex Absorption Device. Using it causes the enemy wormhole to taper down into nothing, and all of their occupants. Some come out at smaller sizes, the ones closer to the center are stretched and distorted gruesomely. We just leave them to die or brave the wildlife at home. The smallest tend to suffocate from the air density. But, the VID, Vortex Inversion Device. That, is what we need here, actually.” He speaks as if he just remembered something. “The VID, that’s what we need. It’ll reverse their wormhole and all that energy along the distance will be pulled back into their dimension in a massive supernova flash, just on a smaller scale.” He looks at the Nal’yus woman, Farenvól. “Is it true. You need him for something ?”

Farenvól: “Yes. He’s able to be connected easier than others. He can go with, as a rider, to keep the enemy back while I probe the enemy. He can dismount and provide me vision of the ground while I fly to project whatever device you need to be here. I saw it all in a vision, crossing the dimensions in another plane. He is one of only a few who can be linked to me. The Director can too, but he and his apprentice will have to fight the enemy if they come out of the portal. Caston, I will need your help like I mentioned, but only if you accept.”

[slicsinatra]

“I accept. I just want to help free these people and the others like me who were displaced.”

[Dragnoxz]

Farenvól: “Very well then. Major, am I to assume the responsibility to his mission terminated ?”

Major Neltz: “It is not my place to say. Captain ?”

Captain Davis: “When the family is secure and home, then yes.”

Farenvól: “Is that family now secure, expecting to return home at the close of the light cycle ?”

Major Neltz: “Assuming nothing bad happens.” He nods.

Captain Davis: “Ah f**k it, I’ll do the paper work. Caston, you’re relieved of my unit. Major Neltz, requesting to transfer First Lieutenant Caston to your command.” He stands at attention and holds a salute.

Major Neltz: “Captain David.” Neltz salutes. “Transfer accepted. Carry on.” He drops the salute. The captain drops the salute after him. “First Lieutenant Caston, welcome to our team.”

[slicsinatra]

“Thank you sir.” I stand up at attention for the transfer. I salute my former Captain, and wait for him to drop his salute. I hold my salute and face my new commander.

[Dragnoxz]

The captain drops his, and Neltz then drops his.

Major Neltz: “Report to Farenvól.” He points at the Nal’yus woman.

[slicsinatra]

“I get up and approach the woman. “First Lieutenant Caston, reporting ma’am.”

[Dragnoxz]

Farenvól: “Follow me.” She has you follow her outside of the towns doctor building. Lakeland looks on, almost in a jealous way as you leave. The others also have a sense of envy. Neltz, he just looks like he wants all this to be over. You are outside, walking with her among the town. “You should recognize me. I’m the one who’s been contacting you, helping you all along your path to here. You’ve see the sphere of my essence and senses of danger and safety many times, and heard and communicated with me in light sleep, almost dream sleep. One of the few others I’m able to do this with is your pilot Dixie. Seeing her have to kill my brother was very painful, but it was the only way. I thought it was, anyway.” She speaks as if in mourning. Her accent is similar to Southeastern Europe of Balkans. “I will have to connect with you many times during mentoring. You will undergo difficult memories, so you will pick through what’s real and not real. It won’t be easy to tell. But I will show you things to look for. The enemy will try to enter your mind, to find out things, to play with you to bend to his will. You will have to resist. You will have to know how to fly with me too. That takes time.” She takes you back to the temple. “Leave your gear. Your uniform is ok. I will take you to where I reside. You are not to touch the creatures you see. Go dismount your gear then come to me.”

[slicsinatra]

“I will be back.” I go to where my cot was indicated to be, or the so called area and find an empty cot for all my gear minus my uniform. Once done I will return to her.

[Dragnoxz]

Someone stops you before you go. They direct you to the make shift ops room where the fireplace is. He shows you where there is a shelf for equipment for personnel. Each section has enough room for a full duffle bag, AT-4, MG, and four buckets and a parachute. There’s for sure enough room. He tells you to write your name and rank on there and what unit. (Unit is ORSARU. It doesn’t have a number. Neltz is CO). You didn’t have much left other than your pack. The guy walks off, and you return to Farenvól.

Farenvól “Follow me.” You pass a few shops and housing buildings before passing a sort of industrial section. It’s small, cozy and smells of burning iron, ash and burning wood. The clinks of metal on metal can be heard among the chatter and hammering of animal flesh at meat processing shops. You then pass shops for smithing, arrow making, weapons and tool making. A man dips a sword into oil as you pass. You reach the heavy gates. They are open with several guards posted. You exit the town itself and just outside you see a lake to your right and all along the left you see many small buildings and huts where a fishing community is. There are kids playing in hay and playing swords with sticks. She takes you to the edge “It’s dangerous here. Hurry.” Her appearance changes. The air adjusts to her change in appearance and size with a fluid motion. She is no longer human. She is now as long as a semi, as wide as a private jet with her wings. “Don’t be afraid, I won’t drop you. Come here.” She holds out her claws, which can hold at least two humans in each. “Ayh. I’m being attacked by the Evokers on my wings, hurry.” You feel something impact you as well. There is a tink-tink-tink-tink sound coming from somewhere. Then in the forest by the tree line you hear grenade launcher shots exploding beyond visual range. 



(Not the best artist, but this is kind of what she looks like on flight. 

[slicsinatra]

I quickly grab on and get ready for a quick get away with her.

[Dragnoxz]

With a few abrupt flaps of her wings, the air flow speeds past and she gallops to a fast speed and the jerking motion becomes smooth. To your right is the town. She dips low and banks to the right and circles the town once before following the river down. She follows it for a while before banking left, then flys level for a while before merging with another river of the same size. Perception.

[slicsinatra]

Perception 19.

[Dragnoxz]

You see a UH-60 Blackhawk approaching to form up. It eventually flys at a distant in formation about 250 meters to the left rear. It maintains formation. The dragon banks to the right at a bend in the river. She flys straight, passing over another river and converges with another and flys along it. Up ahead you can see the ravine. She chopper closes in and flys low above the river behind you. It kicks up mist from the water. The mist stops as you fly over a very deep waterfall. The dragon rolls inverted and dives. The chopper follows. The dragon pulls up and continues to allow the chopper to follow without crashing into her. She circles back and flys toward the waterfall. The water fall gets closer and closer, and looks as if you are about to crash into it. Then she flys right into it, but rather than crash, she flys through the water and into a very large cave, big enough to house a bunch of air ships. A small Cessna could land inside of there were a runway. She lands and releases you on a moist slate ground. There are water falls coming through the ceiling nearly a thousand feet up. The water spreads out as it falls and has the appearance of rain by the time it gets half way down, and a constant rain pours down inside multiple sections of the cave. The Blackhawk eventually flys right in through the main waterfall. It slows and hovers about 200 meters from you and lands. The chopper turns off, and the flight crew begin to emerge.

Farenvól: “I respect your privacy. So I’m asking your permission to connect to your mind, so we can communicate directly. May I ?”

[slicsinatra]

“Go ahead. I’m ready.”