VERY sweet.
And my page.

Awesomeawesome. I'm sure the double posting can be forgiven, CT. ^^

*hugs*

>), even so, heat seekers should be very fun things to play with. Especially with a reverse polarity bomb right after the enemies' barrage.

Or you could set your enemy on fire.

Yes, but then they're more inclined to attack you.

True.

Dyria watched from the bridge of the Outrider as the battle frigates Starstrider and Starfinder carved a path of destruction through the Shellian vessels. Her satisfaction was understandable.
The remaining Talios had been summoned to the bridge. Captain Lyan himself was there, his expression grave. Dyria steeled herself for the worse.
"Pilots, this is going to come as a bit of a shock to you, especially after the battle you've just been through. We don't have enough pilots to replace those lost today, and CASD Command has decided that Talio should be disbanded."
Dyria sighed. She'd almost expected it. Captain Lyan continued.
"Considering the incredible teamwork you demonstrated out there, I think it is likely that, should CASD form a new squadron, you will be their first choices. You don't have to stay with CASD, of course," he added. "You can go freelance, or you can leave for another system, or sign on with someone else. If you do decide to stay, you can request to join another squad. I doubt you'd be refused. Either way, your ships belong to you, to do with as you will." His disgruntled expression lightened a bit. "I don't think I was supposed to tell you that, so don't mention it to CASD Command."
Dyria smiled despite herself. The Captain sighed.
"That's all for now. Dismissed."

Jack Flash watched as Irinn's awesomely disciplined army advanced, an impenetrable wall of shockbots, Shellians, and Imbaras. The occasional gap in the ranks showed where Carrotan snipers had hit their marks.
With a target that big, you couldn't miss if you tried.
Abruptly the entire mervenary band of Bloodflames halted and then befan to retreat. Jack assumed that Jheran Rambarath was pulling out on Irinn. Maybe he'd come to his senses.
Jack turned away from the monitor in disgust. "Where are they?"
"Patience," Firefox counselled serenely, but he, too, was worried. If Irinn had escaped, Carrotus was virtually doomed.
Jack plopped himself down despondently. Firefox watched him, concerned. Jack wasn't normally a worrier - if a situation came up, he didn't waste time agonizing over it. He acted. Thus, to see him so pessimistic worried Firefox.
"Jack?"
"What?"
"We need a plan if they didn't make it."
"I know that," Jack said caustically.
"And?"
"I'm completely out of ideas."
"That makes two of us, then," Firefox said.
"Three," Wizard piped up reluctantly. Jack groaned.
"Perfect. We're doomed."
"Guys, look at this," Phish said, eyes glued to the monitor. Firefox glanced at it briefly, then did a double take. He stood, green eyes widening.
"Jack, I think you'd better see this."
"What?" Jack said, looking up. He joined Firefox after a moment, and they stood silently, savoring the moment.
The Shellian army was in complete disarray. The Imbaras stood placidly, the shockbots milled around confusedly, and the Shellians were stampeding. Gone was the intense discipline, the rigid training. It was every Shellian for himself.
"Incoming call, Jack, Captain," Wizard said, eyes the size of dinner plates.
"Acknowledge," Jack said absently. The face of a nervous-looking red-gold lizard filled the monitor a moment later. Jack instinctively reached for his blaster.
"Testing, testing ... is this thing even on on? ... uh ... oops." The lizard grinned sheepishly. In the background, Jack could hear Copper's voice.
"Nice, Justiar."
"Haha, sorry. Okay. Which one of you is Jack?"
Firefox pointed at Jack, who rolled his eyes. He left his blaster where it was.
"Okay. I'm Justiar, second in command to the late Irinn Hariam."
Jack reached for his blaster again.
"Wait, no, no! You don't understand! I'm a Carrotan agent! I helped Eva get out, and I nailed Irinn!"
Copper's voice, faint in the background: "'S the truth, Jack."
Jack relaxed again. "Where are you?"
"On our way back from Irinn's base. We'll be back in a few minutes."
The screen fuzzed and went back to the now-deserted could-have-been battlefield, where an army had tramped not five minutes ago. Jack sighed happily and fell backwards into his chir. He peered up genially at Firefox.
"Good thing we didn't need that backup plan after all, huh?"
"Jack," Firefox said dryly, "we didn't have a backup plan."
"I know. Like I said, good thing we didn't need it, hey?"
Firefox shook his head bemusedly. "Whatever you say, Jack, whatever you say."
True to her word, Copper and her strike team trooped in a few minutes later, minus one and supporting two. Jack sized up the situation quickly.
"What happened?"
"Shinyso got the flat of Jheran's sword imprinted on his forehead, Defalcon got bushwhacked from behind, and Kaz lost his few remaining tail feathers to a seeker missile when he detonated it."
Kaz grinned loftily. "I'm only a genius."
"Elexei?"
"Gone." She shrugged. "Dunno where. I'd assume with the Bloodflames."
"So, uh, I take it you got Irinn."
Defalcon groaned and staggered over to a chair, which he dropped unceremoniously into. "You tell him, Shinyso," he said. "I was unconscious on the ground."
"I wasn't much better off," Shinyso reminded him. "I was seeing two of everything, and my ears are still ringing."
And so Justiar, silent observer of the whole thing, was pressed into service to tell the tale. His rendition was short and to the point. Phish sighed and commented that he'd never be a favorite at the War Tavern.
Jack picked himself up. "Well, we'd better report to the Queen. Irinn is out of the way, even if we haven't found Jazz."
"Are you sure you want to brave that, Jack?" Kira asked. Tira nodded emphatically beside her twin. Jack grinned.
"With friends like you, I shouldn't be afraid of anything. Especially when you're coming along."
"Ouch," Electrik chortled. Kira winced.
"Ever have the feeling that you might have been better off keeping your mouth closed?"
"All the time," Kaz said sadly.
"'S okay," Firefox said brightly. "Lori can always calm the Queen down, can't you, Lori?"
No answer.
"Lori?"
No answer.
"Guys," Wizard said after a moment, "our problems have just tripled. Lori and Spaz aren't in the Castle."
There was a stunned silence. Firefox finally broke it.
"Much as I hate to admit it, it falls to us to break the news to the Queen. Let's get it over with."

Nearing the end here. *sighs*

Yaychappeh! But... for your next story, I challenge you to write something with less than eight characters.

Indeed. Hmm, should write something soon... and stop scraping all the notepads >\

One word.

RAWK!

Yaychappie. *Has a complete lack of anything else to say*

Yaychappie. *Has a complete lack of anything else to say*

OMG DOUBLE POST! *zort*

Yo.

Originally Posted by 4I Falcon

OMG DOUBLE POST! *zort*

Execpt not, as I am not acid, and acid is not me.

Yes, but you obviously think the same way.

Gasp! Could there be a connection between `N0 and Acid? CONSPIRACY!

Ehh, unlikely.

This was a tough chapter to write. *sighs*

No one really wanted to go, so they stalled by taking the long way around, outside the Castle. They chattered and frantically tried to figure out what might have happened to the remaining few members of the Jackrabbit trio.
Shinyso could not say later why he turned around, but turn he did. He shook his head and blinked a few times. Then he turned to Jack.
"Uh, I think I'm hallucinating again. At least, I hope I'm hallucinating, because if I'm not, our problems reproduced and had triplets."
"What?" Jack said, turning also. The he sighed. "Oh."
Shinyso had already seen enough of Jheran and Tephro, but apparently the feeling wasn't reciprocated. The pair of Bloodflames stood only a few feet away, and so did Lori.
Justiar didn't pause to ask questions. His hesitant manner gone, a green blaster appeared in his hand, and he fired twice. Tephro hissed as one shot glanced his shoulder. A second later Jheran, too, held a blaster - and Justiar, a look of pained realization on his face, collapsed, shot cleanly through his heart.
Jack's blaster was in his hand, but his line of fire was blocked by Acid. But Nobody was clear. Raising a hand, he sent a sphere of yellow energy spinning towards Jheran. It arrowed towards the startled Bloodflame, who twisted away too late. It speared through his side. Jheran collapsed without a sound. Stricken, Tephro released Lori and fairly flew to his friend's side.
Lori stumbled over to her friends, face ashen. By the time anyone thought to look for Tephro and Jheran, the Bloodflames were gone.

Spaz wandered around aimlessly through Irinn's deserted headquarters, wondering absently how he had gotten there. He twirled around a few times, giggled, and lurched off down a side corridor.
A green light was blinking in a room off to the side. Spaz looked around with exaggerated care, jumped when he saw his shadow, and tiptoed into the room. He was quite proud of himself - he'd only hit the wall once before finding the door.
The room was empty except for a large, refrigerator-like box, which had a large blinking green light on it. Spaz wandered up to it, tripping on his socks and landing on his face only once.
When he finally made it over, the first thing he noticed was a pad with a bunch of buttons on it. He chortled happily. He loved buttons!
He immediately began randomly hitting them, giggling happily all the while.
Abruptly the green light turned blue. Spaz squeaked in terror, ran, and hid behind the door. A moment later, he forgot what had scared him so much, and wandered out to re-investigate the box. Finally he tried the door that was attached to the front of it. With a hiss, it swung open, and Spaz's big brother fell out.
Spaz squealed in joy and proceeded to bounce up and down on Jazz's stomach until the missing hero groaned and opened one eye. When he saw Spaz avidly staring back, he immediately shut it. Spaz giggled and bounced again. Finally Jazz opened both eyes.
"Spaz, get off of me."
Spaz scrambled off and tried to do a jig. Unfortunately he tripped over his socks and did a somersault instead. Jazz shook his head and stood up.
"Let's get out of here. Lead the way, Spaz."
Spaz proceeded to lead his groggy brother in intricately random patterns around the base, becoming more and more lost and confused in the process. Finally he shrugged and stopped moving, spinning in circles instead. Jazz sighed.
"You're lost, aren't you."
Spaz chirped unhappily. Dizzy, he stopped twirling, and clung to his brother for support. Jazz rolled his eyes.
"Now what?"
After about ten minutes of more wandering around, even Spaz had to admit that he didn't know what he was doing. He tripped over his socks, plopped down, and began despondently palying with dust motes. Jazz groaned.
"Ugh ... I'm going back to bed."
A soft beeping at Spaz's belt caused the young Jackrabbit to leap straight up in shock, cracking the top of his head against the underside of Jazz's chin and crossing his eyes. The older of the duo sat down rather suddenly, blinking in surprise.
"Oooh ..."
Spaz had finally found the source of the beeping. Pulling out his commlink, he pressed random buttons until he found the right one. Jazz watched, bemused.
"You mean to say that you had that the entire time we've been wandering around this dump?"
Spaz giggled and shook the comm. Jazz sighed. "Give me that!"
He snatched the commlink hastily from Spaz, who looked horrified, huge tears welling up in his eyes. Jazz groaned. "Oh, no."
Before Spaz started truly bawling, Jazz found a carrot in his backpack and shoved it at him. Spaz immediately began playing with his new toy. Jazz activated the commlink.
"Hello?"
"Who is this?"
"Uh ... Jazz Jackrabbit."
"Jazz! This is Jack!"
"Jack? Jack who?" Jazz said blankly.
"Jack Flash, remember? Buster Tank and his satellite? Ringing any bells?"
"Ooh yeah! That Jack!"
"Ooh yeah, that Jack. Listen, are you okay?"
"Yeah, why? Where am I?"
" ... we were kinda hoping you could tell us that."
"Sorry."
"'S okay, can't be helped. I assume Spaz is there?"
Jazz glanced over at his brother, who was tugging one a sock and eating the carrot at the same time. "Yeah, you could say that."
"Okay. Stay on the line, Wizard's going to try to locate you."

Some comic relief for y'all =D

YaY!

Still not quite sure what is going on, with the Chaos mage and the Order mage dissapearing out of thought and storyline, but I'm sure we are getting close to the end.

/YaY!

The Order Mage has vanished to the nether regions. No one knows what happened to him, least of all me. The Chaos Mage will return. We have one and a half pages of handwritten story before the dreaded words 'The End'.
*sighs*

This one seems to have gone quick.

*jawdrop*

I have a zillion different things to say about this chapter, but I think I'm just going to stand here speechless for a few moments.

Now that that's done...

Nuu! Justiar! *mourns*

Spaz is so adorably stupid. *grin*

Well, that was two, and now I've gone and forgotten the rest of them.

In any case... this is by far the most awesome piece of literary literature I've seen in a long time. RAWK.

EDIT: Right, now I remember.

There will be a sequel to this, right? *prays silently*

The End are not necessarily bad words. I think they're a sign of accomplishment. "Look, a whole story." You rarely get those words in here... stories just sorta... die.

No, E:JF and SoT are not dead. Stop thinking that, all you foos.

*hugs CT*

Yaychappie! Just one thing, though, I think Spaz IS able to talk. But I could be wrong, too. Oh well. Yaychappie again.

Most excellent.

Eh... must get to writing my story.

Yah, Spaz can talk, but I thought it'd be funnier just to have him sqeak a lot. And giggle.

4I: There might be a sequel. I'm considering a story with my latest chars, Benedict and Autumn. And maybe Mehr.

Double post, I know *cringes*

Jack sighed in relief. "They're at Irinn's HQ."
"How the deuce did Spaz get there?" Firefox demanded. He gestured vaguely. "I mean, it's like, way over there, and we're over here, so how did he get from here to way over there?"
Jack shrugged happily. "Who cares? We found them!" He grabbed Headcheese and whirled his bewildered sister around, then gave Firefox a monstrous hug. The Captain looked only a little put out.
"What's this, I'm not invited?"
Jack spun around to see a sopping wet Radium standing in the doorway, dripping all over the previously clean floor. The Chaos Mage grinned breezily and tossed the Riveth to the white rabbit.
"Toldja you'd get it back, didn't I?"
"Yeah, thanks!"
Firefox stared. "What happened to you?"
Radium coughed and shifted uncomfortably. "Oh, that ... well, the Castle seems to have moved a few feet to the left .. either that or the danged spell messed up again ... but anyway, I ended up in the moat."
"Good job, Rad," Copper snickered. Radium gave her an icy stare.
"I told you Chaos Magic was unreliable."

Dyria flipped on her commlink. "CASD CSO 1, this is the Zenith on approach vector 3-9-2, requesting permission to land."
"This is CSO Control. You are cleared to land in hangar 21A, Zenith. Welcome home."
Dyria grinned. "Thanks."
Home.
She was home.

Tephro Charne gazed through the twilight at the Bloodflames' camp from the vantage of a hill, his thoughts on Jheran.
Elexei Rayden came up beside him. 'Shall I give the order to attack?"
Tephro glanced behind himself at the tent.
"Wait."
Jheran would be proud.

THE END

*bows* An excellent end to an excellent story. Congratulations on story number four.

EDIT: A grand total of 51.5 pages. CT4.doc is all set and raring to go.

Thank you.

*bows* Wot Fouraye said.

Very excellent story. I enjoyed it much. WRITE MORE, SLAVE!

Excellent story.
The ending screams for a continuation tho, CT.

I'll be honest and say I got lost half-way through.

Edit: Truthfully I'm outlining my own story and don't want to read this again so I don't copy yours and come up with my own situations.

I'm not sure about the next one (tho I am sure there will be one). Hmm.