Air Pirates of the Caribbean
Series 01 Book 01 Chapter 1Khan's Quote: Mercenaries are nether family or employees. There for are expendable.
Marisa was not happy boarding the airship The Spirit of Miami going from Miami to Galveston to visit her fiancé Harold Madison CPA. She did not love him, as mater of fact she didn't even like him. Father said he was a good fur and it would be good for our family and me. Harold was a nice cheetah, but all he talked about was money. How much he had, how much he was going to make, etc., etc, etc.
She looked over the great ship as she walked though it's narrow hallways. The walls were covered in maple panels (she could still smell them), thick shag carpeting (in an ugly green color). Her stateroom was about 6' x 10' with a foldout bed and table. There was a vase of daises with a note from Harold saying how he was going to enjoying seeing her when she arrived, it also smelled of some expensive French perfume that made her sick to her stomach. She picked them up and dropped them out the window.
Dear Diary
Today is the day I have not been waiting for. I'm is off to see Harold, my fiancé. He is not a bad guy, I just don't have any real feelings for him. He is a well paid CPA, but he is also as boring as wall paper paste. I was hopping to have an exiting life like my Aunt Emilia. She is adventurer and even a pilot.
Then there is me. I did get to go to the University of Miami, but I wanted to get into something like archeology or zoology.
I ended up taking literature and mathematics. Father thinks those are proper classes for a young lady and he paid for it all, so it looks like if my 'Husband' is ok with it I can become a teacher.
So here is sit on the Airship 'The Spirit of Miami on my way to Galveston to meet up with Harold and his family to plan out the rest of what looks like a long a boring life.
Marisa Earhart
That evening wile at dinner Marisa spent most of her time looking out the window at the sunset or reading the place mats. She thought the place mats were neat, there were pitchers and descriptions of all sort of aircraft. She looked back outside to see a dark spot in the sun. She thought it was strange, but her mind was elsewhere. She was thinking of different ways Harold could be killed or maimed before she could arrive, like a car wreck a plane crash or getting stepped on by a 50' lizard wile at a business trip in Tokyo.
"Tokyo?" she wandered out loud. "Now where did that come from?"
"What's with Tokyo?" asked a small Japanese rabbit sitting at the table behind her.
"Oh, did I say that out loud?" She replied a little embarrassed. "I'm sorry, but I was thinking of an old boyfriend."
"And what does this have to do with Tokyo?" Asked the rabbit.
"Well you see…I was just thinking of something bad I wanted to happen to him?" Marisa said rolling her eyes.
"Yes go on." continued the rabbit
"For some reason I thought of him getting crushed by a giant lizard wile in Tokyo, why I don't know? I have never been there or have a dislike or anything like that at all." Marisa let out with a smirk.
"That's alright I just have an Uncle that is a movie maker back in Hokkaido who is just looking for a movie idea." mused the rabbit.
"If you like it send it to him if you want to." Marisa said still smirking.
Thank you very much miss…? Asked the rabbit.
"Oh its Marisa Air…" Said Marisa, but was suddenly distracted.
That is when she noticed the ship turning quickly and a pair of aircraft launch from The Spirit of Miami towards the west in the direction of the sun.
She quickly look at the mat was proud of her self as she identified them as Curtis Hawks, a light fighter plane.
"Hey that was a Curtis Hawk!" said with a smile.
"Yes I believe so." Replied the rabbit adjusting his glasses. "Though it is not normal for a passenger airship to launch its escort fighters."
"I wonder why they launched it?" Marisa looked at the two Curtis Hawks streak off at high speed.
It was then that she saw the other Airship, But this one was different it had three hulls with a superstructure between each of them. The center one was large passenger airship, while the other two looked like smaller warships. She also saw what looked like gun turrets on the two outer hulls and some other shapes that looked like airplanes.
Marisa and her new rabbit friend nearly jumped out of her skin when the siren went off. Every one started to run around and scream in panic yelling something about 'Air-Pirates' and the rabbit jumped under his table. She looked around and saw what everyone was doing and actually found it amusing. Marissa looked back out the window to watch the scene outside.
The aircraft finally got in range of each other. She could see the streaks of white that were their tracer rounds. Then two more Hawks sped towards the fight. She watched in fascination as the planes buzzed around like angry bees. All of a sudden she came back to reality as one of the Air-Pirates planes exploded into a fireball.
Marisa looked in horror as she released that someone was now dead even though it was an Air-Pirate. Just then two of the Air-Pirates broke loose from the fight and headed for "The Spirit of Miami". She watched in fascination as the two fighters streaked towards her dodging the tracers from anti-aircraft guns. When they got really close the two of them firing there guns and rockets. The ship rocked as the rockets impacted.
She recognized the aircraft as Curtis-Wright Fury painted bright red and blue. There was another fireball inside the dogfight, but this time it was one of the Hawks. She jumped back a Hawk flew past her window followed by one of the Air-Pirates aircraft firing its guns only about 20' away. It was so close she could hear the clacking sounds of the machine guns and the roar of the engines. She could even see the grinning feline flying it.
All of a sudden the room grew dark as the other airship now loomed over "The Spirit if Miami". The other airship fired its guns at the front of the ship she was on. It also fired what looked like harpoon guns. "The Spirit of Miami" lurched causing her to fly across the room hitting her head on the far wall, the room now spinning before going black.
When Marisa regained her senses her head hurt and she was covered in blood. She got up and looked for the rabbit. Not finding him she headed for her cabin. On the way she heard gun shots. She passed by various scenes of destruction including a fire in the purser's cabin. As she rounded one of the corners leading to her cabin she ran into a Tiger in Japanese armor with a Samurai sword in one hand and a pistol in the other. Then she heard a sound behind her; she turned and saw a large bull with rifle.
"What do we have here Tanaka?" asked the bull.
"Why Michael it appears to be a damsel in distress." The tiger replied with a wicked smile placing his hands on his hips like in a swashbuckler movie.
"Then we should rescue her." Michael spoke with a sarcastic tone.
Marisa was scared out of her mind. What were these two doing, was a dangerous situation and they were making jokes?
Tanaka Spoke. "Yes let us rescue her."
"Not without a fight! She growled as Marisa went into a crouch determined to put up a fight.
"Hey this one has spunk." Tanaka spoke almost with glee in his voice. "I'll take her on first."
"No I want to!" Micheal said putting the butt of his rifle on the ground.
"You know what we got to do." Tanaka said putting his sword and pistol away in his belt.
Marisa looked in shock as the two of them started to play rock, paper, and scissors.
"Rocks beat scissors!" said a jubilant Tanaka.
"Best two out of three." Replied Micheal.
"You always want best of three." said giving Tanaka giving Micheal a really hard look.
"Do not." Micheal replied
"Yes you do." Continued Tanaka.
"Do not." Micheal said crossing his arms.
"Do to." Tanaka pulled on his lower eyelid and stuck out his tongue.
"Do not." Micheal said now tapping his hoof.
"Do to." Tanaka said nodding.
She had turned and started to run at this point, but the bull hit her in the back of the head with the rifle butt. The last thing she could recall was that the two were continuing argue and that ugly green carpet as things went black again.