Chapter 7 Is finally here,
Sorry but I recently got... A... New... PUPPY :D
Anyway, I been looking after him along with revising and doing work and stuff.
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Firstly, November Red Angel, I debated with myself whether he should do that but I went for the less gory option, idk why though :| ?
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Chapter 7 Day 1 Part 1
Mercury was asleep in his bed in his ship, It was a large white room, shaped like a perfect cube, it had his bed with white fabric and silk lined sheets and bedding in the left away from the door, a smooth white Mercurite Table, Mercurite is a strong but nice looking metal that resembles the stone Marble. and Also a wardrobe made of Birch wood.
He had spent most his night working on the A.I Core and had finally got it back online, but it's memory banks had been corrupted by Slippy meaning it lost most it's memory, except the files on Mercury and the ships stats. He was layed sprawled across his bed, only dressed in black fabric boxers, showing off his well toned body with slightly tanned skin. His armour was in various pieces around his room, His gauntlets (forearm pieces) were on his desk with his armour for his left leg, his right leg armour was at the end of his bed, his front chest piece was on the floor and his back piece was next to it, his metal armour boots were at the end of his bed aswell.
His helmet was hanging on his bed post.
He was awoken from is slumber when the ship shouted, still with it's feminine voice "CREATURE NAMED FOX MCCLOUD AT CARGO BAY DOOR, REUESTS YOU TO WAKE UP"
"Okay... tell him give me a few minutes" Mercury said tiredly yawning, Mercury spent 5 minutes putting his armour on, leaving his helmet off, he then got his four pistols and put the two in his thigh holsters, the third on his chest holster and his last in the one under his left arm on his waist. He opened the cargo door to see Fox and Falco stood there waiting while his helmet was tucked under his right arm.
"hey guys" he said still tired, but then realised their clothes were different, full blue fabric jumpsuits with a picture of a planet... presumably Corneria on the left of their chest,
"Sup" Falco said while Fox said "Morning, we got to get to school, we got 30 minutes to get 5 miles away"
"Okay... but first your clothes?" Mercury said
"Its the Academy's uniform, don't worry dad made sure you don't have to wear these." Fox explained, making Mercury sigh in relief
"That's good, but how's Mya?"
"Dad called up the General and he sent a medical team from the base to pick her up, but she's fine and that bruise you found was nothing serious"
"Okay so she's fine, but what's traffic like?" Mercury asked looking for a fuel canister for his jeep.
"It's usually bad this time of morning, also, the vehicles of our world are like yours, with wheels, the ones you saw yesterday, the hover vehicles, they can only be owned by the rich or the military or the emergency services, so yeah" Fox explained.
"Okay, Wait.. is that a Harley?!" Mercury asked spotting the bike which looked so much like the one he'd seen in books about 21st century motorcycles as a kid.
"Yeah, that's mine" Falco said proudly
"Well... as traffic is bad, we use the bike and get there faster by lane splitting" Fox said
"you got a bike Fox?" Mercury asked
"Nah-"
"You can borrow my spare" Mercury said walking towards his pair of supermoto's, both matte blue with gold stripes down the left side of the furl tank.
"Thanks, but I'll ride on the back of Falco's like I usually do" Fox said shyly
"Why?" Mercury asked
"Simple, Mamma's boy here can't ride because Vixy won't let him, she's terrified about him having his own bike as he's reckless" Falco said holding back a laugh
"Oh wow, well let's go" Mercury said, he grabbed one of the survival backpacks from the wall, a pure blue one, he had packed it the night before when he got in, taking out the maps, compasses and some other stuff but instead packed it with a city map, a few pens, and the emergency rations that came with the pack along with his sea blue water bottles.
He slung the bag over his shoulder and got onto one of the bikes, he pushed his leg down onto the starting peg, making the engine rev, he tried until the fourth time the engine fully started. He rode it down the ramp as Falco started up his bike with a key and Fox got on the back.
Mercury rode off the ramp and ordered the ship to lock up until he got back, and to kill any intruders.
The two bikes roared off the concrete of the landing pad and around the house, going along the grass for a little area.
They then drove onto the main road that past the McCloud's house and the very few neighbours, they went full throttle down the street, but slowed down as they reached the city limits.
The next 2 dozen minutes were spent going down streets and between other road users, the whole while people would stare at the blue armoured Mercury on his equally blue bike. The trio then arrived at the academy and went into it's large parking lot, parking their bikes near the entrance.
They approached the front gate, to Mercury, it honestly looked like the Airports and Space ports that were on his race's planets and colonies, but refurbished for military use, there were guards at the entrance, 3 sets of double doors, The building it's self was big and White with the same symbol on Falco's and Fox's chest here and there around the facility, most the walls were concrete and stone but some had whole walls made of glass windows.
(when you picture the Academy search Heathrow airport Terminal 5 images)
As the trio walked towards the Entrance, they noticed that basically everyone, Guards, Trainee's, Teacher's alike. The two animals knew it wasn't because of them, but because of Mercury, in his full Sea Blue armour with gold stripe from his left shoulder to left foot. As they got within 10 paces of the door, a Lizard guard blocked their path and said, "Commander wants you to go see him right now... alone" He handed Mercury a pamphlet with a map on, there was a large red circle drawn round a room on the top floor, floor 7.
The three of them shrugged and said goodbyes and see ya later's as Mercury used the map to navigate his way round the school, each corridor was filled with more and more people as they stared at him, but he would ignore them, after a few wrong turns and staircases, Mercury found himself outside a room with a brown door in a grey coloured hallway, the door had a gold plaque on it saying
Academy head office
Brigadier General Lisa Sharp
Currently: In office
The last line was a small white card hung on a piece of rope and a nail. He knocked on the door and heard a kind femine voice from the other side call "Come in"
He opened the door to see a raptor like humanoid female, her body was brown scales with long black hair, her eyes were a stunning hazel brown, in a black knee skirt, with a black jacket and pink undershirt, she sat behind a black desk with some papers in her hand.
"Hi there, Mercury correct? I'm Commander Lisa Sharp, I'm the head of this Academy, now please take a seat" she said gesturing to the two black fabric seats that sat opposite her desk.
She continued once Mercury sat down, "Now, Mercury, I wanted to personally tell you the rules of the Academy and also ask you a few questions okay?"
"Yes Ma'am" Mercury responded politely
"Okay, firstly, can I request you take off your helmet for now, and also put all your current weapons on the table" She said sweetly, but with a clear strong authority behind it. Mercury took of his gun holsters, and put them on the table, he then removed his helmet to show his face. The Commander eyed him closely and inspected every detail of his face.
"Interesting, now the rules, one, No fighting unless authorised, two, no insulting teachers or fellow trainee's, three, listen in class, four, no foul language, five, no taking the Arwings for a joyride, six, no using the simulators without an instructor, seven, no stealing and finally nine, no mature acts on site" she said sternly, the last one making him blush a little, which made her giggle slightly
"Everyone blushes at that one, there are so many places people will do it, this building is really big after all" she chuckled "now the questions I have only been told your name so I have quite a few, are you in your planet's military?" she asked
"Yes... and no" Mercury said
"What do you mean?" she asked confused
"The system I came form, we had all 8 planets colonized along with some asteroids, but our sun... went Supernova, now my race live in cruisers in space, I'm in the fleet military" he explained, the Commander looked shocked
"I'm sorry for asking that, I should have asked General Pepper for more info"
"No it's okay, it was over 2 years ago, most of my people are over it... kinda"
"Okay, I'm sorry once again, but next question, what rank are you?"
"I'm Brigadier General Mercury McRanger of His Majesty's Royal Colony Fleet" Mercury doing a salute sarcastically
"Is that the truth?"
"Yes ma'am"
"Then we're the same rank, and how did you get your rank at so young, what are you like 16, 17?"
"Simple, I became the SCOUT, and I'm 17, 18 in like 3 to 4 months"
"I'm 32 and I only got this rank after a few combat missions in Venom territory, but what kind of scout are you?"
"Our fleet had very limited materials to make new ships, so they could only make one, a SCOUT ship, my ship, I ly around the galaxy and look for new planets for my people to settle on" He said proudly
"I see, how good has it gone so far?"
"not including the events after the mist, great, 7 systems, 6 planets, and 7 billion out of 78 billion with planetary homes"
"78 BILLION, oh my you must need a lot of ships"
"Yeah, around 50 million colony cruisers and another 60 million to just produce the food and also hold the cargo and defensive ships aswell"
"My gods, now next question, how many combat missions have you flown?"
"one, the sixth system I went to, they shot at me on sight, I shot back and took out around 7 fighter craft like the ones I seen here, but that was with my bulky HMS Pathfinding Fox and not a fighter." Mercury explained
"I see, now, what are your plans after and IF you can learn to fly our craft?"
"Simple, fly to the nearest planet I secured and radio to the fleet, I might bring them back here to see if we can make trade's and if your scientist know of any near by, habitable but uninhabited systems in the area"
"Good to know, now final question, do you have a family or in a relationship?" she asked slyly
"Wai, what?!"
"Are you romantically involved with someone, it's so we know if you have any family ties, when we send people on missions or training exercises, we have to know just in case worse should happen... even if we can't exactly contact yours"
"Well, I got my parents back on one of the colony ships, my girlfriend is a fighter pilot along with my friends who were in my training squad before I became the scout"
"okay, one last thing, some trainee's are a little... how you say... not friendly to 'foreigners' of the planet"
"Racist?"
"Yes in simplest terms, so be careful and don't let them get a reaction out of you or it could bring the press down on you like a ton of bricks and could get you in trouble with my superiors like General Pepper, and we will be letting you keep your weapons as you may need them for protection, BUT no killing or harming other trainee's with them"
"Understood Ma'am" Mercury responded nodding once, she pushed the pile of pistols and holsters towards him, he stood and put the weapons and holsters back on in the correct places.
"Thanks, but where do I go after this?" he asked
"Find Fox McCloud, who your familiar with already, your in all his classes so you just got to follow him"
"Thanks" Mercury said, he put his helmet on, said his goodbyes and walked out the door.
With Fox
Fox and Falco found Slippy sat at one of the steel tables that were spread round the large dome like room that served as the mess hall, they sat with him and said their greetings as some others began joining their medium sized picnic style table.
The first two were a Cat and Fennec Vixen, The Cat was Katt Monroe, a pure pink cat with short white hair on her head her eyes a stunning blue, she sat next to Falco who was trying to conceal a blush beneath his purple feathers. The Vixen was Fara Phoenix, brown furred and a little shorter than Fox, her eyes like Katt's and her face filled with small light brown freckles on her fur, Both were dressed in standard Blue jumpsuits of the Academy.
The group once again began talking as three more arrived, A Lynx, a Cocker Spaniel and a Bulldog, The Lynx was Miyu, an orange and black furred Lynx with a silver metal ring piercing in her large left ear, her eyes were an amazing Hazel brown. The Cocker Spaniel was Fay Spaniel, a pure white dog with large white ears, her eyes a piercing Azul blue. The Bulldog was Bill Grey, his fur a milky brown and his snout an even lighter brown, his eyes a hazel brown like Miyu's. they too wore the blue jumpsuits.
The group all began exchanging greetings and small talk as they reunited but the mood of happiness was soon destroyed when a shadow fell over Fox. The group looked behind Fox to see a large Wolf, grey fur with a white chin, and grey eyes with a red eyepiece computer over his left. his jumpsuit was pulled won to his waist as he wore a white vest underneath showing off his well toned arms.
"Hey McCloud miss me?" The wolf asked as a green lizard and a black panther stepped out from behind him. The surrounding tables of people began muttering and whispering as the two groups faced each other off.
"Hey Wolf, how you doing" Fox said casually with a hidden venom
"Good Fo, but you know...we never had that fight on the last day of last year, and all those people who showed up never got to see a fight" Wolf said evilly
"Too bad, I was helping my dad with a Search and Rescue mission" Fox responded almost snarling
"Well... why don't we rearrange the fight for now eh?" Wolf snarled cracking his fist as he clenched them
"How about no... First day back fights always end in expulsions" Fox said
"Oh really.. are you afraid McCloud" Wolf said
Fox jumped from his seat and faced off Wolf, inches from each others faces. "I ain't afraid of nothing" Fox said
"well prove it and fight me" Wolf said picking Fox up by his collar, they may have similar builds and strengths and the same height but Wolf had the advantage because of the natural strength that came with being a Grey Wolf.
"Put him down" a voice said behind the group,
"Or wha-" Wolf said turning round but stopped talking when he saw a gun barrel in his face, he looked past the gun to see a gold visoured, blue helmet, he looked the figure up and down slowly, his big blue armour with the gold stripe and other pistol holsters.
"yeah.. fine" Wolf said, he dropped Fox and slowly walked away, he then noticed that on the other side of the blue armoured figure, his other hand was pointing another pistol at a cowering Panther and Lizard from his crew.
"Panther, Leon, lets go" he said casually as the three walked off eyeing the guns as both remained pointed at them as they left.
"Thanks for that, I thought I'd to throw a punch" Fox said
"No Problem" Mercury said holstering his pistols, the surrounding people kept staring until Mercury said "Next person to stare gets a bullet" the surrounding people immediately stopped staring. the two sat down back on the table as everyone except Slippy and Falco inspected Mercury.
"Guys this is Mercury McRanger" Fox said
"I'm the guy that crashed a few days ago" Mercury said sarcastically
"Nice to meet.. you" Katt said unsure what to think
"What she said... but quick question... what are you?" Miyu said earning a nudge from fay who hissed "Don't be rude"
"Oh right.. armour" Mercury removed his helmet and saw the shock on the new peoples faces. "I'm a Human"
"A Human ey? never heard of them, anyway I'm Katt" Katt said
"I'm Fara, nice to meet you" Fara said kindly
"I'm Bill"
"I'm Fay"
"I'm Miyu"
"Well nice to meet you all" Mercury said "Oh.. and Slippy... YOU BROKE MY A.I" he said fake angry
Slippy flinched and looked fearfully at Mercury "S-sorry" he stuttered
"I'm just joking man... but yeah you made my A.I lose a lot of it's memory banks because when you did the hack a virus was made"
"Oh sorry" Slippy said.
Fara then asked a question "If you don't mind me asking, what kind of name is Mercury, I've never heard anything like it before"
"Oh it's... well was the name of my former home planet" Mercury said,
"What do you mean?" Bill asked "was and former?"
"My System's sun went supernova, most my race got out, but my planet was destroyed along with a few others and the rest of the planets froze up"
"Oh. my. god." Miyu said in shock
"Damn... but where are your people now?" Katt asked
"In the fleet, around 80 million ships total, holding 78 billion of my people, there somewhere, but I know of a few planets that I found along the way that have been colonized by them"
"why ain't you with your fleet?" Fara asked confused
"I'm a Scout, its my job to find planets that we can colonize, I was in another system before this, they told me of systems in this area, so I went this direction and ended up in some mist covered asteroid belt filled with monster bug things.. then I crashed here"
"You went through the Haunted Fogs?!" Bill exclaimed
"If that's what there called then yeah"
"You lucky so of a horse... you have no idea how many ships from Katina have disappeared in there"
"Its the asteroids, the bugs live on them, all you got to do is destroy the asteroids before they get too close." Mercury said
Bill went to say something but a loud ringing bell erupted in the room.
"Time for class, Mercury follow me" Fox said standing with the others.
"Well here we go" Mercury thought as he followed Fox.
And there is Chapter 7, hope you enjoyed, don't forget to follow to keep up to date with the story as I publish more chapters.
Mr Foxer signing off :D
