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An oldie but a goodie if a lil nonsensical anime film. Three heroes, a merc guy wanderer, a wannabe warrior gal and a sorceress wandering in a desert for water in the far off future either on Terra or some other world. They pass through a death house and …

AW Ch 55 ‘Diplomatic Immunity’ or ‘Do Ya Feel Lucky?’

Wow! Kei’s been injured and now that worst of all combat weapons may be in Zorin’s hands- Gundams! Almost as terrifying as the ‘God Guns’ or the Angels’ new toy- the r– whoops! I almost let the neko outta the sack folks! This chapter will put two close tomos at loggerheads with each other and nai it ain’t Vacuumhead and Firebrand either! A pickpocketing passenger will end up saving the day for the Angels and- Kami! I have said too much. Read on loyal and faithful followers of the word:-

CHAPTER 55

‘Diplomatic Immunity’ or ‘Do Ya Feel Lucky?’

The dwarf was still cringing in fear of the blonde’s repercussions.

“Sorry I stole that stuff from you, Lady Marley and I won’t never do it again! I swear it!” apologized Odo but Mar could have cared less at that point.

“Fine. Apology accepted. It’s all forgotten, Odo. Now answer me! Please! Where did you see these things and when?” demanded Mar eagerly.

“Tell her dammit!” cried Rebecca boxing his ears.

“In the back of the caverns. It was yesterday, Milady.” he replied.

“Show us where, Odo. Bring him along, Ryuuk.” ordered the blonde.

“You show Blondie where those metal suit things are that you saw, my lil tomo or I’ll have Light write ‘your’ name in my book.” promised the shinigami with a growl.

“Well I think I know where I saw ‘em, Becky–” began the dwarf and Rebecca drew her dagger.

“Think real hard, Odo or should we get Ivanhoe to ask you?” she said and pointed the dagger at him.

The dwarf cringed.

“Oh yeah! Now I remember!” replied Odo and he rapidly whispered directions to Rebecca who noted the coordinates from his explanation into her PDO and showed them to Marlene who nodded.

By that time they had arrived at the transporter room on Level Seven.

“Hi there guys. Hullo mum. Going somewhere?” asked Elf Huntress Ari who was today’s transport officer. Mar returned Ari’s salute and smiled.

“Please beam me, Rebecca, Odo and Ryuuk to those coordinates (Rebecca handed over her PDO to Ari) in the rear of these caverns. Ryuuk, put Odo on on that pad. Rebecca, on the one beside Odo. Ryuuk, stand behind him and I’ll stand behind Rebecca. All set? OK Ari- energize.” ordered the blonde and all four of them vanished and immediately rematerialized in the caverns. Odo glanced around.

“Up this corridor and past that big hunk of rock, Milady- I think. (Rebecca scowled at him and idly fingered her blade) There should be a side alcove back there and it’s just chocked full of all kinds of junk and crap. Those metal thingies in Lady Marley’s book things are back there too.” mumbled the dwarf. Mar was ecstatic to put it mildly.

“Do you guys know oro the Hell this means? (Blank stares all around and a grin from the shinigami) We’ve got him! (More confused looks and Ryuuk chuckled) Oakenshield! He’s ours! Zorin’s such a maniac he’s gonna insist on seeing those two Gundams for himself! He’ll come here and we’ll grab him and his merry band of lunatics as well!” she yelled triumphantly.

Odo was not quite so sure as she and decided to tell her.

“Lady Marley? Won’t Mr Oakie simply have those things delivered to him the same way we were just delivered here?” pointed out the dwarf nd Mar’s face fell.

“Of course he will. Good point though Odo. Ryuuk? Can you make it back to the ship on your own?” asked the blonde. Ryuuk appeared insulted.

“Sure Blondie. Why?” he replied.

“Go back there and tell Miss Ari to beam us and everything around us in a twenty metre radius back there. Tell her to energize in (Mar glanced at her writstchromo and calculated) five minutes. Go!” she commanded and Ryuuk split. The trio ran to the alcove. Rebecca resheathed her dagger and did a double take.

“Holy shit! Oro the Hell are those things, mum? Are they- Gundams?” she breathed in awe and Mar nodded grimly.

“That they are, Becky. That they most certainly are.” she whispered.

“Lemme borrow this thing, Becky.” said Odo and he yanked out her dagger.

“Hey!” squealed Rebecca and then she relaxed when she saw he only wanted the dagger to tap on a Gundam’s ‘chest’.

“Sounds hollow to me. Wonder if there’s anything inside of ‘em?” he asked.

“Or anyone. Let’s find out. Stand back.” said Marlene and she drew her Mark XII disruptor blaster pistol and charged it. Then she fired three times into the nearest Gundam’s blast shield face plate. In that confined space the roars were deafening. There was no reaction to her trio of energy bolts so Mar cautiously approached the Gundam. Then she activated the locking mechanism and leaped back as a small drawbridge lowered itself- the access ramp. A quick peep inside assured her the Gundam was as empty as Edward Elric’s brother Alphonse’s suit of armour.

“OK Odo. You and Becky get inside this one and I’ll take the other one. Quickly now so Ari can beam us and these things back to the ship. We only have (Mar squinted at her wristchromo) Christ! Thirty seconds so move your asses!” ordered the tall blonde.

Odo peered warily inside the ‘monster’ and Becky botted him the rest of the way in before clambering in herself. Mar wasted no time in hopping into the other Gundam.

“Hit that yellow panel above your head, Becky. That’s the ramp release control. Only a few seconds left now.” called Mar and Becky complied. The ramp snapped shut and the Gundam was sealed. Mar managed to seal her Gundam just in the nick of time.

Suddenly without warning both Leviathan armoured units shimmered and vanished only to reappear instantly on the ‘LA2’s transporter pads. As soon as Ari saw them she grabbed a plasma rifle and levelled it at the gigantic behemoths. She drew a big sigh of relief, however, when Odo jumped out of one of them and kissed the deck floor. Rebecca emerged behind Odo and Mar scrambled down from the other Gundam.

“They’re Gundams, Ari. Old Zorin won’t be using these two beauties anytime soon.” chuckled the blonde and then she raised her voice.

“Harley? It’s me- Angel. I need you to send four security teams to the transporter bays on Seven stat. Why? Because we are gonna bag us an Oakenshield, that’s why. Odo located Oakie’s two Gundams in the deepest recesses of the caverns and we have them both stowed away safely aboard. Z.O. will probably insist on taking possession of them personally (”Aye lassie! That he will!” interrupted Harlock) so we’ll grab him and his playmates when they show up on ‘XANA’ to take delivery. Angel out.” trilled a satisfied Mar.

The teams were duly dispatched with Lord Ivanhoe in command. Less than three hours later a score (twenty) of Oakenshield’s ‘Elite Guard’ were cooling their heels in the brig while Zorin himself was being interrogated upstairs in the ready room. He was livid with rage and acting like he was the injured innocent bystander.

“There must be some mistake here, Ladies. You cannot arrest me, Madam Marshall, Madam Brigadier! I have diplomatic immunity! I am Zorin Ryan Oakenshield, Ruler of ‘Romulus’ and ‘Remus’ and I hereby order you to–” he cried out indignantly. The Boss stared at him coolly, lit a cheroot and pointed its tip at him.

“Ruler of ‘Rom’ and ‘Rem’ eh? (He nodded defiantly) You got diplomatic immunity huh? (Again he nodded and smiled. Kei’s face went dark) You got shit, little man! Under Galactic Law which you seem fond of quoting it clearly states that ‘diplomatic immunity’ only applies if your ass is actually sitting on a planet, world, moon or asteroid. Anywhere else and you’re just a plain old run-of-the-mill felon- a common criminal! This is deep space and your ass is sitting on my starship so that means you are SOL- shit outta luck, tomo!” shouted the redheaded firebrand Hellcat.

Zorin began sliding his hand towards Rukia’s holstered Mark XIII ion cannon. She was standing beside her prisoner flanked on the other side by Light Yagami and Ryuuk. Light noisily cleared his throat.

“So? You wanna try and outdraw me, Zorin? (Kei stood and stepped back from the table. Her fingers were poised just centimetres over her own holstered Mark XIII. It looked like the ‘Gunfight at the OK Corral’ back on ancient Terra) Go ahead, Oakie. Whenever ya feel lucky that is. Ya do feel lucky, don’t ya, tomo? (Zorin began to sweat) Well? Do ya, punk?” said the Boss very menacingly and she stared right at the little dictator wannabe.

Slowly Zorin slid his hand away from Rukia’s Mark and laid both hands flat on the table and smiled.

“Let’s make us a deal, my dear child, shall we? (Gene, Han and Harlock exchanged amused glances. One thing you never ever did to an Angel was call her a child!) You allow me to escape and in return I will swear on my word of honour never to return to this galaxy in the future. (Kei scowled) My star cruiser is loaded to the gills with gold press Latinum bars. You can even have half of them into the bargain. I realize that you ‘dogs of the military’ (Kome instinctively felt her right cheek. She was remembering the stinging thwack she’d received from the redheaded Amazon when she had once saucily referred to her as ‘Garner’s lapdog’!) don’t make that many credits you know. (If Kei’s looks could kill Zorin Oakenshield would have been in ‘Otherworld’ by now!) Just look the other way, my love (Even Neko and Rukia snickered at that ill chosen remark!) and I swear that–” cajoled the oily Oakenshield but the Boss had had enough of him for one day.

“Stow it, you whiny toad! That Latinum was tolen from the good folks of ‘Kalufrax’, wasn’t it? Well it’s gonna go right back there to ‘em! OK now you pay attention. (Kei cleared her throat) Zorin Ryan Oakenshield, I hereby place you under arrest larceny, gun running, illegal arms dealings, robbery, embezzlement of public funds, espionage, high treason, inciting a war, attempted homicide, murder (probably- Kei was covering all the bases), resisting arrest (Ichigo and Miroku rubbed their stomachs) and whatever the Hell else I can think of! Book him, Harley!” seethed the fuming redheaded Hellcat.

Zorin decided to open his big mouth.

“I have rights dammit! I claim sanctuary! I am an aristocrat! I have diplomatic immuni–” he shouted and then suddenly lunged for Rukia’s Mark! He had it half out of her holster when– ZANG! CRACK!

“OW! Christ Almighty!” he screamed in agony and clutched his right shoulder. Blood seeped between his fingers from the graze wound caused by the bullet from Revy’s ‘Cutlass’.

“Damnation! That hurts like Hell! It burns dammit!” he howled.

“That’s a bullet from a ‘real’ gun, stupid. Not a damned energy bolt or blast from a toy like theirs. You wanna try for two? (Zorin shook his head violently) Then you sit there and behave yourself like a good little boy. He’s all yours, mum.” said Suba (Subaltern) Revy Roberts, a smoking ‘Beretta’ in her fist. Kei bristled with fury and reholstered her own weapon.

“Mar, the man does have a point, don’t ya think? He does have rights under Galactic Law so read ‘em to him and get his ass the Fxxx outta here dammit!” she commanded and sat down again. The vidphone chirped and Rukia answered it.

“Hullo? This is Rukia. Huh? Yeah, just a sec, ma’am. Here, mum. It’s for you. It’s ‘Cat’ and she’s got something on the scanners.” said the soul reaper. Kei grabbed the vidphone from her.

“Yeah ‘Cat’? Kei here. Oro ya got? Uh huh. Ya don’t say? Well lemme think that over for a minute. I’ll trill ya back, kid.” she said and blanked the vidscreen. Suddenly the PA system blared to life.

“A dozen fighters closing in fast, Boss! Oro are your orders dammit all!” shouted Rally’s voice from the nav room. Kei smiled grimly and touched her comlink earrings.

“Tell Kome to vaporize the lot of ‘em. Use the ‘railguns’ and that’s an order dammit!” she trilled and Zorin Oakenshield paled.

“Call ‘em off Zorin and I’ll hve Suba Sawaguchi stand down. Five seconds, tomo. One. Two. Three. Four. Fi–” she began counting and Zorin yelled.

“Shub Niggurath! Shub Niggurath! Did you hear me? Broadcast that on Band XLCV in the clear and they’ll pull back! Just send it dammit! Please!” he whimpered and at a nod from the Boss Neko did.

Five minutes later six X-Wing fighters and six TIE (Twin Ion Engine) fighter and their pilots were in custody. As soon as a dejected Zorin Oakenshield had been escorted to a private brig Kome tapped Kei’s shoulder.

“Boss Lady! He knew! He’s seen or heard of ‘railguns’! That’s why he caved in and surrenderedhis troops to us!” cried the tall strawberry-blonde teenaged Terran girl worriedly. Kei was puzzled.

“So? He’s heard of ‘em? Who ain’t? Oro of it? Oro difference does it make?” asked a perplexed redhead.

“Ever since you and the Wing Commander nuked that casino in space a few years ago haven’t they been banned across the galaxy?” suggested Lt Cmdr Joey Bishop, a sometimes pilot but usually ‘Starfleet’ Captain Nerese’s helmsman on the ‘Coriander’. Jon, Gene, Han, ‘Dynamo’ and even Neko Olson started laughing.

“Oro the Hell’s so frigging funny?” demanded the firebrand.

“Off the record, mum? (Kei fumed and nodded) We’ve been running ‘railguns’ for years. They’re used as a deterrent rather than as an active weapon. Hell! Even Johnny Berringer had a couple on ‘Starcrusher’ but he never even uncrated the damned things! Mostly we load ‘em up with empty shells fitted with dummy charges. To the best of my knowledge and recollection except for you two fire hazards nobody has even fired one. The threat to do so is usually more than enough to get ya oro ya want.” explained Gene Starwind.

“However, if Oakbrain’s got a few of ‘em squirrelled away someplace we’d best find ‘em, my Angels. Before somebody else does eh?” drawled Han Solo.

“Damned right we’d better! I can still remember oro the Hell this dipstick did to an entire space colony with just one of the damned things!” yelled ‘Duchess’ Yuri Donovan.

“Dammit to Hell, Vacuumhead! It wasn’t my fault!” yelled Kei angrily.

“Are you trying to say it was my fault, you Airhead?” shouted Yuri.

“Shut up, Birdbrain!” yelled the Boss.

“I don’t have to shut up, Dipstick! You shut up!” howled Yuri.

“Shut the Fxxx up- the pair of ya! If Zorin’s already seen or at least heard of ‘railguns’ don’t that mean that he might already have a few of ‘em? And he sure as Hell won’t be squeamish about using them- right?” yelled Nami Richards. Kei was very annoyed now.

“Did all of ya forget that the little megalomaniac’s locked up in my brig downstairs?” growled the angry Hellcat.

“Oro about his two execs?” asked Nyssa innocently.

“Aye lads and lassies! Oro about Lord Dooku and Grand Admiral Thrawn? They’re just as insane as Oakbrain indeed perhaps more so in fact!” roared Jonathan Harlock.

“One of ‘em’s probably leading the vanguard of the invasion force too.” observed Rally ‘Cat’ Vincent quietly.

“Oro invasion force?” cried Brigadier Marlene Angel.

“The one we just picked up on scan. It’s headed for ‘Romulus’ and it’s huge- a few hundred at least.” agreed Zoe Morton, the Plutonian navvie.

“Orders Marshall?” demanded a sarcastic Yuri.

“That’s up to Brigadier Angel, kiddo. This is her ship for the mission’s duration.” replied the redhead.

Every pair of aizu (eyes) turned to the blonde.

“Dooku and Thrawn’s expecting a tandem of Gundams, ain’t they? Let’s give ‘em to ‘em with Jon and Neko at their controls. How far’s that fleet from ‘Romulus’ now?” asked Mar.

“Five days at the most, mum.” answered Rally.

“How long before we reach ‘Romulus’, Cap?” asked the blonde of Starwind.

“Three days if I kick in the hyperdrives, Blondie.” replied Gene.

“Oro’s the next world those raiders will reach?” she asked. Nami spotted it on the vidcharts first.

“A moon- ‘Aoyama’, ma’am and they’ll reach it in three more days.” reported Nami.

“And we can be there in a day and a half- thirty-six solar hours, kiddo.” advised Starwind.

“Make it so, Gene. No matter oro happens Dooku and Thrawn do not repeat not get past ‘Aoyama’, however, better have ‘em evacuate ‘Romulus’ and ‘Remus’ just to play it safe. How soon can we get some back-up here, guys?” asked the svelte interim commander.

“Four days at least, love. Until then you are on your own, my dear.” said Garner who along with Gooley and Gazelle was temporarily using ‘Yars VI’ for his HQ. They had usedJohn Berringer’s ‘Balsa’ shuttlecraft for the trip with Lt Kallen Steadfast of the ‘Balack Knights’ as their pilot. She had flown them from ‘Alderaan’ to ‘Yars VI’ right after Kei’s shooting demonstrations had ended.

“Send us as many ships as you can possibly share,sir. We will try and hold them at ‘Aoyama’ until the reinforcements arrive. Angel out.” said the calm, cool and collected no nonsense blonde Brigadier.

Then she began issuing crisp and efficient orders to her crew. When Mar finally finished the Boss gave a final order.

“Better prep the ‘God Guns’- just in case.” she intoned grimly and her face was solemn.

“Kiva? Can you and your crew see to those ‘Kami’ cannons for us? Arigaou (Thanks).” said Mar.

“Hey! Why Mr Harley and Miss ‘Kitty Kat’, Auntie Marlene? hy do they get to fly those Gundams? Why can’t me and Caggie do it instead?” demanded a pouting Flay Allster while Cagalli Yula Athna stared at the ceiling.

“Hae ye two ‘gossoons’ (infants, children in Gaelic) ever even ’seen’ a Gundam before let alone flown one? Well? Hae ye?” shouted Jon Harlock. Both shook their heads.

“Well Jon and I have used them before and they ain’t so easy to handle, kids.” said Neko Olson.

Flaysie wanted to know oro a ‘gossoon’ was so Ed Elric told her. She fumed and whispered to Cagalli who just chuckled.

“Hey! Pirate dude! You can’t call us babies darn it!” yelled a defiant Flay.

“Ye are babies to us ye know!” roared the pirate his patience at last exhausted.

“Go to Hell ya old geezer!” howled Flay. Thwack! Flay started to sob and rubbed her jaw which was already showing a red welt.

“You watch that mouth of yours, young lady! I do not want to hear that kind of language from you again! Edward! Edwrd Elric!” cried Pinato ‘Granny’ Rockabell.

“Brother? Are you in trouble again?” chortled Alphone Elric, Ed’s younger brother who resembled one of Lord Falco’s knights in armour.

“I didn’t do nothing, Granny! Honest! Oro did I do, ma’am?” cried Ed.

“Bring me the soap, Edward! Alphonse! The strap please! Winry, come here! You are coming with me, young lady!” she cried grabbing Flaysie’s ear and leading her away towards the restrooms. Cagalli blocked her path.

“Fun’s fun Gran but Flaysie’s a big girl now. She’s sorry for cussing so tae your damned hands off her dammit!” yelled Caggie. Wham! A right hook from Winry Rockabell knocked her into the bulkhead wall.

“You can’t talk to my grandmother like that you little bitch!” shreiked the angry blonde who towered over Athna. Sesshomaru seized her from behind and cuffed them both soundly.

“Bring both of ‘em Mr Sess and follow me. We may need more soap.” said Granny.

Nat and Zoe joined the group to accompany Granny, Caggie, Flaysie and Winry into the ladies’ room while Ed, Al, Sess and Tracey Edwards waited in the corridor. Granny was almost ready to dole out the punishments and Ed and Al knew what that meant from bitter experiences as kids!

Inside the restroom Granny turned to Nat and Zoe.

“Down with their britches, ladies. Winry please assume the position. You know what to do.” ordered Pinako quietly.

Winry nodded and obediently dropped her trousers and bent across a table while Granny dministered the first part of her unishment for swearing. Then she shoved a bar of foul smelling soap into her opened mouth. Both ‘Archangelites’ were in shock!

When Granny turned her back fo a moment Winry yanked out the soap and whispered to Cag and Flay.

“Just do it girls. It’ll be over with before ya know it. Soap’s the worst part. Gran’s not as strong as she used to be so the strap doesn’t hurt like it used to back home.” she suggested and then stuck the soap back in her mouth as Granny faced them again.

“No way in Hell am I–” screeched Flaysie and Zoe said “Yeah way.” and she yanked down Flaysie’s pants while Nat did the same thing to Caggie.

“It’s for your own good, kids. Didn’t Mommy ever teach you two any manners? You’ll thank us for this one day ya know.” intoned Lt Cmdr Nat as Granny applied the strap to their pantied bottoms- with vigour. Winry giggled. Then the other two got the ’soap banquet’ as well.

Fifteen minutes later Caggie, Flaysie and Winry returned to the ready room- chastised, ashamed and sore all over but wiser. Cagalli had been appointed the trio’s spokesman.

“We apologize for our behaviour, mum and we promise it will never happen again, Brigadier Angel.” said Caggie with a very sharp salute. Mar returned the salute.

“See that it doesn’t, Subbies.” growled the blonde. Flaysie stifled a giggle.

“You made a teensy mistake there, ma’am. Caggie, Winry and me are all lieutenants.” corrected Flaysie.

“Not anymore you aren’t. The three of you are hereby demoted to Sub-Ensigns effective immediately. Furthermore you are all confined to quarters until I decide otherwise. Dismissed.” replied Mar quietly.

The young trio looked dazed. “Ye heard the orders did ye not? Ye be dismissed so scat!” rumbled Jonathan Harlock. Winry stamped her foot, Cagalli saluted and Flaysie started bawlin again, however, scat they did. Marlene sat down wearily.

“Now that that’s all over with I will repeat my last order. Jon and Neko will pilot the Gundams. Kome and her crew will man the ‘railguns’ and Commander Villa will temporarily be in charge of the bridge weapons. I think our best course of action is for our gun crews to familiarize themselves with their new toys. Kiva and her gang will be in charge of prepping our ‘God Guns’ just in case the ‘G Boys’ decide we have to use the darn things. Does anyone have any other questions?” said Mar and Nami Richards pointed to a tunnel shaped vortex on her PDO’s vid starchart.

“Oro is that thing, ma’am?” she asked wonderingly.

END of Ch 55. Ch 56 soon. Getting interesting eh? Wonder how our heroine’s gonna get outta this one? Read on and r/r/s away as always. Have a wunnerful day and sfn/sys/jm/Kami bless you all for your interest and assistance. Hooble-toodle-doo! Toodles tomos watashi-K&K

I dickered over this chapter’s titles. Let me know if I got ‘em right eh?

PS- I really do appreciate all your loyalty and support over the years my tomos watashi all! And you can take that to the bank folks!-K&K

See ya next blog post. Toodles-K&K

This next one may be lengthy. Sorry.- K&K

Thought you’d like to see a rare pix of the very first Lovely Angel. Meet Iris who later believing herself and her dead partner Molly betrayed by both Garner and the 3WA became the infamous assassin Lady Flair. She relented at the end and saved Garner’ life as well as the current Angels- Kei and Yuri. Like Mayes Hughes of FMA who was posthumously promoted to Brigadier General she was posthumously restored as a senior 3WA tro-con and buried with full honours at Garner’s insistence. Hughes’ promotion after death was part of a massive military cover-up but Iris’s was a totally honourable one.

Meet Nammo (right) the lil machine R2D2 that keeps the LA2’s systems running smoothly.

Meet Mugghi in her kitten form. This huge almost 7 foot tall nekomata that has been genetically engineered sometimes is responsible for keeping the LA2 in motion with Nammo’s assistance of course. Mugghi is a very capable pilot and gunner. Each of the two Angels has one of each. Soon there will be another pair of Mugghi/Nammos. One set for the LA1 (Yuri’s ship), one for the LA2 (Kei’s ship) and one for the brand new LA3 (To be Marlene Angel and Kome Sawaguchi’s ship very soon). Thought you’d like to see what they looked like. I couldn’t find a pix for Mugghi in her normal sized form. She’s a bit like Kirara in that she can shape shift. So can Neko Olson but she hardly ever does. Like Yoruichi on Bleach who now seems to prefer her human ‘gigai’ form to that of the neko she was when we first encountered him/her. Yoruichi is a female human but a male cat- go figure eh?

How do you folks like the story thus far? I am in the process of maybe getting i published after I cahange a few things for the greedy copywrighter thieves that is. My query is- will it be as popular as a book as it’s been as a fanfiction and blog post? Will it sell? Comments?-K&K

Odo is a conartist of the first water for sure but he pales in comparison to this rapscallion whom the Flash Angels encountered several times. Meet Caldy the conman who ’swindled me (Kei) in Dantoonine!’ In my ff’s he gets around quite a bit and makes at least two appearances- once on ‘Sontarra’ and again on ? Sorry but that was early on in Angel Wings and I don’t recall those circumstances at the moment but you are welcome to check on it. Caldy’s first appearance was in DP Flash’s Act II/World’s Worlds arc/Steamy Hot Springs Romantic Tour only it was anything but romantic!

AW Ch 54 ‘Honour Amongst Thieves’or ‘The Dwarf’s Discovery’

Wow! Kei’s been injured and now that worst of all combat weapons may be in Zorin’s hands- Gundams! Almost as terrifying as the ‘God Guns’ or the Angels’ new toy- the r– whoops! I almost let the neko outta the sack folks! This chapter will put two close tomos at loggerheads with each other and nai it ain’t Vacuumhead and Firebrand either! A pickpocketing passenger will end up saving the day for the Angels and- Kami! I have said too much. Read on loyal and faithful followers of the word:-

ANGEL WINGS

DISCLAIMER: OK ‘Ari’ darlin’, it’s all yours. First I wanna thank Mr T for the use of his Angels and stuff. Then I wanna thank everyone else who has been allowing us to use their creations here like Thom Beers for the use of his ice road truckers Hugh, Drew, Rick, Eric, Alex and Bear. I took the liberty of naming the 3WA academy in Furool City on Shimougou after Mr Haruka Takachiho in honour of his creations- the Angels. How was that, Yuri? Great, kiddo. Oh hai it sure was, Kei! Now since we left ya up in the air last time let’s get to Ch 54 without any further meandering, shall we? Why is Zack Zero back and oro does he want with Suba Marina Oki? Can Mandy keep her big mouth shut? A hint re the titles- Aw do ya expect me to spoil it for ya? Oro does this all mean? We’ll find out momentarily gang. The Boss Red Marshall’s on the warpath again! Here ’tis:-

CHAPTER 54

‘Honour Amongst Thieves’or ‘The Dwarf’s Discovery’

Meanwhile back down at Mar’s pad Ryuuk (Light Yagami’s death god shinigami) wanted some apples so he floated through Mar’s closed door and into her living room.

“Excuse the intrusion Miss Angel but may I hve an apple or two onegai (please)?” asked the horrifying creature.

“Sure. Help yourself. They’re in the fridge on the top–” replied Mar and then glanced up.

“Christ Almighty Ryuuk! You scared the shit outt me! I almost pissed my pants!” she yelld jumping up and falling over the coffee table. Ryuuk caught her before she crashed onto th glass-topped table.

“Nai (No) I don’t think you pissed ‘em my dear but may I say that you have quite a fashionable taste in undergarments? Very becoming, Milady. That azure shade of aoishi (blue) complements your aizu (eyes) perfectly.” said the grinning shinigami.

“Oro the Hell are you babbling about, death god?” she demanded and then noticed that her uniform pants had fallen down around her ankles.

“You really need to use a belt my dear child. Then your trousers would stay up.” laughed Ryuuk. Mar’s face turned crimson and she hastily yanked her pants back up.

“Belt? Fxxx! My belt’s gone! And my jewelry, wallet and fanny pouch too! And–” howled the flustered blonde.

“And weren’t you wearing a sweater under your blazer?” snickered Ryuuk.

“My turtlenck too? Dammit o Hell! Revy! Find Odo and bring that dwarf to me pronto! Revy? Respond dammit! Revy! (She touched her ears) Aw Hell! He stole them too? He was only in here for five minutes! Ryuuk, take your apples and go get Odo for me. He’s with Rebecca!” cried the blonde who as a rulewas usually calm, cool and collected.

“I hear and I obey, Milady.” replied the shinigami and he vanished.

“Nope. I’m sorry, Lord Ryuuk but he hasn’t shown up yet. Why do you want him anyway? (Ryuuk explained why to Rebcca who grimaced) Follow me. I’ve got a pretty good idea of where the Hell he is.” said Rebecca and the death god hovered behin her while the red-headed healer/herbalist/warrior told the lift to take them to Level Eight. When they got there she ran down the hall to Holo Room four and keyed the ‘archway’.

“Hullo Odo, Randy. What have you got there? What the devil have you stolen this time, dwarf? Oh no you don’t! Grab him Ryuuk! (One snatch and Ryuuk scooped up the small dwarf and tucked him under one arm. Rebecca addressed Randolph) If I were you, Sergeant I’d go back to the ‘Castl’ now. Odo’s in some really deep shit!” seethed Rebecca. Gerald Randolph vamoosed.

“Would you believe that I found all this stuff just sitting in the hallway and I was asking Randy to help me find its rightful owners and–” wheedled Odo and Rebecca shook here head.

“I find that very hard to believe, dwarf.” she replied and yanked off her cloak.

“Take him back to Brigadier Angel, Ryuuk. I’ll follow as soon as I’ve packed up Odo’s haul. Thanks a lot.” she said and began dumping handfuls of th loot onto her cloak.

“Whatever you say Milady Becca.” replied the dath god ad off he flew dragging the cringing dwarf with him.

Rebecca sighed, finished tying the ends of her cloak together and tucked it under herarm like a parcel.

“You’ll forgive if I don’t get up boys because seem to bemissing a belt along with quite a fw other things.” said Mar when Ryuuk floated in with the dwarf. She’d replaced her purloined turtleneck with a grey 3WA sweatshirt, however, Rin and Ed had been given all of Mar’s spare belts to clean and polish so Mar either had to remain seated or use her hands to hold up her pants when she stood up.

“Lady Becca’s right behind us, Blondie. She’s bringing this creature’s swag back to you, Madam Brig.” informed Ryuuk and ar tossed him an apple. Holding onto Odo with one hand Ryuuk caught the apple with the other and munched away on it greedily.

“I do believe that you are missing some things, Brig? Here. You’ll need this I’m sure.” said Rebecca tossing the blonde her belt. Mar thanked her and excused herself for a moment or two. She returned from he bedroom in less than five minutes but she no longer needed to hold her pants up.

“The rest of your belongings, mum.” said Rebecca and she dumpedthe contents of her cloak on the coffee table.

“How the Hell did he manage to grab all this stuff in five minutes without my noticing it?” wondered Mar.

“Ivy (Lord Ivanhoe) and I have been trying to figure him out for a very long time, mum. Is everything there, Brig?” asked the redhead and Mar started checking through the pile.

“Well is it?” she added and Odo cringed in fear.

“Here. I took this thing as well, Milady.” he said and handed over the ‘Gundam’ vidfile.

“I seen two of them metal knight suits, mum only they looked just like them pictures there not like those other pictures you showed me.” sulked the dwarf and he pointed out the Gundams in the vidfile folder.

Mar’s aizu (eyes) lit up like Greek fires. “Where did you see them, Odo? And when?” cried an ecstatic Brigadier.

END of Ch 54. Ch 55 soon. Getting interesting eh? Wonder how our heroine’s gonna get outta this one? Read on and r/r/s away as always. Have a wunnerful day and sfn/sys/jm/Kami bless you all for your interest and assistance. Hooble-toodle-doo! Toodles tomos watashi-K&K

I dickered over this chapter’s titles. Let me know if I got ‘em right eh?

PS- I really do appreciate all your loyalty and support over the years my tomos watashi all! And you can take that to the bank folks!-K&K

See ya next blog post. Toodles-K&K

This next one may be lengthy. Sorry.- K&K

Meet Maya- the Flash Angels new boss at Unit 237 of the 3WA. She replaced Don Poporo and the Lovely Angels’ new chief. Boy is she ever in for a bloody shock!

AW Ch 53 ‘Charlie’s Secret’ or ‘The Angels and Kome Get A New Toy’

Wow! Kei’s been injured and now that worst of all combat weapons may be in Zorin’s hands- Gundams! Almost as terrifying as the ‘God Guns’ or the Angels’ new toy- the r– whoops! I almost let the neko outta the sack folks! This chapter will put two close tomos at loggerheads with each other and nai it ain’t Vacuumhead and Firebrand either! A pickpocketing passenger will end up saving the day for the Angels and- Kami! I have said too much. Read on loyal and faithful followers of the word:-

ANGEL WINGS

DISCLAIMER: OK ‘Jon’ darlin’, it’s all yours. First I wanna thank Mr T for the use of his Angels and stuff. Then I wanna thank everyone else who has been allowing us to use their creations here like Thom Beers for the use of his ice road truckers Hugh, Drew, Rick, Eric, Alex and Bear. I took the liberty of naming the 3WA academy in Furool City on Shimougou after Mr Haruka Takachiho in honour of his creations- the Angels. How was that, Yuri? Great, kiddo. Oh hai it sure was, Kei! Now since we left ya up in the air last time let’s get to Ch 53 without any further meandering, shall we? Why is Zack Zero back and oro does he want with Suba Marina Oki? Can Mandy keep her big mouth shut? A hint re the titles- Aw do ya expect me to spoil it for ya? Oro does this all mean? We’ll find out momentarily gang. The Boss Red Marshall’s on the warpath again! Here ’tis:-

CHAPTER 53

‘Charlie’s Secret’ or ‘The Angels and Kome Get A New Toy’

“Of course I know that four of those blasted things almost annihilated Terra a century ago or two! Don’t ya think that I took History 101 in school too? Sorry, Gene. That last remarked was uncalled for. It’s just that I am so upset and– It’s not really all that bad I guess. He’s only got two of ‘em, gang.” replied Territorial Sector Chief Charles Augustus Garner.

“So he’s only got enough firepower to vaporize a couple of moons then, Charlie?” observed the blonde navvie now acting commander.

“Well, I wouldn’t quite put it that way, Brig but hai (yeah) you’re right. It is a bit more dismal than I was letting on to you.” admitted Charlie.

“You don’t want for us to use ‘IT’ on them things now, do ya, Charlie?” howled a distraught Solo.

He meant of course the dreaded ‘God Guns’ aboard the ‘LA2′. Garner dropped his java cup and swore.

“Jigoku nai! Hell no, pirate! However, there is uh another prototype weapon aboard that none of you fine folks know anything about.” said a mysterious chief. He hesitated.

“Well? Oro the Fxxx is this miracle toy, me old boyo? Gomen (Sorry), sir.” cried the Brigadier pounding a gloved fist on the console.

“It’s a-a ‘railgun’, Marlene. Deirdre and Bridget (Kei and Yuri) have used one of them before. About five years ago it was if memory serves.” replied Garner. Jon Harlock pursed his lips in thought.

“I recall some mission that Lee Chan (another 3WA agent) was involved in with the two brats about that time. Something involving a floating casino in deep space. It seems the two fire hazards use a ‘railgun’ and managed to blast the place to smithereenies and nuke half of an adjacent space colony into the bargain! By any chance is that the mission to which ye were referring, Charles?” demanded Jon. Garner nodded.

“Where ya got the artillery stashed, Chuck?” drawled Solo.

“It’s between Decks Nine and Sub-Five, Han.” he answered softly.

If he was correct and Garner never joked it would make the ‘railgun’ twice the length of the ‘God Gun’- over a kilo and a half or a good mile at least! This thought had apparently just occurred to Harlock.

“That be the length of the ship itself, laddie!” he roared and Garner nodded while he poured more java.

“The tandem of ‘air purifier’ ports beneath the forward portal vidcams are the gunport covers and that ‘extra’ pair of exhaust ports at the base of Sub-Five must be the back blast retrojets. Right Garner?” asked Starwind. Again Garner nodded and ignited a cigar.

“You are correct, Captain. The firing controls are right there- beneath the Brig’s boots. (Mar’s booted feet crashed to the deck floor) Didn’t any of you ever wonder why that extra row of console keys was there? The extreme left and right keys with the asterisks on them are the guns’ triggers. There are two ‘railguns’ well think of ‘em like a super long ancient Terran shotgun- two barrels side by side. The remaining keys marked with ‘x’s are the extra shells. The first eight are pre-loaded, four per gun. Another shell reloads each time one of those keys is punched. Altogether you have a sum total of forty rounds. That of course includes the first salvo of eight. Those ‘wheels’ on either side of the console housing control the windage. Elevation is of course controlled by the pilot. After all the ship’s nose is the target aiming indicator. Now onegai (please) activate Vidscreen number eighteen for me.” explained Garner.

“Can’t. Eighteen’s outta order, Chuck.” replied Solo.

“Turn it on all the same, pirate. I think you’ll be surprised.” chortled Garner.

Han did so and there was a slight whirring sound from the console as a concealed vidscreen rose out of the back of the console. It showed a vidmap starchart of the immediate cosmos. Superimposed upon it were two light aoishi (blue) lines, one horizontal and one vertical. Where they converged was the silhouette of a ‘Canadian bull’ target.

“Holy shit!” yelled Gene who had been leaning against the back of Mar’s console.

“You just sight in your targets, relay commands to the bridge, lock onto your targets and fire. Their range is 200 K kilos (200,000 kilometres or a Helluva lotta miles) and the back blast is a full fifty K so make damned sure you have a clear field of fire both fore and aft or you just might vaporize a moon or two.” warned Garner.

“Who’s our gunner, sir?” asked Mar.

“Anyone you designate as gunner, Brig. The operation of the guns is so simple even an ancient Terran caveman could do it. It’s so easy it’s mere child’s play to fire. (His face clouded) Do not let that young ‘cowgirl’- Edward anywhere near those controls! Child’s play? It- It- It was just a- a-” stammered the chief.

“Just an expression, sir? I know, Chief. Don’t worry. She won’t get her little fingers on those keys. Now where are we headed? ‘Romulus’ or ‘Remus’, sir?” asked the pert blonde.

“Neither one. Zorin’s new HQ is on ‘Olmec’, a moon near ‘Remus’. We do not believe that he has launched his Gundams yet so mybe a quick strike can put ‘em out of commission. Your ‘railguns’ can fire while your ship is ‘cloaked’ and whie your shields are still up you know. I am hereby ordering you to leave now for ‘Olmec’, Brigadier. How long do you think it’ll take you to get there, Mar?” asked the chief. Mar thought for a moment or two before replying.

“At Warp 45 I’d say three solar days and I do not recommend exceeding 45 either, sir. Our warp core is still a bit dodgy.” she replied.

“Very well, Brigadier Angel. Three days it is. Make it so. Good luck and Kami bless, my dear child. Garner out.” said Charlie and he blanked his vidscreen.

Although Garner ranted and raved at them, yelled and screamed a lot and was usually gruff with them he thought of his Angels- all of them- as the daughters he had never had and although none of them would ever admit it the Angels thought of Garner, Gooley, Gutav, Poporo, Gazelle and even old Vito Galadriel as their fathers and grandfather.

Captain Kiva Eleanor Nerese of ‘Starfleet’ (CO of the ‘USS Coriander’ temporarily transferred to the 3WA) was not in a very good mood today. Her crew had been assigned to cleaning detail and that meant cleaning and maintaining all fourteen levels of this mile long starship. She became even more bad-temperedafter the Brig dropped a new bombshell on her. Mar had found the tall svelte captain sitting at the bar with duty roster vidlog in had. She was sipping a Capuccino Mocha and smoking a cheroot.

“We are going after what!” yelled the Bjorn officer throwing her vidlog on the bartop.

“You heard me, Kiva. Gundams. Zorin Oakenshield has Gundams on ‘Olmec’ and our job is to cripple them and capture the little megalomaniac despot.” explained a very patient Marlene Angel.

“Shit! I’ve heard of those damned things, Blondie! They’re like that Type 40 armoured fighting suit that Maxie Berringer used when he came after me and Rosa back home!” cried Don Poporo recalling his ‘Ash Grey Avenger’ adventure four years ago on ‘Shimougou’ with the ‘Deadly Dynamic Duo’ and John Berringer’s ne’er do well brother. Rosa was Don’s young daughter and Max had been determined to kill both Don and Rosa in revenge for Don’s sending him up the river.

That little ‘incident’ resulted in the destruction of 3WA HQ in ‘Furool (Foo-Lon) City’ along with a good three-quarters of the city itself! He smiled when he recalled how he and the two fire hazards had tried to write letters of apology in an office where one entire wall was missing and the wind kept blowing everything helter skelter.

“According to ‘Starfleet Command’ not even ‘Gurens’, ‘Nightmares’ or even ‘Launcelots’ can stop those Leviathan behemoths, Colonel.” advised Kiva. Mar glared at her. She didn’t like to be reminded of that.

“It’s Brigadier now, Captain and trust me we do have a weapon to use against them.” snapped the blonde Terran from ‘Earth II’.

“Where the Hell’d this lunatic get Gundams?” asked Revy Roberts.

“Probably from that old ‘Celestial Beings Vegas Terror Group’ if those nutcases are still around.” suggested Lt Cmdr Naturle Badgiruel Edwards from the ready room’s open doorway.

“You haf a couple of ‘panzers’ (tanks) aboard, ja?” asked Lt Cmdr Fritz von Dekker. The infamous ‘Green Baron’ (a direct descendant of the ancient Terrans’ ‘Red Bron’ Manfred von Richthofen) was Emma ‘Queen’ Emeraldas’s exec on the ‘Emerald Queen’.

“Yeah we sure do Fritzie but we ain’t using those toys are we, guys Not againt Fxxxing Gundams!” squealed a tallish strawberry-blonde teen at the conference table.

“Nai Kome. We have ‘railguns’ aboard- two of the darned things.” replied Wing Cmdr Yuri Donovan who had just arrived and took a seat beside Neko Olson.

“OK why wasn’t I invited to this little shindig? With the Boss outta commission I’m in command- I’m the ship’s exec!” she demanded angrily. Everyone grinned.

“Oro’s so all fired frigging funny darn it?” she yelled.

“You are, Duchess. Ya look so doggone cute in your jammies and robe.” chuckled Han.

“And that ‘Paddington Bear’ of yours- d’ya know that Flaysie’s (Lt Flay Allster) got one just like it, ma’am?” giggled Lt Cagalli Yula Athna.

Belatedly Yuri realized that she’d dashed upstairs from her bedroom and hadn’t bothered to change nor to drop ‘Paddy’.

“Here.” said Neko tossing her a ‘morphing’ bracelet. Yuri clamped it on her wrist and ‘morphed’ into uniform before laying ‘Paddy’ on the table.

“So? Why wasn’t I informed of this meeting dammit?” demanded the violet-maned exec.

“Because the Boss put me in command- remember? And Mr Garner specifically asked for me, not you, ma’am. I called this ‘think tank’ session and I decided not to invite you, Wing Commander Donovan. Why? That answer should be obvious even to you. That casino in space ‘railgun’ disaster on ‘Kurestan’ that time four years ago? When you and that Amazon downstairs almost atomized an entire space colony. That’s why you were not summoned, however, since you’re here you can stay. Sit down and shut up, girl.” replied the interim commander.

“But that darn mess wasn’t MY fault! It was the dipstick’s fault dammit all to Hell! She was the one that used the ‘railgun’ not me!” screeched Yuri standing up and leaning both palms on the table and facing Mar who stared back coolly.

“I said to sit down and shut up, Yuri. Anothr outburst like that and I’ll have you relieved of duty and confined to quarters. Am I quite clear on that, Donovan? (Yuri sat back down and nodded) Good. Now answer something for me. How is it that you knew we had ‘railguns’ aboard even though Charlie said nobody aboard did?” asked Mar very quietly. Yuri smirked.

“Because it was on a need to know basis and the Boss and I needed to know, that’s how. I AM the exec ya know. See? You don’t know everything about the ‘Angel’ after all, do you, Brig?” snarled the vixen but Mar decided to ignore her this time.

“As I was saying- First I want this ship enroute to ‘Olmec’ with all possible speed stat. We have been authorized to exceed maximum warp all the way up to 45 if necessary. Second if we can find a shortcut we will use it. Third I want all other spacecraft aboard this vessel prepped, manned and ready for battle by the time we reach ‘Olmec’ in 72 solar hours. Fourth (Mar was ticking off items on her fingers) Nat, Flay, Cagalli, Kome and Neko are the ‘railgun’ crew with Kome as its lead gunner. You’ve got forty rounds in eight shot salvos, four to each gun per load. Now pay strict attention to this because I’m only going to show you guys how to use those things onc.” said the blonde and she very carefully explained the operating details to her new ‘railgun’ crew.

Yuri scowled. She did not like to be dressed down at all.

“Oro do you want me to do, Brigadier, ma’am?” she asked in a saucy tone and Mar rounded on the exec.

“A very important job, Wing Commander. I want you down on the observation deck in the star room. Your task is to look for anything out of the ordinary. Anything that could possibly house weapons, ammo, gun implacements and– Gundams.” replied her interim leader.

“Ain’t Rally scanning for that kind of crap already, Blondie?” yelled an incensed Yuri. Mar didn’t rise to the bait.

“Yeah Donovan she is but Gundams can ‘mask’ their presences even if they cannot actually ‘cloak’ so I want visual as well as technical scans for this mission dammit! You got a problem with my orders, Wing Commander Donovan? (Yuri bit her tongue and shook her violet mane) Good. Dismissed.” said Mar. Yuri saluted, picked up her bear and left.

“Zoe? Nyssa? Nami? Have you found us any shortcuts yet?” demanded the tall blonde when she entered the nav room a few minutes later. The trio of ‘navvies’ shook their heads ruefully.

“Vincent? Anything on your scans?” asked Mar.

“Not a damned thing Cap. If those things are out there they must be ‘masked’, ‘cloaked’ or both.” replied a perplexed Rally Vincent.

“Well keep at it ‘Cat’ and thanks.” she said clapping the Terran on the back. Then she returned to the bridge.

“Gene you’re piloting for the ‘railgunners’ so you’d best get some rest. Han can take over for you. Need a co-pilot, Solo?” she inquired but Han shook his head.

“OK then listen up everybody. Revy’s handling communications and Jon’s in charge of security. The two soul reapers have this shift’s guard mount. Tell Jon that when he sets the 2200 (10 PM) shift to have someone wake up Donovan and send her ass up to the star room. She’s already been briefed on oro she has to do there. Remind Jon that I want our ‘railgun’ crew fresh for ashita (tomorrow) so Nat, Flay, Cagalli, ‘Pinkie’ (Kome) and ‘Kitty Kat’ (Neko) are excused from guard duty on my orders until further notice. Villa is our new weapons officer and his bridge gunners are Kagome, Kouga, InuYasha, the ‘Blonde Bomber’ (Mae Hopkins aka ‘Kitten’) and Ayasha, Ayana or oroever the Hell her name is- Kouga’s intended. (”It’s Ayame, Cap!” yelled Rally from next door) Arigatou (Thanks) ‘Cat’. (Mar turned to go and suddenly snapped her gloved fingers) Have someone find Odo (Ivanhoe and Rebecca’s dwarf companion) and send him to my quarters stat. (Han raised his aizu(eye)brows inquisitively) I just got a scathingly brilliant idea (Kudos if you recall what flick that quote’s from and who said it, tomos mine), Solo.” smiled the blonde. Han chuckled.

“Another one of those, Princess? Roger that and willco, ma’am.” drawled the ex-pirate and smuggler.

At 2000 hours (8 PM) there was a timid tap on Mar’s portal.

“Come on in, Odo. Door’s open.” she called and the dwarf sidled in cap in hand.

“I ain’t stoled nothing, Lady Marley! Honest! Somebody musta planted them watchie thingies, rigs, brooches, necklaces and all of that other joolry in my room, mum! I’m innocent! I truly is this time, mum!” the terrified Odo whined and whimpered. Mar smiled and pointed to the armchair.

“Calm down me old boyo. Nobody is accusing you of anything, Odo. Sit down. Please. I just need your help with something, that’s all. You are not in any trouble, tomo watashi (very good friend). (Odo sat and accepted the repped goblet of mulled wine the blonde handed him) OK here is my question. During your er shall we say ‘explorations’ of the ship have you ever noticed any things like this aboard anywhere? (Mar indicated a holo of a metallic armoured fighting suit much like a knight such as Ivanhoe might wear) It’s called a Type 40 mobile fighting combat suit. (Odo looked carefully and slowly shook his head) You’re quite sure, tomo?” asked the blonde in a soft and kindly tone of voice. The dwarf continued shaking his head sadly.

“Sorry mum but in all me excursions I ain’t never ever laid me two eyes on nothing like that thing, Your Ladyship.” said Odo.

“Ye do believe me, Lady Marley, don’t ya? I’m tellin’ you the truth! Honest!” he blubbered throwing himself to his knees on the floor in front of Mar.

“Of coure I believe you, Odo. (She hugged him reassuringly like a mother might do to her son) OK then just do me a favour and keep your aizu (eyes) open for me. If you run across any of those things onegai (please) let me know. Right? More wine, my friend?” said Mar but Odo shook his head.

“No thankee very much, mum but I was supposed to meet Lady Rebecca for tea at eight and now I’m running late.” he replied consulting one of the several wristchromos on his arm and then quickly pulling his sleeve back down over them. Mar nodded.

“Off you go then. Good night Odo and domo arigatou (thank you very much) for your assistance.” she said.

He bent down and kissed her gloved hand which caused Mar to blush a bit.

She couldn’t help giggling at his old-fashioned ancient Terran chivalrous manners so she didn’t notice when he slipped off her climbing bangles, ‘morphing’ bracelet, wristchromo, fanny pouch, gunbelt, trilling earring, laser sword hilt, Mark XII disruptor pistol and ammo packs, extra power pack clips, Mark III mini blaster, small ion cannons, belt, necklace and locket, wallet, vidcode keys, vid override codes, vidcell, PDO unit and lastly a vidfile folder marked ‘Top Secret/Aizu Only/Gundam Experiments Circa AD 2041′ and hastily and cleverly stowed away all his goodies in his many capacious pockets beneath his long grey cloak.

“Don’t forget now Odo. We are all depending on you. I am depending on you, tomo.” said Mar quietly but earnestly.

Odo tipped his cap and pulled his forelock while dropping to one knee.

“Don’t you worry, Milady. You can always count on Odo.” replied the dwarf and he saluted and departed.

Odo had made friends with one of Lord Falco’s men, a sergeant-at-arms named Gerald Randolph who was a fellow ne’er do well like Odo. He and Odo liked to play ’skittles’ (lawn bowling) up on the holodecks and met there quite often.

As soon as he’d left Mar’s digs he made a beeline for the lift and rode up to Level Eight. He keyed the ‘archway’ for Holodeck Room number four before entering ‘Sherwood Forest’ where Gerry was busily setting up the ’skittles’ for a new game.

“Wanna play, Odo me friend?” asked Randolph but Odo shook his head and beckoned him to join him at one of the tables in the wooded glen.

“Wait’ll ye see the haul I just made, Randy!” chortled Odo and his pal sat down with him while Odo dumped his booty out and spread it across the table.

END of Ch 53. Ch 54 ‘Honour Amongst Thieves’ or ‘The Dwarf’s Discovery’ soon. Getting interesting eh? Wonder how our heroine’s gonna get outta this one? Read on and r/r/s away as always. Have a wunnerful day and sfn/sys/jm/Kami bless you all for your interest and assistance. Hooble-toodle-doo! Toodles tomos watashi-K&K

I dickered over this chapter’s titles. Let me know if I got ‘em right eh?

PS- I really do appreciate all your loyalty and support over the years my tomos watashi all! And you can take that to the bank folks!-K&K

See ya next blog post. Toodles-K&K

This one may be lengthy. Sorry.- K&K

Folks this fine laddie is Ichigo Kurosaki the Bleach Soul Reaper with his trusty zampatou Zangetsu.

Here’s a pix of the Flash Angels and I call it ‘When ya wish upon a star?’- It’s from the end theme credits of one of the Flash eppys.

AW Ch 52 ‘Garner’s Mysterious Relay’ or ‘Annie Oakley- AD 2251 Style’

‘Blonde Bomber’/'Kitten’ Minnie Mae Hopkins the ace running back and her crafty coach Rally ‘Cat’ Vincent of Kei’s Killers! Did they win? Hell no! Now there’s more trouble afoot besides Z.O. and Garner cannot wait to tell our fearless leader all about it but there is good news too- The firebrand Amazon Hellcat gets to show off a little bit!

This chapter is re skullduggery and an ion cannon exhibition with a few twists that would make Annie Oakley green with envy tomos mine!

ANGEL WINGS

DISCLAIMER: OK ‘Cheska’ darlin’, it’s all yours. First I wanna thank Mr T for the use of his Angels and stuff. Then I wanna thank everyone else who has been allowing us to use their creations here like Thom Beers for the use of his ice road truckers Hugh, Drew, Rick, Eric, Alex and Bear. I took the liberty of naming the 3WA academy in Furool City on Shimougou after Mr Haruka Takachiho in honour of his creations- the Angels. How was that, Yuri? Great, kiddo. Oh hai it sure was, Kei! Now since we left ya up in the air last time let’s get to Ch 52 without any further meandering, shall we? Why is Zack Zero back and oro does he want with Suba Marina Oki? Can Mandy keep her big mouth shut? A hint re the titles- Aw do ya expect me to spoil it for ya? Oro does this all mean? We’ll find out momentarily gang. The Boss Red Marshall’s on the warpath again! Here ’tis:-

CHAPTER 52

‘Garner’s Mysterious Relay’ or ‘Annie Oakley- AD 2251 Style’

‘Yeah Neko? Oro is it?” trilled the redheaded Boss lady.

“Mr Garner’s on two for ya. I’ve patched him through to your quarters, mum.” trilled the nekomata/trill/human Neko Olson. Kei sighd and poured out a tumbler of ‘Jamesons’ for herself.

“Fine. Arigatou (Thanks) Neko.” she trilled and punched up vidscreen two. “Hiya Uncle Charlie. Sorry but we’re gonna be a tad late getting home, sir. Ya see–” began Kei.

“Don’t say anything more over this line, Deirdre. Relay me back on the ‘Bounts’ line. Understand? The ‘Bounts’ line and no other. Ask Mr Kurosaki or Miss Kutschki how many were left in the land of the living before the battles began. Use that line to contact me. Garne out.” replied Territorial Sector Chief Charles Augustus Garner cryptically. Kei nodded and waved as her vidscreen went blank.

“Rukia Kutschki! Ichigo Kurosaki! My quarters-stat! On the double and that’s an order! Kei out!” barked the Marshall over her suite’s PA mike. Five minutes lter her portal klaxon chirped.

“It’s open. Come.” she called and Ichigo came in followed by a sleepy Rukia who was yawning and rubbing her fuzzy aizu (eyes).

“You wanted us, ma’am?” asked the orange-haired youth who was carrying a gigantic ‘zambatou’ (sword) across his back. He stood and saluted, however, Rukia had already dropped into an easy chair.

“Onegai (Please) make this quick, Boss. We just got off a double guard shift. Damned Harlock.” she complained.

“Sure. I just need to ask you guys something. How many ‘Bounts’ were there in the land of the living before the big battle? In total I mean?” demanded their commander.

“How the Hell do you know anything about ‘Bounts’, Reds?” whispered an astonished Ichigo.

“Yeah! How? And why do you want to know that information now, ma’am?” asked a suddenly no longer drowsy Rukia. Kei bristled.

“A lucky Fxxxing guess dammit! This is serious so just answer my shimatta question will ya, Soul Reapers?” growled Kei.

“Nine in all, ma’am.” stated Ichigo and Rukia nodded.

“Yup. Nine. There was Kamiya their leader and then there was–” began Rukia who was ticking off ‘Bounts’ on her fingers.

“Never mind kid. I just needed the total original number of ‘Bounts’. I apologize for disturbing ya. You’re both dismissed. G’Night.” interrupted the Boss and hinted that she wanted them both gone. The two reapers left and Kei trilled Neko.

“Neko, listen very carefully and do exactly oro I tell ya to do. Relay a call to Garner and then patch it through to my ready room on Tach Nine, however, first scramble and encode that line for a double red/blue/green/white security clearance aizu (eyes) only transmission. Then trill me back. Remember- Tach Nine. Kei out.” Kei trilled and began dressing.

“Charlie must figure on a breach in our relay system and if he’s that Fxxxing worried he’s probably called a top level meeting with all the big wigs so I’d better be in uniform when his relay comes through.” she thought while she cinched her tie and tucked in her shirt. Her dress magenta/black Marshall’s tunic jacket was really heavy wit all the pips, epaulettes, ranking bars, medals and decorations that the redhead had earned which adorned it. Kei was seated at her ready room desk with her booted feet up on her consol when Neko trilled her back.

“Boss? The big cheese is on nine. Neko out.” she trilled.

“Arigatou. Bye Neko.” trilled the redhead punching up vidscreen nine. “OK Charlie. Oro’s with all this cloak and dagger crap? Yabeen hangin’ around Jimmy Bond again?” chortled the Boss. Garner was not smiling.

“Deirdre, you may have a spy onboard who is reporting to Zorin Oakenshield. We have detected transmissions from your ‘Angel 2′ to ‘Remus’ (a sister world to ‘Romulus’ in the ‘Orion Nebulae’) but we can only tell you that the signal originated at some level above Surface Deck Six so it must have come from seven, eight or nine, kid.” explained Garner. He fired up a cigarette and swallowed some ‘Hydroxylein’ (an antacid for the chief’s sour stomach). Kei bit into her cheroot and pouredout three more fingers of her ‘golden elixir’ before she replied.

“So it came from either our star room, holodecks or command deck eh? It could even have originated from this very room, Charlie. Is that oro the Hell you’re saying, me old boyo?” asked the Boss.

Garner nodded. “That’s about the size of it, my dear which is why I didn’t want you to reveal your ship’s exact loction to me over an unsecured line. Now then- where exactly are you?” he asked. Kei locked her deep emerald aizu (eyes) on his myopic grey ones.

“I got no Fxxxing idea orosoever, Chuck. Gene brought us here but he won’t tell me where ‘here’ is. I’m pretty sure both Han and Jimbo know but they ain’t alking. Sorry Charlie.” apologized Kei.

“Gene? Oh you mean Starwind eh? And Hawking and Solo aren’t talking either? (Garner chuckled) OK I got a pretty good idea where you are and why They won’t tell you anything, me kawaii (lovely) colleen.” chortled a grinning Garner.

“So where are we dammit?” growled the impatient redhead.

“A very small atoll of an asteroid just brely within ‘Bison Fields’- ‘XANA’. It’s where the ‘Coralians’ offload contraband hooch like ‘Aoishi Ale’ (An illegal ‘Romulan’ import this heady stuff was blue in colour and quite potent- 250 proof) and other taboo niceties like weapons and stolen merchandise, Deirdre. Don’t forget that as far as those laddies go you are still a cop which is why they didn’t tell you, love.” replied Territorial Sector Chief Garner. Slowly understanding dawned on her and the tro-con nodded her head.

“So that’s why Gene confined all of us aboard to the caves here and wouldn’t allow on the surface eh? OK I’m hidingout right here until Oakenshield is either nabbed or iced. That shouldn’t take much longer since the littl despot has got a hundred million woolong bounty on his head- dead or alive. Until then we are staying put, sir.” said Kei.

“That’s a good iea, kiddo. Who the Hell put out a hundred million woolong bounty on Z.O. I wonder?” mused Charlie.

“Uh- ‘God Almighty’ did, Charlie.” replied the Boss. Garner was astonished.

“Galadriel did? A little loose with the purse strings, ain’t he?” observed her chief.

“Well he’d damned well better be if he wants old Zorin reeled in, sir. (She hesitated) OK I put that bounty out on him and authorized the C mill bounty, Mr Garner.” admitted the feisty tro-con.

“You did!!” he roared and Kei nodded. “Then ‘God’ had better ante up especially if one of those renegade ‘cowboys’ finds him for us.” chuckled Garner. Then his face hardened into Kelvinite. “Don’t you ever pull a stunt like that again. Do you understand me, Deirdre?” he added softly.

“Nai (No) sir, I sure won’t. I swear it, sir.” replied the chastised tro-con.

“Stay there until you hear from me and try and find that aent. Be careful not to tip your hand. I don’t want him or her finding out we are onto them.” ordered her superior and Kei nodded and changed the subject.

“Anything new from ‘Romulus’, Charlie? That’d be all that we need now- another frigging war.” grumbled the redhed.

“The ‘Romulan High Command’ has advised us that they are fully prepared to defend their throne from Oakenshield. To that end the ‘UG’, te ‘ISSP’, ‘Interpol’, ‘Starfleet Command’ and the ‘Galactic ommand’ have all sent fighters and battle cruiser units to assist ‘Romulus’ in fighting off any invasion forces.” said a grim-faced Garner.

“Surely with a hundred million bounty on his ass he wouldn’t still–” began a flustered Kei bu Chuck Garner had anticipated her question and interjected the answer.

“Invade ‘Romulus’? Don’t be so naive, Marhall. He’s insane. Of course he’ll still invade but he still needs a flag starship for his command post so I’ve doubled the guards at all 3WA bases in this sector and I am ordering you and the ‘Lovely Angel 2′ and all aboard her to stay put until further notice no matter what. Kapish? (Kei nodded glumly and scowled at him) Good. It shouldn’t be too much longer, Deirdre. Sayonara. Garner out.” he replied and signed off. Kei blankedher vidscreen and stubbed out her cheroot. “Shit!” she intoned to herself.

“Christ Almighty! Stuck in this hol for Kami knows how bloody long! Might just as well wait for ashita (tomorrow) to drop that bombshell on ‘em. Maybe I can finally get in some shooting practice.” said Kei aloud.

“Yeh Boss. I’d love to see that and so would the rest of us, ma’am. Why not use the holodecks to put on an exhibition of your shooting skills?” trilled Neko Olson.

“Neko! ere you eavesdropping on that relay call? Dammit answer me, Olson!” thundered Kei angrily.

“Just the last part when you said about shooting practice, Boss. I’d never evr listen in on a private relay call, ma’am. I swear it.” trilled th nekomata/human/trill girl. Kei thought for a minute or two.

“Maybe you are right, ‘Kitty Kat’. I mean about puttin’ on a show for the gang. Ya may as well kno this now since it’ll be common knowledge in the morning anyway. Garner’s ordered us to stay put until further notice. Right here at–” trilled Kei before Neko cut heroff.

“At ‘XANA’. Right Boss?” she trilled.

“Yeah but how’d you know?” trilled Kei. She giggled.

“Christ Reds! Just about everyone aboard knows where we are! You knew, didn’t ya?” she trilled.

Not until Charlie Garner told me five minutes ago I didn’t dammit.” trilled the redhead.

“I’m a pirate, Boss. Remember? Most of us aboard operate a bit, shall we say, outside the law so of course we know about this place- the ‘Coralian’ relay drop point. Gene didn’t tell ya because you’re a cop but then again Solo and Hawking were both sure that ya already knew this was ‘XANA’, Reds. Now about this shooting demonstration of yours–” trilled Neko.

“Oro the Hell. Sure I’ll do it for ya. Better than another damned football game eh? We can’t use the holodecks though- too small. I got it. That old range down belowdecks on Sub Four where you took the Ice Brigade to practice marksmanship. There’s plenty of room down there for everyone to watch. We’ll hold it there. I’ll get ‘CC’ to set up some sort of program for tomorrow aftenoon after lunch. Maximum distance and combat mode targets. Mark XIII ion cannons. That all sound OK to you?” trilled a suddenly excited tro-con.

“Sounds like a plan to me, ma’am. Will ya toss in a few blindfolded trick sots for me? Onegai? Kawaii onegai ni sakura on top (Pretty please with cherry blossoms on top)?” trilled Neko.

Kei shrugged. “Why the Hell not? Consier it done, kiddo. Pass the word that I’m briefing everyone aboard ashita at ten hundred (10 AM). Got that, ‘Kitty Kat’?” trilled the redhead.

“Yup. Got it, Reds. Mum’s the word on the show eh? Don’t worry. I won’t spoil your surprise, Marshall Reds.” she trilled.

“I’ll get ‘CC’ to make that announcement during lunch, kid. One more thing, Olson. Stop calling me Rds. G’Night kiddo.” chuckled Kei.

“Nighty night Boss.” giggled Neko.

Kei gave precise instructions to ‘CC’ who readily promised to have everything belowdecks prepared by 1400 (2 PM) tomorrow afternoon. He swore he wouldn’t make the announcement before ashita’s lunch hour. Then Kei sealed her ready room, rode the lift don to her quarters and turned in. The firebrand didn’t think that she was really that tired yet she fell asleep as soon as her head hit the pillows.

At 400 the follwing afternoon everyone aboard except for the flight crew, guards and the engineering gang were gathered in the old shooting range belowdecks on Subsurface Level Four listening to ‘CC’s introductions and those that were on duty were watching on vidscreens or PDOs. Four hours earlier Kei had given them the bad news- they were to remain in the caverns until Garner decided otherwise. They were pretty downtrodden until ‘CC’s announcement of this afternoon’s entertainment came at lunch. Practically everyone there had gone wild. After all it wasn’t too often that an expert marksman of the Boss’s calibre agreed to show off their firearms and fighting skills to the general public.

Accordingly by 1400 hours there was SRO (Standing Room Only) for the exhibition and show.

“Ladies and gentlemen! May I have your attention please! Welcome to Miss O’Halloran’s expert marksmanship exhibition and show! This afternoon’s programme shall consist of three separate parts.

First and formost our fearless leader will be firing at stationary targets preset at the distance of 350 metres (about 400 yards or 1,200 feet- the average length of a par four in golf. Mouths sagged open in awe).

Next shall be combat mode shooting in the ‘Village’ where our esteemed leader will be forced to pick and choose her targets with care since innocent bystanders and law enforcement officers will be interspersed with the fugitives and desperadoes. The targets also shoot back and since the Boss will be wearing full battle armour for this demonstration Miss O’Halloran has insisted on live ammunition, not blanks.

Therefore, please remain behind those Kelvinite and force beam energy barrier shields at all times for your own safety folks!

Lastly she’ll be doing som fancy trick shooting for us by special request (Neko blushed) which shall be of various types. Mirror image deployment, firing over and around her shoulders, firing around and between her legs, backward shooting and firing while blindfolded. Again this will be a live fire exercise. Be warned and take heed to this statement. A blast from an ion cannon can easily maim, wound or even kill so onegai refrain from leaving the protection of those Kelvinite and energy beam barrier shields!

And so without further ado here is our own esteemed fearless leader Marshall Keirran Maureen Deirdre O’Shaughnessy O’Halloran. (Kei stepped forward and gave the galactic salute. Then she raised her hands over her head with interlocked fists while she acknowledged the audience’s wild applause) Miss O’Halloran will be using a hand held Mark XIII ion cannon (Rukia held one aloft) for all of this afternoon’s shooting. Madam Marshall, the stage i now yours.” finished ‘CC’ as Kei stepped into the arena and removed battle armour, bandoliers and weapons belts. She slammed a power pack into the cannon and charged it.

Taking careful practiced aim (Of course she was showing off folks! We alll know by now that the Boss is an expert- a crack shot!) she began firing at the first of an even hundred targets on the range while ‘Artok’ kept intoning her running score in a bored and sing-songy voice.

“Hit. Dead centre bull. Hit. Dead centre bull. The same again. Ditto. Likewise. Again. Need you ask? Guess oro folks? She did it again. And again. again.–” announced the junior ‘CC’ program until finally “Final shot. Dead centre bull. One hundred points. A perfect score. Congratulations. Now here’s ‘CC’ again.” finished a beaming ‘Artok’.

“Well done, tomo Boss. Please resume your armour and gear for the next segment- combat mode shooting. When you are ready onegai stand on that white square and say ‘Ready’ at which time I will activate all the targets in the ‘Village’ for you.” said ‘CC’ and Kei zipped up her armour, buckled on both weapons belts and slipped crossed bandoliers of power packs across her chest and shoulders. Then she strode to the starting block, bobbed her head curtly and growled “Ready, me boyo.”

“Village targets are now active. Good luck, my tomo. Go!” cried ‘CC’ a tad excitedly. Kei began her stroll down the main thorughfare until–

“Halt!” shouted a shadowy figure from the alley at the end of the road. The redhead whipped out her cannon but did not fire on Territorial Sector Chief Charles Augustus Garner- this time. (For an explanation read about Kei’s earlier shooting matches in Xmas and earlier in this Wings work)

However, a gunsel and two kidnappers she did waste but not their kidnapped hostge- a small child.

“Three down and seven to go.” advised ‘Artok’. (The ‘Village’ has ten potential targets)

Continuing her ‘Dirty Harry’ walk she suddenly spun and opened fire on a pair of bank robbers who dodged her bolts and dived through the open windows of their getaway land speeder.

“Two points off for those two misses, ma’am. Sorry. You are back to a single point, Mar–” began ‘Artok’ just as Kei blew the fuel cells on the speeder to Hell and back again! The vehicle exploded into nano-atoms.

“Correction. First two points added to score plus three more for the robbers and driver brings your total to six with four remaining, ma’am.” corrected ‘Artok’ while Kei sidearmed a killer and shoved her Mark into his gut. She fired twice.

“Seven and three.” intoned ‘Artok’ disgustedly. He really wanted Kei to miss- just once. Like that was ever gonna happen!

Two more gunmen soon followed the killer to ‘Otherworld’ and Kei ejected her spent pack and reloaded her cannon.

“That makes nine, tomo Boss Lady. One more left. Be very careful, love.” advised ‘Artok’ as a flash of blinding white ripped through the town.

Kei ducked and managed to charge her weapon. Lying prone she pumped six bolts into the now darkened alley whence the light had come. Clang! The sound of ion bolts striking metal! Kei rolled into a sitting position facing the alley and a huge fighting Gundam! Leaping aside just in time to avoid a nasty plasma blast she fired twice more to no effect. Three more bolts later the feisy Hellcat realized that her shots were ineffective against Kelvinite 36X so she stuck her now useless Mark into her bandolier belts and leaped astride the Gundam!

Gaining its top she crashed her booted feet through the Gundam’s windscreen and yanked ‘Max Berringer’ the ‘Ash Grey Avenger’ himself (see DP Flash/Act 3/Final episode) from the control cockpit and twisted his neck forcefully until everyone heard an audible sickening Crack! and then a very loud snap. A cheer broke out from the crowd.

“And ‘Max Berringer’ makes ten. Another perfect score and no innocent bystanders were harmed. Ditto for law enforcement people. Good shooting, Madam Marshall.” shouted ‘Artok’ to be heard over the din.

“Finally we will have our final segment of today’s fine progrmme- the trick shooting segment. However, first we will have a fifteen minute intermission to reset the fields of fire,. Replicators have been provided for your convenience and rest rooms are just across the corridor. I’ll see all of you back here at 1600 that is four o’clock folks.” said ‘CC’. Then he and ‘Artok’ bgan resetting the targets for the final phase of the exhibition.

Don Poporo and Anton Gustav were busily engaged in collecting their winnings from the NASA and the scientific crowd who had actually been baka (crazy) enough to bet ‘against’ the Boss!

“Two grand in Universal credits, Willy! Oro’s your haul, man?” crowed Don.

“Almost a thousand in credits not counting the woolongs and dollars, Don! Terra’s PT Barnum said it- there really is on born every minute!” agreed Anton just as the ‘G Twins’ (Garner and Gooley) materialized on the huge vidscreen in the hallway. Chuck Garner was facing Gustav while Poporo was suddenly staring down Andy Gooley!

“Congratulations are in order, gentlemen. Those winnings will, of course, be donated to the 3WA’s benevolent fund for the less fortunate. Correct? Don’t you think that would be the charitable thing to do, Chuck?” said Gooley the Aquarian Galaxy Chief.

“Hai (Yes), it certainly would, Andy. Now we all know that two of our esteemed and honourable of our cadre of sector chiefs would never place a wager with anyone while engaged on a mission fo us. Am I correct in that assumption, Andre?” replied Garner who was the Territorial Sector Chief and just slightly Gooley’s superior being second only to the great Galadriel himself. The bettors exchanged glances.

“Oro a coincidence, sirs! That is exactly oro we were about to do with our winnings. Right Don?” said Anton and Don (Mr Popo) Poporo nodded dejectedly. Both supriors winked and grinned.

“Keep a hundred apiece of woolongs, credits and dollars, boyos. Those stuffed shirt medicos from Terra will think twice before underestimating our Deirdre again! Good show so far.” chortled Garner.

“You mean our Katie, Charlie.” corrected Gooley. He and Vito Galadriel were the only two people who could get away with calling Kei ‘Katie’ even though her real name of ‘Keirran’ in Celtic Gaelic could mean either ‘Karen’ or ‘Katherine’.

Anton smiled and patted his compadre’s shoulder. “Oh well a hundred or so is better than rei (zero, nothing) eh Don?” comforted Willy and Don managed a wan smile for his tomo.

“Let’s get a drink, pal. I’m buying. You coming, Don?” he added.

“Damned right I’m coming, Willy-San! It ain’t often you spring for anything, man!” replied Mr Popo as he followed him to the nearest ‘Repper’. Then the loudspeakers came to life.

“Our show starts up again in sixty seconds, gang. Please return to your seats.” announced ‘CC’ and they all trooped back to their seats behind the shields.

For the conclusion to our fine programme today Miss O’Halloran would like all of those present to know that she will not, I repeat, not be using battle armour, ‘Mithril’ (Elven chained mail- a present from ‘Celsia’ and her ‘ThoseWho Hunt Elves’ companions) nor any other form of protection for the remainder of this show. (The watchers stared at each other. The chiefs grinned and Gooley poured java all over the table). In addition (”There’s more?” shouted Andy Gooley from ‘Yars VI’ where the had both been flown aboard the ‘Balsa’ when the Z.O. icident had first started a few days ago. Their pilot had been a bright redhead (Nai (No) not that one!) named ‘Lt Kallen Steadfast’ of the ‘Black Knights’ which group had recently volunteered their services to and been accepted by the ‘UG’ and the 3WA who figured they’ need all the bloody help they could get if Zorin laid his mitts on a flag starship!)

In addition she wishes to prove that she is not concealing anything up her sleeves either so–” began a flustered ‘CC” when Kei strode up to the firing boxes and smiled.

“So although our superios will not allo me to perform for you ‘au natural’ I will prove I am hiding nothing beneath my garments.” she said and Chuck Garner dropped an unopened bottle of Inverness whiskey.

She quickly doffed battle armour, weapons belts, bandoliers, uniform, tee shirt and ‘Mithril’ mail underall garment leaving the tro-con in tank top and underbriefs.

“She never said anything about going for an ‘X’ rating dammit!” howled Anton Wilhelm Gustav. “Take it all off, baby!” yelled Donald Poporo until Kome kickedhim in the shins.

Standing before them in her unmentionables Kei turned about several times. “Nothing under here at all. See?” she said while Jonthan Harlock, Emma Emeraldas and Neko Olson were engaged in examing every scrap of cast off attire.

“There be naething wha’soe’er concealed in these articles of claething.” informed Jon in his soft Scots burr. Then he, his neice Emma and his navvie Neko took their seats once more. Chuck and Andy had buried their faces in their hands jsut as the Amazon had begun her ‘Gypsy Rose Lee’ number but now they glanced up. By now Kei had pulled on tee shirt, uniform pants and retrieved her cannon.

“I sure hope ‘God’ didn’t see any of that, Charlie.” said Gooley.

“If he did we’ll know soon enough, Andy, that we surely will.” replied Garner.

Kei had slammed in a power pack and charged her cannon. She waited until Legato Bluesummers gave her the high sign and then began a series of trick shots that the ancient Terran ‘Annie Oakley’ would have envied- a Helluva lot! At last she turned her back to the target- a spinning roulette wheel of white clay smoking pipes. Then she slid her Kelly green headband down until it covered both of her kawaii aizu (lovely eyes) and fired over her shoulder, around her arms and through herlegs in turn, each shot destroying one of the whirling pipes.

“For her final trick, Miss O’Halloran will stand in front of a moving mobile automaton target- blindfolded. This target will be firing at her the entire time and both she and the target will be using live ammunition, my tomos. Good luck Kei.” shouted ‘CC’ excitedly. Charles Garne leaped to his feet and dropped a second unopened bottle of Inverness Skotch whiskey.

“The Hell they will!! This farce has lasted long enough dammit! This show is over!” he yelled while pounding his fist on the table and spilling java all over Andre.

“Osawaru Chuckie-San! Sit down and shut the Fxxx up, Chief! This is my ship and I got the final say aboard her! This show will continue and I assure you that everything will be A-OK! Trust me!” bellowed Kei who was still blinfolded and had been led by Yuri to the starting white square.

“This is it, kiddo. Here. Make ‘em count, airhead!” whispered Yuri Donovan and she pressed the fully loaded and charged cannon into the redhead’s fist.

“Not to worry, vacuumhead. I can ‘hear’ that target’s movements just swell. I’ll be OK, kid. Now go find a good seat.” whispered the smiling firebrand redhead to the worried violet-maned vixen.

“Attention! We must now have absolute silence for this ending ten bolt finale!” intoned ‘CC’.

Garner dropped his cigar in his lap and jumped up shouting. “Six bolt finale dammit! Roku! Six, not ten, Deirdre!” he yelled.

“Yeah! Six, Katie, Six!” cried Gooley. Kei fumed but took a deep breath, exhaled it and nodded OK. She raised the cannon and fired four bursts into the air. She succeeded in bringing down one of the swinging chandeliers which fell with a crash in front of Ella Hathaway who spilled grape knee-high all over Keitarou Reef.

Suddenly without warning– Foom! Foom! Foom! came the automaton’s first bolts. Kei dodged them effotlessly and fired three quick blasts of herown, each one striking its mark.

“Three- nil in favour of our leader. Three to go, Boss.” announced ‘Artok’ just before Kei winced in pain as an ion charge seared he left shoulder blade. She fired right back trying to judge the line of fire from her left shoulder to the automaton and was rewarded with a resultant thunk as she hit the target dead centre bull- her fourth perfect shot.

“Four!!” shouted the frenzied mob. “Four and two.” agreed ‘Artok’ annoyingly. The scorekeeping was his damned job, not the audience’s!

Blood was beginning to stain her grey tee shirt a deep bright crimson while the redhead ducked away from another plasma bolt and managed to squeeze off two more bolts. Zang! Thunk! Foom! Thunk!

“Those last two hits were dead centre bulls. Six to nil. Miss O’Halloran wins again. Shut down those targets, ‘CC’ dammit! Oh my Kami! Medics to Sub Four target ranges stat! Boss Reds has been hit! This show is over! Medic! Medic Donovan, get your ass over here- now!” cried a distraught ‘Artok’ even as Yuri’s laser torch was slicing through the thin tee shirt Kei was wearing while Kome and Neko gently tugged the severed garment off the tro-con’s shoulders.

Dark blood welled from the wound (severed artery perhaps?) so Jon and Han held down the fiery Amazon while Gene Starwind pressed a white bandage down on the wound- hard! Kei screamed- more from anger than from pain.

“How the Fxxx did hat thing hit medammit all? I heard it from the right yet the bolt came from port, not starboard! OW!! Holy Fxxxing mother of Christ! That really hurts, Gene! (Starwind looked at the still blindfolded Kei and shook his head. He’d seen some strange things in his day but Angels were somethin else entirely!) Take it easy, boyo!” yelled the enraged redhead.

“Oro the Hell did ya expect, Reds? Anybody dumb enough to take on a fully armed and mobile automaton cyber robot has both nacelles runnin’ on empty! And to do it blindfolded! Oro the Fxxx did they teach ya on ‘Workoh’ (Kei’s birth planet which she left when she was small) anyway?” growled Han Solo.

“Don’t you ever mention ‘Workoh’ to me again, pirate! That ain’t my home no more! I’m a ‘Shimougan’ now and don’t you ever forget it!” howled the firebrand Hellcat angrily. “Christ it’s cold in here!” she added.

“Shock. Get a blanket quick.” said Yuri.

“Dammit to Hell! We need a blanket over here stat!” roared Marlene Angel the usually calm, cool and collected navigator.

“Here’s one, Brigadier.” said a voic behind her and Mar yanked it away without looking up and spread it over Kei.

“Much obliged, sir.” said Neko.

“Don’t mention it, ‘Kitty Kat’.” replied Anton Gustav. Yuri looked up from her medical bag where she was charging an auto hypo.

“Thanks. She’s gonna need suturing but I sure as jigoku (Hell) can’t do it down here. Get her ass up to sick bay and keep her covered and warm. ‘CC’, prep the treatment room. I’ll be right there. Stop struggling, Kei! It’s only a little autohypo! Lay still dammit! I can’t get this ‘Axileine 30′ (a painkiller disinfectant antibiotic) into you unless you keep your arm still!” yelped Yuri. Then– Wham! Jon Harlock’s haymaker right cross sent the rambunctious redhead to Never Never Land!

“She’s gonna be madder than a ‘Kryloxian’ hornet when she wakes up, Jonny. I’m sure glad that I didn’t deck that firebrand. I pity your sorry ass though.” drawled Han.

“I wouldna hae hit her at all if the vacuumhead knew how to give an autohypo injection dammit!” growled Harlock.

“We could use that forget everything gas on her fellas. Too bad that ‘Zero’ tomo of Kallen Steadfast’s ain’t here. He could use his ‘geas’ on her to forget the whole thing ever even happened.” said Gene.

“No need for any of that chicanery or tomfoolery lads. Poor Deirdre just fell and hit her head. She must have been groggy from loss of blood and passed out. Isn’t that oro happened, Maureen?” suggested Anton and Yuri nodded ruefully.

“Hey ‘CC’, delete the last twenty minutes of both audio and video feed footages from your mrmory banks onegai.” ordered Chief Gustav. “Remember oro the Fxxx happened when our Miss Angel here found out oro happened to her at the ‘Higurashi Mall’ that time? I don’t want to see a repeat performance, do you?” he added.

“Ka-Mi! Hell no, man!” yelled Don.

“Your orders have been carried out, tomo Willy.” said a sombre ‘CC’ just as Yuri trilled them that she had just finished putting 25 sutures in Kei’s wounded shoulder. She told them she was leaving Mugghi (Yuri’s Mugghi) in sick bay to watch over the boss while she (Yuri) went to her suite to rest until dinnertime. An hour later Yuri was awakened by a chime from her portal.

“Hai (Yeah)? Who is it?” she called.

“It’s just me, Duchess. Han. Ya decent?” drawled Solo.

“Yeah. C’mon in. It’s open.” she replied.

“Hiya kiddo. You OK? (Yuri nodded and sat up in her bunk clutching her ‘Paddington Bear’ over the coverlet) Good. I er came down to find out er that is uh–” stammered the Rebel Alliance leader.

“Her royal highness will be dead to the world for another (Yuri squinted at her wristchromo) ten hours. I gave her enough ‘Axileine 30′ to take down a ‘Triglorian’ bull, Han. I thought about Gene’s ‘memory gas’ suggestion but I decided against it. The airhead was pretty much outta it when Jon belted her oro with the drugs and the pain. See you at dinner, pirate?” she yawned.

“Youbetcha, Duchess. Sweet dreams.” grinned Solo as he left and Yuri curled up with her bear and drifted off to dreamland once again.

“You’re off the hook, Jonny. Yuri shot her up with some kickapoo joy juice crap and she’ll be down for the count until 0400 (4 AM) at least. Duchess said she was so far gone in drugs and pain that she couldn’t have seen who hit her, me old boyo so count your lucky stars, Cap.” chortled Han Solo.

“Thank-ee Solo. You got the 0400 to 0600 (6 AM) guard shift on Level Three. Ye won’t be forgettin’ to look in on our fearless leader now, will ye?” replied Harlock.

“Sure I won’t forget. You’re too good to me, sir.” said Han who was checking over the flight vidlog.

Dinner was the usual merry disaster and Mar was relaxing in a nice warm shower an hour later at 1830 (6:30 PM) when she was suddenly yanked out of her reverie by an urgent trill call.

“Hey Princess! Get up here to the comm deck stat! Meet me in the ready room. We just got a shout from HQ and they want the CO. Hothead’s outta it until 0400 and that leaves you, darlin’!” trilled Gene Starwind.

“So? Go pester Donovan, Gene. She’s the exec.” trilled Mar grumpily.

“No can do, kiddo. The Boss Lady made you interim commander, love. Remember, Brigadier?” trilled Harlock.

Mar sighed. “OK. I’ll be right up, boys.” she trilled from the drying alcove. Still barefoot and the same way Mother Nature had created her Marlene Angel juped aboard her express lift and rocketed up six levels. She tapped her bracelet and was ‘morphed’ into her winter uniform by the time the lift dumped her on Level Nine. The ‘Brigadier’ (Acting or actual? Mar was no longer sure which one she was anymore!) strode into the ready room and greeted the ‘Three Musketeers’- Gene, Jon and Han.

“OK gentlemen. Oro the Hell’s going on? Brief me dammit!” demanded the blonde and she seated herself at Kei’s desk.

“HQ wants to talk to Reds and when we told Charlie Garner he couldn’t he asked for you, Princess. Gene of course suggested the Duchess (Yuri) but he said definitely not. That’s all we know, kid. Sorry.” drawled Solo.

“Vidscreen Four, ma’am. We’ll be on the bridge.” said Gene and headed for the door.

“Belay that. All of you are staying here so sit down. Please.” replied Mar and she activated the vidmonitors.

“Good evening, Mr Garner. I understand that–” began Mar.

“Arigatou (Thank) Kami (God) that I had all of you remain there on ‘XANA’, Angel! There’s no time to lose so just listen to me. Are the ‘Three Musketeers’ there as well? (Marlene nodded) Good. We’ll be needing them. Zorin Oakenshield has got hold of some really heavy firepower from somewhere! You ever hear of ‘Gundams’ before?” said a visibly shaken Chhief Garner. Gene and Jon went white.

“Christ Almighty, Chuck! How many’s he got? Four of the shimatta (damned) bloody things almost annihilated Terra a century or two ago!” shouted Gene Starwind.

END of Ch 52. Ch 53 soon. Getting interesting eh? Wonder how our heroine’s gonna get outta this one? Read on and r/r/s away as always. Have a wunnerful day and sfn/sys/jm/Kami bless you all for your interest and assistance. Hooble-toodle-doo! Toodles tomos watashi-K&K

I dickered over this chapter’s titles. Let me know if I got ‘em right eh?

PS- I really do appreciate all your loyalty and support over the years my tomos watashi all! And you can take that to the bank folks!-K&K

See ya next blog post. Toodles-K&K

This one may be lengthy. Sorry.- K&K

That fellow above Neko is Vash the Stampede with his six shooter. He hails from Gunsmoke and the fine series Trigun. He is without a doubt my dear brother Bobby’s fave anime character of all time- bar none. And hai he is yet another of the myriad of characters so ably voiced by Johnny Yong Bosch. He played one of the Power Rangers in a couple of old live films as well. Rosseau from Gurren Lagann, Ichigo from Bleach, Lelouch/Zero from Code Geass, one of the wofmen from Wolf’s Rain, he’s done ‘em all and then some! As versatile as Dave Lucas and Phil LaMarr and Wendee Lee and Darran Norris and Mary Elizabeth McGlynn. Not to forget birthday boy Tom Kenney- 47 on the 9th of July- the day after yours truly the Keiman himself hit the big 6-0! Tom is the behind the scenes announcer on many networks including CN although Adult Swim is done by BruceTaylor. Apologies to Kamesaugi (Tim Nelson) of YG’s animeontv whom I was sure was the Adult Swim announcer. Live and learn eh? Here’s our midmonth ComcastOnDemand guide for anime–

Quite a few changes my dear tomos since last month’s guide I’m very much afraid. Gone are Anime Network; Anime Selects; many anime shos from Starz, HBO, Showtime and Cinemax and now IFC has dropped anime from not only its TV lineup but also from its OnDemand lineup so Gunslinger Girl has left the building. Now our home anime video/audio collections are gonna come in handy. Don’t be fooled by Neko’s expressin folks. She is bravely smiling through her tears while like us she hopes for the best.

Monthly Anime on TV Viewing Guide for Anime Programming on ComcastOnDemand Channels:

JULY 2009- Updated 15 July 2009

First a little offtopic but under Premium Channels there is still a Movieplex section. I thought it was gone for good but it came back. Newest flick is Godzilla 2000 and it’s a great Godzilla film.

COD/CE/AdultSwim/Action

Big O (Ep 14)
Code Geass (Ep 18)
Death Note (Eps 31 to 33)
Ghost in the Shell/SAC (Eps 7 to 9)
InuYasha (Eps 132, 134 to 136)

COD/CE/AnimeSelects and Anime Network are no longer available OnDemand. Sorry.
Sadly I will no longer be listing anything anime nor cartoon from COD/Kids. There are just too many to keep following them. Again sorry for the inconvenience. Be warned, however, that many anime/cartoons/movies/series here can be pay per view especially the stuff under COD/Kids/All Movies.

COD/CE/IFC/Anime

Gunslinger Girl (Eps 12-13)(Read my blog re GG. Orphaned cyborg girls trained to kill. The Social Welfare Agency- Section 2 of the Italian government is a junior version of Ghost in the Shell’s Section 9. Cool dialogue and great music!). Looks like IFC has ended its love affair with anime with the close out of GG’s 1st season. Who knows when or if anime will ever return to IFC/Automat on demand or on IFC 165? Shimatta dirty shame I say!

COD/CuttingEdge/FunimationAnime ( Some are listed under Movies&Events too):

Only Murder Princess, Kenichi, Nana, Romeo X Juliet, Buso Renkin, Claymore, Heroic Age, Kaze No Stigma and D. Gray-Man are first ep free then 99 cents each. Balance of titles are free and all pay perview titles are also available under Movies & Events/Funimation Anime as well:

Drama-Comedy:

Case Closed (Eps 15 to 17)
Peach Girl (Eps 12 to 14)
Suzuka (Eps 12 to 14)

Action-Fantasy:

Aquarion (Eps 14 to 16)
Galaxy Railway (Eps 9-10)
Jyu-Oh-Sei (Eps 10-11)
Mushi Shi (Eps 11-12)
Sasami (Eps 9-10)

Ouran Host HS Club (Eps 16 to 20)

Murder Princess (Eps 1 to 6)(NEW)

Kenichi (Eps 15 to 20)

D. Gray-Man (Eps 17 to 21)

Nana (Eps 5 to

Romeo X Juliet (Eps 1 to 6)

Honey & Clover (2 minute preview)(Hope this shows up real soon. Sounds good to me.)

Cosplay Cuties (Anime costumes on view):

Being Lolita
Breakfast Sushi
Cosplay Cuties!
Dating in Tokyo
Ktttens!!!
Real Cuties- Volume 2

Baccano! (Eps 1-4)(Crime that spans centuries)(FREE)

Buso Renkin (Eps 1-8)(Kid defends girl. Kid dies but isn’t dead)

Claymore (Eps 1-8)(Yomas are evil but they fear Claymores- mutated Yoma)

Heroic Age (Eps 1-8)(Princess leads people in search of a saviour on another world)

Kaze No Stigma (Eps 1 to 9) (Wind warrior descendant discovers gift has skipped a generation)

All pay per view anime available under Movies & Events/ Funimation Anime

Movies-Specials:

These are $2.99 each to view:

Case Closed- 14th Target

Negima! 2 OVA (99 cents each)
School Rumble 1-2 OVA (99 cents each)

This next section of COD/Kids may have changed. Remember onegai that I only keep the Kids/Movies and Kids/Free Movies updated now. As far as I know all the kiddie stuff and teen stuff under Kids is still there albeit later eppys than I have here. Ditto for the Free Movis and Premium Channels sections for kid stuff. Check it out if you’re interested at COD:

COD/PremiumChannels/Starz/StarzKids

Nanoboy (Eps13) (A pint sized kiddie type superhero)
Nightmare Before Xmas
Meet the Robinsons
Ferngully (Amazon Adventure)

COD/PremiumChannels/Encore/Kids

Ratatouille (A rat teaches a French chef wannabe in France)(Animated film)

COD/PremiumChannels/Encore

Resident Evil 3

COD/PremiumChannels/Starz/AllMovies

Spiderman 3
Underdog

COD/PremiumChannels/Max/EarlyPremieres

Incredible Hulk
Fantastic Four 2 (Silver Surfer)
New Wolverine flick (Sneak Peek)

COD/PremiumChannels/Movieplex

God’s Gun (Yeah a Western but well if you’ve read my ff’s you’ll get the irony)

COD/Kids/CartoonNetwork (No change from May for any of Kids shows):

Ben 10 Alien Force (Eps 1,2,25,26)
Total Drama Island (Cartoon but animeish fun. Better than ‘Survivor’ reality game show which it mimics!) (Eps 18 to 22, Total Drama Drama Special Eppy)
Secret Saturdays (Cartoon or anime? Very like old Johnny Quest shows)(Eps6,7,11 to 14)
Bakugan (Eps 8 to 16)(Dueling tops to save the world BION! Small fry fare)

COD/Kids/DisneyXD

Iron Man (Cartoon but animelike)
Titles: Grim Reaper

Spiderman (Ditto as above)
Titles: Menace of Mysterio; Alien Costume- Pt 1; Spider-Slayers

Pucca (Chop Socky fun cartoon)
Titles: Chop Chewie; Chef Napped; Tame That Toon; Fab Abyo

Yin Yang Yo! (Cartoon like ‘Avatar the Last Airbender’ and pretty decent)
Titles: Camp Magic Pants; Clown-Fu Fighting; Skirting the Issue; For the Love

X-Men (Could be anime or cartoon. A great series and great flicks. Hugh Jackman (Wolverine in films) hosted the Oscars)
Titles:The Cure; Slave Island; X-Men: Cold; Unstoppable

Aaron Stone
Titles: First Strike, Hero Rising (Parts 1-2), Timeout, Rockin’ the Free

COD/Kids/KidsWB

Thundercats (A very rare anime and Mama has been after it for years!) (Eps 112 to 116)

Batman Beyond (Animelike cartoon w/ old Bruce training new Batman) (Eps 201 to 207)

The Batman (Cool animelike cartoon w/ Rimo (Ray’s bro) Romano as the Batman) (Eps 212 to 213 and 301 to 303)

COD/Kids/Bomerang

Nothing this time I’m afraid.

COD/Kids/Free Movies

The Trojan Horse(Famous novel w/ kids as characters)
Muppets From Space (Don’t miss the houseflies and chimps in space flicks either. Hunt for them. They are there- trust me.)

COD/Kids/Kids Movies(Pay Per View films)

Aladdin (Robin Williams is the genie) $2.99
Dr Seuss’ Horton Hears A Who (Jim Carrey is Horton) $4.99
City of Ember (Save the glittering city!) $4.99
Kung Fu Panda (Jack Black the fighting panda) $4.99
Madagascar 2 (Lost animals again) $4.99
Open Season 2 (Deer leads animals against hunters again) $4.99
Pocahontas (Indian girl loves nature and Smitty) $2.99
Return to Neverland (PP must rescue Wendy from Hook years later) $2.99
Wall-E (The Oscar winner of 2008) $4.99

Many more- Chek the onscreen guides

COD/Kids/4KidsTV

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Back to Sewer)
Titles: Back to Sewer #6; Hacking Stockman; Search for Splinter- Pts 1-2; Turtles Space- Pt 1

Yugioh 5 D’s
Titles: Duel to Remember; Lockdown Duel (Pts 1-2) Fire It Up; The Takeback (Pts 1-2)

Chaotic (Weird one but a cartoon) (Eps 147 to 149)
Dino King (Another oldie weirdo cartoon) (Eps 140 and 142)

COD/Kids/Kabillion

Spiderman
Titles: Cosmic Quantum-Ep 7 and 18 (CQ is in almost every Kabillion section here); Spiderman- Disabled and Scam; X-Men: Mutant, Past, Rogue, Wolverine and X-Impulse

Transformers
Titles: CQ- 18; Rocket: Earth Day; Surf: Kalani David; Transformers- Eps 13, 19, Sound

Godzilla
Titles: CQ-Ep 7; Dennis the Menace- Band; Godzilla- Eps 6 and 9; Rocket: Earth Day and Rockin’, Skateboarding

Men In Black
Titles: Men In Black- Eps 7 and 9;Rocket: Earth Day; CQ- Eps 7,12,18

GI Joe
Titles: CQ- Eps 7,12,18; GI Joe- Eps 11-13; Rocket: Earth Day; Surf: Kalani David

New GI Joe:Rise of Cobra coming 7 August to theatres.

Ghostbusters
Titles: Ghostbusters- Eps 3 and 6; Rocket: Earth Day; CQ- Eps 7,18

Code Lyoko & More
Titles: Code Lyoko- Earth, Seeing, Start; Kiteboarding; Surf: Kalani David; CQ- Ep 18

COD/FreeMovies/Trivia&Games (FREE)

TV Trivia: Disney Ch 1; Friends 2; Jr. 4; Seinfeld; TV to Go 1

Channel 1 Challenge: A&E Challenge 2; Anime Challenge 2; Kids Challenge 2; Life&Home Challenge 2; Music Challenge 2; Sports & Fitness Challenge 2

Quizzo: Entertainment 1 to 3; History Round 1 to 3

Scene It? Trivia: Disney 5; Disney Channel 1; Disney to Go; Friends 2; Harry Potter 5 and 7; Jr. 4; Movie 5 and 6; Seinfeld; Star Trek; TCM 4 and TV to Go 1

Trailer Trivia: Various movie trailers with a special Tom Hanks category

Movie Trivia: Disney 5; Disney to Go; Harry Potter 5 and 7; Movie 5 and 6; Star Trek and TCM 4

Brainteasers: Animated Phrases 2 to 4; Pix Puzzles 2 and 3; Word Puzzles 2 and 3

Recreational Games: Same as before plus Darts 501

Big Brain Trivia: Brain Game 15 to 19 (Beg/Int/Expert)

COD/Kids/ActivityTV

Origami (Japanese art of paper folding)
Hometown Recipes (Like Chicago style pizza)
Cartooning Lessons

COD/PremiumChannels/HBO:

Transformers the movie(Don’t miss TR/Revenge of the Fallen in theatres now and setting box office records to boot- $300Million+ at last check!)

That’s all the FREE anime/cartoons on demand but there quite a few Pay Per View Ones here:

COD/Movies&Events/FunimationAnime:

COD/PremiumChannels/TooMuchForTV/Imports:

This service runs $14.99 a month guys and gals:

Hills Have Size 1 and 2 (Raunchy fare re girls’ “hills” ahem breasts!)

(Most of these PPV animes are definitely not for the kids!)

TMFT has other non-anime fare too and it’s pretty raunchy so be warned gang!

This is getting tiresome already man! Show of hands onegai of those who think we should stick to adult anime and anime related films only? After all how many 12 year oldsters we got here anyway?

From now on I’ll post this list twice monthly and I’ll keep it under ‘Files’ rather than ‘Messages’ or ‘Blogs’ (at www.Eons.com/groups/group/anime-a-holics/Files)

The ‘teaser’ beginning of the chapter on blog’s first page and the balance in the reply.

Hope you guys and gals like this new method of posting tv lists. A reminder that Sci Fi’s(now SYFY) AniMonday at 11 PM ET is a double eppy of ‘Gundam 00′ (BGR anime) and a double eppy of ‘The Rave Master’ (a hilarious swords/sorcery anime a la InuYasha and Those Who Hunt Elves as well as Onepiece. Cool series especially the location names like ‘Hip Hop City’ OK the ‘Rave’ gives Haru Glory’s sword power but to defeat the evil ShadowGuards will require four ‘Rave Stones’ which have been scattered all across the world like the shards of the Shi Kon no Tama in IY and the spell fragments on TWHE not to mention DragonBalls!) .

Hey WitchBlade the film (with Sarah Pezzini not Masane Amaha- yech!) will hit theatres in a year or so while DragonBall and Death Note are already out there showing. Many more anime based flicks are coming soon and they are filming Bebop with Keanu Reeves in Dave’s role as Spike Steigel. For Jett I’d pick LF- Larry Fishburne or even MF- Morgan Freeman. Denzel Washington or Samuel L Jackson don’t fit the mold. How about Miley Cyrus aka Hannah Montana as ‘Ed’ and Lindsay Lohan as Faye Valentine? (Rafe) Donnelly could be Tommie Lee Jones. Hey I oughta be a Hollywood cast finder eh? Gad, I wonder how much of a muckup they’ll make of the ‘Bebop’, ‘Swordfish II’, ‘Redtail’ and ‘Hammerhead’? I don’t think Ed’s power scooter had a name although we all know the computer she wore on her head with ‘goggle monitors’ was named ‘Tomato’!

Here’s the new Saturday night CN/AS lineup which begins earlier now for us at 12:00 AM ET following Star Wars the animated series at midnight. All times Eastern of course:

12:00AM to 1:00 AM Bleach (2 eppys)
1:00 AM to 1:30 AM Morabito (Spearwoman protects prince)
1:30 AM to 2:00 AM Star Wars the Clone Wars (Geo Lucas does it again folks!)
2:00 AM to 2:30 AM Code Geass (Just restarted. Must be seen to be appreciated)
2:30 AM to 3:00 AM Fullmetal Alchemist
3:00 AM to 3:30 AM Death Note
3:30 AM to 4:00 AM Ghost in the Shell/Stand Alone Complex
4:00 AM to 4:30 AM Cowboy Bebop
4:30 AM to 5:00 AM Big 0 (Big Giant Robot fare)
5:00 AM to 6:00 AM InuYasha (2 eppys once more- yay!)

Sad to see Naruto eliminated in favour of Ben 10 Alien Force which dominates Saturday evenings on CN. It follows Total Drama Island and 6Teen which is about teens in a shopping mall. Now Ben 10 has been replaced with reality TV shows.

Before I forget we just watched Mallrats which is a Jay & Silent Bob teen comedy filmed in a New Jersey shopping mall. Jason Lee (Dave Seville in Chipmunks flick) played a comic fanatic and the special guest star was Stan Lee himself. If you saw Fantastic 4- Rise of the Silver Surfer you may have caught a cameo of him as one of the wedding guests at the Reed Richards/Sue Storm nuptials. In Mallrats he was an integral character. Stan was signing comics at the mall and helped out Jason with a few problems. Don’t miss this flick or Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back when the goofs come to Hollywood. Cameos by Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) and Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia). He’s a supervillain (natch- he voices ‘em everywhere) and she’s a nun (go figure eh?)

Anyhow Showtime is where we saw ‘em- Showtime at COD.

A couple of Code Geass crossovers in this week’s eppys. Two of the new ‘Nightmares’ (like Gundams) have unusual names: ‘Guren’ (as in ‘Guren Lagann’ the BGR anime series above) and ‘Zangetsu’ (as in the name of Ichigo Kurosaki’s ‘zampatou’ sword in ‘Bleach’. His has the voice of Richard Epcar who also voices the last of the Bounts- Kouga).

Lucas Glover the ‘NY Giant’ from Greensville SC who beat Tiger and Mickelson to claim the USGA’s US Open Championship title is a die hard InuYasha fan! He likes Richard Ian Cox a lot too.

Anyway Katayama looks like a younger version of Haruka Takachiho who created the Angels, don’t ya think?

They’ll all be there this week at Ailsa Scotland for the British Open which will be played at Turnberry Isle’s golf links. Ailsa Craig or Crag is a natural rock formation of the rocky NW coast of Scotland. From the 10th green one can see the ‘craig’ and the lighthouse which guards mariners from hitting it. A kawaii course but a challenging one! I’m pulling for the S Africans- Retief Goosen, Ernie Els and Rory Sabatini to win this year. Defending is Erin’s own Padraig (Por-Rick) Harrington..

Getting into DLs and ULs and burning CDs again. Trying to get into attaching videos to messages like I do pix now but it’s damned tricky folks!

Anyone figure out who AS aka AH was yet? It was his birthday on 30 April and hint- think European birthplace. Good Luck!

OK it was Adolph Schikelgruber who became Adolph ‘Der Fuehrer’ Hitler who was born 30 April in Austria and then became Chancellor of Germany by a single vote. Doesn’t Fuehrer King Bradley on FMA look a lot like Onkel Adolph? That State Alchemist Army banner reminds me of the Black Eagle banners of the Germanic Army of WWII. FMA gave it cheerier colours- green and gold like the GB Packers NFL team!

Happy birthday to Tom Kenney who voices one of the autobots in the new Transformers flick.

I am now reading Umberto Eco’s classic novel Foucault’s Pendulum which is all about the Knights Templar and the Grand Plan and the Philosopher’s Stone and other heavy stuff like that. It’s a great book and might make a great film if Hollywood ever wises up. It’s a bit of a wordy read and calls for an understanding of world history and a smattering of mythology and stuff but it is well worth it. Eco wrote that marvelous book Name of the Rose which became a film starring Sean ‘007′ Connery as a monk detective. Latest book I’ve read is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Tanglewood Tales which is a different retelling of Greek mythology. He even calls Mercury (Hermes) the gods’ messenger Quicksilver. That was also the name of one of the X-Men villains and was voiced by Richard Ian Cox. Any suggestions for my next reading quest? I like puzzles, quests, treasure hunts and the like. I have had my fill of mysteries though. Mama is reading The Magic Labyrinthe which I have covered in the blogs and messages. In September I will be getting The Lost Symbol- Dan Brown’s newest novel. Not much info on that book yet though.

I have just added three plums to my anime vids collection: Complete DVD sets of Noir, Gasaraki and Tactics. I already have the complete set of Black Lagoon on DVD and partials on Blood+, Cyborg 009, FMA, Bleach and a few others. I have the first 7 eppys of Morabito and am on the lookout for the set. Bobby has the complete set of Trigon and Mama has the complete set of Gunslinger Girl and Witchblade. Anyone else have any new acquisitions to talk about? If so blog it here or post some messages folks.

I will leave you with this. I invite everyone to visit the Forums in SciFi.com (syfy.com after 7 July) under AniMondays/RaveMaster and read all about my newest fave anime series- the Rave Master. I burned the RM OT ‘Rave-olution’ by Reel Big Fish for Mama for Mom’s Day and she has not stopped playing that CD since then. She adores it and she loves RM and Gundam 00 which precedes it on Mondays AniMondays on SciFi (now SYFY) Channel.

Bobby’s fave on the History Channel ‘Ice Road Truckers’ returns on 31 May and 27 September Mama’s fave Dexter returns to Sundays on Showtime. When will my Angels ever return- who knows? Maybe I’ll watch them tonight- nai Nora Roberts’ Blue Smoke is on OnDemand. It’s the female version of Ron Howard’s Backdraft albeit it is set in Baltimore MD rather than Pittsburgh PA. It’s all about a gal who becomes an arson investigator and features Scott Bakula (Cpt Jonathan Archer of the Enerprise) in Bobby DeNiro’s Backdraft role as senior arson squad leader and Caterina’s boss. Reena is Alice Witt reprising the Backdraft role played by Alec Baldwin if I remember aright.

By the way Discover Channel (Ch 64 on Comcast) has dropped (at least for now) Josh Bernstein’s Into the Unknown series from their lineup. Josh was on a morning TV talk show this past Wednesday and he may be returning to the History Channel soon. A shame to lose his show since good archaeological shows are few and far between these days. I grew up with Bold Venture and Marlin Perkins’ Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom as well as the Wonderful World of Walt Disney. Today’s Disney crap would make Walt upchuck! Imagine showing stuff unsuitable for the entire family on network TV in prime time!

Another great show was In Search Of narrated by Leonard ‘Mr Spock’ Nimoy and I recall an eppy of theirs re the Knights Templar and Foucault’s Pendulum. If anyone knows where I can find a copy of those gems on VHS or DVD onegai let me know. A big domo arigatou in advance for your assistance. Gotta really go now and get some blogging done and maybe post Chapter 50 at last.

Just saw Kurosawa’s masterpiece 7 Samurai and started reading Angels & Demons after I finished Bored With the Rings (a LOR satire) and Fritz Lieber’s Knight & Knave of Swords which was about the two unlikely Norse heroes Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser- think of Arnie Schwarzenegger teamed up with Bruce Willis! Next chapter real soon now. Have a great day and weekend. Sayonara for now folks.

Just finished reading Philip Jose Farmer’s climactic ending novel to his Riverworld series- The Magic Labyrinthe and boy is it cool! Doesn’t make too much sense if you haven’t read the other Riverworld books though. SciFi showed a made for TV Riverworld movie some time ago but it didn’t do the books justice at all. The three key characters are all from history: Sam (Mark Twain) Clemens, King (f. Prince) John of Robin Hood lore and Sir Richard Burton the great explorer who searched for the Nile’s source (not to be confused with the actor of the same name). Wikipedia has a pretty decent synopses of Farmer’s Riverworld sagas if anyone is interested.

Looks like COD has some good movie fare this month. Here are just a few:

Angel Unchained; Army of Darkness; Evil Dead 2; Haunted; Haunting of Julia; Candyman (Don’t miss Tony Todd in the new Transformers flick); Dracula (Gary Oldman); Mindwarp (w/ Angus ‘Phantasm’ Scrimm); Waxworks and Waxworks 2; Wishmaster and Wishmaster 3 and 4; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; X Files and X Men; Devour and Fly Me to the Moon (Houseflies on Apollo rocket). Go ahead. Give ‘em a whirl. Gotta go now.

Almost forgot Planet of the Apes and Beneath the Planet of the Apes- both classics!

Well that’s it for this time. Enjoy and toodles tomos watashi-K&K

XANA is a pivotal location in this chapter. It is also the evil program trying to destroy the world in Code Lyoko. Here’s a pix. Sorry this chappie’s so long but I promise 52 will be much shorter.

AW Ch 51 ‘Fire Meets Oak’ or ‘Hide ‘N Seek?’

Game’s history now so what other fun and games await our feisty heroines?

This chapter is about trying to stop a madman and for awhile the LA2 must hide from an enemy!

ANGEL WINGS

DISCLAIMER: OK ‘Riza’ darlin’, it’s all yours. First I wanna thank Mr T for the use of his Angels and stuff. Then I wanna thank everyone else who has been allowing us to use their creations here like Thom Beers for the use of his ice road truckers Hugh, Drew, Rick, Eric, Alex and Bear. I took the liberty of naming the 3WA academy in Furool City on Shimougou after Mr Haruka Takachiho in honour of his creations- the Angels. How was that, Yuri? Great, kiddo. Oh hai it sure was, Kei! Now since we left ya up in the air last time let’s get to Ch 51 without any further meandering, shall we? Why is Zack Zero back and oro does he want with Suba Marina Oki? Can Mandy keep her big mouth shut? A hint re the titles- That will become apparent later on in the chapter. Oro does this all mean? We’ll find out momentarily gang. The Boss Red Marshall’s on the warpath again! Here ’tis:-

CHAPTER 51

‘Fire Meets Oak’ or ‘Hide ‘N Seek?’

“This is Hawkeye. Patch me through to Rafe Donnelly at ‘ISSP’ HQ in Moravian City and fast! Huh? On Mars, you idiot and hurry up! (Riza fumed at the four second relay delay) Rafe? Hi, it’s Riza. Riza Hawkeye at Furool? Fine thanks and you? Good. Listen, we have got ourselves a slight problem on ‘Kalufrax’ so could you please send over about a dozen cruiser units to their spaceport? Why? Because I think that Zorin Oakenshield’s gonna try to commandeer a ‘UG’ patrol starship. Huh? One of the 3WA’s newest ones. Oro’s that? Yeah, the ‘Angel 2′ but how’d you guess that? Just teasing you, old man. You know there’s gonna be Hell to pay if he does try to grab it, Rafe. Just twelve, Rafe? Please?” pleaded Riza. “Ya will? Great. We owe ya one, tomo. Hawkeye out.” she added and returned the vidcell to her purse. Then she knitted her brows in thought.

“I really got a bad feeling in my gut about this Z.O. thing, Chief. Fancy a trip to ‘Kalufrax’, Roy? We really should be there to act as go-betweens if nothing else. So how’s about it?” asked the svelte blonde.

“You have a meeting with Senator Naia–” began Julia.

“Cancel it. Reschedule the old windbag for next week sometime and clear the rest of this week as well. I’m going even if Chief Mustang isn’t.” said Riza.

“Fallon, tell Lt Halva he’s in charge until we get back next week. Close the top and head for ‘Kalufrax’, Suba.” said Roy to their driver who nodded and slammed the roof portal shut. Suddenly the blonde commissioner looked flustered. Julia smiled and tapped her briefcase.

“Not to worry, Commish. Kal’s a mite chilly this time of year. I thought trouble was brewing there so I took the liberty of packing a few changes of garments for you. (Her voice dropped to a murmur) I brought pants Riza just in case.” said her aide. Hawkeye managed a wan smile and thanked her. Then her face darkened.

“Trouble brewing in Kal? How’d you figure that, Julie?” she demanded.

“Z.O.’s hired himself some extra muscle. ‘Brilliant Dynamite Neon’ and his ‘Bad Lads’ gang.” replied Julie quietly. Fallon swore.

“Damnation! BDN and his no goodniks? You sure, Douglas?” asked Subaltern Fallon worriedly.

“Uh huh. I’m sure, Frank.” she answered with a stifled yawn.

“Why? Who the Hell are they, Frank?” asked Roy Mustang.

“They’re train hijackers from ‘Gunsmoke’, Chief. Captain Blue (Legato Bluesummers) told me all about ‘em, sir. If they can hijack trains don’t you think they can hijack starships too?” replied Fallon with a shrug of his shoulders as he keyed the mike of the sled’s vidphone. “Cheska? It’s Frank Fallon. Onegai (Please) clear us for offworld space travel. Lt Halva’s in charge until further notice. Mustang’s orders. Who’s with us? (Roy shook his head) Now Cheska darlin’ you know that’s confidential information. It’s on a need to know basis and Honey you just do not need to know so just do it. Where? (Roy mimed ‘no’ and shook his head) Sorry kiddo. Can’t tell you that either. We’re cleared? OK. Arigatou. Have a nice day, Chessie. Bye.” said Fallon and he punched his speed bar. The sled rocketed towards the Western Gateway while two hours away at their destination–

“Oro the FXX do ya mean he said we can’t land here! Patch his relay through to my quarters, Bishop- stat!” trilled an angry redhead.

“He’s on Tach 3 Boss but it ain’t Commander Nohara anymore. It’s his exec- a Captain Oakenshield. Be careful, Reds. This guy sounds like he’s missing a few nacelles, man! He just told me to prepare to be boarded or he’ll fire on us! He’s certifiable, ma’am!” trilled Bishop.

“Captain Oakenshield? This is Marshall Kierran O’Halloran of the 3WA, Special ‘UG’ envoy commanding the patrol starship ‘Lovely Angel 2′ requesting permission to dock–” began Kei reasonably. A voice like thunder caused her to yank out the comlink and continue with the vidscreens in front of her.

“Silence!! I am commandeering your ship, Madam! You will either surrender your vessel to me or I will take it by force! Under ‘Kalufrax’ and Galactic Law I am within my legal rights to declare martial law and seize any hostile vessel and their crews! I now intend to exercise that right! I hereby order you to surrender, Madam at once!” thundered the madman. Kei went purple with rage.

“The Hell I will!! You have no right whatsoever to interfere with a 3WA intergalactic police patrol craft! You will permit me to dock immediately, Captain or I will personally have your ass broken down to a ’sub sapper no class’ (an ancient Terran army private E-2) before your court-martialed, pal! On old Terra they’d have kicked you outta the army on a Section 8, you deranged lunatic! You got five seconds to stand down and allow my ship to dock or I’ll open fire on you, me boyo! Kapish?” yelled an enraged firebrand Hellcat tro-con.

“Very well. Have it your own way, Madam but I did warn you so remember that, you harlot! Commence firing!” screamed Zorin Oakenshield and he seized the controls of the nearest railgun and began blasting the ‘LA2′ with high intensity plasma energy beams.

“Shields up!! Now!” cried Kei and Joey at the same instant and ‘CC’ complied just in the nick of time.

“Er uh tomo Kei? Perhaps we have overstayed our welcome here? Don’t you think it’s high time we were leaving, love? Now- before we are turned into molten scrap Kelvinite!” suggested a shaken ‘CC’ but the Boss angrily shook her head defiantly.

“The Fxxxing day that I give in to a baka jackanapes jacaronda jackass will be the same Fxxxing day that I resign my commission, Kami shimatta ni jigoku! (Our guys and gals say that phrase every so often when they’re upset or angry. Kami means God and shimatta is dammit or damned or damn and jigoku is Hell!) Flight crew to the bridge- stat! That’s a Fxxxing order dammit! Fire on me willya! Take that and that and that!” yelled Kei activating the remote controls for her quad guns and plasma bombs and firing on the X-Wing fighters in front of the huge starship. Suddenly Kei’s portal swished aside as Han Solo, Gene Starwind and Yuri Donovan rushed in.

“Have you gone completely baka loco, you dim-witted loon! Oro do ya wanna do- start another frigging war dammit! Oro you’re doing could easily be construed an a hotile action, dummy!” yelled Yuri who had used her override keycode to open Kei’s door when their repeated tattoos on her portals had gone unanswered.

“They fired on ME, you shit-headed birdbrain! I’m just returning fire!” howled a frenzied redhead.

“But how the Hell are ya firing at all? I just came from the bridge and our shields are still UP!” yelled Revy Roberts from the open doorway. Kei scowled at her.

“We’re wasting time. Follow me.” cried Kei and she sprinted for the concealed express lift in her bedroom closet.

“We can fire without lowering our shields and we can fire from ‘cloak’, Mizz Roberts. Now get in there, girl.” drawled Solo shoving her aboard the lift.

Five seconds later Kei dashed onto her bridge and started barking out her orders.

“Gene, pull back behind that asteroid over there. (She pointed and her pilot nodded) Solo, ‘cloak’ the ship. Kome, relay the ‘G Boys’ (Galadriel, Gooley, Gustav and Garner) and get us some backup. Mar! Nami! Zoe! Nyssa! Find us a bolt hole we can use if ya can. Let’s play a little ‘kakurenbo’ (hide and seek) guys. Nat, better hold your fire for now. Yeah Kome? Oro? That’s just great! Big Chief Mustang and his chief flunkie Hawkeye are on their way here to ‘negotiate’ with this dipstick! Oro? Donnelly’s got a squadron (twelve crafts) headed over from Mars to help out? Good. Somebody better advise ‘Romulus’ Command that this nitwit (Oakenshield) may have already sent an invasion force their way. Yeah Kome? Oro the Fxxxing Hell do ya mean we’ve been ordered not to take any hostile action against them? Whose lamebrain orders are they? Oro? ‘God Almighty’ himself? Galadriel? It figures! That wimp would think he could reason with Z.O. only there ain’t no way to ‘reason’ with someone who’s already insane! OK we’re gonna need some outside help on this so Neko, go get the three ‘caballeros’ (cowboys- meaning of course Spike Steigel, Jett Black and Faye Valentine) and fast! Two can play at that game, Zorin. Huh? Why the Fxxx y lookin’ st me like that, Sally?” cried an exasperated and puzzled Kei O’Halloran.

Ever since she’d reached the bridge a barefoot Kei had been giving orders in her football jersey, helmet and underbriefs! Yuri grimaced and clamped a ‘morphing’ bracelet on Kei’s wrist and tapped it. Then she did the same with herself. Instantly both tro-cons were in full 3WA winter uniforms and battle armour.

“Here’s your three ‘caballeros’, Boss.” announced Neko.

“Four! Don’t forget Edward!” piped up the freckled tow-headed street urchin tomboy who was still in her pajamas. She was clutching an enormous Teddy bear.

“Somebody onegai (please) get that brat outta here!” growled Revy.

“Kid’s got a point, Roberts. She is a ‘cowgirl’ on our crew so she’s one of us.” drawled Spike Steigel. Kei fumed but acquiesced anyway.

“OK. She can stay but keep her outta the way, Spike. Look, you guys are all ‘cowboys’ so I need ya to get the word out that I am putting out a bounty on one Zorin Oakenshield- dead or alive. Can ya handle that from here?” asked the Boss.

“Sure we can Reds. How much? In woolongs (Martian unit of currency equal to an ancient Terran Italian lira) I mean.” queried Jett fingers poised over his PDO keypad. The redhead hesitated.

“One hundred. Make it one hundred million Jett.” replied the calm, cool and collected blonde navigator Marlene Angel. Kei nodded so Jett punched in the necessary details.

“Where are we gonna get that kind of money?” demanded Yuri. Kei grinned and lit a cheroot.

“From good old Uncle Vito. If Galadriel wants to avoid an intergalactic incident he’s damned Fxxxing well gonna have to ante up for it!” snarled the redhead who was busily studying vidmaps and starcharts.

“Looks like there’s no place to go except for someplace called ‘Smugglers’ Ravine’ in ‘Bison Fields’ Boss.” announced Nami Richards from the nav room next door. Kei nodded sagely.

“Gene, head for ‘Bison’- quietly. Engineering? Impulse power only and shut down our warp core. Try and mask our signature trails (like exhaust smoke) if ya can. Gene, keep us in that asteroid’s shadow as long as ya can so we can create a ‘phantom’ for them to follow. We can lay over in ‘Sontarra’ instead. Kei out.” said the Boss and she tossed the relay mike to Han. Wearily she seated herself on the console between pilot and co-pilot.

“Hey guys- ‘Sontarra’s gonna be too hot for us for the next few days so where can we hide out until the heat’s off?” asked their commander. Zoe smiled and chuckled.

“Yeah where? This monster ain’t exactly something ya can park in Dad’s garage ya know.” she giggled. Suddenly the pilot snapped his fingers.

“I’ve got it- a scathingly brilliant idea. Don’t fret Reds. I know a place we can use but it’s a secret place so I can’t tell ya where it is but I will take us there. Gomen (Sorry) Reds but I took a solemn oath to keep this place a secret.” said Gene Starwind. Han Solo raised his aizu(eye)brows but said nothing. Kei shrugged her shoulders and stood up.

“Fine by me. Just get us through ‘Bison’ and over to this ‘Shangri-La’ of yours so we can figure out how to put the kibosh on old Zorin and I’ll be overjoyed, me old boyo.” she replied and took another drag on her cheroot. She blew some smokerings which fascinated Rin, Kira and the Scouts, however, Ed and Moonie were unimpressed. They’d seen it all before. A few hours later Gene steered them into ‘Bison Fields’ and into the labyrinthe called ‘Smugglers’ Ravine’ where he locked the ship on ‘George’ (autopilot) so he could hand over the helm to Han for the first few hours.

“It doesn’t get really tricky until we reach ‘Deadman’s Gulch’ tonight pirate so you take over for now and I’ll spell you at 2100 (9 PM)- OK?” asked Starwind. Han nodded and slid into Gene’s seat.

“Just don’t you go forgettin’ about me outlaw. Hey Nyssa! How’s about a burger, fries and some java for lunch? Better send up a platter at dinner too. Who else is on this flight crw Reds?” drawled Solo. Nyssa vanished into the breakroom to rep up Han’s victuals. Mar tapped a few keys on the console and the flight crew duty roster appeared on his vidscreen.

“Arigatou (Thanks) Contessa. Lemme see now. Gene, me, Nat, Nami, the Boss, you, ‘Cat’ (Rally Vincent), Flaysie (Flay Allster), Caggie (Cagalli Yula Athna), Ivy (Ivanhoe) and Nyssa. OK old buddy see ya at 2100.” drawled Han and Gene headed for his bunk. He didn’t get very far before the InuYasha gang waylaid him and insisted on toasting him on the Hawks’ stunning victory over the Killers with Gene at the helm as coach. Dinnertime was 1700 and Gene had just gotten to bed.

“Dinner Captain.” came Mugghi’s gentle trill at 1625 (4:25 PM).

“Not now Furball. Call me at 2045 (8:45 PM). I got night duty.” murmurred Starwind before dropping off again.

Mugghi meowed her annoyance at having to call him in the middle of her favorite ancient Terran TV show ‘Dexter’ which was one of the myriad of ancient Terran movies and TV vid-disks available in ‘CC’s memory banks.

The Ice Roaders were repping up a small before dinner snack for themselves (Dinner was at 1700 and it was only 1630 or half past four) in the breakroom behind the ready room and bridge. After the half dozen anti-grav trolleys were fully laden Drew, Rick and Alex trundled them through the air to the lift. All of them enjoyed dining in the star room (observation lounge) two flights down on Level Seven. Back upstairs on Nine Eric, Bear and Hugh were exploring (OK- snooping) the drawers’ contents in the small kitchenette.

“Hey guys, what’s this thing for I wonder?” asked Eric. In his hand was a short slim metallic cylinder with an elastic loop attached to one end. A small white illuminated panel was softly glowing on its right side. Bear looked worried.

“I dunno mon ami but maybe you should put that thing back where you found it, Eric.” he advised.

“Nonsense! It’s just a little toy flashlight or some such jimcrack. Give it here, Eric.” boomed Hugh. When Eric handed it over Hugh looped it around his wrist and tried a few ‘kenjutsu’ (sword fighting) moves with it like he’d seen the Ninjas and Soul Reapers do. There was a slight whooshing sound and a band of glowing bright green light shot out of the cylinder’s tip almost decapitating Eric who dove under the counter. The beam continued on its way and did slice the toaster in half.

“Didn’t I tell ya not to play with it, stupid!” yelled Bear. Suddenly an anguished cry rent the air.

“Shit! Miss Donovan just repped up that toaster last month after that wolf thing (Kouga the wolf youkai demon) zapped the other one. Be very careful with that, sir. That is the hilt of a laser sword you have in your fist, Mr Hugh. Turn it off and hand it to me, sir.” said Nyssa who’d just come in to rep up Han’s dinner.

“How the Fxxx do ya turn the blamed thing off, girlie?” yelled the ‘Polar Bear’ and Nyssa’s face darkened. She pointed to the lighted white panel.

“Just touch that white panel that’s glowing, sir. That’s right. Good. Now just hand it to me onegai (please). Arigatou (Thanks). Green huh? This must be one of Kome’s I guess.” replied the Trakken girl.

“One? You mean she has more than one?” demanded Eric.

“Sure. She collects weapons. Kome must have about fifty of these damned things, Mr Eric.” she answered. “I’ll return it to her, gentlemen and we’ll just pretend that none of this ever happened eh?” grinned Nyssa with a wink.

“And the toaster?” asked Bear. Nyssa tapped the repper.

“Toaster. White. Identical. Replicate and replace.” intoned the demure Trakken. “Here, Mr Bear. Take it.” she added tossing the pieces of the old one down the recycle chute after throwing the new one to Bear. Then she walked over to Hugh. Turning her back to Bear and Eric she grabbed Hugh’s wrist and twisted it up behind him into a painful hammerlock.

“You ever call me by that disgusting name (Girlie) again, Mr Hugh and I’ll break this Fxxxing arm for you. Got it?” she whispered fiercely.

“Yeah, I got it, ma’am. I apologize.” breathed the big guy. Nyssa nodded and released him.

“Will I see you at dinner, gentlemen? (They nodded) Great. Until 1700 then er five o’clock. Ciao.” she said and left them.

“Kome was shovelling in food like an ‘Ajothorpian’ hog when Nyssa clunked a small velvet bag down on the table beside the strawberry blonde teen.

“Take better care of this thing and don’t lose it again dammit.” whispered Nyssan as she passed by Kome’s table on her way to Revy and Neko’s table.

“Oro was that all about, Nyssie?” asked Neko curiously.

“Just returning something Pinky had lost, ‘Kitty Kat’, that’s all. Oro’s good tonight? I’m starvin’ to death tomos.” replied the Trakken.

“Tracy’s on guard duty again so it’s just the usual repped up crap.” growled Revy Roberts.

“The standing rib roast with Yorkshire pudding is very nice. It comes with scalloped potatoes and corn custard with lemon meringue pie for dessert. Mnn. Yummy!” suggested Neko Olson.

“Sounds good to me. I’ll have the same Rei. Onegai (Please) bring me an orange mist cappucino first. Arigatou (Thanks) honey.” said Nyssa.

Revy and Kome both seemed to eat like Saiyaans or had tape worms inside them.

“Guess I’ll go up and look at the stars for awhile before I hit the sack. G’Night.” said the Creature from the Black Lagoon. She had noticed that the Ice Roaders had just arrived- all six of them. That meant she’d have the star room all to herself. That suited the Terran adventuress just fine because Revy loved to recline in that big comfy ‘Star Trek’ chair up there and she liked to recline ‘au natural’. With the heating units activated and the lights dimmed down she’d face the huge space window and drift off to sleep dreaming of home- ‘Ranjipur’ on Terra. It hadn’t always been her home but Revy had been to so many places in her short lifetime that she no longer knew where ‘home’ had been anyway. Although Revy Roberts was about as modest as the Boss she preferred the star room’s unique solitude to the hustle and bustle of the bridge or the rec room. She was just about to board the lift when she was rudely jerked out of her daydreaming.

“Hey Roberts! Boss lady wants to see you stat- pronto! Up in her quarters on Three.” yelled Kakashi Sensei.

“Oro the Fxxx’s she want, Ninja Boy?” asked Revy without turning around.

“Damned if I know, Roberts. She sounded real pissed though.” called the ‘Hidden Leaf’ Sensei his nose buried in his little book like it usually was.

“So oro else is new? OK. On my way, tomo. See ya later.” sighed Revy. “Commander’s quarters- stat.” she ordered and the lift dumped her at Kei’s door.

“Come.” was the curt reply when Kei’s portal klaxon chirped. The door swished aside to admit Revy.

“You wanted to see me Reds?” she asked, sat down and fired up a cigarette. Revy stretched and put her booted feet up on the coffee table.

“You know Starwind? (Revy nodded) Ya like him? (Revy was wondering if Kei was playing matchmaker but she nodded again) Oro I really mean is- do ya trust him, kid?” demanded the fiery redhead.

“Trust him? Hell lady, where I hail from everybody’s got something to hide so ya Fxxxing well learn soon enough not to trust nobody! Oro the Hell’s this all about Reds?” demanded Revy shucking off her heavy flight jacket.

“We gotta lay low for a few days and Gene says he knows a place but he won’t tell me where.” sighed Kei knocking ashes off her cheroot. Revy’s face reddened.

“And you think he’ll tell me? Look Reds, Gene and I are tomos (friends) just good tomos and that’s all! I ain’t his damned confidant, that I surely ain’t!” exploded Revy.

“I know that, kid. Oro I wanna know is can we trust him or i he leadin’ us into a trap? Could he be in cahoots with Zorin Oakenshield?” yelled Kei angrily. Revy was livid now.

“Starwind? In with that lunatic turncoat? In cahoots with Z.O.? No Fxxxing way in jigoku (Hell) Boss! Yeah, he’s a thief and a pirate and a rebel and a cowboy and a merc (mercenary) and a kira (killer) and a liar but he’s loyal to his tomos and we are his tomos, O’Halloran! He wouldn’t sell us out no matter oro! No frigging way, girl!” shouted Revy and she slung her jacket over one shoulder. Revy pointed her cigarette at Kei. “If Gene Starwind told you he knows where we can hide out, trust me, he won’t tell anyone else where it is either. Except Jimbo (Hawking) or Solo of course. His best mates. And you can take that to the bank! Good evening, Madam Commander!” yelled the Terran. Then she threw Kei a salute and left.

“So that’s that eh? Hell! If Roberts trusts him who am I to disagree? Her instincts are usually always right.” said Kei aloud.

“They’re sure as the oni (devil) never wrong, mum, that they surely ain’t.” said Neko quietly from the open doorway. “For oro the Hell it’s worth I trust him too, Reds. G’Night.” she added on her way to the rec room below.

“Wonder why Gene told ‘Old Iron Drawers’ that he was under oath not to reveal ‘XANA’s location to anyone? It’s on all the bloody starcharts and vidmaps.” mused Han while he chewed on his after dinner cigar. The place in question was a small asteroid atoll and at less than a kilo or two in both directions it was really more atoll than asteroid.

At 2100 Gene yawned, splashed water on his face and went up to relieve Solo at the helm.

“Howdy Gene. Have a nice nap? (He nodded) Hey me old boyo. How come ya told ‘Old Iron Drawers’ that yarn about some cocklemamey oath you took not to reveal ‘XANA’s location to anyone?” demanded Han.

“Did you forget that ‘XANA’s where all the contraband is transferred that’s going to the ‘Coralians’? And Reds IS a cop, ain’t she?” replied Gene with a wink.

“Oh yeah, I did forget about that, pal.” drawled Solo.

“Night Han. Pleasant dreams.” said the pilot.

“First a nightcap or two. Don’t crash the ship, me boyo. Toodles.” replied Han.

Navigating this final section of ‘Smugglers’ Ravine’ was akin to threading a needle and called for precise flying and nobody knew its ins and outs better than Captain Gene Wilcox Starwind. ‘XANA’ was a tiny remote asteroid halfway betwixt ‘Bison Fields’ and ‘Minerva’ and being so miniscule it was easily overlooked by most space mariners. This made it an ideal transfer point for contraband bound for the wilds of ‘Coralia’.

Meanwhile Revy had fallen fast asleep in the star room the same way she’d come into the Universe. Neko was cleaning her plasma rifle in the suite she shared with Revy, Nyssa and Kagome. Kei had dozed off on her sofa so excepting Gene, the night flight crew, the guards and the engineering gang everyone else aboard the ‘Lovely Angel 2′ was ‘roshii ni yo’- dead to the world. Gene exited ‘Bison’ some three hours later around midnight and laid a new course into the nav banks. Then he set that course program to delete itself after their arrival at ‘XANA’ six hours later at 0600 (6 AM) ashita (tomorrow).

“Hey ‘CC’, I want you to forget this nav course I have just set. Do not, I say again, do not save any of this stuff to your memory banks. You understand, my tomo?” warned Starwind.

“Like ‘this program will self destruct in ten seconds. Good luck Jim’ eh? You got yourself a deal, good buddy. I’m gone. 10-4 and bye bye, Cap.” replied the ship’s obnoxious central computer.

“Whatever. But if anyone DOES find out about this location, me boyo I will take extreme delight in personally rewiring your memory circuits. G’Night tomo.” yawned Gene swallowing his java.

“I comply.” chuckled ‘CC’ before shutting down his comm systems. At 0600 the ‘cloaked’ ship touched down in a vast cavern cut into a mountain. He deleted the nav course program and trilled Legato Bluesummers who was heading up the flight crew’s day shift as pilot. When ‘Blue’ and his team arrived Gene strolled down the gantryway stairs to Level Three and tapped on Kei’s portals.

“Yeah? Who’s there dammit?” growled a gravelly voice.

“Starwind, Boss. Can I come in? You decent, Reds?” chortled the tallish pilot.

“C’mon in tomo. Door’s unlocked.” she called and Gene entered.

“We are here, love and don’t you dare ask me where ‘here’ is. Suffice it to say that we are inside an ice cavern not unlike ‘Gysymeo’ (an ice world Kei and company had visited several times in the past) albeit it sure ain’t that cold here. Be that as it may I’m going to have to insist that you guys restrict yourselves to this cavern and the ship. None of you are to try and reach this world’s surface. Is that clearly understood, Marshall?” demanded Starwind pointing his cigar at the redhead who nodded. “Great. By the way, I’ve wiped the nav logs clean and ordered ‘CC’ not to save any of my nav commands. Now don’t you worry none, Reds. Ain’t nobody gonna find us here. How long you figure on holing up here?” he added.

“A week at most. Maybe just a few days. Depends on how soon the ‘cowboys’ and their ‘posse’ find Z.O. and apprehend or eliminate his ass. Got another stogie, Gene?” replied Kei sitting up and and smoothing her kimono. She accepted the foul smelling cigar and allowed the pirate to light it for her. Gene looked at her dubiously.

“Remember your promise Reds. Oh and er no hard feelings about the football game the other day eh?” he said smiling.

“You actually think I’m that petty? That juvenile? (Gene smiled as he recalled her reaction to losing a shooting tourney to Duchess Donovan- Yuri) We’ll kick your frigging asses next game though. Now get outta here and get some shuteye tomo. That’s an order too, me boyo.” chortled Kei and Gene left for his own rooms.

As soon as Gene had gone Kei called a tomo. “Oh ‘CC’? You there, tomo mine?” she asked the air sweetly.

“Right here, love of my circuits. How can this humble one be of service to ye?” replied ‘CC’ innocently.

“Where are we now tomo?” she asked sweetly and quietly.

“Sorry Boss but no can do, ma’am. Captain Starwind will rearrange my circuitry if I tell you or anyone else that. Anything else?” annswered ‘CC’ and Kei shook her head.

“Oro good are ya? Get lost dammit!” she shouted angrily. Then she pouted. Chuck Garner was gonna demand to know where she was and damned soon too! After all ‘Kalufrax’ to ‘Shimougou’ was only a two days’ ‘milk run’. So oro the Hell was she going to tell him? ‘Sorry Charlie but I am not allowed to tell you that and anyway I don’t know where the Fxxx we are myself, sir.’ Yeah- like Garner would buy that crap, wouldn’t he? Fat chance! He’ll send Rafe (Donnelly) and the ‘ISSP’ after us, that’s oro the Fxxx he’ll do! Suddenly her door klaxon chirped- long and loud.

“Yeah? Who is it? Oro do ya want dammit?” growled the Boss. A pixie-like voice answered her.

“It- It’s me, Auntie Boss. Starfire. May I come in? Please?” sobbed the Tamaranian girl.

“Starfire? Of course you may come in, my dear. It’s open.” said the redhead a little less grumpily and a mite more civilly. The portal swished aside and the tall teen came in with aizu (eyes) red from crying.

“Oro the Hell’s wrong, kiddo? Sit down and tell me all about it.” she forced herself to say as gently as she could. (’Christ! I sound like the vacuum head!’ she thought) Star sat down on the sofa beside her and dabbed at her aizu with her sleeve. Kei sighed and shoved a box of tissues over to her. “Oro’s the matter, kid? Why ya been bawling? Your sister botherin’ ya again?” demanded the firebrand. Starfire shook her head.

“Nai (No), Blackfire has been extra nice to me, ma’am. It-It’s Uncle Jon. (Captain Jonathan Harlock was Kei’s chief of security) He said I can’t leave the ship unless I promise to stay inside this dumb ol cave! I want to go outside and play in th sun! He said I wasn’t allowed to go outside be-because you had ordered all of us to stay in this cave! I don’t like this place! When we we-were in those ‘icy caves’ (’Gysymeo’) I knew it was too cold to go outside and there wasn’t any sun there anyway but here I can see the sun outside and it feels really warm so why can’t I go outside and play in it? You’re mean, Auntie Boss Marshall!” sobbed the girl until Kei shook her violently.

“Oh Christ Almighty! Stop blubbering dammit! Act your age, girl! You can’t go outside and that’s all there is to it! I gave an order and Uncle Jon’s gotta carry it out! Nobody is allowed outta these caverns because (Kei mused a moment) because we’re hiding from a bad man just like we done when we was on ‘Gysymeo’ that time. Remember?” explained the redhead patiently and Starfire nodded.

“You mean when Mr Berringer was looking for us, Auntie?” she sniffled and Kei’s face brightened.

“Yeah. Exactly kid. Only this guy’s a lot more dangerous. Now stop crying and dry your aizu. (Starfire did and managed a smile) There! Don’t ya feel better now? Tell ya oro- why don’t ya go upstairs and play on the holodecks with the other kids?” suggested her superior. She shook her head.

“Arkie (Arkton was Star’s older brother and an officer on the ‘Emerald Queen’) said I was not allowed up there on my own, ma’am.” replied the girl.

“That’s OK. I’ll get Auntie Mae (Minnie Mae ‘Blonde Bomber’/'Kitten’ Hopkins) to take ya up there. OK? Would ya like that, Star?” asked Kei.

“Uh huh. That’d be swell, Auntie Kei!” bubbled a now enthusiastic and joyous Starfire.

“Then go get cleaned up and change your clothes. I’ll have Auntie Mae meet ya in the rec room. No more bawlin’ now, ya hear?” growled Kei. Star nodded, arose and smoothed her skirt. She was still wearing that skimpy cheerleader’s outfit that she’d worn at the football game.

“Bye Auntie and thank you so much, ma’am!” she said and left running. Kei tapped her comlink earring.

“Lieutenant Hopkins? Kei here. Do me a favour and escort Starfire to the holodeck for me. She can play until bedtime but Arkie don’t want the kid up there on her own. She’s waiting for ya down in the rec room. Keep a close aizu on her. Jon caught her trying to sneak off the ship. She wanted to play outside and Gene told us to stay in the cave. Don’t lose track of ‘Tinker Bell’ oroever the Hell else ya do or you’ll answer to me. Kapish? Kei out.” trilled the Boss.

Mae was still a bit sore from the game and of course she was still recovering from John Berringers’ lads’ questioning sessions aboard the ‘Angel 1′ so she didn’t really feel up to babysitting but if it hadn’t have been for the Boss Mae might very well be dead right now! So here she was nursing an orange cappucino at the bar while she waited for Starfire to show up. Mae glanced at her wristchromo and frowned. “Where the Hell is this kid anyway dammit all?” she complained. Saito shrugged his shoulders and refilled her mug. Suddenly a high-pitched shreik filled the rec room.

“Auntie Boom-Boom! Sorry I’m a little late! (Mae had been waiting two and a half hours) Auntie Boss Marshall Kei told me not to wear that nice cheerleader’s outfit and I–” explained the Tamaranian.

“Forget it kid and let’s go.” replied Mae swallowing her drink. “And oro did I tell you about calling me Auntie Boom-Boom? It’s Auntie Mae dammit!” added the ‘Blonde Bomber’. They rode up to the Eighth Level and Mae stopped at Holodeck 6’s door and called for the archway. “OK Star. The Boss said you can stay up here until bedtime. Oro do ya wanna play first?” asked Mae wincing when her shoulder got shoved against the arch.

“Are you OK, Auntie Boo– er Auntie Mae? (Mae nodded bravely) Can we play ‘Treasure Island’ again? Please!!” pleaded Starfire.

“Sure. Why the Hell not?” answered Mae and she keyed the arch. “No running off now, young lady. Got it?” she added but Starfire was already jumping up and down on the deck of a pirate ship. Mae followed her through the archway to ‘Treasure Island’, yawned and belted ‘Long John Silver’ with a stiff right uppercut.

“Whee!! I’m Princess Starfire and brave young Captain Smollett is coming to rescue me!” squealed the ‘Teen Titan’ delightedly.

“Whatever floats your boat, kid.” sighed the Terran who was sword fighting with four of Silver’s pirates. Meanwhile Kei’s worst fears were realized when Neko trilled her at 1900 hours (7 PM)—

END of Ch 51. Ch 52 ‘Garner’s Mysterious Relay ‘ or ‘Annie Oakley AD 2251 ‘ soon. Getting interesting eh? Wonder how our heroine’s gonna get outta this one? Read on and r/r/s away as always. Have a wunnerful day and sfn/sys/jm/Kami bless you all for your interest and assistance. Hooble-toodle-doo! Toodles tomos watashi-K&K

I dickered over this chapter’s titles. Let me know if I got ‘em right eh?

PS- I really do appreciate all your loyalty and support over the years my tomos watashi all! And you can take that to the bank folks!-K&K

See ya next blog post Toodles-K&K

This one may be lengthy. Sorry.- K&K

Meet Rally ‘Cat’ Vincent of the ‘Gunsmith Cats’ and her cool 60s muscle car- the Shelby Cobra with supercharger. GS is the only anime that uses live gunfire and live engine sounds in its episodes- not canned sound effects! As we all know ‘Cat’ is the football coach for Kei’s Killers in our ongoing game and she needs a miracle to win this game.

AW Ch 50 ‘The Big Game II Fourth Quarter’ or ‘Outta Time In More Ways Than One’

‘Blonde Bomber’/'Kitten’ Minnie Mae Hopkins the ace running back and her crafty coach Rally ‘Cat’ Vincent of Kei’s Killers! Will they win? Only time will tell eh?

This chapter is re old fashioned style football plays and might be long chappie. Enjoy.

ANGEL WINGS

DISCLAIMER: OK ‘Kitten’ darlin’, it’s all yours. First I wanna thank Mr T for the use of his Angels and stuff. Then I wanna thank everyone else who has been allowing us to use their creations here like Thom Beers for the use of his ice road truckers Hugh, Drew, Rick, Eric, Alex and Bear. I took the liberty of naming the 3WA academy in Furool City on Shimougou after Mr Haruka Takachiho in honour of his creations- the Angels. How was that, Yuri? Great, kiddo. Oh hai it sure was, Kei! Now since we left ya up in the air last time let’s get to Ch 50 without any further meandering, shall we? Why is Zack Zero back and oro does he want with Suba Marina Oki? Can Mandy keep her big mouth shut? A hint re the titles- That should be obvious unless you have not read my Xmas with the DP ff in which case you won’t get The Big Game rematch too well. Oro does this all mean? We’ll find out momentarily gang. The Boss Red Marshall’s on the warpath again! Here ’tis:-

CHAPTER 50

‘The Big Game II- Fourth Quarter’ or ‘Outta Time In More Ways Than One’

Another healthy dose of speed, agility, strength and strategy saw the ball sitting on the Killers’ three kilo line with a first and goal to go. Naruto shouldered the plucky kitsune Shippou into InuYasha after a one kilo gain. Second and goal at the two. Revy dragged the agile ‘miko’ (preistess) Kikyo down in the backfield. Third and goal from the three- the original line of scrimmage. Kouga did manage to reach the goal line but before the ball broke the plane of the end zone Ichigo’s ankle tackle brought him to the ground. Fourth and goal by inches and ten minutes on the game chromo.

Wolf Boy Kouga pleaded with Gene to no avail as Leona booted an easy sixteen kilo field goal for three points making it 40 to 18 with nine and a half minutes remaining in the game. Leona’s kickoff was fielded by Winry at the goal line and with Dynamo, Revy, Kakashi and Helena the Hawkgirl running interference the blonde-headed speedster got to midfield before she got hit by Kouga causing her to fumble the ball. Luckily it was recovered by Raphael at the Killers’ forty-eight.

Ed Elric, Winry Rockabelle and Peri Winkle caught passes of three, five and six kilos respectivelyfor a total of fourteen kilos and a first down moving the chains to the Hawks’ thirty-eight. Sammy, Alex and Yuri caught short drops of five, fourteen and seventeen kilos respectively for two more first downs. Amazingly the ball was at the Hawks’ two kilo line for first and goal. The game chromo stood at two minutes and fifteen seconds, however, the play chromo was reading three seconds forcing Kei to use her second timeout leaving her Killers with one and the Hawks with two.

“OK. Our best damned runner is Mae. ‘Kitten’, I want you to take the ball from Jimbo and just dive forwards with it. Big Spike, Revy and Dynamo are gonna make a hole for ya so go high or low, kid. Whichever one’ll get the ball into the end zone for us. A touchdown followed by a two pointer gets us to twenty-six and two more touchdowns with a two pointer and a point after kick gives us this game by one so it is absolutely crucial that we score before the two minute warning and save our last timeout so we’ll do an onside kick after we score. Let’s get ‘er done, guys!” howled ‘Cat’ while Kei scowled.

“Ya sure we should try an onsider with Wolf Girl (Ayame), Fox Boy (Shippou) and Black Jammies Girl (Sango) out there for Gene and Han?” asked the Boss with a dubious look.

“Look at it this way, Boss. Oro other choice have we got?” countered Coach Vincent.

“Couldn’t hurt, Reds. I say we go ahead and give it a shot.” agreed Big Spike.

“First Boom Boom Maesie’s gotta score for us so let’s block like we never blocked before because ‘Victory now is never near’, dudes!” shouted Mikey again misquoting albeit this time it was Terran Notre Dame’s fight song ‘Victory now is ever nigh’ (’so you bring the whiskey and I’ll bring the rye’ is the next stanza. I wonder if it was written with the Boss in mind) not ‘never near’ like the Ninja had just said.

Back out on the field- After three straight dives Mae was still at the half kilo line with the game chronometer at 2:05 and ticking. Fourth and goal and Mae breathed “Fourth times the charm”, closed both her aizu tightly and dove forwards and over InuYasha, Kouga, Kagome and Kikyo to break the plane of the end zone and then some scoring six points for her team. Marlene easily caught a two kilo lob for two more and the Killers cut the score to 14 at 40 to 26. It was now a two score lead for the Hawks.

Doctor 2’s whistle signalled the two minute warning and ‘Cat’ started barking orders for the Killers’ onside kick try.

“Remember now that the ball’s gotta go at least ten kilos before we can touch it but the Hawks can grab it anytime no matter how far it’s gone. Everybody line up on the left and be ready to go. Good luck tomos.” encouraged ‘Cat’ and a few seconds later Kome stubbed an end over end kick which Kei swatted away from the wolves and into Ed’s hands. The blonde alchemist fled for the end zone thirty kilos away and made it to the Hawks’ fifteen before Hugh and Dominique shoved him out of bounds stopping the chromo at 1:50. A short lob to Sammy which Ayame deflected now sailed into WOOHP girl Alex’s waiting arms for another six. Sammy did catch the two pointer pass and the Killers again cut the Hawks lead- this time to a single touchdown. It was 40 to 34 and all the Killers needed to do was score again to tie up the game. Then their point after kick would win it all for them. Thirty seconds to go and one timeout left.

This time the Killers lined up as if it was to be a deep kick, however, Kome did another end over end boot but this time Gene’s gang was ready for it and Kagome dove on the ball before it had travelled even three kilos. Ironically the Hawks were taking over at the exact spot where the Killers’ turnabout had begun- the Killers’ thirty-eight. Twenty seconds left and the Killers spent their last timeout when Shippou had wormed his way to the fifteen.

Now that the Killers could no longer stop the chromo Kei fumed as the seconds ticked down to three which was when the Hawks used their final timeout. Leona kicked a thirty-one kilo field goal as time expired making the final score Hawks 43 and Killers 34- a nine point win for Gene and his Hawks. Kei’s PDO was blinking and chiming furiously when she finally tapped her comlink earring.

“Yeah, Bishop? Ya need me?” growled the redhead.

“Yes, ma’am I surely do! We’re orbiting ‘Kalufrax’ and the fools in charge there won’t allow us to set down! It seems taht they heard oro you did to some store and a few gin joints back on ‘Ragnarok’ (Re-Mor-Aw) and they said that if we tried to touch down they’d blast us to Hell and back again, ma’am!” shouted Joey Bishop the interim commander who was usually Kiva Nerese’s helmsman aboard the ‘Coriander’. However, he had volunteered to pilot the ‘Angel 2′ while the others played football. He had played in his youth and he still winced whenever the cold hit his knee. Needless to say Mr Bishop wanted no part of football not even of the ‘repped’ variety.

The Boss was furious. “Do they know who the FXXXing Hell we are, Bish? We are the law, dammit! 3WA! UG! Crap! I’m a frigging marshall and probably outrank everyone on this world for Christ’s sake! (She drew a deep breath and slowly expelled it) OK. Have ‘em relay ‘Shimougou’- the ‘Furool (Foo-Lon) City Tower’ and ask for the commander- Colonel Jason Shikamaru. He’ll vouch for us. If they give us any more shit tell ‘em to call Uncle God Almighty Vito Galadriel himself! He probably owns most of ‘Kalufrax’ anyway! I’ll be up in a few minutes. Just as soon as I ‘morph’ outta this football jazz. Kei out.” trilled the red-headed Boss Lady angrily.

Meanwhile Jason Shikamaru was enjoying all the rare peace and quiet in his city as were his two guests- KP Police Chief Roy Mustang and newly re-elected Furool City Police Commissioner Riza Hawkeye.

“Excuse me, onegai (please).” said Jason when his office vidphone chirped. “Hai Cheska? Oro? Who? Commander Nohara from ‘Kalufrax’? Oro the oni (devil) does that infernal pest want this time?Oro!! He’s refusing permission to- to- HER!?! Christ Almighty! Does he think he’s got a charmed life or something? She’ll grind up his sorry ass and then step on him! Oro? Of course she’s authorized to land there! Hell she even outranks me for Kami’s sake! Why’s he refusing her request anyway? Oh hai (yeah). The ‘Grendel Mall’ and all of those gin joints in ‘Beowulf’ out in the boonies on ‘Ragnarok’ eh? (Jason sighed heavily) OK Cheska, please stop crying. I’ll take it. Put his call through, Suba. Jason covered his vidmike) Sorry Roy, Riza but I just have to take this call. I’ll be back in a minute. (So saying he stepped out onto his balcony which overlooked his FC Spaceport) Hiro? Oro a pleasant surprise. How’ the family doing? Don’t ask eh? Oro can I do for you, tomo (friend)? Yes, of course she’s got the right to be there, pal of mine. She’s got ‘carte blanche’ authority throughout this section of the cosmos. Hell she’s even pals with the Universal Guardians, Nohara so you’d best let her put down. Her gang’s on their way back home anyway so it’ll probably just be an overnight docking. Trust me on this, my tomo. You do not want to get Marshall Keirran O’Halloran mad at you. That is something that you definitely do not want to do! Oro? Yeah you heard me right, boyo. Marshall. She even outranks me, Commander. Are you talking to her now, Hiro? Nai? Good. Best to deal with the pilot or the OD (Officer of the Day). She got any vessels with her? Nai? That means they must all be onboard the ‘LA2′ so she’ll need a single parking dock but you’d better give ‘em the biggest one you got there. Why? Hiro, have you ever seen a ‘K’ or even an ‘H’ class starship? This one’s got fourteen decks- nine surface and five sub-surface levels. On second thought just clear off the topmost level of your spaceport or the roof and give it to them. Why? She was sent out to recover two of the ‘Angel’s sister ships and they sure as Hell won’t fit inside her ship, that’s why. Oro? Yeah, I’ll vouch for them dammit. Who’s your onboard contact, Hiro? Joey Bishop? The 20th Century comedian? Oh yeah, he’s Captain Kiva Nerese’s helmsman from ‘Starfleet’s ‘Coriander’- a command patrol vessel. Don’t get Kiva pissed off at you either, pal. Matter of fact- ain’t it just about time for your java break? Hai? OK then just give ‘em their TD instructions and get rid of ‘em, son. Good luck. Shikamaru out.” said Jason and he blanked out his vidscreen.

“Sorry about that guys but–” he began on returning to his office.

“O’Halloran?” chorused Roy and Riza. He nodded dejectedly.

“Just where in aoishi (blue) blazes is that Hellcat demon now?” demanded Hawkeye.

“I’d wager one of the moons. At a guess I’d say ‘Kalufrax’.” chuckled Mustang helping himself to one of Jason’s cigars.

“right on, Brother Roy. Nohara decided to try and stop the ‘Angel 2′ from landing there and–” continued Jason.

“All FXXXing Hell broke loose?” sighed Riza with a glance towards the wall chronometer. Suddenly she shot bolt upright in her chair. “Christ! Look at the time, Roy! We’re gonna be late for that charity luncheon where you’re getting the ‘Galactic Shield’ award! Sorry Jason but we simply must fly. Arigatou (Thanks) for the tea and scones. They were yummy. Drop by and see us next time you’re downtown, tomo. Sayonara.” said Riza who was dragging Roy through the portals.

“Yeah. Thanks a lot, Jason. Don’t be a stranger. Bye. OK Riza! I’m coming!” said Roy and the two of them headed for the tower’s roof port and their skysled.

“OK Hawkeye, give! Oro the Hell luncheon are we running late for and since when am I getting a ‘GS’ award (like an ancient Terran ‘Order of Merit’)?” growled Mustang angrily.

“Since that scatter-brained dimwit’s on ‘Kalufrax’, dummy! Did ya forget who the Hell Nohara’s exec is?” yelled the blonde.

Captain Zorin Oakenshield, a Romulan exile, was Hiro Nohara’s ‘Number One’ and he had made no secret to the ‘Galactic Command’ that he would use any excuse to attack ‘Romulus’ and probably ‘Remus’ as well. He would then proceed to overthrow the Grand Mage and place himself on the throne. All he needed was a flag starship snd if O’Halloran rebelled against ‘Kalufrax’ troops then under Glactic Law Oakenshield could legally seize the ‘LA2′ along with anyone and anything aboard her. With that kind of firepower (Do you think that Riza and Roy knew about the God Guns?) at his command ZO could quite easily conquer a small world or even two or three of them!

“Z.O. himself!” shouted Riza, hiking up her skirt to climb into the sled. Chief Roy Mustang did a double take.

“Christ! Not Oakbrain? Fallon! Back to HQ stat! Don’t spare the afterthrusters either!” he yelled piling into the seat beside Hawkeye. He and Fallon pretended not to notice her unmentionables showing above her stocking tops. Then Julia Douglas, Riza’s personal aide, coughed discreetly, bent forwards and yanked Riza’s skirt back down. The commissioner went a bit red in the face and began going over her itinerary schedule with Julia.

“The first thing I’m going to do is change into some pants! Damn that FXXXing museum opening this morning! Julie had insisted that I wear this getup instead of a nice comfy pantsuit! Ah well, visiting with old Jason had been fun but now with Oakenshield–” she thought and suddenly grabbed her vidcell unit from her purse.

END of Ch 50. Ch 51 ‘Fire Meets Oak ‘ or ‘Hide ‘N Seek? ‘ soon. Getting interesting eh? Wonder how our heroine’s gonna get outta this one? Read on and r/r/s away as always. Have a wunnerful day and sfn/sys/jm/Kami bless you all for your interest and assistance. Hooble-toodle-doo! Toodles tomos watashi-K&K

I dickered over this chapter’s titles. Let me know if I got ‘em right eh?

PS- I really do appreciate all your loyalty and support over the years my tomos watashi all! And you can take that to the bank folks!-K&K

See ya next blog post. Don’t forget to watch the British Open from Ailsa Scotland this week!
This one may be lengthy. Sorry.- K&K

July 9, 2009 - Thursday

It’s been awhile tomos and I am sorry but having just hit 60 yesterday although I feel 15 I have been a mite busy. Still unemployed but soon I hope to try and get published. Mama has convinced me to rewrite Ch 1 of both Xmas and AW then submit them to a publisher for review. She is sure they will sell. Me I’m a skeptic. Seems that only junk and porn sells these days. But I’ll be optimistic for her sake. I am trying to locate an old anime series for mama- Shadow Raiders so if anyone can gimme a hint or anything I’d appreciate it. Here’s a pix of Kira the mascot for Kei’s team:

AW Ch 49 ‘The Big Game II Third Quarter’ or ‘Using All Your Options’

‘Blonde Bomber’/'Kitten’ Minnie Mae Hopkins the ace running back and her crafty coach Rally ‘Cat’ Vincent of Kei’s Killers! Will they win? Only time will tell eh?

This chapter is re old fashioned style football plays and might be long chappie. Enjoy.

ANGEL WINGS

DISCLAIMER: OK ‘Cat’ darlin’, it’s all yours. First I wanna thank Mr T for the use of his Angels and stuff. Then I wanna thank everyone else who has been allowing us to use their creations here like Thom Beers for the use of his ice road truckers Hugh, Drew, Rick, Eric, Alex and Bear. I took the liberty of naming the 3WA academy in Furool City on Shimougou after Mr Haruka Takachiho in honour of his creations- the Angels. How was that, Yuri? Great, kiddo. Oh hai it sure was, Kei! Now since we left ya up in the air last time let’s get to Ch 49 without any further meandering, shall we? Why is Zack Zero back and oro does he want with Suba Marina Oki? Can Mandy keep her big mouth shut? A hint re the titles- That should be obvious unless you have not read my Xmas with the DP ff in which case you won’t get The Big Game rematch too well. Oro does this all mean? We’ll find out momentarily gang. The Boss Red Marshall’s on the warpath again! Here ’tis:-

CHAPTER 49

‘The Big Game II- Third Quarter’ or ‘Using All Your Options’

The Hawks were already on the field when the Killers finally came racing out of their locker room. Kome kicked off and for once the Killers got a break- Ayame bobbled the ball at her own six, stepped back and was forced to simply cover the pigskin almost right where she’d fumbled the catch so the Hawks had to start from their own three kilo line.

“First and ten.” informed Doctor 2. Then Nat led her offense onto the field.

Shippou picked up two and then Kikyo added five more to it making it third with three to go. Kouga took Nat’s handoff, dropped back and looked deep downfield left to Ayame at the Killers’ 30, then right to Miroku at the enemy 20.

“It’s an option play dammit! Rush Kouga, not Nat!” shouted ‘Cat’ a split second before the big wolf youkai hurled the pigskin to a wide open Kagome standing dead centre beneath the goal post bar in the Killers’ end zone, the nearest Killer player being at the twenty covering the amorous monk. Neko Olson sprinted for the end zone, leaped the final five kilos and unsuccessfully swatted at the ball. Kagome easily caught it and held it aloft while jumping up and down in triumph. Six more points for the Hawks- 36 all told and Leona’s kick made the score 37 to 10 over the Killers and the second half had just barely begun.

“Fifteen kilo penalty for taunting the defense will be assessed on the kickoff. Kagome! You should know better, my child.” chastised Doctor 2.

“He’s a stickler, that he is. He’ll brook no infringements no matter how minor.” said Gene Starwind. Kaggie nodded and high-fived her coach on the sidelines.

Leona’s boot sailed high and long with a hang time of nearly seven entire seconds before it came down into Ed Elric’s waiting hands at the Killers’ fifteen. Ed saw the hanyou-youkai brigade bearing down on him but he still decided to run right straight through them. Bad idea boy alchemist! Kouga, InuYasha and Naraku wedged him back almost to his own goal line. However, Doctor 6 pointed out that the lad had stepped out of bounds at the twelve so that was where Jimbo Hawking (Alex’s backup) started from when the Killrs’ offense took over the ball.

Kei and ‘Cat’ had both agreed that Jimbo could go deep if he deemed it a wise choice but only on first downs so he immediately unloaded a bomb to Lord Falco who made a spectacular one-handed ‘circus’ catch at the Hawks’ 45 kilo line.

“First and ten. Ten minutes to go in the third, my tomos.” intoned a solemn Doctor 2. Before Naruto could snap to Jimbo Doctor 4’s whistle blew. A red flag had fluttered onto the field. After a hasty conference betwixt the three Time Lords and the Hawks’ coching staff Doctor 2 strode to the centre of the field.

“The Hawks are challenging the ruling on the field. They say that Lord Falco did not have control of the ball when he came down with the catch. Bear with us folks. This will only take a moment or so.” said the little fellow. The Gallifreyan trio checked and re-checked the play on heir PDO screens. Finally Doctor 2 cleared his throat and spoke.

“Ahem. After reviewing the gme play footage this play stands. A completed catch at the Hawks’ 45 kilo line. Killers’ ball. First and ten. The awks lose the challenge and are charged their first timeout. The Killers still have all three of theirs left. Ten minutes remain in the third quarter.” he intoned solemnly.

“He is really quite the actor, is he not, Doctor? I really do believe he belongs on the stage.” whispered Doctor 6.

“Quite the ham is what you really mean, don’t you, Doctor?” chuckled Doctor 4.

Jimbo Hawking quickly fired off a screen pass to Winry but the ball was tipped by Dominique the Cyclops and then Leona batted it down. The ‘Blonde Bomber’ gained 3 kilos on a rolling right end of round reversal play bringing up third and a long seven. The play chromo stood at a single second so Jimbo was forced to use a time out- the Killers’ first one. Now both teams had only two remaining for the rest of the game. The game chromo was showing seven and a half minutes to go in the third when Jimbo tossed a lateral to Mikey who tossed it right back to him. Jimbo launched a flea flicker to Yuri deep in the end one’s left corner but the ball was intercepted by Kiva Nerese and the fleet-footed ‘Starfleet’ captain tore back upfield with it until Kakashi Sensei and Helena (Hawkgirl) finally collared her. However, by that time Kiva had crossed midfield to the Killers’ own 40 kilo line. The clock stopped at six and a quarter minutes to go in the quarter for the change of possession and Kei started barking out angry words to her team.

“Congratulations guys! Now every single one of our field generals has managed to cough up the FXXXing ball! OK, I want Big Spike (Miroku), Mugghi, Jett and Revy Lagoon on that front line. We’re gonna blitzkrieg Nat and force her to throw before her wideouts or tight ends are ready so don’t just sack her ass- knock that ball up volleyball style. Then I want Neko, Ten Ten and Rukia there to recover the fumble. Got it? (There was a subdued murmur of ‘yes’ms’) Cowboy Spike, Neji and Ichigo will block for whichever one of ya gets the ball back. When you get it don’t look around. Just run Hell bent for election towards the Hawks’ goal line. When we score we’ll go for two- we got no other choice. We’re runnin’ outta time. (”onside kick, Boss?” suggested Faye Valentine) Not just yet, Cowgirl. By the way if this play gets FXXXed up you’re all there is betwixt us and six more points for them ya know. There’s Doc’s whistle. Get out there and make us proud!” growled Kei.

“Yeah! You heard her guys! Let’s do this for Reds! Let’s do this one for ‘Cat’! Let’s go and win one for the ‘Kitten’!” yelled Michaelangelo who was badly misquoting that ancient Terran Notre Dame standard: ‘LET’S WIN THIS ONE FOR THE GIPPER!’

“Five and three-quarters of a minute left in this period, kiddies.” yelled Doctor 2. Kei’s suggested play worked like a well-oiled chronometer. The ‘Big Spike Express’ forced Nat to backpedal, Revy tipped the ball away as Nat threw it, Mugghi batted it skywards, Ten Ten came down with it, turned on her afterburners and with most of the Killers’ defensive line blocking for her and clearing the way the lithe young Ninja scored standing up. The score was cut to 21. Marlene Angel plowed the necessary two kilos into the end zone and her two point conversion made it Hawks- 37, Killers- 18- a nineteen point game with four minutes left in the third.

Kome tried to angle her kick to give her team a chance of pinning the Hawks back deep, however, her overly enthusiastic boot sailed outta bounds at the Hawks’ eleven without first touching terra firma on the field so the yellow flags came out as did the ball- to the Hawks’ forty kilo line! Three minutes 55 seconds to go in the quarter and Gene Starwind decided it was time to eat up the chromo.

“I do not particularly give a damn whether we score on this drive or not. Just chew up that chromo by keeping the ball on the ground. (He meant to use all running and no passing plays of course) Shippou first, Kikyo next, then Kouga hopefully followed by Sango. InuYasha, Naraku, Han and Ivy will do the blocking. If we can make it to somewhere around their thirty we’ll try for a field goal. However, the name of the game is waste as much time as we can. We’re gonna have to wait for the last quarter before Her Royal Highness (Kei) panics enough to use up her timeouts so do not waste our two. Now get out there and kick some ass for us!” said the Master of the ‘Outlaw Star’.

Shippou was quick, Kikyo was agile, Kouga was fast and powerful while Sango was a combination of the three of them. Betwixt this quartet the pigskin was at the Killers’ twenty when Doctor 4’s whistle blew ending the third quarter. The score remained 37 to 18 in the Hawks’ favour.

“Shit! Gene won’t let Nat loose after our last attack on her! Looks like we ain’t gonna be able to keep ‘em from scoring but we can damned well keep their asses outta the end zone! If we gotta, we’ll give ‘em three. (A groan ensued) I don’t like it either but it’s better than six, ain’t it? We’re down by nineteen now, three more makes it 22 but six more makes it 25, 26 for a point after kick or 27 if they convert so a field goal means three scores and three two pointers gives us the lead by two but a touchdown means three scores and three two pointers later we’ll still trail by one, two if they kick a point after and three if they convert. We got two timeouts left and a whole new quarter so don’t panic just yet tomos.” encouraged Kei while they were all preparing for the goal line reversal preparatory to beginning the final period.

END of Ch 49. Ch 50 ‘The Big Game II- Fourth Quarter’ or ‘Out of Time In More Ways Than One’ soon. Getting interesting eh? Wonder how our heroine’s gonna get outta this one? Read on and r/r/s away as always. Have a wunnerful day and sfn/sys/jm/Kami bless you all for your interest and assistance. Hooble-toodle-doo! Toodles tomos watashi-K&K

I dickered over this chapter’s titles. Let me know if I got ‘em right eh?

PS- I really do appreciate all your loyalty and support over the years my tomos watashi all! And you can take that to the bank folks!-K&K

See ya next blog post. Don’t forget Bastille Day is coming. Toodles-K&K

I promised ya another ’shortie’ and here it is, hazu! Enjoy-K&K