The Lonely Hearts Chapter Two: Shot Down
#2 of The Lonely Hearts
The Lonely Hearts Chapter Two: Shot Down
Story & Characters © Michael .B ( Max The Wolf [YS] LT_Max_W_Charger [FA])
Disclaimer: This story contains some mature content so no lookie if yer under 17 to 21 depending on where ya live. Good? Okay now I consider the matter closed...now can we please get onto the story?!
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Story Theme: Cosmic Castaway - Electrasy
Crash Theme: Quantum Crash - Buckethead (I just felt like doing it.)
Story started: 5-27-2009, Finished: 7-10-2009 Edited: 7-13-2009 ( Switched around some words, cut out some words, fixed a few spelling errors...Imputed a Crash Theme Song.)
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Morning came with the angry buzzing of Michael's alarm clock causing him to groan softly as he reached over nearly slapping it off the small box he used for a nightstand, shutting off the annoying noise. Slowly he moved to get up but an arm that was over his chest stopped him.
He looked over slowly at the sleeping form of Rose lying beside him with her nose lying just where his shoulder was...her breathing soft and slow, and a small smile upon her gray streaked muzzle.
He smiled softly and kissed her slowly on the cheek before he softly shook her shoulder.
"Wake up ol' girl...time to get up..." he whispered softly into her ear as she opened her eyes and pinched him rather hard on the arm with her blunt, yet sharp claws. "Hey! Now that's not nice..."
"Then don't call me old." she retorted with a big smile as she got up, the covers softly falling from her upper body. Soon she gave a soft murr when he leaned close and placed a kiss right between her breasts before getting up.
"Now now...don't be so mean love." he said while walking to the replicator and smiled looking back slightly. "What ya want to eat? Oatmeal?"
His words got him a soft warning growl from the semi-offended collie as he laughed softly. "I'm just kidding... how about steak and eggs with some coffee?"
"Sounds good. But...doesn't the replicated food taste bland?"
"Nah...they finely fixed that stupid problem...seams some moron input the wrong data into the system." he spoke while getting their breakfast and walking back over with a small tray and sat it down on the coffee table.
Rose stood and walked over to join him with a soft sway of her hips that just belied her age even more. Slowly she sat down at the table and started on her food before she looked at him noticing something that was slightly off.
"Aren't you having Eggs?"
"No...I only eat them with Maple Syrup and the Replicated stuff tastes like crap to me. I like the real stuff...." he looked up with a grin "Just like I like my lovely collies.".
He gave a slight bob of his head before going back to eating, while Rose sat there blushing heavily before she started eating as well.
Soon after breakfast, it was Rose who got up first with a slight stretch.
"I'm going to go take a shower...I'll be right back." and with that she left the small room and entered the bathroom that was through the small door beside the bedroom.
Michael got up and stretched with a yawn while he looked out at the sea of stars with a smile, his whole life had been changed and he loved it...his stress, and annoyance was gone...vanished into darkness by Roses kind and gentile light. His mind was then pulled from his line of thoughts when the com system chimed in. He then walked over to the small wall mounted com system and pressed a button.
"Yes?"
"The Captain would like to see you and the Lieutenant in his office..." spoke a deep voice.
Michael stood there silently by the com, his fingers clinching into a fist against the wall before he spoke slowly and as calm as he could. "Yes Sir.".
He then slapped the off switch and sighed softly while looking back just as Rose moved from the bathroom and dressing in her uniform.
"What was that hun?" she asked softly while brushing out her hair and fur.
Michael just shook his head slightly. "Captain wants to speak to us in his office...knowing that rat bastard...it could be for anything..." he sighed and walked to the bathroom to take his shower. After a small amount of time they was both on there way down the halls of the ship, aiming to the turbo lifts that spanned the whole height of the ship from top to bottom and was all over main halls to make quick work on getting from one place to another. Soon they was both standing outside the Captains office door before the doors slid open.
"Come in Mr. Valentine...you too Ms. Luna"
Michael was the first to enter fallowed by Rose as they stood in front of a desk looking at the backside of a large leather chair before it slowly spun around to revile the Captain of the ship.
A elderly Rat sat silently in the large leather chair dressed in a red uniform that clashed with his white fur and blue eyes.
"I see that you two have hit it off in a whole new way am I correct?" he looked between them both while he placed his paws together like he was praying.
"I have no reason to deny the fact Captain...but..." he was cut off when the Captain raised his paw.
"That is all I need to hear Mr. Valentine. I have a job for you and the Lieutenant." he grinned softly while turning to the wall mounted screen and turned it on showing a map of a local planet. "You and Ms. Luna are going to do some Recon along the outer gravity field of this planet...we have gotten clearance for that by the higher ups.. But we are not aloud to engage them. Even if you are Engaged by them you will not return fire."
Michael blinked "Permission to speak freely Sir?"
"Denied Lieutenant. You two are to leave now... your ship is fueled and ready." the Captain turned back to them after turning off the screen. "Dismissed."
As Michael and Rose walked out of the office and was back on the lift, Rose looked to him with a semi-snarl.
"Rat Bastard huh?"
"Yeap..."
Soon they was both standing in the hanger looking at a large Mark VI slip fighter that looked like the body style of a F/A-18C Hornet fighter jet, armed with quad wing mounted pulse laser cannons, eight AMG-65 Maverick missiles and duel nose mounted 22mm cannons.
"She's all ready for you Sir." one of the workers stepped up to Michael and snapped off a salute that was casually returned.
"Thanks. You've taken good care of her for me.." he smiled and moved to the craft while Rose followed behind him with a smile.
"This yours?"
"Umhm...my first fighter jet I was issued when I joined the group.. They came out with the better Thunderbirds and Warthogs but I liked this one a lot." he replied while climbing up the ladder and settling down in the cockpit as Rose did the same in the spot behind him as the hatch closed and the engines powered up with a soft whine. Soon they took off from the hanger and into the vacuum of space.
"You know...I've always wanted to go flying in one of these things... now I am flying with you...but I was hoping for a nice romantic scene with a setting sun and white clouds over the sea." Rose snickered softly as Michael glanced back at her.
"Well...use your mind love...lets make the best of this." he replied softly while tapping on the small control panel at his side before the ship seamed to stop and stand still as a soft golden light slowly rippled along the surface with a metallic sound until the ship disappeared in a flash of light.
Soon the ship broke through the warp and floated silently just a little off of the outer gravity belt of a planet before it started toward it.
"So this is there little recon huh? I don't like this one bit." Michael said softly while looking at the planet in front of them covered with deep green, blue, and brown.
"Something don't feel right...there is something missing."
"What do you mean?"
"I feel like we have been set up."
Soon that statement was accented when a plasma bolt slammed into the side of the ship, deflected by the shields. The radar soon started picking up multiple ships coming in behind them and from both sides, while Amber Clad Destroyers closed off the front.
Michael blinked slightly while tapping away at the buttons in the ship.
"Fuck the orders...Fuck them, Fuck them, FUCK THE GOD DAMN ORDERS! This isn't a damn recon mission...they just placed us right in the middle of the whole god damn Racelian Fleet!!" he snatched the controls and grinned as he ignited the afterburners launching the ship toward the destroyers as plasma bolts hammered into the shielding.
"We're not going to last long against this Michael!"
"We will last longer dodging those Destroyers than them slip fighters...all we got to do is get past them and hopefully we can jump warp after that..."
"And if not?"
"Well...I enjoyed last night and I'll always love you Rose."
Rose gave a nod, knowing just what he meant by that little statement as she watched her lover do his work on keeping them alive. Soon the front of the largest destroyer spit apart as it glowed a soft green, pulling energy particles into the center as it powered up to fire.
"Whops...got to make a blind jump...maybe I can get us to the next system over and onto a planet." Michael spoke while tapping at the control panel doing a quick scan and imputing the codes into the warp drives, the fighter glowing just as the destroyer fired off its Ion cannon right at them striking the left wing just as the warp finished and caused the ship to disappear.
Soon the small fighter appeared over a planet, becoming caught in the gravity pull. Michael glanced to the side noticing the wing was cut clean off leaving only a few inches of it sticking out from the side of the ship.
"We're going to die aren't we?" Rose asked softly.
"Yep."
"Come on you can tell me the truth."
"We are going to go bye-bye."
"Sugar coat things and I'll see right through them."
"Nope, I know just what I'm doing."
"Good...I was starting to get worried."
Michael shrugged slightly as he messed with the controls as the stabilizers went out, just before a fire started in one of the engines. "I know what I'm doing...I just hope it works." he whispered softly as the ship rocketed down through the sky, passing through a group of clouds as the flaming engine left a trail of smoke behind them. "We're coming in hot!" he watched as a large grouping of trees came up quickly as he gripped the controls firmly. "God that ground looks hard...God help us." he whispered before the ship impacted the ground hard, sending up dirt as it slid across the earth slamming into a few trees...one clipping the remaining wing and snapping it off sending the ship sideways into another tree before coming to a stop.
Soon the cockpit glass flew off and hit the ground with a thud as Michael slowly stood up and pulled off his helmet and tossing it to the side as he turned around to see Rose slumped back in her seat unmoving.
"ROSE!" he nearly yelled as he climbed from the front of the ship, moving up beside her and pulling off her helmet before he placed two fingers on her neck before giving a soft sigh of relief as he then softly started to pat her cheek. "Come on Ol' Girl...wake up...".
Like lightning Roses paw shot out and slugged him clear across the face sending the dazed human tumbling off the totaled ship and to the ground with a thud.
"I told you...don't call me old." she giggled softly as she looked down at him before she got up and jumped from the cockpit, landing beside him.
"Where are we?"
"I have no clue... at lest all we can hope is that this is a friendly place." he replied softly while he got up rubbing his now sore jaw.
"Anyone tell you; you have a punch like a ox."
"Just you." She replied
"Rose...The next time..."
"The next time what?" she gave him a sharp glance as a canine smile crossed her muzzle.
"The next time, I wont take off my helmet." Michael smirked slightly and moved back to the ship and pulled a large case from under his seat before opening it slowly reviling two 12.7mm pistols fitted with a 2x scope, with seven clips each of twenty-four 12.7mm S.A.P.L.E. ( semi-armor piercing light explosive ) rounds.
"I thought we came unarmed."
Michael smiled slightly. "Because I had a feeling that the Captain would fuck us up some day I had a friend put these inside the ship where they couldn't be found but by those who know of it." he pulled out one of the guns and loaded in a clip before tossing it over to her, picking up his own weapon and checking it over quickly before grabing the clips, handing Rose half of them while he pulled out a PDA checking over the data that he pulled from the ships computer before he sighed as the PDA gave a soft beep.
"No info is on this place...we're on our own."
"Looks like it...shall we?" Rose smiled while looking off to the slight view of buildings off in the distance.
Michael gave a nod. "Lets".
He moved up beside her before they started there long walk to the city, and into a area they had no clue on what laid ahead of them. Clearly they was going to be labeled Deserters and was going to be hunted down and taken back dead or alive...but judging from the events, Death was more closer than Alive.
(To Be Continued )
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End theme: The Silver Star - Autopilot Off
Oh what will happen now.? A small cliff hanger here until I can think some more on what to put down on here. So anyways Comments, Votes, and Faves are very welcome. If you are going to comment on Misspelled words...keep them kind.