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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 27 2018, 10:18 AM (2,279 Views) | |
| Nick Ryder | May 5 2018, 02:32 PM Post #121 |
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"And you two keep each other safe." Nick said with a smile. "By the way..." he said as his smile faded. "Do you want me to contact Kerrak's family?" |
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Nicholas "Nick" Ryder President Emeritas- Terra Alpha Alpha Quadrant Alliance Founder and 1st President
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| Angel Ryder | May 5 2018, 04:03 PM Post #122 |
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"If it was Commander Damar, would you have wanted Becca to inform his family?" Angel replied and pecked him on the cheek. "Be careful dad. And... don't let your temper get the better of you." "I won't." Nick replied and gave her a hug. "You know... I've dreamt of the day when I could look at you in that uniform and we'd be working side by side." "Me too. Although I think for the moment, Aunt Becca needs me more. Yeoman are kind of like half secretary half body guard." Angel said with a soft smile. "Mom didn't send me to her sensei to learn how to fight just to keep me from getting chunky. I don't live on nuts and berries and fish like Olivia. I also know... how to use these." she reached into her pocket and let him see the micro transport tags. "Things get nasty, we get out of it." "Just remember, this is still new to you kiddo... you haven't even really finished the Academy, not that I doubt your training and the education we gave you as being enough to skip a lot of the first year, you still need to watch what she does, follow her orders, no matter what and... be careful. You're a smart girl, but you don't know it all just yet." Nick reminded her. "I know. I know that I don't know. Hence why I am sticking to her like glue. You two are my role models. Who knows, someday maybe I'll be in your position giving the same speech to my own kid... providing I ever actually have a boyfriend that isn't using me to do his own work... of course, that kind of works for Jack, he does everyone's homework." "I'm pretending I didn't hear that." Nick chuckled and patted her shoulder. "Comm me if anything insane comes up." "Yes sir." Angel said with a salute. |
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Vice Admiral Angelica "Angel" Ryder CO TAS Seraphim - 414th Engineering & Planetary Defense Fleet "Yes, I am chronically perky. Deal with it." | |
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| Rebecca Talon | May 5 2018, 05:22 PM Post #123 |
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"Nick, do you have that portable ship yard you were developing yet?" Rebecca asked as she moved to the center chair and sat. |
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"Nothing of consequence happened today. " -- Diary of King George III, July 4, 1776 | |
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| Nick Ryder | May 5 2018, 11:31 PM Post #124 |
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"Independence?" Nick said with a smirk. "I might... S31 wanted her but I think I can pull it out of the experimental drydock... why you ask?" |
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Nicholas "Nick" Ryder President Emeritas- Terra Alpha Alpha Quadrant Alliance Founder and 1st President
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| Rebecca Talon | May 6 2018, 12:49 AM Post #125 |
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"We're not going to do the refit here. Ensign Lee, what bridge position do you want to learn?" |
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"Nothing of consequence happened today. " -- Diary of King George III, July 4, 1776 | |
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| Nick Ryder | May 6 2018, 01:54 AM Post #126 |
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"Ops might be useful. Handle the comms and ship's systems." Angel replied as she gave her dad a wink. "Would be helpful to keep us abreast of any... whatever this was." "My girl's gonna be a gold shirt before she's a red. I may cry." Nick said with a fake sniffle. |
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Nicholas "Nick" Ryder President Emeritas- Terra Alpha Alpha Quadrant Alliance Founder and 1st President
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| Rebecca Talon | May 6 2018, 03:02 AM Post #127 |
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"Take your station ensign. Helm release all umbilicals and moorings, prepare to reverse thrusters." Rebecca turned her seat to face Nick, "We are going to need a base of operations. Far enough from Earth in case shit hits the fan, but close enough to allies. I will go to Talaria and speak with Emperor Stormtalon. The Narlins will likely side with us... me at any rate." |
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| Nick Ryder | May 6 2018, 01:29 PM Post #128 |
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"I'll have it deployed, kind of meet you half way... ish." Nick said as he gave her and Angel a last look before he took out his padd and set up a site to site transport. "Good luck although Stormtalon likes you. Might want to wear your hair down when you see him." |
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| Rebecca Talon | May 6 2018, 01:43 PM Post #129 |
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"Pffft," she replied. "I made first contact looking just like this. Oh, and Nicholas, don't get into anything alone okay? Make sure you have backup. I'll be mad if I have to come and pull you out." |
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| Nick Ryder | May 6 2018, 03:14 PM Post #130 |
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"I think I'll make sure that Jack is around... might need to play a bit dirty, as if she wouldn't." Nick replied and saluted. "And Becca, you think the Emperor wouldn't appreciate you looking a bit nicer than hot mess?" he teased and beamed out. "Don't worry Admiral... I know where he lives." Angel said as she worked her Ops board. "I just hope mother isn't a part of this." |
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| Rebecca Talon | May 6 2018, 04:57 PM Post #131 |
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"He has a point," Rebecca replied. She chose to ignore Angel's comment. Julie Ryder was her mother, and was not her place to express her opinion on the matter. "We have cleared the outer edge of space dock," the helm officer announced. "Set course for Talaria, Warp 12." "Course laid in." "Engauge." She stood. "Ms. Sunstrider you have the con. I'm going to clean myself up." |
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| Julie Lei | May 8 2018, 09:49 AM Post #132 |
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Meanwhile - Earth Spacedock "Hey... another round for me an' the pretty thing." A half drunk man said as he gestured to a woman in a leather skirt and vest sitting in a corner booth. "Last round buddy... you're already a few sheets to the wind." the bartender said with a wary look. "I got me a designated driver." He said with a laugh and walked back to his table with the drinks. "So where were we baby?" "Well... I don't like being called... baby." the woman said and took her drink. "So... finish this round and then head back to your place?" "Oh yeah..." he slurred and took a swig of his drink. "We need to talk." a tall man in a dark suit said as he put his hand on the back of the booth and leaned in. "Alone." The woman glared at the man who was interrupting her. "Sorry, busy." "No, you're not." he replied and pulled out a pinch phaser and stunned the man, causing him to slump in the booth. Sliding in next to the woman he shook his head. "I thought you had more class than that." "And I have been working on him for a week." she said bitterly. "Seriously?" the man said and rolled his eyes. "Losing your touch." he looked around and tapped behind his ear twice, deactivating the chameleon mask. "Goddamn it Nick..." Julie hissed as she deactivated her's. "The fuck are you doing here?" "Could ask the same thing." Nick whispered as he looked down her vest. "Says the married woman with four kids who isn't wearing underwear." "Shut up... this is my job." Julie said and held her drink. "Since when the hell did you care?" "When the hell didn't I care?" Nick said and took the man's drink. "Whatever." She grumbled and took a swig of her drink. "So what did you want now that you kinda half ruined my mission." "Half ruined? Idiot's passed out." Nick motioned to 'sleeping beauty'. "Anyway... I need you to be as honest as your deceptive nature will allow you to be with your husband, the man you promised to be faithful to." "The hell are you on about? Did you and Rebecca get drunk together again and she's got you convinced I'm the evil she-devil again?" Julie said bitterly as she took a sip of her drink. "And here we go again..." Nick muttered and rolled his eyes. "I don't know... are you?" he took a padd out of his pocket and loaded an image of the man who bombed the Erebus. "Looks like one of your's. Blew himself up on the bridge of the Erebus, killed Becca's Gorn XO." "The hell...?" Julie looked at the padd and squinted. "That's an FSS uniform?" "Yeah, our daughter picked that out immediately." Nick replied. "Yeah... asshole blew himself up not more than three yards from me, our daughter and Becca." "Holy shit... wait... what was Angel doing on the Erebus? I thought she was going to be with you? " Julie raised an eyebrow and looked at him. "Training... and what difference does it make? I was there with others too..." Nick stared at her. "One of your people bombed one of our ships, killed people and you're worried about why Angel was there?" Julie grimaced and skulled her drink. "I have no idea why this happened but I'll find out, hey contrary to what... Rebecca Sandoval thinks... I'm not the Queen of Darkness and this upsets me too, that's one of the people that work for my agency." she pointed her finger at her. "And how the fuck dare you even accuse me of being part of this! I'm not your meek little Stepford Wife, I will even agree I'm not a 'good girl' but dammit I deserve at least a little credit and you could have come to me with this and we could investigate this together, which I WANT to do. But you came at me like you're ready for a fight." she pointed out another man in a hat. "And you brought backup? What the fuck?! You bring backup to talk to your wife?" "My wife who's a trained assassin and spy and yeah I nearly get blown up, I bring some fucking back up." Nick said finished his drink and sighed heavily. "Look... I'm on edge. Don't tell me you wouldn't be and haven't been after your car was shot at while you were picking up Olivia from her music lessons. Isn't that why you had her beamed to that training facility in just her yoga gear?" "Oh shit..." Julie muttered. "Yeah, the girls talk... 'dance training camp' right." Nick shook his head. "Alright... how about this, how about we actually ACT like we're a couple that has been together nearly twenty years and have four kids together and actually ACT like we give a crap about each other." "Says the man who spent the past few weekends away." Julie replied. "I was working on laying the framework for a new ship and training new engineers. I don't think you're really... " Nick sighed. "I didn't avoid talking to you for a week because I was trying to fuck information out of someone." he said as he slipped his hand down the back of her leather skirt. "I know... I know.. it's part of the job and you're not 'really' cheating on me but... you're a mother and you're in a bar having drinks with strange, dangerous men and doing the 'honeypot' thing where they will probably end up dead or missing and I'm not supposed to feel... weird. Hey I've done it for the Agency too. But I have NEVER cheated on you." "Noella." Julie said bitterly. "Doesn't even fucking count and you know it." Nick said and slid out of the booth. "And I thought we were past that one, that was all on your people Julie. All of it. I had three children under the age of five to deal with and I met someone who was... " he clenched his fists. "I've got a secure room here. Meet me in two hours. Sleeping beauty next to you will wake up in a little bit. Do what you need to do and if you actually are serious about not knowing about this... meet me in Room 38-T." "Fine." Julie said and reactivated her chameleon mask. "God are we a mess." "No kidding." Nick replied and walked out of the bar with his backup. After he left Julie reached into her handbag and pulled out her makeup compact and fixed her makeup slightly . Making sure the mask had reapplied properly before she woke up her mark. She was just about to press a hypo to his neck when she felt another strong hand on her shoulder. "You don't have to finish this one up Whisper." he said softly. "I started it, I'll finish it." Julie said with a sigh. "So... is he wrong?" "Not entirely." he replied. "Just do what you need to, keep him and Sandoval off the trail. Redirect their focus." he said and dropped an isolinear chip into her handbag. "Remember the long term plan." "Of course." Julie nodded her head. "You're not jealous are you?" "Why should I be? Should I be?" he said with a smirk. "I trust you. More than he trusts you it seems." "He's a good man, too good sometimes, despite what he's done in his career." Julie said and motioned with her head. "I'll check in when I'm done... and then I'll take care of my husband and his friend." |
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| Nick Ryder | May 13 2018, 06:58 AM Post #133 |
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Nick was in the room he told Julie to meet him in, he was sitting in a chair with a padd and a bottle of bourbon as he kept looking at the door. "You really need to stop looking at the door Nick." Gavin said as he yanked the bottle out of his hand. "And don't Bogart the bloody stuff." he muttered and poured himself a glass. "Julie isn't gonna betray us, rest o'her people I don't trust. Course isn't that we formed the Black ANGELS?" he said before taking a swig of the bourbon. "Yeah... still, this just isn't sitting right. You weren't on the bridge when it was blown up by one of her people." Nick said as he looked at his wedding ring. "Becca still calls her the Queen of Darkness... am I just thinkin' with my dick?" "Maybe, but all women are like that from time to time. She's a spy, just like us. Only she's done this longer than ye, not as long as I have mind you." the older Australian man said with a chuckle. "Course, look at Kirby, she's taken after the family business." "Yeah, she's a good kid, another daughter to me y'know?" Nick glanced up from his padd. "So are your two, Liv and Marcus are at our place more than they're at your's sometimes." Gavin cleared his throat. "Y'do know they're both pretty much dating her." "Except Marcus got her pregnant." Nick winced. "Sorry about that." "Eh, I'm not upset, maybe at him. Course I should fookin' talk, I knocked up her mum not much younger'n she is now. Don't you worry none about it. Marcus'll get his head out of his arse someday and take care of things. Or Olivia will." Gavin chuckled. "You do know she's the only one Olivia really is that way with? They're like sisters. Julie wants to get her into her web. I kind of don't want her to have anything to do with her world, but... if Kirby's with her, maybe she'd be alright." Nick sighed and shook his head. "This is all kinds of fucked up, you know that. We're putting our teenage children into the line of fire already and they can't even buy this." he held up his drink. "They're almost adults legally Nick, can't protect 'em forever, this is their world too. And... if what we fear is coming to pass, they're the front line on this." Gavin reminded him. "We're old." "You're old. I'll be young forever." Nick teased. "Shut the fock up." Gavin rolled his eyes and glanced at his tricorder. "She's comin'... I'll be next door." he said as he opened the door to the connected suite. "Hit the panic button if you need me. And listen... use that charm you've been hidin'... you got the woman to marry you and give you how many kids... clearly you know how to 'work' her." he took the bottle. "And this goes with me... I gotta call MY wife and I'm sure I'm in for a ripper of a go round." |
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| Kat Donovan | May 13 2018, 01:16 PM Post #134 |
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A young redhead stood outside the room looking a little lost. She was wearing a flowy flower print maxi dress. The bangs, and the sides of her hair was pulled back into a small tight braid that fell over the top of the unbound back. Her makeup was light and she only had a pair of silver studs in her ears. Sighing she leaned up against the wall as if to say she had given up. Glancing around to see if she was alone, and tapped her temple. The right ocular implant whirred and she peered into the room with Nick. |
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| Julie Lei | May 14 2018, 11:08 PM Post #135 |
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"Who the hell are you?" Julie said as she put her hands on her hips and looked the redhead up and down. "And what are you doing looking at my husband's door like that?" she made a face. "You're not sleeping with him? You're his type when he's not with me." she slurred her words slightly as she leaned into her. "Cat got your tongue?" |
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