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| Summary: Jack gets Violet a gift in celebration of her VF training.  |
And of course, Jack is near by in that armored flight suit he has with a leather jacket over it. And seems he's helping the ground crew with a couple VF's. Yes, he's bored and this is his hobby, tinkering with things. "Right...fuel line's replaced Shiro. Run a test and see if we can rock and roll." The stock VF-11 approaches, soon coming to a halt in line with the others being worked on. The engines fully power down and the cockpit hatch opens up. "Paint still looks intact this time, Lt. Commander. You've gotten better!" shouts one of the techs as Violet steps down the ladder. "One time. ONE TIME I scrape the tail on the runway on landing and you won't let off at all, will you Specialist?" She gives the tech a dirty look, but doesn't officially dress him down. She does, however, do a double take as she sees Jack working on another fighter. "Pops? What're you doing here?" Karrde looks over at Violet and shrugs, "Well, was waiting for you. Got bored and well, decided to help out." and he looks over at the Spec and Violet, "Vi..let him rant, to him this planes are his babies and if a pilot messes them up he has full right to give them hell. My Hanger Chief is.." he shudders, "...After what I did to one of the prototypes Vipers..I felt I was lucky my head was still attached after he got done with me." Violet finally takes off her helmet with a bit of a sigh. "Yeah, yeah, I know. But can you really blame someone for something they did on their third solo flight? I mean come on, that was weeks ago!" She seems to think an event from less than a month ago should be so easily forgotten... This is what happens when one is only temporally 8 years old but thrown into constant grown-up situations. She sighs and shakes her head, however. "So how long before he finally stopped giving you grief over it? And what'd you have in mind that you were waiting for me on? Catching up again?" Karrde sighs a bit, "..2 years." he says with a slight slump. "I was scared to go near my VF for fear of him giving me that look." and he hmms, "Actually..both." and he nods, "Come here.." and he nods at a old hanger/warehouse off to the side. "Follow me." he says as he starts off. Violet slumps slightly at the mention of two years, then mutters under her breath, "At least he's not assigned to Phoenix, then..." She then raises an eyebrow at Jack, shrugs, and follows. "That's... the old storage hangar, right? The one they load junk that might be salvageable into?" she ventures as she hangs her helmet onto the clip at the back of her neck. Karrde grins, "Well..it's part of why I came. See.." and he sighs, "I dunno if -he- ever did it, the other me, but I know back in my Neo you and I never got along. My own fault, I was too scared." and he gives a weak grin, "Now, save for the headaches with Arikami and Raven and all that, I felt I should try to fix that, mend the bridges with my firstborn." and he goes over to the hanger, "So..consider this making up for missed birthdays." and grabbing the doors he goes to slide it open. As the door opens and light goes in, something is revealed. A VF-22S Strumvogel II, the body is painted in purple and there's red trim along it's body, around the intakes and where the head rests in fighter mode. "...Falcon and the others have been on me to move onto a new VF or Viper, and well..I couldn't let go of my old girl, she got me through the war, so no..I didn't wanna scrap her. So I got with the Chief and his crew and we rebuilt her from the ground up. Tuned up the engines..upgraded the avionics, overhauled the beam weapons. She's fast, she can dance." and he shrugs, "Just as I said, newer VF so this lady..well.." and he gives Violet a look, "Know anyone that would want her?" Violet blinks a few times as she looks at the machine, then looks at Jack. Then, predictably, she looks back to the Sturmvogel. "I can think of a few people, honestly. Even stock, this thing outspecs Miriya's current fighter, then there's a number of other pilots out there that might want to upgrade from an 11, but I'm going to take a wild guess from the color and the fact that, oh, it's you, that your intent is... for me?" She does still sound a bit surprised and unsure of herself, however. Karrde looks at Violet, "Yes, you." he shrugs, "...Like I said, she's brand new. And well..Falcon and them are sorting out a VF for me. Probably a 25. I dunno, could care less really." and he nods at the 22, "That one is all yours." he says with a nod. Violet blinks a couple of times in surprise, then looks over it again before stepping up to it in silence. She puts a hand on it and looks up at the cockpit. "Well... I'd better start training for a 22 on the sims, yeah?" She laughs a bit nervously at it. "Wow... looks like I might need to finally actually put Victoria into storage..." Karrde hmms, "Your call. Nothing wrong with keeping Vicy around." he says with a shrug. "Just..you mentioned you can't take her onto the Phoenix so.." he says leadingly as he nods at the VF, "And..like I said, I...I never got you anything." he says softly. "I..I feel like I got something of a second chance. If I could figure out my other headaches maybe I can make the most of it all." he says with a weak chuckle. Violet laughs and leans on the Sturmvogel's fuselage. "Well, you can never get rid of all your headaches. No one gets to have that kind of complete..." She frowns, struggling to find the right word. "Niceness?" She sighs and shrugs. Violet never has been one for words. Karrde grins, "Violet. I have Raven and the kids on one side. Oh, and Arikami and her kid on the other. The funny part is none of the kids are mine persay, the other me dumped it all on my lap, and no matter what I do, someone is gonna be hurt. And I hate that more than anything." he says and once the rant is over he takes a deep breath, and nods, "Yes, you have another sister. Michiru. I didn't know about her myself, until a week ago." he grimaces and slumps, "You can contact Akiya and he'll set up you two meeting." Violet blinks and slides slightly off the VF-22, though she does keep her footing. "Wait, what? Who? Arikami? Michiru? Akiya?" None of these names seem to ring any bells in her mind. "What?!" she repeats. "Jeeze, pops. The family expands further! And, uh, really, I have no clue who any of those people are..." She really looks a bit bewildered at that. Karrde sighs and goes to hand Violet a phone number and a comm code, "Here. And yes..yes it does." he grimaces a bit, "Like I said, I feel like the rugs been yanked out from under me too many damn times. I leave Neo after I get dismissed from the UN and Akiya and 'Kami go missing, get stuck in another dimension, like Neo but one at war. Spend years there, find myself in MU, and then find out some super powered god version lived my life and now I gotta clean up a mess." he sighs as he looks at Violet and a sheepish and ashamed look appears, "God..sorry Vi. I.." he shakes his head. "I just wanted to give ya this and well..play catch up but yeah." Violet looks down at the number and code and nods, then looks up as Jack looks so sheepish suddenly. Then she goes in for the hug! "Hey, hey, everything's going well! Thank you so much, I'm, just, I've, uh, I'm totally just at a loss for words!" She pulls back and offers Jack a smile. "That you're picking up the mess of someone else is admirable, really! If I had the mess of another one of me, I'd probably blow it off as someone else's problem, but not you! You're there to pick up the pieces left behind and put them back together again! I've got a real family here now, and it'd not be complete without you!" Karrde grins weakly and goes to pat her shoulder softly, "Thanks.." he sighs, "But again.." he shrugs, "Someone's gonna be hurt no matter what I do. Again, I hate that. Even if I 'blow it off' everyone gets hurt." he shrugs. And hmms as he looks up, "No..I won't cry Falcon. Anyway..gonna go spend some time with Vi. Oh, my VF is done..send it down via remote to the spaceport. I'll get it there." he says with a grimace as he gives Vi a look, "Sometimes I wonder who's really in charge." Violet gives Jack a downright smirk this time. "Do you? Do you really still wonder that?" Karrde looks at that smirk, "That's so weird seeing my smirk on someone else's face." he says with a shudder, "And yes..sometimes I do. I command a fleet but it seems she's got it in her head she's gotta be the mother I never had sometimes." and he hmms, "Anyway..know a place we can go?" and he calls a couple techs over, "Hey guys..can you store this for Violet until she gets back." and the look over at the VF, and one gives a low whistle and they both nod. Violet says, "Hrrrrm, well, I'll need to get changed first, of course, but after that, I can think of a place or two to head over to." She glances over at the techs. "Easy, boys, she's taken." She then looks back to Jack again. "Let's meet up at the boardwalk again? I can be pretty fast when I want to." Karrde looks down at his armored flight suit, "....Let me get some jeans and a shirt I can toss over this." he says with a shrug, "I just carried my jacket." Yep, there's that sheepish grin again. And he nods, "Fair enough. Boardwalk it is." The Boardwalk(#575RL) Well, after the two separated it seems Jack found himself a shirt and some jeans. Honestly, he had Falcon beam him a pack down as the Athena is in orbit near the moon. And he's looking at a datapad. Yep, he's reading a novel. Before too long, Violet walks up from the south towards the boardwalk, now dressed in much more civilian clothes, naturally. Her hair, however, is still braided from the way she typically wears it under her helmet. "Yo, Pops! Been waiting long?" Karrde hmms, "Nah..just had Falcon beam some clothes down and I changed in a beach stall." and yes, the clothing is baggy so he has his flight suit on under it. "Just was checking over what VF she decided to assign me." Violet nods and steps over to attempt to look over his shoulder... well, perhaps more around his arm, at the datapad. "Oh? What's she throwing at you?" And there it is, a VF-24, "Seems Mitsuo's gonna be happy." he says with a shrug. "She's been wanting me to try one of those out for a while, since we got to MU that is." Violet nods. "Hrrrm. Well, don't see many of those about. I've looked at the specs... We probably should look into upgrading Red Squadron to those, if you ask me. Then again, I of course want my ship fitted with the best I can get... They'll probably upgrade the VF-11 equipped units first, though." She looks a little disappointed with her own thought, but then shakes her head and smiles again. "So what were ya thinkin'? Go get a bite to eat?" Karrde nods, "The VF-24 was what the NTSDF used in MU. Mitsuo designed them. She's getting the OTEC facilities up to making the 24's for here. I'll see about about getting with her so the Athena can cover your ship. We have the same fabrication facilities Mitsuo has. If she allows it we can have Miriya's squadron upgraded to that." and he hmms, "Yeah..kinda hungry." Violet looks out over the boardwalk area, then tilts her head. "I'm thinking the Unusual. I've only been there once before, and only got a drink... I kinda wanted to see what the food was like there." Karrde hmms, "Unusual? That's a name." and he puts the datapad away, "..Sounds good. I think the UR would be a bad place. I..I haven't been to Earth much since I got here save taking Raven on a couple dates and well, looking around this place." Violet says, "Heheh...Yeah, it's to the south of the Usual itself." She then blinks, tilting her head. "Did you... know a Raven in your world? Or is she new to you?" Karrde shakes his head, "No..see the timeline I came from. It was your mother, and when she vanished." he hmms, "I was feeling sorry for myself when 'Kami dropped into my life. When she vanished and I was dismissed from the UN I went into space. I never met Raven, she is new to me. Hence why I did what I did. I wanted to see what kinda person she was, why he fell for her." he shrugs, "...He was a idiot for losing her." Violet says, "Heh." She smirks, then frowns. "I... I was about to say my mother was a fool to losing you, but... She... She's ridiculously dedicated to her own fleet. I'm not sure anyone could really replace it in her eyes. It's what she lives for." She sighs and shakes her head. "BAH! Let's go get some food!"" Continued in 2016-06-21 - Family Matters | |
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