Phoenix

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Ok, I think I'm gonna clear up all this confusion about Kane's character. A while ago, Kane was a pure psychotic. He slaughtered caravans for a living and had no problems killing innocent people. Now, he's calmed down a *bit*. He's still cruel, ruthless, and will kill without hesitation, but often only when he has to.
Now on with the story...


As the thick cloud of dust settles, Kane stops his motorcycle and puts his foot on the ground. The iron Phoenix gates stand before him. In front of the gates stand two guards in combat armour, toting heavy firepower, who, for some reason look like they're going to gun him down at any minute.

"Halt! What is your buisness here?"

Says one guard, hefting his minigun to a battle-ready position.

"I wish to enter the city."

Kane replies.

"We saw a firefight a few miles North. You know any thing 'bout that?"

"Yeah, I do..."

Kane recounts the encounter with the bandits on mortorbikes, and the campsite.

"Oh,"

says the guard.

"Sorry, we've had some problems with highway gangs. Just keep your weapons under control. And see the sheriff if yer lookin' for work."

The guard yells something over the gates and they slowly swing open. Kane starts the bike and slowly rides in. He gets some strange looks as he stops the bike in an out-of-the-way corner of town and stands to admire the town. It was fairly big, and not so much different from... San Diego really. He spots a few weapons shops, a hospital, police station, bar and some other buildings. He holsters his weapons and heads for the bar. As he enters the saloon, Kane brushes the dust from his trenchcoat and walks up to the bar.

"Bartender, whisky."

The bartender hands Kane a shot of whisky.

"$5"

Kane slams a five dollar note onto the bar, grabs his drink and turns around, examining the other occupants of the bar. They're mostly human, though there are some mutants in the far corner. One man in a leather jacket walks up to him.

"Hey man, how'd ya like some drugs?"

The stranger says.

"How'd you like a bullet in your head?"

Replies Kane. The man backes away quietly and Kane turnss back to his drink. He wasn't in the mood for any bullshit today. Remembering his Gauss rifle was empty, he turns to the bartender.

"Bartender. Hey you got any gauss ammo?"

Asks Kane.

"Try the weapons shop, dumbass."

Replies the bartender. Kane finishes his drink and leaves for the weapons shop.
Kane heads for the nearest gun shop, 'Guns 'n' bulllets'. As he enters, the shopkeeper looks up at him.

"Can I help you?"

"Yeah, you got any gauss ammo?"

"Oooh, sorry. Ran out last week. Try across the street."

Kane leaves without a word and crosses the street towards the other weapons shop, 'Randal's Guns'. Kane enters and the keeper greets him eagerly.

"Hey, How's it goin'? I'm Randal and this is my gun shop. We sell guns, ammo and cigarettes. What can I help you with?"

"Gauss ammo, do you have any gauss ammo?"

"Sorry friend, just sold the last clip five minutes ago."

"Damnit. well, do you have any ammo for this?"

Kane holds out his Beretta M-9 "Specialist".

"Hot damn! Haven't seen one of those fer 15 years!
Damn fine weapon this is! Deadly accurate to 250 yards, more power than the .223."

"Yeah, but do you have any ammo for it?"

"Well... I might.... just.. check under here.."

Randal ducks down under the counter and rumages around for a few minutes.

"Yep, here we go.. four clips. That'll be... $200."

Kane hands him the money, grabs the ammo and holsters the pistol.

"Anything else?"

"Yeah, got any shotgun shells?"

The bartender hands him a box of 50 shells.

"50 shells, comes to... $100."

"Here you go. And I'd like to sell my Gauss rifle. Doesn't look like I'm gonna find any ammo for it."

Kane unholsters his Gauss Rifle and places it on the counter.

"You want cash or...?"

"No, harware. What can I get for it?"

Randal holds up the gauss rifle, examining it.

"Wait, I got something for ya."

He ducks under the counter again and pops up quickly with two very small guns in his hands, they are as small as a long pistol, barely even 30cm long, but have the unmistakable holes along the thin barrel, identifying them as sub-machine guns.

"These, friend, are M2-450 "Stingers". You can't get them anywhere else. Stopped makin' 'em see? They may look small... but they'll go through metal armour like That!"
He snaps his fingers.
"Pierces combat armour easy, too!"

Kane takes the two tiny SMG's in his hands, swinging them about and aiming them around the room. They were perfect.
Randal produces a bandolier with several clips in it. He holds up a single .450 bullet. It's very thin and fairly long.

"I can give you the guns, five clips for each of 'em, and $300, for that gauss rifle."

Kane thinks for a while.

"Yeah, sounds like a good deal."

Kane hands over the gauss rifle and takes the weapons, ammo and cash.

"Oh, yeah.. some cigarettes."

Randal hands Kane some tobacco and cigarette papers.

"Here you go, $20."

Kane hands Randal the money. Then turns around and walks out, with a lighter load, and some powerfull weapons.

Outside the shop, Kane spins the two M2-450s skillfully and holsters them. He rolls a cigarette, lights it, and walks off down the street.
 
RE: Damn! You have a 'Phoenix' too!?

there aren't that many cities down southwest
 
My Phoenix [A.E] is a spaceship.

It still might have some spelling errors. But this explains better than a normal explanation.

Phoenix [A.E]

Mars Mining Corporation. Voice recorder type BMO 3851/4, spaceship Phoenix. Current mission: Re-contact Earth, search for remnant civilization. Log file name: Phoenix Mission 4

08:00 11-22-2152

Well, this is it. We took of only seconds ago and I’m homesick already! The Phoenix is good ship, but only 5 crewmen on a three month travel in a ship that isn’t much bigger than my kitchen at home, no, call me pessimistic, but I have a very, very bad feeling about this. Flying this thing for 3 months to a planet on which all life has most likely been eradicated 76 years ago is madness, 76 years people! 76 years since the bombs fell! Well, back to business, the checklist was fully completed and the only thing missing were the backup oxygen tanks, even though admiral McKane said they wouldn’t be necessary, this doesn’t contribute to my feeling about the mission. I hate those pencil lickers.

13:46 11-29-2152

We have been flying for a week now and I’m so bored you wouldn’t believe it. Anyway, Jeff is in charge of engineering now, since Katja burned her hands on the fuel manifolds. Ramon is now assisted by Katja in cultivating food in the back. Yech, I hate veggies! Simon and I are in charge of navigation.

00:21 12-02-2152

I almost got killed today! Some [unknown word] rock hit the front window, so now I can’t look through it! I don’t need the front windows to navigate, it was just that I like to look outside every once in a while. It nearly got me a heart attack too! Oh, by the way, Katja’s cooking is horrible!

08:00 12-10-2152

Jeff burned his [unknown word] hands on that [unknown word] manifold as well! People, listen, please. If it hurts so much, just DON’T TOUCH IT! Katja isn’t well yet, so I’m going to have to do maintenance for a while, so Simon will have to navigating alone for a while.

10:39 12-10-2152

Raaaah! [most likely: Got-dam-it]! I burned my [unknown word] hands on that [most likely: dam] manifold! If I get this satanic mother[unknown word] son of a [unknown word] who made this engine in my hands I’ll twist his [unknown word] neck around at least 5 times! Simon takes over.

09:00 12-16-2152

Katja is back in engineering, the cooking has improved and ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE [unknown word] ROCKS HIT THE WINDOW AGAIN!

23:16 12-20-2152

Guess what!? The [unknown word] computer crashed! It displayed something about credit cards, shareware and Windows 2075. I heard Simon say something about that he told them to use LINUX or something. Personally, I prefer… STAYING HOME!

02:42 12-24-2152

I promised never to tell anyone, but… ‘em… William is kind of a sleepwalker and last night… he… eh… kind of sleepwalked… out of the airlock. Well, that puts me, Simon in charge. To bad though, sometimes he could be nice. Oh, before I forget, merry Christmas.

0:00 01-01-2153j

Happy new year.

10:31 01-20-2153

Sorry you had to wait so long for an update, but I lost this [most likely: dam] thing again. Well, we were hit by some small debris. It looks worse than it is, but those scratches and dents don’t make this thing look any prettier. The crew is getting scared of what we might find back on earth. Ramon came up with some ridiculous story about mutants and walking dead, I told him to stop, cause he was scaring… ahem… me. Mars saw the missiles coming a year before impact and had all the time to stop them, earth didn’t, those missiles struck in minutes. It took me over an hour to explain them why we’re landing in the former US, I had to ask them how many languages they speak besides English and tell them that the only runway long enough to lift of again was Groom lake. As for the languages, I do hope Jeff realizes that all the ancient Romans are dead.

19:00 01-23-2153

We got a clear view at earth today and the radar picked it up. Some bad news, our communications array was damaged, katja wanted to go out and repair it, but slowing down would mean losing energy, which we can’t afford. And most of all it would mean wasting oxygen AND WE DON’T HAVE BACKUP TANKS! We’ll repair the ship once we’ve landed in about 3 weeks. This report will be confirmed by katja once we return, so I can explain the radio silence.

12:53 01-31-2153

We had to let go of the back-section of the Phoenix, because of explosive danger after a meteorite impact on it. We won’t be able to get back.

06:04 02-04-2153

We have a good look at earth now. God it’s beautiful.

08:00 02-07-2153

None of our messages, send with our short range communicator, to earth or the moon have been answered, the crew, including me, is loosing it. Maybe they are dead.

10:20 02-09-2153

We’re close enough to see. Earth is a desert planet now. Only in the rainforests and other low populated areas the bombs didn’t drop, so basically there still has to be life. We are landing in the US however, which has been totally devatated.

13:41 02-12-2153

We’ve landed and found survivors! They are attacking us. I can’t stop the auto defense turret. They’re attempting to surrender, but the only one with the proper clearance to override sleepwalked out the [unknown word] airlock! [most likely: Dam] you William! And someone program [unknown word] and [most likely: dam] in this [unknown word] thing!

13:56 02-12-2153 US slang language installed.

Goddamned! Fucking! Yes it works. None of the attackers is alive anymore. Ramon was still outside when the doors closed and the auto-defense kicked in. He was standing between the turret and a target, not a pretty sight. That leaves just me, Katja and Jeff.

14:12 02-12-2153

Damn! The buggy was in the back-part of the Phoenix, the part we dumped! Looks like we’re going to be walking. According to the map we are not far from Groom lake, where we were supposed to land but didn’t because of the fog.

23:16 02-15-2153

We travel at night, because of the temperatures and it’s winter now, so the nights are long. We only got 10 miles forward last night, and we should be happy if can get the half of that tonight, unless we find new water.

00:43 02-16-2153

We found water, we filled the special issue Vaulttec Mars edition water flasks we have with up.

03:11 02-16-2153

We lost Jeff. He didn’t look where he walked carefully enough, tripped and fell down the canyon we’ve been following the last 2 days. Somehow I have a bad feeling about this mission.

07:25 02-18-2153

We came across a caravan today, when we asked about Groom lake everyone warned us about something called a [manually entered: WANNADINGO] or something like that. These people have been knocked back into the dark ages. When we asked for supplies they wanted payment, but we couldn’t pay for anything. So they wanted Katja to ‘entertain’ some of the guards. Not to surprising if you’d see what she’s wearing right now, it’s hardly anything, she took most of because of the heat in the daytime and she was raise as a naturist, so she hasn’t any problems with spectators. As said, so done. We had been going the wrong way all along, we should have walked through some canyon, we now have a 10 mm pistol and 8 bullets for it.

10:39 02-20-2153

We found Jeff in the canyon, shot up by raiders, as it turns out, this canyon is only 6 feet deep. Katja has gotten a STD from one of the guards, she begged me not to tell anyone it’s Syphilis, oh shit!

20:41 02-23-2153

Shit! It was a mutated strain of Syphilis. Strange blisters and other scary things cover her whole body. She died a few minutes ago in a very painful and itchy fashion. I’m all alone and scared now.

12:07 02-26-2153

I can see Groom lake from the top of the hill I’m standing on already. Some survivors seem to have fortified it and I can hear laser and plasma fire all the time, and with reason. Those slimy purple things with tentacles are all over the place, I see more purple than sand! The look pretty dumb though, I’ll go see if I can reach the facility, by evading those things, I’ll make another entry once I’m inside.

0:29 02-27-2153

OPEN THE DOOR!PLEASE, LISTEN TO ME, LET ME IN! PLEAHEAHEASE! I BEG YOU, I AAAAAAARGH!


Noon 24-06-2238

This story I got from an old techni-thingie, an antiquity, which I got from a dusty traveler. He staid he found in the rotting carcass of a Wanamingo. I written it down so I could sell the computer again. If I would have read this story before letting the traveler go I would have asked him some questions, but now questions remain unanswered, one of them: ‘Is it true?’

See? To anyone else, don't respond to this, don't even tell anyone you read it. This is not my post!

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