Wing Problems

Posted on Tue Feb 25th, 2020 @ 4:26pm by Senior Chief Petty Officer Duran-Yeager Syal
Edited on on Fri Jan 1st, 2021 @ 5:08pm

Mission: Mission 15: Old Ghosts
Location: Various Locations - USS Roanoke
Timeline: 0800Hrs, December 7th, 2390

Wukari looked around the hangar deck for Kureek-Swai, wondering where the birdlike Aurelian had wandered off too. She did noticed that the hangar deck did seem to be empty most of the time, and there where few people on the hangar deck. She finally noticed the assistant deck boss, Hakaya, and the human lieutenant whom ran things around here.

Approaching them she asked," Um, hi,.. Have you seen Kureek around here."

Hakaya and anastasiya looked at each other, Anastasiya simply shrugged, while Hakaya replied," No, never seen him, what does he look like."
"Um, he is an Aurelian, a tall birdlike species."

Hakaya shook her head," No, haven't seen the guy, what do you need him for."

Wukari shrugged," Just needed to talk to him about some of the other pilots, they dont seem to like to listen to me, but they respond to him."

Hakaya rolled her eyes in disgust," Stupid pilots, no respect,. the egotistical pricks."

Anastasiya noticed Wukari's unease, and that she was understating the problem, but she didn't say anything right away.

Hakaya noticed as another foxlike species similar to Wukari entered the hangar.

Lieutenant Salihan Zarloos entered the hanger, today was his second day on the job and while he hated egotistical pricks, he found he liked the guys
he was working with. "Hey guys, How goes the hunt?" he greeted the others there. "I'm Salihan, one of the new guys in the tower."

Hakaya looked at the guy, whom for once was even shorter than her. "Oh nice, so far Anastasiya here is the only lieutenant that I have, so you are needed. I'm Hakaya, the miniboss, so you will be working with me and my brother a lot."

Anastasiya looked at him as well and commented, " Wow, now I work with three absolutely adorable people. There is a lot of cute around in the tower."
"Which cannot be bad.." Zarloos responded. "After all... cuteness should be appreciated... how do the pilots get along with our guys... or do I not wanna know?"

Hakaya held up the cattleprod and smiled viciously, " What do you think this is for."

She then pointed it at the fourth pilot to end up chained to the lift crane. "And why do you think he is there."

Zarloos gently plucked the cattleprod from the other anthro's hand as he regarded it. "I can see how this would be useful." he paused. "might I inquire as to why you have the setting on minimum?" he added with a grin. "you might get more cooperation if you increase the voltage.."

He then looked up as he slowly handed it back to the other person, he was unsure of Hakaya was male or female so he decided not to take chances. "Whats with him?"

he indicated the guy who hard a surely look on his face before yelling "get me down."

Hakaya gave the pilot a rude gesture while Teval came up behind them, saying to Hakaya," Damn sis, you have another one up there."

Hakaya looked at her brother," Well, Varkon hasn't installed the dunce stool yet."

Toval put his hands on his hips," yeah you have a point."

Hakaya then introduced her brother," Oh, Salihan, this is my brother and the boss of the deck, commander Teval."

"Howdy Commander, good to meet you." Zarloos smiled, clearly cheerful. "Its good to be here..... so how many of these guys do we need to straighten out?"

Teval, Hakaya, and Anastasiya all sighed simltaneously, all saying "Too many," simultaneously, while Wukari's face soured somewhat.

Just then the doors opened and in walked Tom 'Fives' Lasky. He smiled as he regarded the personnel gathered. "Hey guys, whats new?" he greeted the smaller members of the crew. "Wait, we have a new member..."

Zarloos nodded. "That's me sir, Lieutenant Salihan Zarloos."

Fives gently shook the smaller guys hand. "No need to call me sir Salihan, I'm casual at all times... besides.. I make it my business to get along with everyone... except the pilots that is.."

"Well... you seen the new Christmas decoration?"

Fives groaned before he looked up. "Tainer... I'm gonna fucking kill you!!" he roared. He inhaled, taking in a deep breathe. "Would you guys mind bringing him down... I've had enough of this shit.."

Anastasiya went to the crane control and lowered the pilot, whom had an absolute look of horror on his face. Hakaya held out the cattleprod, being sure to set the voltage to maximum, and saying," Want this."

Fives grinned down at the smaller being. "Nah... Its time I did this the way my sensai taught me how to do it." he responded. "thank you though." and with that he went over to the pilot. "Tainer... what did you do this time..?"

"I umm... showed disrespect to one of the.. chiefs.." he paused. "Mouthing off and I got caught by Wukari." he explained the details as Fives saw red, before he let fly with a half dozen punches, all of which reduced Tainer to a sobbing wreak on the deck plating

"I'm revoking your flight status.... permanently.." Fives commented. "You'll be given a chance to redeem yourself.... show me you want it... prove to me you have the guts to be a better pilot... and a better man... or... I get rid of you.." he shrugged. "I have Forty malcontent cases... and you're number sixteen on my list of best to worst..."

Tainer sighed in pain. "I didn't catch that junior.." Fives responded. "You wanna try that again?" he inquired.

Tainer groaned. "Yessir... sounds... good...to me."

Fives regarded him, a dark look in his eye. "I thought you'd see it my way... now Tainer... next time.. and I will let these guys make your life a real living hell for the rest of your time stationed here." he turned to Teval as he smiled. "How you guys do that.... is up to you but I'd like to make one request... next guy who you hang up, really make an example of him.."

Anastasiya and Hakaya exchanged looks, then Hakaya was the first to speak," Hey Fives, follow me up to the tower for a bit. "

Fives nodded. "Sounds good." he responded as he followed Hakaya over towards the Tower. "Hakaya, whats on your mind?" he inquired.

Hakaya waited until they where in the back offices behind the tower, and thats when Hakaya mentioned," I think there is a major problem with 2nd wing."

Fives nodded. "I had a feeling that you wanted me out of the way to tell me." he commented.

"How bad is this shit with second wing and how many morons do I need to break?" he inquired.

Hakaya let out a long sigh, then explained," Well, I know you don't know her yet, but I have gotten to know Wukari a bit, as she was hanging out with us most of the day yesterday, and she seems to be a very kind hearted person, and probably doesn't really know how to be mean. You probably couldn't tell as well as I could, but she is really distressed right now, and I think its because 2nd Wing thinks she is weak, an they are walking all over her because of it. Which is stupid, because I pulled up her service record, and she is a much better pilot than she lets on."

Anastasiya had to go grab a drink to calm her nerves, and Hakaya's claws started coming out. "Its total bullshit that they are treating her like that, so do you mind If you can look into it, since phoenix really cant deal with it right now."

"Consider it handled." Fives responded with a smile. "So I get to beat the living daylights out of all of second wing..." he mused. "I'm not seeing the downside here... I will enjoy.. this." he added, a dark tone in his voice. "It'll take me awhile... but it'll be dealt with..." Fives had to work to calm himself but his skin tone went from normal to red to purple with repressed rage.

Hakaya could smell the rage on him, all she said was, " well, I will not stop you in this one." She then got a very vicious look, one of the most vicious looks that anyone has ever seen," Though if that happens again, I'll be kicking in heads as well."

"You can count me in too," Anastasiya commented as she downed a shot of vodka.

Fives paused. "Mmm... there is the boxing ring plan that Phoenix was going to implement... except.. we use this as a means of discipline.. instead of recreation." he commented. "the discipline cases all go through... if they want to fly.. they go through us... "
he raised an eyebrow. "How many of you are combat veterans?, martial arts experts... because I want Rachael Yamaguchi there as well... because the best part about an ego check is getting ones face rearranged by a kid."

"Count me in," Hakaya commented," Though it will be a few days before my crew can spare the time to set the ring up, so we can plan it for a week from now."

Fives smiled. "That sounds good... I will focus my efforts on the best pilots first, separate the good guys from the idiots... they wanna fly, they show me that they got what it takes..."

Teval entered the room, curious as to what was going on.

he paused. "Teval." he smiled. "Nobody gets out the door... any pilots come onto your flight deck, kick them off... I'm going to revoke everyone's flight status."

"Anyone gives you grief... you have my permission to space them.."

Teval though for a minute and said," Wait, I know you want to run all the pilots through the test run, so, we will have to talk to tane and Siaxx about phoenix's flight status, because we will need her for this, and I need to run my deck crew through real flight ops as well. We need that at least."

"I'll do it...if you wanna come with, when I do.. I'd welcome it.." Fives responded. "The shakedown time will be good for us... I'm also going to put these pilots in the simulators... four against Rachael at a time.." he then smiled. "Phoenix seems to love her so... I'm going to utilize her to assist me... I hope she's willing.."

Wukari sat down in one of the seats in the tower, with a saddened look on her face.

Zarloos turned as he noticed instantly that something was wrong. "Wukari... whats wrong?" he inquired as he went over to her, rather then go over to his post. He blinked his eyes as he regarded his fellow Shi'ari.

Wukari gave out a small sigh, then commented," Its not much really, just issues with second wing."

"Tell me?" he inquired as he gently began petting her fur. "Let me help you."

She had a hard time working up the words. She never expected having such a rough first meeting with the wing, but her body language gave it away. At the same time Varkon showed up in the tower, and he quickly knew something was wrong.

Zarloos watched her body language as he had to work to hold onto his temper. "I will make them bleed.." he commented. "Second Wing is picking on the Wing Commander again, Senior Chief.."

"I'm going to make their lives interesting... you look after their birds right?" he inquired.

Varkon maintained his usual calm, and in his typical deep low voice," I'm the chief in charge of the whole deck, I'm the one whom will be on the deck itself during flight ops. But yeah, im the chief for the whole section, which includes all the maintenance techs. Though Whitetail is the chief of the Maintenance section. Since his section lacks an officer right now, he is in direct charge of the maintenance for the birds."

"Okay Senior Chief... I'd like to make Second Wing's life interesting... none of their birds fly... until they learn respect... would you mind failing all of their birds..."

"That's already the case anyway," Varkon explained. "Second wing was just added to the ship, and most of the maintenance techs are still busy dealing with maintenance and repairs for first wing right now. Since second wings birds just got loaded onto the ship this morning, we will be doing the inspections this afternoon. The birds had been sitting in an outdoor storage area for some time, so most will likely fail their inspections anyway. However, as for dealing with the pilots, I trust that fives and phoenix will be able to handle it quite well without out intervention. Knowing them, they will probably pull their flight status anyway, and most of these pilots are washouts or near washouts to begin with."

"Phoenix.. as in Phoenix the Firebird...?" he inquired as he instantly settled down. "Alright.. that works for me.." he looked to his Shi'ari friend. "You think Fives and the Firehawk will handle it?"

Wukari just shrugged, not really knowing them, and not sure what to say. The Anastasiya came out of the back offices, with a bottle of alcohol, and setting the bottle down, she said," O.K. I need to cheer the adorable little fox up."

Anastasiya then scooped her up and began to cuddle her, with wukari's face changing from, sad, to surprise, then shortly after a small smile.

The door opened and in came Rachael Yamaguchi, PADD in hand. "Hey guys." she went to salute but stopped herself at the mast moment. "Paperwork for Fives... anyo...whats going on?"

Anastasiya turned to Rachael's direction, with Wukari still cradled in her arms," Oh hi Rachael," Yeah fives is in the back office's, probably erupting into a volcano right now."

Rachael chuckled. "I don't really wanna go in there right now then... I've seen the bird when she gets angry... its quite a frightening sight may I add.... is Fives worse?"

The smaller being next to her, Zarloos looked up at her. "My dear... yes he is.."

Rachael gently ran her fingers through the smaller beings hair. "Are you a Shi'ar?" she smiled

"Indeed madame." he replied with a smile.

"Cool." she responded. "So.. whats going on... Second Wing again?" she inquired as she recognized the Wing Commander. "Commander." she addressed Wukari.

Wukari waved at Rachael, now feeling a bit better, with Anastasiya cuddling her.

Rachael sighed. "Fucking assholes." she responded. "I'm gonna find Fives... I have an idea for an exercise I want to drop his way.... teach these guys some respect as well as some stand off missile tactics.." she looked over at the others gathered. "Don't pilots hate missiles?"

"Normally the newbies hate them, because they see dog fighting with pulse phasers is the more honorable dog fighting tactic or something like that," Varkon commented with an ever so slight tone of disgust.

Wukari's ears perked up," Whats wrong with missiles."

She looked over at Wukari. "We have so much cuteness in this room.." she observed as she ran her fingers through Zarloos's fur at the top of his head. "Its hard to resist the temptation to pet you guys.."

Just then the door opened and in came Fives. "Ahh Rachael, you got that paperwork for me?"

"Yeah Fives... I had an idea I wanted to give you.." she commented while she began petting Zarloos as he smiled. "I could get used to this..." he admitted.

Fives smiled as he accepted the PADD from Rachael. "Nice.. whats your idea?" he reviewed her paperwork as she explained her idea, a smile appeared on Fives Lasky's face. "I like it... write out your plan and give it to me when you're ready.."

"Willdo." she responded as Fives looked around. "Whats going on....?" he inquired.

Anastasiya replied in a cheery voice," Oh I'm just cheering up the little fox here." Wukari had a very content look on her face.

Fives gently reached over as he ran his fingers through the fur on the top of her head. "I couldn't resist.." he commented. "Second Wing's birds will require some more time to put together.." he explained.