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Can't lose now, there's no game to play (Ch. 6: Day 1b)
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Author:  psikeout [ Mon Jul 30, 2012 10:06 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Can't lose now, there's no game to play (Ch. 6: Day 1b)
"Best we can do for now," said Rock, laying the tablet to rest on a nearby workbench. "Thanks for the update, Tau. Keep me posted and lemme know if there's anything I can help take care of."

With that out of the way (or as out of the way as it was going to get for the moment), the deflated-looking white primate looked at his redder counterpart, shrugged, and forced a smile that soon seemed to turn a little more genuine as he climbed back up his stepladder. "I'm about to take it out for a first test flight," he said, the anticipation palpable for once. There weren't many things that got Rock "excited" in any capacity, but this seemed to genuinely hold his interest.

He reached out to where a yellow-painted metal box with two buttons hung from a nearby cable next to the step ladder. He held one of the buttons, causing a sharp buzz to emit from some nearby machinery, and watched as the seat was lowered from the winch overhead.

"Wanna watch?" he asked as he guided it into place, then set about securing it in place. It was a fairly quick process involving the iconic, noisy, high-pitched "brap" of an impact wrench on a few bolts. Soon enough, he was dumping the tools out onto the top platform of the stepladder and taking his seat.
Author:  Mie [ Wed Aug 01, 2012 10:26 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Can't lose now, there's no game to play (Ch. 6: Day 1b)
"Really?"

Her face abruptly split into a smile that was sunlight incarnate. Without chance for an adequate response, Jam all but tore off her skates, and discarded the marshmallow launcher into a convenient tool chest before bounding up the stepladder; she hesitated there, scrutinizing the functional solitude of the cockpit.

"You want me in front or behind you?" she asked, confusedly.
Author:  psikeout [ Fri Aug 03, 2012 3:17 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Can't lose now, there's no game to play (Ch. 6: Day 1b)
Rock glanced confusedly behind his seat, where there was literally almost no room whatsoever. His face held its furrow-browed expression as he looked to her again.

"There's only one seat," he stated plainly, but with suspicion.
Author:  Mie [ Wed Aug 08, 2012 10:51 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Can't lose now, there's no game to play (Ch. 6: Day 1b)
"Well, that narrows it down," Jam just about snorted, pushing her way into the increasingly cramped cockpit, regardless. She shoved and shimmied, and squirmed (and probably elbowed and kneed without intention) her way into the scant real estate offered by Rock's lap, all the while, carrying the joke farther than was funny.

"Thought I'd be here all day tryin'a pick one."
Author:  psikeout [ Wed Aug 08, 2012 12:18 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Can't lose now, there's no game to play (Ch. 6: Day 1b)
Rock stared, deadpan. He did not resist her intrusion, but just tilted his head in a sort of accepting (maybe relenting?) shrug, and shut the canopy anyway.

"We'll give it a shot, then," he declared, reaching around her to grasp the control stick and reach the instrument panel and controls, and start up the engines. There was a minute or two of testing, checking engines, throttling up and down, checking electrical systems, etc.; there was a mess of devices with various meters that one could only assume was diagnostic equipment connected and littering the bare metal floor.

He pulled a headset off the floor and put it on, then clicked the radio button on the yoke. "Controls, open the launch bay."

"The launch bay will open immediately," said an electronic voice over the loudspeakers in the hangar. "Please stand clear of the doors."

A loud alarm buzz gratingly blared, a bell rang, and a huge set of armored hangar doors straight ahead unlatched and slid apart, opening up to whipping winds, a dark, midnight-blue sky, and the lights of the cities of South Island below. Orange light strips on the floor pointed the way out.

"There's no ejection seat, so if somethin' goes wrong, you just gotta bail," stated the primate, matter-of-fact as ever as he pushed forward on the throttle. The aircraft's engines whined, and the weight on its landing gear's spongy suspension eased as it began to lift straight up off the floor, hovering gently, while jets of blue exhaust rushed out of an assortment of vernier-like openings on the bulky pods containing the engines, blowing loose tools carelessly across the floor beneath it.

Thrust shifted behind, the nose dipped and the aircraft wobbled just so slightly, then at once, it rushed out the doors with violent acceleration and into the open night sky.
Author:  Mie [ Wed Aug 08, 2012 1:51 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Can't lose now, there's no game to play (Ch. 6: Day 1b)
"Just... bail," repeated the foremonkey as stoically as possible with a brisk dip of her chin. "Right. Okay."

She looked around, noting that even if Rock were the type to pack gravity insurance, she'd probably commandeered its seat.

"So, like, when you said, 'test flight', is that like a, 'make sure the wipers and stereo work,' test, or more like a 'God, I hope this thing actually flies' te--"

Suddenly, the aircraft dropped out of the floor, and Jam caught sight of the twinkling city lights below, catching her breath (and whatever else she had to say) in her chest substituting a gasp and a hushed, "whoa" that could have been just as awed as it was nervous.
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