Iskaria: The Big Green | By : Collip99 Category: +S through Z > Thundercats Views: 3510 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Glaudus was wiping his oily hands with a rag.
“Oh! You still want to go? OK, fair enough…where is your luggage…Holy crap!!” he exclaimed. “How long are you going for??” he asked, wide eyed at the luggage stack. “Three days, maybe five at a push…” he shrugged. “I think I’ve got everything I need.” “Right…yeah…” he walked over and looked at the heavy duty manacles, traps and chains. “Big game, huh? Carbon steel?” “Titanium alloy” Elan replied without looking up from his further examination of his gun. (OK, so maybe Elan is just a little bit OCD after all) “Whoa…top dollar!” Glaudus cooed. “They sure are…top quality because it needs to be…I can afford it…Or, more to the point, I cannot afford to be without it.” “OK, let me go and start stowing this stuff.” Glaudus sniffed. “Why are your hands oily?” Elan asked, again without looking up. “Oh this? Well…just fixed a small pump issue. These regular jungle runs are hard work; the heat, the humidity, the storms. It’s nothing, just routine…” “Mmmm” Elan stood and climbed into the chopper. It was grimy, tatty and had a faintly unpleasant odour, although Elan assumed that odour was mostly Glaudus. After ten minutes Glaudus climbed into the cockpit. “Get comfy, it’ll be three hours.” “Three?? It should only take two.” Elan queried. “Normally, but you’ve got a lot of luggage and today, where you’ll be going is particular hot and steamy…I’m not pushing the old girl too hard and fast. Three.” “Yes, yes, just let’s get going…I have a deadline.” “Hmm…don’t we all?” Glaudus muttered as he slammed the slide door shut. He flicked a few switches and, with a whine, the two main rotors slowly got faster and faster until Glaudus pulled back the yoke and the twin-rotored copter slowly lifted into the sky. Within minutes they were high over an endless treescape. After a bone-juddering hour they trees were interrupted here and there by tall, monolithic rocky peaks, red dragons teeth in the green gums of the surrounding landscape.“You sure you want to go any further? This right here is pretty damn wild already and easier to get you out if you get in grief.” Glaudus shouted back.
“No, thanks. I need to get four hundred miles in.” “Intel?” “Can’t possibly say…” Elan yawned. “Figures. Well, OK then, hold on to your hats, it may get a little lumpy from here on in…” “You mean lump-ier!” Elan snorted. “Yeah, but the landscape and heat produces some fierce thermal activity. Just saying…”Glaudus wasn’t wrong. Within half and hour the chopper was being buffeted; left, right, up and down.
“Holy shit!!” Elan cursed. The chopper engines whined, clearly as disturbed with the weather as the human. “Buckle up, just in case!” Glaudus shouted. “I’ve been buckled up since we left…” “Oh…erm….good job!” he wrestled the yoke as the chopper gained a thousand feet in altitude. “Still, only an hour and a half left…well, maybe two now we’ve got this going on!” “Two? Fuck!!” Elan spat and vomited on the floor. “Oranges…best thing for sickness!” Glaudus opined. “Really?” Elan replied groggily. “They stop you being ill??” “No, no…but they taste the same coming up and they do going down…” he chuckled. Elan dry heaved, as no breakfast meant not an awful not to project floorwards.The chopper lurched, laboured and lunged for the next hour before finally, miraculously, the atmosphere calmed down.
“Well, it’s a pain in the arse to get here, but look…that’s what you call pristine!” he pointed out of the windscreen. He was right, very few humans bothered to get this far into the green and the trees were mighty and ancient. Mighty sandstone plateaus dotted the vista and here and there deep gullies, with mighty, white watered rivers carved their way through the deep forest. Elan nodded with rarely seen enthusiasm, his skin a pasty, unwell looking grey. The trick is to now find somewhere to land…the locals didn’t think to make a helipad out here…ingrate bastards…” he chuckled and coughed. An hour past and finally they found a wide lake. Initially it looked surrounded to the brim with vegetation, but there was a glimpse of yellow. “A beach?” Elan ventured uncertainly as he pointed. “Could be…I'll take a closer look…Fingers crossed it’s big enough…” he pushed the yoke forwards and the copter descended lower and lower as it turned. Elan had to concede (only to himself, mind you) that Glaudus was a fairly skilful pilot. “Looks like we may be in luck…probably big enough...just…and far enough away from the trees. We don’t really want to be chewing up the rotors…” “Not even one? We do have two, after all…” he opined. “No…they’re evenly balanced…we lose one and the whole thing is buggered…OK, hold on tight…I don’t think this will be too bumpy, but you can’t be sure…” Elan closed his eyes as the copter got louder and louder. There was a significant bump as the copter rocked on its suspension coils.While AFF and its agents attempt to remove all illegal works from the site as quickly and thoroughly as possible, there is always the possibility that some submissions may be overlooked or dismissed in error. The AFF system includes a rigorous and complex abuse control system in order to prevent improper use of the AFF service, and we hope that its deployment indicates a good-faith effort to eliminate any illegal material on the site in a fair and unbiased manner. This abuse control system is run in accordance with the strict guidelines specified above.
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