OMAKE: The Meeting
Col. Frost looks across the table at the men and women of the Savannah Council, three months ago he'd barely known any of them and now he trusted each of them with his life. He had to, Marshal Deveroux was dead, contact with command is non existent and the Kaiju are only the first of a thousand problems threatening to destroy them. Thi- the fuck did she just say?
"You mind repeating that Katt?" Frost asked while
"I said, the troops are complaining about the new Armor policy and it's affecting moral in the city." Katt replied with no small amount of irritation in her voice.
"Of course they are, first we get complaints about lack of protection and now this, Knight is this an Pacific Defense Corp. thing or are soldiers just not happy unless they're complaining about something?" Frost asked while reaching for a cig- nope,you're inside, the pains gone for now and it's too fucking early.
"Couldn't tell ya Frost." Knight replied while nursing a mug of coffee.
"Alright, someone'll have to address this. Anyone want it or should we draw straws again?"
"I'll do it" Katt Spoke up.
"You sure about that, Katt? You aren't exactly... diplomatic" Frost offered.
"Exactly, I'm terrible at bullshitting and people know who I am"
"Which makes you the best choice because?" Frost asked.
"Okay, you're Air Force, you go out there and everyone just think's you're making life hard for the grunts, Knight or Nix do it and it'll come off as a fig leaf, and Coke or the Old Man. Let's not." Katt answered while thumbing through some papers.
(Not following the old man reference)
Katt looked up from the reports to the confused looks of the other councilors.
"Where the hell did that come from?" Knight asked confusedly
"What, am I not allowed to have hobbies?"
"No, it's just strange that you've taken an interest in something people focused"
"Back on topic, unless anyone actually want's to do this" Frost states.
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"Okay then, job's your's Katt" Nix says
"Alright then, what's next?" Knight asks
"Brown got himself arrested" Nix replied "I got him released but Brown's under house arrest and there's been little to no progress on the jet engines, however we might have gotten something out of it."
"And what might that be?" Knight asked
"After Brown got arrested he started tagging the walls of his cell, I got a few pictures before it was cleaned and sent them to the propulsion lab. It should give them something to work with while Brown's unavailable."
"Well, it's something. Any chance we can get it lifted?"
"Not likely, regardless of what's going on Brown set off a bomb for the second time in as many weeks, he'll be good to go for next week though. Assuming he doesn't burn down his house" Katt- wait wait was that?
(There was only one explosion, and although Doc was injured, review showed him nowhere near ground zero, he has since been obsessed with understanding an explosion that violated Docs understanding of science.)
"Damn, tech priests and their toasters" Knight muttered.
"Right, anything else?" Frost
"Not really, The rig's back to functioning and we've got plans for the gun, the upgrades were applied to Mammoth although it took longer than expected, however we found another pilot for Whitecap so I'd say we made out pretty good this week even if the Thaumaturgy division had little to show this week." Nix stated, to the odd looks of the others. "What? It's better than calling it the Magic lab or Circle of magecraft or whatever they've changed the plaque to now."
All of a sudden the doors to the council room are flung open as Coke runs in.
"You are not going to believe what the fuck just happened in the Magic Lab!" Coke exclaimed.
As he catches his breath alarms start blaring.
"I can assure you it wasn't that though" Coke says while still trying to catch his breath.
"Tell us later, all hands to battle stations!"
