Pokemon Roleplay Club of Awesomeness

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Life kind of got in the way of me responding again. I'm just going to make the most of this and integrate it into the story.
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Mason and Mike met each other in the hall behind the bridge.
Mason: "Did you find any working escape pods on the starboard side of the ship?"
Mike: "Nope, most of the stuff on that side was taken out by the collision. How about you?"
Mason: "None on the port side either, except for this one with cracks in the windows that look like they could shatter at any time."
Mike and Mason go back to the bridge and as Mike is glancing over the various control panels something catches his eye on the damage control station. One of the displays said "avg. hull temp: 81.2c". As he looked at it the number went up to 81.3, 81.4, and so on. He looks out the window to see that Jupiter is looking closer then it did before, he looks at the ruins of the FSS Hades and sees a faint glow on the front side of it. "Uhh, guys? It seems that we are currently in the upper atmosphere of Jupiter." says Mike.
Mason: "Ohnonononono, this is bad... Uhh... Are there any ships in the hangar? Preferably a spaceplane with a heatshield."
Mike goes to the security panel and checks the cameras in the hangars. "All hangars except 3 and 5 have been destroyed. Ooh, we are in luck! There is a cargo plane in hangar 5." He looks at a map of the ship showing which areas are depressurized. "Oh... We will have to take a fairly long route to get around the sealed off sections." says Mike. Mason replies, "Well, we better get going then." and they begin navigating the corridors (presumably) followed by the others. As they move through the ship the floor begins to feel like it's leaning to one side a bit as the atmosphere begins decelerating the ship, and a faint sound almost like a blowtorch can be heard from outside and the interior of the ship starts becoming noticeably warmer.

(OOC: So maybe we just remove the computer chairs and say that scene took place while Mike and Mason were searching for escape pods?)

Feeling famished, Guinan had hastily grabbed some banana and melon from the fruit salad, and she was still munching as she followed Mike and Mason on their long, meandering journey through the ship.

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I just assumed that it was all happening in the carrier.
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Mike does some mental calculations as they make their way to the hangar. If we hurry we shouldn't loose too much speed from Jupiter's atmosphere and we could restore our orbit with the amount of fuel that can get a spaceplane in orbit. The plane there is a cargo one so as long as it isn't loaded with heavy cargo it should have some extra fuel that will certainly help. A wave of panic begins to come over him. This is insane, I am going to pilot a Heiwa Federation spaceplane that I'm unfamilear with at atmospheric speeds many times greater then it's designed to handle. He takes a few deep breaths. I need to calm down and focus, because if I mess up then... I don't need to think about that, I just need to focus on how to do this. It can probably withstand the dynamic pressure of the upper atmosphere just fine, as long as we don't go too deep then this is most definitely possible. I just have no idea where the threshold is and by the time I can calculate it we would all be dead. What have I done? What have I dragged these people into? No, now is not the time for that. This escape might not even be possible, but it's our only hope.

"Ne, Oeuyia, do you suppose I could survive in space?" Angewomon asked suddenly from the back of the group, as she had decided to go last for safety measures. "I am not exactly made of data, after all."
"Well...I would rather not find out, if you know what I mean." Oeuyia replied as Karion started to fall asleep in her arms.

['Ne' in Japanese can mean 'hey'.]

"Ugh, It's so hot in here!" Laura complained, fanning herself with her hand. She glanced out the window, her eyes bugging out of her head. "Ahhh, not good, not good!" She shrieked. "We are soooo screwed, we are gonna die," she said, breathing heavily.

"We're still alive, Laura. We're getting away. Run, and think only about getting away," Guinan suggested firmly.

I wonder if this would work on spirit beings and humanoid beings? Angewomon wondered to herself, but then decided to use her ability anyway. "Saint Air!" She channeled the energy through her hands, creating a circular energy ring which sent peaceful healing waves across every member of the group.

Before Laura had time to respond to Gunnian, she saw Calem retracting his Pokemon to their balls. "Anna, Riku, return!" She called, the red laser returning them to their energy state, and putting them back in her purse.

Calem abruptly grabbed her hand, dragging her out the door in a hurry, down a hallway that dead ended into two other hallways. Two signs were on the wall, one pointing in one direction, saying "Hangar 5". He led her down that hallway, not bothering to read the other. (A notification showed up on the computer he was on saying which hangars were busted) He continued, following the Hangar 5 signs, Laura looking over her shouder every so often to make sure everybody was following them.

(Kura, if you don't mind me asking, what happened to Ia?)

[Ia went back to her world with Aelkai and Jian. I felt like I had too many characters going at once...]

"Here, let me help you." Angewomon said suddenly, grabbing both Oeuyia and Karion and flying at her top speed almost making her outpace everyone else.
"I can fly by myself, you know." Oeuyia commented, but Karion seemed to be enjoying the ride.

They enter the hangar full of many ships, mostly ones never meant to land on a planet. One of them stands out, a fairly bulky plane with a ramp on the back leading to a cargo storage area. They run in and close the ramp, Mike and Mason sit in the pilot and copilot seats. "OK, at least this looks pretty similar to the controls of a Solar Alliance ship." Mason tries to figure out how to open the doors and when he tries to remotely open them they budge open a little bit before getting stuck. Air rushes out of the hangar but fortunately the spaceplane is fully sealed and pressurized.
Mason: "Uhh... Call me crazy, but of we rolled sideways do you think that this plane could fit through that gap?"
Mike: "I don't know. You are not seriously suggesting that we do that, are you?"
Mason: "Unless you know how to quickly get these half melted doors open this is our only shot."
Mike turns around and says "You all might want to sit down hold onto something, this will be a pretty wild ride."

Mike reluctantly speeds through the power-up procedure, he worries that he might have missed something in his haste but he doesn't have time to go through a checklist. He activates the thrusters and tries to fight against the artificial gravity and the Coriolis effect as he lifts the plane off, tilts it sideways, and accelerates it towards the gap in the hangar doors saying "Hold onto your butts!". The ship scrapes against the metal slightly on it's way out but once they exit the ship is immediately hit with the incredibly powerful air flow causing a sharp deceleration. The ships is quickly reoriented so that it's facing forward. At this point the wrecks of the FSS Damocles and FSS Hades are glowing red hot, and thick brown clouds can be seen zipping past at hyper-sonic speeds.

Laura sat down on the floor, hugging her knees to her chest and clutching onto a pillar in the wall for dear life. She looked up slightly. "Where's Cale--" "I'm over here." He cut her off, walking up and sitting next to her.

Laura and Calem both had their eyes squeezed shut, holding onto each other tightly.

Sure, were getting out of here un-fried, but what about the other two ships? Laura thought sadly, but couldn't think about it for long, how fast they were going just made it really hard to think about one thing in specific other than how scary this was.

Mike pulls back on the yolk hard causing the plane's nose to tilt up, and a powerful downward force can be felt as it accelerates upwards. The two rocket engines roar to live as he pushes the throttle to maximum and they begin going up again but the fuel meter is dropping fast. Mike says "Mason, turn on the hyperion engines and rear facing RCS thrusters, we need all the power we can get." Mason frantically figures out where the necessary controls are and does what Mike suggested which slightly increases the thrust. Sam was grabbing onto something trying not to get in anyone's way. Below them the carriers could be seen glowing white hot with trails of super-heated glowing air being left in their wake.

The plane continued acceding at about a 30 degree angle until the stars and the blackness of space can be seen again, the plane pitches down again and attempts to gain speed again so it will stay in orbit. The main engines cut out as the fuel drops to zero, but the low thrust hyperion engines are still giving the ship a gentle push slowly but surely accelerating it to orbital velocity.

Mason takes control of the ship as Mike takes his hands off the controls shaking slightly and giving a big sigh of relief. His hands were feeling slightly sore from having gripped the yolk so hard. He looks out the window at Jupiter to see two small moving streaks of light, barely visible at that distance but clearly the carriers. A bright spot can be seen ahead of them, which if looked at closely enough is the shape of Nexus station. After taking a few seconds to breathe he asks "Is everyone OK?"

Calem held on as hard as he could onto the pillar with Laura seemingly stuck to him, both trying not to slide backwards.

"Is... Is it over?" Laura asked, glancing out the window. "We're okay..." She replied to Mike's question, sighing in relief.

"So, we're going back to the Nexus Station again, right?" Calem asked.

Fighting a sensation of dizzy, foggy disorientation, Guinan was focused only on where she was going. Angewomon's restoring energy surprised her. She had never before felt the sensation of having her vitality restored from the outside. She saw Angewomon finish her gesture as her mind cleared. Stopping in her tracks, just for a moment, Guinan breathed and felt aches and pains ebb away. Feeling especially calm as well as grateful, she turned to Angewomon. "Thank you," she said sincerely before continuing on her way at a run. Her Pichu, however, barely reacted to this move, as though it were commonplace in her world.

Once inside the ship, Guinan returned Pichu to her pokeball and sat down, bracing herself and holding on to the side of the copilot's seat. Worried, but resigned to her fate, she took quick, shallow breaths and managed not to fall or hit against anything during the acceleration and deceleration.

"I'm fine. We made it!" Guinan replied to Mike as she observed the distant signs of destruction.

"Yep, we are going back to Nexus where we will have them reopen the wormhole and send us back." he says after calming down, still staring at the reentering carriers. One of the carriers breaks in half from the damage and it becomes two smaller streaks of light which then become obscured by the thick brown clouds as they drop lower into Jupiter's atmosphere. Nexus station grows larger in the sky as they make their approach.