[A-Files] Pre-Episode One: Briefing

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Ayenee
Fort Miller

Ittô Juni Tsubei Kyoka walked towards a completely converted rapid deployment module science lab and command center hybrid. It was to be the A-Files new transportable office of sorts as they traveled about Ayenee if and when the mission called for the lab itself, rather than only the personnel that inhabited it. It was modular, inherently, and featured communication equipment with a circular table and chairs around it to the left of the door then a work bench and desk with science analyzers and a soul transfer tube to the right of it. Today it was within the POM walls at Fort Miller, where Kyoka walked into its depths. The table’s volumetric display showed a red dragon and crest of Ayenee that faded to show the Hinomaru of the Star Army of Yamatai. She watched out of her peripherals as this happened while setting herself up in the most Western chair of the command center portion to the left of the door of the travel-ready container.

The personnel about to file into the container would know only the name of their assignment, Project Aether Files, and that of their commanding officer, Kyoka herself. She waited with her face receptive and calm as she watched with twinkling eyes the first person arrive, Oshiro Masumi.

"Good morning," the SAINT Nekovalkyrja, Kyoka, said as she stood and bowed to Masumi, who returned the courtesy. "I will ask you to sit and wait for a few others to arrive before asking mission specific questions."

"Understood," Masumi, the scientist, said as she stretched her red epaulette-clad shoulders in the Ayenee Space Coalition Uniform. She took a seat near the wall that faced the door while Tsubei Kyoka readied to speak.

"How are you liking the planet so far?"

Idle chit chat was not Masumi's forte and she sort of shook her head once and looked away from Kyoka, then back at her, "Not very well."

"Oh, I'm sorry to hear tha—" the SAINT operative said before looking to the door, which had just opened.
 
Ayenee
Fort Miller
A small girl with blue butterfly wings and glasses walked through the door. She looked just barely old enough to be on the A-team, but even that was debatable, especially with her very short height of 4'8, however she was wearing the Ayenee Space Coalition Uniform. Her antennae gave a twitch as she heard Masumi and Kyoka talking, and she shyly asked quietly "Oh u-um I'm sorry, was I interrupting something?" With her nervousness, the bright red fur on her long tail began to fluff up and it started to look poofy.
 
Command Lab

Tsubei Kyoka shook her head to denote a, 'No' response to Trilis' inquiry. She looked to Masumi with a generous smile and spoke.

"We'll continue speaking about that later." Turning to the butterfly-like feline humanoid of Ayenee, she bowed in Yamataian fashion and said to her, "Trilis-hei, I am Ittô Juni Tsubei Kyoka and you are not interrupting too much. Please, sit and tell us what should we know about you while working with you, Santo Hei."

Tsubei Kyoka sat on her chair once more while Masumi's pink brows moved together on her dark-skinned forehead as she thought over the somewhat difficult question, but waited for the butterfly-winged woman to answer.
 
Command Lab
"Um... Understood!" she said, walking over and sitting in a chair. She tucked her fluffed up tail behind herself in an effort to hide its indication that she was nervous. "I, erm..." she began, though she hadn't been prepared to talk about herself. "I... study, a lot," she continued. The little nerd glanced through the thick lenses of her round glasses at Masumi and Kyoka to see who she would be working with.
 
Command Lab

Slowly, Masumi nodded as if this last statement she had heard from the brunette made a lot of sense to her. She looked into Trilis' crimson eyes with her own light sapphire ones and cocked her head with a small smile, but said nothing as her eyes slid off to look in the distance.

Tsubei noticed this small movement and said to the butterfly-winged and bushy-tailed young woman, "This is Oshiro Masumi. She may be of the same mind as she is a scientist, as well as yourself, Trilis-hei."
 
Command Lab
"Ah, hello, my name's Trilis..." said the blue winged butterfly, extending her hand. It did not have fingernails on its fingers, but rather the claws of a cat in them, however they were sheathed, fortunately.
 
Command Lab

Masumi took Trilis' hand, albeit formally and as if she wasn't used to the movement.

"Nice to meet you, what is your area of study? And may I ask, are you an alien to Ayenee?"

Tsubei coughed once and brought her hand up to her mouth, but did not lower it.
 
Command Lab
"Oh I've studied math and science and um... more..." she quietly replied, shy about sharing this information. "To Ayenee... Yes I guess I am an alien, I came from another planet." She didn't seem offended by Masumi's question.
 
Ayenee
Fort Miller


As they spoke a Nepleslian shuttle broke through the cloud cover above and circled the the fort. The sleek green craft hovered for a moment, before setting down just outside the walls. Inside the shuttle, the pilot looked back to the sole passenger. "You're good to go sir! Good luck."

The man stood, dressed in the coalition uniform. Pulling his black beret down over his bald head, he nodded before stepping off the tail ramp. As soon as he hit terra firma, the shuttle was in the air once more heading skyward.

Ulysses Werner turned back to the fort and patted his jacket, feeling the leather bound grimoire inside. He walked forward and showed his badge to the security guards and was allowed through the base.

He approached the group and gave a crisp salute. "Captain Ulysses Werner of the NSN, reporting for duty."
 
Ayenee
Fort Miller


The Captain nodded to Tsubei and move to sit down. He then looked to Trillis and Masumi, and gave them similar nods. "Thank you Ittô Juni Tsubei. I am sure that my superiors have informed you of my new found skill?" he asked grabbing the grimoire from his jacket. He then turned to the others. "The reason I am here is because I have first hand experience with the occult of this new place." He opened the book and the pages flipped by themselves to a familiar page.

He held up an index finger and mentally read the incantation. In a momentary flash of light, a small silver orb began floating above his finger. As he dropped his hand, the small star moved to hover over his shoulder. "I was sent to scout a castle designated: Castle Brimstone, where I was ambushed by a family of vampires. Long story short I stumbled across this book, and I learned how to control Astral magic." He said gesturing to the miniature star that slowly spun on its axis.

The corner of his lip turned upward in a tiny smirk.
 
Command Lab

Two new Ethoraxian arrivals strolled in through the door Trillis had previously used to access the lab. Kai Firestride and Kayla Firestride both entered the room, basically at the same time.

Kai was a 5'7 tracker class, wearing the Ayenee Space Coalition uniform. He stood close by to the door, looking around at this strange new set up he had just been introduced to.

Kayla, Kai's tracker class sister, being at the same height of her twin brother, wore the same uniform, but she was, much more curious, and therefore started walking across the room, looking at anything shiny and new in an excited like manner.
 
Command Lab
Trilis went quiet now that 3 new people had entered, shyly half-fluttering her blue wings (since they were partially blocked by the chair). This was starting to go from a small group to a crowd very fast, to her.
 
Command Lab

Ulysses watched as the two newcomers entered and snapped his fingers, causing the newly formed star to pop in another flash of light. The cosmic stardust flowed left over from the star raced back towards his hands and vanished into his palm. He nodded to them and then looked back to Trillis when he heard her wings moving against her chair. He gave her a reassuring smile before looking back to the CO.

"So then, what is on the agenda for this meeting?" He asked Tsubei.
 
Kai Firestride decided it was best to approach the group talking nearby, mostly to introduce himself, get aquainted with the people he would be working with.

Kayla took a different approach, as she speeded over towards Trillis, the strange blue wings of the interesting creature catching her attention.

"Whoooaaahhh!" She said as she poked the wings, twice.
 
Tsubei's wide eyes closed as she thought over the meeting specs and opened them to see Kayla poking at Trillis.

"Oh, well there is no time for that, you know. Please, have a seat. This team is setting out to determine the alien threats on Ayenee and in Ayenee's surrounding territories. Your own knowledge as aliens and of aliens will come in handy. What do I mean by aliens? I mean those that are not of Ayenee, like myself. Some aliens are peaceful, like you and me. Others, not. We need to seek out alien threats in order to understand and eliminate them."
 
The door opened once again and quite an odd looking individual strolled in, at first glance it was a male-styled robot wearing... an odd choice of clothing for a meeting such as this - A large, well worn leather jacket was covering his torso with an assault rifle slung over that, a smaller blaster was strapped to his thigh and his military boots left a trail of dirty footprints behind him as he walked. That was another odd thing, his gait was.. very... laid back, long steps that clanked with no real hurry to go where he was headed.

A gas-like substance with a golden glow had been slowly seeping from the vented eyes within and when the thing spoke, more of this substance wafted out, only to quickly dissipate into nothingness.

"Is this the correct/right place where I am/was supposed to be for a meeting?" The being spoke, it's voice sounded airy and metallic, as if it was speaking through a noiseless fan.

"You may call me whatever you wish, although I/me prefer the name Xorn" it spoke again before sitting down, and speaking again. "Oh and another thing, I can assure you the substance/gas leaking from me is quite harmless, your ships fly through it all the time".

It's posture was somehow both comfortable and awkward at the same time, but it looked content with itself.
 
Command Lab
"E-eh?!" Trilis squeaked, staring at Kayla. "Is there something wrong with my wings?" Her wings gave a little twitch upon being poked, albeit a more limited twitch since she was sitting and the back of the chair was in the way. Her quite long tail wriggled up and flicked around in the air next to Kayla's hand.
 
"No! There's nothing wrong with your wings, They're just amazing!" More poking happens from the Firestride sister.

Kai rolled his eyes at his twins curiosity and poking. He turned to Tsubei respectfully, seeing that she obviously was their new commander.

"You'll have to... Excuse my sister's curiosity. I am Kai Firestride, Ethoraxian, and ready to serve the coalition."
 
Command Lab

Ulysses nodded at Tsubei when she described to the reason for the team's creation. He then turned to the new comer as they entered and gave a nod of acknowledgement to the robot.

He opened his grimoire once more and began to skim the pages, studying new spells that he had yet to try while the others talked to each other.
 
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