MUSTANG SALLY finally speaks up...
Velmont said:
"So, Sally, what did you wanted to know. I think you have another question in mind. Am I wrong?"
Sensing a little weird attitude (maybe hostility?) - Sally knew it was time to clam up and listen for a bit.......
Sally had lots of questions in mind... it's just that ten minutes ago they were all mostly wondering about if the new team she'd met so shortly ago would like her...
They'd all gotten a chance to get at least a touch familiar with one another... For whatever reason Sally hadn't been invited to their first meeting. Sally read too much into this, as she normally would do... In all likelyhood it was probably due to a late arrival or something.
Her self consciousness could get the better of her if she didn't watch...
Either way she didn't want Lily to think that she was trying to take any spotlight away from her... but then again Sally knew what it meant to not stand up to a bully.
hush yer mouth girl, Sally thought of herself...
you outa know better than to push on someone like that, take it slow... take it slow...
Synchronicity said:
"Of course, I'm not a military man, so I could be misunderstanding the situation.."
Oh man, "Bull's Art" isn't even in the military?!? she thought, not being able to believe that someone like him wouldn't have already been trained to do this kinda thing... Sally knew that she had very little training - that wasn't why she was here. It was her flying ability that she shown best at... Nobody but nobody could hand her "Angel-Wings" like Sally.
The problem was - if Paul didn't know what he was really getting into, how on Earth would Sally fair??
Mark Chance said:
"Your particular part of the Metahuman Military Detachment is being assigned to Port Cruden on Adak Island.
....
I do know this: the research, dubbed Project Nemo, has something to do with rapid mass transit of troops and equipment."
Inside is a single sheet of paper paperclipped to several grainy black-and-white aerial photographs.
Japanese super-soldiers, designated Rising Sun, apparently include the following personnel:
1. Aji-Suki-Taka-Hi-Kone. Known meta-abilities: able to project lightning; capable of flight.
2. Bishamon.
3. Kintaro.
4. O-Kuni-Nushi.
5. Oni.
"Any questions?"
Our "paticular part"??
Mass Transport??
Super Soldiers??!!
Sally's tummy was getting a bit queezy... She wondered about the pictures, quickly thinking that she might mention.....
"Uummm, Sir...? I... I bet I could sweep in closer for better pictures if... uhhhh... if maybe... sometime... ummm... nexxxttt-ttime...?... Sally realized that she'd already spoken up before knowing what exactly she hoped to get across.
She was SO eager to help... and she understood so very little about how she could help...... She'd tested the "Angel-Wing" and she knew she could make some top notch close range manuvers, she even diced up a few watermelons training to control the blades... as "Mustang Sally" she had some pretty good control... but being in something real?!! that was different...
Pushing back into her chair to avoid much more attention than she had already brought to herself she .......... and then her mouth took over again...
"This guy... this 'JAP'" Sally spoke up with some authority this time... Calling him a "Jap", she'd never even said something derogitory like that before... but ... She KNEW this! and if she KNEW it - her normal shyness would disappear, without a thought. "Aji-Suu.....ki(?)" Sally said with a touch of trepidation before rolling back into a confidence "He can fly? I've never seen anyone up there not in a cockpit! He's MINE Sir... He won't know what hit'em.
Realizing that she may have sounded...... mean.... Sally stepped back a little...
"it's just... the sky... it's MINE!!
Synchronicity said:
"... Oh, hang on...I think maybe I do have a question. It talks about 'known metahuman abilities'..is there any information on the..I dunno, - the power, or level, or extent, whatever you want to call it - of these guys' abilities? ..."
Paul sits back after he's finished, taking a drink and looking a little self-conscious.
"ME TOO!!, I wanna know ummm 'power level', errr 'extents'... What would you consider us - Sir? What level, I mean Sir..?" Sally clearly was beginning to feel a bit more comfortable... As she finished speaking she glanced about at everyone for "approval" of sorts. Taking a paticularly longer time with Paul... Hoping he'd notice her, she liked him... he was nice to her. (if he looks Sally gives him a cute deep dimple smile, tilting her head to say thanks)
Synchronicity said:
"... I..honestly, I don't know if I can kill anyone. I've always avoided it; I mean, even if they're the enemy, they're still human. I've always felt that using my powers to kill'd lower me to the level of thugs with guns and their ilk, killing people because they can. I...I came far too close to that once already."
It seems obvious that Paul has given this some thought.
"guuulp..." Sally hadn't ... given killing anyone a though... until now.......... ![Frown :( :(](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Velmont said:
"You want the four of us meet five full trained soldier, and you think we have a chance? Why you don't get another team, so we have the advantage of the number, if we can't have the combat experience."
at first you would think that it wasn't Sally speaking... the thought was much deeper, thought out than an 18 year old might have... and then as if to comfort her new friends Sally speaks up at first still looking at her shoes, slowly gaining more courage, slowly looking into each of her new team's eyes......
"yes..... we few four.... it's true Bulls-Art... Atlas... Lily.... we aren't trained, we are only four... hehe.. Less to some if you count me and Lily as 'GIRLS'... or maybe we make up for it with the big guy up there As she glances up at her teammate Atlas. "It's true we go into the forest alone in body... but don't forget - in SPIRIT we have an uncle... Uncle SAM!! and he has a few friends of his own that will be coming with us...
My daddy used to say that everytime he buckled on his gun that he had friends to back him up...... He had... George Washington, John Adams, Ben Franklin, Paul Revere, Abraham Lincoln, General Patton, Charlie Chaplin, Babe Ruth, Flash Gordon, Mickey Mouse, and even Betty Boop ridin' on his side... And he had me and my brothers, and mom...
He never went in alone.
Sally tried to hold back the little tear, thinking about her lost family, as she mustered every bit of sincerity she could into her SUPRISING speach...
"And... by golly... I ain't goin' in alone either fellas!! Belief is stronger than knowledge. So cheer up Pauly! I'll watch out for ya... LOL...
As Sally rounded off her speech into a touch of the levity that she tried to make everyone comfy with...