OOC: Theoretically JAD, MM could be pissed enough to send Johnson and Jones back in...especially if there was a Coyote presence. So...yes...those two.

BIC: Wolf almost lost the stinger launcher during Wraith's maneuver, but he steadied himself in time to lock up the Hind on the left.

DIE! he thought as he fired another missile. The missile blasted the tail off of the attack chopper, engulfing it in flames and sent it plunging to the Californian soil.

"How many missiles left?" Wolf asked.

"We've got 5 stingers and maybe 8 anti-armor rounds remaining." Kaitlin reported as she handed Wolf another Stinger missile.

"Remaining missiles are going to be the least of our worries. There are enemy recon buggies coming in on our position. Ther'ye armed with vucan cannons." J2 reported

"Well...that's just brilliant." Wolf muttered. "How close are they?"

A few tracer bullets streaked up from the ground and clanged against the outer armor shell of the Iriquois.

"Pretty damn close."

Angel used his sniper rifle's scope to get a good look. "Five of them."

He aimed at one of the fuel canisters he could see, and launched a bullet. It detonated the fuel-canister, and flippped the buggie over.

Angel leaned back inside, and dropped the sniper-rifle. "Hand me an anti-armour round."

Coyote was lieing out on the beach. Two shadows apeared over him. He heard the clicking of two guns and looked up.

"End of the line, Exile."
"Any last words?"

Coyote smirked.

"You drive me Crazy." Coyote said then smiled wide

Agent Johnson grabbed his ears and fell to his knees. His gun falling to the sand. Agent Jones looked at him in confusion.

"I just can't sleep
I'm so excited
I'm in too deep
uh oh
crazy but it feels alright
Baby thinking of you
Keeps me up all night."

Coyote took advantage of the confusion and made his escape.

*bamf*

"He's escaped, get a hold of yourself. He couldn't have gotten far."

Somewhere in the back of his mind, Wraith can just hear Pantera's 5 Minutes Alone playing in the background, going full blast.

Sound tech: Wait, who just broke the fourth wall?
Me: I did.
Sound tech: Well, fix it!
Me: Okay, okay!

Anywho, he glances over his controls and looks to his copilot, who cocks his head to his left, pointing something out to him. Wraith nods understandingly and shouts towards the back, "Everybody grab onto your balls!"

Then with a sudden jerk on the stick, the chopper swerves right and begins diving to the ground, making a wide circle that takes them back over friendly territory. Wraith looks back to see the buggies still following, and turns back, scowling. We need to get out of here before we run out of ammunition...

And so he starts formulating some kind of plan for getting out safely and quickly.

Following Wraith's second complicated maneuver, Kaitlin tossed Angel an anti-armor round, while Wolf staedied himself again to let loose with another Stinger missile. As he brought the missile up, he took a look at what was heading right for the chopper. Another 6 Hind attack choppers were headed inbound right for the stealth chopper. They encircled the fleeing chopper, and a voice crackled through Wolf's CODEC radio.

"Attention! You are surrounded! Land your chopper and surrender or be destroyed!"

Wolf had his response already planned out. "Fat chance! Surrender is not an option!"

"THEN SO BE IT!" the voice shouted as it disconnnected and the chopper facing the Iriquois's tail fired a AA-14 missile.

So...this is how it all ends Wolf thought as the missile came at them.

Suddenly a barrage of gunfire came from above and vaporized the missile. As the explosion rocked the stealth chopper, a familiar voice came in over the comm system

"Sorry about butting in like this, but we thought you could use a hand." Michael Knight said as the massive form of Skybase 1 obscured the sun. The gigantic flying fortress launched 10 OTAVs from it's bulwarks, and the robotic craft swarmed over the enemy attack choppers, blasting them into oblivion. The fighters then swarmed over the other elements of Mastermind's attack force, routing them while the Skybase porivded supporting fire with its laser cannons and chaingun turrets.

"Thanks for the help Knight...how did you find out the base was under attack?" Wolf asked

"When you brought KAMO to the base after being accepted to the force, it learned the Cyber Force's comm frequencies. These frequencies we obtained from KAMO's ejection module, and we began monitoring your comms just in case something like this should happen."

"Well...thank God for that." Wolf replied. "Listen...things are really bad at the base. We kinda...shot our superior officers in self-defense because they were trying to prevent us from utilizing this decoy plan. Needless to say...it would be pretty bad for us if we went back. CF-Alpha needs a place to hide for a while."

"Say no more," Knight said. "We can hide you out at Base Chicago. Just fly your chopper into the hangar."

Beowulf cut in on the conversation. "Actually, Knight, you'll need to land the Skybase somewhere or send out a cargo chopper. I'm piloting 2 cars towards your position right now. A black Trans-Am and a red Firebird."

There was a pause. "I see them." Knight said. Wolf could see them too. The two cars streaked across the battlefield, weaving in and out of the piles of wreckage.

Knight continued, "I'll have a couple of the OTAVs carry them into the hangar. Don't worry, they know how to handle cargo."

Two OTAVs flew down and picked up the cars lightly then flew back to Skybase 1's hangar.

"All right, thanks Knight." Wolf said as he disconnected. He walked up to the cockpit.

"Wraith, fly into the Skybase's hangar. We have a safe haven for now." he said.

"Thank God," he mutters under his breath while maneuvering into the first available landing bay.

(( What? Waiting for more? What do you want me?! Here, lookitasilly bunny! LOOKIT! O.O *shoves plush bunny in your face* ))

OOC: Eats the bunny. Yum.

BIC:

"Holy shit."

Devin could only stare in amazement as he saw Skybase 1 go to work on their pursuers.

"Damn, I gotta get me one of these!"

The two agents began to surch for the rogue program. Coyote however stayed one step ahead of them.

When the chopper tounched down in the landing bay, Knight was there to greet CF-Alpha.

"Welcome to Skybase 1." Knight said as Wolf walked up to him.

"Thanks again for taking us in like this." Wolf responded.

"Don't mention it...although I'd like to know the circumstances surrounding your situation."

"Sure thing." Wolf said. "Today I tried getting Jade out of prison earlty on the grounds that her hacking skills were an invaluableasset to the team, and slso that the longer she stayed in prison the more ground Mastermind was gaining on the Cyber Front. Unfortunately, the judge and the general did not see things my way, especially since I was unable to get any real concrete proof that her incarceration was a threat to mankind's existence. So immediately following that, Mastermind attacked us...I realized his objective as being CF-Alpha, and I decided to use us in a decoy ploy to prevent the LA base from being leveled. Unfortunately, the general thought I was deserting and tried to shoot me. I had no choice but to shoot back...and I didn't miss. Then his XO tried to kill us...but Angel and Wraith put a stop to that. So that pretty much brings us to here. I can't take us back to the base because we'll most likey be imprisoned for shooting the general and his XO, even though it was entirely in self-defense. The worst part about all this is that I really need to get Jade back, but I have no clue where she is imprisioned."

Beowulf suddenly showed up on one of the hangar securtiy monitors. "That's where you're wrong." he said.

"Explain." Wolf said in reply.

Beowulf took out a piece of paper and began narrating a la Mission Impossible. "Good morning Mr. MacKenzie. As you are well aware your former CO, Colonel Jade LaFleur, was wrongfully given a 2-year prison sentence 3 months ago. The general has taken great measures to make sure that none of her comrades still in Cyber Force can contact her. However, through some ransacking of files, we have discovered her location. Jade is being held at Rikers Island in New York State. Your mission Jason, should you choose to accept it, is to get Jade out of prison, since normal methods have proven useless. As always, if you or any of your Cyber Force are caught or killled, the UN will disavow any knowledge of your actions, and will probably hunt you down. This message will self destruct in 5 seconds. Good luck Jason.

Beowulf took out a lighter and set the paper on fire. As it burned away, Wolf slowly asked a question.

"Wait...you know where she is?" he asked.

"Yep, I stole the file off of one of Mastermind's data miners. Good thing I got it before he did."

"I'm assuming that was the only copy?" Wolf asked as he pointed to the pile of ashes on the screen.

"Of course. The general figured the only way to keep us from finding her was to hide the information in his own personal files. So now that I've told you where she is...what are you going to do?"

Wolf thought for a second before answering. "Right now...I need a rest. Then I need to formulate some kind of plan to sneak in and engineer a jailbreak at Rikers. It would probably help if I wait a while...because everybody will probably be on alert now that one of Cyber Force's bases got attacked. So in other words...I'll have to take my time on this one."

Knight cut in. "Well, you'll have all the time you need to plan anything, as well as deploy for any missions, at Base Chicago. Feel free to use the facilites as you see fit."

Wolf nodded. "That I will. When will we be at Chicago anyway?"

"About an hour."

"All right."

The two agents moved to a fountain near the beach. There were statues in the fountain and one on the out skirts.

He must be somewhere around here."

Something odd here. He looked at the lone statue then looked away.

The statue turned to look at him. The agent looked back. His eyes bugged out. The statue kicked the agent in the balls. Jones went flying high into the air and came down on his head. Johnson turned to face his former captor. Coyote grabbed his arm and rammed his fist through the agent's chest. Coyote emptied his programming into the agent's program leaving his body an empty shell. Coyote devoured Johnson and wore him like a suit.

Johnson fired on Coyote destroying the shell. Jones watched and then got his parting shots too before the porgram disolved.

"Mastermind will be pleased."

"Yes, We should consider the exile taken care of." Johnson said. He smirked behind Jones' back and stuck his tongue out at him.