Alpha Bravo nodded brightly, happy to have received the acknowledgement of his team’s leader. It was a small team, but that meant that he could have a chance to play a larger role! He felt really excited to be going on a mission down to Sol-3 for the first time. It seemed like a nice planet from what he’d seen in the observation deck and he wanted to experience what it was like being down there. The CR chamber had fitted him with an Earth alternate mode already, so he hoped that it was going to be good enough. Gosh, I can’t wait!Kup wrote:"Welcome to th' crew, kid,"
Red Alert’s little briefing made Alpha raise a mental eyebrow. Nuclear? He wasn’t aware that the denizens of the planet were up to that kind of warfare, especially after what he’d read about them. They seemed a bit squishy for that kind of thing. Oh, huh... even they fight like us. Trailbreaker’s words were simple, but it was a bit funny. He giggled a little underneath his faceplate and gave the forcefield specialist a look of approval.Trailbreaker wrote:“So don’t act like Decepticons or we’ll all glow in the dark. Seems simple enough.”
”Roger that, sir!” He hopped into the shuttle right after Kup, with Trailbreaker presumably behind him. It was a smaller shuttle, maybe only made to hold about five mechs, but that was alright, they had the smallest team out of all the ones in the hangar anyway.Kup wrote:"Alright, everybody, you heard Prowl. Let's get these birds some wings. We got ourselves a planet to keep outta the Decepticons greay claws."
Alpha headed straight for the pilot’s seat, giddy with joy and enthusiasm. Being a flyer himself, he knew his way around the control panel of the piloting interface, and he promptly flicked several switches, rolling the landing gear forward a little bit. Alright, let’s see... navigation is preloaded, launch angle at negative 12°, fuel’s good to go, engine’s good to go, comms are... lambda-encrypted? That was probably Red Alert’s doing. It was probably also part of the new security measures. Alpha shrugged to himself and then continued going down his mental list of things to care of when flying. Heat shields are good to go... and I guess I just need to throttle retrograde at apoapsis to reduce the orbit. He looked back towards Kup and Trailbreaker and raised a thumb at them.
As the shuttle moved to the launch area of the hangar, Alpha noticed that there was a pulsing message notification on one of the holographic interfaces on the side of the shuttle. “Oh, hey, could someone check that out?” He wanted to focus on the flight for now, so hopefully either Kup or Trailbreaker could have a look at it.
Alpha slid the throttle key up, engaging the shuttle’s thrusters. Within microkliks, the shuttle had left Hangar Epsilon’s bay, on its way down towards the blue marble. For the few kliks that the shuttle was accelerating into retrograde, Alpha observed just how wonderful the view was. Star-dotted endless, black void to either side and a life-filled planet underneath them.
This was what he’d been waiting for. He grinned wide underneath his faceplate.
((OOC: To be continued in the Kashmir thread.))