The New World

[Mark Peiterson]

After picking up sean he headed for the port, he looked around him, 3 frigates (the USAS Victorius, Ranger and Athena) and 2 gunships ( USAS hunter and Awakening) he felt very good, especially as he looked around him. He stood on the bridge and looked down apon the Hammer.
"Tom, set us down here."
as the ships desended he looked through the crowd awating them. when the ship landed he immediatly disenbarked, spotted falko and walked towards him.
"Enough Ships? Or you want more?"

[The Corsair]

Mark had arrived with the other ships.
"I'll leave you to it." He said to Gebbert, excusing himself.
"Well, let's head for Boston then. It's a good enough place to start." He announced to the group before heading to the Falcon.

[Thebeastyness]

Bloodbath decided that first he should practice his new skill. He picked up a plank of wood from the rubble then threw it as high as he could in the air, he concentrated on the feeling from the pendant and the suddenly a red glow burst out and started emanating from him. As soon as the plank hit the ground he slashed through time. When he was back out he saw the plank falling again he lashed out at it but it was too late it had already hit the floor. "This is going to be harder than I thought".

[Blindwalker]

They were on their way to Massachusetts, almost there.
The machine in the corner of the control panels, beeped. One of the pilots left his console, went to the machine and took out the message. "Dammit, the officer ain't gonna like this." he muttered to himself.
He walked to Hugo, handed the message to him. He went to his console as quickly as he could without breaking into a run.
Hugo skimmed over the message. "Really!?" Hugo exploded "For goodness sake!"
He looked up from the message, and found some people giving him weird looks.
"Sorry." He walked towards the captain, and asked him, "I've just received a message from the USAS Hammer. The group are heading towards Boston. I ask you to follow them."
The captain did a face palm and sighed, then set the new destination to Boston.

[The Corsair]

Boston's sky docks were like any other... He landed down and watched as the small fleet of ships docked in around him. The dock was quite empty, but not to the point where he questioned how safe the city was. Most of the pilots out east were in New York it seemed.

The Vancouver men landed in soon after he did (he could fly the Falcon very fast, so generally arrived a few moments before the others) and made a point of checking their ship's names. They weren't without a sense of humor it seemed. Scratch flew the Saxon, Tommy flew the Outrageous, Arch had the slightly more imposing Justice, Kevin flew the Harlequin's Wife and Cliff had the largest ship the XXL Please.

Eventually, all the ships had drifted into the docks. They needed a short planning session so they used the command room of the Implacable.
"There's plenty of us so it's pointless searching the same place at once. We can either split up around the city or have groups go to different cities. Thoughts and alternatives Ladies and Gentlemen?"

[Augustus Longeye]

"IF we split up we cover more ground, but each group is more vulnerable and more likely to be bested if trouble arises. If we split up in each city then we move faster, and at the same time if we need help the rest of our... fleet, as it were, is never too far away. Certainly not far enough away to render assistance." Julius said, standing off to one side holding Barum's shoulder again. He had been quiet over the voyage, thinking of his sight more than anything else.

[The Corsair]

"we could split into two fairly even groups and with our abilities we have a decent advantage over any fleet. Plus, we'll spend most of the time on the ground tracking down this fellow so chances of aerial enagements seem small. No fleets have been seen this far east either... It's just an idea though. Feel free to reject it..."

He genuinely wasn't sure which was better. He had no idea how much time they had and feared it was very little so he wanted to cover as much area as he could in one go but didn't want to compromise safety. He hoped one of the others could find middle ground between the two.

[lazarusofartemis]

"I agree with Falko," Kat spoke up. She had been bored of sleeping and eating all the itme on the ship.
"Some of us should be looking for this person Yuri has spoken of, some can go looking for more aetheric substances and maybe the others should find out more about our enemy..."
Her fingers tingled with excitement.

[The Corsair]

The Vancouver Crew spoke up. Arch seemed to be the spokesperson for them.
"we can handle ourselves. We wouldn't feel worried in a decent sized group."
It was concise but seemingly very truthful. The five of them had downed twice as many enemy vessels already.
Falko still wanted other people to put forward opinions. He was a litle scared to be much of a leader here in case he made a decision that got people killed. The stakes were high.

[MWBailey]

"Sure an' Sombiddy needs tae stay be'ind an' guard th' ships," Fergus said. "I'd say, a' least a skellin'ton crew on each of 'em, just ta pervent anthin', ...unfortunate."

"I'd like tae get a light anvil tae keep abard ship," he said. " 'Jus' sumthin' tae bang on when we need a part or two an' Cenek's busy doin' elsewise or somethin'. "

[Man of Steam]

"I don't know about splitting up, yes, the fleet hasn't been seen this far east, but it was a surprise when it hit the other cities, and if we split up too much, we run the risk of being too small. If we do want to split up, we should be sure that there are enough ships in each group to take on the enemy wherever it appears."

[Augustus Longeye]

"There should be at least two people with powers per group." Julius said, moving forwards slightly to include himself.
"If we are grouped together there is the chance that one group will be fine, the others won't. If we are spread much thinner there is too much pressure on each person, and in twos if one goes down, the other can still fight."

[The Corsair]

"Right, I say Cenek, Alex and Fergus go with Yuri and Kat seeing as they're new to their powers. Julius could go with Rosie and I. If Mark and the Hammer go with the ships his friends command and Hugo takes his detachment with us and the Implacable then we're about even."
He turned to the Vancouver men
"you gentlemen can go with either I guess."
Arch nodded that he would go with Falko.
"Does that work out well enough gentlemen? We could try and search 3 cities each in this and the surrounding states and regroup in a week or so back in New York."

[Blindwalker]

"We've arrived!" shouted the captain.
"Everyone got everything?" with a few "Yes sir" as a response, the 25 man squad readied themselves to fly off the airship.
"Good." The officer took out a bottle, took a few sips, and tucked it in his pocket.
They went over to the top deck.
"You better spread out, our else you all gonna smash each other outta the sky."
Everyone flew slowly and carefully down to meet the group and Falko below. When they landed, some of them stumbled into others, and some landed so hard that they cracked the ground.
"Falko, we're here. What do you need?"

[Thebeastyness]

He had been practicing the whole night and he had finally mastered the time travelling skill. He found out that not only could he go back in time but he could also choose how far back he went. Although the further back he went the more tiring it was. For example, when he went back 30 seconds he didn't have any side effects although when he went back half an hour he felt nauseated, exhausted and sore all over as if he had been running for hours. Although this feeling usually passed within minutes.

After trying this over and over again he realised that the pendant (which gave him his power) must drain the energy from his body to use when going back in time. He couldn't help but wonder if he could go back further if he had more people... it was possible, he had to try that out later. But for now he had to track down Mr Smith, he knew he was in this town, all he had to do was find him.

But as Bloodbath looked out at the endless expanse of the city now in cinders he thought "This is going to be like finding a needle in a huge haystack"

[The Corsair]

"we're splitting into teams. You're ships are teamed with ours. 3 cities per team, the regroup in New York." he replied to Hugo.
He looked around the room for final agreement.

[Blindwalker]

"Yes sir. Tell us where we're going, and we shall follow." The whole squad nodded as Hugo looked at them individually.

[lazarusofartemis]

"I'll be fine with that," Kat said with a nod. She looked around for her group. "Come on, men. Let's go!"

[The Corsair]

Kat's assertiveness was a little surprising but it did get people moving a little.
"We'll check Boston. We should plan in separate groups where we go. Whichever team gets to New York first should check the sky docks every day."

[YetAnotherMatt]

Gebbert decided that he would mostly stay aboard the Hammer. His piloting skills were not needed for this type of mission, and he could be much more use continuing to build devices for the operation.

[Thebeastyness]

Bloodbath had been searching for hours. No matter how hard he tried he couldn't find that slippery bastard. He had checked all the places where Mr Smith would go but it was no use. He had just climbed to the top of the former hotel owned by Mr Smith, which was now nothing but a pile of rubble loosely held together by the iron rods that hadn't been pulverised already.

He looked out over the horizon, all buildings were destroyed, all of the trees were charred... wait. He looked closer to make sure his eyes weren't playing tricks on him. There out on the very edge of the horizon was a building, perfectly intact. It was a large square shaped building. It was jet black. As soon as Bloodbath saw it he knew without a doubt that that was where Mr Smith would be. But why would those demonic angel soldiers leave his building alone but obliterate the rest of the city? He leaned closer to get a better look at the building when CRASH! the concrete underneath his feet gave way.

He was falling it was easily a 20-foot drop but Bloodbath calmly slashed at the ground and went through the tear in time that opened up. He arrived back at the top of the building and jumped to the side just as the concrete gave way. But this time something happened. His head began to feel like it was going to explode. He screamed in anguish. He had a flashback of him falling in reverse and in red. Then he saw a grinning face. With intense red eyes laughing hysterically. And then all was normal. He didn't even feel nauseous in fact he felt better. "What the hell is happening to me?"

[The Corsair]

His team wandered out toward the city and chatted a little on the way. They decided they should split into smaller groups for the day. He was again only with Rosie. Each of them would ask around and do everything they could to find the man they were looking for.
if only we knew what he looked like he thought. Knowing his appearance would speed up this process dramatically.
Still, they'd found the 5th Commodore without any appearance clues...

[Augustus Longeye]

Julius wandered for a while with Barum. He could see much more and further than Barum, but anything flying was beyond him. He found very little, there were buildings some intact and others not... but he found no sign of their 'target'.

[The Corsair]

As they left the outskirts of the city and entered the city proper the buildings stopped being in such a state of disrepair and didn't look on the verge of collapse.

They went about asking around in stores for a mysterious man that was perhaps an outsider but they had no real success.

[Augustus Longeye]

Julius decided to change tack. He entered the city and headed for a library, helped by directions from passers by.
"Hello there, what's the highest centre of science here?" the librarian paused, obviously put off by his eyes, but answered;
"Well you'd want the museum of science I think... They do a lot of study there." She drew him a map and he set off with prupose, Barum trailing behind.

He entered the museum and walked to the desk.
"Hello there, who knows the most about aetheric technology?"
"Umm... who are you?" The lady asked him.
"The worlds foremost expert on Aetheric technology of course."