Windchaser

Title (chapter): Meteoric (5)
Series: Terrahawks
Notes: In which the Terrahawks realise they might unfortunately now be racing Zelda to get to their missing zeroid first, Polly doesn't enjoy everyone's pick of television very much (but Doctor Who is fine) but DOES enjoy being invited to stay with his new 'family' if it all goes balls-up and he can't work out where he actually comes from, and Tark makes contact with someone who might know something.

( Talk about looking for a needle in a haystack. After being mildly irritated by Ninestein doing it, Hiro was frustrated to now find himself also pacing quietly up and down the flight deck. (He kept making a conscious effort to stop, and felt like that was probably more annoying than just pacing. At least there was no-one around to mind, right now.) He felt rather at a loose end. 17 and 43 were dutifully reporting to him every time someone found something, but they’d have already analysed it and compiled it into their datasets by that point and all he could usually do was say “thank you, good job, please carry on.” )

Title (chapter): Kestrel Kestrel (2)
Series: Terrahawks
Notes: We join the rest of the Terrahawks operatives in their search for Kate Kestrel, who reported feeling unwell and had to make an emergency landing in the desert. Except that no-one seems able to work out where she is? She can't have got that far, surely.

Kate, unfortunately, isn't in any position to help anyone, seeing as she's considerably smaller than she was when she landed.

And featherier...


( “We can see nothing at the moment, I’m afraid, Captain Falconer. It is a large area to check.” For confirmation, Lieutenant Hiro glanced back at the ship’s command zeroid, who swivelled from side to side on his perch, shaking his head. “We were not in visual range to see her land or exit her ship, but we have predicted her maximum range on foot since then. We can’t see her anywhere within it, but will continue searching. It will be hot, down there; I can only guess that she may have gone looking for some shade.” )

Crossposted to AO3 and ff.net.

Updates:
18/11/2024 – Chapter 5 of Meteoric! (Yes I am still working on it.).
10/11/2024 – added a reference to "Ghosts", and link to "Sundew".
21/10/2024 – chapter 2 of Kestrel Kestrel.
10/10/2024 – started posting Kestrel Kestrel.
05/10/2024 – posted! (I always have these great ideas for keeping things up to date in a central place but end up forgetting about them, so please take an ample portion of salt when interpreting all of this…)

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Title (chapter): Meteoric (3)
Series: Terrahawks
Notes: In which we find out that the Martian androids have now also found out about the missing zeroid, and are plotting to try and recover him before the Terrahawks do. The flatmates argue a little over supper, and the amnesiac Polly / 101 discovers his memory isn't the only thing that's shot - his batteries aren't so hot either. Oh dear.


( Well well well. This was all getting VERY interesting... Yung-star pressed the outsized headphone tighter into his ear and concentrated. )

Title (chapter): Meteoric (1)
Series: Terrahawks
Notes: Oops. Gravity still works.

When Laine gets home to her university accomodation just in time to witness a small spherical robot punch a hole clean through their roof, she thinks she's having a bad day.

The robot, it turns out, is definitely having a worse one.

Memory inaccessible, no idea who he is or where he came from, it's hard to find your way home (without drawing too much attention) when you're so far above top secret you don't appear to even exist.

...and then there's always that one asshole who wants to sell you...


( Morning rush hour had just begun to pick up when Laine returned home from her night shift at the local supermarket, to the slightly ramshackle but well-loved student flat she shared with five others in east London. Home was empty; her friends had all already left for lectures. She was the only one with a free day, and planned to spend a significant part of it recovering from lugging boxes around all night. )

...The Earth says hello!

I have been NOTING. Since I have yet another idea... Whee! The idea prompted by Kate Kestrel's "SOS", the nifty track from "White as Snow" (on Scarlet), (which I incidentally have both of on my "Sleeping Astronauts" CD) and "Good Morning Starshine", (I think from the musical "Hair"). Is fun, not used computer viri in a storyline yet (that is, I don't think I have. Although they're harder to write than "biological" viri).
"Good Morning Starshine"
Opinions (read: nitpicks) good! ;) (17 and 29 are mine, BTW - trying to make them less... wooden... than most of the "stand-ins" I've used so far have been. I think 17 should have a West Indies accent. YAY) Please pardon the pun ;) )

And in a similar vein to my other friends having odd dreams recently... ;) I was dreaming like mad last night. I don't remember much aside from the fact that they were going to do a new CGI remake of Terrahawks, and I was on the writing team, and it was all WON-derful! (To coin a phrase).

(BTW, Aegis-fox, I managed to click on one of the "paid" options in that little box you keep whining about ;) and it just told me I'm not allowed to as it's not a paid journal. So... you'd be disappointed. ;) )