posted August 20, 2001 12:12 AM               

"I know," Geist replied. "I had hoped that the higher ups would put the boss in charge like they should have, but I guess we can't have everything."

"Umm, Geist," Master said, noticing the old soldier's expression. "That's the same look you had when you went after Nezumi. What are you going to do?"

Geist smiled an evil smile, and Master felt a dark ripple through the force. "Its better if you don't ask," the former mercenary said. "Needs a strong hand, do we?" an evil laugh, "you don't know the half of it!"

-----

Stormie entered his new quarters in storm platoon's barracks and was stunned to see the horse's head laying on the pillow. On it was a note that said "Boo!"

An instant later, balloons filled with marshmallow creme began flying through the windows and exploding, scattering their contents all over the room. Sticky chaos reigned as Stormie felt compelled to flee for his life.

Outside was a line of troopers. They raised their weapons and began firing. Coffee splattered all over the new platoon commander.

And a bit away in a small tavern, Jociam Geist ordered a drink.

-----

Stormie kicked open the door to the tavern and spotted his quarry sitting at the bar.

"Seargent Major!" he yelled, "What was the meaning of this outrage!"

Geist set his drink down and spoke without looking at his new platoon leader. "A harmless prank, Platoon commander. I have done far worse to those I considered my enemy."

"I asked you men for respect, and I recieve this?"

"Respect isn't granted like a royal right," Geist said. "It is earned through one's actions. We aren't just some raw recruits. You have to prove yourself to us just as much as we have to prove ourselves to you."

Geist paused to take a drink before continuing. "We are an unorthodox bunch. Our organization is halphazard, our equipment ranges from the exotic to the truely wierd, our tactics are outlandish, we indulge in childish pranks and parties that can only be described as epic, and most of all we get the job done, without fail. We ain't a bunch of regular army pukes, and haven't been so in a long time. You seem like a decent enough guy, and I just want to make sure you don't treat us like we're dumb green stormies fresh out of boot. We don't need a strong hand, we have plenty of our own thank you. All we need is a target and for the brass to keep out of the way."

Geist finished his speech and finally turned to face his new platoon commander.

"You want a drink? I'm buying," he said with a smile.

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Jociam Geist
Capt/Dream 1-3/Lightbringer, Fallen Angels/IW (ret)

"Zankoku na tenshi no yoni.." (like an angel without a sense of mercy...)

"I did it. Do you think I've gone to far?"

"A warrior leaves broken bodies in his wake because he knows the dead can never harm him."
"Quiet! A few more spot welds and lilly will be invincible!"

"Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only
seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is
destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory."

posted August 20, 2001 01:57 AM               

Sergeant Major Geist sat back in one of the soft chairs that Second Lieutenant Kuroishi added to his office out of his own bank account. Today had really be a great day for him. He had gotten to give his Platoon Leader the "newbie treatment." So far the only thing left was playing "Hide the Fish" in Stormie's nice new office. A faint group of voices made Geist stiffen up and listen closer. It sounded like a half dozen kids talking, but in time. It was the song that he knew to mean trouble for someone.

"Ichi ni san shi, ni ni san shi, san ni san shi, shi ni san shi..." The voices could be heard getting closer and closer. Geist was starting to get worried, but tried to relax. Getting up from the chair, Geist helped himself to some of Kuroishi's well hidden drinks. A loud roar almost made Geist drop his glass. After setting the glass down on Kuroishi's desk rather hard, Geist dashed out of the door.

Outside, a rather big, hairless Wookiee was screaming to Sergeant Narm. When asked what happened, Narm answered, "Someone put Nar in Deathwookiee's shampoo."

Geist did his best to keep from laughing, but he still got a threatening growl from Deathwookiee. Opting not to stick around, Geist headed off in search of the kids singing "Ichi ni san shi."

The sound was down to a hum, but he could still hear it no matter where he went. As he passed by Colonel Anakin's office, Geist saw the door open and the entire room was turned upside down. Anything that was supposed to be on the floor was bolted to the ceiling and the lights for the ceiling were laying on the floor. The Colonel was nowhere to be found.

The chant of the children was still low as he passed the Panther squad's barracks. Peeking inside, Geist quickly saw that everything was painted with purple stripes and yellow polka dots. Each member of Panther squad was down on all fours, scrubbing with their toothbrushes. Someone was going all out and stopping at nothing.

Geist rounded a corner in time to see Sergeant Raziel with the back waistband of his tighty whities over his head, ducking into a 'fresher. Suddenly, Geist heard the children chanting as if they were yelling in his ear. "Ichi ni san shi, san ni san shi, shi ni san shi..." Geist looked over and was instantly shoved into a tub of hot tar and then tossed into a box full of feathers.

-= High Council chambers =-

Kadann was just finishing up a proposal for the Dark Jedi Order to the rest of the Council when every holoscreen in the room turned on to show Sergeant Major Geist covered in white feathers with a caption down at the bottom reading, "Be all that you can be, in the VE Army."

Everywhere he went, Geist was being laughed at for being the Vast Empire Army's mascot (most of those comments were from the Navy). The Vast Empire prank wars have started back up.

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CoT/COL Sierra "Talon" Taurus/HCA-4/VEA/VE[BC][IOC][LoC][SoS][BM][CDS]
SL/Krath Priest "Nightblades"/VSD-II Griffen/VEDJ/VE[IOC]
CE Sierra "Talon" Taurus/Endoven/Dome 8473/VEEC/VE
TO-FM/RA(L) Vincent "Claw" Taurus/HCN-4/Raptor 3-2/m-SSD Atrus/VEN/VE[=A=][LoM][IOC][IC2]
CE Vincent "Claw" Taurus/Endoven/Dome 8457/VEEC/VE

IP: 162.33.127.12

posted August 20, 2001 04:43 AM               

Geist raised an eyebrow and said, "I'd watch yourself Master, you could be next".

Master replied, "Nah no one in their right mind would touch me, and thats a threat".

Geist laughed slightly and walked off heading for a fresher to clean up.

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Come on punks!!!!!!!!

Master
Fallen Angels

"You Can take my Saber, but ill come get it back, and heads will roll" - Me

"Ace's and Eights are a Dead Mans Hand" - Uncle Kracker

posted August 20, 2001 01:25 PM               

"Can you do it?" He asked the man he had met at the bar.

"Let me get this straight," the smuggler said. "You want me to go to a planet I've never even heard of before, slip past a fleet under control of a military genius, and steal a GHOST?"

"Something like that," Geist replied. When he had last visited to the hidden world of Gauss for force training, Geist had been plagued by ghosts. He had learned that these 'spirits' were actualy the souls of force users expelled from their bodies at the point of death. There was one in particular that had taken an interest in him until she had learned he was married.

"How are I supposed to get a ghost to travel with me in hyperspace for crying out loud?"

Geist smiled. "She can possess a willing or non sentient body and ride in it for the trip here. Just take a house cat to put her in."

"And why should she go with me?"

"Just tell her Uncle Jociam has found a whole planet full of elligible bachelors," Geist said with a smile. "And try to keep her away!"

-----

A week later the smuggler returned, and one houscat was delivered to Geist's quarters.

The cat jumped up on Geist's lap and seemed to shiver, and an etherial form appeared behind it.

"Enjoy the trip, Cindy?" Geist asked.

"Uncle Jociam!" the 'ghost' said as she fully materialized. "I missed you so much!" She tried to hug Geist, but her hands passed through him. "Oh," she said. "I'm sorry, I sometimes forget I'm dead."

Cindy had been hit by a landspeeder when she was sixteen, it would have killed her completely had not the young aprentice mindwalker been able to escape her body just before she finally passed on. When they had met she had told Geist her only regret was that she had never been loved by a man. With centuries to wander Gauss aimlessly, that regret had become a bit of an obsession.

The still plucky young sixteen year old could cause a lot of chaos if placed properly.

"So where are they!" Cindy asked anxiously.

"You're in an army base right now," Geist said. "They're everywhere."

"YAY!" she yelled, then dived through a wall.

Kuroshi came through the door just as Cindy was halfway throught the wall. Whatever he was going to say, he stopped and stared. Cindy kept going and disapeared from the room.

Someone screamed, and Geist heard Cindy yell "You're cute, you want to be my boyfreind?"

"Umm... Geist," Kuroshi said. "What was that?"

Geist simply smiled. "Don't worry, boss. As long as you have that ysalamir she can't see you. She should settle on haunting one specific person pretty quick."

"You...brought a ghost here?"

"Her name is Cindy," Geist said. "Don't worry boss, everything is going to be okay."

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Jociam Geist
Capt/Dream 1-3/Lightbringer, Fallen Angels/IW (ret)

"Zankoku na tenshi no yoni.." (like an angel without a sense of mercy...)

"I did it. Do you think I've gone to far?"

"A warrior leaves broken bodies in his wake because he knows the dead can never harm him."
"Quiet! A few more spot welds and lilly will be invincible!"

"Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only
seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is
destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory."

posted August 22, 2001 05:49 PM               

"Sure,"said Geist,"who's the target?"

"Well,"said Viper,"I'm gonna hit everyone who's not in the FA at once."

"Really,"said Geist,"how're you gonna manage that?"

"Leave that to me,"said Argon,"All I need is a remote detonation device, that's all I can't get yet on my own."

"Okay,"said Geist,"I can't resist a chance to play a prank on someone else."

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[The next day, Geist and Viper sit in one of Argon's bolt holes, waiting for the time to be perfect, the rest of the VE have been invited to a party to celebrate Geist's "birthday"]

"Okay,"said Viper,"when I give the signal, set it off."

"Got it,"said Geist.

Argon walked into the party, where Deathwookie was conspicuously absent due to sudden hair loss.

Master, Narm, and Tycho walked over to him.

"Nice party Vipe,"said Tycho,"but where's Geist?"

"You might want to get the rest of the FA and follow me,"said Argon.

Curious, they did so, moving to Argon's bolt hole, and meeting up with Geist.

Argon explained the prank to them, as well as the fact that the stage and the exits were the only safe places in the building.

They returned to the party, the FA members positioning themselves at the exits, while Daishi and Geist took the stage.

Argon fingered his remote device nervously, what if one of the cannon fodder had brought a signal jammer.

As he thought about it, he instantly relaxed, it would have to be of considerable size and power to stop his high power signal at short range.

As Daishi stepped up to the podium, the music stopped and the lights dimmed...

Five minutes later, an innocent visitor to the VE Army facilities would have found an army of people covered with whipped cream, coffee, paint, and nair, chasing a group of eight completely clean soldiers, wearing the distinctive Fallen Angels unit patches... :P

[I will reveal exactly wtf I did if there is enough demand, keep in mind, it's not what you'd expect ]

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SGT MAJ Argon Viper
Fallen Angel's Squad #2

posted August 22, 2001 10:13 PM               

Talon was fuming that he had some paper work to do at the time of the party. Athran had told him that he had one day to finish it before it was to be turned in. A slight beep at his belt notified him that he had a call on his comm-link. "Dammit, I thought I turned this thing off." Thumbing the lock, Talon asked "Caller?" and the small comm-link replied in a tinny, female voice, "First Lieutenant Cosmic. Adjutant to the Commander of Training. Squad Leader of.." Talon cut off the voice saying, "Ok, ok, ok. Call accepted."

Cosmic's voice as well as the shouts of many angry troopers could be heard. After a short while of madness, Talon could hear Cosmic shout something about the Fallen Angels.. a prank.. nar.. and a few other things that didn't make any sense.

Talon shut off his comm-link, put the paperwork aside for then and headed over to the party to see what happened, but he chose to go in unnoticed so just in case the Fallen Angels had something else in mind.

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CoT/COL Sierra "Talon" Taurus/HCA-4/VEA/VE[BC][IOC][LoC][SoS][BM][CDS]
SL/Krath Priest "Nightblades"/VSD-II Griffen/VEDJ/VE[IOC]
CE Sierra "Talon" Taurus/Endoven/Dome 8473/VEEC/VE
TO-FM/RA(L) Vincent "Claw" Taurus/HCN-4/Raptor 3-2/m-SSD Atrus/VEN/VE[=A=][LoM][IOC][IC2]
CE Vincent "Claw" Taurus/Endoven/Dome 8457/VEEC/VE

IP: 162.33.112.23

posted August 23, 2001 12:47 PM               

Kuroishi revealed his preasence by walking up beside Stormie and quickly patted Stormie on the left shoulder.

"Well now Platoon commander, I see you got your uniform cleaned since Geist's attack. Normally our pranks cause less property damage, but considering the situation I think Geist felt it was warrented. After all can you say you were there with us on Gauss, Eridani, Vol, or a dozen other backwater hellholes fighting ten to one odds?" Kuroishi said as he planted the sticker.

Kuroishi could tell Stormie was annoyed at his statements and he quickly dissapeared back into the shadows instead of waiting for a response. He also managed to plant a sticker on Stormie's right shoulder while diverting his attention to his left shoulder. Soon as Stormie walked around he would get cooments on the "Erotic princess" sticker on the back of his right shoulder.

Kuroishi also knew that soon he would have another prank coming his way. He would have to strike first.

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"Indecent exposure is fun." Sonatina

"If we have all knowladge then we would not wish to seek what we know, but if we had no knowledge how could we even ask a question?" Plato on knowladge.

posted August 23, 2001 08:23 PM               

As Daishi stood up before the crowd, the conversation halted.

Daishi cleared his voice, took a pile of 50 papers from the chair next to him(blank of course), and began to fake reading from it.

"Members of the Army of the Vast Empire,"he bagan,"we are here to celebrate a momentous event that occured over 35 years ago. It was that long ago, today, that Jociam Geist was born. Now, I know that he has some words to say in honor of this event, so I'll let him begin."

At this, Daishi stepped down and Geist took the stage.

"Members of the VE Army,"he began,"especially the Fallen Angels, I'd like to thank you all for turning out to help celebrate my birthday."

Geist was a pretty good speechmaker, thought Viper, considering his birthday is more than 3 months away.

But none of the VE knew that, they hadn't been to his last party.

Even as Viper tried to remember what had happened that night before he woke up with a hangover(getting enough alcohol into a Whiphid to cause a hangover is very impressive, they have a body wieght of over 350 lb), Geist finished and Daishi took the stage again.

"Well,"he said,"I'd like to say that it's been my pleasure to have known an worked with Geist all these years, and what an honor it is to have been chosen as the speaker at his birthday party."

At this point, Argon recognized the words that would lead up to the signal word.

"Now,"continued Daishi,"Before I continue, I'd like you all to know something..."

Viper braced his thumb on the button...

"It isn't even Geist's real birthday, you've all been had."

Viper's thumb pressed down hard on the button, sending whipped cream streaming from containers on the cieling fans, nair from roof sprinklers, paint from remote paintball weapons mounted on the windows, and coffee poured from two massive vats mounted on the stage.

Shouts, chaos, confusion.

This was the scene for the next few seconds, but order was quickly restored, and the scene quieted down.

Suddenly, they realised that the Fallen Angels, who had been standing by the exits and on the stage, were gone.

A massive roar of outrage rang from the crowd as they quickly exited the building to find the FA in full combat gear, wielding paintball guns and joy-buzzer swords.

A salvo of paintballs racketed into the crowd, smearing the front row with paint and throwing them backwards, but the others kept coming.

After a few seconds, Daishi realised that staying was hopeless, so he ordered the FA to split up and hide until this all cooled down.

[And this is where the other story starts again Hope you all enjoyed this little escape from reality, especially those of you who got creamed ]

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SGT MAJ Argon Viper
Fallen Angels Squad #2
"Everyone dies, it's just a matter of when, where, and how"
"History is on the move captain, those who cannot keep up will watch from a distance, and those who get in our way, will not watch at all"---Grand Admiral Thrawn
"And the horror continues..."---Talon on the Fallen Angels
"Stay out of our way or we will QUOTE you!!!!!"---Argon Viper

posted August 31, 2001 12:30 PM               

Raziel slipped into his tightly fitting black clothes. They didn�t make a sound as they moved against his body. He slipped the usual 4ft of coiled wire within his suit and various other items were slung in a small bag slung across his back.
After being given Yillamien�s (a previous Stormtrooper who was an expert hacker) Slicing equipment he had spent the last three months practising.
Raziel departed the sleeping chambers and slipped out into the darkness, not even the keenest of eyes could have followed his movements. He slipped silently through the darkness and nimbly scaled a wall, near the top he expertly prised open a window and entered a large hangar, before making his way to a ventalation shaft (un-original i know!).
�I could do this from my room,� he though �but I really want to see the results.� He smiled.

He came in through a vent into a cargo hold. He was twenty feet above the floor, so he simply made his way across the ceiling. Finally he found the terminal he needed.
Plugging Yillamien�s equipment into the terminal he began to run some of his old slicing programs to enter the VE�s security systems. Raziel doubted he would be good enough yet to do that on his own, but Yillamien had done a lot of things he shouldn�t have done. Raziel started the program and slipped into the shadows to his watching position.

The fallen Angels slept silently in their barracks, blissfully unaware of what was happening. Suddenly the emergency alarms sounded. It was an attack!
The Squad all awoke with a start. Acting quite professionally (for once) the all grabbed equipment and weapons and headed outside. The all set up positions to fortify the area and Radioed in to find out the situation.

�Sorry guys there seems to have been a glitch in the computer systems, we�re trying to find out what it is now. Don�t worry about it, you can go back and rest now.�
�Oh thanks a lot, do you know what time it is?� Geist asked. It was a rhetorical question.
�Yes infact I do, for some reason only your alarms went off. I�ll try and sort the problem out.�

Raziel watched as the weary squad mumbled their way back to their beds. One of the squad members turned to look in his direction, obviously sensitive to someone watching them. But they were too tired really to use any powers and he looked away again.

Raziel sped off back towards his bed, in anticipation of a good nights sleep. He knew the Angles wouldn�t. That alarm would go off every two hours and they would probably end up sleeping outside.
He slept easily, confident in the knowledge that the slicing could never be traced back to him�
(thought i might join in...Geist told me to! )

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TRP/SGTRaziel/3SQD/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE/PA

posted August 31, 2001 05:50 PM               

Argon, Master, and Fish, not trusting the VE investigators to find out who the hell did this, took the investigation on themselves.

They didn't have to resort to such outdated methods as fingerprinting or dusting, they simply went to the area that "felt" right.

They reached out to the force to feel who it was that had done the prank.

Suddenly, all three of them looked up at the same time,"Raz."

They immediately went back and reported to Daishi, who told Raz that they knew it was him.

Raz laughed it away as "preposterous", but doubled every bit of security he had.

This wouldn't have made a difference, but Daishi had decided on a simpler approach.

He put a sign on Raz' back saying,"Throw me into a river(and don't tell me about this sign)".

The next day, Raz came to his office totally soaked, to find the entire FA waiting for him.

They had followed behind him the entire time, recording what had happened, and had put together a "Best of Raz Getting Thrown in a River" vid.

For the next three weeks, this video became the #1 watched video in the VE, the FA had it's revenge

posted September 07, 2001 02:25 PM               

"Yeah boss but why, isn't that a bit insideous?" Geist replied.

"Not for what I need him for. Don't ask, you don't want to know." Kuroishi responded.

Later that night as Anakin was returning to his quarters he heard strange banjo music coming from inside.

Drawing close to the door Anakin felt a great disturbance in the force.

Upon opening the door Anakin was confronted with dueling banjo music in the background and Grand Moff Tarkin in female dominatrix gear.

"You're pretty, you got all your teeth. I'm JETHRO I'm your date tonight." Tarkin said as he cracked his whip.

Sensing much danger Anakin ran and ran fast to get away.

The next morning Kuroishi found an envelope on his desk containing a holovid disk. Upon reveiwing it he knew he now had to pay back the JETHRO collective for it's aide.

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"Indecent exposure is fun." Sonatina

"If we have all knowladge then we would not wish to seek what we know, but if we had no knowledge how could we even ask a question?" Plato on knowladge.