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[icequeen_aran]

Who: icequeen-aran, things-go-boom, pedaltothemetal, pkmachomega, noheroesinwar
What: TIME TO FIND METAL GEAR REX but what else will be found?
Where: ALASKA
When: DATE FLEXIBLE; let's say December 21st for now.
Warnings: Lash, Bounty Hunters, Alaskan Wolf Dogs and so forth.

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[icequeen_aran]

While Lash was being the bestest girlfriend ever and totally not doing the opposite of what Samus asked, Samus finished packing the essentials and plotting out a course.

Her initial plan was of course to fly the gunship over; it was fast, it had weapons that could probably take out REX with minimal collateral damage, or worst-off, she use the grapple-beam on the ship to move it somewhere else. ...But with Lash involved she was rethinking this for several reasons.

One; it was Lash, two; Falcon would no doubt question her about it/disapprove Lash's involvement, and three; a quick peak at the weather proved rather foreboding for flying craft, even one as advanced as her ship. A monster of a storm swirled around the Archipelago with thick clouds and dangerously high winds. At the calmer center was predictably Shadow Moses Island... but everywhere around it was perilous. Stakes were a little high in this one, and the absolute last thing Samus needed was a crash landing with a passenger on board, leaving them stranded in the middle of cold, barren Alaska. So that left ground travel; Samus' bike, while fast, was at just as much at risk of weather calamities, if not moreso. She would need to go obscenely fast with it to break through the high-winds of the snow storm. Lash had her Neotank, but strong, independent Samus didn't particularly want to me left at the whim of Lash's control, much less she wasn't sure if that thing could make it to Alaska and back fast enough.

You know, before Falcon noticed. (Samus was the best girlfriend ever.)

Then what do I do? Tempted to risk fate and take the gunship as she typically would, Samus was then struck with the brilliant idea to go under the weather, if she couldn't go through it or over it. If it worked, anyway. She was reminded of the shortcut through the green, underground pipes her, Lash and Jeff used to infiltrate Capcom High. It was kind of a crap-shoot, but as quick as she could, Samus was researching into these mysterious, near-instantaneous traveling pipe networks. Lo and behold, they did seem to run everywhere, including Alaska. The downside was they weren't completely mapped out... so she might be doing some guesswork in her travels. She could always remotely call Falcon and cry in shame the gunship if something went wrong and hope for the best.

At least she wouldn't be alone in that.

In just as much of a hurry, Samus snuck out the door, hopped on her bike and drove to the school to meet Lash.

[things_go_boom]

Lash on the other hand, had a pretty quiet preparation, post sending things out to be taken care of when she was gone and messages to boyfriends that totally didn't mean he should follow her (and she totally didn't have a canned, surprise face if he did. "Wow. How did he do that. I am sooo surprised.")

The method was transport was actually in her mind as well; part of her really hoped Samus was going to let her go into the gunship but she had a feeling that after this hacking episode she'd probably be afraid of letting her neat her more important stuff (sadly). They could take her transforming vehicle, but that was something mostly kept secret to only a few - an ace she most certainly didn't want to give in. Better let her fellow teacher drive (so to speak) as to what they'd be doing and with what vehicles they'd use.

When Samus got there, she would find one(1) afro wunderkind sitting with an oversize backpack, and dressed up in a wintercoat that looked to be itchy from the way she kept scratching her neck.

[icequeen_aran]

Driving so to speak, yes. Samus pulled up to Lash and motioned for her to get on.

At least she packed... well. And itchy. Samus had chosen to go with the leather jacket with the collar popped up and long sleeves under that. And Zero Suit under all that... just in case.

[things_go_boom]

Didn't have to tell Lash twice! With one swift motion, she jumped behind and...awkwardly held on to Samus.

Yeaaaaah.

"Okay I'm ready!" Scratch, scratch, scratch. "So...what are we doing exactly? Unless this bike can fly..."

[icequeen_aran]

Lash stop all that itching or Samus will start to get itchy...

"Hovering a few feet off the ground isn't the same as flying, so no."

Samus put said hovering into action and drove off as soon as Lash was securely aboard. The bike speed by, leaving snow-covered grass and trees as blurs as she took a beaten path through the woods. "Do you remember the pipes we took to get to Capcom high?" She yelled over the cold, biting wind.

It was almost hard to tell with the snow covering everything but, eventually Samus ended up in part of the woods where with many trees amazingly still toppled over from when Lash first cleared the path.

"It's actually part of a huge underground network--they lead all over the place, and some travel instantaneously to certain locations. There's just one downside..."