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Coldzero · (This post was last modified: 07-08-2012, 07:52 PM by Coldzero.)

Part 3: Tau-44

When Mason got to Tau-44, he didn't know what to expect. He was taken from his life on Honshu to Sulawesi Station, a military instillation that monitors forces that enter through the Tau-23 jump hole. It was badly damaged from battles that took place around its vicinity. Sulawesi has a large, dense asteroid field in front of it which slows ships down, allowing fighter wings and other strike crafts to intercept them. Apart from that, the heavy armor that the station has, makes it quite a good vantage point for Colonials.

Mason was astonished when he set foot on the station and began exploring it. He was always fascinated by weaponry of any caliber. In a short amount of time, he already impressed some of the military personal with his devotion and eagerness to learn how to fly star ships, shoot guns and throw some punches. For the most, Mason was trained on the station for five years when he refused to board the ship sent from Minato to become an Republic citizen and begin working there as a diver or fisherman. The people of the Sulawesi liked Mason and showed it to him by letting him join in in some of the games. They'd tease him sometimes but it wasn't anything serious. Everyday, he'd get up and do fitness training to get his body conditioned for the forces of flying a space ship with skill. He'd then go do hand-to-hand combat training for when he had to board vessels and stations to secure them when in close quarters. Afterwards, weapon handling exercises. He was trained to use rifles, Sub-machine guns, pistols, tried to train with Heavy Machine guns but he couldn't lift the blasted things since they were too heavy for him. As he got older, he got better with all of the weapons, mostly with pistols. He has a record for shooting with pistols at far range and still hitting the target without missing, scoring more points than the marksmen did with sniper rifles. Mason eventually earned the Title of Gunslinger for his persicion and marksmanship with the use of pistols only. He was given the chance to have two unique pistols made for himself when he turned eighteen, all he had to do is collect parts of other weapons around Sirius and schematics on how they are built. He was no mechanic or technician, but he knew weapons inside and out.

Date: November 10th, 815 A.S, 08h00.

Today was the day when he Mason turned fifteen and joined the Military branch of the Colonial Republic. He was made a citizen while he did his training in the past five years. Instead of getting up at four am, his CO let him sleep in, which was unusual since he never thought of his birthday as any kind of special occasion. Mason got up from bed and made it, then proceeded to the showers and got cleaned up. When he got back to his quarters, he threw on a grey t-shirt, black pants with a black belt and button up flight boots. His hair was scruffy as usual, never combed it. He went around the base, wondering what the hell is going on. He checked the command stations, training stations, docking bays...nothing. At this stage, he got hungry and went to the cafeteria to get some breakfast. When the doors opened, the people he trained with, his CO, and flight instructors yelled 'Surprise!' which caught him off guard. He just about shat his pants and took a swing at the closest person and knocked him out, before hopping slightly and shaking his hand in pain.

'Uhm...oops?' Mason said when he looked at his classmate.

It was Phil Baker. Phil was happy go lucky kinda guy who didn't give a crap what happened most of the time. One time he discharged his firearm in training by accident, not taking aim which then ricocheted into the instructors ass. He was told to help out in the kitchen for a month and suspended from firearm training. The instructor still walks funny and Phil isn't in his good books. He was a good shot and probably intended for it to happen but there was no evidence to support it.

Mason reached down and pulled him up, leaned him against the wall and slapped him to get him awake.

'For the love of '¦!' exclaimed Phil as he became conscious again from the slap.

'You alright bud?' asked Mason, stepping back.

'Yeah yeah. I'm cool. That was some swing though. Knocked me the ...yeah. Moving on.'

'Good to hear it. So what is this? Thought we were under attack for a second..'

'Nah. We thought we'd give you a surprise birthday...you're getting old now man.'

'Meh...don't remind me.'

'Here..'

Phil showed Mason a gesture to follow him and lead him to documents neatly stacked on the table. Mason greeted and thanked the people around him on the way to it and took a seat.

'k...so I'm looking at papers.' said Mason in a dull voice.

'Yeah, flight authorization papers, Colonial Military sign up forms, blah blah blah.'

Mason examined the papers closely and put them down. He was in shock that he got signed up and was to start training as a fighter pilot tomorrow morning, starting at 09h00. At least he figured out why he slept in but it wasn't going to stop him from getting up early. He shook his head and looked around. Everybody started clapping for him and he smiled and looked at the papers again.

'This is so bloody awesome man!' he said excitedly.

Mason was left to enjoy his day and get to know the flight instructors better. The rest of his class were ordered back to training rooms to train and would celebrate Mason's birthday in the evening.

Mason had so many questions about space and flying, he was ecstatic about finally being able to fly. The instructors got a bit tired from all the questions and stopped him from asking since he'd find out tomorrow. They lead him to the docking bays and helped him into one of the instructor's ship. They launched and he got to see what Tau-44 really looked like. He only saw bits of it from different angles around the station but nothing like this. A mixture of different shades of blue and white, viewed all around Tau-44 creating space appearing to look like puffy clouds which spiraled to a point in space with stars scattered around it when he looked down. Looking above, he'd see black space with stars scattered across it as if it were black canvas and in a point of side of Tau-44, where the Green and Blue Dwarfs are, he could see a green cloud. In the distance stood a light blue planet, Borneo, where Minato Harbor orbited it. Looking in another direction, much further away was a yellowish-brown planet called Mindanao, a planet rich with some kind of mineral, but too dangerous to harvest. Further into the another direction stood a dark blue planet called Malakka. It was told that this planet had valuable ore on it.. but due to its heavy dense atmosphere, mining operations were impossible. Unlike most gas giants, Malakka had a core so its undetermined what it is right now. A stellar body that was called Palawan was Malakka's neighbor. Scientist weren't able to classify it since its too large to be a moon and too small to be a planet.

After exploring Tau-44 with his instructors, they docked with Sulawesi Station again and got rest for the next day.

He continued training for the next year and during sometime in 816 A.S, Mason returned to Kusari to find out how Hikari was doing and if she was alright since it was the beginning of the war between Kusari and Bretonia.

End Of Part 3

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