Author Topic: Yub yub, Major! - FINISHED 02/29 ... Epilogue - Honeymoon fashion disaster (Wege/Iella)
-thor-  1743 posts
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Date Posted: 11/18/03 7:48am Subject: Yub yub, Major! - FINISHED 02/29 ... Epilogue - Honeymoon fashion disaster (Wege/Iella) - Date Edited: 2/29/04 7:49am (41 edits total) Edited By: -thor-
What do you get when you mix Rogue Squadron, an upcoming wedding and Wes Janson? Yup - complete mayhem. And what do you need to get things back into order? Determination, ruthlessness, resources and imagination - or just the Wraiths wink

Big thanks goes to InyriForge who did not only listen to me with neverending patience but who also gave me a few very important ideas (won't say more now - you'll see at the right point).
A second big thanks goes to my co-author Rebadams7 who helped me great deal with closing gaps in the story as well as righting my (sometimes) horrible English blush ...

And - of course - the characters (with the exception of Alina and Beshi) belong to Aaron Allston and all the other SW writers. We don't make money out of this ...


Oh. If you want to understand some things you might have to read #The Secrets of still waters#, #Fait Accompli# and #Friendliest 'Woks aren't stuffed# ...


Title: Yub yub, Major!
Author(s): -thor- and Rebadams7
Time:: EU, Squadron-Fic (more or less)
Timeframe: 4 months after "X-Wing : Starfighters of Adumar"
Rating: PG
Dramatis Personae: Too many to list - just say Rogues + Wraiths + Donos family wink

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The faint beep of the alarm chrono stirred him out of his sleep. Keeping his eyes closed he mechanically reached over and silenced the annoying device before getting back to sleep - for another twenty seconds. The beep returned - louder and more urging now - and he finally remembered why he did set it so early last night. He deactivated the alarm, yawned and glanced over to the woman sleeping beside him. Her blond hair was disheveled from sleep, but her face radiated serenity and peace. She stirred, mumbled something incomprehensible and curled into him. He smiled and placed a tender kiss on the top of her head.

"It's not morning, yet," Iella groaned faintly and pressed her face into his shoulder.

Wedge chuckled. "I fear it is, my love."

"Let's pretend it isn't," she muttered back and sneaked her arm around his waist.

"I can't believe it," Wedge retorted in mock disbelief. "Iella 'Miss-Let's-do-it-by-the-textbook' Wessiri is asking me to ignore my duties."

Iella smiled faintly. "Cracken will understand. He was newly engaged himself at some point." Then she sighed and attempted to sit up, but fell back with a groan. "Oh my head!"

"I warned you about Booster's Lum. I don't know what is in there but it's worse than Rylothian Brandy." He eased himself out of Iella's arms and swung his legs out of bed. "Stay here. I'll make breakfast and call you once it's ready."

"Hu-hmmmm ..." Iella mumbled and closed her eyes.





An hour later Wedge left the turbolift and headed towards his office. It was still far too early for any regular pilot to be up and so his only companions on the quiet floors were the cleaning droids. Wedge was for once glad for the solitude. The last six months had been an exhaustive up and down, both emotionally and professionally, but he didn't have time to properly digest all those events.

All had started when he broke up with his former girlfriend - the Omwati scientist Qui Xux -, because neither of them saw a future for this relationship. He began to question himself, his life and the way it seemed to stride along. After a few weeks of pondering he'd come to the conclusion that he needed some time off - away from everything and everyone he knew, time he could use to find himself again. But then Cracken had interfered.

Adumar ... that Force-forsaken planet on the edge of the known Galaxy full of trigger-happy maniacs masking as fighter pilots. A mission which could have ended in his death - once again - but this time a supposed 'friend' had been the one with the gun. But he had made it through and he was reunited with Iella. Now their wedding was just a week away.

For Wedge this wedding meant more than 'just' making his relationship with Iella official - it was a turning point in his life. For the first time in two decades he would have a private life that deserved this title. And most importantly he would have the home that he'd lost when his parents had been killed.

Shaking his head he returned his thoughts to the closest tasks. He had a load of reports to file before he would have to attend a meeting with Cracken and Iella. The events during the Adumar mission were still not completely forgotten and Cracken was more than keen on drawing the right consequences out of this mess. Wedge knew there would be a couple of changes in the operation procedures of the NRI to prevent similar disasters in the future. But one thing was sure - Tomer Darpen would not be a problem anymore.

The process against him had been long, painful and nerve-wracking. At first Darpen had denied everything, then he'd tried to make excuses - and then he'd been broken by Hallis' recording. The State Attorney had pressed for the death penalty, but the judges opted for another solution - lifelong banishment to Kessel.

Wedge reached the door of his office and attempted to punch the four numbers of the code that would open it, but then he hesitated. A small green light indicated that the door was not locked, but he knew that it had been when he'd left the room last night. Wedge glanced hastily to the sides, pulled his blaster and stepped away from the opening. Then he opened the door and peered around the doorpost with his blaster ready to fire. He scanned the room but couldn't see anything unusual in the darkness so he reached into the room and flicked on the lights ... and regretted doing so in the same instant.

"Oh no," he groaned. "Please not that again!"

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Date Posted: 11/18/03 8:00am Subject: RE: Yub yub, Major! - Rogues, Wraiths and a wedding (post SoA)
what what what.. what did he see????


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Date Posted: 11/18/03 8:08am Subject: RE: Yub yub, Major! - Rogues, Wraiths and a wedding (post SoA)
By the way
-thor-'s english is EXCELLENT!
enjoy!
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Date Posted: 11/18/03 8:19am Subject: RE: Yub yub, Major! - Rogues, Wraiths and a wedding (post SoA)
Janson, Kettch, or both.

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Date Posted: 11/18/03 9:01am Subject: RE: Yub yub, Major! - Rogues, Wraiths and a wedding (post SoA)
Ooh, ooh, it's up! It's up! grin

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Date Posted: 11/18/03 10:20am Subject: RE: Yub yub, Major! - Rogues, Wraiths and a wedding (post SoA)
hmmmm lavender shorts? grin

 

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Date Posted: 11/18/03 11:07am Subject: RE: Yub yub, Major! - Rogues, Wraiths and a wedding (post SoA)
You have NO idea!
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Date Posted: 11/18/03 12:16pm Subject: RE: Yub yub, Major! - Rogues, Wraiths and a wedding (post SoA)
Yay! It's up it's up it's up! grin

I agree: his Norse Thundergod-ness's english is actually better than some of my classmates! grin

Can't wait for more. happy

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Date Posted: 11/18/03 3:30pm Subject: RE: Yub yub, Major! - Rogues, Wraiths and a wedding (post SoA)
Hehehehehe...more! Please! soon!

I said "please"...

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Date Posted: 11/18/03 3:39pm Subject: RE: Yub yub, Major! - Rogues, Wraiths and a wedding (post SoA)
I love this! Can't wait for more... grin

 

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Date Posted: 11/18/03 8:54pm Subject: RE: Yub yub, Major! - Rogues, Wraiths and a wedding (post SoA)
Yey .... so many replies grin ... Maybe I'm nice and post the next snippet later today (it's almost 6 in the morning here).

 

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Date Posted: 11/19/03 4:04am Subject: RE: Yub yub, Major! - Rogues, Wraiths and a wedding (post SoA)
oh, if you'd do that, I'd be eternally grateful grin


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Date Posted: 11/19/03 8:02am Subject: RE: Yub yub, Major! - Rogues, Wraiths and a wedding (post SoA)
Ok - I am nice wink

LumiKuningatar and _3MD_PsychoSniper - See below grin

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"A masterpiece. Wedge will love it," Wes stated happily.

"I'd rather say he will rip your head off your neck," Hobbie retorted. "Don't you think you're overdoing it?"

Wes feigned surprise. "Overdoing it? Hobbs - that man is going to get married. In a week he'll be under the thumb and won't have any fun in his life. I just want to make sure he has at least a little of that in the last days of his free life. Trust me - I know what I'm doing."

Hobbie sighed sadly. "I knew we should have shot you on Adumar. Would have saved us a lot of trouble."

"You're just no fun at all," Wes scolded mildly.

"I like to be alive. Right now I have doubts that you're going to live to see the wedding next week."

Wes laughed. "Stop being so fatalistic, buddy. Wedge isn't capable of any kind of revenge."

Suddenly Hobbie began to grin evilly: "You seem to forget Chulku."

"You saw that?" Wes exclaimed.

"Of course. Was a good laugh - 'Ha Ha, Lieutenant!'"

Wes glowered at his friend. "I can't believe it. He really had a recording of that. I thought Donos was fibbing." He attempted to say something else, but closed his mouth again. Instead a small but downright nasty grin appeared on his lips.

"I don't like it when you look like this," Hobbie said. "What are you going to do now?"

"I have a few things to collect."

Hobbie remained skeptical. "And what for?"

Wes grinned madly: "For the coronation of my pranks. The 'peak of fun' if you want to call it that way."

Hobbie buried his face in his hands. "We're doomed."





"Come in," Wedge answered the chime of the door annunciator. As the door opened he could see Tycho on the threshold and a smile appeared on his face.

"Morning, boss," Tycho greeted and entered the room. Only then he acknowledged that something wasn't quite right here. He skeptically studied the 'new design', tilted his head and raised an eyebrow at the General.

"Don't ask," Wedge warned glumly, his smile disappearing.

"Janson?"

"Who else?" Wedge quipped without looking at the Alderaanian.

"Never thought of him as ... uhh ... technically gifted," Tycho responded fighting the urge to laugh. "You've got to give him the credit for the attention to details."

Wedge looked up from his datapad and shot his friend a deadly glare. "If I wanted someone to gloat I'd have called Wes, Colonel! And I don't think he did all of that alone - I suspect he had help from Face and Kell."

"Take it easy, Wedge. After all it's just one of his pranks."

"Yeah," Wedge retorted, buried his face in his hands and released a deep sigh. "Just one of his pranks - one of five since last Monday."

"Five?"

"Yeah, five: the modified com with the Ewok voice in the simulator, the 'Yub yub, General!' as signature in my correspondence, the fake loveletter from Cheriss, the artificial Ewok fur on my pilot jumpsuits and now this," Wedge growled.

What Wedge meant by this was a masterpiece of handiwork. The usually barren and gray walls of his office were now covered with a lovely lime-green Ewok wallpaper, the ceiling was painted in a bright sky-blue and the corners were dominated by young exemplars of the giant trees of Endor. The metal surfaces of the lockers and shelves were hidden under plates of fake wood making their look far more 'rustic'. But the most obvious sign of Janson's 'redecoration' was hanging above and behind Wedge's desk - a large wooden writing 'Yub yub, General!'.

"He is persistent, isn't he?" Tycho muttered. "Why don't you make him stop?"

"And how should I do this, oh Master of Revenge?"

Tycho raised his eyebrow in the face of his friend's unusual sarcasm. "He's got to you, hasn't he?"

"Yes," Wedge admitted. "I mean I usually ignore him and his stuff, but right now ..." He sighed in frustration. "I wish I could think of a way to make him stop, but with all the things I have to do every day and this upcoming wedding I just don't have the time!"

After a few moments of silence Tycho answered: "You know there is always the option of confining him to his room."

Wedge pretended to think about it, but Tycho knew that he would never do that. "Hmmm ... tempting, but I don't want to look like an old and grumpy General."

Tycho nodded - he had expected that answer. "Do you want me to take care of this new 'decor'?"

"No," Wedge replied and shook his head. "I'll deal with it as soon as my time permits. And speaking of time I have another meeting with Cracken in a few minutes," he added and shoved the datapads into a drawer of his desk and locked it. "I have to get out of here before I might begin to enjoy the idea of locking Wes up in his room."

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Date Posted: 11/19/03 9:23am Subject: RE: Yub yub, Major! - UPDATED 11/19 - "Redecoration" (Hobbie/Wes - Wedge/Tycho)
hey, a real postie *happy grinning*
and now my comments... heh

Wes feigned surprise. "Overdoing it? Hobbs - that man is going to get married. In a week he'll be under the thumb and won't have any fun in his life. I just want to make sure he has at least a little of that in the last days of his free life. Trust me - I know what I'm doing."

I would definately not trust Wes, not in a million years and what does he mean that Wedge'll be under the thumb.. Iella won't boss him around... too much anyway.. Besides he won't mind... grin

Suddenly Hobbie began to grin evilly: "You seem to forget Chulku."

"You saw that?" Wes exclaimed.

"Of course. Was a good laugh - 'Ha Ha, Lieutenant!'"

Wes glowered at his friend. "I can't believe it. He really had a recording of that. I thought Donos was fibbing.


Maybe if I talked to Myn I'd get a copy, hmmmm, *wanders off*

After a few moments of silence Tycho answered: "You know there is always the option of confining him to his room."

Wedge pretended to think about it, but Tycho knew that he would never do that. "Hmmm ... tempting, but I don't want to look like an old and grumpy General."


I would actually consider confining Wes in his room, if he was playing prank after prank on me... poor Wedge, but it's part of the long standing tradition to pester and annoy the grooms and soon-to-be husbands and help them to relax by keeping them insane for a bit longer till they are safely married.... grin

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Date Posted: 11/19/03 10:53am Subject: RE: Yub yub, Major! - UPDATED 11/19 - "Redecoration" (Hobbie/Wes - Wedge/Tycho)
Lol! But where's the lavender! tongue

I wondere how Wedge will get his own back... probably something to do with a certain ex-Rogue's wife's co-pilot... grin

 

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Date Posted: 11/19/03 4:31pm Subject: RE: Yub yub, Major! - UPDATED 11/19 - "Redecoration" (Hobbie/Wes - Wedge/Tycho)
Exactly, Blended...where is the lavender? and the orange? :P

LOL...LOLOLOL...twas hilarious, thor dear. grin

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