Shane 'Goose' Gooseman

Goose had woken up that morning after sleeping since Friday and he’d forgotten just how wonderful sleep was. Even if … as he had woken, had realised he had fallen asleep in the middle of the bed but he wasn’t too concerned about that … he had managed to fall asleep and … once he checked his wrist communicator, realised that he had slept for four days straight.

He bolted upright at that … he had missed his weekly report to Commander Walsh, actually that was twice in two weeks he’d missed it because the first time had been because he had turned into a small child and then he had spent the next few days being severely sleep deprived and even in that state had decided it was better to just ignore his report for the time being. There were messages from his team … and Commander Walsh and there was even one from Waldo? How much had he missed in the four days he’d been asleep.

After a shower and getting changed into a fresh uniform, Goose realised that he didn’t have much in his kitchen except for some takeaway Chinese food from last week, he was going to have to order more food in. Once he’d finished eating he pulled up his lesson plans for tomorrow and realised that in his sleep deprived state that he had already finished both this week’s and next week’s lesson plans, so now there was nothing to do except go over the messages that he’d missed and see just what had been happening while he was asleep.

[expecting a certain chocobro, but can be open before that]

So due to last night’s cooking class, Goose's clothes had ended up being covered in a mess of syrup and sugar and now he was down to his only casual black ranger outfit. He desperately needed to do laundry which he ended up doing after he went for his normal morning run.

He really needed to go shopping for new clothes at this point, he supposed that’s what happened when you only owned five outfits and they were variations of the one military uniform.

[open if anyone’s around and or also needs to do laundry!]

After Walsh’s speech and spending most of the day on clean up duty, the Series 5 team had been given the night off and Doc took this opportunity to have a cooking lesson with both Goose and Niko - since apparently Niko had also tried her hand at cooking while Goose was away and had met with similar disastrous results.

Captain Foxx was having nothing to do with this and was spending the evening with his kids, Goose suspected it was also so he’d have plausible deniability for when this inevitably went wrong.

“I still don’t know why we have to cook in here,” Goose grumbled as Doc got out what they needed in his kitchen, “you’re the chef, you have all that fancy equipment in your apartment,”

Doc gave him a look, “and that is why we’re cooking in here my Gooseman,” he remarked, “I am not letting you cook anywhere near my apartment, lest you blow it up, considering what you’ve told me about your recent cooking escapades I’m not taking the chance, I still remember what you did to Zack’s kitchen,”

“He needed a new oven anyway,’ Goose grumbled, “and the fire wasn’t that big,”

“On the plus side we’ve gotten better at making cookies with Jessica and Little Zack,” Niko beamed, “of course Zack will only let us use the kitchen if he’s there to supervise,”

“Which brings me to today’s cooking lesson, how to cook something without setting food on fire,” Doc remarked, “which is apparently something that needs to be covered considering how frequently things appear to catch fire when you’re anywhere near them Goose,” he gave him a look.

“It was only a little fire that last time!” Goose protested, “it didn’t cause that much damage,” that was because Ignis put the fire out before it could Goose.

“You were making beans,” Doc snapped, “there shouldn’t have been any fire at all and don’t even get me started on how you managed to get them on the ceiling as well,” he shook his head, “all this is doing is making me think I should send an expensive bottle of scotch to your teacher, something tells me he might need it,”

“I don’t see what the big deal is,” Goose remarked, “you put the food on the stove, you turn up the temperature and then you cook it,”

“At the specified temperature,” Doc corrected, “there’s no need to turn it up all the way, the same with the oven. It does cook … you just have to be patient, which I know is something that Supertroopers aren’t known for but when it comes to cooking … it’s an art form, it takes time,”

“I still don’t see why you can’t cook it faster with the heat turned all the way up,” Goose grumbled.

“It just doesn’t work that way, all that does is burn the food and set them on fire,” Doc sighed.

It was going to be a long evening.


[Just some randomness that came to mind. NFB but OOC is welcome]

Goose had been asked to return home for a few days to help out since the ongoing fight against the Queen of the Crown had seen more and more resources being used and Walsh had recalled Goose back to assist. His first mission back had been to escort Ambassador Waldo on Ranger One on a research mission after they had encountered some anomalies near Saturn, “okay Waldo,” he said as he powered down the ship, turning to face him, “you’re the expert in Andorian hyper relay stations, what do you think knocked out the unit?”

“As soon as it’s been established,” Waldo said dryly, “you’ll be the second to know,” he started typing in his calculations, “I’m picking up some strange hyper space distortions,”


( “hedidnthavetowaitlong” )

“Yahoo!” He shouted, triumphantly raising his fist as he looked back at the explosion. “Let’s high tail it out of here,”

“No wait,” Waldo protested, “we’ll bring the wreckage along for analysis,” it was Waldo’s turn to press a button and soon they were dragging along a floating piece of debris behind Ranger One.

Goose grinned, “I was just going to suggest that,” he remarked casually.

“Then you’re quite brilliant,” was Waldo’s retort as he glanced back at him with a head tilt . Goose merely grinned sheepishly at him.

[dialogue taken from episode 27 ‘Armada’, part 1 of 2, NFB but OOC welcome]

Goose had discovered that he had an office and thought he should probably utilise it so he sent a [handwavey] email to his students that he would be hosting office hours and decided to make sure that his lesson plan was finished and ready to go on Wednesday barring any sudden emergencies back home.



[open!]

Goose was doing his normal early morning run when his communicator started buzzing. He stopped and answered it.

“Goose! Are you there? Can you hear me?” Niko’s faint image popped up on his video link, he could just make it out she was with Ambassador Zozo and some other Kiwis.

“I’m here Niko, what’s wrong?” he said softly.

“We’re under attack! The Queen of the Crown found out we were hiding the Gherkin’s on Kirwin and they’re on their way here!” She told him.

“The defence shields are down!” Zozo wailed, suddenly appearing on the screen, “we’re completely helpless here!”

“I’m on my way!” Goose told them, he hadn’t received a direct order to return home yet but he would deal with the consequences of that later, “I’m heading to my interceptor now!”

“Oh please hurry!” Zozo urged and then the feed went dead.

He started running towards the Junkyard when his communicator went off again, this time it was Captain Foxx.

“Goose, I’m going to need you to return home for a bit, Kirwin is under attack and it will take some time before a fleet is assembled I need you to meet us en route to Kirwin,”

“I’ll be there,” Goose said, since he wasn’t far from the Junkyard and was prepared to return home at a moments notice.

[can be open while he’s on the way to the Junkyard]

Hi, this is Tracy and this time round I’m playing two brand new characters (well one is technically a returning character to Fandom) and I’m also playing my first teacher since 2007 where I played Geordi La Forge, who is also teaching engineering like Geordi did as well :)

Also apparently I like playing characters who go by nicknames.

So here’s my two new characters plus an updated profile for Alara.


( Goose )




( Jo )



( Alara )




( me )

Goose had woken up early as was per his usual routine. What wasn't part of his routine was waking up to discover that he couldn't hear anything. As he had heightened senses due to his Supertrooper conditioning, this made him more unsettled and on edge than what he normally would have been.

He wasn't going to let this stop him from going on his usual morning workout though and that was why he had ended up in the park and found himself fighting off Fandom's latest invasion. He just had to rely on his other senses as he made his way through whatever creatures these were, at least he had made sure that his blaster was with him.

[open!]

With the exception of going to class, Goose has spent most of the past week handwavily in his room. He had even stopped his training for that week as he had found it difficult to concentrate and that had kept going until his last class on Thursday because he decided he'd had enough and was going to spend the last couple of days back home on BETA Mountain.

He had gotten back earlier that morning and when he discovered that whatever had been the cause of the strange sensations he had been getting all week seemed to have gone, he was back to his usual training run through the preserve.

He was making his way back to the dorm when the cries of "DAD, DAD, DAD!" could be heard and he found a small child running towards him and wrapping her arms around his waist.

"Star?" he blinked, remembering her visit from last year.

[for the kids but can be open]

Goose had handwavily spent the last couple of days at BETA Mountain. He hadn't told Commander Walsh everything that had happened in the last week but he told him enough to know that it had been bad, particularly spending the week locked up in detention.

While he was away he had also paid a visit to Longshot, to spend time with Icarus and Winter, his dolphin friends that he had met a few months ago as part of his routine check up to make sure he was functioning as well as an ex genetically engineered super soldier could be. There was no check up this visit, it was just to spend time visiting.
The telepathic dolphins were some of only a small select few individuals in Goose's universe who didn't judge or fear him because of what he was, they didn't perceive him as a threat ... he was their friend and the precious few hours that he could spend with them were some of the best that he could remember.

Eventually though the visit did have to end as he was due back in Fandom that afternoon, he promised that he would visit again as soon as he could.


When he did get back to Fandom, he sent a message to Commander Walsh to let him know that he had gotten back okay. He sighed and sat down on his bed, not really sure what to do next.

[door and post are both open]