Shane 'Goose' Gooseman

Goose had debated long and hard about this but he knew it was father’s day in Australia and he should have talked to … his father while he was back home over break but he just couldn’t bring himself to do it.

He knew that he should do this conversation in person but … he was still scared of getting rejected by Walsh, of the danger that he was putting his father in by acknowledging that he did know the truth after all this time.

Finally he took a deep breath, steadied himself and established a call to Commander Walsh.

( it was time for a long overdue conversation )

Goose leaned back in his chair, that had gone a lot better than he had thought it would, he hadn’t gotten to talk about Max but the fact that Walsh was planning to visit for Parents Weekend … it did make it seem like that he wasn’t planning on rejecting him, at least at the moment anyway.

[door’s closed, post is open. That Goose called home is fine for broadcast but the details of his conversation are NFB please!]

Goose’s apartment had mostly survived the cooking lesson, well a couple of the walls were a bit singed but compared to recent efforts that was relatively good progress for him.

The next day Doc had gone to Longshot to work with the recently found Queen’s Memory Bird, named Bubblehead and Zack and Goose had told him they’d meet up with him later.

They approached the Data Library and passed two staff removing a trolley from the room.

“Watch it,” Zack barked as they nearly bumped into them. They didn’t respond and hurried along.

“Everybody’s in a hurry today,” Goose remarked, staring after the staff as they walked into the library.

“Zack!” Goose pointed at Doc who was slumped over by the console.

“Doc are you alright?” Zack asked as they ran over to him.

Doc groaned and they ran over to check, “yeah I think so,” he said, rubbing his neck, “somebody zapped me,”

“What happened here?” Zack wanted to know.

“The memory bird,” Doc looked around the room, “it’s gone!” he turned back to the console and began typing, bringing up the information he was looking for, “a file has been accessed,” he informed them.

“Doc,” Goose said as he read the number of the file, “what’s in file 18?” he had a sinking feeling in his stomach.

“The Supertrooper Juice formula!” Doc exclaimed in horror.

“The formula has been loaded into the bird,” Zack stated.

“Bubblehead?” Doc glanced at Zack, “he has trouble remembering two plus two,” he pointed out.

“We can’t take any chances,” Goose declared, he knew what would happen if that formula got into the wrong hands.

“I’ll alert security,” Zack nodded.

“I’m on it,” Goose told him and pressed a button that would allow him to contact security.


( theyhadtogetthebirdback )


They were soon catching up to Kidd, “Doc tell them,” Niko was heard saying.

“What Moxie and Miller got was one of the early experimental formulas,” Doc told them.

“But even those early formulas were potent,” Zack pointed out.

“Bubblehead won’t be able to handle it,” Doc replied, “half his circuitry was filled with plumping information,”

“There has been a breach in security, nevertheless” Zack frowned.

“Cut the chatter,” Goose commanded, “warping out,” the ships dropped out of warp. “Kidd’s changing course,” he stated.

“Trouble,” Zack grunted, which was a bit of an understatement.

“Slaver transports,” Goose realised what they were.

“Pull out,” Zack ordered and Goose did as instructed, pulling back so they weren’t near those ships. They waited nearby to see what would happen.

“You think the queen will reward Kidd for bringing her bird home Goose?” Zack wondered.

“I don’t know about a reward,” Goose said, “but I’m sure he’ll get what he deserves,”


[dialogue taken from episode 28 ‘Birds of a Feather’. NFB but OOC welcome]

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]

After handwavily spending the morning out with Max and Josie, they had returned back to his room for a while.

They had just been prepared to head back out again when Goose's computer beeped and a video connection link popped up.

It was Commander Walsh.

( Goose hadn't been expecting this )

Goose sighed when the link disconnected.

"Dad?" Max looked after at his father, "are you okay?"

"I'm fine," Goose said quietly, even giving a small smile to try and reassure him, "come on, let's go back out,"