Goose had been having trouble concentrating the past couple of days and that was how he had ended up spending most of the day preparing a dinner for Ignis.

He missed cooking for Ignis and he had been worried that having a dinner on Valentine’s Day might be too much but he had been happy that Ignis had decided to accept his invitation

He had ended up deciding to cook Cauliflower Cheese soup for the entrée and he had even tried his hand at making bread and for the main he had decided to make a ragu finally or dessert he had gone with cake.

Everything was ready, the wine was poured and now all he had to do was wait for Ignis.


[for Ignis!]

Goose had received a call late last night that he was needed for a mission, so after making arrangements to have his class covered and letting Ignis know that he was heading off on a mission, he left for BETA Mountain early Friday morning and had been summoned into his dad’s office, he soon found himself in a briefing with Ambassador Waldo and Niko.

( it was going to be another unusual mission )


They waved after her as she disappeared.

“I never liked long goodbyes,” Goose couldn’t help but muse as he stared after her.

“Just think of the scientific data we’ve gained in this experience," Waldo said cheerfully.

“There’s got to be an easier way,” Goose looked at him.

“We’ve saved the universe Gooseman,” Waldo pointed out, “what more do you want?”

“We saved two universes Waldo,” Goose corrected and then startled as the creature placed his hands on his shoulders.

“You’ve gained a new Galaxy Ranger,” he told him.

“Always room for one more,” Goose declared, as he extended his hand for the creature to shake and everyone started to laugh.

[and finally getting round to more canon updates. Dialogue taken from Episode 33 ‘Lady of Light’. NFB but OOC welcome!]

Goose had been handwavily called back home last week to help provide security for a Thanksgiving event that some senators had and he hadn’t been able to get out of it with both his dad and Captain Foxx threatening to both court martial him and send him on a tour of Pluto.

He was glad to be back home and once he put his things away he sat down to go through his news feed.

[expecting a visitor but can be open!]

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 had returned to Fandom for the 20 year reunion, the only thing was he was pretty sure he was supposed to be at the hotel and not the apartment that he had used to live in when he had been a teacher at the school.

He was also pretty sure Walsh had stopped paying the rent when he had returned to BETA but again it wasn’t like he had paid close attention to things like bills, since Walsh had established long ago if he didn’t take care of Goose’s living expenses they weren’t going to get paid.

“How much did I have to drink last night?” he blinked, trying to recall how exactly he had ended up in an apartment that he hadn’t lived in in years. He was pretty sure he hadn’t been drinking but well it wasn’t exactly the first time that he had ended back in his apartment with no recollection of how he had gotten there.

[open!]

Goose had received orders to return home for a few days, there were reports of activity from the Queen of the Crown and that they had been searching for the location of the Stargate, which was rumoured to be a gateway to another universe. Goose was also slightly hungover so this was going to be an interesting mission.

Goose had been asked to head to Longshot to get help from Icarus and Winter since they were needed to help search for the Stargate as it was under water and it wasn’t long before Goose was on his way to meet up with the rest of his team at Walcab.

Goose could hear Niko tell Captain Foxx that they would be arriving at the planet’s coordinates over the intercom.

“Flying Southern Dolphin Team are ready Captain,” Goose said softly, smiling at Icarus and Winter who were gleefully playing around in their pod of water that had been specially installed on the ship.

“Are you sure you want the dolphins on this one?” Captain Foxx checked one more time, “it could be dangerous,”

“Danger’s my middle name!” Winter exclaimed proudly.

“You haven’t got a middle name!” came Doc’s retort.

“Prepare for drop,” Captain Foxx decided he didn’t need for this to turn into an argument.

( it was going to be a weird mission )

Goose made it back to his ship, “Goose are you okay?” Niko’s worried voice came through the intercom.

“I’m okay,” he assured her, “how’s Zackery?”

“He’ll be okay,” Doc replied, “but the phaser glove is locked,” Goose imaged that Doc would be using Tripwire and Haywire to free Zack from the glove.

They got away from the site with moments to spare as it exploded behind them, even though they weren’t able to use the Stargate at least it had meant that the Queen of the Crown couldn’t use it either. It also turned out that Zack had been able to pull the key out of the Stargate and keep it locked permanently. “Goose, we’ll meet you at the pick up point,” Captain Foxx instructed, now that he was more alert again. “We’re heading home,”

“Roger,” Goose acknowledged and began to make his way back.

[finally getting round to canon updates. Dialogue taken from episode 29 ’Stargate’. NFB due to distance but OOC welcome!]

Goose had eventually passed out on his bed after being awake for more than 24 hours between his candy, jello shot and coffee binge and when he woke up, he felt absolutely terrible.

Which was really no surprise, it happened every single time he did this … even though one of those times had happened when he was a child, so he wasn’t really counting that one.

He checked the time on his communicator and realised it was Friday afternoon, so at least he hadn’t slept through the trip or anything like that and he knew he should really try and get up and do something but the most he felt like doing was checking to see if he had any messages and news feed and seeing what was happening back home and trying not to think about how awful he was actually feeling. He would eventually get up and move but for now he was just going to remain sprawled out on his bed and try not to move to much because everything really hurt right now.

[for Ignis but the post can be open beforehand]

Goose had been shopping yesterday and his kitchen was actually looking like a kitchen (well minus a kitchen table) but Goose figured he’d focus on just the utilising the kitchen part first.

In hindsight it was probably a bad idea to start off with the pulled pork and the pressure cooker but he figured last time he hadn’t caused it go everywhere or set it on fire so he thought he’d be safe if he tried that.

He thought wrong and it hadn’t taken long for everything to go everywhere in one big mess.

The plus side was there was no fire and he didn’t set off the fire alarm but well he now had a very noticeable mess that included the remains of his attempt being on the ceiling of his kitchen. He wasn’t sure how he was going to explain to Jon why there was a mess of Pulled Pork splattered not just across his kitchen but also on his ceiling as well.

“Oh,” he blinked as he surveyed his kitchen and then stared down at the mess that had gotten on him as well, “Commander Walsh is going to love hearing about my next expenses report,”

At least he had gotten very good at cleaning up his messes last semester?

[so very open if anyone’s around and wants to investigate what all the noise is]

Goose had spent Christmas at home, the team making sure that their Captain and his kids weren’t alone on Christmas where they had another year to feel the loss of Aliza and that they were no sooner to being able to get her back.

Even though he had offered to help cook, Captain Foxx and Doc had both been adamant that just because he hadn’t burned down the Community Centre didn’t mean they were going to tempt fate again. Goose and Niko had been assigned babysitting duty and Jessica and Little Zack and Niko had tried to teach Goose how to play various different board games since he had never played them before and basically Goose had managed to start a fire after all while playing monopoly … no one was sure how that had happened but needless to say Goose was now banned from playing all board games.

Niko seemed to like her present/s since he had gone rather overboard as he handed her over what felt like half the stock from the Photo Hut. He had waited til they had had a moment alone to do that since he had felt rather awkward about the idea of giving her presents but she had also gotten him something as well and had shyly produced a photo album that she had made of photos of the team and Waldo and Zozo, Icarus and Winter and even Commander Walsh had a photo in there. Goose wondered how Niko had managed to get that photo.

She also had given him a photo frame with a group photo of everyone.

So it seemed they both had had photography in mind when getting each other gifts.

“I … uh didn’t know what to get you,” she had admitted quietly, “I didn’t think you would have many personal photos … memories … I doubt it’s something you would have been taught, I don’t know about Fandom but from what I know about Supertroopers …” her voice trailed off, “I thought you could put the photo frame in your apartment, in Fandom” she said with a shy smile. She had remembered how bare his apartment was when she had visited for Parents Weekend so she knew it was in desperate need of refurbishing.

Goose flipped through the photo album, smiling softly at the photos - his team was the closest thing he had to a family and a place where he felt he belonged.

“It’s … it’s perfect,” he told her, “thank you,” he smiled back shyly at her.



A couple of days later the Rangers had gathered at Longshot to see the results of the new experimental glove for Captain Foxx that Doc and Q-Ball had been working on for the past several weeks with Goose’s input as well.

“Okay, flex it,” Doc instructed Captain Foxx, who was wearing the glove and it was attached to a monitor, Doc was observing the readings as he did so.


“What kind of toy are you kids playing with now?” Niko asked as she observed what was happening, she had been away on an archeological dig so she had missed out on most of the planning stages of the invention.

“A phaser glove,” Doc explained, “it projects a phasing field which allows Zackery to pass his arm through any solid matter for the duration of the charge,”

“Do it Doc,” Captain Foxx nodded and Doc obliged typing in a command sequence and a minute later the glove began to emit a blue glow and Zack tested out the glove, it seemed to be working as he phased through the wall.

“Flux overload!” Doc suddenly exclaimed.

“Phaser discharge!” Goose pointed to the wiring, noticing that it was going haywire.

“Cover your eyes!” Q-Ball exclaimed and a bright white light filled the room, everyone shielding their eyes from the glare.

“Zackery are you alright?” Niko asked, worried once the light had faded.

“Yes I’m fine,” he told her, taking off the smoldering remains of the glove and looking at the wall that now had a giant hole in it, “that’s one way to reach through,” he remarked dryly.

“Well back to the old drawing board,” Goose shrugged, grinning back at Q-Ball and Doc who merely groaned at his assessment of the situation.

[some dialogue taken from episode 29 ‘Stargate’. NFB but OOC welcome]

It turned out that even with Goose’s healing factor, he couldn’t handle ten jello shots and when Goose woke up this morning to try and get back to a normal routine, he realised that his normal run around the island was not going to happen today.

At least he had managed to sleep so hopefully it wasn’t going to turn into what happened last time but …that had been a lot and honestly really he shouldn’t have done that but at the same time it had been kind of fun?

All of that went away the second his communicator started beeping loudly and he realised it was Commander Walsh and … oh he should really answer the call this time, he couldn’t really avoid it for that much longer.

“This is Ranger Gooseman,” he said and Walsh appeared on the screen.

“So you do know how to answer your damn communicator!” Commander Walsh greeted Goose rather impatiently, “the whole team have tried to contact you, I even got Ambassador Waldo to leave you a message in case,”

“Sorry sir,” he winced, trying not to flinch at how loud he was, “I …I was asleep for four days and then I was a child before that,”

Commander Walsh’s sigh could probably be heard around the island, or at the least the apartment building as he proceeded to give Goose a very loud lecture on the importance of being reachable and to not disappear without contact for two weeks again.

It was going to be a long morning.

[door’s closed but post is open - especially if anyone’s around and wants to investigate the noise]