Chapter 1: Landing in Calgary

Your ship has arrived at it's destination in Calgary, Alberta during early hours of the evening, as it lands you see the skyscrapers and bright neon lights of the city glowing all around you. The other soldiers that had come with you began to sit up and grab their belongings and prepare to exit the ship into the city.

The two of you have been through a lot, and finally, now that the war has ended, you have been granted a chance at a new life.

You both exit the ship, with other soldiers, and are met with a heroes welcome by the locals, they cheer you on as you exit, thanking you for your service and ending the crisis that was taking place across the ocean, the hand you gifts of flowers, cowboy hats and little trinkets. Now entering the airport you get the rest of your things and turn to get out of the building so that you can go on with your night.

You look around, the theme within the airport is like an old western, employees wearing cowboy hats, denim jackets, plaid shirts, leather boots, the whole deal. To your right side is a bar where travelers can get a quick drink, to your left are a number of small shops selling food and drinks for the road and straight ahead is the exit to this place, where Misha can see a number of skytaxis waiting to pick up new clients.

Sir Bedivere notices that someone down the airport is holding up a sign, your eyes seem to focus on the sign and it reads WELCOME HOME MISHA MAU!!!!

Either side of you, you can also hear the workers of the shops and bar starting to call out to the both of you.

"Come over here soliders, free drinks for your service... You can hear, "discounts on our latest addition of books, history books about the old west around these parts. Great read and for you, only 1 gp!

You see ahead of you a black Tabaxi cat holding up the sign, it's one of your cousin Carlo! He waves in excitement and as soon as you two get close enough, you are met with five smaller Tabaxi kids all running up to Misha and giving her a big hug around her legs.

"Misha! Misha! You're home!" They all say as they grip you tightly, their claws coming out and digging into your legs.

"Hey Cousin! Great to see you again!" Carlo said as he put down the sign and came in to give you a hug with the kids.

"Who's your friend here?" He then asked, releasing Misha and holding a hand out to RU467.

The kids fall of Misha as Sir Bedivere speaks and all the little ones look at him in awe.

"Wow, so cool! He get's to come home with us!" They cheer. Carlo does what he can to settle them down, but also uses the opportunity to pull Misha aside for a moment.

"Hey, just a heads up, your mom and the rest of the family are waiting at the garage to give you a big surprise welcome back party. Now I don't know what you had to go through over there, but I've seen my share of war vids to know that things like that could be triggering to you, so I just wanted to give you the heads up. Let your friend know too, I missed you Misha, I'm so glad your home." He said as he pet her on the head with his paw.

"Alright kids, let's go and head on back home," he said with a wink, "then I'm sure Sir Bedivere will let you climb him." He joked. "Come on, follow me."

"Well alright then! Let's get moving!" He shouts as he crowds as many of the kids as he can into the vehicles and has Sir Bedivere and Misha get into a vehicle with Carlo and they take off into the city.

While they travel, Carlo fills you two in on what is currently going on in the city, it's been slowing down a little bit since the war had ended. The need of the beef, oil and weapon production had gone down and so the city council had chosen to do some restructuring. One of the big things that they were going to do was have the rodeo competition start up again, called The Stampede. Once a prominent event within the city, it had to stop during the war, but now that it was over, they were free to start it up again.

Throughout the city, showing on the 3D projections on the buildings you could see men riding mechanical bulls and chasing down small cows on horses, roping them around the legs and tying them up before releasing them once the time had been called.

"Your in luck, The Stampede is only a week away, a great way to get the people in a good mood." Carlo said, "Hey, you both are good at building right? I know you are Misha, that's no question, but maybe you should see if you can build or repair the mechanical animals they have for this thing. Good place to find work in your field, and it could lead to something else after the event." He explained to the two.

"I can believe that, and yeah, I talked to the boss, she's excited to meet with you two for sure, your skills "Would be such a blessing to our company." I remember her saying." Carlo replied.

"Although, with word of veterans coming back home, I've also been hearing that other places, higher paying places might be looking for your services. Security, law enforcement, mercenary, bounty hunter, engineers, etc. North America is really opening itself up to those that have come back. He added to the conversation. "But I can understand why you wouldn't want to do something like that. Oh yeah, by the way, here." Carlo reaches into his pocket and hands over two keycards.

"For your apartment, kept it clean while you were gone but made sure not to move anything, I know how you have a specific spot for everything."

"I don't think it would be in your best interest Sir Bedivere to anger Misha's mom, where do you think she got all that strength?" He joked, "Listen, if you want to report in, I'll get you a ride to take you to where you need to go to, tomorrow. That way you don't disrespect the family, and you still fulfill your duty to the military. As for your future work, well, that can get figured out tomorrow, tonight, you see how the Tabaxi have fun!" He said as he gave a swat with his paw onto Sir Bedivere's knee, then shook it as he hit an angular part of your natural armour.

"We're almost there, we'll drop you off at your place Misha, you know where we'll be. Have a moment to yourselves and get ready for some fun!" He said as the sun could be seen going down, entering the evening hours of this day. The ship lands, and the doors open with a *whoosh* allowing the both of you to get out.

In front of you now stands a tall apartment complex, the top loaded with signs, running lights, the lower levels have the building covered in spray painted murals and smaller, more personal banners and ads. Around you are a number of little restaurants and convenient stores, liquor stores, maps, and plenty of people of all kinds walking the sidewalks going to their destinations.