<div class="floatleft"> (http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/170/5/b/chris_redfield_re5_by_kawarimi-d3jb497.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Name</strong>: Nicholai "Nikki" Phoenix<br/><strong>Location</strong>:Shuttle "Gamma"<br/><strong>Occupation</strong>: Guard<br/><strong>Tagged</strong>:Everyone, Open<br/><br/>The loud, deafening roar of the thrusters was conveniently muffled out by his pre planned ear plugs.  The devil dog, as they called all Marines, was experienced in situations that delt with rockets, specially big ones.  The Gunnery Sergeant had anticipated an inconvience to his methodical reading aboard the ship so he invested in a quality pair of ear plugs with maximum deafness abilities.  For a laid back man he was always one step ahead of the game as he mentally planned each move, or at least he tried to be ahead of the game.  There was a time and place where like all young soldiers, he was a fool and that moment, well didn't end to well.<br/><br/>He lifted the novel up a little closer to his face as the lighting inside the shuttle wasn't all that great.  Adjusting his reading glasses, his hazel eyes continued into the 10th chapter of the thick book he had chose to read.  "Shadow, you fool" he said normally, but to anyone looking it only seemed like he mouthed the words.  Instintivly he cracked his neck and looked up as he heard a human voice muffled in his ear.  Removing one plug he caught the tail end of the voice exclaiming an hour and a half left.<br/><br/>Replacing the plug, hazel eyes shifted about to look at the pannels beside him.  He was truly intruiged but that could wait.  He could venture deeper into Mr. Wednesday's world with the aloted time the shuttle pilot had informed him the small group had.  So as the small craft hurtled unsteadly towards his new home, all Nikki could do was smile at the uniquely fitting quote from his book "Nothing cannot last forever"