TRANQUILITY PART 13 ( 'What was that?' )
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Shadow comes up close to Wisp and says, in a low voice:
"Then welcome aboard. Now let's get to savin' some lives... and thanks for the patch."
As he walks away, he flashes a quick grin at the surprised guest.
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*Regains Consciousness* What happened? No Sight Of The Captain I'll Just Assume That's A Good Thing *Sees The Open Mask Locker* That's Not A Good Thing.*Grabs A Mask For HimSelf And Puts It On* Jao Gao
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Secondary systems coming back online.
Oxygen level at 27%.
Use of oxygen mask is still imperative.
Mid-bulk Transport Standard Radion Accelerator core. 03-K64-FFF-00
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“Im Wisp by the way” Wisp throws to the strange man as he heads back towards the bridge. Awfully trusting folks he thought to himself; they seem nice enough though. Wisp eyed his stun rifle casually propped against the wall. ‘Probably shouldn’t pick it up again’ he thought to himself ‘and I probably shouldn’t go too far away from it’. As much as these people hadn’t shot him at the first sign of intrusion and they appreciated his help he had no idea who they were. They could be murderers or bank robbers who are going to blow him away as soon as he’s served a purpose. Surprisingly Wisp had known a large number of Murderers and bank robbers in his lifetime and most seemed perfectly pleasant.
“I was going to have a look at your engine if that’s alright? If I can get the oxygen saturation up to around 50% we can all take off this breathing equipment and get the main repairs going faster. I took an eyespy at your damage from space and your losing some fluid out there into the vacuum. I think its probably coolant which would explain why your engine isn’t running too well.”
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The Captain replies:
"Shadow, Captain. And I'll be right back.
Gotta revive my pilot and override the lock the seal on the engine room from the bridge.
Back in 2 shakes of a horses tail."
=Thank the maker! We'd all be dead if he didn't show up. Not big on lettin' strangers poke around my boat,
but he seems a nice enough guy.
'sides, what choice have I got?"=
Shadow shoots a glance at Shinyfryes room and see's that it's still secure.
=No need lettin' him know where everyone is just yet.=
He also see's that the cryo-box that the Twins are in is also still secure.
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Shiny's eyes open, she looks around her room in confusion . Her chest feels heavy. she starts coughing when she hears T.O.B.I "Use of oxygen mask is still imperative".
Shiny struggles to sit upright, Still confused and sore she reaches above her head and pulls a mask down from the overhead compartment.
holding the mask to her face shiny rests her head in her other hand. Every cough she makes, her head feel like it's gonna explode.
Shiny vaguely remembers what happened. She heard a loud explosion then Oreo caring her to her bunk and securing her in.
Shiny removes the mask from her face and shouts as loud as she can "Oreo"!
She place the mask onto her face again. she needs
to get to the captain and find out whats going on. but there's not enough oxygen to move around freely.
...Also, I can kill you with my brain.
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Wisp watched Shadow walk down towards the bridge. Captain he called himself. If he called himself Captain there must be a crew. He began to wondering how many people would be onboard this vessel? And if they would all greet a strange man as rationally as the Captain had. Waiting for the Engine room door to unlock he walked into the dining room. ‘A Kitchen’ He thought to himself. The Epsilon only had a radiological oven so He’d been living off rations and things for the past two years. He tried to remember the last time he’d actually cooked something from scratch. It must have been at least 4 years previously. Back on Shinon before he’d got involved with Vankeetsen. He’d worked in a kitchen for a few months then and had picked up a few tricks and things in the kitchen. The way he saw it cooking was just edible chemistry, mix the right reactants and get the right product. He paused for a moment to let his mind imagine himself stood in this very kitchen rattling the pots and pans again.
No Wisp. He stopped himself. This is a good deed but then you have to get back on the road, people need you. Had he been holding onto this self elected mission too strongly? Ever since they’d become separated back on Santos he’d spent his time travelling the verse after them but had it been time well spent? They could have been captured by the alliance, perhaps they went underground with the resistance, and maybe they were dead? Well Needy wouldn’t be. Had he spent two years looking for bodies? Maybe it was time to stop running around the verse chasing memories. The more he thought about it his solitude aboard the Epsilon was hardly a dreamy existence, and just because he wasn’t dedicating his life to finding them didn’t mean he was forgetting about them. He also had his research to think of. If he wasn’t singlehandedly trying to run a ship and keep it in repair he might actually make more headway into the galactic hiccup that had catalysed the whole chain of events of the past few years. On the other hand did Wisp want to give away his freedom?
Wisp shook his head and gave a short laugh to himself. What was he talking about? He came aboard an abandoned vessel which so far he’d only met one inhabitant of and here he was planning to settle down. It must have been too long since he’d had any interpersonal contact. He was sure after he’d helped them with their repairs he’d been eager to get back into space and on the hunt. Though he was right that he should stop putting Seryn, Safe, Soul, Needy and Vixen at the top of his list. Wherever the galaxy had taken them he had to have some faith that they could look after themselves. If he hadn’t found them by now they either didn’t want to be found or weren’t going to be found.
Drawing him back to the matter at hand Wisp heard a noise behind him as the door to engineering unlocked with an audible clunk. Wisp stepped back and this time opened it with ease. As the door slid open it revealed the body of a man lying unconscious and slightly blue. Wisp grabbed one of the oxygen masks now dangling from the roof and proceeded to attach it round the man’s face. Once it was in place he scanned the engine room for an intercom which he found to the side of the doorway.
“Captain Shadow I’ve got one of your crewmembers back here who’s not regained consciousness yet. I’ve put a mask on him but I thought I oughta let you know.”
Stepping over the prone man Wisp locates a computer terminal alongside the engine and tries to engage it. Like the one in the cargo hold it was powered down and Wisp had to use another power core to get it up and running. The screen filled with a basic readout of engine function which like everything else onboard hung with needles in the red. From the looks of things the fluid he saw leaking into space was coolant. Looks like the engine had reduced down to idling to prevent overheating. Sound plan except that the rapid loss of atmosphere left the crew with nothing to breath in the interim. Pressing a few buttons on the terminal Wisp shut down all systems to the external engine
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Shadow bumps into wash just outside the bridge and gets him up to speed with all the new events.
"Stay on the bridge and monitor everything that's happening Wash, dong ma? Keep yourself under the radar."
Wash acknowledges the Captains drift.
Then Shadow hears Wisp's message about the downed crewman in the engine room.
He hits the 'com.
"Acknowledged."
He turns back to Wash.
"Gotta go bring Oreo to the medlab."
Wash looks back at the helm and sees that TOBI is slowly reconfiguring internal systems to improve life control.
Wash picks up his dino's and puts them back on the helm - where they belong.
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Wisp double checks the computers calculations and silently curses himself as Captain Shadow enters the engine room. Making to speak over how to transport the fallen crewman Wisp cuts him off before he can begin.
“Forget him a minute and come and have a look at this”
Taken aback a moment over this apparent disregard for his crew Shadow begrudgingly goes towards the console. This strange man had just saved his and his crews lives he was allowed a little social leeway.
“I was just looking over your life support systems and we have a very big problem. It appears that whatever struck your ship...” Wisp was careful not to specify what had caused the damage at this point. To someone not as technologically minded it may appear to be a simple asteroid collision but Wisp knew a missile strike when he saw one and he didn’t wanna go pointing fingers. Especially with what he had to say next. “... has damaged your auxiliary life support system. The auxiliary deals with the lesser toxins that go about a ships interior things like hydrocarbons and aromatics. Usually you can go without it a few days before the atmosphere becoming toxic but this ship doesn’t have an atmosphere yet. And if we try to restore one without an auxiliary system its gonna be toxic and probably ignite in a few hours.” Wisp paused for a moment to let the gravity of this sink in. “Now my ship has an Auxiliary drive that is compatible with this ship but my life support isn’t as efficient as yours is. So here’s the dilemma. We have one drive that works and two ships that need it, so we have two options. One we all load on my ship and look for a replacement or two I come onboard yours and we leave mine behind temporarily”
The unspoken communication between both men was that whatever ship was left behind wouldn’t be here when they got back. Wisp had found the ship easily whilst passing even without a distress signal being emitted, he just happened to be of the helping disposition. But it would easily take between three and five days to get hold of the part and return and by that time the ship would have been stripped bare with nothing but a hull. Wisp had also failed to mention the non-socially acceptable options three and four. Three being he got back in his ship sailed away and felt guilty over an unknown number of people he’d let die. And option four (which was foremost in his mind at the current juncture) was they shot him stole the part and lived happily ever after.
Both men held very good reasons over whose ship deserved to live. Wisps ship was entirely undamaged and he’d helped them out of the goodness of his heart. He had no reason to sacrifice his vessel for these strangers. On the other hand Wisp was one man displaced from a solitary existence whilst this ship had at least 3 people who would be left without home or life. Wisps ship did have room for them all but it would quickly become very crowded.
Wisp did the maths and realised that he was on the losing side of the equation and He was pretty sure the Captain had come to the same conclusion as well. The captain didn’t want to ask this stranger who had already been more than kind for such a large sacrifice, and Wisp didn’t want to leave his ship and freedom behind.
But it was the right thing to do.
And if there was one thing Wisp always had to do it was the right thing. “Is there a room free aboard I can put a few things?” By a few things the both knew he meant take for an indefinite length of time “ a shuttle perhaps?”
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Shadow paused at this request.
"There's a bit of 'data' that you may want to collate before you join my 'merry men'.
"We have a crew member who is genetically part reaver, due to being experimented on by the Alliance
in a top secret project called
Operation Reaver Echo One. He's being hunted.
"We also have twins aboard. A boy and a girl - both part of another secret Alliance project called
'The Gemini Project' - a sort of 'Super Soldier' project. Currently they are in stasis in a cryo box,
but very much wanted by the Black market, which is who we rescued them from originally.
"If you join this crew, you would join climbing into Pandora's box.
We do have 1 shuttle left. The other one's back on Miranda with some old crew we left there.
"Question is... Do you want to open the box...?
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