VFF Tranquility Part 14 ( The Phoenix Complex )
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UPDATED: Saturday, December 10, 2011 12:58
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Cammy-I got on when you stoped at the market it wasn't very hard most fireflys have a panel you can get in from.
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Many thoughts began to rush into the captains mind as he processed all the information...
How we got here...
Who is this stowaway...
What where Wisps real intentions...
Who set up the ambush...
Why was the get-away so easy...
...They (whoever 'they' are) are setting us up,
watching, to see where we go, what we do.
*Shadow snaps back to alertness and addresses the room.*
"Ok all, here's how it is...
we got new crew and we treat her as such 'til we have
reason to do differently.
Shiny, I need the status of Tranquility.
Is she 'space-worthy'?
Wash, keep us out of the Alliances' way, and try to monitor any other ships that may have broken atmo' after us.
Elbarto, check the ship for tracking devices.
I'm sure we left with a few 'presents' from whoever set us up.
Kat, as always, watch the twins. See if they know anything about this.
...And Oreo, are you copacetic?
'Cuz if'n you aint, I need to know that post haste. If everything is ducky with you then I need you to keep an eye on our guest.
If you ain't so shiny, you need to have Kat take a look at you.
Wisp, any ideas on why this is the way it is?"
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(oreo reappears through the galley door. the captain stares at him.)
Captain- Are-You-Shiny?
(a dizzy feeling of being unbalanced spreads through out oreo. He blinks a few times to try and regain his demeanor)
Captain- Oreo, im talkin to....
Oreo- Yeah, captain...I'm shiny. I'll watch her.
(cammy suddenly has a sinking feeling in her stomach. she blurts out on controllibly)
Cammy- NO! Not him! anybody but him!
Captain- well, you really don't have a say in the matter.
(Shiny, shoots a sinister grin towards cammy)
(Oreo takes in a deep and reaches and grabs cammy forecfully by the arm.)
Oreo- come on! to your feet! Lets go!
(The captain grabs oreo by the shoulder)
Captain- I hope you aint lookin for alittle pay back, cause like i said, she's crew til further notice and you're to treat her as such. Dong Ma?
Oreo- Xie-Xie... captain.
Go n-eírí an bóthar leat. - May the road rise with you.
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“I've got about 18 theories on what the hell just happened but I need more Information before I start sharing any. I'm gonna go hit the wires and see If I can pick up some sort of trail. I’d appreciate If you could swing by my cabin in an hour or so, I've got a few scenarios I wanna pose to ya?”
Wisp excused himself from the table and headed to his quarters. His list of suspects was pretty long at the minute and he seriously needed to define his interests. He had until Shadow came by to have a few reasonable suspects. He also had to ascertain proof of his own innocence. He wasn’t the only person on board wanted by the Crimson Squad; Oreo had definitely been part of one of their experiments as had the twins. So where did he begin his investigation?
“Let’s start at the apex and work backwards” Wisp spoke to himself as he paced around his room “We were ambushed by a Crimson Squad assault team who had been tipped off about someone on tranquillity.” He pushed up a button on his computer and a screen was projected against one wall in a faint cyan. “Crimson Squad Ambush” He commanded whilst holding a little remote and the words appeared on the wall. “Now before that there was com chatter about sparrows picked up by the resistance. I Know from my research that particular call sign is in my file.” Another command and Wisps mug shot appeared next to the ambush with a link to his CS file. “Now the first conjecture how did they know I was there?” A short few commands later and Wisp has his list of suspects on the board all connected to him by little coloured lines.
“None of these have a direct connection to CS so they must have contacted them. Thats a good place to go from here. ‘Trace all Cortex logs From Silverhold to the CS mainframe’”. A loading bar appeared over the screen followed by ‘No results’. “So we can put the resistance and being spotted near the Phoenix complex on the backburner. Before We came here I was onboard ship so...” Another trace of the Cortex logs onboard turned up no results, although in a spate of paranoia Wisp did a more thorough check to see if any calls had been encrypted or bounced around. Again this was negative.
“So back one more step to Aquila” Wisp again ran his cortex check but this time was rewarded with a Big Red result to the CS information office. “So the guilty party left the ship on Aquila...” Wisp now sat down at the computer trying to get hold of the incriminating call but to no avail. A mixture of time and encryption prevented it from being accessed. But now he had leads to tell the captain and worse than that; he had suspects. 
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Shadow finished up in the galley and headed to Wisps room to see what he had to say.
*thinking*
If Wisp set us up, why would he have come back on board?
A bunch of other questions kept running through Shadows mind as he reached Wisps room and knocked on the door...
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(Elbarto gets his orders and leaves the galley. One his way out he scans the entire room, looking at the people he regards as his kin, and a couple new faces)
(Thinking) Looks like we're one big dysfunctional family. The fact that that girl cowering in the corner bested Oreo is quite funny. I've seen enough to know that people are capable of anything, nothing really surprises me anymore...
Elbarto checks the ship for tracking devices, looking in places that he would hide them. He finds 3 such devices and realizes that there are probably more on the hull. After he destroys the devices he heads to the cargo bay to run through some forms, feeling very content and happy, if a word could be used to describe El.
When you can't run you crawl. When you can't do that...well...you know the rest.
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“Come in” Wisp replied to the knock. Shadow entered the room with some trepidation about the exchange that was to follow “You might wanna close that door behind you” Shadow obliged as his eyes were drawn to Wisps information wall now bristling with photos, texts and links with lines connecting articles that related to similar theories.
“You’ve been busy” The Captain exclaimed perusing certain features “You any closer to finding out why things are?”
“I am. I started out with what we know and I’ve tried to trace it back. Going from what the resistance said I checked some com logs and sure enough there was some chatter about sparrows” Wisp pressed an icon on his wall and a Communicae played:
“The sparrow has been spotted leaving the nest with 3 ducklings. Bees swarming”
“Now I know from my File that ‘Sparrow’ is one of the codeword that’s been used on me. So I’m reasonably certain that the attack was aimed at myself.”
“You warned us you had some trouble with the Alliance when you came aboard. We all got away from this one in one piece so you shouldn’t worry” Shadow offered.
“Thats not what I'm getting at Captain” Wisp replied with an extra sting on the word ‘Captain’ “What I'm getting at is that I've been a ghost for the past 3 years flying all over the verse and not once has the Crimson Squad got anywhere near my ass. Then suddenly within a choir boys wink of me coming on board your ship I nearly get my ass shot off in a fire fight”
“I don’t really care for what your insinuating there” Shadows hand drifted slowly towards his firearm. Not directly placing his hand upon it but most definitely adopting a quick draw pose.
“There's no insinuation about it. I checked the com records for Aquila where we landed to drop of those people you rescued.” Wisp pressed another button and the com log appeared “One call made not long after we’d landed to CS information line. I've been trying to get hold of the call but its too heavily encrypted and too far away. I do know it was made before I left the ship to help out Oreo in that bar. So the long and short of it runs like this: Someone turned me over to the authorities. Someone who was on this ship when we landed in Aquila. So maybe it was one of those people we rescued who recognised who I was, or...” Wisp let a pause hand in the air “It was someone who’s part of your crew who screwed me over”
Both men stood a moment with defiant glares. Both in quick draw poses.
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( in a bunk, cammy is laying down on the bed crawled up as far in the corner as she can get. Oreo stands on the other side of the room sweating rolling down his face)
Cammy- i'm sorry for hurting you.
(a grimace expression rolls over oreo's face)
Cammy- it's just that...you scared me. i thought you were going to kill me...
Oreo- I was.
(An uneasy feeling snakes its way through cammy's mind. Long, unforgiving silent moments pass.)
Cammy- Is it true? are you one of them?
Oreo- what are you talkin bout? course im part of the crew you daft girl.
(cammy sits up.)
Cammy- No, i mean are you one, o them. a reaver?
(Oreo unfolds his arms and moves towards cammy, kneeling down in front of her)
Oreo- you don't want to go down this road with me girl. you don't know me. you don't want to me.
(cammy stares into Oreo's eyes.)
Cammy- are..are you ever scared? whe..when you...change.
(cammy slowly reaches out to touch Oreo's face, but Oreo's intercepts her hand midway and clutches her hand tightly in his.)
Oreo- What are you doing?
(Cammy yanks her hand back and crawls her legs up to her chest)
Cammy- I'm sorry, i...I just... i don't know.
(Oreo stands up and heads toward the bunk room ladder.)
Cammy- where ae you going?
(Oreo places a hands on the rung of the ladder and begins hoisting himself up)
Oreo- Captain says you're crew for now. So, you can watch yourself.
(cammy watches as oreo disappears up the ladder and out of sight)
Cammy- Oreo...
Go n-eírí an bóthar leat. - May the road rise with you.
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( in a bunk, cammy is laying down on the bed crawled up as far in the corner as she can get. Oreo stands on the other side of the room sweating rolling down his face)
Cammy- i'm sorry for hurting you.
(a grimace expression rolls over oreo's face)
Cammy- it's just that...you scared me. i thought you were going to kill me...
Oreo- I was.
(An uneasy feeling snakes its way through cammy's mind. Long, unforgiving silent moments pass.)
Cammy- Is it true? are you one of them?
Oreo- what are you talkin bout? course im part of the crew you daft girl.
(cammy sits up.)
Cammy- No, i mean are you one, o them. a reaver?
(Oreo unfolds his arms and moves towards cammy, kneeling down in front of her)
Oreo- you don't want to go down this road with me girl. you don't know me. you don't want to me.
(cammy stares into Oreo's eyes.)
Cammy- are..are you ever scared? whe..when you...change.
(cammy slowly reaches out to touch Oreo's face, but Oreo's intercepts her hand midway and clutches her hand tightly in his.)
Oreo- What are you doing?
(Cammy yanks her hand back and crawls her legs up to her chest)
Cammy- I'm sorry, i...I just... i don't know.
(Oreo stands up and heads toward the bunk room ladder.)
Cammy- where ae you going?
(Oreo places a hands on the rung of the ladder and begins hoisting himself up)
Oreo- Captain says you're crew for now. So, you can watch yourself.
(cammy watches as oreo disappears up the ladder and out of sight)
Cammy- Oreo...
Go n-eírí an bóthar leat. - May the road rise with you.
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Cammy wait a few minutes rubbing her scar in thought.after a while she climbs the latter and heads to the Cargo bay maybe she can find a new hiding spot while the crew calms down about her.
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