(PG-13) Salvage Run 3: Nepleslian Ring/Crew Recruitment

[Toshiro]

Toshiro had a small sweatdrop on his head as he held his communicators. He replied to Kairi telepathically, as he waited for the others to board.

Well, I can understand what she's saying easily enough...though I can see why you'd have trouble, Kairi-san. I do have large concerns using her as communications personnel, though. I may just have Lain be the sole communications personnel and let her tag along...I can't have her anywhere NEAR the communications console with a speech manner such as that. Until I can find something she is good at, I'll just have her be a passenger...I don't know if I can pay her or not, though. I'll have to give it some thought. I wish Lain had telepathic capacities, or I could talk to him right now.

Toshiro waited for the others to board, and for any replies from Kairi.

[Fredrick]

Kairi shrugged inside the shuttle. Are you sure she should even tag along if she can't fulfill her duty that she signed on for, Toshi-kun?

[Toshiro]

Toshiro smiled, still waiting on the others, and looking at the Frankengun, which was quite similar to the one he'd gotten from the Kylie pilot.

Actually, Lain was the one who volunteered. He just used plural pronouns...and I don't want to split them up. I have the room, so I'll likely let them stick together, as long as at least Lain can do the job.

[I'm Only Dancing]

"Slowdownneedtoslowdownyousay..." Reis blinked, idyllically, staring at the woman who made that VILE demand of her. After a moment of Herculean focus, she parted her lips and, obviously taking great pains to speak as slowly as she could manage, offered up a new line. "Canyou..." A long pause. "Understand..." Another. Long pause. "...menow?" Notably the words came just as quickly, but with the breaks between spurts of speech, she was probably a little more understandable.

She resolved immediately to hate Kairi forever, and resolved just as immediately to be as sweetly fawning towards her as she could until the chance came to exact revenge.

[Fredrick]

Kairi thought for a moment. That was probably good enough for now... Best to just leave trouble be for now. She pulled out the box holding her eyepatch and opened it carefully, tapping it to turn it on. Putting it over her eye, she switched through the modes curiously. She looked back over to Reis with X-ray on... No panties. No surprise there... She moved on to the conduits in the ship and examined the current carefully. She noticed one of the power mains to the engine had a few loose connections, and piped up, "Toshi-kun, we need to fix the power main when we get back to the Ygg, somehow some connections are messed up, ne? Check my eyepatch..."

[Toshiro]

Toshiro blinked and looked through the eyepatch, seeing what Kairi had noticed.

"You're right...We'd best fix that now, though. Before we're a few hundred miles above the planet and start freefalling. The Aux would kick in before that happened, but I can fix it here."

With that, Toshiro pops a panel and gets to work...

[Kylen Phylar]

Ken showed up around then, carrying a couple of duffels. "hehe...I love my dear cousin Ichiro."

[Toshiro]

Toshiro looks up as he repairs the shuttle, and smiles as he sees Ken.

"Hmm? Cool, did you get the shotgun and stuff? I got another 10mm and a Zen Little Killer."

[Kylen Phylar]

Ken nodded. "Of course. There were more then one of each, weirdly."

[Toshiro]

Toshiro stopped momentarily, looking confused.

"...What exactly did you wind up getting, then?"

[Kylen Phylar]

"A Type 28 Submachine gun, 10mm Submachine Pistol, and a few more shottys and the same kinds of rifles. heh, almost like he though we were going to be boarded." Ken chuckled.

[Toshiro]

Toshiro was quite surprised.

"Wow...between us we have more firepower than people to use the firearms, then...perhaps I can stock the stations with firearms. I did put locked drawers and metal bullet-resistant components into the bridge's chairs for just that...wow..."

[Kylen Phylar]

Ken nods. "Good idea."

[Toshiro]

After a few minutes, Toshiro managed to fix the connections easily enough.

"It seems like someone on Nepleslia saw fit to play a little joke...that or they tried to steal parts of the shuttle, but were run off...everything checks out, though...we're ready to go, Ken! Start the pre-flight checklist once we're all on board, okay?"

With that, Toshiro entered the shuttle.


(While the repair was a good test of the eyepatch, I'd prefer not to have anything ICly or OOCly slow us down any longer until Serenity is on board...okay?)

[Driker]

Suddenly Eve came over the shuttle com system. "Hello Thar! Shaun was wanting to know how long you all are going to be away from the ship." She said in a playful voice.

[Kylen Phylar]

"We are returning now Eve." Ken said, firing everything up and closing the door behind the two new crew.

[Moon Doll's Twin]

Lain gave a delicate sigh at the tension between Kairi and Reis, though he did not intercede, instead seizing the opportunity presented by her distraction with the problems of the shuttle to whisk Reis off to the side. A hand to her cheek, a slight smile, a slowly murmured whisper at her ear.

"...you really should make more of an effort to get along with people, Reis. Even if they are army fucktoys." Lain certainly didn't hate Neko, he just found them to be somewhat unnerving, and a clear show of Yamatai's utter disregard for life. Yamatai's ability to spontaneously generate breathing souls, however, did explain why they were so very willing to engage in acts of outright genocide. "Army fucktoys may not agree with you much. But if you get yourself killed by one, I swear I will fucking kill you."

[Kylen Phylar]

Ken was wincing at this, (but only if he can hear it. If not, I'll edit this post out or something.) not liking it. "Not all nekos are fucktoys, like not all Neppys are stupid druggies."

[Moon Doll's Twin]

Smiling lightly, Lain drew Reis close against him. She responded in kind with a knowing grin towards her lover, a feckless glance showing no real care for the immediate dislike she had earned, or for Ken's intercession.

"I am well aware of that. And not all druggies are stupid, incidentally." Burnishing hazel eyes showed a certain level of menace, and at once, challenge. "The reputation Neko have made for themselves is quite well-earned, Ken. However, it is not nearly so relevant as the morality of creating them in the first place."

Did he particularly care that there was a breathing Neko right there? No, not really. Lain didn't care who his philosophical positions offended. If he cared about offending people, he would have been a geneticist. Or a soldier, Lord forbid.

[Toshiro]

Toshiro looked to Lain.

"...While I don't demand one to change their beliefs, I do expect a level of tolerance for your fellow crew. You WILL serve with a Nepleslian, as well as Kairi. Also, while the creation of war machines is debatable im MANY cultures, if that were truly all Nekos were, the fact still remains that the blame would be placed on those specific people who created them...NOT the Nekos themselves. We don't ask to be born as what we are...at least not the first time around. All that is also assuming that being a Neko is a bad thing, which is also a matter of opinion. Personally, save the physical and mental upgrades, I see no difference."


Toshiro smiled.

"Besides...as a Geshrin, your race was created by the same group at the same time...you have a common origin, and your opinion is degrading of your own race as well, to a degree...ne? You were created for a different purpose, but are still interchangable from a biological and historical standpoint."