Shinon shivered as Yoko's finger got even more curious. She was almost paralysed, listening to what Yoko was saying. Right until she crossed the line. Shinon was patient woman and she could take a lot. Her father was topic not to be joked about though. Shinon almost worshipped her dad and jokes like that were not funny. Thanks to it, she finally got her composure back.

"Yes, yes... I understand." Shinon replied to Yoko and her own hand touched Geshrin woman's forearm and slid along it towards the hand. "No my father did not teach me about cuffs, he taught me this though." She said as her palm and finger wrapped around Yoko's index finger, bending it towards her own forearm to cause pain. Shinon made sure not to break it of course.

She turned to Yoko and smiled at her like an angel. "Quite handy eh?" She said with devious voice.

Rüd heaved another sigh from his spacious diaphragm, and was about to curb the audacious Yoko when Shinon- to his great surprise- beat the Abwehran to the punch... so to speak. He watched with mild amusement, the faintest ghost of a smirk tugging at the corner of his mouth. "A little discipline oughta do it some good," he commented, as though discussing the breeding of farm animals. While casually dismissive of Yoko's "plight," it was also a calm reassurance to Shinon: your response is perfectly alright. No one blames you for demanding respect from the girl. Carry on.

One of Yoko's eyes twitched in response, but she didn't exactly have much to say this time around. "Yea, it's quite handy," she replied, her voice rather drab in response. It was a rather sharp contrast to her usual chatter and banter to say the least, and it didn't look like she was any bit happy anymore. "Ya done? I gots to get to the engineeain soon yaknow."

She refused to look Shinon in the eye and stared at her captive finger instead.

Suddenly, everyone's conversations and confrontations were cut short by another announcement.

"This is the final warning," Seth's voice called out over the intercom, " There is one minute until take-off. All personnel need to be at their stations. Repeat, one minute until take-off. all personnel report to your stations."

As if to drive home that fact, the Engineers, including Yoko and Amethyst, received messages on their communicators or datapads requesting their presence in the lower deck, where the main work space was. Rued, Mako, and Shinon, not having any specific place they needed to be, didn't receive any such messages, as the mess was a perfectly reasonable location for them to have placed themselves.

Additionally to the announcement, all the viewscreens in the ship flicked on, each showing a different view of the outside of the ship- they could see the hangar nearly empty as the last of Sector Seven's support personnel vacated, they could see the vapor coming out of the ship's engine nacelles from the artificially humidified air drawn over to cool the engines created steam from contact with the hot Aether generators, and finally, a view from the aft and a few views from beneath showed the main thrusters and the ventral thrusters igniting.

The entire ship began a gentle shaking, not exactly jarring but not the smoothest ever, and it was quite clear that the bridge crew was serious. They would finally be taking off.

Shinon released Yoko's finger and patted her on hand twice. "I am done, you better run then. I will see you after the take-off." Shinon said and looked away. She now hoped she did not anger Yoko too much, right now she was only one that could be considered her friend aboard the ship. Since she did not have post to attain to and would just be on the way if she went on bridge, she stayed where she was ans stared at the table.

What Spencer was met with- was entirely underwhelming. It was just a regular armory, for the most part, stocked with the usual- SMG's, Rifles of various types, pistols - energy and chemical, big and small - Even Power Armor guns. All in all, it was just a regular, ordinary armory, nothing fancy, nothing special. It just seemed that Origin's default security settings were designed to prevent an uprising from happening, or something. Perhaps they were just being prudent, or preparing for the worst. In any case, Spencer did have to do some inventory on the armory to make sure that nothing was misplaced.

As Yoko departed, the engineer turned her head to look over her shoulder to look at Shinon. "Yeah, shua. See you around," she spoke in subdued tones. At that, she departed, hands in her pockets.

*****

"WHY I AUGHTA KICK YOUA ASSES! GET TO WOAK!" Yoko screamed at tho other engineers. "I want the IAPD's status repoat, and I shua as hell don't wanna see any hiccups with the convoitahs! The CDD needs a field stability check, and somebady pleaaase see to it that tha Fold Drive doesn't wink us outta existence! Now get into those rat tunnels!" Yoko was not in a good mood in the slightest, and it showed right off the bat.

"And Genny?" Yoko called, asking for the AI. "Ya decide youa name yet?"

The Genesis' Ai picked up quickly that it was being addressed, albeit b y a name other than that of the ship's, or of a generic term. It responded within moments, very simply.

"I have not found a name for myself yet. You may refer to me as you see fit, though Genesis is generally preferable in these circumstances."

It was still a little bit stiff, but the Genesis' personality had done a little bit of smoothing out over the past week. Perhaps it needed a bit more conversation from more of the crew to learn more about being something other than a computer.

Evelyn tripped. Again. The second time since scrambling to get to the Medical Bay. Her blood ran freely from her nose, and a hand had gone up to staunch the bleeding.

"Scheisse, scheisse, scheisse." The cursing was in Abwehran, though it came out nasal and was mumbled into incoherence.

She made it to the medical bay and cast around for a bandage or a pack of something cold she could press to her nose. Nothing was broken, thankfully, but a blood vessel had definitely broken open in the first fall.

Amethyst had kept quiet during the entire odd display of teasing, responding only with bestranged smiles and quirked eyebrows as her crossed-over arms interlocked more and more.
This was something Shinon had to learn to fend off on her own, anyone stepping in to help her now would only make her seem even more incapable of standing up for herself... that poor girl Shinon.

As the last announcement was made however, her smile was wide and bright, her hands clenched to her seat as she rather enjoyed the deep rumbled of the ship waking from it's slumber.
"hah... here goes!" she said to no one in particular, looking up on the datapad after it notified her from the inside of her jacket.

"Well, take care everyone. Don't make the ship hate you! You might end up in a rather unfortunate situation otherwise!"
Amethyst got up and going herself just after Yoko walked out of the mess, granting her what little time the journey to the lower deck took, to be on her own.

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Amethyst found herself rather surprised by the fierceness that Yoko displayed towards all the engineers.
She herself was compelled to step up to the Gershin and offer a place to vent... instead, Amethyst gave Yoko a worried glance and a sideways nod accompanied by the same worried frown, before setting off on her way to aid others.

"What a pleasantly mixed bunch " she hummed quietly to herself, not sounding particularly positive nor negative.