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Remos sat in front of Roken, ready to answer any questions that the Peacekeeper may have.
Roken was relaxed, or at least that's the way he wanted Remos to think as he set his helmet down on the table, "Ok, lets see...." He rubbed his head thinking of how he was going to ask the question. "Alright, could you tell me what you know about the incident with the Barras family, or anything relating to that?" He smiled a little distracted by Gin tapping the ground with her staff.
"Well, there isn't much to know really. The Barras family used to be one of our favorite trading families until one night a pair of them got drunk and murdered one of the girls. It's a shame really." As Remos spoke his eyes darted all over the place, not in apprehension but seemingly out of boredom.
Roken made a mental note of the eye movement as he took in what Remos said, "I see.....I would assume you had them tried and dealt with accordingly." Roken kept his working eye just above Remos's head, his augments scanning the room and still keeping track of his facial movements and anything else that might be a little out of place.
"We tried actually, then they just came in with guns and took them away. We couldn't do anything to stop them, we're a peaceful colony after all." Remos's eyes still darted everywhere, but something else seemed off. Remos's voice didn't fluctuate the entire time that he spoke, it merely stayed a straight monotone the entire time.
Roken heard it, ok....wait... It hit him that Remos could be reading something, but he couldn't be sure where and how unless there was someone behind him or he had augments like he did. He focused his eye on his for a moment, pretending to be concerned by the last thing he said, "I'm sorry, nobody was hurt when they took them i hope." Roken didn't like how Remos was acting, the eye movements were normal at first but the but the way he spoke was off, like he was reading off something.
Remos shut his eyes and nodded before looking back up at Roken. "Did you have any more questions?" Remos asked.
Roken had him, or at least he thought he did. His augments scanned his eyes to make sure Remos wasn't augmented as well while he made the choice to try and see if he could get him to admit or at least slip to confirm that he was being sent information, "that should be fine but I want to be sure, this is all you know right you wouldn't leave anything out because any info will help us resolve this issue." He smiled at Remos, being as friendly as possible before he needed to turn this into an interrogation.
Remos's lip twitched slightly before he spoke, "Of course not," Remos responded. Roken's scans indicated nothing out of the ordinary as far as augments were concerned. The man was a Yamataian, which didn't lend itself to augmentation very easily anyway.
Roken almost gave up but the twitch is what got him, he fiddled with his helmet as he frowned "Remos....you're sure, right..? You wouldn't hold out on me now would you?" Roken assumed that it might have been a mental link..unless they had someone behind him with a sign in his hands for Remos to read from.
"Well, like you said, it'll help you resolve the issue if I tell you everything. I've told you everything I know," Remos responded coolly.
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Back on the Zenpyou...
The two peacekeepers easily kicked open the door. The lighting inside the room was out and not responding to the remote commands of the Zenpyou.
"I think I'll wait outside, it shouldn't be hard to fix right?" Adrian said waiting at the entrance to the door.
Okay, so I should fix it. Okay, why not? Alice thought for herself. It can be fun. It was dark in the room but not that much for a night vision. A flashlight would be enough. With that Alice went into the dark to find the problem.
As Alice entered the room the problem didn't seem to jump out at her. In fact, it seemed like everything was working right, it seemed like one of the problems was in an attached side room. As Alice searched through the side rooms she noticed a datapad buried behind some wires with inputs going into it.
Well what do we have here. Alice is curious one after all. Someone forgot his datapad. Let's have a look. She reached behind wires and picked up the datapad carefully to not touch its screen. She was also careful to not unplug the wires in it.
The screen displayed a layout of the Zenpyou, currently highlighted was the ventilation system. Currently, it displayed all of the vents on the current level and the level above.
Well, this room should control the cranes. Alice didn't think this was supposed to be here. She opened a channel to peacekeeper who sent them here. "Peacekeaper Mason speaking, was there someone tinkering with the ventilation systems in this room?"
Once the channel was open, Alice would notice the distinct presence of static on the channel, along with the distinctive click of a rifle safety being toggled off coming from behind her.
What the heck? Alice really didn't expect that. She is on the ship only few hours and there is already guy with a gun behind her. She must be careful what is she wishing for. Well, this was in hand-to-hand combat training just few months ago. Alice turned around prepared to push the gun away with her left hand and hit the assailant with her right. She also wished that her armor is really tough.
Her opponent wasn't quite ready for that response, in fact her opponent wasn't really aware that Alice was aware of her. As Alice spun around the enemy fired her gun, sadly for her Alice's hand was moving fast enough to cause the shot to barely miss, bouncing off of Alice's shields. Alice's target was in a Super Demon, much like the armors that had attacked the Zenpyou earlier. Alice's strike was true but hardly final, her enemy staggered back into the electronics that lined the walls, dropping her rifle as she did so. As she fell back, a pair of mini missiles launched from from the shoulders of the Super Demon.
"Oh crud," shouted Alice and tried to jump away from rockets. Let's hope they are not guided. She inwardly swore that if she survived the rockets that the bastard would get it hard, she wasn't even left with enough time to pray for her shields to hold up. Time went awfully slow as missiles left the shoulders of her enemy.
One of the missiles completely blew past Alice and blew up some of the electronics showering the room in sparks. The second missile however hit Alice's armor square on, her shields flashed a bright orange and her HUD automatically darkened to adjust for the increased light. As the light dissipated her HUD showed that the shields had completely absorbed the hit and were operating at 80% efficiency. She also saw her opponent rushing for her rifle.
Alice didn't wait for anything. She had her forearm guns. Energy Pulse Canons. Nice things to have in firefight. She aimed both her hand on her adversary and fired a full barrage from both her guns. Ten rounds per second was fine by her.
Alice's shots hit their mark, the Super Demon's shields flickered brightly before failing. The pilot fell forward inches from her rifle, completely exposed and unprotected, her helmet heavily damaged.
Now is the time to die. Alice was prepared to finish her prey but then it got her. Oh damn, I'm a peacekeeper I can't just kill my enemy. "Okay don't move and give up or I will blow you head off!" She shouted waiting for a slightest move of the bad guy.
Alice could hear a curse escape the lips of the pilot, apparently female by the sound of her voice, through a rather large whole in her helmet. "I give up," she said just as the lights started to flicker on.
Alice was relieved. She didn't have to kill anybody. Who knows it might come with the job but she would be happy if she could postpone if only for now. Now where the hell is Adrian? He had to hear explosions and gunfight. Alice still aimed at woman in armor. "Hey Adrian we have intruders on ship! Alert security!" She yelled to the doors where her companion waited. "And you, hands on your head so I can see them and cross your legs. "No funny movements and you will live! Now how many of you are on the ship?" She demanded of her captive.
Adrian didn't have to call security, they had already been alerted and were on their way. While Alice waited on security forces to arrive the pilot complied with what Alice had told her to do. "There are three more of us, though the others aren't in Power Armors," the pilot looked at the ground in front of her as she spoke. Less than thirty seconds after Alice called for security they were there and heavily armed.
Finally! Alice didn't stood up afraid that her prisoner would try something funny. She looked at security guys. "There should be three other around the ship according to this woman," she said to them. "They can anywhere on the ship, but without power armors they shouldn't make much problems. Let's hope they didn't have enough time to sabotage anything."
