Station
Location 3
"Astute observations," Eden said over comms to Kiyomori. The statues and worshippers looked very similar to one another, and were for the most part humanoid, save for a pair of elongated ears on either side of their head. They all had pale hair and differing tones of grey skin that were barred with deep red stripes. Some of the worshipper's clothing revealed these stripes on their abdomen and shoulders, but there faces were all marked with differing markings around their eye areas. The statues eyes were closed, though some of the worshippers had there own open while walking or looking up to the statues, at which point their saturated, vividly colored eyes could be seen. The statues had all closed eyes, though, and in only the smallest movements could they be seen as living.
She looked ahead, past the humanoid statues to the end of the room far from the door where the cloning tanks had been positioned at the other two locations. She stopped trotting forward to look at the statue nearest her once more. To the team, "A small support group should find positions above, same as location 2, but spread out a little. This will be a little different than the other locations in that there's not one central tank location... Each of these statuesque people are being brought back." In total there were ten of the statues in the room and Eden breathed out, looking around, "How do we stop it?"
As she asked this, the statue nearest the entrance opened her eyes, then moved in a deliberate way, something that none of them had exhibited yet. Eden saw it on her visuals from other team members' suits and turned around to point her forearm at the statue and observe the rest of the movement. The statue had raised an arm and pointed directly at Alastair, then tersely spoke in a language foreign to Eden.
"Good going, Chui. Shift your positions marginally, team. Don't stand where she has pointed." Eden said to him, then looked at the worshippers, who sat up slightly from their kneeled prayer to look towards the Mindy, but each of them looked in different areas of the room, not focusing on Alastair at all before looking back to the statue woman, who was also pointing at Elenor, now, then pointed at Eden and the rest of the crew. She began to step down from the raised area for herself and at the same time, a man of her same humanoid build rushed towards where she was anticipated to step, all the while looking with a stressed expression towards the areas she had pointed out. The worshippers were staring at the figure walking forward.
Eden comm'd in to her team, again, "Kurogane-hei, Belmont-shoi. The three of us are going out of stealth. Wear a Type 35. Everyone else, back us up." She herself was transforming into her personage while wearing the regal blue pencil skirt and white paneled jacket of the Type 35 uniform. She bowed to the statue that had paused in front of herself, then to the male who had stopped just behind the woman.
Eden keyed into what had happened with Saya at Location 1 and spoke, "We speak Trade. It is an honor to meet you."
The man looked nervous, "The Rixxikor... Their Trade... Is different. It's difficult to not say the wrong thing... "fucks" for instance."
Eden nodded, but said nothing, looking to him, then the woman, who spoke next.
"They knew you would come. They are willing to cooperate. Those like myself... clones. They don't want us to be brought back in this way."
Eden looked to the man, who said, "It is true. Inotap is one of the ten sent back to us from the past." He looked thoughtful, thinking, "Theory is the word, I think. Theory is she has our old genes, she can see heat when we cannot," he said, spreading his arms to the worshippers, who all looked very confused and were in different positions between kneeling fully and sitting up. After waving towards them, his stressed expression returned. "They can not speak this... foul language. Do you mind?" He pointed to those kneeling and Eden nodded to him. He turned to speak to them in their own language, speaking with his hands as much as his voice to calm fears and likely explain the goings-on. Eden looked back to the woman.
"Will you help us shut down the cloning facilities here?" Eden asked.
"This temple and one more on this place have stopped their cloning," she said and Eden sent a message to Boss to see if she could verify that. "I was the last to be brought back of my people, hopefully forever. It is not right."
Eden asked, "What is the intention behind stopping the cloning?"
Inotap looked to her people, then said, "You do not have a word for it in Trade. Rebellion is the closest thing I can think of."
Eden nodded, thinking, "How many Kuvexians are here on this station?"
"Just the one and their guards," said the man, returning to the woman's side.
To Eden's shocked face, Inotap filled in information. "Most of those here, not just mine, have been hurt for a very long time. The threat of pain is permanent; there is little need for them to keep hurting when the scars in our people are deep and lasting."
Eden asked, "Where are the Kuvexians and, there is one more location we need shut down. You said this one and another have been stopped," Eden said while getting confirmation from Boss that she had verified the cloning was shut down, if not destroyed in some way, in the two new locations. " They have been stopped, but what about the other?"
The man spoke, "The Kuvexians are holed up in the last location without access to communications or the station's systems. The cloning, though, is out of the control of those there. They may be too important to the Kuvexians or they may be too stupid to stop their own facility."
"They? The aliens there?" Eden asked.
"Yes," said the man, nodding.
"Are the aliens cooperative with your and my cause?" Eden asked.
The man nodded, "Yes. Earlier, when we all heard about the Leinve and how their clone tank was broken, we knew we were reaching the end of this... shit." The four-eared man smiled after he said the last word, as if he was pleased the Rixxikor's fowl vernacular was finally pertinent.
Eden sighed, then nodded, "Alright, we're going to go get the last location offline. I'll leave a small group in your temple to be sure you're safe while we do so."
The woman looked at Eden, then Alastair and Klaus before saying, "Good luck to you."
Eden nodded, then sent orders to some of her team to stay behind in this location and to the rest, orders to skip ahead to the last one, Location 5.
Location 1
Eden had sent orders to Saya and Wyatt to stay at Location 1 until the Shoi's team arrived. Around halfway through her conversation at Location 3, Eden saw that the Shoi's team had arrived and sent orders to Saya to regroup with Eden. When the Chusa gave orders to go to Location 5, she sent the same orders to Saya and Wyatt. To Aiko as she arrived at the Location of the leafy creatures, she spoke.
"I have all of my confidence in you to act as the Empire, Ketsurui-shoi.
YSS Kaiyō II
Bridge
Hoshi looked on at the exchange at the third location, then spoke slowly, "Belay that order, Chlorate-hei... Though I think there will come a time for a tank, this is not that time."
