RP: YSS Eucharis [Mission 16] The Nest

NMX Escort

"Hi there Blueberry!" Ramiro said with a smile. That's when he noticed an alert showing that the shields were taking damage. "Talk later, getting shot at. I'll put you on the big screen." Ramiro then attempted to transfer Blueberry to a larger screen, or to the main helm so that way Helen could talk with her.

"Ma'am, I've got the Eucharis on the line, transferring the feed to you now." As he spoke, he attempted to redistribute the weapons priorities. Essentially, since he couldn't change the IFF he was going to try and reverse the information that the IFF was sending to the weapons.

Team Two - NMX Escort - Bridge

"Patch this ship's system in to the Eucharis' MEGAMI, use her sensors and targeting data in place of the data the ship computer is giving." Helen ordered as she watched the situation unfold. Targeting system issues were one thing on their own, but they were an entirely different matter when battlepods began to spew from the ship and target the engines, which produced a scowl upon her face.

"Forget the turrets and cannons, we won't be able to keep up with that many battlepods while targeting manually." Helen weighed the options, as her digital brain brought up memories of intelligence she knew of. "Their battlepods have no shields. Ramiro, access propulsion control, see if we can manage to get a scalar field out of this ship's field system. That, or get Blueberry to conduct a flyby in the Eucharis with an active scalar field output and to put a few pulses into the launch bay." If that plan did not work out, she knew that they'd have to come up with another method, since they had no ability to outrun the NMX battlepods.

"Misato, detonate the package." Helen ordered, before she directed her attention to Mitsuko. "Mitsuko, work with Ramiro on getting those weapons networked to a friendly machine, or at the very least, try to patch your PA targeting systems into it."

Team 2 bridge

"Misato, detonate the package."

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Giggling a little to herself Misato sent the detonation message to the gift. As soon as she did she turned to a view screen, that looked out the aft of the ship. She wanted to see what her handy work did. This was, in fact, her first combat explosive that she ever set off. "I hope they like my present." she said to no one in particular.

NMX Escort - Bridge

As per Helen's instruction's, Reika returned to the NMX Escort's command center. Just prior to passing through the threshold, the neko de-activated her armors stealth system and it's appearance returned to normal once more. Crossing the bridge the operative looked and saw at each of the workstation's how much control team 2 had managed to acquire over the enemy ship.

Upon becoming aware that Akemi was now situated beside an at-least partially functional damage control station, Reika addressed the tech-savie infantry. "How's it coming, Akemi-Hei? Have you managed to seal up those hostiles I reported yet?"

Team Two - NMX Escort - Bridge

With her attention still on her console, Akemi responded to her senior's query. "Yes, I've got them contained. I've also confined all the other enemy occupants I could find. I'm starting to search for a way to shut the Rippers down." As she spoke she began doing just that.

Team Two - NMX Escort - Bridge

"Good to have you back with us Reika." Helen spoke, looking to the armor clad operative. "We've got a problem up here though, the NMX computer system is not taking our commands well, and, the other NMX assets have asserted control over the battlepods. We can handle the pods with a bit of scalar fire, but what we need is absolute control over this ship. What we need, is to override the computer so we can have a MEGAMI or even AIES remotely reprogram it to our needs, do you think you could help with the process?" Helen asked, while also ordering at the same time, it was one of those courtesies she offered to other personnel which wore the black panels.

Team 2 NMX Escort Ship Bridge

Tomomi looked over towards Helen, her helmet hiding her raised eyebrow. She then went back to looking at her console. "I am looking to see if I can jam or find someway to turn those battlepods on their masters." Tomomi said to no one in particular. "But I can help with overriding the computer system too."

Team 1 - Shuttles

Takeyu allowed himself a brief respite as she leaned up against the cabins side. He was going to remove his helmet, but decided not to, they were still in enemy territory after all.

He moved up to the pilots cabin and waited by the door, just in case the pilot needed some assistance. While waiting, he checked the status of his squad and smiled weakly to see they were all apparently still alive and well, he hadn't lost a soldier, which shocked him given all of the hell they had just gone through. Perhaps someone was watching over them... he glanced up at the shuttles ceiling and gave a nod to whatever diety had kept them alive.

Team 1 - YSS Eucharis Shuttle Bay

The well-used T7 shuttle landed on the polished black floor of the shuttle bay with a muffled thumb that rattled the contents. In a moment, the shuttle began to unload.

Pineapple, Lime, and Mango were outside the door when it opened, dressed in AMES suits. "Welcome back!" Lime cheered. "Eucharis crew, please go to the decontamination area first to get cleaned up then remove your armor and report to the medical lab for a checkup. Please clear the shuttle bay quickly so it we can relaunch it."

Team 2

Tomomi found some jamming systems but they didn't seem to slow down the battlepods that were blowing holes in the ship's engines. Nor did scalar weapons. The pods were shielded against them and had normal defense shields as well. Mitsuko's shots took out a few launching pods, though.

With a flash of light, the torpedo detonated in the NMX station, followed by a tremendous shockwave. The area where it went off bulged and flew apart with large amounts of debris ejected. As more superweapons took their tool, The Nest began to burn more and loose integrity, breaking apart in several places.

"Make a hyperspace jump to HX-22," Blueberry commanded via the NMX ship's bridge viewscreen. "Mission accomplished."

Team 1

Sune stepped out onto the deck. "We have wounded, starting with Konoka." He said to the waiting crew members. "Okay, you heard the lady, everyone out. Buddy system help the soldier next to you if they need it. Wounded into decontamination first. Then senior crew members. Move it."

Team Two - NMX Escort - Bridge

"Urgh, different models..." Helen mumbled at the failed efforts to dispose of the battlepods, but, it did not matter much, she had a plan for the situation. "Ramiro, you heard Blueberry, get us folded out of here... and send her a message, we'll be needing support fire to get the pods off of us when we exit the hyperfold at the destination." Helen ordered, for the moment, they just had to make due with what they could.

"Everyone who is not getting this scrap heap to the destination, get on a weapon control interface and start working on the pods as much as we can manage, we can't just let them keep shooting. Focus fire on pods that are moving into firing position for our engines. Force them to break away and deny them a valid firing solution." Helen ordered, as she did much as she ordered the others, getting to one of the control panels that worked as she patched weapon control into the panel, then went to work on operating a pair of the anti-armor turrets in an effort to neutralize some of the battlepods.

Shuttle

After Bors boarded the T7 he buckled Konoka into one of the open seats, and went to buckle himself into an open seat of his own. After he settled himself into a chair and strapped himself in for the ride back he looked to the remainder of his squad, though he couldn't see their faces he knew that they were beat and most likely exhausted.


he sent via text to his squad before closing his eyes for a bit of a cat nap, thinking jokingly I'm getting to old for this.


YSS Eucharis Shuttle Bay

It seemed that as soon as Bors hit sleep mode he was woken up again by Sune's order to get off the shuttle and into the decontamination chamber.

"Righto Boss" he said semi groggily and tried to rub the little sleep out his eyes forgetting his helmet was on so he didn't accomplish anything. Extending a helping hand to Konoka he said "Think you're capable enough to get to the decon room? or do you need a lift again?"

Team 2
NMX Escort - Bridge

Mitsuko stayed at her console, working with Ramiro and the Eucharis to get their weapons to target those battlepods. She kept firing at them manually while they searched for a better solution. Thankfully, her load was lightened as Helen and the others began to spread control of the weapons between them.

NMX Escort

"Prepping hyperspace drives," came Ramiro's response. He had given up on trying to help the others with weapons, figuring there were enough other people on the ship to take care of it without him. Now concentrated solely on flying, he attempted to dodge any incoming fire that came is way. If a battlepod came too close to the Escort, he would attempt to ram it. Meanwhile, he plotted a course to HX-22 and activated the fold drives the moment they finished charging.

Team 1
YSS Eucharis Shuttle Bay

Yamashiro Natsumi followed the others off the shuttle now that they were safely aboard the Eucharis. She fell into step with the others as they headed for decontamination, glancing quickly at Konoka as she was assisted ahead with the rest of the wounded.

Natsumi suddenly felt very tired. The adrenalin rush of battle over, her limbs felt like they were made out of led. Any moment, she felt, she could just keel over and sleep on the deck. All she wanted now was a hot shower to clean off all the sweat and grime and the soft sheets of her bunk.

Team Two - NMX Escort - Bridge

Akemi hurried to assist in targeting the battlepods as Helen ordered, thinking that was indeed the best course of action. They were a much more immediate threat than the already contained Rippers. She had thought about doing so sooner, but decided to wait and see if her superior's attempts at dealing with them would work and was now regretting that choice.

Team 1 - Eucharis

Takeyu let out a sigh of relief, seeing three familiar faces was a welcome sign after such a hard-fought battle. He was going to repeat Sune's orders, but then noticed that he didn't need to, so instead he helped one of the nearest infantrymen off the shuttle and started making his way to decon.

He wanted to help out more though, and was really tempted to request if Team Two still needed assistance, but knew that his team and his squad came first right now.

Team 1- Eucharis
I'm mobile now, Riko-Hei, said Konoka telepathically with a weak smile. Thank you.
She then slowly got up, stood......and fell flat on her face.
Don't say a word, she added, embarassed, before getting up and slowly shuffling to the decontamination area.
After I fix myself up I'll handle the other wounded, she told Sune.
There was no shortage of work to do.

Team 2

Much of the pursuing pods had missed the fold bubble, leaving only a handful to deal with. Helen was able to find a working gun turret and after a lot of missing, finally tagged one of the fast-moving battle pods and it careened into the side of the ship, sending a rumble through the deck.

Akemi was able to hit one, too, and it spun off into deep space with one engine leaving a trail of smoke and particles.

A last battlepod plowed into the main sublight engine, causing significant damage. The ship began vibrating severely and a trail of highly energized plasma was leaving a bright line behind the ship. Some explosions could be heard deep in the ship and some alarms went off on the bridge.

No further enemies were detected in their area of space.

Team Two - NMX Escort - Bridge

Akemi ran back to the damage control station she had just vacated and quickly skimmed through whatever information was or could be swiftly brought up regarding the damage they had and were continuing to take. Rather than try to make sense of everything, she simply activated whatever safety measures were suggested and easily found. She also looked for the ship's engineering bay and tried to see if there was anything that could and needed to be done from there to help minimize further damage to the ship and the affects of what had already been sustained. She was very glad that she had asked Takeyu to teach her more about ship repair and maintenance, specifically how to keep one operational during combat, after her first mission aboard the Eucharis. Hopefully her studying and lessons would make a difference.