RP: YSS Eucharis [Mission 19.3] Return to Eucharis

Re: [Mission 19.3]

Medbay

Ayumi looked up as Hanako's voice came over the intercom. Suddenly she remembered that she needed to remind the crew that they were able to do mental back ups at any time. She'd been sitting in silence for so long that she needed to stretch slightly as she stood.

"If there's an away mission they will probably need a doctor to accompany them, even if it is peaceful..."

She looked up at Izokia, knowing she'd be unable to go due to her lack of a medical scanner. Instead of dwelling on it she looked up in the general direction of the ceiling, as if that meant she was making eye contact with the AI of the ship.

She paused for a moment as she remembered the AI's name, "Charisma, please make a general announcement that the medbay is ready to provide medical backups for any and all crew. We suggest that these are done before any away missions, as a precaution."

As she spoke, Ayumi crossed the room to the back up centre, giving the chair a once over just to make sure everything was in order.

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Medbay

Izokia head poked up from her notes at Hanako's announcement. "So Ayumi would you mind if I took a spot on the away team? Its just I've always had an interest in sociology and since you enjoy looking at the cabinets so much." Her eyes began to gleam with a slight hope that she could correct her perivous errors.

After a second of Ayumi's signature silence Izokia spoke up again. "Do you want to go down to the wardroom for dinner,I figured I'd ask before running out alone." Her sad attempt at a joke fell flat even as she punctuated it with a small forced laugh

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Cabin #4

"I don't know..." Misato reached over and put a hand on Mitsuko's head gently, "You don't have to go, but I doubt there is anything to worry about down there." she glanced nervously at Bors. "In any case I think I'm going to volunteer to remain aboard. I'll suit up and wait in the PA bay, in case there is need for us to make a drop." She sighed and tried to sound hopeful, "I bet I'll be able to sit there and read for the whole time."

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Wardroom

Natsumi's movement caught Sienna's eyes in her peripheral vision, and upon glancing her way she saw the snow-capped Neko striding over to her with a friendly, accommodating expression. She never took her gaze off of her, watching her as she approached her booth from across the wardroom.

She gave the Neko a half-smirk with one corner of her mouth and motioned across the booth table with a slight wave of her hand and a quick glance of her eyes in response to her inquiry. "Wouldn't be out here if I didn't wanna be bothered," she replied. "Feel free."

She stole a quick look at the buffet as Natsumi sat down, frowning slightly in disappointment upon noticing it was still barren. Looking back across the table after hearing yet another question, she smirked in full this time, simultaneously amused at this soldier's curiosity and oddly appreciative of her concern. She didn't honestly think it was genuine, but it was a nice gesture nonetheless.

"Well," she replied as she laid the bottom edge of her fist on the table, lightly tapping it on its surface and looking idly around the room. "It's been... interesting," she continued with a thoughtful sigh. "Still a little surprised your skipper let me tag along with y'all planetside, and I ain't really sure what use I was." She shrugged, making eye contact again. "Kept the blood moving, though. Still, if it's all the same I think I'll stay up here next time, see if I can help turn a wrench or two somewhere. I been in some nasty places, but wading around in that squicky swamp just didn't do much for me," she concluded, making an "ick" face with her tongue.

Before Natsumi had the chance to reply, she saw Takeyu nearby, slowing his pace enough to greet Natsumi, although when he repeated the greeting to her, his jaw seemed a little tauter and his voice a little more strained. Sienna's eyebrows twitched up just a touch; she hadn't missed the way he'd been scowling at her when he thought she wasn't looking ever since they'd come out of that wreck. He hadn't done or said anything out of line and had been a pillar of professionalism and courtesy, but it had been exactly that and not a bit more. Not that it bothered her; she wasn't concerned with making friends, and didn't think it worth her time to work hard at making people like her.

She didn't verbally reply to his greeting, only responded with a slight smirk and a nod.

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Bridge

Sune listened to the both the incoming message, and Hanako's intent to send an away team to the surface. That she was willing to send an unarmed team to the surface with no data set off a number of alarms with him.

"Shôshô, is it really prudent to accept such an invitation without more information. All we have is a text message. They have not identified who they are. We have no idea what the conditions on the planet are. I would suggest that we proceed with a bit more caution." he said to Hanako.

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Medbay

"It is best that you go." Ayumi replied, "I would be of no use to them at this time." She'd only just gotten on to the ship anyway, she wasn't really in a hurry to get off. She wasn't a medic to see strange new, or not so new, worlds. She turned around, facing Izokia with her hands folded in front of her.

There was a slight glance towards the cupboards and a double blink of her eyes in reply to Izokia's quip about them. She wasn't sure if the statement was supposed to be a joke, or if Izokia was making fun of her for making sure she knew the equipment of the lab. Both rolled off of her shoulders as if they hadn't been said, and she didn't offer a reply to them.

What she did reply to was Izokia's offer of food. There was a short nod, and then she took a few steps across the room, "We should go, yes." She waited by the door for Izokia, her silence descending on her again.

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Wardroom

Izokia walked in the wardroom with Ayumi directly next to her, seeing the whole crew together like this made the young medic recoil back behind Ayumi.

"S-so where do you think we should sit? there's quiet a few places."

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Wardroom

Natsumi nodded as Sienna spoke. While Sienna might not have believed her concern was genuine, it very much was. Natsumi was not the kind of person to fake anything. Deception was not something she was capable of.

"Hi" she said as Takeyu greeted them. She noticed the tension between the Engineer and Sienna and had an inkling of why it was there. She decided best, for now, not to pry.

"I can understand why you would want to stay behind. That planet was super gross" she referred to the slime filled derelict and thinking about their encounters on the planet before and getting shot at on the ice planet before. "I think I'll stay behind and man the bridge, maybe I'll get to fire the ships guns for once" she said and smiled plainly.

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Cabin 4

Mitsuko sighed at the relaxing pat to her head. She was content to just sit there, half-sprawled on the desk, until this impossibly long day was finally over. "Yes, Suzume-chan...please just stay on board."

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Power Armor Bay

After decontamination, and letting the nanites eat the tongue depressors, Chieko made her way back to the lockers and changed back into her uniform, seemingly the only one left behind. Once dressed with her bangs pulled up again, the young scientist held the goo filled vials up to the light for a look to see if the goo was all uniform or had random large or small chunks relative to the size of the samples. Hearing that they had arrived at their destination, however, she soon gathered herself up and made her way back to the bridge, dropping off the vials in a containment cell in the Medical Lab on the way.

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Wardroom

Ayumi looked the room over with a quick glance, turning just slightly as Izokia cowered behind her. She shook her head in just the slightest before looking back over to the main table.

"It doesn't seem viable or polite to avoid the rest of the crew." Ayumi stated softly, stepping forward into the room and then down the step into the buffet area. She only threw the shorted look over to her shoulder to check and see if Izokia was following her before she piled the smallest and simplest of meals on to her plate.

She took her plate to a chair, making sure there was a second chair beside her, but not opening inviting Izokia to sit with her. She didn't want to be rude, but she did prefer meals in peace.

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Wardroom

Izokia collected her plate, one significantly larger then Ayumi's she uses eating as a coping mechanism for her nerves. She took the seat next to Ayumi as she sat down she began looking all over the room to see if anyone had remembered her from the incident in the shuttle bay. To her relief not a single person was discussing it at least as far as she could hear. Her new goal since she learned that Ayumi was nearly impossible to make conversation with maybe if she could find the ships science advisor they could talk theory or at least talk at all. But with him or her no where to be seen she resigned to eating in silence with Ayumi.

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Wardroom

Sienna turned her attention back to Natsumi as she began to respond. As far as either Natsumi or Takeyu could tell, she had either barely noticed any tension, or was thoroughly unbothered by it. She simply looked back across the table, going back to softly bouncing her loose fist on the table as she listened to Natsumi, her expression not showing an inkling of concern about anything.

She chuckled quietly at Natsumi's use of the phrase "super gross," smiling a little wider. There was something vaguely innocent about the white-haired gynoid that Sienna found endearing. If she didn't count the two times she'd pulled a gun on her when they first met on Urtullan, Natsumi seemed to have been going out of her way to befriend her, at least ever since she'd come aboard the Eucharis. Of course, in her experience, the only reason someone behaved like that was because they were after something, but Natsumi just had this weird, childlike sweetness to her that made it seem like she was either just too naive or too simple-minded for such a thing to even occur to her. That, of course, didn't mean that was truly the case - she'd dealt with masterful actors before, and knew better than to be taken in so quickly. But in this case it wasn't really any big deal. The company and conversation was pleasant enough, if for nothing else than to distract her from her increasingly angry and empty stomach.

Raising an eyebrow at Natsumi's mention of the ship's guns, she tilted her head quizzically. "You ain't shot at anything yourself yet?" she asked. Almost as if in response, Hanako's voice came over the intercom, asking for volunteers for a "peaceful" away mission. Sienna couldn't keep her grin from spreading. "Heh, wasn't y'all's mission to my backwater rock a 'peaceful' one, too?"

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Wardroom

"No, I have not fired them yet" Natsumi replied and laced her fingers behind her head as the Shosho's announcement came over the intercom. She was pretty sure she wanted to stay on the ship this time rather than getting shot or covered in goo and almost burned to a crisp.

"It was supposed to be" she said and frowned a little as she thought back to how bad that had gone. "On the plus side though, you got to get away from there and get to have adventures with us now!" she said cheerfilly.

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Wardroom

Sienna grinned chuckled lightly again, looking at Natsumi with both eyebrows raised in amusement, as much at her statement as the way she seemed so giddy about it. "Ain't much that gets you down, is there?" she asked rhetorically, still grinning as she slowly shook her head. She bounced her fist on the table one more time, then lifted it to run her fingers through the side of her hair again.

She scanned the wardroom from their corner with her eyes again before looking back at Natsumi. "I think I'm sitting this one out," she continued. "Doubt the skipper wants a grungy drifter representin' her sleek Star Army. Besides," she added, uncrossing her legs and folding her hands on the table as she turned her shoulders to square up with the Neko, "no offense, but from what I've seen so far, y'all got some conflict resolution skills to learn amongst yourselves before you go trying to make nice with anyone else." She leaned back in her seat and shrugged semi-apologetically. "Just sayin'."

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Wardroom

Natsumi smiled. "Someone has to keep positive" she replied. "And I'm sure we could make you un-grungy" she grinned. "Just wait till next time we're in port, I'll take you shopping" She genuinely was being friendly to Sienna.

"Well as to that, you didn't catch us on our best there" she replied. "I'm sure if the Shosho had been on the planet we met you on with us we would have not had as much trouble" she shrugged. "Anyways. I guess diplomacy isnt my strong point, I'm just a starship operator and was only created about two years ago" she glanced at the empty buffet. "I wonder what's going to be for dinner"

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Wardroom

Sienna blinked at Natsumi's suggestion that she take her "shopping." That wasn't at all what she intended, and it certainly wasn't the response she'd expected.

Electing to let it go, she quietly cleared her throat as Natsumi continued, offering her explanation for her crewmates. She wrinkled her forehead and shrugged again, folding her arms. "It ain't you I was talking about," she replied. "It seems like there's a lot of egos on this ship, and fragile ones at that. 'Course I could be wrong; I ain't been here long. But tempers and guns are pretty loose around here from what I've seen. Don't seem like military discipline to me."

She didn't fight it when Natsumi changed the subject. She was a bit surprised she'd let her go on questioning her shipmates' stability as long as she did. "I dunno," she said in response to her comment about dinner. "But I hope it's soon. I'm starving."

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Wardroom

Chieko was on her way up the zero gravity corridor when she noticed her hunger again and a rumble put an exclamation point on it. With that in mind and the impending possible away mission, the scientist made for the wardroom instead to see if any of the previously announced sandwiches were still around - even if they would be stale by now. She even contemplated her body's possible ability to metabolize methyl glycol anti-freeze on her way through the door.

Once in the wardroom the academic noticed the two new medics, then in the far corner two more crew members and possibly a civilian. Chieko greeted Ayumi and Izokia with a polite bow before looking around further and not seeing any more sandwiches, cursing herself for waiting. The science advisor then looked over at the far group with a mind to bother them a moment.

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Wardroom

Ayumi had been silently and politely picking away at her food when Chieko entered and bowed in greeting. As if it was a well trained reaction, Ayumi placed her utensils down, stood and bowed in return. She looked after her for a moment, watching as she took in the rest of the room, and then sat back down to eat.

She picked her utensils back up and returned to her meal. The clear indication that Izokia wasn't entirely pleased with her quiet crewmate, by not bothering to make anymore conversation, didn't bother Ayumi in the slightest. It was in her opinion that if someone should want to make a conversation, they should either find someone who was as enthusiastic about their topic or find someone who enjoyed talking as much as they did. Ayumi was comfortably neither.

Rather than make conversation Ayumi was going over the events of the day thus far with a fine tooth comb, considering alternative actions, or whether things were done properly.

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Wardroom

"I'm sure dinner will be ready soon, they're rarely late" Natsumi replied. "Though I was not expecting all the new crew when we got back from that mission, so maybe it is taking them a little longer to accommodate for the extra people they need to feed?" she shrugged.

"As for military discipline, I'm not sure what you are used to where you come from" she said. "I know most of us here were created for service in the Star Army, the military is all I have known since I was created and it has seemed to work so far" she went on. "I guess our cultures just have different notions of how it should work?" she shrugged. She wasn't insulted or irritated by Sienna's comments, she understood that not all organizations worked the same.