RP: YSS Eucharis [Mission 4] The Chase

Nana glanced from left to right as everything came into focus and her armor was inside the strange vessel. She looked towards Kim, weapon close at hand, before edging near Misaki. To the bridge, she said. Something about negotiations. People weren't always so ready to acquiesce, and she hoped they would cooperate. All the group wanted was the tools to help find Hanako, right?

Misaki led them through the corridors of the ship, speeding through until they could reach the bridge. It was simple enough to find, and the readings of life signs with the infrared was obvious enough. She ordered Nana to the other side of the door, to follow her in. They still had stealth on their side, it at least appeared. Okay, I'll take the CO, make sure the others cannot fight back but do not injure them if you can avoid it. The officer thought.

When she got Kim's message, she sent back the plan. Secure engineering, and any personnel inside. Drop out of stealth when you can gain an advantage from it.

The general order flashed to all their suits. Go! With that, the XO's armour darted inside the bridge, and she moved towards who she thought was the CO, her plan to switch off their camouflage when her weapon was pointed to his head to diffuse the situation in a strange way.

"What the fuck?!" the tiny freighter's captain said, as he and his crew were ambushed. The situation was extremely tense, but Misaki and her team had the upper hand over the unprepared Nepleslian civilians.

"We'll take the recordings, in exchange for not doing a more thorough inspection into your activities and cargo." Misaki announced, a very unfriendly weapon pointed at the captain's head. "Clear access to download them, when we have what we want you won't see us again." Misaki sent a signal to the Eucharis to receive the file. "Instruct your crew to stand down from their stations, captain. If you comply fast, I won't have time to make sure you're arrested for obstructing a matter of security."

The officer would not barter for something that could save Hanako if she had a choice, she was hoping the man was smart enough to realize what the best course of action was.

"I already told you there are no recordings!" the captain growled. "It's real-time only. We use it to watch out for green saboteurs when we're landed."

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Meanwhile, the Eucharis received a message from the YSS Nadeshiko at Pisces Station: "Taii Wada Mitsuyo, reporting that Hanako's shipment here contains special sensor and ECM equipment of alien origin, all in good condition."

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"Check the computer." Misaki told Nana, the reason she had brought her was to have backup, and someone to check the computer systems while she negotiated. "Then I want to know if you saw anything strange. If it's real time that means you had someone watching." She told him enough of Hanako's description and probables on the assailant, but not enough that he could guess who she was unless he knew about the Ketsurui Princess and what her face looked like. "...or something big enough to carry a body in." The officer finished.

"Deebo," the captain said.

A huge ID-SOL with body armor emerged from a side compartment. His skin was black as coal. His jacket said SECURITY in bold white letters.

"You see anything person size in the other guys' cargo?"

Deebo pondered for a moment. "The GLF wit' orange and black stripes was loadin' a cryo freezing unit, human size."

At the written order, Kim dropped stealth at the same time as she stormed into the Engineering compartment and brought her gun level onto the few crewmembers located inside as drones hovered out of the hangars on the MINDY's legs, just to give her more firepower and being able to keep everyone under controll.

Engineering secured, Shosa. Was the simple text message that Kim sent to Misaki as she examined the room to see if there were any signs of Hanako in there, though she doubted it. The Engineering compartment wasn't where you hid a valuable hostage.

"Good..did you catch its name?" Misaki asked, putting recall orders for her dwindled armor team on standby. Yaichiro-Shosa, investigate any ships that may match this description, Geshrinari light freighter... She was starting to understand what the plan had been, and the hunch the officer form started to nag at her while she waited for an answer from 'Deebo'.

"Roger." Nana nodded before heading for the console, clicking away at the keys as she searched through the security files. It was a quick process, but.. "I'm not..seeing any ...security logs.. or video. So..hum..The hell kind of security doesn't record?" Nana mumbled to herself and tilted her head, eyes roaming over the screen.

"No, I try to mind my own business," the captain said on behalf of Deebo, his tone implying that maybe Deebo and Misaki should do the same.

Deebo shook his head no, too.

"Acknowledged."

He then contacted Yui and the squadron...

"A Geshrinari Light Freighter with orange and black stripes left with a human-sized cryocontainer. Are any of the half-dozen vessels which left in kind with that description?

If any of you are near such a ship, check it again, and its surroundings.

Kage Yaichiro-Shosa

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Message from the YSS Nadeshiko at Pisces:

There's a ship here that matches the description but apparently it's up for sale now and there's no sign of the owners.

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"See that you do, then...watch yourselves. Thank you captain." Misaki lowered her weapon, and gave the small team a general recall to the Eucharis. She waited until Kim and Nana had teleported off before doing the same herself.

"Eucharis. Set course for Pisces, we're coming in."

Message from the YSS Nadeshiko at Pisces:

Apparently another buyer may have beat you to it.

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"Understood. Do it, Blackberry."

Yaichiro ordered.

Offer 5,000 KS extra.

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Back in the hospital, Valen awoke with a start, wearing a hospital gown. Pain surged through his entire body again as his senses focused. "Gaaah!" he balled his hands into fists as whatever pain medication they had him on wasn't working that well.. Either that, or his pain was so intense that it surpassed the medicine's capabilities. Either way, Valen was in pain.

Memory soon followed on what happened. "I have to help find Mistress Hanako!" he almost cried as he attempted to get out of bed. That was a very, very bad idea. His hips were not yet fully healed, so they were quite fragile. As soon as he put weight on them, the tech sentry heard a crack and found himself landing on the ground, face-first. Unfortunately, his embarrassment didn't end there.

The gown he was wearing hiked up enough to give every single nurse in the vicinity a good view of many... things. The younger nurses-in-training would blush heavily and giggle amongst themselves, but the older ones seemed to show no reaction except for the thin crimson along their noses and cheeks. Fortunately, though, a couple doctors were handy and controlled enough to help the poor Yamataian back into bed to preserve what dignity that he had left.

Blinking off of the vessel, Nana shook her head and headed back towards the Eucharis. She'd expected to fix a few things, maybe tear a few apart. but not this. Definitely not this. A hand flexed in the armor, her nose wrinkling.

No idea how I managed to get into this mess...

The mighty gunship Eucharis lifted off the concrete, retracted its landing gear, and floated higher and higher into the air. Once a safe distance from Yamatai, Blackberry executed a hyperspace fold. It would take Eucharis about six minutes to reach Pisces Star Fortress. The ship's interior hummed smoothly as it traveled.

"Perhaps we could skip tomorrow's daily cleaning hour," Blackberry suggested to Misaki. It was far into the middle of the night already, and no one had been able to sleep except the cook.