RP: YSS Miharu Mission 5, Part 1: Amaya's Gate

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Miharu Nao was like a person with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. For what had felt like only a few minutes to her, she slaved over the Combined Field System even though it was fine. She carefully yanked out smaller burnt out wires and replaced them with new ones. The floor was painstakingly scrubbed with a puny brush with the utmost caution to remove the carbon scoring. The sprite even kept this up until the CFS went from a 99.7% functionality to a 99.87 percentile! As she looked at the screen, satisfied at her progress, Nao glanced at the time. What little pride she had vanished.

"You've got to be kidding me! An entire battle could have happened with all that's gone by!" she yelled to no one in particular. "Damn. I hope Junko's having a better time..." She sent a message to Tom and awaited his answer with anticipation.


The sprite started to pace back and forward at a single little spot. 'What have I missed? What have I missed? What has happened? How could I let this happen? Arrrgh!' The sprite's mind continued on in the silly despair.

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There was a moment where Nyton Claymere lost himself, Yukari thought as she floated in simulated black space surrounded by data panels.

The Shosa swore she could hear his very soul snap like a dried stick when he spoke those words — "I think you're beautiful." At no time in the years she knew Nyton had she ever heard him, directly or indirectly, utter those words. Certainly not to a sprite in whom he previously expressed no fancy. Hinoto's reaction was confirmation; the response made no sense to her.

Nyton's response to that started out as sweat. Miharu had already confirmed his elevated body temperature, as Yukari had asked the computer provide any abnormal readings it had. It had also confirmed his readiness to have intercourse, as his pants left nothing to imagine. His choked cry for help as he tried to compensate for pleasure with pain, that was the moment the struggle truly began.

Yukari already wrote off Amaya, glancing at her psionic profile floating off to the side of the visual log, itself boxed in by different datapoints similar to an engineering blueprint. Amaya was powerful, but mostly defense-oriented, and she still had to break through the PSC, which Hinoto confirmed to be intact shortly after Nyton's self-injuring started. Amaya's profile quickly faded.

Eve's limited one replaced it, but was almost transparent. Eve, for all her power, would have tripped the PSC. Hacking one to conceal psionic signals, especially one that had for so long been outside PANTHEON proper, was too improbable to believe. Miharu had months to devise her own PSC signals and encryptions, ones Eve would not be able to ask PANTHEON to give her. Absent an Ichiro-like betrayal, brute force was required, and that would have been noted.

When Hinoto touched Nyton again, Miharu registered another rise in the Nepleslian's temperature, to 37.5 Celsius. Yukari's lips slid into a lopsided frown; touching was important, then, to Nyton's condition. It also explained why he went so far as to fake a stumble so he could touch Hinoto even more.

The condition is fed by touch, and he wants or needs to feed it. Hinoto ordered the coverup ... played into the condition instead of fighting it ... defeated his attempt to confine her ... then pushed his condition to the hilt. Yukari was uncomfortably aware how well Hinoto's technique worked.

At least Yukari understood how the head wound came about.

If the condition were purely sexual, and so long suppressed, such an — she swallowed — impressive release should have given him pause, and he should have uttered some thankful phrase.

What he did say made the stolen datacore earn the blood lost to retrieve it.

Melisson.

Old records from the YSS Sakura put Nyton very close to the interpreter form of the broodmother, easily close enough to perhaps plant some kind of "seed." Hinoto's analysis, Yukari surmised, was accurate.

Just how chilling that possibility was ... No. Focus.

The rest of the data upload were a display to Hinoto's cleverness and, truly, her ruthlessness. It bore no new revelations, other than perhaps Nyton's libido was very powerful, if it was indeed Melisson-fueled. At least one more temperature change was noted by Miharu.

That was that. Yukari folded her hands in her lap, pushing aside all of the data panels floating around her person deep inside an empty little part of Miharu, made just for her.

Two images remained: Melisson and Nyton.

I have half the puzzle. Now I must have the other half.

Leaving the black space, Yukari's vision returned to the damaged main screen and her console. She was starving, and wanted a nutrition bar, but it was rude to talk with a mouth full of food.

"Hinoto, I have completed my analysis of the data. Thank you. ... Are you OK, having seen and done all this?" She asked as if she were a concerned parent.

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"At first, I wanted this hidden so I could preserve the Taii's honor until a solution could be found," Hinoto told Yukari. "But I came to realize that there was even greater dishonor in allowing a parody of the Taii to be kept walking around."

"I will be alright once I have seen whether or not all the terrible things I have just done will have been worth it or not," Hinoto then confided. The sprite was seemingly not pleased to have revealed a much darker facet to her usually pleasant, supportive self.

The white-haired sprite walked into the medical center. "Ashitaka-Heisho," she called to the chief medical officer, raising her closed hand for emphasis as she added: "I have a Nepleslian Cerebral Chip I want included into the brain of Claymere-Taii. In which hemosynthetic tank are you reviving him?"

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Asher rolled over on his said, as his whole body had been wracked by the explosion. As he recovered, he attempted stand, but found himself tripping on his face again as the many different colors and lights were disorienting him. The Hei stopped himself to get some bearings and led his head clear up.

"Report! are you unhurt?"

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Kai's orders rang on Asher's ears painfully as his mind steadied.

"Nnnnng..." Asher groaned in response to Kai's orders before pushing himself up again, this time having much more control. "I'm good."

He began to stand, but nearly tripped to the floor again.

"I wish I was drunk instead, but I'm good." half-repeated Asher as he walked over to Kai, scooping up his rifle and noticing Kyou being stuck in between the shuttle. He wished to help, but his recuperating walk took enough time that Kyou was already free. Though, Kyou's position had given him a bit of an idea.

"Y'know, after all this over we should do that again." The Malifarian chuckled in a strained tone, bouncing his rifle up and down in hands. "Cept' I could be tha' shuttle, and Kai cn'be tha' wall! Heh heh."

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@black Knights:

As Nimura disembarked, Mara gave a grimace at Asher's comment and answered: "Let's not, okay? It's bad enough that Sanri died and that we lost about a quarter of all the spare ammunition Miharu had. I don't fancy it happening to me."

Before Tsuya and Masako could exit the shuttle Mara turned around her pilot's seat to look into the passenger compartment and asked: "Kurohoshi-Juni, could you leave Yamada-Hei here with me? I'll feel safer knowing both her and Sigurd are here to save my bacon if our homicidal friend comes back."

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Asher waved his hands as if swatting away a fly, in response to Mara's comment. It seemed he hadn't been clear enough.

"Mara, baby, I believe you lack the understanding of sexual innuendos." said the Yamataian, hoping to clear up the meaning of his statement.

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Mara returned a sotto voce reply: "Sorry Asher. One of my sprite sisters dying kind of messed up my wits."

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"I..." Asher raised a hand in an effort to respond, and then stopped there, he was silent for a few seconds. The Malifarian's head dipped in a show of shame. He didn't mean to repeat the 'whole' scenario, he just wanted to slip in a little joke/offer of sandwiching Kyou after the mission. Mara's tone seemed more a slap to the face to wake him up, which it did. He cleared his throat uncomfortably, and then looked up, not looking directly at her.

"S...Sorry." Asher bounced his rifle up and down before silently returning back in line, ready for combat.

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Miyoko got the very distinct feeling that something was afoot on the bridge... between the constant hum of encrypted telepathy and the rather intense expressions and gestures Yukari and Kotori were putting off, something was obviously up. They weren't giving any obvious signals, though, so she decided that it was none of her business until they made it her business.

Besides, the sensors had plenty to keep her busy. With the Miharu's presence long since revealed, there was little reason not to use active sensors, and she was trying to get the most use out of them that she could, monitoring the space around them in an attempt to make sure that nobody could get the drop on the ship.

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The heisho shook his head and placed it in his palm at Asher's comment, and the resulting response from Mara. Kai opened a private line to the Hei and answered him "For the record, I would never participate in such an act, and while I find your combat proficiency admirable, your people skills are severely lacking."

Kai then opened a Line to his team, ordering them to form up. "Form up on me, Nakamura Team, we must be ready for the Juni so that we can continue the mission as soon as possible!" With that, the Heisho stood in a sort of relaxed attention, waiting for Masako to disembark the shuttle.

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Fred said:

"I will be alright once I have seen whether or not all the terrible things I have just done will have been worth it or not," Hinoto then confided. The sprite was seemingly not pleased to have revealed a much darker facet to her usually pleasant, supportive self.

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"Trust your instincts," Yukari sent, thinking about how many shots she had taken based on what her "gut" had told her. "They will be true to you."

The Shosa looked over at Miyoko, her visor becoming more transparent so she could look at the Yamataian. She smiled, then reached out and snatched up a nutrition bar from a little secure slot in the console.

"Hungry?" she asked Miyoko.

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"No, thank you." Miyoko took the question as a welcome opportunity to lean back from the console and let her aching everything relax. "I got a snack like you suggested. I imagine I looked a little ridiculous eating while I had more holes in me than a sponge, but at least now I won't have to worry about my growling stomach drowning out orders in combat." She hadn't yet had a chance to wash, so the skin that was visible outside of her fresh new uniform still showed some clinging dust around the signs of wear and tear.

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@Miharu's Med Lab:

Upon confirmation from the Chief Medical Officer, Hinoto approached the hemosynthetic tank where Nyton's body was being reconstituted and floated up to flip the lid open before daintly dropping the cerebral chip into the nanomachine-filled synthetic blood.

While Miharu was not adequately equipped to manufacture proper cybernetic replacements for Nyton, the MEGAMI had studied Nyton's physiology extensively to understand the artificial neural lattice and firmware the Nepleslian would require to properly use the memory chip and any subsequent cybernetic peripherals he would choose to add in the future.

Surveying the tank's monitoring console, Hinoto was slightly fascinated by the relatively major differences between the late Taii's body and the new one, which was largely devoid of cybernetic implants. While Hinoto was artificially-made, she was still essentially a bio-engineered living creature with a digitalized mind that mostly emulated the human mind. Nyton's body integrated machine-within-flesh non-homogenously which made the augments stand out with more contrast.

She blinked out of her musings as Nyton's brain activity picked up. The Nepleslian was returning to consciousness and had likely begun to assimilate the data in the cerebral chip. She drained the hemosynthetic tank and then hovered up to open the lid.

"Nyton Claymere?"

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Tom had finished his sandwich and put his helmet back on, when the caretaker sprites came in.

"Glad to have you here," he said "We're going to head over to the fabrication bay and try to construct some armors to replenish our supply."

As he spoke, he noticed something in the corner of his eye. The system he was using to track everyone's location on the ship revealed something that was out of place.

"Whenever you're ready, come with me to the fabrication rooms. I'll upload the files to your digitized brains when you arrive. I don't think it'll be too difficult to pick up."

His text message to Yukari was very quick.


Then the message from Nao came in.

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@Rin

"I'm near Hoshi," Eiko said. "I went through a nearby crawlspace to investigate our connector problem and got caught up somewhere behind where the locking mechanism is. I think I'm not too far behind the wall?"

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Kyou looked at Asher sideways. "Nor would I allow it, for the record." She looked back to Kai. "And I'm fine. Bit banged up, but nothing permanent or major." Going back to Asher, she shook her head. "And how can you think of stuff like that now of all times?"

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Masako grimaced at the wreckage of the Cougar and filed poor Sanri's death along with her growing, yet repressed anger. "That would be for the best, Mara-shoi." the young Warrant Officer replied as she looked back at Tsuya. "Take care of her, Yamada-hei," she began before pausing for a moment.

"And be careful." she sent telepathically moments before following Nimura out of the shuttle. "Okay everyone, check your systems and grab any weaponry and ammunition you need from the Fox. You have a minute to do it in so hop to it," she ordered as she cycled her SLEX and Airburst grenades to the front of her magazine. "Keep an eye out for the Black Mindy and aim for its teleportation module. If we can keep it from popping in and out everywhere, we'll have the advantage."

And I'll have that bitch in my clutches. she thought hungrily and sent her detection systems to active.

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Nao ceased her pacing and sighed with relief when Tom's message arrived. The sprite was immediately on her way out of the CFS and to the fabrication bays with a small spring in her step; she had something to do. It was almost monotonous, down the hallways, through the lift, and down some more hallways on the way to the armor bays, if it weren't for the little details. With Nao, it was always the little details. The ship seemed to be still in good shape, but the other Nekovalkyrja were neglecting to repair the little things. A few wires burned out here. A damaged projector there. It irked Nao just a bit, and that urge to fix it, get it out of view came back. "I hate little details..." the sprite grumbled. 'Hmm. I wonder what else I missed.'

As she rounded the corner and entered the fabrication bays, she had no time to even think about catching up. There was only time to work, or so she thought.

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"Un. I'll be there soon," Rin replied to Eiko, as she gathered up her equipment. She then proceeded to right up a message for Tom, just to be sure that leaving the CFS was, first, noticed and, second, alright to do so.

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"Feh." Asher grunted as he began to get reprimanded and scolded. He took off to the Fox shuttle, aiming to replace his destroyed bazooka.

"Well, excuse me." He said, in response to Kai and Kyou, not truly caring for their offenses. The Yamataian stepped into the shuttle and grabbed a spare bazooka off the rack, he heaved the weight for a moment, getting a feel of it. As he tested it's weight, Asher went over in his mind the past minute and how it turned against him so quickly. Was his optimism really that unbear--...

D'aw, fuck that, they're just a buncha' civvie crybabies. The scrapper in Asher's mind surfaced to shut up the only reasonable part of his brain. He stepped back off the ramp and jogged back over to his squad. A noticeable jump in his stride.

"Well, alright then." Asher said in a matter-of-fact tone, feeling rather empowered with his new Bazooka. "Next time I make n'offa', I'll do it in a way that don't hurt all y'feelin's." He shook his head a small chuckle audible under his voice, before looking over at Masako.

"Ey! I like the new head, looks good on ya."

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"Hai." Kai responded to Masako, making his way over tho the shuttle and and asking Mara for some HE minimissiles to go with his Subspace detonating ones, trading them out 50/50. The Sprite kindly helped the Heisho to change the warheads, and quickly he was back out into the hangar bay, ready for action.

"Ready to go, Kurohoshi-juni." the Yamataian reported.