Shuttle
Freyja looked at the drawing the young pilot drew, thinking. she was about to shrug and motion for her to come up to the cockpit seat when it hit her. "Ohhh" she bent down and drew a picture of a prison with bars on the windows and a sad neko behind them. She then drew a few nekos walking into the rear of the shuttle, then a cartoony version of the Aeon with arrows showing the order. "We are trying to rescue some people and take them to the Aeon." she pointed to the pictures as she told the pilot the plan.
Kata'nova's head cocked curiously to one side as she stared at the drawing, the image of the Neko was a baffling one to her as she'd never seen something like it and tapped that drawing and looked up at Freyja.
"My people" she pointed to herself then drew a few different nekos, herself, the Taisa, and a few others of the crew, then she pointed at the cartoony Freyja then to herself, then to the little shuttle drawing then to the inside of the shuttle.
She drew a line to the Aeon from the Taisa toon, "She is my leader"
Kata'nova sat back for a moment as she stared at the drawings; then at the one's with the prisoners, her head bobbed from side to side as she thought about what to draw. Then, she drew what looked like an NMX Battlepod, or rather something very crudly resembling it, and then drew a line with it pointing at the Aeon with an arrow and four dots.
Freyja looked at the new sketch and shook her head. "No no they are not with us." to show this she drew a little Aeon shooting at the battle pods then destroying it by scribbling the pod out. Of coarse this was all nerated with sounds from Freyja. Thinking for a second she asked the Shuttle's AI to show the gun camera's footage of her shooting down a few battlepods.
The young Kit watched some of the footage, it baffled her though as to why they were fighting, was the purpose or the reason? She merely looked at the pilot with a curious look, but she didn't really know 'how' to draw that question out.
Freyja knew time was tight right then, with the ground team getting close to calling for a extraction. "Well you found your self in an interesting place and an interesting time." She laughed normally she was shy around new people, but she was talking and finding it easy to be around this young pilot, "Now if only we could talk."
The kit blinked and stared at Freyja for a moment, before something startled her. She looked down at her bodysuit and over at the holster where she had her sidearm, and pulled the weapon out and pointed it toward the shuttles deck. She tapped the bottom and out came a small rectangular piece that fell into the palm of her hand, she laid the gun in her lap, and slide out a small area of the piece to reveal a crystal inside of it. The crystal pulsed slowly, but every so often it would brighten up a bit.
The young girl let out a sigh that could be assumed to either be one of frustration or perhaps even worry, as she grabbed the crystal by the tips with two fingers and held it up, turning it over in her hand and then placing it back in it's container and closed it and put that container into her pocket, only to pull out another one just like it and sliding it into the bottom of the gun. She turned it toward the back and looked at a tiny display that showed the weapon's status and current power charge. "Fopvhi bnnp gps tjyuz npsf tiput, boe fopvhi qpxfs gps npsf uibo uibu.. cvu. .innn."
Freyja was nerves as the young pilot drew her pistol, but when she set it on her lap she relaxed a hair. It was easy to forget that this person wasn't Star Army, she could very well be an enemy. But she seems too nice to be NMX,
She pondered what was the little crystals the pilot was handling, all she could think of was maybe they powered the pistol. "Your not going to use that in here are you? I hope not it might damage something we need" She drew a little pistol firing with a circle with a line through it, then Freyja drew a Shuttle around it.
Kata'nova looked at it for a moment and then at Freyja and shook her head, and then took the pencil and drew her pistol - something that looked remarkably more artistic than the other drawings she had drawn and then drew a line toward the battlepod she had drawn.
Freyja smiled and nodded, but she quickly drew the "No Shooty Pistol" symbol by the cartoon images of Freyja, the Taisa, and the prisoner neko. During all this she spoke slowly to match the pace she was drawing,"Shoot all the NMX you want, but NONE of my people."
The young kit looked at it for a moment and shook her head; and then tapped the pistol that Freyja had drawn and then drew a picture of herself and draw a line to it and worriedly looked at Freyja.
Freyja frowned for a few seconds looking at the ramification of the drawing. but with a grin on her face she drew a picture of her self and one of the young pilot holding hands, with big smiles and flowers and butterflies.
Those images baffled Kata'nova who raised an eye-brow and looked at Freyja in confusion.
"You and me are golden, I won't hurt you." She thought for a few minutes, then she drew her pistol shooting the young pilot with the "No Shooty image" over it.
"Oinari- Hei, perhaps you should try using the translation program that Gustav-San has been working on. There is a copy of it in my databanks." Came Eternity's voice. "Drawing images without establishing proper context could have mixed results."
Freyja almost jumped when Eternity spoke to her, "Good idea, lets get that running, also any other ideas you have to help communicate with her would not go amiss." She hit a few commands on a console to get the Translation Program to kick up and start analyzing the conversations so far.
"Downloading the program to the Transporter's computer. The initial part combines visual and audio. It displays objects and provides the written form, and can say it. But Josea preferred to speak so the other person would hopefully follow suit. There are several categories, The first are common things such as trees, rocks, etc. The second set is dealing with parts of the body. It also repeats the images several times to ensure the context is correct."
The Tenba's computer system took a moment or two to load and process the code and brought up the menu.
"It also has interactive, where you can say what you want it to show, and it will. For example. Pistol." and an image of a NSP appeared..
"Thank you Eternity," She thought for a moment before speaking to the program, "Shuttle flying" She hoped that the software might reinforce some of the things she belived she got across. As the image of the Shuttle appered Freyja smiled, "We are in this" She pointed to the image and the drawing of the shuttle. "Shuttle"
Kata'nova gave a slow nod of the head when she saw the shuttle, an image much more detailed than what had been drawn on the deck. Of course, now she was trying to figure out how to communicate with this new system so that it could possibly help this creature better understand her, the young girl leaned back in her chair for a moment in thought.
Freyja watched the pilot stare at the shuttle image, She spoke the word "Shuttle" a few more times pointing at her mouth as she spoke it,then to the image. She pointed to the pilot's mouth then the image again, in hopes the poor thing would get the idea to say her own version of the word.
"tivuumf?" Kata'nova blinked, and thought about the word again that was spoken to her. "Sho...tall...." the girl tried to say.
Freyja smiled and giggle a little. "Shu...Tell....," She thought for a moment then spoke carefully, "Tiv...uumm?" She knew that she probably butchered the word but the attempt was impotent.
She told the program to bring up an image or a pistol, "Pis..Tol" she said slowly pointing at herself as she spoke then the image afterwards. Smiling she pointed at the pilot.
It took Kata'nova a few minutes to think on the word, but it just didn't come to her and in turn she shook her head and sighed. This wasn't going to be easy for her to do, but then again, she wasn't exactly educated in this kind of stuff.
