=== Maharombi Spaceport - Landing Pad D-5 - "Iron Ferret" Ramp ===
Desmond and Kendra would reach Doc's room with no trouble. Doc immediately set to work on the Separa'Shan, saving his questions for later. A bit later he would report she would be fine in a few days, as no wounds were life-threatening.
Nicholas responded to Lapas as he stood, "Kendra is hit, Desmond took her to Doc." With that Nicholas crouched next to the barely living leader, "Who are you, Who do you work for, and what's your problem, if you don't mind me asking."
The leader laughed weakly, coughing up blood from the effort, "You can... go... fuck yourself. We'll be... back... we always... come back." He glared at Nicholas, offering no further words, until he eventually closed his eyes, and died.
Nicholas shrugged, and started searching through his pockets, finding a sort of token, a small wad of cash, and a folded up note, which had some of the man's blood on it.
Amanozako would find much of the same things, excluding the note. Each of the thugs had the same token on them, and some other small trinkets, including their wallets.
Nicholas opened the note, and immediately noticied much of it was unreadable. He could only pick out a few phrases. There was something about stolen goods, Kara, and the Iron Ferret. These guys were supposed to take back what Kara had apparently stolen. At the end were two letters, ' DK '. Nicholas looked at for a moment longer, and tucked it in his pocket.
"Amanozako, I'm going to try to see who these guys work for. Lapas, go see Doc for your foot. Tell the others what I'm doing, I'll let you know when I figure it out." He waited to hear their assent, and left.
Lapas groaned and shot a hand up for Amanozako to pull him up and help him to the Doc.
Amanozako gave no such help to Lapas. She examined the tokens, took the ID's and pocketed the money from the dead thugs wallets. She was certain there was some local bounty for these mooks and would collect on them as well. As for the token, she examined them in greater detail so see if she could determine some sort of significance to them.
The token was relatively simple, it was made of metal, and entirely black. It looked like two overlapping arrowheads, facing opposite direction, the bottom edge of one meeting the middle of the other, and vice versa.
"Fine, why help the guy in horrible pain when there's something shiny to stare at." Lapas rolled over and pushed himself up.
"No no, don't mind me I'll just hobble on my way then." He started hopping his way to the med bay.
Amanozako eyed Lapas. "You seem to be doing well enough." she commented, then put the token in her pocket and continued to look around.
At the entrance to the dock, a man stood looking at the scene, making a call on a phone. He left as Lapas re-entered the ship, unseen by the Amanozako. On the shoulder of his jacket, a token similar to the ones Amanozako was collecting, was sewn on.
===== Prologue 2.1 - The "Iron Ferret" Concluded =====
