RP: 4th Fleet [Taiie] Breath of Life

Honoka stopped giggling just in time to realize she was being dragged. "EEP! What are yo-" With less and less ground beneath her, and not exactly enough time to react, she was ungracefully dragged and splashed down into the water.

Resurfacing, the tipsy aide playfully glared at the one who had dragged her in. A moment then... splash. Water sprayed from Honoka's now outstretched hand towards Jessica.

The former sprite was no longer content to wander past the door, "She wants your jumbles!" The girl cried, getting the expression completely wrong but after a lab tech scowled at her (which only she could see) her feet scuffed across the floor until she entered the exam room. "HI."

..
..."What are you doing? Can I help at all?"

==Akina's bathhouse

"Well, apart from ravenously hungry I think I'm doing fine." The Taisho replied to Faye, though the window with the waiting attendant on Jessica raised her voice, "Hey! I'm trying to take an order no splashing!" Come to think of it, she was higher ranked than the Engineer appeared to be. Even if her voice was playful. How many times have I been the splashing one? The brown-haired Nekovalkryja on the other end thought with a giddy inward trill of laughter.

Spluttering from the results of Honoka's splashing, Jessica grumbled slightly and wiped water from her eyes before focusing on the holographic image before her. She was starved, and she'd be damned if Honoka'd rob her of her chance to get some pizza.

"Ah, aye. One pepperoni pizza, and a can of beer, if ya've got some, thanks." Order in place, the Engineer grinned over at Honoka, wondering how she could get back at the tipsy officer as she simply rested in the water, pondering how far she could strech it without getting into problems, given that the Taisho was next to them.

==Medical Bay

"She wants my what-now?" Setsuko asked as a girl entered the exam room behind her as the runty medical officer cocked her head to the side, as if the gesture'd help her understand the increasingly confusing situation.

"And I am fully aware of the terms of 'flirting' and 'innuendo', Ryo-ko-ko-chan! They are biological means to attract a potential mate and/or partner to engage in biological reproductive measures, generally held between different sexes." Feeling quite confident in her statement, the doctor's words were completely serious and sounded very professional, as if the good doctor failed to understand the 'modern' and social aspects of flirting and sex.

Honoka sighed happily before she sat back and relaxed. She and the engineer were... partially even now, at least in her buzzed mind. The aide should have known in this 'game,' you couldn't get even until 1. both parties got tired of it or 2. someone higher up (read: The Taisho) intervened. But, at least for now, Honoka let her guard down.

-Medbay

The 'medical assistant' walked into the exam room, holding up her hands like she was weighing breasts. "She's trying to do that to you! The patient exhibits signs of heightened amorousity...even for us. Should I prep the hard restraints and call the rest of the staff?" And I thought I wouldn't be able to cause trouble..

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"Hai." The window fizzled, and the order was put through to the mess hall while the flag staff relaxed.

"I needed this." Akina sighed, sending Faye off to make her arrangements for bed then the next day. "Honoka-san, you look thirsty. Do you want another drink?"

"Hm? Eh, su-...." Honoka stopped herself mid-sentence. Even in her tipsy state, she was thinking this was suspicious, considering the Taisho's 'rule' about making her drink. "No thank you Shimizu-Taisho, but I'm fine." The aide playfully glared at Akina.

She wasn't about to be caught off-guard by that offer. She wasn't Akina's entertainment (or at least shouldn't be... too much...), Honoka was the aide.

"Come on, well how about some iced tea? They can bring it with her pizza." Akina was trying not to look like she was planning something. "You wouldn't want to refuse my hospitality would you?" Wryness touched the Taisho's lips and voice again, she couldn't help it. A lot of alcohol could be hidden in cold tea, after all.

Honoka looked at the Taisho skeptically. She supposed she was supposed to accept hospitality. "Fine then, if you insist Taisho. ...Arigatou gozaimasu."

She rested her arm on the edge of the bath, propping up her head, continuing to be suspicious of Akina's intentions. Since the aide couldn't stop any evil plots the Taisho had planned, Honoka, for the moment, gave up trying to resist.

Hiding a grin as she slipped underwater for a brief moment to drench her head, with only the tips of her ears being above water, before slowly coming up to take a deep breath and relaxing back against the phony rocks with a soft sigh.

"Last I heard, ain't been nobody gettin' drunk off o' iced tea, Honoka-chan." Jessica grinned over at the grumpy aide while she simply enjoyed the hot water and waited for her pizza to arrive. It wasn't every night a simple engineer was treated like this.

~~*Medbay*~~

"Really... hmm... Very well!" Setsuko exclaimed after a split second of pondering, motioning for the newcomer as she moved off to pick up several medical tools designed and created for surgical operations, quite eager to cut up Ryoko and discover, in the old fashioned way, just what made her so overly amorous.

"Once secure, we'll start examining her, yes, yes, maybe, no? Good!" Rambling for herself, the good and runty doctor returned her attention to the assistant and Ryoko, a gleeful look on her face and an eager glint in her eyes.

Long enough for a pizza to be made passed, and the delivery came swiftly into the bath house, bowing deeply once she had set the tray down near Akina for force of habit. There was a sliced pepporoni pizza resting on it with some plates stacked nearby including cloth napkins and of course the beer that Jessica had ordered.

Though it was not to be forgotten the tall glass of innocent looking iced tea that was there for Honoka. Making a point not to look at it, Akina simply rested and waited for her fleet aide to become completely gone.

~Medbay

"Indeedindeed!" The strange helper nodded thrice, placing a few extra tools at Setsuko's disposal. She eyed Ryoko and was actually getting closer, probably to grab her. "Perhaps there's an enlarged mating center in her brain!"

The lithe operations rating swore and jumped backwards from the approaching doctor and sprite. Ryoko focused for a moment and floated herself up against the ceiling, where she crouched against the wall and looked down at the others.

"Wha'the hell are you doing?" She yells, clearly agitated. "Now, its not that i am against being probed, you understand, its just that most of those devices look like they make their own holes within which to be probing..." She tilts her head as she considers that, flushes, catches herself then shakes her head. "No! Definately not happening!"

With that said, she leapt away from the wall and, still levitating, flew for the doorway.

Honoka grudgingly took the glass of ice tea. "I guess people don't get drunk off of ice tea..." she muttered quietly. She took a few sips, a familiar, and ironic, warmth filled her system, and what were sips turned into a long draw from the glass.

The aide set down the ice tea on the edge, the once full glass nearly drained already. She had an awkward smile on her face, completely forgetting her suspicions of the Taisho.

"Ryoko-hei! Get down here this instant!" Setsuko cried at the weightless Nekovalkyrja as she sent a mental message to KAMI to seal the examination room doors to prevent the unwilling subject of her potentially fatal experiments from escaping.

"Most definately an abnormality in the hormonal flow, yes, and also a neural disorder resulting in hypersexuality, hmm..." Setsuko commented as she placed her gear on a tray next to the examining table and went in search of a tranquilizer gun or some other means of sedating the unrurly subject.

~~~*~~~

"Ooh, yummy." Purring softly, the Engineer shifted in the bath to reach over to the pizza and moved a hot slice over to a plate without seeming to even feel the heat of the meal. With the beer in one hand, and the plate with the pizza in the other, Jessica leaned back in the water with a big and happy smile.

"Ahh, good company, a hot bath, cold beer, and my favourite pizza... does it get any better?" Sighing happily, Jessica slowly ate her ordered food, savouring every little bit, and washing it down with a healthy side of beer as she grinned over at Honoka and the Taisho.

As Arkase stepped off the shuttle in the Nadare's landing bay, he couldn't help but smile.
What an oppurtunity - beginning his career as part of a Taisho's detail would probably jump start his career - However temporary.

He quietly queried KAMI as to the Personnel NCO's location, and then looked around the landing bay, getting a feel for the ship's interior.

The last on duty member of the Personnel Staff was brought up, and the KAMI lit of a volumetric path to the office closest to the landing bay for the recruit to follow. Please take your personal effects with you, as you may be assigned quarters soon after reporting in. Welcome to the Nadare.

~*~

"Much better..anyway I'll have to show you a few designs that were in my mind sometime before the morning." Akina nodded at Jessica, her eyes at that point were becoming a bit tired and it was clear the warmth of the water and the stress of her children were combining. Though, the Taisho couldn't miss how drunk her aide was going to get from the iced tea.

~*~

In medbay, the 'sprite' held onto Ryoko's legs after raising enough herself in the hope of retarding her motion, and giving Setsuko enough time to move and do something. It was the most fun she'd had in weeks and letting the hypersexual woman leave would be too much! "Come backkkk!"

Arkase nodded and, taking his things, quickly headed toward the office.
Once he reached the door to the office, he forced a smile, and then knocked.

In just a few more moments, Honoka drained the last bit of the ice tea before she randomly started giggling. She stood and glomped the Taisho, though it really looked more like she just fell over onto Akina.

"Hee hee, thaaannk yoooouuuu for the ice teeeaaa, Shimizu Taisho." It seemed that Honoka got drunk fairly easily, and, when she did, she was out of it. "It was delicious!"

Still clinging to Akina, the aide placed a quick peck onto the other's cheek, before she moved back and sat down with a splash, a dumb grin on her face.

"Well if only the rest of the staff showed their appreciation like that." Akina joked, nodding at Konoka to not disappoint her drunken feelings too much. Will they rise, or fall to the wayside? she found herself thinking.

~*~

"Oh right, that errant transfer." A Nekovalkryja sitting behind a desk lifted her head when KAMI informed her he was actually knocking on the door. Opening it and ushering the Yamataian inside, a display of his file came onto her screen. Obviously the orange-haired woman was set on protocol even at that hour, and waited on his official report in.

"Santo Hei Oshiro, Arkase reporting for duty." He said stiffly, bowing to his superior.
His smile had vanished when he realized he was knocking, a habit which had kept with him despite him trying to stomp it out.

"Sorry, Taisho. I ain't drunk 'nough fer that quite yet." Jessica stated as she licked her fingers clean of pizza sauce while she chuckled at the antics of Honoka. Taking a good long drink from her beer, the Engineer couldn't resist teasing the drunk aide, and moved her foot to tickle the sole of Honoka's foot, silently praying that the Neko was ticklish.