RP: NSS Nerkat The beginning of a new story... Same cast, new setting.

Fay didn't really pay attention to the blaring music, but when his arm was grabbed, he hopped on one foot as he was being dragged away in a side-ways direction. "E-eh? Ok..." He was actually thinking that it could be cleaned manually, but Adrian was the chief medic aboard, so there was little point arguing.

Harrison watched in the cargo bay as a large lift rotated the cargo container holding Evelyn, his precious airbike, down to the floor. As soon as it made contact, the uniformed outline of Harrison slipped across the floor. He opened the container and moved the bike out into open... Cargo bay. He ran the bike steadily down the corridors and maneuvered it into the room.

"Dammit, my FIRE1 better be in the PA bay..." Harrison said as he stalked off in that direction.

"Knowing the Reds? The usual. CD's, DD's and and those shitty Cyclone armors if we're lucky. And not much. I was just checking the updates to our armories and armor bays since Kennewes." Gyles answered, adjusting his visor with the middle finger of his right hand. He grinned a little, and pointed to his left arm.

"Oh, and I got shot in the arm by some raunchy porn director while I was in Los Apagos."

"Yeah? I didn't know you were doing an amateur snuff porn during leave. But wow, you got the rounds removed already, right?" Autumn said rather impressively to Gyles as she kicked off her boots and removed her uniform pants from the plastic bag. She shook them out and pulled them on under her skirt.

When the pants were covering her properly she pulled the skirt down and folded it neatly- placing it into another separate plastic bag. "It's bad that you got hurt, Sug, I didn't figure you the type of guy that was into sex that rough," she grinned as she pulled her uniform shirt out of its bag and pulled it down over her tank top.

Not really caring to listen to the idle flirting in the quarters, Amelia stood and left the room. She decided now would be a good time to brush up on outfitting the power armors before it was time to go. She had to run a mental map through her head again to remember where she was going. She passed through several rooms, the handle of her VIAL repeatedly tapping the side of her leg, before realizing that she was probably taking the long way there. She wasn't sure what the brass would think about her carrying around one of those, but so far she hadn't been jumped on for it.

She passed by Adrian again, seeing him drag some poor guy acrost the room. She smiled ever so slightly. Maybe this place wouldn't entirely be like the pit that was basic training. 'Hell.' she thought to her self. 'Maybe I can have conversations that don't constantly shift to my measurements...' That part had irritated her to no end and some violence against her fellow recruits had resulted. She was better now though... not so aggressive... right?

After a few moments, Kagura would go and get her own bunk in the bunk room with autumn and Gyles since they were on the same squad. "Hey guys..." she said and hopped up on a top bunk and began to stash her stuff, the lights highlighting her streaked hair an dmaking it seem to dance. "He wasn't in the sex Autumn...." she said suddenly, hearing he conversation.

"He was...........trying to help me while I was unconscious..... and...." she trailed off, not wanting to talk about it at the moment.

"Ugh... fuck. When the hell did she show up?!?" Gyles screamed to himself in his thoughts. He sighed and facepalmed, before glacing back up at Autumn. "Shit happened. Didn't you get my call?"

Kat left the Mess Hall, since she was no longer required. If they needed her they could contact her anyways, through datapads or other means. The avatar curiously watched marines that she passed as she wound down the halls of the ship, headed for the bridge.

ON>

Esther eyed the green-haired medic for a second, before putting on her best attempt at a friendly, if a little weary smile. "Alright, so what do you need... Private Dream?" She inquired, not entirely sure what the report detailed, but figuring she was going to find out very soon.

"Something has to be done, ma'am. The report describes in detail the 'Cyberhole Incident' and specifically, accounts the responsibility of it to Sergeant Decane." Rose kept counting the odd squeezes of her hand in the back of her head, "In short: he got someone in his squad brutally raped because of his gross negligence, and another one of them shot up. That's not taking into account the b-black eye the core probably will take." She was obviously upset, and trying to keep from letting it seep into her words more. "He OD'd her and has no place 's a medic or a leader." She said, firmly.

"Hmm..." Esther mumbled, flipping through the document. Though she'd miss most of the details, she'd need to at least know what Rose was talking about before attempting to dignify the medic's statement with an answer.

She shut the folder, her features a bit grimmer than before. "Admittedly, this is a not something I wanted to deal with right away. I've just been given a commission to an officer rank, and this is my first military crew." The former merchant sighed a bit, removing her naval cap. "But regardless of how prepared I am to deal with it, this is a very important matter. If I can confirm it with the hospital and contact Central Corps, he's going to be facing very serious charges."

"Everything is in there. I've been t-o med school." The medic replied, frowning. "It's very detailed. The rest of the reports should corroborate it, ma'am. It's worse, I hear he's IPG too." The woman nodded slightly, "So something'll be done after all?"

"Honestly? I'll do my best to make sure that he doesn't get away with this scot-free. And if it had been on the ship, I would have personally seen to it that he got what was coming to him." Esther said, her expression growing increasingly uncomfortable. "But as it is, he might get off with just a slap on the wrist. It'll be too easy to lay blame on your friend or claim that none of you weren't responsible enough to stay close to her while she was under the influence."

“I went after her as quick as I could!" Rose was scowling, "It ain't easy to put blame on us, the whole squad saw 'm use it without ask'n when it wasn't called for. She was just a lil' riled, and he didn't follow after that. By any right she was 'is patient." The woman needed something to grab onto, her counting was starting not to work. Her failure to help another Marine was obviously still sticking to her.

"Listen Rose... I need you to calm down." Esther replied in a firm, but gentle manner as she placed her arm on the medic's shoulder. It would be impossible to continue this conversation properly if Rose couldn't keep a clear head."From what I'm hearing, he jumped the gun on giving her medication, not even bothering to diagnose her and think to see if it was appropriate. Then, when there was obviously a problem, he didn't bother. Until... Private Newman forwarded the recording and maps to everyone?"

"Yeah..he got shot for his trouble. Me, him, an' Sealus the other medic were looking for her when the feed went live." Rose explained, shuddering at the recollection of the dog exploding. Feeling it on her faintly a wave of nausea swept through her. She was fighting very hard not to grab onto their XO's arm, her scowl looking more concentrated. "How are we supposed to look him in the eye and follow orders? I'm sorry..the unit I came from no one does this shit, you know?" Her voice softened out.

"Not in the corps, as far as I'm concerned.." The young woman added.

"...I can't promise you an outcome..." Esther sighed, removing her arm from the medic's shoulder and rubbing her temples with the index fingers of both hands. "...I'll do my best to ensure this doesn't happen again."

"Bastard might as well be a red.." Rose breathed, nodding to the officer. "I'll hope that will be enough of a promise for everyone else. Sorry to step under your command like this."

"Was there anything else?" The commander asked.

"What do you want those of us in the squad to do 'till then? I mean P3C Sealus 'n I are both under him at medbay. Thinks we're his slaves.." She sighed, "He could override my undertaking Balfour's after care. Aside from it just be'n bad, ma'am."

"From what I've seen in his psych profile, he's more likely to get stoned and listen to some ska than do something like that." Esther replied, finding the statement to be a little ridiculous. "But if he does anything that puts anyone under medbay's care in danger, contact me immediately and I'll have him relieved of duty."

"All right, ma'am." She came back to attention, offering a salute. "Thank you for the time."

"Thank you for bringing this to my attention. You're dismissed." Esther replied, making a quick naval salute.

With that, Rose dropped her salute, took a step back, and hurriedly gathered her bag before exiting into the hall.

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Autumn looked at Kagura and Gyles oddly. "No, it must've gotten lost in transit or something, Sug. I know Gran's data pad wasn't working, might've been interference or something in the city." She shrugged and appraised Kagura's new appearance and what the Nepleslian said with a soft concerned smile.

"You're looking good dear heart. I like the new look on you and the fact you got 2 working eyes. But unconscious? You okay?" She watched Kagura curiously as she took a brush to her hair and straightened it out before placing her beret squarely and neatly on her head. She placed her neatly folded dirty laundry into her footlocker with the rest of her clean gear, making sure the dirty uniform sealed bags were on top.

Kagura watched her for a moment, thinking about how to answer it and sighed, laying on the bunk and watched her. "Well Autumn, while you guys were going off to have fun, I got in trouble and ...well" she said, hiding her eyes behind her beret, not wanting to say it but it was clear she was unhappy about it. "I got raped, Autumn...." she said and sniffled a bit.

Autumn looked at Kagura unsure of how to respond to that declaration. The uncertainty was apparent in her face as she thought about a response to that. "Kag..Kagura, I'm sorry to hear that. Are you up for deployment? That sort of thing usually messes with your head, maybe you can get waiver for this one and sit it out? But, I wish I had been able to do something to help you hun, but I'm here now. If you need anything, let me know, okay? We can get cake or something if you want, we have a little bit of time before we deploy." She tried to offer her friend an awkward yet, reassuring smile.

Once Adrian had gotten Fay out of the room, the doors closed, and the medbay activated its automated cleaning cycle. "You didn't leave anything important in there, did you?" Adrian asked, although it was far too late to make a difference.

As the medbay went through its washing, Fay heard Adrian's question. "Er... No..." he replied, making sure that he had everything. All of his belongings seemed to be with him. The medic sighed and leaned against a nearby wall as he waited for the cleaning cycle to finish.

Rose said nothing as she dropped her things on the bunk above Kagura's. The talk with the XO had been strange, and frustrating. She didn't even want to look at the rest of the unit until there was another target in sight. Or, preferably, when someone needed her help. She worried who might be tempted in a crossfire to do some damage.

"H-how long do we have?" The medic interrupted.

"Maybe fifteen minutes?" Gyles answered, not particularly involved in the conversation with Autumn and Kagura. He felt out of place, and like a bit of an asshole for starting things up like that. It was just bad luck that Kagura showed up when she did, but the tech sentry should have had the sense to talk about that sort of thing in more private means. He gave Rose an uncomfortable smile and glanced down at the ground for a moment before raising his gaze gently to meet hers.

"So how did things go with the report?"

"She said she'd do something, but no guarantees. Sucks, sorry maypole I'm too low on the totem pole to be listened to..but she seemed like she really meant it. Weird for an officer." At least there was some hope. "Tell ya' what..one free piercing when your arm's better." She felt bad she'd not seen him more, but he wouldn't have the issues Kagura would, and he hoped that Gyles would understand it.

Kagura shifted on her bunk and sighed, watching Autumn as she spoke. "No, if I do that, they'll wonder why and I just dont' want more people to know." she said. "I can hide better by blending into the marines than normal folks. After all I feel like I can only trust you, Rose, Gyles here, and Rico even if I do bitch at him."

Autumn offered Kagura a smile. "Better get ready then. They said we'd be deploying soon. I'm gonna grab something quick and easy from the galley before I head over to the power armor bay, if you wanted to come with me, your more than welcome to," she offered brightly as she adjusted her shirt so it would sit straight on her body.

'Heh...heh...heh... Hello. Aren't you forgetting something? Or did you miss me that much?'

Amelia clutched at her head. The voice was back, but it was right. She had forgotten her meds today. She returned to the quarters to retrieve her pills. However, when she arrived and dug them out of her footlocker, she noticed the bottle was empty.

'Crap...'

How could she have forgotten that she was out as well? This was not a good thing. It wasn't too long till they were to be deployed and she couldn't be having another episode in the middle of combat.

'I heard... that you are going to a slaughter... Surely you'll take me with you, won't you dear?'

'Shut up.. shut up.. shut up.....'

Looking a little frantic, she got up and hurried towards the medbay, dropping her pill container as she left. The label told anyone who noticed it that they were heavily concentrated meds designed to regulate her mental health.

She groaned in frustration as she noticed Adrian was already gone. She wasted not a second more, however, in searching the medbay for her kind of pills or something similar. She wasn't very graceful in this, however, knocking over things and making a fair amount of noise in doing so.

'Oh come on... Admit it. When it comes to fighting, you know there's no one better.... You need me for this, don't you?'

'Shut... UP!!!'

Her mental screaming at herself did little to silence the voice, sadly. It merely laughed at her as she searched for medicine with increasing irritation.