RP: YSS Soyokaze (YSS Soyokaze) Moon(ie) Fever (2.0)

Medical

Working on how she wanted to proceed, Chieko noted the sudden increase in the noise level. Looking out of the doctor's office, into the main area, the biologist began to feel the gravity of the situation even more. She had to get this figured out soon.

Closing the curtain completely behind her, the young Minkan went back to work taking samples and running them through the available imager. It would have been nice to have her electron microscope, but that was back at the Science Lab where she was starting to believe she'd never get to at this point.

So what else could possibly eat all the nano and femto machines in Hemosynth? Chieko took two paddles from a defibrillator, set a sample between them, then hit it with the charge. If it were nanomachines causing the issue, that ought to do something about them. The biologist then put them through a centrifuge to see if some of the more mechanical parts would separate out into a blackish grey sludge at the bottom.

Kana, on the other hand continued to feebly protest her situation with the odd "Yada!" croaking out through the painful, dizzying fog that was becoming her universe. Once the medic had manged to leave for the care of someone else, however, the indignant chemist began trying to push herself off of the examination bed. Fortunately she only managed an inch before vertigo over took her enough to make her stop.

Isrun, on the other hand did what she could to behave - despite not quite showing much for symptoms yet. Watching Kana, however, she shook her head in resignation, less disappointed than she ought to be.

Medical

Ume is placed down on the bed groaning in obvious pain, curling up and seeming to have trouble deciding to hold her stomach or rub her arms to try to warm up. Her hallucinations were over but the overwhelming sensations were making her far from lucid. If only that were the end of it, but soon she was starting to bleed out of her nose as well. "I don't feel good." The neko that could even manage to look cheerful while in combat, could only shudder and whimper like a kitten.

Medical

"Kana, Isrun, you're both positive for the virus. I'll need you to stay right here and cooperate with the others to help fix this virus." She paused hearing the door open and then Ume being brought in, her eyes widened a bit. Ume, was one of the only people she had gotten close enough to so far to really consider her as a friend. She quickly moves over and looks down at her with a big frown. "Ume..." She gently stroked her head lightly before biting her lip a bit. She closed her eyes ever so slightly before opening them at her statement, nodding lightly and keept that hair stroking going to keep her clam. "I know Ume...Don't worry, we're going to find out whats wrong with you all, and we're going to fix this...You just need to cooperate with the people here, alright?"

Meiko didn't hesitate after that, she first got blood from Isrun, Kana, and Ume, and brought them where they needed to be. The entire Medical Room was on a clock, and they needed to beat said clock if everyone was going to come out of this unharmed...She would work her hardest, for Kana...Isrun...Misato...and Ume. For everyone on the ship, she had a look of determination

Hallway

Chiasa picked up Elina's clothes. If your suit starts to run out of air, we can just swap out the tanks. Hopefully that won't be necessary though." she said.

Medical

The captain merely nodded and walked over to one of the few beds that was still clear, and placed Umi upon it. He stared at her for a few seconds and then up toward the ceiling, as if he could see the rest of hte ships crew that were surcombing to the virus. He brought up a holographic diagram of the ship and sighed, placing a hand on it before going over and putting on an AMES suit - if this virus was spreading he was more than likely infected as well, although, he wasn't in one of the newer Yamataian bodies and still used the old one - maybe he was immune? He doubted that, and wasn't about ready to take that chance.

"Jayne, release all doors that lead to medical; but maintain the lockdown around key systems and areas."

Bridge

Nenene was leaned forward in the command chair, surrounded by banks of volumetric windows, each displaying some tidbit of important data to her. She glanced around her, in the last few minutes she had send away nearly all of the bridge crew, all ill with whatever was loose on the ship. She was not feeling very well herself. She knew they all had to be infected now. There was no question that whatever this was was targeted to attack Neko's, it had to be, there was no other answer, natural sickness was just not possible with their enhanced artificial immune systems. This was a biological weapon. That thought send chill's down the SAINT operative's spine. Someone had made something capable of targeting and overcoming their immune system and set it loose on the Soyokaze.

Was this a prelude to an all out attack on Yamatai by an old enemy, or a new one? Was this a test to see how well it worked on a single ship? She had no answers and her mind needed them badly. She needed to compile a report for SAINT as quick as possible and get it off before she was killed by whatever this bug was.

Nenene stopped her work, doubling over in her seat as a sudden wave of nausea washed over her. Slipping out of the command chair, she dropped onto her hands and knees and wretched. What a horrifying sensation it was, she mused somewhere at the back of her mind and spit out the last of the vomit before staggering to her feet, feeling suddenly much more ill than she had just a moment earlier. She dropped into the command chair and called up a comm channel to Takeyu.

"Captain" she said, her voice sounded weak now. "I am infected, as is all that remains of the bridge crew." she reported.

Medical

Naui was overseeing basic vitals and noting the ways the infected's bodily functions were attacked. Tapping away at a dataslate, she started compiling possible viral and nerve agents that created similar conditions as to what affected her patient. "Hmm... What could it be? Maybe a micro-parasite?" Clad in a suit upon hearing of the outbreak, she had taken it upon herself to study and if in anyway comfort the sickly and injured aswell as apply her medical skills when needed. "Gah.." She growled, actually growled, low and filled with a mix of irritation and frustration before going back to taking samples of everything deemed plausible.

Hallwy

Elina wasn't pleased. Maybe she should have opted to remain on the Moon. She wondered if the Moonies were also infected as the ship was. It was a "Damned if you do! Damned if you don't!" situation. She sealed up the helmet. She felt a tinge of guilt as she saw others being carried to the infirmary infected with the plague. Here she was feeling fine except for the urge to sneeze every now and then. Maybe a little light headed after a huge sneeze. "I'm thirsty! Come on and lets get something to drink. Repairs can wait for a bit. I need a break."

Whether or not Chiasa tags along, Elina began to make her way to the ship's lounge to get a drink.

Hallway

Chiasa followed after Elina. She chose to not remind her that their was a drink tube in the AMES that would supply her with water. But right now she was uncertain if they would actually be able to make it to one of the lounges.

Medical

Bors was slowly starting to realize that the medbay was becoming a bit more crowded, as well as a throbbing pain that was steadily increasing in the back of his head.

"A bit more serious then I thought." he grumbled to himself getting off of the table to stand and lean on it. As he scanned the room he noticed Chieko wave at him, which he returned with a nod of his own.

Shuttle Bay/Hallway

As soon as all of her engineering team members were suited up, Kumiko had someone check the seals on her suit, just to be safe, and immediately headed out, confirming with Mercy that the door was re-sealed behind her as she left the shuttle bay. She called up the schematics of the ship once more, mentally tracing a path between the shuttle bay and engineering once more, to make sure she knew where she was going. "Jayne, keep my AI updated on who has been infected and where. It may be important to helping us figure out what's going on. Also, if you can, try and keep people out of the hallways unless they're moving towards a medical bay. That might slow down the infection, whatever it is."

Hallway

Elina moved through the ship trying to find the nearest lounge, avoiding those that were carrying the infected. Either by taking an alternate routes or simply stepping to the side to let them pass without her getting in the way of those that needed medical attention and those helping. She was secretly thankful that Chiasa made her get into the AMES she was wearing.

Shuttle Bay/Hallway

As people kept moving about, mainly rushing more and more of the sick to the different med bays, Kumiko had a volumetric display flash up in front of her with a crew manifest. The infected were highlighted in red. The list was now more then half full and filling. the top of the list was the Xo now flashing red before settling out solid.

Hallway/lounge

Elina's latest sneezing fit had the added benefit of a stream of blood running from the nose after it settled back down. The virus that had laid there fairly dormant since she was first infected living on the moon, living as the test subject of the NMX, had finally started up and killing her blood system and acting more and more vicious.

Medlab office

Chieko was finding more and more out about the virus. Namely that once the centrifuge slowed and stopped it wasn't what she expected. It was separated between blue at the top and pink at the middle, and gray at the bottom. Once it was under the microscope she found out why. The nano machine parts of the virus died when zapped and fell to the bottom, while the biological parts floated to the top. The pink substance in the middle was the hemostyth covering the virus used to hide from the host body.

Medical Office

Chieko thanked Meiko for the next set of samples as she waited for the centrifuge. It was going to be a little longer, but some of the changes started to show as it neared the end. The results were startling as the biologist began investigating the various components - especially what she wasn't expecting.

While running additional checks, she zapped the samples from Ume, Kana, and Isrun as well, before putting them through the centrifuge. What bothered the academic even further, however, was that the blue remains of the virus was still trying to work, showing repeat attempts at escaping the slide they had been put on. Looking at the new samples fresh from the centrifuge after that, there was two things that Chieko could be sure about and poked her head out of the office.

"I cannot be perfectly sure," the biologist began, "but with the way the virus is trying to escape me, we could all be infected now. Second, they seem to be hybrid biological and nanomechanical, while hiding from us using a hemosynth look alike. Zapping them has helped, but not finished them off, so this may take a while."

Medical

Ume let out a low groan when she was stroked on the head, she had hardly any energy to respond. The neko was running a high fever, and the dizziness and headache were causing nausea that sapped her energy away. "I just...wanna play checkers." She muttered softly, nearly passing out once more from exhaustion.

Medical

Meiko looked towards Chieko for a moment and sighed lightly rubbing her head. "Which means all we can do now is try to stave it off, and make them comfortable..." She bit her lip and got some medicine for Dizziness and fever from the cabinet and some water and handing it off and gently giving each one the medicine and giving them the water hoping that it would help balance them out a bit, She gave each of them blankets and a pillow to make them more comfortable, so that they could relax rather then be consistently stressed. She hesitated a moment when she heard what Ume said, Ume was the first friend she made here on the Soyokaze. This hit her pretty hard in the heart and she closed her eyes for a moment before taking a breath and leaning down gently stroking her head. "Don't worry Ume...After this we'll play as much checkers as you want...and watch many of those old movies like I promised...just be strong, okay?"

Elina felt something drip from her nose. Scowling as she licked it off her lips to taste blood. "This is friggen great." She muttered softly as she removed opened up the AMES helmet and wiped her nose on the back of the glove of the suit. Eyes widen a she saw it was blood smeared.

She sighed and turned to Chiasa. "I - huh... where's the hospital? I need to go there." Pinching her nose to prevent getting blood all over the place.

Medbay

Takeyu sighed and listened to everything that was going on. "Get yourself to medical," he said to Nenene. "Lock out what remains of the ships systems."

"Wouldn't disabling - or even destroying - the nanomechanical render the rest of the virus harmless?" asked Takeyu, he didn't know much about this field but knew that in a cyborg that it can't survive without its organic parts but even if the non-organics died it would still create problems.

Medical

Kioko shivered while she worked "good thing i'm not cold blooded" she joked as her headache was still there making it hard to concentrate as she stops and goes to the side leaning against it for support then looked at the actual medics and was worried but wanted to wait for more Symptoms before she started saying she had what these people had, she may have a flu or something not this infection.

She walked over to Ume and Meiko and smiled "hey guys, what's up?" She grinned trying to mask that she wasn't feeling well, she heard them talk about checkers and films "sounds like you have good plans for when this is over."

Medical

"Perhaps for those not yet affected, Shosa," Chieko replied, "However, they don't need to worry about a healthy immune system if they're just trying to escape a glass slide. Also, if just the biological part is moving the way it does, what does that say for the ones that are possibly floating around the ship. The ones possibly crawling out of our current four patients looking for more victims.

"No, Kancho, a healthy system may be able to deal with the virus once the nanomachine parts are dead; but how many of us have healthy immune systems right now? That said, destroying that part should be our first priority while I work out how to get rid of the other half. Electrocution worked on the samples, however that would be reckless with patients."

That was about when the biologist closed her eyes a moment and took a deep breath, bracing herself against the wall a moment. She was starting to feel a little tired; but in a way she hadn't felt in a very long time.

"Shosa," she began again, "We need to do something about the machines - which may have infected everyone and everything on the ship. I'm thinking, with the engineering background you have, I you may know best direction to take with it."

Chieko then pulled a chair over to sit on as she worked to maintain her mental fortitude. This was not going to be a simple puzzle to solve, and what would work for the surfaces of the ship, may not work for the insides of crew members.