RP: YSS Yui [YSS Yui] Mission1: When Angels Attack!

"Forgive me Chujo, I was out of line, it shall not happen again, but let me know if you need any assistance, and I will do my best with Wolf's permission of course. Over and out," Ciraxis apologized.

Ritsurin listened to her reprimand and replied with: “I wouldn’t have hurt any of the crew, when I eliminated the psychotic effect, now when that state comes on, I can recognize friend and foe, the crew was never in any danger.” He said
“I will attend your anger management classes and start on my meditation when I have some free time, I’m glad you are willing to help me through it. As for the injection by PNUgen, I am afraid I cannot allow that, my demon-blood is still my blood, it is the only thing I have to remember my father with; for good or bad.” He added to his previous statement.

Ritsurin turned and left the bridge after making an announcement to the security sentries telling them to meet him in the briefing room immediately. He went to the briefing room and prepared to make his presentation to the sentries. As they filed in one after another, he told them to take a seat and open their ears.

“As you heard from Chujo Ketsurui, we are currently on course to intercept the angel factory ships. Our mission is to board their ships and take them over by any means necessary. Some of you may not know how to fight an Angel or Seraphim, Angels are soldiers, they will most likely be carrying energy rifles, what kind? I don’t know. As for fighting then, you will be using the GP-5a; as a general rule, take some cover, along with careful aim to put them down. Seraphim are different, they can destroy you if they get a hold of you. My advice is to use heat or fire some kind, solidify their forms then blast them with your weapons, I cannot state this enough DO NOT LET THEM MAKE PHYSICAL CONTACT WITH YOU. As for preparation, you will all carry fully loaded with live ammunition GP-5a’s as per Chujo Ketsurui’s orders. You will be assigned patrol shifts. I will take two nekos and patrol the ship during the day between 0800 hours and 1330 hours. Lavinia, you will take two nekos and patrol during the afternoon between 1330 hours and 2100 Hours. Sgzyr, you will take two more nekos and patrol from 2100 Hours until 0800 Hours, there will be a weekly rotation of whose patrolling at what times. Sgzyr, your patrol shift will begin soon, choose your two nekos and get moving, remember to arm yourself with GP-5a’s in the armory, you have permission. Anyone caught not doing their job will face either me or Chujo Ketsurui. Am I understood?” Ritsurin addressed the security crew. “You are dismissed. Lavinia see me after everyone leaves.” He concluded.

After the meeting, the security filed out of the room. Lavinia came up to Ritsurin.

“What is it Ritsu? What do you need to tell me? She asked

“You will remain on this ship out of stasis until this mission is completed then Chiharu will decide what to do with you.” He said sternly. “Now, report to your normal duty station, and don’t forget to arm yourself.” He added as she left.

~This is the time for us to shine.~ He thought as he exited the briefing room and went to the armory to grab his GP-5a. After he got the weapon, loaded it and put the safety on, he went to Wazu’s lab and took his Force Shield and strapped it to his right forearm, gave it a couple test activations, then, satisfied that it worked, went to his normal duty station and awaited his shift to start.

As Acara left the briefing he was deep in thought. ~I need some more information to pull this off. I wonder if Chiharu would tell me anything. Guess I’ll find out~. With that he went to the bridge.

On the way there he remembered what Chiharu had said about the separation of the sexes. ~I wonder were I’ll be~. Then he laughed. It did not mater to him. Both types were on board, she had not addressed him, and he had to obey rules. Where he went was for Chiharu to decide, and he would accept it.

When he got near the bridge he heard Ritsurin and Lavinia talking to the Chujo. Ritsurin seemed to be infuriated about something. ~He did seem mad about something in the briefing room, but it is none of my business~. Acara slid back so as not to over hear what they said. After Ritsurin and Lavinia left Acara went in.

As Acara entered the bridge he bowed. “Chujo Ketsurui, if I may ask, I need some information on the angels ship. In particular, do their ships have minor regenerative abilities like ours? If they don’t, is it possible that you could make a hole in their hull and fire me into it. From there I could move through their out ship and destroy many of their defenses, and opening doors for our crew. This way we can do marginal damage and still take the ship. Do you think this is a realistic possibility?

Ritsurin listened to her reprimand and replied with: “I wouldn’t have hurt any of the crew, when I eliminated the psychotic effect, now when that state comes on, I can recognize friend and foe, the crew was never in any danger.” He said
“I will attend your anger management classes and start on my meditation when I have some free time, I’m glad you are willing to help me through it. As for the injection by PNUgen, I am afraid I cannot allow that, my demon-blood is still my blood, it is the only thing I have to remember my father with; for good or bad.” He added to his previous statement.

“Chiharu, I must inform you that we do not have sufficient security personnel to make the preparations at all, may I request the services of Techinical Specialist Mika and Tomoyo as well as Technician Kei Blue? I intend to give them all a briefing in the appropriate room. I have a small speech to give them as you well know.” He requested.

“Seraphim are the ones who change their viscosity, just as a correction. I am Pyrokinetic and can handle them, but I am concerned about the other crew, are they pyrokinetic? If not, we need something that creates fire, like a portable flamethrower. Do we have any thing like that aboard in the armory?” He also asked sounding more concerned.

"Juni Daijinshi, you can take Medic Inari from the medical bay, Technican Kei Blue and Technican Hikari from Juni Kuru's command, but they still need to do their own duties as well. You'll have to negociate schedules with Juni Kuru, if you really need even more, then talk to Medical Specialist Akari about getting someone cloned. There will also be a man transferring aboard for your department at some point today. " The Chujo responded knowing full well that Kuru would not be happy but, she'll have to deal with it. She looked to Acara as he entered.

"The Angel's ships.. they do have a regenerative ability, more like a white goo than anything else. And if you really wanted to be fired into the ship we could devise a way to get you into an empty missile casing. It can be something for you to work on with Juni Kuru while we wait, we have 5 hours until we reach our destination.

Now, since you are a shapeshifter you have a choice of where you want to sleep, but to tell the truth, you'd be better off designating yourself as a man, you'll have more space on the nest for yourself until we get more men in your department."

ON>

Chiharu had taken her seat back on the bridge once Daijinshi and Lavinia had left, not happy that she had to reprimand the two of them on her first day but it had to be done or else there would be many misunderstandings later. Better to nip these things in the bud or else it'd be in combat that problems arose.

Araiah stood a bit behind the Chujo during the reprimand. It was quite rude of Daijin to do that...no matter how angry he was. Shaking his head a little, the shifter stood beside Chiharu, waiting until she had finished giving the reassignments before speaking up. "Chujo...could you spare a moment?" he said.

Chiharu looked back at Araiah and nodded, her face was a bit flushed from being upset but she seemed to be calming down. "Sure, what's up Araiah? She blinked a bit, probably trying to clear her head.

"You look like you could use an opportunity to vent...I'm willing to be a punching bag, so to speak." Araiah smiled slightly, shrugging. "And I was thinking we could get to know each other best we can before this mission. I read that units who know each other well are those who work best together."

She suddenly smiled brightly, yes this was the Chiharu you had come to know so far. "No worries Araiah, I'm alright, as captain I have to be an angry mother at times as well as a pompous bitch, it's part of the territory." She smoothed her hair back behind her ears again, "But, I agree with you that units work best where they know and trust each other. So what would you like to discuss?"

Araiah shrugged. "Well, motives are a good place to start, but I think I got some of that from the speech...You've fought these angels before?" he asked, his head tilted in curiosity.

"I have fought angels before, the GSA wasn't involved during the Heavenly War but, the Emperor was. I served in the private army of Clan Kitsurugi, which was the Emperor's clan, in the 2nd Army of the Precious Sword. I served under Taisho Yui actually." She chuckled a bit, "Yui had led the battle against the Angels in Hell as well, she conquered it but I was not involved in that conflict. I don't like Angels one bit."

"I've noticed a lot of people don't," remarked the Chusa dryly. He wrinkled his brow a bit. "I've been in five universes, but I havn't met any race resembling what you describe. Are they native to this universe?"

"Well, they live in a transitory realm above this one, Heaven, and Hell is a transitory realm below this one. If that helps."

"Transitory...meaning they're a sub-level or that they're a gateway between this and another reality?"

"Meaning that they are gateways between this and another reality." She nodded. "You don't have any other questions for me?" She smiled again, "Well, I guess it's my turn, hmm... I don't have much data on you, so what's your home planet like?"

The shifter fell silent for a while, filing the information away...what realm did those gates lead to? Stuff to ask another time. "Okay...and the mission is somewhat straightforward." Araiah smiled slightly at Chi's question. "My home planet? Oh, it's almost generic...three climate zones, four seasons, various vegetation. No animals to speak of, unfortunately, I haven't managed to bring in or make any." He waited for the inevitable comment that was to follow...

"You have to import or create animals to your planet? I take it that you are a vegetarian then?"

Araiah tilted his head. "I'm getting curious to what you think I am..." he said, smiling a bit from curiosity.

She blinked a bit. "So you're really a shape shifting plant? Interesting so it wouldn't be incorrect to call you a vegetable then now would it?" She smiled again. "Although, you definately do not fit what the terminology is used for in passing.."

Araiah grinned. "No, I'm not a vegetable. I guess I'm an omnivore...just 'cause there aren't any animals at home doesn't mean that I don't eat them." he said with a chuckle. "I can convert energy to matter and vice versa. That also means that I could eat that bulkhead and get energy from it just like I could eating a chicken. Or, I could jam my finger in a power outlet and feed that way." He smiled again. "And I was wondering what species you thought I was. Sorry, I tend to jump around in my thoughts."

She smiled again, "Oh ok. If you get hungry, please take to mind that we do have a kitchen and a galley, no sampling the bulkheads, please." She smiled again, joking. "To tell the truth, I have no clue what species you are because you are a shape shifter but different from Acara because.. well.. you have legs. "

The shifter nodded. "Being able to perform that conversion I described enables me to change my shape. From what I know of Acara from his file is he is restricted to his current mass and maybe color...I can change my mass by converting it into energy or the reverse. As far as my species is concerned, I'm not surprised you haven't heard of us...We were called the Melumsi."

She shook her head no. "I'm sorry I haven't heard of your race or planet before. I spent a few years in stasis and until now I've been sitting in an inactive ship waiting for an assignment after defending my home planet of Geshrintall for several years. I don't get much information on new species and planets."

Araiah leaned forward as if he was going to tell Chi a secret, even though he knew every Neko in the room could hear him with ease. "The GSA has never heard of me either. In fact, nobody in your known universe was aware of my existence until the Yui picked me up." He paused, frowning in thought. "Where did they pick me up, anyway? Oh, yeah, in the Python Sector...Universe 006, major powers being the Federation, the Romulan Empire, the Borg, and the Dominion."

Chi chuckled a bit, it figured. "Interesting, you were involved with the Federation people? I've never actually dealt with them before.."

"No, I know nothing but what I was able to get before the Yui left Starbase Python." He smiled wryly as he added, "I'm starting to think that an AI is a very good security system. It was impossible to get anything from Meg until I had her trust, whereas I had no problem looking through the public files of the Federation."

"You had problems with Megami, how come? I never heard of that before, the old AI weren't very paranoid about much of anything but then again.. they were harder to work with because of their independence.."

Amazingly, the Chusa blushed...his face got a bit more pink than usual. "Uh...yeah, I did have problems...Mainly a cultural misunderstanding. She is definately different from any other program I have met." His normal color returned and he shrugged. "She'll probably be willing to tell you what happened."

"I'll ask her about it later, I want to try understanding her a bit better too, since this is my first time in the newer ships." Chi smiled sheepishly, "I apologize for acting a bit weird when I first came on board, I was feeling a bit overwhelmed by the whole new ship, new crew, first assignment in several months, thing."

Araiah smiled and nodded. "It's no problem. I just came on board a few days before you did. And I'm sure my introduction threw you for a loop...I apologize for that. I'm new to Nekos."

She nodded. "It's okay. We are a bit paranoid about unauthorized users getting a hold of our technology, many nekos are programed to self-destruct if captured. There are many safeguards to prevent illegal transfer of restricted data. I do feel that we should let you know a little bit about Nekos because you are an authorized handler for one right now."

The shifter's eyes widened. "Eh, when was the last time we checked on Nashi?"

She blinked a bit, ah hell. "Shoot, we'd better go check on her." Chi rose from her chair, and started out towards Nashi's room.

In her room, Nanashi rocked on the hammock. She was lying crosswise in the center with the edge under her knees and the other side stretched to support her head. Her mouth moved silently as she lay with her eyes closed, playing a game of Annihilation in her head. They had left her in here a long time...had she done something wrong?

Araiah took a detour to the officers quarters to pick up a little headband device that he had fabricated in his spare time (if he had any), then met Chi at Nashi's room.

When Chi entered the room she looked at Nashi apologetically, "Hey Nashi, I'm sorry we were gone so long. Did you sleep ok?"

Nashi's eyes flipped open and she fairly lept from the hammock. "Mommy!" She stopped and looked at Chi quizzically. "What'd I do wrong?" She glanced over at Araiah as he entered, brightening slightly at the sight of the headband. A new toy?

Araiah frowned at the child's question. "This was how she was punished...they would keep her from playing," he whispered to Chi.

Chi smiled softly at Nashi, "No sweetie, you didn't do anything wrong. I had to do some work, but you have been a good girl, haven't you Nashi?"

Nashi nodded. "I haven't left at all, not once. And I even made my bed, see?" She motioned to the hammock, the blankets and pillows were stacked neatly in the box next to it.

Chi nodded, still smiling at Nashi. "I see, good girl Nashi. Now," She looked at Araiah now, "what has Daddy brought you?"

Smiling, Araiah stepped forward and hugged her. He'd seen other parents around their offspring, this seemed to be the appropriate action...When he backed off, he held out the headband. "I've got a new toy for you. It's something that makes people and things, playmates so you can have fun even when we're not around," he explained as he reached over and set the quarter-inch wide band on her, centering a bare circuit panel over her forehead.

Chi looked at the band curiously, "So you did make the toy after all?"

Nashi grinned as she found herself in a large field. Grass underfoot, sky overhead...open area, good for speed and confronting those unarmed and slow targets. Suddenly she frowned. Moving her hand, she noted that her vision told her she had moved her hand, but her body said she hadn't..."This isn't real," she complained, her neko mind easily blocking the incoming information that formed the virtual world and forcing the make-shift quarters to reappear around her.

Araiah nodded. "I know. It's the best we can do...no one can play your game right now, but you can play with whoever you want." He moved his head in a sideways half-nod as he added "I know it isn't real, but you can practice new moves and techniques to use when we can find you new playmates. That's a good thing, too, because you can loose without actually loosing. Learn from mistakes and improve your game."

Chi smiled softly despite herself, "Don't worry Nashi, we'll have some actual playmates for you soon, ones like you've never encountered before in all of your play."

Looking for all the worlds like a five-year-old girl who was presented with a doll to play with instead of friends, Nashi pondered this new development... Three seconds later, she smiled broadly and nodded. "Alright! Who do I get to play with first?" The light diode on the band had turned off when she rejected the program, but flashed on again as it reactivated.

Araiah smiled and tapped the diode, a holographic screen popped up and he set a couple of controls. "How about five humans, two nekos, and a pack of wolves?"

Nashi's ruby orbs closed and she mentally accepted the simulation, following the new targets as they appeared and making notes on strategies and tactical strike points....

"I take that as a yes," the shifter chuckled, and closed the menu. He guided the girl to a chair in the room and sat her down so she wouldn't hurt herself. The device intercepted neural commands and translated them into virtual motion...but she could deactivate it any time she wanted, thanks to the powerful Neko mind.

Chi smiled brightly, this was good. "Araiah, we may want her to do a couple of simulations on the new enemy later on."

"Oh, right! I was going to ask if you had a piloting sim I could use. I'd prefer not to go into a fight cold when it comes to using that pit," Araiah said.

"A piloting sim? You mean a test program?" Chi blinked a bit, trying to recall if there was one. "There might be, we can check"

"Yeah...okay. Eh, maybe I should've checked with Meg in the first place," he said, smirking a bit. "I'm not used to having a computer that I can hold a conversation with."

"She'd be the best person to talk to about it." Chi smiled again, "I guess if Nashi is alright here for now, we can check on her again later and feed her. I'm going to have to give her a bath though. But, let's get you situated with piloting the ship."

Araiah nodded. "Sounds good to me."

Chi started towards the door, looking back at Nashi before she exited the room and headed back towards the bridge. "I think she'll be ok against the Angels, the Seraphs might be a bit of a challenge though.."

Araiah followed, keeping pace with his commander. "I noticed on the report that she doesn't just fight hand-to-hand...her weapon skills were said to be quite extraordinary. Appearently sniping is a favorite hobby of hers," he remarked. "What are Seraphs, anyway?"

"Seraphs are the Angels' answer to the NH-7 bioweapon.. they can change their shape and body density at will, and they are very strong and have very sharp teeth."

"What's their preferred form? Humanoid?"

"Winged humanoid. They are pink skinned as far as I remember.. I don't know if they've upgraded themselves since my last encounter with them, but I can probably count on it."

Thinking this over, Araiah was slightly troubled. The truth was, he had heard of angels before...but they were nothing like what Chiharu was describing. Maybe it was just a species that they called angels...An alternate Earth fought with angels that were more like nightmarish monsters than what he knew....

"What's wrong?" she asked, not wanting to skip over the man's thoughts to find out the answer for herself.

The troubled look faded like clouds flickering before the sun...he looked at her with a nonchalant expression. "Nothing..." He paused as they arrived on the bridge and he looked at the pit. "Do I just ask for Meg or is there a button that gets her attention?" the shifter inquired, his voice almost joking in tone.

"You just start talking to her."

Nodding to himself as if he should have known that, Araiah looked straight ahead. "Megami? Is there piloting simulation I can use?"

The image of the white haired, white eyed Neko appeared before Araiah. "Yes, there is a simulation I can run for you, just take a seat at the helm and you can practice. I'm going to lock the controls so the ship does not get steered off course." She replied simply.

Araiah nodded and lowered himself into the pit. He frowned as a cable sought the normal jack that would be present in a neko's neck, but found nothing; and two sets of three poles poked him in the back of his shoulders. "What are these for?" the shifter asked, then noticed something about Chi...she had three holes in each of her shoulders...and if he were to guess right, there would be a computer jack in the back of her neck. "Oh. I think I know." He got out of the chair and walking over to Chi. "Can I look at something?"

Chi nodded and looked at Araiah curiously.

The shifter walked around behind her and gently moved her hair aside...there was a flap on the back of her neck. He lifted it and found the suspected insertion point. He memorized the plug pattern and format, then backed up and glanced over the pattern of holes on her shoulders. Finally, the shifter smiled...a spot on his neck reformed into the jack and six clean holes appeared in the needed areas. Araiah returned to his seat in the pit; this time the jack and rods found their places. It felt odd, the rods did. The plug was nothing new, but the rods were. A few more cables plugged in, then he was ready.

The avatar watched the whole thing for a moment before speaking again. "Are you ready to begin?" Chiharu took a seat in her chair and started looking over reports and data files again.

Araiah simply nodded.

The avatar disappeared again as she started the simulation, the pilot's seat started to shake as a red warning popped up on the screen in front of him as well as the report that they had just collided with an asteroid, "Warning: Entering Asteroid field." The display changed to show an image of an asteroid field that he was to safely navigate the ship through.

"Operate it like a body," mumbled Araiah as a small asteroid appeared in front of him. -Thrusters, three meters starboard, bank forty-five degrees.- he thought, a bit more technical than he would be with his own body, but it would have to do...

He narrowly missed the asteroid but he did clear it as another asteroid came a little bit faster from port side...

OFF>

Uso walked into the science lab to find Wazu had cleared the center table and his robe was placed on top of it.

Wazu was readying all of his weapons that he carried with him. Beside the robe lay a veritable arsenal of gp-1a rifles, Fate (his custom pistol), two kirushi-gamas, several small one shot pistols and several magazines of ammo.

“So what are you doing with all that firepower?” Uso asked.

“We are going into battle remember?” Wazu said, “I’m going to be ready.” He turned to the robe and began to sow some of the one shot pistols into the lining. “Can you hand me that?” Wazu asked as he pointed to a small knife on a shelf.

“I came here for a reason.” She said as she handed him the knife. “I could use a few mags.”

“Don’t they have enough of those in the armory?” he replied putting the knife into a holster on his leg.

“Not that ammo, the good stuff you know what I’m talking about.” She said as she put her hands on her hips in a accusing posture.

“I think I have a few spare clips left behind that frame somewhere.” He said as he checked the sights on the GP-1a pointing it in the direction of the unfinished frame that was still missing a few parts. Uso walked behind the frame and started to rummage through all the random stuff to find the clips. At the same time Wazu strapped the two gp-1a rifles to the inside of the robe and then began to break down his kirushi-gamas into two parts each and then slipped it into his robe.

“Ah-Ha!” Uso remarked holding up the clips she found “Here they are.”

“So is that all or is there something else you want to tell me?” Wazu said as he stuffed some of the internal pockets with ammunition.

Uso was nearly out of the door when she turned her head to the side and said, “Ya, Watch out for stray bullets.”

The lab was more cluttered than normal today. The various containers were empty and the frame looked more complete than ever. In the center of the room the new gun was completed except for a few wires running out of it and to the stand alone bank of computers Wazu had set up in the lab that were running various tests. The wires then ran across the floor back to the frame suspended in it’s small scaffold. A few panels remained on the floor but only so the wires could reach the inside the new bot. The mysterious sphere pulsated with a eerie blue light and was surrounded by sensors electronics and nanotech organs. The body looked like some sort of mecha. The forearms had several boxy attachments that contained a energy sword used for close combat. The hands were also a work of art. They were nanotech based and could re shape themselves to fit any type of weapon or form a direct link to a computer at will. The chest contained two fold up panels that housed several micro missiles and other components. The legs looked like the average humans with some exceptions. They each had a additional systems port on the outer sides covered with a retractable panel. Several ports in the bottom and sides are connected to a small energy/thrust system mounted on the back. It also was connected to several ports on the arms and back. The system allowed the bot to channel thrust to any extremity to increase the speed at which it moved. Hopefully this would give it a edge in close combat. On the shoulders extra systems ports were located under a set of fold up panels that would allow for additional customization. On the inside even more stuff was located. A small field disruption unit provided ECM warfare capabilities to the unit as well as the blue sphere (more on that later *sinister laugh*). The head was a very powerful sensor array covered in a armored helmet like casing that would provide protection. The skeleton of the unit was made of impervious. And the muscles were all nanotech relying on vast amounts of the small Nan machines to perform the job cells normally do. The important organs were encased in a sheet of thermoplastics giving durability and strength while the amour was carved out of compressed impervious and was up to 1 cm thick in some places.

Wazu finished plugging in the last of the wires to the machine and then walked over to the computer bank. As the data transfer to the machine began. A A.I. Program similar to the one on Chikara was transferred over to the new machine. It would need to be trained but until then it could be controlled by a simple MMI. The sensor array turned on and began to scan the surroundings “Glad to see you’re awake! Now it is time for some combat training.” Wazu said as he walked back to the computer bank and began to type in a series of commands to start up the training programs. The bot’s sensor data was slowly replaced with that of a CG room inhabited by one wire frame human. “Attack training 1” a voice said out loud. The wire frame man turned and shot the bot ending the simulation.

A few hours later. . . .

The bot had finally perfected it’s motor skills allowing it to take on more challenging programs. “Attack 12” The bot flew forward using it’s energy to thrust drives and activated it’s energy blades. The two figures in front of him were separated into several different pieces as the unit went past. More people spawned in the room. The unit picked up a dropped gp-1a and started to shoot at the new threats scoring perfect hits each time.

A few More hours later. . .

The bot was standing in another room this time with a target range. The unit was sporting a twin chain gun add on it’s shoulders and additional missile pods on the legs. Various targets scrolled across the end of the range and the bot began to light them up. Twin streams of ammo from the chain guns ripped targets apart and ten a hail of missiles simply wiped out everything on the receiving end until there was no more ammo “critical error - shutting down” The voice said. ~damn~ Wazu though as he pounded his fist on the table. ~That shouldn’t happen the computer doesn’t think it will work damn quantum mathematics~ He then went to the bot and began to replace the panels and remove wires. “Well it looks like we will have to test you against Sgzyr.” Wazu said as he finished replacing the armored panels.

The Chujo sat in the captain's chair on the bridge of the GSS Yui as a small shuttle hailed the ship, requesting permission to dock. "Permission granted, come along side".

The shuttle flew up to the docking bay doors and proceeded to land.
A man exited the shuttle and proceeded to head inward the vessel.

Of course, Sergeant Sgzyr stood at the exit, with the GP-5 slung over his shoulder. As he glared at the man, yellow irises surveying his form, he decided that the man would be of no threat at the moment&

The shuttle departed once its cargo was dropped.

"Greetings I am Tobias Geminasu, a Sentry of First Class." said the man.

The Chujo walked quietly from the bridge and stood behind Sgzyr.

Chi blinked a bit confused, "What jolt?"

Sergeant Sgzyr just stood there, dumbfounded for a moment. He then rapidly pointed at the barrel of his customized GP-5 with his free, left hand and the issue of his right index finger being gently placed on the trigger.

Uso was wandering around looking for the Chujo when she heard a shuttle landing and decided to go look in on things in the shuttle bay.

"I was assigned to this vessel as a new crew meber." Geminasu said staring at the weapon.

The second in command remained on the bridge.

"It's ok Sgt. Sgzr. He's a new Sentry for you and Ritsu, since you guys are shorthanded.." Chi spoke in a calm, friendly manner.

Sgzyr, it is done" Wazu said as he entered the bay. He was looking at a data pad at the time and not really paying attention to what was going on.

Sergeant Sgzyr calmly nodded to the Chujo'sf information given to him and continued to glare over the new Security Sentry, he felt that something might go down soon.

"Sentry Specialist Tobias, I'm Chujo Ketsurui Chiharu, welcome aboard, this man here is one of your NCOs. "

"Pleased to meet you." Tobias said to Chiharu and Sgzyr.

Geminasu handed the disk containing all of his data to Chiharu.

Wazu looked up from his data pad when he heard the unfamiliar voice. ~Another human! ~ He thought. "Hi there!"

"I'll have someone show you to the Male Security nest, since Sgzyr is on duty." Chi replied, as she took the disk, waving down a passing crew member, Akari.

Megami read the disk while it was still in Chiharu's hand. The powerful computer-being also took in information about this new person who would be inside her from now on.

"Thank you, Tobias. If you'll follow Akari she'll lead you to the nest. " Chi looked to the neko and Akari nodded. "Follow me, Mr. Tobias."

Geminasu followed Akari as they walked off.

Once Akari reached the men's nest, she left the new crewman to fend for himself and turned around, heading back towards the Medical bay.

Chi still stood behind the Sgt, before she turned around and heaed back to the bridge, amazed at the fact that she got another male member of her crew. "Back to the bridge with me."


"Well that was brief. Anyways Sgzyr do you want to see the new bot?" Wazu said looking up from his data pad unkown to him Uso was sneaking up behind him.

Chiharu returned to the bridge, smiling slightly as she looked over to the Chusa, "How'd the practice go, Araiah?"

Sergeant Sgzyr just watched the procession as his mind began to tingle, scared of what might happen in the near future. So many new crewmates his mind was getting dizzy and then there were the Angels, tales of them even made him shudder. He hoped that if they did meet in combat, the crew of the Yui would catch them well prepared.

/think What in the........

Araiah was in the process of extracting himself from the pit when she arrived. He looked up at he and smiled. "Ya know, I think I have the hang of it. Though it'd probably be easier with a direct sensor feed instead of reading it off of a screen." He shrugged and smiled. "Was it me or was there a jolt that wasn't in the program?"

Sergeant Sgzyr just shrugged, he did not really want to test the sparring partner at the moment, he felt the urge to gather up a few of his weapons. With a brisk salute, he bowed outwards and ran as fast as he could towards his nest.

"Oh, another? What position?"

Uso pounced on Wazu as Sgzyr left the shuttle bay putting her knife to his neck. "Well it looks like I caught you off guard again."

"He's a Sentry Specialist First Class. Ritsu was asking for more crew for the Security staff. He's a human." She smiled again, diversity in one's crew is fun.

Wazu simply said, "shouldn't you introduce yourself alredy?"
Megami interjected from out of nowhere, her voice not seeming to come from any particular origin. "There is no Sentry Specialist First Class. He is a Sentry First Class."

"Okay. Well, as far as I can tell everything's been really quiet on sensors. No sign of the enemy yet," he reported, walking over to his Nav station and sitting down, running his hands over the panel as he checked up on a few things.

Chi grimaced a bit, shoot. "Gomen Megami. Thank you for the correction."

"Ya your probably right" Uso replied putting the knife back into her holster, "I better get going then" Uso and Wazu then left the shuttle bay and started walking to the bridge.

And as Sgzyr rounded the corner, he miss-placed his left foot and slipped down onto the ground, his head bashing into the wall. He just sat on the floor for a few moments, contemplating his stupidity.

Chi took a seat in her chair again, shaking her head, wondering if all these introductions today has fried her memory. She then decided that she'd just let her mind de-frag the next time she got to sleep, it was still early.

Chi looked at her data files again, "The enemy is bound to show up sometime.."

"Yeah....now if only they didn't think to hide."

Wazu and Uso finally reach the bridge Wazu walks over the station and Uso moves behind Chi "You look like you could use a massage" she said.

After a few minutes of silent contemplation, he stood upwards and walked cautiously towards his nest, taking his time so he did not slip again. Within a few more minutes, he made it there, then the selection had begun.

Chi shook her head no, "No thank you Miss..? I need to defrag more than a massage. But who might you be?"

"My name is Uso Tasuki. I’m you’re new Intel officer" She said in a cheery voice

"She just trying to be friendly." Aya smiled, to Chiharu. It wouldn't do to turn down a nice gesture like that.

Chi smiled a bit and looked over to Aya, "Yes, you're right Aya, she's trying to be nice." She looked back to Uso, still smiling. "Nice to meet you, Uso. I'm Ketsurui Chiharu, welcome board."

"Thank you" Uso said as she moved over to her station and sat down

"We should be catching up to the Angel ships at some point.." Chi sighed a bit, she never liked waiting or having to hurry up and then wait..

Chi smoothed her hair back behind her ears and looked around the bridge..

Clear sailing....Araiah watched the panel intently, noting small variations in space, but nothing looked like anything.

Suddenly, the whole ship rocked with the force of a powerful explosion. Sparks flew as some of the lighting blew out.

Chiharu rose from her chair, "What the hell just happened?! Status report?! Did the Angels hit us?"

Out of nowhere, three heavenly frigates, each shaped like a bright white set of angel wings, swooped in from behind firing their bright blue beam weapons, again. Megami quietly said something about shields being raised, but it was drowned out by the crash of another series of impacts.

Chi's expression darkened, fuck. "Araiah, turn us about so we can fight back! Megami, how are we? Get ready to fire back!"

His eyes darted over the board as the Chusa brought the warship around, heading around for a strafing run. That done, Araiah practically jumped into the pilot's pit and reconnected like before. -Meg, give me a direct feed, forget the screen,- he thought.

The three attack ships were totally pummeling the Yui's shields, unleashing powerful waves of beam and pulse fire. The whole ship was shaking with the impacts as the angel ships of roguhly equal size circled around it firing the weapons. Since no one else bothered to, Megami herself fired the grand white beam at one of the angel ships, scoring a glancing blow. There was a blossom of fire as the craft's wing lost a chunk. Just then the GSA ship's gravity failed, and so did the main lights.

In the Technical bay, the techs on duty, Kuru, Mika Tomoyo picked themselves up after they are thrown across the room. Scurrying to try to get the gravity and the power up.

Wazu used his mechandrites to anchor himself to the chair as he did his best to help keep the targeting and scanners online then feed the data to Araiah

~Aw, stink!~ Araiah closed his eyes and set his thoughts to interpret the data more rapidly...he banked as another volley passed, then stabilized the Yui's course, bringing her up in a loop that would set them behind the frigates.

The techs on the sub deck weren't responding... The systems display showed that area in bright red...

Lyn tried to get herself back down in her chair, grabbing a hold of the chair and pulling herself down, "Trying to reestablish the shields!"

Megami, who was now using a spare body rather than a hologram, floated onto the bridge and informed the bridge crew, "The hit my underside. We've lost main power to the engines and the ship. Aux is up still, but it's not a lot to work with."

Arume managed to do the same as she rapidly tried to stop the fires in the subdecks, activating the ship's sprinkler system, "We have a fire on the subdecks.."

One of the impervium hull sections actually was rotated by the explosion and entered inside the frame, crushing the slipstream drive and decompressing engineering. The surrounding areas, including the torpedo warhead storage, are on fire. I am filling them with blood-foam now."

-Great...gotta keep our belly down.- thought Araiah as the ship slowed significantly enough to hinder proper evasion of weapons fire. He managed to get the ship oriented with the nose and dorsal sections pointed at the enemy.

"I can't get us anywhere unless I have engines here, people!" Araiah called out, still struggling to keep a straight course, or any course at all.

Chi spoke again, trying to stabilize herself now as she felt herself fall again, "We're sitting ducks?" Down in the engineering area, Tomoyo tried to not drown, coughing as she passed out. The 2 Nekos trying to do what they could to stay alive and then try to keep the ship alive..

"That's about it," came the reply...

Aya shook herself off, her nose bleeding profusely, and pushed herself off of the ceiling, trying not to think of the poor crew in engineering. She grabbed hold of one of the control stations, upside down, and tried to pull herself into the seat at the communications station. After getting in, she attached the harness.

"Aya, send out a distress signal and a warning to the rest of the fleet. Let them know that we're screwed." Chi tried to get back into her chair, grabbing a hold of it and strapping herself in, Arume and Lyn doing the same. Lyn was pale and looked like she was about to faint.

The whole ship shifted again. A huge explosion rotated it clockwise like it had been hit by another ship. And actually, it had. A large piece of an angel ship bounced off of the damaged nose in the midst of a fantastic and blindingly bright explosion. And through the explosion, came flying a welcome sight: the GSS Ender III (GD-102).

"Is there any part of the engines that is operable? Who cares if it doesn't have power, I'll take care of that!" yelled Araiah.

The Ender's escort ship, the GSS Affection was there two, and each of them took after one of the two remaining angel ships. Meanwhile inside, no one seemed to respond to Araiah. Were there any tech left to report?

He blinked as he picked up the Ender on sensors...a grim smile crossed his face. "Wow, someone actually showed up at our party! And I sent out so many invitations..." The crippled Yui slowly pulled to the sidelines of the battle on thrusters as Araiah opened his eyes and looked around the bridge...it was in shambles. Why was no one answering?

Meanwhile, in the engineering area, the 2 nekos gasped for air as they managed to escape into an access tunnel.

The problem with the angels is that their exact whereabouts were sketchy at best, forcing the ships of the 1st Fleet to spread far and wide. The Ender III and the Affection were around because they were in the same Battle Group, but they were all that was around. One of the two angel ships sped off into the night, cloaking, but the Ender tagged a second one with a torpedo burst and put it out of action. The Yui was safe... for now.

The Chujo frowned, they got screwed, they were stuck and they didn't manage to do a damn thing to the Angels. "3 friggin' command frigates.. Megami, how long will it take us to repair the Yui?"

"This is Taisa Fensalir Kelrina." Aya put the Ender III's captain on the screen. "Sorry I took so long. Ender told me your ship was ambushed."

"About two days, provided we are not attacked. I ejected our antimatter supply, also." Megami answered. If she hadn't have, the whole ship could have been destroyed.

"Thank you Taisa Fensalir. I never suspected that 3 command frigates would ambush us. Do you know where they went?" The Chujo wiped the blood from her face, and hoped that she still had crew left alive to repair this ship..

"I would like to ask a favor of you Taisa, could you watch our backs while we repair ourselves? We had to eject our anti-matter supply.."

"Those were attack frigates. Fast little bastards." Taisa Fensalir (Hoshi Koi's previous captain, actually) said. "One's still here. the other, probably back wherever their base is. Of course we'll watch you, Chujo."

"We ought to board the one that's left, see what's in there." Taisa Kelrina suggested.

"Thank you again, Taisa, hopefully I have some techs left alive to help Megami fix the Yui." She nodded again, "Agreed, I'll get some Sentries together to form a boarding party."

"We'll keep our ears shiny." Fensalir nodded and cut the transmission.

Chi unfastened herself from her chair. "Emperor help us.." There's was a lot of work to do and no time to waste...

After the angel’s attack there was no rest for Acara. He worked franticly on the engine trying to get it back on line. He had left his uniform in a heap on the floor and flowed here and there, getting replacement parts, reattaching wires, and repairing holes. ~Whew, at this rate I may get done early, but not by much~. The engine had serious damage, and Acara saw it as a challenge.

~I wonder were those angel ships came from. I thought Megami would have seen them some how. They did some serious damage though. What kind of weapons did they use?

Sparks suddenly flew as a piece of the engine began to pull away. ~NO~. Acara flowed quickly over there and started reattaching it. ~Dang, this is not going well. What else could go wrong~. At that moment some damaged wires started showering sparks. ~This is just great~. A tentacle came out of his back and began fixing the wires.

~Well in a few more hours I’ll be able to tell Chiharu I am done with the engine. I wonder how the other technicians are holding up. They all seem so young. I kind of feel sorry for them. I just hope I’m not the one that gets them killed~. He pondered these thoughts as he worked. ~Well we will see what the future holds when we get there~.

Juni Kuru and Mika had managed to repair themselves enough to function properly after the attack on the ship stopped. They floated there in the dark silence before Mika spoke.

"I think Tomoyo's dead, she didn't follow us out into the access tunnel. We have her memory backed up?"

Kuru nodded, frowning, "Luckily we do. We can get Akari to hemosynth her a new body once we get the main power back online. We were lucky that Kei and Hikari weren't working with us in there right then.. or else we might have lost them too."

Mika looked like she was about to cry, "But.. she.. she.." Kuru hugged Mika to her and there was silence again as they just floated around in the dark. Mika was silently crying into Kuru's shoulder, her tears floating up into the air above them like rain drops..

"Mika, it'll be okay. Come on, let's go get Kei and Hikari. You can go with Hikari to fix the bridge and I'll take Kei to fix the generator." Kuru offered her friend a smile, although she couldn't really see it.

"What about Acara? What should he do?" Mika asked, sniffing a bit.

"Don't worry about him, I'm positive that he hauled tail to fix the engine already or something. He's a good worker and he's self motivated, he does things without me asking usually. He's not bad for a man." Kuru hugged Mika again. "Come on, let's get to work."

The other Neko nodded, "Ganbatte!"

The ship was damaged but Wazu wasn’t really needed on the bridge right now so he headed back to the lab to check up on things. He used his mechandrites to pull himself along and just allowed himself to float over to the lab. When he opened the doors he found the place even more cluttered than normal. Various data pads and hand written notes were floating around the room and Chikaru was stuck hanging in the air struggling valiantly to get down. Wazu plucked the creature out of the air and held it for a second not really knowing where to put it. He eventually decided to stuff it in one of the cabinets it was small but at least the creature could move around. Chikaru went to sleep with a happy look on its face that night. Wazu then started to tackle the task of gathering the clutter floating around the room. ~data pads on this side of the room and notes on the other~ he thought as he began tossing the items to one side or another.


Uso was gathering data on the angel ship it was her job and a little combat damage was not going to stop her. Fist she downloaded what information she could from megami and then used deep penetration scans to uncover what the ship looked like on the inside. Comparing the two she created a map of what the ship should look like for when they board it. ~now where is there main computer?~ she thought to herself.

Acara slid back and looked at the engine he had spent the last six hours working on. ~Well, every thing seems to be in order~. He thought as he gave the engine and all its parts a final once over. ~What now~. He wondered. ~I guess I should go see Juni Kuru about what else needs repaired. I hope she survived. What an idiot, of course she survived she is a Nekowalkyrie, and thy are about as resilient as I am.

Acara picked up his uniform and went to put it on. ~Wait, I need to get clean first. I don’t want to ruin this~. With that he headed for the closest baths. The baths happened to be the male one this time, and he slid in. After about fifteen minutes Acara came out and got dressed. ~Now, were is Juni Kuru~.

As Acara flowed down the access tunnels he noticed that every thing was in shambles. ~The loss of gravity must have really have messed this ship up~. Acara moved over the flood anchoring himself by creating small suctions on his underside.

He found Juni Kuru in a tunnel holding a crying neko he did not recognize. ~Oh no, what just happened~. Acara slid back giving the two nekos some room. There he waited in a somber mood wondering what the matter was.

Now that the gravity and lights were off, Ritsurin had to use his enhanced senses of smell and hearing to find his way, he eventually got to searching the ship, looking for other casualties besides poor Tomoyo, who he heard was killed when the ships attacked, he didn't know how though.

~This is great, if the angels come back, we're through. Or worse yet, they may try to storm the Yui, and finish us off. Well, I am not going to let that happen. I have to find the rest of security and tell them about this, although, they may have thought about that very real possiblity.~ He thought as he used his telekinetic powers to move through the damaged ship.

He found Lavinia sometime later, she was in the process of repairing a broken arm. "Lavinia, are you alright?" Ritsurin asked when he saw her arm.

"Yeah, I'm okay, it'll take me a bit to repair this arm. Have you found Sgzyr or Geminasu yet?" She asked.

"No, not yet, I'll keep looking, you go to the bridge and help out the best you can, that's an order." He said.

"Will do!" She replied trying to move to the bridge.

Ritsurin moved down into the technician's area to see the damage, he noticed that Acara had stabilized the engines.

~Good, he's got them stable.~ Ritsurin thought as he moved out of the area and looked around for Geminasu and Sgzyr.

He found Geminasu,who was in the male security qurarters, next; that he was unhurt.

~Phew, that's a relief.~ Ritsu thought, feeling relieved

"Geminasu, Will you please come with me." Ritsurin said.

~I hope everyone else is okay...~ He worried.

Akari had led Geminasu down his quarters in the nest. In which Geminasu had decided to unpack. Shuffling through his belonging he decided where he would place his stuff.

Looking at his checklist, "Sword collection....... check. Shuriken collection......... check. Smoke flashs....check. Various ninjusto related things, etc. etc...... check. Fully legimate magazine collection.........check."

He placed his chest down a start to put his stuff away when his danger sense went off.

"Hmm?!"

Suddenly, the ship rocked violently throwing Geminasu and all his belonging onto the floor.

"Ouufff! Must remember..... not... to have... such... a heavy chest...... from now on......." strained Geminasu.

Just then the lights flickered off and the gravity disapeared.

"Ahh... We'll at least the chest is off of me now.... HOLY CRAP!" cried Geminasu, while barely doging his katana, "Note to self: Remember to secure swords to their sheaths from now on..."

Floating free from his things he then attempted to contain his personal belongings by rebounding off the walls.

"Well.... I think that's the last of it but what is the floating ball of fur?? Oh well I won't concern myself with that for now but...."

Just then Ritsurin floated up the room and asked for him to join him as they left down the hall... floating the whole way....

After the time in the access tunnel, Kuru and Mika had seperated, gathering Kei and Hikari and going to about there assignments. Kuru started repair work on the main power unit, Mika the artifical gravity, Hikari on the sensors and Kei started work on the shields. There was no end to work for the Techs to do. The girls all had somehow secured themselves to whatever they were working on and were holding flashlights in their mouths as they went to work repairing the ship.

The techs were working for hours, suspended in the darkness, with only the illumination of their flashlights to show them what they were working on.

Hikari tried to think of happy thoughts as she worked on the sensors. She tried with all her might not to think about poor Tomoyo, but she reminded herself what she had been taught all her life, 'as long as their is a memory backed up, the person can be given a new body and be brought back like nothing had ever changed.' She remembered that Juni Kuru had said that as soon as they got the power back up that they could make a new body for Tomoyo. She wondered if this was the best choice for her, to be a part of GSA Spacey, far away from Geshrintall. She only knew Kei and Tomoyo from their time in training together, in fact, they were the only reason why she was even there on the GSS Yui. When Tomoyo had heard the the GSS Yui needed people, she volunteered and encouraged Kei and Hikari to sign up to so that they all could be together and look out for one another. So, in a way, Hikari felt like she had let Tomoyo down by not taking the shift with Kuru and Mika instead..

After about 8 hours of working in the dark, Kuru managed to get the main power to kick back on again. But her thoughts were more less torn than Hikari's, but she felt the guilt all the same. Tomoyo was her responsibility and Kuru was unable to get the girl out of the room in time to save her from sufficating from the smoke and the blood foam. Kuru and Mika were lucky that they were able to get out.. but, Kuru promised herself to keep a better eye out on her younger crew so that it wouldn't happen again. But, as the lights came back on, Kuru wiped her forehead and gave the unit a once over to see if there was anything else wrong.

Shortly after the main lights came back on, Mika managed to get the gravity to turn back on again. The result was sudden as everything that was floating came crashing down to the floor again.

Kei fell the short distance to the floor when the gravity came back on. She had turned off her flashlight and continued to repair the short that caused the shields to fail, it was difficult work but she'd keep at it until she could repair it..

Hikari felt the gravity come on before she realised it, the lighting in the small space was just bright enough for her to work. She had had a hard time finding the problem with the sensors but, she had eventually found the problem and started working on it. She had no idea of how long she had been there and she only knew that it'll take a long time for her to fix the sensors...

In the pitch dark lab Wazu’s flashlight played across the various objects still floating in the air. While he was floating around trying to get things back in order he saw one of the data pads drop to the floor. ~oh shit~ Wazu thought as the gravity came back on line and all the floating objects came crashing down (including Wazu) in a very comical fashion for anyone watching. After that the lights came back on. Wazu was sprawled out over the floor face down and covered in debris that was floating just a second before. ~ouch~ he thought before deactivating pain nerves that were sending signals. Wazu picked himself off and looked over the damages. ~only a few scrapes~ he thought to himself as he began the process of putting the lab back into a useable condition.

The first jolt threw Nanashi off of her chair and into the opposite wall headfirst. The circuit panel on her headband cracked, sparked, then died, leaving the catgirl disoriented, then scared. This wasn't part of her game, this was trouble! The beating the enemy ships gave the GSS Yui were felt especially hard by Nashi. Through half the battle, she sat as far into a corner of her room the best she could and stared wide-eyed at the doorway, hugging her pillow like a teddy bear. What was going on? Why didn't mommy come?

Minutes felt like hours as the ship trembled and booms shook through the frame. Then...she stared at the floor as it seemed to be getting further away. She was flying?! Tilting her head, the youngster pushed off the wall and sailed across the room. While her tactical mind calculating movements and trajectories, her conscious mind just thought one thing.

"This is fun!"

Time passed, more booms, more shaking. It wasn't so bad while she was floating, it was kinda fun.
Then the lights went out.

The voice in the back of Nashi's head that normally just told her how to play was now telling her how to get out. Loss of power meant that the door would be unlocked, right? And she hated enclosed spaces...but this wasn't a prison, it was her room, right? Nashi frowned and looked in the direction of the door, unable to see it in the complete darkness but knowing it was there. Something brushed her arm, she jerked away...it was the circuit from her simulator device; the blue LED was still lit and glowed faintly in the dark room. She watched her hand, lit up in her infrared vision by her body heat, gently reach out and cup the floating beacon like a firefly and guide it to her.

"I broke daddy's toy...Can I fix it?" she wondered, removing the headband and examining the pieces in the dim blue light. Hmm...

By the time the lights flickered on, the catgirl had already planned out how to fix it, but she had no tools to do it with. The recovery of gravity found her sitting calmly on the ceiling, abruptly and unceremoniously dumping her in a heap on the floor. Fortunately, down insisted that her blankets and pillow be between her and the floor, ending with a pile of wriggling blankets rolling around the room...Nashi emerged from the tangle smiling. Fun!

A faint sizzling sound caught her attention. she stood up and carefully gathered the pieces of her pet project, her ears flicked this way and that trying to pinpoint the sound. Tracking it to a panel in the wall, she tilted her head, then jammed her claws into the crease and removed it to show a bundle of wires that had come loose. As Nashi watched the swaying sparks, she formed an idea. "Now I can fix daddy's toy! And when I'm done, I'mna ask for a cave....I want to hunt in the dark, like in the blanket. And after that," she continued, addressing the shattered simulator, "maybe mommy will have some real friends for me to play with!"

"Geminau, what do think will happen next?" Ritsurin asked Geminasu.

While rebounding off the walls to move forward, "Not sure, but perhaps we should wsee to what we can do to help out in this kind of situation" said Geminasu.

"That's what I was thinking....let's go to the bridge, by the way, how'd you get all those swords on the ship?" Ritsurin asked with a glimmer in his eyes.

"A ninjitsu warrior always carries spares, even though you may not not see them" he said while rebounding.

"Mind if I get one of them? Or maybe a few smokebombs too? " He asked sounding somewhat like a little boy in a candy store.

"Hmm, I think I might have an old katana I could spare... perhaps, we'll talk more about that later, but first we must find what exacly just happened, right?" said Geminasu, then he added, "As for smokebombs.... No I can't spare those... they take to long to hand make..."

Ritsurin looked thoughtful, "If you want something in return, I could have PNUgen make you a neko girlfriend," Ritsurin then smiled and winked.

Geminasu paused and blushed for a second and continued down the hall.

Lavinia came up behind Ritsurin and smacked him. "Don't say that..."

"Hey! Don't do that again! That's an order." Ritsurin said to her. Lavinia floated off to the bridge after kissing him lightly.
"You didn't see that Geminasu." Ritsurin said blushing somewhat.

"..." came from the speechless Geminasu.

"I'm not supposed to be kissing her while on duty, if you say anything to Taisho Chiharu, I'll bust you back to soldier." Ritsurin said.

"Perhaps we should concentrate on getting to the bridge lover boy..." Geminasu said.

"Grr....fine... just don't tell Chiharu, If you give me the sword and shut up I'll have two nekos made for you." Ritsurin said

Blushing at the thought of this Geminasu said "Hurry up, or leave you behind, mister puppylove."

"Hey, wait up loser..." Ritsurin said. Riturin then used his powers to fly past him at great speed.." Now, whose ahead jerk?"

All of a sudden the lights came on and Gravity was restored as Geminasu landed on his feet and yelled to the speeding Ritsurin "Hey watch out for that closed door!!"

Ritsurin braced to stop but, still hit the wall. "Owwww.....I'm gonna have to talk to the techs about that," referring to the sudden gravity increase.

"For your sake, I hope Chiharu doesn't notice the face imprint you left behind," said Geminasu.

"She won't, I'll ask Megami to fix it before she sees it." Ritsurin replied, rubbing his nose.

"Well at least we're at the bridge now......" Geminasu replied.

"Yeah, let's find out what we need to do."

After the techs managed to get the gravity up and the main power back on, they started working on the other systems. But, as promised, as soon as Mika got the power back up and Kuru finished the gravity, Juni Kuru when to the Medical bay and requested that Medical Specialist Akari hemosynth a new body for Technical Specialist Tomoyo. She handed over the data pad containing the girl's backed up memory to the medic.

"How long will it take Akari?" Kuru asked, frowning a little bit.
Akari offered a reassuring smile, "Well, now that the power is back up it'll take a few hours. After I get Tomoyo back, would you like me to clone you a few more Techs?"

Kuru though this over a bit and nodded, "Just a couple more people from my DNA.." Akari nodded in reply and took a sample from the Chief Engineer.

"I'll have them report to you when their out of the soup."

Kuru paused for a moment and smiled, "Thank you Akari." And then she left, heading towards the sensor array to check on little Hikari. And then, she stopped in on Acara, assigning him to check over the shields after telling him that he did a great job on the engines.

Meanwhile, on the bridge..

The now Taisho Ketsurui Chiharu was doing what she could to calm down a now very upset Lyn would had just heard the news about Tomoyo from Kei. "It's okay Lyn.. really, it's okay.. she'll be back in a little bit, I promise.."

Lyn sniffed and nodded, "You promise?"

"I swear it Lyn. The next time you see her, she'll be working hard to help get the ship up." She gave the girl a hug and looked over to Kei and Mika who were trying to fix the connections in the helm to restore normal operations. "How much longer ladies?"

"Maybe one more day.. these circuits got pretty fried." Mika replied. "But, main power is up, gravity is on, and Acara managed to fix the engine already and the hull in engineering is just about done as well. Soon Hikari will get the Sensors back up."

Chiharu nodded, sighing a bit, relieved that her techs had done so well already. She had taken the sudden return of the Gravity fairly well, she had been strapped into the Captain's chair trying to figure out how they could better handle a new attack.

And then Ritsu and Tobias entered the bridge. "What can I help you boys with?"