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

The angel ship activated its cloaking device, and faded from view. Its tube it had used to bring its troops aboard snapped away as the invisible ship quicky moved away with Chiharu on board. There was a horrible howling noise fora second aboard the GSS Yui as air from the lift shaft escaped into space. It didn't last long; Megami sealed the end of the shaft with a forcefield.

With Chiharu tucked away onboard, the angels shot off into the night at maximum speed...

“HOW THE #ELL DID THEY MANAGE TO DO THAT” Wazu screamed as he ran onto the bridge obviously angered by the recent turn of events. “Follow them! And bring Alexis and Uso up here at once!” he yelled to anyone who cared to listen. The Angel ship was relatively close still so it could be detected and followed to a point but it’s cloaking devise would allow them to get away if they got outside the Yui’s optimal sensor range.

Uso ran onto the bridge, ”yes sir?” She said.

“Chi is still hooked up to a mirror right?” Wazu asked.

“Yes I think so?” Uso replied.

“Good I have a idea. Now here is what I want you to do,” Wazu said as he went into a long technical explanation. “As for you Acara do what you can to help Uso.”

Wazu pressed the button that would send the message to Taisho Yui. It was only a short message but it would have to do Wazu was planning out his next move.

Dear Yui,

I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news but Taisho Chiharu has been kidnapped by the Angels. Their ship then left at high speeds and then cloaked we are trying to locate them and Chiharu. We would appreciate any data you could send us in regards to our current situation. The Yui will return with Chiharu or not at all.

Heram J. Wazu

Onboard the GSS Yui

Wazu opened up a comm. channel to the Qel’noran home world. The channel was flooded with static immediately. Wazu then pressed a few buttons and the static soon cleared up and formed a GSA flag. “enter extension number” a cheery secretary-like voice chimed in. Wazu then pressed some more buttons and the GSA flag disappeared and was replaced with a screen that was displaying all the text he had said. When another voice began talking. “Yes?” It said

“So how is the Last Resort?” Wazu asked the unknown person.

“It is going through it’s first trials. There were a few problems with cloaking units but they seem to be all straightened out now.” The person answered.

“I need to know if it can carry out it’s purpose. Can it work under normal conditions?” Wazu asked

“It can. My staff is the best there is and I will personally guarantee that it will function.” The unknown person said with a air of pride in his voice.

“Something has come up.” Wazu started but then paused for a moment, “I need her out here in 48 hours”

“That will be hard.” The voice said, “But it can be done”

“Also how is Gama-shinobi? Wazu asked

‘It is . . .operational” the voice replied, “Why do you ask? You aren’t planning to. . ..”

“I’m afraid it might be necessary, load it up and bring it here as so. . .” “But I don’t have the clearance.” The voice interrupted Wazu’s order

“YOU HAVE MY CLEARANCE!” Wazu almost yelled, “Tell them that if they don’t agree to send it I will pull out of the program.”

“You can’t!” The voice said

“Yes I can!” Wazu said with a air of superiority in his voice “I’m on the GSS Yui they can’t reach me here!”

“They aren’t going to like this,” The voice said obviously nervous

“I don’t care. Get it out here NOW!” Wazu said as he cut the communication and resumed going over his plan in his mind. He knew that this course of action would probably get him in trouble but he also knew that he could get out of it at a later time ~They owe me one anyways~ He thought to himself.

Meanwhile somewhere above Qel’nora. . .

The sleek ship’s’ form slipped quietly through the atmosphere vectoring towards a small forest many of the sensors on the planet failed to register it’s presence. A set of doors opened up in the forest and the ship flew in. Inside the underground room various crates were placed around the walls of the room and as the ship landed it opened various doors on the sides. Various personnel scrambled around quickly loading the crates onto the ship. Various personnel came out of a side passage way. They were all armed with gp-5’s a heavy lifter then emerged from the passage way carrying a rather large crate that was chained up and had a very elaborate looking lock on it. It was then loaded into the ship with the rest of the cargo. After everyone had left the room the ship closed it’s doors and flew out of the facility ”They really aren’t going to like this.” The voice said.

After his meeting with Chiharu, Alexis had dropped the food off at his quarters and headed over to Nanashi's quarters to brief her on the boarding procedures.

"Hello Nashi, are you up?" he said, knocking lightly on the doorway as he entered.

Nashi was laying in her hammock with another simulation in progress. Alexis smiled slightly, then walked over to her side and tapped her on the shoulder. Her ruby eyes blinked, then she broke out in smiles. "Daddy!" Sitting up, her arms wrapped him up in a firm hug which he gentley returned. "Thank you for the new program, I like caves!"

From the look she was giving him, Alexis could tell she liked hunting in the new cave environment he had inserted. He smiled at her and nodded. "Glad to hear it, Ar'isa," he said, using his pet name for her, a R'Lari word meaning "changed thoughts". Appropriate, he thought, for her condition; she had had her thoughts changed to produce her current murderous mentality, and the word sounded as cheery as she was.

He took the headband and plugged into it. The shifter had downloaded everything that Megami had on Angels, even possible permutations on Seraphim forms. This he loaded into the simulator's database. He also created a profile on angel biology and their tactics that she could study before actually engaging the simulation. With safties on, he set the sim on back onto her forehead. "Daddy has new game for you...new playmates! Some you have yet to meet, so keep in mind that your normal attacks may not be very effective." He thought a second and then continued. "Try to run things through mentally before doing them. If something looks like it's not going to work while you're doing it, switch tactics. Keep your options open." If anyone was listening in, it sounded like a father teaching his child to hit a baseball. The incongruity of the situation was almost hilarious..."Allow the playmate profile to download first, it'll give you everything you need to know."

Nashi nodded and smiled, then lay back on the hammock and closed her eyes. Inside her mind the profile flickered by a couple times, all it took before she had it memorized word for word. Ready with the new information at hand, she activated the program. A ship corridor formed around the neko girl. An angel ship, from what the profile had told her. Nashi sniffed the air, picking up a couple of scents from a few meters down the corridor and silently headed toward them, active camoflauge in effect. Her invisible form approached a pair of officers from behind...they were dead before they knew what hit them.

Alexis watched her silently, his face grim. It had to be done...right? He exited the room and headed back to his room. As he walked slowly down the corridor, he allowed his vision to lose focus. The details blurred, then sharpened, much more coming into view as his vision expanded to take in the entire EM spectrum. Glowing lines criss-crossed the floor and ceiling from power conduits and circuits.... A virtual rain of light came from the lighting fixtures in the corridor... Clusters of multicolored energy where crewmembers were, each with a distinctness all their own. Nekos were one pattern, humans another, the Qel'noran Sgyzr and demi-demon Ritsu each had their own patterns. Alexis absently admired the beauty of the light show... he loved to do this when he relaxed, the colors were so relaxing at times. He neared the aft section of the ship and paused. Two patterns were in the lift, but he couldn't identify their shape or energy
signature.

-distortion matrix activated, cloak in place. matter phase set.-

The shifter abruptly vanished from internal sensors as a multi-dimensional distortion was put in place. To an outside viewer, he had been standing in the corridor one second, but was gone the next moment. In reality, several things had happened: He had drained all coloration from his body and clothing, resulting in a transparent version of himself...but it was easily seen by the wave-like distortion in the air. Then he had wrapped himself in the eleven other dimensions that made up space-time. Nothing could see him. Nothing could feel him. Nothing could sense him with any of the other senses. The shifter peered around the corner, using the energy-view to 'feel' his way around since light was no longer reaching his eyes... the two new signatures were still there, but Alexis noted that for some reason light wasn't reflecting off of them either... he realized they must be cloaked. And cloaked unknowns on this ship ment enemy.

The following confrontation was the most helpless Alexis had felt in his life.

Intangible and invisible, he floated uselessly as Chi faught for her life against an unseen foe. His only relief was the knowledge she had her mind backed up somewhere, like the engineer Tomoyo. But the sight was painful nontheless.

The struggle ended with Chi unconscious in the seraph's posession. Alexis floated through the bulkhead into his quarters and let out a telekinetic burst to signal Timdri it was time to go. It snapped up the shifter's things, but left the commisioning plaque from the Cat's Paw on the wall. It ment a lot to Alexis, but he didn't say anything.

Timdri tossed the bag with his stuff into the air and Alexis drew them over to him. Once wrapped in his cloak he could touch them; he slung the sachel over his shoulder and saluted his companion...the simian seemed to evaporate, the body melted into a glowing mist that vanished into thin air. That done, Alexis turned back to the seraphs...they were gone. Their ship vanished into the distance.

Alexis floated in the lift for a few seconds in semi-shock from what had just happened... slowly he blinked, then de-cloaked and began to leave the lift. Suddenly he was jerked back! He swung around... only to find that his arm had solidified inside the wall of the lift. Growling softly, he phased his arm and pulled it out, then headed to the bridge.

Chaos greeted him. Rather, it backhanded him across the face a few times before slapping an uppercut on him; it was so bad that he had to stop as he tried to catch up with what was going on.

Finally, he had enough.

"SHUT. UP!!!" The yell reverberated through the Yui's frame and back again. Everyone had to have heard that. Alexis was ticked, his eyes were flaring in orange fire and his jaw was set. He looked down at the floor to gather himself, the carpet literally began melting under his gaze.

"I am the ranking officer on this ship. Everyone, shut up and sit down right where you are. NO ONE moves for five seconds, and even after five seconds you are to get everything you can on what happened. But do NOT do anything without my okay." He glared at Wazu, Uso, and Ritsu.

"You. You. And you, with me, to the conference room. And DON'T say anything until I tell you, got it?"

ON> Briefing room

Alexis stood at the head of the briefing room table and seethed for a little while as he tried to get under control. "Alright, I'll move fast just cause we have to... First off, I would like to tell you that this was THE MESSIEST handling of a situation I have ever seen! Wazu, assuming I heard your plan right, that is not the only way to board the ship. And the shuttles would almost certainly be gunned down before they got within a kilometer of that ship! Also, if you haven't noticed, they were gone by the time you realized you still had your pants down! So a boarding procedure was both premature and useless."

"I was unable to implement the plan in time do to slow action on the part of the crew. We should have left hours ago. Also I warned everyone that this kind of thing would happen!" Wazu said still a little upset about the whole incident. "If we left when I wanted to and not after the circumstances of Chi's abduction their weapons would still be off."

Ritsurin merely looked down, feeling disappointed in himself.

Eyes narrowed, Alexis looked at each of them one by one. "Uso, Wazu, I got your messages...Wazu, whatever devious plans you have are to be put on hold until further notice, and THAT'S AN ORDER. I don't want to have to put both of you in your quarters just because you two are busy playing your spy game. It's not going to happen on this ship." Wazu's reply didn't help his attitude any."Hours ago? The abduction happened not fifteen minutes ago! Not to mention the crew was moving as fast as they could, I'm sure...I'm glad they didn't get those orders carried out, or you'd be in deeper hot water than you are now. As far as your warning goes, did you tell me or Chi about it? What did you say, I don't seem to remember a warning."

"I told Ritsurin, the Chief of security!" Wazu almost yelled back. "The security should have been much tighter anyways. We're in a @#$king warzone!"

"I know that they used a chemical sedative," Ritsurin said. "I hurried to the bridge to see that she was gone," he added his eyes still glowing with frustation "I couldn't help her..."

"Yeah, yeah, they used a sedative...What of it? I don't see how that's pertinant to the situation, Juni!" Alexis had been cooling down, but Ritsu's comment was just so out of the blue it set him off all over again. "You wanna know what helpless is?! I was standing not three meters from her and I couldn't lay a finger on them!" He turned to look at Wazu again. "Wazu, cut the language. You should have reported your concerns to Chi, if not me. And I think security _was_ tight. But how good are we against invisible intruders? Those seraphs were cloaked. Even I wouldn't have seen them if I wasn't looking right! So lay off security, all we can do now is not let that happen again." Alexis' voice had dropped to a more conversational tone, and his eyes dimmed to a dull orange glow.

Ritsurin merely looked down in shame. "I want to help, but I don't know how..." He finally said.

"Hey, they might have been cloaked yes but security should have seen or heard Chi in trouble!" Wazu said. "Someone should have been there to raise the alarm!" He also calmed down a bit as the situation sunk in.

Ritsurin looked up, his eyes and face marks glowed with an ominous aura. "I ran to her as fast as I could go, but I was too late. I alerted Wazu and Uso, and Lavinia as well as anyone with telepathic ability. Plus Wazu sounded an alarm." He added growing strangely calm.

The shifter stood there, his expression said he was just plain annoyed. "No one did anything until the intruders were already on board...speaking of which, might I ask how that umbilical even became attached to the Yui without anyone noticing?"

"I smelled it, and tore off for where I knew they'd go, I was too late though, geez." Ritsurin said calmly. "What's past is past, let's concentrate on how to get Chiharu back."

A beeping noise came from one of the Taisa's cargo pockets, his pad was vibrating for attention. As Alexis pulled it out he continued talking. "Wazu, you said ten minutes before we were to attempt that rescue plan of yours. By that time the Angels were long gone, that's another reason it was faulty. But I'm not going to point out anything more." He read the message that had appeared on his screen then glanced up at Wazu. "In all this, why did you feel the need to call the Qel'Noran world? Especially since neither Yui or anyone else important is stationed there?"

Ritsurin looked at Wazu thinking ~Why did he do that?~

Alexis glanced over at Ritsu. "In the mean time, Ritsu, you can go. Start running full scans of the ship, I want to know if there are ANY seraphs still on board. Use every means at your disposal to secure the ship."

Ritsurin saluted. "Yes Sir!" He paused to smell the air. "I can't smell any, but that doesnt mean they're not here. Is there anyway to speed up the cloning?" he asked. "And I have nothing to do with anything like treason, I was only investigating the possibilities of it."

The shifter shrugged. "I don't know. Talk to Akari about that." He smirked and shook his head at Ritsu's last comment. "Not feeling guilty, are we?" he whispered.

"Only about not being there to protect Chiharu." Ritsurin said, then turned to leave and check on the clones and ask Akari about speeding up the cloning.

Alexis blinked. Sharp ears, eh? He'd have to be careful about that. "Well, shove your guilt in the closet and get on with your job. Otherwise, guilt of her death will be joining it."

He turned to face Alexis. "I will die before that happens!" he said, his eyes narrowing. "I'll get her back, alone if need be." Ritsu turned to leave.

"That won't be necessary." With that, Alexis turned back to Wazu. "Now, about your requests..."

"I hope not, but just know I will sacrifice myself fo her if need be." Ritsurin said without turning around just before the door closed behind him.

"There are important resources that I can use there. Although not everyone may be informed of them," Wazu said. "And there is a bomb in the ship."

"You mean besides the one posing as a sparring drone?" Alexis said wryly.

~!!! what the hell are they going to do?~ Ritsurin thought as has he heard what they said through the walls just before he went out of range. ~Dammit! what am I going to do about it?~

Back in the briefing room Alexis waited for Wazu's answer.

"Yes," Wazu said. "I'm not going to lie to you right now but I'm serious that all the details can't be reveled right now."

"Your 'resources' are gathering a history of being over-kill." Alexis said, shaking his head slowly. "What exactly did you send for and what exactly does it do? You will give details or I'm reporting your actions to Yui."

"I sent for the QSS Last resort. The ship is Kieru class and it is the first of it's type. It is used for long term covert operations," Wazu said.

"First of its type...what systems does it have? Anything special?"

"It is equiped with a Damasu unit. We should be able to use it to remotely hack every Angel computer we run into, whether it is connected to a remote network or not," Wazu said.

Alexis nodded. "Alright. What else did you send for?"

Wazu glared at Uso. "I will have to ask you to leave for a moment." Wazu said to Uso. She looked up at Alexis, waiting for an order.

As Wazu explained the Kieru's capabilities, the shifter looked at the pad every few seconds like he was checking the information with some unknown source...He looked at Wazu funny at the request that Uso leave. "Why does she have to go? We're all on the same side here... right?" The though not intended to be so, sarcasm was evident in his remark.

"..." Wazu didn't reply but his glare showed how serious he was.

Alexis was equally serious. "Wazu, Uso stays. And I can have Megami reveal your comm log if you aren't going to be forthcoming on this." He tapped his pad.

"I also sent for gama-shinobi" Uso perked up a little as Wazu said this. "Any more data on it is classified," Wazu said

"Why?"

"We could need additional firepower. I'm taking precations." Wazu said

"Not what I meant, why is it classified." Wazu was trying on his nerves...the Doc had seemed friendly to Alexis at first, but now the shifter was getting bugged by the man's constant paranoia...and it was literally that. Though Wazu may have and may still have enemies, the guy couldn't desern between friend and foe! To Alexis it seemed that Wazu though everyone in the known universe was out to get him...

"The weapon isn't built on just GSA Tech. A signifigant amount of it was. . .aquired from other sources." Wazu said

"Yeah, so? If it is going to be delivered here, than we should know what it is and how it works. Or the one man here who can operate it will not be able to do so." The shifter was getting annoyed...

"To be fair, I don't operate it," Wazu said. "The weapon is autonomus and there is a fail-safe if it refuses to follow orders."

"Doc, you're insane. You know that, but that doesn't make it better. WHAT DOES IT DO."

"I know I'm insane you don't have to tell me. As far as what it does it is a fast attack unit created to test some of the technology that has been aquired." Wazu said, "I would feel better if Uso left."

Eyes narrowed at Wazu, Alexis glanced at Uso and nodded...he'd tell her about it later, if it deemed necessary.

Uso got up and left the room and left the them to their discussion. "The Gama-shinobi is equiped with dual eather blades as well a teseracting unit that allows it to bypass almost any defence." Wazu said

"Does it work?"

"Some of it. none of the more important systems work yet" Wazu said "I'm bringing here so I can personaly finish it"

Alexis sighed. It was a bit over-dramatic and out of character for him, but he was getting a bit stressed by the goings on. "Fine. But I am going to have a security detail assigned to you, night and day. You will do nothing without telling me first. Got it?"

"Got it." Wazu said his mind scrambling for a way to get out of his current predicament.

"You're dismissed." Alexis finally said. He remained standing until the good doctor left.

Wazu walked out into the hallway where Uso was standing ~well things will be getting interesting in the next 48 hours.~ Uso sent to Wazu. Wazu stopped for a second, he knew what she was talking about and he also knew what it ment for the GSA.

Alexis sat down in a chair and stared at the closed door after Wazu left and sighed. Was this command? Insane chaos, that's what it was...then again, that's what a CO's job was, to bring order to chaos. He smirked as he rephrased it: "Orders to chaos...". Just then he noticed Uso still waiting out in the corridor. "I guess I should tell her she can go back to her duties," he murmured, then got up and left the conference room.
OFF>

As Ritsurin left the briefing room, he overheard something about a bomb on the ship. ~!, What the heck? That's not good. I don't know anything about explosives, better find someone who knows about them~ He thought. He then asked around, sounding curious.

Arume was in her quarters, laying in her bed, dreaming of Chiharu...

Ritsurin reached Arume's quarters and politely knocked on the door.

The neko showed up at the door. She quietly looked up at Ritsurin, standing there wearing a thin silk nightgown. Her face went from sleepy to annoyed. "What do you want?" Arume asked.

"Whoa! Easy, sorry to disturb you, but I need to ask you something, do you have any experience with explosives?" Ritsurin asked her, averting his eyes.

Arume scratched the back of her neck and adjusted her semi-revealing garments. "Yes...why?"

"Because I believe that there's a bomb on the ship somewhere. But, I know little about them, and even less about detecting them." He explained, now looking squarely at her with is piecing red eyes.

Arume's fist was quick to collide with Ritsurin's nose. "Don't look at me!" she sneered.

He didn't flinch as she hit him. "Heh, tough one eh? Sorry though" He said grinning somewhat over meeting someone with some spirit, and to be non-offensive, he averted his eyes again.

"There can't be a bomb aboard. Megami would have detected it." Arume reassured him. "She knows everything that goes on in here."

"Maybe, but Wazu is good at concealing things from her." He said, wiping some blood from his nose. "Nice punch you got there Arume." He commented.

"There's no way." Arume growled.

"Perhaps, but better safe than dead. Can I get Megami to run a sweep for it? You may be surprised." He said tapping his claws on the wall.

"She probably already has. She hears everything we say."

"Megami, is there indeed an explosive on this ship, anywhere? I have a suspicion that there is one, that someone has hidden, even from you." He addressed the computer^

MEGAMI's voice replied quickly. "There are a great many explosives aboard." she said. "But all of them are mine."

"Hmm, where are they? may I ask" He requested of Megami. He addressed Arume. "Is there any manual way of detecting explosives?"

Arume looked at hmm with a scowl. "There should be something." Megami replied. "I cannot disclose the locations of all of my explosives."

"Thank you Megami, I respect that, but can you tell me if there's any on the bridge, lifts, or surrounding areas?" He asked her. "You really don't like me that much do you Arume? In all honesty, get over it. We're stuck on this ship together, so why don't we just get along? I all due respect Chui." He said, still not looking at her.

Arume swung at his jaw, hard. She wasn't about to let him tell her what to do. "Shut up and get down on the floor!" she commanded. Megami waited till Arume was done and said "There are."

Ritsurin parried her blow and stepped to the side and sat on the floor. He smirked, he didn't care about getting smacked around some. "This is serious, If there is an undetected explosive on board someone needs to find it. I'll take whatever punishment you wish to deal me, but I will not be swayed from what I am doing. I'll sniff the bombs out myself. I just need a sample of what they smell like." He said, sitting on the floor looking down, smirking.

She closed the door behind her and walked over to Ritsu's side. "The PUSH-UP!" Arume's voice sounded loudly in the hall.

"one-handed or one finger?" He asked her.

"WHEN I SAY SHUT UP, I MEAN SHUT THE FUCK UP, SOLDIER!" Arume hissed.

Ritsurin smiled, he liked her attitude. He shrugged and started doing push-ups until she tells him to stop. He liked physical training, it didn't bother him any.

In a split second her GP-13 pistol was out and ready to blow his head into a thousand flaming chunks of filth. She looked very serious, and full of rage. In a low growl, she warned him. "You'd better start showing some respect to your superiors around here. Get that moronic smile off your sphincter of a face." she briefly looked upward and told Megami. "Increase gravity in Juni Daijinshi's area to a level that will make pushups extremely strenous for him." a dozen G's later, Ritsu would find himself in great duress.

His eyes glowed red. He continued his push-ups with duress, though he didn't show it; he believed himself too tough to show the pain he was experiencing.

"Up! Dooooooown! Up Dooooowwwnnn!" Arume barked. She let him try to hover at the down position knowing his muscles were filling with lactic acid and burning like fire. "I call this Muscle Memory."

"If you try to rest on the floor, I'll shoot you!" Arume growled. "UP!"

He did what she said. ~Dammit! This is quite a bit tougher than the Boot camp push-ups, but it'll make me stronger; the fire in my muscles brins back memories of times past.~ He thought

"Down!"

He went down.

Arume walked into the high-gravity zone. He could she her tense up and even hear a light grunt of strain from her. She stood on top on his shoulders, balancing there skillfully, with her feet on either side of his neck. "Up!"

~this is new~ He thought as he pushed up with more difficulty than before

Arume weighed about over half a ton in the high gravity. "Down!"

He went down, albeit straining for the first time.

"UP!" She yelled, bouncing on his shoulders by bending her knees.

"grrrrrrrrr." he growled as he pushed up, this was still good for him...in the long run.

"DOWN, you weakling!" she pinched his ear with her toe.

~WEAK! oh, thats it.~ He lowered himself down using one arm. ~I am not weak!~ He thought.

One Arume's feet left his shoulders, swinging back like a pendulum, returning to smash a heel to the back of his head. "UP." she demanded.

He went up. Memories of his past began to come back. ~No, I cant think about that now...~ He thought, holding the memories back.

Yui: "...." Arume frowned. "Increase gravity by 5G."

~Shit!~ He thought as he felt his body start to weaken. He hovered close to the ground, but not resting on it either. ~I can't use telekinetics to hold myself up either, that would be too much.~ He thought.

"Halfway up."

"???....Oh!" realized and helf himself halfway up but not completely.

Just then, Aya came down the hall, heading toward the quarters she shared with Arume. "Erm?" she made a suprised face.

~Who is that? oh, another neko.~ Ritsurin held himself up, wanting to save face, as Arume hadn't told him anything else.

Arume recieved a weird look from Aya, who seemed a bit shocked. As soon as Aya was in her room, she continued. "Up"
daijinshi_ritsurin: Ritsurin grunted, sounding more like a wolf than a human, and pushed himself up.

Arume kindly waited a few seconds, letting him rest in the up position, feeling him tremble under her feet. Then "Down"

~Geez I've learned my lesson already, this is getting tiring, as much I hate to admit.~ He thought.

"grrrrrrr" he snarled as he lowered himself to the floor (but not all the way), beaten and tired, but not broken.

"Up! Down! Up! Down! Up Down!" she put him into turbo, to quickly rid him of the rest of his energy. She was careful not to use all of it. No sense in killing him.

He did as he was told. "Father, help me..." He said as the memories broke through.

Arume got off of his shoulders. "Gravity normal." Suddenly the horrible weight was gone.

Ritsurin felt her weight and the extra weight leave.

"Get up and clean yourself up."

"Yes ma'am." He said getting to his feet and dusted himself off. "I'm...sorry, I'm just so worked up over this whole situation...." He said catching his breath. "Oh man, that was intense." He said after a minute or two. "What should I do now?" He silently asked himself.

"Keep a very close eye on Wazu."

After Ritsurin's 6-7 push-ups at 5 times normal gravity, with Arume on his shoulders; he began to think.

~Hmm...I can trust megami-she souldnt lie to anyone. I 'll let Alexis handle Wazu for now~ He thought.

Ritsurin figured out a solution, He went to find Geminasu, when he found the sentry, he proceeded to give his order.

"Geminasu! You have a new assignment, you are to monitor Wazu, and report anything and everything he does to Alexis first, then to me. Got it?" A tired and serious Ritsurin said.

~Lavinia, meet me in the hallway near the lift.~ He sent her telepathically.

Lavinia got his thought and headed up the lift from the tech floor to the main deck to meet him.

"Ritsurin, what is it?" She asked, sounding worried. "You look tired, what happened?"

"Long story. Anyway, I want you to scan the ship, look for anything out of the ordinary. I want you armed with a GP-5, loaded with live ammo no exceptions. Shoot to kill anything that's not a normal member of the crew, you are looking for seraphim. Do not let them touch you... if you get into trouble, let me know instantly with telepathy ok?" He ordered.

"What about you? Shouldn't you do it too?" She asked with a brow raised.

"I'm going to." He said. "Just go ok? I'll be right behind you." He added, his fierce eyes softening a little bit.

Lavinia nodded and began her search, looking in every nook and cranny on the ship.

~Ritsu, what's happened to you? You've changed, you're more aggressive, more hot-headed, yet strangelyy calm. It's eerie~ She thought as she carried out her orders.

Ritsu went and took a very quick bath, to wash off the sweat and grime from doing Arume's push-ups. Then he got back to duty, he went to the armory, grabbed a GP-5 and loaded it. Following Lavinia's lead, he picked up the deep scan of the ship. As he was checking the shuttle bay. He recieved this thought from Lavinia.

~Ritsurin, it's Lavinia; I haven't found a thing, I've completed a search of the starboard, I'm headed for the Tech area.~

~Good, Keep searching, leave no panel unchecked.~ He sent back to her

~I'm in the Weapon's System's room now. They did a good job in here.~ She reported and commented.

A few seconds later: ~Ritsu! Hel.....~She broke off.

~Lavinia! Lavinia! Oh no.~ He thought as he tried to tap into her mind, finding it like static.

Ritsurin sprinted for where she was. When he got there a mere 15 seconds later, he smelled the reek of seraphim. "No! he screamed when he saw Lavinia's prone body laying on the floor. He whipped his sword out and activated it. "Show yourself angel scum!" He tried to goad the thing into showing itself. He dodged out the way of a stab to the back the cloaked seraphim attempted, thanks to his sharp hearing (He heard the mudlike sound of it forming into a spike then the initial thrust.) Ritsurin countered with a vicious spin-slash that lit the seraphim ablaze with pyrokinetic fire.
"Die you muddy bastard!"

"You are a fool human." The seraphim laughed, extinguishing the flames; it's voice coming out of mowhere. "Now, die" it said as it slashed at him. Ritsu backflipped out of the way, but his back was to a wall...

The seraphim materialized and launched himself at the half-demon, attempting to engulf him. "Ooph!" Ritsu grunted as the thing pinned him to a wall and proceeded to cut him to ribbons as a form of torture. The seraphim managed to put two large gashes on Ritsu's chest before Ritsu blasted it thing with a fire of pure vengeance; incinerating the thing instantly.

Ritsurin, breathing heavily and bleeding whenever he moved walked over to Lavinia. "Lavinia...wake up, Lavinia! No...." He said as he found the two fatal wounds. "No...it can't be...Lavinia no.....LAVINIA!!!!!" He yelled, most likely heard on the bridge. Scooping up her lifeless body, he tearfuly make his way to Alexis. Fighting back tears, he reported to the Taisa.

"Alexis, there was a seraphim in the weapons system room. Lavinia found him, and she ....she...it killed her. I...managed to destroy it, barely." He said, with tears in his eyes and blood seeping through his uniform jacket.

After a minute or two, Ritsurin looked up, the tears still glistened on his face. His eyes glowed an angry red, his face marks blazed, his hair began to flow upwards. He was still holding her body. "They will pay dearly for this." He said, his features and voice givinig off and ominous aura.

Geminasu stood silently for a moment thinking back on what had just happened.

~ Dammit, dammit, dammit, dammit, dammiit, DAMMIT! If I just just been fast enough Chi might not have been captured. My danger sense had gone off by alerting me that someone was in serious danger. I ran as fast as I could to the source but to late. Dammit!

He punched, the wall and dropped to his knees, "I just joined this crew and already failed to save Chi. DAMMIT!" He pounded his fists on the ground beside his datapad nearly shattering the datapad.

"We'll find a way to get Chi back, and I'll rip the angel that did this to my captain limb from limb."

His data pad beeped at him as orders came in from Ritsurin.

"Wazu?! Wazu?! Personally getting I'd think rescuing Chiharu would be top priority. But yet I've been assigned to keep an eye on Wazu? Well, fine, dammit. I guess there is no one else better than a ninja to keep tabs on him anyway."

He sent an audio reply that said, "Understood, I'll be on that Wazu like a shadow. And I have an idea that just hit me on how to track down Chiharu."

He left the room and used his illusions to disappear from total sight and proceeded to track down the wayward Wazu.

Uso was at her intel station when she saw Ritsurin enter the room holding Lavania, blood dripping from both, "Medic!" She yelled out as she rushed over to help

Ritsurin grunted, his eyes and marks glowing, his hair flowing...up?..."I'll be fine. But, she's dead." He said.

Uso's demeanor changed from one of a one of a frantic helper to one of a very solemn state

"Don't give me that please, it jumped her." He said.

"So there was nothing that could have been done?" She said

"I am afraid so. He called to me in my mind..." He said, and sent a message telepathically. ~ Ritsu. Hel.....; that's all I got~ he thought at her.

~What does that~ she though back when she noticed the blood did not all belong to Lavania. 'Your hurt!" she almost yelled.

"I wasn't too far from where she was, but I...couldn't save her." He looked at his own blood, "So? I'll live...but I have lost everyone I ever cared about...Chi, my parents, and now Lavinia." Ritsurin calmed down, his features returning to normal.

"You still have the crew of the Yui." Uso added her hand began to ooze blood and she rubbed it over Ritsurin's wounds. the blood pooled around the injury and began to form into bandages.

"It's not the same...I feel an emptiness in me now." He said as she bandaged the wounds.

"Well then you have a reason to fight. Chi is not yet dead and can still be saved. Your parents died but they live on through you as for Lavinia. She can be respawned." Uso said

"She won't be the same..." He said "Hold on, will this blood of yours completely seal the wounds?" He winced slightly.

"It is only a bandage." Uso replied, "You should see the doctor."

"I don't need one. It takes more than a Seraphim to kill me." He said. "I want to keep them as a reminder my failure, so that every time I see then, I'll remember to never let this happen again."

"Don't be so sure of your self." Uso said seeming almost a little offended, "Famous last words..."

"Not this time. I will live, and save Chiharu at least, then after she's safe, then I'll die if fate so chooses." He said.

"DON'T TEMPT FATE!" Uso almost yelled, then regained her composure. "Death is something to be fought with your every breath, your every resources and your every thought. Don't give in so easy."

"You're right Uso. Besides, when Lavinia gets respawned and I'm dead, what would she say?" He laughed. "Ow."

"She'd respawn you just so she could kill you again" Uso said, "And she might not stop doing that if you're not careful"

"I can't be respawned." He said to her. "Well, not completely anyway." he added.

"Then she'd track you down through your afterlife." Uso said

"Is there such a thing? As an afterlife Uso?" He asked philosophically.

"I don't know and I'm not planning to find out." She joked.

"Neither do I. You know what? I kind of miss Yui. I know that sounds off the wall but..." He said, still looking serious.
"It happens." He shrugged.

"Yes it does," Uso let her mind wander for a second before continuing, "From what I can tell all the crew who can remember when she was in command miss her. She must have been a great leader."

"She was, she was very easy going, but serious almost to a fault when the situation required it. But, enough of that, let's get Lavinia respawned." He said. "Besides I need to check on my clones." He added.

"Ok I'll go get her backup mind and deliver it to the medbay." Uso stoof their for a moment before continuing, "What do we do with her body?"

"I don't really know, maybe using it and replanting the memories would speed up the process some." He said.

"Well then we better bring it to the medbay too," Uso said

"One thing. I want to bring her back after we get Chi back. I don't want her remembering dying at a critical point in the rescue...if that's even the case." He said.

"..." Uso looked on puzzled at what Ritsurin just said.

"I know it sounds strange...but oh nevermind. I just want her back." He said, his voice full of emotion.

"Well we should get going then?" Uso said with a cheery voice.

"Yeah, did you send her memories to the medbay?" Ritsurin asked.

"I have them right here." She said as she picked up a datapad lying on her station that had just been filed with the necessary infromation.

"Good, let's go shall we?" He said turning to leave.

Uso followed him out of the room reviewing the data on the pad to make sure it was the right stuff.

"It's the stuff right? I mean imagine if it were Chi's backup memory in Lav's body?" He laughed.

"Uso smiled as she pressed a few buttons on the datapad."Or what if we got someone else entirely?"

"Let me see that..." He asked.

Uso held the data pad up to Ritsurin's face so he could see without having to drop lavinia.

"Phew, ok that's hers, points to the memory labeled 'Bath Love' and blushes." He said

"There is something here about a 'small' problem she had with that memory." Uso joked.

Ritsurin got the little irratated anime eye twitch.

Uso, however, burst out laughing

"That's not funny!" He blushed harder, his face and eyes matched color.

Uso pulled herself together and stopped laughing through a massive effort of will, "Don't worry I'm sure she thought you were. . . enough for her."

Ritsurin would facepalm but doesn't because he'd drop her body.

"Well let's get on with it, shall we?" Uso asked as she continued to walk down the hallway to the medbay."

"Yeah." He said and followed her, making a big effort not to look at her backside. Ritsurin clears his mind to keep her from prying.

Uso felt Ritsurin admiring her and tried to walk as seductively as possible without looking overly flirtatious.

Ritsurin tried to look away, but the wolf inside made him watch her. ~This isn't good~ He blushed as he walked.

Akari had finished working with the young clone when she started the process again for the next two when the matter of Chi's abduction had taken place.

By the time the new clones were done, she heard the frantic howling and cry of pain erupt through the ship. She sighed about, knowing that soon she'd have to respawn someone.

She turned to the 3 little girls clothed in the GSA Sentry uniform that sat there talking quietly amongst themselves and smiled softly. She was quite proud of how the clones had turned out. "What would you girls like to name yourselves?"

The first one, the oldest of the 3 with the waist length maroon hair spoke first, "Could I be Sai?" She smiled proudly, because she had become more confident with the strange language.

The next girl had dark purple hair that fell to her shoulders with the same bright green eyes as the newly named Sai, "I like the name Harume!" Her voice was happy and bright.

And the last girl, the youngest spoke, "Is Amy ok?" The other looked at her, puzzled by her name choice. Amy had chin length light red hair and shared the same bright green as her sisters. "I like the name Amy..."

Akari smiled brightly as Inari came in to check on everything again. "Kari, would you like me to take the girls to get something to eat before we sent them off to duty?"

Akari shoke her head no, "No not yet, Ritsu will want to see them when he drops by to have Lavinia respawned. Oh, Nari, remember to back up your memory daily and to spread the word to the rest of the crew to do the same. It'd be a bad thing if someone forgot and we couldn't bring them back."

Inari nodded again, "I will. I'll have to tell you what happened between Arume and Ritsu later. Aya was telling me about it."

Akari looked at Inari curiously and shrugged. "Okay, now you have me curious but it can wait until later."

Ritsurin and Uso made it to the Med-Bay. Uso carrying Lavinia's memories, Ritsu carrying Lavinia's body. He walked into the bay and gently set Lav's body on a chair. And looked over at Akari.

"May I please get Lavinia revived? I would mean the universe for me." He asked the specialist.

Akari looked at Lavinia's body and then at Ritsu, understanding that the man had no idea of how death worked with Geshrins and Nekos. "I can not revive a dead body but I can create a new one for her and transfer her memories into it. But, that body will break itself down until nothing left of it exists, there is nothing I can do with it." She looked over to Inari and she nodded.

Inari nodded back and picked up Lavinia's old body and disappeared into the corridors of the ship with it.

He then noticed the three girls sitting in chairs dressed in security uniforms talking amongst themselves. Despite his feelings of anger and loss, he managed to smile when he saw them. He knew they were his, due to their scent. (They were made from his DNA, so they have a very slight smell that is a little bit like his own.) The sight of the beautiful girls reminded him of his deceased mother, a real beauty. He knelt down in front of them.

"Hello, I am Ritsurin, the one from whom you were created. You may think of me as father or just sempai. Now what are your names?" He asked. Then waited for a response.

It really did make him feel better to finally meet his clones, too bad that they were only about half of him. He wasn't sure what made up their other halves. But it didn't make too much of a difference.

The girls looked at him curiously but, the oldest Sai had already met him and recognized him. Sai was the first to speak, "I have chosen the name Sai for myself, this is Harume and Amy." She pointed out the other girls to him and then politely nodded, choosing to let Sai do all the talking. " Akari-san was saying that we could start our duties soon?"

Akari looked back over to the girls and Ritsu and nodded. "They are ready to go Juni Daijinshi, you may need to acquaint them with the ship and their weapons before you do though. It'll jump start their programming. Lavinia should be ready to report for duty in about 3 hours, I trust you have her memory back-up with you?" She took the offered datapad and starting plugging in data into the computer to transfer her soul and memories into the new body.
"She won't remember what caused her death and she will be a bit disoriented and groggy because of the process, so my advice would be to let her rest and start duty again the next day. Oh, yes, before I forget, remember to start backing up your memory daily and remind your Sentries to do so as well. If the memory isn't backed up we can't bring you back."

Sai, Harume and Amy looked over at Akari as she spoke, somewhat understanding what the Medical Officer meant. Inari had re-entered the Medical Bay and noticed that Ritsu was hurt. "Ritsu, I'll treat your wounds for you. You'll need to be fully functional in order to do your job correctly.

After Araiah had dismissed him Wazu returned to the lab. Technically he was no longer the science officer but he didn’t care. He felt more at home here than anywhere else on the ship. He also noticed Geminasu following him. ~Oh well, I’ve seem to have gotten myself in a lot of trouble and a little more probably won’t matter~ He though. Wazu extended a Mechandrite and jacked into his own computer system. ~According to this, all explosives on the ship are controlled by Megami.~ He thought. Wazu then ran through a list of everything that was on the ship. ~Data pads, Blood, Megami, gp1-a, food, nuts, bolts, ~He thought to himself. He knew there was another bomb on the ship but where? Then all of a sudden it hit him ~That’s It!!~ Wazu then continued looking through the list. ~That is genius! why didn’t I think of that?~ Wazu now knew where the bomb was, how it would be detonated and how to stop it . Wazu smiled to himself he was definitely happy.

Ritsurin grunted. "I don't need any medical attention, I'll heal it myself, it's embarassing for me..." He said, turning his back on Inari. The wounds did hurt, and would have incapacitated a human, but Ritsurin wasn't fully human. "...besides I need a reminder of my failure, so that I may learn from it. Wounds don't slow me down too badly, if they did, I would broken my claws off years ago." he turned and smirked. "You can fix me up if it'll make you feel better though, just leave the scar tissue." he said to Inari.

The whole thing made Ritsu start to silently sing a song of Chiharu

~You were the Captain, the Mistress and the mother to the Yui crew, now you're gone;

Taken by enemy, we worry; plan; and prepare. Prepare to get you back. To the angels holding her, watch out, because we're coming to get our mother (or captain, haven't decided) back. Chiharu, worry not, because your loyal crew is in hot pursuit.~ He sang mentally.

"Anyway. Harume, Amy, and Sai; come with me. He walked them around the ship, pointing out their quarters (with Lavinia), introduced them to Siaga (who happily licked their faces, making them giggle, well Amy and Harume anyway.) He then took them down to meet the techs, after some introductions, he finished showing them the ship.

"Now, I'm taking you to get aquianted with your weapons," He held up a GP-5a, "This is the typical weapon used in combat on ships. From now on, you will carry one with you, loaded and ready." He said.

Amy and Harume asked "Why?" in unison.

"Because something very serious has happened, and you need to be ready to defend yourselves. Our captain, Ketsurui Chiharu as been kidnapped. And we on high alert until we get her back. Do you understand that?" He asked them all.

"Yes sir." came the reply. One of them sent him a questioning thought message. It was a silent image of Ritsurin carrying his sword.

"I wear it because, my fighting style is different from most people's, you see, from what I know, other people like to shoot things. I don't, I like to use my claws and my sword." He explained in a patient tone of voice, but sounding more like a caring father than a hard-ass Chief of Security.

"I'm hungry." Amy said

"Me too." Harume added.

Ritsu smiled, "Then let's go to the Galley then." He said and walked them there to get something to eat.

~I hope everything turns out ok.~ He thought.

Acara had spent the past few hours checking the ship for bugs that might have been left by the intruders. Because he was a gentle person his anger had quickly faded as his duties took up most of his concentration. Many things were going on he did not understand or like. ~I’m a technician. It is not my place to get involved. I make sure their equipment works, and let them worry about how it is used~. He thought as he checked the engine for sabotage. Finding none he moved on to the cargo bay.

He had always believed that if he kept to himself nothing would hurt him. This illusion had been rudely shattered by Chiharu’s abduction. He was not a being of action, and preferred to stay in the background where no one could bring harm to him. The Cargo bay appeared to be safe, even though he knew Megami had checked already. ~Better safe then sorry~. It was the end of his shift so he headed back to his nest for some much needed quiet time, and a break from all the scandal. ~I wonder how Keenara is doing~? He asked to no one in particular.

Meanwhile on the GSS Ayame (GA-04)

Keenara was doing a checkup on one of the security personnel. She considered the health of everyone in her care to be very important, and did regular examinations. Eventually the conversation came around to GSA’s current campaign against the angels. “I heard a couple of ships got hit pretty bad”. Her patient told her. “I don’t know all of the names, but the Yui was one of them, I think”. Keenara froze for a second, her eyes widening. “Well, you look fine to me”. Keenara said rather hastily, as she gave her patient leave.

When her patient had left she hurried to her quarters, and dug among her positions. After a second she pulled out a seedpod and held it in her hands. “Good, it is still warm. He’s ok”. She said letting out a sigh of relief. “I wish I could contact him, but he is probably not aloud to take any private calls right now. Oh well, I had better get back to my work”. Keenara got up and went back to the med bay, still clutching the seedpod in her hand.

Returning to his quarters, Araiah shed the satchel he had been carrying and just stood in the middle of the room.

His emotions toward Chi's kidnapping were dead, null, irrelevant. Everyone was carrying out their duties, order had been reestablished. A conspiracy had been unearthed, but still lurked in the background. He had established his position with the crew, but it was tenuous at best with some of them. One wrong move could result in harm done to the crew, possibly the ship... But that wasn't what was bothering him.

"I hate feeling cooped up like this," he said to no one, staring across the empty room to the starfield outside the window.

Motes of purple and white light gathered in the air next to Araiah, coalescing into a shape that settled down to the carpet next to him. A slight smile fought its way over his face as he recognized Timdri. The simian alien shook itself as the light faded, trying to get rid of the tingle that always accompanied such transports, then looked up at Araiah and started chittering rapidly. Indignate feelings flowing from it like a stood-up girlfriend. Araiah's smile reversed direction and he allowed the critter to climb up on his shoulder. He backed up against a wall and slid down it to sit on the floor.

"I'm sorry li'l one, but I had something else to do. I guess we have to stay a bit longer." Timdri frowned, clearly not happy. Araiah just shook his head and rested his head back against the wall, emotions coming back. "I know you hate space flight, but what else are we going to do? Chi is a friend. And I don't leave friends in trouble," he said finally. "As for the others...I don't know what to think. As precious as Nashi is, she's not right in the head. Heh, it's like everyone on this ship holding a key position is insane somehow! It's not right... it's like it's contagious or a requirement of some kind. Except Chi, though. She kept us all stable and in line." Araiah chuckled slightly. "I suppose I should get back to the bridge. We have to leave the Yui soon though, or the Counsel might start looking for us. In the meantime, Timdri, I want you watching Wazu. And put this in his computer when you get the chance."

He handed Timdri a small bead-like device. It stuck it in its mouth and nodded. A moment later, a security neko stood in its place. Araiah shook his head. "No, don't do that. Everyone knows which nekos are and aren't on the ship. Here, mimic this person." He held out his pad, a picture of Tobias on the screen. The neko illusion nodded and waivered, reforming into the ninja. The illusions Timdri made were complete; mental suggestions backed up with light projection reinforced with a telekinetic shell to provide tangibility. The only problems were that nekos were closed to the suggestion and sensors could easily tell the difference between the illusion and the real thing, especially thermal scans... the shifter just hoped Timdri would be able to get by with just the light and feel. But in the meantime, it would be cloaked during the surveillance. It would only use the illusion only if discovered.

"Better. Now stay out of sight unless you absolutely have to be seen. In which case, use that form." Araiah stood up, his eyes flashed orange, and the air seemed to wrap itself around Timdri in the phase-cloak he had used earlier. That done, he brushed the wrinkles out of his uniform and approached the door. He had confidence in Timdri, his companion and first friend. But now he had to think of how to rescue his newest friend.

After showing the girls around the ship, and getting them something to eat. He lead them back to the female quarters and left them.

"Well, it's the end of my shift, I'm off to the baths. You may go see Taisa Araiahs to get an introduction." He said to them in a fatherly way, though he did not know why.

"Yes Sir." They all said, saluting.

"I'll see you later. Oh, after your introduction to Araiah, you are to take patrols around the ship, you are to be armed. Be very careful, and let us all know it there's any trouble at all." He ordered and walked off.

Amy and Harume looked to the older Sai as if looking for a sign of something, then went to see Araiah.

~I feel strange while I'm around them, what is it? It feels wonderful but...~ He smiled. "In any case." He said to nobody in particular, he got to the male baths and changed into his bathing suit. He slid in the water with a relaxed "Ahhhh"

~Hmm, maybe now I can practice my flute.~ He thought as he climbed out and shuffled through his jacket's inside pockets. "Here it is." he said as he drew out a long, intricately carved flute. He sat in the warm water and played a sorrowful melody as he telepathically broadcast the lyrics throughout the ship. He mentally sang a song he had been working on in the vaults of his mind.

~I was alert, I was watchful
Yet I still failed to save you, failed to protect you.

I have failed, I lost something
Something important...I lost you

I lost you to those I hate.
I lost a friend, a mentor, a mother
Still I shall not rest.

No matter how tired I get.
No matter the injuries I suffer
I will not rest.

I will save you
No matter the cost of my sweat and blood.
Nothing will stop me from coming quickly

When I have you back in my arms
My suffering and torment will not be in vain
I will hug you close and never let you leave again

But, should you die, so shall you killer
I do not dawdle, I will not hesitate
For your life is more valuable than my own.

I will save you, Do not fear
I am coming to free you.~

He continued playing his flute, but no longer broadcasting the lyrics. He then got out about 30 minutes later, dressed and went to the bridge and stood guard there.

Sgzyr had been watching the events of the last several days with apathy. The only thing that bothered him is that the Angels were able to sneak on the ship and take Ketsurui away in a matter of a few minutes. He had spent the majority of his time meditating, neglecting his duties as Juni. He had worked on his martial arts daily, trying to hone his senses to beyond the norm, extending them to farther than he ever had before. He felt that he was getting stronger with each day passing, hoping for a chance to fight those blasphemous creatures that stole the captain away from the Yui. He had several things in about what to do, but he decided to keep them to himself until he talked to Wazu. With a quick stabbing motion of his hand, he knocked down the dummy that stood up. He grimaced as the sound bounced off of the walls. In silence, we contemplate.

A sleak silver craft flew through space. It carried two humanoid lifeforms and headed toward the GSS Yui. It sent a hailing transmission to the Yui.

"Greetings Yui, this is the Silvershot, I'm former Mercenary Zeph Steele. Requesting permisssion to attach to the Yui."

Onboard a girl with red hair waited and said, "I can't wait to help out and see how Tobias is doing."

Zeph pressed a couple buttons and said, "Don't worry Trouble you'll see him soon enough. M.O.C.H. prepare for attachment to the Yui."

M.O.C.H. replied "Yes sir, awaiting contact with the Yui..."

"M.O.C.H. please refer to me as Zeph, darn it." said Zeph.

"Very well Sir Zeph..." M.O.C.H. replied.

"Arrgh, get it through your datadrive, call me Zeph and futhermore get along with with the Yui's computer system, alright?"

M.O.C.H. replied "Understood Sir....... Zeph...... errr..... Sir...."

"You two are so funny." laughed Trouble.

Zeph's head hung low and he sighed in a very exaperated fashion.

The ship moved quietly through the void. Inside the ship the bridge was almost empty except for the few Qel’norans at the controls of the dimly lit room. Here and there various techs were putting panels back in place and installing new systems as the ship was not yet complete. By all accounts the ship was space worthy even though it might not have looked like it on the inside. The ship vectored in on the location of the Yui with its stealth systems activated keeping it out of view of normal sensors as the ship would not last very long in a open fight with the angels. However, the crew would see to it that they would take with them as many as the could if it did come to that. The Yui was then displayed on the front view screen. From here the ship looked small and insignificant compared to the vastness of space. It was highlighted by the star fields in the background making it seem like a star itself. “Scan for Angel ships in the area.” The current captain of the ship said. “Yes sir” one of the few officers on the bridge replied, “No ships in the immediate area.” “good,” The captain replied, ”open a comm. channel to the Yui,” A few moments filled with button pressing passed and a communications link was established. “This is the captain of the Last Resort requesting permission to dock with the Yui.” The Qel’noran said to whoever was listening