Everflame 2 (FINISHED)

[KittKat chunky~]

Annie smiled happily, sliding her arm around his waist as well "Sure thing... Its only a short walk from here..." She lead the way out of the cell, and further out into a wide corridor packed with Engineers and Pilots. All wore dark red overalls, though the engineers wore florescent jackets over them. Annie held tightly onto Reggie's hand as they walked, turning off into a smaller corridor.

Here the walls where lined with doors, each with a number imprinted into the steel. The pair walked for around five minutes, down the single unending corridor, until they reached a door marked with #368 - Yantova. Annie reached into her overalls, pulling out a thin key-card and swiping it through what at first appeared to be a door handle. A small light flashed from red to green, and the door slid open. A single florescent light flickered on in the room beyond, switching from a bright white, to a more pleasant orange glow...

Her small room was a mess of clothes and equipment. A single steel bunk-bed was pushed up against one wall, beside it a tall wardrobe, again made of steel. Against the opposite wall was a workbench, covered in parts and wires, as well as a pistol in a state of disassembly. Beside it stood a single framed photograph, of Kitt and Annie standing side-by-side in Marine Fatigues. Annie sighed, kicking an oil-covered set of overalls across the room "Sorry about the mess, never really bother cleaning up in here..."






Tess stepped back out of David's room, a red neckerchief tied loosely around her throat, and a matte-black snub barrelled assault rifle clutched eagerly in her hands "Well I reckon you can shift most of the stuff in there... As for me, I'l give you five creds for the neckerchief.... And how much for the gun?" She smiled in earnest, clutching the unloaded rifle...

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

The lioness pushed away from Leia, eyes-wide, moving back against Leo. She looked over to him.
"Yeah, we need to get there fast." The car came to a halt outside a tall and clean building with vast plates of flexible film used as windows. An automaticdoor stood at the end of a stairway as an entrance. The lioness got out of the car and ushered Leia along with her, taking her hand and guiding her into the building towards the receptionist.
"Hello there, what's your business?" said a young pheasant.
"We need to see Kateri Peralta," said the lioness, who then looked at her watch. "For E7 reasons." The receptionist looked at her screen, then nodded them towards a lift. The went inside and it carried them up high into the building, stopping on the seventeenth floor. It opened with a ping, into an office where Kateri's secretary typed. Ahead of them was another door. The secretary looked up.
"State your business."
"We need to see Miss Peralta, it's about the ambassadors, and that hyena under surveillance." The secretary bit her nail, then tapped on her screen, and then pointed at Leia and Leo, gesturing for them to enter. The door opened, and behind a desk was Kateri. The lioness pushed Leia and Leo into the room.





Tabby ran her tongue along her teeth, and pulled the jacket off of her, throwing it to the side of her tiny box room, before climbing into her bunk.
"He goes away one night," she thought to herself, "and comes back with telekinetic powers." She tapped her sunglasses. "No electrical pulse, but an enhanced electromagnetic field." She ran her paw through her hair, and scratched behind her ear. "So he went to see his extra-dimensional mother who gives him an upgrade."
"Well that's not good," said a voice in her head. She grinned.
"Nope, it's a conflict of interest if ever I saw one." She rested her hands behind her head, and closed her eyes.
"Do you think our tech would work on him?"
"Probably, but let's not try just yet." She reached for a sheet, and pulled it over herself, kicking her shoes off the side of the bed. "I need my beauty sleep."
"Yeah, whatever," the voice replied, and she could feel him laugh.





Reggie clambered in after her, and stumbled on cold metal objects, before dropping himself onto her bed.
"Well you've seen my room, it's not that much better." He looked around, spotting the photo, making sure not to stare. "It's not a bad little place." He looked at her back and reached out to touch her, snaking his hand around her and pulling her onto his lap. He brought his arms round her, and toyed with her clothes, while nuzzling into her neck.



David tilted his head, and thought for a second.
"300, with ammunition, it should be in a box under his bed." He looked at the rest of the junk, splayed around. "If you can shift this stuff for me, I'll give you a hundred cred discount... Now come on, the other room's this way." He headed down the corridor towards the end, where Reggie's room sat open, and filled with its own selection of rubbish. "Have at it."

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Vuranin knew she could track her son since she just awoke the other half of his genetics, but knew she had to stay on the Sphere if Nero lost his patience. She paced about in her flat as her mind started to wander. She only then realized that she may know Kateri, but the 'Tabby' is too close and too soon. Vuranin herself only wanted Everflame, but even she didn't get onto him that quickly.

This would be so much easier if Nero wasn't known for his discretion...


Chronin thought he had enough rest, and did the rather odd-looking procedure to activate his HUD before turning on his old jacket's homing device. He had it installed after getting out of his second time as a POW, so he could make sure that he got his armor on before fighting his way out of a prison. He figured this was a similar situation, except that he gave someone his old jacket. He made his way over to the room the jacket was in, and gently opened the door to see Tabby on the bed, but his interest wasn't her. He had kept an audio recorder near the tracker just in case the one with his jacket, or anyone he passed, managed to say anything helpful. He slowly lifted the jacket up, making only enough sound that it would not be noticeable in the background.

Now for the hardest part of the extraction: the actual extraction. he thought to himself as he slipped his hand into an inside shoulder pocket that would be hard to find even after a careful search. He slipped out the audio, but kept the tracker in case she ever called for help, then gently put the jacket back down as his HUD showed him the exact position and state the jacket was in before slipping out as quietly as he entered.

When he made it back to his room, he humored himself by closing and locking the door before taking off his jacket, pants, and vest and searched them for any bugs. Although, what surprised him was that there was a tracker bug that he found in the bottom right pocket of his long jacket. The paranoia of war was starting to set in again, but before he would reach the point of heading to the room and shooting her while she slept. He instead just tossed the tracker in the waste bin and put the audio bug in his comm. He could check to see if it was still recording, but the device was photo-sensitive, which ment that if it stayed out of a light source for more than an hour, it would shut off and lose all of the recordings from anything two days old. So, he had to wait a day before he could see exactly what it recorded before he got rid of it for good...

[KittKat chunky~]

Annie smirked, falling back lightly into Reggie's lap. She kicked off her heavy boots, stretching out her legs and wiggling her toes "Oh... maaan, that feels good..." She reached back to untie her long ponytail, letting the black hairband slide onto her wrist, and her dark hair to flow outwards across her back. She shook her head, running a hand across Reggie's as he fumbled with the buckle of her overalls. She twisted around in his lap, now half-facing him as she leant close "You ever wondered what i wear, underneath the uniform?" She smirked, leaning closer "Because I've already found out what you wear under yours..."





The young lynx walked through the steel corridors of the carrier, following a steady stream of other workers and guards. His boots clanked on the steel-mesh floor, as did the hundreds of other boots around him. He turned off into a smaller corridor, straightening his dark red uniform as he did so, and ruffled up his hair into what he considered a reasonably cool and windswept fashion.

Finally he reached a pair of double doors and pushed them open. He walked into the medbay, right up to the bed where Blaze lay. He smirked, sitting down on the end of the bed "Hey Blaze... third time this rota that your in the medbay... Gotta say im glad I stay on the carrier, while you go out and do the dangerous work..."





Tess set the assault rifle down on a small table, eyeing it with a 'I'l come back for you later' look. She turned and followed David, walking into Reggie's room. She raised an eyebrow, looking over the toys and other random bits and bobs he had everywhere "Sheesh... This friend of yours was a bit of a hoarder... Personally i dont see anything that I want in here...I'l see what i can do about selling it...."

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

The ship tore through space through the hyperjump, but still, the hours rolled past, until a new day arrived, and Tabby's eyes flickered, and then opened, focusing on the ceiling.
"Okay..." she murmured, pushing herself up and crawling out of bed, seeing the jacket disturbed. "O... kay?" She tilted her head, and stepped around it to her utility belt. She picked it up, clipped it around her and pulled a mirror out to preen herself. Once done, with light eyeshadow applied, she headed out to the mess hall.




Reggie murred in appreciation, and helped Annie out, unbuckling her overalls, and pulling them to reveal her curves. His almost salivated, with wide eyes taking everything in. With a smirk, he turned on the bed, putting her on her back beneath him.
"I've been thinking of this since I first saw you," he said, as he crawled over her, and undid his shirt.


"A girl who knows what she wants. Good," David said with a smile. He looked back at RUST-E, then folded his arms as he turned to Reggie's room. "How are we going to take all this stuff out? Think you can get hold of a trolley or two?" He said, glancing at Tess.

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Chronin went to the mess hall before meeting up with Jetho. They spent about an hour talking to eachother, and Chronin questioned a few things since his memory wasn't all that clear.

"Dude, you never got captured, and you were always angry that your trackers couldn't survive the slightest tap. Lets not forget the time you almost fried your head when your audio device was on the fritz. The only good and reliable things you made were the body armor and gun mods. Now I admit that its not easy to get nano-bot meds; but that was a stupid move in my personal opinion, if I was in your shoes." That alone killed any hopes of keeping a step ahead, but he knew that it would now be mandatory to do a clothing search for bugs whenever he came in arm's reach of Tabby.

Shortly after the revelation he noticed Tabby walking into the mess hall and kept his eyes down and hope that she really didn't plan to bother him as he ate...

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

Tabby strolled in, swaying her hips, and soaking in the stares of every male, and a few females in the hall. She went to the catering, ordered a quick breakfast of meat, eggs and a sliver of a carrot, and then carried her food over to one of the busier tables, walking right past Chronin, giving him a quick stroke on his head as she went. She stepped into a large group of men stepping between them, and sitting at their table, surrounded by their stares.
"So boys, having a good day?" She smirked, triggering them all to laugh and murmur, the atmosphere dripping with lust, making her smile.

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Chronin felt a chill go down his spine as she stroked his head, and Jetho could only chuckle as Chronin glanced at Tabby with mild annoyance.

"I may not be a swinger, but if someone like her bothered to touch you like that before getting surrounded by guys, shes interested."

"I've only met her yesterday, and I still don't know what to make of her. Auntie told me I deserve better, but its not like I could have looked for a girlfriend when 'on duty'."

"I can drink to that, but the tightwads up in high-command won't allow any of the good stuff before debriefing; whenever that is."

"Probably only ment for those who like to start fights, and our ship happens to be full of those kinds of people. So in a sad way, it was a smart move..."

"Whatever, just don't like going through a day without at least one beer."

[tangletail]

Leo took a few steps forward before introduceing himself "Miss Peralta? I am Leo and this is my collegue Leia, er... we have a few questions to ask.

[KittKat chunky~]

Annie's hair fanned out across the crisp linen bedding, a dark corona surrounding her bright-eyed face. She murred in return, kicking off the last of her overalls onto the steel floor "Had your eyes on me that long, eh?" She smirked, pressing the palm of her hand to his large chest, helping him undo the last buttons of his shirt with delight...







Blaze smirked, dark shadows beneath his eyes the only sign of having been through major operation... "Well... Lets just be thankful that I always end up coming back out of the Medbay at the end of the day... How you been man?"

The Lynx shrugged, tapping a clenched fist distractedly against the his light kevlar body armour "Just as always... Nothing much goes on around here... Well, other than your Ma' threatening to eat my throat... again..." Blaze laughed, ending in a short coughing fit as he smirked...







Tess nodded with a flick of her fringe "Sure i can.... Coupla trolleys will be no probs..." She turned and walked back down the corridor towards the ship entrance. RUST-E stayed resolutely still, bright blue eye fixed on David.

The small droid was sat directly in the centre of the corridor, and as the snake tried to edge around it, his head swivelled to follow him with a whirr. His eye focussed closely on David, and as crazy as it may have sounded, the Snake was sure that he was being analysed and weighed up. 

Tess' voice echoed from the other end of the ship, a slight note of impatience in her normally energetic tone "Hey, Rusty!... C'mon..." The small droid beeped twice, giving a sharp whistly before backing away down the corridor. Reaching the corner, he swivelled and whirred away...

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

Tabby ate the meat, calm and confident in the midst of all the men. One of them, a wolf, put their arm around her, and she carried on eating, as though she never noticed.
"So what's your name?" said the wolf.
"Tabitha Lace, how do you do," she said with a mouth full of food, though she didn't look up from her plate. There were eager smiles all around her, until the door shifted open, and a grey furred badger strolled in with a datapad in his hands.
"Attention!" he yelled. "Soldiers, we have been ordered on a few different missions... so we're doing this in groups of three. Each will have a squad leader, and the leader decides the squad. Chronin, Juarez and Imcep, you're squad leaders." he tapped his datapad, and scrolled down. "Okay Chronin, you're helping out operation Dragonfly. You're to escort some new tech, and help track down two major targets. Juarez, we have lost contact with a planet laboratory, your team are up to investigate. Imcep, You got a simple assasination." He threw a PDA at each person. "Check these, they have the details. We're dropping the first squad, that's Chronin's, in twenty minutes so pick your people fast and grab your stuff." By the time the badger had left, Tabby had already stood up and walked over to Chronin's table.
"Hey," she said, as sultry a tone as she could manage.




Kateri barely glanced up from the sea of holographic windows springing up from her desk.
"Well go on then, ask away," she said, with growing agitation. Leia stayed quiet.





Reggie gave a smile, and pushed her hands down under his jeans.
"Ofcourse I have. Back when me and Jaack first saw you, Jaack had to... he..." Reggie's eyes lost focus, looking down through her eyes down to nothing, lost in his mind. His grib on her wrists grew tight, and his claws started to dig in. "Yeah well, sucks to be him." His voice shook, and he put his face close to hers, his smile was long forgotten. "I've got you." He pushed himself between her legs, and pressed his weight upon her, bringing his teeth around her neck to hold her, but they were digging in.



David narrowed his eyes, and followed them out, to see Tess and two automated trolleys rattling along behind her and into the ship. He watched the little robot scuttle alongside her, as they headed back to the rooms.
"Just take everything," he murmured.

[tangletail]

Takeing a deep breath as he thought "Is every officer this unfriendly?" before looking back up to Kateri, "We are looking for two ambasoders by the name of... Howl and... Seeker I belive?" Leo said looking back to Leia wandering if he got it correct before looking back "If you could, could you... point us in the direction of these two please, the circumstances... are rather important... actualy very important if I could stress it enough."

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Chronin kept himself from sighing as he glanced at Jetho, who gave him a thumbs up.

"I've got your back man, you know that!"

Its not you I'm worried about, Jetho. He thought as he forced a smile and turned to face Tabby. His look showed a hint of 'I know what you did', but it was really hard to notice since he was restraining his emotions.

"You're so lucky I met you yesterday, or I would've just picked someone at random." he grumbled as he got up and checked the PDA. The names of the two he tracked down seemed really familiar, then he remembered his mother mentioning 'Howl' and 'Seeker'.

Hunting down two entities of light, as if I didn't have enough people angry at me... he inwardly grumbled as he looked at Jetho, who curtly nodded before leaving to get ready. He then casually looked at Tabby and smirked.

"Let me guess, you're wearing at least a pistol, two clips, and two blades. One of those blades I had knocked out of your hand earlier, how off am I?" He didn't base this off of prior experience, but on the two pistols she pulled during the gang fight, and that she would need a spare blade if the other was knocked away.

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

Kateri stopped her work, and looked up, brushing her fringe from her eyes.
"Why?" she said. Leia flinched.
"He told me! He did, the hyena." She blurted her words out, spilling them in front of her.
"The Hyena?" Kateri pressed on her desk, lighting it up. "Nero?" Leia nodded in shakes. The human tapped the desk again.
"Security, there are two people in my office. I need them in quarantine as soon as you can." She gave a soft little smile, though her face was solemn. "I hope you don't mind. I really do."





Tabby grinned.
"Almost!" She brought her hand up, bringing out a finger for every item. "Two pistols, two clips, three blades; the one you knocked from me is the one matey here gave me," she nodded to Jetho. "I've also got my make-up, my sunglasses, my t-shirt, my shorts, a novelty keyring, and no underwear." She winked at him, then made a swipe for the PDA. "Pass that over here, for a sec."

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Chronin pulled away the PDA before her hand touched it. "Last time I checked, I was team leader. Now both of you get to your rooms and gear-up and report to the drop-off in fifteen minutes." Jetho had already left by then, and Tabby made another swipe, only to have it get within five inches of hitting her in the jaw. "Next time I find a tracker, I'm not holding back..." he growled before walking out of the mess hall and to his room.