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Chi had watched the new crew member run off with the still wary Sai behind him with her rifle. Chi sighed deeply as she stood up from her chair again. She didn't like to be mean or abrasive but she had to take control of the situation somehow. She couldn't let some hot shot Army guy come onto her ship and try to intimidate her and belittle everything she's done just because he did some espionage stuff on the surface. You had to let those types know who was boss or else they'd take advantage of you. She wondered where Alexis was, she hadn't seen him since she had returned. She sent him a communication, "Taisa Alexis, this is Taisho Chiharu. Where are you hiding at?"
~Hmm...someone's calling my name. They needed me here, right? No, I didn't do anything useful. They'll blow up this ship whether or not I'm here. Right?~ Alexis looked up at the sound of Chi's voice, slowly realizing who it was. "Taisho?" he said tenatively, getting to his feet. He was still in his quarters, that empty room that only he seemed to occupy. Timdri was asleep in the sachel; the two had talked for over three hours since Timdri's lecture. Alexis nodded, though Chi couldn't see him. "I'm in the officer's nest... Chi, is that really you?"
Chi smiled to herself and you could almost hear the smile in her voice. "Fluffy, please come to the bridge if you can. I want to let you know what's been going on. And my suspicions, we have a lot of catching up to do."
Alexis nodded, a smile coming across his face for the first time in a long time. "Yes, Ma'am!" The shortest distance between two points: A straight line. Alexis phase-cloaked and floated straight through the bulkheads to the bridge. Something flickered in the corner of his sight...he paid it no mind and decloaked before his commanding officer. "It's so good to see you back, Taisho!" he said, then the smile vanished and he bowed his head. "I apologize for the state of the ship...and for not getting around to coming after you. There were other matters that needed attending to before we could get underway, and they took a bit longer than I had originaly thought."
Chi still smiled when she saw Alexis mysteriously appear before her. "It's okay Alexis. It worked out in some strange way. But, as far as I can tell, a Seraph is aboard the ship and it's taking on the form of crew members and influencing their dreams in order to provoke the crew into killing each other. It already managed to kill one crew member by inflaming Arume's inborn distrust of men and fear of me being violated by a man. The result is in a body bag. And then we were attacked by the Angels when the GSS Ender III tried to clear a path for our escape. In the chaos of the attack, the Seraph took the form of Kuru and shot up the bridge and discharged several gas grenades. Aya and Arume are in the Med Bay right now in pretty bad shape but they are still alive.
"I also found out that it was using my form when I was unconscious. I know that it talked to Uso and Hiro and had Uso ready to kill Tobias... I'm not sure who else it talked to as me." Chi sighed a bit.
Alexis lifted his head and frowned. "I'm failing left and right...Chi, I think I can see them while they're cloaked, why didn't I think of searching for them that way before? I am so stupid!"
"You didn't fail, it was using mind games. But, you can see them while their cloaked? Why, then we don't have to wait for the Megami to be fixed to find it and kill it! We can end this thing before it takes down anymore of our crew." Chi smiled brightly, finally a lucky break. She still hadn't had the time to change back into her GSA uniform. So, she was stuck in her civs for now.
Alexis finally noticed what the Taisho was wearing. "Um...aren't you out of uniform? Or is that an admiral's decision on whether to wear a uniform at all?"
Chi chuckled a bit, "I haven't gotten a chance to change back into my uniform since I visited Yui one last time last night. But I do have my insignia pin at least." She smoothed her hair back behind her ears. "If you'll excuse me for a second, I'll just go pull on my uniform and then we can get to work on hunting down that bloody Seraph."
Alexis shook his head. "Lemme save you some time." He set a hand on her shoulder, specifically the tanktop. It and her jeans seemed to blur; the tanktop spread to cover her arms and neck. Colors changed as the clothing re-combined into the standard GSA uniform. "Okay, let's get a move on."
Chi chuckled a bit, it was a neat trick actually. "Saves time on laundry I guess. Okay, let's rock and roll then." She picked up the rifle that Arume had used to kill Hiro that was on the deck beside her chair. "We'll get that Seraph yet."
The Seraph had found itself a new plaything with the transfer of Iseki from the GSS Yui onto the GSS Philosophy. It had isolated Hikari now that she had been allowed to return to the Tech Nest from the Med Bay. The other female techs were double checking the other systems aboard the Yui that might have been damaged in the Angel attack while the SARA techs worked on the Megami, effectively leaving Hikari alone in the nest.
The Seraph had been stalking Hikari and when she had decided to try to get some sleep, it rejoiced at the golden oppurtunity to spread its poison in the mind of the girl. It locked the door to the nest as it remained cloaked...
An incandecent shine came to the shifter's eyes. "Okay, changing vision mode now." The orange irises flashed, his sight expanding to take in all known spectrums and some unknown ones. "Everything has a specific combination of energy that they use. The difference between two individuals of the same species is a bit too subtle to distinguish, like trying to tell apart a set of twins before geting to know them. But different species are very easy to notice." He begins to slowly look around, the shimmering lines of power conduits and crewmembers dancing in his vision. "This signature is visible even when someone is disguised or has changed their shape. As far as I know, only a R'Lari can alter its energy signature, since we manipulate energy all the time anyway." Alexis paused as he spotted what he was searching for and pointed at a corner of the bridge floor. "There! The Tech's Nest! Come on!"
Chi nodded. "Let's hurry then!" Chi started running towards the Tech nest, rifle in hand. She clicked off the safety as she ran.
Alexis followed, drawing the Prod from its holster and popping in a modified Hornet capsule.
Harume and Amy had just finished talking with Shira when they sensed something happening. They could feel the Seraph calling them. They hurried towards the Tech Nest, rifles in hand...
The seraph signature was getting closer to the lone Geshrin signature that lay in the nest...Alexis's eyes widened. Gotta go faster..."Hold on!" He put an arm around Chi's waist. To the outside observer, it looked like reality opened up and swallowed them...inwardly, Chi became near-blind as Alexis moved them through the deckplate and into the Tech quarters. Once inside, he released the cloak and dropped to a knee, aiming at the invisible creature hovering over Hikari.
Chi's eyes widened when she saw Hikari lifted up into the air by a tendril and she tried to aim at where the tendril disappeared into nothing. "Hikari!"
Squinting at the creature, Alexis squeezed off a shot. The micro-projectile locked onto the tendril where it wound around Hikari's body. The Hornet bullet was armed to detonate on contact; Alexis hoped it would release the girl in time to get another shot at the seraph itself...
((OOC Note: The "Hornets" that Alexis uses are explosive micro-projectiles that can be set to explode on contact, time-delay, or in time with other rounds. Payload varies. Most only carry enough to, were it to hit a neko, take out her head and leave the shoulders intact. Others could take out her entire torso.))
"Where is it Alexis?" Chi tried to aim as the tendril dropped Hikari just as another one appeared and caught the poor girl again, tightening it's grip around the girl's body. The air filled with sinister laughter. The lock on the batch slammed open as Harume and Amy appeared with rifles in hand and at ready behind them...
"Aim at the red dot!" was all Alexis said...he quickly changed cartriges, and fired off an energy beam that impacted the new tendrail. Instead of blowing it up or even harming it, the beam spread along the cloak and illuminated the seraph like a white shirt under a black light.
Chiharu nodded as she fired at the Seraph. She had noticed that the sentries had entered, she saw them behind her but.. what.. she hadn't told anyone that.. "Alexis watch out!" Harume and Amy opened fired on the Taisho and the Taisa.
Alexis became a blur as his eyes glowed with a brilliant orange light that lit the room. Hypertime...he stood and turned on one foot so he faced the guards and had his back to Chi, covering her with his body. Time returned to normal and the bullets streamed toward them. A sizzling sound filled the room as he erected a weak shield. It wasn't much, but it deflected most of them, bending their courses around them. Four shots made it through, two bit into his left forearm as the third hit his torso and the fourth embedded itself into his forehead over his left eye socket....silently he fell to his knees.
Chi's own rifle shot nailed the Seraph in the side of its neck but it wasn't enough to take down the Seraph, it instead dropped Hikari and went after Chiharu as she fired another shot. Harume and Amy fell face first onto the deck after the sound of gun fire. Juni Kuru and Sai had noticed Harume and Amy heading down here. "Taisa, Taisho? Are you two ok?" Kuru asked as she noticed the Seraph slump onto the deck as well.
He raised the Prod and fired two pulses at the sentries, stun blasts that could take out an elephant in case the fall was just temperary...this would keep them out until the seraph was out of order.
In in the longest minute of their lives, Harume and Amy were dead and the Seraph was supposedly dead.. Chi stared down at the Seraph and moved to fire again when she found herself being lifted up from the deck and the rifle forcibly removed from her hands again...
Alexis looked at Harume and Amy for a second, watching for any sign of life. He turned toward Chi in time to see her rifle flung across the room and the seraph giving the admiral her turn to be bear-hugged. "Chi!" He aimed the prod again, jamming another cartrige in. A glow came from the barrel and a glob of plasma was hurled at near-lightspeed at the seraph's main body.
Another cartrige...ten Hornet explosive projectiles were fired, each armed to detonate simultainously after they penetrated the skin; an eleventh was aimed at the tentacle holding Chi, hoping to sever it.
Chi winced as the Seraph put the squeeze on her, she was getting de ja vu again as she hemsynthed a blade from her forearm, slicing through a tendril as she was moved in front of the Seraph, but not quickly enough to effectively use the neko as a shield from Alexis's gunfire. Kuru and Sai fired as well, trying not to hit their Taisho.
The hornets hit the Seraph, blowing chunks out of the muddy body, promptly getting Chi slammed into the deck as the hornets exploded. The Seraph was still alive, despite it all. It wasn't going to die, not yet. It continued to try to lash out at the 4 crew members again, turning its tendrils into blades as it was filled with energy blasts from the rifles of Sai and Kuru. Chi had fallen back by the remains of Harume and Amy, retrieving their fallen energy rifles..
Alexis' finger never left the trigger...Hornets streamed out of the weapon like the real thing, ready to defend the hive. They peppered the surface of the Seraph, all exploding at random.
Once Chi had retrieved the rifles, she fired into the Seraph as well. The Seraph had finally stopped moving by the time the rifle catridges had started running low.. but, no one seemed to want to risk the Seraph still being alive.
Leaving auto-pilot long enough to think, Alexis stopped fireing. His eyes flashed once more as he focused on the movement of the seraph's molocules...he added energy, making them move faster, faster...effectively heating the thing up from the inside out.
The Seraph was finally dead, muck was everywhere and now it was on fire as well? Hikari was on the nest, whimpering as the sound of gun fire rang in her ears long after her friends had stopped shooting.
The fire died down as fatigue caught up with the shifter. Alexis looked blankly at the boiling puddle of goo, then dropped face first onto the carpet.
Chiharu looked down at Alexis in shock as he collapsed. "Alexis?!" She knelt down and picked him up as the commotion attracted the attention of everyone aboard the GSS Yui by now. "Come on Alexis, you can't die on me now.." Chi quietly said as she stood up and tried to make her way through the crowd of people.
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GSA no Taisho Ketsurui Chiharu
GSS Yui (GD-30)
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GSA no Taisa Jaren Alexis
Starship Pilot, GSS Yui (GD-30)
Chi had watched the new crew member run off with the still wary Sai behind him with her rifle. Chi sighed deeply as she stood up from her chair again. She didn't like to be mean or abrasive but she had to take control of the situation somehow. She couldn't let some hot shot Army guy come onto her ship and try to intimidate her and belittle everything she's done just because he did some espionage stuff on the surface. You had to let those types know who was boss or else they'd take advantage of you. She wondered where Alexis was, she hadn't seen him since she had returned. She sent him a communication, "Taisa Alexis, this is Taisho Chiharu. Where are you hiding at?"
~Hmm...someone's calling my name. They needed me here, right? No, I didn't do anything useful. They'll blow up this ship whether or not I'm here. Right?~ Alexis looked up at the sound of Chi's voice, slowly realizing who it was. "Taisho?" he said tenatively, getting to his feet. He was still in his quarters, that empty room that only he seemed to occupy. Timdri was asleep in the sachel; the two had talked for over three hours since Timdri's lecture. Alexis nodded, though Chi couldn't see him. "I'm in the officer's nest... Chi, is that really you?"
Chi smiled to herself and you could almost hear the smile in her voice. "Fluffy, please come to the bridge if you can. I want to let you know what's been going on. And my suspicions, we have a lot of catching up to do."
Alexis nodded, a smile coming across his face for the first time in a long time. "Yes, Ma'am!" The shortest distance between two points: A straight line. Alexis phase-cloaked and floated straight through the bulkheads to the bridge. Something flickered in the corner of his sight...he paid it no mind and decloaked before his commanding officer. "It's so good to see you back, Taisho!" he said, then the smile vanished and he bowed his head. "I apologize for the state of the ship...and for not getting around to coming after you. There were other matters that needed attending to before we could get underway, and they took a bit longer than I had originaly thought."
Chi still smiled when she saw Alexis mysteriously appear before her. "It's okay Alexis. It worked out in some strange way. But, as far as I can tell, a Seraph is aboard the ship and it's taking on the form of crew members and influencing their dreams in order to provoke the crew into killing each other. It already managed to kill one crew member by inflaming Arume's inborn distrust of men and fear of me being violated by a man. The result is in a body bag. And then we were attacked by the Angels when the GSS Ender III tried to clear a path for our escape. In the chaos of the attack, the Seraph took the form of Kuru and shot up the bridge and discharged several gas grenades. Aya and Arume are in the Med Bay right now in pretty bad shape but they are still alive.
"I also found out that it was using my form when I was unconscious. I know that it talked to Uso and Hiro and had Uso ready to kill Tobias... I'm not sure who else it talked to as me." Chi sighed a bit.
Alexis lifted his head and frowned. "I'm failing left and right...Chi, I think I can see them while they're cloaked, why didn't I think of searching for them that way before? I am so stupid!"
"You didn't fail, it was using mind games. But, you can see them while their cloaked? Why, then we don't have to wait for the Megami to be fixed to find it and kill it! We can end this thing before it takes down anymore of our crew." Chi smiled brightly, finally a lucky break. She still hadn't had the time to change back into her GSA uniform. So, she was stuck in her civs for now.
Alexis finally noticed what the Taisho was wearing. "Um...aren't you out of uniform? Or is that an admiral's decision on whether to wear a uniform at all?"
Chi chuckled a bit, "I haven't gotten a chance to change back into my uniform since I visited Yui one last time last night. But I do have my insignia pin at least." She smoothed her hair back behind her ears. "If you'll excuse me for a second, I'll just go pull on my uniform and then we can get to work on hunting down that bloody Seraph."
Alexis shook his head. "Lemme save you some time." He set a hand on her shoulder, specifically the tanktop. It and her jeans seemed to blur; the tanktop spread to cover her arms and neck. Colors changed as the clothing re-combined into the standard GSA uniform. "Okay, let's get a move on."
Chi chuckled a bit, it was a neat trick actually. "Saves time on laundry I guess. Okay, let's rock and roll then." She picked up the rifle that Arume had used to kill Hiro that was on the deck beside her chair. "We'll get that Seraph yet."
The Seraph had found itself a new plaything with the transfer of Iseki from the GSS Yui onto the GSS Philosophy. It had isolated Hikari now that she had been allowed to return to the Tech Nest from the Med Bay. The other female techs were double checking the other systems aboard the Yui that might have been damaged in the Angel attack while the SARA techs worked on the Megami, effectively leaving Hikari alone in the nest.
The Seraph had been stalking Hikari and when she had decided to try to get some sleep, it rejoiced at the golden oppurtunity to spread its poison in the mind of the girl. It locked the door to the nest as it remained cloaked...
An incandecent shine came to the shifter's eyes. "Okay, changing vision mode now." The orange irises flashed, his sight expanding to take in all known spectrums and some unknown ones. "Everything has a specific combination of energy that they use. The difference between two individuals of the same species is a bit too subtle to distinguish, like trying to tell apart a set of twins before geting to know them. But different species are very easy to notice." He begins to slowly look around, the shimmering lines of power conduits and crewmembers dancing in his vision. "This signature is visible even when someone is disguised or has changed their shape. As far as I know, only a R'Lari can alter its energy signature, since we manipulate energy all the time anyway." Alexis paused as he spotted what he was searching for and pointed at a corner of the bridge floor. "There! The Tech's Nest! Come on!"
Chi nodded. "Let's hurry then!" Chi started running towards the Tech nest, rifle in hand. She clicked off the safety as she ran.
Alexis followed, drawing the Prod from its holster and popping in a modified Hornet capsule.
Harume and Amy had just finished talking with Shira when they sensed something happening. They could feel the Seraph calling them. They hurried towards the Tech Nest, rifles in hand...
The seraph signature was getting closer to the lone Geshrin signature that lay in the nest...Alexis's eyes widened. Gotta go faster..."Hold on!" He put an arm around Chi's waist. To the outside observer, it looked like reality opened up and swallowed them...inwardly, Chi became near-blind as Alexis moved them through the deckplate and into the Tech quarters. Once inside, he released the cloak and dropped to a knee, aiming at the invisible creature hovering over Hikari.
Chi's eyes widened when she saw Hikari lifted up into the air by a tendril and she tried to aim at where the tendril disappeared into nothing. "Hikari!"
Squinting at the creature, Alexis squeezed off a shot. The micro-projectile locked onto the tendril where it wound around Hikari's body. The Hornet bullet was armed to detonate on contact; Alexis hoped it would release the girl in time to get another shot at the seraph itself...
((OOC Note: The "Hornets" that Alexis uses are explosive micro-projectiles that can be set to explode on contact, time-delay, or in time with other rounds. Payload varies. Most only carry enough to, were it to hit a neko, take out her head and leave the shoulders intact. Others could take out her entire torso.))
"Where is it Alexis?" Chi tried to aim as the tendril dropped Hikari just as another one appeared and caught the poor girl again, tightening it's grip around the girl's body. The air filled with sinister laughter. The lock on the batch slammed open as Harume and Amy appeared with rifles in hand and at ready behind them...
"Aim at the red dot!" was all Alexis said...he quickly changed cartriges, and fired off an energy beam that impacted the new tendrail. Instead of blowing it up or even harming it, the beam spread along the cloak and illuminated the seraph like a white shirt under a black light.
Chiharu nodded as she fired at the Seraph. She had noticed that the sentries had entered, she saw them behind her but.. what.. she hadn't told anyone that.. "Alexis watch out!" Harume and Amy opened fired on the Taisho and the Taisa.
Alexis became a blur as his eyes glowed with a brilliant orange light that lit the room. Hypertime...he stood and turned on one foot so he faced the guards and had his back to Chi, covering her with his body. Time returned to normal and the bullets streamed toward them. A sizzling sound filled the room as he erected a weak shield. It wasn't much, but it deflected most of them, bending their courses around them. Four shots made it through, two bit into his left forearm as the third hit his torso and the fourth embedded itself into his forehead over his left eye socket....silently he fell to his knees.
Chi's own rifle shot nailed the Seraph in the side of its neck but it wasn't enough to take down the Seraph, it instead dropped Hikari and went after Chiharu as she fired another shot. Harume and Amy fell face first onto the deck after the sound of gun fire. Juni Kuru and Sai had noticed Harume and Amy heading down here. "Taisa, Taisho? Are you two ok?" Kuru asked as she noticed the Seraph slump onto the deck as well.
He raised the Prod and fired two pulses at the sentries, stun blasts that could take out an elephant in case the fall was just temperary...this would keep them out until the seraph was out of order.
In in the longest minute of their lives, Harume and Amy were dead and the Seraph was supposedly dead.. Chi stared down at the Seraph and moved to fire again when she found herself being lifted up from the deck and the rifle forcibly removed from her hands again...
Alexis looked at Harume and Amy for a second, watching for any sign of life. He turned toward Chi in time to see her rifle flung across the room and the seraph giving the admiral her turn to be bear-hugged. "Chi!" He aimed the prod again, jamming another cartrige in. A glow came from the barrel and a glob of plasma was hurled at near-lightspeed at the seraph's main body.
Another cartrige...ten Hornet explosive projectiles were fired, each armed to detonate simultainously after they penetrated the skin; an eleventh was aimed at the tentacle holding Chi, hoping to sever it.
Chi winced as the Seraph put the squeeze on her, she was getting de ja vu again as she hemsynthed a blade from her forearm, slicing through a tendril as she was moved in front of the Seraph, but not quickly enough to effectively use the neko as a shield from Alexis's gunfire. Kuru and Sai fired as well, trying not to hit their Taisho.
The hornets hit the Seraph, blowing chunks out of the muddy body, promptly getting Chi slammed into the deck as the hornets exploded. The Seraph was still alive, despite it all. It wasn't going to die, not yet. It continued to try to lash out at the 4 crew members again, turning its tendrils into blades as it was filled with energy blasts from the rifles of Sai and Kuru. Chi had fallen back by the remains of Harume and Amy, retrieving their fallen energy rifles..
Alexis' finger never left the trigger...Hornets streamed out of the weapon like the real thing, ready to defend the hive. They peppered the surface of the Seraph, all exploding at random.
Once Chi had retrieved the rifles, she fired into the Seraph as well. The Seraph had finally stopped moving by the time the rifle catridges had started running low.. but, no one seemed to want to risk the Seraph still being alive.
Leaving auto-pilot long enough to think, Alexis stopped fireing. His eyes flashed once more as he focused on the movement of the seraph's molocules...he added energy, making them move faster, faster...effectively heating the thing up from the inside out.
The Seraph was finally dead, muck was everywhere and now it was on fire as well? Hikari was on the nest, whimpering as the sound of gun fire rang in her ears long after her friends had stopped shooting.
The fire died down as fatigue caught up with the shifter. Alexis looked blankly at the boiling puddle of goo, then dropped face first onto the carpet.
Chiharu looked down at Alexis in shock as he collapsed. "Alexis?!" She knelt down and picked him up as the commotion attracted the attention of everyone aboard the GSS Yui by now. "Come on Alexis, you can't die on me now.." Chi quietly said as she stood up and tried to make her way through the crowd of people.
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GSA no Taisho Ketsurui Chiharu
GSS Yui (GD-30)
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GSA no Taisa Jaren Alexis
Starship Pilot, GSS Yui (GD-30)
