5 Minutes - Reloaded

[agito_0291]

Aidan: 7 weeks!? B-but I't was just seconds ago that I was.... you know what, I don't care about that anymore, I'll just focus on what's ahead.

*He waits until Rydia leaves until continuing on.*

Aidan: Ok, what really happened, and please tell me the truth now that she's gone. I may have been out for months but I won't forget which mech it was that almost downed the Kirkav.

[Zeratul2k]

Dominic: Making a long history short, she's the only one that can pilot that juggernaut of a mech, but she's also a pacifist that helped me escape. We left Mar Sara during the battle, found you almost dead on orbit and made a jump all the way to Shakuras. We have been here for two months, hiding while figuring out a way to stop this foolishness.

[oldwrench]

*Chad checks the bunk assignments, and is pleased to find he has his old room back. His old room hasn't changed since he left the Krikav. Even his cloths are still in the locker. Well, so much for captains getting preferential treatment. Chad sat on the bunk and checked out the contents of the backpack. It contains some electronic gear and various tools. A mini computer wirelessly keyed to a pair of glasses. The glasses can give visual from deep infrared to high ultraviolet, and have radiation sensors. The computer data bank has diagrams for all the known security systems and locks, and lots more. A listening device that uses infrared laser to pick sound waves from solid objects, like windows of table tops.*

Chad: Damn, I wish I had this stuff a few years ago, I could have gotten into any highrise or even a bank with ease. But what do I have this stuff for? It's no good in a mech, this is for espionage. What the heck is going on here?

[agito_0291]

Aidan: well there's no use just sitting around, you got any crutches around so I can walk this off?

*Aidan succedes in standing up again but he has to support himself with a hand on the wall*

[Zeratul2k]

Dominic: Well, I don't know...

* Dominic looks around the room and finds a pair of crutched inside a locker. *

Dominic: Here you go. Ok, let's go, I need to get something from the hangar.

[oldwrench]

*Chad hoped to find some of the people he knew from the last mission. Maybe they had an idea of what was going on. But when he checked the duty roster, he found very few he recognized. Georgianna, Bob, and Ben, were about it. Chad walked to the mess hall, hoping that Georgianna or Ben might be there, but there were only strangers at the tables. Quite hungry, chad picked up some chips, pop, and candy bars, from the vendors and sat down. He smiled and remembered that Georgianna told him he should eat better food. Chad turned at a greeting from behind him.*

Tammy: Captain Ross, it's nice to see you here. Can I.... umm, would it be alright if I sat by you.

Chad: Sure, have a seat...... Say, how long have you been on the Krikav?

Tammy: Less than two weeks, sir. I've been so busy getting things ready that I haven't had time to meet many people. I was so glad to meet you and Captain Georgianna.

Chad: What are you getting things ready for?

Tammy: I was told to have all the stores ready for departure in two weeks. I didn't think I could possibly do it, but I'm almost done.

Chad: That's good. Do you know where we're going.

Tammy: No, sir. But I heard that we're escorting some diplomatic mission.

Chad: Ah, not to exciting then. Then why the crazy espionage tools? This is weird.

Tammy: Tammy: This trip may not be exciting, but..... umm, could you tell me about the mission to Mar Sara? It must have been amazing.

Chad breaks out in laughter: Ahhh, sorry. You just seem so eager. I'm afraid it wasn't quite the story your friends told you.

*Chad spends some time telling the junior officer the story of the battle of Mar Sara. At least what he knew of it.*

[oldwrench]

*Chad was happy to tel the tale of the campaign at Mar Sara. He didn't mind at all having the attention of the young lady, Chad had never been very lucky with the girls. Suddenly a large shadow looms over the table. Chad looks up and smiles.*

Chad: Well Tammy, it looks like your luck is holding. You get to meet a third veteran of Mar Sara. This is Bullseye Ben, best shot in all the EDF. None of us would have made it if he hadn't taken out a booby trapped escape pod that was running at top speed at the Krikav. He hit it with a crossing shot at more than thirty kilometers. He also took out targets way beyond normal sensor range by using the long range sensors on my recon mech.

Ben: Ben: Chad, great to see you again. I wondered what happened to you when you disappeared after the battle. *He smiles* And who's your pretty girlfriend. *Wide eyed, Tammy blushes.*

Chad: This is Tammy, she's the new warrant officer. I'm sure she would like to hear your stories from Mar Sara, I'd be interested too, especially what happened after we shut down their mechs. I was kind of out of it after that.

[Freya]

*As Georgianna awakens, she feels electric currents stabbing every pore of her body, holding her where she is. She opens her eyes to see a control room before a figure steps in front of her line of vision. Georgianna looks up into the dark brown eyes of who she knew only as the barkeep*

Barkeep: Hello there Georgianna, I am Captain Ferandez of the Red Faction.

*Georgianna glares hard into the eyes of the Captain*

Georgianna: The Red Faction….so you’re a spy on the Krikav…

*Captain Ferandez chuckles and smirks down at her*

Captain Ferandez: No more than you are my dear.

*Slightly confused, Georgianna struggles to make clear the situation*

Georgianna: I am not a spy on my own ship Captain!

*Captain Ferandez chuckles again and walks away leaving Georgianna trapped where she had woken. He enters a room which seems a cross between a medical lab, and a data processing center*

Captain Ferandez: Julvonski, how is the data we recovered from Miss. Georgianna coming along?

Julvonski: The data is coming along nicely. Everytime we engage the chip we implanted in her cerebral cortex she becomes, quite literally, our puppet. With the help of the Evaders who preplan Georgianna’s schedules and direct every possible situation to our advantage, we are able to use Georgianna as our main recon tool with out her even knowing!

Captain Ferandez: Well, as nice as that sounds, she just woke up. I felt it would have been rude to not introduce myself after that rather disgraceful recovery of her at her quarters.

*Julvonski dismisses Captain Ferandez’s fears with a wave of his hand*

Julvonski: Not to worry Captain. We can alter that bit of her memory along with when she woke up earlier and have her reawaken in the hallway where she was talking to Chad.

Captain Ferandez: You know Julvonski I highly disapprove of altering her memory, especially in such a primitive way.

Julvonski: Not to worry, the neurons that will be extinguished are about equal to a night of heavy drinking or a minor concussion.

Captain Ferandez: Yes, and after several years of this her IQ will be equal to that of a 50 year old alcoholic or of a 35 year old pro-football player!

Julvonski: Wasn’t that the risk when you first pulled her off Mar Sara?

*Captain Ferandez sighs and returns to Georgianna with a catheter, an IV bag of saline and a hypodermic needle. Georgianna looks up at him*

Georgianna: What the hell do you think you’re going to do with that?!?

*Georgianna, bound where she is, cannot prevent Captain Ferandez from injecting Diprivan into her system. She is unconscious in minutes. Captain Ferandez, along with several lab techs, work quickly with Georgianna to prevent her airway from collapsing. When finished, Georgianna’s vitals are stable and she is wheeled into the data room on a gurney*

Julvonski: Alright, the sooner she’s gone the sooner I can finish processing the recovered information.

*Julvonski holds a nanochip with forceps in one hand and a small scalpel in the other*

Julvonski: Let’s get this bitch back up and running.

[agito_0291]

*Aidan grabs the crutches and uses them to stand up. He feels lightheaded at first but quickly gets used to it.*

Aidan: Ok, lets go. I'll just follow behind you.

[Zeratul2k]

* Dominic guides Aidan to the hangar. A few six leggeds bot can be seen here and there doing routine maintenance, standing on two of their legs and handling tools with the other four with nanometric precision. They finally arrive to the hangar. Their Thunderbirds stand at the sides of it with the huge Atropos in the center. There are a number of bots working on Aidan's mech. *

Dominic: We left the bots repairing your mech, it seems they are almost done. If it looks stock it's because there weren't any fancy parts on this ship. The internals should be close to what it was before, though.

* Dominic climbed on his mech, opened the cockpit, took a stack of discs and started looking through them. *

Dominic: Aaaaaaaaaand... here we go.

* He took two of them and jumped back down, the cockpit closing behind him. Both discs had music album covers and he flipped them around a couple times before putting back in his pocket. *