Re: Experimental Fate - Vandread
Hibiki made a sly grin. "I got on the same way we're busting out of here." He got up and started rummaging through the boxes, looking for some equipment to use.
"That isn't a very good idea," responded Duelo, beginning to protest.
"Beep, beep," said the head-sized metal egg in a mechanical voice accompanied by white noise. "Beep," it said a little louder and without the white noise. It suddenly jumped from its resting position, turning upright in the air. Four sections of its shell popped out on rubber extensions, two small shards beneath, and two larger ones from its sides which also sprouted four tiny claws. A section in its top half was without it's metal shell, indented with a black screen, which flickered with static before displaying two white ovals with a line dividing them horizontally and two black circles. Eyes.
"Where am I? Who am I?" inquired the now self-aware robot.
"Huh. A Navigation Robot," noted Hibiki. He had heard of the things and got a glimpse at a circuit-board diagram once, but had never seen one. Then inspiration hit. "You're gonna help us out of here," he said, grinning and grabbing the thing with his cuffed hands and pinning it between his legs.
"Put me down!" the robot shouted in protest.
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Throughout the two ships, the women were scrambling to try and control the spread of the strange blue crystal. Inside what they called the Reg, the facility dedicated to arming the dreads and maintaining the various weapons the pirates, they were particularly busy. The two floor office of the facility was in the uppermost section of the pirate's ship and was closest to the point where the bleu crystal had emanated from. They had pulled out all the stops, and were using lasers beams, most emitted from their rings, and other more power armaments, to try and stem the tide of the crystal without damaging the ship. It was proving a futile effort.
One of the girls looked up at the cracking noise above the wall she was trying to burn through, discovering a hole that had formed. She could see a light far in the distance. "Miss, Gosco!" she called out from the balcony. It looks like we're connected from the inside now, too!"
The addressed superior sighed, but continued to stare at her terminal. "That's just great." The engineers of the crew had identified that the source of the crystal consuming the two ships was the Paksis Pragma Reactor on the Ikazuchi, and had taken a shuttle over. "It must be pumping out tons of energy to feed a crystal like this." She then turned around and glared up at the woman under her command.
"And by the way, it's not 'Gosco', it's 'Gascongne'!" she shouted. Even after all the years of working with these girls, they still mispronounced her name.
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In the Ikazuchi's reactor room, the engineers where alternating between scratching their heads and testing a new method to control the blue crystal. Their orange bulky protective suits was making moving around a chore, but they had have them just in case some of the volatile devices they were using exploded. They just to deal with the blue crystal coming out of the strange bright bleu sphere in the center of the chamber, and that meant working with dangerous devices.
There were dozens of metalic curved beams scatered throughout the room, attached to the ceiling, walls and floor, which they believed caged the crystal coming out of the blue light, that had since been broken away and fused to the chamber.
After their latest atempt failed, the lead engineer decieded to check the satus of the crystal's spread, and checked the moniter she had quickly connected to the Ikazuchi's internal secruity scanner. Behind the large lenses of her glasses, he eyes went wide. "It's just as I've feared. The ships are being linked all the way through." She rubbed her head. To salvage as much as the Ikazuchi as possible, they had concentrated on doing small things to control the crystal instead of using heavy weaponry to destroy it. Destroying the crystal and the Ikazuchi was no longer an option, since the ships were now connected to each other and being intricately woven together both mechanically, electronically, and atmospherically. Using large explosives now would jeapordize everyone's safety. "We have to do something," Parfet said to herself, not giving up. There wear still a few possibilites to consider. She turned to her subordinates and ordered, "Try and insert the linestar particals into the main cable, right away! Just make it so that we can control this thing." If looked up at the energy source of the Ikazuchi. If they couldn't stop the crystal, then maybe they could redirect it's path.
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Hibiki twisted his right hand around, try to get the metal rod in it to poke the right part of the circuit he was after. His left was too close, but he needed it to hold another metal rod on another part of the same circuit. He had successfully restrained the struggling NAVI robot, opened it and found the battery much to it's protest, and attached two cables to metal rods he found to said battery. He then used a pen and a paper clip to open a wall panel adjacent to the where he was sure the control pad on the other side was, and found it. He needed to poke the right part of the circuit, or risk frying it and sealing himself and his two new companions in the cell indefinitely. Or worse, connect to the power couplings for the energy beams and sending 50,000 Volts, 300 amps through his body.
"Beep," protested the robot, as it tried to struggle out of Hibiki's leg lock. "Let me go!"
Duelo was watching the small man intently. He had to admit, the boy was resourceful, even if he was stubborn and impulsive. He tried to explain that the women that held them prisoner weren't going to take kindly to them escaping, but the third class citizen became to wrapped in his work to listen.
A small smile crossed his lips as the containment grid flickered the disappeared. Hibiki had succeeded. "Impressive," Duelo complimented.
Hibiki smiled as he unhooked the cables from the NAVI robot and closed the compartment back up. "You haven't seen anything yet," he said with a smirk, turning to Duelo.
"I'm not sure how much more there is to see, however." Duelo pointed past Hibiki, his face impassive and neutral.
Hibiki turned and found himself looking back at three strange men... where they men? Two of them had a creamy skin tone, and wore a primarily white tunic with dark teal sleeves and shoulders, puffed up. They had tight black pants and tunic had a trim cut, giving the impression of a body shape that was very much unmanly. The other, taller, tan skinned person had a very dark green tight top, exposing their midriff and arms, but baggy pants. Between the two, Hibiki determined that their natural body shape would be relatively human, though instead of the powerful stony man shape, they had a gently curving hourglass shape for their body, as well as pronounced bulging, inflated breasts. He noted that their faces were softer and rounder, with larger eyes than any man he'd ever seen.
"How considerate," said the taller person. "All that trouble to save me a push of button?"
"Wh-?"
- On no! Women! They're here to eat us!
- Are these women? They're not as tall as I thought they were. They don't have scales, claws, fangs or horns.
- What weird looking dudes. What's with that shape? And the bulges on their chests? Are they some sort of deformed mutants that escaped abortion?
- What lovely looking people. I suddenly don't feel agressive. Let's have a nice chat about whimsical stuff like statues, architecture, and hadron collision experiments.
- What fascinating creatures. They're biology appears to be specialized towards biological needs that are vastly diffrent than the men of Tarak. More observation will be required.