Re: The Colony
Firelight Base: Floor 1, Freight Elevator; Commander Winters, Circe, Cassidy and Ashley.
"Don't be so nervous around me," The Commander said to Ashley, giving her a reassuring smile, any hint of the scowl from earlier gone. The elevator door closed, ad the lift began it's slow decent to the subfloor.
"Kiera, please disengage locks on the fire extinguisher," She ordered, moving over to the Sturdi-glass container. With a slight beep the lock was undone. Reaching in and grabbing the small red cylinder, she tapped it on the floor a few times, before turning and facing the opposite door she had used to get in.
As they reached Sub-Floor 1, both the rear and front doors slid open, with Cassie bolting out the rear.
Firelight Base: Barracks (South Sub-Floor 1); Kalica, Reya, Cassidy and Cassie.
Kalica and Reya both take a second to glance up as they hear the elevator door open; out from around the corner comes a black rabbit woman, holding aloft a fire extinguisher - the marine immediately recognizing her as Commander Winters. As she gets closer to the smallest little blob, she unleashes a blast of the chemical cloud, freezing the little thing in place. She moves over to Reya and unleashes another blast, her boots harmlessly being coated in white. The slime near her was too big to be frozen instantly, but moved faster than she had ever seen it before, sliding away and around a corner.
Before moving over to Kalica, she gave an order, Cassidy noticing that she deepened her voice and made it sound very crisp, clear: "Close your eyes and mouth and do not breath!" She said, raising the house and blasting the slime covering Kalica. The Runner did as she was instructed, feeling her body almost instantly free of the creature, which the woman didn't stop spraying at until it was around the corner. The Commander reached out and grabbed onto Kalica's hand, pulling her back towards the elevator as she glanced at Reya.
"Lieutenant, elevator. Now," She ordered. Reya followed after the Commander, glancing at the blue Asari that seemed almost familiar...
As soon as they were in the Freight Elevator, the rear door closed, with Ashley staring at the nearly-nude Kalica.
"There we go..." The commander said as she breathed out, taking the fire extinguisher and putting it back in the Sturdi-Glass case. Without missing a beat, she turned around and smiled a little at Kalica.
"Do you need a spare change of clothes?" She asked.
Firelight Base: Barracks (North Sub-Floor 1); Circe
As Circe changed, Kiera began to speak over the intercom in her room.
"Circe, I've detected an odd weapon that you didn't have when you left the base... It seems to be Orc in design. As you may not quite know how to use it, is there any way you'd let me disassemble it for raw materials? I'd study it first, of course."
Firelight Base: Floor 2, Command Center; Laina, Anne, Jenn, Kyle and Theresa.
The remaining group that hadn't been with Commander Winters went up to the top floor, waiting in the Command Center. As soon as they all piled out of the rather crowded elevator, a virtual representation of Kiera was standing in front of them, smiling.
"Hello!" She said cheerfully. She had changed from being a fox to a short woman, still orange, little bits of code running across her features, "Go ahead and take a seat anywhere. I've locked down every station though, so you can't really damage anything."