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Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 2:51 am
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"Should be sometime tomorrow, I think." Jas mused. "Or late tonight. Could even be the day after. It depends on how hard it is to find the salvage. Last report from it said that it still had some momentum and wasn't just floating. "
Meanwhile Jaden shot a glance from Aria to Fayra. Had the doctor had enough balls to spike hir drink? Or maybe it had just been the tea that Fayra had given hir and Aria knew a different kind. One of those two options was highly amusing and made hir respect the doctor a bit more and the other...well, it didn't change things. Balls, brains and she was kind of cute. In a pretty, fancy sort of way.
Time skip time! Or maybe it's the Time Warp!
"Now, meimei you and the good doctor are going to stay on the ship like we talked about, right? Jaden, Aria and I are going to go out and retrieve the salvage, but you have to stay out of the decompressed parts of the ship. And we need you to keep an eye on the instruments just in case. Alright?" Jas asked, crouching to put her eyes on level with Jin-Li, who was perched on a crate that had been recently anchored down.
Behind the tall blonde, Jaden was finishing the suiting up process and was double checking hir seals with hir helmet off. In a moment ze would need someone else to check them again to make sure. Once ze was sure that everything but the helmet was properly done up, ze pulled it on easily. For today hir mohawk had been tied back into a stubby ponytail so as not to get in the way of the helmet.
"C'mon, cap. Time's a-wastin'." Ze called through the plexiglass.
On the crate, Jin-Li nodded solemnly before pulling Jas into a hug and balancing the blonde's helmet on her head for her. Then she let go, bounded off the crate to hug Jaden's waist and then scrambled up the stairs to the cockpit.
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 1:42 am
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 3:04 am
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 3:17 am
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 3:30 am
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 3:42 am
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 3:53 am
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Jaden traded the bag ze carried for a small gun like object from Jas' bag of tools. Carefully, Jaden laid a bead down around the seal before handing it back to Jas, who handed hir the detonator. Frowning in concentration, Jaden connected the detonator.
"Alright. Door's hot. I'm setting it to blow in a ten count." ze announced over their comms before taking several bounding steps back.
At Jaden's announcement, Jas took several steps away from the door. Then, at the promised ten count, the bead Jaden had laid down flared, bubbled and a moment later the door burst outward. Or, at least, it should have. The pair exchanged glances and Jas frowned slightly as she pulled a pair of crowbars out of her bag.
"Hold these for a bit, would you?" She asked, turning to Aria and offering the pair of bags she had been holding.
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 3:57 am
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 4:10 am
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 4:34 am
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 4:46 am
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Jaden led the group through the narrow maintenance access before dropping out into what was clearly a large common area. A dozen tables bolted to the floor had been set up in the space along with benches and more than a few corpses floated in the space. The moment hir boots hit deck, Jaden began going through the bodies, corraling them into a corner for later. As ze floated them into a corner, Jaden did a quick check for IDs. Jas would probably want to send an anonymous wave to their families to let them know what had happened to their loved ones.
"Ah hell, it looks like most of them didn't make it to the lifeboats." Jaden muttered over the comms. "Help me with this, would you, Aria? Sooner we ID 'em all and put 'em in a corner, the sooner we can check the rest of the ship."
While Jaden dealt with the bodies, Jas carefully made her way through the area then through a door, down a corridor, and made a left down another. A few more twists and turns (And a ladder) brought the tall blonde to a small cargo room. The job orders had been rather specific as to what she was supposed to retrieve. It was a box from this room and a baker's dozen from the actual cargo hold another level down.
A few minutes after she left, Jas returned, pushing the large crate in front of her. For a moment she seemed to contemplate the scene before she halted the box near the maintenance corridor they had come down.
"Don't bother. We'll get their Better ******** Find Me beacon working and one of the Alliance ships will pick them up. There's probably a hundred or so people still on this ship. There weren't lifeboats." Jas said grimly before disappearing down another corridor.
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 11:07 pm
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 11:17 pm
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 11:22 pm
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 11:28 pm
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