Chapter 3: Encounter

[Nohiki]

Ariaka called [insert person with most medical knowledge] to the scene and hurried in. She stepped over Tal'Set, knowing nothing that could help him anyway, and went straight for the cage, which was actually a giant freezer originally intended for the food from Zenith. She gently pushed few buttons and started freezing the intruder inside. In few seconds, the air inside will become unbreathable and their problem will die fast, but painful death.

[Morty]

Kiruza flinched as the intercom sounded a call for medical attention. She'd been watching things unfold in the hangar from the live feed in the lab, to nervous to make any effort to help, and now she'd just been called to the scene of the action. Allright, so they seemed to have gotten the insurgent under control now. She reluctantly equipped herself with a first aid kit, replete with powerful anaesthetics, which she knew she would need, and bone-setting tools, which were secondary to the painkillers. She poked her head cautiously out of the cryogenics lab and marveled at how utterly the corridors had been reduced to shrapnel in the short time it had taken to subdue the enemy. She made her way to the hangar, armed with enough morphine to knock out an Elder God, and desperately hoped there was only one of those things on the ship.

[Zetherus]

The berserker woke up in the dark being frozen and suffocated at the same time. He started to thrash around in the box not knowing how to get out so he started to punch the walls leaving large dents that could be seen outside in two foot wide bulges sticking out only a few inches. Then he used his war-blade stabbing a six inch long slit through the crate's wall right above where Tal'set was laying. The crate spewed frozen air out of the crate then the thrashing stopped. The berserker spoke out his nonsense language not making progress to escape then it all went quiet after a few minutes. The movement in the crate had stopped a few moments later.

[Nohiki]

"Do yourself a favor and STAY DOWN!" shouted Ariaka inside the freezer. Knowing how resilient the creature was, the air holes it pierced in the walls might be enough for the air inside to warm up to the point when it would awake again, so she started pushing the box towards the Air lock. She locked it in and only started slowly vacuuming the room, because she wanted a good look on the armor.

OOC: Translate: If you want it to wake up, this is last chance.

[Zetherus]

It was quiet in the crate but the berserker spoke again in a different language that had a small but confusing understanding to it as he was being pushed into the airlock. "Vol(stop)! seng(I) don't want sunt(to) kilj(die) like this!" It growled out being more calmer then usual.

[Nohiki]

Ariaka left the air lock shut. The blast proof door should keep the creature in, and she could always just open the outter door and flush it into space. Her logic circuits were working overtime trying to crack the language it was talking in. The last sentence helped. She deactivated the freezer and re-pressurized the chamber. "Allright, you earned a minute to tell me why shouldn't i finish you off." the android said in the best emulation of the berserker's language possible.

[Morty]

Kiruza paged Ariaka on her way to the hangar. "Ariaka? I'm answering the intercom, is everything under control over there?" she asked over her communicator. Hopefully they'd disposed of the invader properly and the alien pilot hadn't lost too much blood. And if he had, well, one less potential threat to worry about. Kiruza didn't trust the pilot. At least everyone else here was bound by their uncertain past. They would have to work together if they wanted to remember who they were. The Anero'nolmi had no such obligation. No, she would be very wary around this one. Maybe she'd "forget" how to use the lab equipment so his arm would have to heal the old fashioned way, that should keep him out of comission for a while....
Kiruza filed her paranoia away as she made it to the landing bay, where the injured soldier was lying in the exact same position she'd seen him in on the surveillance screen. She went over to the wounded shipmate and set about inspecting his injuries, sealing the worst ones with a device her memory told her was some sort of cauterizing laser. Her line of sight flickered between the battered crate and her reluctant patient while she worked, cautious. It hadn't been that battered when she'd left the lab. Ariaka had better have this under control.

[Nohiki]

"More or less. That thing actually seems to talk bits of a language i can understand. Hoping to get some information out of it, but yeah, it's one button from flying into space, so pretty safe in here." Ariaka transmitted in test to the Shis' data pad, preventing the berserker from eavesdropping. "How's the patient? Are we gonna have to cut that off?" she asked, pointing to Tal's hand.

[Morty]

Maybe. "Probably not." said Kiruza, carefully prodding the pilot's arm. Out cold, so it would seem. She was not an expert on Anero'nolmi biology but they seemed to share enough traits with the Human and Ceretai she remembered treating. "No compound fractures as far as I can tell." she said, surprising herself with her vocabulary. Shis did not have bones. She must have been something of a medic on board the vessel if she knew any words pertaining to them. Morphine at the ready she carefully started to cut away what she very much hoped was cloth from the pilot's arm so she could work.

((Does Tal'Set have armor on his arms? IDK.))

[Nohiki]

OOC: If he has, the armor has been broken to the point of the arm being capable of making a "s" shape - so it fell off xD

"Do you remember anything beyond being on the ship?" Ariaka suddenly changed the topic, pursuing her own subject while she was certain no one else can hear them. "I've been getting strange flashbacks, memories i don't think are my own. They mostly involve that scientist we found in the lab along with Lee. It's frightening."

[Morty]

((Point taken. XD))

Kiruza pondered the question while she applied some local anaesthetic to the pilot's arm. "Sometimes I feel as if this ship is very familiar to me, at least, certain rooms, even though I don't have any... tangible memories about any of them." she said, working away with her medical apparatus. "So no, no flashbacks yet. I think I would find it strange that an artificial intelligence could feel fear, especially fear of death-- sorry, I didn't mean that to sound heartless." Kiruza said embarassedly, realizing the AI might not think of herself as artificial. "You feel fear? When you approach the.. body?" Her automated voice was not very good at conveying curiosity or apprehension, in any human or Shis capacity.

[Nohiki]

"It IS strange, and puzzling." said Ariaka, "Feeling anything ever. No android on board should be able to tell if someone else is feeling an emotion, much less feel them themselves. I... I don't know what I am. Perhaps later if we can find the right equipment, i'd like you to take a few pictures of how i look on the inside. I have a theory." she said and fell silent for a bit.

[Morty]

The Shis nodded in acquiescence. "I'm not an authority on AI as far as I can remember, but I'm fairly certain that allowing an android to feel fear would be.. defeating the purpose." she said thoughtfully, her two lower arms holding the Anero'nolmi's fractured arm in place while the other two fiddled with the pulse generator and monitor of some sort of ultrasound display kit.

[Nohiki]

Ariaka snorted. "Heh, AI... Am I?" she said, her theory about her origin becoming more likely to be true every single hour. "Let's say I am just the next gen. Is it safe to assume that the crazy scientists aboard this ship... No offense... Just wanted to see what they can do? Maybe i'm a science project." she said and walked over to a console, as the berserker seemed to have temporarily passed out, probably regaining some strength after nearly dying. She tried to access the ship's schematics to find anything close to a hospital, but she couldn't access the whole ship and found nothing. "Can Tal'Set be transported? The prisoner isn't going anywhere. You're an expert on this: Is putting Tal into stasis until we find a medical facility a viable option?"

[Morty]

"A viable theory." hissed the Shis, surveying the results of the ultrasound scan. ((congratulations, it's a girl! Jk)) Five fractures, rather gruesome-looking at what were probably unnatural angles. Kiruza admitted that she was probably not the best qualified for dealing with the extent of the damage. "Yes, I think it may be good to keep him in suspension. I don't know what specie's healing rate would be but I think I have a chemical that might slow it, so that his arm doe not set in the wrong shape. At least until we can find the proper tools..." she trailed on, assessing Tal'Set's prone, heavy form. "One of us will have to transport him. However, I think leaving our visitor unattended may be inadvisable." she said, looking at the crate.