Chapter 3: Encounter

[Zetherus]

The ancient being was grateful to have lived. He started to speak to the android again with the language that it used to save himself with. "I was intended to destroy all infected lifeforms on this ship when Zenith's AI defense systems had instructed me to. When I ported into the ship, I was ordered to combat with a humanoid I thought infected with the Vok assimilation nanobots so I chased the suspect in hope of annihilating him first before he alerted the other infections. I was mistaken when I fought the humanoid and figured he knew combat at a class four combat levels. I am An Anero'nolmi commando trained to deal with our old enemy the Vok and LL4 Iftis NOT androids and intelligent beings controlling my races technology." He growled as he started to move inside the crate again. In twenty seconds flat a large ancient holocard appeared outside of the slit in the crate then fell to the metal floor reveling what he was instructed to do to the ship if Tal'set had not stopped him.

A advanced holocard raveling what current objectives he had to do to complete his purpose on the alien ship.

Objective 1: Disable all comm-systems.
Objective 2: Destroy all possible Vok or LL4 Iftis infected hostiles that know of your location. Including prisoners and survivors of assimilated vessel.
Objective 3: Cut off life support and eradicate all living breathing material on the vessel.
Objective 4: Destroy engines and place the Dark Matter Emitter (D.M.E) into the center of ship and activate self-destruct systems to purge the vessel into the void.
Objective 5: Find a safe way off the ship and return home for further orders.

[Kauria]

Rucha flopped onto her bed, grateful to have real quarters, but also grateful that no nagging instincts berated her for it. She had started to worry that her old self had been completely paranoid, but she felt safe here.
The Ceretai suddenly remembered the files Ariaka had given her, and groaned. She swung her legs over the edge of the bed and accessed her communications computer. She'd have to look for patterns, since none of the information alone made any sense. Rucha filtered out the profiles of the crew members not in the stasis pod register, sparing them only a quick glance. Lance's file she kept, but Ariaka's revealed next to nothing useful, so she left it with the others.
Creating a new holographic screen to record her observations, Rucha nestled against the wall and resigned herself to her new task.

[Nohiki]

Ariaka was surprised that the other being is of Tal's kind. Ariaka remotely opened the freezer, letting the ptisoner out into the airlock. "For security reasons, i hope you understand i have to keep you confined for now. Do not attempt to break, out, the system is rigged to vent all air not just in your compartment, but also in the whole hangar if the door leading inside the ship is as much as scratched. After we tend to our wounded, i'm gonna want to hear all about the enemies you pursue. We have registered none like that but if they are a threat i want to know it. If i'm satisfied with your answers we can maybe talk about returning you to your home." said the android, once again returning to the console. She checked all accessible security footage, also seeing Lance out cold and Rucha busy with something. She shook her head: "Who's flying the damn ship?!" she hit her foreheat, srinting over To Tal'Set. She pulled a small pressure canister with hull sealing polymer seemingly from out of nowhere and sprayed it all over Tal's hand and waited few seconds for it to harden. Thens he picked the giant up and ran him over to the stasis lab, then heading straight for the bridge. "Not now." she shook the cat off, sitting in the chair. Just as she was about to plug in, she remembered the virus. "It wasn't the berserker, he didn't get that far!" she said for herself, lading her anti virus solution first, than plugging herself in. Indeed she found the virus in the ship. Fortunately her system purged it quickly. She started checking the damage. It did only once thing. Broadcast an SOS. "Not good. Guys wake up, our position have been compromised, everyone prepare for battle and warp!" she announced, certain that the hostile ships will show up soon.

[Kauria]

Rucha jerked to her feet long enough to listen to Ariaka's announcement, then shut the screens and dashed out of her room. Oddly enough, facing or escaping a potential enemy was preferable to wasting her time reading the boring facts of her dead crewmates.
She joined Ariaka on the bridge, and was about to take her station when she saw the cat. The Ceretai recoiled into the wall behind her. "What. Is that," she hissed through her teeth, one hand on her holster, the other flat against the wall.

[Nohiki]

"Easy!" shouted Ariaka and the cat took refuge on her lap. "It's a cat. Pet animal." she said, "I suppose it's one of the former crewman's. 'Suppose they won't be taking care of it any longer." she shrugged. "Allright, in the past couple of minutes we've been broadcasting subspace distress channel, so i assume the enemy fleet is on it's way. If that's so, how do we handle it? Our Stardrive is only 50% charged, so we can't run." she summarized, checking other systems: "Shields have recovered from the planetary assault and are at 100% all around the ship. Weapons warming up, combat ready in two minutes. Switching to manual controls." she said and several controllers appeared on the chair, rising from hidden cavities. "Come here, sit. The ship handles like a brick so it should be easy. This stick is pitch, yaw and roll, this one is thrust. You can control weapons with voice." she instructed Rucha, running off with a plan. Hopefully she'll be done before the ships arrive, and if this works, their problems will be solved maybe for ever.

[Morty]

Kiruza raced after the android as fast as her sluggish slithering would allow, more to be out of the invader's line of sight rather than out of any great sense of urgency for the Anero'nolmi's wellbeing. She didn't think exposing any life form's raw skin to hull sealant was a good idea, but she wasn't about to argue. At least she'd managed to get his bones into what was hopefully anatomically correct position. At least it wasn't making that S-shape anymore.
As soon as they reached the lab Kiruza had Tal'Set lowered into one of the free cryogenics chambers. It was... a little discouraging, opening pod after pod trying to find one that didn't have a corpse in it, but eventually she managed to get the Anero'nolmi set up in a chamber full of mild anaesthetic. That was all she could trust the stasis pods for, at this point, since their previous occupants didn't seem to have fared so well. She then heard Ariaka's announcement over the intercom. Great, more trouble. She really hoped she could sit this one out...

[Zetherus]

The commando walked out of the crate and stood there listening to the androids instructions not to do anything rash. He turned from the entrance to the ship then walked toward the airlock to look out the small window that was up to his waist height. He ducked to see out of the window and into space. While he was enjoying the view, something that he never felt before, he opened his comm-link to Zenith and tried to contact his general. "General are you there. I have successfully boarded the vessel but all possible threats have been initiated non-hostile. A request to return home is my wish; can you grant it or is my services still of use here? General?" The comm-link was still static ever since he first started talking. "General are you there? Is my request accepted?" Still static. He began switching through different channels and saw they were all blank as well. His thoughts were confused for his technology was never to fail like this. He then began to link through different contact recordings to see what the earliest contact was. He found twenty seven and found that they were last contacted 23,300 years ago. He was dumbstruck for what he found out then listened to the earliest one.

CONTACT RECORDING 27 INITIALIZING: "This is general Tolantis and I have ordered all military personal and surviving citizens to the Arc of Atlantis. All Commandos are to port to the Reveder of War for combat stations and protect our glory from the Vok invasion that threaten our existence. This will be the end of us if we don't act now and find our new home soon. We have lost so much to the Vok and now our world is against us as well." END OF TRANSMISSION RECORDING.

The commando was confused about the whole thing that he just heard. "So Zenith was evacuated twenty three thousand years ago. I don't believe this thus I should not be alive then. What happened to my race when I never knew that a evacuation was in order? WHAT HAPPENED TO ZENITH?" He growled so loud in the airlock that he could be heard from the bridge. He slammed both of his seventy five pound fist into the grate making a loud "BOOM" like when Tal'set heard the commando punch the room door the first time. "What if I am the last of the Anero'nolmi?" He stood up and started to growl for revenge to kill the Vok and every last one of them.

[Nohiki]

Ariaka entered the hangar bay again, dragging a cart loaded with cylindrical objects. She checked if the airlock is still there and then commanded few drones to come to the ground and started strapping the cylinders on them. Then she picked up a spray pistol connected to a tank and started washing the drones with strange, black fluid. Just when she thought she isn't gonna do it in time, a bleep sounded in her comms. The stardrive was charged. "Rucha, we can jump again. Anything on sensors?" she asked, not believing that the enemy wasn't there yet. She hurried to finish coating the drones and then instructed them to dock outside of the ship, ready for deployment.
When she was done, she walked over to the airlock and knocked on the door. "Still alive?" she asked, thinking about the next move for a few seconds. Then she made up her mind and disabled the safety protocols she put on the improvised prison, instead slaving them to her command by wireless. She then walked inside the airlock and released the commando from the freezer, magnets in her feet pinning her to the ground in case she would have to blow the room into space.

[Zetherus]

The commando turned around from the window of the airlock and look at the android furiously. "What do you want now, the answers I promised you about me enemies? First I want you to answer my question. Is that humanoid that locked me in the freezer an Anero'nolmi?" He spoke as he clinched his fist for a "no" answer. The look he gave the android was like as if he was staring at a Dii'Vok trooper that had just killed his race.

[Nohiki]

"To be fair i don't have much of an idea who Anero'nolmi, or whoever else are..." started Ariaka bluntly, "But he claims to be one. Evidence supporting this might be that he knew the name of your planet. That is unless you are not one yourself like you claim to be." said Ariaka. "Why were you instructed to destroy our ship?" she asked in return.

[Zetherus]

The commando's look had disappeared then responded to the android. "I was instructed to kill everyone on this ship when I came out of combat stasis and ported into this vessel. My mission was to annihilate all living matter before purging the ship into a black hole for prevention of contact if the enemy was to alert an armada of our home world." He stepped forward and handed the holocard that had his objectives to the the android.

OCC: Look to the top of page to see the objectives. They're in red.

[Nohiki]

"Then let me rephrase. What are or were you fighting? This ship's record has no record of the Vok, as you called them, yet there is the presence of your kind. Looks to me like your side already won the war you're fighting." shrugged Ariaka, "Then again, maybe we just have a different name for them. so tell me, who is your nemesis?"

[Zetherus]

The commando stomped his heavy foot into the grate violently denting the thing then growled "They are a merciless race of mechanical organisms that have five different forms that undertake different levels of purposes. They were sent from a different existence, an alternate dimension, to kill all that they wish being lead by our ancient most hated enemy tyrant named Ralotok. There are five different races they undertake; the most favored is the Dii'Vok. The others are flesh and cybernetic beings that wait when they're called by their leader which is the last of an extincted race of Vok called the Orm'Vok. His race has been believed to be killed by an extraordinary being of unimaginable power that lived in times that have never been recorder in intergalactic history. Thus my race believing the beginning of time its self. That is all I know of our enemy and there will NEVER be an end of there tyranny as long as there mother planet is still alive." The commando was utterly furious for he just wanted to pick the box he was locked in before and throw it at the wall behind the curious android. "NEVER SAY THEY HAVE BEEN DEFEATED FOR THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE." He yelled as he started grumble in his old language again.

[Kauria]

"Still clear," Rucha responded, scanning the displays. She leaned back with a sigh.
The cat looked at her.
"Stop that." Rucha put a hand over her face. When she opened her eyes again, the cat was gone, but the Croatoan was no longer alone. Rucha spat out several words she thought sounded appropriately swear-like, and contacted Ariaka. "We've got company. Another ship just jumped in, alone, but enough to give us problems if they attack. You might want to take a look for yourself."

[Nohiki]

Ariaka nodded slightly at the incoming communication. She turned to the commando: "There's trouble outside, gotta go. But don't celebrate yet, i'll be back." she said and walked out, recovering the safety features to previous state.

She made her way on the bridge quickly. "Whatcha got there?" she said, turning the ship towards the other ship to get visual identification.

OOC:
Are we going with regular enemy (plan there is to finish them once and for all), or with rebel ship showing up? (Plan there is secret )