Chapter 4: Borderline

[Zetherus]

Keilumtol heard a voice from the door to tell him not to escape. He didn't like the idea because he was put into an airlock and frozen by the same android. "You think that you have out smarted me but I could have disabled you several times if I wanted! I'm done running from you, so don't give me another reason to let you capture me for this time I will destroy you if you try!" He responded as he slowly turned to the door on the other side of the hall clinching his fist ready for the worst. With nothing on but his Nano Suit he was completely exposed and could not take a shot from that huge explosive gun from earlier if the android was equipped with it.

[Nohiki]

Ariaka giggled at the rant about disabling her: "Whatever helps you sleep at night." She thought for a second about how to handle the situation. "Listen, we are closing in on what's presumably enemy territory, but you weren't part of this engagement, so if you have anywhere to go, we'll be glad to take you there. Maybe the other Anero'Nolmi can shed some light on stuff, but it'll be few hours, if not days, before he's back on the ship. We had to transport him to nearby planet to receive medical attention." she gave the guest a fast status update. "Is there anything you want to know? If not, drop any weapon you might be holding and i'll unlock you." she said, tapping into the security feed from inside the room.

[Zetherus]

The commando relaxed himself as he brought up the projector in his left hand and aimed it's diamond lens at his right arm. In an instant the gauntlet from his power armor assembled over his forearm as a bright light was projected from the device in his other hand. Keilumtol saw the updates on his wrist computer then what the android had said and instantly he was pissed off. "You know if you had let me get to the bastard before you transported him. I would have healed him for you, ERRRrr!" He growled as he mounted the projector on his shoulder and pulled the dagger from his belly sealing the wound as he extracted it. The small odd machine that rebuilt his gauntlet started to build up the rest of his power armor onto his body. In a few long minutes his entire suit of armor was back into perfection. The commando took his attention off of his computer and spoke to the android about the weapons it was asking about. "I have only my D.M.E Cannon and my war-blades but they are apparently unavailable at this moment because I made them to be!" He spun the Dagger of Regeneration in the palm of his hand and held the handle up to the projector making it vanish from sight. "Armor status restored to 12%. Dark matter emitter Cannon is offline for safety concerns and re-establishment shall take a few hours to restore if ordered. The armor's defense system is malfunctioning giving the results of possible impalement or explosion of armor core; WARNING DO NOT EXPOSE THE ARMOR'S WAR-BLADE SYSTEMS." The V.I alerted him of the dangerous status of his armor and he listened by deactivating his armor's defense systems until they are fixed by the V.I. "I am unarmed if that makes you feel better! Now then, my name is Keilumtol and I wish to seek refuge upon your vessel? I have no desire to be left on a world that I have no history of!" Said Keilumtol as he walked to the center of the cryo lab then halted waiting for a response from Ariaka that he can enter.

[Nohiki]

Ariaka entered the code and the door slowly opened. "Wow. the trouble this might cause. Should have flushed him out the airlock when i had the chance. Why would i even have compassion programmed? It makes no sense!" the android thought for herself. She put a hand on her gun, just in case, but saw the commando really appeared unarmed. "Welcome aboard i guess. Please follow me, i need to complete the translation program so the rest of the crew can talk to you." she said and led to the bridge.

[Zetherus]

Keilumtol saw the doors slowly open in front of him revealing the android on the other side. He saw it signal him then ask him to follow to get his language translated for the others to understand. The commando shrugged and did as it asked and followed from a distance with caution. As he proceeded with Ariaka to the bridge, he heard his V.I alert him of his current armor status. "Systems will continue to be offline until armor is rebooted by portable power source. Systems have endured too much delay to reboot successfully from the sub-zero climates it has encountered! For future engagements in ultra sub-zero temperatures one is recommended to activate Heat Shields so that armor core will not suffer any delays from recuperating it's system maintenance during opera..." Keilumtol muted his V.I from finishing the report by pressing a holographic key on his right wrist. He knew what his armor was doing so he didn't need to hear any of that. "Hey android? I don't know your service number or computing name, so anyways I was asking if you found my destroyed generator in one of the engine rooms?" He asked as he and the synthetic was nearing the bridge. "Also if you wish to help me on some of this ship's programming and armaments I could build a small generator compatible for your body and repair my equipment also, so if you help me out here I'll help you! Agreed?" Mentioned the commando as they both walked through many corridors to the bridge.

[Nohiki]

OOC: VI? Synthetic? Somebody has been playing mass effect xD

"Allright, let's clarify few things. First, my name is Ariaka. Second, due to your history, if i see you anywhere near those consoles, messing with any programming, you're history. If you touch ME, i'm gonna tear off your arm. Be advised that you are now listed as neutral, not friendly. That will take some time, i'm sure you'd have done the same thing." Ariaka said authoritatively, following with a bit more pleasant tone, "As far as your generator goes, we salvaged it. It is around here somewhere, though i do not know if we discovered tools that could repair it. If you have yours that would help, my built in toolkit is sufficient for maintaining the ship, but a reactor is too complex. Here it is." she said and pulled the cart with the generator in front of the anero'nolmi.

[Kauria]

"Understood." Rucha sighed, took off her gloves, and leaned back, letting her eyes close for a moment. Then she sat forward and dug out the jars of color, smearing the pigment experimentally between her fingers. Although there was some excess, the skin underneath was stained a light orange. And, as she soon discovered, almost impossible to get off.
"What is wrong with this stuff?" she shouted, rubbing furiously at the daub of orange. She soon gave up and simply shot a death glare at her left hand. "All right, use at your own peril," she muttered, dipping her fingers in again.

Some time later, Ariaka's voice came on again, warning for landing. There was brief, delightful moment of disorientation as Rucha's perception of "down" suddenly changed, and then the shuttle came to a gentle stop.
"Do . . . we have to get out right away?" Rucha asked no one in particular.

[Zetherus]

Keilumtol smiled with a low chuckle following behind the grin when he heard Ariaka's response. When the android grabbed a cart with a familiar looking bag at the bottom, the commando walked up to the cart and spoke, "I'm glad we both think the same way about our new found alliance! I was testing to see if you had forgotten me as an intruder, so I'm pleased for now were neutral! Oh, and thanks for the return of my generator for I shall keep some of the promise since you returned that at least!" He growled as he halted near the opening of the cart seeing a full engineering bag resting at the bottom. The giant humanoid hunched over and reached into the cart with his left hand to retrieve the bag. When he grabbed and lifted the flexible container a loud clamor of metal parts began to fall into the metal cart reveling a large melted hole in the bag. He was pissed when this happened until he saw a teal colored glowing sphere, the size of a basketball, fall out of the bag. If you have ever seen an eleven foot tall giant move faster then lightning then you could expect the commando doing so in this case! Keilumtol basically drop kicked the crate out of the way yelling in his ancient language as he swiped the sphere out of the air with his right hand. "That could have been nasty!" He groaned as he placed the sphere into a small circular hatch in his left shoulder plate from further harm. The commando turned to the cart he had sent flying down the corridor and walked up to it again ahead of Ariaka, but this time pulling his projector off his right shoulder and phased all the broken parts into his memory bank to fix later. He turned back to Ariaka while mounting the device back to his shoulder. "Sorry about that! Shall we continue?"

[Nohiki]

"Any potentially hazardous... materials... i should know about?" Asked Ariaka after the small distraction. Whlie she wouldn't care about much, the organic life forms forming the rest of her crew might be unhappy if she told them they are going to have to wear hazmat suits from now on. "I have analyzed the language in the other anero'Nolmi's fighter, see if it is similar to your dialect please." she said, putting up bits of language she could translate on the screen, "If i can assist with the repairs just ask and i'll try to be of some help."

[Zetherus]

"Not potentially hazardous but highly nuclear yes. If that pulse core had hit the grate then the whole ship would have been blown in half! It is secure now so no worries!" Responded the Anero'nolmi as he followed Ariaka into the bridge and to a terminal with Tal's fighter on the screen. Ariaka showed him the language on the screen to see if he would recognize it. Keilumtol looked closely to the screen but couldn't make any sense of it. "This is our style of language just it looks different some how! I have been in time stasis for 23,000 years so there is a possibility that my ancient words have evolved, these symbols I recognize though!" He said as he stood up straight and brought his right hand up to the terminal. When he opened his hand a grid of lasers began to run over the screen. A fast steady beeping on his wrist computer began with the scanning until three fast beeps occurred. "New found language has been found with most of the Anero tongue! Apparently this language is the evolved version of our people calling it Nolti. Translation shall be configured within five minutes, please wait!" Spoke the V.I as Keil's wrist computer began to run through hundreds of updates so it could improve the new found language in the commando's words. "Updates have been downloaded into you nero-implants." Once again the V.I alerted. The commando twitched his head to the right a little while instantly learning Tal'set's language. "Tell me now if you understand more clearly Ariaka?" He talked just like the mercenary, just with a deeper more serious voice. He stood in front of the terminal while he was working on his wrist computer to understand more of this language while he could.

[Nohiki]

"I do not understand much of your language, only as much as i could figure out from you and the fighter. However your armor VI seems to be faster at this, here's a file with all the words i decoded translated into... Whatever language we speak, noone really knows. To dumb it down, it even comes with schematic references." she said, handing over a holographic storage, as there was no way the ancient had compatible ports in his armor. "I estimate your CPUs can process it in roughly 5 hours, we'll have to make due with what we have till then. About any health hazard, please be careful or bulkheads might start slamming shut and since we are very much under crewed you might starve to death before we get to you." she explained and pulled up a scan of nearby space. The system had an asteroid belt of no use to them, as it was crowded with mining ships, but the far gas giant was relatively empty. She searched through the databanks, checking if they had any sort of probe she could use to get a closer look. She didn't find anything and decided that the sensors on the combat drone will have to do. She ordered one unit to investigate. "Hey, do you understand the tech or you only do what the manual says?" she said, pointing to the generator.

[Zetherus]

"When we become soldiers against the Vok, we have to build our own generators and armor to prove our worth! I understand my technology just not yours so I guess manuals will do fine!" Keilumtol explained as he lowered his right hand to look at the chip in Ariaka's. He leaned over and snatched it out of her hand and looked closely to it. "Is there a possible way that you can offer me a piece of this era's technology so I can upgrade to your proper standards? It could be anything that ranges from a cannon to a left over console. I will tear it apart for it's contents so don't think you'll see it again!" The commando said while concentrating really hard on the small object. He scanned it several times to try and understand the way it works then practically built a schematic from just studying the thing for the last few moments.

[Kauria]

When Rucha opened the door, voices and the sterile stink of city air forced their way into the cabin unexpectedly. "What the—?"
She finished unbuckling, clutched her headscarf around her face, and leaned out. Silvery buildings towered above them, and crowds shouted and fought past one another. The shuttle itself had been magnetically docked a short distance above the ground. Rucha squinted into the sunset between the skyscrapers, attempting to make sense of where they were. "I thought this place was a small outpost," she muttered, watching a gigantic cargo ship hover to a stop over a loading point.
"Hey, you!" The words, she realized, were not in the same language they spoke on the ship, but the sounds were familiar. A helmeted docking officer worked his way over to them. When he tilted his head to face her, the pale features of a human showed through his faceplate. "You might want to fix the steering on that shuttle. We had a heck of a time getting you guys to a landing site."
"Sorry about that." The same language. It was probably best not to give out information unless asked directly.
"Well, what's up? What brings you so urgently to our fine colony that you couldn't be bothered to land manually in the right sector?"
Better to cut to the point if the sniper's life depended on it. "Is there a hospital around here?"

[Nohiki]

"To be bluntly honest i don't understand my own tech all that well, so please excuse me if i do not want YOU to." she said, actually getting very angry about her previous decision. I should just release the nerve gas, get a crack on that armor and call accident. she thought for herself, actually hovering around the buttons for a fraction of a second. She resisted this time, instead diving back into her own work, "The software is one thing, finding out how to apply it is something different. I'm actually gonna have to build translators." she explained, then snapped her fingers few times. "Record message. Begin. Everything all right down there? Things are getting pretty insane here. Anyone found anything that looks like a translator at the shuttle? It should have equipment capable of handling first contact. End. Transmit to Shuttle Two." she dictated and the computer did so. "How long are you going to need? I planned to do some repairs and you might wanna know where is what on the ship to be of any use." she asked, not really excited about the idea, but the repairs needed to be done.

[Zetherus]

Keilumtol stopped analyzing the file then slipped it into a secret compartment in his chest plate. "No I'll be fine on my own around here!" He said as he turned to the door that led into the ship and made his way towards. "Well I will only slow you down at your duties so continue! I'll be in Engineering to fix my generator if you are concerned of my location." He continued before he walked through the door and vanished from Ariaka's sight. The commando continued his way to the selected sector and once he got there, after walking a good ten minutes, he pulled a big equipment repair table from a nearby wall then laid the broken generator on it's surface. There he stayed and began to use his tools and a few other ones scattered around to rebuild his pulse generator. The sound of a welding torch and buzzing electronics filled the area around the room and corridors as he attempted to repair the equipment.