Chapter 5: Lost and stranded

[Nohiki]

"Even a pistol can give a good whap-" Ariaka said, but was interrupted by a request. "Oh hello." she snapped her finger's and Keil's avatar appeared in the room. "This is gonna be fun." she said and her copy in the old armor appeared next to her, ready to take on the anero'Nolmi.

[Zetherus]

Keil materialized into the artificial world that Ariaka was commanding and stood there for a moment looking around. He wasn't sure what he was looking at because this world showed few environments in remote locations. A forest he could see in the distance, an entrance to a facility on his left, and two humanoids standing there looking at him. "Captain?" He called out to Ariaka when he noticed them.

[Nohiki]

"About to do hand to hand drills, let's go." Ariaka's copy said, leading to another part of the combat ground. "Have any melee weapons in that armor of yours that you would like simulated?" she said, her own armor producing a pair of forearm mounted blades.

Meanwhile, the present Ariaka pulled the naginata off her back and assumed battle stance. she let the blade remain powered down so this would last longer. "this is just practice. this thing has a map folder of everything, from jungles through cities to space stations. and many objectives too. Demolition, capture the flag, whatever we want, so once we're done here, the real fun begins."

[Zetherus]

Keil smiled then ejected his two war-blades as he saw Ariaka's double doing so when they both entered the room. "Just these and my Dark Matter Emitter cannon. It's been a while since I last really used these weapons and see what they could do." He answered as he readied himself before combat then continued, "And I have a few simulation logs that needs to be tested when our colonies were attacked by the Dii'Vok. These games are rated "M" for a reason if your interested!" he laughed as he got into his battle stance awaiting the android.

[Morty]

Kiruza hissed disapprovingly and snapped on her gloves, inspecting the wound while she dabbed at it with an antiseptic cloth. "You should not have waited so long to have it treated, Lieutenant." she said, carefully probing the bullet hole with a hooked prong while another hand trained a flashlight on her work. One hand reached around felt on the counter for something: it came back holding a strange tube of sorts. "Platelets, in your blood type." she explained, coating the interior of the wound with a pinkish resin, so that the blood would not overflow while she worked. Setting down her other tools, the Shis activated a pair of magnetic tweezers, and one by one removed the metal shards that had been embedded in Lance's torso. The last one dropped into the tray with a tinkle. "There, that wasn't so bad. Your suit already repaired much of the damage." she said, cleaning the wound one last time before closing it with with a few quick stitches. "You will not be able to put pressure on it for a while. I suggest getting some rest and taking it easy for now." From another bizarre tube she sprayed a web of gauze over the wound, which she reinforced with a layer of bandages wrapped tightly around his torso. "It is fortunate that we have come to a solar system where we can all finally relax. Oh, and take these..." she said, rummaging in a drawer for something. She pulled out a container that rattled with the sound of pills. "I suspect your military training will have made you resilient to most narcotics, but these are army-grade painkillers. I can synthesize more should you run out, but there ought to be enough to last you this sickness." she said, and placed the pills on the stand near the operating slab. "Leave the armor with me. I will have it cleaned out and disinfected. For now, you should relax, Lieutenant. ...Souvenir?" The Shis rattled the remains of the high-caliber bullet she had extracted from the human soldier's abdomen, cocking her head.

((I totally know how to treat bullet wounds come on I've seen movies about world war 1! XD))

[Awesomoman]

Lance held the bottle of pills in his hand, "Will do." He stood up and saluted the doctor. "Thank you for the aid, perhaps I can repay you one day." He left the cryo chamber and made his way back to his room. He was hoping there was something there he could wear, at the moment he was only in a skin tight black jump suit that went under his armor. After checking around he found something in a bag under his bed, It had very formal clothes inside, they looked like his uniform. Black and white shirt with a gold trim and his rank on each shoulder with matching pants. (Gauntlets are his actual hands. Cyborg. Oh and each cross has a skull in the middle. asset.103.ggftw.net/wiki/df-w/images/1/14/Priest.png ) Carefully putting them on making sure not to mess up his bandages. He felt strange wearing this, even though he had no memory of it, he knew he was only supposed to put this on during special occasions, not for casual wear. He brushed the feeling off, this was all he had at the moment so he would have to put rules aside. Speaking of which, his order from Kiruza to relax. He still needed to check the weapons and make an necessary repairs and tune ups, to him that would be relaxing. Taking a dose of pills and slipping them in his pocket, he headed for the armory

[Nohiki]

"I'll have a look at those, later. Meanwhile..." Ariaka said, turned around and started sprinting in Keil's direction, few meters in front of him, she jumped and spun, engaging her mag boots. Now hanging from the ceiling, she lunged straight for Keil's head, keeping her other blade ready for defense.

[Zetherus]

Keil threw his right hand up deflecting Ariaka's blade with his own and used his left war-bladed arm to uppercut at the android's belly. "They are quite interesting I must say, but in order to defeat the Dii'Vok you must be as fast as me!" His voice as dark when he fought Tal'Set. But when his left bladed hand neared Ariaka's mechanical abdomen, he disengaged his war-blade back into his forearm where his stab was now a bone breaking punch nearing the android in passing seconds.

[Nohiki]

Ariaka saw the blade inbound and spun out of the way, following into a roundhouse kick aimed at Keil's shoulder, the hydraulic support systems kicking in, otherwise she'd just bounce off of the giant. She needed to buy some time to come up with a strategy before the Anero'Nolmi won just by being three weight categories above her.

[Zetherus]

Keil saw the quick unrealistic move as he felt a strong jolt hit his shoulder and move him a step from his current place. "Now thats what I'm talking about!" He yelled impressed at Ariaka's kick then came back at her with a full straight on assault with his right elbow then his left hand coming in as a haymaker.

[Kauria]

"Oooh, space station, definitely," Rucha said, before she'd really had a chance to consider the options. Something in her just liked the prospect right away. Because I was born on one? Or are those records fake, too? "You can pick the mode, though."
She activated the energy blade she had selected, taking pause to admire the way the light played off her surroundings. "And by 'here,' you mean the sparring match?" she asked, easing into something that felt like a ready stance, her heartbeat already accelerating and her setae prickling with adrenaline.

[Midnightmoon]

(OOC: *darth vador voice* "Time to Die." )

Back at the bridge Lee was busy messing up the circuits and doing something with the control computer. Reaching around he cut another wire with his claws and yanked it from another board, bringing it over to the panel he was working on. "Since no ones going to try and figure it out," he twisted some wires together and rerouted another pair, "I guess I'll just have to inform myself. Check progress." "ERROR, ERROR, UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS, ERROR." Lee grinned. He found earlier when he first started messing around that the data pad was connected to the network but only accessed it, didn't input data. So he found it was great to see if he was going in the right direction when hacking the backup memory banks. "Thanks." Humming a tune he didn't reconize he continued, interupting himself every once in a while to mumble something about the work, he continued to work till the pad beaped. "BLIP, ACCESS.""Finally!" Scooping it up he hooked it up to the computer console for faster download. Recklining in the chair he first opened up his own file, the Captain's version:
...
Name: Le-hila
Birth Planet: La-nell'in
Race: Lalungil
Gender: Male
Age: 29
Skills: Combat, Electronics Engenearing. Note: Possible hacker...

Lee snickered, "You don't say." Then he kept reading,

...Combat: Knife Combat, Accuracy Relflex Shooting. Note: Sources suspect him of being an "Knife"....

Lee frowned at that. A knife? "What's that?"he asked himself, but even as he did so he had a quisy fealing in his gut, something that boardered on fear. Giving himself a bit of a shake he closed his file. He'd hacked in so that he could see what had happened to the ship, not so he could read something he could access by less illegal means. Closing the information for later he scrolled the other hacked files. Clicking the next one that caught his eye, he began to scan the report. After a while the a headache started to form, the words becoming sharp. Lee ignored the pain and kept reading. When he then clicked the video servailence attachments at the end he didn't even have time to wished he hadn't. The pain exploded between his eyes. He clutched at his head, screaming, the sound coming from him a cross between the cry of a large aquatic creature and a falling tree; deap and long.

What had he been doing? Accessing the data had been stupid, he should have known the repacussions because of before! What had we been doing?! It was all madness, but the madness was the price! What had I done?! Memories-memories-memories-madnessmadness-. The crowding memories and the clashing personalities were overwhelming him. -MADNESS-MEMORIES-MADNESS-. Lee crashed to the floor. The unreconizable tune he was humming before joined the corus, but this time it had meaning. "WHAT HAD WE DONE?!" Was the last coherent thought he made, though it didn't dent the thunder in his mind.

(OOC: and Lee is out of the running )

[Nohiki]

The VR shimmered and all 3 player sere thrown back into their respective bodies. "Something's wrong, everyone with me!" Ariaka said and tore the cable out of the slot in her finger, tunning off to the bridge, having a bad feeling from what data she received before being forced back to reality by the security system.

"Lee? LEE!" she yelled, looking at the dead figure on the ground, she sped up and knelt midway over the last hall to the bridge, skiing the rest of the length on her knees, yellow sparks flying off of her armor as it peeled away slowly. She quickly checked out the aliens life signs. He was still with them. She wired into the intercom: "Kiruza, get yourself on the bridge, STAT!" On a hunch she pinched Lee's hand. Nothing. The lights were on but nobody was home. Only then she looked out of the window and noticed the ship was spinning rapidly. She stood up and walked over to the controls, but the local computer was busted. "So that's what the poor guy did. We've lost control from here, i need to go plug back into the core or we risk crashing into some space junk. When she gets here, tell Kiruza that he is unresponsive to any tactile" she said and ran off, heading for the core room. Once she reached it,s he didn't hesitate to plug herself in again. This time, it was far less overwhelming. She knew where to look, she had her own share with psychological collapses, but unlike the organics, she could recuperate far more easily. She knew. And she was right. All the files she didn't read yet were marked as accessed at current time stamp minus one minute. All but hers.

If those made him collapse... What is in mine? She trembled, but accessed the files Lee did nonetheless. What she read was terrible, although she withstood the shocking revelation without going offline this time. What she feared was the crews reaction if she told them what she just learned, and what she feared even more was what would happen if she didn't and they found out. She didn't know what to do.

[Zetherus]

Keilumtol was then sent to Armageddon when the virtual world was suddenly shut down sending him into cardiac arrest. He recovered minutes later shaking violently from his shear painful awakening. "Uh, ahhhhh! Why did you do that captain?" His voice echoing over the mic painfully, "I was actually synched into that artificial world YOU FOOL." The warrior unlocked his armor making him drop to the ground limply when his A.I alerted, "WARNING, abnormal brain activity. Administrating stimulation package." Keil then went quiet and passed out on the grate he laid upon.

[Kauria]

Rucha found herself rocked violently back into her body, and she quickly jerked the helmet from her head plates and stumbled out of the pod. Her fingers still tingled, and her ears were ringing with an echo of the VR's ambience. She shook it off an sprinted to the bridge, finding Ariaka over—what was his name?—Lee's motionless body.
"So that's what the poor guy did. We've lost control from here, I need to go plug back into the core or we risk crashing into some space junk. When she gets here, tell Kiruza that he is unresponsive to any tactile," the android reported, then ran off again.
Rucha slumped to her knees beside the alien, uneasily watching his chest rise and fall minutely.
He learned something, she thought.
An image flashed into her mind. The message Ariaka had shown her seconds before the emergency jump. Had it been lost when the power went out? Was she the only one who still knew its contents?
Rucha shrugged involuntarily. Identical DNA . . . it didn't mean anything to her. Yet.
Her brown eyes flicked over Lee's face. She wasn't about to go looking for more if a little knowledge could do this to someone.