Day 7: Screw your courage to the sticking place: Start

[voidtreckermods]

For those who have been on the train a little while they will be expecting this, the beginning of a new month, after certain passengers have strange dreams. Early in the morning of day seven of the month of Egret their SCA's glow the colour of the void and a holographic message appears. Their next mission. Another world to save.

Preperation

Those that go to the dressing room will find flight suits and helmets, one per passenger. Those who are not human shaped will find ones adapted for them, some of them quite odd. The flight suits are tight fitting and light, but once they put them on they will feel quite warm. Each is the colour of the Voidtreckers team and have a black train symbol on the chest, the helmets have clear fronts and coloured backs.

They have an hour or so to prepare for their mission. Time to make sure everyone understands what a space ship is, at least. Hopefully.

Arrival

"We are now approaching System #7212108." Finally it is time. "Warning: Exit from void in ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one." A jolt, a flash of light and suddenly the colours are gone, out of the windows they will see they are in a large hanger.

And outside of the train there are five scaled humanoids with guns pointing directly at the train. Those that try the doors find they do not open.

"What void transport is this?" One of the creatures demands. "We didn't request void help, explain yourselves."

Another speaks. From where they are stood near the engine. "Voidtrecker Express."

Even though the voidtreckers are unfamiliar with these people the surprise is clear in the creatures eyes.

"Stand down." They snap at the others, who lower their weapons and step back.

The commander looks worried. "Give them anything they need." They turn to hurry out of the hanger.

The doors open, allowing the Voidtreckers off the train.

One of the remaining guards steps forwards.

"I am Hitrinto, I apologise, we were not expecting you." They look worried as well. "We have everything under control but if you are here..."

At that moment there is a clatter of noise over the radio.

"There are reports coming in of a second wormhole in the system." A second voice spoke almost immediately. "Shield Station Two has been hit. I repeat Shield Station two is taking heavy fire." A third soon after. "More enemies ships sighted, reports of a second wormhole confirmed."

Hitrinto looked at the Voidtreckers grimly. "Come with me."

If the Voidtreckers indeed follow them they will find an array of ships. Hitrinto quickly explains the basics, two person ships are easier to pilot. The controls can be shared or can be set so one person drives whilst the other concentrates on fighting. They have solo ships but they are difficult to pilot and they will only give them to those who have ship fighting experience.

Another guard hands out blasters and will give quick lessons to anyone who is unsure on how they work. For all that they were surprised they guards seem to accept the presence of the Voidtreckers and work quickly to get them armed and ready for battle. Choose ships, have a quick practice of weapons and get ready to go!

Onward!

Blue team are already where they need to be, they can begin to explore the station, get the lay of the land and figure out a plan of helping guard this place.

Everyone else is off, purple and red are off to the second wormhole, orange to the shield station that needs help! Board your ships and set off to help!

(OOC: Team posts detailing the next part of each mission will go up on the 15th March)

Comments

[shutupnail]

"Let's put it this way: I've communicated with people on the other side of the universe before using telepathy. So unless the wormhole is to a different universe altogether, it should be possible." He couldn't think of anything that could block him either but that might have just been because there wasn't anything that could from his home universe. Or nothing (besides maybe an upper echelon god) that he had run into so far at least.

"Hm. Personally, I just really need to know who I'm communicating with so that I can find them, in a manner of speaking. I've never tried to communicate with someone I didn't know so I'm not certain how well that would work."

It was entirely probable that he could pull it off. It was very likely that he could if he could see the person or feel their presence relatively nearby. Or just grab someone at random from far away. But that might be tricky, if not just plain odd, and sticking to people he knew would be the best practice. It was also entirely possible that he could disrupt people by using his telepathy or telekinesis to hold a person in place similarly to Chiaotzu, but that wasn't his style and felt a bit like cheating to him anyway so it wasn't likely to be a tactic he used anytime soon. It was something to consider--but he dismissed it immediately and didn't mention it.

Now that he thought about it, he was positive he could talk to anyone he wanted. Kami had done it in the past. They were one being now. Knowing who he was looking for would just make it easier but he could probably grab anyone's attention if he tried. Especially since he doubted Far Seeing Arts would work here. He'd only ever tried it from the Lookout and only to see what was happening down on Earth.

"Yeah, I could probably get in touch with anyone from the train."

[unfavorableinstigation]

Nita gave a relieved smile. "I don't think we're going to gain any new people to keep in touch with on this trip, so we should be good..."

Not the best words to say, Nita.

"So, just knowing their name and general mental 'trace' is enough?"

[shutupnail]

Piccolo stared flatly at her for the first comment.

Ignoring that, he answered her question with a single nod. "Something like that. I'd explain in detail, but it's not really necessary. I'm guessing you're going to want me to stay in contact with the other teams then?"

[unfavorableinstigation]

Letting it pass was appreciated; they had more important matters to deal with.

"It doesn't have to be constant," Nita said, "But regular checkins would still be good. I'm fully capable of being one of those people given reports if there's need."

[shutupnail]

"I suppose that makes sense," the Namekain agreed. His friends liked to keep in touch whenever there was a hard battle being fought and they were scattered so it wouldn't hurt him to help out here in such a manner too. "I can keep you and whoever else wants it up to date on what Blue Team is dealing with."

He was likely going to stay with his team though that could change. But so far that was his plan.

"I can also travel fast without the aid of any spacecraft so if something goes wrong somewhere let me know. I guess that goes for future missions maybe more than this one considering."

[unfavorableinstigation]

"Thanks."

Nita gave Piccolo a knowing look at that second part.

"Considering how everything we're doing seems vital here, I see what you mean."

This was quite an emergency, after all.

"But we'll definitely say something if things turn especially dire on the other side of the wormhole."