Orange Team Onward!

[voidtreckermods]

Arrival

Their flight path makes sure they are well out of the way of both the battles taking place and they get to the shield station within an hour as long as they fly quickly.

There are no enemy ships around but it is clear there has been an attack, the shield disk itself is damaged and there seems to be no power in the station.

Once they dock they will be met by some technicians who quickly explain the situation.

Help is needed everywhere. The power needs repaired, the shield needs repaired from the outside, there are injured technicians who need medical care. There is a small med-bay available.

Maintenance

Once the initial crisis is dealt with it is a case of keeping up with things. A patrol is needed to guard the station from other attacks, there are four shield stations in total and so the voidtreckers may chose to split themselves once things are a little calmer.

Keeping up the shields is an almost constant job, especially with the attacks. Once one thing is fixed it seems another thing is down. The maintenance itself is very technical but there are parts that can be done by the unskilled as long as they have direction.

Comments

[mtsilver_conquor]

Arrival
One nerve-wracking flight over later, Eva is more than happy to be on station and not in hard vacuum.

"I don't want to do that again..." It's muttered and more a whine than anything as she takes a second or three to pull herself together before she's ready to knuckle down and do what's needed.

She's also looking to her team for guidance and sorely, sorely wishing for a magnemite at the least. "Just tell me what to do, and I'll do my best."

Maintenance
Eventually, she settles into a routine as a willing pair of hands. Princess is more useful than her, at least when it comes to judicious use of Telekinesis to hold things steady or in place for short periods so they can be repaired as needed. Of course the drawback is Princess is limited in how many times a day it can be used.

And ow stressed Eva ends up. But she's doing her best to keep it together and her best is keeping the clefairy calm. If her eyes are a bit more hollow, it's nothing. This is nothing. She's been through worse (no she hasn't). She's brave and she's got work to do, be it on this station or one of the other ones Orange are responsible for.

She can have the breakdown later. Right now, she needs to be a leader, be a Champion, be the pokemon trainer who's not afraid of anything.

That said, she can be heard muttering more than once about how this be easier if she had Lele on her. Because then at least the porygon could triage into what's Now!urgent and Can-wait!urgent. Maybe it would be; either way, she clearly wants her porygon, damnit.


Patrol
"Remind me not to tempt the fox!" Because piloting a ship is far, far harder than it looks and she really did ask 'how hard can it be?/ I think I'm getting better :D' right before she got in. But hey, at least it's a patrol and not a spaceship battle.

She, and her (latest?? unlucky??) flight partner have this. Right?

Right...?

Patrol

[stealsyourheart]

"What fox?" Kaito yells back at her.

"Also this is totally different to the video games on the train, I call foul!"

[mtsilver_conquor]

"Fate!" Eva calls back, eyes still on the vastness of space before her. "Really? I've yet to play any of them."

Lies, but if she's going to keep them calm so they make it through this patrol, she's going to grab hold of anything she can.

[stealsyourheart]

"Your's is a fox? I always thought fate was a Lady!"

He fires and curses.

"Don't play the escape room it sucks!"

[mtsilver_conquor]

"A kyūkon, actually. They're cunning and vengeful and to tempt it is to risk touching one of of the nine tails and ending up with a 1000-year curse," Eva says, hands little more than a death grip on the controls as she takes them up to avoid the return fire.

At least talking and flying is something she can do without to much trouble.

"Too easy? Or too hard?"

[stealsyourheart]

"Sounds like our stories of Kyubi - 's a nine-tailed fox in folklore. Think the Koreans call theirs Kumiho. But Kyubi isn't malicious as such, just... chaotic neutral? Like, it MIGHT eat you. Or it might just play tricks on you. But Kumiho eats people."

He fire again, trying to be a bit more accurate.

"I'd say too easy, but only in the sense that everything is set up to be Really Clever but then it's actually really blatant. So if you think about it too hard, you're gonna miss the right answer. Some parts are okay. But it's ... not great, if you're used to actual murders. The Detective kept getting so frustrated"

[mtsilver_conquor]

Thankfully, that shot takes out the offending enemy, and Eva lets out a small cheer.

"Oh, kyūkon's'll do that too, though it's mostly wild ones, but sometimes you get a person who thinks they can tempt fate and well. It's a good way to muck out the stupider people, at least."

Pokemon world morality at it's finest right here, right now. More so given what she next says.

"That's- Conan-kun, right? He might want to ask the Train if it can provide more challenging simulations."

[stealsyourheart]

Kaito echoes her whoop, and turns his attention to the next oncoming enemy.

"People will be people." He says sagely. "'s why the Darwin Awards exist. Do you have those in your world?"

"Yep." He fires again, starting to get the rhytm of it.

"He might, at this rate! There's only so many games of poker we can keep playing..."

[mtsilver_conquor]

She relaxes, just a fraction, but now they're getting a rhythm going, it's easier to talk and fly. At least, it seems that way. That, and it's so nice to have someone at least seem to agree with her morality on certain things, even if she knows it probably wouldn't last.

"I don't think so. I know we have the Orokana Award given out every year though. Maybe that's similar?"

She laughs. "There's more cardgames than just poker, you know."

Maintenance

[shockinglycaffeinated]

Telli comes up behind Princess and Eva as they're levitating pieces that need repair and waits until the piece they're working on is secured before she speaks, "Do you need any help? I can use telekinesis too."

[mtsilver_conquor]

"Please. He's almost out of juice-" Princess doesn't look that bad off, "-and I don't know if I can get all of this done before he's tapped out for the day."

And she doesn't have any elixir's on her to recharge the PP. Something she'll have to work on if-when- they get back.

[shockinglycaffeinated]

She stepped up next to Princess and surveyed the work site. "What do you need and where?"

[mtsilver_conquor]

Eva doesn't even question it. As far as she now cares, Telli is a psychic and that's all she needs to know.

"This section here," she says, pointing at what looks like a control panel of some sort. "I don't know what it is, but it's not in good shape, and I don't know if it's all from the attack or..."

Or it's been left unmaintained. While she honestly hopes it's just from the attack, she's realistic enough to know it's probably not. "Either way, we need to fix it."

[shockinglycaffeinated]

Telli eyed the panel with a bit of trepidation. She wasn't the best with technology and was a little worried she wouldn't be able to work out what was needed.

A wave of her hand had the pieces shaking free and hovering in the air before she arranged them neatly to begin working. There were a few false starts as she followed the instructions for the repairs but she quickly got into a rhythm and it was like the parts were trying to tell her where they went.

After what seemed to be almost no time at all the panel was complete and functioning once more.

"Done."

[mtsilver_conquor]

By the time they're done, Eva's hands are shaking. That was harder than she thought and more nerve-wracking than anything even though she wasn't doing much outside talking and pointing, or helping where and as needed.

"Gods and myths. At least this looks like the last...?"

She hopes. She really, really hopes. She wants a break.

[shockinglycaffeinated]

She looks around at Eva's comment and can't help but agree, it looks like everything in this area is done and the others appear to be working swiftly. Joining them would only slow them down most likely.

"It looks like we'll get a bit of a break while the others finish up. I have water if you need it?" She'd been keeping her energy up through other means, and didn't need it at the moment.

[mtsilver_conquor]

"Please," She breathes. Water would be nice. Very, very nice. Not just for her, but Princess too. It wouldn't be a PPup, but it'd be something at the very least.

"So. Are you a psychic, magic, or something else?"

Patrol

[so_dark_a_road]

Curufin is splitting his time between maintenance and patrolling, since he's got some skills in both areas. He comes into the docking area and starts looking over the aircraft options. It seems Eva is doing the same.

"Oh, I don't know," he says, chuckling. "If there's a fox available to be tempted, why not tempt it?" He never gets tired of joking in serious situations.

[mtsilver_conquor]

"Not this fox," she says with a short, sharp head shake. "Fate's portrayed as a kyūkon. They're cunning and vengeful and to tempt it is to risk touching one of of the nine tails and ending up with a 1000-year curse. I want kids one day, but not if they're gonna be cursed because of me."

Never mind she has a ninetales, but that's different.

[so_dark_a_road]

He gives a whistle. "Okay, so a kyūkon is a magical fox or a fox demon, and that's a metaphor for Fate. Fate's not to be played with, then. Especially not if you're talking about a multigenerational curse. Which I know something about, by the way."

He casts another glance over the aircraft choices.

"Are you wondering if getting into one of these ships means you're tempting the Fate-fox?"

[mtsilver_conquor]

"It's actually a pokemon, but yeah, pretty much." There's a blink, but she can quiz him about that factoid later.

Right now, they have other things to focus on, like the mission.

"Yeah, but a leader's not worth her -their- belts if they're not willing to muck in with everyone else. So... Let's give this a try, shall we?"

[so_dark_a_road]

"Okay, a fateful pokemon!" he answers, with a smile.

"I have to agree with you about leadership. That's how I've always felt. Yes! Let's give this a try." He looks over the patrol craft and then points at one. "This one, do you think? Let's tempt the fox!"

[mtsilver_conquor]

"Knew I liked you."

There's a flash of a grin and then a nod as she squares her shoulders. "Let's do this."

And she's scrambling up and towards the pilot seat. "Let's show them what we VoidTreckers can do."

[so_dark_a_road]

He grins back. "We're on the same page."

He scrambles after her and follows her into the cockpit. "Yes, let's show them! Want me to copilot?"

[mtsilver_conquor]

"Please. I don't think I could do this myself."

She knows she couldn't. Not if things get dicey, though she's hoping for a quiet patrol.

"I want to float an idea, too. For the team."