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Orange Team Onward!

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.

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"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.

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

He fires and curses.

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

"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?"

"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"

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."

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..."

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."

"What's that one about?"

He's more used the controls now, it's easier definitely.

"The Darwin Awards aren't REAL awards, as such. They're a list of people who died doing REALLY STUPID things."

He laughs. "You think we haven't tried those too?"

"It sounds like the Darwin Awards would be the best analogue, though we'd only pick the Stupidest that year."

She whistles. "I'd teach you Marsh Walkers -it's an old Alolan game- but I'd need to get the decks and board for it." And she's not the best at it, either. It's one heck of a complicated game in her view... and she probably shouldn't be teaching it to minors anyway.

"You could ask!"

He cheers a particularly good shot.

"Train seems to give randomly good stuff sometimes."

"You might call foul on the video games, but at least they're not trying to kill us."

And up they go as she pushes up hard on the controls.

"I could, yea. Though It'd likely cost far more points than I have and I don't know if would, because I don't own the game myself-" And sure is a squeal as a shot narrowly misses them. "Two left. Let's do this."

Despite the squeal, her voice is steel. Focus first, panic later.

"I suppose we should look at our silver linigieieieie!"

He echoes her yelp, firing back.

"TOoooooo close. TAKE THAT YOU BASTARD."

"Hold on-"

And up they go again before she sends the down and to the left in a sharp dive. "I think you clipped that one, now let's see if we can't take it out."

"Aye aye."

His eyes narrow, counting seconds to himself as he waits to get a target lock.

"Hold it steady.... wait for itttttt...."

Despite the brutal pulse in her ears, her hands are steady, and the shot closed hits the target.

"Good shot! Gods willing, the last one will die too."

It's a little more vicious than she means, but at the same time, she's not taking it back. These are the enemy, the ones that are to fight and kill. There's no room to hesitate.

Kaito grimaces.

"Hopefully they have ejector seats."

He mumbles - he's shooting them because they're shooting him, but DAMN it sits ill to kill. It's the one line he hasn't crossed until now, and he's going to find a hole to gibber in eventually when it sinks in, he knows.

...in space?

Eva doesn't answer, not right away, and part of her wishes, more than anything, she'd censored herself. But it's too late for that now. It only when the last one is gone -dead or drifting or disabled, she doesn't care- that she speaks, voice soft, as if he's her brother and she's his big sister.

"Kuroba." There's a distinct lack of honorific, as if his name is honorific enough, and for this, it is. "We did not fire first. We acted in self-defence because we had no other choice. Because they left us no choice."

"I know." He hisses. "I know that. But..."

But the Detective is going to be so disapointed. It's the first rule after all. No one gets hurt

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"It's different from the games." It's a guess, based solely on his earlier talk of games. "In them, no one gets hurt. So, it's more than ok to be upset and even angry that this happened."

Eva herself is. Older teenager or not, he's from a world where humanity doesn't dance on a knife-edge above monsters and self-defence that ends in death isn't uncommon. Worse yet, he's a still minor.

"This isn't- this isn't the first time I've been through something like this. If you ever want to talk or rant or- or whatever, I'll listen."

Her voice is still soft and kind, yet there's honest experience behind it wit ou the expectation he'll eve want to talk about it.

"It's not that. It's...."

A frustrated sigh.

"I... there's secrets that aren't mine so I can't... really explain everything. But... there's a rule, one the Detective and I both know. And... yeah. No one gets hurt, their own stupidity excepting. I've never... I don't kill. But this...."

He knows, he knows, he had no choice.

But Phantom Thieves don't kill. It's what sets them apart from common thieves, it's what makes the challenge between thief and detective rivalry and not something more, why Hakuba can go to school with him and argue with him as much about dating Aoko as anything else, why Inspector Nakamori has never looked too closely at KID's file in case in learns something he cannot take back. It makes him no better than the men who killed his father.

But he can't tell her that.

Not with Aoko here, and Kudo holding his own secrets.

"I just... don't like it. Thanks though."

Eva nods with a soft, thoughtful hum as she pilots them away from the wreckage, one hand flipping the switch to what she hopes sends out an emergency beacon-bouy thing to float around the area they're leaving. Just because she wishes the Empire Goons was dead didn't mean she couldn't make this easier on Kaito. Especially when he's trusting her with the fact he's got secrets.

Eva understands secrets. The Four only know she has her own that aren't entirely hers and spilling them without permission's a betrayal of trust and whatever's going on an she's smart enough to read between the lines. Plus with all he's said and hasn't said in their conversations over the past few months-

"You shouldn't like it. Even I don't. Liking it means we're not human..." Her eye widen. "Wait. We- they're not human. Our hosts aren't human either. Who's to say Empire pilots even died."

Not that she's turning them around to check. Oh hell no.

"..........did we just shoot at robots then?!?!?"

((ooc: but I got that icon on the randomiser button and you know what, it can stay ))

"That, or remote piloting as with drones. Probably a mix of both; customising AI isn't that hard when you have the right people on the other end, either."

It makes a sick amount of sense and she hates it so much. "Psychological warfare sucks."

He eyes the rubble behind them.

"I... I don't see ejector pods. But ... I don't know if I'd even recognise them, considering this is all alien stuff...."

Eva twists around in her see to get a look herself, keen eyes darting along the wreckage. Kaito's right, but she's seen enough space sci-fi over the years to have a decent enough idea of what could be ejector pods.

She doesn't see any, and with a massive sigh of relief, she slumps back down.

"There's none. These were drones or remote piloted. Lets..." Despite her best efforts, her voice quakes now as that wall of focus threatens to crack. "Let's go back to the station. I- I think that's a good- good idea."

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...realisation Aoko wasn't here yet OH WELL

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