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"Yeah, returning us to our cells seems like the easiest option."
 
Sara walks behind Ansel and Aach-Ti, as she pulled out energy based handcuffs, placing them on Aach-Ti's wrists. She took one look at her brother and said, "Act like you've been beat up." and the three gets moving. As they turn to the elevators, several soldiers take a look and begin to cheer, "We still have one more of them! Spread Out And Search!" she shouts as she escorts her 'prisoners' to the elevators. She steps inside with three soldiers waiting to go down, "Soldiers, where is our other tier two assets?"
"W-w-well Luon is moving through the ship searching for that ash man Wym told us about, Wym himself is...I think by the fuel right...?"
"He said, 'They will try to cripple our wings' so that might be the best bet."
"Katal...?" She asked, grumbling, and losing her patience.
"I think in his chambers...?"
"Good. Listen, he told me to get some guys guarding the weapons locker."
"Why didn't-"
"Are you questioning my orders?!?"
"N-no, I was just curious."
"You know the old english phrase, 'Curiosity killed the tiger' So I suggest you do what I say before I kill you."
Without hesitation they salute and stay on the elevator, waiting to go up.
The elevators go down to the prison levels, but instead of heading to the other cells, she moves down the personal quarters of the crew, "I'll take you to my quarters, it's the best place to punch a hole through to get to your ship."
The three of them make their way to her room, filled with strangely natural furniture. Bottom right room 5, bottom level She removes the restraint from the Crinis and asks, "So guys, how do we wanna make this happen? Cell control rooms are just down the hall."
 
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"Why are officer's always so fucking stupid. Isn't it obvious you nitwit?" Kallard says, changing the tone of his voice to sound full of the authority and arrogance of someone extremely important, someone with a task beyond reproach. It's completely different from the calm and collected tone he used early with the others. "Now, I have an objective to accomplish and can't waste anymore time with your challenge-password bullshit." he finishes with an exceptional amount of vitriol before moving past these soldiers as if they were gnats unworthy of any of his time, not giving them a moment to respond.
 
"Aach-Ti's the brains of the outfit." Ansel said, entirely abdicating responsibility, at least for the moment.
 
All we have to do is wait for word from Red Squad.

Then, we make sure the guards are split so they are overrun by the prisoners.
I will mentally inform Red Squad to meet us here while you and Ansel destroy the lifts.
Wym will attack once he figures out what is going on, so I will help shield you, and also inform Mrs. Blake of the plan.
Afterword, we regroup and punch a hole through here.
 
Aach-Ti, Ansel, Sara.

"Yeah, I'll get on letting the prisoners loose." She leaves the pair in her room. Just before exiting the door she says, "If you touch Anything the cold vacuum of space would be preferable to what I do to you guys!" Aach-Ti glances over at Ansel, "She reminds me of you to an extreme degree."
"Well, apparently she is my sister. Family resemblance?"
"It doesn't take a telepath to tell she is showing dire restraint to hide hier inner demons with her intimidating attitude. Nor does it take one to see you have been throwing walls of emotions to hide your demons."
"Walls of emotions? the only thing I care about is crushing my enemies."
"Be that as it may, I just wish to tell you that you may have been created as a weapon, but your life is what you choose. After all, you are fighting the very thing that helped spawn you, along with your apparent sister."
"Stay out of my head Crinis, unless you have something important to do."
"It is your decision to do what you wish. I would advise you make the right ones, at the right time."
The two of them waited in silence for a moment before the crinis speaks up, "Just so you know mighty Ansel, I am here to guide this group as both a leader, and a teacher. Do not be afraid to ask anything you need from me."
"I'll call you next time I get a headache."
"Hey Aa-I mean guys, we did everything we needed to!" The wrist communicator blares out. From down the hall, the two could hear a loud explosion and then several people screaming into battle, lasers blaring, people dying, and the door opens revealing Sara, "Alright prisoners are loose, and a handful explosives just crippled the elevators!"

Kallard & Sek

Kallard and Sek keep walking, avoiding detection from other soldiers. The soldier that was just talking to Kallard, tips his head to the side in slight astonishment as the others fight the urge to make small laughter at their CEOs expense. Now on the proper floor, the two of them move their way to the fuel and power reserve on the third floor. The move from the elevator to the engine room and see seven scientists, and three soldiers going about their business.

While his suit operates on the engines, his partner ask him, "So how do we want to blow this thing up?" Kallard doesn't respond for a moment, letting his suit operate for him. After a few moments he says,
"Its analog. How that's possible, I don't know"
Sek turns to kallard, "Analog? What does that mean? I remember hearing the word before...."
"Use analog signal instead of digital. Continuous waves instead of finite ones. It's complicated but it means I can't interact with the.reactor's computer."
"So we're going to have to manually access it..."
"Yes. I can't do it without drawing attention "
Sek approaches one of the scientists, "We have been given instructions to use the power relays"
"By who?"
"Uhh...Wym!"
"He just told us to wait for his arrival." The boy was not quite sure what to say at this point.
"God.dammit" He whispers. "I believe I can clear that up. We have reliable intel that suggests the spy planted explosives somewhere on the ship. I am and explosives expert, and have been charged by Wym himself to check the reactor"
"Well then, you wouldn't mind if he told me on person then? He told us there might be spies in disguise, so we gotta be careful."
"Are you fucking kidding me? Do you have any idea what I am? What I could do to you? I CAN FUCK YOUR LIFE UP! Wym is going to fucking destroy you for this!"
Another scientists, much older than the one they started with approaches, "What is going on here?"
"This man has made the mistake of angering an officer of PUIC. I could have everyone here summarily executed for obstructed my objective." He points at the soldier as he says this with the tone of a man used to murder and monstrous acts like they were just a Monday morning. While speaking, he makes his suit create a fake I.D. of a PUIC secret police for the Crinis governments.
"Let me see your badge, and we can let this transgression pass. No need to alert the metas down there."
"With all do respect, my partner and I are in a hurry."
"I understand that, but if we let anybody touch the controls, then the spies could get to it rather easily."
"The spies are probably digging through the fence right now!"
"It isn't that big of a deal to show ID is it?" The other soldiers start watching carefully as Kallard's suit informed him that the ID is ready on the PDA. Quickly, he shows the scientist the I.D.
"Hm, okay then. Let these two do what they need."
"You have done well, soldier. You passed this test. I doubt the spy was able to plant tge bomb here, however, It never hurts to be sure." Everybody goes about their business after they see the fake ID. Sek whispers to kallard, "So, Wym is coming, this room is for dudes, and we Got to destroy this thing. personally I don't mind if you want to make the decisions for now."
He mumbles to Sek as Kallard starts accessing the wires under one of the panels., "I have this covered. Allow me to open the control box to check it for 'bombs', while pulling up specs for.this model of reactor to determine what wires I can cut to sabotage it, or what needs to be disabled..."

Kallard take a look at the insides of the reactor, and recognizes it has a fairly old time reactor. Its model seems to be roughly 126 years old, dating back who were the final years of the fall of Krodi's empire. This incredibly old technology was fairly simple to do it, all he had to do was cut a few wires and the system would think the reactor is all clear. the only problem was after he started cutting the right wires, the red and black wire seems to be either missing for color by a different rubber lining. After taking a moment to narrow down which wire is what, he was left with two choices. A red wire, or a blue wire.

Sek decides to shoo away anyone getting to close to Kallard's work.

Upon a closer examination, it doesn't appear that's the wires go to the proper plugs. In fact, It was as if these wires were put there specifically to mess with anyone was trying to disable it. Kallard try to find the final wire he needs cut, but it seems this wire was missing entirely. The strange thing was, without to this wire if you all could not properly be distributed between the engines, and would cause the ship to not be able to access any of the fuel it has in its reserves. It was seemingly impossible for it to be moving at FTL speeds.

"This isn't an engine or a reactor. This control panel is fake!"
Kallard motions Sek over."We have problem."

The boy look at the handiwork of the soldier, "That might explain why they never move I guess. Sara was telling me that this ship almost never leave the star it orbits. If we tried to cut all the power, we might run out of oxygen before we get to the ship. Not to mention the artificial gravity and every other problem that could go wrong without any power on this ship."
Kallard takes a moment to think before finally coming up with a plan. While in the engine and power room he overloads as many systems as he could, lights in certain areas, food replicator, fire prevention systems, and most of the small systems that could be 'accidentally' set on fire due to an overload.
"Alright. No bomb. On to the next section."

As they start to leave, you notice Luon and his older brother open the elevator, "Nobody move, or I'll kill ya!" "Luon, *sigh* there is no need to be so harsh on our own men. As for the rest of you, get up against the wall." Sek looks at Kallard."Luon you had better not be wasting my time up here."

Kallard rushes from his suit to overload as many systems as he could. The brothers mind everyone up against the wall to examine their people. The older brother seems to take much more time while examining the suspects. The younger brother seemed to rush the operation to get through as many as possible. Twista soldiers they removed their helmets to see their faces. Before he could reach the real spies,. In several areas, small explosions and rapid fires started growing everywhere. Katal groaned, "Finish up here!" he shouted to his brother. When be reached Sek, the two started talking, "Don't you remember me my lord?"
"No, I don't remember your voice, take off your helmet and I won't turn you into ash." Sek turned to Kallard and shrugged.

"Doesn't your brother need help? We should go..."

"No, he has it down there, otherwise you would have told me to go with him."
Luon punches Sek in the gut, "Now take off your frickin helmet!"

Sek stands back up and slowly takes it off, showing his face. With a smirk on his face the boy clobbers Luon over the head. Kallard reacted half a second after his partner did by grabbing Luon's skull, and passing his fire across it. Luon screams for a moment before throwing spheres of magical energy at Kallard. Sek draws his golden plasma sword and charges after the other soldiers now firing at him.

"You dicks!" He shouted allowed as he blindly flails and misses his Kallard.
Kallard instinctively uses his suit to turn invisible and move around his target. When he reaches Luon's flank, he cast a bolt of black fire at him. While there was a gaping hole is his target's torso, Luon didn't fall down, he stumbled forward and landed on the control panels. "Stop that you prick!" He shouts as the hole in his chest regenerates and he got a hold of magic back at Kallard, missing horribly.

Keep fighting. "Sek, you know what to do."
"Hey Aa-I mean guys, we did everything we needed to!" Sek says to his communicator as he continues to charge the soldiers, cutting one down. The other two in his hands was much too fast for their rifles. Kallard throws another ball of fire at Luon. This time the boy teleported after the fire was thrown, and appear directly in front of the soldier. Who is his face covered in magic energy he threw a punch at him. the attack landed on Kallard's face, but there wasn't any damage that kept him out of the fight. Knowing from where he was being attacked from, Luon tried again to land a magic fist on him, but due to the ex soldiers martial training and visibility, the attack didn't even come close. When kallard move to return the favor, Luon teleported to where he saw his opponent back was. he's kick landed on nothing as he touched back down.

"Not so tough without big brother's power. Must be infuriating to live under his shadow... always aware of your own inferiority "
"Your the one to talk, you can't even fight inferior old me without hiding. So what does that say about you?"
Luon throws a magic sphere where he thinks kallard is. It hits the wall.
"God DAMN IT!"
"Say, how does it feel when he claims all the credit? Or that he's the favorite. Must really set you off... well if you weren't such a coward and afraid of him, anyway."
"Pssh, he does all the commanding, but I do a lot of the fighting. I'm his right-hand guy." Kallard throws another ball of Blackfire, this time Luon threw a small hill of magic bolts at Kallard. None of them made their mark, but they where all unbearably close. "If anything I fight a lot more than he does. Calling me a coward is like saying Wym is dumb, and Burk is weak!"
"Deflection. Well, I'm sure he's ridiculing you right now for your inability to kill a washed out soldier. What did he say back at the.power plant? Ah right, a useless idiot."

"Oh stuff it, it's not like you can actually beat me, I'm barely 18! are you telling me a super Federation soldier can't kill a teenager?" Like a mad dog he begins throwing his magic spheres in multiple random directions.
"Hahahahahaha! Supersoldier? I'm medically unfit. Thats right, you're getting thrown through a loop by a cripple. No wonder you're just a minnow."
The two of them throw their respective projectiles at each other at the same time. The two attacks collided in the air. "MINNOW!?! Could a minnow has single handedly wiped out a Federation team of Marines?"
He throws another ball of magic at where his target used to be,
"Could a minnow have destroyed several Academy agents?"
Kallard casts another ball of fire. it landed directly in the center of his fun. However the fire only torched his clothing. Another ball of magic flew or the ex soldier . This time it was much closer, "How about murder several the victims on the planet Omicron who were getting close to finding out our little secret with ergo corp?" Luon's attacks became much more rapid firing in all sorts of directions. On a few occasions he almost hit the scientist trying to run away.
"Half the murders you were looking at on that planet were all of me." Luon stopped flailing around for a moment. Waiting for a response, "And not one time could you link it back to me."
"You really are a fool. So easy to play. Well, I suppose I expect too much from you, after all, even Wym had his troubles with me. Like that time I posed as a soldier and he probed my mind and found nothing. So, what could I possible expect from you except temper tantrums and a napoleon complex. It's okay, I'm sure Katak forgives you the same way one forgives a mentally retarded child for his social inadequacies."
"Oh fuck you!" He screams, "Suik-Ardon!" and a couple of magic energy stretches out from him. in a signal flash he cause an explosion I am in the center. Kallard I was barely able to avoid any serious damage. What does this guy he was using was torn off and barely hanging on him from a few threads.
"Uh oh, someone threw a tantrum. Should I grab a binkie and a blanket? Naps are good for a growing boy."
"You. Are. So. Annoying!" The bolt of fire lands directly on the back of his head. He stumbles forward and throws a ball of magic in the soldier's general direction hitting the wall again. Sek finished off the last of the soldiers. Kallard uses his suit to communicate to Sek's radio without speaking. "Flank him while I have him distracted " Sek turns to your fight, and rushes Luon. "Are you going to cry now?" Kallard moves in conjunction with Sek to attack. This time, Luon notices your location, and hurls his fist at Kallard. Kallard throws his fist at Luon, and they collide into each other, causing a plume of smoke. Moments after, Kallard could hear a flesh sizzling swipe come from Luon. As the smoke cleared he Saw Sek impaling Luon from the back to chest, "Gaaaaaaah that hurts!"
"Well maybe you shouldn't stay in the kitchen if you can't-" Luon teleports behind Sek and attempts to punch him with magic endowed power, but he moves faster than either Kallard or Luon could keep track of. With a simple repose, he stabs Luon once again, "Take the heat."
"Oh really soldier guy? You have to hide behind your kid?"
"Not my fault you're a useless idiot. That falls squarely one whoever decided to spawn you. I'm sure they regret it."

Sek pulls his blade out, and swipes at Luon again. This time, he teleports over to Kallard and tries to punch him with the magic fist, but he already understood his style and prepared for it. with a simple grapple and throw, he throws Luon to the ground, sending his black fire fist into Luon's stomach. He takes one look up as Kallard throws his fist down again. Luon teleports away again, but doesn't reappear in the room.
"Come on let's go. Quickly." He says before shooting off fireballs into the 'engine' causing it to set on fire.
 
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Reaching out with his mind, Aach-Ti contacts Black Fire and Sek. Sending out a visual of the room and how to get there, Aach-Ti scans the pathway to see if there are any obstructions. If there are, he either destroys them with his mind, or sends Ansel to finish the job.

Get to my position. We are busting through the floor.

Turning to Ansel, he asks,

How long do you think it will take you to get through the fl-

*SMASH*

N.. Nevermind then.
 
"You really should have a better metric of my abilities by now." Ansel said as he ripped off a section of floor that had closed around his fist. "Unless its purpose built to keep me out, it probably won't take me more than a few seconds. And if it is... Gimme a minute."
 
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"You heard him, Sek. Let's move! Double time!" Kallard orders, his inner sergeant coming forth.
 
Ansel tore through the floor as if it where wrapping paper. The moment the chunk of steel landed on Mr. Star's ship, barely three meters down, several soldiers in the docking bay below started screaming and shouting. Some of them started taking shots at him, but bounced pitifully off his skin. Sara runs back into her room. Choosing not to acknowledge the breach, she marched passed Aach-Ti, mumbling to herself, "I almost forgot-" She says ad she pulled a duffle bag from a shelf and frantically searched through it, "This shirt, those pants, my journal, Mr. Stuffles..." Aach-Ti took a look at her for a moment. She gave the crinis a glare, "Shut up." She commands him as she straps the bag over her shoulder.

"Sara, how did you destroy the elevators?"
"Punched em. Why, what's up?"
"Did you create a fire...?"
"Doubt it."
"I have a hunch..." Sek sticks his fingers in between the parting doors, and slowly separates them. Sek and Kallard look through the elevator shaft, only to see at the bottom a raging flame, and the elevator itself in a pile of rubble, blocking the way they needed to go.
"Well....elevator is busted, and unless these suits are fire proof, the prison floor is inaccessible."
"Are you kidding me? I barely touched the thing! It couldn't have been that badly damaged that you guys couldn't climb down or fly through!"
Kallard and Sek took one look at each other, "Sabotage."
"Who the hell sabotages a sabotage, and how the hell did they know where and when to do...this?!?"
"Good question, but you need to focus on getting to the ship for now!"
"Well we can't not unless we make a whole through the floor to get down there...unless....Sara, did you take the security station?"
"Yeah, it's nothing but a hole now."
"Okay, we'll meet you down there as quickly as possible."
"Kay, I'm punch some dudes."


Kallard and Sek run to the elevator and call it to the top level by hitting the button on the side. They wait a few moments, but it doesn't come. Sek presses it again. Nothing continues to happen,
*See conversation*
Sek turns to Kallard,
"Well then if we go down there, we can make our way to to hole the security station was, and high tail it to the ships below the prison level. The only issue is that we might run into a lot of bad guys. Or when we get to the second level I could cut a hole in the floor with my plasma sword, and it would take a few minutes. I'm open to suggestions Mr. Fire."
 
Ansel jumped down through the hole he'd made, boosting forward to crush one of the shooters beneath his feet. "You should drop your weapons and run. Just saying."
 
Sara, go take care of the soldiers around the ship.

Ansel, go retrieve Sek and Black Fire. Fly straight up into the second floor, I will give you directions from there.

Sek! Black Fire! I am sending Ansel for you. Go to our location, but one floor up.

Now to find Wym..

Reaching out with his mind, Aach-Ti took inventory of all the enemies in the area.
Noting the important ones, he began invading minds of officers and retrieving as much information as possible.
 
Ansel wasted no time, leaping through the roof of the first floor and the floor of the second.
 

"Fine, but you can hold my bag. And if you dare look at what's inside, you won't have to worry about leaving!" Sarah declared with a smile before charging down into the docking bay and fired a large ball of destructive magic downwards.

Ansel flew straight up through the hole he created earlier as he as he crashed through the floor above. He popped up from the hole he made and found himself in a dark room. The door opened and the light spilled in, revealing the room came into was nothing more than a janitorial supply closet.a soldier was standing just outside of the door, and he jumped as soon as he saw the mass of muscles coming through the floor. He only has it for a moment before firing his assault rifle at him. Ansel was shot repeatedly in the face, it did little more than make it itchy.

Kallard and Sek sprinted to the crash there heard a moment ago. as they turned the corner, they could see the upper half of their comrade sticking out of the steel floor, as a nervous and confused soldier refused to let go of the trigger on his weapon, keeping is aimed at Ansel.

[spoili]Aach-Ti sat down for a moment and meditated. Searching through the minds and thoughts of the soldiers,all he discovered was the surface thoughts of either trying to find the spies, or putting out the flames. he figured searching them would not give as much prevalent information as he could the communication officerat the bridge. Within seconds Aach - tidiscovered that this ship routinely makes trips to beyond the outer rim, and as far in Words as Saseal. knowing the planets, and memorizing the coordinates of where they routinely drop off, Aach-ti moved on to finding the biggest threats he could. Luon had been searching the area with his teleportation for the past few minutes, ever since he lost his fight with Kallard. he had been told to find anybody I could, then find his older brother and bring him to the spies. WYMwas currently on his way to mr. star's ship. he wasn't there yet, but he would be there very soon. Katal was with him.finally, Burk was already in the docking bay. He was ordered to wait until one of Aach-ti's alies arrived.[/spoili]​
 
Ansel grabbed the offending triggerman by the face, and threw him bodily at the far wall.
 
Team! We need to move. Now.
Wym is nearly at the ship. I am going to buy us some time, but I need one of you to carry me onto the ship if something goes wrong.

With that, Aach-Ti used the full force of his mind to penetrate Wym's and mentally grapple him. All he has to do is keep his enemy preoccupied for a few more seconds.

Going all out with the extra effort thing to mentally grapple him. Doing it as many times in a row until I pass out. That should buy us enough time.
 
"I got you!" Sek shouts as he jumps down the hole to pick up Aach-T, The young man lifted Aach-Ti over the shoulder him up and carried him down to the ship, past the fighting.

Kallard was not far behind the boy, jumping down through the holes and on to the top of the ship. he took a moment to recover from a fall, not fully prepared for the distance he fell. After a moment he got onto his elbows and knees using the ship as cover from the attention he gathered. Several soldiers fired at the hole he came through, forcing Kallard to stay down for a moment. As a plethora of bullets flew at him he pulled out his ancient styled pistol to return fire. The shots he made didn't go anywhere near hitting their target, because all he needed to do was stall for a few seconds as Ansel flew through the holes he made and into the largest crowd of soldiers he could find. "Everyone on the ship, I am taking off!" Star shouts from the communicators. The soldiers began a full retreat, just as Katal and his pet monster Burk arrived through the emergency stairs. Burk took one look at Ansel, and charged at him, throwing his massive fist at him, and Ansel returned the favor. Their fists collided into each other and caused a massive shockwave that shook a large portion of the ship slightly. Katal walked pasted their fight, and approached the ship. Sara had just finished clearing the soldiers inside the ship with Star as she noticed Katal, "G-g-uys!" She shrieked in fear.


While Aach-Ti mediated, Wym could feel a grip holding him in place at first. Then it moved to his torso, limbs, soon his entire body felt behind any planetary gravity he felt before, "Go on without me, I will keep Aach-Ti's attentions." Katal never slowed down but, Burk stopped for a moment to examine Wym. With a shrug he followed Katal.
 
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Ansel disengaged from his fight, and sped back through his fairly direct route to the ship, picking up Aach-Ti on his way in.
 
"Get in the damn ship!" The black fire commando shouts before getting it. "As soon as everyone gets in, punch it! He commands in general, excitement, but not fear or desperation in his voice.
 
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