OOC: who said the station was called Daedalus?
IC:
Araina's revalations were a shock to my system, let alone the knowledge that he was related to me. The Dom'Kavash were the architects of our doom, and its time we designed a way to escape this Escher style trap. What Arania had said made sense somehow, that the true link between us was that Fate had not let us stand idly by and watch the world go down the tubes. Even our features were somewhat similar, except for the stylish glasses on my face.
Before I could ponder this anymore i heard a scream from the back of my ship. I knew i forgot something. I helped the research assistant out of the ship, with her shaking and pointing at Arania's phoenix.
"I have to ask, What the f*** is THAT thing?" I said to Arania, half yelling.
"That's my phoenix, Araminta. It's my, er, companion. It wont hurt you."
"Okay then, we need to get you (to the girl) to the med bay. Hopefully A.K. has medical knowlege. Arania, go to my ship and get the little droid out of the I/O port."
Arania went over and pulled the cables out of the little droid, noticing the purple glow coming out of its back.
"Is this Nomad technology?" Arania said walking behind me in the corridors.
"The battery is, yes. My late travelling companion developed it."
We had reached the med bay, and by this time the girl had passed out. Again. I laid her down on the table, ad got A.K. from Arania.
"This droid has saved my life before, it's my equivalent of Araminta." I said, plugging A.K. into the surgical unit. A ballet of scanners and diagnostic equipment whirred around the lab girl from Caimbridge. A.K. emiited some beeping.
"What did it say?" Arania questioned.
"Its just shock, easy to treat, nothing serious."
A.K. made some beeping noises.
"Yes, wake her up. you cant treat an unconcious shock patient. Just restrain her."
A.K. beeped again. Leather restraints fastened around her feet and hands. A needle on a robotic arm injected a serum to return her to a concious state. She woke with a start, and began screaming at Araminta.
"Umm, Arania, you may want to do something about Araminta."
"Yeah. Araminta, wait for us outside, okay?"
The bird nodded and flew outside. The lab assistant began to calm down a little.
"Where am I?" she asked, groggily.
"You're on the old Ithica Resarch Station, which is now in the Tau-37 system, and is called Citadel Station. You passed out when I shot a Rheinland Scwartz Kommando trying to rape you. I put you in my ship and brought you here away from the Rheinlanders. Now it seems that they are here in Tau-37 as well."
The girl took this in and started crying.
"Why are you crying?" Arania asked. The girl sniffed back some tears and tried to respond.
"My father was killed on Caimbridge and his Nomad power supply stolen by Rheinlanders."
Arania looked at me with a strange stare.
"Whats your name, kid?" I asked.
"Jennifer Aida. My father worked in the same lab as me."
Finally all the pieces fell into place. Everything made sense. Fate lost one Aida and replaced him with his decesndant. She even had Kenji's weird blue eyes. It almost made some form of sense. I stress the 'almost' part.
In the main control room I looked over toward the Rheinland battleship stationed outside Freeport 10. Jennifer sat talking to Arania about Araminta and how it's flames reflected it's mood. It was somwhat a serene time, strange as it may be, as the Dom'Kavash prepared to invade, and the Rheinland Northen Fleet stood outside our door, there was a calm over us. But i knew that time was of the essence. I wento over to an old control panel, which used to be for the Ithica's research equipment, but I had retrofitted it for my own purposes. Daedalus. I hit some buttons and opened to main Daedalus chamber.
OOC: i still wont tell you
Edited by - Viator on 6/29/2004 1:54:36 AM