Eternal Galaxy: Phoenix - Intermission

[SUSTIC]

Near the Weapons Lab | Nevaaras | CY-001


Astraea tensed up as she looked back at the duo of Ethan and Mokou with a rather scared look that can best be described as if she was a puppy that got in trouble and feels bad. However she quickly inhaled a large gulp of air and puffed up her cheeks as if to look intimidating... intimidatingly cute. Clearly by now she lost any sort of intimidating factor she had... but she did have something up her sleeve. Or rather... in her hand. In her hand she had scooped up some sand before she was about to sneak off. She remembered how that Megumi girl had tossed sand into her eyes and it hurt like hell. So... Astraea took the sand she had and tossed it at Mokou.

Unfortunately though a strong gust of wind blew by which caused the sand Astraea just threw to fly right back into HER face, in turn blinding her once more. The second she got blinded Astraea let out a loud yelp and began frantically rubbing her eyes and flapping her wings. With her wings flapping furiously she began to fly... clumsily before she fell to the ground. Obviously this must have been painful for her.



Holodome - Heaven

Bardock just nodded and turned to the control panel before placing a hand on it. The second he did the holodome's setting switched to it's previous one to a newer, cleaner setting of what looked to be the inside of some sort of spaceship with a tiled floor. Shortly after Bardock stood in the center of the room and stood still before taking a deep breath. After which he began focusing... slowly his power was beginning to change and... could a small gust of... wind be coming from his body...?

[Tewi_Inaba]

The Expense | VR Training Room

Like any good cat, Lycoris landed on her feet. She quickly turned her body one hundred and eighty degrees in mid air and landed in a way they would put Emil to her left side. Her landing however did cause some of the papers and pencils to blow off of her master's desk due to the wind resistance, but That was a small loss. Upon landing, the swift cat girl quickly turned her body, swinging the blade in her left hand at an angel towards Emil's face. She was confident that this would grab his attention and pull it away from her right blade which was her real attack. She quickly thrusted the blade past her body and jabbed it towards his guts. While this attack may have been tricky, there was still a good chance Emil would have seen it coming due to how often they had trained together.

[WriggleRid3r]

Near the Weapons Lab | Nevaaras | CY-001

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Mokou flinched back a little in anticipation of sand possibly getting in her eyes, but the sudden gust of wind blew the grains back to Astraea, blinding her. The situation was hilarious, yes, but Mokou was too tired to laugh at this point. She just wanted this fiasco to be done with so that she can get dressed, get some food and drinks, and then some rest. Maybe get a girl or two in the middle of it.

"Gah, what a pain." Mokou muttered as she caught Astraea before she could slam back onto the ground. "Hey, Ethan. Maybe standing around in this ruin isn't the best idea for interrogation. We should probably head inside."

[S121]

Near the Weapons Lab | Nevaaras | CY-001

Ethan raised a brow at Astrea's rather futile attempt to disable Mokou and truly wondered why Hallman would have sent such a ditzy girl after him. Granted, she was still rather dangerous, but it was almost as if Hallman had a lesser opinion of him now. With any luck, GRACE would give up hunting him, though he would miss the excitement if they did stop their pursuit.

"You get used to fighting naked after a while. I remember I once had to fight a hundered-foot robot while naked. That was fun.", Ethan said before pausing with nostalgia.

"Yea, we should go inside and get something to drink. We'll invite blondie over here.", Ethan added as he motioned over to the angeloid in their company.





Jiff-E-Mart - Electra | Geminiea Alpha

"He should be just fine. We'll find him soon enough.", Thomas said as he walked downstairs and to the security terminal. This security terminal was a rather old yet sturdy computer that Thomas had repaired and hooked up to the home-made security system he had built. It took little time for Thomas to access the camera security logs, and after that, he began to quickly skim through the video feed.





The Expense | VR Training Room

Emil was rather used to combat, and even more to sparring with Lycoris. He could do a couple things in this position, such as counter her double attack, jump over her, or even take the blow while relying on his ability to adapt. Of course, her defeat was not his primary objective. Instead, Emil opted to jump back and land next to Hallman's desk before entering a defensive stance, ready to react to Lycoris's next move.

[Tewi_Inaba]

The Expense | VR Training Room

Upon missing for a second time, Lycoris puffed her cheeks and flicked her ears up in slight frustration. although no one could see this due to her helmet, Emil probably knew what she was doing. She wasn't upset that she kept missing. But she didnt' know how to go about this problem. If she attacked recklessly she might be abel to hit him, but the office would be destroyed in no time.

Lycoris ran forward just a bit before leaning back and using her body weight to slide across the floor in Emil's direction. While doing this she raised her arm cannon and shot a single burst of electricity at Emil's upper body. If he dodged it, it would still travel over the desk instead of hitting it and if she were lucky, she would be able to sweep his feet and take him down for a more powerful attack.

[Aria of Forbidden Magic]

Prosperity Space - Heaven

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Terra took a moment to absorb the information Ms. Sana had given her, or at least, to try to. She was sure she'd understand what she meant once she saw the "Holodome" herself. Then, she started upon hearing Ms. Sana's violent reaction to a call from one of her apparent colleagues. Timidly, Terra asked her "Um, did something happen?"

[Kilelicus]

Prosperity Space - Heaven Infirmary

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Sana sighed as she held her head in her right hand. "Oh... nothing... Scanners picked up a craft crashing into the planet. Another Angel was sent to investigate. He's bringing back a survivor who's lost her eye... I hate ocular surgery, and I don't exactly have the materials to create a new eyeball right now..."

Sana groaned as she threw her head back in frustration, "WHY DO I HAVE TO BE THE MEDICAL FUCKING GENIUS HERE?!"

Just as Sana finished her complaining, a knock came at the door.

"Uuuuuugh come in!"

The door slid open and Gaspard strolled in. "How is she, Ms. Sana?"

"She's perfectly healthy. Arm's a bit damaged but beyond that, she made out pretty good. Well... save for the potential psychological damage but that's besides the point. Nothing I can't fix."

"Excellent! Well, Ms. Tara. We have a residence all set up for you if you'd like to come with me."

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Holodome

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The armored man sat in silence, waiting for Bardock to show what he would do next. He hadn't yet seen exactly what about him was so powerful that it triggered the Station's sensors, but he was nonetheless ecstatic to witness it firsthand.

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Dropship

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The dropship carrying Keagan and Serena finally put down in the hangars of the massive floating city of Heaven. Keagen nudged the military officer's shoulder to rouse her from her sleep. He wanted her to be awake during the time that they moved her to the infirmary so as to prevent her from waking up in hysterics, not knowing where she was. With the nature of her injuries, he didn't know what sort of cranial damage she had suffered.

[SUSTIC]

Heaven - Holodome

Bardock continued to focus and concentrate on increasing his power. In fact he seemed to go into a bit of a trance as he began to let out a faint growl. Slowly his power was beginning to increase... and the floor began to shake ever so slightly. The 'wind' that was coming from his body was beginning to get more intense as he continued to charge up his Ki. Then, after about 2-3 minutes of charging he began to let out a loud scream of what sounded to be both rage and... something like pain as a visible aura of glowing green energy surrounded him. His muscles grew in size a bit as he was now charging up his energy more and more.


It did not take long for the room to begin shaking more violently as if a small tremor was happening, and the aura around Bardock became intense as time went on. His power just... kept increasing more and more... he doesn't show a sign of slowing down or stopping however, which at the rate of energy increase he is going at, it might not be too good for his health or the state of the room. For the floor of the simulation began to be uprooted and the strain on his body's muscles became visible.

[SUSTIC]

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Near the Weapons Lab | Nevaaras | CY-001

As Mokou and Ethan chatted away, wondering as to whether or not they should invite the angeloid, Astraea was busy rubbing her eyes while crying in an attempt to clean out the sand from her face. Though she did hear Ethan say they'll invite her... This prompted an interesting reaction as she stopped rubbing her eyes and looked at Ethan and Mokou with a contemplative stare as she thought of what to do... As if she felt really conflicted. She had orders that she absolutely CANNOT disobey, but... her stomach is audibly growling. Showing a sign of both hunger and a bit of thirst.

". . . Meanie... why would I go get yummy snacks and drinks with you when you're both such meanies?" She replied as she then closed her eyes and stuck her tongue out before crossing her arms and turning away... the growling of her stomach is quite audible.

Meanwhile... in the distance what sounded to be police sirens echoed throughout the area.... getting louder.


Palace - Power Core

As the Doctor was working on the control panel up above the deeper parts of the core, he stopped as he heard a little skittering of some thing that sounds like... possums or... a large beetle running across a hard surface. Hearing it he stopped working and pulled himself from out beneath the computer before turning around. As he did he saw a small black creature run across the floor in front of him, and upon seeing it he raised an eyebrow and tilted his head.

"Now what on bloody earth was that...?" He muttered as he stood up and took a step or two forward. Tjat's when he saw the creature a bit more in full, and upon which the creature seemed to hiss at him. This caused the good Doctor to jump back a bit as he took out his Sonic Screwdriver and began scanning the thing... That was when the creature seemed to snap at him. He then stumbled back a bit before calling out.

"Uh... Guys. We seem to have a BIT of a problem up here! Strange unidentified creature. Have not seen before. Quite interesting really... but I recommend you get back up here QUICK." He spoke in an astonished, yet also... intrigued and cautious tone of voice.

[S121]

Near the Weapons Lab | Nevaaras | CY-001

"Well, maybe because we can hear that you're hungry, and to be honest, I doubt either of us really want to kill you.", Ethan said as she looked over to Astrea.

Just then, the sound of sirens blaring, echoed through the battlefield, prompting Ethan to snap his attention away from Astrea and to the source of the noise.





Palace - Palace Depths - Near Engines

After some time spent walking, John and Achlys were now near the engine room. So far, everything had been rather quiet, except for the faint groaning of the Palace's exterior walls and the low drone that was the emptiness in the hallways. John remained very quiet during the entire trip, instead focusing on his radar and the objective at hand. Just then, something had broken the silence as a transmission came in. It was The Doctor. John broke his eye contact with his radar to take the call and spoke into his own communicator.

"We are at the engines, and can not converge on your location. Can you hold it off?", John asked the doctor with a rather serious tone of voice.





The Expense | VR Training Room

Emil furrowed his brow at the maneuver Lycoris had performed and as she aimed her arm cannon at him, Emil hopped in the air and performed something along the lines of a roll to the right in midair, allowing him to move out of the way of the blast of electricity. As Lycoris traveled near his position, Emil had pulled out a plasma pistol and aimed it at her before pulling the trigger.

[SUSTIC]

Near the Weapons Lab | Nevaaras | CY-001

Just as the Ethan turned away, Astraea had managed to get the sand out of her eyes and scowled. She then flapped her wings quickly and with enough force to kick up a cloud of sand, and within that cloud Astraea lunged in Ethan's direction in an attempt to grab and fly away... Unfortunately she didn't get her target of Ethan... Instead she had grabbed Mokou as she is now flying off with the immortal girl in tow. Due to her focused expression on getting out of town with her new hostage. She was deeply focusing on getting to her extraction point so she can call for a small evacuation. Almost blissfully unaware that who she is carrying is not Ethan, but rather Mokou as she flies off out of the city limits with a smile on her face.


As the dust were to clear a large group of security vehicles, armed guards, and Miranda herself can be seen quickly approaching. Surrounding Ethan... and Miranda did not look happy at all.



Palace - Palace Depths - Near Engines

When John had replied about being down near the engine, and couldn't immediately do anything about this strange creature. The Doctor sighed as he began thinking of any possible ideas as to how to deal with this creature.

"Of course I encounter something like this without the TARDIS..." The Doctor muttered as he slowly approached the creature which hissed and snapped at him on occasion as it backed up. Then, with a flick of the wrist he took out his Sonic Screwdriver and began trying to scan the creature again. With a high-pitched wine from his handheld device, the creature hissed once more before turning around and quickly running away deeper into the open vent it came through. When it did that the Doctor tilted his head and raised an eyebrow in intrigue and surprise.

"Well then... guess it doesn't like the Good ol' Sonic..." The Doctor spoke quietly to himself as he looked at his small pen-like device. What he saw was intrigue before he then remembered.

Oh shoot the control panel he was working on. Remembering it he quickly ran over to the computer system which is still powered down. Looking all at it he was thinking of all the possible reasons as to why it would be powered down, and ways in how to turn it on. Thankfully he managed to develop a few possible ideas. Of which he began trying to put to the test as he crawled under the panel and began working.

[Tewi_Inaba]

The Expense | VR Training Room

Lycoris wasn't quite quick enough to avoid the plasma bullet being aimed at her. Normally she would have been able to get away, but doing so without damaging any part of the room she was in wasn't so easy. she would have had to g o against all the momentum she had built up to do so and as such ended up just barely grazing the shot with her arm. this would have done a lot of damage to a normal human without any form of protection, but Lycoris had conceptional armor and thus would be left mostly harmed by the attack.

However she quickly recovered and aimed her next blast of electricity at the vry spot where Emil would be landing. Either he would need to adapt into a bird or continue following the laws of gravity and take the hit. But there would be plenty of ways to minimize the damage.

[Kristia]

Palace - Palace Depths - Near Engines

As the Doctor was trying to activate the systems, on a room near his location was having its own situation, the sound of a blaster could be faintly heard with crashes and mechanical whirring. Whoever or whatever was on the adjacent room had activated a security measure since it was messing with the palace's internal structure.

Suddenly, a powerful mechanical whail could be heard, followed by the rumbling of the ground, enough for the Doctor to feel it. Whatever that had happened was in his favor as the terminal suddenly opened for him to work on the systems.

[SUSTIC]

Palace - Palace Depths - Near Engines

The Doctor was busy at work on trying to get the terminal actually opened as he was now laying on his back trying to open this panel that seemed to be budged. It didn't want to open no matter how hard he tried to pry it. Even when he used his sonic screwdriver to try and loosen it, the darn thing just didn't want to get loose... Until he heard a loud mechanical whailing sound that resonated through the palace, followed by a equally loud rumbling as the room shook. As it shook the panel the Doctor looked confused and pondered for a moment.

"Huh... Loud rumbling. What could that possibly be I wonder..." Said the Doctor as he then looked back up at the panel. As he did the panel swung open, hitting him across the cheek which prompted him to let out a rather minor curse before quickly realizing it was open "Ow darn terminal I- Oh it's open. Works for me." He said as he then finally got a good look at the real inner workings of the computer system. Seeing it's wirings and detail the Doctor smiled with awe and wonder as he began examining it. The wide-eyed look on his face was like that of a child on Christmas admiring all the presents under his or her Christmas Tree. The electrical and mechanical engineering of this civilization is quite one of a kind, and is in surprisingly good shape. Just... things seemed a bit loose.

Wires were hanging out of their sockets. Nothing big or serious, as such the Doctor began hooking things back up, and with a scan from his Sonic he was able to tell that the connections were secure. However things did not seem to start up immediately... This made the Doctor wonder what was going on. He had everything seemingly fixed... but then he saw the power switch... or more like lever. It seemed to be in a neutral position. Looking at it the Doctor tilted his head and began to push it to one side. It was quite stuck as it should be after not being touched in god knows how long, but with enough pushing the Doctor was able to push it in the right direction.

The second he flipped the switch after fixing all the wiring problems the terminal booted up with a small whirring noise, and some of the lights in the room began to turn on. Seeing his work accomplished he clapped his hands and began laughing joyously as he began crawling out

"The Doctor here. I've got good news! I managed to get the terminal back up and running up here. I'll see what problems I can find in the engine." He called out to John and Cortana as he pulled himself out from under the Terminal control panel.

[Kristia]

Palace - Palace Depths - Near Engines

With the systems now active, the door to the adjacent room opened, with what looked like a security robot, although it fell to the ground, marks of scorch on its surface and bent places on its armor, mainly on its head piece, a blunt weapon must have done such damage.

The room had flickering lights coming from tge door, small flames on the furniture and destroyed equipment.