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[Dirtydan]

(Natalie)

"Oh really so you've been an intrepid little adventure sense you were knee high huh. That's adorable. I think its very satisfying to see some so steadfast in their goals. I'm proud of you" she offer Wilson a large smile. When she asked about her daughter she would hang her head low and let out a soft sigh before looking up at the young man her new expression was clear as day, loss. "In the first stellar war, they were station on the orbital defense satellite. The station was assaulted by the enemy, some turn-coats aided their entry. They took them by surprise Diane and Hendrick fought as best they could but she ... she" Natalie would begin to choke back a few tears. "She didn't make back. Hendrick, manged to secure her remains he recieved a pretty bad injury though, but he brought me my baby back" she would reach her hand up and wipe the tears welling her eyes. "Its hard to talk about sometimes, but we need to trust each other out here." She would offer a weak somber smile.

Edited January 4, 2023 by Dirtydan
Forgot to add the character name

[Gangsta Moll Deactivated]

Penny lets Hendrick steer her meekly back into the ship. Her theatrics, though entirely for show, still leave a wash of conflicting and confusing emotions that are frustratingly lingering. It isn't easy to cry on demand without feeling genuinely a bit tearful: nor to muster sorrowful apologetic meek submission without feeling ... well, without feeling a bit sorry. The streets are easier, because everyone is a bit shit and you can always run away: but here, she begins to realise,  isn't just not the street - not even Earth ... or even Mars ... it's like ... what the fuck has she got herself into?

She stumbles as the big man pushes her - shoves her, forward into the ship as the last of the crew exit...

Edited January 4, 2023 by Gangsta Moll

[Dirtydan]

(Hendrick) 

Once the two would make back inside he walk next her his gaze occasionally shifting down to her. "I'm sure your concerned about the hell you've gotten yourself into. This ship has some proprietary tech that allowed to travel further." He didn't quite underhand the concept behind the wormhole drive. All he knew was it didn't travel any faster it just shortened the distance between spaces. His heavy boot falls would come to stop as he spoke. "Why the fuck would ever stow on this vessel. How did you even manage to get in here." Hendrick would feign his intrest he didn't care why she did it just how what kind of weakness did she exploit to get onto such a heavily secured vessel. He'd push her to the left as the hallway forked, then into door with caduceus. Inside a younge man would look up from his note pad. "The doctor not in?" Hendrik would ask

" No sir," the man replied 

"We've got a small problem. This little cabin rat hasn't gotten any of required vaccinations, and she's been crawling around in the ducts. She needs to be check out. Throughly." Hendrick would order the man who would come over and begin the exam.

[Cute_Bro]

He initially was once again slightly embarrassed and angry that he was yet again being talked to like a boy. Yet, once he turned around and she looked up at him again, he knew exactly what was coming, and regretted ever having asked the question in the first place. Once she finished telling her story, he cleared his throat and seemed to walk at a faster pace. "Oh...I...I see...I'm...sorry for your loss ma'am...a-and for asking..." Wilson had no way to answer that, and no way to have even expected it coming until he saw the look, and by that time it was already all too late. He could only continue along, the usually chipper attitude soured with somber and sorrow, hoping that some sort of water wource would pop up soon so that this whole topic could be just avoided.

[Gangsta Moll Deactivated]

Why the fuck, indeed: Hendrick's question mirrors Penny's own - why the fuck did she do it, what possible prize did she hope to find on a fucking space ship?

And now this talk of disease, and vaccination, and .. why the fuck, indeed ... 

The room doesn't look like a medical room: clinically clean, yes, but bare, a simple desk at which a man ... a doctor? ...sits.

She shivers: not with cold but with a frisson of anxious fear: vaccination,  disease, she hasn't had any vaccination,  oh God she has been outside God knows what diseases were in the air.

It is so instinctive to respect a doctor that she does so without thinking: her mind filled with awful images of rashes, spots, racking coughs, wheezing painful breaths - why the fuck, indeed, has she got herself into this disease-ridden hell hole  thank hod they have a doctor.

Obedient, meek, she strips: lifting the hem of the dusty t shirt, raising her arms to tug ut up and off: her small but pert breasts bared as she does so, lifting in graceful mounds with her upraised arms, sinking into soft curves as she lowers her arms to fumblexat the fastener of her shirts. Pushing the shorts down- modesty at least letting her think to push the well worn panties down inside so their long worn faded look nit be seen. Folding the clothes neatly on the desk as she stands - naked, fully naked, a slight, petite figure, trim and fit, bared for the medical exam

And only then does she feel the eyes of the two men, on her.

Edited January 4, 2023 by Gangsta Moll

[Dirtydan]

(Natalie) 

 Natalie would do her best to put those feeling aside, she knew that was a lot to take in all at once, but she new that he needed to know about her. The two of them were alone, hours away from the base at this point, and who knew how many more days they maybe away. She would perk up and begin to hum softly as the two would quicken the pass she would drop back again the 15ft distance. Her long hair now freely flowing in the breeze. Natalie wished she could have told him less directly but that was just who she was why would she try to and hid it. She would take a moment to look at her scout, her deep brown eyes watching his moves despite being older then him she could see a breath of experience knowledge and eagerness to explore this world. It was a good feeling for her seeing someone so happy. 

[DoctoroMindbender]

Kayla's hack had been just that, a hack, and the jamming signal falls out of range as she storms off.

Once out of sight, she collapses to the ground, behind the safety of the lift loader. Tears stream down her face, as the strong facade fades and the reality of what just happened hits her. Kayla was an engineer, a woman of science, who had joined this expedition to get away from all of the chest thumping and violence. It had followed her here. She truly believes humanity could be better, was better, then all of this, but in this moment she has her doubts. The words come, as she speaks to no one in particular, trying to process the events that just transpired "... he pulled a fucking gun on me ..."

Without needing to look, she keys in commands to the command console built into her suit. SAMSON, a large, four legged robot, hops over to her from the ship, bouncing excitedly. Thinking of it as a dog was a gross simplification, but there was also a truth to it. The agent driving was a simple AI, that was programmed to loyally follow instructions, to imitate simple shows of affection to improve the user interface. SAMSON folds it's legs under it, laying it's large for section in Kayla's lap, the warmth of it's internal power systems bringing her some small comfort. She scritches the spot between it's solar panels. Her suit is interfacing with the SAMSON unit wirelessly, streaming diagnostic data through a direct neural interface. SAMSON has weathered the long trip well, and is fully operational. Mission Specialist Raines finds the scrolling stream of analytic data meditative. She knows she has to do something. Men like Captain Hendrick were all the same, and it's just a matter of time before he moves against her, because she refused to bow down to his authority.

"AI Agent. Active User Mode." she speaks for the command. She could do everything through her neural interface, but there was something groudning about talking to someone even if it was a just an AI, and using it in direct mode required more concentration then she could muster. A genderless humanoid figure flickers to life from her command console, a hologram. "How may I assist you today, Mission Specialist Raines?" a chipper digital voice answers. Copy all available recordings of the interactions between myself and Captain Hendrick since my initial departure from the ship" she begins laying out a series of commands, "Break them into discrete, redundant, obfuscated chunks no more the one gigabyte in size. Store copies in the persistent memory buffers of every accessible on board and remote device, as well as in my encrypted personal data. If I become unresponsive or ... " she sniffles, trying to keep her self from crying as she gives these orders " ... or my life signs cease, or you loose biometric tracking of me for more then an hour reassemble the video footage and broadcast across all frequencies and direct comms, highest priority, including extra planar communications. Authorized to override restricted channels with my neural imprint as per section 14 paragraph B." There were secured channels she didn't have access to, of course, but if something happened to her it would be broadcast over everyone she did - including the probe telemetry data. If she wound up dead, everyone would know who did it.

[Dirtydan]

(Theo) 

Theo, after being rejected from the scouting endveor would go about his business he's witness the whole exchange between Kayla and the Captain. He take a moment after all of it had happened watching as Kayla had left he'd follow her. "What fuck just happened I knew he hard ass but a gun not an authorized energy powered blaster, but an honest to God gun?!" Theo would pause as his hand reached for own blaster. "No, no I couldn't take him even if I tried" he sigh softly slowly he would begin to approach the women kneeling on the ground "Hey" he'd call out in a hushed tone before he would call out once more slightly louder. "Hey!" He would begin to slowly approach her. He knew a little about all this tech stuff he had a small Fe-lyne unit he brought along as person effect and he knew how powerful these machines could be. 

Theo would glance over his shoulder for anyone before he would jog over to her kneeling next to her. "I saw what happened between you and the captain that took courage I mean real courage. He shouldn't... he shouldn't even have that why would even bring it unless." He face would drain from color as he had realization. "He knew ... he knew you could bypass the energy relay on the weapons" he would place both his hands on his knees. "That's so fucked up. Are you okay?" He asked hushed tone. He wanted to do something to comfort her but he didn't know how he'd never really had too. 

[Dirtydan]

(Hendrick)

Hendrick would look on as the young women would begin to strip. He thought for a brief moment perhaps he should look away, but he didn't his eyes would pour over her body slowly taking in every soft supple curve of her petit body. A smile would curl across his lips as he take a few small steps closer.

The nurse however would look her over for more clinical reasons he'd study her skin looking for any kind of abnormalities in the skin. He would slip on a pair of cold sterile gloves as he feel reach out and feel the gla fs on her neck the cold gloves pressing into her skin. "Any symptoms coughs, dizziness fatigue, nausea, missed menstrual cycles, anything out of the ordinary." He'd speak quickly out of habit. He would pull back and put his stethoscope in his ears before listening to her breathing. "All good their you look healthy you sound healthy" he take a small device in his hands and a soft blue light would pour over her scanning her body. "All internals look good to let's get you shot and dressed." He would turn away and grab small cylinder full of needles and a concoction of different anti-bodies. In a quick motion he would press it into shoulder a small price was all she felt before he turned away. "Alright done your good to go" he would smile before he'd look past her to Hendrick. 

"Leave" Hendrick would order before he would walk towards her. The nurse would rush from the room the heavy metal door closing behind him. A metallic clicking sound would echo through the room "lock engaged" an automated voice would ring out. Hendrick would pull his hand back and the collar would activate pulling her back towards him. "What do you think your trying to do here? No one told you to strip. You think you can use your body to get out of this" he would growl through his teeth. His rough hand would grab her shoulder and turn her to look at him. "Go on try to lie again, see what happens." He smirk his hungry eyes pouring over her body.

[Cute_Bro]

The young scout in question would continue walking along the direction given, until he notices something up ahead in the distance. From where he was, he could not quite grasp what it was, but he knew that to be abkle to be seen from so far away, it had to be something large. A mountain? A waterfall perhaps? Some vegetation? A creature of some sort? There were two options for him: continue forwards, or try to get a better look from where they were. Luckily, he remembered he had a sniper with him. The scope of a sniper should be able to see farther distances, right? Maybe Natalie could discern what it was. "Hmm, Natalie, could you maybe check what is that thing up ahead?" He asked, pointing towards the large silhouette on the horizon.

[Gangsta Moll Deactivated]

The nurse almost fees from the room: Penny's startledceyes follow him then widen as she hears the door click shut.

The collar jerks Penny towards Hendrick: her bare body held by it inches from him. His eyes are hard, cold, calculating: but hungry - holding her gaze then sweeping down her bare body then rising with a smirk - or a leer? - to stare into hers with cold barely restrained fury.

She cannot read him: his hard-bitten cynicism, fanatical aggression, total disdain for her - for everyone, apparently,  who does n I t follow orders - none of her streetwise wiles, lies, manipulations, seem to penetrate the emotional armour that equals and perhaps surpasses the physical. 

And the collar holds her helpless, like a string cord hand clasped firmly around her neck: holding her naked body in front of him.

"Fuck you" she whispers...

 

[DoctoroMindbender]

Lost in the stream of data, her own thoughts, Kayla doesn't hear him approach. Startled at seeing Theo, she hastily calls out "Direct Mode", the hologram blinking out of existence. SAMSON senses her intentions before she moves, standing with her. "I'll .... be fine." she's says, not entirely certain it's true, "Thanks. And yeah, it's fucked up. " She had talked to Theo some over the journey, but they didn't know each other well. She wasn't certain she could trust him, but she also knows she's gotta trust somebody - and Theo doesn't seem to be a blind follower of the Captain.

Opening up, she adds "Either he's gonna end up shooting someone, or we'll all end up in control collars. Maybe both."

[Dirtydan]

(Natalie) 

The older woman would gracefully bound up next to him, her foot falls nearly silent stopping next to him. "Yes sir" she smile pulling her rifle down to gaze through the scope. *click* "hhhnm" *click click* she'd tinker with the module scope to get clear look at the object in the distance. "It's a huge... tree sir." She would off the rifle to him so he could get a good look aswell. The tree easily stood over the surrounding area a thin forest surrounding it though it appeared to break under the tree. Long spindleing vine would fall from enormous branches down past the tree line. "Didn't pack binoculars is see. I thought you had everthing sir" she playful chid him.

[Dirtydan]

(Hendrik) 

His hand would wave the collar would release its grip on her his hand would reach out resting her chin in his palm as his finger curled around her face kneeling down to her level he look into her eyes. "You want to try that again?" He'd ask his grip tighting. Slowly he would push her each slow deliberate step was accompanied by the echo of his boots hitting the ground. "You think this charm you've got will fool me I see right through. As bare as you now." He would grin softly his teeth bared like a hungry animal about to pounce on his prey. Her back would hit the cold sterile metal wall, and Hendrick would again raise to his full height towering over her. "Now try again Penny, do you think you can fool me" venom dripping from his every word. His free hand would begin at her shoulder his cold csllused fingers tracing the curves of her delicate skin.

[Gangsta Moll Deactivated]

Penny gulps, her eyes wide - big, dark, scared - as he pushes her, just his fingers under her chin but exerting a force that is irresistible. Trembling as she feels the cold metal wall against her bare back. Biting her lip as he holds here there, easily, naked, pinned against the wall: as his hand traces the soft suppleness of her bare skin - and his eyes stare down at her with withering contempt.

[Dirtydan]

(Theo) 

"I didn't mean to startle you I can only imagine how scared you must be. I want to help you" his voice gentle, kind. "You sure? I know I wouldn't be if I was in shoes. We can't just let him do that right. We can contact base, send an encrypted message so he won't find out." His eyes furrowed, would they really be able to slip something past him, and if they did would their benefactors even care. Theo would shake his head trying to dispelling his thoughts of doubt but he couldn't. "Maybe we can just wait this out I'm sure he's just on edge he wants this first day to go smoothly right?" Theo's tone would betray his words anyone could see it. Deep down he'd known the captain was like this sense the beginning since he began training under him. "No one here really knows what we are looking for. We're just looking? I never got a real briefing our job was just to protect the assets." Theo knew divulging that even with how vague it was could get him in serious trouble if he was caught, but he had suspicion that Captain Hendricks orders differed from everyone else.

[Dirtydan]

(Hendrick) 

His hand would pull away from her chin and slap her face firmly. "Answer me!" His voice would boom out loudly, luckily the metal walls would provid plenty of sound damping for him. His hand would crash into the metal wall behind her, the nanites in his shirt would quickly move to protect his knuckles from the impact. "You think you're in any postion to deny an order from ME!" He would slowly lean in closer to her his hot breath, the only warm thing she'd felt from him, falling from his lip onto her neck. His head rising slowly as he would whisper softly into her ear. "Last chance, to speak willing." His lips would part slightly his wet smooth tongue trailing her ear lobe. "Unless you want me to make you talk." He'd smirk an evil devious smirk. 

[Gangsta Moll Deactivated]

Penny's naked body shakes, trembling, the menace in his words- and his physical dominance - are terrifying. Shakily, forcing herself to utter each eord, struggling to keep her voice calm- compliant - she answers:

"No, I do not think I can fool you"

But inside, secretly, silently, she does.

[Cute_Bro]

"H-hey! I did bring binoculars! I just wanted to make sure you also did stuff! No shame in that!" The scout hurriedly replied, pulling out his binoculars to show her that he did come prepared. Last time he ever off-laid work to her! However, the sight of a tree did put him to wonder. "If that is a tree, then there has to be some sort of water source nearby. Trees need water to live right? If it looks enough like a tree to be distinguishable as one, then it had to function more or less like a tree would on Earth, right? Yeah that has to be the case!" With that, Wilson picked up the pace, heading towards the source at a brisk jog, not too fast so as to run right into any sort of danger. Who knows, this could even be a trap! "Keep your rifle trained Natalie! Just in case something else pops up!"

[DoctoroMindbender]

Kayla leans heavily on SAMSON, her posture slumping, letting the loyal robot bare her weight. Red puffy eyes and smeared mascara make it clear that she is not alright. The mission specialist double checks that the recording is off in her suit, before answering "You're right. And we can't gamble on this being him blowing off steam." She considers his words carefully, what they mean. The implications are disturbing.

"Assets? Christ." she sighs "I signed up for a survey mission. Catalog flora and fauna, take soil samples, see if the planet is habitable maybe make some new discovery the long range probes missed. Something is defiantly up. It also means that we can't radio base, encrypted or otherwise. Whoever is on the other side of that call might be the one playing us for fools." Suddenly, the reality sunk in. She understood that they would be far away from the inhabited planets, alone out in space, but she never thought that they would be this alone. "It's us. Just us."

Edited January 4, 2023 by DoctoroMindbender

[Dirtydan]

(Hendrick) 

Hendricks hand would come to lightly caress the side of her face his thumb and index finger lifting her chin to look at him. Holding her their for a brief moment their his focused on her intense, powerful suddenly his lips would press against her. His nanite shirt would begin run off his body like water rolling off an umbrella  until his bare torso was exposed. His hairy battle worn chest toned, powerful just like the rest if him his hand caressing her face move around the back of her snatching a tangle of her locks pulling her into a deeper kiss his tongue slithering against her lips before forcing its way inside her mouth. He'd pull away slowly a hot string of his saliva dropping down to her chest. "I knew you'd be good for something." He'd sneer.

[Dirtydan]

(Natalie) 

Natalie couldn't help but giggle as he was quick to correct her. She figured he'd brought something but their was nothing wrong with a little teasing. "With a tree that size I'd imagine it need a fairly large source of water to sustain it" her eyes would shift up the sky before back down to him. "Their doesn't appear to be an sort of notable weather to sustain it either you'd think we'd pick it up on meteorological scans" hearing his command to keep her rifle trained she do just that "Yes sir" her words sharp  quick. Her entire mood seeming to shift to be more concise, and focused. She'd pick up the pace she moved through the wilderness. Her focused dedication to the area surrounding her leader, the barrel of the rifle diligently sweeping around him. The air felt tense. Heavy. 

[Dirtydan]

(Theo) 

"Shit!" Theo exclaim softly as he drove his fist into the ground. He poked his head up over the top of the SAMSON looking around. No one had seemed to taken notice of them yet, he'd drop back down to the cover of the SAMSON. He turn to look at her resting a hand in her back in an attempt reassure her. "It can't just be us, I'm sure the other scientists aren't with him why would they be. I know he only hand selected a few of the more skilled specialists, Natalie, Josè, Tobin, and Yin. None of us are really sure what Josè does, but we know Natalie is a sniper, Tobin is a explosive expert, and Yin is well kinda like you but with military drones" he speak calmly trying not overwhelm her but he thought she'd like know exactly what they are up against. He'd shift listlessly on the ground, when suddenly a man would approach. "Theo, what are doing shouldn't you be out patrolling?" This would cause him to jump to his feet, pivoting towards his comrade, ex comrade perhaps. "No, I've directed to keep an eye on Specialist Kayla Raines. After her out burst with the captain he wants persistent analog surveillance on her." His tone sharp direct the words flew so smoothly from his mouth it was almost like it wasn't a lie. The man would salute then turn away going back to his duties before Theo would fall back down and let a shallow breath. "Fuck me."

[DoctoroMindbender]

"It can't just be us, I'm sure the other scientists aren't with him why would they be. I know he only hand selected a few of the more skilled specialists, Natalie, Josè, Tobin, and Yin. None of us are really sure what Josè does, but we know Natalie is a sniper, Tobin is a explosive expert, and Yin is well kinda like you but with military drones"

Kayla nodded, and couldn't help cracking a smirk as he mentioned Yin. Raines was not just a drone jockey. Had Theo been snooping on the personnel files he would known that Specialist Raines had a masters in robotic engineering from Mare Tranquillitatis Polytechnic. She had even been on the design team for SAMSON, which is why she had been asked to join this mission. Hendrick certainly knew that, and she wouldn't count on him underestimating her intelligence.

About now she was regretting her decision to accept.

"No, I've directed to keep an eye on Specialist Kayla Raines. After her out burst with the captain he wants persistent analog surveillance on her."

Kayla resisted the urge to roll her eyes. Persistent analog surveillance. And people accused techies of throwing around jargon! Once she was sure that the other soldier was out of ear shot, she asked Theo "Which one was that?"

Edited January 5, 2023 by DoctoroMindbender

[Dirtydan]

(Theo) 

Theo would pull himself together rather quickly. Going back up to a knee. He'd quickly glance around again looking for anyone else. "I uh I'm pretty that was Tobin, but normally he's got his EOA on. I'm not used to seeing with a bio-synthetic arms. So I could be wrong. Either way I just lied to a superior" he face would a mix of fear and excitement. Theo always dreamed of making a name for himself but he never expected it to be this way. He'd alway just been a slight above average grunt, sure he could fight up close and personal, and was fairly decent with a small blaster but beyond about 20 meters he was near useless. He register the smirk that would find its way across her face after mentioning Yin. "You think you can take her don't you? I've heard stories she damn good. I heard she graduated valedictorian of the Eastern Alliance Institute of Artifical Intelligence, and she wrote an machine learning code the cracked  through some high level military encryption in a few days." It seemed like he known quite a bit Yin "I don't doubt you. You seem like you know a thing or two." He'd flash a playful smile.