Message Intercepted (Tag All on Dark Echos)

[Neri Kaioh]

Time seemed to fly as Neri had been knee deep in various transmission while on watch. She was used to the lack of sleep at this point. She hated waking up, feeling far behind on the happening from the few hours that it takes her to recharge. With her watches, she could easily scan and keep on top of things. She did have an algorithm or two designed to help filter out some of the nonsense. She listened every once in awhile, just in case. She never knew when small things could be super important.

This morning was a little different. She tuned the recording in and out as her stomach tied itself in knots. Her gut screamed at her, though she could not ignore the plea for help. They had been training for more than a year, doing small side missions. Now it was time to start going after the big fish. A rescue mission out would be just it. If they planned perfectly, it should go off with out much of a hitch. She paid little mind to the stirring of the sea. Her life had no place for magical nonsense.

She quickly pulled up the various ship schematics, the ones that would more than likely be there. She grabbed each of the generals' ships as well. She and the others would come up with everything and get approval from the captain. She knew they would get it from him for they were the best of the best right now. She grabbed the print outs as she transferred the communications to her ear piece that she was consonantly wearing.

Her foots steeps took her to were the others would be. The doors slid open as she pushed herself through. She cared very little with who ever was gathered there. She smiled as she slammed the print outs on the table. "Listen up, I have found our next mission. Let us rescue a poor soul while getting pay back. Who is with me?"

[Ryuusei Fuushino]

Ryuusei concluded his routine early-morning workout, showered and made his way to the galley for breakfast. He had the Replicator science him up some bacon, scrambled eggs and toast while he grabbed a cup of coffee. When his food was ready, he sat down where his drink was and began to eat. He wasn't far into the eggs when Neri entered and slapped a printout onto a table!

"So a 'Search and Rescue' eh? Sure, count me in!" Giving a thumbs up.

[Tomoe Natsumi]

Natsumi was sitting at the table, sipping her tea and wearing a fez, for some inexplicable reason. "I'm up for it...Will be nice to get out of this area and stretch my feet. I would like the beach, but I hear it's too hot this time of year..."

[Mizuki Tsukino]

Mizuki has enjoyed the night of stupid movies and drinks with Ryuusei. It had been a welcome break from everything but that didn’t mean she deviated from her routine. She was still up early. High gravity gym workout. Run through the habitat ring and various other sections of the ship in full battle load. After that it would about six. Muster was at seven. That mean fourty-five minutes of range time on the holodeck. She reserved it every day and after she was done reserves it again. She wasn’t a slacker. A quick five minute shower and then to the Galley for a quick bite and off to muster in Operations. Same routine everyday. She liked it.

It seemed today though that Neri had a bug up her ass as she came in with a pile of papers. This should be entertaining. A xenolinguist with papers. She hoped it had alien language writing all over it. She doubted the woman could read anything beyond that. When she said she had her next mission that caused s bit of a feral smile. She wanted to know what Neri had in mind.

“Do tell? Although we have muster in five minutes.”

She said as she downed the rest of her chalky and not even close to berry flavored protein supplement.

[Neri Kaioh]

Neri smiled at the few who were in the room. She spread her sheets of paper out. This mission would be fun. It would prove how much they had learned to work as a team. This would put them in the big leagues. Plus it would be sticking it to Death Phantom a little.

"One of the generals has captured a high ranking member from the Solaris System. Word is that they think she knows something about us. Funny cause she doesn't. We get her and get out while taking down a general. I have printed off possibly ships and information on the generals. It was hard to tell as the bastards just sent the distress signal. Ada could figure out exactly who. I figure we can be ready for anything. The captain will have agreed to this plan. It will be a get in and out. Nothing too fancy, just something to say hello."

She paused as she let the information sink in. "As long as we have all hands on deck, I think we got this."

[Chisana Usagi]

Chi quietly walked in at the very end of the explanation. All she knew was that she would be flying. They others could handle the fighting. She grabbed something to drink and a few pieces of toast. She sighed as she took her seat. All she needed to know was where they needed to go. She would make sure that they got there and back.

She pushed her private thoughts to the back of her mind. No one needed to know about her self pity party a few days ago. She did not need more fuel to be added to the fire.

[Freya Aino]

Freya had always wondered when they would have some fun. She didn’t consider going on missions fun. She did get to blow things up but it wasn’t the kind of let’s drink and dance fun she wanted to have with everyone. She had gotten up to workout and left Felix in bed.

She enjoyed her workout and then decided the Galley for some food. That was probably a mistake because it seemed everyone else was there but she didn’t mind. She liked her friends. Yes even Sakuya. Sakuya just needed to let out some of the tension she was holding on to and give it off to the universe. That or she needed to get laid. Either way it was what she needed in her life. That was for another time though and right now she wanted some scrambled eggs with cheese. Maybe some bacon. She requested the food from the replicator and soon enough there was a facsimile of the food. It was nutrient rich and helped her keep her figure. She took her tray and found a seat next to Chi.

“Hey Pinkie! Good morning! What has Neri excited? I mean other than hearing a new language?”

[Chisana Usagi]

Chi glanced over at Freya as a smile filled her face. The blonde had a way of digging into the dark and moody morning. She knew this girl did not care that she was still the same soft hearted girl. In fact, she usually embraced it. She could make a cake with lots of frosting along with being able to cry when she needed it.

"Hey Blondie. I guess she is running a mission into the enemy territory. I guess they have a high profile prisoner. I don't know other than there will be lots of fancy flying."

She poked at her toast as she zoned out a little bit. She knew her role in these missions. Honestly, she was fine with it. No one could really deny her skills behind the wheel.

[William Tenoh]

William rolled out of bed and fell onto a stack of cheesy movies. He hurried through a shower and went to the galley to grab something to eat before Captain DeSade gave them things to do. He really wanted some rice. Real rice, not the simulated stuff. He dipped into the galley and found Neri, Natsumi, Ryuusei, Chisana,Mizuki, and Freya already gathered there. It was not the first time William was late to a party.

"Hey guys, what's happening?" William casually asked as he sidled up to the coffee machine and got some synthetic coffee.

[Ada Mizuno]

Ada slowly peeled herself off of the desk she fell asleep at. She hated falling asleep at her desk, but it was a necessary evil if the station was to keep spinning in space without critical areas losing power or springing leaks or critical technology flatlining at the worst possible time. Contrary to popular belief, being the resident techie was not all fun and games and playing with computers. A lot of work went into keeping everything functional.

Ada peeled her face off the desk, got a shower, and dressed before going into the loaded galley. There was quite a crowd of notables gathered in the galley. Fortunately Ada was a notable in her own right.

"Hi there." Ada greeted everyone in a succinct fashion.

[Tomoe Natsumi]

Natsumi just listened and then stood up and stuck the weird looking pen thing back in her breast pocket. "Well... I'm up for a challenge. And it's about saving someone, which I'm totally in for, just let me know where you want me, and I'm there. That and fish fingers and custard."

She paused from her token joke and said. "The one thing I've never been good at ignoring - me, a plea for help. Please point us in the right direction"

[Ryuusei Fuushino]

Ryuusei...honestly didn't know how to feel right now. There was plenty of enthusiasm in the room, buuuut it seemed less like like they were psyching themselves for a military operation but for a trip to a theme park. "Aww kids today..." ...And for that utterance he wished the Food Replicator could science him up a pistol with a single bullet, because he was a 'kid' too and probably rivaled Natsumi for looking the youngest.

those thoughts were tabled wien Mizuki entered the Galley as part of her routine, and he decided to call out to her. "Mornin' sunshine!" That feral smile was hot and didn't really contradict his earlier thoughts regarding the others. Since they trained together, he knows how she rolls.

[Mizuki Tsukino]

Mizuki wasn’t enthused at all as she examined the documentation. Sure there were plenty of ships. A large capital class ship that had once probably hauled people around for pleasure now converted to a prison ship. It wasn’t as large as say a true capital ship meant for military use but it was big enough. She looked at the space they were traversing and noted that an ion storm was predicted.

“Neri that ion storm that supposed to come through are they going anywhere near that?”

If they were then that was helpful for them. It seemed they had a light escort that wasn’t anything special. Just several small destroyers that could easily be outmaneuvered if the need arose and then the main ship. No big deal. Maybe six to eight starfighter total between the destroyers. Why was the escort so light?

“What’s the starfighter compliment of the destroyers as well? May need Heckle and Jeckle to make nice with them if they have any.”

All very pertinent questions about this operation. At being called at by Ryuusei she waved to him.

“Any one else have any thoughts?”

The small wave hello was out of character for her but it mattered very little as her sister was likely the only one to notice it.

[Neri Kaioh]

Neri pushed papers around as she looked for the ion storm information. There was mention of it from ships in the area. She fumbled around until she found the map. Her fingers pointed to the various as her mind was buzzing.

"We could use the Ion storm when we escape. It would be close enough then or at least in a position where we can use it. The enemy ships seem to be hoover in the system, for gods know why."

She looked at the ships as she leaned back a little. She noticed her brother walking in as she sighed. He was rather lazy as usually. At least, he knew how to fly his ship. Her arms crossed under her chest as she wrinkled her nose.

"We could use those two to keep things off our back. I get a feeling they will be calling for more ships once the rescue starts."

She raised an eyebrow at the others. She wished they were as excited as she was. It was time for a little pay back. It was long overdue. These scum would be the first to feel their wrath. It would send the message that they were coming for Death Phantom.

[Tomoe Natsumi]

"Question is... do we have any individual plans on how we are going to proceed? What are our roles as we go through this? I would feel alot better knowing how we actually want to proceed with this?"