Navigational Disturbance

[Drake]

Drake laughed "Then the barrel is a fail proof plan..." he laughed as he walked into the room he looked around when Jor shun the light on the place Drake laughed some "Well if the Mystery Machine is up here then that was one hell of a scheme that old man that works at the farm had this time" he said looking around. He continued to walk forward moving outside of Jor's light for a second "AHHH!" Drake yelled from one of the darkened corners of the room. He was on the floor as he had tripped and fail "Hisss....ouch!" he said holding his knee rocking back and forth "What the hell did I trip on..." he growled looking down it was something a limb he couldn't tell if it was mechanical or not "Damn..." he said still holding his knee.

[MikDaTv]

Jor spun to face Drake when he tripped. The sound of him falling had startled Jor. "Would you watch were your going!" He said. "He aimed his flood lamp at the area around Drake's feet to try and spot what he had tripped over. Indeed it was a limb. An arm to be exact. Apparently it had been separated at the shoulder. In it's hand, a small blaster pistol was clutched.

Jor poked at the body part with the toe of his boot. "Thats um... disturbing."

He knelt down next to the arm to give it a better examination. The point of separation was not cauterized, like it would have been if a lightsaber had inflicted the wound. Also, it was not sufficiently torn and mangled to signify a blaster had exploded the arm off. furthermore, the clothing was fully intact as well, cut strait through with no sign of heat damage. The arm itself was still recognizable as having previously belonged to a Centauri, and the blaster in it's hand was of Centauri design.

That led Jor to the conclusion that it had been done by a very sharp bladed weapon with a single swipe. However, the complete lack of blood on the floor told him that the limb had been drained of blood before being moved to this location. Whoever the poor Centauri was that owned this arm, Jor didn't have high hopes that he was still alive.

"Strangeness level rising." Jor whispered. "We may have some kind oh hostile on board the ship. Rita, get us out of this room."

The android nodded and moved to the rooms other door. Her fingers played over what appeared to be a control console next to the door and in seconds the door slid open. She tilted her head to the side. "Fascinating, the control panel was much easier to decipher then i had anticipated."

Jor walked up behind her. "What do you mean?"

Her head righted and she examined the console. "I had predicted at least one hundred different combinations of key strokes before i isolated the door control. However it appears i accomplished it on the first try."

Jor shrugged. "lucky?"

Rita nodded but then shook her head slightly. "Possible, but very unlikely."

Jor shrugged again and moved through the door. He had his rifle up now. If there was something going around cutting arms off, he was going to at least get one shot off.

[Drake]

Drake stood up and looked at the arm he had tripped over "What the hell?" he questioned "Where's the blood, I mean...there isn't even dried up blood coming from this thing..." He looked around using his saber as a light "And there's no blaster marks in this place, that means this thing was bought here after it was taken from whatever poor bastard it belonged too..." something wasn't sitting right it looked like the arm had been drained of its blood "I'm startin to think my vampire ewok theory was right on..." he said walking over to Jor and Rita.

He started to follow behind Jor as he walked through the door "So Rita what you're saying is...whatever is cutting off people's arms probably wanted us to get through that locked door?" he asked the droid. "Great so anyone else think we're walking into a trap or something?"

[MikDaTv]

Rita nodded her head at Drakes comment. "while i can not feel, i do believe a trap is the most likely." She turned around to cover their rear with her Z-6.

Jor continued forward with his rifle up, checking for any kind of sign they might be walking into a life threatening situation. "Kyo, Kyo if you can here me we found something. There may be hostiles on board. Repeat, there may be hostiles on...."

He was cut short when movement caught his eye. Ahead of them, maybe 60 feet, a shadow, darker then the other shadows that seemed to flow out of the walls of the ship, shot past a corridor intersection.

Jor fired. reflecting upon it later, he realized he'd been startled and shot his weapon on reflex, but that was not something he currently wanted to admit to himself. The long metal slug, wrapped in green plasma energy, lanced out from the barrel of his rifle and struck the side of the corridor. The green energy sheath left a long burn trail on the bulkhead while the slug skipped off the metal and buried itself in a door further down. "I saw something." Was all he said to explain himself.

Jor jogged up to where he'd seen the shadow and pointed the floodlamp in the direction he'd seen it move. Nothing but empty corridor as far as his flood lamp would illuminate. He lowered his rifle and shook his head. His eyes closed and he stretched out with the force. He could sense no one besides himself and Drake. Off in the distance he could feel Kyo, Six and Tycen and even further out he could feel the Hyperion, but he could not sense anyone else. Yet he could not deny the feeling of danger that radiated from the very metal in the bulkheads that surrounded them.

Something about this ship was a danger to them but he couldn't put his finger on it. "I really really don't like this place." He let his rifle hang by it's strap in front of him and drew his pistol instead. He figured he'd be less of a menace to his allies using a smaller gun.

Rita came up behind them. "I'm detecting movement and an electrical current 100 yards in front of us. Perhaps we should investigate."

[Drake]

Drake laughed some "Yeah I don't think you'd have to be able to feel to tell we're in some deep shit here" he said to Rita as he continued to look around until Jor fired something, this made Drake jump some as it was really unexpected "What the hell man!" He yelled at him, Jor then said he saw something, Drake looked at him weird "Uh huh..." he wasn't going to say anything or ask if Jor's helmet had like infrared or anything, or atleast night vision and if that was the case how did he think he saw something, so Drake just chalked it up to Jor being as paranoid as he was.

He looked back over at Rita "Okay sounds like a plan to me" he said walking out ahead of everyone "If I die...well bury me with my flasks, I've hidden dozens of them throughout Jor's ships so it'll be a task for you guys to find them all" he joked.

[Cain]

After what seemed like hours of searching nothing but winding dark hallways, Kyo and his team finally found the bridge. The sight was unsettling to say the least. The light that washed over the bridge from outside the windows illuminated deep claw marks on the floor, the walls and the bridge controls, most seemed to be damaged beyond repair. One terminal however was still in working condition, in fact the panel's display was still lit up as if someone had just been using it not too long ago.

Kyo turned off his lightsaber as he stepped into the light of the room and started towards the panel that was still lit up. The message displayed on the screen read:

"ERROR: System data corrupted. Run system recover immediately."

Kyo activated the system recovery function. The screen blinked a moment and the machine began to hum as it came to life. Another error message displayed:

"Recovery failure. Large portion of data corrupted or lost."

The computer then began to hum again, displaying what data was left. Most of the items contained no usable information, but the captain's log still was partially readable.

"...off course. Source of course alteration; undetermined. Current location; unknown.
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Source of course alteration located; starboard hull breach. Cause of breach; undetermined. Maintenance crew dispatched.
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Maintenance crew did not ret..... vestigation revealed no sign of missing crew members..... claw marks found around hull breach......
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.....re crew missing....... dditional claw marks discovered around ship's interior.....
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Power supply corrupte......... hey're here now...... no help coming...."

Kyo's reading was interrupted by a static laced message from Jor. Something about hostiles on board. At the same moment a dark figure like the one Kyo had seen earlier appeared in front of Kyo. He stood between Kyo and the light of Centauri Prime's star, making his features nothing but an indistinguishable shadow. Kyo quickly ignited his lightsaber, ready for just about anything.

[Ragasaurus-Rex]

It looked as if Tycen commit was missed, Or ignored for the very fact everyone else knew that would only lead to a horror movie ending where two to three people survive one of which comes from the ship, Not an original member of the group.

Ether way didn't matter now, They had moved into the bridge, The always unreliable computer terminals were down and from what little he could pick up from the radio signal they had friends on the huge ship with them. Simply terrible.

Tycen working, though not very well at all, on a terminal of his own to find data that could help unveil who built the monster ship. Heard a strangle familiar sound, that of a lightsaber! Kyo was its wielder, And he looked ready to Fuck something up. What though Tycen could not discern through the engulfing darkness, Not even the saber and flashlight six had brought enough. This was unexpected and Tycen wasn't sure what to do, Kyo may have it handled but if he didn't then Six or Tycen would have to step in and help. He upholstered his blaster also ready for the shadow man.

[MikDaTv]

The shadow raised a thin, bony arm and pointed it toward them. It's finger was silhouetted against the viewport, tipped with the unmistakable shape of a long slender claw. It's tip pointed at neither Kyo nor Tycen but Six, who was standing in the back with his flashlight. The shadow hissed in an odd way. The tones and pitch of the hiss changed in something of a pattern, perhaps resembling some kind of language.

Much to everyone surprise, including Six's, Six spoke back with the booming and authoritative voice only Six or Jor would recognize "Begone!"

Startled by his own shouting of the simple word, Six covered his mouth as if to quell the strange voice.

The shadow however, was effected by this. It's arm lowered immediately and it almost seemed to cower under the effect of the voice. It hissed once more before sinking into the deck plates of the ship.

Six looked back and forth between Kyo and Tycen and smiled nervously and shrugged. He wanted to say something, but was afraid if he opened his mouth to speak some one else's voice would start talking for him.

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Back with Team Jor, the trio made their way towards the signal Rita had picked up. She led them to another round bowl shaped room like the one before, only this one was much larger, measuring 200 feet in diameter and at it's center was a red sphere, suspended in the air between to large rings. Both the sphere and the rings spun about eachother by themselves and surrounding the odd device was a bank of consoles.

Jor put away his weapons and just looked around the place. "Rita, check out the consoles. Drake, circle left. I'll circle right and meet you on the other side. Look for any more parts to our friend that might be strewn about. I'd like to know what a Centauri was doing on this ship."

[Drake]

Drake walked in the room and looked around trying to see what was going on. The place looked almost the same as the last room, except for the big red thing in the center of it. "What the hell is that" he said looking at it. Drake turned to Jor and nodded before going left he walked around the circle it was a huge circle he kept his saber up to make sure nothing would get him. "Hmm" Drake said as he came to a stop seeing a leg and a hand "This bastard had no luck" Drake whispered to himself. "Found a few more peices" he said to Jor loud enough to be heard but no quite a yell.

[Cain]

Kyo took a step back as the creature's claw came into the light and pointed a bony finger past him. Kyo quickly spun his head around to see what it was pointing at... Six.

"Uhh... I think it likes you," Kyo said, keeping his lightsaber raised and at the ready. Slowly, trying not to make any sudden movements, Kyo reached up to turn on his helmet's communicator, "Jor... do you copy? Jor, this is Kyo. We're on the bridge, we've encountered a potential hostile. We could probably use some back up here. Repeat, we could use some back up."

[MikDaTv]

Jor finished his cirlce, coming upon the rest of the poor centauri who'd been ripped apart. "I found the rest of him." Jor said loud enough for Drake to hear.

The body was wearing the flight suit of a Centauri defense pilot. He must have come across the ship on his patrol of the system and decided to investigate. Jor closed his eyes and dropped a radio beacon on his body so they could find it later to bring back to Centauri for funeral rights.

Jor finished his circle and met up with Drake. Rita waved them over. "I think i found something." She said. her hand played over the control console and suddenly the lights came on. "I think i'm rerouting some power from the ships heavier systems into it's secondary systems."

Lights throughout the ship sprang on and Jor's radio sprang to life, clear and loud. "Jor... do you copy? Jor, this is Kyo. We're on the bridge, we've encountered a potential hostile. We could probably use some back up here. Repeat, we could use some back up.

Jor keyed his own com. "I got ya Kyo, we'll make your way towards you."

A few seconds later Jor heard Danny's voice come over the com. "Hostiles, Hostiles, Hostiles. Zero Two is down, it phased right out of the walls."

Jor swore under his breath and keyed his com again. "Hang on Danny, help is on the way." He turned to Rita. "Rita, move to the shuttles location and assist the marines."

Jor picked up his rifle. "Drake, we're going to Kyo's position, i hope your ready for a good run."

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Danny's rifle was pulsing light constantly down the hallway as he fired. As soon as the lights came on, the team could see that what they thought was a shadow was actually some kind of creature. The light must have scared it because it charged forward and clawed one of the marines in the chest, right through his armor.

Their weapons proved ineffective, against it, but that didn't stop Danny from trying. He emptied an entire clip into the creature before it moved away from them and walked right through a bulkhead.

"Hostiles, Hostiles, Hostiles. Zero Two is down, it phased right out of the walls." Danny shouted into his com. In order to even the next fight, he decided to try and scale up his weaponry. the Sniper attachment for his DC-17 came out and check the sights on it to make sure it worked.

"Harrison, load foster into the shuttle and start first aid on him. Torres, we're falling back to the shuttle entrance. keep your eyes open."

[Ragasaurus-Rex]

Tycen kept his blaster focused on the shadow man, thing, Throughout the encounter sparing a flash across the room in regard to Six' outburst, during which time he inadvertently fired at he shadow. Once he cocked his head back to see its fate Tycen saw only the empty space that once was there.

A quick thought sprang to mind, Was it possible the shadow figure was trying to talk through six? Maybe though it seemed unlikely as he knew of only the force that had such an attribute. As Kyo began a request for Jor's assistance Tycen turned over to Six, Tycen remaining in place not daring to move.

"What was that?"

[MikDaTv]

Six shrugged his shoulders. He had an idea of what it was but it wasn't something he was willing to admit yet. "I'm not one hundred percent sure. I'll need to discus it with Jor before i make any conclusions."

The lights on the ship came on and Six turned off his flashlight, putting it back into his pocket.

[Drake]

Drake poked the arm he had found with the handle of his second light saber. "Aww you poor poor bastard" he said shaking his head, what the hell could or would do something like that to a person. He looked over when he heard Jor call him, "Well sucks for this guy..." he said walking back over to the center of the room with Rita. When the lights flickered Drake looked around "Hmm seems our friend there wasn't the only victim of this thing" he pointed to another mangled body, "Whatever the hell this thing is is sucking people dry...a succubus" Drake said with a slight laugh.

He looked at Jor when he got the transmission from Kyo "Well lets hit it" he said pulling out his vibroblade ready to go.

[MikDaTv]

Jor ran. He didn't really know where he was going but he knew the general direction they needed to head, and his years aboard large starships had blessed him with a pretty good sense of direction.

Still, they hit a few dead ends, a few wild goose chases and he lead them around in a circle at least once, but 40 minutes later, they reached Kyo's team. Jor wasn't even out of breath, although his heart was racing. The XAN suit was good at keeping his body efficient but the extra strain meant he had to pump the nanomachines through his system faster which meant a vastly accelerated heart rate. The suit subconsciously told him it wasn't dangerous but he had a feeling his Mirror counterpart would disagree.

"Kyo, whats going on?" Jor said. "We got here as fast as we could, this ship is huge."