Lizzy and   Nikki  sat with  Vosts near the  center of the  compound, catching a little  sun, as Lizzy tried  to  Get Vosts to calm down.

  Vosts  was over  wrought , about  having to go up  again, she was sure she wouldn't  come back this time.

...............

  frans looked at the clouds and the sun... Unless the Horn sounds, we got  about   an hour of tanning light  yet

 Flores   sighed..one thing we do know?  doesn't matter what time of  day or  what weather.. if the shuttles need us, we'll be goign up.night

"It is okay to be scared, Vosts.  It happens" Nikki stated finishing up a bite and swig "Thing is you can't let that fear control you or your life.  You need to use it and use it hard to help you be better and stronger" which is true.  the more yiu use it the more you can control over it, make her fear her bitch.

 Both the Ladies    chuckled  at  Lindsey...one of the fruist things the Angels  did  was clean up the planet... the oceans , lakes... all that... Powercells were introduced... its  Mind  numbing  how simple they are..That's what caused the Oil Lords  to go  nuts..  they were only of use in lest then 1% of the world!....

 while they did this, they knew they had to do somehting about   our life spans, what goos is  a  Human who  falls  aprt  before he  can even  shoot his first demon?.. so.. all the water  sources  were seeded with  angel food...   the fam lands  were  dusted  with is... everythign we  ate and drank has it in..Like our Gen?  I think the Porfs  said..800 years?.... next gen after  1000?... Angels  live  like 2000..some alot longer.. all those    long aged folks  in all those books, were  halfbred  Angel-Humans or Demon humans..they say we all have some  angel  or demon in us, because both sides weren't afraid  of  'populating' earth with half breeds

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 Lizzy says,If you have to go..you can do this!  and Kick  ass  with me  and Fury!

 Vosts   was listening..she was still shaking

Madison laid back and closed her eyes. They would be going back up soon. Resting in the sun seemed like the best way to get some calm before the next storm.

   the chargers  were set... Hemsley  , brooks  and   Karson ran back  By  Zob. The mechs  took a knee to help provide   cover.

 With  a Nod from  Zob,  Hemsley turned the switch on his hand held  and  pressed the trigger. the  explosions went off in succession.. when the    right  hand   side  Blew, the door  groaned  and  should of cracking were heard.. it lai8d  at a 45  degree angle... Morgan and Kira approached, lamps lighting  the inside... teo kicks  and the door   rell the rest of the way in.....it was indeed the Bridge, set back a bit from the Bow, like most Cap vessels, this bright  was massive...

 there didn't   seem to be   anyone around... Shade   slipped through some troopers   as he looked around, Gla  followed him in , looking around.

  after using his   Vidboard  like  a  scanner,    the little undesnese,  ripped off   the side of a  console  and began to  bleep and whirl as he  fussed with the Guts.  meari stood close with her  30 Cal ready.

 about  5 minutes  of  fussing, bleeping and blaring.. the  emergency lights  came on  the  bridge... some screens  were shattered..other   came to life.

Zob gave Shade a pat on the shoulder and a thumbs up, "Shade can you try and get the logs from these terminals or maybe a layout of the ship?" he then stepped away and looked around the room before coming the admiral, "Admiral Hack sir we have secured the bridge, it looks like most of the ships crew that we found so far killed themselves in some sort of ritualistic sacrifice from the looks of it, and we encountered one dead creshian human hybrid but not as far gone as the last one we encountered earlier"

  Shade   started   tracing the  Consoles with his Vid board, Maygin  followed with him as she   marked  certain paths in her machine.

 The Admiral COMed back...let me know  what you find...


 Sitting  in the Command chair was a dead human , Chinese offcier....he looked to be dead  about a year...but relatively preserved  by the dry air,

  shade  guessed at some  links and switches... a few screens  came to life...  the areas  on the screen showed  some dark rooms... one that was tellign was 'the Hold'..you didn't need the  label to understand that were it was... thousands of unopened crates, and  100s that were  opened,,,but that wasn't the  horrific part... Two Brood Mothers...unlike any they have seen thus  far..the Chinese females   reclined on an customized  bed,,long, hideous  egg  sacks  hung from them as the  eggs  undulated ..

  There were humans, frail..weak,, carrying Coffee table  sized eggs to wards a  mounts of others...Shade beelped  and  fed the   footage to all the   Screens.... as he moved the camera  around, they could see  some  eggs  splitting open, and the hunched over   creatures  falling out... 'successful' human -bug  hybrids  were wiping them  down and  dressing them.. then sending them over to  piles of dead bodies to eat.

Zob commed the Admiral back and shared his video feed as the broadcast displayed the scene to the Admiral, "The hold is massively infested with a unknown amount of Creshian human hybrids and two massive brood mothers... what are your orders Admiral?"

 Clean the bridge.. see what all you can see from there.. bring  back what hard info you find..

 Shade  TRattles  away, meari tries to listen, but  she can barely get a 'hint' of what he is  trying to tell folks.

 Will, and a few other   troopers  went to the  starboard  side to check the...it looks like  some of the superstructure  was peeled away by the landing, as the  door on that side   is  covered in rubble.

 Jumping Lion says..There is a case of   chinese weapons here.. 6 hard  Ammo, and  6 Pulse...

 Lyri says,Pulse rifles means they were outfitted before  take off..the HArd ammo would have  been, what they brought along.

After chatting with the Techs Justin heads back to the rooms to get some sleep before the next briefing.

After another 30 or so minutes, Madison got up to check her clothes. Everything looked dry, so she folded them and put them in a neat pile.
"Candy, Carolle, I'm going to go inside and rinse off one more time before I put these clean clothes back on. Besides, my skin is pretty fair and I don't need a sun burn. See you guys inside."

Madison picked up her bundle and towel, and walked back into the barracks. After dropping her stuff at her bunk, she went into the showers and rinsed quickly with soap, making sure to keep her hair dry. She then rinsed and dabbed her undergarments. It was no use trying to only get them a little wet. Next time she was going to be sure to bring extras. It was frustrating being so unprepared but if the worst thing that happened was that she had to fly the next mission commando, she could live with it.
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walking in, she  could  see Shadow asleep by the  main droo His  boots  were on but his shirt was off, his  COM and Sanri sidearm close  by.

   walking towards the showers   , she saw the Green skinned  Bura-angel hybrids DR-NO and HE-LA sitting next to each other playing some kind of   game on a vidboard..a few others  were sleeping, but most were  enjoying the  sun

After showering Madison went to the mirrors to dry off. As she had feared, her skin was a bit on the red side. It didn't hurt but it wasn't exactly the tanned look she was going for. Still, the color was better than space-pale.

At her bunk, Madison hung her damp undergarments on the post and then slid under the covers. Maybe a short nap would help too. When the bell rang she would be fresh and ready to go.

Sitting on the dusty floor, Izzy would flick through the pages of the journals with most of them appearing to be crew rosters detailing the names, ranks and occupations of the ships crew. The last book however was a med tech roster detailing an operation We Join the Gods assuming of course that she had correctly translated it. With yet more names listed and highlighted in various colours it would appear that the journal was listing potential candidates for experimentation or possibly even the results of such experiments, however with no medical or scientific background Izzy wasn’t able to decipher much more. She did briefly consider cross referencing the med tech journal with the other journals only to abandon the idea as it would take her hours to do so and considering that the crew were dead wouldn’t yield any worthwhile intel. Instead she would note down what she had found and continue reading in case there was anything else to be found.

Henry looked at the screens.

"Any way of downloading their database?" he asked.

Then he saw the 'hold' screen.

"I'd better get down there."

 Cora  moved from time to time,   They wouldn't move the Body , unless   Henry asked  for it/

  Cora Got on the COMsHey ,  Gunny?... how  long you want us back here?..Stir Fry's  reading, but  it sounds like  rosters and such?

.............

On the Bridge,  Shade  was  fussing  with the   consoles,,a  few  times   Punching a Hole in one that wouldn't work.

 Shoey says to  Henry,..you're not going down there  , any time soon.. that's  about  3/4  of a Mile or  more straight do..who knows  what's in between us.I think the Hermes needs to load up, Cap-ship Class Bunker Busters.. and  wipe the  whole thing out

  Lizzy, Nikki and Vosts were headed to the Barracks. Frans saw them as she came around the corner, she held up a Hand for the three of them to stop, as Shadow, got  up and  was leaving  the Barracks, buttoning up  his shirt as he headed to the Mess hall.

 Frans  Looks at the three of them  i have a feeling  , we'll be going up, sooner, rather then Later... LC's  Job is to put every pilot in the air... the way he views it..we have a damn nice life in this war... Troopers   have to bust their asses,  training  and i battles.... he  has a very  closed mind   when some one things  they 'shouldn't go up'

 now? we had  people  beofre who didn't go up..Steele sat out  once.. Kase  sat out  and then was shipped off.. This is a damn ugly war.... What i need to hear, is  should  we sent  up Vosts..where she  might get someone else killed

 Lizzy bites her  lip,..She was struggling for sure, Carole......

 Vosts  was shaking again..I can't...i can't.. I'll die...

 Carole  turned to Nikki..

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  Shadow   left the Mess  hall with a Flat tray  with  a Plate of   Doughnuts , Two Coffees  and a  Bucket of water  for Larry.

 he reached the Admiral  setting the  plate  down on the   top of the look out post, he tossed a dough nut to   Larry,  who gobbled it in a second and  stared  drinking the water.   The Admiral Handed Shadow the Binos  as  he sat to eat and drink the coffee..

 Looks like some Lighting?

 yeah.. they reached the bridge... sent some footage down.. there  are  Brood mothers in the Hold   pumping out eggs.

 Shadow  sad down,anyone   Get killed today?

 Hack shook his head...SM has a Command post... Zob is   running  the people down the , to the  Bridge..everythign by the numbers..if there is  an ambush.. it won't go well for the bad  guys

  when are mu people going up again...

 In the morning , first light

 The LC  nods  and takes a bit. of a doughnut..Sounds good..what  will we do...

 search  and destroy around this  Mountain.. say? 300 mile radius with that mountain in the Middle..kill anything that remotely looks like  the Empire.

  Shadow breaks of a   half a dough nut, tossing it to larry... larry gobbled  again.

 Larry eats Doughnuts?

 fall under the heading of 'it didn't eat him first'

 Larry thumped his tail rapidly..the two  men laughed.

Nikki could see Vosts struggling.  "Is there a craft that needs a co-pilot?  like a shuttle?  send Vost up in one of those" She understood the concept of get her back on that horse, but maybe not an unbroken mustang, but a worn draft might be the alternative.  "I know the torpedo is down for now, but Lt. regal might need a extra pair of hands" she was thinking of anything that might help.

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Henry arranged for the body to be bagged and tagged for transport to his lab.

He nodded.

"Guess you are right if it's that far away, Shoey. Can we record that feed?"

A vile view to be sure, but one he wanted to study.

  Two  SEC troopers  came  with a Bag to haul away the officer... Robbins  shouts,    to them...Put that on the meadowlark, when we leave here, we can send it straight  to The Hermes.

  Stoly  had the    Pilots   near their machine with   rifles, as they waited to see what happened  next.

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 On the Bridge, Shade pulled one of his back up  Vidboards out of the  satchel  across his  back... using the  Trench  Knife to , utter destroy the  Console casing,, he  and Maybin worked  on hooking the vidboard into the  ships  CAMs..

  He   looked around  for  Zob or Roy and waved them over.. he bleeped a  few  times  and showed  the  screens that appeared on the vidboard , but would have been on the screens that had been shattered...

 Maybin shook her  head  and said  to whomever came over......... The Ambassador  is  asking...I think.... if you want lights on  in those  screens on his vidboard?... if we turn the lights  out, things  will know there are more of us aboard?..and we might  'activaite' anything sleeping, or  otherwise dormant ...

 Shade gave a thumbs up.. he pointed to  4  screens on his  vidboard, that they had hooked into the feed.

"They're for some kind of medical testing" Izzy said, having overheard Cora speaking on her comms unit, her eyes not even leaving the page as she does so "...it's a list of candidates for testing or maybe even the results...I don't know, I'm not a doctor I can't understand a lot of this...you'd need Doc Henry or someone" and then they'd need to learn Chinese she silently added knowing that they were in a kind of catch 22 situation where the person that could read it couldn't understand it and the person that could understand it couldn't read it. Either way she didn't think she would learn anything else from the journals, with what little she had learnt not being mission critical as it was.

With no alarms and no one coming to wake her, Madison drifted off to sleep. Some time later she shook awake, sitting up straight. The air on her bare skin reminded her to cover up. She had a bad dream but the images were already fading away, just like the daylight light coming in through the main door. She shook her head to clear it then pulled her undergarments down to dress.

Unless they would be going on a night mission, it didn't look like another mission was imminent. She would have time to kill again. Socializing was always a good option, but she felt like she would rather explore the base. She had only seen the LZ, the mess tent and the pilots barracks. With a flight mission looking unlikely she dressed only to her pants and undershirt. Still, the call could come at any time, or there could be a ground raid, so she also put on her armor and weapons. After taking a last look around for no reason, she went out of the barracks and turned left. Whatever she found in that direction, she would see what she would see.
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 As Maddy walked  she found her  self in the compound where   the ladies had  laid out in the sun.

 without the  Shuttles in the way she  could see the building at was the   HQ, one of the troopers  barracks..two 'towers'.. the other  troper  Barracks,  the  small building that  Hemsly got the   ingrediencies for his  Phosphorus    bombs.. the  makeshift gate, and the tower that the Admiral and   LC was on, though they  seemed to be eating, with Larry  sitting attentively at the bottom of the stairs. only a handful of SEC tropers were on the  ground here..everyone else was at the Mountain where   stand up light  light the area, like some sort of  Contruction site.

 Lizzy, Vosts and  Nikki talked to frans  who had her  arms crossed  listening to the   arguments.

Madison wanted to explore but she couldn't not say hi to the ladies having what looked like a heated conversation. She walked up to here they were gathered.

"Hi ladies." She smiled as she came within a few feet. "You all look so serious. Is everything okay?"