""You remind me so much of your' father..."

"I'm his son,what'd you expect."


A feeling like being pulled from under water after holding his breath to long pierced Miak's lungs and he arose with a breath.Why had he done that?It wasn't a nightmare.He lifted a muscled bare arm and wiped the glistening droplets of sweat from his brow.
"Good morning crew, this is Xiro your humble pilot speaking. Orders have come in from the captain, everyone report to the Plug-In bay for entry, our new mission is in."


Miak always seemed to 'come to' just before someone tried to wake him up,a weird tendency that clung to him from childhood.
A sigh escaped his dry lips as he threw off his bed blankets and swung his legs over the edge of the bed.He scanned the dimly lit bunk room from his sitting position...The others were waking as well,he could hear sleepy yawns from the waking crew.Tiredness would be swept from their minds within a few minutes.
Miak planted his arms on the soft bed he sat upon and shoved himself onto his tired feet.He reached to the ceiling and went up on his toes and groaned slightly at the lovely soothing feeling of his tight muscles stretching out.With a final victorious sigh,he made his way to the plug in room shoulder to shoulder with the others of the crew,with a spring in his step.

He found the familiar leather chair with the fancy head rest which was his plug in station and sat down,relaxing his arms on the armrest and laying his head back on the cold headrest.Miak's chest bounced as he chuckled lightly at the flirty Cairo as Zion drove the spike into his skull a bit roughly.Miak looked blankly at the ceiling as Zion made her way to his station."I hope thats not how you plug in all of your new friends."He said jokingly,glancing over and nodding with a grin,giving her the 'I'm good to go.' signal.
Every time he plugged in,it reminded him of the first time he had ever felt the spike enter his skull.The words of his old captain echoed in his mind as the metal spike hovered over the back of his bare neck."This may feel a little weird."

Miak was grateful when Zion slipped the spike in more gently then she had with Cairo and soon the infinite white of the 'loading program' surrounded him along with Cairo,Xiro,Locke and Ares.Racks of deadly weapons began approaching them quickly like hundreds of steam horse trains.He took a relaxed step out of the way as the racks blew past,plowing threw the illusion of air.The bottom of his long leather black coat whipped slightly do to the created breeze.Once the weapon loaded racks halted,his coat stopped flapping in the 'wind' and hung deadly at his knees.

Two Colt 911s sat on the rack in front of him along with a eight magazines of ammo.He snatched the pistols into his hands,loaded them and slid them into holsters under each of his arms,along with the ammo clips that attached to a belt-like thing that clung to his torso that went from the bottom of his ribs from under his arm,down to the top of his hips.All of which was hidden well,under his long black leather coat...That was his normal load out,unless ordered to bring something more substantial.

He listened quietly and attentively to the captains short but to the point briefing.

A bit of eagerness coursed threw his pumping veins.
Lets do this...

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Do not tempt me!

*waves cookie*

I said do not tempt me!