Eight's brain was shaken out of self diagnostic mode by an almighty crash. He opened his eyes. The T-40 was just as he'd left it, deactivated. Johanna Hawkins on the other hand was not. She lay on the ground several feet from the battle droid only semi-conscious. Eight's foggy brain identified the sound that had awakened him as a rupturing plasma conduit. He could picture in his mind, with no instructions from him to guide in the safe deactivation of the T-40 Johanna Hawkins had instead taken out her weapon and shot it. Eight could almost see the plasma relay next to the flow control bursting as it was hit.

Eight looked around with difficulty but Krull was no where to be seen. It was up to him to get them somewhere safer than this while the fighting abated. Eight struggled to his feet making a mental note as he did so to never activate an EMP device while he was in range. He felt truly terrible. Despite this however he managed to make his way over to Johanna. The fighting was still going on, if they were to survive in there present condition they needed somewhere to hide.

Eight would have taken her to the medical bay, somehow pirates never seemed to expect there to be people there [i]during[/i] a raid, only after. However as the Babylon IV was both a small transport ship and generally considered disposable by the company that contracted it, it did not actually possess a dedicated medical facility.

Instead Eight hobbled over to Johanna, though he was weakened Eight's skeletal and muscular implants granted him greater strength compared to unaltered humans. He still had the strength to carry Johanna. With her in his arms Eight hid them both in one of the storage rooms of the Babylon. It was almost an hour before the Captain's voice was heard over the intercom system of the three ships calling for a cease fire.

When the Babylon landed on planet Eight picked Johanna up again and carried her over to the Alamo. He could feel several of his implants deactivating to consider power. He needed to return to the Aurora for a regeneration cycle rather soon. Eight took Johanna to the medical bay on board the Alamo and left her in the capable hands of Starfire doctors. Then he returned to his ship. As he entered the cargo bay he spotted several other fighters most with there pilots doing maintenance. 

If he had been in peak operating capacity his mind would have almost instantly categorized each of the ships present but he was in no state for that at the moment. Instead Eight released the lockout on the Aurora and stumbled into the small medical bay that housed his regeneration unit. He instructed the computer to run a complete realignment cycle which lasted eight hours instead of his usual six. As the Aurora's computer systems zynced with Eight's neural circuitry a wave of emptyness and calm sweap over him. regeneration was the closest thing Eight ever got to peace.