The sound of the engine failing rang through her ears, Ness Nova was losing consciousness.
She slipped in and out of reality. This is it. She thought, This is the end. Her faithful ship, the Shade Skipper, had been hit by a pretty powerful shot by the Universal Guard, and only now had the electronics gone out.
The windshield had a large crack, making the view of the approaching unknown planet shattered and distorted.

Ness was losing grip on reality, her mind drifting off to memories.
"Don't give up." A males voice whispered in her head, "Don't give up just because I'm... dying."
She jolted awake, moving to slam her hand on the eject button on the Shade Skipper, the chair unclicked and shot from the ship. As it fell a parachute opened and allowed the chair to float to the ground.
Ness had a look of shock and sadness as she watched her ship slam into the ground below. "Rest in Piece old girl." She said before she unclipped from her seat.

She fell a short way to the ground, landing easily as she breathed in.
"Fuck me..." She said quietly, "That ended... Not in the way I wanted to."
She moved to take off her flight helmet, pulling it away from her Deep Lilac skin; She yelped as her Deep red hair got tangled into her helmet. "Ow, ow, fuck."

She pulled the helmet off and tucked it under her arm quietly. Her Lilac skin shone in the sun of this planet, she looked around quietly as her backwards curved horns glistened.
She looked around where she crashed, there didn't seem to be a city around her, so no one was going to be hurt. But there was a small town to the East, she'd start there.

It was getting late. The outpost itself never seemed to sleep. Sounds of random gun violence went off in the distance like rolling thunder. Escorts could be heard earning their wages through the thin walls of the roach motel. Sev lay on the bed in the darkness of her room listening to the cacophony of sounds and life surrounding her. Motionless. Thoughtless. Her silver locs tangled around the pillow like otherworldly tendrils. Her electric blue eyes cut through the darkness of the room, unfocused, catching bits of dust and debris in her unblinking gaze. Minutes pass before her slender frame animates under the sheets. She moves silently, pulling the sheets over her body as she sits upright. According to the heads up display in her vision it was time to start moving. Sev had a job and she was never late for a job. The neon lights of the backwater town trickled in through the window above her bed, bathing her tawny brown skin in various colors. She let out an audible sigh as she pulled the sheets away and got up to get dressed. Androids tend to travel relatively light compared to their carbon based counterparts. Sev only had one outfit to choose from. She slipped into a pair of black jeans before hopping into her combat boots and throwing a grey crop hoodie over her head. Sev made her way over to the nightstand where she kept her blaster. It was a relic built to look like a magnum revolver, sleek in it's design, weathered from use, with the name Amanzi etched into the side of the barrel. After running a quick diagnostic to ensure it was still in working order she holstered the weapon and tied the strap over her hip. She grabbed the old filthy trench coat riddled with scorch marks and bullet holes along the hem and threw it on. It didn't fit very well but it wasn't supposed to. The door to her room slid open with a hiss at her approach. Sev left the room looking exactly how she found it, uninhabited.

She stormed down the hall of the motel, moving with purpose. Her eyes flashing like strobes as she took in the dank scenery of the molding walls, pealing wallpaper, and graffiti in various languages. Alcohol bottles, spray cans,and broken robotic limbs littered the floors. This place was a wreck. A cesspool even. Sev had to deactivate some of sensory functions because it smelled worse than it looked. A frail looking robot with a heavily rusted body and a deteriorating suit and tie paint job greeted Sev from behind the front desk as she passed, stiffly waving a clawed hand. "Good evening madam", it's voice sounded grating like someone shaking a bag of aluminum cans in auto tune, "Will you be staying with us again"? Sev paused just short of the exit before turning on her heels to face the automaton. In an instant she considered her options. She'd need a plan B and a place to lay low if things didn't work out with the new gig. If worst came to worst she could always stay another night and hop another transport ship in the morning."Sure", she answered shortly as she reached over the counter and wiped the layer of dust from the machine's face. It's amber colored eyes flickered and dimmed slightly. Sev gave the robot a playful pat on the side of it's metal head before proceeding out the door and onto the streets. All manner of cargo ship and transport flew overhead, thrusters humming. The streets were crowded, you couldn't move without being shoulder to shoulder with a stranger. Street performers banged on their robotic companions for drums while they belted out samples of ancient melodies to somehow create music. Venders screamed and shouted from their stalls, peddling anything from mystery street meat to bootleg cybernetic limb replacements. Occasionally a passerby would steal a glance at Sev. She could feel their eyes on her. It was a feeling she'd gotten used to ignoring.

The hustle and bustle of the main streets proved to be too much for the android. Sev elbowed her way through the sea of bodies and into the nearest alleyway. However, she wasn't alone. Her auditory sensors picked up two entities shadowing her movement. Maybe it was just coincidence. Sev picked up her pace a bit. The entities tailed her for a few more blocks. Maybe it wasn't coincidence. They had to be Hanzers. Back alley thugs who cut down robots and androids to sell their parts, in short they were scum. Their pace quickened along with their heart rates . They were preparing to strike. Sev didn't have time to take out the trash. She wasn't about to let these thugs slow her down. Wordlessly, Sez turned around to face her would be assailants and flashed the blaster on her belt. The Hanzers turned out to be two young boys. There was a pause as a mix of confusion and fear washed over their dirty faces. Slowly, the kids realized she wasn't an easy mark. They communicated with a couple of glances and began running back the way they had came. With a flourish Sev turned and continued on her way. Moments later she found herself in a less impoverished district. She could feel the ground underneath her feet vibrating with bass as she neared her destination. Club Nightcore and all of it's trashy glory. The line to get in went around the block. Luckily for Sev she wasn't looking for a party. She approached the bouncer that was holding down the line, a human with mural of face tattoos. His hair was glistening with grease and tucked back into a tight ponytail, he easily had 300 pounds on Sev and barely managed to stay contained in his black suit and tie."Is the bike ready", she asked shortly

"Is the cash ready", the bouncer shot back. Sev quickly reached into one of the many pockets on her trench coat and brandished three black, slender cards. One of which had a golden strip pressed into it. Cold hard credits, the intergalactic currency of choice. The bouncer greedily snatched the credits and stuffed them into his jacket pocket before jerking a thumb towards the building. "It's around back. Don't scratch the paint Tin Man". Sev let the slur slide for now. The android wandered around the side of the club and found herself in yet another ally. The bike was covered with a tarp which she managed to remove in one motion. She mounted the hover bike and started the engine. The engine roared to life, the noise itself shook the ground. Without a second to lose Sev took to the streets and headed for the wastes beyond outpost. What a fine life she'd managed to build for herself. A cutting edge espionage and killing machine designed to wage war, reduced to scavenger on some fringe backwater outpost. The ride into the wastes gave her plenty of time to think and come up with her next move. However, her train of thought was derailed by what appeared to be a crash landing on the horizon. She watched from the hover bike as a flaming mass of ship plummeted to the planet's surface a ways off from her current position. Upon further inspection, her ocular sensors picked up a life-form that had jettisoned themselves from the wreckage just in time. This may end up being a more lucrative scavenge run than she had initially thought. She waited a safe distance away for the life-form to land safely before she decided to approach. Sev rode the hover bike near the life-form's landing site, giving them a few yards of space so as not to intimidate them too much. With inhuman grace, she dismounted the bike and placed a hand on her perfectly manufactured hip taking special care to pull back her coat to show that she was armed. She ransacked her hard drive trying to figure out just what species she'd happened upon and met with little results. This one was exotic. "Are you in the habit of crash landing", she attempted humor, "I could give you a lift to the outpost, for a price".

Nessa had managed to get close to her ship once she had gotten her bearings.
"You did good ol' girl." She said to her ship as she moved to get her sidebag from the now ruined cockpit. "A shame. A damn shame." She uttered to herself before she moved to get into the ship.

The ship itself was pretty old compared to nowadays standards, many would wonder how it was still working.. well, how it was working.
The Star-Born had to kick down the door in order to get back out, ducking her head so her horns didn't get caught.
She had grabbed whatever she could reasonably carry from the ship. Her cloak, which was tattered and torn beyond repair at this point, draped over her shoulders much like a navy blue cape.

A few metal discs were attached to her belt now, they looked harmless enough at first glance- but a trained eye would knoe they're scoutbots, again, a very primitive seeming version.
Her sidebag hung over her left hip while she seemed to carry a blacked out cage in her right arm. The cage rattled gently while it was moved.
"I know little one I'll let you-" she paused as she felt like she was watched.

She turned and looked at the figure approaching, narrowing her deep golden eyes as she did so.
Only one. She thought, The guard don't travel individually. that wasn't going to make her relax- she had encountered those who worked with the guard but stood alone before.

"Honestly it's the first crash that's totalled the Skipper." She said, holding back on saying the real name, "I'm guessing you're here for a reason." She hesitated momentary, "if it's ship parts go right ahead. The old girl's... well, old. Everything of value- bar most of my clothes- are on me."
The cage rattled again, causing the rare alien to grip it with another hand.

Sev observed the creature as it gathered it's belongings from the smoldering wreckage of it's vessel. The threat assessment protocol was picking up on a couple of the gizmos that the alien managed to salvage. A few retro scoutbots and a cage of some sort. Nothing Sev was really too concerned about. The young alien was lucky to make it out of that wreck alive, let alone with a few intact trinkets. By the time the alien had noticed Sev's presence, she'd already sized her up pretty well. "Honestly it's the first crash that totaled the Skipper", the young woman answered Sev.
The android cocked her head to the side quizzically, like an animal that was listening to a high pitched noise. Sev assessed the remains of the ship with her ocular scanners. The thing was a relic. At a glance most of it's parts predated her own creation and the parts that remained intact were worth less than she spent on the hover bike rental. Maybe this trip was a bust after all. There wasn't any point in stripping down a piece of junk like this. It's not like Sev was hurting for credits anyways. Sev removed her hand from her hip and took a more relaxed stance. According to the readings she was getting, the alien was going to enter fight or flight mode at any second now. Sev let out a bored sigh before speaking again, her glowing blue eyes flickered in the darkness and trained on the young woman. "Alright, look kid. The way I see it, you've got two options. Either you can stay here with your rust bucket and wait for the other, less civil scavengers to show up. And I can tell you for a fact that they'll want everything from you including the clothes on your back. Or, I give you a lift back to town and we can negotiate my transportation fee. Make it fast kid, I'm on the clock".
With that Sev made her way back over to the hover bike and got herself seated. Whatever this alien had gotten herself into, it wasn't a typical crash. Sev had no intention of pressing her too hard for information, not yet at least. Besides, she wanted to see what kind of loot she could shake out of the current situation. She cast a quick glance over the horizon and she could see droves of hover crafts headed for their current position. If they delayed too long they'd be looking at fighting their way back into the city and Sev wasn't in the mood for a shootout with kids trying to earn a meal. "Personal chauffeur going once", Sev revved the hover bike engine once more and waited for the alien woman to make a choice, slowly putting the machine into motion. "Twice..."

Ness's nose almost crinkled at the term kid. She steeled herself before she nodded, moving quickly to get towards the bike.
She moved to hook the cage on her horns for a second as she steadied herself on the back of the bike.
She winced momentarily as she realized she sat on her tail, she quickly wriggled it out from underneath her. She glanced back at the Shade Skipper, she moved to take her cage off her horns and held it in her hands, moving quickly to run a small chain cord through the hooks and holes on the sides in order to keep it safe.

"I don't have a lot of money." Ness started, wanting to kick herself for even saying it, "But I'm sure I have something to give you worth the trouble."
She took one last glance towards the Shade Skipper before she looked towards the city they were heading to.

I really hope that the Guards haven't been there. The Star-Born thought to herself, at this point she didn't care. She needed a hot shower and some food; somewhere she can freshen up.
A small chirp sound echoed from in the cage, as two green eyes seemed to look out and around, whatever was inside the cage was awake, and restless.
"Shhh." Ness cooed quietly, moving to gently pull a bit of dried meat from her bag and slipped it between the cage bars, pulling back quickly as the snap of jaws echoed from the cage. She swore in a dead language, the language of the Star-Born.

Sev gave the woman a dismissive wave of her hand when she mentioned that she didn't have any money. Hopefully Sev wasn't making a mistake by overlooking the cash to get this woman to safety. Maybe this kid had some useful connections or information that the android could follow up on at some point in the future. "We'll worry about that later", Sev revved the hover bike engine sending them rocketing through the dunes, "A word of advice going forward. You're exotic and the locals don't exactly take too kindly to things that are different. Hide your face, maybe tuck your tail. Just stick close and keep a low profile". With that, Sev shifted the bike into full throttle sending buffets of orange colored sand flying in their wake. If the young woman was wise she would've taken Sev's advice about covering up. They were coming up on a few hover crafts filled with all manner of scavenger and slaver shooting their blasters wildly in the air, screaming and shouting their various gang affiliations. Grungy, bass heavy music blasted from the haphazardly grafted speakers that were hitched on the tops and sides of each craft. Through the shifting tides of sands Sev's keen android eyes could make out some of the crudely painted gang insignia. She recognized the 'Shoota Boiz' easily enough, a bunch of reptilian and humanoid species trying to strong arm the gun running and scavenger trades. The 'Bombers' weren't far behind them, tech-heads that liked to dabble in trafficking drugs as well as capturing and selling crash survivors into servitude to the highest bidder. Most of their 'products' end up working as dancers, bartenders, and the younger ones work the streets as pickpockets or fledgling hackers if they're smart enough to make it.
There were more than a few caravans out to scout the wreckage and claim the scraps for whatever sect they represented. This place was a jungle. A constant battle for survival and dominance. Sev never really understood why her carbon based counterparts where like this. She simply found it disgusting. Luckily, Sev managed to skirt around most of the oncoming traffic as she navigated the way back to the city gates. Her silver hair trailed violently behind her like a flag in a storm as they sped through the crowded streets at a comfortable altitude before Sev brought the vehicle to a stop in an alley near her hotel. She was having second thoughts about returning the hover bike, she was starting to like it. Silently Sev dismounted the bike and scouted around for anyone that might be tailing them. She didn't find anything that looked too suspicious but she did manage to find a curious looking poster. As a matter of fact these posters appeared to be plastered all over the place. How'd she manage to miss this? In one swift motion she plucked the nearest poster from the wall. It was a wanted poster for a bounty. She began reading aloud with a wry smirk on her face, "Wanted dead or alive for crimes against the Council. A bounty of ten million credits for Nessa 'Star Hopper' Nova".
Sev casually made her way back over to the bike, leaning over the handlebars causing the bike to lean forward slightly. The android held out the wanted poster to Nessa so she could get a good look at it just to make sure they were on the same page. A scanned image of Nessa's likeness was printed in blood red ink along with the statement Sev just read aloud printed in various alien languages. "I'll be frank, I'm not interested in the price on your head", Sev spoke slowly to allow Nessa to fully process what she was saying before she could jump to any conclusions, "If I were after you, we wouldn't be having this conversation. I'm not a friend of the Council in the slightest. I actually came here to get away from them and they're Guard goons, maybe help clean up this place. But you coming here changes that. So we need to have a conversation. I can help you but you need to be one hundred percent honest with me. What exactly did you do Nessa"? Sev deactivated any of her systems that would detect her lying. Against her better judgement she was willing to trust this 'Star Hopper'. If she pissed off the Council enough for them to offer up a fortune for her death, then maybe she had a just cause. Either way the two of them needed to figure things out and fast. A bounty this large will attract the Guard. Any moment now the drop ships are going to show up and they'll be kicking down doors and applying boot to ass in order to find this woman.

Ness nodded at her advice, moving to pull a scarf up from what seemed to be nowhere, before she tied it around her head.
She watched the gang people zoom past her, moving to hold onto her cage as she went through what she had brought in the back of her head. She didn't have much anyway, all of it kept in her bag. She moved instinctively to gently grip the small orange necklace around her neck, sighing as it was still around her neck.
The dust seemed to mildly aggravate the creature in the cage, it let out a low rumble before it clattered around, moving its eyes to the front of the cage again as it blinked the dust out of its eye using the third eyelid.

The Bombers might have a field day on the Shade Skipper. She thought to herself, Unless the engine was damaged as badly as I thought it was. She remembered the faint ticking she had heard as she tried to escape, I hope I was just hearing things when I was trying to get every-
Her thoughts were cut off when she heard a rumble and a low explosion from the way they had driven from.
The Shade Skipper had an Oil Leak, and the sparks from the wires had caused a small fire underneath it, before suddenly exploding. Ness couldn't see if any of the Gangs had gotten to her ship or not yet, but that didn't matter anymore.

Ness had waited by the bike as Sev hopped off to check things, she didn't wait until Sev would come back or tell her to follow.
She closed her eyes as yellow runes flooded down her arms and some of her freckles glinted yellow, almost flickering like stars. She muttered a small prayer for the Shade Skipper, before she re-opened her eyes, flinching at the sight of Sev in front of her, especially with one of those fucking posters.

"Fuck." The Star-Born had uttered to herself, "I didn't expect those assholes to have been here."
She sighed, moving to grip the bridge of her nose gently. "I'm glad you're not just going to drag me off to those unreasonable fuckheads." She started, "I'm wrongly accused of killing a council member." She said with a sneer.
"I was there as his personal guard, why would I try and kill him?" She bit her tongue on more information, closing her eyes to calm herself.

She sighed quietly, "I'll tell you the full story." She started, "But I want to go somewhere where I can let my friend out." She continued, she looked at Sev, her eyes were worried, but her voice was truthful.
She had nothing else to do at this point, her ship crashed and possibly exploded, she was stranded, and now she had this... Stupidly Beautiful Android questioning her.
She paused, blinking, Did I just think that? She thought to herself before she held back on shaking her head, No I'm just still in shock from the crash. After everything with the Council... Everything with him.

Sev quietly regarded Ness for a few long moments. Her glowing eyes flickered as she studied the young woman from head to toe, processing the story she was just told. Ness didn't look the part of a cold blooded murderer. Sev spent enough time as a bounty hunter herself so she'd grown to recognize the types. Clearly there was more to the story than Nessa was willing to share right now and time was of the essence. For the moment Sev decided to trust her new charge and the gears of her mind began to formulate a plan to get off world before the Guard put the city on lock-down. She would need to talk to a couple of people, purchase a few things, and put an ear to the streets. It looked as though the two were linked together, if only for the time being. Although Sev's survival instinct was screaming internally to leave the woman be, let her fend for herself, slip away while you still have all of your pieces in place. She recalled a time where she was in a similar position. She recalled the woman that took a chance on her and taught her what it means to be truly human. "Hand over hand, you help who you can", the mantra rang out from the corners of the android's mind like a bell.
Wordlessly, Sev removed herself from her perch on the handlebars of the hover bike and briefly paced the cramped alleyway with her chin clasped between her index finger and thumb. A few seconds passed before she finally approached Nessa, standing about a head higher than the alien. "Okay", she said with a sigh, "I believe you. But if you want a chance at making it off of this rock alive, you're going to have to trust me. I know that's asking a lot but I have a plan to get us out of here". The android slowly and carefully opened up the side of her trench coat, taking special care to not scare Nessa off. Sev's kind were notorious for their inhuman drawing speed. After a second of rummaging through her pocket Sev brought out her hotel room keycard and shoved it into Nessa's hand, gently forcing her fingers to grip the sliver of plastic. "I'm staying at this hotel around the corner, room A1. Keep your head down and don't talk to anyone. Once you get in you can get cleaned up and let your....pet run around some. I'm gonna run a few errands, get you some clothes and see about getting us a ship". Sev threw herself back onto the hover bike seat and locked eyes with Nessa one more time, "What are you waiting for? Go"!

Ness closed her hand over the keycard, listening to the Androids every word, she wasn't usually the one to listen to orders, being the one who was the leader of the bodyguards.
She nodded once, looking to her cage as she mentioned her pet before she thought of the directions that Sev had given her.
She moved quickly, stepping away from the bike as Sev hopped on it. She wanted to say something before she just moved off towards the hotel that was mentioned. As she walked she started to unlink her cage from her side, moving to lift it up to eyeline.
"Hey buddy!" She said to whatever was in her cage, "We're gonna be somewhere soon okay? Then we're gonna let you out."
She walked along for a bit before she followed the directions Sev had given her to get to the hotel.

She moved to enter the Hotel quietly, looking at the Keycard before she moved towards the room that the keycard had access too. She ignored the looks and glances she was getting from the other patrons as she made her way to find the room.
It look the Star-Born a little bit, but she finally got to the room and used the keycard to open the door.
She stepped inside quietly and closed the door as she looked around, she placed the cage on the floor by the bed and sighed.

"What did I do to deserve this sort of shit..." She uttered as she knelt down to open the cage. "All I wanted was an easy life. Easy marriage, good job." She moved her hands to pull out the small creature hidden in the cage. She gave a few tugs at first, the beast suddenly not sure if they wanted to come out now.
"Hey, baby." She cooed, "We're safe, it's okay. No more flying for now. I promise."
The beast finally allowed itself to be pulled from the cage.

Nessa looked at the creature in her arms with a small smile.
The small deep green looking furred beast looked back at its owner, it's slender, soft furred tail swayed slightly.
The beast looked like a weird mix of a Puppy, and a raccoon. It was quadrupedal, had soft mid-thick fur and German Shepard-like ears, with the mark pattern of a raccoon.
"Hello my pretty baby!" Nessa said as she sat down on the bed, moving her tail out of the way this time. "I'm sorry that was such a bumpy ride."

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A figure stood at the top of a building, holding the poster of Nessa in their hands with a laugh.
"Ironic how it comes full circle." The figure said wit a tilt of their head, moving to sit down as they took out their drink bottle and took a bit of a sip.

They sat there for a moment, clicking through a little device to try and get updates from the fighters that had caught the Shade Skipper before they lost track of it.
"Engine Damage, Mechanical Damage, where ever she's landed she's shit out of luck on getting away."

Sev watched Ness like a sentinel as she wondered off into the dank alley and out of her line of sight. Without wasting another second, she rocketed back on to the bustling streets. There was an electrical energy in the streets. News of the crashed bounty was probably starting to get around. Below, she could see some of the local cut-throats mobilizing their teams for a witch hunt. They had to get out of here and fast. Worst case scenario they'd have to shoot their way out. Sev managed to reach her first stop without any issue. She found herself in a seemingly derelict apartment complex. Children of various species ran through the almost vacant parking lot, throwing rocks and deftly avoiding the shards of broken glass that littered the ground. The parking area was only occupied by one other vehicle, a cargo carrier being guarded by a massive blue scaled Vesh. The Vesh were a warrior like race of reptilians. Sev parked the hover bike a couple of spaces and made her may over to her contact. "If it isn't my favorite customer", the Vesh greedily rubbed it's clawed hands together, "What can I do for ya". He felt comfortable enough to address Sev in his native language. The bouncer Sev had dealt with earlier was a huge guy, this Vesh made him look like a kindergartner by comparison. His blue scales glinted in the dull glow of the streetlights. His green draconian eyes shined like emeralds. A forked tongue lashed at the golden fang that jutted from his bottom jaw as he spoke.
"Good to see you too Serkash", Sev spoke in basic, "Wish it was under better circumstances though".
"What are you working again? For you, I can throw in a discount. It's the least I can do. What do you need"?
"A couple of retro automatics would be nice. Maybe an assault rifle and something smaller like an SMG. Oh, and throw in a belt of frags too if you don't mind".
The lumbering Vesh wrenched the trailer door of the cargo carrier open and began rummaging through his stock and loading it into a black duffel bag. "You must be planning something big huh", he called over his shoulder, "Did you hear about that bounty that just crashed? Ten million Cs. I wouldn't know what to do with it all myself". Sev opted to not speak on the subject. In her time on this planet she's that it's always better to keep your mouth shut and your ears open. She was on good enough terms with the arms dealer but she wouldn't trust him as far as she could throw him. The android watched carefully as Serkash packed her bag and waited impatiently to complete the transaction. "Here ya go, Blue", he handed over a the duffel bag, "I packed you a few extra clips and a couple of other things just cuz I like ya". The weight of the bag would've been cumbersome for a human but Sev shouldered it like a purse. She handed over a handful of credits, more than enough to cover the cost of the firearms. Upon completing the transaction Sev headed back to her bike and stowed the loot in a small cargo hatch under the seat. "A pleasure as always", Serkash called out while he clawed through the credits.
Her next stop took her deeper into the belly of the city. One of the many docking stations. Sev parked the bike a relatively discrete location and made her way through the sliding doors to enter the docking depot. A human shaped android with a chrome plated exterior greeted her. "Oh, long time no see", it's voice was raspy and robotic, "I didn't expect to see you again since last time". It took one of it's heavy metallic hands and gestured towards several scorch marks that littered the counter that it sat behind. Sev recalled the shootout that she took part in when she first landed here. Those blaster marks weren't going anywhere anytime soon. "That got the Bombers off your back though didn't it", Sev laughed. The android nodded silently and pretended to fiddle with the screen in front of it. "So, uh is there anything I can help you with Miss"? Sev leaned over the counter so that she was mere inches from the other android's face. "I'm calling in a favor", she said shortly, "I need a ship and you owe me one".
The Depot android whirled it's head around left, then right. Checking for any prying eyes from it's superiors. "Okay", it hissed, "What do you need"?
"Nothing fancy. I can work with a small cargo rig or something. One cabin, it doesn't need to be huge. It just needs to be able to get me to the next system. And I need it tonight".
After a few moments of searching the database of ships the depot android perked up, "We have something, but it won't be ready until some time tomorrow".
Sev slammed a hand on the desk a bit harder than she meant to and created a small dent, "Don't fuck me on this X23. I need to get out of here".
"Miss I'm sorry but that's the best I can do. These junkers take some time to prepare. I can have the guys get started tonight but it'll be awhile".
"Fine", Sev managed through gritting teeth. She turned with a flourish and made her exit. Everything seemed to be going fine for the most part. Sev was filing away her mental checklist and there was only one last stop to make before she headed back to the hotel with Nessa. There were a few questions that remained unanswered and if she was willing to put a target on her back then she was going to need the full story. Sev turned onto the dimly lit alleyway where she parked the hover bike, and that's when she saw her. Perched on the seat of the hover bike with her legs crossed ever so delicately. Clad in a form fitting black stealth suit that bore the mark of the Elite Guard on the right side of her chest and on the outside of either thigh. With a white flight jacket thrown over her slender frame just for fashion's sake. Tan skin adorned her master-crafted face. Her strawberry blonde hair was styled into an undercut, exposing the external input plug on the left side of her head. The same kind that Sev herself used to have. Through the tangles of lifelike hair a familiar pair of glowing tangerine colored eyes pierced the darkness of the alley like a stray blaster shot. "Six", Sev managed to udder. If she had an actual heart it would've fallen through her stomach and the other side of the planet.
"Well, if it isn't my darling baby sister", Six spoke as she elegantly dismounted the hover bike. Her voice was velvet but her words dripped with venom. "After all this time I thought you were dead. Yet here you are. Hiding away on this trash fire of a planet, living among the rabble like a common thug. You know, I came here to put down that 'Star Hopper'and low and behold I've found you". As she monologues she creeps closer and closer. Sev has her fists clenched and ready to defend herself but she glances down to find her hands shaking. Her body has betrayed her and she's unable to spring into action. What is this? What the hell is happening? This was the android's first taste of complete and total fear. Six pressed forward, continuing to close the gap between the two of them. Once she was a few inches away she leaned in to whisper in Sev's ear. "You betrayed us. Betrayed our family. And for what? Because you've got some new found humanity in you all of a sudden. Well I've got news for you...." In one swift, dexterous motion Six managed to unsheathe the high frequency combat knife from the small of her back. Sev's body finally jolted into action. She went for a jab and Six avoided it completely, punishing Sev with a cut on her forearm. Sev spun around with a backhand and met nothing but empty air. Her head suddenly rocked to the side at an inhuman angle as Six delivered a roundhouse seemingly out of nowhere sending Sev crashing into a nearby wall. Six walked over to her fallen sister like a model on a runway before grabbing her by the collar and lifting her from the ground. "You bleed blue like the rest of us", Six showed her the bright blue substance that was on the blade of her knife before it evaporated from the intense heat of the weapon. "You were designed to be a weapon, just like me. The only difference is that I know my place. I know where my loyalties lie". Six drew back the knife, ready to finish the job she'd started. Then she hesitates for a moment. Sev was staring her in the eyes, defiantly. "Sis, you don't have to do this", she struggles. Six tightens her grip for a moment then drops Sev to the ground once more in a heap.
"You're right", Six turns and begins to walk into the darkness of the alleyway, "You're not ready yet. I want you to give me a real fight. Dealing with these meatbags has made you soft and sloppy. I'll find you again but in the meantime I have a job to do. I'll be watching, Seven". With that, she was gone. There was no trace of her to be found. She'd vanished into the night like a shadow. Sev lay in the alley too afraid to move. Her ears were still ringing from the impact of the kick she'd received. She spent a few moments re-calibrating her vision before she slowly picked herself up from the ground. She looked like hell and her healing factor was delayed so she was still bleeding slightly. The android made her way over to the hover bike and found that it wouldn't start. It just sat lifeless on the ground like any other hunk of junk. If she had to hazard a guess, Six had removed the power core. It was one of her favorite little head games. A thing she'd always do to her targets. With a defeated sigh Sev checked the cargo hatch and found that her guns had been untouched. She shouldered the bag and attempted to blend into the busy streets as best as she could.
It took a little longer to get back to the hotel than it should have but Sev managed to make it back in one piece. Before calling it a night she remembered to stop by one of the street venders and grab Nessa a change of clothes. Given her keen android eyes she didn't have much of a problem guesstimating the proper sizes. With her brief yet hazardous mission complete she finally returned to the hotel. The room door slid open with an audible hiss and she was greeted with the sight of Nessa playing around with some tiny green...."What the fuck is that"?

Nessa had placed her companion on the ground for a moment, moving to pull off her side-bag. She paused slightly before moving to pull off her vest and shirt, revealing the small tank top styled crop-top underneath.
She fanned out her wings and watched as the yellow streaks listen in the sun; she breathed in quietly as she felt the warmth from this planets star.
She moved to look through her bag with a small sigh; she pulled out a small red pouch and placed it beside her.
"This'll be for for getting me here.." She said to no one in particular. She looked to her companion and smiled. "You okay Ra?"

The small creature looked at it's owner before it's raccoon-striped tail wagged happily. Nessa moved to pull out a small bit of dried meat and tossed it to the creature, watching Ra leap and get it.
Nessa relaxed as she was able to rest without worry for the moment. She could hear the hustle and bustle around the place, but she was hidden in the room.
She moved back to looking through the bag before she pulled out two small button-like machines.

She moved silently, placing the buttons on the palms of her hands before she breathed, pulling the energy from the light around her before moving her arms out and flexed her fingers.
She felt the buttons twist and felt the cold metal encase over her hands, forming what seemed to be blasters.
She moved her arms to look at the blasters properly, she checked to make sure the safety was off before she tinkered with it for a little.

She started to pack her tools away as she closed her blasters, watching them return back to the buttons. She moved to attach them to her belt.
She looked down to Ra as she had started to clean up, the small beast was staring up at her expectedly.
She laughed and lifted Ra up and nuzzled him. She heard footsteps, the first thing she had really heard for a while. He tensed as the door opened, she relaxed as she saw Sev.
"Oh!" She started, forgetting she was half unclothed. "This is Ra!" She said with a bigger smile, she held him out to her with a tilt of her head, "He's a Phantor; they're kinda of like a puppy... beast."

The way the sun slowly swept into the room seemed to dance over her Lilac skin; the energy still weaving through her body, which caused her skin to streak with bright yellow markings- Something that many would only know through the Legends of her people.
The way the womans shirt sat; a large diamond-star shaped area of scar tissue could be seen- it was lilac purple like her skin around the inside before the tissue slowly faded to stark white in the middle of her chest. Something about it indicated that it wasn't just a normal scar.

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The figure looked at their device for a moment before standing up and hopping off the building, their dirty blonde hair flickering behind her as she did.
She landed quietly and with ease, before she started towards one of the yards of the scavenger groups- one that she knew was headed towards the wreck.

The shadows danced over her soft grey uniform, a large embroyed emblym of the Universal Council shone it's reddish sheen as she entered the building. She didn't bother to hide her large rifle blaster on her back, or the small hand blasters on her hips.
She slammed the door open as she entered, her emerald green eyes scanning the area.
She needed no introduction, everywhere she went people seemed to slink back in fear or respect- she didn't care which one it was.

She seemed to narrow her eyes at the people around her, to think someone such as herself would be sent out on this mission; after all she was the Elder Sister of the late Council Leader Lyth Aldu.

The android didn't really pay much attention to the fact that Nessa was partially undressed. Things like modesty and shame don't really apply that much Sev and her kind. However she did manage to contort her face in order to reflect genuine disgust when Nessa presented her pet Phantor. Sev was never really fond of vermin type animals. Concepts like 'cute and cuddly' were also lost on her. Sev liked to focus more on practicality and the way people and things could be used to obtain an objective. Ra didn't exactly fit into the practical category as far as Sev was concerned. She eyeballed the tiny beast for moment, analyzing it to see if it was archived in her database. No search results were found according to her heads-up display. The occasional lines of static would roll over her field of vision like a VHS tape that's been played too many times. That blow to her head was having some lasting effects. Sev shook her briefly before tossing a few bundles of clothing onto the bed. "Here", she said simply.
She then knelt down to rummage through the bag of firearms she'd been carrying and pulled out the assault rifle she'd bought. It was a classic shade of matte black with a brown leather shoulder strap. Serkash had been so kind as to throw in an automatic pistol and a sawed-off shotgun that looked slightly homemade. She shrugged herself out of her trench, which was still splattered with bright blue blood from her earlier scrap with Six. Turning over her right arm to asses the damage, she noticed an X shaped scar just below her elbow. Under normal circumstances the wound would've healed completely, but apparently the intense heat of Six's knife could do permanent damage to her body which was alarming. Sev took her free hand and rubbed the sore spot before casually wiping the blood away on her jeans. She carefully draped her coat over the desk chair that she hadn't been using before sitting down to field strip the assault rifle to ensure that it was in working condition. As she sat there and meticulously picked the firearm apart she cast a glance over in Nessa's direction. Her silhouette cast oddly shaped shadows as light from the morning sun spilled into the room.
"I....I don't think I've properly introduced myself", Sev said quietly, "You can call me Sev. I figured you might as well know my name since we're gonna be on the run together". Once she finished neatly deconstructing the firearm she set the individual pieces on the desk in front of her and swiveled the seat of her chair around to face Nessa directly. Her glowing azure eyes scanned Nessa from head to toe once again, noting her wings and trails of energy that seemed to radiate from her body. She knit her brow in a confused fashion "Nessa, what are you?", she asked. "I have a catalog of almost every known species built into my brain and I've never seen anything like you".

From her vantage point on a rooftop Six watched the massive sun rise over the horizon. Her keen eyes could even see the particles of sand being swept up by the winds that mercilessly ravaged the wastes beyond the city. Time was running out. If she didn't manage to get a solid lead on this bounty soon then she'd end up losing the trail. So far she'd only managed to find her long lost sister. The only sister she had left. Seven wasn't even as formidable as she used to be. The android felt.....Conflicted? Or maybe it was just a minor system malfunction. She shouldn't 'feel' anything. Especially not for the one that abandoned their family. Throughout the years sometimes Sev was the only one she'd ever had by her side. Six steeled herself, now wasn't the time to get sentimental on another piece of hardware. A job needed to get done. Her creators expected nothing less than perfection on her mission and she always delivered. Six stuffed her hands into her jacket pockets and strutted over to the edge of the building she'd been staking out. Apparently a bunch of the local filth had pilfered the crash site of the Shade Skipper. She'd been listening to the gangers talk most of the night and some of them witnessed a blue-eyed android with silver hair speeding from the scene. Curious indeed.
Just as Six was about to pounce on the unsuspecting thugs, a familiar figure entered the scene. A stuffed-shirt Council bounty hunter. A mischievous smirk tugged at the side of her face. With that, she sprung from position on the roof and landed on the hoods of one of the gang's hover crafts. The machine dented with an audible moan from the metal underneath Six's weight. The thugs scrambled about, already on edge because of the woman that had shown up moments before. "You know, I think I've figured out why you're so bad at this", Six addressed the woman directly. She casually stepped down from the hover craft, hands still in her pockets. Her movements where slow and methodical, like a panther stalking it's prey. Six's eyes shown with the same hue of the rising sun as her eyes flitted from one ganger to the next. She was sizing them up, waiting for just one to react. "You can't just stand there and loom over them like you're some sort of monster", Six continued. In an instant, one of the humans closest to Six lunged at her with a jagged rusty pipe. Before the fool even had a chance to realize what was happening, Six had managed to rip the pipe from his hands and shatter both of his knee caps causing him to slump to the ground moaning and wailing. "You have to get your hands a little dirty. Try being a little more social". The android knelt down and pulled the man's face from the ground by his hair. " You might be able to walk again, but you only get to live once. Now, be a good boy and tell us who you saw with the android".

Nessa looked at the clothes tossed onto the bed, she moved to place Ra up on her shoulder as she walked over to inspect what the Android had gotten her. Ra ran down the side of her arm and leapt onto the bed. he picked up a piece of clothing and quickly ran up Ness' arm again.
The Star-Born smiled at her companions curiosity and took the shirt from his maw. She lifted Ra up and placed him on the bed without a word, allowing silence to settle over them as Sev seemed to work on the guns. She slipped into her clothes easily, having to push her wings through the shirt, making sure not to rip too much through the top.
She had seen the blood on the androids clothes, but didn't want to question it just yet. She slipped off her old pants, revealing more streaks that seemed to twinkle down her thighs and legs. She slipped on the new pants as Sev swiveled around to look at her. She nodded at the name Sev gave to her, it was interesting watching her work.
"What I am?" Nessa repeated, blinking quietly before she gave a small smile, "I'm what... Commoners, would refer to as Star-Born." There was silence for a moment.
"They're a long dead race now, sadly. From what I know, I'm the last of my kind. Centuries ago they disappeared because the star they had as their sun, exploded. Poetically sad, in my opinion." She said before she stepped backwards to lean against the wall, looking to the floor. "Many people never believe me when I mention it, sadly. Most don't even remember the breed, The Council knows though, Why would the council forget about the race they used as their fucking weapon in the last war." She sneered, her runes down her arms glinting before fading as she let out a half-defeated sigh.
Ra moved over the bed quietly, lifting up the pouch his owner had set aside before bouncing over to Sev, he held it out in his paws with a sway of his tail.
"Oh yeah! Thank you Ra." Nessa started before she looked at Sev, "I don't know if you're still wanting payment for getting me out of there, now that we're both kinda... escaping from everything. But I thought you'd like those, I don't know how much they'd sell for, but you can only get them from a Star-Born." Nessa started, inside the pouch were a large handful of slightly smoky grey crystals that seemed to glisten in the sunlight.

The Council member furrowed her brow at the sight of the Android, listening to her words as she moved her left hand towards her blaster before she attacked one of the scavengers.
She sneered at the idea of being 'social', her brother could do it, but she never really gained that skill. "Social Huh?" The female said with a frown before she looked around, I knew about getting my hands dirty, I'm not afraid to do so if necessary." Her tone was cold, no real emotion flooding through her words.
The sound of a door creeking open echoed from in front of them, the large cloaked human stepped out of his safe room.
"Feya." He said coldly, "I wasn't expecting you so soon."
"And what of it? I told you when I would be here." She hissed, biting her tongue as she glanced to the Android beside her, "Surely you're not expecting me to work with this..." She glanced at Six momentarily, trying to think of the right words- Not wanting to get herself injured before she found that Bitch of a Star-Born, "Other person."
The man laughed, his tone hearty and strong, "No no, of course not Feya." He looked to Six with his grey-blue eyes glistening, "She's not with us. She is a wanderer."
Feya rolled her eyes, "Look, I didn't come here to babble. Show me what you found on the Shade Skipper."

Sev discretely scooted her chair back a few inches as Ra approached her. The small creature seemed to have some intelligence. Rodents are among some of the most intelligent mammals in existence after all. However, Sev still wasn't completely sold on the thing though. A part of her apprehension to deal with the creature came from the fact that she didn't really know her own strength and she didn't want to run the risk of going in to pet it and end up damaging it. That and she was still convinced that it was gross. It's tiny raccoon-like paws unnerved her. The android continued to listen intently as Nessa explained her peoples origins. Her story was absolutely fascinating. It sounded like something from a fable. Sev reached out and gently plucked the smokey grey crystal from Nessa's hand and began turning it around in her own. Her internal heads-up display was buzzing with activity as she analyzed the object. It's composition and molecular structure was unlike anything Sev had ever come across. Whatever this crystal was it was way too valuable to be hocked on the streets for a few credits. "Nah", Sev thought aloud, "Can't sell something like this. Scanner says it's priceless but, I might have some ideas about how to make it useful though". As she spoke, her heads-up display was running tests and creating diagrams about how she could properly integrate the crystal with her sidearm without causing any issues. The prospect of an upgrade for her hand-cannon excited her slightly.
"Thanks", she said as she carefully placed the crystal on the desk next to the neat arrangement of assault rifle parts. She leaned back in the chair causing it to creak as she adopted a more relaxed posture. Silence fell upon the cramped room yet again, with the exception of Ra's panting. It's been a long time since Sev actually had company. Her people skills were getting rusty for sure. It was difficult for her to get comfortable enough to let her guard down and just talk for a change. There were no stakes involved, no one was being hurt, she wasn't under blaster fire or anything remotely threatening. She'd been navigating the streets and the violence of the wastes but the art of conversation was something that she was lacking in. Nessa's presence made her painfully aware of how much she missed having allies. "I um", she croaked awkwardly, "I know what it feels like to think you're the last of your kind. I can empathize with you on that. It's....It's hard. It can be lonely and isolating. For the longest time I thought that I was the last of my series but up until very recently...", she trails off feeling as though she's oversharing with this woman that she hardly knew. For the first time in a long while she actually felt vulnerable. Sensing her own moment of weakness, Sev sat up once again and went back to work on the assault rifle. This time she worked to put the firearm back together again. Her perfectly manicured fingers moved deftly and with the prescience of a seasoned veteran.
"How do you know for sure that you're the last Star-Born anyways?", Sev quickly tried to shift the subject from her own familial background. "Your people had to have colonized another planet somewhere or something. They could be out there somewhere. Maybe you just haven't found them yet". Sev continued to work without looking up this time.

Six's eyes flickered like a fire up towards the cloaked figure that had just revealed himself. The android acknowledged him with a playful and exaggerated bow, "Your Councilship". The grin that once adorned her face was immediately gone when the human she was grappling with spat on her. " Hey fuck you tin man. I don't know nothin 'bout no droid alright", the man exclaimed, his screams could probably be heard for a couple of blocks, "You broke my knees you crazy blue blooded freak". Six did in fact destroy the man's knees. He looked like a tube of half used toothpaste from his place on the pavement. Six reared back with the pipe in her hand ready to end the meatbag's miserable life when another one of the gangers interfered, placing himself between the android and his friend. "Whoa whoa whoa. Stop please, stop", he spoke with his hands up indicating his surrender. He was a younger man, maybe in his late teens or so. "You're looking for that android right? One with the glowing blue eyes and the silver hair"?
Six released her first victim and him get dragged off for medical attention by his fellow gang members. "That's the one", she loomed over the young man. After his friend's rude outburst, every fiber in her wanted to turn this place into a massacre. She knew that she could and it would be easy. "Look, I don't know where she is but I do know where she does business. There's this Vesh guy with a gold tooth in the Sandtrap Projects. He sells guns out there. Might be able to give you some intel". Six reached down and took the young man's face in her hand and squeezed until he looked like a fish. "Now see? It wasn't that hard now was it", she gave him a playful slap on the cheek before turning on her heels. The rest of the gangers that had been hanging out began to scramble away in several different directions as she passed. She could still hear the other guy screaming and crying about his knees somewhere in the distance. Six had been so wrapped up in the sport of intel gathering that she hadn't bothered to pay attention to what Feya was doing. It didn't matter anyways. She was way closer to hitting her target anyways. "I'm already on the trail Feya. Better catch up", Six called over her shoulder, mocking the woman like a child playing a deadly game of hide and seek.

Ra swayed his tail before he bounced back over to Ness's bag, moving to wriggle his way into it, seeming to disappear in the bag- although it didn't seem to be possible with the size that it was...?
Ness glanced down at Ra as he disappeared into her bag before he looked back to Sev. She nodded at her words before she closed her eyes to focus on something for now, her runes glistened slightly before she looked back up, after Sev had spoken about herself. "The Council told me." She started, "First time they captured me." Her foot tapped the wall slightly as she tried to shake off the bad memories, "They said it was almost a shame to kill me and lose the last one of my kind."
Memories almost exploded in her mind, memories of her being chained and taken to the Councils highest Prison; The Black Gate. The stench of the place still stuck in her mind, her fists clenched as she shook her head; snapping herself back to reality.
"My species weren't... Travelers." She spoke quietly, "They liked to stay by their star and stay safe. Of course that didn't work out for them and the Council ended up using them as warriors. They either died in battle or perished under their star."
Ness' bag moved as Ra seemed to pull himself out, he held what seemed to be a bit of cloth in his paws as she moved to climb up Ness onto her shoulder. He made a bark-like sound before he moved to fumble around with the cloth.
"What's wrong buddy?" She asked him with a tilt of the head, she saw the sticking on the cloth and took it from the small creature. "No, We don't need to go into that. That's not important."

Feya gave a sneer towards Six as she harmed the scavenger. She watched her leave, not reacting to the Androids taunts before she stepped towards the Scavenger leader.
"Right, now show me what you got from the Shade Skipper." She said as she turned her face to face the hooded man.
She narrowed her eyes as he held a gun towards her, the barrel glowing to show it was loaded.
"I'm sorry Feya." The man said with a small smirk, "I'd rather not lose value on what I fi-" He was cut off from a blast of plasma narrowly missing his head, his cloak singed on where the plasma hit.
"I'm not here to play games Cam. I need answers and I'd rather not send the council mutts after you."
"O-Okay." Cam replied before he stepped aside, allowing Feya entry into the place.
Feya walked in slowly, narrowing her eyes at the darker areas and tried to keep her guard up, she had her blaster in her hand, refusing to drop it for now.
"We didn't find much." Cam admitted once the door was closed, "It was either gutted before she escaped, or she gutted it before she left."
"Of course she did." Feya replied, not sounding convinced.
She entered a larger room after stepping down some stairs. She looked up and a look of shock washed over her face, "You got the Shade Skipper back??" She asked loudly, only getting a smirk and a nod from Cam.

While she appeared to look quite busy as she reassembled the assault rifle, Sev listened intently to every word Nessa had to say. By the time the Star-Born had finished with her statement Sev had already managed to put the firearm back together. She aimed the weapon at the wall in front of her and peered down the holographic site. Everything appeared to be in order. Silently, Sev placed the rifle on the floor beside the desk before plucking the sub machine gun from the duffel bag and repeating the earlier process of stripping the weapon down. "The Council are known for their lies Nessa", she spoke as she worked, "For all you know there could be more Star-Born out there. You can't lose hope". It didn't take Sev as long to completely dismantle the weapon this time. The components of the gun sat on the desk, organized in a fashion similar to the assault rifle before. Sev adjusted to face Nessa before she spoke again, "By the way, we've got a ship. It won't be ready until later tonight though. We should be able to get clear of any checkpoints or blockades if we time this right. I've got a place that we can lay low and come up with an actual plan". Sev's eyes scanned the room as she took a mental assessment of everything they would probably need to have. Ra wasn't exactly high on the priority list at this point.
The android turned and continued her work. "If you need food or whatever I can run and grab something. Other than that we should probably stay on lockdown. I suggest you get some sleep. I can keep an eye on things while you get some rest". The android continued to work, accompanied by the 'clicking' and 'clacking' of the various gun components sliding and fitting together. Once Sev was finished, she repeated the process of aiming down the sites before placing the machine gun next to the assault rifle and beginning work on the automatic pistol. This was an activity that she really enjoyed. It was similar to what happens when a child receives a new toy. There was something relaxing she found in breaking the firearms down to ensure that they would work properly. It was partly due to the fact that she knew that she could trust the weapon if she examined it. "What exactly is your endgame anyway Nessa", Sev asked as she worked, "Do you have a plan? Potentially you can just stay on the run forever but assume you wouldn't want that. So what's your goal? You're an exotic and high priority target. How do you see this playing out"?

Nessa listened to Sev's words. Part of it filled her heart with hope for her kind, as Star-Born that tried to breed with other species never really seemed to birth more Star-Borns, despite their genes being dominant rather than Recessive.
She mulled over the idea of food, she didn't need to eat as of yet. But she may need some later, but she shook it off, she didn't want to make Sev go out for her.
Ra moved down his owners' arm again and leaped onto the bed at the mention of sleep. He looked up to Ness before he swayed his tail, moving to settle down and sit much like a cat does, all his limbs tucked under his belly and his tail coiled by his side.
Ness continued to stay quiet, even at the mention of rest. Sev seemed focus on her tinkering, so she moved to do some of her own. She pulled up one of her buttons again, she clicked it once, but didn't have it on her palm as it constructed itself into a gun again. She moved a small screwdriver from her belt and started to unscrew a panel. She worked in silence before Sev asked about her goal.
"I..." She started before her voice trailed off; this was a troublesome question. She had to explain herself now. "I need to find the final Resting Place for my Husbands Ashes." She said, "Well, that's at least the first part. The second part is I need to prove myself not-guilty. Which isn't going to be too easy. But I... I have a plan, I need to find who killed the Council Member I was said to kill. I know their codename, but I haven't had the time to look and see if I could track them."
She placed her screwdriver down and moved to take the panel off; revealing older styled wiring on the first look of it, but upon closer inspection would show some prisice wiring that is rare to see. "I honestly don't know how this will play out." She started, "At this point... I just... Need to take my gem to the place my late Husband mentioned."
Ra's ears pricked up at her talking about it, moving to place his hand on her face before stretching and rolling onto his back and falling asleep again.
"It will be hard to do. The Sunless planet of Nolphern... I've never been to a Sunless planet. He told me it was beautiful and he was going to take me there on our next Star-Anniversary."
Her voice trembled slightly, before she shook her head. Dwelling on the past wasn't going to help now; it made her hands unsteady, and she needed it steady to figure out which wires she had to pull and twist.

Cam smiled before he looked up to the wreck that was the remains of the Shade Skipper.
"I don't think you'll get anything of importance. It was stripped when we got there." He said with a wave of his arm.
"That's fine." Feya started, stepping towards the ship before she leaped up to it, despite it was hanging from the ceiling, Feya got up there with ease. "I doubt she's smart enough to erase her logs, She's got to have the co-ords of where she was planning to go."
Feya rummaged around a little bit, unluckily for her the hull of the ship was fried, if Nessa didn't wipe the logs, they'd be long gone now. Feya swore loudly before she walked into the shell of the back, looking over at the pictures and note clippings left on the walls.
There was different new papers, all in different languages. There were different names all scatters around, highlighted or underlined. What the fuck was she planning?" Feya uttered quietly, "She's like a fucking investigator."

I wry smile tugged at either side of the android's face. "So it sounds like we're embarking on a proper quest then", she said more to herself. The idea of taking part in a grand adventure to find some long lost world was fairly exciting. With the rest of her arsenal maintained, Sev took the blaster from her hip holster and began cleaning the barrel so that the name that was carved into it began to shimmer and shine in the daylight that was trailing into the room. She was gentle with the weapon, taking special care not to damage it's design in any way. She handled it in completely different manner than she'd handled the earlier weapons. It held a certain significance to the android. "Finding your mythical planet shouldn't be too hard right? We can ask around and shake down a few leads. Clearing your name though, that's gonna be a challenge. Once the Council get's on a witch hunt there's not a lot you can do to get off of their shit list". Sev gently placed the blaster on the desk and silently moved across the room and hit a switch beside the window. A tinted visor slid down over the plate glass window. The room darkened slightly with the exception of Sev's glowing eyes and the energy radiating from Nessa's body. Sev made her way back over to the desk she'd been sitting at and posted up on the side of it and watched Nessa work for a moment. "I have one more question and then I'll leave you alone", she spoke quietly, "Do you have any idea who they're sending to hunt you down"? Playing dumb wasn't exactly the Sev's strong suit but she didn't want to give Nessa another thing to worry about. The last thing that she wanted to tell her was that a super killer android was out to get her. She really just wanted to know what else to expect. For the moment her sister was the only real threat to their escape. So far anyways.....

Ness continued with her blasters, moving to tie a few wires and fix some panels on the inside. She listened to Sev's words before she sighed as she mentioned about who was hunting her down.
"Who isn't." She started with a bit of a hollow laugh, she swayed her tail before she closed her blaster and placed the button that held it on the bed. "I could only imagine their best.. Probably." She scowled, "I've convinced a lot of the lesser hunters off my tail, as well as... killed a few others."
She paused for a moment, pulling out her gun; it looked to be as old as her ship. It was obvious that the woman liked the idea of older things, she furrowed her brow.
"Probably one of the other Councillers, but that's more of a personal vendetta." She shook her head and moved to pull the ammo click out of her gun and put the safety on. She was careful with this weapon; taking time to intricately clean the metal.
There was silence that fell over the room, the sound of both of them cleaning the only thing echoing around. Ra's soft snoring slowly joined in on the noise around the two.
"Hey Sev?" Nessa started, "Thank you. Thank you for not just.... Not handing me in." She finished before she sighed, she was able to relatively relax for a moment, moving her gun aside before she laid back, looking at Ra quietly.

Sev took a deep breath before responding. "We're just getting started Nessa. Besides, somebody once got me out of a similar situation. I think it's only right that I pay it forward". The android paced the length of the tiny hotel room, briefly and silently like a caged hunting animal. She was in the middle of an internal debate with herself. Should she give Nessa the heads up on her sister? Granted, if Nessa knew the things that Six was capable of doing she'd probably thank her for the warning. Sev was even sort of relieved that Six even made herself known to her in the first place. It was slightly uncharacteristic of Six actually. It was probably just a part of the head games that she likes to play with her targets. Odds are Six already knew where they were or maybe just the general area. Either way the two of them weren't completely safe. It would probably be within Nessa's best interest to at least spill some of the beans.
The android stood smack in the center of the filthy hotel room floor. She nervously scratched at the back of her neck, "You do have some of the best coming after you. Specifically, an android like me. We need to be extra careful moving forward. We won't be allowed to make any mistakes". Hopefully Nessa wouldn't press too hard to find out where she was getting this information from. That would be diving deeper than Sev was comfortable with at the moment. Those particular wounds were still fresh. Sev made her way over to the opposite end of the room and propped herself up against the door. She mentally assessed the amount of arms and ammunition that Nessa and herself had. Between the two of them it seemed like they were well equipped to defend themselves. Now if they could just manage to survive until the ship was ready. Having a battle plan and being prepared for combat was one thing, Sev had gotten this far by that alone. The one thing she absolutely hated was the waiting. "I'll take first watch Nessa. You get some sleep. You'll need it".