Nessa flinched slightly as Mym hugged her, She fought it for a moment before she moved to hug Mym back gently.She let her tears flow before she froze when Sev came in and asked what was wrong. "Just... A mini break down, I'm fine." She said with a weak smile. Ra pressed his head gently against Nessa's head with a bit of a purr, before moving to look towards Sev with a wag of his tail.
"How was the training?" She asked with a tilt of her head, she glanced to the book she had given Mym, happy that she was intrigued with it.

"I can speak to her any way I like." The Elite said, standing up to face Six, "I need to know what happened to cause Feya to become like this." He said with a furrowed brow, "I know you probably don't care, but Feya has had Chemical implants to keep her... Not bestial. So what the fuck happened?"
Feya's eyes started to focus again, slowly shaking her head as she focused to real life and looked towards the Elite, her eyes gleaming with anger.

"I learned a few new things", Sev said, "Or rather I remembered a few things that I had forgotten about". She flexed a pinky finger on either hand and foot long, curved serrated blades shot out of her forearms. Myrn jumped at the sudden unsheathing blades. "Not bad huh? There's other stuff t-".
"Nessa needs a break", Myrn cut in, "Nessa needs a break and so do you, Sev". The android retracted the blades with a jarring metal on metal sound. "But the ship", Sev started, "We have to get that thing in shape as soon as possible so-".
"So what", Myrn was puffing out her chest now and standing her ground, "So you can run off and get the both of you killed on some backwater planet? I'll start prepping for the ship maintenance in a second but for now you need to take a break. If you keep going at this rate then you'll just run Nessa into the ground and I'm not letting you do that. We're not fighting a war anymore Seven and she's not Amanzi". Myrn stopped herself immediately after the name left her lips, placing a hand over her mouth as if to take it back. Sev furrowed her brows and a look of frustration formed on her elegant face, "Don't", she said with a cracking voice. "I'm sorry", Myrn uttered as she brushed past Sev to leave the bedroom and vanished into the cavern. Without another word Sev planted herself on the plush seat that Myrn was sitting in across from Nessa. She sat there with her face in her hands attempting to hide the artificial tears that were burning down the sides of her cheeks already. It was rare for Myrn to vocalize herself like that to Sev but whenever she did she always knew what buttons to push and what nerves to hit. In a way the girl was right and that's what hurt Sev the most. After a moment or two of awkward silence Sev lifted her head and wiped her tears with the back of her hand. With a sniffle she turned to Nessa, "She's right and I'm sorry. I'm not real so I don't have a lot of the same feelings that you get and I'm realizing now that I've been pushing you pretty hard for these last couple of days. Between trying to keep you safe and seeing my sister again I've been a little inconsiderate and selfish. Just know that I have the best intentions for the both of us. We'll get your name cleared and I'll go back to doing my stuff. Promise". Sev reached out and offered Nessa a pinky finger, hoping that the notion of a pinky promise wasn't lost on a Star-Born.

Six admired the captain's bravery in speaking to her in the way that he did. It was almost refreshing considering that most Elites never spoke back or either avoided her completely because of her reputation. "You're right captain, I don't care", Six crossed the room and sat in one of the chairs and crossed her legs, "But if it means that much to you I'll give you a summary of what happened. We tracked the Star-Born and her accomplice to the ship depot. We'd split up beforehand and I was to distract the android that she was with while Feya here took on the Star Hopper herself. As you know things went left for the both of us and the targets got away. The next time I saw Feya she was beaten within an inch of her life and practically foaming at the mouth. It was pretty disgusting honestly. If you need anymore details I'd be happy to send you the report that I already filed. How's that"?

Nessa listened to Mym and Sev, she felt terrible for causing the rift between them, as Sev collapsed down and tried to hide her tears, the dots on her face flushed a light blue. "Don't be sorry." Ness started, breathing in as she leaned back, moving to look towards the ceiling with a sigh, "And you are real. Please don't say you're not. Just because you're an Android doesn't mean you're not real. You're very real. You're real to Mym. And you're real to me." Nessa looked back towards Sev, moving to slowly move her hand up Sevs arm to grip her hand with a weak smile.
The tears still stained her skin, a few still slowly flooding down as she looked at Sev. "I... I don't blame you for pushing me as hard as you have been." She said with a sigh, "I should be used to it. It's what I did before I became a bodyguard. You haven't been selfish, you risked your fucking life to save me! You could have easily turned me in to the council when you found me crashed!" Nessa moved her free hand to slam it into her forehead as she leaned back again with a weak laugh, "I would be dead with out you Sev." She started, her laughing slowly settling down, "You haven't been the slightest bit selfish or inconsiderate, You gave me clothes, you allowed me to stay in the room you rented. You've risked your fucking life for me. It's me who has been selfish- I've done nothing for you." She moved her hand as Sev extended her Pinky, moving to hook hers around Sevs' with a small smile.
Ra climbed down Nessa's shoulder as Mym ran away, moving to gently grab a bit of tech off Nessa as she spoke to Sev and followed after the smaller female. He let out a small trill out to her before moving to clamp the tech in his mouth before he followed after where she had gone.

The Elite furrowed his brow, "That report would be very good if you would be kind enough." He said, nodding his head once. "And that's a shame Feya lost to the Star-Born in a battle, considering all the other times the bitch had escaped with barely any life in her body."
Feya let out a low, loud growl at the mention of the Star-born.
"She's never gone Supernova like she did." She rumbled angry, her tail swaying with narrowed eyes. "Next time I get her I will rip her skull out of her fucking hea-"
"Not if you're no longer tasked to find her." The Elite cut in, getting a confused looked from Feya, he looked back to Six with a frown, "It seems the Higher Council Members wish for you two to continue working together." He said, "She's a bitch, I'll warn you now. I will send you her biological notes to make sense of these.. hideous transformations."

"Thanks Ness", Sev released her finger, "We'll get through this thing. I should probably give the kid some space for right now. I'm sure she feels a certain way about how I just vanished for all this time". Sev had always sort of assumed that dropping off the map would keep Myrn and her friends safe. She never really considered how they would feel about her absence especially considering everything that they had been through together. Her gaze wondered from Nessa to the photo on the table and her heart sank. "I can't believe she kept this", Sev grinned as she moved to scoop up the photograph as gently as possible. "This was our little makeshift family. That's me, Myrn, her older brother Kanji, Amanzi, Dex and Rondo are in the background there but you can barely see them", Sev paused for a moment as if she were reliving the memory, "I wish things could've stayed that way forever". Sev could recall every single detail of that day. Everything from the smell of the ocean, the feeling of the sand between her toes, the kid's laughter as they played, it all felt like a hundred years ago. "I don't think I've told you my story. My full story. See, years ago the 'secret' facility where I was created and raised was attacked by rebels. They had somehow managed to figure out our location and what the branch was up to. By this point in time we'd already handled over a hundred missions on the Council's behalf. I've always thought that either me or one of my sisters didn't do a good job of covering our tracks. Anyway, the rebels attacked our home killing the scientists and security. They wanted to raze this place to the ground and thinking back I honestly couldn't blame them. We did terrible things. Things that I'll probably never tell you about. I had been thinking of defecting for awhile by the time the attack happened. My sisters thought I had a glitch, that I was defective and needed an update or a straight up memory wipe. Well I used the attack as a distraction while I made my escape. I left my sisters to fend for themselves. I still feel some regret for it to this day but I had to leave. Six hates me for abandoning them and I don't blame her. I assume that the rest of our sisters were either destroyed, captured, or just dismantled and harvested. I may never know. So I escaped, I stole a Guard fighter ship and flew as far as I could before I was eventually shot down and crashed like you did. I ended up on Koa. It was probably one of the most beautiful planets I've seen. There were beaches with orange and pink sand. Crystal clear blue ocean water for miles. I thought I was safe but it turned out that Koa was a war-zone and I had landed smack in the middle of the fighting between the locals and the Council Guard Army. And that's when I met her. Amanzi came and fished me out of the wreckage of my ship. She didn't have a clue who or what I was just that I needed help. She used to have a saying 'hand over hand, you help who you can'. That's just the kind of person that she was.....I loved her". Sev paused and looked longingly at the photograph. She hadn't realized how much she missed Amanzi until she had to talk about her. "After the fighting was done she questioned me to figure out what my intentions were and I told her the truth. That I was running, that I was done with the Council and their games. She gave me two options, she could find another ship and get me offworld where I could continue running, or I could stay and help them fight back the Council forces and help them reclaim their world. I chose to stay and fight. The Council Army was razing villages to the ground and murdering families in the streets. I had to do something to help so I joined Amanzi and her rebel fighters. We fought for months and eventually are numbers started to dwindle. That was also around the time that we found Myrn and her brother Kanji. The Council forces had raided their village. By the time we got there most of the damage had already been done. Their mother and father had been killed from blaster fire from the tanks that the army was using to siege the coast. I'll never forget the faces of those kids when I pulled them from that burning house. I found them huddled together under their parent's bed terrified. From that point on Amanzi focused our efforts on dealing with the civilians that were caught up in the war. Since we had fewer fighters it was a lot easier to move in and around townships to save who we could. We kept running into more and more resistance from the Council Army where we should've had the drop on them. Myrn figured out that they were somehow tracking the Annex that was connected to my brain", Sev reached up to part her hair and show Nessa the scar that was still there. "The Annex connected me to the Council Net therefor they had access to my movements but it worked both ways. Eventually our field medic, Dex, and Myrn had to perform a surgery in order to remove the thing. That's why I'm basically bald in that picture. After that things were fine for awhile. We still hit Council camps for medical supplies and rations to give to the refugees. We carried on like this for about a year or two, time gets a little hazy in wars. Finally I think the Council was tired of allocating resources to a war that shouldn't have went on for as long as it did. I'll never forget that night. We had bunked in the remains of a warehouse and we could hear the bombs dropping before we knew what was happening. Kanji was the first to go. It was quick. I was up and trying to coordinate the remainder of our team to evacuate when I realized that we were short a person, Amanzi. I found her trapped under a mountain of rubble and she was bleeding out from getting hit with the blast. I tried....I swear I tried my damnedest to get her free but it wasn't enough. The bombardment was still going on around us and we needed to move. That's when she grabbed me and looked me dead in the eyes and said 'Sev, my love. You have to go. You have to protect our family and continue to fight for what's right'. She gave me her gun and told me to keep it so that she could continue to fight at my side. After that she.....after that she was gone. Our moral was at an all time low afterwards. As the newly appointed leader I had to pick up the pieces and get us all back in fighting shape. It was hard but we fought with everything that we had. Even managed to get a few hundred recruits from the remaining cities but it wasn't enough. Koa eventually lost the war and there was only a handful of us left. Somewhere on Koa there's a bounty for all of us because we terrorized a few Council buildings before I eventually decided we needed to split up and relocate. And that's how I ended up on that dust bowl where we met. Believe it or not I left it a lot better than I found it. I worked mainly as a scrapper but I moonlighted as a bounty hunter and part time gang buster. I figured it was the right thing to do. So, that's me. My whole bloody story". Sev took out her pistol and gazed at it briefly. The memories just came flooding back one after another. All of the joy and all of the sorrow and horror that she'd experienced in her time on Koa. It felt good to finally talk about it all though. She somehow felt as though a giant weight had been lifted from her chest. She felt free. The android just sat in comfortable silence trying to give Nessa time to process the story she'd just told. It was a lot and she didn't want to overwhelm the Star-Born with anymore banter. She simply placed her pistol on the table and began dismantling it the same way that she had done countless times before. It made sense to Sev. Combat made sense to her as well as preparing for combat. The irony of being a weapon maintaining a weapon struck her with a grin as she worked.
Myrn worked at her desk with tears burning in her eyes. The fact that she had spoken to Sev like that hurt. It felt like a cheap shot to mention Amanzi. Her heart hurt at the notion that she probably upset Sev. Myrn's fingers moved frantically as she worked. It was the only thing that ever took her mind off of everything. Everything like losing her brother and the perpetual loneliness that she faced living in an asteroid field in the middle of nowhere. Tears where beginning to pepper the keyboard as she typed. The pitter patter of a tiny creature stirred Myrn from her emotional spiral. She turned to face the creature with a sniffle, "Puppy"? The girl wiped her greasy hands on her pant legs once again before kneeling down to beckon the beast. It was unlike anything she'd ever seen but it was cute in a weird sort of way. It was carrying something too. Some sort of tech of some kind. "Come here baby", Myrn patted her thighs to get it's attention.

Six merely had to put enough effort into a thought in order to send the report to the captain. She blinked and in an instant it was taken care of. "Check your com for the report", she said getting up from her seat, "And look I really don't care about the details of your...whatever she is to you. I just need her in her right mind and ready to fight when I figure out where to strike next. Contact me again when you have that done. Don't waste my time with anything less because I have subordinates for that". She crossed the room on silent feet, like a deadly specter. Her eyes cut a downward, disgusted glance at Feya as she passed. "And if she's that big of a problem to you then you should have her put down like the beast that she is. I don't have time to deal with dead weight while I'm in the field. I gave her the Star Hopper on a silver fucking platter and she couldn't get the kill. Either fix her or assign someone else to my unit that can get the job done. Now if you will excuse me captain". With that she moved towards the door taking a moment to leave four deep gashes with her new claws in the frame as she walked.

Nessa listened carefully, taking in the entire story before she closed her eyes and breathed in, her spots went from a soft blue, to a burning white before gently settling on a soft gold. She watched the Android work on her gun, looking it over with a furrowed brow before she nodded. "That's definitely a story." Nessa said with a laugh, clearing her throat, "I guess our stories aren't... Too dissimilar." She gave a sigh, leaning back slightly to pull a small pendant necklace from its hiding spot under her shirt. "You lost your lover, I lost... Honestly everyone." She sighed as she closed her eyes and gripped the necklace.
"You story sounds so simple, but... It's not. I know what it's lie to kill for the council. That's why they kept the StarBorn around in the first place, we were a dangerous race- Strong and Ready to fight. The Council found us as a threat and used us in war to try and wipe us all out." She opened her eyes as her pupils flexed, the park of red flooding through her iris for a moment. "I had a family. I had parents, siblings... Well, one sibling. An Elder Brother, adopted by humans when our parents died in War. He went into training before I did, I apparently didn't 'fit the bill' for a fighter as a kid... Until the day my brother died." She gripped the necklace more, red sparks slowly flickering over her hand. "The council put him on a planet; Ferrius. Much like Koa it was war-torn, because what planet isn't fucking war-torn at this point. He hadn't finished his training, but because of the rumours of Star-Born being strong and killers they just dropped him in to fend for himself. No back up. Nothing. He was slaughtered within the first day." She almost growled before she started to settle again, her tears felt like they burnt against her skin, but it was the opposite, her tears were cold against her boiling skin...
Ra darted over to Mym without a second thought, She seemed to have stopped crying for a moment. This was good. He bounced over to her with a wag of his tail, moving to stretch up to press his head against her face in an attempt to make her feel better. "You showed Nessa a picture. I show you picture of Nessa!" Ra suddenly connected to Mym's brain. "It's the last picture she took."

The Elite nodded, watching her leave before looked to Feya, who pretended to be still in her lull as they turned away with a small sigh. "That's an interesting thought..." He said as he mulled over the idea of just killing Feya now. "Considering the energy the Starborn gave off fucked over everything we've tried to keep you normal." He said. Feya slowly lifted her head and blinked slowly, she opened her maw and the sweetest voice she could muster came out; "If you're going to kill me. Please allow me to see outside the door one last time?" She said, The Elite blinked before nodding. He moved to open the door on the ship that showed the outside, taking the sight in himself for a moment before he felt a sudden smash of energy hit his back, causing him to be thrown outside of the ship and down to his death below.
Feya flexed her shoulder as it clicked back into place, her arm crackled with electrified water. "This is the normal." She hissed before she closed the door and looked at the scratches left by Six. She took a moment to trace them with her clawed hand, the claws on Six's new arm were bigger and longer than hers, and probably definitely stronger than her claws. She breathed in, feeling the newly formed gills on the side of her neck shift to take in the air. "I guess you could say I'm 'fixed'." She rumbled as she moved to follow after where Six went.

The android eyed Nessa carefully as she hung onto every word. She continued dismantling her weapon piece by piece, nodding every so often to ensure that she was paying attention. Nessa's story was hard to listen to because it reminded Sev so much of herself and her own past. Once Nessa was finished Sev reached out a hand and clasped one of Nessa's. "We are survivors", she said quietly, "The best thing that we can do for the fallen is make sure that their memories live on through us and through our actions". Gently Sev reached up to brush away Nessa's tears. The Star-Born's skin was scalding hot to the touch. Luckily Sev wasn't easily affected by such things. She took Nessa's cheek into her hand as she leaned in closer, "Now come on, that's enough tears for today. I always thought a smile looked better on you". She released her gentle grip before looking around the room in search of the miniature bots, "Meeny, Miney, Moe", she called, "Fetch us a drink please. Something hard. I know Myrn has a stash around here somewhere". The three scrapbots materialized from between the coils of cables running along the floor. Their tiny sharp appendages tapped rapidly as charged off to do Sev's bidding. "Still hard to believe the kid built those when she was nine", Sev said under her breath more to herself," Even harder to believe she's managed to keep them around for this long". The pistol was mostly deconstructed by now. Sev fished the old crystal out of it's casing before replacing it with the one that Nessa had given her as payment. Carefully, she placed the old sapphire on the table next to them before going back to reassembling the firearm. Moments later the scarpbots returned carrying two shot glasses and an unopened glass bottle of liquid that seemed to glow with the same energy as Sev's eyes. They placed the glasses and bottle neatly on the table. "Thanks guys", Sev popped the cap on the bottle and poured a shot for Nessa and herself, "Tonight we drink. We drink to people that we've lost and the people that we've found". She tapped the bottom of her shot glass against the table before raising it again. "To the future", her electric blue eyes looked to Nessa expectantly.
Myrn knelt forward and scooped the small creature up into her arms. Blinking awkwardly as the words entered her mind, flowing like water over her brain. "Huh, so you're some kind of a telepathic puppy then", she said quizzically. Myrn took the piece of tech from the creture's mouth and activated it. The holographic displayed a slightly older picture of Nessa. She appeared to be happy. The only other pictures she's seen of Nessa were the wanted signs all over the Net. "Thanks little buddy", she nestled Ra against her face, "Let's get this back to your mom now okay". The two began making their way back towards Myrn's room.

Six had been watching the medical bay video feed in her heads up display the entire time. She'd posted up just around the corner and waited for.... Whatever Feya was to catch up. "Look who decided to return to the land of the living", Six taunted as the beast rounded the corner. "I won't rat you out if you're worried about that. I've done worse to my share of recruits. I've already doctored the vid footage. In my report we'll just chalk it up to.....Oh, let's say a mechanical failure. So that's two you owe me now Feya and to hear your dear old sweet heart tell it, you're on your last leg with the Council. If you want the Star-Born I suggest you keep yourself in check". The android slowly walked in circles around the beast as she talked, eyeing her like a piece of meat. "They way I see it you belong to me now. One wrong move, the slightest hint of you going full monster and you won't be my problem anymore. So I suggest you take a good long think about what you want out of this little vendetta of yours". She playfully caressed the woman's back with her new hand before strutting down the corridor.

Nessa listened to Sev's voice, for once she didn't flinch as someone touched her, she allowed Sev's hand to touch her skin, which was slowly cooling down as her emotions started to stabilize. When her cheek was touched her skin started to burn again, a blush slowly bubbling into view.
She nodded to her words and watched the bots once the grip was released, "Sometimes people have skills that are just... Instinctive." She said with a hum and a small shrug, "Thank you." She said to the Scrapbots with a small smile, moving to pick up her glass with a glance to Sev as she tapped it on the table to hold it up. She breathed in slowly and lifted her glass as well, "To the Future!" She cheered back with a glance to the gem from the Pistol. She moved to do the shot, swallowing the liquid without any second thought- It could have been an elaborate trap, but Sev seemed... Safe.
Nessa felt warm, she felt relatively safe around Sev- She felt like she could be herself. Something she hadn't been able to do for quite a while. She pushed back in the chair a little bit, slowly slipping off of the chair with a bit of a squeak. She closed her eyes with a huff, a small spark of what looked like Stardust flitting into the air from her mouth. "What was it that we just drunk?" Ness finally asked after a moment of silence, moving to sit up in the seat again as she moved to look to her waist, ready to show Sev something, until she noticed it was gone. "What?" She asked out loud before she looked around for Ra, her brow furrowing slightly, "Ra." She said flatly.
The picture of Nessa wasn't exactly just of Nessa; there were two other people in the picture. One was Feya; although less war-torn, less angry and less beastial. She stood on oneside of Nessa, who was wearing what looked to be a mix of a dress and a suit, billowing down from her waist but a suit jacket over top. Feya had her arm around Nessa and had a drink in her free hand, seeming to be yelling something.
The other person was a male, he looked similar to Feya; If Mym knew much about the council she would be able to make out that it was Council Leader Lyth Aldu. He had bright blue eyes and scruffy pale swamp green hair, He was more beastial than Feya, showing off his Shark-like features, the sharp teeth, the fin on the back of his head and two on the back of his shoulders, which was just visible in the picture, and the glimpse of a long tail behind them. He too was in what looked to be formal wear, a new looking ring on his finger of the hand moving to wave to the camera.
"That was pappa!" Ra said with a happy bark, "Mamma loved him to the ends of the universe and back!" Ra rubbed his face against Mym's when he got a chance to, he enjoyed being carried.

Feya only sneered as a response. "It was a Mechanical Failure. A Failure in his brain." She said before she glanced backwards to the medbay for a second before she looked back to Six, "Well, now there's something wrong with his head." She said dryly. She listened to what the Android had to say, she rolled her eyes slightly and swayed her tail.
"The only thing I can do to become 'full monster', would be dropping to instincts. I doubt that'll happen." She said with a bit of a sneer. "All my lose ends are tied but the Star-Born." She let out a low rumble before she looked over to Six as she noticed the new arm, raising an eyebrow before she bit her tongue, choosing not to comment on it just yet.