19 (DSV Nautica) Time
Lyn was in the worst bind yet. Trapped on the bridge and she had made a sound. Cloaks didn't block sound. This was bad...this was really bad...She got up and used her board to hover in the air. Absurdly dangerous, and the only option. She hovered mere meters over the crews head, slowly levitating her way toward the exit. This royally sucked. The 'negotiations' between the two ships were getting heated, even though she had no idea what they were saying. She really had to get out of here.The doors opened. Perfect timing. She accelerated, and rather dangerously, hurled out the doors into the corridor just off the bridge. The caused a breeze that a few crew members took notice of and started looking around for the source.Lyn, in her hurry to get away, lost control of her board rounding a corner to one of the quieter areas, though it wouldn't remain quiet that much longer. She lost her balance and tumbled off the board, falling and crashing hard into the cold metal of the Nautica's interior. The board kept going and fell in front of her, jamming into her side. She rolled, hitting a wall with a dull echoing thud.
Zhi was tending to the engineering, though there was little to be done. The conduits running the ship were mostly in low power mode, with only the cloak being a major concern.Ba'yr was one of his favorite engineers. He got stuff done and was a great guy in general. Though he had his quirks about him. One of which was about to strike."Gotten any from your lady lately?" Ba'yr grinned, jumping over the console and sitting on it, grinning at Zhi, who was responding to the question with a rather irritated glare."That's the captain you are talking about....watch it."Ba'yr shook his head."I have all the respect in the world for our captain. But I'm talking about behind closed doors."He elbowed Zhi, grinning. Zhi couldn't help but give a small grin back."AHA!" Ba'yr laughed.Zhi rolled his eyes and lightly cuffed his friend over the head."Knock it off. And don't speculate."Ba'yr grinned. "Okay, okay. Ill let you be." He chuckled and checked the will conduits again, frowning. "The power load is low on the lateral starboard conduit."
Zhi frowned and took a look at the power load. It was low. Within tolerances, but nonetheless, it was low. He began instructing crew members to take a look at the recovery nodes along the starboard side of the ship, just as warnings started to flash. Zhi jumped as Ba'yr ran off to deal with the propulsion conduits and shut them down to conserve power. Zhi's fingers flew through commands, bringing up the power distribution. Half the ships power was failing. And it was failing fast."FUCK!" He jumped off the control station and sprinted to the control node on the other side of the room, taking
command-control over the other control nodes. Her began growing new circuits from the non-failing conduits to the cloaking generators. If this kept up, the cloak would fail and they wouldn't have the power to do much of anything about it.Aki was still crunching the numbers on the coordinates when the alarms started going off. Power was dropping throughout the ship. Nor had they any idea why. And she sensed Zhi was too hampered to ask him questions.
"De'an, cease all nonessential processes and shut down unneeded systems. He complied, and the ship darkened. All power was being given to Zhi to keep the cloak up and running.Alarms kept sounding. Power was leveling out, but it was dangerously low. They could barely keep the cloak up. To make matters worse it was probably an outside issue. And they couldn't make outside repairs with the cloak up. "Zhi, what the hell is going on?""Probably damage we missed. We are looking for it now!"Aki groaned, not satisfied with Zhi's answer. The numbers came back right then. They had the direction of the dragons transport. Now just to follow it and find out what was going on."All teams, return to the Erebus immediately."Ash received the message, relaying it to everyone inside of the Nautica. The team from the Black Spot had already gotten back on board. It had gone flawlessly. The operation over here hadn't. Lyn was unaccounted for, and they couldn't sense her. She was either unconscious, or blocking them out. The entire team, except for her, was accounted for though. He sent them back, waiting for the last possible minute before leaving himself.
Lyn groaned, coming to. The cloak was still working, thank the empire. She tried sitting up, but nearly screamed in pain. Her whole left side felt like someone was beating it with an axe. Using the board, she stumbled to, trying to contact someone. She felt Ash close by, but no one else. They were leaving."Oh no...no...no..." She muttered, limping in horrid pain toward the edge of the ship."Ash...wait....I'm almost to the edge....""Captain, we have a problem. Lyn is out here and injured. It will be a little bit." Ash sighed. Why couldn't it have gone right?"Get her out of there, Ash. Now. Or I will have to leave both of you."