Chapter 1 Escape and Explosions
Hushed whispers in a dark storage room caught nobody's attention, even if the area was patrolled. Though it was not and both of the female Irks knew this, that was why they chose that location, but with what was happening and what they were plotting they dared not to err on the side of caution.
"You are Insane, we haven't…I" she quickly corrected herself and continued on, "haven't made a single plan for that particular action." Glancing around to make sure that they empty storage room was void of life, well except form them. "That stunt of yours will go off in a matter of hours!" Her voice rose slightly at the other.
"Well, what do you expect? I'm tired of pretending to be a mindless drone. Plus if those two fags find out who was the cause of the last incident, we'd both would be dealt with accordingly." The second speaker glared at some invisible being, her green eyes showing annoyance and boredom with their current situation.
The first speaker sighed and rubbed her temple, this was becoming difficult especially with all of the lies and sneaking about that they have been doing. "I was hoping that you," She poked Green eyes in the chest with a bit of force to express how annoyed she was with her. "would restrain your urge to blow things up until after I've made a plan." She closed her eyes as she quickly thought up a plan that might work if someone could keep her destructive streak in check for a bit longer. After a few minutes she spoke again. "Ok I've got a plan….well I've got a few. But this first one is the one we're going to try first." She put more emphasis on the word try since she knew that if anyone saw them too soon that the first plan could be their undoing.
"So what is it?" Green eyes was becoming impatient, and they both knew that the longer they stood around the higher the risk of getting caught became.
"If you would shut up, I'll tell you. We're going to steal that prototype ship that you've been working on."
"Wait." Teal eyes paused as she was interrupted. "Which one? I've been working on a few different ones recently, or are you speaking of the fun one?" A sly grin answered her question. "Oooh, that's a yes. I can already tell that I'm going to like this plan." Green eyes answered hew own question simply by looking at Teal eye's face. While her own face twisted into something like an Invader's, who had just conquered a planet quicker and easier than previously thought.
"Yes, you'll enjoy this plan. But you might not like the next portion." Teal eye's face grew serious while Green eyes sighed, while muttering 'I knew it.' This part of the plan was almost more important than stealing the 'fun' ship. "You are going to have to reprogram our PAKs. Have you reprogrammed what I asked you to last time?" Teal eyes asked fully expecting a 'No' simply because it didn't cause any kind of explosions and the task was somewhat boring.
"Heh, yes I did with enough spare time to make a semi-functioning SIR unit. Have you realized how many holes the security and fire walls have?" Green eyes gave a mischievous grin as she gave her report to Teal eyes, whose eyes widened in surprise and thought 'Well maybe she just needed the correct kind of motivation to focus upon something that wouldn't explode.'
"Really? Hunh, I've never noticed, but that's good to know. And we can't switch them until we're safely on the 'fun' ship. Unless, you want to get caught sooner." Green eyes quickly shook her head, knowing that since they've grown a bit they were put near the top of the list of Irkens to be thrown out an airlock by The Tallest, not to mention that she didn't think that they both weren't done growing, yet.
Glancing around Teal eyes realized that they've wasted too much time, noticing Teal eyes tense, causing Green eyes to quiet down and let Teal eyes to finish explaining her plan before they left for their respective stations within the ship.
Just a bit later…..
Green eyes was in the Weapons Manufacturing part of the ship, her job was to help create prototype weapons and protective equipment that Grunt soldiers , Invaders, and The Tallest would need in battles. Instead of focusing on a piece of equipment that was supposed to be some kind of laser weapon, her focus was on the screen in front of her, as she inputted programming commands trying to get the last bit of code to work.
"Hey, you do realize that The Tallest wants to review that weapon before the next half cycle." Another Irk reminded her, it wasn't as if he liked her honestly he didn't care but he did not want to deal with the repercussions of failing to get something completed on time. It was one of the best traits that were programmed into the Irks, self-preservation as long as they survive they could care less who else survived, well except for The Tallest, any Irk would sacrifice themselves for their tall leaders.
"Yes I do realize that. I'm unable to get it to work momentarily. I should be able to get it working before the deadline." Green eyes glanced at the other Irk, "Don't you have something else to do besides tell me when the deadlines are?" Giving him a bit of a hint to get busy she out ranked him, but she wasn't close to the highest ranking Weapons Manufacturer, though that wouldn't matter for long. Idly she wondered how much time was left on the device that she made sure made it onto the Snack Ship that was getting ready to head to the Massive to restock The Tallest's snack stocks.
Teal eyes, was having a difficult time going over various Strategies with the other Irks, she was eager to leave this place, but she was being extremely careful if anybody realized that there was something off about her the whole plan would be in ruins, RUINS! Even if it only took about 30 seconds to create, she hated to ruin her own plans. It would be such a waste. Glancing down at the newest strategy she and the other Strategists came up with she spotted a flaw that left the Massive open to fire when they finally attacked one of the Rebel fleets.
"You all do realize that you are spreading almost all of the fighters away from the Massive." Realization appeared in the other Irks eyes as Teal eyes continued. "And no matter how many lasers, cannons and shields we need to have at least 4 fighters close to the Massive," She reached down to the board that controlled the hologram and moved 4 fighter ships to surround the Massive, they were close enough to swoop in and crush any enemy ships that came too close, but they were also far enough to avoid the lasers and cannons. "like this. But besides that I believe that this plan will work beautifully."
"Those ships had responsibilities elsewhere." An Irk pointed out, annoyed that his plan was being altered by the same Irk that had told him that his previous plans were terrible. The other Irks looked at the two, they knew that Teal eyes is very good at what she did, but she also needed to allow the rest of them come up with plans on their own.
"They might have responsibilities elsewhere but the main concern is that the Massive is protected, The Tallest will be very upset if they have to make repairs that could have been avoided again. And isn't it our duty that The Tallest's wishes are obeyed?" Teal knew just how to word things to manipulate others so that they wouldn't question things too much. That and wasn't the Massive the top priority even if everyone else thought that the Rebel fleets couldn't touch it? As she blinked she wondered if the package was getting ready to go off soon, she was tired of dealing with that one Irk in particular.
"WARNING INSTABLE CHEMICAL BALANCE IN THE CARGO BAY. WARNING INSTABLE CHEMICAL BALANCE IN THE CARGO BAY." The computers mechanical voice went off alerting all within the ship of the danger they were in. "INATAING SAFTY PROCEDUERS." Both Teal eyes and Green eyes looked up in surprise along with everyone else, but their surprise was not because of the impending explosion, nope it was because one of them wasn't expecting it and the other was going to set it off as they left so that it would make it a bit more difficult to have someone follow them.
While all of the Irks ran towards their assigned lifesaving pod, Teal eyes and Green eyes ran towards the cargo bay. "What did you do this time?" Teal eyes demanded when she saw the other.
"The timer broke; I set this one up to cover our tracks. But it wasn't supposed to go off yet. I was going to make it go off as we left." Green eyes quickly explained.
"Did you at least get the items put away?" A quick nod of the head answered her question, and instead of wasting more air they stopped talking and sped up as they ran down the hall and into the cargo bay.
When they got there Green eyes quickly hacked into the storage room that was holding the 'fun' ship, as she worked with the lock Teal eyes stood there silently waiting with only her lekku twitching due to the fact that the plan was changed and there was a most likely potent explosive not too far from them. When Green eyes got the door open Teal eyes quickly went into the room with Green eyes following, until, they heard a shout.
"You there stop!" Green eyes rolled her eyes, and turned to the Irk that had spotted them and was currently pointing a weapon that looked similar to one of the ones that Irken slave drivers use.
"What? We're just getting out of this ship before it explodes." She rose her hands up to show that she had no weapons. And that she wasn't going to attack him…yet.
"No you're not if it was that simple you'd be in your assigned escape pods. You set that bomb up; you and the other one are defectives." Green eyes smirked at this while the Irk glared at her.
"Well aren't you a bright one." She laughed as she charged him, her pack legs exiting her pack and extending around, in response the other Irk extended his pack legs and got into a fighting stance. When they met there was a frenzy of slashing, punching, kicking, and slicing. Each had landed multiple hits upon the other, in desperation the Irk sliced upward with the spear it held and sliced Green eyes along the chin. Hissing she backed off and folded her legs so that half of them were in the PAK while he cautiously cornered her. Just as he got ready to impale her she activated the lasers on the tips of the legs, so that he was thrown across the room. Cautiously Green eyes crossed the room to see if he was still conscious. He was completely out, so she quickly tossed him into one of the spare pods and set it off. With just moments before the bomb explodes Green eyes ran across the cargo bay and into the storage room, quickly shutting the door after and promptly ran into the ship.
"Ah I see you're done playing." Teal eyes commented as she looked at Green eyes.
"Yes. SIR gets us out of here and turn on the shields!" Green eyes shouted at the robot that was position in the driver's seat of the ship.
"Yes Master." And the robot went through the motions of getting the ship ready to go and initiating the shields as the bomb began to explode around them. As they took off Teal eyes and Green eyes sighed as they got away from the original ship before the explosion got worse.
"So, was that one of your weaker bombs?" Green eyes nodded her head yes. "Not bad, I thought we were goners, by the way it would be a good idea to initiate the stealth."
"SIR, initiate stealth mode." Green eyes commanded the robot, of whom did nothing for a moment.
"My name is Bob. And Bob would like to be called as such." The robot spoke up surprising both Teal eyes and Green eyes.
"So that's what you meant by gaps in the programming." Teal eyes finally understood what her friend meant, and while it was amusing hopefully the robot wouldn't go nuts and kill them in the process.
"Yup. And Bob initiate stealth mode." Green eyes commanded as she finally noticed the sticky green goo coming from her face. Cursing in Irken she finally realized why her face hurt worse than all of the bruises that she had gained during the fight.
"Looks like I'll be patching you up again… By the way, how did that robot get in here?" Teal eyes questioned as she looked around the ship before locating the medical kit.
"I thought you never would ask, I installed the ship plans into its OS so instead of going down the halls it when through the vents, ducts, and wherever else that there was a crawl space. And we should probably switch our PAKs with the spare ones soon, so we can turn of the tracking beacons in them." Green eyes answered proud of her work, but remembering what else needed to be done. Her eyes narrowing as she saw the medical kit in Teal eye's hands.
"Ok fine, but after we switch them…wait you're not going to sit still until after you've seen your handy work aren't you?" Teal eyes asked knowing what the answer was going to be, and knowing Green eyes she would be worse than a new born smeet when her handy work was exploding nearby. Quite nearly giggling in excitement Green eyes went to the front of the ship, and got it ready to record the explosions as she began giving Bob commands.
"Bob, let me take over for a bit." Bob made an affirmative noise as he transferred the steering to the other side of the cockpit area, allowing Green eyes to turn the ship around and keep it steady.
Near the Massive the Snack Ship that had the explosion was nearly to there, though it was hard to tell with all of the ships moving around trying to collect the pods that were ejected from the ship that they had just crippled. "Hehehehehahahahah!!!!" Green eyes laughed as she got everything ready to record the explosion, causing Teal eyes to look at her friend curiously. "They're freaking out over that itty bitty explosion, just wait till…Hehehehe!!! That snack ship EXPLODES!" A there was a few moments of silence where Teal eyes questioned why she decided to join forces with this crazy Irk…wait, that's right she wanted the unpredictability of her friend for some of her plans. "Oh, crap... Can you hand me one of those spare PAKs? Might as well switch them out now." Teal eyes handed her a PAK of which was taken with a nod of the head. Quietly and quickly they both detached the PAK and replaced it with the spare. "I hate the whole reattaching bit…it feels weird." Green eyes mumbled.
"I know, how much longer till that ship blows up?" Teal eyes asked wanting to get out of the area soon before someone detects the ship, or finds the Irk that Green eyes fought with.
"Um…I think about 5 more seconds? Or so…." Green eyes answered not even looking over at Teal eyes, her face was just about glued to the window of the ship waiting for the destruction to begin.
Suddenly there was a spark, and then a flare, and then the whole snack ship exploded with various colors shooting out and causing the vast of outer space to become lighted up. Teal eyes and Green eyes 'ooohed' and 'awwed' as they watched the 'show' but as soon as it was over Green eyes quickly turned off the recorder, and ordered Bob to activate program D102.
"Ok, now can we patch you up?" Teal eyes asked, slightly tapping her foot since she wanted to get the wound taken care of before too much feeling returned to Green eye's face.
"Yea sure, but we did it! We finally did it Maebh! I just wish we could see the look on their faces." Green eyes squealed.
"I know Lan, I know, but now we're going to be put onto Wanted Posters and hunted down. Eh, oh well, that way it's more of a game." Teal eyes now known as Maebh shrugged as she picked up the Medical Kit and followed Green eyes now known as Lan down into the ship where they could get her patched up easily.