"It's Praxis to my friends. Mr. Praxis to my servants. But to you, you smelly dog haired Colteron? It's: THE PRAXINATOR."

Oh dear god, thought Andy as he navigated them through the battlefield, surely there was something seriously wrong with his fighter.

"Yeah, take that you green bitch! BANG!"

Initially he'd thought that Praxis had had his head hit recently and was suffering some sort of... passing insanity? But it had been three weeks since he'd first set foot on The Sleipner and Praxis was just as weird as that first flight.

"This is CC to all starships, the enemy is nuetralized, repeat, the enemy is neutralized, pleased return to the bay immediately."

Thing was, Praxis was downright normal when they weren't in the ship, in fact Andy wasn't entirely sure that his fighter didn't have split personality syndrome that only appeared when flying the ship. Whatever it was, it needed to stop, and it needed to stop now, and Andy was going to make it happen.

He had to find out more about his fighter – but where to go? Who to talk to?

Andy walked into something solid and warm, and was shoved roughly backwards and sent sprawling across the floor.

"Watch your fucking navigator, Cyclops!"

Cain. He and Praxis seemed to have it in for each other.

"Shut your mouth, Cain. And don't touch my fucking navigator!"

For the first time, Andy noticed another navigator standing behind Cain, who tugged on his arm.

"Cain, just leave it alone. Come on, Keeler wants me to do some more repair work tonight..."

"Go away Abel, this isn't your business"

"We have an hour before either of us needs to be anywhere..."

Cain snapped his head up to Abel's at that. Looked at him long and hard, until a grin spread across his face.

"Let's go."

Cain sneered one last time at Praxis, spat at Andy's face, turned on his heel and walked away. Abel stood there looking awkwardly between Andy and Praxis, the latter of which was staring at him with open mouthed adoration.

"Hurry it up, Princess"

Abel blushed, and turned away after Cain. Huh. He was Cains navigator? That guy was completely insane, but Abel looked like he could sort of control him, and he didn't miss the look between him and Praxis.

Maybe Abel could help him out...