Sometime later, our hero and Sayori find themselves setting down eating a very late breakfast in the mess hall. He was a lot hungrier than he thought he was. "Excuse me, I have to go to the bathroom really quick." Sayori says as she gets up and leaves him by himself. He's already finished his bacon and eggs, but he's still a little hungry. He gets up and notices that there are cupcakes available. He makes his way over to them, and picks one up. They're very plain unassuming cupcakes, with pink icing. Suddenly he has a thought: What if they had little kitty cat faces on them? That would be great.

Suddenly someone approaches him from behind. "Hey there... Um... you don't mind if I take one of those up cakes do you?" She says bashfully. He turns around to see a tall lengthy purple haired girl standing behind him. He didn't realize he was blocking her path.

"Oh not at all...sorry." He says moving out of her way. She grabs one of the cupcakes and puts it on her tray.

"So are you new here? I don't think we've met." She inquires.

"Yeah, I was just assigned here a few days ago." He answers. He's still not completely familiar with the entire ship and its crew. Come to think of it, he hasn't even met the captain in person yet.

"I'm Yuri" She says. Before he can introduce himself, Sayori comes over to him.

"There you are." She says.

"Oh hey. I was just talking to Yuri here." He replies.

"Oh yes. Yuri here is our head engineer. Probably one of the smartest crew members aboard the Iretuare." Sayori says.

"D-don't say things like that...please." Yuri says, bashfully; humbled Sayori's statement.

"Lieutenant Sayori." A young male crew member comes over with a clipboard. "I'm sorry to interrupt, but I had some things I needed you to go over with you." He says

"Oh... Okay. Sure." She replies "Sorry, I have to take this."

"No, it's okay. I understand." Our hero says.

"Yuri was going to work on the ship's hyperspace drive. Why don't you give her a hand for now?" She suggests.

"Sure I guess" he says, not totally certain that he would be of any help. With that Sayori and the crew member leave. Leaving Yuri and our hero by themselves. Both of them leave the mess hall after eating their cupcakes.

Meanwhile: Queen Zyria sits in an office as a humanoid robot comes on over a big screen display. "My Queen."

"What is it?" She says.

"We have a new lead for our target. A small scouting ship on the far corner of the galaxy." He then brings up an image of the Iretuare on the screen. She narrows her eyes at it. She's confident that the one she is looking for is aboard this ship; she can feel it.

"What are your orders?" He asks.

"Do we have any ships nearby?" she relies.

"We only have one in the general vicinity; the Undertaker, but it's a heavy artillery ship. It should be more than enough to take out a small ship like that."

"Very well. Move in and prepare to strike with everything you got. We must irradiate our target effective-immediately." She orders.

"By your command, my queen."

Our hero and Yuri begin to make their way to the ship's engine room. "So have you had any experience working with Quantum Warp-drive equipment before?" She asks.

"Well...I read a book about it once." He says. But really what he means by that, is that he's read sci-fi manga before.

"Don't you think it's amazing how the X-278 is so vastly superior in its ability to travel hyperspace, by utilizing space-time compression, compared to its predecessors; the X-277 and the X-276?" She asks.

"Um...Yeah. I suppose it is." He tries desperately to grasp anything related to the matter on a level that he could understand, but is coming up with nothing. Yuri might as well be having a conversation with a rock right now.

They arrive at the engine room. As they walk through, there are lots of high tech machinery and other things that he has no idea what they are. Eventually they make their way to a large egg shaped machine and Yuri begins working on it. Our hero mostly just stands around and lets her do the work; occasionally handing her a tool. "This will mostly just be a minor tuneup." She explains.

"Something to help its efficiency." Suddenly she looks around as if she can't find something.

"Hold on one sec. I forgot the needle-nose pliers." She gets up and leaves the room.

He sits there by himself. Bored. He looks at the hyperspace drive, and the part Yuri was working on. He toys with the idea of tinkering with it himself. I mean- how hard could it be? Maybe he could even impress Yuri, and a girl that smart and pretty is definitely worth impressing. On that note he begins fiddling around with it. He pulls on a large wire, it disconnects and a small part connected to it comes off with it. The machine makes an unpleasant noise for a short period of time. He recoils, then he gets a sinking feeling in his stomach that he may have just done something that he shouldn't have. He tries to tell himself not to worry; that it's no big deal, and that Yuri could probably fix it real easy when she gets back.

Back at the ship, Our hero anxiously awaits Yuri to return, ready to face a slew of consequences for his reckless actions. Soon the purple haired girl returns. "Hey, sorry it took so long. Someone misplaced my pliers" She says, slowly approaching him. "I hope I didn't keep you waiting." She continues.

"N-no. Not at all." He says. He then diverts his eyes to the floor. "Look...um...while you gone-" Suddenly something causes the whole ship to quake, causing them both to stagger. Then alarms go off.

"What the hell?" he says. The captain then comes on over the PA system. "Attention everyone. We're under attack by and enemy vessel. Man your stations, and prepare for battle."

"We have to get to the command Room" Yuri says.

"I'm right behind you." With that they take off towards the command room.