The two ships watched each other. "Well? What are you going to do? If you wish to kill me then I would suggest attacking the bridge." Enkal was the first to speak
"I don't really wish to kill you. You already died. But why reveal that you are still alive now? How are you even alive?" Feuarke asked angrily.
Enkal turned back out to the water, "As I said previously. My ship spirit is quite weird. How I didn't die however, well I used my warp core. Plus I do have a prototype active camouflage, so I disguised myself as an Abyssal and retreated with them."
"But why didn't you just come back and show you are still alive."
"One, it would be hard to explain. Two, I did it to try and find out what the Abyssals were planning." Enkal continued to explain, folding her hands behind her back casually. Feuarke couldn't really be mad at that. After all she did it alone too and risk being shot by allies or being found out and sunk amidst a whole Abyssal fleet. She actually felt a bit sorry for Enkal. Enkal then turned back to the battleship, "Anything else?"
The battleship shook her head. It was a much shorter session than she had imagined. Enkal then turned back to the water in overwatch, "Feuarke. C might be a bit surprised by this, but I'm technically her sister ship, even if we aren't blood related."
Feuarke's face turned to surprise and shock, "Sister ships? With her? One of the most powerful ships out there?"
"My gear is a bit different for my ship spirit is a different variant, but yes."
"So you're the third ship?" Feuarke asked from a suggestion of Dathomire.
"Third ship? That never got completed. Instead it was converted into a station for the smaller ships. Not meant to fight but did it anyways." Enkal scoffed
"Then what do you mean by the sister ship?" Feuarke asked.
"Exactly what I mean by the sister ship."
"You aren't saying."
"That is exactly what i'm saying."
"So that's why Vite wasn't able to kill you and why your shields held for so long." Feuarke finally understood
"Yep. And please don't tell anyone. They will find in time. Now go rest, I'll be fine out here." Enkal replied as she continued to look out into the moonlit water. Feuarke nodded with a final glance before walking back to the dorms.
Enkal continued to look out into the water and then looked up at the moon and stars. 'It's been a long time since i've ever looked up at the sky at night. I've forgotten how beautiful it was.' Enkal then looked back out to the water to see if there were any Abyssals that were hiding. It seemed there were none. Although she had to stay out here all night on watch but she had multiple things to entertain herself with. She had the night sky and water, plus she was listening to radio chatter on her comms. She didn't recognize any of the voices but it seemed important and it was a military channel too.
"There's no problem that can't be solved without unreasonable amounts of explosive."
"Although it can cause a fallout so there's a problem itself that it causes." Enkal laughed at the radio chatter as she continued to listen to it.
"Although in time if we continue to eat that random whale we found that tastes like metal and other things. I'm sure it won't go well. We all might as well be walking bombs." Enkal was a bit confused at this statement and wondered where this radio chatter was coming from.
"Hey! Who turned the radio on?!" Asked a voice in a harsh tone.
"Not me." Replied another
"Oh really. You're our comms officer. Don't slack off or you get a punishment. Now mind turning it off."
"Uhh sir. It won't let me."
"Gah more problems with this ship to deal with. Where is it transmitting?" Replied the first. Enkal jumped at this and immediately tuned off of the channel hoping whoever it was broadcasting from wouldn't find out. The ship then shook her head to regain focus on what she was supposed to be doing. She quickly glanced at the time to see how much longer she had to stand on the water, not that she didn't like it.
Enkal looked back up at the sky to see small white stars floating down. The ship then put her hand out and caught one of the small starts and soon more started to fall faster and faster.
Razor sighed as she finally got up. It was quite cold and the dorms were somewhat makeshift for it was a shipping post rather than an actual full on base. Although the inside was a bit warm for some people who got up early had already set up small heaters. The windows were also closed with the curtains over them to help people sleep rather than having bright lights shine in from the building's exterior lights. The carrier then walked up to one of the workers who was setting up another heater, "Hey uh, when does breakfast usually start around here?"
The worker looked up at her and then checked his watch, "It should start in about a minute or two. A bell will sound when they're ready. You can go now to be early or see if they need help with anything." Razor then thanked the worker and started to walk out of the room and down the stairs which was even colder saying heat rises.
'Where's the exit again? I think this is it.' Razor then opened a door but what came after isn't what she exactly had in mind. Someone was also playing an instrument that razor decided was a violin, but that was before she opened the door. Instead of being introduced to a nice cool outside with green trees and lush forest, she was introduced to piles of cold, hard, white snow. This terrified the crap out of the carrier but her emotions seemed to melt to nothingness as she became colder. She wasn't in warm clothes or even a jacket, not even nice warm sleeping clothes. Instead she was in her normal everyday clothes.
This made her legs and other parts of her body simply freeze where she could hardly move them, not that the snow piled on top of her helped and she was even colder as the fabric became soaked. Feuarke, who came down the stairs with some others at the noise and Razor's shriek, they looked at the snow covered entrance with only part of Razor's fairly long hair and her hand sticking out to notify where she was. The sounds of feet then sounded as the group went down to start digging the carrier out of the snow. Someone even bought a shovel to clear most of it and send it back out of the door, maybe hitting Razor a few times. After the snow was cleared enough, the workers then dragged her out of the pile and carried her upstairs where there was more heat while others stayed to get the door shut.
All while the way, Razor was shivering, "Cold cold cold." and continued to repeat that word under her breath.
"What irony, a carrier having to be carried." Kadr sighed as he placed a blanket and towel over her to help dry and warm her up with the addition of the heater. The carrier then remembered the instrument player and sworn she heard him playing again but much closer before it was complete silence. 'That bub never came to help. I hope he dies.' Razor huffed as she continued to sit where she was.
"Say Razor. How exactly did you end up under a snow pile?" Feuarke asked quite confused.
"How should I know. I was just going out early to arrive at breakfast and when I opened the door, WHAM!" Razor explained. "Why is it even snowing here."
"Well it is winter." Feuarke replied.
"I guess we're in an area where it's colder."
"We did come here early winter so its a bit colder now."
"Yea yea. Hey. When was Enkal supposed to get off watch again?" Razor then asked the battleship confused, the two looking around to try and spot the member. The two then looked at each other in terror as Feuarke then got up. She then put on a jacket and opened the window. "Hey where are you going!" Paenta asked as she came up.
"Doing something, close the window after. Don't tell anyone where I went alright." Feuarke said as she looked down and jumped off the windowsill. She then landed in the soft deep snow and climbed out of the power, trying to get onto the surface but kept sinking in the loose snow. It didn't help with all of the heavy gear and jackets she had on either. She also had her core in overdrive to have her engines help her plow through the snow and keep her warm.
"Dathomire. Where's the beach and where's Enkal's IFF tag. Plus what is the most silent shell and weapon we have." Feuarke asked her AI as she covered her face as she used the snow for shelter. Dathomire also had little to no coolant going to the core from how cold it was and only sent burst to keep it from overloading but keep it hot.
"Sensors can't detect anything in this weather and she might have her IFF tag off. Although I do have rough navigation to the beach and where we last saw her." Dathomire reported as he then sent directions of where she needed to go. A plane then hovered down in front of Feuarke and then turned to the beach and started to slowly float there, turning back to make sure Feuarke was following. 'Thanks Razor.' The battleship continued to mostly crawl through the snow and only a few times be able to stand.
'Dammit. Why can't one of those artic ships that go to the north do this.' Feuarke growled as she continued to follow the small ship. Despite her core warming her with the jackets and other winter gear she had, it was still cold and wet. The snow also felt weird now as she continued to go through the deep icy land. Something then cracked beneath her and she felt cold water on her ankles. The ship looked back at her and then looked around. It then started to lead the battleship back to the white land. It then continued to lead her to a small hill that was somewhat a wall.
She looked at the ship as if it lead her to nothing before it then went down low to the ground and pointed a laser at something as if inviting the battleship to continue. Upon closer look she found that it wasn't exactly natural and she then pulled it out of the snowdrift, finding a hole that she could crawl through, which she did. The battleship then placed the metal sheet from a destroyed gun back into place and looked up, finding a now awake Enkal.
"You're alive..." Feuarke breathed.
"Of course I am. I said I would be fine after all. You can lay down, there's room for two, possibly three. Enakl replied. Feuarke nodded and sat on the other side of the T shaped shelter, the ship that bought her here landing next to her. Feuarke didn't know what went through her mind at the time but she then started to pet the small ship as if it was a bird or some other type of pet animal.