Chapter 53: Breaking the Chain.
"OK I think that's got it, let's test this thing," Shauna said leaning back on her stool and looking at the modified burst transmitter that Gregory and Tim had built and she'd spent the last five hours fine-tuning.
"No offence that doesn't look much like a weapon, it kinda looks like a car battery with antennas bolted onto it," Shepherd said leaning back on the couch that she and Spectre were sitting on playing cards with Ven, they'd spent the last couple of hours teaching the big claw boy how to play poker and were now regretting it as he had one hell of a poker face and was beating them both senseless.
Shauna chuckled and nodded, "Yeah I agree but if this works the way we hope it will this little car battery will be a serious force for good, though thanks to the materials we have the range are kinda limited," she said gently running one of the large whip like arieals that was sticking out of of the side of it.
"Alright, it's powered up let's see if it works," Gregory said checking over the helmet as Tim turned one last screw and the tesla coils began to crackle with energy.
"Why is the helmet jammed on a pumpkin?" Spectre asked looking over her shoulder at the work they were doing.
"We need a biological test subject so we can test the effect of the jammer so we can fine-tune it unless you think you can convince Ven to update his wardrobe somewhat?" Tim said and both Ven and Gregory both growled and scowled at him at the same time.
"Try it let's see how that goes for you," Gregory said and Tim chuckled to himself.
"Thought as much," he said and with that, he gave Shauna a nod and she began flipping switches on the large transmitter making a soft hum spring up as it began to power up.
"Ok here we go, let's see what this fucker can do," Shauna said and she set it to broadcast.
Both Gregory and Tim watched the helmet closely and nothing happened.
"Ok try adjusting the output frequency," Timothy said.
Shauna began gently adjusting the output dial and as she did the helmet began to hum, "There we go I think we're getting somewhere, crank it up up a bit" Tim said.
Shauna began turning the dials and as she did the helmet got louder and louder until there was a sharp crackle from the tesla coils before the hum got so loud that all of them put their hands over their ears and the pumpkin exploded sending a shower of slightly toasted pumpkin flesh and seeds all over both Gregory and Tim who both jumped and looked at the still crackling helmet.
'Shut it down" Tim sighed heavily and Shauna flipped the switches off and the hum ceased immediately.
Shauna walked over to Tim and lifted a large cooked piece of pumpkin flesh from his head and she ate it, "Hmmm not bad, think we're gonna need to make some fine adjustments" she said giving Tim a soft smile and he lifted an eyebrow at her.
"Yeah ya think?" he said and she chuckled softly.
"Yeah I really don't think blowing up Claws is going to win us any friends, blowing Claws maybe but blowing them up not so much," Gregory said wiping the pumpkin flesh from his head.
"Oh yeah, that'll get you some claw boyfriends alright, blowing them up, yeah not going to make happy claws that way," Ven said helping Gregory with cleaning the pumpkin off himself.
"Alright let's get another pumpkin and try this again," Shauna said and the others nodded.
It took the team four hours worth of tinkering and fine-tuning to get it right but eventually, they cracked the code and now when pulsed the helmet simply shut down completely and as long as the pulser was on and in range it was impossible to bypass which would allow the helmets to be removed from the poor claws they were bolted onto.
"So this is it? We can free the Claws with this?" Seven asked leaning over the counter and examining the pulser closely.
"Yup, plus we've also come up with a secondary idea that we can use to permanently disable the helmets once they are shielded from the command units by the pulser but it's more for you than anyone else and maybe possibly Wisp as you two would be the only two able to get close enough to the confused and angry claws without getting hurt by the backlash, well at least until they calm down anyway," Shauna said and Seven glanced up at her.
"Trust me Seven those claws are gonna be pretty fucking pissed when they get snapped out of their controlled state, even a pretty boy human like you is gonna have a hell of a job getting close to them until they calm down, but we gotta make sure they don't run out of range of the pulser before we can get the helmets of them and truly freeing them," Visa said leaning on her human's shoulders and looking at the pulser sat on the table.
"Ok yeah I see that, so what are you thinking Shauna?" Seven asked.
"Well actually it was Tim here that figured it out," Shauna said smiling at the beautiful human standing next to her and feeling a warmth washing throughout her as he smiled back at her because there was such a warmth and joy to it as he got praised.
"It's simple really, the whole system has a flaw and while it is a small thing it's astronomically bad for the design because the whole system cannot run without it," Tim said with a smile.
Seven nodded, "Ok so what am I looking for?" he asked and Tim pulled out a small little glass tube with what looked like filament wire running through it.
"A fucking fuse?" Seven exclaimed taking it from him and turning it over in his hand and Tim smiled and nodded.
"Yup, fucking crazy right? They put a fucking fuse in this thing and if you pop it fucks up the whole thing by shutting it down cold" Tim said proudly.
A sly smile crossed over Seven's face before a cautious note flashed through his intense eyes, "Is there any risk to the Claw if I pop this thing?" he asked and Tim shook his head.
"Nope I volt tested the system, if it pops the whole thing shuts down instantly and cannot be switched back on, so my recommendation would be to jam the system with the pulser then either you or Wisp target these little fuckers and boom, free Claws and there's fuck all the Enclave can do about it," Tim said and both Visa and Ven growled in unison.
"Sounds like a perfect recipe for very healthy Claw justice don't you sister?" Ven said and Visa growled and gave him a toothy and very dark grin.
"Oh I do brother dear I do indeed," she said.
Shauna watched happily as Timothy explained to both Seven and the now freshly summoned Wisp who had towed Malakai along who was shooting concerned glances at both Shauna and Tim obviously looking for any signs of problems or tension but he seemed to relax when he saw Tim place his hand on her large forearm which sent a flurry of tingles right up her arm and into her heart making it flutter like the wings of a bird caught in her chest.
"Alright, so we got the how, now we need the where, get Faith in here I want to know what her people have found out," Seven said and Shauna felt her heart crank up a few beats and she looked immediately at Tim to judge his reaction and while obviously looked nervous he was trying to stay strong so Shauna couldn't help but reach out and place a large hand on his shoulder, he immediately turned to look at her and took a deep breath before moving so that her arm slipped around his shoulders and he held her hand against his chest after gently kissing the back of it.
As Faith entered the room her eyes went instantly to Tim and then to Shauna and both of them didn't break her gaze for a moment and Shauna made sure she gently squeezed Tim to reinforce his strength and it seemed to work as instead of him dropping his gaze, she dropped hers and looked at the floor in front of her looking at her feet and Shauna felt pride swelling for him.
"Before we start can I say something?" Faith asked and Seven looked at her and he nodded.
Faith took a deep breath and took a large step toward Timothy causing Shauna to straighten up and puff herself up protectively of him and it was not a display that was missed by Faith and she faltered slightly but calmed herself and focused on Timothy.
"Timothy I want to tell you how sorry I am for what I did to you, I am not going to make any excuses or blame it on anything like what I have suffered from humans because what I did was completely unprovoked, I let my anger get the better of me and I saw an easy target to vent my rage upon and I took it, it was stupid, childish and a low unbecoming thing to do to an innocent person, I revelled in your misery and embarrassment and I tormented you before I attacked you and tried to make you feel ashamed in your own skin, I did the very thing that humans have been doing to Ghouls this entire time if you hate me and think me a monster I understand because I deserve it, but I want you to know how incredibly sorry I am for what I did to you, it was cowardly and unbecoming of me or any Ghoul," she said and to her surprise, Shauna heard very genuine remorse and sorrow in her voice.
Timothy listened and watched her hard and then just nodded, "I thank you for the words Faith but what you did I cannot forgive easily, if you truly want me to forgive you then you are going to have to earn it, you hurt me both in my pride and physically for no good reason, I did nothing to you and you hurt me, badly and while the physical damage will heal fairly quickly the psychological will take much longer and cut much much deeper, so if you really want me to forgive you then prove it" Tim said and Faith just sighed and nodded.
"That's understandable and I thank you for at least listening to me, I will make it right or at least as right as I can, I will prove to you and all of you that I am worthy of the second chance I have been given, in this world it would have been easy for you to seek revenge and I am very grateful that you have not I will show you that it is not misplaced," Faith said first focusing on Tim but then turning to look at all the others gathered and Seven nodded approvingly.
"Alright well have your intel people checked in?" Seven asked and Faith turned back to face him and nodded.
"Yeah about half an hour ago, two of our scav teams spotted a couple of teams moving through the city, they were dropped off by Vertibird and they seem to be advancing on the position from two different directions and they seem to have brought more claws with them this time each team is made up of four humans and four claws" Faith said and Seven nodded.
"Alright then no time to waste, if we let them get entrenched they will be far harder to dig out, we gotta hit them in the open, any word on the Brotherhood?" Seven asked.
Faith shook her head, "Nope all quiet on their end, either they don't realise their team is toast or they are planning something else, but either way no movement from their outpost yet" she said.
"Alright people time to mount up and move out, we got claws to free and Enclave asses to kick so let's get moving," he said and everyone quickly scrambled to get armed and ready.
Faith showed them on the map the last known positions of the Enclave soldiers and between them, they quickly figured out their most likely route through the city, they sent out both Runs and Riss to head to the two most likely spots so they could pick their trail and it didn't take long for Riss to come back to them.
"Blue one to blue leader, come in blue leader" Riss's voice crackled through the radio, they'd now opted for using call signs over the radio just in case the Enclave was listening in, they did not want them to have a chance to report who was in the area to the higher-ups or they would probably drop the whole fucking Enclave down on their heads.
"Go ahead blue one," Seven said from his hiding spot in an upstairs room of a bombed-out building along the suspected route of one of the teams.
"They are right where we thought they would be, count four humans and four clawssss over," Riss said.
"Roger that Blue one stay with them but stay hidden when it pops off you are weapons free but stay out of range of the claws they are gonna be pretty pissed, blue leader over and out," Seven said then he turned to the rest of the group.
"Alright people get ready shit's about to get real," he said then he turned to a window across the street and using a small mirror he flashed a signal to get Wisp's attention and to tell her it was on, she flashed back recognition and now all they had to do was wait.
It didn't take long for the group to come into view, they were set up in a two-four two formation with two claws in the front and the four humans in the middle and the other two claws bringing up the rear, Seven gave Shauna a finger count starting at five and closing one metal finger until his fist closed and Shauna hit the button on the pulser.
The device cracked and hummed to life and the effect was almost instantaneous, all four claws began to at their heads, from below them the voices of the human soldier could be clearly heard, "What the hell is that? What's going on?" the soldier in the front who was obviously the officer being the only one not wearing power armour said.
"I don't know sir they aren't responding, I can't get them to respond to any commands!" one of the soldiers exclaimed jabbing a series of buttons on a small control box he was holding.
"Get these fucking animals back under control!" the officer yelled as the claws fought against the control of the helmets.
"Seven now!" Timothy exclaimed as he watched the readouts on the pulser.
Seven nodded and he reached out with his mind and like the gentle caress of a lover, he ran his invisible hands right up the back of the claw's heads until they were able to slip into their helmets and with a quick flick of telekinetic energy he destroyed the components that Timothy had shown him.
For a moment all four claws looked like someone had simply unplugged them, they stopped scrambling against their helmets and simply stood there frozen in place, Timothy moved to the window and as he watch their eyes went from glassy to clear as their senses were returned to their control.
The first thing was a look of confusion on the four claws' faces which were made up of three large females and one male, but those looks instantly switched to looks of pure rage and all four turned to glare at the four humans now caught in the middle of them.
"Oh, shit the helmets have failed! Put these fucking things down!" the officer yelled scrambling to raise his plasma pistol on the nearest claw to him but that's when Seven showed off that supremely dark side of his that both impressed and scared Tim in equal measure, the dude was genuinely scary as all hell when he wanted to be.
Seven simply stretched out his hand and with a flick of his wrist all of the Enclave's weapons flew out of their hands and clattered against the wall of the building opposite them which hid Wisp and the other half of the team, "Not today fuckers, today the claws get even" Seven said quietly.
The biggest of the four females bellowed a roar that seemed to fill the entire street with an unseen mass making Timothy shrink back from the window in fear but Ven placed a reassuring hand on his slender shoulder, "Don't worry Tim we won't let them hurt you, but you are about to see exactly what claw vengeance and justice looks like" he said softly but in a rather dark voice.
As Tim turned his head back he was just in time to see the biggest female lash out with such blinding speed that the officer was barely able to blink before his head was simply cleaved right from his shoulder by her razor-sharp claws, then with a display of incredible speed and agility she snatched his now severed head from his shoulders and while his mouth was still moving and looking like he was trying to say something, pitched it right into the helmeted face of the next closest soldier leaving a massive bloody face print right on the skin of his armour.
It was at that point the other three claws moved and like a well-oiled machine the three of them struck fast and hard, each picking a single armoured target they laid into them, they smashed their claws into their armoured bodies tearing and rending their armour to get at the hidden flesh within the metal suits, claw justice was swift as it was brutal, in mere seconds the four of them cut down the three soldiers and left them in a dismembered heap on the floor.
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"You're up guys, I'll be watching over you," Seven said and both Ven and Visa both nodded before turning and heading for the door.
"Brothers and sisters you are free now" Visa announced loudly as she stepped outside and the four claws whirled and looked at the two newcomers with suspicions and anger at first until they realised that they too were claws.
The large female took a few tentative steps towards the sibling pair and sniffed the air while cocking her large horned head to one side curiously and thoughtfully, the female claw was bigger than both Visa and Ven by about half a foot and had even more muscle, her tail was absolutely massive and it swished about as if she was thinking about something and struggling with it and that's when Seven saw her bright and very vivid electric blue eyes clear and recognition flooded in.
"Visa? Ven?" the female claw spoke in a deep rumbling voice.
"Hello auntie Vess, it is good to see you again," Ven said and before Seven's mouth even had time to fall open in shock the huge female claw shot forwards and threw her massive arms around the pair pulling them both into a singular embrace which they returned both joyful and from what Seven could see tearfully.
"Oh by the graces above, you're alive! I had never dared to hope that I would see any of my beloved pack that wasn't locked in that hell hole with me ever again, are there any more?" Vess said quickly as the other three claws rushed in and joined in the embrace, it turned out that they were all sentient claws like Visa and Ven and were obviously of their pack.
Ven shook his head, "No, all gone, infact we were convinced you were all dead, we both tried to hope but it's been incredibly hard" Ven said tearfully rubbing his head and nuzzling against his auntie.
"How many of us are left?" Visa asked and Vess looked pretty downcast and shook her head.
"Not that I know of, your cousins here were the only ones in the human lock up with us, the others were feral claws, but they were in just as much pain and loss as us, it was obvious that their packs were destroyed and torn apart as ours was and I felt their pain at not being able to give voice to their grief, I saw hatchlings pining for their lost parents clinging to their little siblings because they were all they had left," Vess said.
"But I don't understand how are we free? What happened to the human technology?" one of the other claws asked and Seven realised it was the male of the group.
"Well you can thank our new friends for that, they have fought hard to not only get us here but helped us every single step of the way to free you, they are the greatest allies that we could ever hope for and then so much more besides," Ven said and Vess looked at him curiously.
"Allies?" she asked.
"Think that's your cue," Shauna said to Seven and he nodded and after taking a few deep breaths to calm his nerves he turned and walked down the stairs and out onto the street.
Unfortunately, he'd kinda forgotten that he was still wearing Enclave power armour so the response from the four newly freed claws was kinda instantaneous as he appeared, Vess let out another bellowing roar and pushed her family behind her, "Look out my beloved ones there is another one! I will deal with it!" she yelled and charged forwards towards Seven.
"No auntie don't he's with us!" Ven yelled in a panicked voice.
"NO DON"T HARM MY MALE!" Visa yelled in a purely panic-stricken voice which seemed to distract Vess for the single second that was required for Seven to lift his hand up.
Vess flew off her feet and hung in the air like a giant claw-shaped Christmas decoration hanging from an invisible tree, she scrambled, swung, kicked and swished about her massive tail thrashing about.
"What the hell is happening to me!? What have you done to me vile human!?" Vess bellowed.
There were three echoing roars as the other three claws saw their mother disabled so easily and before Visa or Ven could act they rushed forwards and a single second later the three of them were air swimming right alongside their mother.
"Auntie Vess, Lemet, Lia and Passa please meet Seven, the leader of our group and Visa's lifemate," Ven said and all four claws froze solid before slowly swivelling in the air as Seven rotated them so they could look at their beloved ones leaving four tail ends facing him as they all stared at Visa.
"Your what now?" Vess exclaimed and Visa sighed heavily and stepped up to Seven's side before leaning on his armour.
"My lifemate auntie, this human has changed my entire world and showed me a truth I never knew but could now never let go of," Visa said in an equally proud but also embarrassed voice, like a child who was scared to stand up for what they believed in but was doing so anyway.
"And she's not the only one auntie," Ven said and with the deftness, only an apex predator could muster he plucked the invisible shape from the ground next to him and hugged Gregory tight against his chest as his cloak disengaged, though how he'd seen him was a mystery, Seven had no idea he'd slipped out of the room they'd been hidden inside of.
"And there's more to auntie, just wait until you meet the others," Visa said pressing on her advantage while Vess's mind struggled to comprehend what her niece and nephew were dropping on her.
"M-M-More? What do you mean more?" she exclaimed as Seven slowly and gently lowered the startled and confused claws back to the ground so they could stand free on their own two feet before he gave a shrill whistle and on cue, the entire group began to emerge from the buildings and moved to stand with Seven in a show of unity and force.
"W-W-What is this?" Vess exclaimed as her ultra-sharp eyes began to flick between the gathered member of the mismatched group.
"I'd really love to sit down with you and give you a full explanation honoured matriarch Vess but right now we are very short on time, there is another group just like yours being moved not far from here and we intend to free them as well, but I swear this to you honoured Alpha after those poor enslaved claws are free we can sit down and I will explain everything to you," Seven said and Vess's largemouth visibly dropped open.
"T-T-This human speaks with honour! To a Claw!" she exclaimed and looked to Visa and Ven for an explanation
"He knows our ways and not only embraces them but embodies them, please auntie he speaks the truth, but you do not have to take his word for it or ours, let his and this wonderful group's actions speak their truth for them, come with us and see for yourself then we can sit down and we can explain to you what we have seen," Ven said and the large matriarch alpha claw growled and glanced between her niece and nephew and then she nodded her large horned head.
"Very well I will trust you human but only on the advice of my niece and nephew but if you step one foot out of line human I will end you" Vess growled and Seven instantly saw his group begin to square up and flare up at the threat on his life but he held his hands up to the sides to calm them.
"Understood honoured alpha Vess," he said and she nodded her large head.
The claws all varied quite drastically in their scale patterns and colours, Vess herself had red and black tints to her predominately green scales, while the others all had mostly greens and yellows well all apart from Passa who was as white as snow with blue swirls which really made him stand out.
"Blue leader to blue two what's the status of group two? over," Seven asked via the radio.
"They have stopped, think they try to contact another team, seem worried, over" Runs voice replied in a hushed whisper.
"Roger that we're moving into ambush site two, stay with them and call in if they adjust their trajectory over and out," Seven said.
"Roger that" Runs replied and Seven turned to the team.
"Think those fuckers have noticed that their friends have gone radio silent, so we'd better pick up the pace," he said and they all nodded and began to jog quickly down the debris-littered street heading for the other building where they had planned the second ambush.
They reached the buildings and split the team up just like last time except for this time they had four more rather large claws to hide among their number, the four large claws followed Seven and his half of the team into what had once been a shop of some kind, it overlooked a large T junction and Seven had predicted that the Enclave soldiers would come down the road that fed directly into the junction before heading left which would take them towards the underground labs that the team were yet to hit.
As predicted about ten minutes after they had arrived and set up which honestly felt like an eternity when you had four anxious claws hanging over your shoulder double-checking on every single move you made, but thankfully just as Vess was about to drive Seven nuts with her continual shadowing the Enclave team came into view.
"How do you intend to free the innocent claws?" Vess asked in a gruff voice.
"Simple we take that vile tech they have bolted onto their heads and we fucking turn it off and then we let natural claw justice be served upon those fucking armoured tail holes, but first I'm going to level the playing field, it's just not good manners to hunt something that can only fight in close quarters with high powered weapons now is it?" Seven said smiling darkly within his helmet.
"I like the sound of that" Passa said and Vess nodded her large horned head.
"As do I my son, as do I" she growled deeply.
Just like before the pulser did its job beautifully, as soon as Timothy switched it on the four claws just stopped dead and began clawing at their heads which made all four of the now free claws reach for their own heads reflexively, stroking the still attached helmets as they did.
"Pop goes the weasels," Seven said and just like before he popped the fuse like things in the helmets and once again the response was spot on, the claws froze for a moment which gave Seven just the opportunity he needed to wrench the now panicking humans guns from their hands and pitched them up and into the building where the others were waiting to collect them, they really were starting to build up quite the collection of repurposed Enclave tools now.
The screams of the Enclave soldiers echoed down the empty streets as the now freed feral claws laid into them and in only a matter of seconds, the four human Enclave soldiers lay in heads as dead as the stone they laid upon, the four feral claws looked up at the hole in the wall where Seven now stood watching over them, but rather than attack they simply looked up at him as if they understood on some kind of level that he was the one responsible for their freedom.
So rather than rush to enter the building and attack him they simply regarded him and Seven who knows thanks to both his beloved claw girl and Ven had a pretty damn good understanding of both claw mentality and body language gave a polite and respectful bow to the four feral claws which despite their feral non-sentient nature they seemed to understand and they returned it, before turning tails and heading off into the city at a run, obviously happy with their newly returned freedom.
Seven suddenly felt a massive clawed hand slap down on his shoulder and he felt both the weight and strength of it as it impacted his armour, he was turned around forcefully but not aggressively, he found himself face to face with Vess who was regarding him with a deep-seated curiosity.
"I have never met a human who understands claws as you do," she said in her deep gravely voice and out of the corner of his eye, Seven could see Visa twitching and hopping nervously from foot to foot as she worried over the prospect of her aunt hurting the man she loved.
"Let's just say I have had a very good pair of teachers in the woman I love and her brother, they taught me about your society and what it means to be part of a pack," Seven said reaching up to slowly remove his helmet so she could see his face.
"It's true auntie, Seven here even paid his respects to an entire nest of fallen and butchered claws, making sure that they would be together in the afterlife, he used that power of his to lay fallen hatchlings with their parents and made sure that their bodies would not rot by burning them all in the human way so scavengers would not have their way with those once proud claws, he is everything we have said and so much more, all of these people here are good, we are trying to build something good, something wonderful where no more are people seen as just claw, Ghoul, super mutant or Nightstalker but as people, worthy of the same respect and love as any human and trust me it is working," Visa said proudly.
Vess turned and looked at her niece curiously before turning back to Seven, "Let us get those fucking accursed helmets off you and then we can sit down and talk, I don't want there to be a single chance that those Enclave bastards could somehow regain control over you" Seven said and Vess growled deeply at the thought but then nodded her consent.
"Let's head back to the safe house, more of those tail holes may show up so we should get out of here while the getting's good pretty sure those fuckers are going to be pretty pissed when they realise their enslaved claws have gone and their teams are fucked" Seven said.
"Agreed, let's head back, I'll call our teams to keep an eye out for more of them roaming the city and to watch out for the four ferals, with a bit of luck they'll cause those Enclave fucks a few more headaches before they make it out of the city and back into the wastes where they belong," Faith said.
So with that the team packed up and returned to the safe house with their four new claws in tow, the four of them stuck close together among the strangers as if made nervous by the vastly different faces around them, but Seven had hope in his heart that they would soon see that there was indeed a future for them among them and who knew maybe after seeing what their way of life had to offer maybe some new human and claw love would be born, or at the very least a kind of understanding between them just like existed between Ven and Visa and their humans.
Once the group were back in the safe house Seven led the claws down to the labs where he, Timothy, Gregory and Shauna set to work removing the helmets from them as painlessly as possible which considering they were effectively bolted onto them was pretty tough but thanks to their two expert engineers they managed to figure out how to do it using Seven's power to their advantage while thanks to a dose of a very very watered down version of Malakai's venom which had been worked up by Shauna to make a surprisingly powerful local anaesthetic, though it did take some serious convincing by Visa to get the four claws to agree to the injections given they watched it being made.
But once they did it really helped them as Seven removed the bolts and then Malakai stitched them up making sure their wounds were cleaned up, but finally the claws were clean and clear and then Seven and the others took them down to the mess hall where they were given some food that Ven had been busy preparing for them and boy did they need it because no sooner had they laid eyes on the spread than they just dug right in showing that they had mist likely been somewhat starved to make them even more aggressive.
Seven sat down with the claws and they watched him carefully and curiously as he sat among them and ate, he could see that his lack of fear completely confused them, "Ok Seven I do believe it is time that we had that talk now don't you?" Vess said as she used her long claws to pick her large sharp teeth clean and Seven who was now out of his power armour nodded.
"I do believe so, come on let's go sit down in the lounge and we can hash this out," he said and with that, the group all moved to the lounge, oh boy this was going to be an interesting little chat.