[Ciara - Friend? erm... am I doing this right?] You hesitantly replied to your sisters. It was clear from the scars that covered their ship-bodies that they were highly experienced!

Sure, it looked as if whoever they faced had tore them a new one, several new ones in fact. And yet, they were still here. Even transmitting that they were looking for someone new.

It would be a good thing to be prepared to fire a barrage in case they were aggressive, and run away.

At your response, there was a quiet conference between the six other girls as they did tight beam transmissions.

Eventually, the last pair of the six sisters spoke up. Their smaller bodies were identical to each other, even if the damage and repairs to their bodies made identifying them easier.

[Aki - If you~]
[Aoi - were to~]
[Aki - let us~]
[Aoi - scan you~]
[Aki - we might~]
[Aoi - trust you.]

You had to look back and forth as they spoke in sync with each other.

[Ciara - erm... okay, I guess that's fine.] You replied, it was clear that they needed some sort of examination in order to not be worried about you.

Certainly you could understand, after all... you were better armed and protected than they were.

The scans tickled your space-faring body as a radiance of crimson ran over your interior. You could disrupt the scan easily

After its end, there was more whispering. You managed to catch some words from the transmissions... Something about virginal and ridiculously overpowered for age. Along with so cool?!

[Jack - So... I might be wrong to have accused you like that... :/] She was sulking, but it was a cute sulk.

[Ciara - It's okay... ^_^] Your transmission included a smile.

The sisters vanished... you ran scans as you refused to accept what you just saw. Aetheric Slipstream INSIDE a star system where the gravitational eddies should have prevented them from doing so.

They re-emerged from the depths of the sun... with another of your sisters. She was... well... She was large. VERY large in comparison to your body frame. Massive armor that you suspect would take you forever to break down. There wasn't much armament on her body, but she had time to slowly ping your shields down or ram you.

[ChiChi - Hello.] Her smaller body was just as large... very talented.

[Ciara - H... hello.] You twitched and looked at her as she approached you. There were minor signs of damage and repairs, but that could be explained by her simply ramming her way into other ships, asteroids, small moons, large moons, dwarf planets...

[ChiChi - I've heard you're looking to join my group. I'll only do so, on one condition. It's the same one that the others have.] She smiled warmly at you.

[Ciara - Ah?]

[ChiChi - You have to call me Big Sister, and I will call you Little Sister.] She nodded firmly at you.

The next transmission from her was a data packet, one that would register them as friends in your IFF identifier and transmit to your seven sisters your willingness to join them. For good and ill.

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Dark Heavens | Space Ship Girls
005 : Big Sister
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