Chapter 5: It's Not Over Yet, People!
The happy little conversation continued for at least an hour. In that time, Topaz had gotten well acquainted with each of the passengers along with the crew members.
Then, out of nowhere, something had landed on the window of the Elsa. The gnosis apparently wanted to have a little more fun with the group before leaving. As it began it's short descent into the ship, Commander Cherenkov took action.
"Son of a bitch!" He screamed, shooting at the gnosis with his pistol. As with the the shots from Topaz's AGWS, it was all in vain.
In a flash, the gnosis picked up Cherenkov by the neck and began suffocating him, while at the same time turning his body completely white. Everyone else was in shock and terror, but Matthews instructed chaos to do something. With a nod, chaos went up to the gnosis, reassuring a nervous Topaz and Shion that it was alright, and put his hand up to it. The gnosis just stopped in its tracks. chaos then lightly touched the creature with his right hand and it began to dissappear. Topaz couldn't believe her eyes, and from the looks of it, neither could Shion. What the...! How did he do that!
"Commander! Are you alright!", asked Shion to the man lying on the floor.
"Huh? Uh, yeah... Thank you, chaos.", responded an obviously still traumatized Commander Cherenkov.
"How did you do that!" Topaz and Shion exclaimed at the same time to a hardly phased chaos.
"Incredible!" Topaz added.
chaos turned to them both and simply replied, "It's just something I can do." Awestruck, Topaz and Shion just kept quiet... well, Shion anyway.
"Dude! That was sweet! Heh. I wish I could do that!" Topaz exclaimed happily.
chaos merely gave a short laugh then looked at Topaz with a quizzical look on his face. He was obviously expecting her to say something else. Clearing her throat in an effort to contain her childish excitement, she began what she needed to say.
"Uh...anyway, I'm sorry to intrude your ship like this! Um, I just need to stay long enough to fix up my AGWS unit. After that, I'll be on my way. That alright with ya'll?", she asked to Matthews and chaos. Topaz noticed that, for some reason, they didn't look too happy about her saying that. Huh? What's wrong with them? Do they not want me to be here that long, or do they not want me to leave? Oh well. Regardless, I need to start fixing up my unit. It's gonna take awhile, considering how it's busted to hell for the most part... Whatever...
Ignoring the looks she was getting from the crew, she stated that she was going to head to the hangar to start her work. Afterwards, the Commander arranged a deal with Captain Matthews for a trip to Senir.
"Alright then, I'll show Shion and the others to their rooms.", remarked a cheery chaos. Everyone then went their seperate ways for the time being.
Topaz arrived at her destination and stared up at her towering mech. Wow. I really do have lots of work ahead of me... She removed something shaped like a box from the compartment towards the bottom of the machine. As she held it in her hands, she closed her eyes and, focusing as hard as she could, began to transmit electrical energy into the tiny box from her hands. After a few moments, the blonde opened her eyes and the electrical energy flow ceased. There. Now I'll have some power for the long trip back home. It's the repairing that's gonna take some time. I guess I'll have postpone my search for you even more...