"45, 46, 47" Cipher was in her room in the brig working out since no one else was currently there. She was doing sit ups counting each rep as she bought he chest and elbows to her knees. "48, 49, 50"
Stopping at 50, she paused for a few seconds to catch her breath before jumping to her feet and grabbing a small white pedometer and clipping it to the edge of her running shorts.
Jogging out of the hangar, Cipher continued her morning workout.
In the conference room, captain Magno and BC were looking at a hologram in the center of the table; it showed a desert looking planet the Nirvana was hovering above.
"This planet" BC began as she examined the image.
"It appears to be dead" the captain finished "No water or plants detected anywhere".
BC looked at her captain "Perhaps we should investigate, we could find something useful".
"I'm not worried about you going BC" Magno told her "It's the others I'm worried about. Which reminds me BC, did you ever find out anything about our two mercenaries?"
BC placed a fist against her hip and hung her head to the side "Not as much as I would've liked to, but I did find something in the old storage rooms".
"And?" the captain asked.
BC reached down and lifted a small steel box into her arms before carrying it to her captain, "There's a bunch of old pictures and a book in here. All of them are marked by the same emblem Cipher has on her fighter".
"You mean that orange dog?" Magno asked her as she looked at one of the photos in the box, it showed two F-15C's flying next to each other over a long river. Another photo showed a zoomed out picture of two fighter jets splitting away from each other as a giant laser was fired at them.
BC handed the book to her captain "I took a look at this book and it seems to be an account of Cipher and Pixy's actions during the Belkan War".
"The Belkan War…" Magno hummed "So those two really are from Earth then".
Opening the book for herself, Magno's eyes zeroed in on the of the author "Brett Thompson…hmm".
Stopping in the Vanguard hangar, Cipher leaned against a wall to catch her breath, looking over to the Vanguard she could see Hibiki slowly working on some minor repairs to the mech.
"These women are such slave drivers" he muttered, completely unaware of Dita sneaking up behind him.
Pressing her finger to her lips, Dita shot a heart at him causing him to lose his balance and fall.
Staring up at the hangar's ceiling, Hibiki sighed "Maybe I'm just not eating right".
Dita stepped over to him and they looked at each other "Are you ok Mr. Alien?"
Hibiki eventually made his way to the infirmary to see Duelo who had started talking to Pixy more and more.
"So you were training as a doctor before you became a fighter pilot?" Duelo asked.
Pixy nodded "My father was a doctor and so was his father, it went back a few generations and they wanted it to become a tradition for the men in my family to all be doctors, but I just didn't take as much a liking to it as my father would've liked".
"And what did he say?" Duelo asked curiously.
"I never told him" Pixy answered, "Eventually I just had enough and walked away once I was legal age to be on my own. I decided to join the military; I was in the army for most of my time before I joined the Air Force, but even that ended eventually".
"What do you mean?" the doctor asked him.
Pixy tilted his head to the side and looked up at the ceiling "I left the military as well; just before the war started and I started freelancing before being hired by Ustio…Of course I left Ustio as well after a while and joined the Organization".
Hibiki entered the room looking sick, telling him to sit on one of the beds; Duelo grabbed what looked like a bulky pen from his lab coat and ran it over Hibiki's body.
"It seems to just be fatigue" Duelo concluded.
"Well fighting alongside the women isn't exactly easy work doc" Hibiki told him "Someone has to protect them".
"So you're fighting to protect them then?" Duelo asked him.
Hibiki's face turned a slight shade of red "Well you see" he began while fiddling his fingers against each other "The thing is I'm stronger than they are and since they're weak well…"
"I wouldn't say they're weak" Pixy thought "Just not very experienced".
Duelo noticed Hibiki's pulse rising, "Let's stop talking about the women".
Paiway who had remained silent most of the time looked over to the monitor showing Hibiki's vitals and pointed at it "What's this? Some kind of video game?"
"You've never seen a pulse meter before?" Duelo asked her.
The young nurse replied angrily, "What's it to you if I haven't?"
"Oh yeah, she's definitely a nurse" Pixy muttered under his breath.
"Besides you don't need something like this" Paiway continued, "All health problems can be fixed with the Jacuzzi".
"Ja…cuzzi?" Duelo pronounced, clearly unfamiliar with the word.
"Well I know where Cipher is then" Pixy said with a small smile "She's tough as nails and fierce as a tiger, but she loves to relax in a spa" Pixy chuckled as he left the infirmary.
In the spa area, many of the crew were being tended to by these working in the spa, more specifically Jura who had more women caring for her than anyone else.
"Oooooh thank you so much" the blonde pilot moaned "Space combat damages my hair and I can always count on you to fix me right up".
"Don't worry about it Jura" one of the attendants told her "We won't stop until you're back to your former beauty".
Jura smiled at her before looking over her shoulder at Meia who was relaxing in one of the Jacuzzis, "Meia! Are you trying to lose more weight?"
"Excess body fat can get in the way of combat" Meia told her calmly.
"But you won't have any breasts left if you keep that up" Jura panicked "It'd be a shame to ruin that wonderful body you have".
The dread leader smirked "You don't have to worry about me Jura I'll be just fine".
"If you say so" Jura muttered before moving her eyes to Cipher who was in the same Jacuzzi as Meia "What about you Cipher? How does it feel?"
Cipher had submerged herself in the Jacuzzi up to her nose and closed her eyes as the high temperature relaxed her body. Hearing Jura, Cipher slowly raised her arm out of the water and gave the blonde pilot a silent thumbs up before quickly retracting her arm back into the water.
Jura smiled and turned her head forward, closing her eyes and allowing the attendants to continue treating her.
"Well here it is" Jura said cheerfully as she opened the door to the spa and edged Cipher inside.
Cipher looked around the spa and tried to hide the corner smile growing on her face.
Jura continued, "You may be comfortable hanging around the men, but you're still a woman and a beautiful one at that, so it's your responsibility to take care of yourself".
On the bridge, Belvedere announced the confirmed presence of several heat signatures in the same area.
Ezra added "Artificial structures also confirmed, but there's a sandstorm raging at the moment and I can't get a clear picture".
BC turned to the captain "Should we investigate?"
Magno tilted her head to the side and rested it against her fist "Our kitchen is running low on supplies" she then smiled "Very well, perhaps we should just do things like old fashioned pirates".
BC smiled and turned back around "Begin monitoring weather patterns. Once the storm ends determine the best location for a recon party". The sub-commander activated the ship's PA system and made an announcement "Attention all crew; we're going to be investigating a planet. All pilots are to begin training simulations in the Vanguards at once".
In the brig, Cipher was sitting on the cot which served as her bed looking at a photo of her in her flightsuit standing next to Pixy with both of their F-15's behind them. A photo taken after they destroyed the laser weapon Excalibur.
Even though she said that her and Pixy would remain squad mates, they're friendship was long over after his betrayal. After staring at the photo for a few minutes, she grabbed it by both of the top corners and moved her hands in opposite directions prepared to rip the photo in half, but she stopped at last second.
She couldn't bring herself to tear it, she felt like she wanted to, but she just couldn't do it. Maybe she wanted to keep something to remind her of a better time when the two of them challenged the skies and Belka at once. She tried to convince herself that those days were over, but she still couldn't bring herself to tear apart the photo.
Jumping to her feet, she placed the picture on her nightstand and drew her Five Seven and took aim at the picture. "What's wrong with me?" she asked herself "My hands won't stop shaking". Cipher's right hand was shaking, almost as if she was afraid to pull the trigger.
Gripping the handle of the firearm with both her hands, she tried to steady herself, but she was still shaking. "Why?" she silently asked herself "Why can't I just pull the trigger?"
Finally lowering her gun, Cipher mentally chastised herself for hesitating, something she hadn't done since she was a child.
"Cipher" a voice said from behind, startling her.
Cipher spun around aiming the Five Seven at her wingman's Adam's apple, still slightly shaking.
Pixy quickly held his hand up to chest level "It's me" he said calmly before noticing that her hand was shaking "Something's got her on edge".
He lowered his arms as Cipher lowered and holstered her Five Seven "The commander wants us to train in the Vanguard simulators to join the recon party, but personally I think we should remain here in case the ship is attacked again. What do you think?"
Cipher took a quick breath and turned back around, quickly grabbing the photo from her nightstand and sliding it into her red blazer jacket, "That would be the smart play".
Quickly turning around, Cipher slipped past Pixy and headed for the elevator, not looking back or giving Pixy a chance to speak to her. When the elevator doors opened, Cipher stepped inside and immediately closed the doors behind her.
Pixy had never seen her like this before, even though Cipher no longer considered them friends he still considered Cipher his friend even if she grew to hate him. Walking over to the staircase Pixy opened the door before noticing something lying on the floor in front of the elevator.
"That picture" he muttered when he stood over it. Kneeling down he gently grabbed it and picked it up before staring at it "So this is what's got her rattled" he realized before he saw a small tear at the top and both of the top corners folded in different directions. "Was she trying to rip it?" he asked himself "Why did she have her gun drawn? She had her gun drawn by the time I got here…was she going to shoot it instead?"
Walking back into Cipher's cell and setting the picture on her nightstand, Pixy left and headed up the staircase to the bridge still unsure what to make of Cipher's behavior.
Pixy made it to the bridge, just as Cipher finished making the suggestion to Magno.
"You certainly have a point Cipher" the aged pirate agreed "Very well, the Galm team will remain on board in case of an attack during the operation".
Cipher nodded and left the bridge, quickly slipping past Pixy not even moving her eyes to look at him.
"Pixy I have a request for you" Magno said, also not looking at him.
"Captain" Pixy replied, stepping forward.
"I want you to go to the training deck and monitor my pilots as they perform in the Vanguard simulations. Offer your experience as a pilot to improve their performance. I don't know what we'll find down there, but I want them to be as ready as possible".
Pixy nodded "Right away captain".
After Pixy left the bridge as well, BC turned to her captain "Is it just me captain or do those two seem distracted by something?"
Magno moved her eyes down to the console in front of her; the screen on her terminal was showing Cipher at the ship's shooting range, quickly dispatching each target as it appeared.
The screen changed and showed Pixy as he walked down the hall, making his way to the training deck. He was holding a small picture in his hand, one Magno could easily make out.
"Remember when I said those two have a troubled relationship BC?" the captain asked.
BC nodded, "I do. You don't think something will happen between them do you? It could affect the crew's morale".
Magno closed her eyes and rested her head against her open hand "There's a rift between them. Sometime soon there's going to come a time when they'll either learn to trust and forgive each other again, or they'll end up killing one another".
"If I may be blunt captain" BC began "If there's even a slight chance that they may become hostile toward each other I recommend we detain both of them in separate areas of the ship, it could".
Magno cut her off, "I understand your concern BC, but I won't allow it. For now they seem focused well enough to be in shape in the event of an enemy attack, but if it ever comes to the contrary…then we'll review our options on how to deal with it, especially if it negatively affects the rest of the crew".
"I hope you're right captain" BC thought as she turned around. A screen appeared above the bridge, showing the progress of the dread pilots in the Vanguard simulations.
In the monitoring room of the training deck, Duelo and Pixy were both watching how each of the pilots performed, Hibiki pretended to watch, but he mainly criticized them and Bart was in the back corner quickly reading over the pilot's manual for the Van-Types.
"I've had it with this thing!" Jura yelled after she failed another simulation "Can't this thing move with even just a little elegance!? I'm out of here"
Jura opened her training pod to leave, but Pixy locked it from the monitoring station "Sorry Jura, captain's orders now reset and run it again".
"How dare you lock me in here!" Jura yelled at him "I demand you let me out at once!"
Pixy sighed, "I'll let you out once you complete your training in that thing, so hop to it".
"Ha, see I told you" Hibiki said proudly, almost cockily "There's just no way a woman could pilot the Van-Types".
"Hey Hibiki" Pixy said quickly "Shut up. You're not helping the situation".
That's when both Pixy and Duelo noticed Meia's vitals were extremely high, almost bordering at shock levels. "Duelo" Pixy began "I suggest we shut her down, at this point she's only going to succeed at injuring herself".
Duelo ended Meia's simulation right as it flashed "Killed in combat" inside her pod.
"Are there medical overrides on Mejere?" he asked the dread leader "On Tarak, doctors are given the authority to ground pilots in situations similar to yours, do you want that?"
"Of course not!" Meia fired back in an exhausted and fatigued tone.
Duelo advised, "Then I suggest you widen your field of vision, it will reduce the strain on your body".
"You should keep your suggestions to yourself" Meia muttered as she increased her field of vision and tried again.
"If she doesn't improve I'm shutting her down" Pixy said "She'll just be a liability to the mission at this rate".
"A liability" he repeated under his breath before remembering the day he defected from Ustio. The day Belka set off seven nuclear weapons on their own soil, he also remembered his words when the order to intercept the bombers came in…"This war would end if they just blew everything up".
Seeing "Killed in combat" flash across Meia's screen again, Pixy quickly reached his hand over and shut off her pod and opened it before getting to his feet "I need a break from all of this" he muttered tiredly before walking out of the monitoring station and returning to the bridge.
Entering the bridge again Pixy looked to the Nirvana's captain, "Captain I think we may have a potential problem".
"I agree" the captain replied before activating a screen at the side of her terminal.
The screen showed Cipher in the firing range, shooting down several targets with her accuracy quickly growing worse.
"She's missing?" Pixy muttered "She never misses" he said blankly.
Cipher missed her final shot and yelled as she threw her Five Seven to the ground and slammed her fist against the counter.
"Something is bothering her" Magno said coldly "I cannot have her behaving like this on my ship; it could cause problems with the rest of the crew".
Pixy interrupted, "I understand captain. I'll see if I can calm her down".
"Please do" the captain continued "I don't know what's got her riled up, but it must be bad".
"Pretty sure I know what and why to" Pixy thought before speaking "If I may make a request captain".
Magno nodded, "Go ahead".
"I'm afraid to say that your pilot's aren't very good at piloting the Vanguards. The only two that have made progress in the simulators are Meia and Barnette, but both of them keep failing just like the rest of them. Jura is complaining because it lacks 'elegance' and Meia is showing signs of extreme claustrophobia; personally I think sending her on this mission in a Vanguard is a risky move. Barnette is managing herself pretty well, but I think her distrust of anything used by Tarak is getting in the way of her judgement. She's only learning the basic controls such as moving and combat, she's not paying attention to anything else; also risky to send her out if that's how she's going to act".
"I see" Magno said "Thank you for the report Pixy, I will speak to Meia and Barnette, you may go".
Pixy saluted Magno before leaving the bridge to go look for Cipher.
He entered the shooting range, but Cipher was no where to be seen "Dammit Cipher, this isn't like you…" he muttered before walking back to the brig.
Entering the brig, Pixy walked over to Cipher's cell and met her eyes as she was walking out.
"Cipher" he said before she slipped by him.
"I'm busy, sorry" she said as she quickly returned to the elevator and went up.
Pixy returned to the bridge just as the mission was commencing, a shuttle air dropped the Vanguards to the planet's surface.
"Cipher and I are on standby in case of an emergency captain" Pixy reported as he entered the bridge again.
"Careful" Barnette's voice said over the radios "The sand isn't stable".
A camera from each of the Vanguards showed a first person view of what was around them; along with an overhead view from the Nirvana's radar system they had a clear view of the entire surrounding area.
"This place is deserted" Jura noted after a swift scan of the area "It's so quiet it's almost creepy".
"It looks like the remains of a city" Pixy said as he watched from the bridge "What do you think happened?" he asked BC.
"Hard to say" the commander replied "It could've been a really bad storm or a war, no way of knowing until we find something".
"Hey don't go off on your own!" Hibiki's voice called out before the pilot yelled. His Vanguard had slid down a steep slope of sand and lost its footing, falling backwards.
Jura's Vanguard knelt next to him "Hey there" she said to the downed pilot "Why don't you stop playing around and combine with me already".
"Are you still on about that!?" Hibiki yelled "How do you expect me to combine a Van-Type with another Van-Type!? I can only combine with your dread!"
"Huh?" Jura gasped "You mean I came all this way for nothing!?"
"Stop it" Dita cried as she walked over to them "Even if we were in our dreads the only one Mr. Alien is going to combine with is me!"
Jura growled "Who do you think you're talking to!?"
"Enough!" Hibiki yelled as he activated the Vanguard's thrusters and took off into the sky before something swiftly shot him down.
"What was that?" Pixy gasped after seeing Hibiki go down.
Hundreds of lasers began covering the entire area trapping the Vanguards inside.
"Some kind of defense system has been activated" Aramone announced.
"The landing party is trapped!" Belvedere added.
"Recon team report!" BC yelled into the radio "Repeat! Recon team, what's your situation!"
"What is this?" Jura yelled "What's going on?"
"The lasers have us completely trapped!" Barnette reported.
Dita panicked, "Mr. Alien is really hurt he needs help!"
"Just calm down Dita" BC told the young pilot "What's the situation like?"
Jura and Barnette both screamed.
"Jura, Barnette!" BC yelled.
"The sand is attacking us!" Barnette cried.
"The sand?" Pixy muttered is disbelief.
"Meia here, does anyone copy?"
"She's pushing herself" Duelo said calmly as he sat at BC's terminal.
Meia's picture appeared on the main screen showing her vitals along with the rest of the landing party's.
"I thought you were going to pull Meia off the mission" Pixy said looking to captain Magno.
The aged pirate closed her eyes "I didn't tell her not to go, I just ordered the shuttle to launch before she got there".
"With respect captain" Pixy began "Something like that can get people killed. Regardless of how Meia may have felt you should've told her to stay on the ship".
Meia's mech landed several miles from the rest of the landing party, leaving her alone.
The dread leader buckled when her mech hit the surface and when she looked at her monitors she began shaking as her vision began blurring and shading with a red hue.
"No Meia!" Duelo yelled "You have to widen your field of vision! Meia, do you copy!"
"He should mind his own business" Meia panted as she slowly reached for the console and widened the view of her monitors. Her vision began returning to normal as did her vitals.
"Good" Duelo said before Meia gasped loudly and her vitals began rapidly increasing.
"Meia what's wrong?" Duelo asked "Meia can you hear me?"
Meia was ambushed by the sand and buried inside her Vanguard; the sand blocked the sunlight, trapping her in the darkness where the only source of light was from the cockpit of the Vanguard.
"What should I do?" she asked herself "I can't move…I'm scared".
"This isn't good" Duelo said as Meia's vitals continued to rise "She needs immediate assistance or she won't make it!"
On the planet's surface, the other Vanguards were still having trouble with the sand that continued to come to life and attack them no matter how many times they were struck down.
"Dammit, this stuff don't give up" Hibiki yelled after forcing the sand off of him only to have it begin swallowing him again.
Another icon blip appeared on the radar.
Another Vanguard crashed to the surface, landing forcefully on its feet and shaking the earth around it.
The Vanguard slowly began scanning before it ran off toward the trapped recon party.
"Who's piloting that one?" BC asked.
"This is Galm 1" Cipher announced over the radio "I'm approaching the AO. I'm going to see if I can shut down the defense system from the outside".
"Yo buddy" Pixy began "What happened to staying on the ship in case of emergency?"
"I'd say this counts" Cipher replied as she stopped her Vanguard outside the laser net that covered the area.
Following one of the lasers to its point of origin, Cipher found a concealed machine inside a destroyed building and quickly leveled what was left of the structure, destroying the machine, "One target down".
Locating another of the machines, Cipher destroyed it as well before a third and then a fourth, finally making room for the landing party to escape.
"We need to find Meia" Barnette cried after they were all clear of the barrier that trapped them.
An air raid siren began going off all around them.
"What is that?" Barnette asked.
On the Nirvana's bridge, Belvedere cried out "The defense system has a self destruct sequence, it must have activated after Cipher brought done the barrier. 300 seconds until detonation".
"We can't leave without Meia!" Dita cried.
"Then stop talking and start looking!" Cipher ordered as she began scanning the area.
"Dammit where is she?" Hibiki asked before seeing something rise up behind him.
Another mass of sand appeared from behind him in the form of a Vanguard and moved to attack him.
Grabbing the sand formation by what was supposed to be its shoulder Cipher pulled it away from Hibiki and threw it to the ground.
Cipher noticed part of the sand sliding away and saw gleaming armor under it, "It's solid underneath the sand! It's Meia!"
"That thing is controlling her" Barnette cried as the sand covered Vanguard got back up.
Cipher's eyes zeroed in on a giant tank nearby with a faded "LN" imprinted on it.
"Everyone, stand back!" she ordered as Meia's possessed mech got back up.
Meia's Vanguard began advancing toward Cipher who stood her ground, "That's right come on, a little closer".
Once the sand was within arm's reach of Cipher, she fired up the Vanguard's thrusters and flew backwards, using the Vanguard's sword to rupture the tank which spewed out liquid nitrogen.
The sand froze and became brittle almost immediately and Cipher gave it one final, light punch to shatter the sand.
Meia's mech collapsed to its back and the pilot inside barely opened her eyes as the sunlight finally shined back into her cockpit.
Hibiki kneeled over her, "Come on get up, we have to go!"
"Just leave me" Meia moaned weakly "Just go".
"Dammit I'm not leaving without you" Hibiki yelled "You may piss me off, but I'd feel miserable if I just left you to die here. Male or Female it doesn't matter at a time like this. We're all about to die don't you get it?" He held out the Vanguard's hand "If you don't want to die then take my hand!"
"GET UP!" Cipher yelled as she kneeled down and dragged Meia's Vanguard back to its feet. Clasping the back of the head of Meia's mech Cipher yelled, "WE'RE LEAVING NOW LET'S GO!"
All of the pilots activated the thrusters on their Vanguards and took off into the sky as the countdown continued to tick away.
When the countdown zeroed out, explosions were tracked across the planet's surface destroying everything that was once there. Thankfully the recon team had made it out in time.
"All Vanguards accounted for" Ezra said happily.
Belvedere continued, "We've also received some data".
"Very well, read it" BC told her.
Belvedere nodded, "Roger commander. Attention all units, the crops for this season are as followed. Red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, lymph cells etc. This is where the data ends".
BC came to a horrible realization and swiftly turned around "Captain this means!"
Captain Magno also realized it "It seems our enemy's intention is to harvest us for their own purpose. It's clear now that they think of us as nothing more than vegetables. If we've learned anything up to this point it's that we're dealing with truly ruthless and formidable foes".
Pixy was also visibly shaken by this.
After all the Vanguards returned to the Nirvana, Cipher promptly ejected from her mech and left the hangar, once again vanishing without a trace.
It was well into the night before Pixy finally found Cipher standing in the garden section, staring into the stream that flowed through.
"Never thought I'd see you in a place like this" he said, grabbing her attention.
"Is there a reason you keep following me today?" Cipher asked him.
Pixy held out an envelop to Cipher "Our pay for today, you got a considerable amount for saving everyone back there. My pay is only for monitoring their training in the simulations".
Cipher took the envelop and slid it into her jacket without looking at Pixy.
Pixy asked, "That actually reminds me, when did you learn to pilot the Vanguard?"
"When I climbed into it" Cipher answered, "I was watching from the hangar and realized they needed help, so I took one of the remaining Vanguards and went down there. My fighter wouldn't have survived the heat of re entry so I took the Vanguard instead".
"And you learned how to pilot it in a matter of minutes?" Pixy asked.
Cipher tilted her head back "Wasn't that difficult".
"Fair enough" Pixy said as he reached into his pocket and pulled out the picture Cipher had dropped earlier "You dropped this by the way" he said handing it to her and slowly backing away.
Turning his back to her, he walked away, leaving Cipher alone staring at the photo of her and Pixy the night after they destroyed Excalibur.
Cipher slowly and hesitantly grabbed the photo by its top two corners again and began pulling it apart, but the second it started tearing, she stopped.
"I can't do it" she muttered "I…I just want to go back to the way things were, why did it have to happen the way it did?"
She gently pressed the photo against her chest and felt her heart beating a little faster "You weren't just my friend Larry, you were my only friend. The only one I wanted to talk to, the only one I wanted to spend time with, to laugh with…so why?..."
Pixy had returned to the hangar and set his gaze upon Cipher's F-15C and his ADFX-02, he felt a heavy burning feeling in his chest and he knew what it was…guilt.
"Not once" he said to himself as he stared at both fighters "Not once have I ever regretted any decision I've made in my life. I've never regretted anything and I never backed out of a decision once I made it…until now of course…If only I could take it all back, before I left…"
A/N. And that's chapter 6.
Well a lot happened this chapter, too much to add in the closing credits so I'll just sum it up.
BC discovered notes and accounts about the Belkan war, more specifically reports on Cipher and Pixy.
The tension between the former friends continues to grow, but now it seems Cipher is hesitating to destroy her memories of the days when they still flew together, and Pixy seems to be regretting his actions even more now to the point he wishes he could take it all back.
Can they stay allies long enough for them to survive until the Nirvana reaches Mejerian space? or will they fall apart and endanger the entire crew?
We'll have to wait until next time! See you then!