Characters: Yzark Jule, Dearka Elsman
Pairings: None
Time frame: GS ep 50
Welcome Duel
"I don't want to go to the freaking Legged Ship! I'm no deserter!"
A strangled sigh full of exasperation transmits even through the damaged system of the Buster. "Look, do you see any other friendly ship around here? Just drop me off, have the Duel recharged and repaired and be gone."
"I ain't setting no foot on that ship of Naturals!"
"Then what do you suppose to do? Drift around in the Duel until someone comes by to finish you off?"
In the end it comes down to what is more humiliating; floating around helplessly or having Naturals put their incompetent brains to work to repair the machine they had built in the first place (and know how to not ruin).
Yzark will deny to his dying day that Dearka being wounded and in need of medical assistance might eventually have influenced his opinion just the tiniest bit.
After he makes the disgracing decision, he builds up his indifference so high, he only gives the mechanics a second glance when they don't pay him any mind (beyond ushering Dearka off to the sickbay) and throw themselves at the Buster and the Duel like vultures on a pray.
Undisciplined without even the faintest whiff of protocol in sight, Yzark finds the ship of deserted Naturals, the worst combination ever, less disgusting than he has expected.
He does not like that fact.