"It's the pilot of the recovered vessel. He awoke with a scream and fell down."
(Keep in mind we're in a corridor between the mess hall and the armory.)
((Gotcha, I only skimmed through the posts)).
Yuga looked at Vakarus, then down on the figure at her feet and then back at Vakarus.
She lifted her hat to sweep her hair back.
"Pick him up, we'll put him in the medical quarters and restrain him. There we can study him and when he wakes up we'll look into what he has to say for himself. In the meantime we can inspect the vessel more thoroughly."
Vakarus lifted the the motionless figure and him and Yuga began walking to the science wing.
"As I understand your kind has limited psychic abilities, did you notice anything about him before he became unconscious?"
"He was in a deep slumber untill I woke him up with a psionic pulse, there was little to be sensed." Said Vakarus as he carried the mysterious pilot.
"I did notice one thing, while he appears to be human there was something... odd. He's not empty like our fellow androids but there something about him that hints of something mysterious."
Yuga was intrigued. There was a brief silence between the two.
"Augmented perhaps?" she communicated in a ponderous tone. They entered the labs and Vakarus put the pilot down on a examination table and put constraints on him.
Yuga walked around the table and observed the pilot, attempting to detect neural activity other than those that kept the body functioning.
"He has certainly acquired my curiosity. Hopefully Abraxas or Miss Weinheart can uncover something about him, or even better if he wakes up and can disclose the details himself."
She looked up to Vakarus, "Was there anything of interest on his vessel that we should investigate further?"
Alex heard the rumblings in the corridor outside the mess hall. He opened the doors and noticed Vakarus and Yuga carrying the unconscious body with them. "Ok, clearly I missed something. Who's the corpse?" "
"There was a console notifying of a warpcore failure, however I suspect that is matter for the engineering team. Aside from that there were two reinforced boxes inside the vessel, one was locked while the other one appeared to contain weapons of dated terran design." Said Vakarus as he put down the helmet next to the knocked out pilot now lying on a medical examination table.
Before Vakarus and Yuga could continue speculate, Alex entered the room.
"Kitchen Overlord, this is the pilot of the recovered vessel. It would appear he attempted to fly which is why he fell down and knocked himself out."
"Oh. Well pilots are meant to fly." He took a closer look. "He looks almost human."
"We suspect he is, although something is different about him." Vakarus reluctantly put two of his fingers between the pilot's lips and opened the mouth, revealing black gums holding two neat rows of teeths.
He raised and eyebrow and looked at Alex. "Forgive me kitchen overlord, but isn't the inside of human mouths red?"
"Yes. It usually is. Unless he's been eating nothing but coal and ash for the last 20 years, his mouth shouldn't be like that. We also don't have the black spots around the eyes. Best take your fingers out of there. I don't think he'll appreciate you poking in his mouth, nor would the doctor. "
Vakarus nodded and went was his hands thoroughly before returning to the table. "I am curious about his armor, it seems very small and... old."
Yuga observed the pilot and then looked up to Alex.
"Mr.Korunov, as a human you must know most of these features if he's indeed a human.
Could you possibly tell if he is heavily augmented or perhaps even bionically engineered?"
"I'm not the only human on this ship, but they will probably tell you the same. He's not human. Now is he augmented or was he grown in a lab? You will probably have to ask Abraxas or Amelia."
"Curious indeed." Said Vakarus as he leaned on his staff.
Bucky fires the jets on her pack to get back up to the airlock. She inspects the barrier, and tries to figure out how she might get through or around it. While she attempts that she takes stock of where her teams are.
[roll to circumvent the security system barrier thing.]
The pilot sprung back to life and tried to move again. He started by stretching his arms out forward and moving them. Then, he moved on to moving his legs. Being kept in stasis for a long time made it quite difficult, but at least he knew he still had his limbs.
Vakarus looked at the pilot and then at Alex and Yuga.
"Uh...good morning?"
He tried to sit up, and looked directly at Alex.
"Where... am I?" he weakly said.
Abrax after a long nap, got up from his bunk and activated his holoband to find out the recent activities announced on the ship. Deactivating it he went to the Labs and pulled out Annabelle on the table. Observing the tools and workbench he needed to modify the weapon.
"You're on board the Muramasa. Take it easy now, you hit your head pretty hard." He noticed Abraxas entering the labs. "Doc, you got a patient."
Taylor and Amelia floated back to the final hunk of space junk outside, determined to see if there was anything they could scavenge from the ten meter wide hunk of scrap. It looked like a very large engine, which seemed to have broke off of a much larger ship. The ship itself was nowhere in sight. They parked the skiff next to it, and proceeded to break it down for scrap.
[roll for scavenging]
"Hey Vakarus, how's the guy from the fighter? You guy's get him in safely?" she asked as they worked.
Yuga took out her compass and absorbed some vapors. She looked over to Abraxas who had just entered the lab.
She turned her attention back to the pilot.
"Now we are going to ask you to give us some information, starting with your name."
"Muramasa? What's that?"
The pilot then noticed the two other figures in the room with him. He took two long glances at Yuga and Vakarus, constantly exchanging stares at them.
"My name? My name is..."
Oh dear. He started to rub his forehead. What was his name? He can't recall anything.
"... I can't remember."
"You can't remember anything?" Yuga asked, narrowing her eyes.
He seemed to be telling the truth, cause Yuga couldn't make sense of his neural activity, which appeared more like a scrambled jigsaw puzzle than coherent memories.
"Do you have any memory of your fighter vessel? That's where we found you."
Abrax activated his holoband once more, opting to record any personal detail.
Vakarus observed the second awakening of this mysterious man as Tyalor radioed in. "Warrior, the pilot of the recovered vessel appear to be fine aside from some slight disorientation."
He then put his hand on Yuga's shoulder calmly. "Yuga'ayrin, we should perhaps let Alex'vakrin ask questions. I am not sure this man would want us in his head."
[quote]"Now we are going to ask you to give us some information, starting with your name."[/quote]
The last words echoed in the Pilot's head.
What [I]is [/I]his name? Why can't he remember it? He tried to think about it as much as he could, but nothing would come up. He can't remember anything. He can't remember who he is, what he is, or anything prior to being awoken. All he knows is that he's being held in a ship crewed by some very odd people.
"Just start from what you do remember and take it from there."
Yuga looked up on Vakarus, communicating with him privately.
"I merely inspect him to see if he is telling the truth. Picking up a person from stasis in the middle of an asteroid belt is not exactly an everyday occurrence."
Vakarus nodded understandingly however Yuga was able to sense his discomfort of reading a mind without full permission.
While observing, Vakarus cautiously made his way into the outer layers of the pilot's mind to see if he could discern any thoughts aside from the current confusion.
He could not sense anything, he seemed to truly have a loss of memory.
His gaze switched to the pilot. "Pilot, your vessel was inactive aside from critical life support and a single console mentioning a warpcore failure. Do you remember what happend to your vessel?"
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