Lone Wolf Chpt 3 Pt 5

               An hour after the VR system was shut down everyone gathered together back in the break room to discuss what happened in there, the feedback on how it went, and getting some answers from each other. Most of the crew was seated down in the chairs around the large oval table while Striker is the only one standing up while Orion is on a holo display on the table. Peppy however found a comfortable position and has fallen asleep leaving him completely out of the conversations between the crew and the guests, both Striker and Fara.
“Are you serious Fara!” Krystal yells snapping up onto her feet slamming her hands down on the tables shocked at what she was being told with her right eye twitching.
Fara digs into her cleavage and pulls out a picture of Striker being handed a new set of ODST gear from the UNSC Requisitions and flips it out facing them, “During my travels I’ve been all over this galaxy and for once it made me realize that there IS bigger fish in the sea”
Fox then points out to her, “You do understand you’re not a…”
“Shut up!” she yells and smacks Fox across the head knocking him out of the chair then she continues dropping the picture on the table and crossing her arms, “Humans are everywhere more spread out than our own along with being highly advanced in cybernetics and bio-weaponry”
Striker looks down at the photo of him and picks it up, “How did you get a picture of me anyways”
“My own little secret” she replies happily, “But I can tell you that I’ve seen a few UNSC ships come close enough to this system that they could pick up our own communications.”
“Did you catch the name or the emblem that’s on the sides?”
“One had some red bird on it but I didn’t find any life signs at all it was pretty much a ghost ship”
For a moment Striker thinks to himself thinking of what ship has the emblem matching the description then one ship came to his mind that went missing back in the 2530’s during the Battle of Harvest, the Spirit of Fire. Krystal peered over to him sensing the strain going on in his head in trying to figure out why that ship that has been missing for decades passed so close to the Lylat system and why there were no life signs. “Do you know it?” she asked
Rubbing the back of head in confused he replies, “I don’t know what to say but that might’ve been the Spirit of Fire. All contact with it was lost twenty years ago during the Harvest campaign but the last known information was that it jumped to Arcadia following a Covenant ship then made another jump. After that second jump all contact was lost and it wasn’t seen nor heard of again.”
“How do you know of this?”
“After hearing multiple rumors on the whereabouts of the ship I had to do my own research and found that it’s a converted colonization ship with Captain Cutter in command with the AI Serina. It provided valuable support in the evacuation of Arcadia during a glassing and in the protection of Harvest it also found a Forerunner structure under the ice wastelands”
“Forerunners?” Fox questioned, “Is that some other alien race you faced up against?”
“No” he replies shaking his head side to side and peers over to Orion, “Orion”
                He switches over to the center holo-display and walks off of it and displays the known information about the Forerunners such as structures found and some devices uncovered then tells, “They’re a sentient race that has lived before our time possibly before any of us. From what the researchers say is that they were around about roughly one hundred millennia ago. They’re far more advanced than anyone having technology that if understood and used properly could advance them to the point where they could go anywhere in the galaxy whenever they wanted too and pretty much have the power to take over but they mysteriously disappeared leaving behind remnants of their civilization scattered throughout this and possibly other galaxies.”
                As Orion goes on informing the crew of the Forerunners, Fox looks over at Peppy who’s now starting the snore and nudges him in the side waking him up making him listen to all the new information on what was going on in the galaxy and what could possibly include the Lylat system. Slippy has a notepad out paying complete and full attention to Orion jotting down notes onto a notepad.
“Some of the structures that have been preserved well have been found to be large scale laboratories and experimentation complexes. But with barely any record of what they last worked on to be found we can only speculate what might’ve happened; possible universal super cure for any type of illness, a weapon of mass destruction on a galactic scale, or possibly a defensive device to protect themselves in times of danger. A few of these devices they left behind we found that for some reason only humans can operate. Reports tell us that the Covenant has tried to use the same devices before but to no avail however they have broken through the barriers and assimilated what they can into their arsenal of weapons. There was thoughts and theories that have risen believing that human civilization is descendents of the Forerunners but there are too many uncertainties and our knowledge on the Forerunners is what some say is just the tip of the iceberg.”
Fara hits the table with her right hand getting everyone’s attention and states directing towards Striker, “Hey shouldn’t you be getting back to why I know your kind?”
“Sorry” Striker apologized, “Orion could ramble on and on for days about the Forerunners its one of his favorite subjects”
“Anyway the main reason why I seen you a bunch of times is that well…” she stayed silent for a moment and started messing with her left ear looking away and blushed, “After the first time seeing you something came over me to follow you for a while as you went from one planet to another and now I don’t know what to do now you’re here”
Striker was speechless, he wanted to say something but couldn’t all he was able to do is look away and rub the back of his head having a confused look on his face.
“Krystal I think you might have some competition” Falco jokes to her
She glares over to him, “Don’t tempt me” she replies and transferred an image of a roasted chicken on a large plate to him making him fall back out of the chair. When he got back up he quickly looks around with fear in his eyes then at her
“Krystal, don’t do that to me. You know I can’t handle those transfers not to mention seeing that” he then states angrily
“Hey…dude, you okay?” Orion asks Striker and moves over to another display at the end of the table close to him then strolls off growing to full size at six foot one.
“Oh, yeah, that was just a little…”
“Different?” Krystal coos and starts to move in closer to him
Instantly Fox jumps out of his seat in response to her actions in how she’s looking at him having a look of her being hungry but Falco and Slippy grab hold of him and keep him back protecting him from potentially seriously injuring himself. Peppy however fell asleep again through the whole conversation and wakes up to the commotion of Fox trying to break free from their grasp as they keep him down in his chair and Striker being cornered by the two young girls. All he does in make a small chuckle of the sight, “Kids these days” and leans back on the chair falling back asleep
“Are you okay with different?” Fara then asks till both of them have him cornered against the large viewing window out into space with a far off nebula in the distance and a bypassing comet with a blue-white tail trailing behind it as the heat from the sun warms it releasing the trapped gases
“ah um I-I…” he stutters then rubs the back of his head again thinking of an answer then glances over to the door and points out to it “You know there’s a few things in the fighter that needs to be fixed” then he starts to make his way out slipping through an opening around them and quickly strolls out
“Striker!” both Krystal and Fara states simultaneously having a bit of disappointment in their voices
He stops and pokes his head back in looking straight at Orion “Orion come on I need you to disengage to security protocols”
“But you can…”
“Orion!”
“Okay coming” he sighs as Striker makes his escape and shakes his head then strolls over next to the girls, “Girls, FYI he’s not really a normal type of person to hook up with not to mention for him the thought of having a relationship this fast with one of you it’s a little bit early in the game for that. Keep in mind of who he’s been around the longest which is Humans and Marline.”
“Orion!”
“Give me minute” he shouts back, “just give him some time and some room get to know him some more as he gets to know you.  Trust me on this I’ve been with him for a few years as his best friend right next to Doc. If you need to talk just call me okay”
“Okay”
He gives a nod of his head to them and fazes out meeting up with Striker using the intercoms of the ship to talk to him
“What the hell was that Krystal?” Fox states with frustration
“Fox, once in a while can’t I have some fun”
“Last time you had some fun I was tied up, blindfolded, half naked, and you messed with my mind with images of you doing things that’ll make anyone’s nose bleed. I know it made mine and Slippy completely passed out catching a rouge transfer”
“Now who’s the whore” Fara smirks
“Look at yourself you scank”
“Alright girls just calm down” Slippy chuckles while sweating trying to ease their tension before it blows up
The both of them glare at him with death eyes as if their burning a hole through him and in his mind an image of him being a cooked side dish that Orion has been joking about to him comes to mind.
“Or not”
“Hey guys I think we got a minute before they snap” Falco states and slowly starts to make his way to the exit
They watch as both of the girl’s tails frizz out, their ears fold back, and snarling their teeth at each other. Then small office supplies and dinnerware begins to float due to Krystal’s psychic powers along with an immense amount of static electricity and discharge making fur stand on end and ruffle feathers. Soon larger things such as chairs begin to float into the air.
“STRIKER!!!” Falco yells in desperation
“You’re on your own guys” he replies a minute later over the coms to them, “Good luck in calming them down”
Then the seats they were in begins to wobble side to side and lifts off the floor
“EVACUATE!!!”Fox yells and flips out of his chair and all the guys bolt out the door as the two girls break out into an all out brawl; clawing, biting, pulling each other’s hair, ripping cloths off, and tearing up the whole room. Fox grabs hold of Peppy and drags him out with him then locks down the room behind.
“ROB lock down blast door delta nine and exhibition window Romeo zero two!” Fox orders as all of them rush down the hallway to a safe distance once they’ve reached a viable safe zone Fox went to the nearest com panel and links up to the Break Room com panel. Once the visual and audio link was made he witnessed the women caught in a brutal fight with each other with various pieces of debris floating around with them in the middle caught in hand to combat. Lightning jumps from the debris to the floor and other pieces leaving dark carbonized burn tracks, ionizing the air, and creating ozone. “Girls come on just calm down and talk this over” he says to them
“Stay out of this Fox” Krystal replies in a warped voice her eyes glowing a shade of purple and blue as both Fara and her hands are locked together
“Warning hull integrity compromised, power core overloading rerouting external power source to nonessential systems” the automated warning system blares over the coms
“Damn it! You two just knock it off you’re going to kill us all”
A dull thud is heard then Striker strolls through the doorway into the room wearing his ODST helmet that provided fresh clean air and protection while using the sword he had on him to redirect the electrical discharges elsewhere as he pushed through the debris into the center of their orbit where the girls are. Once in the center and out of the danger zone he sheaths the sword and takes out an air gun injector loaded with a small dosage of a tranquilizer then plants it right up against her neck pulling the trigger injecting the serum directly into her bloodstream instantly putting her asleep. He catches her and picks her up putting her over his right shoulder ejects the spent cartridge loading another into it while balancing Fara on his other shoulder and grabs hold of Krystal picking her up putting her onto his other shoulder and injects the second cartridge into her left butt cheek. About a few seconds later she fell asleep and he drops the gun onto the floor right when the tool hit the rest of the floating debris drops to the floor.
He gets on the coms, “ight its clear, disengage the locks and open this area back up” he tells and strolls over to entrance carrying the girls on his shoulders
“Thanks Striker”
The door locks click and it opens to him and the blast doors are retracted back. The window that allowed a view into the depths of space is unblocked as the blast door for it is retracted back up revealing the nebula again and the far off streaming comet
Striker lets out a sigh and starts to walk off towards the barracks making his first stop at his room setting Fara down on his bed then carrying Krystal in his arms across the hallway to her room and placed her into her own bed. As he’s staring down at her as she slumbered Orion displayed himself on the small holo-display on the nearby nightstand and he too stares at her with his hands behind his back.
“Good thing you stepped in” he informs, “There was massive power surges throughout the whole system I tried to reroute the power everywhere I could to protect the core. Some of the excess power I transferred to the Valkryie so now it’s fully charged.”
Both of them remained silent keeping their eyes locked onto Krystal.
“She’s an extraordinary woman isn’t she?” he asks
Striker turns around and starts to walk away then he stops at the door, “Orion”
“Yes sir?”
“Can you keep an eye on them for me especially Krystal?”
Orion smiles, “Yes sir”
Striker gives a small smile and strolls out the door rejoining with the rest of the crew.
Orion turns around looking back at Krystal and says softly, “Krystal you don’t know how lucky you are to have him as your guardian. I hope you can see this”