There it was, the Harmony … judging by the initial scans there had been damage throughout the vessel, mostly to the port side. Maneuverability was down, shields were as well and the meager weapons that the science vessel had were designed to cut through small asteroids and other space debris and not designed to take on the hauls of other ships.

There were no other ships in the area and though Scorch and Krisna were not agents they were all that Hope had on hand and it was not as if Scorch herself had no experience with boarding actions. The communications on the ship were down, Scorch tried to hail them more than once but failed each time.

Either there was no one there, the communications system was to damaged or whoever was there had not wished to answer them. Scorch dismissed the later as if this were a trap it was a bad trap at that seeing how close the base was. Given that the base was this close it took some balls to attack it so either there was a daring pirate group she did not know about or there was something really important on board.

With no signs of other ships and the distress call coming in near fifteen minutes ago she was guessing that this hadn't been pirates. To close to the base and not enough time to get loot … a specific item? Maybe.

“Whoever it is they're not typical pirates and slavers would not strike this close to the base … which leads me to believe that whoever it was was after something specific or someone ...”

The ship could carry maybe two dozen personnel, all scientists from what she would imagine. “Shall we check it out or wait for back up?”

A little over fifthteen minutes ago Krisna was worn out, exhausted by a major mandy and left naked in a shower room with Hope at her side, ready to sleep there on the tiled floor afther been tired out by a major Mandy, Hope and a third party that she cant seem to remainber, afther a game of touching! only to find her self back in space with her lover, wait both her lovers! While just be for Krisna was ready to explain the reason they took so long the ships consol lite up drawing both her lovers attention leaving Krisna clueless as to what was going on, only thing she knew was that they took off in such a hurry! They took off so fast that Krisna and her lovly friend Hope were not even able to change out of their play cloths yet, not that Krisna was complaing.

Finding a place to sit by Scorch or Hope befor blasting off, strapping her self befor they came into visual contact with a completly lifless vessel Krisna could only assume was the Haramony.

Unstapping her self from her seat Krisna moved acrost the cabin were Scorch was seated most likly in the pilot chair to suprise hugg her from behind, resting her head on the top of Scorchs to gaze out the cockpit window at the ship floating in the vacume of space.

"Is that the ship Desy?" Krisna asked, leaning up off Desy to step around her in the chair and closer to the cockpit window, leaning over the consol to have a better look see at the ship as the travler cutly tilting her head to one side asking the same question to her self, what happen here?

The first few minutes she had spent in recovery trying to catch her breath as she wondered about this distress call that eventually came in. She glanced to her two lovers sitting side by side in both the pilot and copilot's seats and got up when the ship appeared on the viewer.

Sure enough she had witnessed the damage that Scorch had pointed out and her own theories, recalling that she was a pirate captain her speculation on the matter had been warranted. Slavers would not operate so close, nor pirates so her best guess had been independent thieves that were after something the Harmony was carrying.

It was a science vessel so the sensors were probably great but there was nothing that sprang immediately to mind …

“You two are not agents so I'll go check this out. Wait until the other ships get here. Are there any weapons? An environmental suit encase … it is a science vessel after all and could have been carrying any manner of harmful substances. There, can you dock with that airlock?”

She pointed at the ship.

“Huh? Yeah, I can dock with that, piece of cake. We could send 92, anything airborne would not effect him but as a droid it may miss obvious things and just follow commands. I do have four environmental suits on-board and a cache of weapons in the secret compartment.

“I get it, you're a professional soldier, well I use to be a pirate and can see the tell tale signs. And Krissy is an expert at scientific craft, she's studied them,” well she lied about that last part but it made a degree of sense.

“We keep 92 at the pilot's station on standby, suit up and have a look. Even if something goes wrong we have help close by and it's likely we'll only find an empty ship any way.”

She grinned, no military skills but she knew a thing or two about leadership. “They have good sensors so their logs might have something on what happened, info on the ship or ships that attacked for instance which could narrow down the suspects.”

She glanced towards Krissy as she came into few after parting from behind her, smiled a little then glanced back at Hope awaiting the verdict but before that she had added. “Otherwise we sit out here and wait for your friends to show first, no sense in letting you risk yourself without a little back up.”

Krisna would turn around and lean back agiest the ship consol to look twords her two lovers as they both tried to agree on a plan. Flicking her gaze betwen Hope and Dessy as each one spoke up and made some valid points. Hope wanting to protect them from harm while Destiny want to make sure Hope was safe, but in the end Krisna only gave them a cute smile befor falling into Destiny's lap with a plop only to clapp, smiling happily and hummed to her self. " I'm a expert! expert!" Krisna would sing rocking cutly side to said in Dessy's lap.

"I think we should go as soon as we can! Becuse some one might still be aboard whos hurt or worse!" Krisna gasped as she lite up suprised sitting up in Dessys lap. "There could be a ghost!..... a space ghost..." Krisna would say in a darker more spooky tone of voice befor relaxing back in her lovers lap to laugh playfully and a little crazily and ramble. "But most likly not!... ghosts are just unprobable super! sititions?... that make no scintific sense or reason like a triangle or the letter Z!"

There could be someone on the vessel too, Hope glanced at the damaged ship and nodded at Krisna's words. The others had no business here though but they were wasting time while arguing. “Alright, let me just send a message that I'm checking this out and appraising the others of what to expect first ...”

After sending out a message she geared up with an environmental suit and got her hands on a rifle. She preferred her sword but seeing that she did not have access to it at present then this would make due.

“Bring us closer.” She looked between the two women. “Obey my commands if anything goes wrong.”

Scorch gave a mock salute. “Will do.” She didn't want to get up with Krissy on her lap but they had to get to gearing up. She got an environmental suit herself and took her trusty plasma pistol with her as well as a knife, if not used as a weapon it could be used as a tool after all.

Once they were done she brought the ship up to dock, an easy enough action and placed 92 on standby as the three of them boarded the vessel. The lights were dim and areas of the ship had been sealed off where the hull had been breached.

There were no signs of people present though there were computer monitors every so often that had indicated ship functions, status and the like each tied to their respective sections of the ship.

“I'm guessing the computers at the cargo bay would tell us what they were transporting. I'll check it out. The labs probably have the results of sensor readings or the brig. You two can make your way there. There are radios in these suits so we can stay in contact with one another. I can bring up a map of the ship.”

And she had, the map had red areas on it, sections that were locked down because of haul breeches on the port side.

"Yes Ma'am!" Krisna would say
at the same time as Dessy but a little more silly then mocky as she smiled at Hope from her lovers lap but sooner or later Krisna had to get up off Destinys lap so they both could get geared up for their trip into the darlic ship.

Krisna slowly geared up like the others not bothering to change as she slipped into a sleek pink space suit her lover let her barrow a while back when they first meet in her bathroom. It belonged to Destiny's sister but Krisna didnt now much about that, only that the suit fit her perfectly but still had troble zipping it up, having to request help..... a couple times from the others.

The suits huged curvy petiet young body with thin armor plates along her sholders, sides and hips befor Krisna came out from were she changed to model for her two lovers and finish getting ready by throwing on the helmet and gathering her utility belt, even tho her Omni tool was with Luna the travler still had some other little gadgets she could use to gather data if needed. Once they all were finished 92 pulled Dessys ship in to dock with the ship were the three entered threw the air lock.

On board the ship was rather spooky, Krisna instantly steeping closer to one of her lovers, Hope from reasurance as she grabbed the agents hand holding it tightly, oviously nervus as she fallowed closly befor they stopped agin. Dessy began to mess with consol as Krisna could not help but look over her lovers sholder and see for her self.

" No! dont go! I think thats a awful idea! We should stay together!" Krisna would say sounding paniced as she went forward to hugg Destiny around her chest. " Dont go! dont go!" Krisna yelled, hugging Dessy as tightly as she could.

Was she the only one being serious here? And why was Scorch suddenly giving orders, it was as if she fell into pirate mode the second they had got aboard the Harmony though Krisna seized her hand and moved closer to her.

She held her hand as she moved to the console bringing up the map. She would have felt better if she had her fellow Sweepers with her or at least her katana but she was without such things feeling as naked as Krisna without her OMNI tool.

But it seemed that Krisna was opposed to splitting up. She watched as Krisna embraced the former pirate and she had to make a snap decision. “She's right, we don't know what's here s we stick together. Neither of you have been trained to deal with these situations so stick with me. We'll go to the bridge first, see if we can get something out of the captain's logs and readings from those sensors to see what was here. We might even get lucky and pull up a manifest as to what they were carrying.”

At least Mia could. She was excellent at hacking though not her so she would just have to see about that as she lead the way to the bridge.

When Krisna dressed casually she had gone with her casual black slacks and shirt with her white trench coat over matters. She made a quick check of her plasma pistol before going. If there was anything to worry about in the air there should be air scrubbers on the science vessel though it was nothing she could go on she had seen that he lover had not been concerned and so must have known or had something to prevent outbreaks in a victim.

“OK, OK, OK,” she relented, it seemed that they would be checking out the bridge first. The ship was empty until they got to the bridge of the science vessel anyway where the navigator was face down at his console, a blast mark on his back and a hole at the back of his chair indicating he had not even seen it coming, poor bastard …

A quick search had brought up an entry containing all twenty four members on the ship, most were female and Shelia Evans had been listed amongst them. Scorch tapped some keys, tricks of the trade, she couldn't really hack but she knew her way around a ship's computers.

“Let's check out the last entry in the captain's logs ...” She pulled it up on the view screen displaying a buxom middle aged woman there, her long brown hair had been braided and hung over her right shoulder.

“... attack … aliens … they want the drive ...” the image kept flickering in and out. “They want …drive. Near Antares now ...” The message cut out amidst an explosion.

“Well, it seems that we know what they were after but not why … I'm not finding anything in the logs about it.”

Krisna released Dessy afther Hope made her orders clear they were to stick together becuse they didnt know what was possibly on board with them. "Oh good! Dont try o run off like that!" Krisna smiled as she kindly hugged Dessy befor leaning into kiss her loves cheek but was only foiled as there was a light 'dink!' The sound of their helmets hitting each other as Krisna was left suprised and mommenterly comfused by why she couldnt kiss her DESSY befor they left for the Bridge.

The three marched to the bridge, lead by Hope as Krisna fallowed closly behind both her lovers as every so offten she would walk by one of the similure consols Destiny looked over early only to take a pin sized device off her utility belt, figit with it then simply swipe it over the screen of a computer she passed and keep on walking, fallowing Hope and Dessy, hitting another computer on her way to the bridge leaving a glowing line over the screen that slowly faded. Meanwhile each consol the travler swiped would activate on its own, even if power was seemingly dead and begin flashing through all its files, downloading their files directly to the humbug for further study later as the treeo made their way to the bridge and Krisna was shocked at what they found as she gasped at the sight.

It was a dead body, the sight startled her as she clung to Hope for amomment as the entered, he looked like an ADD Soldier Krisna thought as she hesitantly approched. "How horrible..." Krisna said to her self as she exmine the navigtor, finding he was shot from behind, most likly killed instantly Krisna sumerised as she frowned at the sight befor she pulled out that same pen sized device from earlyer off her belt as Krisna swiped it over his head and said a prayer in a lanugue neither Hope or Destiny could recigonize befor she put the device away. By this time Krisna would have heard the recording catching her attention as she quickly came over to see looking over their sholder to watch. "Can it be?..."

At first it had appeared that they weren't going to suit up but they did. Lieutenant Dephis was focused though, her training kicked in and while she might not have had the experience of some of the other agents out there she took her work seriously.

She had been good enough at what she did and that, for the most part had been eliminating foes “Sweeping” areas especially after a foot hold situation had occurred though one occasion she had been assigned other work or had to merge an operation, such as rescue and elimination of enemies. That was what she had done back at Gero station, destroying that dimensional gate and rescuing that scientist.

This was a rescue op, they had no idea what happened here though as they got to the bridge it became clearer. The navigator, as she and Krisna examined him had been familiar though not of the ADD he conducted minor things, delivering supplies and transportation on occasion when they had to infiltrate something as a civilian though most of her work had been straight forward so she had only known him by his features though why did he have a similar uniform?

She had lead the way to the bridge and had missed what Krisna was doing though the recording of the last log entry drew her attention there and she watched. Drives? Had someone been after an experimental drive? Had it been hooked up? Probably not, it was probably being transported to the ADD or maybe this was deemed a safe area to flee in the event of an attack?

That final message was probably meant as a clue left by the captain of the ship after being attack.

“Alright, it looks like they were transporting something, we should check the cargo bay … maybe the galley first see if anyone is held up their first then sweep the living quarters. Labs, a sick bay, any place a group of survivors might have holed up in. The aliens only had time to grab what they were after so anyone that posed to resistant was probably left here ...”

Scorch had not seemed it but she was alert as well though she did little to alarm Krisna. She was aware of the tool that Krissy was using after the second or third time she had done so for at first she thought Krisna was just looking at whatever was n the monitors or just interested in such antiquated things, well to her these things would be.

“What are you doing?” Curious she asked though the trio son got to the bridge where she was busy trying t access files and bring up those logs as the others inspected the body. All three had been unaware that as the body was inspected that a button on the console had been hit reactivating the count down that was suppressed, a last ditch at defending the experimental drive.

The message was played for them and Scorch removed her helmet taking a deep breath before the gloves came off. “No danger from microbes, just an alien attack.

“As much as we should check out the cargo bay or engineering I doubt we'll find much. I'll leave that to your people, we should prioritize and look for survivors. Mess hall, sick bay, any place a large group might hold up. We can see about grabbing sensor data from here to see whom they were up against too or at least get an idea.”

"Oh nothing..." Krisna would say simply to Dessy, putting away the device when she would ask, letting the device do all the work while the travler really did nothing but fallow her lovers threw the ship.

Meanwhile the trio look over the ship logs, Krisna intrested in this drive the captain mentiond in her recording befor she looked to Hope and Dessy at the mention of survivors as she nodded. "Yes we should look for any one still on board.... they might be hurt." Krisna would say, smiling at both her lovers befor noticing Dessy remove her helmet befor Krisna did the same aking a deep breath as she removed the gloves. "Oh good thats better... Afther a minute it feels like I was living inside of a snowglobe." Krisna would giggle.

When the trio would begin to move out Krisna would leave last making sure to swipe her reader device over the consol holding the recorded message, it was information vital to her mission afther all....

“Alright,” Hope would press on after she quickly tried to access any reading from the helm from the sensors. Knowing what was here was less of a priority so she was not going to spend a ton of time with trying to access information so if it came up easily good, if not the other agents could mess around with it.

She brought up a map next. “The mess hall is closer right near the living quarters so we can check those out as we go, med bay is near their too so we'll just work in order ...”