Krisna opserved with her two lovers. Watching curiously through her looking glass at the aliens below. Unlike Hope's scanner Krisna's omni tool scanned the things she looked at, detectng a high level of energy from those large creatures the Hideozu were hearding into the structure befor Krisna noticed a person stand out from the others as the Hideozu on guard ordered him off te shuttle at gun point as Dessy turned around and stated that clear as day, askig a personwho wasnt even hear to awnser making Krisna giggle.

Afther a momment or two Krisna nodded at Dessy's idea to stand back and watch for a minute befor simply looking back threw her spy glass down at the aliens and the shuttle, scanning each one for the catalogs as they staked the place out.

"Oh! I spy with my little eye somthing! That is Black! Scaley, Scary and nice all at the same time!" Krisna giggled out as she plopped onto her belly to watch the emcampment as she simply counted the Hideozu she saw. "One Hideozu! Two Hideozu! Three Hideozu! Four..."

“Hey … I know that man!” Hope exclaimed in a loud whisper. “The human ...”

She struggled for a named as she only met the guy once before. Nikolas Putnim, that's his name. He sent out a distress signal and was the sole survivor after a ton of Xagi exited from a portal similar to the one we pasted through.”

Well, she didn't know that for sure seeing that she did not know all the science involved. The portal was probably different in that the Xagi could come through it from what she had guessed or there was some other reason for them being at the station. Need to know and all that and she was only charged with destroying the threat and rescuing survivors. The doctor was the only one.

“I guess they pulled him off of Mercer's ship, best guess is that since Mercer's ship apparently went out of phase too that he's stuck and found a way to cross into the Xagi dimension or maybe what effected us was more prevalent on his ship and his vessel was transported to this dimension I dunno.”

She gave a little shrug. Mia was the scientific one on her team but she was tossing out possibilities that she could think of, maybe they had merit, maybe not. Of course being out numbered meant that they had to keep a close eye on what was going on down there.

“I spy ...” Scorch thought. She had not played the game since she was a little girl with her older sister Serena. She gazed at the Hideozu and nodded at what Hope said not knowing much science herself it all sounded good to her.

Mercer gets lucky and nabbed an expert on the other ship, one that may know of a way back. She sighed though. If they rescued the man then her sister might get stuck here with Mercer. They could rescue her but they still had to find her as she was probably on the main ship with Mercer.

“I … I … don't think I should make the judgment call here, damn.”

The aliens were loading up metallic crates bringing them into the building using repulsor sleds to push them in and out of the building. It was hard to say if each time they got to their ship different ones were coming in and out but the shuttle was large enough to house thirty. Only twelve came out initially and the doctor so there was room for more on the ship. There was probably the flight crew on the ship at least so they were looking at perhaps fourteen people … manageable depending on their plan if they used stealth and perhaps a distraction from the Wardens who had come just a bit closer but seemed to be keeping their distance … no that wasn't entirely true, about half of them remained where they were guarding or protecting something it seemed where the rest moved toward the aliens and kept a closer eye on them.

“The Hideozu,” Scorch answered the I spy game suddenly for a bit of a distraction. Whatever they were loading it was a lot and clearly they would have to take a closer look. Of course a simple ploy, a false surrender could draw them out too and if they timed it they could get it so half of them were in the building loading up and the other half in the ship packing the containers with two outside. But they would have to move quick and hopefully they had surprise.

A transmission came in on the communicator of one who stopped half way between the ship and building. If they were out of phase or stuck in this dimension the communicators wouldn't allow them to get in touch with anyone outside this place but the main ship perhaps or someone on here.

His voice did not carry though it was loud enough to discern that he was speaking to someone in his native tongue … receiving and confirming orders.

“What's he saying?” Nina asked as she watched on unaware if anyone else knew the language or not as she had not interacted with too many aliens and the languages she knew had been human spoken ones.

"You do?" Krisna asked looking up at Hope afther her lover claimed to know the humen male getting out of the ship at gun point. "Did he build the portals?" Krisna asked curiously wondering about a few things pertaining to her mission and adventure until she simply left it alone and honestly forgot about it. However yet she did zoom her spy glass in on his face to catalog him under V.I.P names ofthis time period, he may be important Krisna wondered as she keep an eye on the doctor.

"What happen to us on that ship was about as prevalent as your outfit earlier.....none at all.... doesnt make sense.... portal physics should have smashed us or collapsed us to oblivion...." Krisna rammbled on afther what Hope said. Almost in a serious depressed tone as she watched the Doctor through her spy glass befor the clueless travler suddenly paused and realized what she had said and looked to Hope as if shocked. "Oh!...Uhmm... Sorry! I didnt mean that!... The idea of us getting smashed was near zero percent!" Krisna said as she tried to appologize assuring Hope embaressedly.

"You got it!" Krisna said flicking her gaze to Dessy with a big smile. "Hideozu might seem big mean and scary! but really their just big mean and scary sweathearts!" Krisna giggled as she kicked her leggs up and down as she laid on her belly watching. "My uncle Ron...well his really name was Ronova! was a Hideozu and he hated every one!" Krisna giggled as she rolled onto her side and looked up at Dessy and smiled. "I saw him bite off a cadets face once! It was so funny!" Krisna rammbled agin befor she rolled back over and gazed back into her spy glass to opserve agin. " You remind me alot of him Dessy! well besides the whole big and scaly thing!"

By the time Krisna was finished telling her story she heard Nina speak as her bright blue eyes flicked to the new agent Nina as she wondered what the Hideozu down there was saying. "Huh!... oh! Give me a sec! I can see for you!"

“Mm … I don't know, actually. He sent the distress signal so he could have just been a routine scientist but I got the impression that he was a bit further along. He kept trying to retain research rather than destroying the portal.

“I'm pretty sure it's a different portal and not a repaired one. Not enough time has passed to fix it and the last one focused on things leaving the portal. We'll have to ask him ...”

Had she made up her mind that they were going to save him? She had done so once before …

Uh? They could have been killed? In many ways she liked being an ignorant soldier. “You're related to them?” Hope had been adopted by Nagi and figured that uncle Ron must have been a family friend that was rather close.

Scorch looked to Krissy. “Well, that was an easy one.” She smiled at her and looked back to the scene, her mind still at odds as to what they could do though it seemed that Hope wanted to rescue the man which only meant stranding her sister her in this dimension as best as she knew.

But a slight distraction was in order as doing the right thing was not always what she did, after all she was a former pirate herself.

“Thanks … so I bit people's head's off.”

The omni tool would translate what was being said, a feature allowing her to point the device and hear into an area Nina figured as the machine translated …

“... what is the time estimated?”

“Another two hours at least. We have enough of the stone to make a single jump back but cutting the stones is tougher than expected. We have to spend time loading up the stones too and packing them so there's still a bit of time before we fill up the cargo hold and return.

“Unless Mercer wants to send down more people I can't hurry it along any more.”

“You already have fourteen men down there.”

“Two are no good pilots and I have two more on look out so I really only have nine men.”

“You have an hour.”

“An hour!”

“Mercer's orders. Live with it. You have your orders, I suggest you carry them out commander.”

And with that the communications went dead.

“Well, that was informative. So we have less then an hour if we're going to do anything. I could buy us a little time by sabotaging this one but they could just land, I doubt that they'll leave the ship here after loading it up or will have to transfer the cargo to another shuttle at least.”

Krisna tinkered with her omni tool to lisen in on the Hideozu for Nina befor she paused to giggle slightly at Hopes question as she tinkeredvaway. "Well no? But I guess you can say I am...hmm I'm not sure?..." Krisna paused mid way through her programming of the omni to think on it as her eyes went wide while tapping her chin. "I might be adopted?...huh?" Krisna soon shook off the thought befor looking to Dessy, cutly giggling at her comment she made about reminding her of her uncle Ron. "Well you did bite Cid?" Krisna pointed out giggling softly befor she finished programming the omni tool as it broad casted the hideozu's conversation for the girls to hear.

As the communication went dead so did Krisna's omni tool as it cutt connction.

“Adopted? I was raised by the Nagai people. Shorter than us, think of snow white elves with jet black hair. They are fanatical about combat, mainly their sword play and martial arts though each was also dedicated to mastering a craft too. I of course was raise as they would have been raised and learned the use of the blade, some martial arts and painting.”

She was ranked first in sword play followed by painting and lastly by hand to hand. She was more understanding then the others assuming human origins of course.

The omni tool went dead, an ominous sign or was it just being shut off. They had numbers now and some intelligence on the situation though she still wondered what the stones were all about, perhaps the energy source they were getting? She tried to figure what these buildings were used for and her best guess was that they were a warehouse in a sense, built around this energy source perhaps?

“Did you just shut that off or ...”

“That was a bit different, Krissy.”

Scorch sighed with that report. “I cannot be the one that decides what to do. I'm to invested. I mean I want to save him but he might be the only means for my sister getting back. Hope, this started out as an ADD mission in response to a distress signal so I'll defer to you here, your call ...” she was unnerved though, for perhaps the first time she had to admit that she didn't know what to do despite being a commander in the past.

In a way it felt as if she had failed, her head shaking back and forth, her locks still blond in order to disguise her better when they first went to Antares base …

Nina analyzed the information and saw some of the stress there. That strange tool cutting out and though it did not seem that it lost power but was cut off. The concerns seemed to be for someone else that these creatures had too and she did not know if there were more captives to worry about too.

“A suggestion?” Nina waited until she had the attention of all three. “If the issue is that they are trying to get to our dimension there are two options here. One we can just tell them we have the means of getting back or someone can just get captured and divulge that to them, probably not the best option though second is sneaking a tracking device aboard the ship, easiest means is to sneak one into a cargo container and just let them take it to their ship. When they return we can track them until they discover the tracer anyway and we can mount a rescue or catch the ship in a trap.”

Krisna cocked her head cutly to one side as she listened to Hope talk about these Nagai people. Finding it intreasting, mybe one day she should pay a visit to them her self she wondered befor other things caught her attention that Hope said. "What are show white elves?"Krisna asked sounding confused then looked at Hope even more puzzled. "And what is mar..tial... arts? And painting?" Krisna said further as she cocked her head cutly to the side puzzlingly befor she noticed her omni tool shut off unknowingly.

"Uhoh... No I didnt..." Krisna awnsered as she attempted to flip open her device like she always has only to have no effect befor she turned it in her hands to examine her device more closly. " Its not working....Thats not possible?" Krisna mentioned befor she ran her fanger along the grip of the omni tool finding a button with her fanger and thumb befor pushing them at the same time.

The omni tool lite back up with a blue glow mommentarly befor turning red and powering back off as Krisna sighed. "Its out of power.... thats not so post to happen.... its sopost to have unlimited energy threw my ship using the wireless energy transfer....b-but its....." Krisna paused as she thought for amomment. " but its in a diffrent dimension....so its nolonger feeding power...." Krisna stated in all scientific sense befor she sighed. " Well thats not good at all...."

Krisna stude up off the ground and looked to Dessy afther holstering her omni tool. Her lover seemed conflicted by the situation as Krisna simply moved closer to her lover, rapping an arm around her own and resting her head on her loves sholder sweetly." everything will work out. I think you always know whats best Dessy." Krisna smiled and stayed there beside her lover befor looking to Nina as the agent wanted their attention as they listened to the agents idea.

“Elves … short humans with big pointy ears,” that was the best way to describe it. “I have a few complete paintings at the base, I'll show you. Basically pictures of things, real or imagined done with paints and the like.

“As for martial arts its a form of unarmed combat ...”

A loss of power, that was no good. At first she thought that it might have been that stone, maybe something in the building shielded some portion of that energy … it was a relief discovering that it was nothing as insidious as that though without the tool Kris became less effective too.

Nina listed off options and she consider, Shelia did mention that there were a ton of other prisoners so saving the doctor would mean damning them or making it impossible to save them at a future date. Surrendering did little good too, no one person or small group could manage an escape unless they took the ship … a tracking device though …

“But we have no tracking devices.”

Comforted by Krissy she still mulls over options as she analyzes matters. Hope didn't take charge and Krissy deferred to her though the issue of a tracking device is made clear. She debated and had the same thoughts as Hope, that surrendering did little good, there were just too many to deal with.

Right now they had surprise on their side though no tracking device or so she had thought until she saw Nina smiling.

“Sure we do,” the scientist added. “We have the scanner and they have the energy source. I can rig up a stronger one with a ship or station's computer seeing how the power output is the same.

“All they need to do is have at least some of the stones upon them and it looks as if they're taking more than enough up to their ship. Chances are good that whatever test they run to get back to our dimension will be near this planet so when they pop back into our reality it should be somewhere near here in our dimension.

“Setting some perimeters for what to scan for on a ship or station sensors shouldn't take more than a few minutes and wallah, a sort of primitive tracking device, at least in subspace … when they jump to hyperspace the signal will be lost until it pops back into real space within range but ...”

We she had the attention of all the girls she continued. “We can use the scanner that Hope has to send out a burst, a signal on a certain frequency rather than scanning for energy sources it can alert us like a beacon increasing the range of the scanners. Every so often in real space it sends out a burst acting like a beacon.”

“So we just have someone sneak this aboard?” Nina nodded in response to the question. It seemed that Mercer's ship was in short range, this could work and seemed to be more viable though who was going? She doubted either scientist had the necessary skills and she was more naval battles and frontal assaults herself … and Hope … didn't she mention something about being the point and shoot sort though she may have had some sort of training.

“Hope? Could you do that? The rest of us can work on a distraction with those things,” she points to the elephant things.

Krisna glared at Hope as she explained Elves and paintings and unarmed combat. The travler could not help but think these thingswere strange as she only confusdly smiled at her agent lover. " You will need to show me the unarmed painting elves! They sound intreasting!" Krisna giggled befor wraping an arm tighter around Dessys own and stands close as Nina explains the idea of sneaking a tracker aboard the ship as she agreed with Hope about not having a tracker. "Well if my omni tool could get power I could make one using digistructed particals..... or I could make the entire ship a wifi hot spot.... or turn the thing into anti matter.... its really a 20/80% chance it either way... we have just been lucky!" Krisna rambled as she finished with a cute giggle. "Anti matter...so silly how it turns every thing into soup!"

Krisna listened to Nina explain, cutly nodding at the points of the plan she got while agin cutly cocking her head to the side at points that confused her, but ultimatly she got the idea. "That might work? But arnt all your scanners primitive?" Krisna asked seriously befor she turned to Dessy hearing her lover speak up on the issue. Dessy suggesting Hope to voulenter as she suprisngly jumped as she looked between her two lovers and thought through this idea. "Uhm..I dont like this plan....what if Hope gets captured? or a Hideozu bites her?... I think Nina should go instead since I dont love her yet..."

“Well they're all separate things but I'll show you them. Maybe if I get some vacation time I can even show you the home world.”

Hope though over the plan. She wasn't great at stealth seeing that the Sweepers tended to stick out and shoot things but she is no stranger to it either, sometimes a Sweeper had to sneak about insurmountable odds to get at the objective.

A bit of a chuckle. She looks to Krisna and shakes her head. “I've got some training with it and have had to deal with way more Xagi at once. I don't think you'd be up to this, am I correct in assuming such, Nina. If you guys get their attention for a bit I can sneak the scanner into one of the crates in the building.

“The alternative would be leaving the ship and the fate of the crew in their scaly hands so as the only combat agent it falls to me, with or without training.”

She takes off one of the two grenades. “You could use this to draw attention … it might tip them off a bit though and get them to check their cargo if this Mercer is paranoid though. But he probably won't dump the cargo straight away so that should allow us to pick him up when he pops back to our dimension, right?”

Nina's eyes lit up. There was no way, if she ran into trouble she was a goner. Scorch chuckled and shook her head a little. “We're the only four choices and it comes down to who can get the scanner there the easiest ...”

Nina colored a little, hiding something. She might be able to get the scanner there after all but not without having to deal with a ton of problems.

“Our scanners are not primitive!”

Scorch had to step in here. Nina was probably a bit sensitive about scientific break throughs over the years and those things the Scorch didn't really follow. “They're not as sophisticated. That omni tool there should have given it away. With it's multiple functions. Let's just say that Krissy isn't from around here … well none of us are from around here specifically but you get the idea.”

Taking up the offered grenade she thinks over the problem a little. As she's think though there is the blast of a horn from the trunk of one of the Wardens who must have received instructions from something or it may have taken the initiative and half the creatures charge the ship causing the two Hideozu to fire at the creatures, more of their numbers being drawn out of the building or ship though a really smart one stayed inside, that was perhaps the safest place as green glops of slime fire from the trunks of the Wardens, the scorches left from the blasters having only limited success against the hides of the creatures that suddenly closed in without warning.