Eva Morgenrot shuddered from the hallway leading from the landing bay. She had heard Nurse Olga return and overheard that she was looking for her. Like most people on Darmstadt, Eva feared Olga. A rumor circulated that the nurse was not human but some kind of robotic wild and possessed the worst of both worlds.
Seeing Karl walking down the hall, most likely toward his Behemoth, she quickly took action.
"Karl!" she whispered and waved, hoping he would come to where she stood. He obliged.
"What is it?" he asked.
"Could you do me a big favor?"
"Uh... I suppose. What is it?" he asked.
"I need you to go speak with Nurse Olga. I have to uh..." she said, trying to come up with a good excuse. "Oh! I have to go to Kreuzberg and speak with the Junkers, ja?"
Karl shuddered. "I'm not sure," he said. "She scares me. You wouldn't believe the kind of omelets she orders at the Biergarten! Though Wenzel always seems to oblige her."
Eva gave Karl and hug and said, "Ja, she is scary, but you are the bravest chef this side of Omega-3!"
He smiled and nodded to Eva before heading over to Nurse Olga. "Uh, O-o-o-olga?" he stammered. "What happened?"
Meanwhile, Eva ran past the two of them, leapt into her Odin, and began procedures to launch into the Ostnebel.
***
Several minutes later, Eva's ship touched down on Kreuzberg. As soon as she arrived a Junker walked up to her and handed her a note before heading over to a nearby pile of scrap metal.
Miss Morgenrot,
I have important information about Udo for you. I will return soon and update you at the time.
Olga saw Eva fleeing out of the corner of her eye, making her slightly more angry then she already was. Unfortunately, she turned her attention to poor Karl.
"Karl, do you know of anyone who uses Holographic emmitters on ships? Some austlander thought it funny to disguise his ship as an asteroid und den ambush mein Sabre in Neu Berlin orbit." Olga Stated annoyadly.
Before Karl could reply, Wenzel walked over.
"Fraulein, you may want to come look at zis." He said, gesturing for her to follow him.
In the hangar, they had begun piecing together the wreckage from the ship which had attacked Olga. However, the section of the hull where the cockpit was located had been recovered intact...
...except there was no cockpit. In it's place was a snout-shaped cowling covering the drone's sensor Iris. The ship was apparently modified into an unmanned drone, presumably for reconnisence purposes.
Olga snorted angerly. "Hmmfp, don't even want to send a real pilot after me! Blasted machines. When I find out who sent this thing... Wenzel, Karl, Ich am going to die Biergarten. I want dis thing's black boxes decoded as quickly as you can!"
Olga pivoted on her heel and stormed toward the Biergarten. Quite displeased with nearly being brought down by a machine...
Wenzel watched her leave, and looked into the drone's cyclopean iris with contempt. It was almost as if the broken machine was staring back at him, menacingly. It's receptors still glowed faintly with residual energy.
"Just where did you come from, Machine?" Wenzel whispered to himself, before grabbing a torch and climbing on top of the machine, beginning to cut into it's thickly armored shell.
Karl gave a sigh of relief as Olga stormed off. He felt he had weathered this storm but more were sure to come.
"Hmmm," he said to himself, in deep thought. "Hey Wenzel, ever listen to Udo when he's talking a lot in the Biergarten?"
Wenzel gave Karl his usual look.
"Well," he continued, "when he's not talking about the Order, Bounty Hunters, Wilde, Malexa, Eva, more Bounty Hunters, Bounty Hunters working with the Wilde, or his fear of Nurse Olga, he sometimes mentions some kind of evil cyborg type creature who apparently has a conflict with him. Think it's related?"
Before Wenzel could answer, Karl realized there was no one working in the Biergarten. Afraid Olga would start causing chaos there, he told Wenzel good luck and took off running toward the bar area.
Olga, noticing the Biergarten empty at this late hour, rolled her eyes in frustration and went to raid the storage freezer herself. She was one of the few people Wenzel trusted to allow access to it, and Olga got herself a strong Stuttgart Lauger and sat down on a padded couch, staring out at the Ostnebel out the window.
'Holo emmitters... who has holo emmitters? and why would they come after us. Maybe Die Wilden, but they don't really use drones... Wasn't the RM, Wasn't the Corsairs, Wasn't the Phantoms... strange' Olga thought to herself as she gulped down the bottle of Lauger.
At about that point, Karl rushed in. Olga glanced over to him and smiled, gesturing for him to take a seat next to her...
Karl sat next to Olga with a horrified look on his face. "Wh-what do you think that was?" he asked her. "Do you think it was the Corsairs? I heard they dislike you."
"Nein, the Corsairs are die last people who would be able to use this kind of tech... although perhaps the Order? But what were dey after...? Well... we will find out soon." Olga pondered.
After a few seconds, she scooted next to Karl and wrapped her arm around him."
"Ich am fine with Mysteries, but not those that shoot at me!" Olga leaned into Karl, resting her head on his shoulder affectionately. "*sigh* Without herr Udo, Ich habe nothink farmiliar to come home to..."
She looked into Karl's eyes affectionately, holding him close.
Karl gulped and glance over nervously at Olga. He was afraid if he moved, she would just get closer.
"Ne-nein, probably not the Corsairs," he mumbled. "But, ja! The Order do not like Udo. It could be them!"
Still shuddering, Karl had an idea. "Maybe they have found something from the debris? We should go speak with Herr Wenzel!" he said. He tried to leap to his feet but was held firmly in place. "Ja?"
"Nein. If Herr Wenzel found anythink, he would habe told us, Ja?" Olga said, realising Karl was trying to get away. She would not give him up easily.
"Fancy a bier, herr Karl?" Olga said, handing him a bottle, looking into his eyes. She could see his terror, making her all the more determined to reel him in.
Karl sat frozen in terror but managed to nod to Olga. "Ja, he would've come in and told us," he stammered.
"And ja, I would like some," he said, reaching over and taking the bottle. He proceed to down the whole thing. "Perhaps something stronger?" he added, as his eyes began to twitch from the sheer terror he held in regard to Olga.
Having finally returned from Kreuzberg with information about Udo's whereabouts, Eva headed to the Biergarten, only to be greeted by the sight of Karl and Olga.
"Oh," she said. "I am not interrupting anything, am I?"
Karl looked over with a look of sheer terror on his face. "We were just, uh, talking about the attack on Olga," he said.
"Did you learn anything about that?" she asked, looking at the terror-inducing Olga.
Not giving her a chance to comment, Eva continued, "I found out what happened to Udo!" she exclaimed. "He's been arrested... again."
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