A lone figure walks towards a Sichel class fighter, her boots making a clanking noise where her feet touch the metal surface of the hangar. She touches a panel at the side of the ship and the metal cover slides silently away, revealing a touchpad. Wordlessly she inputs a code and the ship's hull opens up to let her enter.
Upon entering the ship, the computer activates and illuminates the cockpit. A soft humming can be heard and the smell of the leather pilot seat comes towards her. The woman walks towards the dashboard and takes a seat behind it. Her fingers run quickly over the keys infront of her and shortly after, the familiar face of a Kusarian woman apears on one of the screens.
"Konnichiwa, Lusty Fox. All preparations are complete.
Unfortunately I have not heard back from Crayter, so I presume president Payne found him out. Or us.
I guess we should proceed without them."
She looks away from the screen and starts typing in new data into the ship's computer. The hangar bay doors open up, revealing the ice field of Tau-29 behind them. The humming sound that was heard throughout the ship intensifies as the engines fire up and the Sichel leaves the Freeport.
A young woman had been roaming around in proximity to the Basilica, impatiently waiting for a call. She boosted up her engines over and over again, flying literal circles around the Ranseur with her Bayonet class Fighter. Then suddenly the call, she hit the reverse thrust and made her ship stand still. A little overly excited she went through several tabs and finally answered the call then. Smiling as she saw the woman's face.
"Lusty Fox reporting in. I am ready to meet up with you at the designated location, Jealous Snake.
It appears Miss Payne indeed took him for herself but I am sure we can handle this without his support too.
I will be on my way, inform me of your status once you reach the 31 Jumphole, Jealous Snake."
The young woman ended the call and with a bright smile fired up her vessels engines. The trip shall begin! A trip she awaited eagerly for quite some time now. Up to the Jumphole!
The ship dropped out of the trade lane and the jump gate in the distance locks onto the ship starts firing. The pilot casually presses the button that activates the automated evasive maneuvers. Then she reached with her other hand to reactivate the communication channel to Fox.
"Fox, this is Jealous Snake. I arrived at the jump hole."
A shot can be heard that grazed the ship
"See? That is the sound of a non-Megaera alligned construct. Which means it was made by someone else than me.
So anyway, I have arrived and this thing does not like this."
She leans back into her seat while looking at the shots fired at her ship
"Does it not realise how futile this is? 90% of the constructs in Sirius have been created to destroy me and this jump gate thinks it can succeed..."
She turns the seat around, stands up and walks to back of the ship to make a cup of tea while the ships keeps dodging the shots
The incoming message from the Snake surprised the little Fox.
"Fox here. I did say the Jumphole, right? I didn't plan to use the Jumpgate.. tsk, listen up next time."
She sighed and changed the course of her ship, typical! Not listening at all, is she?
"Right. On my way to you now, Snake. Don't run into one of that annoying patrols too now, got it?"
And with this words, the Fox switched back to manual flight. There was nothing more relaxing than to fly through an asteroid field by herself. Soon she would appear on the Snake's scanners.
Megaera was holding a tea cup in her left hand and took a sip in the most epic way possible, while watching the shots of the jump gate missing her ship. Then suddenly a familiar signature apeared on the on her long range scanner and she pressed the cloak device button and moved in the opposite direction.
After the cloak activated she quickly reversed direction and set course towards the jump hole where Fox originated from. She activated the communication channel again
"Fox, this is Snake. Arriving at the jump hole shortly, but I can not detect your signature.
What is your location?"
She cut off the communication and started laughing.
Mi was happy. In a few moments she would finally meet up with Megaera again and they could start their trip.
Then she noticed an incoming message. She slowed down and listened. Her smile disappeared and she just shook her head. Really? Again! "Snake, here Fox. Wait at the Jumphole or I will hugtackle you the second we are on Gaia. Also please, spare yourself the cloaking batteries. You might need them, baka!.
With this she switched off the communication channel, turned her vessel around just to notice a small little scout vessel of Samura. She annoyed the Pilot by shooting down his shield and firing two disruptors after him before she finally cruised up and set the course back to the Jumphole. Expecting Meg to really wait there now.
Snake decloaks infront of the jump hole to Tau-31, where the whirling red, blueish anomaly was patiently awaiting her arrival. A computer screen indicated that the cloak fuel cells were at 80% capacity.
Mi sighed relieved at the sight of Megaera's ship. No more playing around! "There you are.. are you ready?"
She closed up to Megaera and stopped her ship right besides hers. "Time to get that tea."
Mi laughed when hearing this. "I am here for vacation.. and a little adventure. Not to talk about people hugging a pseudo-cult."
She shook her head, left the video feed on and smiled then. "Edinburgh Jumphole then, hai? You got the coordinates or should I fly first?"