Claes had just put Angelica to bed, and Horacio along with her. A grin crossing the comandantes face as she looked at her man sleeping, 'surprisingly quiet for one so large' she thought to herself before looking down into the cot with a quiet sigh "compared to you anyway... little miss cries-a-lot"
::Attention, Amber shift to terminate in 5 minutes, blue shift personnel begin final preparations for change over:: Fenice said outside in the hall way, Claes having disabled that alert in her room due to Angelicas irrational sleeping needs. With amber shift finishing she knew that Hanna would be leaving the bridge and Henrique taking over as well as how busy the rest of the ship would start to get as people headed to shower and relax while others moved to their on duty stations.
The lights gently pulsed amber for a few moments, to indicate only one minute remained. Claes looked at Horacio sleeping, "Im off.. Make sure you look after Ange.." she said looking back from the door. Horacio hummed, signifying he was listening on a semiconscious level, rolling her eyes with a grin she knew that he would look after their daughter just fine and so left it at that.
"Ciao commandante!" a passing crewman of Amber shift offered as she left her quarters, "Si.. ciao compadre" Claes greeted back before starting for the bridge. 'We need to still organise the return of that sphere to signorita Casta and..' Claes thought as her communicator began to buzz in her back pocket, scaring her half to death "Madre di......." she said holding her tongue as she calmed down, having looked almost like sombody had electrocuted her for a second.
She read careful Eduardos message and looked more frantically reading faster and faster, her eyes burning into the screen, the short video of the land in flames. "What.. What the hell is going on? is this planet side?! Fenice!" she shouted up to the ceiling, :: Si commandante? :: the AI responded with its usual calmness, "All available Blue shift flight crew to the hangar right now, and alert Recluta Soranti to meet us there! Now patch me through to Captain Bianchi" she said impatiently as it was connected, :one commandante:: "Captain we have a problem, I want you and a full squad of your best marines in the hangar, you have 10 minutes, full combat equipped, you will be briefed enroute, move it!" Claes commanded.
Turning on her heels she heading with speed to the hangar bay, sliding around the corners and being the commandante meant everyone had already moved out of the way too.
Stopping at the medical bay which wasnt far from the crew quarters for obvious reasons she looked around. all the medics saluted her entrance, "Where is signore Oncari?!" she yelled loudly scaring them a little "U-uh, he left, its blue shift now.. Commandante" the medic closest to her said meekly, she gave him a deathly stare "I know what time it is!" she hissed "Fenice!" :: si com... :: "shut up! call doctor Oncari, I dont care where he is or what time it is tell him i want him and a full medical team in the hangar in 10 minutes, prepare for a full medical emergency! Move!" she shouted ushering them into action scurrying around the room.
Claes then left the medical centre and made for the hangar bay as fast as she could.
::Attention, Amber shift to terminate in 5 minutes, blue shift personnel begin final preparations for change over::, very much unfortunately was the first thing Carlos heard after he got his bottle open."Oh come on... I just got back from dinner! I need my damn vodka.", with his usual whimsical nature, Carlos very politely chose to ignore the announcement in favour of pouring himself a glass, or at least for the 5 minutes until he had to go.
::Attention, all Blue shift flight crew are to proceed to the hangar immediately, this is an emergency::, was the announcement that came 3 minutes later. Carlos had barely finished one glass and he glared at the digital clock in his quarters. "It's not been 5 minutes yet! What sort of crap is happening that they have to shift my shift forward by 2 whole minutes?!
He let out a big groan, indicating his unhappiness with the current situation. He looked as his half finished glass of vodka and the bottle he just opened. "Damn this...'Emergency' my rear..." was his exclamation, as he downed the entire glass in one go while chucking his bottle back into the refrigerator.
"Ow ow...burn....ach...alcohol burn...." Carlos trudged his way out of the room towards the hangar, very much disappointed with the timing of the announcement.
Now see could see something is bothering Ed, something deep , from old time , something that followed him and quite gaved him a scary feeling. Now she had another thought in her mind , the one of helping him , thus she was haveing mixed feeling because part of her loves Ed and wants to seduce him and another is more rationalist , she wants to help Ed...
*Why is this so hard , all this duel is going inside of me...Then she started crying all this with him and ....arhhhh...So complicated why do i have to go along this situation?
She sat down on the burned cardamine and like a chid corssed her leg , coverd her face and start cryin g, but before she took care of nobody seeing her . She just wanted love and friends, somebody o realise how cute she was and apriciated her qualities. Now she was going throught her hardest moments of the life, when all she had was balacing on the top of mountain.
*I hope all will end up good , and my dreams will be acomplished , and fialy i will get the change of haveing a normal life...Said she quitely , while the tears were running across her face.....I just hope so!
The wind was crosing her , and her hair was waveing in the wind and the sun was look at her young face, where behind as false smile was hiding a deep sadness. cover behind a wall of fasle feeling. She stand up , cleaing the buried rests of what was cardamine , now is ashes, and withher black high-heels, steped like a feline , to Ed. You could ss that even Ed was botherd by somethin g, hide aswell , insode of darkest corner of his body , but still barly able to be seen.
Now sshe asked shortly:
*Ed, whats bothering you , i could see it from the time we arrived here*
Silance , was the anwer he let at first to come out , meaby he wsa plaing a detaled repsons or he didn't had the words.
::Attention, Amber shift to terminate in 5 minutes, blue shift personnel begin final preparations for change over::Cassandra was sitting on a table, having a cake in her room when she heard the statement from Fenice "Not now, can't someone have his own little cute cake alone?" hitting the table softly with her hand while rolling her eyes "But i can't avoid it anyway, or the Commandante will have me dead..." in a desperate way, she hides her cake, then wears on her flight suit.
She heads out of her room and walks through the hallway, when another statement from Fenice comes out ::Attention, Recluta Soranti is to head to the hangers as soon as possible:: She looks surprised, she stops thinking "was that my name? I have been just called by my name" she smiles excited "Must be an awesome mission.." she then starts running through the hallways towards the hangers, watching crewmen and pilots running around confused, most of them didn't know what was going on, just like Cassandra.
Cassandra arrives the Hangers, she looks around, all she could see is marines, medical teams, crewmen and pilots all around the hanger, and ships ready for launch, she just stood and looked around amazed, she heads forward through the hanger, as she waits for someone to contact her for details.
While beeign terifyed at the plantation , Lorenza decied to call Palremo for help...Well she was refering to the whole Palermo, the whole Dreadnought.Now in her mind all was messed , the feeling she had, the love for Ed, the dead plane she had in front of her, akl were bit by bit staring to tear apart Lorenza...Wich soon wsa calmed down as at the plantation arrive a huge number of Snubcraf and as well Palermo..
Now she decied to take Ed inside and wait for the 75th to arrive and go in that scounting for Ed's dad
::Attention, Amber shift to terminate in 5 minutes, blue shift personnel begin final preparations for change over::
Katarina already had her uniform on when Fenice made the announcement. The moment she heard it she was standing in front of the mirror in their very tiny bathroom with a syringe in her hand containing liquid amphetamines. Taking one last look at the door making sure it was closed she brushed her long dark-brown hair out of her neck with one hand and moved the syringe in position. ::Attention, Sergente Moreno is to head to the hangers immediately:: Hearing her name startled her and she dropped the syringe, it shattered on the bathroom floor "Merda..." she mumbled as she quickly cleans the mess up and throws the evidence down the waste disposal shaft. It was the last one of her doses so she rushes to the hangar without having her shot.
When she arrived in the hangar she could tell something wasn't right, her Scimitar was ready to leave and she rushed up the ladder and sits down in her cockpit, she puts up her helmet and opens a communication "This is Kat, i'm ready for launch. Can anyone tell me what the hell is going on?"