It had been almost thirty three hours, Aiden had fallen asleep in the medical bed and was now laying in it alone. Passed out from exhaustion, Aiden had been up for almost 86 hours with only short naps. His dreams kept him up but he was finally able to sleep. Aiden felt a hand on his shoulder as he slept a tight, yet gentle grip was applied bringing Aiden from his sleep. "Good morning sleepyhead." Izzy spoke. "How long have I been out?" Aiden asked. "alitle over thirty hours. You fell asleep right after you laid next to me. I couldn't just sit there, an hour later I was up and about. I talked to the Doctor, he said something like this may happen as this new body of mine has been in a state of rest for the rapid cloning." Aiden nodded as she continued, "I explored the ship, and met your new girlfriend." She chuckled and Aiden responded, "She's not so much of a talker but she kept me company."
The pair walked down the main corridor of the medical wing of the Aldebaran and a young crewman ran down the hall to speak with Aiden. "Commander," the young man said, "Sin|Tech has been asking about their hardware. What should I tell them?" Aiden looked over the young man, an initiate most likely sent down by Guild Master Payne. "Tell them the operation was an astonishing success, but we are going to keep the equipment for another week or so. Also mention we will ofcourse double the agreed upon payment due to the increase in time we plan on keeping it." with that the ensign said "Aye aye." Did a quick about face and ran down the hall to the turbolift.
"So, hows your new body treating you?" Aiden asked Izzy. "Pretty good, infact the new 'improvements' you had added in with my brain transplant have enabled me to do a great many things." Aiden looked at her quizically, "Like what?" she chuckled and replied; "Well for starters my strength has been multiplied ten fold." Aiden's jaw dropped as she continued, "I went to the firing range and discovered with this new little gizmo in my head and the way it is hard wired into my brain, I have satelite vision, my reflexes have also improved over thirty times what they used to be." Aiden added in, "Already impressive beforehand.." she continued with a slight blush from the compliment. "Not to mention I have the ability to view things differently. It's hard to explain how but I have infrared vision for seeing in the dark, I have thermal vision and I even have this odd ability to see through thin objects, Kind of like an X-Ray." she paused for breath, "Not to mention I can access computer information with my mind, and thanks to the device I'm able to process it at the speed of a computer. It's amazing it's almost like being an android."
The two looked at eachother, Aiden was obviously envious of her new "Improvements." Isabell looked at Aiden and spoke, "I know what you are thinking, I already asked them, they said it's possible and with a possibility for success five times higher than the predicted rate for myself." Aiden smirked, "You know me so well." She smiled with a bit of pride, "I took the liberty of having them start the cloning process for you, the surgeon is still onboard and the clone should be complete in the next hour or so." Aiden was shocked, but at the same time kind of happy that the option was ready for him at this exact moment.
"As I'm sure you already know," Isabell spoke, "My life expectancy has been increased by almost 450 years. And that's roughly when I'll continue to age, thanks to an ubserdly high regeneration for my body." Aiden looked at Isabell, "Damn, your short telekinesis and mind reading and you'd be a damn super-soldier!" "Well," she replied, "No telekinesis, but I can live without it." Aiden chuckled, "Yeah, your already on the borderline of non-human."
One of the medics walked up to the pair and spoke, "The surgical team is ready for you Commander." Aiden nodding affirmitively as Izzy had already briefed him, "I'll be there shortly." he turned to Izzy, "Ah the excitement. I want you to do me a favor." Izzy quickly responded, "Anything, afterall your the catalyst for bringing me back from the dead." She smiled as Aiden continued, "I want you to pull up all the information I have stored on the Hispania project study it and see if you can find anything else out for me." "Sure thing," Izzy responded, "I'll get right on it, now you go get super-humanized!" Aiden laughed and walked down the hall to the medical bay to begin the operation. "Just like old times." Aiden thought.
"Cross," Isabell spoke. The hologram appeared infront of her, and acknowledged. Isabell continued, "I need you to put all the information we have gathered about the Hispania project and put it into an organized format and upload directly to me." Cross acknowledged and within a few seconds she had gone over all the information and made a decision. "Cross, set a course for Omicron Alpha. Set coordinates directly fifty kilometers above the hispania debris field.
A alitle over a day later after several well calculated jumps in Omicron Alpha 20:00
Izzy sighed, "I wish Aiden hadn't of wanted us to drop him off in Omicron Gamma, he is taking far too long." Payne looked at her, "We both know how he is." Izzy chuckled softly, "Isn't that true. Oh well, he'll run his course there and he'll be here soon enough." Shortly after the AI Cross spoke up, "Warning, Osiris class battleship approaching. Vessel is broadcasting Outcast identification codes and vessel name Black Pearl." Izzy oredred the AI Cross to charge the Infernos and Quad Battlerazors. She then sent out on an open frequency, "This is Acting Commander Isabell Lourdes on the SSO Flagship Aldebaran, you are ordered to hold position."
To be continued....
[Sorry I cut this one alitle short, wanted to leave a teaser at the end of it for whats to come. And once again, open for questions, comments and critiques. :)]
lol i like the little teaser bit at the end :D . Very good. Mabey you could even speak with Angel about what to do and how the battle takes place. Heh......again, much better than i could write. :P
You keep posting "Much better than I could write." And honestly, I think you should give it a try man :) Would love to see some Payne RP story go around.
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God? - from 'Nightfall' by I. Asimov The Outcasts consider Siniestre Nube a sacred place for several reasons. Early explorers discovered a jumphole within the depths of the cloud that leads to a strange world of ringed stars and strange craft. All ships in the burrial ground are placed facing that hole to honor the Alien Spirits. - An Outcast rumor