Aboard the Blue Ocean...

[Yaoquizque]

"Uhhh...." She said, looking at him "You promise?"
"Yeah yeah. I promise..." He said while undressing the guard. He then moved to the bathroom and came back wearing the guard's clothes.
Walking quickly to the door and opening it slowly, he took a look stealthily outside.
"C'mon. Let's go!" He quickly left the room and the two girls followed him.

Concordia was busy hugging Shiro while they were walking. Meanwhile Shiro was trying to get away.
Antony had to turn around several times to tell them to bloody shut up.

He sighed, looking around. They were totally lost. And he had to deal with two insane women who would probably get him shot in the end.

Sighing, he kept walking until he found some stairs. Peeking in to check if it was clear, he then walked in and started to go up, followed by the two girls who were keeping bickering.
"Will you shut up, damnit?" He said after a while, turning around.
"Hey... Shiro honey..." Said Concordia, looking innocently at Antony "What do you think...."

Meanwhile, Antony turned around and started again to go up, checking the doors they were reaching at every floor.

"What... What do i think?"
"Hmmm...." She said, scratching her lower lip "I'd say.... White"
"White" Repeated Shiro, obviously not having a clue about what they were talking.
"Oooorrr..... Grey?"
"Brown.... Brown cookies"
"Ah! With cookies on them? That would be funny!"

Suddenly, Antony heard a door opening and some voices coming from downstairs. Frowning, he looked at the girls and placed a finger on his lips.
He then turned around and aimed at the lower stair.

"Ah! I knew it!" Shouted Concordia, giggling "They are pink!"
The girl had pulled his pants while he was not paying attention and she was currently busy staring at his shorts, laughing.
Looking quite pissed, he grabbed her and put an hand on her mouth, whispering "Shut....Up."

"Did you hear that, Jones?"
"Hear what?"
"I don't know... I thought i heard something..."
"Yea right. Stop drinking."
"Oh zip ip will you?"

The voices faded away slowly and they finally heard a door closing.

Sighing of relief, Antony lowered his gun, released Concordia, and finally put his pants back on.
He then grabbed back Concordia, pressing her forearm firmly "Listen this is not a game. If you keep doing this, you will get us all killed, got it?"
The girl just looked at him teasingly "Why are your shorts pink?"
"They are pink because... Hey! Don't change the subject!"
"They are pink because...?" She said, grinning.

"Raahhh..." He released her and started again to go up. Coming from his back he could hear "Shiro honey... Do you know why they are pink?" "Uhhuhhh..."

He finally reached a floor with a door marked with 'Main floor'. He opened it and bumped into someone.
"Ahem..." Said the guard, looking at him and at the two girls
"Hmm...Sir? I'm escorting those two vips out." He said, hiding the shot burn on the side of his uniform with his arm.
"Out you say?" replied the guard, looking suspiciously at them.
"Yes but... Ehe..." He chuckled awkwardly "I always get lost in this maze"
The guard studied him for a while "What is your name?"
"My name?" Antony grabbed the id of the guard he shot in the room and glanced stealthily at it "John. John Picok" He then handed the id to the guard, who gave it a quick look.
"Okay John..." The guard relaxed a bit and finally smiled softly "I know... Happened to me too back in time... Anyway you took the wrong way." He looked at the two girls "To leave our liner, those two ladies have to pass by the fourth deck"
"Okay, fourth deck. Noted sir."
"Hmm... You want me to show you?"
"That would be nice, if you have time sir. I'm afraid i would get lost again"
"Fine... Give me a moment..."

The guard walked to one of his team mates and talked with him for a while.
Meanwhile, Concordia and Shiro were still talking, but Antony couldn't really ask them to shut up right now.

The guard finally came back "Okay let's go." He then headed to a corridor.
Concordia reached him "Hey!" She smiled.
"Hmm Hello..."

Antony was mentally facepalming already, expecting it to go haywire very soon.

"You work here? I wondered if i could dance here."
"... Dance?"
"Yay!" She beamed "I love to dance"
"O...Kay..." The guard glanced at her, noticing her wounds.
"What...?" She smiled shyly "You don't like me?"
"Uh.... Although you are beautiful, miss, i'm a married man."
"Really?" The girl giggled "What is her name? Is she cute?"
She started to ask him a lot of questions while they were walking. Surprisingly the guard didn't seem to be too bothered by it. Antony was hoping she would not say something stupid.

"Alright. Here you go" Said finally the guard, pointing at an airlock leading to a gangway
"Okay! Thank you Ian honey!" She kissed him on the cheek quickly and scampered along to the airlock
"Uh uhhh...." he said, massaging his cheek "C'mon. Let's go" he then said to Antony, turning around to take the way back.
"Ehe... hold on... I have something to tell to that one" He nodded at Shiro.
"Oh i see... Alright"

"Hmm? You have something to tell me?" Asked Shiro while they were both walking slowly towards the gangway.
"Are you stupid? Just keep walking"

They reached Concordia who was looking outside "Uh... Scary..."
"Come on you two, we don't have time for this" He gave a side look at the guard "He's not watching... Let's go"
He pushed softly Shiro and walked right after her.

15 meters.... 10 meters... They almost did it.
"Hey. You. Stop!"
He kept walking, pushing Shiro to make her move faster.
"I said stop!"
"Run!"
He heard gunshots coming from behind and started to run after Shiro who seemed to understand quite well what was going on.
As he was putting a foot on the quay, he heard a moan coming from behind and someone falling to the ground.

"Damnit!" He noticed Concordia on the ground and the guards shooting at him from the liner.
Antony quickly ran to her and forced her to get on her feet "C'mon. We're almost there!"

"It... Hurts..."
They hid behind some building and he panted for breath.
"Nya.... Blood!" Shouted Shiro after she passed her hand on Concordia's back.
"Miss... Just reach your ship and get the hell out of here." Antony sighed "I will take care of her"
"O... Okay."

Shiro left them, thinking she could certainly find cookies somewhere around...
Antony looked at her wandering around aimlessly and shook his head "To your ship i said! Now!"
Shiro mumbed something in Kusarian rapidly and started to walk to the docks.

"Now now... Come on miss... Stand fast"
He checked the wound on her back and sighed. It didn't look well.
"Uhhh.... The unicorn..."
"Unicorn? What?"
She was out of her mind, obviously.
"Unicorn honey.... My ship?"
The girl fell uncounscious in his arms. A ship? Well that could be his way out of this madness. He took her in his arms and started to carry her towards the docks, checking at times if he wasn't followed...

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"What in the name of..." Antony shook his head. There was a bloody mess in the hold of the ship. A mountain of dishes in a small sink... Clothes thrown pretty much everywhere... A small bed untied... Various objects lying around...
He cleaned the bed with a foot and dropped softly the girl on it. He then started to search in this med... There was certainly a first aid kit... Or something...

No way to find something in this mess... He found more clothes than anything else... Not like he was particularly embarrassed countless panties as he checking the wardrobes... But that wouldn't help the girl much however...

Finally he gave up and checked her wound quickly... She was losing a lot of blood. Not good.
He moved to the cockpit. That was a sabre... Even if it seemed to be fairly old and damaged, it shouldn't be much different than an Avenger.

Checking the commands, he rolled his eyes. Every command had a post-it with a smilie stating what it was supposed to do, like "Unicorn's hunger-o-metter :)"
"O....kay..." He checked quickly the status of the ship. That ship was almost a wreck. How could someone be stupid enough to fly into something like this? Oh and great... There was just enough H-Fuel to move to California...

Shaking his head, he sat and informed the traffic control he was about to leave. The Unicorn then left Poseidon...

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Three weeks later...
Two guards were guarding a room on the navy hospital of Pensacola, Manhattan.

It was a shiny morning and our two fine heroes were busy talking about the last holomovie they watched with their wives.
One of them was complaining, saying his son ruined it all when he wanted him to buy some popcorn in the middle of the holo.
He had to run out because his fruiting son was pretendly crying already...

They suddenly stopped to talk as an officer showed up.
"Sir!" They said, saluting.
"At ease, gentlemen." The officer looked around, searching a nurse with his eyes. Instead, he found a military medic. Gesturing him to come he asked him, as soon as he was close close enough.
"How is our guest today?"
"Ahem... Noisy and annoying as usual, sir."
The officer smirked "What is her health status"
The medic nodded "Good good..."
"Fine... You know the LSF has to ask her a lot of questions, right?"
"Yes sir."
"Hmmm... Well let's see how she is on this morning..."
"Hmmm..." Said the medic, letting the officer take the frontline spot.

The officer opened the door and found an empty room "What the...?"

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