The life of Zacarias Poncho

[Zapp]

Three weeks, four days ago....

Zacarias loved Hokkaido. Especially the largest cloud in the southern half of the system. To him, the other two clouds paled in comparison. All because of Ainu Depot. The home to the only all-woman faction in Sirius. Let's just say that Zacarias loved moving cardamine here.

Zac was in the bed of some random Golden Chrysanthemum, enjoying her company. Of course, every time he came to Ainu, he always worried that while he was sleeping with one of them, the rest were stealing everything to the floorboards off his ship. The fact that Carina was there gave him no ease of mind; she might just encourage it, instead of stop it. She had the weirdest sense of humor he had ever seen. Maybe it was a malfunction... no way he made that.

His comm on the nightstand beeped. She whispered into his ear, "Ignore it." He would gladly have ignored it, if it hadn't been Carina. Rolling over, he picked up the comm-link and looked at it. The screen displayed a message, and Zac's heart sank. He jumped out of bed, quickly dressed, promised her he'd be back later, and ran to his ship.

When he got there, he climbed aboard and sealed the hatch, though didn't un-dock. He didn't know what to do. When a Corsair message says that you've been captured and subverted, when you haven't been near Corsair space for months, and have never been captured by them, what do you do?

If Carina could intercept the message out here, then Malta could probably get it, too. Zacarias decided to go to his ol' pal Willow, to see if he could explain things the best he could and maybe get some help.

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