From Harsh Beginnings

[Szerano]

*Escuarde followed the boss inside the cafeteria, a good bit of people already have beaten them to it. Checking his pockets again, he made sure he had his room keys...yup, didn't want to lose them. Escuarde thought back to Dere'l's scream, Faust was acting his goofy self and Yhanu locked herself out of her room...yeah she had brains didn't she? Heh...Grabbing some food and a table, they both sat down and...* "We need to recover our leftover equipment." *Confused, Escuarde had to make sure he heard the boss correct.* "Umm, what did you say?" "We...need...to...get...our...equipment...back..." *Escuarde felt anger rise up in him for no apparent reason.* "What are you crazy?! You saw what they did to us! and you want to go back?!" *The boss raised his hand a motioned it down, as it "Sit down idiot".* "I know what happened, but we cannot afford for them to raid our base, all our important stuff is there. We need to get all the stuff out. So, I'm going to talk to the GMG leader again." *Escuarde scratched his head, this was just insane. They already lost to corsairs just yesterday, to go again was just insane....* "Uh, boss you really think we can? I mean, we did get our butts kicked you know? Are we really going to repeat this?" *The boss took his time answering, taking a sip of his drink.* "Yup, the perfect plan, trust me if GMG will let us get there and back without intent to fight I'm sure they will trust us more and we will get some more toys to use hmm? Now eat up, You got practice today..." "Practice?" "Yup, due to our defeat it has dawned we need to practice some more...inform the rest of the group will you?" *The boss got up and left Escuarde alone at the table to ponder his thoughts...*

*Faust leaned on the table, he laid on the table, the hid under the table, the then turned the table over and sat on it....yeah he was digging the bat position. On his cardi fix, he was on cloud-nine and trying to get as much fun out of this...table...yup the table of all things...He had tried to hide under the bed....but almost got stuck...six times...* "Stupid table...I wonder.....hmmm...yup that's it! I know what I need to do..." *Faust got up from the flipped over table and moved the bed three inches....then tried to get under it again. He was confident it was going to work.* "Hyadiya, I can do this...let's go fi-" *He was stuck...nice...just nice...* "Ok bed stop hugging me now, I love you too..." *Clearly dazed Faust wasn't going anywhere with the bed "hugging" him. So he thought back to the battle they had lost yesterday.* "Ok, so let e tell you bed, two HUUUGE teddy bears came out of the great orange thing...yup I know right? Hug time! BUT! They started shooting women at us! And one hit my windshield! Oh no, I couldn't look she has space suit on...sad really...but our love train got hit with a huge woman! And she had no space suit on! I feel bad, I SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON IT! I COULD HAVE SEEN IT! What? You didn't know? Yup! Women has a place called "Heaven" on them! You just got to find it!"

*Dere'l followed Yhanu to the showers, Yhanu had gotten a shower before her and Dere'l was jealous, yeah she was but the problem was going to be corrected now. Walking through the tight corridor, she felt terrible. What was that weird dream she had? What did it mean?* "We are here..." *Dere'l looked around and loved how clean the showers were, the cleaning crew must have spent a lot of time getting it like this...Dere'l undressed in a small dressing space, still caught in her thoughts. She wrapped herself in a towel (Still pretty low tech here) and headed for the showers.* "I'm going to stay here ok? If you need anything just say so!" "Yeah, thanks Yhanu..." *Yhanu seemed confused at first but her mood quickly changed and she twirled around and sat down at the entrance. Dere'l headed into the showers, they were separated but somehow seemed connected...strange...Dere'l took off her towel and turned on the shower to a nice warm setting. She looked over some of her scars. One above her belly was made from the Satsuma...she had been very lucky hadn't she? Somehow the blasted thing was able to destroy her shield and wreck her ship's hull in one shot...not cool...Letting the water run over her, she tried to clear her mind of everything but her dream, she loved water for this...it had a sort of a purifying effect to it...nice. Some more women entered the showers and Dere'l seemed to be getting cluster phobic, she never really had to share anything before...especially with people she didn't know...* She mumbled under her breath:"Stupid Showers..."

*Hersin, finally got out of tired mode and began organizing all of his stuff. Not much but it had to be done. After fifteenth minutes of making sure everything was neat, Dere'l woke up. He only knew because she screamed...yeah wake up alarm was set or something. Peeking outside his door, he found a lot of people were staying here then he thought and looking down the hall it seemed the rest of the group was up. Sweet. HE kept a low profile and tried to listen in on the conversation, but he couldn't make out much. He closed his door not wanting to be found or heard, what the....his organized stuff was now in shambles! After another fifteenth minutes of organizing, he started to fell hungry. So he poked his head out again.* "Hmm, no one here? Oh well..." *He stepped out and locked his door, then headed for the cafeteria. He took his time not wanted to seem impatient and not too slow to prevent looking lazy...just a perfect slow but fast stride...he met the boss at the door and bowed. Hersin has spent some time in Kusari medical school and some of their customs must have rubbed off on him.* "No need to bow, Go talk to Escuarde, he has news..." "He is starting too look like the boss' messenger dog...that's not a good impression for you." *The boss walked down the corridor back to the sleeping quarters area.* "Let me deal with that Hersin, you keep tabs on your boy over there...."

*Derilos left the cafeteria and took the right corridor, if he went left corridor, he would went back to the sleeping quarters. He wasn't going back there for a bit hopefully. At the end of this corridor was a small bar, he approached the bartender and asked for the comms station, he needed to make a transmission. After finding the station, he inserted his card and beamed his transmission. Yhanu sat down by the wall and waited for Dere'l to finish her shower, she felt his stomach rumble with hunger but ignored it. She was taken back still from the fact that Faust was a cardamine user. That stuff is addictive and not healthy, what would drive him to it? As the questions amassed in her head, women entered the showers, GMG personnel, other bounty hunters, even some possible lone mercenaries...yeah this is "home". Yhanu rubbed her temples in annoyance, this was the last thing she needed. To be worrying about other things.* "Hey, waiting for someone too?" *Yhanu looked up at what was possibly a bounty hunter.* "Uh yeah, and you are?" *The woman sat down on the other side of the door.* "MY name is Lianne (lee-anne) and I work for a small group, we are heh, a bunch of losers before GMG came." "Your telling me this because?" "Because...you seem new here...just trying to get you fit in..." "Ah, well my group is doing fine, we got in a fight with the corsairs, so we ended up here with no where else to go..." "Wow, if the corsairs hunted you guys, you must have done something terrible..." "Yeah. Heh you can say that.." "Well if you need anything, just let me know. My group is very skilled...somewhat..." "Ha, you been here that long? You sound very confident..." "Not really, our leader is a total dope...he's not good at giving orders, we have been stationed here for a while..." "Wow...that's terrible" "Yeah...heh on I forgot something, I'm be right back ok? If you don't see me again, you have a good day ok?" "Sure...you too..." *The woman got up and headed out, at the same time Dere'l was finished her shower.* "I'm done, let's get out of here it's creepy..." "Sure thing hun, I'm getting hungry, it's about breakfast time don't you think?" *Yhanu flashed her a smile and Dere'l returned the favor.* "Yeah let's go..."

*Faust was still stuck under his lovable bed's "hug"* "Aww c'mon what do you want from me? I haz dinner callin' me! Let go and I has something for you! It's called a max fist of love!" *Faust smacked the bed with his strongest punch and he was finally free of it's hug, the bed was literally crying tears of joy in Faust's eyes...instead back on planet reality the thing was split in half and then some... Faust headed out to the cafeteria. The walls of the corridor were jumping about with shiny faces and flowers, and they wanted to hug him too, funny... some red stuff was coming from his nice new face....whatever...Oh...my...gosh...there he was! The bunny man! He spreads love to everyone with his hugs! Wasting no time Faust jumped into his arms and gave him the best hug Faust could muster. And the Bunny was just loving it, so why would Faust stop? He hugged him even more...Back in reality one tall guy was squeezing the crap out of a GMG guard, who was just guarding a door when Faust just jumped onto him and started squeezing him. Just..wow. Faust decided to let the bunny man go to allow him to spread the love to others, why should he hog it all right? Moving on Faust encountered a wall of invisibility, and the walls started having angry faces...not cool. This usually meant Faust's world of love was going to come to a painful end soon...and he would be damned to let the fat chick take ANOTHER love paradise from him. Pushing against the wall of invisibility, Faust used all his strength and finally broke through...and he was sent flying into a room with nothing but tables of lovableness...great, he would be hugged forever in here...*

*Richardson heard a commotion outside and peeked out of his door. There was apparently one tall guy squeezing the crap out of this GMG guard, and the guy was really pissed off. Lianne Came down the hall, she was shocked too. No one usually bugged the GMG guards all this time, who would really do this at all? Turning his head back to the tall guy, In absolute shock everyone in the hall seemed to just freeze. The tall guy stuck out his tongue...and LICKED the guard! What...the....hell...The tall guy let go of the guard and staggered down the hall. The guard obviously pissed off took out a pole looking instrument.* 'Grapple pole...used on lone civilians causing trouble by shooting a rope with some skill to wrestle the target down into submission...not good..." *The guard fired his grapple and it wrapped around the tall guy's neck...game over. As he tugged and tugged, The tall guy....everyone was simply speechless. The tall guy kept his arms and legs straight ads a stick and tried to keep walking! As if out of a cartoon, the guy kept moving his arms and legs and seemed to be getting the better of the guard. At this time, some of the bounty hunters came to the assistance of the Guard and tried to haul the tall guy to the ground. To many's surprise, the tall guy got a little angry and pulled them all. For some reason he was acting like he didn't see them..weird...PAP! The grapple line snaps and while the guard and the bounty hunters fall back, the tall guy shoots into the cafeteria on top of a table and some people sitting there are startled...Just wow....Lainne just stood shocked and silent.* "Come in, we need to talk..."


*Escuarde waited for Hersin to sit down. He started eating and that was good thing, he didn't want to pop the news just yet...he waited a while to just about when Hersin finished.* "We are going back." *Hersin nearly choked on his food. After a few seconds of quickly chewing his food...* "I'm sorry what was that?" We are heading back. The boss wants to gather the rest of our stuff from the base..." "Hmm....and I take it he already knows the risks?" "Yeah, he says he's going to contact GMG's leader for a request for a transport and some escorts for the job. So get ready..." *Just then Faust came speeding into the cafeteria, something wrapped around his neck and he looked like an old ice-skater ans he slid across the cafeteria and into a table with some other mercenaries, it seemed like they were anyway. Some of the GMG guards, rushed into the room and tried to hold down Faust, but he seemed to be stronger then them all, before he could break free, the boss casually walked into the room and injected something into Faust's neck.* "Take him in his room, he'll be pissed when he wakes up....please.." *The guards seemed like their day had gone from good to bad in an instant. They usually kept quiet and out of the way but with Faust's new mess of trouble, it wasn't looking good for them. Two of the guard's followed the boss towards Faust's room, while there three helped clean up the place, then headed back to their stations...yeah not a very good first impression...*

//To see the comms between Derilos and the GMG leader see here

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