Morticia!!! by Iwa | World Anvil

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Sat 5th Jan 2019 10:28

Morticia!!!

by Iwa

I come out of the turbolift and find Dizzy standing over three bodies. She claims they are just stunned. When I moved over to her, she stands and hands me a dart. She tells me that I will know she isn’t Dizzy and that she is trying to save her sister.
 
Mia introduces herself and wants to know if Deloris has told us about her past. She had found out about the situation when she was attacked by a cyborg. She wasn’t able to find out who sent the cyborg, but there was a datapad telling about Dizzy’s location and when she would be there. She got to the station, but we had left on our beer run and she hurried on to our probable location. All she found was Dizzy’s empty armor. There was nothing missing from the armor – except Dizzy. She put it on to hopefully cause them to make a mistake.
 
Mia happened across a group of three men in what seemed to be a negotiation. When she appeared, they attacked and she defended herself. One was killed and she stunned the other two. I suggest we search the bodies to see what we can find. First the dead body.
I find a datapad, commlink, a pistol, and a small case holding the darts, and a thin scar along the bottom portion of his skull on the dead body. Mia and I search the other two men vibro knives, modified ion pistols, teardrop backpacks filled with scrap metal, and a datapad with a mostly complete map of the section. They have notes about the recycling centers so I look more closely at the scrap metal and determine that everything is something that could be used to repair something. We are about to start searching the level when security shows up and requests our presence in the security office.
 
I turn on my comms unobtrusively and say hello to Captain Shann. She wants to be sure we are not a danger to her station. She knew that the two stunned guys were steel jack nomads – scavengers of the galaxy. She didn’t recognize the other guy, but is passing his photo around. I mention the scar and describe it for Rushlight. He suggests it could be either a brain bomb or a controlling device. I share that information which causes the captain to leave to check on it.
 
Captain returns and tells me that it is interesting. She asks me if I know Ren Gent. Turns out that was the name of the dead guy. We finish up our conversation and I go out to see Mia waiting – not necessarily patiently. The captain is accosted as soon as we go out by an officer. I try to listen and manage to here “just happened” and “knocka creed guy”. I have Mia turn on the augmented hearing on the armor and she says that there has been a shooting in the med bay and someone has attempted to shoot Anocka Creed in the med bay.
 
Mia and I leave the security station and head to med bay. While we are walking to Med Bay, I drop the news about Dizzy actually being Mia and let her tell Rushlight and Greelo about what is going on. She gives them the low down while we head to medical. The crowd get thicker as we get closer and we see Captain Shanns ahead. The other guys meet us there and we are in a big crowd and can’t get close to the door. Rushlight suddenly notices four guys in coveralls come out of the maintenance door leading out of med bay. Greelo and I will cut them off at the pass, Mia will follow them, and Rushlight will go straight to the captain and tell her about what he noticed and suggests they check the door for bombs.
There are some transports just around the corner and we hop aboard and rush to head them off at the pass. We hear some blaster fire and Doc Fuzzy complains about being sent back to the cheap seats. He yells and apparently makes a run for someone hurt and tries to get them into med bay. I try to get off the path and follow Greelo into the park. I start losing control of the swoop and somehow manage to catch flight and go into and through a security outpost in a tree. When I come back out of the outpost, I have an officer on my windshield and am coming down on top of Greelo. He seems to be braking and I manage to land on the back of his bike without wrecking, but we are stuck together now. We keep flying with the security guy still as a hood ornament. Rushlight comes over the comms and tells us that he is chasing the assassin and we need to help. We get out of the park and those speed bumps break the swoops apart and we crash into the two remaining bad guys with blaster fire pinging off of the damaged swoops. The security guys say, “FREEZE! Everyone is under arrest.”
 
I stand up groggily and see the captain staring at me. There is a lot of activity going on with Greelo and apparently, the bad guys need a doctor now. I talk to the captain after she walks over to me and I tell her all about the fun ride I had. Then Doc Fuzzy showed up and started telling the captain about the assassin and what he did in the med bay.
 
I spend time in interrogation and finally ask him about why there is so much going on and is there an assassin convention happening. He responds that it is just busy right now. He lets me go and suddenly the decompression sirens go off. Greelo contacts Shree and is told that Morticia is at the center of the destruction. Rushlight heads off to check. I go over to check on Mia and she is having a “discussion” with the medical personnel. One touches her armor and is sent flying. Rushlight comes over the comms to tell us to tell the doctor that she refuses medical treatment.
 
He then informs us that Morticia is dead. Suddenly over the system, we hear the voice of a Commander of the Spartan Imperium demanding Morticia back and agreeing to give us back the money we paid for her. Rushlight tells him she is dead and may not be salvageable. He plans to get some power back to her and see if he can copy her hard drive to move to another shuttle.

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