Out of Pod Experience

(Meta: Hope you're feeling better random it suck to be ill during the holidays, but I agree, i wanna see where this story goes, and I have more than enough creative juices to continue for quite a while. also As i mentioned before I have my short story I have it up on google drive, its a very rough draft, there are grammatical errors but if anybody is interested in reading what I have so far message me and I will send you the link, hope everyone is in good health)

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-Lailyana


(meta Edit: The first part of my story revolving around Lailyana aptly named "The Capsuleer" is finished and up on good drive, send me a message ingame or here on the forums for the link to read :) )

“McNally, are you mad?!” Lemant yelled into the comm. “I have control of the ship. Let’s dock it up and let the authorities sort it out!” The ship lurched suddenly as the collective effects of the docking drones and the tractor from the Concord vessel pulled the ship sharply. As Matokin stumbled, Sharazzi dashed drunkenly for the bridge escape pods. Lemant turned in time to see Sharazzi enter the capsule and blast away. “Damn, this is not going well.” He lamented

“I want Laude…,” he paused, “I want my sister back and I’m prepared to destroy anyone in my way.” He said quietly amongst the alarms.

“She is on the station, damn you.” Lemant growled, his Matari rising. “She is safe.”

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On the ‘Extinction’, the sensor operator called out, “Sensor, Command. Fifteen seconds until detonation.”

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Random turned to Twinkle and said, “Time for you to go, kid. Escape pod is there, get the hell out now.” Twinkle hesitated, and Random smiled genuinely. “Go Twinkle, this is not your day to die.”

Twinkle turned and sprinted to the escape pod. “I do not think it is yours, either.” He threw himself into the pod and hit the jettison button.

Lemant growled into the comm, “We will go down together then, McNally.” The very blood in his veins turning hot as it began to sing, “We will settle this in the next life.”

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“Ten seconds, sir!” the sensor operator reported to the Captain.

“Standby forward neutralizers and weapon arrays. Fire on my command.” Grainger announced.

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Random stood, his mouth moving silently as if in prayer. He gripped the haft of his axe until his knuckles turned white and the wraps creaked. He raised his arms in salute and prepared for shouting his name to the guardians of the afterlife when his wrist communicator chimed.

“Random….I’m ok. I’m on the station, safe.” Laudenum’s voice sounded shaky, but it was clearly her.

Random opened his eyes and slammed his hand on the emergency power down. His body shook with the adrenaline of preparing to meet his ancestors.

Lemant stood with arms raised, howling his defiance and heralding his arrival to the afterlife when the alarms suddenly silenced on the bridge. He growled and spun; his body flooded with energy waiting to burst forth. His eyes wide and searching for the guardians to Hell.

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“Open fire.” Captain Grainger announced evenly.

“Sensor, Command! The ship is powering down!” the Sensor operator shouted excitedly.

“Hold fire!” Grainger shouted, putting an arm up as if to physically hold the tactical officer from firing. He spun to the sensor operator and said, “Confirm? Are the systems powering down?”

“Confirmed, sir.” The Sensor operator turned back to his panel. “The ship is powering down.”

Captain Grainger sat heavily in his chair. “Tactical, repulse that damned Scorpion into the docking area. When it’s past the event seal, it’s their business. Nav, get us ready to get the hell out of here. When that ship is in, we are out of here.”

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Lemant’s breath came raggedly as the Scorpion jarred again, this time in the direction of the station. He took several calming breaths as the song in his veins quieted. He looked around the ‘Cheyenne’s’ bridge and sighed. He turned to the Nav console and programmed in the docking sequence.

Random walked calmly to the nearest airlock; his grip strangling the haft of the boarding axe. He moved to the airlock door and waited until the sensors proclaimed it was safe to cycle it. When the door hissed open, he stepped out on to the boarding ramp and walked to the crew’s general unloading area. Any station personnel that moved to stop him paused when they met his icy blue eyes or the gleam of the axe.

Lemant watched Random leave from his vantage point on the bridge. It was not difficult to see the Matari walking away. First, Random would verify that Ms. Hayes was safe, and then Random would come for him. He needed a way to talk the Matari down and focus him on the true enemy, Sharazzi.

“Damn you, you witch. Why did I let you talk me into this.” The RSS man lamented.

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Random pulled aside the curtain in the hospital room holding a bandaged and bruised Laudenum Hayes. She struggled to hold her eyes open through the sedation. When Random moved to the side of her bed, she gasped and dragged herself to a sitting position; hugging Random tightly and shivering violently.

“They almost took me, they almost took me.” She said meekly, terror plain in her words.

“Shhhhh, sis. It’s ok. No one is going to get you while I’m here.” Random whispered, calming the near hysterical woman.

“They almost took me, like Brandin.” She said, pausing to look into Random’s eyes while tears streamed down her own.

“I will never let that happen.” Random said quietly. “I’ll keep an eye on you.” He held her tightly, giving her something solid to cling to.

Hours passed as Random held Laud. Eventually, the medications took hold and Laudenum drifted off into a dreamless sleep. Random gave instructions to the medical staff that he was to be called immediately when she woke and no one was to visit her without him being present. The instructions carried an even heavier threat when Random realized that he stood talking to the doctors in undergarments and still carrying the boarding axe. He walked in exhaustion back to the bar and moved quietly through the crowd. A glance up to the bar showed Twinkle cleaning like nothing unusual had happened. He met Twinkle’s eye and nodded slightly. Twinkle paused and nodded in return, very slightly.

“I can’t believe he just did that, your relentless quest could have just killed us both” Matokin said while gearing at Sharazzi.

Then he activated the coms and called the station security “I have with me the perpetrator of the recent events that just took place outside the station she has surrendered to me and I am willing to turn her over to your custody.” A voice on the other side of the com system responded “what happens in space outside the station is concords responsibility; we will contact them to have her taken into custody”

Just then Sharazzi looked at Matokin, from the look in her eyes he knew she was not happy “we had a deal, you said that you would not allow concord to take me in” she roared.

“I know and I won’t unlike some people I actually keep my word” Matokin glared back at Sharazzi.

Knowing the interstices of concords relations with internal empire matters from his time in the RSS Matokin knew that if he told the station security about the kidnapping from the bar previous then the station security would hold and turn Sharazzi over to the Supreme Court. However the only problem with that was he himself was also part of and took part in the actual kidnapping, a point that Sharazzi would undoughtily be all too happy to point out the station security.

He quickly razed the station security and said “The same person in my custody is also the same person who organized and helped execute the kidnapping from the Grater Fool Bar earlier.” There was a slight pause then a male voice responded “The alleged phoney concord agent? If this is the case then we would need to take her into custody here and turn her over to the The Federal Administration.”

“The Federal Administration why?” responded Matokin The voice responded “We are sending officers down to the docking bay and we can discuss this in person, I am not discussing this over the com system”

Sharazzi then looked at Matokin and he could tell from her body language that she was extremely anxious she removed the pistol and clip from her belt stating “You had better keep your word with this, if not I will make sure that concord knows your involvement in all this as well”

“Relax I will keep my word to you, after all it’s the only what I can get out of this, if it wasn’t for that I would kill you where you stand” Sharazzi could tell from Matokin’s body language and his voice he was getting annoyed with her at this point. She laughed “It’s nice to be needed”

At that moment the ships coms pinged to life a female voice said “This is security Lieutenant Faykan station security please disembark your ship at once” Matokin responded “We are on our way down, be their shortly.”

The commotion aboard the Cheyenne as it approached had everone near Lail running in fear and panic.
“Holy **** I hope Random survives the fight long enough to see his sister is ok.” Lailyana said out loud to herself.
Suddenly she shes a pod a few hundred feet in front of her with a bunch of medical personnel carrying what appeared to be a female. Bolting to the scene Lail makes out the faint appearance of laude, her long blonde hair unmistakable, although it didn't look like laude, most of body covered in blood and her spine dripping blood on the floor.
As Lailyana gets closer she sees its laude and starts screaming.
"Laude, Laude wheres Random?!" a nearby medical officer turns around and greets her.
"Miss you cant be here, this woman is severely injured and needs immediate medical attention." he says keeping the frenzied Caldari at bay.
"Look I don't if all of CONCORD is here, youll only slow me down, now let me see my friend before i show you some things the caldari naval academy taught me years ago." Lailyana says with a dark and ominous tone.
"uh ok fine, youre free to go." the medical assistant said
lailyana runs up to laude and what she sees is almost to much for the Caldari, who has seen so much in new eden, to bear to look at. Grabbing the hand of partially coherent Laudenum Hayes Lail says "Youre safe now, we will take care of you."
as her eyes are rolling into her pain in agony laude leans over to lail and whispers "Get my brother, I want my brother."
Lailyana gently kisses her forehead, ill find him, save your strength laude."

As the medical personnel take laude away Lailyana breathes a huge sigh of relief, relief that laude was safe, relief that everybody was able to walk away from this unscathed. As she is daydreaming a towering shadow appeared before lailyana
"Random." Lailyana said "they just took laude to the medical facility, shes in pretty bad shape but was asking about you."
without saying a word, visually shaken up, random walks away still clinging his boarding axe.

As Random Walks away lailyana sees the Cheyenne coming in for docking procedures.
"Oh god, if random sees that RSS agent right now, this will not end well." Lailyana thought as the ship landed.
As agents of CONCORD arrived to take control of the situation lailyana saw Lemnant step out with a firm grip on a woman she didn't recognize. As the two stepped foward she saw a uniformed officer step foward "well theres concord" Lailyana mumbled.
And then suddenly something happened she didnt expect, the officer she assumed was CONCORD took the female into custody..
"Wait what the hell" lailyana said startled, "so is this sleezebag just going to walk away scott free?" she started saying louder as Lemnant started walking away, but suddenly, a CONCORD looking agent slammed him against a wall placing him in custody as well.
"I better get in touch with random" Lailyana thought. reaching into her pocket she pulls out her commlink.
"Random its lail, are you there?" the Caldari inquired.
"Hey Lailyana, I want to thank you for your efforts in this endeavor." the gruff Minmatar said.
"youre more than welcome, im waiting for recommendations on what to do next." Lailyana said.
After a brief pause Random says with an exhausted tone "head back to the bar for now, let everyone know Laude's condition, yet she is safe, I will be there shortly to track down her kidnappers."
with one hand on her hip grinning slightly, Lailyana says "Will do Random, oh and one other thing."
"Yes" he says
"Her kidnappers are in custody with what undoubtley appears to be CONCORD"
with a slight audible chuckle Random says "We will see about that, Random out."
and with that he was gone.
"****, is he planning on breaking them out only to kill them?" Lailyana thought. "I hope he knows what hes doing."
she silently questioned herself as she walked further into the station, back towards The Greater Fool Bar.

(Meta: I normally dont control characters, but with the recent brief hiatus with the holidays and such i figured to catch the story back up I would ask questions in the story which normally arent asked, I hope this is accetable)

It's Random turn to choose what he does with poor lil' Ish standing in his way. I'd recommend using the ingame chat, it makes easier to coordinate these things (channel name: The Greater Fool Bar).

Zoe walks into the bar after quite some while, takes a seat, orders a drink and downloads recent bars history on her datapad.
Sipping on her drink, she starts reading...after passing some pages, she ordes another drink...and another one...and later another one, and another ione,sand nother one, nd andother done , andf anoitrher oen ....... *hicks*

Random glared down at Ishtanchuk; there was an audible creak in the leather wrappings of the enormous boarding axe. “Ish, I need you to move out of my way, please.” Random said, sidestepping the petite Khanid woman. He scowled when she matched his step and continued placing herself in his path. He sighed, and sidestepped again only to continue to be blocked by Ish, hands on hips.

“Ish, I don’t want to hurt you, and I wont intentionally, but you will move out of my way.”

“I wish to know what you intend to do, Random.” She said with the aloof voice of her Khanid ancestory. “I would rather you didn’t hurt anyone.”

“Ish, I intend to check on Laud…” Random started.

“You do not need your axe for that.” Ishtanchuk interrupted.

“AND, then I intend to find the people responsible and segregate their implant’s integrated circuits.” Random finished calmly.

“Yiole would not approve of this.” Ish huffed, staring hard at Random.

“Yiole is not here!” Random growled in a tone that became dangerous. “As a matter of fact, I do not know where she went. I don’t not know if she’ll come back. I don’t know how sincere she was during our time together. I know absolutely nothing.” Random’s growl grew in intensity and with each statement, he stepped forward causing Ish to move back.

“She loves you! She said so!” Ish said, holding up the datapad. “I know her well enough to know that she needs a little time. She will come back.” Her voice softened and she placed her hand on Random’s chest, trying to will warmth and patience into the towering Matari.

Random lowered the head of the axe. He lowered his face and scowled darkly. He paused for a moment, contemplating what Ish said. She removed her hand from his chest with a look of concern. She had temporarily pacified the bull, but was it enough?

Random sprang forward and grabbed Ishtanchuk about the waist. He easily lifted her petite form from the ground and took two steps to the nearest chair. Ish felt the corded muscles of his chest and arm and the heat from his body; the man was an oven. He held her tightly, but not tightly enough to hurt her. She brought her hand up and slapped him hard across the face. Random flinched, but made no other response. She slapped him hard again, using as much force as her leverage would allow but other than the flinch of the impact, he made no motion nor made any sound. He gently sat her down in the chair, and then strode purposely to the exit.

Ish cast a concerned look to the exit that Random had just passed through and then turned back to Succus. She noticed that he had been watching intently and with smooth practiced motions, was re-holstering his side arm.

Random burst into the room just as Matokin stood up with such speed that the chair he was sitting in fell back against the wall. The fire in the eyes of the matari Matokin knew what he was here to do.

“I don’t want any trouble Random...I know that you want to kill me and if I was in your place I would most likely feel the same way. However I only came here to apologize to your sister for my actions during recent events. “Matokin’s tone was cool yet confident one that showed he was not afraid of Random but wanted to avoid any sort of confrontation with the other Matari.

Random stood intently quite for a second before lurching forward toward Matokin stopping just short of arms reach.

“Apologize ha!” Random scolded “Apologize for taking my sister from the bar. Apologize for holding her against her will in some sell on that scorpion. Apologize for traumatizing her.”With each thing random listed off his grip on this boarding axe tightened and his tone became more ominous.

“Your dam lucky I am even having this conversation with you Lemant and if my sister wasn’t in this room we probity wouldn’t be.” Random said looking over at the now sleeping Laudenum.

“I know you care deeply about your sister Random and I can respect that, however you need to calm down or the orderlies will throw us both out and she will be alone again.” Matokin said while glaring at random.

Random interrupted “No orderly will keep me away from my sister!” intentionally raising his voice so as the recovery area staff could hear him.

“Stop shouting or you will wake her “Matokin said taking a step toward Random. Pausing for a second he continued “Look your sister asked me to stay so she could talk to me some more but I will gladly leave this area if that is what you want. She needs rest and the two of us going at each other like this is not helping any”

“That is just some more of your lies” Random protested. “There is no reason my sister would ever want to see you again much less talk to you, but you are correct about one thing she does need her rest and for her sake...” Random said looking once more at the sleeping Laudenum. Then looking quickly back at Matokin” ...your own I suggest you leave until I can talk with Laud and figure all this out.” His tone once more turned into an ominous one.

As Matokin wearily stepped past Random on his way out of Laudenum’s room he quickly looked over his shoulder back at Laudenum saying to himself “I hope you can talk some sense into him... Laud if not then things won’t end well for either of us”

Calling back as he was leaving the recovery area Matokin said “I will be in the waiting area Random but I don’t know for how long...”

Random had no idea what Matokin meant by that but he had a pretty good idea, but he said to himself “I am sure as hell not about to wake my sister up for you”

Just then Laudenum started to stir and briefly opened her eyes “Random is that you...where is Lemant please tell me you didn’t.” she asked still slurring her words from the haze of the medication.



(META: Random I hope that I captured the essence of how you would have your toon act in this situation appropriately)