Upon Defiant: Chapter One

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To their credit, the small part of the swarm HAD tried to talk Quinn out of it. But then they'd given up and decided it wasn't worth the argument. Besides, this should be fairly interesting to watch... from afar... yes, afar.

They remained on the station and watched the shuttle leave.

"Should we have tried to stop them more?" "their lives." "hope they don't crash" "least not into anything inhabited."

Asher smiled. "I'm glad that you were all responsible that way. Of course, I know very little about time travel, but what I do know makes it sound like dangerous business." He looked at Vanessa, who had been very quiet for most of this conversation, trying to gauge her current state of mind.

Swarm felt the call of their other half and looked out to the cruise ship so far away. They were eager to learn all they could about that ship once they reintegrated but right now they had a new job. Find a salad bar... okay then.

Certainly whatever chaos Quinn and Sara would wreak would be fairly obvious anyway, so they reluctantly left the shuttle bay and headed for the food court.

Vanessa seemed to be in her own thoughts, frowning when they reached the shuttles, or lack thereof. "Wasn't there one more?..."

As if to answer her question, the shuttle zoomed past their view at high speeds waaaaaay to fast for regular old station docking as the fox inside was having fun dancing across the controls, using her back legs to lean the wheel left and right while her paws were on the tables, one pressing the acceleration.

Swarm would probably pass Vanessa, Merith and Asher on their way out.
They bobbed a brief greeting to the android.

"Oh dear," Asher said mildly, "It would seem that our shuttle is being used for less than advisable purposes." He noticed Swarm and smiled in greeting, before returning his attention to the worrying matter of the speeding shuttle. Hopefully security would put a stop to this before anyone was hurt.

Security was on it, as docking procedures were ignored a warning klaxon blared and several security officers appeared, climbing into their own shuttles to give chase.

"Whooops!" Quinn looked in the cameras and/or mirrors that showed she was being chased... And she suddenly gassed it, realizing getting caught would pose a very bad reprimandation that she'd rather try to avoid. Suddenly Quinn's face broke into a wild smile as Third decided to join the fun as well as they began dipping and diving like a honey bee around a flower.

Sara was screaming as she held onto a cup holder. Just screaming.

The station itself attempted to lock a tractor beam on the shuttle as it ducked and dove, but it was driving like the pilot was drunk which made getting a lock very difficult.

The two security shuttles tried to keep up and lock their own tractor beams on as well. One hailed the craft.

"rogue shuttle, stop this at once and allow yourself to be escorted back to the station. Further attempts to escape will only increase the severity of your punishment."

"Why do we need to be escorted?" Quinn asked innocently as she did slow down and become less aggressive and dangerous but still avoided the tractor beams as best she could. "Yo man, let's forget that this all happened, aye?" She said casually, leaning towards the speaker as she drove absent-mindedly with her hind paws.

"Rogue shuttle please come to a full stop." The security team continued.

The other security shuttle tried to head them off.

Asher went to one of the windows to watch as Quinn wove in and out of view. "This is the second most impressive example of a non-humanoid piloting a shuttle that I've ever seen," he commented.

Swarm was distracted from their mission by this chaos, sorry tala. They hovered near a window and watched in fascination.

Quinn slowly and reluctantly came to a stop, "... I am dead. I am dead. I am dead. I am dead." she began to mutter.

"Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead..."

Vanessa's eyelid twitched...