"Miss Winchcombe, there is an unauthorized presence on the Var:jo."
Rocket sighed, but did not look up from her work. Instead of responding to the voice, she moved to another panel, it opened with the code she provided and she continued to inspect the primary systems of the ship. The Var:jo had been docked in her garage for years, but the mechanic was paid quite a pretty penny to make sure everything was in order, as if it needed to be ready to depart at a moment's notice.
"Miss Winchcombe," the voice implored for her attention, a feminine voice, somewhat digitized and disembodied, but very emotive nonetheless.
"It's fine Cady," Rocket closed the panel, and jotted notes down on her tablet, a complicated sheet of values and figures presented on the face of it. "She's with me."
"It is not fine," Cady argued. The AIs offended tone followed Rocket as she moved to the starboard side of the ship to meet Kreska before she got lost. Which was not difficult to do on the large warship. "The Captain has not authorized any new persons to board the Var:jo in her absence in three years and fifty-five days."
Rocket groaned, loudly, and the silence that followed from the AI seemed almost affronted. It would be nice to think that the AI had given up, but she knew it was still there. Cady was linked with the whole ship, after all, nothing that happened on the Var:jo went unnoticed.
The mechanic found Kreska in the decontamination airlock, easy enough to wander through, the lock was deactivated and all the doors were open. As soon as she laid eyes on the other woman, she regretted every decision she had made that morning. Well, mostly just the cat shirt, or as she would now refer to is the worst best idea she had ever had. She wasn't sure if the shirt did not fit or if it was supposed to fit like that, but either way it was a crime.
Rocket stumbled through what might have been a sentence, perhaps even a greeting, but it was mostly unintelligible and accompanied by meaningless gestures of her real arm. She stopped, finally, closing her eyes and exhaling sharply through her nose.
"Hi," she said, finally, which was lame and she wanted to die, but she could only be so lucky.
Why did she think those sweatpants would work? They did, but also did not simultaneously.
"I jus'ave a few things t'finish in here, if y'wanna hang out a minute."
"She most certainly can not 'hang out for a minute,'" Cady corrected, still looming, omniscient, just as Rocket had predicted.
"That's Cady," she explained, forcing a smile that looked less than amused with the way her lips were pressed together so tightly, while she pointed upwards in what she hoped was an understandable signal. "Cady this is Kreska."
"A pleasure," the ship replied, not sounding at all in earnest.
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