No sooner had the tiny green alien left her throat than Sascha hauled her ass to a far wall and examined the brighter-than-reasonable room, tapping on the wall. Testing it for how well it'd hold up against a mech and feeling her stomach curl in on itself no matter what the answer might have been. Terrific. Now she was a stationary target. But at least the woman who'd made her that way wasn't trying to collect the bounty on her head. Or trying to get at the massive amounts of sensitive research she might have lifted from a corporation who didn't take too kindly to that kind of thing. She snorted. Understatement. Of. The. Millennium.
She moved to an inner wall and drew her knees up. "Yeah. Okay. Thanks for not doing that. In advance." She sighed. "I'm normally better at handling things...today's pretty much the worst drek you can imagine. I'm Sascha. Sass, if you want. You?"
--
Kreska.
Fate had been amused by her skill at evasion & acrobatics while injured. Now he was downright impressed. Because Kreska Ido--Robinson, really?--it seemed, had a *bit* of notoriety. By all rights, if he was processing this highspeed download correctly and she had more visibility to go with her name, she would be the target of schemes from both idiots and seasoned pros alike--though neither would probably live long after her luck got her rescued. Because it had to be luck that kept her alive. Maybe a tiny bit the reputation of the company she kept, maybe the ceiling-rafter-club gymnast shit, but mostly...luck. Why else would a would-be fugitive who followed directives from total fucking strangers and dragged equally unknown women into her safe zones to hide with her have survived this long? If Sass had been a bounty hunter or even a hungry runaway, his newest charge would be dead.
How was it he was so lucky as to wind up working with consistently impulsive women, and still not getting laid?
His implant nearly worked its way out of his eye socket when he spotted the slaver's collar, and the subsequent explosion. "Honey," he started, then shook his head until the cable coming out of his neck rattled against the arm of his chair. "Kreska. As soon as these goons clear out I'm sending a medbot."
This, just before he accessed a camera in the room, caught a glimpse of Sascha's closed circuit wristcomp, and then saw the screen go dark. "Hey!" he protested, even as he did some monkeying of his own. Infrared might have been useless given the heat in the room, but neither woman gave off quite as much, so he could monitor the dead spots until they evened out. In the meantime, both were safe. He had time to work on another solution.
--
"Fate? Oh, THANK THE CARDS." Sascha sucked in a huge gulp of air, tugging absently on the straps of her boots. "Where is he? I need to kill him."
>>Tell her I heard that.
Dark eyebrows went up as more green skin was revealed, some of it darker than it seemed healthy to be, and her companion set about getting comfortable. "Uh," she answered, then decided warning her was the least she could do for getting her out of the line of fire, "Have you known Fate long? You do realize that if he knows there's stripping happening, any device he can see through can and will be hacked, right?"
>>There's WHAT?
"Two of us here, that horny bastard will be waiting for that 'wrong idea' to get started." A low strain of music with a thumping beat that sounded suspiciously like what a stripper would dance to came from somewhere near Kreska and Sascha groaned. "Please tell me that's like...your ringtone."
>>Tell her I'm waiting.
She moved to an inner wall and drew her knees up. "Yeah. Okay. Thanks for not doing that. In advance." She sighed. "I'm normally better at handling things...today's pretty much the worst drek you can imagine. I'm Sascha. Sass, if you want. You?"
--
Kreska.
Fate had been amused by her skill at evasion & acrobatics while injured. Now he was downright impressed. Because Kreska Ido--Robinson, really?--it seemed, had a *bit* of notoriety. By all rights, if he was processing this highspeed download correctly and she had more visibility to go with her name, she would be the target of schemes from both idiots and seasoned pros alike--though neither would probably live long after her luck got her rescued. Because it had to be luck that kept her alive. Maybe a tiny bit the reputation of the company she kept, maybe the ceiling-rafter-club gymnast shit, but mostly...luck. Why else would a would-be fugitive who followed directives from total fucking strangers and dragged equally unknown women into her safe zones to hide with her have survived this long? If Sass had been a bounty hunter or even a hungry runaway, his newest charge would be dead.
How was it he was so lucky as to wind up working with consistently impulsive women, and still not getting laid?
His implant nearly worked its way out of his eye socket when he spotted the slaver's collar, and the subsequent explosion. "Honey," he started, then shook his head until the cable coming out of his neck rattled against the arm of his chair. "Kreska. As soon as these goons clear out I'm sending a medbot."
This, just before he accessed a camera in the room, caught a glimpse of Sascha's closed circuit wristcomp, and then saw the screen go dark. "Hey!" he protested, even as he did some monkeying of his own. Infrared might have been useless given the heat in the room, but neither woman gave off quite as much, so he could monitor the dead spots until they evened out. In the meantime, both were safe. He had time to work on another solution.
--
"Fate? Oh, THANK THE CARDS." Sascha sucked in a huge gulp of air, tugging absently on the straps of her boots. "Where is he? I need to kill him."
>>Tell her I heard that.
Dark eyebrows went up as more green skin was revealed, some of it darker than it seemed healthy to be, and her companion set about getting comfortable. "Uh," she answered, then decided warning her was the least she could do for getting her out of the line of fire, "Have you known Fate long? You do realize that if he knows there's stripping happening, any device he can see through can and will be hacked, right?"
>>There's WHAT?
"Two of us here, that horny bastard will be waiting for that 'wrong idea' to get started." A low strain of music with a thumping beat that sounded suspiciously like what a stripper would dance to came from somewhere near Kreska and Sascha groaned. "Please tell me that's like...your ringtone."
>>Tell her I'm waiting.
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