Endurance: The Next Chapter (IC)

Ketryn felt like laughing when she saw the reaction. Speechless. The officer's reaction was really amusing. She was thinking about a joke of how she leaves most males speechless, but the current situation wouldn't make such a statement that appropriate. She listened to the captain speak, her attitude quickly changing from amusement to anger. Their mechanic was going to "love this"? Ketryn felt her non-existent stomach tighten, somehow feeling sick.

They weren't going to... Experiment on her? Ketryn let the four troops to take her onto the ship, looking behind her, trying to scowl at Levith. As always, it didn't work. She walked onto the prison vehicle, looking around in her prison cell before sighing. She was going to find a way out of here. Her biggest fear was of getting experimented on, and she wasn't going to let that happen.

The aliens dragged him over to to the cage,but as Donfroste was about to be thrown in he released a huge spazuam and clamped his cone-like teeth down on his holder's hand refusing to let go. "Hrrrrrm! Ha cretchen!" He mumbled he was then chucked off rudely and roughly to his cage.

Senn scowled at the leading alien over his shoulder. "Catch." He repeated to himself. "He should recognize an Errian when he sees one, and know better than to say something so disrespectful" he mumbled under his breath. He mumbled a few alien words, that were actually Errian curse words. The claws on his feet clacked against the hard ground as he moved, and almost sounded mechanical. He mumbled again, "ropes. How dismal of a race."

He looked at the guards. "I'd have no objections if you shot me now. I'll have you know that if you plan on experimenting and testing me, there will be trouble. That is a promise. Heck, you may as well kill me right now."

Somnus blinked a few times, beginning to wake. Wherever he was, it was moving, and not smoothly. He grumbled and began trying to figure out what was going on. His tail began to twitch, but that was about all he did. His legs and wings were bound with thick ropes, and it wasn't as if he could go anywhere, even untied. He shifted himself into a more comfortable position and looked around.

They had all been piled into the same transport, and it seemed that not all of them had been stunned. Senn, Strange, and Ketryn. He didn't pay that much mind. It seemed that everyone was there, and that was all he needed to know. What he really wanted to know was what was going on.

He tilted his ears so that he could hear their captors talking, and held still. Hopefully he would hear something interesting...

Strange edged away from Senn. It was just to be safe; he wouldn't want to be nearby when Senn's threat went into action.

Strange saw the prison bus and immediately became a little angry. No matter what, to them, he's their prisoner. He really didn't want to be seen like that. It just felt... Offensive. Strange didn't find any other way to put it. In an act of defiance, Strange broke away from his guards and chose his own seat: a window seat. It was the closest that he'd get to being comfortable, and the farthest from Senn he could get.

He waved his hand in a shooing motion at the guards, completely calm, if not a little angry. "I'm not gonna blow up the bus, or anything," He said, but at a very quiet tone. It was so quiet that his escorts might not have heard him.

Ketryn walked aroun in her cell before sitting down. She was still a nervous wreck from the thought of the possibility of being experimented on- she wasn't going to en up there. Never again. Ketryn pushed the thoughts to the back of her mind and tried to think of something else.

She was sitting in the corner of the cell, watching the actions of her captors. As time progressed, they seemed to be getting nervous about something. She noted that dawn was nearing. Was their enemy known to awaken a dawn or something? Or perhaps it was some biological sort of weakness? Maybe in the past they warred with a different species that was affiliated with the dawn and thus it was in their genes to fear it. No. They are an advanced race, after all- such actions in advanced races are rare. She decide it was probably just eagerness to return. But return where?

She was quiet for a while before asking aloud, "Whwre are we being taken, exactly?"

Donfroste gnawed in his ropes determined to escape and kill his captors he had taken quite a beating being thrown had aggravated his concussion and opened his cut his tame dripping with both his blood and the aliens blood his face was heavily bruised his body screamed in pain wanting to rest and recover. His mind disagreed and his stubbornness led him on finally he had bitten through

The rope he groaned this was going to take hours then he eyed the lasers then he squirmed over to the lasers he didn't know if they were "burners" or "reflectors" he inched closer and touched the lasers with the ropes hoping they would burn through. It didn't occur that this wasn't a "smart " or "safe".

Vetrys stepped into the vehicle with a sense of authority, though not quite so much as the one next to him. He wore a leather vest, and had an assortment of things -mostly weapons- hanging from his belt. A stun gun, as most of the guards carried, was the most conventional. He also carried a dagger, which was probably used for more than utility in an emergency. However, on the other side of his belt was something a bit more unexpected. A hand crossbow and a small quiver of bolts. He narrowed his bright orange eyes just slightly, and took in the new prisoners.

They had come in with an Invader ship, but most of them were not Invaders. His gaze rested on the two Invaders for a moment, displeased, and then looked at the rest of them. He didn't recognize any of these creatures, but why should he? The Invaders were the only spacefaring race. They were odd, he concluded, but most of them seemed to be no threat. The one with the claws had a nasty look on his face though.

Somnus chose that moment to look up. Perfectly silent, he looked Vetrys right in the eye, and began glaring a hole in him. He didn't understand why these creatures would capture him and the rest of these people. The Kyreniens, sure, but did he and the others not look like they had been prisoners? This was pointless, and he made a point to show his distaste.

Vetrys, unlike most people, did not look away. This large creature was intimidating, but he was also tied up. Vetrys frowned just slightly and raised an eyebrow, as if to say 'what do you plan on doing about it, then?'

Somnus did not react, only continued glaring.

Ketryn wanted to scowl more than ever when she heard Levith's relply. The were getting trialed? At least it was better than just being taken hostage, but still.

"Trialed for what, exactly? For being with two Kyrenians?" Ketryn stared at Levith, the only thing she could do without making an expression. "Are you aware of why we were with them? We were all Kyrenian prisoners, but then those two went against their race and got us out."

Ketryn lifted up her chin a little, the only sign that she was challenging Levith. "We are just as guilty here as you are for taking us prisoner..." Ketryn stood up and walked to the edge of the cell, closer to Levith. "Now tell me, how does that make us guilty?"

Okay. So this guy is the reason she was imprisoned. Ketryn wanted to glare at him now, her distaste for the situation directed completely at him. Instead, however, she turned her head to the side, looking at Levith instead as she listened to Praeceus speak. She wasn't very find of Levith, but right about now she preferred having him speak instead of this life form.

"You can easily find something guilty about anyone," Ketryn stated flatly. Then she added in, "What would you do if you were low in energy- whether it be food-wise or deprived of some other energy source- and you were rescued by a couple of life-forms that many consider enemies, but are in fact going against your race."

Ketryn let out an emotionless sigh before saying, "no matter. I would like for you to show me where the nearest energy outlet is. I was not fully charged and would prefer to have my system recharged soon."

On the outside, Strange looked unimpressed by the events around him. However, on the inside, he was seething with rage.

"Well," He said flatly to the strange alien, "Let's say you're trapped on a spaceship, floating in the void, with nobody to talk to except..." Strange paused and pointed at Senn with his thumb, without looking at him.

"You'd be desperate. Very desperate. Then, three aliens come out of the blue and offer you a ticket out of this mess, no strings attached... that I know of." Strange cast a glance at Kydi and Thray before looking back at his captor. "Then, you're being chased by a big space firestorm - actually, I'm exaggerating; it was a spaceship - and the guys who are a part of the race that owned the spaceship goes into hyperspace and saves your life. I have no reason to not like these two particular beings."


With that, Strange leaned back in his seat, awaiting his captor's response.

Senn spoke up, almost yelling, "they did not! They told us that if we didn't go, we would die on the ship they picked us up from. All of these aliens wanted to go happily with the Kyrenians, but I did not. I tried desperately to talk everyone out of it. Nobody would listen to me, it was as if they'd forgotten what these tyrants had done. But I am not blind, I was resilient. But eventually I had to give in, in fear they I would die as they said, cold and alone. I am Sennak, by the way. Or Senn. I am an Errian, a race that put up a good fight. I want all Kyrenians dead; that would be properly blood vengance for my race." He said interlacing his massive claws.

Ketryn ignored Senn's biased, one-sided statement as she replied to Praecus. "Did it occur to you that I could escape this cell?" Ketryn paused before continuing, "Did it occur to you that in the next chair you sat in, that it could collapse? No. All you can do is hav faith in the situation and hope, correct?"

Ketryn stepped closer to the edge of the cell, her expressionless face now staring no longer at Levith but finally at Praecus. "Did it occur to you that not all Invaders are the same? There are ones of your race that go against the common goal, correct? Same goes for every race. Did it occur to you that most of us are innocent? Did it occur to you that when your soldiers captured us, that they could have gotten defeated by more powerful beings and then the entire planet destroyed? Tell me, did any of these thoughts occur to you?"

Ketryn couldn't put emphasis on much without emotion, but she did raise her voice when she said "occur" the last time. She was really ticked off, now.

Somnus moved his glare from Vetrys to Praceus. A deep growl rumbled from his throat before he spoke, quiet but bold. The kind of cold anger that can silence a room, if only for a moment. "You would have all Kyreniens killed for the sins of the majority? I won't deny that I attacked them on sight, but I soon realized what was truly happening. You have not seen the look in Kydi's eyes, knowing he could rescue these people." He did not look away from Praceus, and hardly even blinked. "Perhaps most of their kind are truly evil, but these two? They are innocent."

Vetrys started slightly at Somnus' last statement. He narrowed his eyes slightly, highly skeptical, but did not speak. He would let the Magistrate sort out this impossible misconception. He was just waiting to find out which of these he would be keeping in the jail.

"Don't listen to them" Senn said. "They are blind. Kill the Kyrenians while you still have a chance" he added with a slight bend to his ears. He snarled at the others, but not the new aliens.aye they could be helpful yet. He looked at them all curiously.

Vetrys' eyes widened slightly, intimidated but determinedly not scared. He did not move. This was who they had captured, not some innocent civilian, if those even existed. He frowned, wondering how anyone could have not recognized the apparently not-so-silent Invader.

"This," he said in a loud voice, "though you apparently do not recognize him, is The Hunter. In case you somehow don't know who that is, all you need to know is that he was personally responsible for the deaths of more people than you've ever met. Indirectly, probably many, many more." he narrowed his eyes, disgusted, but trying to gauge the prisoners' reactions. "Far from innocent."

Somnus did not stop glaring, but he no longer knew who to glare at. He had always thought he was a good judge of character, what if their captors were wrong? But then again... Would Kydi and... Thray... have really taken them anywhere other than a safe place? Was there anywhere they could have even gone? He questioned, mainly, the reputation that they seemed to have with their own kind. Perhaps Thray had done something... changed? He didn't know anymore, other than that he hardly trusted the two anymore, as if he had before.

But still, something didn't quite add up...

Ketryn's eyes would have widene in surprise upon hearing about who Thray was. She was silent. She wasn't sure what to think now- who to blame. Kydi still seeme innocent. Ketryn was frozen in place for several moments before finally asking, "Thray, before anyone jumps to conclusions... Why did you help us today?" While waiting for a response, Ketryn turned towards Praecus.

She now had an even stronger dislike for the him. Because he actually made a point. So Ketryn only said one thing.

"I despise you more than any Kyrenian."

For once in his in life Donfroste was glad that he was so on noticeable. In the Time that the creatures we're talking he'd burned through his restraints "I'M FREE wait now what...." Donfroste may have freed his limbs but he was still in a jail cell and still had no weapons his head swirled up angry thoughts in anger he kicked the laser and it burned his foot as he hopped around in pain the ambient noise giving him more anger "WILL EVERYTHING SHUT UP!" He feel to his knees clutching at his skull in pain.