Enter the pirate

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She's shooting across the starts in her ship trying to keep a Green Lantern off her tail. This is a huge misunderstanding but she can' get him to listen. How come she can rob and fight with the best of them but the times she tries to do the right thing things get hard.

"This is Red Wing to anyone listening, I need some back up. Got an angry GL on ,my si--- whoa baby!" She barely dances her ship out of the way of another bolt of green. She can see it explode not too far off. Damn it she needs to talk to them!

Why is it no one ever listens? This time she's trying to be good.

"Come on girl," she coos to her ship. "Just keep this up. You're the best darling. Don't let this stick in the mud GL keep us down.... For once it's more than you and me."

She hits the controls again trying to out maneuver the Green Lantern. This is just crazy. How can one angry man keep up with her like this? The Thangarian grits her teeth. No one is going to beat her. Not today! She still has far too much to do.

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[hopeburnsbright]

When the pursuit of the ship in question spills over into Sector 2814, Avalon and Henry are alerted immediately. Luckily they are in a place there they can suit up and head out.

"You ready for this, Green?" asks Avalon. High speed chases are a guilty pleasure for the Blue Lantern, and he's wearing a big grin as he looks to his partner. Within moments they are in range of the pursuit, thanks to Avalon's warping.

[lantern_kid]

"Any time," Henry replies. As he sees the ship come into view, he slides alongside it.

//Ladies and gentlebeings... care to make this easy and just surrender?//

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"Like hell! This asshole didn't even bother asking questions," Sher snapped.

Then slammed her hand down on a button to try and gain some more speed.

"Come on baby," she mutters to the ship. She can see that the heat in the drive core is sliding into the hot one. Not quite the danger zone just yet.

"Just get me through this," she mutters again depending on the Starburner to get her through this.

[hopeburnsbright]

Moving alongside Henry in formation, the blue point of light known as Avalon simply shakes his head some. "I think that's a no." he says to his partner, before he pulls up a few shields.

"Try and get their attention. We're covered." he says.

[lantern_kid]

A net of green energy appears in front of the starship to catch it. "Think that'll work?" Henry asks with a smirk.

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"Oh frak me sideways," she tries to pull up. The ship dances across the net as she tries to go vertically up.

"You assholes are good," she snarks.

[hopeburnsbright]

Scattering the blue light that Avalon was using for shielding, he sends it out into a second net, trying to catch the escaping ship.

"Darn, whoever's piloting that thing might just be as good as you at piloting." Ava says to Henry.

[lantern_kid]

"Hrm," Henry replies. He's not disagreeing... but he also can't bring himself to agree, either.

He fires a blast at the engines, hoping to damage its maneuverability.

[spacerrogue]

That one hit that lands despite some fancy moves has the ship spinning out of control. There's a small explosion and it looks like part of the primary engine has blown the big sign of that? Fire.

Sher tries to regain control then her jaw drops. Every light is lit up. Frak! The core!

She puts on her coms blaring a distress signal.

"May day may day you fraking idiots! My drive core is about to light up like a sun! Can't regain control and eject it at the same time," she snaps as she puts on her big girl panties and starts running towards the engine room. Sjhe's going to need to move fast. She only has a minute to start the ejection process before she's in real danger.

On the planet's surface

[hopeburnsbright]

Sweating and exhausted from the mental exertion taken to keep the ship from coming apart, Avalon draws in a breath and switches gears without even blinking. The blue netting around the ship falls away, and Avalon slams into the side of the ship next to the exit hatch. It hurts, but he ignores the pain and instead turns his attention to getting whomever is in there out.

\\ I'm trying to get you out, but I think that your internal locks are busted. Can you release them? If not, I'm gonna have to bash through the bulkhead. //

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[spacerrogue]

Oh good he hadn't left. For a brief moment she had thought that maybe she'd be left here to burn or save her own ass.

"Circuits are starting to fry.... But I know my Baby. I can hack it to force the doors open," she says as she pulls a pin from her hair.

Then starts to pick away to a control. With an angry groan the doors start to unseal.

Re: On the planet's surface

[hopeburnsbright]

As soon as the door starts to unlock, Avalon is shoving it open. With what seems like a blink of the eye, he's in the cockpit with Sher, and an arm curls around her middle.

All the sudden they are weightless, and a blue glow surrounds them both, as well as the open door, sealing the ship once more. "I'll have the fires out in a moment, just hold on." he says. Avalon moves them out of the ship and then directs his ring to extract all the oxygen from the sealed atmosphere inside to extinguish any fires that might want to smolder.

Re: On the planet's surface

[spacerrogue]

"Hey!" She doesn't like being touched without warning. She's a Thangarian and has spent almost her whole life fighting. She can't remember a day where there was peace of any kind.

She doesn't know that Avalon is trying to help. Just that he grabbed her and they weren't in her ship. Sorry Blue but Red here is punching now.

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[hopeburnsbright]

When the young woman reacts the way she does, rearing back and decking him, Avalon is honestly in shock. His head rocks back and he lets go of her in his shock before righting himself back up and clutches at his nose.

"You bloody horgoth!" he said, as lavender blood seeped from between white gloved fingers. "You broke my nose! All I did was get you out of that death trap and put out the fires!"

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[spacerrogue]

"You grabbed me," she snarls. Her wings flare and her feathers ruffle standing on end. Anyone who has seen a Thangarian would say she's angry and giving off warning signs that one should approach with caution.

"And if you gave me a chance I could have keyed in my ship's emergency systems to start putting out the fires," she barks again.

"What kind of an idiot grabs a Thangarian like that? Did you get dropped on your head as a hatchling?" Thangarians don't have hatchlings but they use the word because of their culture.

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[hopeburnsbright]

Despite the warning signs, Avalon doesn't back down, in fact his eyes narrow and he lowers his hand, forgetting about his bloodied face in the wake of her (and his own) rising anger.

"Number one, stop assuming that I am a Thangarian." he hisses. Even though Ava is standing up tall and straight, the angry winged woman is still taller and larger over all than he is. His own wings flare some, though the posturing is different, as is their shape and color. He's most certainly not anything like the woman.

"Number two, I am a Blue Lantern and you were - are - a suspect who was in trouble. I don't care if you could have done anything - I was going to get you out of there and this is how you thank me?"

Showing his teeth savagely now, the young man says "I don't know what kind of rites and other customs you have on your planet, but I have slain my Feartail and earned the right to call myself a man. Do not call me an idiot, nor insinuate that I am some sort of over-grown child."

Re: On the planet's surface

[spacerrogue]

"I'm not assuming you're a Thangarian but surely you've encountered one before," she pointed out. She could feel her eyebrow twitch. He wasn't backing down and that bothered her and some part of her was thrilled because too many times had she been able to cow people into backing off just because she has an impressive wing span.

And he isn't what she thinks of as tiny. A primal urge to strike him again rises up but she beats it back with a practiced air because she has no time for whatever this is.

"A suspect? For what crime? That idiot who chased me here didn't even bother asking questions! He assumed just as you and your friend did! No one even asked me what I was doing for crying out loud," she snaps. "Do I automatically ping as a a criminal.... I mean yeah I'm technically what some might call a pirate or a smuggler but I was trying to do the right thing! And you idiots start chasing me around and fraking blow up my Baby!"

She hisses at him bearing her teeth. "I wasn't raised on the homeworld but from where I've been? I've been an adult a HELL of a lot longer than you Blue so back the hell off. I don't give a shit if you're the Admiral of the Star Breaker's Fleet or a beggar from the streets or Korlath-Six. I'm sick and tired of idiots who shoot first and ask questions latter."

She pauses in her rant and pulls out a clean cloth from her belt. "I am sorry for breaking your nose though... not exactly what I wanted to do."

Re: On the planet's surface

[hopeburnsbright]

"Considering that we don't know the whole story, I choose to not pass judgement." replies Avalon. His poor face is turning purple, but he's not even acknowledging the throbbing in his face. It's certainly not contributing to his "sunny" disposition.

Re: On the planet's surface

[spacerrogue]

The purple from where she hit him makes her feel guilty. She shouldn't have reacted so bad. No matter how uncomfortable she was with strangers grabbing her she shouldn't have gotten so angry.

But she hates the way she feels judged. She huffs with frustration and moves to sit.

Re: On the planet's surface

[lantern_kid]

Henry arrives moments later. "So, what's going on he..." He pauses, noticing Avalon's face, and the attractive alien woman about the same time.

"Blue, are you okay?" he asks.

Re: On the planet's surface

[hopeburnsbright]

It only hurts when I breathe," says Avalon with a flip of a white and lavender splattered glove, trying to deflect too much concern over his face. He motions towards the winged woman, his tone hard as he says "She punched me for dragging her out of her craft. She still hasn't given me a name, and claims that she was transporting illegally pilfered - but paid for - medical supplies. Apparently she was doing it out of the kindness of her heart, that or they paid her enough to care enough to try her best."

Re: On the planet's surface

[spacerrogue]

"Sheriea Thostos," she says with a snort. Her feathers are starting to puff up again. "And you never asked, Blue."

She's about ready to start snarling again. "You startled the piss out of me. Don't like being touched without warning. Be glad my mace is in the ship or you and I would've had a loud drag out fight."

Now she looks offended. "I'm not taking their credits. Don't want to get paid for the job anyways. Not exactly a job when you plan on doing a low atmo drop so no one asks questions. Don't like the kind of attention this'd bring me...... I'm trying to lay low. This isn't laying low so not exactly a success on my part."

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[lantern_kid]

"Hey, calm down," Henry tells Sheriea. "And why were you being pursued by Green Lanterns, anyway?"

Re: On the planet's surface

[hopeburnsbright]

"You were blathering about your ship being on fire! Do you think that touching you was any sort of pleasant experience for me? Oh, and let's not forget my bloody broken nose. That is going to be an interesting time, let me tell you, when it comes time to set it. Especially since my ring has been healing my unset nose!" fires back Avalon, his expression thunderous.

Re: On the planet's surface

[spacerrogue]

"I don't b;lather! I was freaking out! You would too if your view screen was lighting up with damage reports from the sensors!" She's about to get in his face again.

She's maybe three feet from him at this point. Henry should separate them.

"What the hell. Why haven't you set it them? Here let me," she doesn't even think this is a good idea. Oh man the shit is about to fly because yeah she just leaned over and pop.

"And besides you could have said hey you let's get going but noooo. You had to get all hands-y."