Fix the Halo

Posted on 2024, Sun May 5th, @ 10:49pm by Captain Maddison Black & Lieutenant Teresina Waylin

582 words; about a 3 minute read

Mission: Revenge Of Group Omega
Location: USS Halo
Timeline: While Townsend is On the Kilo

OCC: Continued Post from Confrontation Part

Mad looked at Hoof and over to Sin. They stood up on the main command deck. Signing with both hands, her sleeve taking her sign and translating it to verbal. "Hoof and Sin. You've got repairs up here. Start with the hull plates, then work your way through to systems, and then structural details. We've got a couple a female marines, get them toolbelts and see what they're qualified to work on. Once you're done with the CD, work the rest of the deck, then down to two, three and the rest."

Sin nodded. "We're fixing to split?" Sin asked.

"I'll handle splitter systems. One TL working. Forget Comms, I'll use NonAtmo systems as needed. Flag anything you shut down. Once I get all Splitter systems back online, we'll work our way through. I don't trust Townsend to not wiggle his nose. So, I'll bypass and activate everything I can. Then we're going to do what we have to do."

Sin groaned. "Ah...."

"Follow instructions. Doesn't make sense ask. We're going Mad." Sin opened her mouth and then closed it again.

"Shit!" Sin swore. "Bots and Drones?"

Mad gave her a grin. "And anything else, that'll work." Mad looked at the expression on Hoof's face. "And B&D's are grey to Hoof."

Sin groaned. "And I drew the short straw. Right." Wrapping her hand around Hoof's arm, she lead her towards where the hull plating had been popped. "We're working Mad style. Forget GE. First we get onto the console's then up into the ceiling innards. The Hull Plating was partially popped, we gotta put it back into position, Satan only knows what we'll be doing to play hero. Take one of these." Sin handed her an Unpopper. When you're in position push the yellow button and let it go. It will scan the plates and find where it needs to position itself. When they're all in position, they'll start counting down, twenty seconds and they'll cover the plates with Xen-Goop. Don't touch the pink goop. It will settle in place and pull the hull plating back into place. We then repeat the process to get the innards structure back into place. If you don't know how to Mad, please ask." Sin handed her the bag of Unpoppers. "Do you mind if we forget the rank, and just both work on what Mad's got in mind?" Sin asked. "B&D's are Bots and Drones, I realise they give you manuals for Splitter systems, so I'll give you what info you need as you need it. Okay?" She offered Hoof a hand and pulled her up and across to the neighbouring console."

Sin could only guess what was going through Hoof's mind. She remembered her first days of learning from Mad. In the first few weeks until she got the hang of Mad's way of doing things, it's was a total handful. And it was totally confusing. However it soon settled. Sin could only guess, how long it was going to take Halo's General Engineer to get her head around it. Watching, her, she wondered if she'd had any experience doing DCE. it was something you either dove head first into, and learned to disregard anything and everything, or you drowned. Time would tell whether the Chief Engineer sank and drowned, or whether she could keep herself by dog peddling, until her head cleared. Digging into the task at hand, Sin started working on her first tasks.

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