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Luciano darted down the long halls, avoiding guards at all costs so as not to be caught. If he were caught, they could radio it in and then he'd be screwed. He memorized the map so he knew exactly where he was going. He took down one guard using the 'Sleeper Hold' and then dragging him out of sight so they couldn't detect an intruder.
What seemed to be an hour, Luciano finally found the Engine Room on the lowest deck of the ship. He took an elevator down to one of the levels of the Engine room. The second he got off, he blended in with some of the darker areas of the Engine room. The only source of light in that place was the warp core, which sat in the middle of the room, and the flashlights that the Zurg used to see inside of the wall panels to adjust settings and rewire some of the circuits. There were control consoles, which also had some light in their areas, so he made his way over to a console that was pretty secluded on a cat walk. He surveyed the buttons, his idea was to temporarily cut off power to the whole ship leaving only Life support systems operating.
"Hmmmm. . ." he pushed a couple keys and then suddenly the entire ship fell dark, then the emergency power systems kicked on. Instead of the lights being red, in most stereotypical situations, the lights were dark blue. Zurg all over the ship were panicking. Luciano quietly snuck out of that area, and then he headed over to the other end of the cat walk to disable the higher ranking Zurg's security clearance, he made it so that only himself and his friends had control of the ship. Then he moved over to the higher regions of the Engine room and crosswired some of the communications, that way when some of the areas go to report their issues, it wouldn't be routed to The bridge of the ship, but to several other areas of the ship. He was praying to God that Skotti was doing alright, because the ship was pretty dark now.

as the lights went out and down to blue, skotti came upon a long hallway with zurg running towards him. Skotti pulled out his sniper rifle and picked the zurg off as they ran.
at the end of the hallway was the control room, he burst into the room and yelled to the zurg "Nobody panic, we are taking over the ship!" he said.

"Yeah...although we can't see anything inside of this room. If I had my orb, that might be different...I think."

Waffle hesitated at the last part of her sentence, thinking about what the orb looked like during the series of fights. She remembered it looked crystalline, with a clear core; Hers (or correctly, her father's) was more prism-like, with a clouded core. She facepalmed, wondering why she didn't notice that detail earlier.

Pen then gave some thought about how they were all dressed. "What are the possibilities if our weapons are replicas that are clothes are too."

She finally found Waffle but now seemed uncomfortable. "How long have they have been watching us... and what exactly could they see." Pen shuttered to think.

"Yea," Pen gave a grimaced then shook from the unpleasant thought. She decided to keep herself occupied with the first thought and took off her jacket.

Though she could not see she felt around to try find the many repairs made over the years. Several slashes, rips, tears, and worn patches could be found on the signature Penelope Huggins coat, all skill fully repaired by the same.

"This is not my jacket. They seemed to be unaware of the reinforcement lined in the pockets. If I had put my knuckles in there it would have destroyed the fabric." She sighed; that proves that her real jacket was hanging on the top bunk bed frame with her dull knuckles hidden in the pockets.

"Now I kinda feel...never mind." Pen was to say undressed but she rather avoid the prospect.

Pen's statement about her jacket made Waffle wonder about her own outfit. Waffle checked the underside of her corset, near the lower rim of it, feeling around for frayed lace. Not too soon afterward, she could feel a few plastic loops that would normally attach to a very long skirt. Wait...I thought I asked Lucy to cut those things off a while ago.

Next she ran her fingers through her hair, and felt a circular hairpin on the right side. And I could have sworn I lost my hairpin in an air vent.

"This outfit must not be mine either. My real corset used to be part of a two-piece dress that I hated, and I cut off the loops that would attach to the skirt half of it. My pin's supposed to be missing too, but it isn't, and I know for certain these bracelets aren't mine either because mine were melted together. The only thing that really belongs to me is my halo, and that's because it's permanent!"

She wondered about what would happen when they headed home, then after running across a particularly cruel thought, she couldn't help but snicker.

"I'd kinda feel sorry for Luciano when we get home...After I would've been done laughing for half an hour in a row."

"Oooo hopefully we don't reappear in the middle of Durem. My little introduction to your family in my PJs could not reach the level of THAT embarrassment." What started as a chuckle became a big laugh as she thought of it.

She calmed down for a moment and then thought of their next move. "I don't know about you but I'm tired of getting beaten up, lets find the exist in this joint." Pen said rather tired fighting the urge to breakdown laughing.

That would put Mr. Hero in his place...

After the comment of Waffle's family understanding she found herself in a Luc bear hug. "Nice to see you too bro." She chuckled and hugged back.

"Don't tell me the radio signals work here too," Pen felt behind her ear and realized her earpiece was still on her.

"Or did you just randomly opened doors," she chuckled knowing that might be the case.