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As she saw the young girl and listened to her 9 smiled. She held out her hand for a friendly shake as she looked the girl over.

"Please just call me 9 and it's nice to meet you Sara. Would you happen to know where my room is or where I might be about to got a bite to eat?"

She asked as looked at the rilfe and laughed softly to herself.

Second Command and the Captain were sitting in the mission breifing room with two vid screens infront of each of them, "Captain," Sherly started, "While you were down on the surface the Leviathan's scanners caught something. Some kind of spacial disturbance...and then this." The screen flickers as a planet comes into view. The captain looks at it for a long while, reading the reports on everything, "That's a lot of weapons Sherly...are you sure this spacial disturbance didn't cause a sensor malfunction?" Second Command shook her head slightly, "Sir, no sir...look at these readings here, then look at these." The readers were from the spacial disturbance and Phia's teleportation act that Iris had recorded earlier. "The specs are almost identical...only one is larger then the other. It's safe to assume that someone teleported a very LARGE complex of weapondry onto this planet." The captain swore under his breath as he watched through the computer simulation, something itched the back of his mind as he watched. "Wait a minute! That outpost...OutPost 5! The one with that MSC character! The admiral said that it was equipted with a teleportation chamber, right? Maybe this is it! Bring up the sector grid for kilo 5-10-21." A screen flickered then flashed, a grid panned out and the world seemed to build itself. In the center of the screen was a giant hole, "That WAS the OutPost! Origionally I assumed a bomb had hit it...and that is still very much a possiblity. I want a squad of bio-bods running scans on it, if it even remotely resembles these signatures, I want to call in for some support." Sherly raised a questioning brow as she punched some buttons on her terminal, "Sir? Are you sure we should? I think if the Leviathan can hold the Hudathe on their home world we can handle this little uprising." Iris nodded at her truthful statement, "You're more then right...we could actually destroy the planet and be done with it, but we don't have the authority too. Besides, the admiral ordered us to hold position here, incase that Mastema fellow starts something down at the surface...speaking of which, how is ground base?" The screen infront of Sherly flashed and changed it's picture, the same thing happening to Iris'. The ground base was fully operational and several quads were laying in the center while Trooper 2's wandered the complex. "It appears fine sir, they sent up a transmission for another squad of areo fighters a little while back, they said they had clearance for a bombing run and they were attacked, lost one of their planes in the attack...we granted them an extra squad of planes as well as a few techies." Iris nodded his approval, "Alright...I want to call in the Harpoon from the second region. I take full responsiblity, as long as this planet is arming itself like it's doing then it's just as powerful as the Leviathan." Sherly blinked, surely nothing could best the Leviathan in an deep orbit fight! "Sir! The Harpoon had been recalled when our ship entered the neutral area...the GFN Anaras and the GFN Kick are within the third and fourth sector...would you like me to call them?" Tapping a thoughtful finger against his lip he shifted through some old reports, "Yes...call them both in and send a message torp back to HQ, tell them they need to fortify this border of space." She was hesitant to ask, but thought it best to do so anyways, "Sir? What about the admiral, he said no other ships..." Drawing in a deep breath Iris pushed his chair back and sighed heavily, "I'll explain the situation, and if he doesn't like it...then he can get the hell off my ship." Rubbing the bridge of his nose Iris simply sat there, thinking.

A synthasized voice came over the speakers "Lady 9-Lives to see the Captain and Admiral? Schedual time? Now...please be ready and step outside, welcome trooper Sara is waiting for you." Sara was sitting right outside, bouncing happily. She had swapped her usual combat slacks for a more dressy uniform. Not many people saw the admiral when he first boarded, the captain was seen almost every week by everyone, every day by others. She hardly saw the man and she wanted to look her best. Small golden, silver, and bronze medals and badges littered her shoulders and chest. Once 9 stepped out of her room Sara would stand ram rod straight and follow military proceedures to the letter. She knew the way to the briefing room on this level, but they were going to the command level, and only VIP and high ranks were allowed there. They were going to take a magno-track through the inner workings of the Leviathan, up into the command level, and walk several minutes until they reached the breifing room.

"Lady 9-Lives, I presume? Come now! None of that is needed." A gruff looking individual had stood from his chair the moment 9 entered. The only other person in the room was a woman. "Come now, you're our guest, please have a seat." Iris motioned to a chair just off to his left, the woman was sitting off to his right and Iris was sitting at the head of the long breifing table. "The admiral will be here shortly, he had come down with a bit of an illness that needed to be taken care of right away, our techs are patchin him up right now." Both the man and the woman were on their feet, waiting for 9 to sit before they would do the same.

When 9 sat both Iris and Sherly sat as well, "Well ma'am, it's all based on your definition of bade. It APPEARS that you have two or three different factions amassing forces right outside your door step, and acorrding to my sourses two of the three are more then willing to use these armies. The third, as it may happends, is us." Iris looked over to Sherly who was busy punching buttons on her terminal, "Well it seems the admrial is going to be a little whiles longer, how about we go through introductions then? My name is Iris Mcain, captain of the fine vessel you are currently in. This is my Second Command...and this!" Iris opened his arms to emphasize his point, "Is the GFN Leviathan, the largest battle ark to ever traverse the stars! And more then likely the one thing that will stop those other two armies from crushing the Black Company..."

"Alright then, here." Iris drew two peices of paper from a stack of papers about 3 or 4 inches thick. "This is all under the orders of the admiral ma'am, I'm just following orders." Taking one look at the pictures he leaned forward and placed them infront of 9. Mastema was standing on a large tower with a woman beside him, and Shadow was trompsing through the forest. "These two individuals. There is another...but we're not sure if their objective is the Black Company or not, nothing to be worried about. We have some intel that we want you to double check for us. It appears that the Black Company has six individuals who are the major threats here." leaning back in his chair he presses a small button and a screen raises infront of 9. "First, we have the individual named Mastema. It appears he's holding himself up in a large fortresses realatively close to the Black Company's HQ, the building we picked you up at. Long range scanners are completely baffled, it appears he's using some sort of magic/technology mix. Close range scanners pick up traces of ion cannons, and several other turrets. Quite a formitable defense, even for a lance of Troopers." The enlarged picture of Mastema shrank and hid up in the corner, "Second, Xol. This individual doesn't appear to be doing anything on a grand scale, he does something...magic or science I can't tell. But he fires anti-matter charges. The Leviathan is armed with quite a few of the cannons, but they are so large that there is no way a human could hold it, so I'm quite confused on that one." Again Xol's picture shrank and went beside Mastema. "The next we have here is Truinthil? Acording to our sources he should be, by all means, dead. We don't see any immediate threat from him. Though it's odd because we have a rough fix on his location...or we did. He was somewhere in this location." Truinthil's picture shrank and went beside Xol's, a small map of the planet popped up and a small red light blinked a few times before the map disapeared. "There is another, Heswina? Not much information is on her. Apparently she's a psychic of a sorts. She doesn't seem to be to large of a threat, so we'll let her fly under the radar." Heswina's pictures was set beside Truinthil's. "Now there are two more...We have Shadow, who actually seems to be called Wolf on occasion. I don't see anything in the ways of defence with him, but the army he's building...that's all he needs right there. I've also had a recon team scope his base of operations. It appears that he's using a large amount of bio warfare...making it even more difficult for the BC to defend itself. The last one is still a mystery to us." The picture of Shadow went under Mastema and another picture of a grey figure with a large red question mark in it went beside Shadow's. "We want accurate intell before we do anything. Care to enlighten us on anything we missed?"

"Interesting..." Iris made a few little notes on the corner of a paper then slipped it into his breast pocket. "Alright, I don't have any intel on this Viper fellow, I'll get right on that. Now what really concerns me is-" Iris was cut off as Hidjie entered the room and broke into the conversation.