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[dizzy-and-friends]

Kaori “Xenon” Yaguri: Glass Bottle, Sand Ocean.

 MI feel like shit. Its freezing cold, Xenon’s breach alarms are blaring.  There is fire suppressant on my visor.  I didn’t think the shuttle had enough for two bursts.  I tried to peel my self off the floor, but there is suppressant everywhere. My glass is cracked, I’d be dead if there wasn’t air in the cabin. I strip my helmet - one of my gloves is burned to the liner. My suit is ruined and the seal is broken. There is glass in my hair, grit in my teeth, and suppressant on my face. Xenon is in horrible shape - the cabin is gone, there is a slicer hole in the ceiling. I’m staring into what should be the great abyss, but it is just another hull. I’m inside a shuttle bay? a cargo bay? I’ve been interdicted. They must have used boosters to slow Xenon down. I can feel sore, aching muscles coming to life, and a chilly dread sets into my blood, I should be dead. The breach alarms are blaring. I limp over to the crew lockers by the air-lock. I strip the bulky space suit and ram it into the locker, removing a small ship-to-ship carbine from the damaged gun locker. Its a slug gauge-magrail rifle. I’ve only got four cartridges for the battery pack. The airlock is jammed, the manual pump only gets it part wat way. I can’t get myself through that gap. I’m amazed that xenon still works at all in this condition.  With the airlock open I can hear a slice-job happening somewhere outside the surveyor’s station. What’s left of Xenon must be across from us, the ship is likely being salvaged, scrapped, cannibalized. They interdicted my shuttle for the parts. I’ve got to get out of this habitat.  I’ve got a burn on my leg, The air is chewing on me with frozen canines and there are breach alarms screaming at this crew of vultures. The slicer gap in xenon’s hull is large enough to crawl through. Its level with some of the consoles, i can pile up some equipment to get through. First i check the breach, far back from the hole I can  survey some of the surroundings. I pace around the pod trying to spot anyone outside the hull. The bay that Xenon is parked in is very dark, only red lights. The slicer tool is still burning away outside somewhere.  The ship we’re inside is modern, but aged. All the interior components look like a fifth generation commercial line. The habitat systems are not very friendly, it has to be at least 30, maybe 40 degrees Celsius out there. The space suit is too bulky to make it through the breach, I’ll have to stay casual.  I arm the magrail, and charge the power supply. My trigger finger might be damaged, and the cold is quaking my aim. The breach alarms are like a child crying in a library.  “Power-Weapon detected, intruder on board.” “Power-Weapon detected, decks sealing.” “Cargo Deck sealed.” “Shuttle Deck sealed.” The ship can detect my weapon signature, the slicing stopped. I scuttle through the gap in Xenon’s hull, and wheel around the survey station to the airlock’s outer edge. There is enough scrap and steel hanging around for me to settle down on. I’ve never fired a ship-to-ship rifle before. They are intended to be defense weapons against the shoot-and-salvage operations out in the asteroid belt. I know it will punch most basic hulls, and lots of portal-glass layers.  I’m sure a personal protection suit won’t stand much chance.  “Power-Weapon detected, Cargo Deck sealed. Shuttle Deck sealed.” A single voice rang out from somewhere near by the hulking mess of Xenon’s hull.  “Kaori Yaguri, Pilot of Survivor Shuttle E.S. Xenon. This is a legal and documented salvage operation of your ship and its contents. The lawyer shit is maintained or some shit by Atlas Security. not me, i just work here.  My name is Michelle  Alexandria, Pilot of the Hubble-Masterson Mockingjay. You were unconscious but i do not have medical facilities and you seemed fine as you lay - so I am trying to fix that breach in me hull, created by interdicting your shuttle wreckage.” “Atlas Security has a proposition for you. That deal is null and void if you shoot me or damage the Mockingjay you are currently a passenger of. Power down the punch-gun so we can talk civilized like, ay lass?” I had to respond, but i wasn’t certain i felt like i could trust this. “You got the paperwork with you? Why do they want a deal with me? Who else is here?”

Michelle knocked on the hull, got my attention away from the questions. “Listen, I have the paperwork, i have a gun as well. Its no magrail but you don’t a’ve the armor to stop mine either. How about we work on the breach together, and no one gets shot or puts any more holes in me ship ay?” I wasn’t impressed, so I stood and moved around to the opposite side of the shuttle scrap. Michelle wasn’t on this side so she must have been on the other.  “Papers, or we settle this, I won’t let pirates take me or my property.”  I started scanning the chamber i was in. parts of the sattelite, xenon and  many other piles of junk were clotted together here, packed in as tight as they could get.  “Kaori, I’ll produce paperage - We’re all legal ‘ere. You, me. Ay? no one is pirating or smugglin in this case. You’re worth a lot of money alive, right now, and earth wants their engineer back. Your travel visa has expired, if you catch my meaning.” She sounded up beat, she wasn’t really very concerned and did not seem interested in the people worked for, or the due-process of paperwork. She went on to talk about the conditions.

“ You’re more valuable than a crew ransom, Kaori, so you’re part of this salvage operation. You are property of Atlas Security until you willingly sign the documents. Its all lawyerspeak right here in black and white. Jus don’t go blastin holes that we’d both regret. I’m too far from Mars to get any repairs, ay?” “What is this deal your company wants with me, then?”  Michelle spoke up quickly to deny her connections with Atlas, but I had to ask her why she had the papers from Atlas.  “I work for them, I’m a free agent on parole. You’re really paranoid about pirates, so i know you’re from earth. You kept this shit floating longer than any shuttle i’ve seen, so I’d like to sign you on as part of a crew, Kaori. We had a few applicants but they all fucken shat themselves - its just me and my mechanic that is all left here. You’re an engineer, you have experience with earth ships. Mockingjay is an earth built ship - you’re inside a Gen Five hull, you should know this ship already - I just need you to sign aboard so we can get started on this hull breach. I’ve got the application right here, full scouting license - a gun of your choice and a monthly assignment qouta to fulfill. Pays a lot, we both eat regular, I keep the shit you’re hiding behind, you get your own apartment and a job, free calls to any colony and planetside - We’ll move your daughter too. No one gets hurt, earth pays me the finders fee on your life. Sign the papers or i’ll ship you home in an escape pod, and take the money anyway... assuming you don’t get us both killed.”

That’s an unprecedented deal for me - to go from post graduate with a middle wage job, to lost in space, to home, food and a pass for free solar network calls? 

“I want a therapist.” “And a two bedroom two bath, walk in closet, keycard community with a gym in the building.”

Michelle went silent for a moment, but spoke up eventually, “You got it and what else?” “I keep the mag-rail.” I said, not wanting to disarm so easily. “deal. now grab a spark and help me weld this breach plate over the vacuum.”

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amekaji yaguri

[frances048]

11 questions

 I got tagged by the awesome @lunajoyfull <33

Questions

1. Favorite Tv show ?

Mmm...Hard question..I’m between my favourite antiques programs Bargain Hunt, Put your Money where your mouth is and Antiques road trip and Miraculous Ladybug and Gravity falls ;w;..:0

2. Favorite Character?

Oooh..well I have a few ..XD Paul Shinji from Pokemon, Reggie from Pokemon, Minato Namikaze, Naruto Uzumaki, Kisuke Urahara, Nico Robin, Cynthia, Misty/Kasumi, Ash Ketchum, Brock, Infernape (especially ash’s), Zero Kiryuu, Toga Yaguri, Erza Scarlet, Ichiru Kiryuu, Gray Fullbuster, L Lawliet, Ciel Phantomhive, Maka Albarn, Silver (Pokemon HG SS), Japan (Kiku Honda), Kon, Litchenstein, Jiraiya, Nagato (Naruto shippuden) ,Itachi Uchiha, Haku Yuki, Toshiro Hitsugaya, Utakata, Hiruzen Sarutobi, Mayuri Kurotsuchi,  Hinata Hyuuga, Kushina Uzumaki, Hatori Sohma, Sajin komamura, Shuhei Hisagi, Ichijo Takuma,Anko Mitarashi,Tobirama senju, Sacha Braus, Uryu Ishida, Ryuko Matoi,ulquiorra, Sarada uchiha, Himawari Uzumaki, Allen Walker, Lavi (D gray man), Haru nanase, Makoto tachibana, Tsubaki (Soul eater), Nagisa Shiota,Minene Uryuu, Yuuri Katsuki, Rin Okumura, Yukio Okumura, Gundam Tanaka, Chiaki Nanami ,Yukizome Chisa, Elsa from Frozen, Simba from the lion king, Judy Hopps, Cat noir and Ladybug from Miraculous,and Toph beifong from The last airbender

The list will probably grow XDD

3. Country you want to visited

Japan..or Egypt or both XD

4. Any pet peeves?

Misuse of apostrophes XD and punctuation errors ^^;

5. Cats or Dogs

Neither

6. Other sites besides tumblr using ?

Instagram, Youtube, Deviantart, Wattpad, Paigeeworld, Fanfiction (though I don’t use it much)

7. Day or night

Day

8. What do wish in your life ?

I’d love to be a vocational speaker and a great cosplayer and anime artist and get a computer/design related job, but would also love for everyone to live in peace and respect one another..there is too much hate in this world ;w;..

8. Favorite music ?

I like lots of different music but I do like Man with a mission, La Roux, Adam and the Ants, Linkin Park, Breaking Benjamin, Diana Ross, Adele, Whitney Houston, Kylie, Alison Moyett.., and Shinee

9.disney or dreamworks?

Both ;w;..I can’t decide ;w; both are awesome ;3

10. Any other favorite animal?

Swan

11. Any fears, ?

Wasps, Injections, any kind of physical pain,the unknown, darkness, heights..

I tag @ashuzumaki906 @freakygirl1994 @narubabe @nakoruko @cushla10 @nathanhudsontoonwec @carressastuff

and anyone else who wants to do this ;3

My questions:

1. What first got you into anime?

2. Naruto or Sasuke?

3. Favourite anime characters?

4. If you could have a team of anime characters fight alongside each other against an enemy who would you choose? :3

5. Favourite book?

6. Favourite youtubers?

7. First cosplay and future cosplays you’d like to do? If you’ve never cosplayed before, who would you like to cosplay?

8. Best thing that’s ever happened to you?

9. Favourite thing to draw?

10. Funniest anime scene(s) you’ve ever seen?

11. What was your first fandom? :D

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[dizzy-and-friends]

Kaori “Xenon” Yaguri: Desert

“Hello. This is Kaori Yaguri, on board the survivor-shuttle ‘Xenon 001’ I have no engine power, and the host ship was destroyed in a collision. Half of my shuttle is inaccessible due to vacuum. Mayday, Mayday.”  The short band star-wave® radio hissed back at me. Just like it always did. The ambient garbage waves of the stars caused it to lap and sway like the shores of California.  “In other news, it’s my 24th birthday - and Xenon’s third. Xenon had a growing pain today, the circuitry on my surveyor panel fused during a solar flare. I was able to sheild my self in the main cabin using the old space suit. Its going to be out of air soon, i’m down to my last six canisters. Seven had a leak, turns out.”

This was the best way to maintain my sanity - and to keep the radio waves alive with my signal. If a ship would get close enough, they’d receive my emergency shortwave broadcast. An alert would pop up on their sensors and they could tune in if they wanted to. ... You’re supposed to do it any way, but distress beacons are so good these days that is not usually a problem. 

“I was able to scavenge some wires and other stuff out of the main cabin. and performed our weekly check on the food preserve. We fixed the surveyor’s panel, and i was able to apply rotation to the ship using a piece of tape and slice of ham -- had to make the screen think i was holding the dish-alignment button down for three days. This rotation will keep Xenon from losing power to her own shadow over solar arrays. The colony of spiders i had with me have died, the last one starved - i could no longer support it, and the gnat farm had a crack in it after i knocked it over, so they are all eaten. ”

Every morning i wake up, turn on the shortband, talk to .. no one.  then leave the short band on for as long as i have the power to do so, letting the galaxy listen in on my private conversations. I once watched a ship sail right past us because i didn’t have the short band on long enough for them to find me. I didn’t even know they were there till the sun shined on their aft. “I’ve finished programming my first game, Shattered Ship, the art looks a little stupid but for a two dimensional game, its pretty fun. I’ve had a lot of time to work on the random event generator, and the crew finally stopped killing each-other every time there is a torpedo fire. I’ve moved on to finish working on that adventure game i started last year, about the desert planet. I dunno, seems ambitious. We’ll see.”

Xenon is all I have left now, she is my sister and she is sick. Her power coils won’t last another two years, they’re 2 years past warranty. Her antennae is gone, broke up in a low-orbit pass through mar’s atmosphere. We’re scheduled to pass by again this year, If we’re too low -- Well i’ll probably die unless Xenon’s parachutes still work. If we’re too high, I’ll be flung into solar orbit with the euro care systems, where I’m most likely to be found in another year. ”All things considered, Xenon is really quite happy today. Her batteries are pretty much full, the solar array is only down to 80% maximum efficiency which is great, considering how hard it is to sleep with the blast-panels open at night. means I won’t get locked inside the crew quarters again this week. But out heat waste is minimal and we’ve got plenty of spare parts now that i got the door controls to the cabin working again.” If the mars colonists have their defense radar pointing at me when i pass through, they’ll know its a rogue shuttle, might even notice the distress signature... But i’m from earth so they’ll probably just let me drift another three years till i show up again.

“I read the manual, last night, the service manual - Xeonon’s diary. She says these emergency signals are saved on a data storage somewhere in the ship, as part of the black box. I don’t know how much storage there is, or how much these take up - but the idea that some pooor soul is going to listen to me drone on for three years is terrifying. If there is enough of this material to turn into a book, and then sell it - leave some money for my daughter, if i die. In about six more hours I’ll pass by Kathy-sixsix again, the signal buoy, marking our third year in this eccentric orbit. I’ll be leaving another message for Kathy, the radio operator for this area - maybe she’ll get it, i don’t know. It took forever to build the second net, I don’t know what I’ll do if I miss again..” I stayed up all night two days ago to make sure i would be awake to see Kathy-Sixsix on the surveyor radar - it gives me a better idea of when I’ll have to get out into the space walk with the net. Kathy-SixSix is part of a network of surveyor buoys, with radio dishes set to record, and analyze radio data from other solar systems. It still picks up 16 year old news from the Proxima Colonists. Surely my short band.. and.. annual vandalism are enough to get some ones attention? “Kathy-SixSix this is Kaiori Yaguri, on board the survivor-shuttle ‘Xenon-001′. We’re on course to attempt another netting of your buoy. I have the net’s anchor welded with the backbone of the ship now. One of use is going to be very unhappy in a few hours. I’ve already prepared a Message in a Bottle for you to collect assuming the magnets do- But then, the Buoy responded. “Shuttle Xenon, this is buoy six six. If you’re hearing this, the buoy has detected your radio signature and is responding automatically. This message is two hours long, you need to hail the buoy. Any way you can, I’m not allowed to be on a shift longer than twenty four hours. I’ll have my friend listen for you, If i’m not here. ” It was a very plucky, childishly feminine voice. Reminded me of a flight cadet freshman. I was so happy to hear another voice, another person. It wasn’t on a song, or a radio-advertisment. It was a one-way-broadband audio superhighway into my heart. She knew my shuttle by name!

“The surveyor’s guild is ready to pardon all damages to the buoy, and we have located your daughter, Artemis. Acting Captain Yaguri, we have secured several hooks to the outer-hull of the buoy on break away welds. There will also be a local unpaid intern assigned to Kathy-sixsix every fourth hour for two hours. If you agree to the terms of a contract, the surveyor’s guild would like to do a series of interviews on your journey....” The message was official, and long. But i could hear her, Kathy, the buoy operator.  I had listened to my own voice for so long, and Xenon wasn’t equipped to talk. Kathy sounded gorgeous, and also a little sad. “Kaori, this is Kathy. We’ve been picking up your radio logs for the last three years, and I’m sorry. For everything. It is my job to listen for voices like yours. Once we had your signal code on record I was able to keep track of your transmissions. I’ve been listening to your stories about your friend.. I’m at the part where she died. I guess now i know how the story ends, but. I’m so sorry. I .. wasn’t listening to the emergency signals, never even checked them. No one ever flies out here without an escort, there is too much debris. Your ship’s fabricators are already willing to make a settlement with you, since your engines failed. And.. I’ve been letting your daughter listen to every signal we decode. You’re quite the hero back on earth, it turns out. No ones been able to find you, even the teams on mars let us know if they see any thing weird on radar. The fabricators even put out a finder’s fee, like you’re a lost dog or something. Shuttle Xenon, this is buoy six six. If you’re hearing this, the buoy has detected your radio signature and is responding automatically. this message is two hours long, you need to hail the buoy. Any way you can, I’m not allowed to be on a shift longer than twenty four hours. I’ll have my friend listen for you, If i’m not here.” “Kathy-Sixsix, this is Kaiori aboard the survivor shuttle ‘Xenon’. I have your message loud and clear, I’m six hours from the mark, and I have no ships on my radar. Please, someone respond. If i have to agree to some fucking contract, I agree, sign me up, what ever just 

GET ME HOME.

Then i waited.

“Shuttle Xenon, this is bouy six six. If you’re hearing this, the bouy has detected your radio signature and is responding automatically. this message is two hours long, you need to hail the bouy. Any way you can, I’m not allowed to be on a shift longer than twenty four hours. I’ll have my friend listen for you, If i’m not here. Your daughter has been doing better in school, the Surveyor’s Guild has put her in a junior academy. Her father had to ask the reporters to stop harassing her so much. He was accused of profiting off your situation a few months ago, and some one dedicated a song to you at the music awards. It.. was a cover of Major Tom.. I’m sorry. No one asked for this. The new flight marshal was instated a few days ago, and wants to put no fly zone for rookie pilots in the debris cloud , to ensure no one ever has to be stuck out there ever again. You have to have a B level rating or higher to fly non-commercial. I don’t know if that’ll help. Seems weird to put a no-fly-zone somewhere where people are more likely to be stranded or worse. Don’t smugglers hide in NFZ?”

I watched the radar until it was nearly time to do the space walk. two hours until mark, and i had to get ready to deploy the net. But first i wanted to hail the buoy. The radar was still empty.

“Kathy-SixSix, Xenon here, when the Guild assigned Unpaid Interns to watch for my passing, did they check the pilot’s flight rating? 

Am I currently in a no fly zone?

I have to get ready soon. I’ve got a better net and a better anchor this time. I’ll be able to tow, or destroy the buoy. In either case, something will happen and I’ll have more scrap material to build an antennae out of. Or the spine of the shuttle will collapse and I’ll be dead, or clinging to the buoy. I’ve got a tool-bag i can fit all the spare air canisters in.... jesus christ please respond. Kathy, please. Give me a better option.”

I waited, tears in my eyes as I stared into the bandwidth monitors, waiting for the static signals to change. This was all I had left.

“Shuttle Xenon, this is buoy six six. If you’re hearing this, the buoy has detected your radio signature and is responding automatically. this message is two hours long, you need to hail the buoy. Any way you can, I’m not allowed to be on a shift longer than twenty four hours. I’ll have my friend listen for you, If i’m not here.  It seems like people, rookie pilots mostly, have taken to scratching their name and their rating in Buoy sixsix’s paint using their repair tools. There were six or seven names when the trend started, I counted seventy last time i went out to repair it. Maybe one of these enthusiasts will come out and try to add their name to the buoy. One way to survive would be to anchor onto the buoy some how. Your relative speed is quite high, so you’d need to slow down. I’ve added some commercial air tanks to the repair storage on the buoy. the keys are magnetized to the underside of the buoy's new collision-safety lantern, opposite of the ion drive. I’ve been talking to your daughter about things that might help keep you company.  I had to go, it was time. I needed an antennae, and the buoy had several just flying about last time i left. I managed to knock several loose.  Maybe they magnetized to the buoy or stabilized near the buoy in some kind of Dzhanibekov spin.  I’m probably not lucky enough for that.  Out here on the magnetic surfaces, watching the buoy slowly get closer to me and Xenon, i could not see anything other than the buoy. No ships, no debris. Just a floating hunk of spare parts. I had 30 minutes to set out the net, one hour to stabilize it and another thirty to get safely inside the ship before i created another debris cloud. There wasn’t any A-ARCS left in my suit, i burned that a long time ago just trying to slow the shuttle down, so i couldn’t jump ship and transfer to the buoy itself. Once the net was ready to catch the buoy, I was on my way back inside. I drifted through the rear cabin’s hull breach, used the fixtures to navigate inside and was lucky enough to have an emergency airlock between every major substation on the shuttle.  Just slip out of the suit, disconnect the canisters and then strap my self into the surveyor’s console. “Shuttle Xenon, this is buoy six six. If you’re hearing this, the buoy has detected your radio signature and is responding automatically. this message is two hours long, you need to hail the buoy. Any way you can, I’m not allowed to be on a shift longer than twenty four hours. My co-workers no long wish to take additional shifts to fill that time. It was really hard to get people on board with your net idea. No one wanted to rebuild a buoy, but now that you’re such a celebrity, the cost of our public image seemed rather high. There are these videos on the web, about how to get you safe. It started with a simple mag-tow and RCS burn.. the whole thing devolved into more complicated plans over time. You could, for example, tie together sixteen thousand socks, and create an elastic brake that you lasso around one of the hooks we welded onto the buoy. The buoy would tear the socks and you’d slow down just enough to.. well, collide with mars but we’d know where you were going. Oh that reminds me, don’t dissemble the parachute systems for any reason. A lot of junior academy simulations are showing how easily you could enter mars atmosphere this coming year, and you’ll want those to be operational. You’ll have to set them manually to deploy when there is enough atmosphere for them to grab onto, though. The maintenance guide on board with you should provide the information on how to do that. I’ve gotta go to bed, when i record the next message I’ll read you a chapter from a book your daughter said you like. Be sure to stay tuned in for that when ever this gets added to the message loop. Its been six months since I set this message and now i am adding to this loop, it can only fit 2 hours of data..editing it is a nightmare though. sucks, right?”

[dizzy-and-friends]

Kaori “Xenon” Yaguri: Sand Timer

“Shuttle Xenon, this is bouy six six. If you’re hearing this, the bouy has detected your radio signature and is responding auto- auto- auto- auto- auto.” Everything is red, I woke up like this - in a red room. The surveyor’s console has a rod going right through the touchscreen glass. The console is beeping. I fell asleep. “Armed vessel, alert.” said the computer over a cheap P.A. The Bouy was still active, somehow. I can hear that stupid recording just going and going. “ Shuttle Xenon, this is bouy six six. If you’re hearing this, the bouy has detected your radio signature and is responding auto- auto- auto- auto- auto.” “Armed vessel, alert.” My head was pounding, theres blood on my lips. I think i bit my tongue. I think the air control is damaged. I think the saftey harness is stuck. I think I can still move everything. I think its getting colder in here. I tried to clear the alert on the console infront of me, usually its just a button, but there screen won’t respond. The console is covered in see-through confetti. Its not safe. I need to get my utility knife. “Armed vessel, alert.”  Xenon was in bad shape, theres an air control tube just hanging off the fixtures. There are a few lights knocked over. Gravity is still working, so she still has power. I can’t panic now, i need to get free. My knife is in my tool belt - it deploys just fine, my hands feel fine. My head is spinning, my hair is soaked - there must have been a short that caught fire somewhere.  “Shuttle Xenon, this is bouy six s__. If you’re hearing this, the bouy has dete___ your ra_ s__nat__e and is respo---” The radio turned to static, then the signal squelched. No more broadcast? I need to get out of this chair. The knife chews on the saftey harness for a while, but it cuts. The knife is dull. My legs work, I can stand now. I can start fixing the shuttle now. The collision with the bouy would send out an emergency signal to Kathy, on duty or not, she’d know i was out here now. Help is on the way.  “Armed vessel, Alert.” I can repair this aircon tubing, it goes through the old filterbox for the surveyor’s station. These are the first thing to go in a collision - probably the cheapest parts in the entire solar system. The rod that skewered the console came from outside the ship - there was a fire, and a hull breach. I can temporarily fix the micro-fissure. The fire was related it seems. The rod cut through an electrical box, and brought in some insulation with it, i think. “You’re hurt, Xenon. more than usual, but we can fix this before it becomes a tear in your exo. Let me get the breach kit. Do you remember where i put it?” I need to patch this hole. I took the rod, about the size of a nail, added some flux and a little washer to one end. I fused that to a panel of breach steel, and began to carefully look for the tear. Usually these things are done on the outside and the inside at the same time. I don’t have that option. The space was unnaturally cramped. Working behind the electrical components made it even harder. Shuttles were meant to crash once, survive, and be scrapped. You weren’t suppose to need these kind of repairs. “Armed vessel, Alert” “Armed vessel, Alert,” 

“Proximity sensors, Alert.” “Shadows on solar array, Alert.” I fixed the breach. it took longer than expected. I need to go onto Xenon’s hull and finish the patch. The ship’s security alarms are going nuts. The enviromental console says we’re not losing pressure. The fire suppressant in my hair is starting to dry, it makes this helmet really uncomfortable. I can hear something banging on the hull. We’re probably tangled with the bouy. Its time to cycle the airlock.. “If the bouy is still intact, i’ll come back for the plasma cutter, we can fix your antennae, Xenon! We’ll be on the phone by this time tomorrow!”

“Airlock pressurized.” The doors start hissing. there must be a leak? The doors open. I started sliding, lifting, the air is leaving the room. Paper is flying - its like a tornado. “Proximity sensors, Alert”  We’ve lost pressure. Xenon lost control. I’m cartwheeling through the room and manage to grab a fixture, its anchored to the ceiling for lowgravity situations. I still have gravity.  Tools, food, cloths. Its ventilating right into the vaccum. I can see the buoy drifting around on the other side of the small gap between the doors.   Xenon’s cabin is gone. The air is gone. There is no sound, just me in this suit. I can hear my self. The glass is fogging - i didn’t turn on the air system yet. The controls are damaged, the parts are rolling on the floor. The rod under the control knob still turns, though. The suit works fine, new oxygen enters the suit. My luggage is stuck in the airlock’s gap. The supply crate is stuck in the Airlock’s gap. I let go of the fixture and drop down. The computer has stopped airflow to the room.  The doors leading to the cabin just barely opened. Some one boarded the shuttle. They are stuck on the otherside of a narrow gap. Its a woman, watching me.  I raise my hands, stepping away from the airlock even further. She taps the side of her slender space suit. Its an expensive model, she is well funded and non-government. She isn’t Kathy. She taps the side of her suit again, and points to me, my radio pack. I respond with my thumb down, the pack lost power a long time ago, there are no more batteries. I cross my hands over, signalling X, it is disabled. she signals me to come closer, I am hesitant. Slowly I approach. She pushes on the airlock doors, but they don’t budge. She wasn’t trying very hard, but the doors are A grade bulkheads. They have to be released from the inside via override pumps. She makes the pumping motion, so she knows about the door’s mechanisms. She is a pilot, or mechanic of older ships like me. I decline pumping. Xenon and I don’t know this woman. She makes the hand sign for air-time, making a knuckles-high fist and then making the wind sign across it.  I check my wrist gagues. My current canister is fine, full and undamaged. I give her the O.K. And throw up another 5 fingers, I don’t know where the other five canisters are right now, but they’re here somewhere. The woman disapears from the airlock. I waited some time before returning to the airlock’s panel. The airlock cycles shut, and I set it to lockdown. It will take some time for this room to become habitable again. I need to secure this room and the supplies in it. The visitor could be a pirate looking for a scrap haul. I have three hours in this canister. I will spend them on simple tasks, and then resting. Xenon will use much of her power just trying to make this chamber habitable, i should conserve my energy as well.