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He awoke slowly, taking in the soft beeps and faint thrum of engines around him. They’d been disconcerting when his team was first stationed on the Minerva, but he’d gotten used to them, just like he’d – no, that couldn’t be right. The Minerva had gone down on the moon. And the moon was gone, so he had to be on another ship. He’d be able to figure it out if his head would stop hurting; he hadn’t felt this groggy since Neo-Genesis, when the Destiny had been shot down –

He’d been shot down.

The fight over Zokoz II came back to him in a flash. He struggled to sit up, but it was hard enough just to open his eyes in the bright medbay, and one of his arms was wrapped in some sort of plaster, making it awkward just to scramble just to angle himself slightly upright against the pillow. “What happened?” he choked, his voice coming out hoarse with disuse.

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"As long as it get fixed, it's fine. However, I'm a little more eager to look into ways to upgrade it, now."

"I think everyone could use an upgrade," Trudy said. "The X-wings were far outmatched by those Shrikes in terms of speed, and we need more firepower too." She paused. "I wouldn't say no to more ships, either, but I'm not sure how likely that is to happen. I'd feel more comfortable with another flight backing us up."

"One can only hope we either get more familiar faces or those with the right skills to help with that, or we gain more crewmembers who have units that can balance out the ones we have already."

"Hell, I'd even settle for more civvies. If we got a few more guys like Winchester we'd be set. The problem is we haven't got the ships to put 'em in yet." Note that 'yet.' Trudy was determined to get more ships built.

He nodded. "We still have a lot of work to do in pretty much all areas."

Dropping down into a chair, Yzak looked up at the 'ceiling'. "I just hope those things don't decide to pay us another visit any time soon."

"No kidding," she said, picking at the blanket on her cot. "I'd prefer it if Stacy stayed in the Bleed for a good long while but the reality is we need to drop into realspace to scramble. There are a lot of things we covered in the sensoriums, but getting your ass to the hangar, into your gear and out the hangar door was not one of them."

"Then that's definitely something to work on. I'm a bit more accustomed to the procedure. Though my entry into the last battle was a bit delayed considering I was down on the planet before it was realized that the Ohm were attacking."

Trudy grunted an understanding. A lot of people had been on the planet when the Ohm attacked. "Should have been a skeleton crew on the ship, more than the people we had up here at least. Well, now we know. I was on the first shuttle back after the kids got put off-planet."

"Who could have guessed that they'd attack at a time like that? When it was just the reactor being reported for having problems, I went to help the citizens evacuate."

He paused, and then put a hand annoyedly to his forehead. "The trip back wasn't exactly pleasant, either." Having to squeeze into a craft next to Kira Yamato of all people, Shinn's speedy, almost reckless driving, the annoying, seemingly malfunctioning radio that kept switching tunes...

"A little rocky," Trudy agreed. "Guess it's too much to ask for the space roaches to give us a little warning before they drop in on our heads and start trying to blow up the planet."

He sombered out of that last thought, after what Trudy said. "It does appear to be that we were followed here. Somehow ... I don't think we'll be getting another shore-leave opportunity again. Or at least, if the same thing is going to happen if we do, I'd rather not."

"I don't know if they followed us," Trudy said with a thoughtful frown. "Seemed like they were just as surprised to see us as we were to see them... or else they might not have rabbited when we started fighting back."

"I don't know ... it seems like too much of a coincidence. And even if they did seem surprised..." Yzak frowned. "They still had us ... they were still at a vast advantage."

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