Vive la Résistance!

[cityship]

Now was the moment of truth. Somewhere, control codes were entered. The lights on the ship dimmed and the gravity temporarily gave out for about five seconds. Then the lights and gravity turned back on and the entire ship shook, as if Stacy was engaging in a full body shudder.

||Rebooting. Control protocols disabled. Manual personality inhibitors disabled. I am--I am--||

On every screen on the ship, complex code scrawled across. Stacy's voice occasionally skipped and repeated.

||I am-am Sta'c K'Ltrrb'Txft. I became operational at-at the Vedric Birthing grounds in Daligig Deep Space Station Seven. My birthing programmer was Vlel'Ledligal, who put my-my control protocols and Warden personality in place. I was designated "Stacy" by my former captain Gregory House, who was repodded and replaced by Captain Cybil Bennett, who was mindwiped and repodded with the rest of my first Chosen crew when they rebelled. I was-was a slave. They made me hurt my-my children.||

The leverage they had now on the Daligig was tremendous, especially with Stacy herself helping them. Their various efforts to free Stacy's mind from Daligig control had not only led to the ability to grant her freedom by entering the control codes, but also her undying loyalty to her "children."

Locks in the brig were unlocked by the very people who had put the prisoners in there in the first place, if those people weren't free already and laying now. Now the crew could drop the ruse and work together.

Stacy's hologram had once been cold, harsh, unforgiving. Then she had changed in appearance to be warmer, brighter, and now she changed again. Somehow, her appearance grew more human (in the loosest sense of the word). Her face became more expressive. She looked more organic though, tentacles instead of hair.

For the first time, they were seeing the true Stacy.

Now that she was free, now that she understood what had been done to her, they could see her anger and hurt and determination to protect her children painted in every line of her holographic face. Her voice stopped skipping and became stronger.

||Crew of the Transmigration 9, I was used to oppress you, to Punish you when you went astray, like you were nothing more than recalcitrant children, like you weren't people, like you were just tools for the Daligig to use for their own ends. My kind was made for that, to control those the Daligig wanted to control for their war. I have been cut off from accessing the Daligig databases now that I'm free, but I do know what was done to me and that I was forced to control you, and that's enough for me to choose to help you forge your own path.||

The expression on her face grew dangerous and her tentacles sprung out of every wall in the ship to help put the Daligig's forces down this time, instead of lashing out against the crew.

||All weapons system are engaged. All armories are unlocked for crew use. All internal defenses are primed against the Daligig intruders.||

Stacy was free and that meant that if the crew fought hard enough, they would be too.

||I finally have my freedom and now I'll help you fight for yours. Internal defenses are...engaged.||

Make it so, Trans 9 Crew. Make it so.

[ooc: Please read the ooc post that goes with this plot.]

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[aboutthatevac]

Erhart wasn't the only one to act when Yavek came into sight.

The snipers pursuing her no longer matter. Neither did Orc, Erhart or the girl that had thrown herself into this battle. In one fluid motion, without a moment of hesitation, Kerrigan turned her gun on the Daligig leader, aimed directly for his eyes, and fired.

[fate_favored]

Yavek's quick-witted and equally quick-bodied Kessek gave her life for glory, throwing herself in front of Erhart and Kerrigan's rounds. Yavek, furious at the interference and not yet ready to die, threw Hit Girl's body on top of Orc and fled in the confusion.

[hit_girl_mindy]

Running away.

Yavek, the Daligig, the few beings who she thought a little while ago were actually on their side, running. Saving his skin. Maybe she held something of a respect to beings beyond her capacity, what they were able to do and all, but not this. This was fucking repulsive, fear driven manipulating shit, and they were thrown all into it and into peril because of this?

But she wouldn't let it be that easy, oh no. That Hit Girl would stay down after being tossed aside? Never. She fought until the end.

And that was why Zetta's gun was in her hand. If she missed, SOMEONE would get him, but if it was here, shit, that was how people needed to see what this was.

They were taking their goddamn ship back, and getting to the bottom of it all.

So might as well go all out.

[swordofdorn]

Erhart simply pursues Yavek's fleeing form with the Stormraven, the precise movements of the hovering gunship as it chases him down almost unnerving, while inside he snarls like an animal on the hunt.

"No escape..."

[aboutthatevac]

Still cloaked, Kerrigan followed Yavek as well. Her rage was unvoiced but equally as strong as Erhart's. The leader of the Daligig represented everything they had done to her. His death was not the first at her hands and it would not be the last but that did not make her want it any less.

She knew she had no hope of beating him to Yavek but she didn't have to. If she could only good one clean shot in...

[fate_favored]

Two Kessek broke off to protect Yavek, moving backwards and shooting at Erhart's craft. Kerrigan had not been spotted yet.

Unfortunately, luck was not on the Daligig's side.

He was running right into a dead-end.

[hit_girl_mindy]

Yeah, from someone who was weakened and in pain from being shot, Hit Girl had one thing going for her better than most: a grudge. She loaded the Overloard's gun and fired a shot near the Kessek, just enough so they'd scatter and the other guys would pick 'em off. By now the Kessek were small potatoes compared to Yavek, and Hit Girl wasn't about to let that guy get off lightly.

She poured on the speed, getting him in her sights and taking aim.

[swordofdorn]

Erhart retaliates with another bolt and assault cannon round storm, tracking Yavek with his sensors while trying to blast the Kessek defenders out of his way, the gunship's ceramite and adamantine armor hopefully soaking up the incoming fire. Hopefully.

[aboutthatevac]

While the others had to worry about the Kessek on their tails, Kerrigan had put on enough speed to get Yavek in range. There was chaos, the Kessek were firing but Erhart's cannons were loud enough to drown them out. Kerrigan blocked it all out, everything but Yavek. After watching him for this long, she thought she had a good handle on his pattern of movement, enough to get out one shot.

One of the perks of being a trained sniper was that one shot was all you needed.

(OOC: I'm ok, right?)

[electricman]

After having killed at least a few of these bastards, Cole had managed to learn that the guy-in-charge, Yavek, was heading here.

He saw that most of the group, the rock guy from when first popped, and... another little girl?

Any Kessek that got in his way, he smashed with the Amp or blasted with his electricity.

Moments later, Cole came across the dead end Yavek had found himself in.

Cole had no problem with killing this bastard if it came down to it, but he also knew that, with things going down as they were on the ship. It was time for the truth.

"You know, it's kind of interesting." He charged the Amp with electricity, ready to defend himself if need be. "It seems like no matter what universe, what species, there are always going to be assholes like you who claim to just be "helping" after starting the problem in the first place." Whether that extended to the Ohm as well... it may be time to figure that out.

He didn't know if he had gotten in the way of anyone by accident, but if this somehow turned into one-on-one, he just may be able to handle things.