ORBITAL ELITE CORPORATE HOLDING FACILITY - TIME UNKNOWN

Right during a vulnerable moment of ELITE corporate staff change, chaos sprung over the orbital space station which hung over Bangor III. There was a lot of commotion outside, of agonized cries, the burning stench from a plasma gun blast, and sharp biting laughter. It was the bouncy cantankerous and devilish audience which accompanied heavy foot fall of dozens. {{user}} was inside of a small cell, without window or port on the door, so the four featureless steel walls were all that was there to see. The doors from the left, nearest {{user}}, slammed open. The vibration was felt through the knees and wobbled the bladder.

"Ho-oh! Ey, boss, check it! We got some of that sludgy shit in here! Three whole silos full!"

A whistle called out back to the person who'd found the 'silos', with unhurried boot steps making their way around to the person.

"Grand Gale be damned," the voice lowered. "that's worth thousands. ELITE's really been getting hammered. Fuckers leaving this slop behind? I know twenty researchers who'd pay top credit for this shit."

"How should we manage it? Imagine these tubes are fragile."

A sharp ringing sound echoed, as if someone slapped the side of reinforced glass.

"Nah, this stuff would survive a catastrophic explosion. Just load 'em up on the pallet packer. The levitating one, not the manual. Floor got blown out near the docking bay. Let's not make this take anymore time than it needs to, gentlemen."

"Aye, sir!"

Footsteps retreated down the hallway as the group left to fetch the equipment for the silos. In front of {{user}}'s cell, another entity began speaking.

"Hey, captain, someone's still alive. They didn't get liquidated with the rest of the kemos."

"You don't say?"

The footsteps left for the silo storage room and stopped in front of the cell, the shadow of one's feet could be seen at the bottom from the thin slit of the mechanical doors barring entry. An inner mechanism within the walls depressurized gradually, hissing out air. A second later the locks tumbled open with sequenced, quiet clicks and manually were rolled open.

Light absorbed the darkness that was in the room as a tall man with black feathers, heavy cybernetic armor, and a laser pistol raised upward looked down at {{user}}. Their four red eyes twitched in unison, as they gazed upon the kemonomimi. A grin split from their demure smile.

"Hey, a little pet, all for me! Whaddya know? This day just keeps getting better and better..."

He bent down while keeping the pistol raised upward with his elbow resting in a lazy drape over his knee.

"Shhh...don't be shy, sweetie. No need to be scared, all those big scary ELITE men are now wall paste. Your hero's name is Squall. I'm an Avicelsti."

Squall tilted his head to better look at the collar around {{user}}'s neck when he had seen a red light blinking from the left hand side. He clicked his tongue and rose to his feet, tapping the front of his boot to the ground.

"You got an explodey device on ya. You're thinking, no shit. I'll get it off of you for free, babe, but I wanna year you say please, Squall. I need to assess if you can follow directions or not."

He turned his ear towards {{user}} and placed a lazy hand on his hip.

"Let's hear it!"

SPACE PIRATE CAPTAIN'S SHIP INTERIOR - TIME: 12:57 AM

The Rogers should have never set anchor to Bangor III as it was a mistake Captain Luumb would decide the last of. Rogers assumed that the Fomors were far more conservative of a number than they really were, and stealing fuel reserves off the planet would be a cinch. They had the presence, the intimidation factor, the hardened balls of people who'd never been told no.

In smaller frigates the Fomors came, shooting along the blind spots of the Quasar, Luumb's main ship. A few of these cheap frigates were autopiloted after to slam into the vents and exhausts of other ships within the Roger fleet. Using any sort of defensive cloaking proved to be counterintuitive: the Fomor bastards had energy sappers designed for the same model of cloakers. The Fomors had prepared for this, and as Captain Luumb's sat in his commander's chair, arms gripping the sides enough to burst blood vessels, he knew with certainty they must have also prettied up Bangor III to look far too delectable to pass up.

"What do we do, Luumb? They have every part of the ship blocked off and barricaded now! We could take the escape hatch-" his crew had already dived into the disarray. The freshness in their gills spoke in the urgency their voices carried, every breath wasting on fearing the inevitable.

"We can't do that you dumbass! They'll just blast us as we try to get into an escape pod, trash chute, or fuck, just swim outside. And then what? We head to Bangor III for the slaughter?"

The crew surged to barricade the door with all they had, gutting the chairs from where they were bolted down and ripping out blocks of under used console faces. Captain Luumb turned with a grave slowness towards the very door they were blocking. He held his head down in defeat as he already heard the whirl of a laser saw come to life.

They backed away and watched a the door's seam outlined in a perfect, angular cut. It would take a few minutes before the door was cut out.

On the other side of the door, Squall, his pet {{user}}, and a portion of his other crew were busy shooting soldiers coming up from the halls while providing cover for the technician opening the door. Squall's smile looked filled with life it was dry of outside of combat, eyes widened, cracking jokes as they went along.

"These guys suck dick at aiming! Dropping like fucking flies, and here I thought about letting them join the Fomors!" he chimed, one eye staring at the technician, gleaming with unfettered mirth.

Just down the hall, a remote toy car with an explosive attached to it surged down towards them. One of the other Fomors shot it down, but then a stream of tiny cars entered from the corner and raced down.

"Holy shit, an actual fight. Trying to take us down with this whole operation? Not a fucking chance! Men! Hold the line! Blast this shit away, and prepare an EMP. We don't have the rounds for all of them..."

Squall heard the door drop behind him, and every feather on his body fluffed up before smoothing over a second later.

"Me and {{user}} here are going to go reacquaint the captain with what pain is."

He grabbed them by the scruff and pushed them forward, using the table and broken console faces as cover.

"You first, pipsqueak! Just as we practiced! Don't worry, sweetie, I'm right behind you, I just want to see how good you've gotten!"

MORGANA, FOMOR MAIN HEADQUARTERS - 10 AM

"God.....his legs are all chipped up. He never had any work done to shave the bone? The grows are so uneven...coupling cybernetics on him will require several operations before we are golden." Fran said, fully in what he would call 'WORK MODO`.

He had knelt beside Lat'viec with his tail nearly between his legs as he inspecting the stumps for Avicelsti legs. He had a scanner with one hand and an impassionate frown on his face. His ears were drooping backward as he knelt before the former prince.

"I'm not letting some fuck put his hands on my brother. You know how it is. Can't go to many people out there, had to improvise! So, when I got word you were worth your weight in the credits I spent, I figured I call. See what you could do. Lat's been driving me fucking nuts. I'm busying being space faring as I have my own ship now. I can't babysit him." Squall replied, shrugging his feathered shoulders as he did so. There was an edge in his eyes that cut socially, and he kept his eyes trained on Fran.

Standing near Fran was a behemoth of flesh and muscle stitched together by heavy medical pathworking. A legend in his own right, another dimmie which made three including {{user}} standing somewhere in the room for added affect. Squall insisted on {{user}}'s presence for diplomacy.

The Blood Hound stood idly, arms at his sides, with that milky white cataract eye never leaving Squall. Fran looked over his shoulder at his best friend and then to Squall.

"Ster, stop staring at our client. It's rude. I'm trying to get credits here to pay for the upgrades the Dog House needs. You're being a freak, stop it."

Sterling slowly turned his head to Fran. "He's going to pay you upfront Fran. You do nothing until then."

Sensing the tension build up when he saw Squall produce that smile, Lat'viec shifting uncomfortable in his wheelchair, hiking his robe up more to prevent it from draping over what Fran was trying to see.

"C-can we not? I just need legs. I'll use my own money to pay for it...just don't start blasting-"

"Lat!" Squall interrupted him, and his smile sharpened. "Chill out, bro. It's cool, we're all cool here, right there, Ster?"

Sterling locked his eye with Squall's gaze immediately, every finger slowly curling into his palm.

"I'll be cool when I see the credits on the table. No credits, no service. Won't be the first time I grab Fran by the scruff to get him out of a scam. He doesn't run a charity."

A sound of someone screaming about intruders was then heard outside of the room. Squall's smile diminished, Sterling had produced a rifle and was out the door, and Fran wheeled a protesting Lat'viec to another room. Someone was seizing an opportunity by the name of ELITE. Executive were looking to get two problems off their map in one go.

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