[center][h3][color=92278f]Beth[/color][/h3][/center]

It did indeed take the mechanic longer than ten minutes to meet back up with her. Not that she cared. Beth had another drink while waiting. The two of them then made their way down to the docks. That part was easy. The getting inside the docks, now that would not be easy. If all else failed they’d have to use the first part of the distraction to get into the bay. That was not the best of options though. 

At the entrance to the docks there were three guards. Two standing on either side of the door, and one pacing the hall. “[color=92278f]Any ideas on getting past them?[/color]” Beth asked Jinxy [i]was that right?[/i]

The mechanic paused, seemingly in thought. “[color=6ecff6]That won’t be easy. I mean we can try knockin’ ‘em out, but we don’t have the means to do that… or... [/color]“ The mechanic turned and looked Beth over. “[color=6ecff6]How’s your punch?[/color]”

“[color=92278f]I’m handy in a bar fight. Not much of a good punch otherwise.[/color]” Beth shrugged. “[color=92278f]I’m better with some sort of weapon, a pool cue or a bar stool being my best weapons.[/color]”

The mechanic held up a wrench. “[color=6ecff6]This work?[/color]”  Beth grinned at the wrench, nodded and took it from the woman. 

“[color=92278f]Want me to go first? I’ll take out walking dude as he heads away from us.[/color]” It wasn’t the best plan and if she didn’t get him out in the first hit... Well she didn’t want to think about a three on two that would ensue. If she could knock him out maybe he had a gun she could get, or a taser at least. 

“[color=6ecff6]Go ahead… but if he has any sort of staff weapon on him, pass it my way,[/color]” the mechanic said, looking at Beth. She pulled out another wrench, and got behind Beth. “[color=6ecff6]Whenever you’re ready.[/color]”

Beth waited for a moment listening to the footsteps, as they started fading away she strolled out from around the corner. The two guards saw her, but the third hadn’t turned by the time she slammed the wrench down onto his head. She was powerful for her size, more lithe than actual muscle, but gravity and force made for a nasty bump that knocked out the guard. Beth knelt down quickly beside the limp body and searched finding a sidearm. 

The mechanic watched, and dashed in, knocking out one of the other guards that had spotted them. She let out a low growl as she searched him, seeming to not find what she wanted. “[color=6ecff6]On your left,[/color]” she said, as the last guard lunged at Beth.

She swung the wrench still in her hand at the last guard. The sidearm still attached to the first guard. Beth hit the third guard, but not hard enough to knock him out, and he had her pinned to the ground. She twisted under him, slipping out of his grasp. He blinked confused and she hit him again over the head. Quickly she searched his body and found the swipe card for the door, unhooked it and tossed it to Jinxy. “[color=92278f]Half tempted to put on their clothes and shove them in a vent.[/color]”

The mechanic paused for a moment, tucking the swipe card into a pocket of her clothing. “[color=6ecff6]That one. They won’t be able to get out on their own, and no more harm will come to them,[/color]” she said, pointing to one of the vents next to them. “[color=6ecff6]I got this one if you got the one you just knocked out,[/color]” she said, starting to undress the guard she had knocked out. “[color=6ecff6]Also, see if you can find anything else useful on them,[/color]” she said, working quickly, as the guard was now shirtless. Beth nodded and started digging through their pockets while stripping one of them to pull his clothes. She shoved her own clothes into her bag, frowned, shrugged and then helped Jinxy start to put the limp guards into the vent. 

“[color=92278f]Got a couple side arms. I’m surprised they didn’t shoot us.[/color]” She told Jinxy as she adjusted the oversized clothes to look like the fit better. “[color=92278f]Also one more card.[/color]” She held it up to show the mechanic. 

The mechanic nodded, while also adjusting the clothing. “[color=6ecff6]You keep it. One for each of us. Now, we need to go that way to the docks. From there, it’s all you to pick out a ship. I’ll just make sure the heap can fly,[/color]” she said, pointing in the direction of the docks, presumably.

Beth nodded back, clipped the card to herself and led the way through the door. It opened with a beep when she swiped the card. The sight that greeted her was one she never got tired of. In front of them was huge room that had hundreds of hatches off of it leading to ships attached to the side of the station. The glass, the same as used in the front of ships, was all that blocked them from reaching out to touch them. Beth had a few pulls to ships that were beautiful, but were ones that would be too easy to track. Someone would care too much about them. They needed one that if reported stolen wouldn’t be on the top of the GA’s list to retrieve. She saw at least two ideal options, neither were close. 

“[color=92278f]There’s a good one.[/color]” Beth said adding the dock number. “[color=92278f]It’s closer of the two. The other I’d suggest is over there.[/color]” She gestured to almost the other side of the dock. If the closer one didn’t pan out they’d be short some serious time getting to the second. back

The mechanic nodded, and headed towards the ship with Beth. Once there, she looked at the hatch and paused. “[color=6ecff6]One moment,[/color]” She took out her kit, and pulled off a panel. In what seemed to be a flash of her hands, she had disconnected a few wires, and the door opened. “[color=6ecff6]I’ll fix it later… go see if you can start it up while I check out the engines,[/color]” she said, and slid into the ship and headed in the direction of the engine room, or at least Beth hoped so.

Beth grinned as she headed toward the cockpit. The ship was a piece of junk. She had flown worse though. She sat in the pilot’s chair, a spring dug into her back, that’d have to be fixed later. 

First thing first, hack through the pilot’s locking codes. That wasn’t too hard, the previous pilot wasn’t very creative. Once she was through that she started the engines, and prayed. There was nothing at first, and Beth’s heart skipped a horrified beat. 

While there was nothing, soon the intercom buzzed to life. “[color=6ecff6]Try it now Miss Pilot. I had to fix...[/color]" There was a pause. “[color=6ecff6]Y’know, just start the ship. I don’t think I can explain it in a way you can understand,[/color]” the mechanic’s voice crackled over the intercom. 

Beth went through the starting sequence again, and the engine turned over. Beth sighed. “[color=92278f]How much time we got left?[/color]” She asked back over the intercom, she’d worry about the slight later.

“[color=6ecff6]We got five minutes, and if they don’t show up in that time, we gotta jet if we wanna save our butts,[/color]” the mechanic’s voice crackled over the intercom. “[color=6ecff6]I’m still working on tuning this hunk o’ junk… but it will work for now…[/color]” 

There was a knock at the hatch. Beth hopped up and dashed to open it. If it was the others that was perfect. It wasn’t.

A guard looked Beth square in the face. “[color=92278f][i]Gorram[/i][/color]!” She didn’t have the wrench anymore, he was alone though. She reached out and grabbed him pulling him in and past her. Beth slammed him into the railing of the stairs. It didn’t knock him out. She kicked the door shut, “[color=92278f]Ouch [i]Diu Nia Sing[/i].[/color]” Beth cried out. 

The mechanic ran in and looked at Beth. “[color=6ecff6]Awww…[/color]" She then muttered something in a language that Beth did not know. She pulled out a wrench and hit the guard hard on the head, hopping to knock him out. “[color=6ecff6]This is why you check before you open the door![/color]”

“[color=92278f]He probably knew we were in here already.[/color]” Beth snapped back, and limped over to the guard. He looked unconscious. “[color=92278f]What are we going to do with this [i]shǎbī[/i]?[/color]”

“[color=6ecff6]Fuck if I know! We should tie him up for now and probably toss him off the ship. Wait here, I’ll get some cables or something…[/color]” The mechanic ran off, still muttering to herself in a foreign language. 

The guard didn’t move while Jinxy was gone, that was a relief. When she returned the pair of them made quick work of tying him up. “[color=92278f]Maybe when the others show up we can just shove him back through. How’s the ship doing?[/color]” 

The mechanic looked at Beth and said something that sounded like “kusoyarou.” “[color=6ecff6]It will get us in the black for a bit, but unless I do a major overhaul, this is not going to last longer than a month, which works for us. We did want to ditch it later,[/color]” she said. They soon heard a knock and the mechanic let out a sigh. “[color=6ecff6]I hope it’s our friends this time.[/color]”