[center][h1][color=00a651][b][u]NERO KAYAKOS[/u][/b][/color][/h1][/center]

Kinda' some odd things 'bout the crew, as of late.  It looked like they were a bit shaken up by the last little engagement.  Laurey obviously wasn't in the best of moods, but then the last thing Nero had to compare that to was her complaining of a headache and needing the doc.  Speaking of which, Doc Millard was actually alright, but apparently he was posing as military today and his grizzled appearance was suppose to lend to that.  And hey, who knows?  With him on a completely different team than Ariel, he might actually get a smoke in!  This plan of Tarak's called for nearly everybody on the ship, since...well...the Circle of Hell was a bit big.  Even Amy was part of this, though...she wasn't looking too well.

[i][color=00a651]Definitely not liking the whole 'We put the crew through a military shakedown mission' thing.[/color][/i]

It wasn't hard to imagine the chief morale officer and general counselor of the ship being put off by how things were handled, and how they were almost unphased by the fighting.  Several of them - Navi included - might've even been [i]better off[/i], afterwards.  Nero actually overheard some of Dr. Millard's personal notes recorded about that, while in the vents.  Oh, you [i]think[/i] you always have privacy, but Nero can not only move fast through the vents, but the Shadow Step also meant you couldn't even detect him [i]doing it[/i].  He had not, per se, been snooping on anybody.  Yet.  Still, if he [i]had[/i] done...and he'd gotten the drift that Amy was worried that they might not be more than killing machines...it's actually kind of funny that she didn't find Nero [i]literally[/i] playing with the flamethrower.  It takes all kinds of things, but he got clear enjoyment out of that.  Much like how Fin seemed to like shapeshifting, this time being made to look older...which was a shock.

[color=00a651]"WHOA!  Son of a bitch!"[/color]

Seriously flinched at that.  It wasn't like becoming a cat.  That was normal...ish.  This?  This was just...unnatural, somehow.  He still looked human, but...you know...the unfamiliar on the familiar.  Kind of a problem.  And speaking of that, Nero suddenly thought of something.  If Phi, Amy, and Ariel were going to be their saboteurs to make sure nobody got off any communicaes about the situation at hand...well...why not use that?  A little bit after the time Avelyn and Ariel started giving Amy - Lotta As here, amirite? - some help, Nero would head on over to have a word.

[color=00a651]"Say uhh, Ariel.  Ya mind keeping an ear to my comm channel while on the mission?  My stealth works better in the dark, and if I need it, I'd like to be able to call 'Lights out' on certain rooms and corridors, alright?  Make things alot easier."[/color]