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

Things were going well, so far.  Nero had gone all chaotic with the controls for reasons of never having flown before and wanting very much to have the attention of air security here at the Galactic Bazaar.  That much had worked, and he felt that he was sort of getting the hang of how to steer this puppy.  Even better!  The Bazaar authorities had shouted over the gunship's comm system at him, at first trying to ascertain what was wrong because they had no idea that the thing had suddenly been hijacked, followed by shouts of threats when they realized that the thing might've been hijacked.  Of course, there was always the possibility that the men who were out-cold in here beside him were just disloyal, but who was going to believe that when there was a dark shadow in the pilot's seat?  Nero hadn't actually switched on the guns - although he was sorely tempted to - because...well...everyone else would complain about it.  They weren't Ascendancy, the local authorities, so why do it, right?  Besides the fact, Tarak actually contacted him, telling 'im not to do anything terrible to security.

[color=00a651]"Relax, I've just been keeping them occupied so they can't bear down on you guys.  Take care of things and I'll be back on the ship soon enough after you're done."[/color]

He was [i]really[/i] starting to think that what he should do with some of his money was to get something kickass like this to fool around with.  Aaand he would've continued like this if someone hadn't decided to ummm...interfere.  See, there'd been this noise, and it made him tense because he thought that maybe the gunship had a third guy tucked back behind the pilot section, but when he turned-

[color=00a651]"[i]FUCK!![/i]"[/color]

It was a good thing that he'd been leaning forward while wrangling the controls, because otherwise his back would've been directly against it as it emerged from his shadow.  The light from outside had cast it thus, and when this apparition suddenly appeared and called him by name, Nero's actions were swift and direct, even while panicked.  He jumped away from the seat - as in towards the cockpit window after pulling one of the security guards' sidearms.  Immediately, the shadowy creature's form would take a full clip of coilgun shots.  Nero didn't use guns famously, but he knew HOW to use 'em, and even an unskilled nobody can expect to hit a target that's point-blank.  He probably destroyed the back of that pilot's chair, as well.  However, Nero would have no time to appreciate the damage done to Maybe-Ophelia-We're-Not-Sure, because what he'd [i]done[/i] was back himself into the controls of the craft, as in he pushed the stick sharply [i]forwards[/i].

[color=00a651]"Oh [i]shit![/i]"[/color]

Imagine for a moment that you are on the ground.  After the pillar of flame was over and some special ground manipulation 'escorted' security from the premises, someone declared it to be 'Goblin-Thirty', and now a bunch of Underdark denizens were capering about the place with bone axes.  And then, a gunship suddenly takes a nosedive onto the scene!  Well, to be fair, Nero DID pull back at like the last second, so instead of outright crashing the thing, it became an effective 'ditch'.  As in, that thing you do when you can't land properly, so you get down on the ground safely by ANY means necessary, sacrificing the vehicle.  It's also a point that the gunship would likely cleave a ditch into the place, anyway.  So, Nero struggled with the controls last-minute, the gunship slid across the ground, and he saw several...forms.  What the hell?  Goblins?!  Who ordered [i]these[/i] assholes?  And how many did he just plow through?  A few of 'em went flying, at least.

Anyway, the impact had hit him, though not as badly as it would likely injure the two guys to his right - They'd live. - and not as badly as it [i]could've[/i] been.  He'd been battered without armor, which was mostly just painful.  Stepping out of the gunship now, Nero saw that he was actually in sight of a definite Finn portal.  Great!  Time to get the fuck out before another shadow-thing attacked and...wait.  That's not how Ophelia's powers work, right?  She was a Netherworld deterrant.  Granted, he'd never really figured out how her powers DID work, exactly, but like everyone else, he'd [i]met[/i] Squad 0 at one point, so he was of course [i]familiar[/i] with her work.  Mostly the chains.

Was there another shadow user out there?

He'd deal with that later as he started introducing plasma blade to goblin flesh as he headed for the portal out of here.