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

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Sometimes, it seems like it takes forever to get anything done.

He got into this whole thing to take some revenge, turn everything back on the Ascendancy and make Earth lose more than face for the war.  The right people didn't die, and they needed it badly.  That was Nero's goal, in the end.  He had a list of names, and that's all he really cared about.  Sometimes, he memorized a few extra names to that list, but he was alot more interested in taking them down.  Moonstrike seemed like a good way to get started, but they were getting stalled.  With this blow to their group and people going off to help those closest to them...  What a pain in the ass.

Inside his room, Nero lay back on his bed, listening to the music on his player while he stared lazily up at the ceiling.  Every time he thought about the situations breaking off bits and pieces of their group, he got a little more frustrated.  The only people he could depend upon, and they couldn't stay the course.  He grumbled to himself in frustration.

[i][color=00a651]Family...  What good has family ever been?  If they were worth anything, they wouldn't subject you to this shit in the first place.[/color][/i]

He held up his hand, and recited the names to himself, activating the Black Spot for just a second to see if he had any bearing on those he wanted to kill.  Everybody else seemed a little lost, while he remained focused on what was important, or at least what was important to [i]him[/i].  He didn't speak any of the names of Squad 0 because they apparently had the means to get a bead on him, and that wasn't good.  Nero wasn't gonna be the cause of [i]yet another[/i] spanner in the works.  Speaking of which, a meeting was soon called by the Captain, except it [i]wasn't[/i] the Captain.  It was Joey Shitburger, the interloper who probably made it very easy to decide whether people should go or not by being a smarmy pain in the ass.  What followed, though, was unexpected...

First of all, the damn unnecessary punishment was lifted.  Good start, considering the fact that they had worse things to handle now.  Joey's personal outing of Nero's activities in defiance of that punishment was met with a [color=00a651][i]'Fuck you too.'[/i][/color] smile as he let the blondy try and get out of the hole he'd been digging.  Admitting he'd failed like he was obviously [i]going[/i] to fail wasn't bad either.  What they needed, after that fiasco on the station, was someone backing up the various marines and trying to stick it immediately to those [i]really[/i] responsible, like all those suspicious characters that were met that day.  Nero could [i]still[/i] feel the weird feeling of that other shadow user that attacked him.  The next part was a blank-slate order to drop the shipwide hostilities.  Not that there'd been any overt attacks, but harsh words and undermining of authority HAD occurred, obviously.

[color=00a651]"Tch...  Come on, if I was [i]really[/i] angry, you know I'd just [i]kill you[/i]."[/color]

And he meant it, too.  The fact is that Joey never really made the list.  Oh, he was tempted, but it'd be counter-productive to cause shipwide drama of that scale over what that jackass was pulling.  So, Nero hadn't been planning anything unless he had good reason to leave the Xuanxang.  Because, despite all that'd been going on, it was still better than his time in the Ascendancy.  The meeting moved on to reveal that one part of their [i]last[/i] discussion - Shineyd - had been freed, and that this newcomer would be arriving herself at some point, probably in line with their modified plan.  There were several parts of it, the part that Nero was focused on was that of hunting down the pirates.  Yeah, there could be a great deal of use for him in the section involving the Tipper, but what Nero wanted to do was follow in the footsteps of one Doomish Slayer Guy...and Rip And Tear.

The Anonymous Tipper mission and the Civil War mission were of no import to him, only the pirate mission, and the fact that there was probably gonna be a trap laid of some kind that they couldn't afford to be sprung on them.  THAT was where he would come in, to find out what it was, provide the escape route, to thwart it, etc.  He knew traps.  He'd seen a million of 'em in the war and pretended to spring them in order to lure out the enemy and kill 'em.  Pirates were clever, but he was about to 'Out-Arrr' those mateys!  The only other thing in the meeting of any importance was the part about search-and-rescue for any family members, the reason some of their team left already.  Nero had only one thing to say about that.

[color=00a651]"Well, I don't have any family, so if you see anyone claiming to be mine, it's a trap and you'd better kill them immediately."[/color]

This was so nobody accidentally rescued whoever might claim to be his parents.  If they were alive, they could kill 'em and he wouldn't have to worry about ever hearing from those assholes.  It'd be [i]hilarious[/i] if they thought they were gonna be spared, and then he outed them as spies and had them shot!  Nero chuckled at the thought as the meeting was adjourned, and he was about to go off and prepare when he heard Nirrti - their independent battle machine - speak up suddenly.  The request suddenly gave him an idea, and he said [color=00a651]"Hold on a second!  I got something!"[/color] before running off very rapidly towards their armory before coming back with the Plasma Flamethrower.  The back-mounted tank, the industrial-grade hose, and the rifle-like output was probably not [i]perfect[/i], but modifications could be made, right?

[color=00a651]"Try this.  I pulled it off of some die-hard merc when we were on board an enemy ship.  I like it, but it's not that useful to me on a mission."[/color]

It's about as anti-shadow-stealth as you can get, so he figured that a combat machine like Nirrti would make MUCH better use of it.  And once they were all prepared, Nero would be heading off on his pirate adventure!

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