Fox careened into the hold in typical Fox fashion. Thom chuckled at the emergency landing. He flipped on the comms and risked a loosing of his lips. [color=tan][b]"Nice to see you alive, Fox. I owe you for earlier, don't know how'd I pay you back if you were space dust... Martyn's playing leader again and Holly's letting him, better buckle up."[/b][/color] 

He flipped off the comm before finishing his pre-diagnostic on Gundam Beleth. The red Gundam more-or-less was in good shape. There was room for improvement, a lot of room but he chucked that up to the complexity of the machine. It was like a whole other entity compared to his Graze-Z. Another smirk, even amongst the hail of cannon-fire. Another shutter too, a ear-wracking shriek of metal as ammunition grazed the decrepit ship.

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Soon the group had made it to the rendezvous point, a sense of red fear followed Thom the entire time. There was fear blooming over the consequences of their betrayal, anger coiling in his chest because it all went to sh*t in the first place, and hope too. But also something else, a step towards change perhaps. And reluctantly Thom had to admit that it was Martyn's outburst, impulsive and lucky as it was, that caused it. So he simmered down a tad and continued to fixate on their predicament. Still he always believed that there was something crooked and upside-down in Martyn. Something he hid far below his actions.

Thom sat tense in his cockpit, his hands firmly on his controls. He had been ruminating on a certain assumption floating around since arriving. In a moment of sudden decision Thom felt his expression grow cold. Just one more risky gamble. Just one. He opened comms, Gundam Beleth finding cover in a cluster of drifting space rocks. [color=tan][b]" I'm not your friend, Martyn. Your [i]selfishness[/i] perverts your goodwill... I have my own goals. The Mercurial Witch's Familiar Squad is dead if this works out. That's all over now... Holly, Martyn, Fox, Kurt... once we're free from the Jolly Rogs, I'm not taking orders from anyone else. I'm gonna do what [i]I[/i] want to do. Let's make that very clear,"[/b][/color] he finished stonily. 

He exhaled calmly over the comms. [color=tan][b]"Now let's survive, one final time as a team."[/b][/color]