[color=FFEEBB]Don't get distracted![/color] Mini-meiko teased and winked with a grin.

The teammate readouts started to turn green, from blue, one by one.

As Miyuki plucked the laser rifle from the top rack, the veins of aevon that lines it pulsed softly with light. It reacted to her touch, synchronized with the power that flowed in her.

[color=FFEEBB]You like polearms, right? Grab one of those, too. They've got a core meant to hold and discharge mana repeatedly, so the regular soldiers can use them, too. Even if you end up liking the gun better, we can still make use of the core.[/color] Mini-meiko created a bar of blue, filled, on the side of the HUD.

"I'm sure she'll see that you're quite capable." Yumeiko smiled warmly, though her head lifted and turned, looking somewhere distant before she came back to that... beautiful fox in a very flattering futuristic space suit. Sleek armor plates complimented a body suit made of a micro-ring chainmail, over the air-tight suit that would keep Miyuki safe in any breached environments.

It stunned her for only a moment. "I have to go to the bridge." She looked toward the sergeant and nodded, before looking back to Miyuki. "I'll be waiting for you."

Yumeiko stepped back and touched the nearest exposed blue before - [i]fwip[/i] - she was gone.

The last of the squadmate readings turned green. Supposing Miyuki was settled for her equipment, Chibi-meiko gave their own ready mark.

[color=peru]"A'rrigh', folks."[/color] The sergeant stepped forward from the alcove by the airlock door she'd posted up in, a thick Scottish accent dominataing her speech. [color=peru]"Time tae pile in! The fly boys will be guarrdin' our approach. Seems there's [i]unkind[/i] activi'y on th' station."[/color]

In the hangar, pilots could be seen boarding military hardware. Lifts carried individuals to cockpits, and moving cranes overhead brought a ship, a little larger than a small yacht, with a hatch in the back to a platform immediately on the other side of the airlock. The ends of the wings, where engine pods might have been, had been replaced with a large chunk of aevon, each. Vines and roots held them firmly against the stubs where the nacelles had been broken off, growing from within the frame. The crystal seemed like it had begun to grow into the frame, in turn.

The sergeant pressed the button on the wall behind her, opening the door to the airlock chamber. [color=peru]"Seals up!"[/color]

[color=FFEEBB]I've got it.[/color] Chibi-Meiko would take care of the suit operations, while everyone else reached up a button somewhere around their helmet, then entered the airlock.

[color=FFEEBB]In we go. This room changes wind for void gradually so we don't cause a shock for putting one next to the other.[/color]

The sergeant's voice would then come over an audio system in the helmet, while the chamber depressurized, [color=peru]"we will advance as one squad thrrough th' docks, to th' in'errsection, where we will turn left and begin our searrch an' destroy rrou'e in coordination with th' rrest o' th' fleets teams. We nae ken th' detailed plans fer th' station, so while we searrch ferr any an' all signs o' Scourge infestion, we will be searrching for wha'everr migh' still pass as a contrrol rroom."[/color]

As she finished her review of the briefing, the door behind her to the hangar, and the dropship, would open. The hatch was lowered and waiting for them.

The sergeant would lead the way from the airlock and stand aside while her squad boarded, giving them a final inspection. One man had grabbed a railgun, one a laser cannon, and a third the plasma launcher. The were marked on the HUD for their support weapons.

The sergeant would follow the the last soldier onto the dropship, the hatch closed behind her. Her eyes came to the rifle Miyuki had taken. [color=peru]"Oooh. Aye?"[/color]

The way it responded to Miyuki was similar to how the sergeant's glowed, and she seemed to have noticed.

[color=peru]"That's a good one, tha'. Punches harder than th' pulsers."[/color]

[color=peru]"Ready?"[/color]

Their boots magnetically attached to the dropship. Which is good, because then it dropped from the hangar cranes and out the hatch at the bottom. Screens mounted to the corners showed what was outside.