Gloria's Pride (revive)

Lily sat on the command seat she was wearing modest clothing chewing on a spoon it was her turn at the helm though really the old Gloria was on auto-pilot. She was watching a nearby monitor going through a hologram with information about available bounties and other job offers from some of their old contacts.

She chewed on it her left foot was on the chair pressed up near her face as she moved the chair back and forth with her right foot twisting it about. she had just having finished eating some ice cream in her little cup she had resorted to chewing on the spoon to help calm her nerves.

Lily was a soldier no matter what and so such complicated things like traveling through space, bothered her. It wasn't the whole being sucked through a vacuum and suffocating part that bothered her. It was the fact you were trusting your life to a machine or pilot to get you to safety. She saw and interesting tag on the holographic bounty board that drew her attention immediately.

"hummm....." she said through the crewed spoon as she looked at the board mission. "This could....be prom...ising." she muttered as she put a hand on the spoon though she kept sucking on it as she read through the posting, her feet still swishing her about side to side. She was looking at the planet ahead of her where they could finally make port and restock on supplies.

She smiled to her self thinking of all the stuff they could do with 1.5 mil she looked back and considered again and sighed...."Damn" she thought to herself realizing that they would have to do some repairs, restock ammo, and of course Jacob's meat supply and food bills. there was no end to the constant maintenance but it was better than rotting in a jail cell somewhere she thought to herself.

She sighed to herself and leaned back as she stared at the growing planet before them and signaled for Jacob, if he was in the galley or his quarters. It was time to begin landing, she always hated re-entry as she kept chewing on her spoon.

"yeah we're getting ready for the landing...." Lily said through her mouthful of metallic spoon. She gave her captain a wry smile though it was obscured because of the spoon in her muzzle. She let her smile flicker a bit after chewing as if she was giving a nervous growl.

"I think i found us a promising prospect for money." she murmured as she took her left leg off of the chair seat. She leaned forward and punched a few buttons on the holograph panel transferring the bounty board posting to his own terminal.

She kept chewing as her attention to the large blue and green sphere that now obscured the whole cockpit window. She smirked to herself as she sat up normally, she reached around to a belt buckle strapping herself in.

Lily sighed looking over at him and grinning to herself, it was good to see that he was taking those grafts well. Though she didn't like a lot of his changes, it hadn't been what she was told or expected. Needless to say the doctor would NO longer be practicing his craft any longer.

She had been distraught at the changes but he seemed to her to be living comfortably. Granted he had alot of changes like the appitie, but things had worked out so far, she was very happy about the fact he was alive. That was the important thing she smiled as she watched the rappidly approaching planet with a nervous smile just as the screen was starting to suddenly become filled with fire as they were entering the atmosphere.

"hehe you forgot the part that we could bounce off the atmosphere and be flung from the system captain." She said laughing nervously at the other possibility, no matter how nervous she was he had a soothing effect on her and made it so even the lack of control was not as bad as it could be.

As she was saying this she took a head set with an old fashioned microphone from the nearby com panel and put it over her head, covering her long black ears. She began pressing buttons on the console so she could get into contact with the port authority.

A rather grizzled old dragon creature answered the communication package. "This is Ra-vane port authority.....Oh lily its you." the port master said blinking at lilly a few times rather surprised she and Jacob were here at all.

"Athruu how are you?" lily replied to him in friendly tones her bright blue eyes glittering with some relief that she had gotten in contact with someone she was familiar with.

"Good, i'm glad to see you and jacob are still alive." he said with a nervous grin at the figure above her at the helm.

"We need a landing dock, somewhere off grid or at least without those annoying taxes....for the next 24-36 hours. Can you manage that?" She asked kindly.

"i know i shouldn't but for you two.....landing bay two three six, its in the shadier parts of town just like you two pirates like no fee, just mind you don't bring trouble, like you normally do." The lizard replied wearily.

"We will try our best." lily said cheerfully giving the old dragon a smile.

"Try harder, i don't wish to have another investigation thanks to a gun fight you two finished." He grumbled cutting off the comm.

"We got coordinates captain." She called up with a grin entering them into the computer. "old grizzle fangs." she muttered as she thought of that old dragon and shook her head.

"Thats true and much as i may hate the lack of any real control and relying on a computer to get us home. It is still amazing to see, and no it wasn't so bad....still..." Lily replied with a sigh as she chewed on her spoon then finally took it out of her mouth letting her body relax knowing that they would be fine now that they were inside the atmosphere.

She was reviewing the bounty posting again thinking on it. "huhh those Highland mercs' are running this." She muttered to herself as she unstrapped her self knowing the landing would be a simple thing. She was moving toward her quarters to get into something more acceptable than a tank top that barely covered her chest, and sports shorts.

"Well as soon as we land lets go find those mercanaries." She said before leaving the cockpit after setting down the headset. She smiled to herself and began walking through the ship heading to her quarters.

She sealed the door and began digging through her wardrobe, she pulled out some black jeans a red shirt her trench coat, her shoulder holster and pistol, her hat and various other normal clothing.


She was inside the small cabin for about 5-10 minutes getting ready. She walked back up to the cabin and sat down. She was in an outfit that looked strait form one of the old earth holo westerns. Except her hat had two large slits in above the brim for her two long pointed ears.

She sat down in her chair with a relaxed thump glad that they would finally be planet side for the next few 24 hours or so. She went up to her console and had it transfer the bounty to her small pda inside her pocket.

She watched as the port was slowly coming into view her foot tapping the floorboard like it usually did when she was nervous excited, or anxious. It was one of the few moments she showed a lot of emotion, though over the course of their adventures she had changed a lot.

Part of her wondered at least a little part wondered if she had done the right thing, but she pushed that part to the side into a corner of her mind.

She smiled about his comment which she knew was a lie the whole glad things had worked out. She couldn't imagine what it had been like for him but he was strong and he made it work out.

"I'm glad to hear that." she replied returning. It was her habit to sometimes forget conversations or leave them for a period of time while she did other things. it was one of the ways she prepared herself for difficult topics or at least give herself time to think.

"This will be fun..." She said with a gleam in her bright blue eyes as she stared outside waiting for their ship to dock onto solid ground once again.

As the ship finally landed the docking clamps engaging onto the gloria's hull, lilly was making her way to the docking hatch. "hehe Yeah a lot more likely then us getting a simple easy job." She said laughing a bit.

As she walked down the hatches it took her a full fifteen seconds to register what jacob had said. Then because she sometimes focused on a topic and was really good at it imagined the latex then on him. It was something truly horrific, not that it was something he could help. Neither could she because of her over active and heavily focused mind. She shuddered and had a frozen body expression, she turned to him very very slowly.

"Just out of curiosity do you mean on you or me?" She asked though she had a creeped out expression on her face. Her ears slicked back and her eyes slitted with a look that showed all to plainly where her mind had gone.

"Ohh...." she replied slowly her face of horror dissipating as she lowered her hat and kept walking heading for the landing tower. "I dunno really the stuff really bothers me cause it messes up fur and doesn't take moisture and i dunno i don't get people who like it." She muttered her hands in her pockets as they made their way towards the elevator.

"But to each their own. I suppose." she said leaving the mater at that.


After about 20 minutes or so lily and jacob were outside the mercenary HQ in a hover car they always kept in the cargo bay of the gloria. "Well we're here, lets go see what these mercs need." She said slipping out of the car and shutting the door behind her.

The compound was small in size compared to some of the larger companies like the White suns, or Twilights. Both of whom were pretty much private armies of men and women. Normally Lilly had a very low opinion of mercs, she disliked that they sold their honor for money, then again you always needed stupid people to risk their lives for something like money.

She knew now she was a mercenary and she knew there was no difference between them, still other mercenaries gave her the creeps.

The building seemed to be a 5 story office building with some men and women walking around. It was definitely not a private army which in a way made her very happy and at least these guys seemed on the up and up. She made her way to the front office to speak with a secretary.

"ohh hello do you have an appointment?" she asked with a smile. It was a human with cat ears, with long blonde hair. Why is it always cat girls? She thought privately in the back of her head.

"No but I had an inquiry, Its about the post on the bounty board." She said opening her PDA and bringing up the notice, then handing the device to the girl.

"ohh that, well I'll see if i can get you a meeting about it. Give me a 10-15 minutes." She said before walking off and taking the elevator upstairs to the fifth level. A rough security guard a large bull or minotaur took her place at the reception desk.

Lily turned and began walking back to Jacob putting the pda back into her pocket as she did so. "I wonder whats so important about this bounty." she muttered to herself and Jacob as she stared outside the small glass window. "Something tells me this isn't gonna be a simple job." She added her ears flicking a little in her had.

"Simple job?... what is on of them like? I have heard of them but they seem to leave fewer footprints then the tooth fairy."

Lilly chuckled with moderate mirth as she heard what jacob said, her hat obscuring her face just a tiny bit as it was tilted down over her face. "Hehe isn't that that truth." She said more as a statement than an actual question.

"Usually situations like this the importance is either time related as in 'we need this now or else it will explode, deteriorate, die, eat itself, give birth, or maybe dissolve. On the other hand this could be one of those deals where we need to get somewhere or to something before someone else. Those usually are very profitable... though highly dangerous... but then again you and me have more danger before five o clock then most have all day."

Lily thought about this comment very slowly, Jacob had alto of good points in it. If it was time sensitive, most likely someone else would be after the same device. "Well it is an AI, according to the board. So I'm sure someone is gonna want it." Lilly thought aloud as she began to bounce her right foot up and down. It was a nervous habit she had since joining jacob's unit. It was an indication she was nervous, tense, or emotional in general. Usually it was a good indication she needed a smoke to calm her nerves.

She let out a chuckle as she heard the comment about being in more dangerous situations than most people in the course of a day than people get their entire lives. She sighed to herself as she checked her empty smoke pack in her pocket. She tossed into the can after confirming it was empty. Note to self, go to the nearest convenience shop and pick up another pack or maybe a carton.

She stood there quietly not saying much as she continued to tap her leg up and down as she stood there. It was often hard to see where her thoughts went when she went into business mode. She gave a small grin as she stared at somewhere on the ceiling, it was obvious her mind had gone somewhere else.

"Captain Do you realize your commiting treason....." She heard from somewhere deep in her own mind.

Her eyes flashed open as she blinked at the room, she had almost fallen over from the shock of reliving something from jacob and hers past. She shook her head a moment, sometimes those moments would flash in her mind at unexpected times. She focused her mind on the task at hand waiting with growing impatience, Jacob would notice her tensing up. She HATED waiting, it gave the mind too much time to think.

Lilly blinked a moment, showing a bit of surprise underneath her hat. This was a new one, mercenaries hiring more mercenaries. When she heard the voice she tipped her hat up with two fingers, to look at the new employer.

She stared at him a good few minutes, the first few thoughts that popped into her head. 1 who ever this rabbit was he was rich, 2. rich usually means noble, and 3. this just got complicated.

She stepped away from the wall, and put her hands into her pockets, watching the employer with a bit more closely. "Of course." Lilly replied trying to keep her own apprehension out her voice at this new unexpected development.