Commander Rose ran into sick-bay as soon as she finished her scan of the detonator package in the second deck's men room. Captain Tkarro and others looked in shock. Neblae was weeping over Narchi's chest. He was saying, "It's not you fault, Nebbles." Captain Tkarro said, "She volunteered. She was exhausted and terrified, but did what she could. She died in the line of duty." Rose walked up and said, "No-one on-board can disarm it. That Plague person killed everyone who could. Before I killed him with my Hyper-space Disruptor Field." "Apparently my daughter, Lime, when she attuned to the 'Air artifact' used the transformation function to alter my physical form, and upgrade my systems. I thought if anything like that would happen, it would be a stray thought from Toxic." "My daughter was considerably more thorough than random thoughts. My right arm houses a quick recharge/energy discharge port. My left has the Hyperspace Disruptor in it. I can now detect these Driftware things and destroy them. That includes immortals like the Four Brothers." "One more important thing! I found out how to recharge any of the Four Sisters who are down on energy. I'm Lime's partner, like Narchi is Neblae's partner. Narchi can put power into his partner. Any of the partners can share power with another partner. Let me demonstrate." She put a hand on Narchi's shoulder. After a moment, he perked up. She said, "Pass it on to Neblae. We need her to stabilize 518 before we teleport off out of here." Narchi looked a bit surprised and looked thoughtful. Neblae lifted her head and said, "I feel refreshed." Lime said, "Well...between my mom and me pumping you full, you ought to!" Neblae still looked dazed and Lime said, "We need to heal 518, alright?" Neblae nodded and said, "Lead the way...new sister of air." Dokka Tkarro looked at Rose in surprise. Rose lifted an eyebrow and asked, "What?" He shook his head, "You look so different and seem so familiar. It's just weird." Rose nodded. "As long as I do not think about what I'm doing, my systems seem fine. I'm still getting use to only two legs. I'm used to quadrupedal movement." "Speaking of weirdness...if Plague wasn't terrified by the River Prince, I'd have never caught him off-guard. It takes about thirty-six seconds to power up the Hyperspace Disruption field, otherwise, he'd have teleported away. Also, the disruptor is a WEAPON, not a tool. I can cut cut off a head with a sword, but not do brain surgery with it, metaphorically speaking." "Plague knew what River Prince was. He called him a 'God-Killer' and appeared to be terrified of the species. I always take note when something terrifies an immortal." "NOT being immortal, we have less than twelve minutes to abandon ship." Captain Tkarro said, "No sense waiting for a miracle. Public address system PRIORITY! This is the Captain--prepare to abandon ship! Weapons,armor,food,water, and medical supplies and anything you can carry! Prepare to scuttle the ship. We'll teleport over to the Asuran Battleship. We have a new Sister of Air who will teleport us over. You have five minutes to get to your abandon ship stations! That is all!" He looked at Rose and asked, "Is your girl up to it?" Rose nodded and smiled, "She has power to spare! Neblae said the Sister's power is based on imagination as much as experience. Lime has an over-burden of imagination. You better grab what you can, Captain. I'll be below with River Prince and Sunny." They ran out of the Sick-bay to their respective places to grab what they could. Rations,and water were priorities. The arm's locker was emptied out since the whole crew was going into enemy territory. The timer counted down toward zero. Lime started teleporting people over and hoped she could make the dead-line. --TO BE CONTINUED!--