[RAID] Final Frontier

[BlackFireKitsune]

The computer towers were indeed all the same, standard equipment, so Hayes and Faleen would have no trouble locating and removing the hard drives.

Potato said proudly to Char,

((As a heads-up I may have to run sooner rather than later for dinner (because apparently dinner is something to have at 4:30PM), but I'll stay for as long as possible and I'll come back as soon as possible. And with that, we're resuming the raid for today!

But wait! It's dangerous to go alone - take this.))

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[Suudonym]

Aulus

"Oh, yeah," Daniel replied. "Uh, let's see, it's a sort of long story, but a while longer back there were uh, a lot more people hanging around here, sort of a community. Since a lot of the ship is, uh, kinda difficult to get around in, we decided we'd shut off power to areas we don't really need to reduce the strain on the generators. Some of them started off by cutting wires, but the wires were still receiving power, you know? Just not the stuff they were hooked up to. So instead, we used the main control console to, uh, shut off power around various parts of the ship - the places we had clearance to access anyway. Uhh, with the lights that were left, flashlights, candles, windows, et cetera, it wasn't hard to get around, but some people were uh, understandably put off by the dark with all the uh, dead things and they kept sneaking in and turning the power back on. So when it got shut off again, we decided to uh, barricade the door so they couldn't mess with it again without making a lot of noise. A, uh, lot of people left after that. Not that I blame them."  

[TawnyAngel]

[X]

Hu. Made sense.

Nodding curtly Aulus carried on with the task of shifting the furniture, focusing on the simple task near completely.

After he'd moved a couple more tables however he straightened up abruptly again. "Hey, Char, make yourself useful and clear out any ice that's left, if we need to make a quick exit I don't want us sliding all over the place."

Char rumbled before starting to clear away any ice that hadn't already been got by Tiamat earlier, using a restrained flamethrower in controlled bursts to do so. he continued to Potato in between bursts.  

[Rocket Agent Tambrey]

X

Well, she was already stood in the water, and Hayes and Faleen had confirmed there wasn't any immediate danger from the electricity... Still, Tambrey was frozen still for a little longer than was natural for simple worries.

Once she regained her wits, she moved to try and offer her help with moving tables.  

[caffeinecraving]

[Room X]

Kailee laughed softly as a picture of team rocket dancing riverdance came to mind. Though she definitely thought that was a good idea. And if she wasnt already soaked from the rush of water she may have taken them up on it.

Not hearing anything on the other side of the door, which after Daniel's words made sense, she backed up slightly to dig a perfectly painted, pink nail under the edge of the duct tape to start trying to pull it off. Thought for the future. Carry the standard issue knife she was given in training.

She dug for a minute until that perfectly pink nail broke, she hissed in pain as she looked at the chipped nail, shook her hand and then looked again. Yep... ok... someone else could go after the duct tape...

 

[BlackFireKitsune]

the chatot said, then fluffed his feathers a bit as he watched Char melt the rest of the ice. He supplied unhelpfully, appearing quite happy to be able to answer questions.  

[TawnyAngel]

[X]

Kailee's hiss of pain made Aulus whip around with his hand half way to his staff, not that he was on edge or anything. When he realized that she'd only broken a nail he made an impatient noise and dug into one of his trouser pockets. "Here," he passed her a red penknife, "be careful there are no live wires under there because it's not insulated, and you should have cut your nails before you came." Shaking his head and blowing a sharp breath out through his nose Aulus got back to furniture hefting.

Char responded; in truth the information hadn't been helpful - hadn't been information really - but his new friend was trying to be helpful and he felt that acknowledging that was important, especially given the difficult times the Chatot must have been through recently. Had the woman on the stairs been his trainer? Char wasn't sure what he would do if he lost his, it simply wasn't something he could get his head around.  

[caffeinecraving]

[Room x- Replying to Aulus and pulling away duct tape!]

Kailee glanced up to Aulus and smiled taking the knife. "Thanks, I-" She broke off looking for a moment almost just like Sissy when she inflated her self. She flashed the nails on the hand that wasnt chipped. "I did... " Her nails were a nice length not too long like they would be catching on everything, but not short enough that they made her fingers look pudgy. And if she hadn't just tried to use one as a utility knife they would have been golden. But now one was drastically different then the others and she thought a moment about her nail kit at the base. Yep... she knew what she was doing when she got back.

She looked away from aulus and back to the box, using her flashlight to lighten up what she was doing. She really didnt want to be electrocuted... So gently she started working the duct tape off of the plastic.

 

[TawnyAngel]

[X]

Aulus glanced back at Kailee, wondering for a moment if he should apologize for assuming she'd been a stupid tit. "Oh, right. Well use the knife anyway." From the quick glance he made at her hands they still looked a bit long to be practical to him but whatever, the problem was solved and he had a task of his own to see to.

Speaking of his task, this would go faster if somebody was moving the-

Oh wait, yeah, he could give orders. "Hey, Tama, Lex, take the tables Brimstone and I have already shifted - that aren't occupied - and get them out of the way against a wall or something. Don't block our route to the stairs."  

[[X]Natty-Chan[X]]

[X]

Hearing his name, Tama looked to Aulus. At the command, he nodded. "Yes sir."

Getting Tiamat, he went over to the tables the agent had mentioned and, with her help, began to move them out of the way.  

[Blood_Goddess]

(X)

Absol didn't seem like he was too keen on walking through the water like everyone else, and took instead to the dry surfaces along the counter tops or any other dry surface in the room.

With Faleen working on the computer towers, with Elite Hayes, Absol sad idly neared to the group working on the doors.

Leaving the table moving to the others, Faleen got to work with Hayes in saving as many hard drives as they could.
she wasn't sure what kind of information would be on these, but hopefully something worth the effort.

"It's a pity that this place seems to have already been picked clean. There hasn't been much of the way of salvage." she noted, though held up one of the hard drives as she put it in a bag to protect.  

[Shaddaling]

[Room X]

Lex looked at the tables and then back at Aulus and sighed. None of his Pokemon were really meant to be lifting things. He ran a hand back through his hair and eyed the table before motioning his Crobat over and calling for Glit. This was going to happen the hard way.

"So, lets see what we have," he muttered and ducked under the table, seeing how it was put together.

Glit snorted, clambering her way up the table and curled on top of it before peering down, giving a snickering of "Vip, vip, vip."

"Yes, laugh it up darling." Not the folding type, and he didn't have a wrench and well, they had been used as a barricade. What was he expecting.  

[BlackFireKitsune]

Once all of the tables were cleared away from the door, a bit of light seeped through the crack under the door, visible beneath the shallow water.

The duct tape was rather dusty and looked like it had been there some time, but Kailee wouldn't have to work too hard with the knife to remove the flat piece of plastic from the wall beneath. Once removed, it revealed a simple control panel with ten numbered buttons in the same format one might find on a phone: numbers one through three on the top, four through six in the middle, seven through nine on the bottom, and beneath that, zero.  

[Rocket Agent Hayes]

[Room X]

Hayes made a pleasantly surprised noise; the drive cage was mounted halfway up the tower. He worked its contents free with the same deliberate care as the first.

"Yeah," he agreed when Faleen expressed regret, slipping the drive into a bag and sealing it shut. "On the other hand, all those mission reports might have references to the missing stuff. It'd be a starting point." Of course, moving past said point would mean talking to certain people in Team Rocket's protective custody.. but it might be worth it.

The elite looked across the room, estimating the number of computers and soaked drives, then moved on to the next dry machine.  

[BlackFireKitsune]

Lex

The only thing of note Lex would find underneath the table would be some old, chewed gum stuck to the bottom.