For a friend V3

This is just a little thing I wrote for a friend of mine. Delta is her OC, the others are mine.

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The alarms blared overhead. The ship was almost certainly lost. Her hands moved quickly across the holographic keypad. Teeth grinding, everything was tuned out. Until a strong force in the form of a half lizard woman had just shoved Delta out of the way for what she was about to consider 'the last time.'

"Eoura! Stop that! I can stablize the reactor core! I can save these people." The woman at the console was working quickly though, and Delta rose as quickly as she could, she threw her body into the woman again, but was forced back just as quickly. Falling back on her ass, she brushed the hair from her face.

"What are you even doing?" She asked the other woman, who hadn't stopped working even more fervently since she asked.

"You've been a good friend Delta. But I'm a pirate, and no one can know I or my crew were here. This ship is going to burn, and all the data onboard will be lost." She said, steely grey eyes finally turning to delta as she shoved a fist deep into the console she'd just been working on. An electronic male voice began broadcasting an alert across the ship.

"Alert! Catastrophic fusion reactor meltdown imminent! Three minutes until total meltdown! Please evacuate via Lifepods!" Delta shook her head, rising to her feet in a scramble. The woman she'd been staying with had that look in her eye again. That look she got when Delta had asked about her father. A look that most certainly represented restrained anger.

"Seems to me it's come time for us to part ways then." Delta finally replied, balling her fists before the ship rocked violently, it's systems beginning to shut down and come to a halt. The resulting force threw Delta to the ground again, but before she could even react, she'd been dragged to her feet again by the warm grip of the lizard woman.

"If you're splittin' you'd better start running!" Eoura cried, already darting down the murky underbelly of the cruiser. The rocking of the ship, even in space as it was, painted a clear enough picture that she immediately followed, running as fast as her legs could carry her.

The sight of Eoura's tail was generally all she saw as she chased the other woman through the cruiser. Delta soon realized that she was likely just running to Eoura's ship, a thought that was quickly interrupted by an explosion that rocked the ship again.

"Seems the ships systems are doing their catastrophic meltdown bit." a thought quickly followed up by an explosion that burst from the wall next to her. Bombarded by steam and heat, Delta caught herself on the far wall, shakily forcing herself back into running. It'd take more than a little battering to put her out of commission. *Wink Wink*

Unfortunately, the powers that be decided to make things interesting, Delta's feet began to lift off of the floor, a happening that coincided with another announcement from the ship's AI.

"Attention all passengers! The Artificial Gravity system has shut down! Please do not panic and continue towards the life pods!"Delta had to act quickly, and almost by instinct, she reached towards the divots built into the roof panels, dragging herself weightlessly down the corridor towards something.

"I'll find a way out of this, I always do!" She assured herself as she continued kick off the walls and drag herself on any little thing that stuck off of the walls. She was kicking off of a wall when the sound of metal contorting and tearing made itself evident, and then not. Before her, the ship itself was tearing apart. The expanse of space was quickly coming into view before her. Eyes quickly widening, she tried to turn around, but was being dragged roughly from the interior of the ship and into the expanse of space.

Then it clicked. Moving frantically, she twisted her hands the way her muscles remembered before her mind even registered it and in an instant, a green vortex of energy materialized. She didn't care where it went, anywhere was better than freezing to death in space! She let go, and let the vaccum of space drag her through the hastily made portal. She passed through, but the cold persisted, and she found she was falling still.

A storm raged around her, lightning and a torrent of rain surrounded her. Shielding her eyes, she attempted to make out where she was. But below was only water, an infinite expanse of water in every direction she looked. She attempted to twist her hand again, to rip open another hole, but her body wasn't responding. The cold was still overcoming her, adrenaline failing she fell into the infinite ocean. What followed was darkness, cool and enveloping her gently. Her mind faded away from her, body now just as adrift.

The darkness was not uncomfortable in her mind as she slept, and she could feel the waves for a time. Carrying her to some unknown end. She felt tired, and let the void take her, for the moment.

What came next was a strange stillness. Waking up was a burden, but some insistent prodding to her breasts was disturbing her. This wasn't the first thing she noticed however. What she noticed first was the smell. The insistent salty smell of the sea had invaded her nose.

"Stop poking her! She's fortunate she survived a voyage through the Black Ocean!" came a masculine call. What followed perplexed her. A sort of croaking noise, followed by a feminine voice.

"Sorry. I just don't see many of you plainsmen." Delta was still very weak, and opening her eyes was more than she could bear at the moment. She made a groaning noise, as pain and cold wracked her body. Slowly becoming aware of her feelings, she realized that she was lying on sand.

"Just don't make her condition worse! Is she breathing?" A sloshing of liquids could be heard from the direction of this voice. The croaking? Clicking? Noise came again.

"As much as you plainsmen can." Delta tensed at this, as footsteps approached.

"Good. Time for the moment of truth." At these words, Delta felt her mouth pried open, and a flowing, bittersweet liquid was poured down her throat. The taste alone caused Delta to shoot up and open her eyes. What was before her was unsurprising. The horizon contained nothing but water and a clear grey sky. Water? The water was black! Her vision blurred and she quickly went to rub her eyes, but was stopped by a pair of tiny hands.

"Now hold on there little missy!" A very small man had jumped into her blurred vision, he was sporting a might green beard and slicked back green hair.

"Don't rub your eyes or the potion won't work as well! Just give it a minute!" Deciding to trust the little man, she waited for a few seconds, and his vibrant hazel eyes came into focus. He released her hands and stepped off to the side, dusting off his coat. Delta was still a little in shock.

"What... Where am I?" Delta asked the little man. The clicking noise from before came, and Delta looked to her left to find a pale visage crouched before her. Messy, black hair shrouded the womans eyes in mystery, but her grin stretched almost literally from ear to ear. Delta nearly jumped out of her skin at the sight of fangs? Tusks. Tusks followed by rows of razor sharp teeth. The woman spoke however.

"You plainsmen act like you've never seen a Banished before." Her grin widened, showing off all those pearly white. Delta was almost entirely in awe of her appearance. Scales, gills, a tail with fins, but normal legs and arms. In the womans possession was a massive shield that was more like a small boat. She didn't appear to be wearing much else, not that Delta was focused on much more than the teeth in her face.

"Now Lasi, that's enough teasing." He turned Delta's face toward himself in order to examine her. He appeared to be looking right into her eyes.

"I'm not a professional, but I think you'll be alright." He would say, concluding his examination of her face quickly, and lifting her arm, which she noticed no longer had any clothing on it. She finally had the idea to address her state of affairs, and it was poor. Her clothes had been torn to shreds, what remained only barely covered her decently. She quickly tried to cover herself from the investigating duo. To which the woman, Lasi, laughed.

"She dresses like a Banished." The woman stood up, revealing she had legs longer than her torso, and that they were toned to an extreme degree.

"Oh that's more than enough teasing the poor dear. We haven't even introduced ourselves. Can you stand?" Delta nodded fervently, embarrasment covering her face.

"Good, good. I am William Starbridle. She is Lasi, of the Banished tribe. My associate is nearby, keeping watch." At that, a lumbering sound came from the woods. A goliath of a being came crashing through the trees.

"You call me Billy?" The figure was hulking, and made of rune inscribed metal. He easily stood at ten feet tall, if not more. But upon inspecting the other two, she noticed they were shorter than her. The woman was only a few inches, but the man was barely three feet tall she noticed.

"No Joel, you can relax." He waved off the goliath, and returned his attention to Delta, still trying to cover bits that were barely covered. He held his hand out cordially.

"Nice to meet you Miss..." Delta smiled a little and grabbed his hand, shaking firmly.

"Delta." He shook back enthusiastically enough to cause Delta's cleavage to rumble magnificently.

"Good to meet you! Let's get you someplace warm and dry, so you can tell us your tale stranger." At that Lasi brushed Delta's shoulder with her own as she passed.

"Ugh. Dry." Billy whistled and Joel came running, lifting the little man onto his shoulders. Billy then motioned for Delta to follow closely.

"Well... This beats outer space." Delta mumbled to herself, resigning to take William up on his offer.  From one mystery to the next, again.