(time to introduce our villain)

Please allow me to introduce myself
I’m a man of wealth and taste

A good loking man in his early thirties dragged a comb through his hair as the music played. He smiled at the mirror and winked. He straightened his Captain's uniform and adjusted his stars.

I’ve been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man’s soul and faith

He walked out of his executive wash room and into his quarters. His was a walk of total confidence and power. His blue eyes noticed a liuetenant.

And I was ’round when jesus christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate

"I take it you bring me good news of the device." he said in his british accent with a smile. The lieutenant looked down. the smile faded.

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game

"Captain we lost contact with the Prometheus we believe it's come under fire." The lietanant said. He didn't know how the captain would take it.

I stuck around st. petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed the czar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain

"Notify the battle group we're heading to the test site. I want to get to there as soon as possible." He said his face looking rather cross.

I rode a tank
Held a general’s rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank

"Sir that might take some time." The lieutenant said. Color draining from his face. The captain looked at him in frustration.

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, oh yeah
Ah, what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah

"I don't want to here any excuses. You have until noon, not one second more. If we are not in hyper space by then I will hold you personally accountable."

I watched with glee
While your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the gods they made

"You have a bright future with me Lietenant Maceo, I'd hate to see it cut so short." The black clad captain said as he tied his shoes.

I shouted out,
Who killed the kennedys?
When after all
It was you and me

"We both know if the rebels get their hands on the device it will be our heads."

Let me please introduce myself
I’m a man of wealth and taste
And I laid traps for troubadours
Who get killed before they reached bombay

"We need to be there by tommorrow at the latest." The captain said.
"But sir, that's impossible." Lieutenant maceo said.
"Not if we push our engines to the max through hyperspace after locking onto the beacon star."

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah, get down, baby

"What if there is a storm." Maceo said.
"Then there is a storm. We have little choice in the matter."

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what’s confusing you
Is just the nature of my game

"Hopefulle it was just a side effect of the device, but I want all stations on combat readyness. We will destroy any ship that is not the Prometheus"

Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails
Just call me lucifer
’cause I’m in need of some restraint

"Yes Captain Scrimm." Lieutenant Maceo said as he left. Captain Alexander Scrimm sat in his chair and poured himself a single malt scotch. He took a sip and listened to the song.

So if you meet me
Have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse
Or I’ll lay your soul to waste, um yeah
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, um yeah
But what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, um mean it, get down
Woo, who
Oh yeah, get on down
Oh yeah
Oh yeah!

he took another sip.

Tell me baby, what’s my name
Tell me honey, can ya guess my name
Tell me baby, what’s my name
I tell you one time, you’re to blame
Ooo, who
Ooo, who
Ooo, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Oh, yeah
What’s my name
Tell me, baby, what’s my name
Tell me, sweetie, what’s my name.
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Oh, yeah

He loved this song.

Delana had began spacing parts out in one of the cargo holds. She contacted Stick after she had spaced out about 3 dozen parts. "Stick I see we seem to have a heavy missile launcher and some missiles from the debris we got. I can outfit the ship with it in the rear which could be beneficial in a chase. I can also upgrade the ship to be able to target and fire from the bridge. What do you think?"

A freshly de-armored Jake suddenly walked into the cargo-bay, and yelled, "Sorry! Sorry! Had to get decontaminated in case that beetle thing was virus carrying. However, Pois, it is your lucky day."

Jake gave a big grunt and a flat-car he was dragging rolled in front of him. On it was boxes packed with pill containers.

"Didn't check what was in there. I just kind of grabbed what came to mind. And as a fee for service, can I please have a painkilller of some kind right now?"

He turned and lifted his shirt, showing that his entire right side, mostly on his back, but on his arm as well was just one giant bruise. However, he dropped the shirt back and looked at the scrap. "Anything we can smelt into ammunition for me?"

"they didn't bring back any broken stuff, or else I would have an antigrav chamber in a few hours from now. The chamber would have amplified any sound devices nearby too."

"good plan, we'll need to check our scrap room to see what we can use to make a reloading system. And hook up one of the targeting computers." Stk smiled. "Ready to dumpster dive?"

Pois walked up and looked at jack. "smile"
he put a little injector gun into his side. Jack fell down as pois toxin went in to him. he grabed jack and the boxes and headed off to sick bay. "if any one else thinks they may have gotten something come to me. I dont want another one of those space fungases agian"
he walks in to the sick bay and puts Jack on one of the beds. "you know i wonder if i keep using this nerve stuff on every one will there be any permenit effects. eh"
He opens the pills and puts them to the side and brings over his tools to the bed. "looks like just a bruse. maybe i didnt need to put him out. But it is fun and the buzz dosnt have any effects, well at least not yet. hahahahah"
He puts up a scanner and looks over the bruse. "what the fuck"
On the scanner he sees something in jacks side. "what the hell did that thing do"
In his bruse seems some sort of thing in him, it wasnt a larva or something normal. It seemed to be a advanced ameba, if such thing existed. "damn i dont know how this thing will reacet to any thing i try to stop it with, and unfourtunetly my job as a docter is before my own reserch."
He grabs an antivirol and hold it over jack "but who would really miss him"
with a little laugh he puts it in his side. He scannes again, the thing did its job. The little invader was no more. Though pois was a little disapointed. He takes one of his little cocktails and injects him with it. slowly the bruis heals up and the vains are repaired, though a little stiffness is still there. "fucking army kicked wouldnt let me in. And here i have medicions that the best scientists in the fucking anything dont got."
He then takes out the anti nero into him. As jack started to wake up he started to look through the boxes, the first one held pain killer. he got out a few and stoped looking "here take these if you feel pain, and dont just pop them if you want a buzz"

"*sigh* Yea, let's go. Maybe I'll get the smell out of my clothes this time. If we can find the right parts, we could also make an ammo loading conveyer belt so we wouldn't have to reload by hand."

Stk found some chasis casings and handed them off to Delana, then found some electric engines a few belts and several large kegs of beer that got punctured in the robot incident.

"This should get it there. Load this stuff in the crate. I'll go get one of the missile launchers and some missles to load. You want to get your turtle I'll work the inside part since i'm alot smaller and space is really tight back there.

As the rest of the guys made their way back to the ship, Karasu's instincts reasserted themselves, and he darted back to the cockpit, deploying the solar sails to accumulate energy for the jump drives.

Karasu was not one to spend much money, but he had made a point of contributing his share of the profits to buying bigger and better engines and generators for the Elysium.

Hopefully they'd be in a fit state to bugger off as soon as possible...

Stk unhoooked the missile lancher from one of the feddie fighters and put it in a bin with 30 multiwarhead missiles and parts of scrap he was going to use to make the ammo loading system. Stk hoped in the bin as the arms picked it up onto the maintenance highway. Soon he was zooming to the aft of the ship on the tracks. It took a few hours but with Delana's help the missile launcher was finished. The system was simple and more than likely to fail when it was most needed.

"I'm exausted, it's 2. A.M. Karasu can you do a test fire so I can go to bed?"