In The Middle Of Nowhere (Lizzy)

[Gavin XIII]

The entertainment of sitting in a room and recuperating was starting to pall for Gavin. Three days, and he still had nerve damage in his hands, along with only iffy sight in his hurt eye. But he wasn't the one doing the important work, here. He was the grunt. Lizzy was the one he was worried about, since he was fairly sure that no amount of cute furriness could make that stomach wound go away. He decided to go check on her, vaguely wondering if any of the food he'd brought her was still there.

He walked with a slight limp to the cabin he'd almost forced her to lie down in, sighing a bit at his leg and his hands. Still not healed. So annoying. He knocked on his fuzzy captain's door, hoping she wasn't still asleep. Angry morning kitty wasn't something he wanted to see.

[member='Elizabeth Verdan']

 

[Tanith Alde]

"Ish open, ye?" Came kitty's cheery reply. The captain was wearing a jumpsuit today. Mostly to cover up that nasty stomach wound from earlier. No sense in reminding people about it. The kitty was full of energy, eager to get to work patching up the titanic ship. Though she still got the more than occasional stomach ache, she was sure she could shrug it off. The silver bowl her food had been delivered in was cleaned out, literally, shinier than it had been when it was brought in

[member="Gavin XIII"]

 

[Gavin XIII]

"Oh, is it?"

Gavin shrugged as he walked in, squinting his left eye a bit. Well, Lizzy was certainly looking better than him, with almost no sign that she'd taken an almost fatal shot. Probably covering it up, or trying to hide it from him. Either way, it seemed like she was okay. He looked in his pocket, carefully making sure his shaking fingers didn't drop the piece of sour candy he popped in his mouth. In a few minutes, maybe he'd start healing faster, but for now he was standing in front of his captain looking more beat up than any living being had any right to be.

"So... we going down to the engines?"

[member="Elizabeth Verdan"]

 

[Tanith Alde]

"Ish the plan" She nodded, walking over to collect her collected tools "Well. I ish. You should look at the rest of the ship. I want ya to make me a map of the systems. Everything that's broken, a nice little list ye? Then Ill take a look and start sorting things out. Gonna take some months to get this thing flying properly, and longer than that till we can take people...And maybe if you have spare time, find a broom ye?" She spoke in a rapid fire style as she lead the way down toward the engines, chattering all the way

She twirled a screwdriver in her hand, flicking it up into the air and catching it again easily

"Ish gonna be fun"

[member="Gavin XIII"]

 

[Gavin XIII]

"List of things that're broken... We're at the top of that list this week, Lizzy."

Gavin grinned tiredly, scooping a datapad off the floor and tapping away at it until it was blank and he had a list started up. He followed her down to the engines, looking around the room as the dead bodies his kitty captain had left everywhere. He gave her a mock-disapproving look, typing out in huge letters - Dead Bodies Everywhere, Captain. Please Advise. He winked at her, then set about pushing the corpses around with a broken force pike.

[member="Elizabeth Verdan"]

 

[Tanith Alde]

"Burn em? Could eat them...but they -have- been laying on the ground for a few days..." The captain murmurred to herself as she glanced about, before shrugging the problem off for later. Crossing the engine comparment's open area she popped the hatch and clambered into the engine. The first few minutes were spent ungloccing various areas, and tossing out a suprising amount of gore and bones, before the real tinkering could begin

"Maybe move my milk keg in from the ship, ye?"

[member="Gavin XIII"]

 

[Gavin XIII]

Gavin nodded, stretching a little as he walked out of the engine room. Ah, there was the feeling coming back to his hands. He kept a very casual pace, trying not to burn his energy too quickly before he finished his bag of sweet things. No matter how bad it was for him, the sugar made up for it when his eyesight started fixing itself little by little. Getting the milk 'jug' was easy. All he had to do was pick it up and haul it down to her room. Hopefully she was having fun down in the engine room. And not eating corpses.

[member="Elizabeth Verdan"]

 

[Tanith Alde]

Unless one looked too closely, one would find the corpses quite undisturbed. And one would find the kitty somewhere in the engines, working diligently at getting them working. Based on the size of the ship, and the engiens in particular, the captain hoped to have it running in a week or two, that was assuming no parts needed to be replaced or repaired, which, all things considered, was looking like a slimmer and slimmer possibility

[member="Gavin XIII"]

 

[Gavin XIII]

Gavin yawned a little bit as his sight came back. It was easy enough to see what was wrong with the rooms on the crew deck close to the engines: Except for what needed to be used by the scavengers he and Lizzy had killed, nothing was repaired. At all. They were lucky there was even life support online, from the looks of it. The turbolifts were broken, the lights were only somewhat working, and there seemed to be no shortage of the rats the kitty cat was so eager to chase. That meant that the storage compartments were probably smashed, cracked, and needed serious repairs. So much fun.

[member="Elizabeth Verdan"]

 

[Tanith Alde]

"Strip the flux converter.....Now add the wire in....yeah the yellow....." The captain murrmurred to herself as she got about disassembling the many vital components so she could put the primary block back together. "Kay...it's on fire, not a problem" She said leaning back, reaching for the fire extinguisher "Always a good start..." her ears drooped inf rustration

[member="Gavin XIII"]

 

[Gavin XIII]

Gavin was having a similar conversation with himself, trying to figure out how to get the lights outside the tunnel to the engine room back on. He was cursing loudly at a little bit of electrical tubing that just didn't want to connect, and certainly didn't want to be removed and replaced. Cutting at the tubing gave him nothing but burned fingers and a lot of frustration. He angrily chewed on his candy, tugging at the wires and trying to connect them correctly.

[member="Elizabeth Verdan"]

 

[Tanith Alde]

"Lets see...if I cross the coil accelerator's primary with the static stabiliser's auxiliary maybe.....Aha! " She purred in pleasure as the auxiliary thrusters flickered to life. Excellent, now they could steer the ship atleast, if not move it "Hmm the accelerant cell is burned out...Hmm if I had a hot plate, some fissionable material and a match,..."
[member="Gavin XIII"]

 

[Gavin XIII]

The wiring in the switchboard for the lights was still annoying Gavin, but it seemed like he finally got it after a while. A chewed-up wad of gum was holding together each of the repaired wires, and throwing the switch made the lights come on just fine. The whole area of the ship around the engineering area was finally lit up with something better than the emergency lights.

"There we go... now how's Lizzy doing?"

[member="Elizabeth Verdan"]

 

[Tanith Alde]

A small explosion could be heard from the engine room, followed by silence. And then, after several minuted, the quiet loud humming of an engine come to life. A satisfied kitty, somewhat dirtied by soot, grime, oil and other such things crawled out of the engien block with a smrik, twirling a hydro-wrench in her hands

"All Done, Ye?"

[member="Gavin XIII"]

 

[Gavin XIII]

Gavin grinned at the grime-covered kitty, shrugging a little. She'd gotten the whole engine fixed while he'd been shouting at an electrical panel for nearly two hours. He was once again absolutely amazed by her technical ability, and it wouldn't hurt to stroke her ego a little.

"Yeah, you're definitely done... I almost feel bad for only getting the lights on."

[member="Elizabeth Verdan"]

 

[Tanith Alde]

"We have lights?" The kitty asked with a wide smile, walking out into the hallway to view the now even dirtier looking hallway now that it was fully illuminated "Wow this place is really going to need a number done, we'd best get started. I'm going to see about making sure the life support don't quit and we all suffocate"

[member="Gavin XIII"]

 

[Gavin XIII]

"Or, rather, you'd suffocate and I'd have to watch. Not something I want to do."

Gavin walked along with Lizzy, looking around at the dirt and rust-encrusted hallways. They really needed more help, here. Fixing the basic systems was wonderful, but making the place livable and functional was more than the two of them could do with a bunch of tools and jury-rigged circuits. There had to be droids or something somewhere for them to use. He gave his captain a quick scratch on the ears, then stalked off towards the storage areas.

[member="Elizabeth Verdan"]

 

[Tanith Alde]

Lizzy smirked and walked up to the panel that lead to life support. Opening it up her face fell into a frown "WHO BUILT THIS?!" She shouted in astonishment. Life support seemed to be made of three bits of pipe, a gear wheel a fan and the better part of two belts. Oh boy this one was going to take some tricky innovation

[member="Gavin XIII"]

 

[Gavin XIII]

Gavin kept walking and walking, feeling like he was going to loop right back around to the kitty cat and keep going in circles. But then, finally, there was a closet. He opened the door to find a handful of not-quite-intact droids surrounded by rusted scrap metal and the remains of what looked like the same large rats that were everywhere else aboard the ship.

"Ah, well... one of you has to still be in decent condition, right? Maybe... Aha!

The tall blonde man found something that looked like a very old astromech droid. He let out a loud whoop as his wandering hands found the button that would activate it. Finding a working thing in this place was even worth the worried screech and electric shock the little machine hit him with. He spoke in the most soothing voice he could think of as it spun its head around, trying to find a familiar visual.

"Hey, pup, I'm Gavin. Port Nowhere belongs to my friend and I, now. We need your help fixing it."

[member="Elizabeth Verdan"]

 

[Tanith Alde]

The clever kitty soon replaced the....frankly ridicolously designed life support with a makeshift design untill she could do something proper. A simple two stage filter would keep the air breathable, if not fresh, and allow her enough time to rig something up. This task done she shut the pannel and got to work rewiring main power to try and get light -everywhere- in the ship, not just the main hallways.

Who knew how many thousand light bulbs needed replacing

[member="Gavin XIII"]