| HylianSwordsman said: Max sensed Simon's awkwardness and realized he might have come on a bit strong. Certainly his coming down here would seem no less strange than Simon. Simon seemed oddly friendly for someone who chooses to hide away from everyone. Surprisingly genuine too, at least after his initial fumbling attempt at an introduction. He'd expected a more reserved and cautious reaction. He wasn't sure exactly what to make of Simon, but accepted the offered hand in a firm handshake. "I see. I can empathize. I tried to get a little rest above, but between racing thoughts and all the noise up there, I gave up. The name's Max. I'll be honest, I never saw you leave the cabin and would never have found you down here if not for my thermal sensors. When I detected you I became suspicious that we had a potentially hostile stowaway, and came to investigate. You're quite skilled in stealth, it seems. That should come in handy in a mission like this in unfamiliar territory where we really don't know what we're up against, or even who the enemy is. All these heavily armed units will be useless without any intelligence on what our targets are. Any human we see could be an innocent bystander or one of the aliens." |
"Yeah, well, I do what I can. From what I've heard, it seems like stealth wont be much of an option," Simon replied, just as an explosion rung out through the ship....from inside the ship. "I'm going to go make sure they don't get us all killed. This is not how I plan to die." With those words, Simon leapt upwards, pulling himself into what seemed to be some sort of maintenance shaft leading through the aircraft. He knew Max could still see him with that thermal visor of his, but for now, he just wanted to be somewhere quiet again. "I may need to do something about that visor," he thought to himself, without a plan in mind.
Crawling through the maintenance shaft, he made his way over to the rest of his "team"...yeah, this mission was going to get messy.
