[Worm]

The clink of glasses was a pact in and of itself. "The Cr-" Tennan was ready to down the entire mug, but that exact moment was frozen by a female voice. Through the amber lens of her filled mug, she could make out her figure. A'vi was it? She slowly lowered her mug to scan over the female's presence. She smelled nice, and the magnetic energy radiating from her discerned her power. Tennan grinned, the two boys obviously just pets to the outstanding female before them.

All of the words exchanged between the twins and the female in charge, turned into an inaudible goop. So Tennan tilted the mug up and hastily finished her drink, with a loud sigh and burp. "Nice to meet you, Miss A'vi." She extended a hand for it to be ignored. Which was fine by her, she wasn't especially fond of formalities. "If you'd like, I can sample you some of my skills. Perhaps after we show you the bounty." Tennan bobbed her head between the boys, ready to direct the captain's daughter to Marco. She stood up from her stool, and still she had the strangest feeling that something was in the room. She ticked away that feeling, but remained on high guard as they made their way to Marco's containment cell.

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Ilani rolled her eyes again, locking down the ship the instant that this wannabe geisha found her way inside. The lid of her cruiser might've hit the top of her head if she was standing for much longer. Ilani always had to duck when moving between her pilot's seat and the hull. She ignored the woman's frantic pleas and promises, instead focused on firing up the engine and rocketing their way out. "Buckle up." Was all she said, a stray eye locking in on the only other seat in the ship. Before they could count down to ten, the ship was careening into the atmosphere.

The ground was littered with Yingya troops, she now found. One of which was Shenxin. He watched the tiny yellow spacecraft launch, and made sure to signal his base. "Yellow cruiser, in eviction site nine-nine-four. Just fled. Inquire registration." From there, the mothership would take care of this suspicious little cruiser. Where there was Yingya, there was no escaping, no hope for others.

Ilani's face was peeling back as she rode the intense friction of exiting the planet's atmosphere. Sparks and flame rolled off of the yellow, spinning body. When they finally ripped through the eggshell of Qi's home planet, everything descended into silence. Ilani liked it quiet. But it was quickly interrupted by a screech on her intercom. A muffled voice bleated out questions. "Requesting registration, you are in Yingya territory. Respond, or be annihilated." Ilani shrugged and slammed a button to quiet the intercom. Yingya didn't scare her.

She whipped quickly into hyperspeed and flew through space like it was her personal playground, dodging asteroids as her past time and laughing giddily. "So what's your name kiddo?" She said just before whipping the saucer around an incoming blast from the Yingya mother ship.