Cara set her chin stubbornly. "Your gonna let me dress your wounds whether you like it or not, ok? We don't need you bleeding everywhere." Without waiting for his reply, she grabbed his good shoulder, sitting him down on a flat-surfaced rock. Ripping off the sleeves to her dress, she grabbed the container of water out of the small bag she had been carrying. Getting a smaller piece wet, she gently dabbed the access blood away from the gash in his shoulder. Ripping her sleeve into a strip, she began wrapping the wound, careful as not to touch it.

"Thanks...for helping my planet." She said quietly. Eyeing what he had cut out of the object, she smiled. "They're gonna be pissed when they find out."

Nexion stood there, she was basically demanding him to get better... An odd quality in the woman. But as he was forced down he had little choice when he sat down upon the ground. He allowed her to remove the excess blood, "aren't we demanding?" he said jokingly, feeling the red stanin in his clothing finally leave, he was still bledig at a rather large rate, "Plasma has the terrible habit of cutting rather deep with little effort, you might want to keep your hands on that blade..."

He listened to her thank you, replying as though it was really no big deal. "'ey! its nothing, I'm a space pig, its my job." he said with a smile, "Ah... Who cares, its either that or allow them to complete something that is potentially dangerous, from what it looks like they are planning to turn this planet into... Well..." he paused, wondering if he should really mention it, he held his tongue, "Something really bad..."

Cara smiled. "Yeah, I have a bit of a stubborn streak." She then motioned to the pirate's blade that she had set next to her. "Thanks for the tip, I'll keep it close." She finished wrapping his shoulder, and tied off the strip of cloth. Cara smiled smiled again, amused with his response, but her expression darkened a bit after he was done. Whatever he thinks is going to happen...I'm sure I'm not gonna like.. "You know what they're going to do." She looked him in the eyes, clenching her jaw. "I think I have the right to know what's going to happen to my planet.."

"Well, I'm sure some people are grateful for that stubborn streak in the long run, I already am." he said, adjusting his shoulder to see what kind of condition it was in, it looked to be managable, but he would have to keep it unmoving for a while. That might be a problem since that is his sword hand, but his other hand could suffice.

As she moved in closer, he was unmoving himself, hearing her words, he did little to react until she clenched his jaw, a shocker for him, but he did nothing too rash until he reached up to remove her hand from his jaw, "If you must know... From what It looks like... I'll tell you." he sighed, taking a deep breath before telling the story, "These pirates are well known about the galaxy as the Sons of Zona, although they do not consider themselves to be sky pirates, it is evident they do not fight in the common, battleship vs battleship tactics that have become a galaxy-wide addiction, they fight and strike in quickly, and if they can't find any use from something or find it too hard to take, they kill it." he paused, "Your planet has come into their sights as something of a great resource to them, Your planet is basically a mid-way point between most of the planets who are a member of the IPA, or the Intergalactic Protection Association. The way this looks, we are standing a meer few inches from a massive planet-sized artillery blaster, this is the cannon tip of it... as for the rest of the machine, I have no idea where it is, but if they complete it, they can hold 100s of billions of people for ransom with this gun, and in the process they are sucking every resource out of this planet and killing those who are not seen as useful by their standards.... Its a mass genocide for most of the planet..." it was a morbid story, and it was evident that he didn't enjoy telling it, so he ended with a sigh and a hand on her shoulder, "I'm sorry... But... I'll do what I can to stop it... if what i suspect is correct..."

Cara gave a him slight smile. "I can't do much else to help it..sorry."

She stared at him shock, letting herself fall back to sit on the ground. "So...basically...they're taking my planet's resources and most everyone here's lives to make a huge weapon.." We're all doomed. I'm gonna die.. Turning her eyes downward, she stared at the ground. Everyone I know is gonna die.. Her eyes watered, but she refused to let the tears flow. Biting her lip, she looked back at Nex. "Why do you care?"

Nex allowed her to absorb everything, he knew that she was holding back the sadness, just by looking at her it was rather obvious. He saw the watering of her eyes and reached up closer and put his other hand on her shoulder, "Well, think of it this way, if you saw a button that you could push that would save countless lives, would you do it?" he said, "I am the one to help find that button... I won't let you... And many others die for no reason at all... and even then death is something i do not want to accept..." He paused, "I won't let these people die... Alright..." he gave her a gentle hug, knowing she would most likely need it, he could see her pain.

Cara smiled, but grimly. "The two of us vs. all of them? I don't even know how to fight, and we're supposed to save the planet.." She chuckled darkly. Him hugging her wasn't expected, and caught her off guard, but she needed it. She hated letting people see her pain, but what the heck, after stabbing a guy in the neck her rules flew out the window. Cara returned his gentle hug, grateful for the comfort. She let a couple of tears slip, and cursed silently, wiping her face.

She pulled away from the hug, and looked at him. Trying to be optimistic, she sighed, thinking of how this would work. "So..this button we need to find. How do we go about finding it?"

Nexion smiled, "You'd be suprized what you could do with the right weapons, Space Pirates are simpler than you think when you have the right tools." He knew it seemed kind of 'out there', but he had a lot of big stories that would blow her mind, although most of him included him being behind the massive cannons of about a 100 feet wide boom stick. It still seemed to be a heroic story to him considering the fact that he was outnumbered, however, he was not outgunned. Nex felt a few drops of liquid fall onto his pants, indeed she couldn't help but let a few tears slip, he said nothing of it and kept hugging her until she broke away.

"Well, the first thing we need to get to press a button this big, is to get the finger big enough to press that massive button, the big finger I am speaking of is my starship of course, the space pirates took it from me before i could counterattack, and chances are that it is somewhere on this planet considering the fact that this place conveniently is swarming with space pirates." he said as he sighed, "Have you seen a massive, blue hunk of metal? Its hard to miss, its about the size of most mountains."

Cara looked at him, betting he'd have lots of interesting stories to tell, and half of her wanted to ask; however she didn't. "Well.." Massive, blue hunk of metal...massive, blue hunk of metal...aha! I was watching those vehicles earlier..there was only one blue one. "Actually, I saw something like that earlier. Umm. Is that it?" She pointed to a large piece of blue metal, that showed from over the tops of the trees.

Nex allowed her to ponder out loud as long as she needed to, he crossed his arms and hummed a tune to himself, then as she responded, a smile came upon his face as he turned around, seeing the 'blue hunk of metal' above the trees, it was much bigger than that... In fact, it was a scrap compared to his starship.

He walked over in the direction of the blue mass, seeing that it was not as tall as it appeared and realizing it was in the trees, he latched himself onto one of the branches and used his lean and easily liftable body to flip up to the top of the tree. Within a few minutes he reached the top, eying the pice of metal, he realized what it was.

"This is.... It is one of my fighters.... They tossed out..." he swallowed a lump in his throat, he was about to say something incredibly loud that he would regret, jumping down off of the tree, he looked at her, "That is part of the ship... Or rather.... some of the ship... Think.... Huge.... Something that could never be here within 1000 years.... From what it sounds like, i think you've seen it..." he said, a sweat upon his forehead now that the various options of what could have happened to his ship were hitting his head at high speeds. If it is salvaged for parts I swear I will shove my plasma sword so far up.....

The looked on his face was priceless, but scary. She was undecided on whether she should tell him anything else about it. Sighing, she thought back to earlier that day. "Well, there were a couple of other ones like that that they carried through my village earlier. There was also a few other blue pieces that looked a little different..They went two separate ways. Probably gonna sell or trade them for parts, that's what they usually do to other ships that end up around here." She shrugged, then thought about his face. I hope that hunk of metal isn't too important to him..I'm pretty sure they took it apart. She took a slight step away from him, just incase.

He paused for a moment, with a blank look upon his face, he took an exhale, "Okay.... I'm going to stay calm... Excuse me for a moment." Taking a slow walk to the nearest tree, he took one look at it and pulled his plasma sword out. He took several chops at the tree and turned it into logs, causning it to topple opposite from the direction of the two of them and release a massive smash through the forrest, "Those bastards! I'll carve them like a turkey for salvaging my ship for spare parts!" he said as he looked toward the sky, he took heavy breaths and looked at the figher again, then back at her. "You... Tell me where they were taking all of those ship parts from. I need to pay a visit and employ my own special form of diplomacy..." he had a slightly evil look in his eyes, but what kind of look would you have if your only transport was taken apart and sold as spare parts? That and spaceships were his passion...

Cara had expected as much, but the look on his face was menacing, and made her nervous. "It was brought to the warehouse. I think they took it apart there, so..yeah." She grabbed her blade, stood and thought for a moment. They had a warehouse by my village...but that would be gone by now. I'm guessing they weren't so stupid as to blow up their own stuff, so it would be in a new one. Which his fighter would be leading us to. Okay. "Well, considering that was a piece of your ship, and they evacuated the warehouse by my village ahead of time, wherever that piece is going, should take us to where it was."

Nex calmed down within a few moments, he then looked at her again, "Well, all we have to do is track it down from the fighter's homing beacon... Then we should be able to find at least the bridge... Other than that I can't really say where the other parts would be... it was a valuable ship... it has a lot of hard to get parts..." he paused, "It will take a lot of time for them to get the parts sold... So we have pleanty of time before they get anywhere with a deal on my parts..." he sighed, "I'm sorry for lashing out like that..."

Cara watched as he calmed down rather quickly. It was quite impressive, seeing as how his ship seemed very important to him. "That doesn't sound too hard. And if ya give them some nice encouragement they're sure to tell ya where your parts are." Hearing his apology, she grinned, gently patting his back. "It's okay, I was actually expecting worse. If you would've met me about 20 minutes sooner, I would've been doing something similar."

Nex looked at Cara for a moment as she spoke, "I'll persuade him quite hard then.... No mercy... No mercy indeed for anyone who messes with the Nexus..." he paused, looking at the ground, he was still regaining his composure. He then lifted his head as she patted his back, raising an eyebrow, his curiousity got the best of him, "Well then... What is your story...?"

The 'Nexus'. So it has a name. I think I like it. Cara sighed at his question. "Well, considering how my village was ransacked, some women were taken for...well, i shouldnt have to finish that, the buildings were destroyed and everyone who was left either fled or was killed..I think I had plenty to lash out at something for. In my case, it happened to be just screaming random bits of insanity and colorful language at the sky for a few minutes."

Nexius frowned a moment, He shouldn't have brought it up, but he knew that he really had no choice, now he knew where he must go... His tracking beacon began to act up soon after, he knew where the bridge of the ship was now. He removed the radar from the fighter and looked at it... "They delivered it.... 400 miles north of here.... That is a huge trip on foot...." he said as he looked to the north, sighing softly, "we might as well take a break in this town on the way there... its not like we can get there quickly..."

Cara sighed. "Damn..that's pretty far away. Ah, well..the town's only a couple minutes away." She liked the idea of resting, but didn't necessarily feel at ease for the moment. On the bright side..even though he was probably used to different, hightech stuff, the next town is fairly nice. "It's a rather nice town for my planet. It shouldn't be too bad, for you." She hoped that might lighten the mood a bit, not enjoying the tense atmosphere. Cara walked over to the trail again, starting to the next town.

[sorry for the short posts, i'm getting tired and losing patience... x.x]

Nex nodded as she spoke yet again, he knew it was far away, he didn't need her to repeat it, but most people were inclined to state the obvious, it didn't bother him, but he thought personally it was funny. "Yes... But the beacon is over 400 miles away, unless we get something that can go rather fast... Its going to be a long walk that I am not looking forward to." he nodded shortly after, then following her along at the trail.

He noticed that she was still wearing her previous ragged dress, he thought she deserved better. He fished around in his large pockets for something that he would give her, after a moment of fishing he pulled out a small belt that could was a 'one size fits all belt' it adjusted to the size of the waist of the wearer. Stopping Cara with his hand again he turned her around and handed her the belt, "Put that around your waist, press down the button in the center of it and think of the best pair of clothing you could ever want in your entire life."

[its ok, my brain hasn't been with me, so same here]

"The town should have a stable..horses would go a little faster. But if we happened to jump a space pirate with a ship, that might be nice." Yes, flying. Wonder what it's like..Suppose it's nothing like riding a horse. When he stopped her again, she was confused. Cara had seen a belt before, on a man. And what would thinking about clothes do? "Uh. Okay.." She put the belt around her waist, and to her surprise it fit perfectly. Okay, think. Obviously nothing like I'm wearing now..ooh! during the last raid, Cara had seen a woman space pirate among the men. Of course, she had been wearing the nicest clothes she'd ever seen; all black leather. That's the outfit. Unsure of what would happen, Cara gently pressed the button in the center.

Nex allowed her to think of her suit and awaited eagerly at exactly what she decided on, he smiled and watched her the entire time, wondering what her tastes were in. As she finally thought of it, he watched as her finger depressed the button upon her belt, it didn't take long as a blue light enveloped her for a few seconds, the brightest section of the light starting at the bottom of her feet, and traveling until it reached above her head, dawning her in the form fitting leather of the space pirate.

Nex paused, he had seen several women in space pirate uniforms, and he did not expect her to choose one. Another thing he didn't expect was the way the form fitting uniform seemed... To slightly expose her for exactly how she was shaped like. Nexion swallowed a lump in his throat, the only time he was nervous is when he saw women that were in form fitting uniforms, or on a further scale... Naked. Nexion blushed a bit, but he hid it behind his mouth, "I had never realized how.... Well.... Pretty you looked...." he paused, backing up a few feet, the last woman he said that too thought he just wanted to get in her pants and he ended up with a big, red mark across his face. "I didn't mean anything by it... I only meant the most respect!"

Cara, looked down, surprised at what had happened. I'm wearing the-the.. Before she really knew what she was doing, she gave Nex a huge hug. Blushing embarrassedly, she quickly let go. "Um. Sorry about that..And thank you for the belt..oufit." She looked up at him, seeing a look she hadn't seen on his face before. She blushed again, after his comment, watching him back away. Cara bit back a laugh. "Thank you, Nex..I'm not gonna hurt you, dunno why you're backing away." She admired the smooth, black leather that she was now wearing. I owe him big time.

They were now near the edge of the forrest, and there was sounds of human civilization coming from the new area. "Anyways, there's the village." Cara pointed through the trees, at the rather large (to her) village they were now about to enter. Villagers were going through the streets, making conversation, shopping, playing, working. Much different from the forrest environment.

Nex did not like this side of him, he wanted to get it pushed away about as soon as possible, but that seemed to not want to go away anytime soon as she gave him a rather large hug. Nex gently returned it, his hands to her back and resting there for a moment to return the hug, he felt as though he was touching bare skin, feeling the shape of the skin on her back only for a second, it made him blush even more, and when he pulled away he smiled a bit, "Last time I said that that person gave me a big slap across the face... She thought I wanted in her pants..." he removed a light sweat from his forehead and finally calmed down, "You picked one of the.... suits that had to be something that would cause my heart to jump into my throat...." He said with a small smile, finally calming down entirely and looking toward the village, now was the time to be a bit more serious.

As the two finally had reached the village after what had seemed an eternity of walking, although it was actually not too far. He looked at as much of the village he could from where the two stood, it seemed to be one of the few bustling cities in this dull planet, he was considering getting something to remember, but he knew that there was little time. "Well.... are you familiar of this town or am I stuck wandering and hope i end out somewhere good?"

Cara lightly laughed. "Well, I didn't think you'd mean it that way..and sorry if it surprised you." Looking over the village, she grinned. Cara hadn't been here in a while, but she knew her way around. "I'm a bit familiar with this place..I'd gladly show you to where you want to go, but it might help if you tell me where it is you want to end up." She glanced at him, then turned back towards the busy streets.