“do you think you could get a read out on this uniform and if it provides anything for her?” Hadley ran a hand over the crystal’s of the uniform. Looking over at the doctored as he spoke she raised her eyebrow. “I wish we had a proper read of her before this happened. Then we could tell what was normal for her race and what is not. You do what you can for her and then we will see what comes out of it.”

A grin broke acrossed Hadley’s face at Christine’s reaction to her winning the bet. “you know I love my food more then some love their shore leave. You just need to remember to be careful when betting me. What was that freshmen’s name that lost three hundred credits before you made me swear that I would never bet money again?” she straightened her uniform as her eyes looked passed Chris to the doctor and the alien. “you know the one that thought that I could not last longer than him in the water without coming up? You clamed I cheated knowing how to slow my need for oxygen.” It had been their first major fight as friends and had worried Hadley that she had gone to far.

“thank you commander.” Hunter saluted her and then smiled. “Wyvern wing will be ready to go at your scheduled time for training.” He winked at Chris as she spoke of putting EMP rounds in the training Magazines. He knew quite well that there was no way that they would lose a single pilot seeing how far into the black they were and the danger they would face if they did lose pilots to space. It was one thing to be blown up in the middle of real battle but another to be lost in space during training. The ships scanners alone could keep track of any one that went down to an EMP. “I will tell them that you have no care for screw ups and would be happy if the tail taggers got lost in space.” He saluted again and tuned to talk to his men who were a ways away waiting for orders.

“You know one of these days they are going to realize that you’re not the cold hearted woman you pretend to be.” Hadley said as she patted her shoulder. “I would hate to be in the middle of training with them when they realize that. You’re going to become the number one target.” She turned back her eyes wide with surprise at the pod as it spoke again but this time with some English.

“so you do have a learning program. Are you an AI, or just high function computer?” turning back she ran her hand along the skin of the ship. “What are you made of? It seems alive but there is no heat signature when you’re not running your engines.” Running her fingers along where the seam was she tried to find the pod opening. “can you link up with our computers? Would it help you to lean faster if we gave you a language database?”