*Arius and Alice had to break off from their allies during the evacuation off of Okeana, the pair had been pinned down by a decent sized group of kennet forces. Alice managed to take out the forces with her sniper rifle as Arius ran from tree to tree, keeping the enemy back with suppressive fire as he did so. Eventually, they fought their way onto a kennet dropship and took off. Alice’s cybernetic components helped her to datamine the ship to enable her to utilize the flight controls. Arius was leaned against a wall, his shoulder had blood running down it, several kennet rounds pierced it during their last push to the dropship. Alice was able to finish off the last few soldiers and drag Arius aboard. Now that they were in deep space, Alice set the controls to automatic piloting and knelt down besides Arius. Her azure mechanical eye shifted in contrast to her own natural blue eye. Arius feigned a smile*
Arius: Guess I owe you again.
Alice: Are you ok?
Arius: Never better, he-owww!
*Alice had began to suter the wound while Arius spoke*
Arius: A...little warning.
Alice: ...
*Alice methodically worked the wound until until it was fully closed, then she sat back and once again stared robotically at Arius. Arius grimaced as he tried to move his shoulder as if nothing was wrong*
Arius: Thanks, we should probably go to the nearest system, if Samus and the others made it off world, they’ll probably be there.
Alice: The witch.
Arius: I know you want to take her down, believe me I do to, she turned Martin into a dark energy pawn of hers and her powers are scary as hell. Problem is we don’t know where Martin or the witch is at all.
*Alice still fought through her two clashing minds, speech was still hard for her to process but it had been improving, or at least Arius said it had. Alice thought he was too optimistic for a marine but his skills in a fight went without speaking, the two sat in quietness for a good while*
