Ghost Ship

Undercover Cap

"Maybe we can negotiate with them, like she gets them for one week and you get them for the-," said the captain, trying to fill the silence.

"William no, there's no negotiating with her, she hasn't negotiated with me in the past so nothing going to change now" yelled out Avvoltoio as they looked at the captain.

"It's weird though, I've never seen Tacchina act like that before" muttered Avvoltoio as they looked away from the captain.

The captain moves his chair closer to Avvoltoio as he says, "Look maybe if she won't listen to you Avvoltoio, she might listen to me, do you know where they would be heading?"

Avvoltoio snickers as they say, "Well you can sure as hell try but it's your funeral, if you want to know where they're heading my guess would be Comedienne, which if you go through the east gate, should be just on the opposite side of this street, you will get there fairly quickly so I would start looking there."

"Avvoltoio... thank you," said the Captain as Avvoltoio mutters "Don't mention it" before the captain races out of the door. The captain rushes down the empty street, filled with adrenaline as he sees Merlo and Pavona but he's too late as by the time he makes it to the east gate, they're already flying, except for Merlo who's more being carried by Oca than flying. The captain takes a minute to catch his breath as he looks out to what looks like an endless dessert before asking ARG-05 "ARGOS w-what do we do, what should I do?"

ARG-05 glitches for a few seconds before replying "Hold on Captain let me scan my records, I may have an image of the two cities, and I may be able to create a path". The captain sits down as ARG-05 looks through his records, finding what he was looking for fairly quickly and continues "Okay so by the looks of it if you run in a straight line at an estimated 10.6 kilometres per hour or 6.5865 miles per hour then you should be able to get there at the same time they arrive".

The captain stands up and says "Okay" before going into a full sprint. He makes it to Comedienne which looked like a mix of an industrial revolution city and a medieval village. Once he's closer to the gate he spots some guardsmen who looked like sheep who are standing two legs but are more colourful along with also spotting Merlo and the rest of their family past the gate. He's about to run straight past the guardsmen but he's stopped by them blocking the path with their spears as they yell "Halt only Osservas and Loculators are allowed in Comedienne".

"I- what?" said the captain, completely taken aback.

"You heard us human, only Atrium Loculatores and Occhi dell'osservatores are allowed in so scram," said one of the guardsmen, pointing his spear at the captain's helmet.

"Alright alright I get it, I'm leaving," said the captain before walking around the wall surrounding the town, out of their view before whispering to ARG-05 "We have to get over that wall". Before ARG-05 can respond, the captain tries multiple ways to climb up the wall, but he just can't reach it. He stops, finally running out of ideas to climb over the wall as it was just too smooth and tall to properly grab onto anything. As ARG-05 switches to his side-eye expression, the captain gets an idea to pretend to be a Loculator and sneak in, but he couldn't think of a way to get the materials before he gets another idea. Almost immediately, the captain begins taking off his life support system as ARG-05, who's switched to his confused expression, asking "Captain, what are you doing?"

The captain lifts ARG-05 so he can barely see over the wall before replying with "I have an idea which is to sneak in by looking like one of them, I'd say that we'll need paint and a coat which looks their wool, can you see that, ARGOS?"

ARG-05 looks over the wall for a moment before switching to his idle expression whilst saying "Yes, I see them Captain", the captain immediately replies, "Good now I can't get over that wall so I'm going to have to throw you, okay, I'll give you a countdown though alright?"