(Remaster) The Ship of the Tempest

Deal with Your Devil

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Baby blue eyes turned to the door, a smile coming to her face as she put away the last of her syringes and spare bandages. "Enterprise! It's rare to see you coming to the Clinic on your own free will."

"It's good to see you too Vestal." The Carrier looked around the room, noting how quiet it was. "Is there no one else in the Infirmary?"

"Not now. Everyone has been healthy and free of injury lately, so I've been tending more to the Black Cube's research."

'Oh? This sounds interesting.' She hummed, acting as if she knew what that was. "And how's it going so far?"

"To be honest? I hit a roadblock long ago. The only time we noted anything different to it was when you touched it and your eyes went yellow, but beyond that, nothing."

The Nurse/Nun turned to the desk, sifting through the documents scattered on it that she was working on earlier in search of a specific one, that which Enterprise didn't know. In the meantime, the Carrier digested the information given to her, a hand to her chin as she fell in thought.

'So Enterprise interacted with that cube, and that weird Siren version of her appeared? Not only that, but it spoke like it knew me...or at least, was told about me. Enterprise was basically in the dark about me otherwise.'

She looked back to Vestal, seeing her back was still turned as she mumbled to herself, now checking under the table incase the paper fell down there. A smirk came to Enterprise's face, as she silently crept closer.

"Vestal, when you're done there, do your think I can help with the research?"

"I'd love the assistance, since you're the only one it's reacted to anyways. Once I find that damn log entry, I'll come join you...you remember the room right? Down the hall with the Scanner?"

"...Yeah, I remember it." She was stood over Vestal, her hand up high as her eyes were completely replaced with the Crimson red ones of Z73.

"Good! I'll be seeing you the-"

Splat!
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Some minutes passed before the door to the Clinical Office opened again, Vestal poking her head out to look around before walking into the halls with a Manila folder in hand. She continued down the hall at an even and slow pace, eyes locked on the solid black metal door at the end.

Though, she did stop partway down, seeing that the room next to her was named "Summoning Room". She smiled and went inside, seeing a pool of bright blue water with a load of machines surrounding it, probably as a way to regenerate the bodies and riggings of dead Kansen from their cube.

Speaking of which, she had pulled out Enterprise's cube for just that purpose.

"Don't worry Enty, you'll be back and awake before you know it." Vestal's angelic voice was ruined by the dangerous undertones of the one truly behind her eyes, as Z73 had already changed her visage to that of the Repair ship.

She put the Cube into a receptacle, pressing a button as the Machine went about its job. It would take a while to finish, so she left the room behind and continued to the door.

There was a screen next to the door, one with a camera on the front that turned green as she approached. "Please stay Eye-height for scanning."

Vestal bent down a little to let the Scanner do it's job, and after a few second of waiting, the light turned blue as the door hissed open. "Access Granted."

"Heh, stupid machine." The dangerous smirk on her face quickly faded as she entered the room, making sure the door closed behind her before the lights suddenly turned on.