Log:Overlord, Scene 1

Overlord's Arrival 2018/02/23 	 Spirit Annie Emi Wonder Sapphire Chen Impetus Grimm

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The reception area has muted black tiled floor, with the walls and roof painted off-white. The secretarial desk enclosure is barely twenty feet from the double set of glass doors. To its left is a large double-hinged door ominously labeled 'Security'. A seating area full of soft couches is to the right. Down the hallway that leads deeper into the building is the office of the Director of Operations and the exit to the landing field outside.

Urgink is a Lord of the Rings Orc, a brutal faced seven foot high hugely muscled hulk wearing furs and scraps of mismatched armor. A massive double bladed battle axe is slung over his shoulder.

The winter seems to have taken a vacation. It's a good 70F outside in February. But that feeling of warmth brings with it some rain. And some potential bad tidings. Commander Perrault calls together some of the local heroes to the conference room to discuss things, as well as perhaps get some intel. He made a special request to Emi to have her show up, in addition.

Urgink enters and approaches the deception desk. "Me Urgink Elf-Slayer. Here for metting." he tells the receptionist in a gravelly harsh voice.

The receptionist doesn't look amused. But directs the orc down the hall to the conference room.

Urgink nods to the receptionist and heads down the hall to the conference room.

Wonder entered as Wonder, but on seeing Chen promptly shifts to a grey-cloaked bow-carrying elf. "I'm here for the meeting too," he tells the receptionist.

Emi sits at the conference table, her tail swishing back and forth anxiously, uncomfortable in such an official setting (she arrived early, on account of being nervous (and having nothing better to do)).

Grimm walks into the briefing room in her Starguard uniform. The only difference is hers is monochromatic to fit her personal tastes. She's in Gamma, not Starguard proper, so no need for the full official uniform. And it's one she only wears when on official business. "Morning, Commander," she says politely, dark circles under her eyes as she sits down. She reaches up and grasps at air, and a mug of hot coffee manifests in her hand, steaming and made exactly to her preferences. "Mmmmmm, just what I needed," she murmurs as she sips her coffee and leans back in her chair. The steam rising off the coffee curls into the shape of a heart.

Impetus is returning from a test flight of the W.H.I.T.E. suit and is on his way to change and drop th esuit off in its holding case in the Motorpool when he sees the meeting being called by the Commander in a StarGuard memo. Deciding to have osme facetime with the Commander and the lcoal heroes would be a good way to learn about how things work here at Gamma Base. So its not long before he comes flying down the hall- fluidly moving around obstacles like a swimmer.

He lands just outside the conference room and walks over to take a seat at the conference table. He nods to Emi, glad to see a face he recognizes- though its liekyl she won't recognize him in his flightsuit.

Seeing he's across form Grimm he smiles and waves politely as well.

Dorian nods and smiles to each arrival, though he raises a brow as the orc arrives. . o O (Whatever. It's not like the day's going to get worse.) "There are some pastries and coffee over on the table in the back. Help yourselves."

Dorian(#2348POeACF?)

This man stands about five and a half feet tall, and is moderately good looking. He has blue eyes...brown hair cut into a crew cut, and a goatee.

He's currently wearing a standard regulation navy blue Starguard Gamma uniform with a grey inset stripe down the left side of the torso and a Starguard logo on the upper right side. The rank on the shoulder identifies him as a Commander. It's a far cry from his normal relatively casual mode of dress.

Emi looks over at the table and a golden beam of light shines from her eye. It looks onto a pastry and moves it over to her.

Orb is just flying through the alien district. He appears to be in a casual flight through the sky, but is using this oppetunity to try to see what is happening at Starguard. It's annoying to not be able to hear anything that is going on, but Orb isn't currently of the mind to come in to find out.

Wonder enters the office not long after the orc, at whom he wrinkles his nose. "Orch!"

Urgink looks at the coffee cups and shakes his head. Emptying a water jug into a wastebucket he fills the jug with coffee, drops in a large handful of sugar cubes and slurps noisily. "Good!"

Dorian smiles, though it's fleeting. He says, "Thank you all for coming. This is...part briefing and part intel gathering." He brings up a picture on a viewscreen of the destruction of a planet from several months ago. Many of you may be familiar with the being known as 'Harbinger' who arrived here as some kind of...precursor to something called 'Overlord'."

Dorian continues, "Harbinger is being held up on Tranquility currently. But we tracked the signal he sent to his master, and we believed we had cut it off in time. But we witnessed the destruction of a planet in another solar system."

Annie leaves Starguard - Reception Area and enters Alien District.

Wonder says, "Ai! A planet?!"

Grimm may be dead on arrival until she takes a sip of her coffee. She waves to Impetus casually, not knowing the agent. As she does so, her shadow slides away from her and towards the back table, before...standing upright? It rises up from the crowd, semi-transparent and looking almost two dimensional, until it grabs two cherry danishes and glides back to Grimm. It deposits one in her hand, then suddenly drops back down to the floor, the second danish falling on the floor with it. "Thanks," Grimm says to her shadow. An invisible bite is taken out of the floor danish in response.

Gabrielle Grimm taps her temple, and a pair of sunglasses appear on her face to shade her eyes. "Heavy," she murmurs, not even sitting up more at the revelation.

Dorian nods. "A full sized planet." On screen, you can see video of the actual destruction. There are pillars around the planet all apparently pulling energy from the orb itself and pulling it to one location on the surface. The planet explodes shortly thereafter. "We left after recording this, and hoped that we wouldn't be followed."

Annie enters from Alien District.

Emi ;'s flatten in terror. "N-nya..."

Impetus was about to use his own powers to grab for a pastry and some coffee but it seems like everyone's doing that. So he removes his gauntlets before standing up, then he grabs a jelly-filled something or other by hand with a pair of tongs and and returns to his chair.

He removes his helmet and sets it on the table and gasps from the news presented before he could take a bite of his donut. He's defintiely sure that that might have been above his paygrade because he was not aware of that ever happening. That said, he's been slacking on catching up on Gamma related mission briefings. He mentally chides himself before nodding to the Commander.

Dorian continues, "We have had two things happen in the meantime. First, a former SGD agent, named Charles Jacobs started having visions. He has the ability to see into multiple dimensions. And in some of those dimensions, the Earth is no longer there."

Urgink speaks in his gravelly harsh voice, "Commander. You don't want us." He waves an encompassing arm around the assembled metas. "You need the heavies. Paragon. My Aunts, Sasha, et al.. And get Porter to join the enemy. That would doom hin."

Dorian shakes his head, "No, this is going to be something for everyone to be aware of. And we'll likely need everyone's help if it's as bad as I think it might be."

Emi thinks. o O (Ohgodohgodohgodohgodohgodohgodohgodwe'reallgoingtodie.)

"There's a lot of dimensions out there. A lot of earths not existing," murmurs Grimm, a dimensional traveller herself. "You look hard enough, you'll always find a dimension or ten with some odd outlier."

Urgink nods, "Of course I'll help. We all will. But a Planet Killer? Even I know that's out of my league."

Impetus doesn't disagree with the Orc, though he's never heard of any Orcs in what few mission briefs he's been privvy to so far, so he's unsure who this orc's aunts are.

"You said there was as second event, Commander?" He asks, wanting to hear the rest of the evidence before sliding into a tangent on dimensional theory.

Dorian pulls up another picture on screen. A map of the solar system. With a blip at the outer edge. "We picked up...something at the outer edge of the system. We can't get a fix on the shape. I could fly out there and look for myself, but I had another idea."

Wonder just stares. Not having heard of the Harbinger or the Overlord, he's dumbfounded.

Dorian turns to Emi, "I've seen some of the camera work you've done. And I'd like to get a recording of what's out there. I'm not asking you to do anything like fight. Just see what's out there."

Grimm leans forward and squints at the speck. "Man, I really hope that's just a friendly vessel," she says under her breath. Her shadow takes another bite of its danish.

Emi swallows nervously. "O-OK? Um, I can get there in tw-twenty minutes or so. Sh-should I go now?" . o O (I can't exactly refuse if the Earth's in danger, there's no where I can run.)

Urgink asks, "Emi, can you take someone else with you?"

Emi nods. "Um, I think? If they can survive in space on their own. Or, um, in a suit I guess?"

Dorian grins, "You agree way quicker than I expected. I also wanted to say...I'll do what I can to loosen SG's monitoring of you."

Urgink grins, displaying some BIG teeth. "I'll be the suit." He looks at Dorian, "Paragon Armor." he says possibly rather cryptically.

Annie just followed the smell of coffee and donuts. A hand and arm or three snake across the room and beween people to grab up some. "Sounds like somebody needs to build themselves a new planet."

Wonder shakes his head, shifting back to Wonder as he does so - the elf thing not really seeming right given the gravity of the situation.

Dorian glances toward Annie, "Pretty sure all the inhabitants died. Though I'm not sure how much population there was on the planet."

Wonder says, "... it was inhabited?!"

Emi nibbles on her pastry like a mouse. "Y-you're not thinking that because I have a Forerunner energy signature that whoever is out there might get scared and run, are you?"

Dorian nods. "We can't confirm the existence of inhabitants or not, sadly." He answers Emi then, "If they leave, then my blood pressure drops. So...yay."

Amplitude says, "Assuming it's a ship, of course."

Urgink moves across the conference room and gives Wonder a hug if Wonder allows. "Welcome back to Colonial Bay. Nothing's changed while you were gone."

Orb isn't getting much out of this. Or out of much else, seeing how popular verbal communication seems to be. But the airborne Orb has all the time in the world, to watch from afar, and wait, slowly collecting information. But perhaps too slowly. Orb wonders what a faster and more efficient way might be. Maybe it's time to engineer another apparatus. Ideas...

Wonder hugs. But says, "I dunno. I don't think anyone was going to blow up the whole planet last time I was here."

Emi mutters to herself. "Or they don't detect me and fire everything they have at me..."

Urgink looks over at Emi, "If they fire a planet killer at you we both die. Anything less and you should be safe."

Wonder finally thinks of something useful to ask. "Do we know why this Overlord is blowing up planets?"

The rookie agent and hero, Impetus just stares at the pictures presented with his mouth hanging open and his donut hanging there, waitign to be eaten. He is clearly shocked at all of this.

Dorian looks to Emi, "If it...they...make any moves toward you at all, I want you to run." He answers Wonder, "We know he consumes them. As to why, exactly, we're not sure. Contacts in the Guild were unable to give me more than that."

Grimm munches on her danish, still studying the picture as she chews slower than normal. Well, there's always that utopia dimension to retire to. The one Forge refuses to move to because, well, a hero's got to do what a hero's got to do to make their own world better. But no world, no reason to to move.

Annie says, "Oh," then shrugs while inhaling a cinnamon roll, "guess they wouldn't need to build or find a new one then. So where's this thingy you want looked at, again? Planet killers don't anx us none.""

Annie isn't a planet, so would be perfectly safe!

Wonder says, "I don't see how anyone can do anything without knowing more about what we're up again. I mean, we could cover the Earth in anchovies if we knew he didn't like the taste. But....""

Dorian nods. "Emi, if you need a camera to record with, I have one for you to take with you."

Emi shakes her head. "I remember everything, um, if you're fine with just optical and infrared imagery."

Dorian nods. "That works for me. As long as you can...play it back or something, so we can get a recording of it?"

Emi nods. "I-I can transmit and receive radio signals, so I can transfer what I remember as data."

Impetus (unmasked currently), says "I've seen her stuff- she can send you the recording. it works just fine with my home VR-system, sir." He explains.

Dorian nods. "That would be perfect, then."

"My crystal also transmits and receives signals." says Sapphire as she makes her way into the room. She has her usual uniform on... a skintight all blue bodysuit. Simple along the lines of less is more. Blue eyes and blue hair complete the look, along with a Starguard insignia on her left breast. "I can also assist with transportation should the need arise."

Dorian nods as Sapphire arrives. "Glad you're here. I'd like you to go along as an escort as well. Just to make sure Emi doesn't run afoul of any problems. So, we'd have three people out there, with...Chen, I'm guessing....acting as protection for Emi as well."

Emi looks at Sapphire. "Um, if she can fly faster than light, and record what's out there, do I have to go?"

"More eyes are better than less. I can't just fly that fast alone. I need to summon my Sapphire spaceplane." offers Sapphire. "Which has room and life support for up to four others. So, who wants to go with?" she asks with a bit of a grin.

Chen morphs back to her most frequent form, "Yes, Chen." she confirms.

Impetus raises his hand!

[To Sapphire] Wonder says, "Sounds cool! But am I any hel on a scouting mission?"

Grimm raises her hand with a casual limp wrist. Hungover and going into space. Just another day ending in y.

Grimm slurps her coffee. "I could probably conceal our presence."

Annie raises a hand, grown just for that purpose, while she noms down another donut and coffee. "We can totes go. Ain't met any planet-anxing space peoples yet..."

Dorian listens to Annie and mutters to himself about needing a translator.

The rookie agent, Impetus pulls out his PDA and logs into the StarGuard intranet. He begins pulling up all the files he has access to on the events brought up today.

Glancing to Wonder, Sapphire lifts a brow, "Everyone with eyes can contribute. A brain is useful as well." she offers with a shrug. "I just have limited space..." she inclines her head, "we could squeeze a couple extra in, but it would be a tight fit."

Emi tries to erase her presence. . o O (I'm not needed. I can leave now. I'm not needed. I can leave now. I'm not needed. I can leave now.)

Wonder shrinks down to about quarter of his height. "If it helps."

Laughing, Sapphire nods, "That does help. So.." she gestures to Emi, "You." and then to Impetus. "You seemed enthusiastic. Chen.." she nods to Chen then and looks about, "And Grimm? You look like you could use a V8 with tobasco sauce in it." she mutters.

Dorian seems to notice Emi's reticence. He walks over and offers his hand to her. "Thanks again for helping. I know you don't have to, but I appreciate it all the same."

"I wasn't expecting an emergency call today," Gabrielle snarks defensively. "But aside from a bit of light sensitivity and a headache, I'm fine," she says as she pushes her sunglasses up further along the bridge of her nose.

Emi smiles awkwardly at Dorian, as if to reassure him that she feels reassured.

Chen gives Wonder another hug in her own form and then goes over to Emi and Dorian, "Don't worry. You'll have better defences than a main battle tank."

Emi looks worried. "Don't tanks get blown up a lot?"

Chen laughs, "Yes. But they aren't half as tough at you'll be with me armoring you."

"My plane isn't really armored or armed, so... it's a transport pure and simple. If we run into combat, it's going to be difficult. But it -is- very fast." offers Sapphire. "So, if we could have some suits on hand for emergency space survival, that would be great."

"Right. I'll be able ot put a bubble around you guys too... I think. I'm sure. So hopefully we'll never need to test..." He looks to Chen. "Our orc friend's hide with a nod." He smiles and takes a bite of his donut. "Or if things go south, I can backup the plane's defenses the same way- but just one though. So we'll still want to be careful." He adds. He's read the specs of the suit and he's creted a defensive bubble a few times- once even under duress.

Wonder says, "Suits might be good too. Even if you can do bubbles. TO be on the safe side."

"Oh I don't disagree. I want a space suit." Impetus adds

The reception area has muted black tiled floor, with the walls and roof painted off-white. The secretarial desk enclosure is barely twenty feet from the double set of glass doors. To its left is a large double-hinged door ominously labeled 'Security'. A seating area full of soft couches is to the right. Down the hallway that leads deeper into the building is the office of the Director of Operations and the exit to the landing field outside.

Chen hopes she doesn't freak Emi out when she morphs into a blob and then flows all over Emi before forming herself into a armored battle suit.

Emi panics naturally. It's nothing personal, it's just what she does. "Nya!?"

Chen speaks from within the suit, "Just think of me as a protective suit, Emi. More protection is better, right?"

Either way, the jet isn't on the pad when folks head out there. But Sapphire lifts her right hand and energy floods from the crystal embedded in her hand. Indeed, it looks like the thing goes through the bones, but it doesn't impede her at all. It only takes a few moments, but the sapphire blue energy coalesces into the form of what looks to be a late 1950's or early 1960's fighter jet, but a bit oversized. "Good thing the innards don't really have engines and such, that's where the passenger seats are." she remarks as a ramp lowers to let folks in.

She walks up the ramp and heads for the cockpit. "Everyone buckle in." she suggests as seats and belts form along the sides of the fuselage.

Impetus is pretty sure this is not what he asked for. He asked for a spacesuit- not a hodgepodge of the WHITE suit primary components and a space suit. The boys in R&D assured him they'v ebene working on this and this is just a prototype.

He flies along with the others and buckles in nervously.

Emi mutters, "I've never even had a girlfriend."

Emi looks for something to grab on to on the outside of the plane.

Annie watches Chen ooze all over and grins, giving Emi another thought, "Or she's just groping you all over at once?" Then there's a glowing blue plane and her attention shifts in Planck time. "Woo!" She hops up to stand on the nose, leaning forward with arms out.

Wonder straps in. Getting small doesn't actually work, given he has to wear a spacesuit.

Grimm sinks into a seat, scrunching up a bit. She's short and doesn't take up much space. "Just let me know when we're close and I'll try to camoflage us. But I can't keep it up for long."

"You're not a hood ornament." mutters Sapphire to Annie as she settles into the pilot's seat. "We have artificial gravity aboard to compensate for the acceleration too, but.. I hope you are all okay with a bit of force. The seats turn to face forward during hard accel." she announces as she starts the thing up. Oddly, it -sounds- like a jet airplane. But once everyone is ready, she sets the VTOL and the plane starts to lift upwards.

Emi closes her eyes and mentally adjusts her strength to maximum as she holds on to the outside.

Impetus takes note of everything as he knows he'll need it for his report.

Chen tells Emi, "No need to squeeze so hard. Just use normal strength. I'll amplify your strength as much as is required."

Impetus nullifies his own weight- something he's been able to do since he wa sa small child. it isn't much, but Cade is nothing if not helpful.

And.. once the plane is up, the engines kick in. Really it just projects itself due to the nature of the energy, but it's all in the presentation and imagination of the wielder of the crystal. The acceleration is pretty strong, getting up to Mach 10 fairly quickly. But soon after that, the atmosphere darkens, and turns indigo before going to black with the stars far more visible, "And.. we are in space people. Time for the -real- acceleration."

And.. with that, the plane surges forward, achieving C-fractional speeds.

Chen speaks to Emi again, "Stop squeezing so hard. You're hurting my hand."

Wonder avoids having internal organs for the acceleration bit. Just to be on the safe side.

Grimm waits until they're in space to realize...this blue stands out a bit. Perhaps she can fix it. "We stand out a bit looking like this," she says as she touches the side panel and focuses.

Emi dials back her strength. "S-sorry."

The jet screams out to the target zone, fairly close to Pluto. The area in question has a vague sensor blip, but nothing can be seen yet. But it is dark, after all. It's space.

There's a black area in space, where the stars seem to be blotted out. Almost like something is covering them up. It seems to coincide with the supposed contact location, give or take. Whatever it is...is large. Based on the size, it could be as large as Pluto itself.

Not the smartest idea, but Vicki -does- have floodlights on the plane. She activates them and bright blue light pours out towards that dark spot. "Hold on people." she remarks as she banks to approach it.

Annie @whees and enjoys the wind in her hair. Until there isn't any wind anymore. :(

Chen is surprised when floodlights switch on, "I thought this was supposed to be a quiet sneaky scouting mission." she says, although only Emi will hear her.

Wonder says, "I thought so too. Though I guess, 'we saw something big and black' wouldn't help much."

Impetus nods his head in agreement with Chen but he doesn't say anything. This is a Gamma op- not necessarily a StarGuard one. Irreverency for protocol is to be expected.

The light doesn't help until the ship is a little closer to the target. And then it becomes a bit clearer. It looks like a single large space ship of some kind. It's built like a hollow cylinder, with the outer ring looking like a series of columns arrainged in a cicle. All of the outer posts seem to be connected to an inner structure in the middle of the circle. No lights are apparent on it, and no obvious means of propulsion, either.

Grimm sighs as she makes the ship turn inky black like the one they're scouting. Until the lights go on. "Brilliant..."

Wonder says, "It's the planet-killer. Great."

Intel gathering sometimes requires -some- risks be taken. Sapphire banks the jet about and eyes the structure of the ship. "That is definitely something new. Perhaps we should inform the real guild of this thing's presence. But do you think they might just stand back and cheer while eating popcorn?" she asks as she circles the thing as closely as she dares get. But while everyone is looking at the ship, she's looking forward, to try to spot anything like.. small craft being launched, or whatnot... before those things spot our intrepid heroes.

Chen suggests, "Well since we've announced our presence we might as well land on it and say Hi."

Emi transmits via radio. "Um, is that the Overlord? Or something else?" She switches her bioreinforcement to maximum."

Annie hasn't been in space in a while, and that was less flying and more ...falling out of orbit. It's a little more fun this time. She waves to the giant ... is it a moon or a space station? Or something else? She tries to yell at it, but near-perfect vacuum makes it pretty impossible for sond to go anywhere.

There appear to be smaller drone-like ships flitting around the exterior. They are black on black, like the larger vessel, and appear to be running some kind of maintenance. At least until the Sapphite Jet (TM) gets close enough. Several of them peel off. Perhaps a dozen, falling into two formations of six, each of which is a ring. The two formations arc toward the jet.

"We've got incoming guys!" Impetus shouts urgently.

The smaller vessels are shaped similarly, like hollow tubes, but each has what appear to be stabilizing fins, despite the lack of a need for them in space.

"Huh?" asks Sapphire. She hadn't noticed them. But the moment company is announced, she presses the throttle forward all the way. Her only real combat capabilities are the passengers themselves, and raw speed. She hopes she can outpace these things without having to go to FTL. But she angles awway from the ship...

Emi panics, naturally. "H-hang on, um, Chen, I'm going to jaunt." A blue glow surrounds her.

Impetus mentally prepares himself and charges up the psychokinetic capacitors in his gauntlet. He's doing everythign he can to make sure he can bubble the crew and as much of the ship as he can in time.

The intercepting ships are clearly sending a signal of some kind back to the main vessel. It sounds like a high pitched squeal over a radio band. The signal intensifies as the intercepting ships get to just about theoreticaly firing range for weaponry. But the ships stop dead, like they had no momentum. The Sapphire Jet manages to increase the distance, but the picket ships remain where they are, not following.

"No surprise, those drones are using some sort of EM comms to communicate with the mother ship." remarks Sapphire as she peels off, accelerating hard. "So, should we head back? Or just send data back and keep scouting to see what else we can find out? Thoughts?"

Then she shakes her head, "Well, sending word back is going to happen either way." she remarks, "Just in case." and so she transmits a burst of all of the findings thus far and requests further instructions.

Grimm grits her teeth as the ships start coming their way and they start flying away. "Well, great, not much I can do about hiding us now. But if we're close enough, I could get inside for a peek inside."

"I'll go too- if you can get two people inside. Better to have some backup." The rookie, Impetus says before adding, "Well if we decide to go back to the ship."

A signal comes back from Earth. << Just record and come back. We'll track it further from here. Do not engage or try to alarm the alien craft in any way. >>

Grimm looks to Impetus and nods. "I think I could open a gate inside."

Grimm hears the radioed instructions. "Well...looks like orders are to stand down."

Impetus is secretly grateful that orders came in to stand down. Not that he wasn't prepared to go- he just rather wouldn't. There are other teams, of real professionals who are much more capable than him that should handle face to face engagement.

Emi had teleported a ways away, but came back when there was no boom.

"Copy. But we've already provoked a response from them. We have volunteers to get an internal view. Please advise." says Sapphire as she looks to the others and shrugs.

The circles of picket ships pivot upward, so the jet can now see the top of the circles. And the ships start to rotate slowly.

Emi listens to the radio signals and tries to understand them.

Again there's a response back, << Do not alarm whoever it is further. Please return. >>

Wonder says, "Erm - Isn't that like doing the planet killing thing in miniature?"

"Copy. They're doing something odd. So we will record for now, observe and return as soon as possible." suggests Sapphire. Then she cuts that off and says, "Anyone recording this?" as she banks about and keeps the craft in sight.

Emi bites her lip. "Um... I can understand their signals. Sh-should I try talking to them?"

Wonder says, "What are they saying?"

Emi says, "Um. Indigenous lifeforms detected. Investigating. Forerunner detected. Observing."

Wonder says, "Let's try talking - I mean, we're watching each other anyway...."

Emi relays. "Shard detected. Activating."

Sapphire's gem starts to arc energy, like electricity.

"We were told to not provoke -any- responses. Verbal or otherwise." suggests Sapphire. "I don't see the harm in observation and scouting, but.. engaging them is different." Sapphire turns and starts to aim the craft for Earth before grunting, "Ow!" she calls out as she reaches for her right hand with her left, "What the hell?!"

The energy continues to arc out of the gem, at least until the distance has increased significantly between the jet and the picket ships.

Wonder says, "Ok. Better plan. Run away!"

"Guys. Someone needs to take over as pilot. Don't worry, the ship basically flies itself.. I'm... well I need to focus all my power in maintaining the ship. So.." And as she speaks, Sapphire's suit fades, her hair turning brown... and her yoga pants and tanktop outfit she wears under the energy costume appear. Even as she gets out of the pilot seat and makes room for someone else.

Impetus thinks Sapphire's reaction is in response to some attack and so he throws out a psychokinetic field behind the ship to deflect any ordnance away.

Wonder takes over in the pilot seat. Most use he can be.