Act 44: After Action

The gunship/transport arrives and hover over the landing area, and then carefully sets down. Seph approaches the The door opens, and the craft powers down.
Nezo is the first to exit, carring both his gun with one hand, and some other gun with another. Followed by an injured Veers, being helped by Eilali. The pilot, Rali, is the next to exit, carrying a knocked out Sandalit on her shoulders.
"Seph?!" Nezo shouts out. "Are you around? We could use a hand over here!!"
There's also a suspiciously familiar Lopunny in the craft.
They all look worse for wear.

Oh...it looks like someone got hurt. Duci decides to go provide them with help, it seems like they really need it. "It's ok, I'm here, what do you need me to-" She noticed the Lopunny lying inside of the transport...who she recognizes. "What is she doing here...?!"

"Oh, Duci!" Neso  greets. "I'll explain what went down later, but suffice it to say, shit went sideways, but we got the job done. I need you to help Rali here get sleeping ugly" he motions to the sleeping Sandalit, "into a jail cell. We've got some serious questions to ask him later. I need to see the base commander ASAP. And as for the bunny here..." He looks at her. "We found her tied up being a sex slave to the bandit leader.  ... Wait, do you know this one?"
Before she can answer, he shakes his head.
"Know what? Answer that later. Right now, she needs to be brought to the doc. She's been badly poisoned by the looks of things. Is Seph here? Or... anyone else that can help bring her there?!"

Yes, maybe talking about this rabbit now is not a good idea. "I haven't seen Seph I'm afraid. While I can not carry these two at the same time, I'm confident that I can carry one of them by myself. Which do you want me to take?"

"Take sleeping boy there. To a jail cell. I'm sure you know where that is by now."  Neso points to the sandalit. "Then Rali and I can take the bunny to the doctor. As well as Veers here." 

"Of course..." She takes the unconscious lizard from them. Duci proceeds to take him to the prison area, leaving Neso and the others to go to the doctor.

"Meet us back by the Hospital wing later." Neso yells at her. "I'll talk more there."
Now free of the burden of having to carry the Sandalit, Rali is now free to help Neso take the apparently still unconscious lopunny to the doctor.
After explaining the situation to him, and committing them both to treatment, Neso takes the firearm to the base commander for debriefing. He is... not pleased, to say the least. He tells Neso to leave, and to mention this to as few people as possible, so that no one outside of this base hears of it for the time being. Including Stic. Neso agrees, and after his debrief, he heads back to the medical tent to check up on his injured comrade... and that strange lopunny too. 
But mostly Veers.

When he went back to the infirmary to check on Veers, the Lopunny is on a bed next to the Eevee's, albeit she is not poisoned anymore. "uuurrgh...feels like i got the worst hangover ever..." She whined. Well...it would appear that she is just dealing with the bad effects now, and is conscious but not feeling alright.

Also like the Avali requested, Duci shows up here in the hospital wing after she dropped the Salandit in the prison.

Neso comes out from the tent to meet her.
"I take it the Sandalit is in his jail cell?" He asks. "Unfortunately I doubt he'll have as pleasant of a stay here as you did. He was supposed to go straight to Sandstone, but he's the only possible clue we have on what happened."

So something out of the ordinary must have happened at this mission? "Yeah, I put him in a cell. He was waking up when I left too." She said, "What exactly is going on? Did something happen out there?"

"Yeah... one of the bandits had something he really should not have." Neso says. "I must ask... Both as a technical superior, and as a friend... When you were still working for the Grove, did any of the higher ups ever possess or even mention having a 'secret weapon that spits iron' or something similar?"

She did remember having a training exercise with a gauss pistol...but that was the first moment she knew of the existence of guns, and that was right after she joined the Avali. "No. I kept myself well informed about the Grove...up until I left them that is. But if there was such a thing I would certainly have heard something about it."

"Oh... that's good. Hopefully the bandit leader just got lucky or something. Though we won't know for sure until the prisoner wakes up and we can... question him."
It's at that moment, Neso realizes he's getting ahead of himself.
"Oh, right. You asked what happened. Well, at first things went more or less well. They were located by an oasis situated close to a cave. We took two of them out before they fled inside. Once inside we took down all but two of them. One of them being the prisoner you just put in the cell. The other, the bandit leader..."
He takes a breath of air, pausing for just a moment before continuing.
"He had a gun on him. We don't know where he got it. Definitely not one of ours, that's for sure. Base Com says it's an old-earth model, the eggheads say it dates back to before the Occassus War. One of those... Eh-Kay models. He managed to hit Veers in the arm with it before we all took cover. We don't know where it came from, or how he got it, or if there's more of them on this planet." 

"I see..." That does sound pretty concerning. "And what about that prostitute from Sandstone's borthel? What was she doing there?"

"I have no idea." Neso replies. "We found her tied up, raped repeatedly, and poisoned-slash-drugged."
It's at this moment he realizes something.
"Wait, you say she's from Sandstone? Do you ... know her?"

"Not exactly." She sighs. "All I know is that she works at the brothel in Sandstone, I saw her there yesterday. She was very...happy about her job."

"I see..." Well so much for that. "Guess we'll have to ask her ourselves, then. Still, good to know."
He gives a small sigh.
"But yeah, we got kind of lucky that the... 'Needo King' didn't exactly know how to use the thing. He just shot wildly from the hip trying to hit something. If someone gave it to him, they certainly didn't seem to tell him how to use or maintain it. Or that you have to actually reload it. Still, though..."

"Who do you think could have given a gun to him?" One one hand, Duci is kind of glad that prostitute rabbit is here, she has her own questions that she came up with after thinking hard on something regarding Easani...

"Beats me. The USCM are pretty much dead, so I doubt it was them. Space pirates? They're pretty big on those types of guns. Though they're not really the charitable type. One of those weird humans running around? Miniknog is in the running as likely suspects. And they're clever enough to cover it up by giving them old junk instead of their flashy new weapons. Though that's all assuming anyone 'gave' it to him at all. For all we know, a pirate or occassus ship could have crash landed here a long time ago and gone undiscovered until that guy came across it. That gun is very old, and as I said, he barely knew how to use it."
He sighs.
"I seriously hope that last one is the case, and this is just an isolated incident. Because if it's not, this could get messy, fast. Especially if it's the damned Apex." 

"So is there someone we can try to ask politely about this? These weird humans maybe?"

"Well, the base commander is already getting ahold of that Mattias fellow, see if he knows anything about this."

She nods. "Say...that Lopunny, the rabbit, is she awake right now?"

"Yeah, and so is Veers." He confirms.

"Do you plan on talking with her right now? I want to come along for that."

"Erm, sure. I don't see why not." Neso opens the door for Duci.

Duci heads into the Infirmary tent. Doesn't take long for her to find where that Lopunny is recovering.
The Lopunny in question looks like she is feeling better than when she has before. She noticed the both of them coming up on her side. "Ah, hey there!"
"Hey." The Owl greets her back. "Do you remember me by any chance?"
She smirks. "Yeah it's hard for me to forget someone that stares at me when I'm working~"
Oh great, she remembers her...For better or worse.

"Oh hey! Duci!" A smaller voice calls out to her. It's the voice of Veers.
Neso nods to Veers, giving him a wave. While also giving Duci a smirk and a raised eyebrow.
The other pack members, minus Seph still, are gathered around Veers. Seems they're waiting with him to recover.

Duci waved to the Eevee and the others before going back to talk to Jocelyn, she decides to not engage in that subject just yet. "What were you doing there? In the middle of those bandits?"
"I was going to deal with them!" She said, with her usual enthusiasm.
She blinks. "Excuse me? Deal with them how?"
"How else, dummy? Getting them out of the picture by taking out their boss! I heard they were causing problems so I decided to do something so people could like me more!"
She can't believe this girl would be able to think about something like this, but whatever was her plan it looks like it didn't work out too well. "And you were...captured?"
"Well yes but actually no. I was right where I wanted, you see?" What kind of outlandish explanation will she have for this? "I was planning to take out the bandits, yes. But to do that I was going to work my way from within, win over their hearts with my body! Then when they least expected I would take out their boss and the rest of them would scatter."
"............................................What?"

"....What?!"
Neso is likewise scratching his head. 
"Yeah, from the condition you were in, it seems like they had you where they wanted. You were poisoned and everything."

"I mean...you expected anything else from those guys? Of course they would be into poison play." A sexual 'hhhhmmm' leaves her mouth. "It was pretty nice though~ At least until after..."
So she wanted to get caught? And she enjoyed all of that? "But you are bruised too...didn't they abused you? You could have died..." Duci is criticizing her now.
"You know love can hurt gooooood~" She licks her lips. "The biting, the punches...it was all well in fun for me as it was for them~"
"Still..." She is starting to think this Lopunny is...very freaky, like, into some very high-end stuff. Who else would feel pleasure from getting poisoned and beaten...?
"You worry too much." She chuckles. "I appreciate it though. Say since you guys saved my life...now I gotta repay you somehow right?" She is smiling widely now. "It's only fair~"

"Yes yes." Neso says. "Once everyone's better and recovered, I'm sure we can arrange something." Neso has a just barely noticeable smirk.

"Really? Ooooh gooood~" The Lopunny always appreciates rescuers eager for rewards. "The name is Jocelyn by the way~"
"Right then, Jocelyn..." What an unusual name, Duci thinks. "There is something I want to ask you now..."
"You want some fun too?~"
"No." She almost shouted that. No, the Owl doesn't want to have sex with this rabbit, she is not a lesbian. "Look i will be straight with you...i saw how you can seemingly give males a very good time, like it's natural..."
"Hhhmhm? Yes?~" She wonders where this is going.
"There is this one male that I want to do the same with, as in, I personally show him a good time as well as you do, you understand?" She explains, trying to make it clear that she doesn't want Jocelyn to fuck this person she is talking about.
The Lopunny caught on to quickly. "Ooooooh so you want me to give you a few tips to facilitate you getting sex with someone? Oh i can do that!~" She sounds very eager to provide help with this. "You will have him drooling for you in no time with my guidance! Who is it though? Is it that Leafeon that was with you in Ara's place that day?"
Perhaps she should have seen this coming...the fact that the rabbit might have spoken that in earshot of everyone here, she hopes it doesn't get her into trouble. "........Yes, it's him."
"Handsome little plant, isn't he?~"

"Ooooh Duci's got a crushie on Easaniii!" Neso chuckles. "Actually though, I think everyone kinda already knew by this point. Or at least suspected it."

Blushing, the Deciduye looks to Neso, then everyone else present. Her eyes are wide in surprise. "Wait...everyone already knows?"

"Well I mean it was kind of obvious" Rali comments. "The way you follow him around all the time. The looks you give him..." She sighs happily. "Well, I say go get'em girl."
The others nod in agreement.

"O-oh, I see." This feels pretty embarrassing to her. "S-say, Jocelyn, when will you be able to help me? How are you going to help anyways?"
"By teaching you, of course!" The rabbit responded to her question. "Buuuuut first i need to rest up a bit more, okay?"
"Hhhhmmm, right then, I understand."

Neso looks like he was about to say something more, but before he can, there's the sound of frantic, and very heavy footfalls. Metallic ones. 
The door flies open, and a large figure ducks under it, as the door is just a little too small for his size, and stands tall.
"I'm sorry, guys! I didn't get back until just now, but I came as quickly as I could when I heard about what happened." 
"Seph!!" The little Vee cries out. 
Seph rushes over to the little eevee, and at first, looks like he's going to hug him, but Neso quickly stops him by putting a hand on his lower chest. Seph looks at him, and Neso shakes his had.
"I'm sorry, packmate! I'm so sorry! I should have come with you guys. But, but..." If the robot snake was capable of shedding tears, he would probably be doing so by the buckets.
"It's okay, it's okay Seph! No one blames you." Veers tells him as the Synth squats down right  by the eevee's other side.
"Well, I kinda do." Neso grumbles under his breath. However, this doesn't go unnoticed by EIlali, who jabs him with her elbow while Seph isn't looking.

Duci made sure she wasn't on the Synth's way when he came running to get to Veers.
The Rabbit on the other hand...when she noticed someone that big come through, she began staring at him, her eyes wide with interest. Damn just look at that beast of a stud.

Seph on the other hand seems, at the moment, oblivious of the rabbit's notice. Or even her presence, as his attention is on Veers. 
They talk more amongst themselves, explaining as to what went on. How the mission ended up like this. 
Just as the conversation begins to drift, however, Veers looks over at the Lopunny, and sees her staring, hungrily at that big gigantic snake robot. The Eevee leans over and whispers into his ear. For those who can hear better, they can make out Veer's tiny whispers.
"I think she's looking at you, big daddy."
"Huh?" Is Seph's reply, as he looks over to the Lopunny.
"Oh? And who might you be?" The snake asks Joslyn directly.

"Ooooh can I call you daddy too?~ Hehehe, I'm Jocelyn!" She is already getting sultry with her tone, some things just don't change it seems. "Well, you are big and all but you are probably cold to touch since you are made of metal and all...but that's okay!"

"Well, uh, sure, if you want." Seph replies to the first question. "So, what did you say your name was, miss? And how did you get here?"

"I'm Jocelyn! I'm here because these feathery friends here rescued me."

"Ah. I see." Seph says to her.
"We found her tied up, cum leaking, beaten up..." Neso replied. "And very drugged and poisoned."
"Oh my, good thing my packmates came out when they did." He tells the bunny with pity.
Veers looks like he's about to add onto that, but Neso gives him a look and shakes his head slowly.

"I also have to thank them properly for rescuing me...if you know what i mean~" She winks. Jocelyn then looks to Neso. "Though...it was just you who rescued me? Or is it just you who I have to thank for here?" Will be kind of boring if it's just one, right?

"No it was our whole back.... though, Seph wasn't with us at the time." Neso informs her. "Heck, Veers here took down the smelly purple blob guy"
"That was only because I happened to have a grenade on me."
"Still, though... I'm sure he'd like to be... heh... 'rewarded'... too. Especially considering it'd be his first time."
"Well, I... uhhh..." A huge blush forms on his face.

"First time?!" She sounds very excited about that. "The first time is always the one to remember! I will make sure it's one to remember!" The rabbit's eyes then look at the members of Neso's pack, or at least who she thinks is a member of Neso's pack. "Hhhmmm, so how many of you are there? One, two, three, four...?"

"Five." Neso tells her. "Seph, Veers, Rali, Eili, and myself."

"So with me it will be six.......WOOOOOOOOOOOH!!" The more the merrier for her, probably. "Even number! It's gonna be a mind-blowing orgy!"
In Duci's opinion, that's not up her alley, she wants to have a private moment with Easani, so she rather not be part of this orgy they are planning. "Soo...when are you guys going to be doing that?"

"Well, not till Veers here recovers at least." Neso reaches over and pets his head. "Can't have him fuck'n with a gimpy arm, now can we?!" "H-H-Hey!" Veers laughs.

"Heh, yeah!" The Lopunny begins to sit himself on her bed now...with some effort.
"What are you doing?" Duci asked, a little worried.
"Getting up of course! I can't help you with your love quest if i just lie here like a limp dick." She jokes, and laughs.
"But are you sure it's okay for you to walk?"

"Yeah, I'm wondering about that myself." Neso comments. 
"Would you like me to help you up?" Seph offers, coming on over to her.

"Ooooh yes please~" Jocelyn just wants him to touch her, really.

"Alright."
He goes over to her, and wraps an arm around her back, allowing her to use it to help herself up.

She smiles and rubs herself on his arms. "Thanks, Daddy~" With his help, Jocelyn gets up on her feet. "So...Duci, right?" She asked as she looked at the owl. "Let's walk out of here, i will explain to you what you need to know for when it's time for you to meet that Easani-fellow again~"
Well, it's better now than never. So the Decidueye nods to her. "Okay then, let's get going."

"Anytime." Seph replies in kind. Neso watches Duci exit with the Lopunny.
"Well that was interesting." he comments as he watches them leave. "And it's going to get a lot more interesting."
"Yep." Veers replies. "Truth be told, I'm a little nervous." He confesses.
"Hey, don't worry about it, the rest of us will be there for ya." Neso tries to reassure him.
"Truth be told, that's part of what's making me nervous." He says under his breath.

And so for the time being Duci will be receiving some 'training' from Jocelyn. Who knows what entails coming from someone such as her...
After some passage of time, Jocelyn comes back to the infirmary tent to see if Veer is feeling better, and if the others are still around there so they can start joining up for that orgy.