<blockquote><div><cite>Goblin wrote:</cite>"Roger 'at Orion. 'eadin' fer 'ome." Azzy didn't so much notice any interference on his scans. Much of the Hornet's sensor array had been damaged. Not all, as it was spread throughout the mech, to prevent it from being easily disabled. There were at least twenty different tones of alarm buzzing through the tiny space around his ears. Warning lights flashed, streaking his vision with multicolored dots. The air that kept the cabin pressurized was slowly being hissed off into space, and he'd already begun to notice it. He had to force himself not to yell at the competing noise and light. It wouldn't help. All he had to remember was that it would not help him. <br/><br/>"Take o'er Jackie. Gonna try ta seal 'is leak..." He muttered, letting the AI take over piloting while he unbuckled himself. Floating free of the seat, there was very little room to move about, but enough for him to locate and open the bag stowed behind. Azzy dug through it, retrieved a small tube, and began systematically searching for the crack in his cockpit. Everything else within drifted freely with no notice from the pilot. What he finally found was a place where the visor had come loose from the mount. Barely, but enough that he was loosing air.<br/><br/>'<span style="font-style: italic">Asmodeus. Be advised, the Cat is reporting mines in the area. Local sensors and scans come up blind. Visuals unconfirmed</span>.' <br/><br/>"Locate the points'a origin fer 'at in'erference. Guide us a'tween 'em." Azzy shook his head once, violently, to clear the spots that were beginning to darken his vision. "Use visual an' t'ermal scans ta navigate." The cap to the patching compound now bobbed along, bouncing around the cabin, Azzy floating near to the place the air whistled out. He emptied most of the tube along the seal, pressing it in with a finger and hoping his patch job would hold. <br/><br/>'<span style="font-style: italic">Emergency jump protocol started aboard Elyandra.</span>' "Yeah, yeah, I 'ear ya..." Asmodeus pulled himself back into the seat, strapped in, and didn't even once think about what they might hit on the way back in. "'ornet ta 'anger one, reques' permission ta en'er." <br/><br/>"This is hanger one, you are clear for entry Hornet. Head for docking bay seven." <br/><br/>It was soothing to Azzy's nerves that they made it back with no further problems. Jack had, if not easily, skillfully avoided hitting any of the mines. When the Hornet stood in its dock, he barely had a word for the techs already swarming over it, running diagnostics. <br/><br/>He needed to see the captain.</div></blockquote>