<div align="center"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Thursdy, January 15th - 3:00pm</strong></span><br/><em>Med Bay &gt; Garage &gt; Ship</em></div><hr/><div class="floatleft">(https://img.discogs.com/FiP3LlzfCZUXH3OKK_fNO6GRA2s=/600x745/smart/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/A-2796262-1412178013-1149.jpeg.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><strong>WHO:</strong> Kaine Brooks (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=316749.msg15291877#msg15291877)<br/><strong>WEARING:</strong> Open Hawaiian Shirt, Cargo Shorts, Boots<br/><strong>DOING:</strong> Retrieval Mission<br/><strong>NOTE:</strong> <br/><strong>TAGGING:</strong>Barry, Open</span><br/><hr/><br/><br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> He clicked his tongue and shook his head when Barry asked if he could maybe do something about the engines. <em>"Maybe?"</em> This was one of those situations where the lack of what he knew was at the point where maybe was a viable line of reasoning. "I don't know her race off the top of my head, my dad didn't really just keep a wiki page with a list of all the other people in the galaxy. But there's a chance her tech is similar enough to ours that I might be able to get lucky. But I wouldn't get your hopes up.<br/><br/> An American engineer wouldn't be able to figure out a Russian built machine if they used different methods and parts. But if you can get that cushion under there and keep it going, we should be able to haul it back pretty fast, especially if we get that help. We'll even have enough time to sweep out our tracks so no one can track the ship back to us." He was touched by Barry's concern at using the woman's friends organs, but he was sure she'd rather live on, knowing that their deaths weren't completely in vain, than die and that be that. "Eric doesn't need to be at the ship, we need the ship to get to Eric. All the equipment he needs is in the Medbay. We don't have the time or means to pack up the lab and drive it out here and then do post-mortem organ removal <em>and</em> surgery in the ship in the middle of the desert. We get it home, then we take the deceased to the Medbay and let Eric get what he needs. <br/><br/>Then we bury them...or put them on ice. I don't know what her culture does for their dead and we don't wanna be disrespectful. And maybe she'll be pissed, but she'll be alive. We can deal with the aftermath once we get over the hump of getting her over the hill." The moment froze when Barry showed a rare side of him and almost immediately pieced together the issue, then Kaine could only laugh. "Well <em>apparently</em>, life isn't quite as complicated as I thought. That or you're some kinda supergenius and never told anybody. But yeah, that's basically the long and short of it. Me and her have had feelings for a long time, then the Eclipse happened and...well we never told him because we didn't wanna hurt him. Thought he'd react kinda like he is.<br/><br/> And you'd be surprised, but talkin' about talkin' about somethin' is a lot easier than the actual talk." After Barry told him how he felt, Kaine could do nothing but laugh again. They didn't have many years between them, but experience made Kaine feel like an old man in comparison to the electrical speedster. "I hope we can work it out. And you're lucky you got Tiggy. Weird as she is. Hold onto that cuz it's rare in the world today. Legit happiness." Together, the two of them kicked up dust all the way back to the ship, then they both got up top with a quick jump. " Shit!," he exclaimed looking at the shape and size of the ship. "I could probably lift it fine. But it's too big for me to walk with it over my head. I can't balance something like that without tippin' over every couple steps."<br/><br/> The older man paced back and forth for a bit, looking over the vessel with an inquisitive eye. Then he realized that it was basically a swoop, like a boomerang shape almost, but it had landing gear. That meant four points of contact between the wings and wheel mechanisms. He had an idea that was only <em>slightly</em> degrading. "Okay, you take the left side, I got the right. I want you to tie a knot around the corner of the wing, then try and get a knot around what's left of the landing gear. I'll do the same on my side, and we knot all that together into a harness. I can haul the thing back, and if you get some air under it, it'll be like running with a parachute...except it's a giant starship. Come on, we got work to do." <br/></span><br/>