Deacon blinked a bit when his back was turned to the captain, he originally had every intention of sitting on his ass back on the ship, with his sniper rifle in the event people were chasing them.  He's actions had either been taken as volunteering, or the captain decided that he wanted the engineer around for the setup.  He'd change his path, first grabbing his  rifle and then slipping into the engine room to do a last minute engine calibration since they were going to leave them in hot start up, he'd set the engines up to allow rapid movement, meaning crazy Ivans and sudden direction switches.  It wasn't at settings he liked since they had a tendency to wear more on the engines then he'd like.<br/><br/>Once this was done he'd be down in the hold loading his assult rifle first and then the sniper, since he was fairly certain he'd be using the former more then the later now that he was going in the shuttle.