[Flooberoid]

Mint thought real hard about Mao's question, as if letting anything else enter her mind would cause her to think about what they had just discovered. "Hmmm... Well, there was definitely an entrance up there... even if the door won't budge I could break a window... and take the stairs down. If the rest of you can't climb, I can look for something to help out."

Then the thought of actually doing that crossed her mind, and she shuddered as her imaginary self was eaten by a grue in the depths of the ship, all alone. "Does anybody have a light?"

[Marticus]

"Don't boats come with life rafts that have to be winched down to the water? You could drop one of those down if there is one, let us hitch a ride back up, and I can blast through that door with a breaching charge!" Finn suggested with a weak smile. He sure hoped that was the case anyway, or else he'd look like a bit of an idiot.

Still, better that than going through the hole again. Whatever killed those people was gonna pay, big time. With lots of explosions. And fire. And shrapnel. What a satisfying image, Finn couldn't help but think.

[Dead_Proxy21]

Duncan sighed as he decided to pick up a piece of driftwood that looks like it had been there for a while. He then proceeded to walk to the corpse that he picked up earlier, tear off the sleeve of what was left of the garment that they were wearing, and made a torch. He activated his semblance and as he did, the complexion of his skin on his free hand became that of a jellied substance. He started rubbing his free hand on the end with the cloth, and once he felt that enough was used he deactivated his semblance. "I'll go in and see about that door that Mint talked about. Mao. can you back me up?"

[Kaliot]

Mao watched with intrigue as Duncan managed to make a makeshift torch. "Uh. Sure thing." In truth, he had been hoping that he wouldn't have to fully witness what they just did, but what needed to be done had to be done.

He made his way towards the hole and stood out beside it, waiting for Duncan to lead the way with his torch. "Well, I guys we'll see you guys at the top, then!" He shot them a quick, informal salute.

[Flooberoid]

Mint turned to Finn. "Looks like we're splitting up. Why don't you come up top with me? I bet I really could use that 'breaching charge' of yours." She gave him a playful smile before turning to climb the ship. Upon reaching the top, she threw Wing back down to the bottom at a sharp, perhaps 60 degree downward angle. "The string attached to that thing is a lot stronger than it looks. Why not use it to climb up?"

[Marticus]

"Sure, why not. It's not like I've never climbed up anything in my life" Finn murmured under his breath as he watched Mint scurry up the wall like a, well, squirrel up a tree. Meanwhile, all Finn's numbat side have him was the ability to sniff out termites. What a cute bunch of critters they were.

Smiling to himself, Finn picked Wing up and, after giving it a quick tug to make sure it was safe, began to slowly climb up, grunting with exertion. "Boy, that's quite the climb. You'd think they'd make these easier to get onto" Finn grinned as he handed Mint back her weapon. "Now" he said as he strolled over to the door and started to set up one of the bombs from his satchel, "let's start this party, shall we". Stepping away from the door, Finn slammed the detonator, the door erupting off of it's hinges and shooting across the room to slam into another door, that too caving in. From there, the sound of two doors tumbling down a flight of stairs was all that could be heard.

"Success!"

[Dead_Proxy21]

Duncan heard the explosion and saw a small flash as he was treading carefully through the cavity in the ship. While traveling through he discovers that this is the sleeping compartment for the owner with extra space for 3 people.

"Mint? Finn? Can you hear me? It doesn't look like there is any survivors that I can see. We need to search the entire compartment just to be sure."

[Kaliot]

Mao was startled by the explosion, but quickly brushed it off as he had his own job to do. Surely it had to have been Mint and Finn's work, right? Not whatever took down this ship.

The room smelled somewhat unpleasant so he brought up his jacket to cover his nose and mouth. He inspected the room, but it was a bit difficult with just a torchlight. Regardless, he could tell that the room was a complete mess, and not just from getting wrecked: one mattress laid on the ground, its face torn to shreds. Mao could say for certain that it couldn't be the work of a simple accident or mishap. Wanting to better see the room, he felt up the wall near the doorway and managed to find the light-switch, but upon flipping it, nothing happened.

"Well, there's no power. Not much of surprise there. I wonder if she's got any fuel left." Mao crossed his arms.

[Flooberoid]

"Geez! I'd like a chance to take cover next time, Finny!" She brushed some small chunks of debris off her clothes before taking a step into the room. Peering down the stairs, she saw the mangled mess that used to be the doors. "Still, nice job with the charges... you really did a number on those doors."

At the bottom of the stairs, it was clear the natural lighting would not be enough to fully explore this area of the ship. As it stood, she could see very little: A row of doors on her left, some more doors on the right, and a string of inactive light bulbs on the ceiling. The first door on her right had illegible lettering on a metal plate. With the implied significance of this particular room, Mint decided it must've been fate that she'd find this room first. As it turned out, this was indeed a blessing of sorts.

Mint pushed the door open, allowing a little bit of light to seep in. Good thing the two faunus went up this way, eh? she thought with some smugness. Her eyes adjusted to the new lighting, and she could start to make out the general shape of this room. As she felt her way inside, Mint eventually encountered a large metal device which revealed itself to be a sort of backup generator. Overjoyed, she yelled to her partner: "Hey Finny! I think we can get the emergency lights on! You wanna do the honors?"

[Marticus]

"Okay, fair point. From now on, if you see me approach anything, assume it'll explode", Finn joked as he followed Mint down the stairs. Thank the gods for Faunus night vision, cause this place was dark.

Letting Mint have the right side, Finn attempted to get into the first room on the left, to no avail. Apparently, in the midst of a disaster, someone had decided this door should be locked. Frustrating, but vaguely understandable. Finn sure hoped the rest of the doors down here weren't the same, or they'd have one hell of a hard time searching the ship.

"Don't mind if I do Mint" Finn beamed as he stepped away from his door, and over to Mint's delightful little find. Oh, that was certainly a generator alright, and still in pretty good nick too. Maybe things were looking up after all. Reaching in towards the largest button on the console, Finn glanced over at Mint, "Hey, quick question, peppermint or spearmint?", and he slammed his hand down, letting power course through the ship once more as lights came on and alarms began to blare.

[Dead_Proxy21]

Duncan put his torch out as the lights came on, but he wished that they had stayed off. Blood was spattered all over the walls.

"By the nine. I don't think there are any survivors Mao."

Duncan started investigating and walked closer to the wall where the blood spatter was more prevalent. He noticed that there were slash marks in the wall. He looked up and saw that there were marks in the ceiling as well.

 "We gotta get the others, Mao." Duncan looked at Mao with a calm but shaken demeanor.

As Duncan proceeded to one of the doors, he saw that it was locked from the inside. He unlocked it and opened it, hoping that the others were there on the other side.

"Mint! Finn! We have a problem!" He shouted out from the door way.

[Kaliot]

Mao was struck with elation as the lights turned as he was just talking about them, but this elation was quickly replaced with surprise with the quick realization that alarms were also going off. He turned toward Duncan, intent on firing off some witty comment, but instead his face froze. The room was covered with blood as if the alarm lights themselves had painted them red. He looked flush and he could feel his heart beating a little faster.

"You gotta be kiddin' me," he muttered. He looked around the room again, making sure there weren't any sizable breaches to worry about. Luckily, blood and slashes aside, the room was clear.

[Flooberoid]

"That's some emergency power!" Mint yelled, barely loud enough to hear over the alarms. "Full lighting and obnoxious alarms? Who could ask for more?" All joking aside, the alarms were making it very difficult to concentrate. Before she could scrutinize any more of the ship, Mint would like to be able to hear herself think. But where was the control for the alarm?

"Finn! Think we could override the alarm noise somehow? Maybe there's a security room, or... some switch in the captain's chamber?" Right about now Mint really started wishing she had some kind of experience with ships, because with all the alarms blaring she felt like a fish out of water.

[Marticus]

Finn shook his head as he ran his hands along the generator's console. "Well, we mightn't have to go that far. I have a bit of knowledge when it comes to electrical engineering, let me take a crack at it here". Pulling his satchel off of his back and onto the floor in front of him, Finn carefully unzipped the front pocket and removed a small toolkit that he kept in case of emergencies. He stepped around to the side of the generator and used a screwdriver to take off a panel. "This might take me a bit though, maybe you should get the others".

Having grabbed a small torch from his satchel, Finn stuck his head into the opening in the generator and got to work searching for something that looked like it would connect to an exterior system with the intent of cutting it.

[Dead_Proxy21]

Duncan started to get annoyed and worried. He was getting annoyed by the alarms and his teammates not answering, and getting worried that the alarms might bring whatever or whoever did this back to the ship. He made his choice by looking back at Mao and walking to him.

"Mao, we're gonna have to go to the others and bring them over to see this. Finn's probably gonna lose whatever is left of his lunch, but they have to see this."

Duncan started walking back to the door but something caught his eye in what looked like the closet. He saw the faint glow of a red button as he walked to the closet and looked in it. He was curious as to why there was a small glowing red button in the closet and pushed it as his curiosity got the better of him. As he pushed the button, the alarm cut off and a series of clicking sounds could be heard on the wall in front of him. It seems that he had stumbled across what looks like the owner's panic room. Before he could take a step in to investigate, Duncan saw the shine of a gun barrel and ducked as what sounded like a revolver went off from the darkness in the room.

"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! We come in peace! We come in peace!" Duncan said as he had his hands up.