[Kaliot]

Mao nodded, paying no attention to the remark he would normally react to. He intended to follow Duncan out the door, but it seemed that something had caught Duncan's attention.

"What is i-," Mao started to say but was interrupted by a sweet, sweet silence. He patted his ears a few times. "Relief!", he said, but it had clearly been to soon as a shot rang out and something smashed into his left shoulder. His aura flared up and pain emanated through his body from the source of the hit, and the shock of the moment sent him tumbling backward. Fearing that it might've been the criminal they had been talking about earlier, he sprung back up and was prepared to launch a blade only to find that Duncan had already given himself up.

Mao lowered his arm, not because he was surrendering but because he was confused. There was no other response by whoever shot him. "Duncan...where'd they go?" He knelt and made his way toward the room. The room was still dark so he figured that the room was isolated from the rest of the ship; the idea made sense considering how Duncan found it. He wondered if it had it's own energy source so as he decided to grope the wall again, and with a thumping heart, he found a switch. He flicked it on and light filled the room revealing stacks of canned food, bottled water, a one-person bed, a small desk, and well as a stand for the gun which appeared to include a mechanism to fire it remotely.

Mao didn't say a word, instead gesturing for Duncan to approach and to avoid the gun's line of fire.

[Flooberoid]

Mint had wandered off to find the others, but only moments later the alarms shut off. Surprised at how quickly he had finished, Mint peeked back into the room with the generator to congratulate her teammate. "Nice job, partner!" Mint beamed with satisfaction at Finn's surprising technical prowess. Although, she supposed, he must have some skill if all his bombs were handmade.

Shortly afterwards, Mint heard the sound of a gunshot and promptly rushed down the hall. She reached the corridor her teammates were in and didn't stop running until she saw Mao and Duncan safe. At this she relaxed significantly, taking a second to breath before addressing them. "Hey boys, can we save the target practice for later? I didn't bring ear protection- human or squirrel!"

[Marticus]

The alarms turned off, which was quite the worrying development in Finn's mind, as he hadn't actually done anything to the generator. He'd barely had time to stick his nose in it. Which meant that something else had turned them off, which in turn meant something else was on the ship, and considering the blood, body parts and obvious destruction, was probably not friendly.

Hastily shoving his tools back into his satchel as he jogged down the corridors after Mint, trusting her to be able to guide them to whatever it was that fired that gunshot. Not noticing Mint had slowed down, Finn tripped over her feet and collapsed in a pile outside the door, even as a bullet impacted the wall above him. "Woah, don't shoot, don't shoot! We're friendlies! Also, guys, that uh, that wasn't me that got the alarms", Finn yelped as he rolled out off the doorway down the corridor.

"This ship sucks".

[Dead_Proxy21]

Noticing what Mao said Duncan stood up slowly and looked around. He saw that the rest of the team came in and looked back at Mao. Duncan started to get the feeling that they need to wrap the mission up before something happens to the team

"Mao did you find anything of use?"

[Kaliot]

Mao's eyes made a quick sweep of the room.

"Besides the gun, not that I can tell."

He crossed his arms, looking out into the main room as Mint entered the room with Finn rolling in shortly after [Not sure if a second shot was fired or if it was the original shot. Assuming the latter.].

"Sorry, Mint, but it ain't us sending bullets willy-nilly." He held his hands up briefly, showing that they were 'clean'. "You good over there, Finn? I think Duncan might've gotten the alarm." Mao paced over to Finn to help him to his feet, turning to Duncan as he did so. "...Right?"

[Flooberoid]

"Uh... huh. Well, that's... definitely a gun." Mint insightfully noted, looking over the room. "I don't know much about these things, but doesn't it seem odd for a panic room to try and shoot anyone who opens it?" Indeed, that wasn't the only thing off. The owner of this safe haven was nowhere to be seen, and according to Finn there must be someone they didn't know about on the prowl.

Just as she started to ponder this, the emergency lights in the corridor went out, leaving only the power in the small room active. It was this that made Mint realize how deep into the ship they now were, and how out of her element she was. The air around the group went stagnant as Mint looked to the room's light for comfort. She nervously laughed and said, "Hey, Finny, any chance that's supposed to happen?"

[Marticus]

"Umm, not really? Why do I feel like we're in a horror movie right now? There's no Grimm that operate like a jump scare killer, right guys?" Finn nervously chuckled as he pulled his satchel off of his bag to rummage through. Whatever was messing with the lights was bound to be dangerous, and that meant Finn got to bust out the fun toys.

Throwing his torch over to Mao, Finn unloaded Badda Boom's armament and restocked with it with a napalm, two repulsion and a flashbang grenade, before slinging it and his satchel onto his back and drawing his sidearm. "All in favour of leaving and blowing the ship sky high, say anything at all".

[Dead_Proxy21]

Duncan stood up and walked into the panic room.

"I think we need to get the Professor here."

Duncan pulled out a lamp from his bag and turned it on. He walked out of the panic room and put the lamp on a hook. The lamp illuminated the room bright enough to get some decent pictures for evidence. Duncan pulled his scroll out and took pictures of the scene making sure that he got his team out of the shots. He sighed and looked at everyone.

"Lets get out of here before this gets out of hand."

[Kaliot]

Mao entered combat stance as soon as the lights shut off again, though within a few moments he realized that there was no immediate danger and he tried to relax himself. He caught the torch but only barely. "Hey now, there could still be survivors in this place," he glanced around the room, "No matter how, uh, bleak it looks. I think it'd be a good idea to check in with the Academy, but it's probably in our, well not our, the best interest that we stay put until backup arrives."

Mao could feel parts of himself quivering; he was afraid too. But leaving now would go against what he stood for as a to-be Huntsman.

"What do you think, Mint?"

[Flooberoid]

Mint had already spaced out in an attempt to find her happy place, and Mao addressing her by name snapped her abruptly back to reality. "Huh? Me?" She asked, quivering. The answer was obvious: Of course they should call for help. Mint pulled out her scroll, nearly fumbled it, caught it, and established a communication link with Beacon through the line they were told to call if things went sour.

Ten seconds passed... Nothing. Mint's heart nearly stopped. She stared blankly at it before properly addressing Mao. "I think, uh... I think we should get out of this big metal deathtrap before we try to contact Beacon."

[Marticus]

"Uhh, bad thought. If there is someone on this ship with evil intent, they probably know the ship better than us. We could get ambushed at any point while moving".

Finn was utterly terrified by the entire situation. A ship full of dead bodies with someone turning out the lights only spelt trouble for a group of youths. And Finn was in a group of youths.

Still, if there was one bright side to the entire situation, it was the fact that no Grimm had been spotted. Well, not yet anyway. They were probably outside, or close enough. This entire situation reeked of negativity.

Suddenly, the lights came back on for just a second before they went out. Five seconds later, they returned for another second before going out again. "Oh my gods, we're being toyed with!"

[Dead_Proxy21]

Duncan saw that the lights were on the fritz. He noticed his teammates and sighed.

"Lets go through the hull breach guys. It's the fastest way out."

Duncan picked up the lantern and motioned his teammates to follow him as he walked towards the hull breach.

[Kaliot]

"Alright then."

Mao nodded, but before going to leave the room, he approached the trap gun, and after close examination, we managed to displace it from its holding. The process was tough because of the lights but he managed well enough. "You never know". He checked to see how many rounds were left in the gun before assigning it to his right hand, the torch being reassigned to his left.

"You guys go ahead. I'll cover our butts".

[Flooberoid]

So... Duncan was leading the way... and Mao was taking the rear... so that would put Mint right in the middle? Mint was okay with that. Perfectly okay. She rushed forward with rather unnecessary urgency as if to secure her spot in the heart of the group. "Alrighty! C'mon, Finn, let's go!"

...And Finn and Fresch in the middle? Just like their marching order! What a weird coincidence. Okay, maybe not so weird, but any train of thought which could get Mint's mind off the current situation was worth pursuing.

[Marticus]

Ahh, stuck right in the centre with Mint. Literally couldn't be safer a place for Finn to be. Well, on the ship at least. There were plenty of other, safer places in Remnant. Like bed, or a sweet ship, or anywhere else. But, at present, no where safer.

"So, have we come to any conclusions about what happened? We've got dead bodies, something playing with the lights and a safe room with a security feature that makes it very unsafe. I've come up with nothing!"