Chapter 2 - Bee

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Aero and the woman look at each other for a solid 10 seconds, and during that time, all sorts of thoughts race through their heads, they wonder if one of them might be aggressive towards the other, they start thinking of contingency plans for if one of them is actually, then they start making contingency plans within those contingency plans, then, the woman finally says something.
"...hi." She says as she shows a barely noticeable wave, Aero then panics and picks the woman up and holds her above his head. "He- HEY! What the fuck are you doing!?" She demands, the scene quickly devolves into the two yelling as Aero slowly heads to the airlock to try to throw the woman out, of course, he's being faced with tons of resistance from the woman.
Meanwhile, everyone else is hearing the commotion. "What in the hell is going on back there?" Slash asks. "Dess, check it out." Bombshell orders. "As you wish." Dess says before she flies over to where the commotion is.
Dess quickly finds Aero and the woman, causing her to hit Aero in the knee, causing him to drop the woman, then Dess steps on the woman's chest. "Aw, does Polly want a cracker?" The woman asks in a mocking tone, Dess seems personally offended by this, and in response, she opens her mouth to reveal four small gun barrels that start to spin, which quickly erases the woman's smug attitude. "I guess not." She says in a nervous tone, then Dess looks at Aero.

"Keep her here for a minute, I will get Bombshell, do not try to throw her out the airlock again." She says before she flies back to Bombshell. "There is a stowaway on the ship, and Aero is trying to throw her out of the airlock." She says, this causes Bombshell to pause what he's watching and put away the tablet, then he pets Dess, while she does seem mildly irritated by this, she doesn't seem to mind too much. "Good job." He says. "Now, I'll go deal with this." He says as he gets up and looks for Aero as Dess perches on one of his shoulder cannons.
Bombshell soon finds Aero and the woman, the former is currently trying to put the latter in an armlock, but due to his slim build, it seems more like the woman is just letting him put her in an armlock. "Who is the woman and what are you two doing?" He asks, Aero tries to explain, but what he says is mostly just blubbering nonsense, the only comprehensible part of it all is "she snuck onto our ship", causing Bombshell to cover the lower part of Aero's face with his hand, which prevents Aero from talking.
"Alright. You're going to let her go, and we're gonna have Nago deal with this, is that okay?" Bombshell asks, causing Aero to nod, but before he can let go of the woman, she just easily breaks out of the armlock, then Bombshell gently takes ahold of her hand and walks her to Nago, with Aero right behind them, once they get to Nago, Bombshell lets go of the woman and continues his previous activity.
"Alrighty then, state yer name and business, or I'm throwin' ya out the airlock, hopefully before Dess cuts yer head off." Nago says. "Alright, alright, the name's Bee, and I'm not here to get somewhere easily, I just wanna join you." The woman says. "W- what!?" Aero says. "Excuse me?" Slash asks. "You can't be serious." Dess says. "Interestin'..." Nago says.
"I've heard a lot about what you've all been doing, and I wanted to join your crew." Bee says. "Well, you coulda tried something more formal than just hiding in our ship, but I sense a bit of fightin' spirit in ya, kid, and we could use another member, welcome to The Claimers, pardner, and welcome to the rest of yer best life." Nago says, Bee pauses for a moment, as if she wasn't actually expecting that response.
"W- wait, really? You're not just pranking me, are you?" She asks. "Course not! Now Bombshell! Dess! Go train our new recruit! We need to see just what she's made of!" Nago orders, Bombshell then just gets up and extends his hand out to Bee. "Don't worry, you'll fit right in here." He says, after a very brief moment of hesitation, Bee takes Bombshell's hand and starts to walk with him.


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