Tomas droned on about god knows what anymore. He had been up way too late last night playing video games ... again. It seemed to be the norm these days following Viper's last mission. He and Mira had had a falling out of sorts, something about him not knowing her as well as she thought he did that really pissed her off. So the time they used to spend together had now been taken up by video games and the odd trip down to the simulators.

Leave it to the higher ups to pour the salt in the wound, as Tomas had somehow been selected provide the punishment for Mira's latest prank. Something about being her squadron commander, as well as a guest instructor for the academy when they needed him. Regardless of the reason, the outcome was in front of him as he absent mindedly followed the lesson plan. That was until a loud thump startled him and caused Tomas to become fully awake ... at least for the time being.

"Petty Officer, are you sleeping?" he asked as he searched out the noise only to find Mira's head resting against the desk in front of her.

"Yeah, so what?" The other pilot replied, glancing up momentarily, and looking even more tired than he was ... if that was possible. Mira yawned, and being as contagious as they were Tomas couldn't help but yawn as well. Once he recovered, he found that Mira had put her head back down. Tomas was having none of this. If he had to be here lecturing he was damned if he was going to be the one being punished. Looking around the room unsuccessfully for some sort of yardstick, he instead approached her desk and pounded on the flat surface with his hand with a loud 'thwap'. Needless to say, this woke Mira up with a start so much so that she leaned back a bit to far on her chair.

Mira's eyes went wide as she began to fall backwards. She was awake alright, but this had gone beyond Tomas' intentions and reaching out he gently stopped her fall as he supported her arm with his palm before pulling her upright once again. Neither pilot seemed comfortable in the most recent situation, and once he had returned her chair to normal, Tomas retreated to the front of the room with a sigh.

Tomas had caught his tongue, but the split second of indecision was all Mira had needed to vanish down the hallway. Tomas lowered the arm he had raised in a futile attempt to stop her. He really wasn't sure what he'd do with that woman, especially since everytime he got close to her one or the other, or both would get embarrassed. He was somehow finding it even tougher to discipline her now that they were apart then when they had been together.

Sighing, Tomas collected the material with which he'd been torturing Mira and left the room. As far has he was concerned she had been punished, given that they had been in there for at least a couple hours. Regardless, he highly doubted it would keep Mira out of trouble for very long.

Tomas yawned as he finally got back to his bunk. He'd been up so late last night, he could hardly function and he suspected that his lecture had actually made him even more tired. As a result, Tomas collapsed on his bed, falling asleep almost instantly. He figured he had been asleep for an hour, maybe two before his game system pinged informing him he had a voice message.

"Where the Frak are you? I can only do so much myself, and the rest of these guys are as good as cannon fodder." Tomas rubbed his eyes, feeling much more refreshed. Sure, he didn't have all that much else to do today, a little gaming wouldn't hurt. Picking up his controller, Tomas replied indicating he was present and ready to go.

Tomas chuckled as the voice on the headset went on. Meanwhile, the next match had booted up and he had immediately paired off with the mysterious woman figuring covering eachothers backs they'd be unstoppable. That is just how it went for the first little bit, the oppossition falling left and right to their one-two punch. It kept up this way until his partner became engaged with a pair of enemy players across the main street on the map.

Tomas was just about to join her, hopefully pick out a better angle to take them down from while she held their focus when an enemy entered their room, silently creeping up behind Tomas' partner looking for a knife kill. 'Cocky bastard,' Tomas thought put a pair of shots through the guy's head from the side of the room.

Needless to say, after that the attacks on their position became a bit less stealthy with enemies coming in waves of one, two and three at a time each greeted by Tomas' bullets, knife or the occasional thermal detonator if they approached to slow.

"Aha, one down!" his partner exclaimed several minutes later, "and down goes his little friend."

"In your own little world, were you?" Tomas replied, causing her character to turn around and giggle. Close to two dozen bodies lay strewn across around and just outside the room.

"Oops..."