"For right now, we are looking to get housing assigned you in the system. I want the travelers to join the team below as quickly as possible but with my team running things up here, I feel I need to be down there as well. It's not a safe place."
"Right now, I need to run back to the Crows planet. There is a piece of the communications equipment that goes in space, the rest of the stuff needs to be unloaded."
Shalt responded, "it's done. We are ready to go."
Minx looked at him and smiled softly, "thank you."
Minx looked back to the others, "ideally, it might be prudent for some of the women to run the communications equipment and such things. It will probably be tomorrow before I can get back here. Just… Stay safe. Please."
With that, she rushed to get on her ship. She had Shalt take it off stealth mode once they were clear of the planet. An hour and a half later, they were landing back on the Crows planet. She ran off the ship with Shalt taking the remote from her to send it back to Quinn's ship. He then caught up to her. Quinn didn't answer his door and wasn't in the traveler center nor was he on a quest, so she went looking for Blip.
His office was empty and the conference room door was closed. She opened it and peaked inside. Sam saw her and waived her in.
"Minx!" Quinn was sitting at the head of the table with Blip and a man she didn't know.
"I'm sorry to interrupt your meeting."
Quinn spoke up, "This is not an interruption. My people are invited and that includes you."
She noted Alex was there as well, so she waived at him.
Blip pointed at the new person, "This is Dennis. We will be creating a leadership team of myself, Dennis and Quinn. Dennis is the leader of the Eagles."
Minx gulped and nodded. She took a seat feeling really uncomfortable. Some of his people would be dead if not for her actions. "Dennis, I need a list of places your people could have teleported to. I have 10 children without parents and some women without husbands. I need to see if I can reunite them."
"You were there?"
Minx nodded, "You denied Daphne's transfer request. I rejected your rejection. They attacked while I was picking her up. I grabbed as many as I could…"
She looked to Quinn, "I saw Logan. My communications system was ready, so I went there last. I dropped those that had a place to go at their Earth station. I have set up my traveler system and transferred us all over. Logan transferred the Eagles travelers who chose to help me, so they are under me now."
She looked back at Dennis, "at least you know some got out."
He nodded looking extremely sad, "thank you."
She chose to stay silent for the meeting as much as she could.
They discussed how the Sunshields were attacking other places and would likely attack them at some point as well. There would be a teleporter between the planet and the ship. They would use that as an evacuation point.
Alex would set up a forge and get to work. He would also build a machine that helped get in touch with a person's soul weapon.
"Alex, could you build one for me as well? I'll pay you for it. While we're at it, Daphne wasn't able to bring her fabric-making forge thing for making beast clothing fabric. I need one of those as well. I'll give you what you need, of course. But … These clothes are starting to get tight." She held her breath and looked around the room.. "I need her to make me a robe of some kind so I can be safe on my planet."
She took a deep breath. "Shalt and I already took out two king tier beasts in the area the earth users are working. I need to get back as soon as possible but I needed to make sure Quinn was safe."
Blip asked, "how are you on funds?"
"I was getting really low. Each time I went back I was spending more than I was making. That will continue. I was just given an inject to build an orphanage and told if I needed anything else to help them, to let my friend know. I was already planning to put one in," she replied
"We are also, for those who don't know, putting in a shelter under our shelter. I have hired 8 earth users from here and they have been working for me building walls to keep the beasts out. Nate and Sam came with us on that first trip and I got to fight beside Nate. It's dangerous," she continued.
"However," Minx sighed, "even with the new people the only ones that are strong enough to take down a king tier are here. I sent my ship back so I can't leave for another 8 hours. I wanted to ask Freddy's wife if she wants to come with us and I need a whole bunch of clothes still. I bought a few things. I was planning on shopping once I got a chance."
Minx looked a Sam, "Sam, I heard Quinn task you with planning for when the Sunshields come. I want to know when they do. I want to be on the ship and provide healing. If the underground is secure by then, I'd like to see if my people would also like to help."
"Minx, if you're going shopping on that level, you'll need people to carry your purchases, right?"
Minx chuckled, "if anyone wants to carry bags, the help would be appreciated. In fact, the more help I have, the more I can buy for them. But I need to eat first. Is there anything else I need to know or that you need to know from me before I go get more glazed carrots?"
Blip laughed, "no. Go on. We'll meet you soon and help you."
She smiled and walked out. Everyone saw her traveler tag around her neck now read "B".
Minx had just finished eating and was joined by Quinn, Blip, Dennis, Fex, Nate, Sam, Alex, Paul and Kazz. Even Linda joined in. She felt quite self-conscious at all the help that just arrived.
By the time Minx was done shopping, the toys were all gone, the kids clothing, the female clothing, blankets, rugs, books, anything women and children needed. They even stopped by the armor store and bought some advanced tier gear.
The men had left everything behind as well so those helping her guided her on things the men may like. Most of the inventory shelter-wide was purchased and placed near where she would call her ship to.
Shalt had gone there at the 4-hour mark and called it back. Now everyone was waiting with her to load her up.
Freddy's wife had declined as this shelter was her home. Minx respected that.
Minx was glad Midas remembered to bring her luxury kitchen earlier because she had forgotten. With them being switched over, it would have meant the kitchen would have been claimed by the shelter.
Her ship landed and everyone placed their burdens in the cargo hold. She gave everyone a hug and a thank you, including Kazz and Linda, who she really didn't like but they didn't need to help.
When she hugged Alex, she reminded him she needed numbers and was even willing to buy the blueprints as well as the materials. Blip gave her his account number weeks ago to pay the earth users so once she had the numbers she could transfer the money over. Quinn was last.
She was crying because she knew this was hard for him.
"This is very much not goodbye. Weekly calls still. My teleporter is installed. I'll be getting a new one with the updated security so you'll be able to come through on your own in the future. What I asked for is B rank and higher will be able to come at will with permission in the system."
"I have not heard from him," Quinn said.
"The only reason I have is because I have to call him. I do most of the talking, which isn't new but there are things going on. I'm sure he'll update you when he can."
She wiped her tears, "We gotta go. I promise to do my best to stay safe. Now, please leave my ship so we can go," she grinned at Quinn.
Reluctantly he did but they all stood by to watch her leave. She waved at them from the window and they were off.
Before heading back, they went back to Quinn's ship and moved everything to the other ship. The ship that responded to the remote needed to be left behind for now.
To get back faster, Shalt stayed out of stealth mode until they got close. They had to put the space portion of their communication system in place before landing. Then the real work would begin. Minx had been working on a list and some plans.