SPACE BANDITS

(Open on a seemingly abandoned, derelict vessel floating through space. Docked with it is a starship called the "Starhopper". Inside the vessel, two women make their way through a dilapidated corridor cautiously, their weapons drawn. The tan woman with black hair fiddles with her visor)
Karliah: Nothing on the movement scanner. But keep your eyes open. They want us to think this vessel is abandoned. They're hiding something.

Nadia: Anything on thermal or UV? If whatever's hiding here, it may not be visible in normal light.

Karliah: Nothing-- and I'm not being jammed.
(they come up to a large, locked blast door)
Karliah: Jackpot. Work your magic, Nady.

The red head grins as she readies her omnitool.
Nadia: With pleasure.
She walks over, tapping into the door's electronic system. Within seconds, the door beeps as it starts to open.
Nadia: And there we go. ^^

Karliah: Beautiful. *charges up biotic energy with her left arm, and brandishes her SMG with her right as she enters the room*
(The door enters into a large, dark chamber, in the center of which lies a large tree-trunk. The trunk is covered in glowing mushrooms and moss, and weird symbols resembling those in the Chozo ruins of Tallon IV. The runes give off a faint glow. The tree seems to be kept alive by mechanisms surrounding it emitting a peculiar green mist around the tree.)
Karliah: What the hell...? What are those symbols? *walks up to the tree*

Nadia: Careful Karly, you don't know what that can do.

Karliah: See if you can turn on the lights, I can't see a damn thing but this weird...tree.

Nadia: Sure thing. *Taps her omnitool and the lights in the room flicker to life*

(the light reveals scattered, broken equipment on the ground, and several marine corpses around the base of the walls)
Karliah: ...Huh. Well that's.......huh.

Nadia: Well, this place got a whole lot creepier... *Looks around* Do you see anything of value here? I wanna leave this place right now..

Karliah: I-
(a few large, spherical masses of ethereal energy appear around the room, and briefly seen are Chozo ghosts before they turn invisible, leaping about the chamber)
Karliah: What the-?! Wait a second...that tree...the symbols, now these?! Nadai we have to get out of here immediately! These are Chozo ghosts!
(one of the ghosts briefly appears to launch a ball of energy at Karliah, knocking her back to the tree area, on the ground next to a symbol plate fallen off the tree)
Karliah: Hm...*grabs the plate, and gets up, using Biotic charge to hustle towards Nadia*

Nadia: Shit shit shit!!
She deploys a combat drone to distract the ghosts before grabbing Karliah's arm and running off with her.

Karliah: Quick, quick! *fires off a few shots at thin air* Dammit, they keep disappearing! *pushes Nadia through the door, then egresses herself* Close it, quick!

Nadia: They're ghosts, that won't work! Just keep running! *Runs faster*

Karliah: Well they weren't all over the vessel when we were walking through it! Just close it!

Nadia: Fine! *Closes the door with her omnitool while she runs* Call the ship and tell them to take off as soon as we get aboard!

Karliah: *contacts the ship with the earpiece of her visor* Rackjack! Deeply spooky combat situation! Get ready for take-off the MOMENT we get on board!
Rackjack's voice over the comm: Roger that, taking off now!
Karliah: NO, you bug-eyed bastard! Stay put until our pert asses are on board!

Nadia: *Looks behind them* Are they following us? I can't tell.

Karliah: I wouldn't know, they're invisible! There's nothing on my thermal or motion visors! I need some other upgrade or whatever. *clutches the symbol plate as she bolts down the hallway with Nadia*
(when they get to grated section of the floor, it crumbles apart and they fall through, into an AC chute down which they slide, and end up crashing through another grate into a storage room, filled with metal crates)
Karliah: *groans, as she sits up* I think I broke my ass...>,>

Nadia: *Groans slightly as well* Same here....but we can complain when we're back on our ship... *Looks around* Where are we?

Karliah: Some kind of storage room. Let's check these crates, though. *gets up, and goes over to one of the crates, opens it, and marvels at the contents* ooohhh...my.....GUNS. So many guns! ^^
(inside the crate are rows upon rows of many different types of guns, pistols, SMGs, shotguns, rifles, laser cannons, etc.)
Karliah: These guys were packin' HEAT!

Nadia: Wow, think of how much we'll get if we sell it. *Drools slightly at the thought of all the money they'd get*

Karliah: Yeah, we'll just ask the murderous birdman ghosts out there to come move them for us. Let's just take what we can carry! *grabs a few rifles, three pistols, a shotgun, and a string of grenades she found buried underneath it all* Woah, 'nades! Score!

Nadia: Hold on, I think I can get this...
She taps her omnitool, causing several combat drones to materialize in the room that go over to the crates and start levitating them.

Karliah: Wow. What can't you do? Whatever. Let's find a way out of here an onto the ship so I can have a nice, hot bath. I-
(more ghosts drop down from the room above, and launch energy balls at the drones, blowing them up. They then de-materialize after firing some more at Karliah and Nadia)
Karliah: *gets hit, and drops what she was holding except for the shotgun and grenades* Dammit! *fires off a full clip at the ghost that shot her, even after it disappears*