Earth Takes a Stand
Chapter Eleven: The Death of Thaylen
by Anonymous
Chris was wandering the halls more or less without direction.
Fortunatly, the halls seemed to be more or less empty. The sounds of
battle comming from a few decks above him explained that. Everyone
was probably trying to help get rid of Laura. He felt a swell of
pride for a moment, this was his lover after all, and she was posing a
mortal threat to the entire ship!
As he was about to turn a corner, he cuaght a glimps of the sleeve of
a Beta uniform. Probably a guard. Guarding what? He didn't dare
turn the corner yet to find out. He needed a plan. They were
probably armed. He looked down at the weapon Raymond had given him.
It looked pretty big, and strange. It was probably made of the same
stuff his armor was, it was the same color of metal and shined the
same way. The firing mechanism was simple enough to understand, it
was just a trigger and a big switch that read "safety." He slid the
safety to the "off" position and started to think.
Suddenly, a huge crash rocked the ship! It litereally shook the ship
off it's axis to the side, and from the room the Betas were guarding
machinery hummed louder than it had before. Chris thought "Thanks for
the distraction, Laura." and leapt into action. He planned to shoot
one Beta, roll out of the way, and then shoot the second one. If
there were more, he'd hide down the corridor and pick them off as they
came around the corner.
But that's not at all what happened! Chris leapt into the hallway
with the distracted Betas, and opened fire. Good God! Four
protrustions on the barrel he couldn't explain before roared to life
as they and the massive center of the barrel exploded into an enormous
white beam of some sort! It was easily over six inches in diameter,
and vaporized half the first Beta's chest! It continued through him
and struck the other Beta as well. The beam was weakened by passing
through the first Beta though, eating through the flesh and muscle but
leaving the bones slightly charred. Both the Betas stood for two
seconds, it seemed like eternity to Chris, before crumpling to the
floor in a heap. Expressions of shock and horror were still visible
on their lifeless faces.
"Holy Shit! I love this thing!" Raymond wasn't kidding when he said
that this was the most powerful gun Steve could come up with. He had
no idea what it fired but he hoped there were some more shots left in
the clip! He looked down at the Betas to inspect the damage. Wow!
One had a perfectly circular hole boared in the left side of his
chest, the flesh around it burned to the point where it wasn't even
bleeding. The other Beta had taken the shot square in the center of
his chest, and his slightly blackened rib cage was clearly visible
through the hole. Everything in his chest was disintegrated excpet
the bone.
Then he glanced up and saw the shot had even struck the wall behind
them! It was glowing faintly red, and the rivits and armor plating
had fused permenently together in an eight inch circle. And that was
after passing through two super powerful aliens! If this was the
technology Raymond had access to, he hoped that he, Laura, and
Fairchild could eventually persuade him to join them.
Chris looked at the door they were guarding. It had all sorts of
important looking signs on it, all in Arion. Unable to read the
signs, he decided to take a look inside. He hit the button that he
assumed opened the door, and burst in with his massive weapon
ready.
"Everyone on the floor! Now! Hands where I can see them!" Even the
Arions who couldn't understand English understood a gun the size of
their heads. All five hit the floor. "Who here speaks English!"
Chris started to walk around the Betas and took their weapons.
One of the Betas answered that he does, and Chris told him to stand.
"What does this place do?"
"This machine creates the artificial gravity. That's all. There's
nothing important in here." Nothing important? Chris got an evil
grin on his face. He knew that there was no Arion Prime with the
power of flight, but Laura was a different story. If the gravity on
this ship suddenly quit, that would put her at a definate
advantage!
"Okay, everyone get up nice and slow and back against the wall.
Things are about to get real interesting around here."
*
Raymond was still following the intructions of the Beta he had in his
grip as he proceeded to where he hoped Aurora was being held. The
truce depended on her survival, and the sooner he could find her the
better the chances were of that happening. If he was caught in a
fight with Laura in space, he knew he would lose. She could easily
stay in a vacuum far longer than he could, and had vastly superior
powers of flight. There was no way he would return to Earth alive if
Luara found a reason to break the truce.
And speaking of Laura, here she comes now. She was racing down the
wide corridor at incredible speed. She stopped for just a second in
front of Raymond. "Look there's two, maybe four Primes behind me.
Hold them off, I'm going to find Aurora. Later."
Before Raymond could speak a word, Laura was gone. She raced down the
corridor and dissapeared around a corner faster than Raymond could
organize the questions he had, or tell her that apparently the Beta
was trying to tell him that they were almost to Aurora already. He
turned around just in time to see two Primes, one man and the same
woman who had fought him at the Particle Physics Lab, barreling down
on him. No time to talk to Laura.
Raymond tossed the Beta in his hands down the hall and turned to face
the Primes. He rushed at them at full speed, and the three collided
like the defensive and offensive lines of a football team. Only this
collision shook the entire ship off of it's axis, which allowed Chris
to take command of the artificial gravity generator.
The two Primes weighed considerably less than Raymond's three ton
armor, and were sent flying backward from the impact. Raymond then
raised his left arm and sent dozens of tiny needels flying through the
air from their cylindrical launcher, sliding between the cells of
their skin and injecting the muscle relaxants into them.
The pair seemed unaffected by the needles. They were just small
enough to be irritating. "Was that supposed to be some kind of a
weapon?" the woman demanded.
Raymond assumed a fighting stance. Could the Arions have special
immunity to them that Laura didn't? He knew they were about a third
as strong, so he used a third the needles he normally would have, was
that a mistake? Would he be able to handle to Primes at once? Should
he conserve his ammunition for when he really needed it or use it now,
and decreace the amount of Primes that he would have to fight later?
Damn, where did his confidence go?
The Primes got up and charged again, and Raymond let them come. The
male leapt into the air, propelled by his powerful legs, and came down
toward Raymond foot-first in a flying leap kick. Fortunatly,
Raymond's Tai-Chi had prepared him for this and he swept the man's
foot away from a direct collision with a circular motion of his arm.
His other arm struck his airborn body, bringing him down hard on the
metal floor, causing it to buckle.
The woman was nearly on top of Raymond that very second, and pummeled
him with a deadly looking (and sounding) combination of punches ending
with a knee in the abs. Raymond staggard backwards from the blows,
this one was one hell of a fighter!
"What the hell was that?" Raymond had never seen that style of
fighting before. In all his martial arts tournaments he never
encountered whatever combat form that was.
"That, my friend, was the most powerful style of combat in the galaxy!
I'm an Arion military specialist, a combat trainer. You were there
when I beat Aurora, not even a Velorian Protector could stop me."
"Am I supposed to surrender?"
"Now that wouldn't be any fun at all!" She assumed a very stable
looking fighting stance, legs wide, guard up. Raymond began his
routine as well. The two circled closer, and finally erupted into a
flurry of punches, blocks, and attempted grabs that occured so
quickly, so violently, and so powerfully, the entire ship echoed with
their fight.
Raymond had to use every trick he knew to keep up with her. He had
gotten struck a few times in the chest and helmet, but barely felt the
impacts through the armor. His circular Tai-Chi style was effective
only in blocking most of her attacks, he could rarely find an opening
anywhere to strike back!
*
Meanwhile, Laura raced to the back area of the ship. It seemed
logical to her that would be where the detention cells would be. As
it turned out, she was right. Several Beta guards tried to stop her,
but without any real hope of hurting her with their weapons. They had
been designed so that a missed shot wouldn't put a hole in the side of
the ship, but any gun that weak wouldn't be able to really hurt a
Velorian!
Kayne heard the sounds of battle and struggled to hold back
Fairchild's powerful heart. With renewed, panicked strength, he felt
it weaken, and then stop. He had won! There was only one thing left
to do to ensure victory. He lowered his lips to the impressive
Velorian breasts before him, and began to milk them of the nearly
limmitless energy he knew they contained.
It was obvious that Fairchild was not dead, only comatose, immediatly.
His touch stirred a reaction in her, causing her nipples to become
hugely erect and diamond hard. With his powerful hands massaging the
flesh, his lips and tongue danced over her nipple for a moment before
the flow started, her breast leaking the chemical energy that his body
could use.
The taste was slightly bitter, and very strong. He switched breasts
after a bit, kneading and sucking that one as well to promote the flow
of the chemicals it contained. He wrapped his arms around her limp
body, pressing her soft breast into his face as he drank from her.
His lips provided a suction that no earthly force could possibly have
generated and his tongue massaged her nipple and the area around it as
he drank. Pity she's almost dead, he thought, she would probably be
enjoying this quite a bit!
After a few moments, he had nearly drained that breast of it's power.
It became difficult to suck any more out of it so he switched back to
the first one. This was turning him on so much, holding the limp form
of one of the most powerful beings in the galaxy so intimatly close,
raping her of the very chemical energy that gave her her incredible
power!
Then Laura burst into the room, bodies scattered behind her. She
looked down and saw Kayne at Fairchild's breast, Fairchild so
obviously helpless before him! The shock of this sight made her pause
for a moment, her friend, her lover, limp and lifeless in the arms of
this rapist!
Then Kayne turned to face her, his body pulsed with raw power, muscles
flexed beyond anything she had ever seen before! His eyes glowed
violet and his mouth glowed red whenever he opened it. His breath
came in huge lungfulls as he dropped Fairchild's body between them.
Then he spoke. "It Hurts! Make it stop!" He had supercharged
himself with Fairchild's energy beyond what he could handle!
Kayne threw himself at Laura, landing a powerful blow on her that sent
her flying through the wall behind her. She got up quickly and
charged Kayne, throwing all her streangth and flying power into one,
massive blow to his midsection! He was so solid she hurt her hand,
but that was quickly forgotten when she saw the effect of her blow.
Kayne was in so much pain from the energy he had taken that he was
distracted and ill-prepared for Laura's mighty punch. He puked
red-hot energy, searing Laura's hand and arm at its touch! Laura drew
back in pain, and saw the powerful vomit eat through the floor and
onto the decks below. If he did that again, he might tear a hole
through the ship, and then Fairchild would be blown out into space and
lost!
Kayne lifted both fists into the air and brought them down on Laura's
shoulders, only her flying power kept her from being thrown through
the decks below. She sent punch after punch into Kayne's body, but
the pain inside of him seemed to be stronger than any she could
inflict. This wasn't right, she was a Velorian, and he was only an
Arion Prime, she was supposed to be far stronger!
Kayne grabbed her arms and pulled her close to him. She felt his
massive erection throbbing under his uniform. "It hurts! I have to
make it stop!" Laura finally understood just what was so painful as
Kayne's freed his enormous cock from his pants, it glowed bright red!
She struggled under his grip, but he had the incredible strength of
Aurora as well as his own, and could not free herself.
Then Laura felt his organ pressing against her sex. She tried as hard
as she could to keep herself closed to him, to not let him enter, but
it was in vain as she heard the fabric tear from the lower part of her
costume, and Kayne slowly forced his way inside of her.
*
Captain Thaylen left the bridge to try to plan his next move. He had
several powerful beings on his ship and knew where none of them were.
He heard the sounds of battle just as clearly as everyone else could,
but had no idea which side was winning. The communications officer
saw his chance.
"All Betas, abandon ship! Bring as many weapons as you can, your
escape PODs are programmed to take you to a rondezvous point. All
Betas, abondon ship." The bridge cleared in an instant, except
for the communications officer who stayed to finish programming the
rondezvous for the PODs.
Thaylen burst from his office and saw only the communications officer,
doing something at a station that was not his own. Immediatly,
searning pain surged through his mind but he had to finish or
everything was lost! "This in inexcusable! I am in the middle of a
crisis and I need my crew to stand with me! There will be no
abandoning of the ship!!" The pain was nearly incapacitating, but the
officer managed to finish what he was doing before collapsing on the
floor in agony.
Thaylen crept toward him smoothly on his four legs, still wearing the
cloak that hid his features. "What were you doing?" There was no
answer. "Tell me what you did or you will die." Thaylen couldn't
read Arion, he could only speak it. He had no idea what the messege
on the console meant. He knew not what had happened to the PODs.
"Tell me!" The Beta had no chance under Thaylen's mind assault. He
was in so much pain all he could do was scream in tortured agony. "I
have no time for this. I have to defend my ship." Thaylen took the
Beta's weapon from him and shot him several times at point blank
range, ending his torture.
*
"Damnit, Prok, help me here!" The woman was furious as she was doing
all the fighting against Raymond and her companion was just standing
there. "We can taken him down easily together, we need to find the
Velorian!" But Prok was unable to help.
"I can't move my legs! I can barely move my arms! What happened to
me?" Prok felt like his limbs were made of lead and his strength was
gone as he stained to move.
The Arion woman fighting Raymond suddenly became aware of an uneasy
feeling deep in her stomach. She felt her strength leaving her as
well! Raymond saw the weakness in her eyes. "Aha, so the relaxant
does work! It won't be long before you start to feel it too, first
your limbs will go numb, then you'll feel weak, it will get harder and
harder to move..."
"Shut up!" She shoved Raymond away with a powerful blow that got
through his defences. Raymond was having a psychological effect on
her by describing the sensation, and it accelerated the process by
makign her focus on it.
"Soon, you'll be unable to even lift your arms to defend yourself.
And then you'll both be at my mercy! Can you feel it, can you feel
the chemicals stealing your strength?" The woman's knees buckled
slightly. Raymond saw his chance and he threw his most powerful punch
square into her jaw! She couldn't even lift a finger to block it, and
the world suddenly went black.
"Now to find out what was in this door." Raymond was about to open it
when it opened itself, and about fifteen Betas ran past him and down
the corridor. Inside, he saw a cloaked figure screaming in Arion at a
Beta on the floor, before taking his gun and shooting him. This
wasn't the detention cells.
"Who the hell are you?" Raymond demanded over his loudspeaker.
Thaylen looked up and emptied the last of the Beta's clip into
Raymond. The shots impacted harmlessly against the carbo-metallic
armor. "I said, who the hell are you?"
"I am the captain of this ship. Captain Thaylen. You have caused me
no end of trouble, Terran. You killed several of my men, and
disgraced me in the eyes of the Arion high command. You will die
now." Thaylen took his cloak off, revlealing a spinlely form
underneath. His dress was odd, move like a thick rope wrapped around
him than cloth. His appearance was even stranger. His head was too
tall for how wide it was, and his arms were far too short. His body
was almost cylindrical and ended in four legs at the bottom, two on
the sides, one in the front, and one in the back. He moved like some
kind of giant insect.
"What are you? You're not an Arion. What are you doing on an Arion
ship?"
"You idiot. This is no Arion ship. This is the design of MY race!
It's beautiful, isn't it? Not a right angle anywhere on the whole
ship. Even after the Arions modified it. My race was conquered by
the Arions years ago, I joined them to survive.
"One of the Arions needed my help rising in command. It seems one of
his commanders didn't like him and was refusing his promotion. I
changed his mind for him, and the Arion I helped was very grateful.
He made me a captain, let me keep one of my race's ships, and gave me
command of a crew. Now I'm the last of my race, and I will not die at
the hands of a Terran!"
"What do you mean you changed his mind? How?"
"Like THIS!" Thaylen's thoughts invaded Raymond's mind, tearing into
his brain and sending agony through every nerve in his body. He
dropped heavily to his knees, three tons of carbo-metal impacting with
the floor resounded through the ship. "One out of every ten thousand
of my race has stronger mental powers than the others. I am one of
them. Good-bye, Terran. I hope you enjoyed your life."
But Raymond was not to be defeated without a struggle! He tried to
block out the pain, to ignore the fire in his veins, to stand and
fight, but he couldn't. He could not rise from the floor as hard as
he tried. His rage built inside of him as he screamed. "You're just
as bad as they are, you use your powers to hurt and kill! I hate you!
Hate you!!" One clawed hand slammed down on the floor in front of
him, tearning into the metal. Slowly, ever so slowly, Raymond pulled
himself forward. Three tons of armor screeched horribly as it dragged
itself across the bridge.
"I've never seen such obsession! Your mind is incredibly focused, I
can feel your rage like a fist. But it won't help you. The sprit is
willing, but the mind is weak. I'll tear apart your thoughts until
your mind dies. I don't need to get through that armor to kill you."
Raymond's other claw struck out in front of him, also tearing into the
floor and dragging the armor forward.
"This should slow you down. The Arions told me you've never felt
Orgone energy before, they didn't have a chance to try it yet. You'll
be so distracted you won't know which way is up." Thaylen brought a
small box, looking a little like a remote control, to him
telekinetically. He trained it on Raymond and fired the wide, green
ray. "Nothing? I'll turn it up. They said you Terrans need huge
doses." Thaylen turned it up to its highest setting, but still there
was no effect Raymond kept crawling foreward.
"This can't be happening. You must feel like you're on fire right
now! How can you move?" Raymond would not be stopped. His obsession
drove him forward, with every ounce of will he had, backed by rage and
fear of death, he pulled himself forward with his claws. "Where are
the Kintzi!?" He telekinetically pushed a button on the other side of
the bridge and threw the useless Orgone device away. "Kintzi! This
is Captain Thaylen! I'm on the bridge and the Terran is here, HELP
ME!"
Thaylen backed away from the advancing armor. He was nowhere near as
physically strong as the Arions, and knew that he would be no match
for the armor if it got a hold of it. Before he knew it, he had
backed himself into a curved portion of the bridge near his captain's
chair. Slowly, ever so slowly, Raymond's armor dragged itself across
the bridge toward him. "Stay back! Stay away from me! You should be
dead by now!"
But Thaylen's fear only weakened his grip on Raymond's mind. Five
feet seperated the two. Then four feet. Then three feet as Raymond
strained to move against more pain than he had ever felt in his life.
"STAY AWAY!!!" Two feet. Then one massive, armored claw gripped his
front leg so tight that he cried out in pain. He was pulled off his
feet and into the grip of Raymond's other claw.
"Let go! Let go of me!" Thaylen redoubled his efforts as a primal
fear of death gripped his mind, but pain has little effect on a
machine. As long as Raymond could move an inch, he could control the
armor.
"I'll see you rotting in Hell, Thaylen. You and the Arions and
Aurora, I'll see you all rotting and burning in HELL!!"
Raymond had a grip on Thaylen's front leg and his shoulder, and with a
force a thousand times greater than was nessesary he ripped the alien
in half, ending the pain for both of them.
*
Chris finished piling all the Betas' sidearms on the artificial
gravity generator after seeing to it that all the Betas were tied up
in the corridor. He confirmed which button closed the door, and fired
the massive weapon Raymond have given him at the impressive machine
inside. Eight inches of intese yellow light roared from the barrell
and the four protrusions around it, carving a clean hole in the
generator. Sparks flew from the machine and everything in the room
began to be pulled toward the hole Chris made as the generator
overloaded violently. Chris closed the door and ran down the hall as
fast as he could.
The explosion rocked the entire ship, and the air blowing out the hull
breach shook the ship violently starbord as the gravity suddenly
ceased.
*
Laura, still caught in the grip of the supercharged Kayne, was still
trying desperatly to keep him from violating her any further. His
strangly glowing cock was painful to be inside of her, but there was
little she could do to match his greatly enhanced strength.
Without warning, an explosion rocked the ship violently to starboard,
the sudden shock making Kayne lose his grip on Laura. At the same
time, the artificial gravity cut out on the ship, and both Kayne and
Fairchild bounced helplessly against the walls of the detention cell
corridor. Laura, the only one able to fly, righted herself and
rocketed at the useless, floating body of Kayne. The impact sent
Kayne flying down the corridor, bouncing off a cell door and impacting
with the wall at the end of the cells.
"And this one is for what you did to Fairchild!!" Laura flew down the
corridor, accellerating as fast as she could. The massive, inflated,
supercharged Kayne could only look on in horror as she flew at him at
high subsonic speed, both fists in front of her! She impacted with
Kayne's body, tearing the both of them through the hull of the ship
and into the vacuum of space once more.
Kayne, without any means of propultion whatsoever, was sent tumbling
through empty space. His silent screams for help and an end to the
pain he had brought into himself from Aurora went unheaded as his
massive form shrank away from the ship into the blackness.
Laura flew back to the ship quickly, she knew that Fairchild would be
blown out into space by the hull breach. She quickly found her lover
and flew the two of them back to the ship.
*
Raymond was feeling much better in a matter of moments. The pain had
all been psychological, none of it was real. He quickly recovered and
brought himself to his feet. He surveyed the torn form that had once
been Thaylen. There were marks on his shoulder and his leg where his
claws had crushed the fragile flesh, and the skin and tissure in his
midsection were streached and torn. The dead do not bleed, but they
still leak, and a puddle of something that looked like antifreeze
surrounded the area where Thaylen had been torn in half. It was a
grusome sight to be sure.
Raymond looked around the bridge. Look at all this technology! He
could learn so much from all of this. He went to the communications
console, at least his best guess as to what it was. After fooling
with it for a moment, he got it pretty much figured out. One of his
preperations before leaving was to turn on a specialized sort of
"modem" he had built, one that would accept transmissions from laser
and radio communications. This was the break he was waiting for. The
Arion ship had several methods of communication, one of which was
laser. He selected several small files at random from the Arion
computers and began trasmitting them to his computer, hoping they were
just text. His first step would be to try to decode the Arion
alphabet!
It was then that the Kintzi had shown up on the bridge. They had been
searching the ship ever since they were releaced for something to
kill, but were unable to find anyone until Thaylen called them to the
bridge. Now they were iching for a fight!
It was then that Raymond felt an explosion rock the ship suddenly
starbord. The gravity let go of everything on the bridge at the same
time, throwing Raymond, the Kintzi, the Beta, and Thaylen's two halves
against the port side. Raymond, fortunatly, had forseen this
possibility when he was thinking about being in space. He had
pressurized his armor, added oxygen tanks, made sure his propultion
didn't require an atmosphere, and installed magnetic clamps in his
boots. He was suprized he didn't need to use them before, in his
wildest dreams he never would have thought the Arions would have
actually developed artificial gravity.
The Kintzi suddenly were panicked, now they had their fight, but they
had no gravity! They had no idea how to fight in zero G! Raymond
waded into the group, attached to the floor by his magnetic clamps.
He grabbed Kintzi after Kintzi, throwing them around the bridge to
seperate them. His armor suffered little but scratches as any attempt
to strike him resulted in the attacker being forced away!
Raymond considered trying to kill them all, but there were too many.
It would take too long. In this zero G, their awesome strength meant
little, hitting things simply pushed them away by Newton's laws of
motion. Instead, he calmly walked out the door and sealed it shut
with his laser. The roars of the Kintzi could be heard all over the
ship, as their were cheated of their chance to join the fight and
defend the ship at the last possible moment.
The two Primes were still just outside the door to the bridge. The
relaxants were still keeping them immobile, and they had in fact
fallen asleep until Chris' explosion woke them up. Raymond picked up
the male to face him, his limp body hanging uselessly. Oddly enough,
when he grabbed Prok, green sparks shot from his claws and arced to
him. "Pork, was it? Tell me where I can find the Velorian Aurora.
And I don't mean the bridge, or whatever the Beta thought I meant."
In his relaxed state, this was incredibly funny to Prok. He laughed
out load as he realized that the Arion word for helm control sounded
extremly similar to the name Aurora. The Beta took him straight to
the bridge by accident! Raymond shook him out of it by slamming his
back into the wall, causing a deep indentation. "I'm sorry, that was
just too funny! The detention cells are in the back of the ship.
Just go that way." Prok tried to point, but found himself unable to
lift his arms. The relaxants were starting to mess with his mind, and
he found this drop-dead hilarious too!
Raymond left the hysterical Prime floating there as he continued
toward the back of the ship the sparks becomming more visible as he
let go until he moved far enough away from Prok. The ship was
completly empty. The Betas had all evacuated, two Primes were unable
to move near the bridge, and the entire compliment of Kintzi warriors
were locked in the bridge.
Locked in the bridge? Oh no, the communications station! If they
figured out it was trasmitting he won't get all the data! And if they
had some way of figuring out where it was trasmitting they'd
know where he lived! His mind raced, could such an animalistic race
do that? Maybe. He rushed back to the bridge and sliced a hole in
the door with his laser. He ran to the communications station,
ignoring the grops and swipes of the Kintzi, and smashed it to peices.
He wondered how much he got of what.
The Kintzi were furious now. He had come back just to crush the
communications station? One who was close to a wall was able to
spring himself off the wall and at Raymond. He caught the armor from
behind, slashing and tearing for all his was worth! Raymond struggled
under the assault, trying to get the Kintzi off of him, but it's grip
was relentless. He raced back out of the hole in the door and down
the corridor. If he could find Chris or Laura they could help him.
He rushed in the direction of the detention cells as Prok began to
laugh histarically again at the sight of a Kintzi on his head!
*
Meanwhile, Chris still had his hands full with the Betas he had
captured single-handedly. They were bound with steel cables and he
told them to lead him to the detention cells.
He was halfway there when Raymond came racing around a corner and
nearly fell over laughing himself! Here was a nearly eight foot tall
heavily loaded broad shouldered three ton suit of power armor,
struggling to get a Kintzi off his head! "Hold still, Raymond, I got
'im!" Chris aimed and fired the powerful rifle, it roared to life and
struck the Kintzi full in the side.
The Kintzi roared with pain as the fur was burned off the impact
sight. Raymond was finally able to get a grip on the Kintzi's leg and
throw him to the ground. He held the Kintzi down by it's throat,
leving it to desperatly claw at his arm. Just like it happened at the
Particle Physics Lab, although the Kintzi cut deep gashes in Raymond's
armor, there was no pain to make him let go. Raymond's right wing
swiveled around and connected with is right arm, the .50 caliber
machine gun mounted on it swiveled forward at the same time. He stuck
the barrel inside the mouth of the Kintzi, and a few shots
managed to dig through the soft tissue into its brain, quickly
dispatching it.
"Come on, Raymond. These Betas are taking me to Aurora. Laura's
probably there already if I know her." Raymond and the Betas lightly
pushed themselves off the floor and floated down the hall.
"You found one that spoke English? Why couldn't I do that?"
Moments later the small group was at the detention cells, and a sorry
sight greeted them. There was Laura, half nude and crying, holding
Fairchild in her arms. Fairchild had a large bruise just under her
rib cage, her breasts almost looked deflated, and she hung limply from
Laura's grip.
Raymond assessed the situation immediatly. This was horrible! The
truce was over! Aurora was dead! "God Damnit! I'm not going down
without taking this ship with me though!" Raymond used his laser to
cut the lead Beta out of his bonds, grabbed him and quickly ran down
the corridor. When he grabbed the Beta, the same shower of green
sparks ran from his claws to the Beta, but Raymond was in far too much
a hurry to ask questions.
"Laura, is she..." Chris started.
"No, she's still alive, but her heart is stopped. I'll need to bring
to back somehow, but I don't know how! She did it for Kara once, but
I don't know enough about it. Do you?"
"A little, I saw some of what they did, she needed me around to bring
her to the magma under the house when she finished. It's really
draining. But she said that if I stuck around too close, the energy
release might hurt me pretty badly. But our immediat problem is
Raymond. Did you hear what he said? I think he's going to destroy
the ship!"
Laura was feeling too much to think clearly right now. At least there
was a chance that she could bring Aurora back to them, but that was
almost worse, because she didn't know exactly how to do it!
"If he thinks Fairchild is dead, then he thinks our truce is over, and
he knows I can outfly him in space, Oh God Chris, we have to get off
the ship before he can blow it up! But I don't know if Fairchild is
okay to survive reentry!"