"Saber 2 is right on that one," Yelgir replied. "There's a chance that we could hijack one of the Grut ships, but we can't rely on that." A voice inside his head made him cringe, someone had finally noticed his intrusion. The message left by the foreign android confused him slightly, it wasn't a threat, and didn't seem to contribute anything. During the brief contact with the opposing android, a valuable piece of tactical information was collected.. "Saber 1, the opponent you face is the commander of this destroyer. If we can destroy or capture her, our mission would be much easier."

A small sting pulled Yelgir back to the airlock, and he noticed a mechanical insect. The bug stung him again, and Yelgir swatted it into the wall, where it broke into pieces. The hatch connecting the airlock he was in to the main part of the ship was being pounded on; someone strong was trying to manually override the seal he had placed. Yelgir pulled a smallarm from its place at his side, and mentally thanked the bug for alerting him.

A large dent appeared in the hatch, pulling the clamp from the wall, and an unmistakably Grut arm appeared in the opening, pushing it open wider. The hatch kept the force shield from covering the arm, so Yelgir took his chance and squeezed the trigger. The handgun fired a stream of micro-particles at near-sonic speeds, and the invisible dust tore a hole in the Grut's arm. Air streamed in through the opening, the Yelgir covered his head as the soldier became a fireball. Most of the blast was on the other side of the door, but a small part of it came through the opening. Yelgir's ears were ringing, and his arms were covered in light burns. The hatch had taken enough, and fell open with a clatter, revealing the devastation on the other side. Three Jitwae were on the floor, horribly blackened, one of them still alive. It moaned piteously, and Yelgir gave it a mercy shot through the head. Shrapnel from the exploded Grut covered the walls, and the small android picked his way over and around the larger pieces of debris.

The map in his head showed that the airlock he had covered in was the only entrance to the bay where the others were, but also that the ship's armory was nearby. There should be something in it to help.