Sergeant ‘BB-L41’ also known as Bees or Bel by those close to him was keeping watch at the door of the Comms room. He had pulled all staff back to the bridge when Erlo Grann, the ships engineer, went missing. Sending private Sid, SD-887, and some doctor out to keep an eye on the entry hatch. The crew was scared though. Not his 4 man security detail, but the doctors… No matter how many times he said that their now injured ship captain had send the distress signal out in time and that evac was underway, they remained scared. And the longer it took, the less sure Bel became.
 
Keeping only private ‘Fours’ with him, for he was the one most in touch with the scientists, he had sent the other two out on a search of the ship, patterned in a way that they covered Sid’s back. They hadn’t found anything yet. Bloody prisoner. If only protocol had allowed him to execute on the first encounter. Missing Engineer Erlo was reason enough for a ‘kill on sight’ order though. Exactly the order he had given. In the meanwhile he was babysitting a group of scientists that were debating how to get the distress signal out without having to go outside of the comms room. Cowards, Erlo atleast had the guts to do that after the meltdown. How the prisoner had slipped by his initial search would be a matter for reflection and discipline later though.

“-But if we reroute the power of the secondary grid…”

“No that would have us go to the engine room for a general reset, life support would be off for 10 minutes, besides we’d be in the dark at the engine room, who know-“

That was when the ship rumbled, obviously a ship docking with them. Evac? So soon?

“What was that? ” the mingling of fear and hope was palpable. 

“I’m not sure, but that is what we got Sid for.”

Silence ensued that was pierced by the sound of blasterfire audible troughout the ship. Bel didn’t hesitate. And opened his helmet comm.

“Report back to Comm’s. Doubletime. We got some kind of breach.”

Bel and his crew had often complained about their assignment being dull, he had doubted himself for it the last few hours, now came the actual hate. It was high time he did something about this.

"Lock the door behind me. Respond only to codeword Erlo. Fours, you on my back. We'll take eyes front. Off to that karkin' hatch."