[b][h2]Reenneesuash (Ren to humans) daughter of veanamdarr[/h2][/b]


“Warning… facility decontamination In 10 minutes. Lab levels sealed. Evacuation orders to all staff…” reenneesuash ran as she strapped tight another bag, back back and a pistol strapped to her leg as she ran past the numbers, to sector 001. “Ren… damn you late out.” The man called as he joined her break neck pace to the outside and then onto the space port. The thermobaric bombs would take out everything inside and burn the building interior to ash and melted metal. 

“Needed to raid the armoury, they unlocked everything.” Ren said as she ran, short as she was… every step took about two of someone else's as they escaped before they joined the rest of the building as a ruin. 

“Still late, there's a ship on dock Theta left, docks Omega are all gone…” He had not always got on with the Kieller woman, she was prickly but did not deserve to be incinerated. She looked about the height of his daughter and despite knowing she was older still looked like an intern. The Kiellar were hard to predict or even guess, it made life on the station tense at times. 

“Lock down protocol beginning in 5 minutes. Warning. Lock down on 5 minutes prior to thermobaric gas flood.” Came the computer's voice. They made it out with 2 minutes to spare and took a direct bee line for the ship. The man looked to see the woman in the open light and noted her eyes, unlike the norm she had her fatigue from the last few months evident, the pressure had suppressed what he had found out was their healing abilities. They were annoyingly fast to recover especially if you got a bad cold, they just came back a day or so later happy as can be when you laid in bed half dead. 

…

“Welcome to Dock bay Theta 4. Please have your passport and documents ready.” The auto systems remained on but formal boarding passes had long been abandoned, most of the place had been shoved out the way or smashed to evacuate faster and the crew had long given up enforcing rules such as enter visa and who had what baggage allowances. 

She was panting, they barely had stopped and reached the last docking bay showing green. Red lights ran down all 9 other bays and was not sure if any other docking zones had anything left? Northland had clung on to the last to save what they could from the labs and data and now it was probably already been obliterated, the exit too rushed to even tell if one whole area of station had been destroyed. 

“Alert. Fire Alert…. Fire breach in zone…” came across the PA, it looked like the Northland blast had escaped it's housing or just whatever inside burned hotter than intended… that was a joke. Northland did not care at this point, they had facilities on dozens or more worlds by being assholes. 

“Ren… reenneesuash” She choked out her name as she panted to the boarding ramp who demanded her name, maybe there still was some organised structure aboard as she joined the remaining who escaped the coming apocalypse that was at the heels of them all. It would only be so long before the horrors found a way in, they at Bio security had done their best to keep the space ports open but even then… only so many could make it and entire compromised flights had been obliterated. All in the vain effort to keep the life line out open that was being cut as she entered the vessel and felt the recycled air of the ship. 

“Frak you too” She said as someone pushed into her and past not looking, the dim lights rising into the ferry ship away from the boarding gate.

“All passengers. Move along steadily. Do no stop. Shuttle flight to final station departing in 5 minutes.”

…

Behind her the station burned rapidly as it turned out the shelf destruct was far more potent, the whole station burned and the last ferry flight crew watched as it and its reactor failed falling into the pull of gravity to land on the planet below. 

…

Station. Final station. The bar. 

Life was normal here.. what the hell? Things were not screaming or falling apart, no self destruction? The woman was tired and spotted a whole mix of primitives, local and far off species that remained of all kinds. Combined Station Northland Raincoat 6 had it turned out on final departure being deliberately dropped on the remains of the Eastern continent, a blast probably killed tens of millions of the damn bugs and not even scratched their numbers. 

“Whiskey…Coffee, beer or health shakes… whatevers left.” She said as she approached the bar, her bags still about and the Kieller looked like she had barely slept for a week, because she had. Even their physiology was not immune. 

The unusually short Kiellar woman pushed her hair into a messy pony tail still wearing the reinforced lightweight armour they had all been given as their former station fell apart trying to keep bugs from breaking into the redoubt and keep bio security intact in deteriorating labs among the chaos clearly marked of course with company branding and “Bio station 6. Lab team.”, because they were paranoid bastards about even pens being taken and sold on any kind of post or illegal sale. 

“I'm sure my bosses would find a way if I owed them student loans.” She said to the woman who seemed to be nearby, Brunette, one of humans, or this subspecies whichever they hailed from exactly. She was too tired to be exact in mind. 

“Ren” She said as an introduction, falling almost into a seat with relief that her aching feet she had been on for hours now without rest had a short break before they had to try and make it to the last ships off planet.

Had she finally started hallucinating. That snake had a hand...?



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