@Dealdric@Azereiah@BKburke@Banana@Simple UnicycleThe Nekross had vanished, but just as Marcus was wondering where she'd gone, a blaring alarm and the sudden whooshing of oxygen being sucked into the vacuum of space told him everything he needed to know. Exasperated, he yelled into the team comms.
"Lexi! Get back in here goddamnit! Someone plug that hole before we all suffocate!" As he walked back to look up at the hole in the hull, the Dalentian, Lataniva was already hard at work weaving a psionic barrier over it. When it was sealed off, the alarm cut out, and Marcus was able to observe the corpses at their feet, swarming with small creatures. He looked over at Lataniva.
"Can you deal with this? Don't want those things to spoil the armor if we need it"
With a flick of her wrist, the Bolgates were flung into the air and stayed suspended.
"Control your beasts, and yourself, or I will do it for you" Lataniva said to Lexi, a slight hint of venom in her voice.
Grayson and the rest of the attack team had finished off the pirates, if there were any still alive on this bucket, they were in hiding, or locked out of this cargo area. While Joe and Ian got to work prying bits of armor off of corpses, Grayson and SAL were checking the corners while Vulcaan and the others were planting explosives. Grayson found a locked door, and if his cyber-eye's translation of the Perideian script was correct, he had discovered their armory.
"SAL, come here"
The robot walked over and after a short and unsuccessful attempt to pry open the door by hand, SAL loaded an explosive shot into his shotgun and blasted through the console, shorting out the locks and opening the door. Inside, they found rack after rack of weapons and ammo, and in the back, a row of helmets, most of which seemed to fit human-sized heads. Over a few minutes, the team wrangled together enough complete sets of armor to consider the mission a success, they loaded it into a couple of portable crates and radioed for Tibulus and Ace to bring the ship in.
@Xandrya@Silver Carrot"You're ok Amy? Good" Kira said, lowering her weapon "We're getting out of here in a minute Taleste, hold steady and watch for any wayward hostiles"
The shooting had stopped, so she tapped into the comms to communicate with the others.
"What do you hear Marcus?"
A pause.
"Nothin' but the rain sister"
"Well, grab your gun and bring the cat in. Airlock secured, ready for exit when you are."
"Copy that, package secured, moving to you now." Marcus replied.
The remainder of the mission went off without a hitch, Revenant was able to dock and the team filed on, taking their hard-won prize with them. As the ship gained distance, Kira made her way up to the cockpit and clapped the pilots on the back.
"You did good, both of you. Now for the grand finale, we oughta be far enough away now, cut speed and spin us around, ready the guns"
One shot from the main cannon was enough to punch a hole through the ship and trigger their explosives. The vessel splintered apart at the seams, propelling debris out everywhere at high velocity.
"Perfect, now Farek and his goons will have no way of figuring out what happened until it's too late. Get us back to the rendevous point, I'm sure Alessio and Stryker are sick of waiting."
@t2wave@Hawlin@Tickout@baranicaWhen the ships reconvened and linked together, Stryker and Carver came across to the Revenant, leading a pair of unfamiliar faces. They introduced Kaeci and Harriet to the others before pulling Kira and Marcus into a meeting in Stryker's quarters, presumably to go over the mission and prepare for the next step in the plan.
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