Open those doors

Posted on Wed Dec 16th, 2015 @ 1:43am by Johnathen Wade & Commander Bertrand Cuprum & Lieutenant Ishan Satele

Mission: If I told you...
Location: Station Docking bay

Wade and Bertrand made a sprint for the ladder as the Marines and remaining security tried to fall back to the runabout. They had lost half their number to the relentless assault, but now that the kill order had been given, they were doing a better job of keeping the attackers at bay.

Wade went up the ladder first while Bert stood guard at the bottom watching one last marine go down while the rest sealed the hatch to the runabout.

As Wade reached the top, Affected crew were beginning to climb onto the small ship, looking for a way in, but some had turned and were running for the remaining pair. Among them were the former crew who had been taken by the enemy and now swelled the number of afflicted.

Wade dispatched the closest few as Bertrand made the top of the ladder.

"Inside!" he ordered and then sealed the door to the small control room behind them.

He looked at Wade, "You got a plan?"

"Well, not so much a plan as an idea of find Smith, punch him repeatedly, then ask him who thought this was a good idea. The in between where we find him is kinda hazy."

"Sounds like a good plan to me." He pressed the comms link to Satele, "Bertrand to USS Torrens, do you read?"

"This is Lieutenant Ishan, I read you sir"

"When we open that door, you are to get back to the victory and appraise them of the situation. There are still the other two runabouts for the rest of us if we can get back here. We may loose radio contact though. Good luck."

"Understood sir, don't get caught"

There was a hammering on the door. Bertrand glanced at Wade; they had been found.

"We should have a couple of minutes before they get in," he said working on the bay door controls. "I don't suppose there is any chance that there is a jefferies tube access to this room we can slip out when we are done?"

Jack reached into his bag and pulled out a slightly larger then normal PaDD and went over to one of the maintenance panels and just pulled the damn thing off, letting it clunk too the ground. He held the device up, facing the exposed panel and the damn thing seemed too do a scan. "This kid is making me use my bag of tricks way to early in my retirement" he grumbled. A few keystrokes after Wade spun the PaDD around to Bertrand, it was a full map of the ship. "Yeah, there is a series linking all the docking bays"

There was a tone as the docking bay doors opened and the SIF field went up. The way was clear for the runabout to exit.

"Then I suggest we use it," Bertrand said, backing away from the controls and looking at the metal door which was beginning to dent from the blows.

The bar tender ran over too a floor panel in the corner and propped it up, waiting for security chief too hop in before jumping down himself and sealing the hatch. "Seems they added in an aggressor from the original plan."

Bertrand stopped suddenly in the middle of the Jefferies tube and turned on Wade, "Original plan? You knew about this?"

Jack rolled his eyes. "Original scrapped plan. You know how a lot of bad ideas come up during war time? Well this was the mother of all bad ideas, and it was supposedly black boxed and vaulted. When I retired this was still in that vault as far as I knew. So this is either black ops like no ones business, or unsanctioned."

Bertrand considered Wade's words carefully, but his skin still itched. "One more question, were you on the team that came up with the idea, or shelved it?"

"Neither, i was high up enough to hear about it. I personally would have shot the guy who thought zombies was a good idea"

Bertrand began crawling again, "As for the other, this is sanctioned all right. I dug as far as I could on Mr Smith and I know the difference between a stone wall and a screen. There is nothing written about this place, for security reasons, but there are enough SFI hands on it that I know it isn't a secret to everyone."

Jack sighed. "And they want this thing retrieved... remind me to accidently destory it"