Meanwhile...

Posted on Sat May 20th, 2023 @ 3:13pm by Lieutenant Sky Jansen-Carey

Mission: Starship Side Quest
Location: Abandoned Asteroid Mine
Timeline: Continuing from "Break On Through"

Last Time…

Hearing the distant voices Sky nodded and started the climb down. It was that, or sit and wait to be recaptured, or killed. She kept her eyes firmly fixed on the ladder until she eventually reached bottom, cautiously stepping off to wait for Soran.

The Angosian stood at the opening to the shaft the mercs had found a way around the trap he’d set; he only had a few shots left in the disruptor. Soran saw Sky was at the bottom waiting for him, he pulled the spare power pack he found and realized it was the wrong tech. Damn, these mercs and their unstandardized equipment. The Angosian rigged the power pack to the circuit box above the opening to the shaft. Then ripped the sleeve off his jacket and use it to slide down the dumb waiter cable, he landed near Sky. “Run!”

And Now…



=== Station Operations ===
The station rocked and alarms began to sound in the command center.

“What was that!?”Repa shouted. “Shut off that alarm and find Wagnor, how hard is that?”

The COMM. lite up and Mangoth’s voice could be heard through the speakers.

#+# Repa report! +#+

"We registered an explosion That triggered the caven sensors, an automatic distress signal was sent before we could stop it. We’ve got the shuttlebays and escapepods they are going anywhere." Repa said.

+#+ Are there any ships in range? #+#

“No Sir’

#+# Find and eliminate the prisoners, evacuate as soon as that’s settled+#+

“Aren’t you going to aid us? Or are you leaving us like Ichatha? I saw his shuttle launch!”

#+# DO AS YOUR TOLD! +#+

=== Section 4 Level 3 ===

Mangoth turned to see that Kara was running toward the airlock for the emergency shuttle. Mangoth walked up behind her, "There's a fifteen character code to open the airlock and you don't read the language."

“Then enter the damn code!” Kara looked at Mangoth in a combination of fear and anger. “Ichatha is dead! I saw him floating out in space through the corridor viewport, and we’ll be next if we don’t get the hell out of here!”

"It seems we've underestimated the Augment," Mangoth said calmly.

He raised a disruptor and motioned for her to move away from the access panel.

"You were going to leave without me," Mangath stated. "In my shuttle no less."

Kara moved aside, or at least it seemed. Little did Mangoth know that Kara was inside his mind, she’d wait for the right moment to put Ichatha’s training to good use.

Mangoth smirked at her as though he knew what she was thinking. "Your skill will be of use to me…"

He holstered his weapon before entering the code and the door opened. "Remember, Ichatha taught me a few things as well. Let's get out before anything else happens."

Kara nodded, she wasn’t going to hang around and wait for Soran to catch her up. The sooner she got the hell away the better.

The shuttle left the station to it's fate