[USS Vanguard] After the windmill...
- From: Kieran Darkwater <kierandarkwater@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ncv80221@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 15:55:29 +0100 (BST)
Galinia 4
Time: After '...You just pray it doesn't go over you.'
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The first of the incoming troops kicked his way through the remains of the
shrapnel-shredded doorway, eyeing the pair of Starfleet officers as he
advanced. Cynan lifted his blade to shoulder height, taking a guard stance, but
Kieran finally gave up with the crude, clumsy captured weapon he had.
?Here.? He tossed it, underarm, to the attacking figure, who paused to snatch
it from the air by the handle, at which point Kieran?s open palm snapped out
into his chest, cracking the adjoining cartilage between the two breastbones.
The next overhand strike came in, and he slipped underneath it, taking the
impact on his shoulder at his assailants elbow, listening to the joint snap
under the pressure, and used the body as a shield as he lashed a foot around to
the third in line, buckling the knee backwards. Three down, no fatalities, and
he turned to see Cynan?s blade flash redly through the final flourish as the
rest of the squad fell.
?Only six?? he asked, and Cynan just shrugged.
?There?ll be more, somewhere.? Kieran almost looked a second time to see if
that was an expression of warning or longing. Either way, they still had a job
to do, and he quickly passed the weapons of the fallen soldiers out amongst the
refugees. Some of them grabbed them eagerly, some with expressions of regret ?
one woman clustered her children about her skirts as she swished the blade back
and forth, a look of absolute concentration on her face.
?Come on,? Kieran called, ?let?s get moving.?
The painfully slow progress through the rubble and wreckage was draining in
every sense of the word ? nerves were fraught, and the occasional landslide as
debris collapsed even further was unsettling. After two hours, though, and
without seeing sight of anyone seeking to stop them, the transporter station
was in sight, and the StarFleet pair paused to survey the terrain.
?You?re thinking ?ambush? too, aren?t you?? Kieran whispered quietly, without
needing to look to know the answer.
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