Gam'trosha Deck 3, Forward Section, Main Corridor

Keri shifted his feet in order to maintain balance as the Gam'trosha lurched suddenly, his sword still held by one hand in a guarding gesture whilst his other hand braced against the corridor wall. Once the abrupt movement ceased, the kit's attention was firmly fixed upon the enemy once more.

Inexperienced as he was in real combat, Keri wasn't fool enough to rise to the armored Laibe's baiting comments when his opponent was so clearly a better fighter -- Keri simply held his ground and hoped that Shar'ica would be able to shoot him down before the armored Laibe made the attempt to cut his way clear.

Bridge

Visual monitors flipped on, static filled and showed the stars as the ship rotated as Def attempted to stabalize her, other things appeared as well including small pieces of debris and chunks of a rock.

However, something else also appeared, something that flashed into the display for only a second but resembled the leading edges of a planet.

On another display, the system registered Def's command began to cycle the sensors in. Slowly, they started to come back online, first passive, then active....

As the ship slowed, the visual monitors showed a descent sized chunk of an asteriod heading right for them.

Gam'trosha Deck 3, Forward Section, Main Corridor

The intruder watched but barely had time to avoid the knife which cut lightly across their helmet, leaving nothing but a small skrapping of the paint.

Grinning inside the helmet, the intruder suddnely blinked when they saw the business end of the pistol and attempted to evade - but the distance between them and the pistol was much to short and evasion was not possible.

The plasma found it's mark, scoring the buttom of the armor and burning some of it away, while the other shots either missed or merely scrapped against it. The last shot to the head scored along the left side of the helmet, burning away much of the armor plating and exposing the circuits underneath.

The intruder let out a scowl, then a loud scream that could've been mistaken for a banshee. Then they tossed one of their swords aside and rushed forward, knocking Shar out of the way and running the sharp end of their blade right into Keri's shoulder. The armor, which was rated to handle small arms fire and swords, wasn't designed to handle a sword going straight into the fabric.

The threads split and the internal circuirtry parted as the blade ran through, then they kept going until they got the wall, demonstrating just how strong this Laibe was, and pinned Keri against it and ran the sword almost a foot into the wall until it dug into the metal and stopped moving.

The intruder stared into Keri's eyes before a light chuckle could be heard, then drew back, looked at Shar and then took off down the corridor heading for the ships starboard escape pods; though it did appear that the intruder was favoring their left leg.

Medical

After a short while, C'bar Tite'yanus arrived in medical pulling an unconcious intruder behind them. Looking around, he found that the place was empty, there were no lights but there were clings floating around which meant that the artificial gravity plating in the infirmary wasn't functional.

There were several beds that could be used, and Tite'yanus found the closest one to place their guest on before grabbing a medical kit that was floating nearby and started getting to work on them.

Gam'trosha Deck 3, Forward Section, Main Corridor

All thought was completely obliterated -- overwhelmed by the mind-bending pain that suffused Keri'cruen's brain. He screamed as the Laibe's sword penetrated through armor, flesh, bone and the metal plating behind the kit as though the sword was a hot knife carving through butter.

Pinned helplessly against the corridor wall, Keri'cruen dropped his sword and slumped as though boneless -- only to jerk immediately upright with a renewed scream due to his body weight causing the sword to dig up further into his shoulder and magnifying the pain he felt tenfold. Bright crimson life-blood flowed from in his wound, soaking his clothing and dripping into a growing puddle upon the deck.

Sensing his altered vital signs and the breach in its integrity, Keri'cruen's armored body suit began to respond -- releasing its store of medicinal foam in an attempt to prevent Keri from bleeding out.

Erm'olai looked over these errors with interest. This would make interesting evidence and research material for later. Evidence towards the conviction of the intruders to be certain, while the research material could lead to anti-intrusion countermeasure (hopefully better ones than current countermeasures).

So the Laibe began to collect said data and shift it into a file in a separate partition. From there, he copied the partition three times in order to make sure there would be a copy if any other intruders were keeping an eye on the mainframe.

Bridge

Def took a look at the sensory data and swore to herself. Damn computer must have been lying all along to us. Need to get us clear. "Mistress collision alert. Taking evasive." she called out as she hit the ship wide alarm system. "All hands prepare for high acceleration maneuvers collision warning." she sent across the internal communications systems.

Def'leor then expanded the IDT and programmed it to give her constant updates. She then set her fingers dancing across the thruster controls as she feverishly worked to strop the Gam'trosha's tumbling. She said a silent prayer to her patron diety, and as the ship's tumble reduced she hit the main engines on an emergency trajectory. Given the questionable status of their shields she realized she had to fly the ship and avoid all each object that could cross their path.

"Drisa!" Shar shouted as she was shoved aside by much bigger Laibe. Weight and size. Her own weakness. Shar at least ended up better then poor Kit, who got pinned to the wall like precious butterfly. Poor sod could not even collapse in pain.

Shar tried to grab the assailant as he ran by, but was not swift enough. She used the low gravity to toss herself about and got on her feet. "Sorry kid!" She shouted, grabbed Keri by his healthy shoulder to keep him in one place and quickly pulled the sword out with the other one.

Quickly turning against enemy who was trying to get away she raised the sword holding it as a would be javelin. She made a step forward to get some momentum and threw the spear at the Laibe's back, enjoying its low weight and resistance as she sent it at the terrorists back.

Gam'trosha Deck 3, Forward Section, Main Corridor

When the sword was pulled out, it caused the hardened foam to come out with it, resulting the body suit injecting new foam to cover that which had been removed.

The intruder stopped briefly when they got to the escape pod door and slapped the switch to open it, but they only got as far as a foot before the sword now turned javalin punched right through their right shoulder and sent them tumbling into the pod.

Inside, the intruder shouted curses at Shar, then closed the pod and hit the ejection system. There was a loud bang as the pods release locks disengaged and the pod was jettisoned out of the ship and into space.

Mainframe

Several more displays appeared showing more status on ship systems, but also one that showed that the mainframe was currently still backing up files but also restoring some files. It did show that the mainframes ability to control the ships shield generators was back online and that turret control, while restored earlier, was now fully back online.

Bridge

Sa'kira held on as Def flew, their ship while it had inertia dampeners were being stressed to their limit.

As she watched her aviators flying; she addressed the entire ship.

"Shipmaster Sa'kira to all sections, report in please," she wanted to know what was going on, she hadn't heard from her engineers or her marines and that was worrying her.

Gam'trosha

The ship rolled and dove, avoiding the asteriod that had been heading toward it, and disappearing behind the ship.

Distance was made, slowly, but enough that after only a few seconds the ship was out of the debris field generated by the nuclear explosion and comprised of rocks and ship debris. However, being out of the debris field allowed the ships sensors and IDS system to better scan the objective asteriod.

On the ships viewscreen, but also in the IDS, it showed the asteriod split in half. One part, comprised of almost sixty percent of the asteriod, moved 'upward' and away from Levia.

However, the other half, which was the remaining forty percent; moved 'downward' and actually began to accelerate toward the planet.

"Srisa!" Shar shouted as the assailant ran away in pod. She almost got him. Sword flew too much to the left and hit shoulder instead of the backs where spine or lungs are. It did not kill him. No time wailing about such thin, Shar quickly moved and picked up young Keri, who was weightless in zero G. She started moving towards the infirmary and was about to report, when Ship-mistress acutally asked for it.

"Shar here!" Black-furred daur barked into her communicator. "We had another terrorist. I encountered him fighting that young boy that was in the restaurant with us this morning. Bloody kit did not even reported it! Anyway the kit is injured, but the terrorist escaped using escape pod on forward section of pod 3. Shoot it down or something!" She quickly reported, moving fast towards the infirmary.

Gam'trosha Deck 3, Forward Section, Main Corridor

Keri'cruen drew slow quick breaths and then gritted his teeth in preparation for Shar'ica removing the sword from his shoulder. As she drew it free, the kit released an anguished groan through his clenched teeth -- a groan which eventually became and all-out scream as the pain became too much for the kit to hold in. Once the sword was free, the kit sank to the ground.

By the time Shar'ica took Keri into her arms and began treking to the infirmary, Keri'cruen's vision had gone extremely hazy as though everything was covered in white mist -- due to the considerable blood-loss from his injury. After hearing Sa'kira's voice being issued by their communicators and Shar'ica's response to the Shipmaster's request for an update, Keri'cruen added a few barely coherent comments of his own.

"Couldn't... couldn't contact bridge. Comms... were being... jammed. Found... explosive... engineering sabotaged... disarmed the bomb... fixed..." the kit's words were interrupted as he issued a wheezing cough. He bit down on his lip, drawing blood, trying to stop himself from screaming from the sudden mind-blowing increase in pain, "I fixed... fixed what I could..." Unable to bring himself to speak anymore, the young kit's voice drifted off. The only sounds that came from the kit after that point onwards were his pained gasps for fresh air.

Bridge

Def eased upon the controls once they were in the clear. She looked at IDS image. She fed the sensor data into the computer to get an analysis of the rate of acceleration. She wanted to know if it was the gravity or something else pushing it. "Mistress, the asteroid failed to break according to projections. Also the smaller chunk does not appear to be on a trajectory to clear the planet."

She decided to give the radio another try, "NSV Gam'trosha, to other vessels what is your status?" She hoped that she would get an intelligible reply, but was not betting on it.