Outside the Mainframe

The intruder pulled back, but not before one of Tite'yanus's plasma bolts smacked them in the shoulder. There was a hellish, sizzling found as the plasma burned through the body suit but the intruder just ignored this and kept on firing and quickly ducked out of the corridor and went running.

Cargohold

As Shar drew into the tank, goblets of water splashed against her helmets faceplate. The inside of the tank appeared to be clean, and devoid of any persons, the only items of interest were two sleeping bags that were bundled up along with an opened brown box that had several items inside including unopened snacks and waterpackets amongst other things such as tools. A closer inspection of the flashing light would reveal that it was just a device used to warn when a tank was breached.

However, there was another item in the tank, a large bundled up object that was tethered to the inside of the tank toward the backend that was barely noticable except when the tank's emergency light flashed.

Bridge

The originator of the message tried again. "Gam'trosha! Beware of---" the message washed out. The ships sensors showed the origin of the message suddenly disappearing off their display.

Outside the Mainframe

"Shipmistress, the intruder's on the move!" Tite'Yanus pursued, again increasing the power on his weapon. He fired whenever he had a clear shot, and tried to use his four-legged running as an advantage to catch up to the intruder.

Bridge

Def'leor smiled briefly when the communications started coming through clear. "Ma'am... communications are ... damn it. Ma'am we were receiving a message clear and then the source of the transmission just vanished..."

She accessed her IDT and expanded the image. First conducting a scan of the signal point of origin, and secondly running a scan of the space surrounding the Gam'Trosha out to 500 KM in all directions. Ship's and signals don't just vanish, unless someone does something to them. she thought.

Gam'trosha Engineering Bay - Maintenance Conduit

Though he could hear the dull sounds of movement echoing through the maintenance conduit within which he was currently within, Keri was unable to identify its source -- the proximity of the sound ultimately inclined the young kit towards the belief that the noise was coming from another conduit adjacent to the one which he presently occupied.

Trying to recall the layout of the maze-like tubes, the young kit crawled through the narrow passage to the nearest access hatch that would permit him entry into the most probable source of the worrying sound of movement -- the conduit below the one he now occupied. With a timid gulp, Keri turned the manual control for the hatch -- which then swished open -- permitting the kit to slide down and seek once more for the cause of errant noises.

Shar smirked. Just her luck she is swimming in broken water tank, , when she could be kicking some terrorist in the ass instead of Tite. The tank seemed pretty harmless, though she wondered how did those terrorists survived in the tank filled in water, or why did not whatever made the hole in the tank did not kill them.

Without any mean of discovering those answers, Shar just went on. Checking that bundled bag was priority now. "I found suspicious package here ma'am." She reported. "If you hear a loud bang, then don't bother with Cargohold no more." She said with ironic laugh and neared the package.

She took out her knife so slowly unravel its contents, making sure to not trip any wire it could have there. Shar just hoped it won't be triggered by light or something. If she will be lucky it will just have some food or something in it.

Cargohold

As the cloth started to tear apart from the knife, small patches of blood started to appear, followed by bits of clothing that the knife tore into. Soon, after the cloth was unraveled more, the face of a dead Laibe soon appeared, their throat slit and their eyes wide open - staring straight into Shar's faceplate.

Mainframe

A new window appeared next to Erm'olai, showing a series of backups coming online. Turret control was restored, along with full communications, sensors would take time and shields were operately as they should since the virus was contained.

Outside Mainframe

Plasma blasts pockmarked the hallway walls as the intruder continued to flee from Tite'yanus, stopping only briefly to let loss a stream of plasma from their rifle before continuing toward the ships cafeteria.

Engineering Conduit

The metallic metal banging stopped when the hatch began to hiss open, only starting up against when the hatch stopped moving. Down below, wires were strewn about 'everywhere', as if someone had been hastily pulling wires out.

Down the hallway, the glint of a reflective surface flashed in the dim light.

Bridge

Sa'kira nodded at both Shar and Tite's messages. "Becareful in pursueing the intruder," he told Tite'yanus then addressed Shar. "Let's hope that doesn't happen..." he transmitted to the marine.

The IDT system showed the origin of signal as a blow sphere, but all that was in the area was a destroyed She'tan'ora, it's center section blown in half, there was sparks and the appearance of fire, though the movement of fighters could be seen around the craft along with escape pods fleeing the stricken ship.

Sa'kira could only shake her head as she thought about the situation, on one display the nuclear missiles they had fired seemed to be moving in slow motion as she bridged the gap between the ships and the asteriod. She thought perhaps something wasn't right with the sensor data, but upon closer examination, found that it was only because the formation of ships had actually moved away from the asteriod when they had fired.

In another display, she noticed that the planet - Levia - was looming dangerously close.

"C'bar, once those nukes go off, you'll need to pull us back a bit so that we don't get caught in any of the roids debris..." she warned and kept her hand on the back of his chair while watching the displays.

Outside

Outside, the nukes closed in on the asteriod, aiming for a spot where the ships had racked minutes earlier. When the missiles struck, they did so in a brillent, almost chorographed display as one nuke went off followed by another, and another, depicting a bright red and white flash followed by a wave of EMP and radiation that would temporarily short out everyone's sensors.

"Oh Bugger," Shar said out loud when she found a body. Of course it could be heard in the radio. Scarred marine started examining dead body. Slit throat looked like a work of someone who knows his work, but now real professional. Professional were stabbing at the base of the skull to get instant kill. Shar dug up dead man's dog tags.

"Ma'am I have a dead Laibe here." She reported, her voice full of grimness. "His name Xe'nasia Qyu'tena, he was from the 2nd shipbuilding division. He is not dead for very long." Blood appering meant he really did not die that long ago.

Shar sighed looking into dead bodies eyes. Someone else might have been put off by this, but she already saw dead people. Slit throat is nothing compared to body torn into pieces by a grenade thrown by some terrorist scum.

"I would like to leave the Cargo now and assist Tit ma'am." Shar said to ship-mistress waiting for her response. She meanwhile exited the tank and moved back towards the doors.

Gam'trosha Maintenance Conduit

Keri'cruen muttered a quiet oath as the kit crawled his way forward from the open hatch -- only to pause suddenly due to the need to untangle himself from a mess of wires that had been pulled from their proper places and left strewn across the ground. Once free, the kit continued onwards once more in pursuit of the source of the sounds.

In the distance, Keri saw a glint of light reflect from further down the conduit -- the source of the light too far away to make out any details. With a dull groan of effort, the kit crawled faster -- trying to catch up to whatever it was that lay in wait ahead of him.

Erm'olai heard the fire outside and let loose a relaxing sigh. It seemed the Marines weren't so useless after all. "Back-ups are starting up now, Ship Master," Erm'olai sent his communication to the Bridge. "However, Sensors will take some time until full operation has been restored," he continued his report.

"The virus has also been contained for study, however I appeared to have been locked in from the outside."

Running around the shp

"He's on his way to the cafeteria," Tite reported up to the shipmistress before proceeding to pursue the intruder. "He's putting up a good run, I might need Shar to help me out and head him off."