To the rescue!

Who:- Tara Cleavage-FeBuggure, Jay Chrysler
When:- A few hours after Callum's teams capture.
Jay stood, his back flat against a corridor wall, just at the end of a
corridor that intersected the ships main passage. Clutching a live ammo
pistol in each hand, he dropped the magazines and slammed the butts of each.
now empty weapon into his legs, where replacement ammunition was strapped to
his thighs reloading the guns in one swift motion. He watched as a flashbang
grenade bounced into the intersection. "TARA!" he yelled, to his comrade who
at the moment was firing rounds from her power-rifle down the corridor at a
few Marines who had tried toptake them from the rear. "DOWN! LOOK AWAY!" Jay
yelled again, both of them covered their eyes and, as best they could their
ears as the flashbang exploded sending blinding light down the corridor,
accompanied by a tremendous squealing noise.
"Move!" Jay yelled "Back down the corridor!"
"What?" Tara responded, partially deafened by the flashbang.
Jay just pointed instead and the pair of them dived into a storage roo on
the left. Jay knew the flahsbang was intended to disorient them enough to
make them easily capturable...(that a word?...Jay thought it was), thought
chances were that if caught here, on a space corp warship, by space corp
marines, when wanted by the space corp for crimes AGAINST the space corp
he'd pretty much face the firing squad anyway. Seemed a waste of time to
bother trying to capture him.
He cast his mind back to how he came to be here.
From the Phoenix, he and Tara had been following Callum's team, on their
mission to scavenge parts to rebuild the heavily damaged wormhole drive. Jay
needed the wormhole drive repaired to put into action his plan to put right
what he had done so, so wrong. He'd banged his head against the dashboard of
his beloved craft, when he realised what Callum intended to do when he saw
the space corp ship.
He intends to board it...and disable it...to keep it from reaching the Blue
Dwarf. Of course, Callum didnt know their actual target, Jay, was following
them and that by allowing the space corp ship to board Blue Dwarf looking
for Jay before they gave up was probably a better plan for distracting them
away from Jays' actual location and would also prevent Callum's entire team
from certain capture, court-martial and execution.
Course, Jay knew Callum meant well.
He also knew he was stupid.
So it fell on Jay and Tara to rescue Callum's team and ensure the wormhole
drive was repaired.
Fortunatley, Jay had an advantage that Callum's team did not. Although most
of the Space Corp officers aboard Blue Dwarf had only ever served on JMC
vessels, Jay had once served with Kara McGellan aboard the SCV Ulysees. A
Space Corp warship of the same class as this, the SCV Manchester United.
It baffled him no end, how Kara, Callum's pilot, who knew as much, maybe
more than Jay about the Collosus class warships didnt think to dock with the
ship in the one place it's sensors cannot scan, the one weakness of the
titanic vessel.
So Jay had docked the Phoenix at the cargohold in the underbelly of the
ship, where the radation of the ships engines, while harmless to humans
disrupted the sensor field enough to render any ship smaller than a
short-range cargo carrier invisible to Radar. Unless a support craft were to
leave the ship and the pilot notice the black-with-flames-motif'd Blue
Midget attached to its dorsal hull, they had the element of surprise.
Course, what Jay hadn't picked up on was that the ship would be on high
alert following an attempted invasion and a gun fight soon ensued.
Back in the storage room of the Manchester United, Tara and Jay listened,
the marines were right outside the door...they were bound to check this
room...stupid place to hide...no doubt they'd have to fight their way out
soon...
...now...
The doors burst open, Jay and Tara unloaded a few more rounds into the
Marines. Keeping casualties to a minimum was not as easy as it sounded...
Jay and Tara backed against the wall either side of the door, then swung
into the corridor, wach facing opposite directions. the coast was clear so
they headed back up the corridor toward the intersection where the flashbang
had come from. Jay dived around the corner, then guns in each hand blasting
out round-after-round into the waiting group of marines. Tara followed.
She ducked behind an upturned cargo container for shelter, and holdoig her
gun above her head fired off a few rounds into the defending crew's
'roadblock'. Jay, was firing off bullets onntwo directions, one down the
corridor they intended to enter, the corridor that led to the brig, the
other into the same collection of marines that Tara was shooting.
Another flashbang bounced at Jay's feet. "Tara! Flash, down!" he yelled and
kicked the flashbang as hard as he could with the toes of his right foot,
sending it up and over the marines small barricade, where it exploded
blinding, and deafending them all temporarily. This cleared the way for Jay
and Tara to head into the brig corridor.....
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