--- Lisa Arsineau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When he stepped into the cockpit of the ship, she > was just clearing the > protective shield holding in the atmosphere of the > docking area. He > quickly made his way over to the station where he > was seated on their > arrival and began scans to find the transport point > on this side of the > portal. > > It obviously did not take long for company to arrive > as the ship shook with > the impact of fire from other vessels. > > Aravis shifted the runabout into a series of > evasive maneuvers. "Mr > Knucklebiter, see if you can distract a few of our > friends with some fire. > Commander, I would appreciate some coordinates for > the junction point ASAP. > It will not do us any good to find the scientists > and either get captured > ourselves or get us all killed." > > The ursoid knew the little shuttle had little > offensive capability, and > needed all available power > for shields and to run their collective asses away. > > "If you can't blind them with brilliance, baffle > them with baloney.." he > said quoting an old Engineering phrase, so he > rapidly altered the ship's > weapons to fire bursts that would temporarily > disrupt other ship's sensors, > and began laying out attacks and random salvo's to > cover their trail. > > McTiernan sent the sensors probing to find the > location as the Runabout > lurched from being hit. He could only hope they > would survive to get back > to Station Kerry. Then his console started beeping. > He had found it. "I > have it, Lt. Holt. I am transferring the > coordinates to your station. Let > me know when you want me to send out the initiation > signal." > > "Great job, Commander." Aravis glanced down at her > console to access the > incoming information. Fortunately, the coordinates > were not too far away. > She entered in the navigational directives to bring > the runabout to the > destination. "Commander, send the signal, and let's > get out of here." > > McTiernan sent out the signal and the now familiar > flare of light burst out > in space. The runabout swung in and passed through > the artificial portal, > which seemed to close in behind it preventing the > pursuers from following > suit. > > On the other side, the runabout burst back into > normal space. The team was > free. > > Aravis brought the runabout on a trajectory to head > towards Io before > turning to the rest of the team in the cockpit. > "Any sign of pursuit?" >
Knucklebiter spoke up."Nothing on the sensors, normal traffic chatter as far as I can hear,," > > She nodded before tapping her console to open a line > to the back of the > runabout. "Doctor, how are things going with our > three patients?" > > (response?) > > }}}=) Lisa > > _________________________________________________________________ > Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN > Search! > http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ _______________________________________________ Spacedock mailing list [email protected] http://mail.starbase1.org/mailman/listinfo/spacedock_starbase1.org
