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<FONT FACE="Optima, Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>// Infirmary, New Darwin Colony //<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Optima, Times New Roman">They were interrupted by the chirp of the communicator. ++ Hickey to away team. Hickey to Away team. ++<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Optima, Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>"Come in Lieutenant," Carter answered.<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Optima, Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>++ We just heard a message from the Constitution. A MACO team is on the ground and has just retaken control of the Command Center. The Klingons are on the run! ++<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Optima, Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>There was a brief moment of surprise, relief, and celebration. It was short lived, though. as they realized that the job was not quite finished. "Ok. Let's finish the job and save our people," Kalevah stated. The doors were soon opened, and the team slipped into the quite back passageways of the infirmary to locate friend and foe...<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Optima, Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>As if on cue, Mane reappeared from her scouting mission and motioned for them to come forward. She looked at Kalli', addressing her for the first time. "Where would they be holding them?"<BR>
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Kalli’ wanted to shrug, but instead knit her brows and knelt to draw a diagram on the floor. “The inside of this building is shaped like a T,” she explained. “We are here,” she pointed to the tip of the left branch of the crossbar. “Here, at the crossing, is a large common room, on this side, where we are. Easy to guard all prisoners in that room; no corners to hide in. But around the outside of that room is a corridor on both sides going down the big main hallway. I’m betting the Klingons are not expecting us to steal the prisoners, but are just guarding the prisoners to prevent misbehavior. With all the mess of their ships being destroyed, they will not have so many guards. Like Varre’ said, they will be preparing for assault from whoever destroyed their ships. Follow this hallway to the back entrance to the common room. The less the Klingons know we are here the better, but if we see one, we should kill it. Do not leave them to get up and shoot us in the back,” she advised with surprising coldness. <BR>
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Mane nodded, ignoring Kalli's tone. "Alright then, let's go."<BR>
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The group moved out down the corridor and through the door at the end. It opened into another long hallway which led towards the front of the building.<BR>
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Kalli’ tapped Mane’s shoulder and pointed to a double wooden door. “That door goes into the common room,” she mouthed. She held up a finger to indicate Mane should wait. In silent feet, the dark haired Dali ran forward to the doors and checked. Indeed, they were locked. She tapped a code into the door panel control and the light on the panel glowed green. Once unlocked, Kalli’ returned to the others. <BR>
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"This is it." The redhead said, looking over the small group armed with what little weaponry they had been able to scrape together. "When we get to the end of the corridor, Carter, you toss in one of your gas bombs. The rest of you follow me in and fan out along the walls." A vicious smile crossed her lips as she ran down the battle plan. "Take as many of them down as you can. If you get into trouble, call out and if anybody is free, they'll move to back you up. Are we understood?"<BR>
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The group nodded almost in unison. "Let's go."<BR>
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With the retreat unlocked, they padded down the corridor for a few meters and around the corner into the open area outside the common room. A quick glance showed only two guards standing at the entrance. One of the men was speaking to someone else inside the room. As the rescuers watched, after a few nods and a short conversation in Klingon, he smiled evilly, then motioned for the others to come closer. They did so. There was a hurried explanation, drawing nods from the rest of the Klingons. There was a flurry of disturbance from inside the room, and a Klingon emerged, dragging a Daliwakan woman by the hair. He tossed her roughly to the floor. " poH'oH Dung." He said smiling. He drew his disruptor from his belt and leveled it at the frightened woman.<BR>
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"NOW!" Mane screamed. Carter reached into his bag and tossed one of the glass canisters into the room. It shattered at the feet of the Klingons, suddenly producing a thick yellow smoke which began to envelope them.<BR>
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"Move out!" The Amazon said as she drew her weapon and lept into the fray. A confused, frightened shout went up from Klingons and prisoners alike as the rest of the assault group followed suit. Carter's knockout gas had quickly overwhelmed the small group of Klingons and most of them dropped to the floor with a satisfying thud. Mane dropped to a knee and fired at one lone Klingon, catching him squarely in the chest, sending him toppling back. <BR>
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Seeing the assault, the prisoners rose up, delighted to see Kalli’ Annadar who motioned them all toward the back door of the room, away from the knockout gas. After only a few seconds, the battle was over. All the alien aggressors lay either dead or unconscious. <BR>
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"Fan out." Mane said as she removed a Klingon curved two handed sword from it's former owner. "There could be more. Sweep the rest of the building and stay alert." Then she moved back off down the corridor.<BR>
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Carter flipped open his communicator. "This is Austin to Hickey. Lieutenant, we have reclaimed the infirmary."<BR>
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"Come on." He said to Kalli'. "We need to open some windows to vent the rest of the gas, or we'll be lying next to the Klingons in a few seconds."<BR>
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“I will lead the people out of the back, through the tunnels. Do not leave them alive,” she counseled. <BR>
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Lt. (Jg.) Carter Austin<BR>
Chief Science Officer<BR>
New Darwin Colony <BR>
& <BR>
Lt Patrick Hickey <BR>
Chief Communications Officer <BR>
New Darwin Colony <BR>
&<BR>
Elizabeth Mane Walker <BR>
Phoenix Survivor<BR>
(npc apb Leo) <BR>
&<BR>
Kalli’ Annadar <BR>
Captain’s Assistant <BR>
New Darwin Colony <BR>
(npc apb Kate)<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Optima, Times New Roman">CPO Kalevah Dinaa<BR>
Corpsman / Senior Enlisted Advisor<BR>
New Darwin Colony<BR>
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