(G237 10/04/2015 via Roll20 - JF(GM), AP, MI, TR) 32

(G237 10/04/2015 via Roll20 - JF(GM), AP, MI, TR) 32


DAY 97 (thu) cont ...

It was 1230 hour Voyager time.

Ensigns Kirk and Kevek and Crewman Mioen were now back on board the Aeroshuttle having escaped from the clutches
of Major Strank.

Kirk got to a console and raised the shield and locked the doors. Looking out the shuttle cockpit windows he saw
that they were inside a hangar and that a squad of soldiers were getting very animated about the situation outside.

Next Kirk tinted the windows opaque and took a look at the science console but it was fairly well shot up.
Mioen was in the back crew quarters searching the prisoners, but returned to the cabin to talk to the technician
that was still in there albeit rather stunned.

A voice from a loud speaker outside demanded, 'Surrender or Else!'

Kirk ignored this and ordered the numiri technician prisoner to remove the intrusion device that was wired into
the main shuttle control console. The numiri tried to communicate with outside though and spotting this subterfuge
Kirk stunned him in the back of the head with his rifle.

Cursing Kirk closed down all comms and pulled out the plugs from the two numiri devices wired into the shuttle.

Mieon returned to the crew quarters and scanned the mind of the second unconscious technician that had been shot
back there.

The next moment there was a heavy clunk on the main entrance door to the right of the cockpit and thinking it
might be a shaped charge Kirk opened it in an attempt to shake it off. It wasn't as sophisticated an attempt
to breach the air lock as that though, it was just a burly looking tech with a sledgehammer.

Kirk quickly closed the door again and went back to getting the Aeroshuttle back on line. Between them they
managed to get it moving again and Kirk was just wondering if his basic piloting skills were up to the task
when the hangar doors opened and a tank shot at them.

It was firing rail gun flechettes that sent ripples across the shields.

Mioen reached out with her mind and managed to stun one of the crewmen in the tank and Kirk used the transporter
to move a chunk out of it but after a few tens of seconds it was back in action again.
Meanwhile Kevek was at a console in the science lab using the scanner on the tanks looking for weak spots and
passing the data along to Kirk who soon gave up on the transporter and turned to the shuttle's Phase Cannon.

Another tank rolled up just as they disabled the first one, and then another. Kirk decided to leave as quickly
as they could and piloted out into the air field and staying as low as he could flew out into a snow storm.
The shuttle was badly shot up by now, the shields were off line and the hull plating badly damaged.

The storm helped them evade detection but also made it harder to manoeuvre and as he flew along the valley
he clipped a snow bank that caused them to plunge dangerously into a ravine and land with a thump in a
snow field. Mioen took over and although her piloting skills were little better she managed to get them to
a hidden spot where they hoped they would be safe for a while, overlooking the castle and village.

Kirk stuck to the consoles and scanned the castle's shields. They were of the type that would stop fast moving
projectiles and energy weapons but allow slow moving objects through.

Meanwhile Mioen and Kevek decided to see what they could get out of their prisoner known as Private Rocket.
Kevek used a mind meld on the soldier and got what little he knew about the castle from him. Although he
had never been there he knew that prisoners being taken to it were always guarded by an officer and a four
man squad.

Kevek then performed a mind meld on Kirk and relayed everything he had got out of Rocket to him.

Rocket, who presented himself as a simple farm boy turned soldier requested that he could take the personal
affects from the dead bodies of his officer and fellow private and Mioen nodded approval.

Kirk continued to scan the castle and the shields. They discussed various plans mainly involving Kirk (who you
should remember still looked like a numiri and was dressed as an officer) acting as if he had taken Kevek
and Mieon prisoner.

As they talked Kirk noticed that the cable car that ran from the village to the castle was moving. A plan
suddenly formed in his mind and he quickly put it into motion. Acting quickly he transported the five
occupants of the cable car into a field ten miles away. He also then transported out all the prisoners
and bodies cluttering up the shuttle.

They then transported themselves into the cable car just as it passed through the shield. Spotting
a security camera in the car Kirk smashed it with the butt of his gun. He hoped the operator had not
seen them but then the car lurched to a halt and stopped.

Mieon reached out with her mind and found the operator down at the control room in the village and
suggested to him that he send on up the cable car.

The cable car started moving again, going on up to the castle and whatever dangers waited up there...