DAY 131(wed)
Back at Jerradek, the day before, the vulcan high commanders had continued their interrogation of James Adam.
The questions were along the lines of;
'Where are you from?'
'Who built you?'
'What do you know about Warp Theory?'
'How to make an atomic bomb?'
Adam gave as evasive and meaningless answers as he dared, but it was apparent that it would not be long before the vulcans started using more forceful methods.
In the morning of the next day he made contact with the Caco and informed them that he would be taken to the interrogation hall at noon. If there was going to be an escape attempt made, then this would be the best time, as it was higher up in the keep.
He would have to wait to see if his information had got through to the Caco. The interference from the Preserver jammers prevented any further communication.
The six guards that waited outside his cell took him to the hall, where the high command waited with
a group of jailers, vulcan bruisers and Marion and Guyus whom had been captured when they had been sent away by Kirk.
The high command today consisted of two men and a woman. The older of the males ordered a jailer to grab hold of Marion. He then said, 'I doubt torturing you would do any good, but answer me this, do you feel compassion?'
Adam, either genuinely confused or attempting humour replied, 'Am I to be shown a vulcan mating ritual?'
Either way the vulcan didn't understand and said, 'We need you to be a bit more cooperative. Now... how do you make an atomic bomb?'
As it happened, Adam did not currently know anything about building atomic bombs as he had assigned all his skill sub-routines to combat. He did, however, give a very long and digressing lecture on basic chemistry and physics.
The vulcans began to take notes, but after three hours Adam was running out of things to tell them and was wondering if he should just give up and shut down, that rescue was not on its way after all.
He began to repeat himself, much to the irritation of the vulcans.
Their leader was about to say something when suddenly the glass in the high windows shattered and grenades started bouncing down off the balcony and into the hall.
The grenades exploded, flash bangs and smoke, that blinded, deafened and confused most of the people in the hall.
The six guards were out of action for half a minute or so, which gave Adam enough time to get to the balcony. He had been blinded by the flashbangs, but was still able to evade the guards. Meanwhile, Kirk discharged more grenades into the hall then jumped down and ran over to where the vulcans and the prisoners were gathered and wrestled Guyus from his captor.
Marion tried to escape but was knocked unconscious. Kirk fought off the jailer, picked her up and headed for the balcony as fast as he could.
By this time the guards had recovered and they started to fire on the escaping prisoners with their muskets.
The Caco was right up against the windows with its cargo bay doors open. Celes stood on the windowsill and lowered a cargo net. Kirk held onto the net with one hand and Marion with the other. During this time Dell reported that the tower opposite the hall had moved its cannons around and it looked like the gunners were ready to fire. Kirk ordered Dell to fire on the tower but to try and do minimal damage. Unfortunately the Numiri phaser cannons on the Caco did not have a 'minimal damage'
setting and the top of the tower was totally destroyed in a single blast.
'Never mind, let's just go!' yelled Kirk.
Marion would have been terrified, had she been awake, as she dangled from Kirk's arm, while he in turn dangled from the net.
One of the jailers, a brave sort of fellow, leapt onto the Caco as they pulled away, but was quickly dealt with by Dell and Murphy, who then helped Kirk and Marion up into the cargo bay. The Caco turned and using its thrusters, headed out of the city and into the desert. They then landed and kicked the jailer out,
'The city is twenty miles that way!' said Kirk as he waved the vulcan goodbye.
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