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It was huge, by anyone’s guess, three times the size of the Ket Goran, which Eula was to surmise, by anyone’s reckoning, was BIG! Its demonstration, had left no one under any illusions, that it was also well armed and shielded. Torvan had not been wrong!
It WAS moving towards them! They went to move, but IT, was moving a lot quicker, than they could. Some of them, partially deafened and still stunned, by the blast of the Monicons exploding. Their ears ringing, from the blast; senses jarred.
It seemed to be gaining on them, which could only mean one thing. Fear? Shell shock? Can make it almost impossible to move. Perhaps ‘Frozen to the spot', would be a good description of how some were at this moment in time. The sudden shots that now rattled out, echoed around the docking area.
The thing stopped. Its form shifted so that it no longer was, well appeared that way, to be looking in their direction.
Distracted. As to what or by whom, they couldn’t see past the bulk of this thing, so had no clue as to how its attention had been drawn from them. Relieved, that they could get away as fast as they could from it!
NVarra had emerged from the cargo hold, to see this monstrosity, as it formed from a multi layered crystalline structure, to what it was. A high energy being, why, she had no idea cept it was obviously intent on a killing spree.
Her weapons targeted it and one has to say it must have rattled its cage. for it to now face her and the bolts from its weapons, were uncomfortably close. It would appear that it was having problems. Somehow its targeting was askew.
They were not convinced that it was a lousy shot. It had taken out the Monicons with ease. A shudder, close to her, as two hatches opened up. From them, high energy blasters, targeted the thing. "About time!" She mutters.
Who as the Captain of the vessel would open fire in a docking area? Expect to? Never! So they were not prepared for an armed response. A sizeable plasma charge against it. Must have been having some effect as it shimmered.
Was the force field around it weakening? It struggled to maintain its presence. let alone its balance, but then something happened, that saw the weapons turned off. Its size grew! "Oh my!" Howls Belanna. Its using the power, feeding of it.."
N’Varra had stopped firing. Nivana could now see, who it was, behind the hand held weapon. She let out a squeal, stood up and waved to her, shouting. Vijette was in charge of the ships weapons. She had targeted it, only to realise, the stupidity of her actions.
No wonder the thing had seemed to drop its force field, it needed to tap into the power, being fed to it. Recharging it. It took its revenge, the main cannons, blowing a huge chunk out of the side of the freighter. NVarra had thrown herself to the floor and rolled to one side out of sight. The blast had twisted the bulkhead of the main docking hangar.
Vijette had survived the blast. She had run to the other side of the craft and left it via another exit, expecting the thing to respond to the original threat. Not quite. Must have drained, almost all of the power, it had sucked up, doing that.
Kibu? Lumark was stood behind them, watching events unfold. Thinking, thinking. Suddenly Lumark moved forwards towards Kibu, grabbed her, scooping her up he threw her towards the thing. Hissing at her. “Grab on to it and hold on tight!“ Kibu when she landed atop the thing, had no choice but, to hold on tight! Kets were enraged at Lumark.
Normally quiet, calm, sedate even. They were somewhat in sheer disbelief, shock! That he had done this. Why was about to become all too clear. The thing was soon more than aware of Kibu. It did not understand the reasoning behind the activities of this Alien being atop it.
It started to release energy to its shielding. Building up to discharge it across the shielding thus killing or seriously injuring the being, removing the threat to it. YET. What was about to happen? Kibu? Her energy, was fusing with what it was releasing.
The energy sucked up by her, almost exactly, like the thing had done, when targeted by weapons. It pulsed a blue stream of light, the light flared out, almost blinding everyone, as it finally succumbed to Kibu and the whole thing collapsed back, to its simple crystalline form. Kibu dropped to the floor, landing several feet, from where she had been.
Her whole body shaking, energy streaming across her. N’Varra had been quick to react, as she took aim fired at the crystalline cube. Molten glass.
Kibu was not faring well at all, Lumark shoved past the Kets, still growling at him, despite the apparent success, at destroying whatever the thing was. He, was genuinely worried about Kibu. Moving over to where the cable had been torn out, he picked it up and threw it across Kibu. ‘Earthing out' The energy from her?
Energy was being discharged from her, along the cable, dispersing it across the haul of the craft, it flickered then died back,
Kibu’s glowing body dying back to the color she normally was. Lumark waited, until he was satisfied he had achieved maximum results.
Removing the cable, he gently lifts her up, cradling her in his arms. It was the first time, any of the Kets, had ever seen Lumark, so protective so caring, though Kinsey might have disputed that! Kibu opened her eyes. Lumark now smiled
“You’ll need to get back to your people, so they can correct your energy levels.“
"Can't a Medisent help?" Torvan was confused. "No." Suddenly two figures appeared out of the shadows. Kibu's own.
One of them held a small device next to her. Smiled. 'Body chems and energy levels now normalised.'
"What I want to know, is how, Lumark knew that Kibu would do that to it." "He realized the only way to stop the thing, was to fuse its substrate crystalline based, energy converters. They were primarily engaged in maintaining the force field around it. Throwing poor Kibu on to it, her body responded to the sudden flux of energy, causing a reactance.
The more it fed to the shields, to try and destroy the threat, HER! The weaker it got. To the point where Kibu could suck the remainder out and it collapsed.“ “Lumark may be quiet and yes I've heard some call him lazy. Stupid he is NOT! Lucky for a lot of us.“ She glanced at Torvan and Eula.
“Lumark had the brains to guess the things weaknesses, we were all intent on defending ourselves worrying about own weaknesses, we forgot that the vulnerability of your enemy, lies in its weaknesses as much as yours!"
"It, obviously, had never encountered Kibu’s race or their negativity.“ "What I want to know is where were the security forces and Serenia?" “So how is Kibu” it was Ameryst now appearing with Ocasa in tow. “Ok! Resting.“
"I still don’t get, WHY it was there.“
Nivana had made NVarra comfortable whilst going off to see her father, to tell him, all about, what had transpired.
Whilst all this had been happening? Serenia and the security forces? She had been surveying the blast site.
A building next to some grounds used for real life survival training. Half of it gone! The security forces now stood down, as they returned to their main encampment. News of the docking bay incident. Who, had wanted them otherwise occupied?
The consignment? Spirited away. NVarra cursed softly to herself, the task had now become even more challenging.
A deadly game of cat and mouse?
Full details being analysed. Nothing untoward about the cargo manifest. The two females? NVarra? Vijette?
Serenia recognised NVarra. She did not know who Vijette was. Still, neither of them were going anywhere.
The craft was out of commission until repairs could be carried out. Kets would be brought, to practice their engineering and other skills, to repair it.
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