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The transfer of the Cflen to Raptor was quick, too late for Raptor to block the devices power. Bienck smiled as her and the Gladiators, moved towards the hatch. Through it into the corridor to come under fire from Lizet, Trime and some others? Pinned down but unable to shift the intruders.
Deploying some form of energy shield? Starting to move forward at Lizet and the others. Not looking good. A noise behind them?
Bienck did not feel FEAR it was the pure realization, the logic of knowing, she was not invincible. This however was turning into a win, win situation. Lizet felt the lash of the whip along her skin. Burns. She howled dropping her weapon. Trime had gone to Lizet’s aid. Shoving her back and the others with them forced to retreat.
If the taste of victory was on her lips, Bienck became aware of her coms unit flashing. The sound of weapons fire? WHAT THE! Raptor firing on her vessel? They had not shielded her craft, why should they? If they had it would have interfered with her transfer to Raptor.
Caught off guard the vessel was feeling the effects of the plasma cannon as it ripped into sections of the vessel.
Abort? Or be trapped aboard Raptor with no escape should she fail? "Put the shields up!" Seconds passed before Raptor stopped firing. BUT substantial damage had been done to her ship and Bienck was enraged. She would take him prisoner and execute all of the BEAST with a renewed vigor.
Below in the Judiciary assembly Ljne and Ariel were persisting with their claim that it should be the Humana who were outlawed as Hostiles. If they were then what would follow on their part would be legitimate. Attack, invasion, destruction of the home world of the BEAST. They were getting impatient with the delays.
Neither of them could be contacted, informed on what was happening aboard Raptor with Bienck? Raptor had moved away at speed with three Cflen vessels following it?
Suddenly Bienck to her shock, found herself BACK onboard her vessel? Along with all those who had boarded the Raptor. For the first time ever, she felt this strange sense of foreboding. Not fear. Unable to understand or comprehend what had happened?
"Deploy the drum!" "But Bienck!" "Do not disobey me!" "We are ready Nathan." "Time to show them their weapon can be compromised." The drum was thrown out beyond Raptor. Bienck watched. Any time now and the dust would flood out.
"Target the drum, release the dark matter." There was a flash as the drum was hit by weapons fire. Minutes later the specks of black dust shifted from it. From Raptor? Two spikes moved forwards to be prominent across the front of the bow of the ship. A stream of energy washed across from one to the other.
The black specks lit up, turned white, vanished. "That is not possible!" 'They have countered the effects of the dark matter weapon. We always knew it might be possible but this is the first time we have seen proof it can happen.
That means the weapon is no longer an ultimate threat!" Below in the assembly the screen had lit up. It showed the three Cflen vessels behind Raptor and the drum deployed? YET the weapon was useless against Raptor! If that was not good news for Ljne and Ariel? Worse was to follow.
The three Cflen vessels fired on Raptor. An act that was hostile in every sense of the word. Three against one small craft? Holli turned the imaging off. "I think this assembly needs to vote. On the status of the Cflen as being deemed 'Hostiles.'" Aboard the Cflen vessel Bienck was staring at the screen in front of her. From Raptor, moving towards the three Cflen vessels, a blob of light.
In seconds it had entered her vessel. Taking form in front of her? A female. A hand outstretched across the control panels and the screen in front of her lit up. Data streaming across it. The being was scanning, retrieving and removing data from the hives.
Firing on the Raptor had been a useless exercise. That had stopped. This entity was controlling weapons systems, main controls. Firing on it did nothing! It left her vessel and was seen moving back to Raptor. "We have incoming data." Dees could be heard by them as Nathan approached Lizet's quarters. Miriasii stepped out, fired at him as the Kabanza illuminated, repelling the weapons fire. Crippling her. "Take her away."
Lizet was pleased to have her quarters back! As for the other Cflen vessels? "Who gave the order to prime the self destruct?!" An echo across all three vessels. One by one they disintegrated. Ariel and Ljne were aboard the Cflen vessel. They had not remained to hear the verdict of the assembly. The sight of all three Cflen vessels destroyed? The fleet moved at speed to vanish into space. On route to Solus 2.
Holli had been delighted to see her gone, she was not alone on that! There had been other things going on they were not aware of, including dissention and discord amongst a lot of races who were not happy, not happy at all by the sight of three of the Cflen vessels being destroyed. Their numbers were reflected in their departure. What worried a lot of Humana including Xopha, were just how many had left.
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