The Rebel Faction

Post by Sl'askia:
[size=2]Asri had ducked under another console, both to throw off the creature and to avoid getting hit by Maskis’ blaster shots. She found it odd he had trouble hitting the creature, maybe even seeing it altogether: it was crystal clear to her, but then again maybe that was another ‘perk’ of the nanotech in her body. The hidden albino wished she could help him fight the thing, but couldn’t risk getting any blows in while he was firing semi-wildly without getting shot herself.

"Asri, cover your eyes!" She heard him shout and she immediately did so.

She heard a loud bang and the dark world behind her eye lids briefly flashed red when what had to be a flash grenade went off. When she opened her eyes she found the creature staggering and stumbling confused and blind. That was their cue to run for it.

"Maskis…I suspect there is more then one creature onboard." Asri said as she walked beside him, her senses alert for the spider and the suspected ‘second creature’ that could be roaming the halls as well. "There was a body I smelled the faint scent of a T’Doshok on it, along with other reptilian scents. That spider didn’t smell like that and didn’t even resemble the description you showed me in the datapad." Wary, she peeked around a corner before turning into a connecting corridor. "It would be wise to keep our guard up."

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Asri followed Maskis down onto the deck and immedately her vision switched to nightvision, in which everything was in shades of blue. She could see perfectly in the room as the genetic alteration of her eyesight allowed her to see as a cat would in this low level of light. Maskis was obviously having trouble, since his night time vision was infravision, meaning he saw in heat, like all 'normal' Trandoshans.

She could see, but the air quality wasn't to her comfort level. It was stale and thin, which was passable for living as long as they didn't extert themselves. If that spider, or something else, found them here it would mean trouble, as with webbing in here showed...the spider didn't have problems living in an oxygen-less environment.

"Either the spider bet us here or it was put here before hand." Asri said observantly, then paused, wondering how to word her offer of assistance without revealing much. She quickly realized there was no way to really get around it, so decided to bite the bullet. "Describe what you are looking for in here and I'll find it for you. I can see perfectly in here."

Didn't he say that it needed 'two' key cards and a pass code to access the data before? Asri thought as she looked down the hall Maskis indecated. The thin air must be affecting him. She looked back at him. "If I remember right, you need to come with me anyway. Something about 'two key cards' and a pass code, remember?" She smiled faintly as Maskis got this 'you idiot' look on his face, then patted him on the shoulder. "It's been a rough day for you, so don't worry. Just make sure you punch in the right code ok? I really don't feel like getting blown up."

She took his hand and starting leading him down the hall, studing the walls as they went, looking for something that looked like a door. Asri almost missed it actually and only spotted the indecation that there was a door there when she looked at that spot again. It wasn't actually the door she spotted anyway, as it was disqused as one of the wall panels, but the panel covering what had to be the keypad used to gain access to the sealed room. It took a bit of prying, but she was able to get it off, revealing a hand print pad. Knowing her hand print wouldn't work, she took Maskis' hand and pressed his palm on the device. With a click and a hiss, the door opened.

It was very dark in here, so much so that her own vision was next to useless now. "Wait here." She said to Maskis at the door as she crept in on all fours. The smell of death the dominant scent here and she made her way to the bodies that were in there. She inspected each one in turn, shoving aside her sense of respect as she did so so that she could inspect them fully. It was beginning to look like she was going to be out of luck until she found the last body and quickly determined he was of the maintenance sort and found what she was looking for. A flashlight. With a hiss of triumph, she flicked it on, only for her eyes to go suddenly wide with shock once they had readjusted to the light level.

"Kazuk...I hate it when I am right like this." She muttered as she stared a moment at the 'thing' the beam from the flashlight now revealed.

It was reptilian, hense why Maskis couldn't see it and alert her to it before, it's body much like that of a snake. The head was mainly snake as well, fanned rawl it looked like, but it had very trandoshan looking arms, which explained the faint trandoshan scent she detected earlier. it's scales were black, it's eyes yellow and staring at her hungerly, but it's length was difficult to determine as it was coiled up in the corner: had to be about ten feet long at least, with a three foot diameter.

"Maskis." She said, tossing the flashlight to him. "Get to work. I'll keep this thing off your back."

Her sudden movement caused a reaction in the large snake, it's head raising off it's coils and a loud hiss eminating from it's jaws. She had only just put herself into a ready stance when the thing lunged and she only barely managed to twist to the side in time to avoid those snapping jaws. Acting quickly she jumped onto the beast's back to attempt to pin it down....

It obviously didn't like being ridden like a Kaadu, for the snake thrashed about wilding, trying to dislodge the albino Trandoshan from it's back. Asri could feel it's hands trying to get a firm grip on her: thank goodness she wore tight fitting clothing for this adventure! She knew she should try to kill this thing while she was at it, to make things easier all around, but she couldn't risk letting go with her hands, so she bit it.

And nearly cracked a tooth.

Ouch! She thought, nearly letting go completely. Well that explains the report that blaster fire reflected off it: it's damn scales are like durasteel! "How much longer Maskis!?" She yelled as the snake/trandoshan hybrid redoubled it's efforts to dislodge her. "Killing this thing is going to take more work then I thought!"

Maskis didn't answer and taking a chance to look his way she saw that he was engrossed in reading the files. Can't be a good sign. She thought with a grumble. On top of that was the uncertain status of the reactor, so they needed to end this as quickly as possible. But how to even wound this thing? Then she remembered it's eyes: those can't be as tough as it's hide. So she took a chance and let go with one arm just long enough to jab a claw into one of those yellow orbs.

Next thing she knew she was counting stars when she got slammed into the wall due to it's pain filled thrashing, it's howls of pain echoing in the room. By some miracle she was still hanging on...

Asri had just recovered her senses when she heard Maskis calling to her. "Sure..." She growled. "I just love snakes that want to eat me!" Knowing the beast will likely pursue them if it had a chance, she slashed her claws across the beast's remaining eye. This time though, she rolled off the things back before she got slammed into the wall again and made for the door.

She almost slipped on the beast's blood as she ran for it, but was able to keep her balance and easily caught up to Maskis. "It's completely blind now, but it will likely be able to track us by scent." She told him as they ran.