Spock tried, too

Recourse

The landing party appeared in what appeared to be the brig section of the facility. Spock looked over to see the shape of several figures laid on the floor inside the figures. One of the figures looked up, lacking a helmet, although dressed to be a Romulan officer. Spock almost tilted his head at the number of Romulans in the cell. He could see they were mostly women and some of them were men. The Romulan sighed, in relief. That was Bete. Her fellow crewmate, S'Chess, raised herself up looking in the direction that her friend was looking at. She had a sigh of relief falling back.

They were most certainly not the Rapid Rescue Squad.

"Etek fi' t'du vla," Bete spoke in Vulcan, holding their hands up in the air.

Exactly saying 'we on your side' could spare them from being returned to the Romulan Empire and facing the consequences of their actions. There were few remainders of their ties with Vulcans left in the underground Vulcan trade that lead some into the hands of Romulans. Not enough but just a few words. The doors opened to the brig letting in two lieutenants. The two Romulans stared back at first then started to take their disruptors out. Pavel and Hip'Tip fired first vaporizing the two officers. Xon came over to the console then lowered the shields to the electrical based brig. There were injured Romulans among the party. Several other Romulans from outside started to come to. Spock made his way to the side of the door turning on his phaser. Pavel, Xon, and Harrik fired at the oncoming Romulans. Bete was the first one up then joined on the firing back at her colleagues.

The other Romulans retreated after firing back. Two Romulans were left with holes in their torsos strayed on the floor bleeding green blood from staring out into the open space forming a window toward the ceiling while slouched against the wall with a disruptor in their hands respectively. The sound of footsteps fleeing were becoming softer and softer. One of the dead Romulans had a hand covering the wound that was on the side of their waist. Their golden helmet There wasn't a stench of death coming but it would be coming around hours afterwards. Richards realized her phaser had ran out of fuel. Richards dropped it with a hiss as she realized her hands were burning from clenching the phaser trigger in the wrong position tightly.

"Hey," Potax said, handing Richards a disruptor. "and you might want to get that treated---" Potax almost stopped seeing the appearance of the much taller woman. "You are a hondurian."

"Yes," Richards said, wary.

"You look gorgeous," Potax said. Richards felt her cheeks blush. "quite lovely."

"Mr Hip'Tip, make sure their injured are beamed over to the Enterprise," Spock said.

"But Captain, they are Romulans," Hip'Tip said. "They are not friendly."

"Hey, asshole, we are now!" Lieutenant Locet shouted back. Locet had a patched right eye and a hook for a left hand. Spock sent a withering glare in the direction of Hip'Tip.

"That is not a request," Spock said. "it is a order."

"Yes, sir," Hip'Tip said.

"Those who are not injured will join us," Spock announced, turning toward the two dozen Romulans. At first glance, there were ten Romulans who were not hurt while the others had injuries that could be repaired. "and it would be vital if one of you knew where the survivors are."

S'Chess turned toward the captain.

"We were ordered to kill the colonists," S'Chess said. "But not the officer you are here for"

"But we don't know if the other one is still alive," Potax said.

"He might still be alive," Bete said.

"Captain," Xon said. "the possibility of his demise is sixty-eight point thirty-seven percent."

"I am aware," Spock said. "and I disregard it." He turned toward the Romulans. "Which of you knows the way?"

"I do, sir," Potax said. "you are going to need disruptors to replace the empty phasers."

"That is unfortunate," Spock said, placing the phaser onto the console.

Bete came back with two phasers then handed one of them to Xon while Loket handed their disruptor to the captain. Pavel had a bad feeling about trusting Romulans. Because no one knows if one would go behind their back. But these didn't seem too friendly but only helpful. It was always good to have some suspicion up. Pavel replaced his standard issued star fleet phaser with a disruptor that had a stiff, bumpy handle. His phaser was placed onto the console. How many Romulans did they kill? How many were stationed here? Hip'tip and a group of Romulans vanished in a haze of light leaving the non-injured Romulans behind.

"What is your name?" Spock said.

"Potax," Potax said. "But my full name, you cannot say."

"We have that in common," Spock said. "Lead the way, Miss Potax."