Tank Borne

Part 5: disaster plan

Liana was pacing around watching the red glow on her door one moment then looking at Syn-syn the next.

I can go to the security hall and destroy everything but no that's suicide, she thought then stopped moving when she heard a loud scraping sound.
She looked at the Youtja in the room and saw him rip off her bathroom door. Right now he was pulling the inside panel out to make room for his hand to grab the torn wires on the inside and just like that he had a five foot tall shield.

She tried her hand at Youtja again and asked, "you just born but know how to do?"

He just chuffed at her way of speaking his tongue again and said, "when I was in tank I had clan imprints. Speech and instincts. Not much now but later."

Imprinting was cool to Liana and thank goodness.  She thought she was going to have to teach and overgrown baby killing machine how to walk and talk. He was more like her though, not quite sure why he was born or why he was here but he knew this female was important to him and they both had to get out. One can't do it without the other.

Liana thought for a moment while the Youtja was lacking a spear out of the shower piping he was currently yanking from the wall now.

All this noise. They'll come here once they check the security footage. I have to keep watch. Maybe take them one hall at a time but I barely remember where the shuttles are... I know security has their own. With them out of that area and looking for the big guy maybe this is our chance. Liana thought long and hard and tried discussing her plan with the Youtja. He was shaking off the effects quite well after being shot with sleeper bullets but she knew anymore and he could collapse it shot again.

He listened to her and said, "you check if clear and then move behind me. I fight." When he said he'd fight he thumped his chest with his right fist. Another imprint on how to make a promise in his kinds way.

It made her smile but she was still very nervous but the time to act was now.

"Are you ready?" She asked and pointed at his made shift weapons, a pipe spear, shiv made from the torn door panel and the door shield.

He put out the shiv in the knot of his cloth and held onto the spear with his right and his shield on his left arm. His hand and forearm fit inside the door which made for a stronger defense.

When he was done he nodded to her and stayed back as she opened the door and peaked out. One guard was patrolling her hallway and heading towards the labs. She turned to Syn-syn and gave him a finger over her mouth and shook her head signaling to be quiet. 
She snuck and walked behind the guests in her soft white sneakers. When Syn-syn's feet hit the hard floor he knew his nails would make noise so he lifted his claws up as he walked. He gained on the man and Liana stood to the side as Syn-syn grabbed him by a the face and crushed him head inside. Gently he laid the body down and Liana cane over and grabbed his gun and his vest. She put on the vets and tightened the straps then checked the magazine for ammo to find they were still the sleeper bullets. Checking the pockets of the vest she found the medical pouch with the antidote syringes and looked at Syn-syn who was panting to stay awake.

"I stab you with these and poison wears off." She told him trying to get the words right. He didn't like the stabbing park but when she pointed at her leg then his he nodded. She undid one syringe cap and tried it on his leg but his hide was too thick and bent the needle. So she pointed to his neck and he let her try there. It worked and he barely felt it so she used all five that were in the pouch on him. He shook his head and felt a slight buzz when she was done and looked at her nodding saying he was ready to move.

Just like that she would peak around hallway to hallway and when someone needed killing he led the charge. She'd pick up more ammo or medical supplies and add them to a belt she was now wearing with a couple of magazines and a medical pouch.
When they made it to security they saw more guys here than expected and when they saw her helping the Youtja they fired at her. Before they could hit her Syn-syn came in front of her and covered them with the shield and moved towards them.

"You rake front and I take back!" She yelled and he grunted pushing forwards faster.

No one was behind them at the moment so Liana fired and shot some men in the face that where in the room they need to get to.
They reached the room and Liana changed her clip and went to the weapons locker which was opened by her huge helper. Grabbing regular ammo clips she put them in her belt and grabbed a knife and stuffed it in her belt to her right as well. She then moved quickly to the control panel and saw the shuttle in its loading bay.

She looked at the controls and saw men in their ready to fire on them but she had a better idea than fitting and opened the air lock to that room only sucking them out. Some containers flew out as well but the shuttle was fine since it was strapped down to the floor. She shut the air lock again and had Syn-syn follow her too the loading bay.

"Security shuttle is what we need! Hurry!" She yelled to him and he ran beside her. They went down the ramp into the loading bay and went to the shuttle. She pointed to a torch on the wall and said she had to cut the chains. He went to the wall and dropped his shield to take it out of the locked box for her. When he cane back she took it and got to work on cutting the chains and locks. More men showed up and Syn-syn grabbed her rifle to shoot the men.
There were three locks on the ship. Two for the back legs and one for the front. The shuttle itself was fairly big and Liana had to cut the locks which took over a minute and rush to the next one. Syn-syn finished off the last man in the bay but more he heard were coming. That's when Liana was just finishing on the lock in the front. She kicked it away when it fell and threw the torch to run inside. Syn-syn followed her inside and ran out of ammo but Liana shut and locked the door. She then ran to the cockpit and started the engine sequence. The shuttle roared to life and she yelled for the Youtja to hang on!
The shuttle rose up and she turned the guns on and fired at the bay doors. Then turned towards the men firing on them and shot the guns at them and destroyed most of the loading bay. The doors were swept away from the vacuum of space and even the shuttle was move towards the outside when it happened.
Now outside in space Liana grit her teeth and fired at the other loading bay she saw next to the one they cane from. The doors burst open and propel along with equipment shot out onto space. She saw other shuttles inside and fired on them destroying any way they could chase them. When she was satisfied she turned the shuttle around and flew away. She was preparing to ignite the system for a space jump and turned to Syn-syn, "we have to make a jump. Sit in a seat and hang on!" Instead of standing behind her seat like he was he moved over to the seat next to her and sat down gripping it as she sent them into a warp.
Within a hard jolt and a flash they were in a new area of space.

Freedom at last and it worked so well. Liana looked over at Syn-syn and after putting the shuttle on idle she stood up by him and said, "thank you."