<span style="color: Seagreen">“Jackpot!”</span>Darion exclaimed as he was pulling credit Chits out of the lockers of the crew, by his count he had at least stuffed almost maybe four or five hundred credits total into the pouch of his armor where he could.  If he hadn’t been still wearing his helmet then Maethia would have seen the grin at her statement, and at something he found.<span style="color: Seagreen">“Dinner and drinking sounds good, maybe even better if you wear something like this.”</span>As he said that he held up some thin black and lacy panties.  They screamed ‘Seduce Me Now!’ It was a bit curious why someone would have panties like that at a site like this.<br/><br/>After that he found one last credit chit, having not really being interested in the pistols he had found, they were basic high end security pistols, but that was all that was special about them.  Well, other than the fact that they were all still in their lockers.  It was while he was looking that he found the sheet of paper… reading the words on the paper, and seeing how scrawled they were on the sheet, as if the person on it could barely hold whatever they were using.  It was a mess.<br/><br/>And finding that scrawled note seemed to be the queue for all hell to break loose.  As soon as he had begun questioning what was written on the page, was when the loud, bone chilling screech.<span style="color: Seagreen">“What the fuck was that?!”</span>he asked the open air after finally the screech had ended.  His weapon no longer resting across his chest, Darion spoke into his radio.<span style="color: Seagreen">“Someone say something… what the fuck was that screech?”</span>His rifle was now resting cradled against his shoulder.<br/><br/>It didn’t matter if anyone replied because after a moment there was something flashing by the windows of the building they were currently in.  The first one he had only gotten a glance of, but the next few he got a good look of.  And he had no idea what he was looking at, but he felt he should.  It only had a passing resemblance to a man, but only in the shape.  The rest looked like it was a glowing blue cybernetic… zombie.  He could not shake the feeling he had heard of something like this.<br/><br/><span style="color: Seagreen">“Uh… I think we should go…”</span>Darion said when the said thing actually stopped and looked right back at him before slapping its arms against the windows, and sending cracks all along the glass.<span style="color: Seagreen">“Like… Now!” </span><br/><br/>But as Darion began towards the exit, the things started to enter while others were hitting the windows, trying to get in.  Immediately Dario fell to his knee in a crouch position, his rifle on his shoulder, and began firing round after round into the creatures coming through the door, each round aiming for the skull.  Most hit dead on, though one here and there he missed and hit the necks or shoulders.  Those he would let Maethia deal with.<br/><br/>Especially he would let her deal with them when one of them shattered a window near him and pulled itself through.  Darion didn’t have time to bring his rifle to bear and turn.  Instead as he was turning on the thing he brought the butt of the rifle swinging around to smash into its face.  He didn’t stop there as he brought it back up and smashed the stock of his rifle into the opposite side of its face.  a third strike came as he drove the stock of his rifle strait back into its face to drive it back a step.  That gave him enough time to bring the rifle back around and put a round through its face, and at point blank range, the mattock blew the things head apart.<br/><br/>The sight outside of many more of the things coming towards the building, and towards the door, darion knew they weren’t getting out that way.<span style="color: Seagreen">“Maethia, this way.  Out the window!”</span>He yelled to the Asari soldier as he took a knee again while ejecting his spent thermal clip and reloading another so he could cover her.<span style="color: Seagreen">“Now!”</span>He had no idea at the moment where the others were but as he watched the asari move he couldn’t help thinking he has heard of something like this.  It took it a moment for the memory of the soldier in the bar years ago telling of creatures like this, cybernetic Zombies.  But those had been rumors.<br/><br/><span style="color: Seagreen">“Maethia… start heading towards the airlock back outside…  we can see them coming from all directions, and it is the thickest door to shut in their face.”</span>He suggested, watching her leave the building in the route she chose.  His mind lingered on that rumor he was remembering for a moment before there were too many things for his body to be on autopilot.  Darion didn’t have the time to think of that though as more were swarming into the living quarters from that side of the building, closer to the back of the site that Sorv had headed.  There were too many coming for his rifle.  Darion fled out the window that one had broken through.<span style="color: Seagreen">“If you all are still alive, this is Darion.  I’m heading towards the airlock out of here, it is the most defensible position I can think of, and our escape route from the… Husks.  Get there as fast as you can.  I won’t wait more than 10 minutes.  Unless someone has a better idea!”</span>the last words were punctuated by firing from his rifle, taking potshots at the Husks coming after them.<br/><br/>With that he made his way in that direction, taking the head off a husk that came around the corner before taking one of his inferno grenades and tossing it through the window.  He started counting down from 5 out loud while he ran.  As soon as he reached zero, flames exploded out the window of the living quarters and clinging to the Husks that were climbing out.  Another grin was on his face.<span style="color: Seagreen">“I love napalm.”</span><br/><br/>…………………………….<br/><br/>The broad grin on Kala’s face showed how much she liked the thought of how much money she would get for her share of the funds from this.<span style="color: sienna">“You all may see me completely smashed then.  I don’t think I will remember our next party night with these many creds!”</span>Too bad she couldn’t keep that mirth with the hell that came next.<br/><br/>The shrill scream that echoed through the ship had made Kala stand straight up, and a chill run down her spine.<span style="color: sienna">“The Fuck?!”</span>she voiced her own question like Taseer had while looking around like the rest.  At least until there had been the loud slamming of something moving way too fast through the access she had used before.  That drew her attention to the opening as her voice spoke up.<span style="color: sienna">“Oh no… I wasn’t imagining tha…”</span><br/><br/>Kala never finished what she was saying as the… thing showed up so suddenly and just stared at her.  She was petrified as she stared back.  The sudden leap, Kala never had a chance to react more than scream as she was tackled and pulled around by something much stranger than her, by far.   All she could do was vainly punch and struggle to try keeping the thing from getting ahold of any of her suit’s seals, prevent it from exposing her to the atmosphere.  But she couldn’t do much against it, and the pain running through her arm with its grip was completely making that arm useless… Was this when and how she would die?  That was so wrong; she had not even had a family, or ever found her mother again.<br/><br/>The last thing she expected at that moment was the thing ontop of her to almost explode.  It was the sight of Shira, and her damned shotgun… She was never so happy to see that woman as she was now.  But she was so scared she was completely speechless as she scrambled out from under the dead husk.   Kala struggled to her feet as she watched more of the creatures explode from her shotgun.<span style="color: sienna">“Yeah…”</span>she muttered before running towards the light out of the ship.<br/><br/>It was only a moment later that she heard others running, but none right behind her.  After running a few moments she turned and looked behind her to see one of the husks knock her shotgun out of her hands, and then pin the quarion against the wall.  The sight made Kala pause.  The thought she could not shake was that she could keep running.  Someone else could help the woman…<br/><br/>As soon as that thought ran through her skull though it disappeared when she saw no one else running to help Shira. Instead, they were all running to get out, even Taseer.  Would she just abandon Shira after she had saved her life.<span style="color: sienna">“Fuck me…”</span>Kala murmured before turning around sprinting towards the woman and the Husk.  She saw the dropped shotgun and paused to pick it up before running again.  Blindly she was shooting at the husks, not caring if she hit, it was a shotgun, you didn’t need good aim with the spread.  At least until she got close to shira and put the shotgun against the husk at point blank range.<span style="color: sienna">“You think I would let you die without letting me see under that mask.”</span>She said, handing the shotgun over, her hands shaking, and she was ready to run in that instant.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>