Sydney almost made it to the generator room when the alarm klaxton bleated and then the announcement to abandon ship.<span style="color: navy">"Oh damn!  Just as I almost get there too."</span>For a moment she paused and wondered how to proceed.  She shrugged and continued onwards and then squad channel on her comms sounded loud in her ear.<b>"Hold position and provide covering fire for incoming friendlies. I'm going to open an escape route for Morimoto."</b>So Sydney, misunderstanding the orders from Sgt Edmund banged a vent open and shoved the end of the assault rifle out and sprayed the companionway.  She cautiously peered out and saw a drone approaching, brought here by the new gunfire and she panicked.<br/><br/>She changed out the magazine and unloaded into the 'head' part of the target questing drone and screamed her horror and rage at the enemy robot<i>thing</i>.  Either beginner's luck, or the Omnicient Power were with that full magazine.  the drone was blinded by half way through the seconds long burst and it started to wildly send out lancing lines of red ravening laser energy around the companionway.  Sydney rolled against the back of the airduct and changed the magazine out and felt the waves of heat from the weapon's barrel.  She whispered another prayer for luck and thanks and rolled back just as a wild beam strobbed through the ductwork opening and sliced her foot in half.  She screamed in pain and shoved the rifle barrel against the tottering drone and fired the entire magazine into it.<br/><br/>The sudden eplosion of the first then second EMP grenades caught her totally unprepared and she fell on top of the shuddering and bucking drone as the energies from the grenades killed it.<br/><br/>Then Sgt Edmund's voice woke her from her daze.<b>"Morimoto, get your ass out of there, I'll give you covering fire."</b>Sydney almost orgasmed the relief she felt was so releasing.<span style="color: navy">"Yes Sergeant!  Corpsman Morimoto coming from corridor H15."</span>Sydney scrambled up and limped to the Sergeant, using the assault rifle as a cane.  She turned the corner on the scene of a junkyard that had vomited it's wares upon the road.  She struggled through in time to see Sgt Edmund looking at her grimly and she smiled up at him.<br/><br/><span style="color: navy">"Sorry to be so late Sergeant.  Morimoto reporting in.  Do you want a beer after we get out of this?"</span>Sydney really wanted to lose her virginity before she died and he was sexy looking...<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>