<div class="floatleft">(https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/11131/111313086/6113716-atlantean.jpg)</div><strong>Character Name:</strong>Atlantean Soldiers<br/><strong>Alias:</strong>None<br/><strong>Time/Date:</strong>0118 EDT 6 Apr 2102<br/><strong>Location:</strong>S.H.I.E.L.D. Destroyer U.S.S.<em>Byers</em><br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>All<br/><strong>Mentioned:</strong>All<br/><strong>NSFW Warning:</strong>None<br/><br/><hr/><div class="floatleft">(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01910/james-purefoy2_1910913b.jpg)</div><strong>Character Name:</strong>Daniel Stane<br/><strong>Alias:</strong>Shield<br/><strong>Time/Date:</strong>0115, 6 Apr 2102<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Stane Industries Platform Foxtrot Zero Nine Six<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Helios, Rebecca, Bombshell<br/><strong>Mentioned:</strong>Athena<br/><strong>NSFW Warning:</strong>None<br/><br/><hr/>The battle was truly joined, and the Atlanteans were not unthinking brutes.  Those whom Helios could not engage and keep the attention started to shoot at the hull of the<em>Byers</em>.  Those who did earned the wrath of the earth-felled Eternal, but it was much like the ancient vanity arcade game "wack a mole".  As Helios brought his weapon to bare upon one group, another would take up the task for them and continue firing upon the doomed ship.  Eventual attrition might cause them to cease this tactic and either bring all of their warriors and weapons focused upon Helios, or retreat, but the odds were long indeed of the ship holding out.  Most of the crew had evacuated, but the officer staff as well as a detachment of agents to cover for them were still left, doing their best to destroy the sensitive data still left on board, setting the computers for self destruction of all data storage, and burning what rare hard copies of classified intelligence was on board.  It seemed to drag on, setting teeth on edge.<br/><br/>Daniel swore under his breath as Athena was patched into what remained of the<em>Byres</em>network, pulling up the damage assessment and realizing the bow of the ship was taking the brunt of the damage.  It was less than a minute from the entire superstructure collapsing upon itself, and when it did, the ship would sink like a stone.  It meant they had to take some risks.   Daniel called out over his external communications to the officers and anyone else in earshot.<strong>"We are out of time!  If you want to life, get off this fucking ship now!  Thirty seconds or we leave you!"</strong>It was an empty threat.  Daniel would not leave as long as one person was still on board, and he had a feeling his sentiment was mutual among the other two helping him with the rescue operations.  He hoped however whoever was in command did not know it was a bluff and started to haul ass.<br/><br/>Thirty seconds however was still cutting it too fucking close, and Daniel had to take some risks.   He started to move forward on the bow, and extending his field as much as he dared.  Right now it was about the same durability as titanium, but it covered too small an area.  As Daniel expanded the force shield, its integrity began to degrade.  He had Athena put up on the HUD its relative strength  compared to the Atlantean weapons nd when he found the limit he did not want to risk anymore, he stopped and held, speaking to Athena inside of his helmet.<strong><em>"Athena!  All power, overclock the armor's power supply as much as it can stand!"</em></strong><br/><br/>Directed energy weapons which had been deflected by the energy shield before was punching through, making holes in the shield which were slow to be restored.  It did take the bulk of the force away from the blast, allowing what remained of the ship's hull to shrug off the blast and not be damaged anymore than it was.  Athena's assessment of the survival of the<em>Byres</em>leapt up from seconds to minutes.  More than long enough Daniel hoped.  As the original thirty second started to com to a close, the Atlanteans did their counter move, concentrating their fire to make a large hole inside of the energy shield.  Leaping upon the deck came three soldiers, all taking aim at Bombshell and Selkie.  They fireed...and nothing!  The weapons were spent.  The tossed them to the side and drew vicious looking melee weapons, rushing everyone!<br/>