Kerry smiled. The LT obviously liked her style of doing things, if he wanted her back safe. "Sir, Yes Sir!<br/><br/>Pat grunted at the order. Two more hand sets like that one? Fuck. Where was he going to find the parts? Served him right for being so damned inventive. He glowered at the resurrected sergeant (he had honestly thought she was dead), and held out his hand. "Your coms, please, Sergeant. All of them. As they are they're useless, but with a bit of luck I can cobble together two working induction handsets."<br/><br/>Kerry looked at the tech in surprise, then grinned. "O'Graugh, you're doing good. Stay alive." She turned to her squad, "You heard the man, give him your sets. MOVE IT!" The squad hurried to obey. "What else d'you need?"<br/><br/>Pat shrugged. "A couple of hard-line hand sets. Rip them off the wall, cut the connecting wires, but don't break anything inside..."<br/><br/>"Right, you, you, go with O'Graugh, get him what he needs, and bring him back here, safe. Right now he is valuable, you aren't. Got that?" The two she picked were reliable. They would get the tech back if it meant their own lives. "That way, the way we came from."<br/><br/>She watched the three of them scurry out of sight and turned to Stern. "You take the second squad. You'll be covering our asses, so keep it tight and keep up."<br/><br/>The Corporal looked at Stern, looked at her and said "Sergeant..." He got no further. Kerry's Fist grabbed the front of his fatigues and slammed him into the bulkhead. Her service knife was at his throat. She knew Warren was watching, but didn't care. If the officer didn't back her up on this, then he would be next or she would!<br/><br/>"Are you questioning the orders of a superior officer in a combat situation, Corporal? I do hope so, because that is an offence punishable by summary execution!"<br/><br/>"N... No Sergeant"<br/><br/>"Good. You're with me. You have nominal command of first squad, but unless I am dead, you don't do jack shit without my say so. Clear? You watch and you learn, and maybe you stay alive."<br/><br/>Paige let him go and he slumped and moved quickly out of her way. Paige caught a glimpse of herself in a reflective surface and grinned. She was an imposing figure, her fatigues burned and ripped, covered in blood, both human and orc, but none of it her own, her face blackened and smeared too.<br/><br/>She shrugged and pulled up a deck plan. "Right, we're here..."<br/><br/><hr/><br/>O'Graph followed the two grunts along a corridor to an intersection and turned a different way from the way he'd been before. At intervals they passed  fire teams holding the deck, but none of them seemed to be engaged, except one , a SAW team, laying down a blistering fire towards an access hatch that led upwards, towards the Bridge. Axes, spears and arrows came the other way at irregular intervals, and Pat ducked past as quickly as he could.<br/><br/>"In here", one of his escort told him and opened the door onto an Aladdin's cave - a telecomms workshop. Three dead spacers littered the shop, along with what looked like a complete Orc, if the parts were reassembled. Pat gulped and tried not to loose what little he had in his stomach. The orc had taken most of the blast from the grenade, though and the bulk of the shop was undamaged. He set to work gathering equipment. seven minutes later and he had two working induction handsets plus parts to build six more. "Okay, lets go..."<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Kerry was beginning to think something had happened to the tech. She had divided her men into two roughly equal squads, with the bulk of the fire-power in hers and the lighter armed troops in Stern's. She had her rout ready, and all she needed was a working comm. She was about to send someone to look for the tech and his escort when they came pelting around a corner. O'Graugh ran full tilt, while one of the others was limping heavily with an arrow through his thigh. The other stopped at the corner, turned and fired, then stepped back rapidly as a dead orc crashed down almost crushing him. He put two more bullets in each of it's eyes and then trotted back, slapping a fresh clip in his weapon, He gave a nod to Paige as he passed her, and she returned it.<br/><br/>Kerry took one of the communicators and listened to O'Graugh explain how to use it. She went back over his instructions, simple as they were, twice, to make sure she had them, then turned to her men. "OKAY TEAM, We've got a ship to save, Lets MOVE OUT!"