Justice (part 3)

Posted on Tue Dec 24th, 2013 @ 2:33am by Ensign Maria Delgado & 1st Lieutenant Kara Melo & Commander Hans Munich & Captain Cameron Bourne & Warrant Officer Sterling Kamala IV & Gaia

1,088 words; about a 5 minute read

Mission: Tabula Rasa

[CONTINUED]

[OLD]

Seemingly appearing out of nowhere, Cam walked up behind Kara, "and here I was thinking you'd need my help, oh well"

Kara turned to Cam and grinned. "I always need your help. I can't take them all by myself." For good measure, she tied the man's hands and feet together to make sure he was definitely not going anywhere.

Cam looked around, "yea, I guess you're right, we don't want to hurt these men too much"he said, putting a hand on her shoulder and smiling, "let's see what they've got shall we?"

Kara stood and smiled in return. "Lead the way."

[NEW]

Turning towards the others standing around, Cam puffed himself up a little, "Ok, who wants to have a crack at me, instead of attacking women?"

"We do." replied a trio of men, presumably brothers as all three shared the same looks and the same overconfident smile.

Cam grinned, "This should be fun. So, who's first?" He said, stepping towards them, "Or are you going to all jump me at once?"

"I believe," said Sterling from the shadows, "That my friend here means jump us."

Cam smiled, "well than, now that's just unsporting. Maybe we should teach them some manors?"

The trio looked up to the shadows and then back at Cam. "Well...yeah..."

Cam smiled, "Then take your best shot. Or are you afraid to face someone who could beat you to a pulp?" He said, hoping to either intimidate them into backing down, or to goad them into attacking first.

"Rest assured, we will." The trio replied arrogantly charging Cam. They began to take swings with punches and kicks landing several devastating blows upon him.

After a few minutes of getting punched and kicked from every side, unable to move due to the constant barrage, something in the back of Cam's mind clicked, triggering a dormant survival instinct. Almost instantly, he went from getting the hell beaten out of him to braking bones and tendons with adrenaline fueled yet well placed punches and elbow thrusts.

Kara watched the three attack Cam, but before she could assist him, she was hit by another thug. She turned and grabbed him, flipping him over her shoulder and kicking him when he hit the ground. He grabbed her leg and pulled. She used the momentum to land on top of him. Then she hit him hard with a double fist. When she was sure he was unconscious, she turned to help Cam.

The battle had turned and Cam had not only disabled his opponents, he was continuing to attack them. There was a flash of memory, of Cam's face as he fought, but he was facing her, not someone else. Whatever was going on, she knew she had to stop him.

Heedless of the danger, she ran into the fray, calling Cam's name as loudly as she could. "Cam! Cam! You've done enough. You need to stop!"

Cam barely heard Kara through his blood haze. Right now all he cared about was getting rid if the threat being posed to him. He was half way through beating a man's head in when he felt something grab hold of his arm, trying to stom him. Quickly grabbing hold of the persons arm, Cam flung them to the ground and was about to start laying into them when he suddenly froze at the sight of a woman's face instead of one of the faces of the three men who had been attacking him. Unable to think, Cam stopped in place, his fist raised ready to fall.

Kara raised her arms to cover her face. "Cam! No!"

His mind finally clicking, Cam realised who it was he was pinning down. Giving a sigh, Cam punched the ground right next to Kara's head, if for anything just to relax some of the tension built up in his muscles, braking his hand in the process. Standing up, Cam offered Kara a hand up using his unbroken hand, "need a hand?"

She took several deep breaths, relieved that he didn't strike her, then she took his hand and let him help her up. She kissed him on the cheek and gently took his other hand. "We need to get this taken care of."

She'd seen one of the people taking care of the injured somewhere, so she led Cam away from the battle so he didn't get hurt and went in search of Mandy.

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Maria took her staff and crept around the compound, looking for someone who was on his own. She didn't relish taking on a group of them, or any of them with bows, but she figured someone would be out to do recon and she would be waiting for them.

She found one and let out a war whoop to startle him as she ran forward with her staff and swung it as hard as she could at his midsection, knocking him to his knees. Then she hit him across his back.

Gribble heard a noise and tapped the shoulder of his three friends went in the direction of the noise. They burst into the opening and saw a woman standing over Willard. The poor fool going out on his own deserved it. It was about ten yards

"Look like we get to party with a girly who facncies herself as good with a stick?" Gribble said as he raised his own club and started forward. "Boys, the one that down her gets the first fun."

At least she had a longer reach with her staff than the guy with the club. But she wasn't much of a fighter. Still, she was going to give it her best shot. She swung, hitting Gribble in the face. But he was only one of three and she didn't think she could get the other two before they attacked her.

Har, to Gribble's right, seemed to catch a spear in the chest. He let out a cry and fell to the wayside. Across the opening Hans stepped out with his other spear. "You know I am going to get that back..." He raised his spear. "I am here to protect you from... her." He gesture towards Maria. "If you wish to really take her you might want to get friends?"

(To be continued...)

1st Lieutenant Cameron Bourne
Marine CO

Staff Sergeant Kara Melo
Alpha Platoon Leader

Warrant Officer Sterling Kamala IV
Security Investigations

Lieutenant Hans Munich
Chief Operations Officer

Ensign Maria Delgado
Science Officer

Bad guys:
Har, Gribble,
NPCd by Hans Munich

 

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