Belly of the Beast (part 1)

Posted on Wed May 21st, 2014 @ 7:01am by Commander Alexandra Vance & Lieutenant JG Teenah Spartacus
Edited on on Wed May 21st, 2014 @ 7:20am

960 words; about a 5 minute read

Mission: Revenge
Location: Covert Facility

ON

Alexandra had weaved through the various tunnels guided by her tricorder to the point where she believed the entrance was. The trek was only five hundred meters but roving Orion patrols made the endeavour longer as she had to tread carefully to avoid any encounters. As she approached the open area where the entrance was she was forced to dip into a small crevice as a patrol approached. The two brutes approaching her were laughing about some sort of gladiatorial tournament and how some human girl had slaughtered some of their best fighters. One mentioned the removal of several appendages and the pool of crimson amidst the middle of the floor, apparently the crowd had been pleased. She began to wonder if Samantha and Amarylis were subjected to this tournament, their lives traded for the entertainment of the crowd.

Samantha was no killer, they were not referring to her. Amarylis....it seemed a little messy for her.

Once the guard passed by Alexandra quickly whisked away entering the room. The room was small and empty only containing a light and a large steel door adjacent to where Alexandra had entered. She quickly approached the door and placed a device on the console beside it. As the device chirped the door was opened seconds later. She retrieved the device and slipped into the main facility. As she stepped through the door she could hear the sounds of two men speaking in the distance....and then a smaller voice, like a child. She quickly followed the sounds to their source.

Peering around the corner Alexandra saw three figures in a small room. Two were large men adorned in armour, more guards and one a small Orion girl, could not have been aged more then her mid twenties wearing only a rag quivering at the two men. As she studied the three she noted the girl had abrasions on her face, she was now undoubtedly a slave and the two guards her tormentors. They would meet a quick....

Her thought was cut as one turned to the other revealing his face. Alexandra's eyes instantly became bloodshot and filled with rage, her body began to shake as adrenaline mixed with her blood filling her veins. Her head bowed and her mouth scowled as she honed in on the guard...

Cardassian..... she thought as the memories, pictorials of the prison filled her mind clear as if she had only just experienced them. She retrieved two knives from her thigh belt and quietly and quickly approached the guards before alerting the child.

Her first move was a lunge towards the first guard piercing his shoulder with her blade toppling the guard over sending his body crashing to the ground as the armor clanged against the floor. As the other turned to strike she dodged his hapless swing gripping the armour of his forearm sending a swift uppercut to his elbow bending the joint in the wrong direction sending a loud deafening crack as the bone within shattered and the guard screamed in agony. Alexandra then struck his Medial collateral ligament collapsing his leg causing the guard to kneel before her. She smiled approvingly at him. "Where all Cardassian scum belong." she stated coldly turning her attention back to the other guard whom was just getting up onto his knees before Alexandra landed a swift kick directly to his sternum sending him tumbling back to the ground.

A trail of blood followed him from his wound as he laid flat on the floor groaning in pain. Alexandra stepped down to the lower portion of the guards body and jammed her knife between his plates of armour in his groin area jamming it deeper into him with her foot. The guard screamed in agony cursing her in his native tongue reaching to retrieve the object from his wound. "Here, let me help you." she said removing the knife from his groin. Blood began to spurt out of the wound squirting onto Alexandra's pants. She stepped back watching the man, amused by his struggle to cover the wound, hampered by his decreased mobility due to the armour. He would be dead within minutes.

With one neutralized Alexandra turned back to the other guard whom was still on his knee holding his broken arm in shock by what this woman had just done to his partner. "Please, please he pleaded I'll give you anything." he cried out for his life.

"You would you coward." Vance replied in an ice cold tone approaching the helpless victim as he held his good arm out begging her to stop. "Entertain me."

"Wha...what?" he said as he cowered away from her.

"Entertain me coward."

The Cardassian looked back at her confusedly unable to determine what she wanted. "You want me dance or sing?" he asked.

"No....I want you to die." Vance stated taking her knife and bending down striking the Cardassian in the groin. The guard fell over in agony and began to convulse as he went into shock. She contemplated removing the blade but it was a small price to pay for the satisfaction she received from watching the Cardassian flop helplessly on the floor. She wanted this moment to last as long as possible.

She quickly retrieved her tricorder from her belt checking it for any other combatants who might enter the makeshift ring she had christened with the blood of the Cardassians. She was lucky, the uncharacteristic noise she had allowed had somehow not alerted any other personnel, the life signs were too far away. Her attention now turned to the Orion slave girl who stood by as an innocent onlooker.

(To be continued...)

Commander Alexandra Vance
Executive Officer

Little Slave Girl
NPCd by Hans Munich

 

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