trans_9 | Under Seige

Yuri shook her head. Actually she shook the entire rest of her body too, but that was the voluntary part of the motion.

Necessities were awful things. She'd been bombarded with them for a year now. You can't get out of it. You have to catch them. Don't kill the aliens. It's your duty. Dig her out. She's not human anymore, kill her. It can't be helped. There's nothing to be done.

Not this time though. Here in the midst of her fear, a whirlpool of sick feeling around her, she'd come to a decision.

"N-n-n-n-n-no. If I h-have to d-d-die, I w-want it to be with you guys."

"If you calm down, I'll stop calling you that," Terry shot back to Luis.

He turned to Roxie. "If you can fight, I could use you. I know better then to underestimate kids in a fight. Besides, that trick with the endless coat pockets could come in handy." Hopefully the issue of whether or not Roxie would be allowed to do anything wouldn't turn into a big argument. There probably wasn't time for that.

"Fire... fire... well, I've got exploding batarangs, but those are limited, and I don't want to use them in closed quarters like this," he'd learned his lesson from the smoke bomb from the off-world mission. "So, I think we should pool our resources. Make sure everyone has something that'll be useful, y'know."

What he said next, he thought really hard about. He mentally went through his entire arsenal. He weighed his options. He didn't like what he was about to say, but it might wind up being his last resort if things got ugly. He knew most of his tech wasn't lethal, and that his biggest asset right now was the defensive elements of the suit. So he said it, even though he didn't like the idea.

"...I think I need a gun."

Red Snout limps towards to the entrance of the medical bay, nursing what looks to be a bullet wound in his side. He snarls at the guards, coming up against the living barrier preventing him from getting to the medical bay.

"I am injured and require healing. Let me in!"

Sharp Tongue moves to the door, her lip curling as she sniffs. She can smell Red Snout, and Red Snout's blood, but none of the alien rot on him.

"Let him in. He is my tribesman. I am shaman, I can treat his wound."

"Check him," Lois orders the guards.

"For what? I carry no disease or vermin! Allow my kinsraptor to see to my wound before I bleed to death!" He might be exaggerating, just to get them to let him in. That and he's in a bad mood.

"Aye, well, we're to take no chances," Jamie informs the...OTHER...raptor, forcing a no-nonsense tone into his voice. He'll just ignore the small part of his mind that is trying to deal with the concept of multiple raptors on board the ship, for the moment.

"And besides, until the wee lass who put up the barrier sees fit to take it down, ye're not going to be able to get in here anyway. So ye can let us look you over. Or if ye prefer, I can shoot ye instead."

There is no way his rifle is going to take down a raptor, but he's not going to let that slip.

"Your choice."

Red Snout growls menacingly, taking a step or two towards Jaime, his chest puffing up as the raptor attempts to make himself larger and more intimidating.

"Shoot me and it will be the last thing you ever do in this world, human. I promise that." He glares through the barrier at Lane, then looks back to Jaime.

"Check if you must, but make it quick." He hefts his own rifle, cradling the precious weapon in his forearms.

"I'd echo the sentiment, Yuri, but, I don't have any intention of dying because of zombies," Sherry replied firmly. She'd already played this game, after all, and she didn't like it. "So calm down, please."

She really wanted Claire and Leon to show up miraculously, but she knew she had to take care of herself, and her friends.

And of course the first patient to arrive was a velociraptor.

"No exceptions, everybody gets checked!" Luis repeated, just to back up Jamie and Lois. Jesus. The very last thing they needed was a zombie velociraptor. "They all say they're fine until somebody leaps out of the gurney and strangles the doctor with their face tentacles!"

Las Plagas was not good to Luis.

"Yeah, Yuri. Calm down. At least I know I can kill these ones...." Borg said, parting his tentacles to allow Red Snout in but forming a cage of them around him.

Yuri didn't seem to get any calmer, but then she didn't get worse either. She merely stood there trembling as Borg did his thing.

Jamie is not about to let himself be intimidated by the raptor, and doesn't even flinch at the growl. He does note the rifle, however, and keeps a steady hand on his own weapon.

"Then ye'd better hope you're not infected, aye?" He starts to look over Red Snout, very carefully, for obvious wounds and scratches. Hopefully someone who knows what color a raptor's eyes are supposed to be can help on that front.

"I am not." Red Snout huffs indignantly as the human examines him. He doesn't seem to have any obvious injuries aside from what looks like a gunshot wound along his left side.

"H-he l-looks the same as normal..." Yuri stammers out.

"If Chomper's fine, he's in. Someone get the raptor-strength restraints and we'll treat him for his bullet wound."

Taking chances isn't on the game plan; that much has been made clear, especially when they don't have a strong idea of what's going on outside.

"He's clear," Roxie says almost immediately, as she glances over at Red Snout. She starts queuing up some of the chain, though, manipulating the heavy metal as if it were light as a feather.

"Yes, I am fine! Now let me in!"

"I don't see anything either," Jamie agrees, and steps back. While he lowers his rifle, it can still easily be brought up and fired, if necessary. He looks over at Yuri expectantly. "I believe, lass, it's back to being your choice. Or is it your friend?" He's not quite clear on that part, being unfamiliar with Borg.

A question indeed. Probably one too complicated to go into right now.

"B-borg...Let him in." And the drilltacles lifted from the ground, though one followed him, tracking the scaly head and ready to impale it at any moment.

Then, quietly to the injured raptor. "You're going to be ok, Mr Red Snout."

Vega comes up to peek at Red Snout as he comes in.

"Whoah, what happened to you?" he asks. That's a looooot of blood.

He's not at all afraid of Red Snout, so that much hasn't changed.

Ellen had been in situations like these before. And it really didn't help that half of them were losing their cool. The zombies weren't such a problem. She'd fought the Flood before. They didn't infect the same way, but she'd gleaned enough to know not to get bitten. When the raptor came to the barrier, she'd unclipped her sidearm, but didn't draw it, letting the others do the talking. Once it was deemed that he was clean, she moved to the table.

"Okay first, I need everyone to calm down losing out heads and shouting at people," she shot a glare at Luis, "and being a smartass," Terry got the glare this time, "are not helping. And so help me god if you two don't stow it right now I'll get Chomper here to chew on you for awhile and see how you like it. The kid is being more level-headed than you two." She motioned to Sherry.

With a roll of her eyes, she cleared off one of the workstations, moving her implements to it. Men. Typical. "Alright get the Dino-with-a-gun over here so we can get that bullet out of him. Yuri dear, could I have that medicine you offered earlier? It'll help to close the wound once I've gotten the bullet out."

She nodded to Lois as she brushed past her, pointedly ignoring the other for now and focusing on what she needed to do.

Red Snout limps into the medical bay, scowling in a menacing fashion at Jaime. At least that female seemed to know what she was doing! He shifts his gaze to Yuri, looking at her for a moment before she speaks, ignoring the drilltacle pointed at his head.

"I will be fine, Little Yuri. And so will you. None of those creatures are going to get inside, I will see to it." And then he's back to glaring at everyone around him as he hobbles to the work station, favoring his injured leg. He propels himself up onto the table in a single leap, claws scrabbling for purchase as he lets out a hiss of pain. That did his injured flank no good at all! He cradled his rifle, laying down to allow the medical personal access to the wound.

"Hurry. I must return to the battle."

Yuri held out the cell gell (it looked somewhat like a large juice box) and hoped for the best. It worked on Kumi, at least, and she was a full drill at that point.

Sherry raised her eyebrows at the compliment, but shrank back into a corner, away from Red Snout. Oh yes, she remembered him well, and he still scared the crap out of her.

But Yuri seemed to be helping out, Vega was concerned, Roxie... where was Roxie getting all that chain from? The cacophony of noise outside echoed back, and Sherry found herself trying to imagine what it looked like out there, where could she run to that was narrower than the other locations? Would Eve be okay to follow after her, or...?

Or...

Jamie simply fixes the raptor with a bland, expressionless look of his own - but does stand down. It's only after Red Snout is on the table that he allows himself a tiny bit of a glare in return.

Then he moves up to take a post at the door. Turning slightly to Terry, he says apologetically, "I've got some extra ammo, but not an extra gun. I dinna know about the others."

Under Seige

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