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cityship ([personal profile] cityship) wrote in [community profile] trans_92012-03-16 04:21 pm

Buy a Little Mercy [Open; Potentially Graphic Material]

Less than an hour after the ship leaves Agrestic's orbit, an announcement is broadcast throughout Stacy.

|| Attention, crew. Your crewmates, Howard Bassem and Charles Merriman, have been apprehended attempting to desert. They will now be given Punishment. According to established guidelines, you are all requested to report to the Observation to witness the Punishment. Attendance is not mandatory, but highly suggested. This will serve as a reminder of the consequences of treason and desertion. ||

On the observation deck, Archon Yavek, Archite Rekkti, two other Daligig and a handful of Kessek soldiers stand outside a spherical force field. Inside the bubble, Orc and Howard are suspended by tentacles looping around their wrists. Orc's ceased thrashing around and struggling against his restraints; rust-colored fissures have developed around his shoulders and forearms from the strain, but now he simply hangs there, looking defeated. Howard's nose is bleeding, and every time a drop falls to the bottom of the forcefield there's a small sizzle. He's weeping and begging the Daligig with every plea possible, but they act as if they aren't listening. Instead, they wait for an audience.
punchedoutdestiny: (A fatal exception has occurred at...)

[personal profile] punchedoutdestiny 2012-03-17 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
And thus, Simon hits a metaphorical brick wall - the fist of one of the Kessek stops him cold. Air and blood leave his mouth as he makes a strangled noise of pain, then collapses in a heap.

It's several moments before any movement comes from him - a shaking arm trying to drag him forward before tentacles and sedatives take effect.

If he needed more proof that blind anger and determination alone weren't going to help him here, well. He had it now.
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[personal profile] mythoughtsoncloning 2012-03-17 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
The ship shined red sunlight on him and kept it fixed on him so that he could be injected and so he didn't burn through the sedative.

And he did need the sedative because he didn't stop fighting when the tentacles came, trying to throw them off with his telekinesis, and then just trying to pull his arms free through sheer force of will alone when the red light dampened his powers.

"You can't do this! You can't! You...you..."

His eyes rolled back into his head and then he was out, drugged like the others, the red light fixed on him so he stayed that way.
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[personal profile] aboutthatevac 2012-03-17 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
Kerrigan didn't fight back. She was still cloaked but the window of opportunity had passed. All she could do was hope that bullet wound in the one Kessek's shoulder hurt as badly as she wanted it to.