Carth's magical adventure, ROUND TWO, MOTHERFUCKERS!

[Carthrat]

"Go back to my cabin and get raped?" replies Carthrat, flatly. "No, thank you, captain. I'll take my chances here.

You're clearly in need of an advisor for this sort of situation, anyway."

[Anastasia]

He scowls at you, his endurance at an end. "Sir, what I need for you is TO GO BACK TO YOUR CABIN," he says loudly, over the rumble of the ship. A moment later, the door just behind you shudders, as if being hit.

Fuck, they're moving faster than hell. These are pirates?

[Carthrat]

"That is not an option," replies Carthrat, flatly. "Don't worry, I'll leave once they're done with you."

She takes a defensive position alongside a wall..

[Anastasia]

The door flies open at the end pound, right after Carthrat gets to the wall. It flies to the other side of the door. A second later, three canisters are fired in, faintly visible, yellowish gas pouring from each of them!

"Gas!" the captain yells, one of the canisters landing close to him...

[Carthrat]

Carthrat takes a deep breath, and sidles her way to the door, holding a knife in one hand and the sleeve of his cloak to his nose in the other.

[Anastasia]

As you do so, you hear a few more thumps behind you. People passing out, likely.

As you get closer to the door, four large, burly, armed with plasma rifles and enough body armor and fields to stop a tank dart in, one in each direction.

You have a split second amid the gas to act...

[Carthrat]

Carthrat hits herself up with her 'Feign Death' hypo, hoping it'll slow her metabolism down and cause the gas to be diluted, as well as leaving her 'unconcious', yet able to act if something happens.

[Anastasia]

Carthrat falls, the pain of the hypo minimal as she tumbles to the floor. Your body slowly stops breathing, the mixture of chemicals and gas leaving you in a bemused, paralyzed state. You see the four soldiers quickly secure the area....

Then they see you, and come to you carefully, but like flies to honey. Speaking from behind his resperator mask into a built in radio relay, one of the soldiers says, "We have found the target. Repeat, we have found the primary target. Begin withdrawl. Repeat, we have found the primary target. Begin withdrawl."

From behind his mask, his voice is oddly muffled and mechanical. Two of the men grab you, one reaching for your legs and the other for your arms.

[Carthrat]

Carthrat realises that she's in a pretty shitty situation, but hopefully, an opportunity will arise if she waits long enough.

With this in mind, she remains inert..

[Anastasia]

The two drag you, while another two soldiers enter, masks and heavy goggles equipped. Just as you exit..."Secondary target found..."

[Carthrat]

Carthrat does a good job keeping her eyebrows from shooting up, but she realises that logically, the only two people associated with her in this age are Tir and Rachel...

God, please let it be Tir.

[Anastasia]

You are carried out silently, a few fallen and zapped passengers and crew members littering the floor.

Taken to a access point in the cargo bay(which is trashed, and the access point is a inserted vacuum tube), you are transported onboard the other craft....

[Carthrat]

Carthrat continues to wait, preferably until he's tossed into a recovery room or some such.

[Anastasia]

You pass through bleak, metallic halls, the sign of not a transport - but a warship. Further, the only people you pass are a few soldiers, humans by and large and all heavily armed.

After an interminable time of steel walkways, you are taken into a well furnished(by standards) room, and dumped on the floor.

"Good work," a sickening, vaguely familiar voice gloats. "Now go." As the soldiers shuffle off, you can look up...and the bald pate of someone who you only saw a short time, yet who sickened you with his actions, gazes down at you.

'You made quite a ruckus, Mr. Tanewaki.' The voice, like a intruder in your house, echos in your mind.

[Carthrat]

Carthrat finds it hard to keep an incredulous look off her face.

"You expended all this energy and effort to find me?" she says, clearly shocked. "That's so.. petty."