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Travis Kroells

"Instinct"

“Instinct” A Kroells and Levy Production

 

 

 

Mona shoved Jamie back into the corner as the guards passed them. She spoke quietly "We need to get you out of here, what do you have in mind?"

 

"I saw a directory when we first came in. There are some bays not to far from here. Presumably used to smuggle these weapons out onto the market."

 

She nodded. "Alright, well then lets get moving. I am not sure how much time we have."

 

"Right." He quickly led her out of the room, and away from all the others into a large hallway where many workers were heading to other random destinations.

 

She mentally sent a message to Shoeny that they were leaving and to stay in touch. Then she hurried after Kroells not really knowing what she was getting herself into.

 

He was frowning as he led her along, knowing that this relative safety of being lost in the large crowd would only last for a short while. Then they would be found...then he would have to make them unfound. "...If anything happens, just get down ok?"

 

She rolled her eyes behind him. "Thanks for the concern. I might be a female and a doctor but I can handle myself just as well as you."

 

He scowled even though she couldn't see it. "Why is it always a gender issue with you? Your unarmed. When the guards start shooting, you can stand up and proclaim your female doctor-ness if you please. I would prefer you not being shot however unlikely you believe it to be."

 

She continued to follow Kroells and started to notice the groups of people start to thin out. With a sarcastic tone she replied. "Oh darn and that was my plan. I guess I will have to rethink that."

 

As two guards entered the corridor from another junction, Jamie pulled her into a small corner, out of sight. "Why do you always have to act like this? Is it just your personality, or do you want me to be court martialed for manslaughter?"

 

She leaned closer to him and tried not to attract to much attention as she said quietly. "Oh, sometimes you are..." she trailed off as the guards came closer. She suddenly stopped and looked at Jamie. "They know we are here, we are going to have to make a run for it I think."

 

"That's what you get for thinking I'm an ass." He quickly swung out, and pulled out the disruptor he had pocketed before, and hit both guards in the chest, neither expecting him to be armed.

 

She looked at him and with a slight nod. "Thanks for saving me, my hero. Lets get going." She started walking down the hall at a fast pace.

 

He rolled his eyes as he bent over, and picked up their weapons, holsters and other equipment as people were running away screaming with alarm klaxons blaring. "You really don’t know what your doing at all do you?"

 

She smiled at him and from the back of her blue scrub looking outfit produced a small phaser and a tricorder. "Oh so you think, now come on lets go." She continued to move and as she rounded a corner she quickly jumped back and looked at Jamie. "There are three of them down the hall."

 

He looked around for a second, not really in the mood for a drawn out fire fight, until he saw a air vent running along the ceiling above them, that traveled right past the two of them. "I'll distract them, you climb up and get above them and let them have it. Unless you object with your whole 'Hippopotamus' oath and junk."

 

"I don't think they cover that in the' hippopotamus' oath, but I could be wrong." She quickly pulled of the cover to the air vent and quickly climbed inside. There wasn't much room in the small shaft but she moved quickly.

 

Jamie scowled again, becoming more and more frustrated with her, and he took it out by hitting one of the three guards in the knee, taking his leg off with it. He quickly ducked behind cover again as the other two began a unrelenting assault against him.

 

Mona got halfway down the air shaft and quietly pulled the hatch open. She saw the guards and with a quick movement she threw herself out of the air vent and at the guard. She hit one with the vent hatch and using it as a shield shoved him into the wall. The second guard quickly turned around to see his buddy fall to the ground. Except he didn't get to accomplish much as he was hit in the head with a disruptor blast from Kroells, making quite a mess. With the other guards taken care of, Jamie quickly began to run where Levy and the other guard were currently wrestling.

 

With a quick kick Mona hit the guard in a place that didn't allow him to stand and then using the hatch she hit him in the face rendering him unconscious. She quickly stood up she looked at Jamie with a smile. "Ready to keep going?"

 

"First things first." He quickly shot the unconscious man in the chest, instantly killing him. "You never leave an enemy with the ability to retaliate."

 

She glared at him. "Or the ability to ever see his family again. I didn't want to kill him, I just wanted to stop him from following us."

 

He scowled at her. "Yes, and maybe he doesn't follow us. Maybe he just identifies us, and the men in charge of this place realize there are others with us? Maybe then Tethra, Prell, Kairi, and Robair are killed. Would you like that option to play out, no matter how remote it is? Besides, I have little concern for his family if it even exists. It has no use to me."

 

Raising her voice slightly she continued. "Who gave you the right to play God? I believe the others can handle themselves. Our mission right now is just to get off this planet not to kill as many people as we can on the way out." She sighed and calmed herself. "Come on lets just get out of here." She made no further comments and continued down the hall.

 

They continued walking for a short while, until he could no longer hold it back. "I play God because it‘s necessary, necessary because you refuse to do what needs to be done."

 

She stopped and turned to face him. "Alright. But I didn't so please refrain from 'playing God' in my presence."

 

He took a deep breath, trying to remain calm. "I will play God whenever it damn well suits me. I'm not about to let myself get killed over your indecisiveness in a situation like this. I am my first concern. This is me, pure and raw and I don't much care if you like it or not. I will do what ever is necessary to survive incase you haven't noticed. And if you don't like that, you can file a complain with Captain Davies IF we make it back to the ship.”

 

She came to a small door and opened it. Looking inside she noticed a handful of small cargo ships. "Being the only person you care about can become really lonely Mr. Kroells. I don't pretend to be better than I am but I don't think I have the right to choose others paths. Shall we? I believe we might just get out of here yet."

 

He quickly opened the hatch to the tiny ship and led her in. "I'm not the only person I care about, but life has taught me enough that I know when to kill or be killed."

 

She followed him into the ship staying quiet. He chuckled to himself slightly, as he fired the engines up. "You think I’m a bad person, just from back there, and what I did with Taellel?"

 

She shook her head. "I don't think you are a bad person. I just feel like at times you don't look at the bigger picture. You do what you think is right, but you never fully think things through and act rashly."

 

He let a smile out, even though she couldn’t see it. "I think you'll find one day doctor, that survival, and rationality are two very foreign things." The ship quickly flew out of the bay, and into the harsh black of space.

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