Mystic Guardians: August 2011

Rinne woke to a soft roaring sound. Ugh, my head hurts. Rinne slowly opened her eyes, the light of the room stinging them. She reached her hands up and rubbed them. Damn, all my muscles feel achy too. What the hell happened to me? Rinne looked about the room trying to get her bearings. She was sitting in the middle of a long row of red upholstered seating with another row of seating along the opposite wall. To her left down the aisle between the two rows was a large cargo bay door. To her right though a doorway, Rinne could see what she thought to be a cockpit, and through the cockpit window was a starry night sky. Am I on a shuttle? That roaring sound must be the engines meaning we’re in flight, but how did I get here?

She heard a thud on the roof towards the back by the door. Someone in the cockpit yells back to her “Is that you waking up finally?”

Who the hell is that? I don’t recognize their voice.

A hissing sound can be heard coming from where she heard the thud, as a beam of light cut a hole in the roof.

Someone is trying to break in. Rescue? From what ever mess I got myself in to?

The section of roof came down with a crash. Up in the cockpit a computerized voice echoes down the shuttle. “Auto-pilot engaged” followed by the quick shuffle of someone’s feet.

A man with pointed ears and long brown hair dressed in futuristic grey combat armor jumps down the hole, katana drawn.

Rescue, no. He looks more like he’s here kill someone. Oh crap, what should I do? If the shuttle is in flight there is nowhere to run. I’ll act like I’m still knocked out for now, and hopefully he leaves me be. Rinne closed her eyes, leaving one open just enough to see.

He began walking up the aisle. “We know you took the shard Electra, now make it easy on yourself and cough it up.”

“Not a chance” the blonde haired girl from the cockpit yelled as she pivoted around the corner of the cockpit doorway and fired 3 slugs from her handgun at him.

Almost like magic the bullets whizzed around him, striking the walls. One narrowly missed Rinne.

Rinne fought to hold back a scream. Oh, this is not good. What the hell is this guy? I’m going to get myself killed if I stay on this shuttle any longer.

“You should be more careful with that thing.” The man turned to look at Rinne. “Your liable to hit your little friend here.”

“Damn, bullet shield” Electra said as he began to charge at her.

He swung his sword at her as she quickly dodged to the side, his sword striking one of the cockpit control panels in a bright flash of sparks.

Electra used the opportunity to deliver a quick kick knocking him in to the co-pilots chair. She then ran out of the cockpit grabbing a fire extinguisher as she passed it.

Ok, the door in the back is probably my only chance at escape. Hopefully it’s not to high to jump.

Rinne ran to the back of the shuttle and pulled the lever labeled door. The door slowly lowered down in to a ramp. Rinne walked out onto the ramp and looked down over the side. Rinne couldn’t see anything but the moonlight reflecting off the ocean hundreds of feet below.
There’s no way I’ll survive a fall that far with out a parachute or something and even then how would I get to land. There no telling how far I’d have to swim. Out of options, Rinne stepped back into the shuttle.

Electra had set herself up around the corner just outside the cockpit door and swung the fire extinguisher at the mans face as he entered the passenger area.

He blocked the attack with his sword, breaking the canister open causing it’s contents to spray out with such force that it went flying about the shuttle, into cockpit and knocked into the shuttle controls.

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