ELITE - Gateway's Revenge

>> ET8000 (Des-Tassakahn, Tassath/M126.)
>> Space, ET's Ship.

Tassath growled.
She ran at the assassin from behind, then stabbed down at it's head, grabbing at it.
"You have made a terminal error!"

- Et's Ship -
“Destroying this body gains you nothing.” The Ominous voice hissed.
“Releasing control of this form.”
The Assassin did not fall over like one would expect. It suddenly ignited and burned, leaving nothing.

>> ET8000 (Des-Tassakahn, Tassath/M126.)
>> Space, ET's Ship.

Tassath growled. The breathing plates returned to her face.
She turned on the others, now under attack from a group of Thurak.
The Accidian Pirate laughed.

- Et's Ship -

Another of the Assassins underwent a similiar transformation.
“Direct intervention is necessary.”
This newly glowing Navalian turned to face the Pirates direction as the other two Navalians fell to the ground.
“I am Harbinger.” Nitavals Omninous voice hissed.
He fired the Assassins Organic rapid fire assualt rifle at the pirate leader.

>> ET8000 (Des-Tassakahn, Tassath/M126.)
>> Space, ET's Ship.

Tassath snarled and ducked, stole her Pilot's rifle and fired at the Assassin.
"Bounty, for you, no!"
She parted her mechanical jaws again.
It wasn't pretty.

- Et's Ship -

This 'Harbinger' as he called himself, laughed coldly.
“Your attacks are primitive. The forces of the universe bend to me.”
He threw a round grenade which exploded in a blue flash of light. He fired the weapon down the corridor, aiming at the Pirate Captains crew.
The Light of the Nazalians flew out of the gateway and passed the pirate ship quite quickly at its fastest speed.
"Accidian, viable possibility, aggression factor useful if controlled.”
“This hurts you.” He randomly noted while firing at the crew.

>> ET8000 (Des-Tassakahn, Tassath/M126.)
>> Space, ET's Ship.

Tassath's mouth/face flate resettled.
"Maybe."
She turned and pushed past whoever was standing behind her.

A few moments later a cough came from her.
She held a EPDMR, aiming at the unwelcome guest.
"Will you leave, or shall I shoot at you?"

- Et's Ship -
“This shell is only a vehicle.”
"Releasing Control"
The form dropped to the ground.

- The light of the Nazalians -
The ship had rushed past the pirates ship.
He was no fool to leave the bodies though, his left claw touched a control.

- Et's Ship -
The three Navalian assassins bodies shook violently.
The skin was burned and revealed robots shaped like insectoids, they were similiar in design to the Praetorian. They rose, making zombie-like screehing noises and rushed at the pirates.
One of them sent off a electrical discharge designed to disable nearby weapons.

>> ET8000 (Des-Tassakahn, Tassath/M126.)
>> Space, ET's Ship.

Tassath herself screamed.
The crew fled.
The Accidian's blade returned into her arm and her clong claws returned.
She looked at the 'hand', which presently sparked in her face and fell limp.

- Et's Ship -
The Zombie-like robotic insects did not have weapons, but they had unusually long claws which were obviously sharp.
They made more grunting sounds and one of them tried raking the captain with its claws.

>> ET8000 (Des-Tassakahn, Tassath/M126.)
>> Space, ET's Ship.

Tassath laughed, then touched something next to a sort of door.
She forced her metal claw into a sort of shovel and stabbed it into the deck.
"Nice to meet you..."
The hull opened.

- Et's Ship -
The Mechanical Zombies flew out into the black expanse of space.
They self destructed close to the ship trying to do some damage.

- The Light of the Nazalia -

“I will find you again. We are not finished. You have merely delayed the inevitable.” He commented through the Last of the Mechanical Zombies.
His left claw touched a control.

>> ET8000 (Des-Tassakahn, Tassath/M126.)
>> Space, ET's Ship.

Tassath nodded to herself and closed the Hull again.

About 15 minutes later, the Pirate ship turned away from the Gate.
It accelerated.

- The Light of the Nazalia -

Nitaval had thought of a idea, a great one... and he instructed his crew accordingly.

- Space -
The Navalian ship power and life support were down. No signs of of battle, or life.
It drifted through space. Seemingly empty. A hole had been punctured in the side of the ship.

>> Space.

The Delta drifted to the Navalian ship.
A thin tube extended form the Pirate ship to it's broken side.
Tassath looked over her list of weapons and supplies again.

- The Light of the Nazalia -

Nitaval waited patiently as they boarded the ship, he had disabled oxygen and life support, and gravity. except in this room. He knew his Navalians could wear helmets and appear to be dead without scanners revealing them. There was only one dead Navalian truely dead on the ship, and that was part of a experiment. The Accidians had died however. A small price to pay.

>> Space.

Tassath idly wathced her crewmen's prgoress.
Their suits amused her.
Maybe it was because she could go for some time without needing one?
The Accidian examined her claw, but still watched, heard them - annoyed about locked doors.
They'd been in there for ten minutes now.

- The Light of the Nazalia -

Nitaval had cleverly only kept certain doors open, leading into the core, where the ambush was to be set. His Ships S.I. would reactivate all systems and attempt to turn and destroy the Pirates ship with the lazer while the Navalians dealt with their crew inside.

>> Space.

Tassath tired.
She recalled her crew.
She sat uo when they didn't reply to her.

- The Light of the Nazalia -

The ceilings of many of the corridors contained pods.
In one of the rooms, one of these pods contained a dead Accidan, it was on the floor and had been opened. It was likely they died when the ship lost power. In the other room was a dead Navalian, and a computer. It appeared to have research findings on it.

>> The Light of the Nazalia.

The bored crew prodded at the computer.
One went back outside and wadered.

...Idiot?

- The Light of the Nazalia -
The research showed the Navalians had been comparing there DNA to other races.
One particular finding was the Navalian DNA connected to another races only seen in ancient relics. Except it had undergone a great ammount of Genetic Rewriting. The DNA was Identified originally from the Nazatalian DNA. There wasn't anything to indicate what caused the genetic rewriting though. The Data became corrupted as it was about to discuss the plans for the accadians in the pods.

>> The Light of the Nazalia.

The crewmen grumbled and headed back to their craft.
Exept for the idiot.
The idiot continued towrds the core.

- The Light of the Nazalia -
The fool walked into the core. Only one, but good enough.
A Navalian flew behind him with its wings and grabed him, cracking his neck.

The Ships life support, gravity and oxygen suddenly came on, so did its weapons. The scanners detected that the entire ship was full of life. It had already begun turning so it could fire at the Pirates ship.

>> Space.

The Pirate ship turned hard to the other ship's right, then dove below it.
It couldn't jump, not yet, anyway.
The laser cylinder glowed.

- Space -
The Navalian ship released its own fighters. These flew behind the pirates ship.
They fired mini-lazers similiar to the giant one on the bigger Navalians ship.
The Navalian ship started to change direction.