Pacific Ocean
North/West Mexico.
Dawn of Faith.
"What's wrong?" Dawn saw Xander stiffen and cock his head to the right and then to left.
"Mice in the cupboards." Xander concentrated on the noise his enhanced hearing picked up. 'Four to five intruders, at least two heading for the engines, and the rest will want to take over the bridge.'
"WE HAVE MICE? DO SOMETHING!" Cordy shrieked.
"I don't think it's that kind of mice Cordy." Dawn covered her giggle with her hand.
"You're armed to the teeth. Why are you afraid of mice?" Xander looked at the girl in the white bikini, with weapons draped all over her body. A see through white silk shirt hinted at the charms she hid underneath it.
"I can't shoot mice here." She poked him in the chest with her sharp and pointy nail.
"First of all ow, ow, ow." Xander moved back from the implement of torture, Cordelia and her deadly finger of prickliness, "Second why not?"
"Duh' it would ruin the resale value of the yacht."
"Oh. Didn't think of that. Dawn two to three are head for the bridge..."
"I'll make sure to welcome them properly. Gimme your Atchisson." She demanded.
"Why? You already have one if your own."
"Two are more intimidating than one." She gave him a Duh' look.
"You are so right of tiny 'Queen of Gunslingers'." He bowed in front if her and jumped back, before her fist connected with his head.
"Take that back you jerk. I'm so not tiny. Who do you think I am? Buffy?"
Xander escaped laughing all the way, while Dawn huffed, and puffed.
"Are you gonna blow or something?" Cordy asked.
"Maybe? C'mon let get ready. I've got an idea..." Dawn giggled manically.
Cordelia shivered in the tropical heat, "That is so not a good laugh for you, we so need to work on that, maybe a 'tee hee' combination. You look like you could pull off a 'tee hee' giggle..."
Dawn stopped listening as she planned the defense/ambush of the bridge.
Xander headed straight for the engine room. He turned off the interior light behind him. He reached the corridor that led to the engine room. He could hear two men trying to sneak in. He turned off the lights and jumped up and wedged himself to the ceiling above the doorway. '5, 4, 3, 2, 1...' The door opened and a beam from a flashlight lit up the dark corridor.
"I wonder why the light is out." Hydra no.1, said to Hydra no.2."
"Who cares? The corridor is empty. Let's get this job over with and then we can ask. I heard there were girls on this thing. I want first dibs on the one with the mouth."
"Why her?"
"Are you kidding? With a mouth like that she has got to be talented."
"What? Why?"
"If you don't understand, I'm not gonna explain it to you."
The two men cautiously entered the corridor. The way ahead was clear. Xander waited until the cleared the door and dropped silently behind them.
"What's that?"
"What's wha...?" Xander banged both heads together hard. They were wearing protective head gear. So he didn't have to worry too much about crushing their skulls.
He secured the intruders as fast as he could and headed to the bridge as fast as he could. He heard the unique sound of the AA-12 being fired in a confined space. 'Shit!' He ran as fast as he could to the bridge.
Pacific Ocean
North/West Mexico.
Dawn of Faith.
Bridge.
"Otto will you stop pushing."
"But Rudy, the others are going to beat us to the girls."
"Peter hit him."
"Done." Peter whacked Otto with his pistol.
"Ouuuuccchhh! What did you do that for?" Otto asked peter while rubbing his head.
Peter whacked him again.
Rudy saw that and gave Peter the thumbs up. He appreciated a man with initiative. Peter shrugged, no big thing, said his body language.
"Ohhhh. What hit me?" Otto asked
"Your mouth, now shut up and soldier." Rudy threatened to idiot. 'I should have argued against this idiot being put on my team. I don't care if he's a super soldier. He's nothing but a brute. His brains were turned to much. Too bad he was a brilliant tactician, but the higher ups don't trust the rank and file and only promote from within their own personal families. At the rate they're going it'll be just a matter of time before the smarter elements splinter off the main group. Ugh. I have to stop thinking about this. I have a mission to complete. I wonder why I haven't heard anything from the ship?' he thought, "Get up and go through that door." he ordered the large man.
"Oh okay." Otto hunched his shoulders and charged through the closed door, before Rudy could stop him.
Rudy looked at Peter and sighed, "My fault. I should have told him to open the door first."
Peter agreed. These Hydra agent were idiots. He wasn't sure what SHIELD was worried about. Pretty soon they were going to kill each other at the rate they keep shooting and maiming one another.
Peter was a SHIELD agent, and at the moment he wasn't a happy camper. He was another of the Hydra near success/failures that was good enough for combat. He was a young and eager agent who excelled at everything he did. Director Fury himself had recruited him personally for this mission.
At first he rose rapidly through the Hydra ranks, bu the closer he came to a true position of influence the more intense the back stabbing became. That was how he was trapped in their super soldier program.
He was about five times stronger than most men and lost about half his original speed. It's a good thing that he was considered for the Olympic track team in the sprint, otherwise now he would be a snail. A target at best. He was a slow moving tank. He also suspected that he may have lost a big chunk of his IQ. Just like the idiot who went through the door. He was considered a genius when was accepted as a SHIELD agent, now he doubted he could pass the entrance exam. He was a regular Joe. He still enjoyed the sports pages and the political satire sections, but no more word puzzles for him.
"You're next Peter." Rudy ordered the other.
Peter looked through the smashed door before entering. He saw that it was clear and that there was a left and right intersection at the end, but no Otto. "Otto..." he called softly as he moved in.
Rudy walked behind Peter using him as a human shield.
"Otto..." Peter called again.
"Uh Yeah?" Otto replied from the right side corridor.
"Stay put." Peter told him as he and Rudy made their way to the big man.
Peter and Rudy heard, "Ooooh. Pretty lady in a Bikini. You are gonna be Otto's new girlfriend."
"In your dreams!" Slam.
Peter and Rudy looked at each other and ran to catch up with Otto before he did something stupid.
They turned the corner and saw Otto for once using what little brains he had left to open the door using the handle. "Open it!" Rudy said using his command voice.
"It's stuck."
"Break it down."
"But what if I hurt the pretty girl in the white bikini. She's gonna be my new girlfriend ya' know."
"Break it you oaf." Rudy didn't scream, but it was a close thing.
With a heavy sigh, Otto got ready to break to remove the door.
"Hold it you punks." Dawn dropped the hatch in the ceiling and lowered both Atchissons on the green clad goons. "Drop 'em."
Peter glanced back and saw two combat shotguns pointed in their direction. He dropped and covered his head.
Rudy turned and brought up his gun to fire.
Dawn let loose with both guns. The recoil from both shut guns was slight as she-she shot up the corridor. The guy trying to shoot her took a full burst of buckshot on full auto; there wasn't much of his armor left when she was done. The armor was tough, but it was like getting hit by five sledgehammer blows in a second, all over his body. The rest hit the big guy by the door. His armor was heavier, but even so the damage was nothing to laugh at. He dropped to both knees in pain.
Cordelia opened the door when Dawn stopped shooting and moved behind Otto. She put muzzle of her pistol to the back of Otto's head, just beneath the helmet, "Don't you Fucking move!" she was trembling in anger. These guys were responsible for thousands of dollars in damages to her boat. Oh how they were going to pay.
"Xander bounced off the wall from the left corridor and ran as fast as he could. He saw a man down and Cordy standing behind another. That left one man without anyone covering him. In his haste he didn't see Dawn pointing her shotguns at the man getting up.
Peter stood up just in time to see a young man in a Hawaiian shirt run inhumanly fast at him with a large heavy wrench. 'This is gonna hurt...' he thought as Xander cracked his helmet as he went by.
Xander saw the man drop as he continued his run at the large man on his knees. "Drop everything." He threatened to smash the giants skull if he didn't.
Otto was an idiot, but he wasn't that stupid. He dropped his assault rifle and dropped to the carpeted floor. "Ooof. I hurt." he moaned.
"Too. Fucking. Bad!" Cordy told him.
Later...
Xander helped secure the prisoner and drag them into a storage room. He went back to the engine room and collected the other two. He then stripped everyone naked to make sure they had nothing hidden and even though about doing a cavity search but stopped short of doing so.
Instead he booby trapped the room and the naked men. He put a grenade with a very sensitive dead-man switch, right beneath Peter's balls, and other even nastier traps on the other men.
He made sure that all four men knew that they were in trouble and pointed to the fake camera he put in the room with them. He then left them, naked, gagged and tied up.
"Are you done?" Cordy snapped when he came back up to the bridge.
"Nope. I still gotta see to the man currently impersonating hamburger meat."
"Oh him. Alright, but don't take all day." she warned him. She needed the pool boy to make her a few drinks to calm down.
"I don't see why I can't help." Dawn whined.
"Cause they're naked."
"But I helped take them down. I should be allowed to strip them too."
"No. Argue with me and I'm telling your mother that you were trying to strip grown men of their clothes." Cordy had a nasty side and Dawn knew it. 'She'd so do it too the bitch.' she thought.
"That's right. I'm a bitch. Live with it."
"Okay, okay. You're the big bad bitch. All hail her bitchiness, The. Bitch! I hate you." Dawn ran away to sulk in her room.
"Since when did I turn the mother?" she asked Xander.
Xander didn't answer that. He was no ones fool. That was a loaded question and he so didn't need to get fragged by his supposed allies.
