Chapter 11
The Captain of Challenger laughed as she and Archer had escaped through the passageway. Archer just stared at her.
"What?" the Captain asked him. "Can't I just rub it into their face just this once?"
Archer shook his head.
"Thank you very much," the Captain told him. "Now I can't have any fun."
"Shh," Archer told her.
"Don't tell me when to keep quiet," she snapped at him in a hushed whisper. "I know when there's danger or something seedy afoot."
Both of them hid behind some crates. They were able to hear everything that was going on.
"We need more time to complete this arsenal and the materials need to be sent back to Romulus sir," one man told another.
"We don't have more time," the other man told him. "These materials need to be sent back now or we'll never get the ship ready to start up our assault on the Earth ships and their allies."
"The Romulans," Archer whispered through gritted teeth. "I knew we'd run into them sooner or later."
"What are they doing here?" the Captain asked him.
"They're looking to attack the Enterprise, Columbia and the new starship that left space dock, again," Archer explained.
"So you are from a foreign government, not a local one?" she asked him.
"It's going to take some time to explain," he told her.
"I've got plenty," she replied. "Let's stop these Romulans and let you warn your government."
Archer flipped open his communicator.
"Archer to T'Pol," he said.
"Go ahead," was her reply.
"Get the landing party out of here," he ordered. "I want all three of you back on Enterprise."
"What about Mirina's companions?" she asked.
"They'll be fine," the Captain told her. "Tell them to get the hell out of here and I'll catch up with them later."
"Understood," T'Pol stated.
"Archer out," and he closed the communicator.
"Let's go," Archer told the Captain of Challenger.
Archer and the Captain crept slowly towards the Romulans. It seemed that they were going to make it. However, that did not last.
"Yoo hoo," called the ringleader of the mob. "We're looking for some people, especially a very nice lookin' dame. Can ya tell us where she is?"
The Romulans looked at them.
"You were suppost to report to us anyone who seemed out of place," the Romulan soldier, who was the leader of the group told him.
"There were eight people man that arrived in the past few days," the ringleader told them. "The lady stuck out like a sore thumb."
"Yeah," his cronies chimed in. "She cursed us with names that were foreign, like jerk and asshole."
Archer looked at her. She shrugged.
"Can you describe this woman and her companions?" the Romulan leader asked them.
The ringleader caught a glimpse of Archer and the Captain at the corner of his eye.
"They're over there!" he exclaimed and pointed to them.
End of Chapter 11