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Rise of the Phoenix

The Legacy was up and running before ten minutes, Mickie had ordered them to dock and now the crew were standing on the outskirts of the prison.

There was little security and Ted and Cody had managed to get in through the gate with a simple pair of bolt cutters.

"Ok split up get everyone out and on to Legacy we cans ort them out later." Mickie ordered as the crew split up and went down in to the prison.

It was dark in the tunnels and the cells were large holding many people in dirty cramped conditions.

"Ted!" John Cena called from the bars of his cell and Ted swung round at the sound of his name. Ted couldn't help the frown that came on to his face, he couldn't believe that he was here to save someone that had betrayed them, but he could hardly leave him here.

"John do you know where everyone is?" Ted asked coming over as the rest of the cells occupancy began to stir.

"No they left late last night and no one has been back since." John said looking over his shoulder as Mark came up behind him, the big man placed his hand on the bars and smiled down at Ted.

"You have no idea how good it is too see you guys." He said and Ted gave the man a genuine smile as Mickie came up to join him.

"Cody has gone to get a lock breaking kit, we can't find the keys anywhere." She said nodding at Mark and giving John a brief glance before turning her attention back to the job at hand.

"Ok I don't think we need to rush though, it sounds like every soldier in this prison was on one of those ships." Ted replied as they stood in the gloom and waited.

"Maybe, but the Dauntless is still out there and they may need our help." Mickie said glancing at the stairway as noise from above alerted her to her helmsman's presence as he jogged down in to the darkness.

"I have it, this shouldn't take long." Cody said pulling on his goggles as he wedged the large metal spike into the solid looking lock and pulled back the hammer and struck it hard.

The resounding metal clang echoed off the stone walls and it made Mickie's teeth ache. Cody stuck again and Mickie could here the lock crack as it started to give under the pressure.

"Stand back guys this might throw off some shrapnel." Cody warned the two men standing at the bars and they soon retreated in to the shadows of their prison. With one more hit the lock split and Cody pushed the door open.

"One down three to go." He said grinning at the rebels coming passed him and filing up the stairs.

Mickie turned to Ted and gave him a small smile before her face once again turned serious.

"Keep and eye on them Ted, take Mike with you and keep them in a place where we can see them." She said quietly as she went along with Cody to the next cell where she noticed two people that looked oddly familiar. It only took Mickie a second to realise that these were Beth's parents and she urged Cody to get them out quickly. Mickie did not want to rescue them only in time to watch their daughter die.

Beth stopped and listened, she ducked behind a wall when she heard some guards passing by, but neither of them even looked in her direction. Randy was still by her side, he had been making sure the coast was clear behind them and carry the heavy pack of small explosives they had brought in case something went wrong with the main bomb.

"You know we should split up, you should go plant those charges it will save us some time, and the quicker I am off this ship the better." Beth whispered but she already saw Randy's head shaking.

"No way, yes it would be quicker, we would save time, but I don't think that is why you want to get rid of me it is?" Randy said as they both rushed for the opposite side of the corridor and ran in to another room.

"Don't be silly, I just thought it would be a good idea to blow this ship before it catches up with the Dauntless and starts firing on her." Beth hissed but Randy noticed the blonde's eyes darting about, her breathing was slightly erratic and he was worried about her.

"Beth I know what you want to do, because it's what I want to do to." Randy said calmly placing his hands on her shoulders and forcing her to look at him.

"I don't know what you mean." She said not meeting his gaze until Randy forced her too.

"Randy I want to kill Sambo, but I am not suicidal." She said, but her eyes were telling him something different, he held her gaze as she finally expelled the breath she had been holding and her shoulders dropped.

"I want to see him suffer Randy, I want to see the look in his eyes when he knows that he is taking his last breath. He hurt me Randy he made me do things that no human should do to another, he humiliated me, he abused me and he made me beg for my life on many occasions, I will not make him beg I will not give him the chance even if I have to die to." Beth said her eyes growing dark as her anger built and Randy was shocked by the anger in her voice.

"There is no way I am letting you do that Beth, we can get him, we can sink his ship and we can watch as his ashes fall into the water, from the safety of our bridge ok." He said trying to offer Beth a smile but something was telling him she had no intention of it going down like that.

"I'm sorry you feel that way." Beth said and before Randy knew it Beth had swung some thing heavy and solid at his head and all he knew after that was darkness.

Beth dropped the fire hose she had spotted on the wall and had clutched behind her back while Randy had been talking. She really didn't want to have to hit him, but there was no way she was going to let him ruin her plan.

With some effort Beth pulled Randy out of sight and closed the door behind him, she picked up the back pack and took off down the corridor.

They had managed to save over one hundred rebels, now Legacy was in pursuit of the Dauntless, she seemed to be weaving in a zigzag pattern, making sure they had not gotten too far away but keeping just out of reach of the High commanders ship. Mickie had ordered Legacy to follow as soon as the doors had been shut. Most of the rebels were in the cargo holds, some had been taken to the medical bay but she had asked Mark to join her on the bridge, she needed some details about what had happened.

"They came in the middle of the night, Ten ships, we did not stand a chance." Mark said as he sat in randy chair and Mickie was having to fight the urge not to ask Mark to get out of that chair.

"I see, did Sambo say why he had taken you?" Mickie asked not looking at the rebel but locking her gaze on the windows.

"Yeah he did, he took great pleasure in saying how he was going to trap you in the harbour, allow you to think you had out smarted him and then wham close the gap." Mark said emphasising his point by slapping has hands together which made Mickie jump.

"Ok Mark we get the point, I guess he didn't plan on the Dauntless." Mickie said with a small smirk, but its soon fell off her face when the massive ship of the high commanders cam in to view. They had set a cause which would put the Dauntless on a intercept cause with them as they doubled back non one of their zigzags. How the high commander had not realised what they were doing was beyond Mickie, but she reasoned that they were keeping so close to the high commander's ship that they were just enough of a target to peruse and not wonder about where they were going. In the end the Dauntless would be no match for the high commanders' new ship, at the moment though they just couldn't catch them.

"Mr Rhodes set a parallel cause with the Dauntless if they know we are ok we can run for it, I think we need to choose our battles an today we have chanced our luck enough." Mickie said as Cody changed cause slightly so Legacy would now be right along side the Dauntless when she caught up.

Mickie twiddled her thumbs as the minutes ticked passed she had a bad feeling about this and she needed to talk to Randy badly, now was not the time for communications silence, she needed to know what was happening over there.

"Are we in communications range Mr Debasie?" Mickie asked finally as the dots on the horizon became clearer and Mickie could even see the details on the Dauntlessness' stern.

"Yes Ma'am." Ted replied and Mickie needed no further encouragement.

"Dauntless this is Captain James, what's going on over there Randy?" Mickie said starting off formally, but finishing with her emotions barely in check.

"Captain it's good to see you, but I am afraid Randy is not here." Melina's voice came back as Mickie fears were confirmed. She had convinced herself that it was not Randy she had seen launching himself on to Sambo's ship, just a trick of the light or something, but now she had no choice but to believe it.

"God Damm it what is he playing at, don't tell me he is on Sambo's ship." Mickie said it wasn't a question and Melina was silent for a second.

"The plan is good Captain, the Commander and Beth went over and they have planted explosives all over the ship, they are going to steal a life boat and blow the ship as soon as they are off." Melina said and Mickie placed her hand over her face in frustration.

"Nothing we can do now any way Lieutenant, keep an eye open for that boat and keep just out of reach of that ships weapons, I suggest though we start to head towards Hawaii, I know there is not much there, but we have to drop our refugees off somewhere and that is as good a place as any." Mickie concluded as Melina agreed and shut off the connection.

Mickie turned to Ted who gave her a rye smile and then she turned back to Mark who was still sitting in Randy's chair and Mickie narrowed her eyes at him.

"Mark would you like to go and join the others, I will make sure we get you some food." She smiled at him sweetly and the big man stood to go.

"Thank you Captain, you are better people than we could every be." Mark said and the sincerity in his voice softened Mickie's hard resolve somewhat and she smile at him.

"Maybe we have just been luckier than most, fighting to survive everyday must take it's toll on ones will." Mickie said with a small pat to Mark's arm as he turned to leave.

"Indeed Captain, but it should not have the impact it had on our kindness, you have shown us that." He said as he left the bridge and got on to the lift. Mickie stared at the closed doors for sometime before Ted's flashing console got her attention.

Beth placed the last of the explosive on to the power cable just outside the bridge, she had been hiding in a ventilation duck for five minutes while solders came and went from the bridge. Beth now saw that there were only four men and Sambo left and they would be easy to take out. Getting out the gun Randy had given her she crept to the slightly open doorway and fired a shot in to the back of the first guards head.

Standing up and firing at the second guard she caught him in the upper chest and he dropped like stone.

"Stop or I will kill you all." She said to the two remaining guards and to the dark man now staring at her a rye smile on his face.

"Do as she say's boys, Bethy here is a fabulous shot." Sambo said as both guards put down their weapons at Beth indication.

"Get out!" Beth said in a low voice and the guards looked at Sambo who nodded his head.

"Don't worry me and Bethy go way back, just make sure the engine room get's my instructions." Sambo said his voice turning slightly serious and Beth knew the man was trying to communicate something secretly to his guards, not that it mattered no one on this ship would be getting off it ever again.

Beth turned and closed the doors behind the guards, there was no lock, but it didn't matter this was not going to take long.

Sambo eyed the blonde suspiciously, he had seen this woman with every emotion under the sun. Fear, relief, happiness even, but never with the determination he saw now. As Beth turned around Sambo notice her remove something from the backpack she was holding.

His eyes growing as wide as Beth's smile as she held it in her hands and levelled her eyes with his.

"You know the man who made this weapon is dead, he managed to expose himself to the gas, would you like to know what happened to him High Commander?" Beth said her voice almost monotone, but her face vibrant with emotion.

"I will tell you shall I." Beth continued when Sambo did not give an immediate response.

"He melted, all his atoms reduced to their simplest form, it took a while though, the look of pain on hi face was horrific, and I knew that I could do nothing to help him. It was like watching him liquefy from the inside out. First the blood began to leak out of every orifice, then his skin began to peel away." Beth said as she closed the gap between herself and Sambo who had not moved his eyes from the small sphere she was holding.

"Then all his insides collapsed into a puddle which evaporated into the metal work of the ship, followed by his bones which fizzed as they went, there was nothing left of him but a tangy smell and a shiver than runs down you spine when you go to deck 10. now High Commander it's your turn to go to hell." Beth said as she threw the sphere up in to the air. Both people in the room watched as it sailed up turning end over end as it started its downward journey before it crashed into the hard floor of the bridge.

Sambo was too shocked to move, he made no attempt to catch the sphere and as it smashed into the floor he braced himself for the end.

Opening one eye he had not realised he had shut Sambo shook his head and watched as the white powder fizzed and sank into the metal.

"Looks like you forgot to check your sell by date Bethy." Sambo said an evil grin coming to his face as Beth's jaw dropped in shock. She had not even thought the weapon would not work, she had not planned for this, there would have been no way to test it anyway, and now she had thrown the gun into the back pack and the back pack outside of the door so if Randy found them he would still have it and the remote detonator for the explosives.

"I suppose that's it then." Beth said knowing the fighting now would be useless as Sambo came towards her, pulling a knife out from under his robe he placed it just above her breasts and swung her around so she was pushed against one of the consoles, leaning back over it painfully until she had to let out as gasp.

"This is how I prefer you my beautiful fire bird, afraid." Sambo growled as he sliced off a piece of her hair and placed it under his nose and in hailed deeply.

"Put the knife down."

Beth snapped her attention to the doorway as the deep voice penetrated the silence within and Sambo's head shot in the same direction.

Randy was looking at them both, gun out at full arms length pointing straight at Sambo's head.

"Or what you will shoot me, do you think you can kill me before I kill her?" Sambo said an evil smirk coming to his face as he placed the bade at Beth's chest once moor.

"Randy go blow the ship forget about me." Beth said as Sambo clamped his free hand over her mouth so he was now twisting his head round so he could look at Randy and hold Beth in place.

"Go on then, be the hero why don't you blow this ship right now, make sure I die this time." Sambo said as he drew his arm back.

Randy watched the blade push forward as he fired the gun, the bullet flew towards Sambo's head as his knife plunged in to Beth's chest.

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