Subj: The Dancer Prince: Chapter 14
Date: 19-Oct-00 23:08:51 Romance Daylight Time
From: Ambassador Wolf
To: Commodore Rom, RawI IwHov, Cpt Narn, Amb OctorAredys, Sideki8251, StarTrekCC, Sa Hargh, AmbAesira, Captain Dearing, Ambassador Wolf, XoVelvetDncer, Admiral Volch, Kirk216783, AMBASSADOR SECT, Jdbommer, Lt Col Skywalker, GodsDog12, Crescendo621


Note: Prologue + Chapters 1 through 12 Available through Request.


The Dancer Prince
Chapter 14


Written by Ambassador Yrishna Wolf.


"Deploy additional gendarmerie forces to sector 9," The lieutenant shouted as he looked over the tactical maps of the city. He ducked as an explosion rocked the street where he was located.

"The Army states it's being tied down in the outskirks of the city, Lieutenant," A sargeant having just arrived on a police hover shuttle shouted as he skipped out of the vehicle, "They're being tied down in Sector 2, and they say it will take them a while to get here."

"We'll try to hold off as long as possible then," Lieutenant Gray replied, looking over, "Watch that line, men! You! Over there, get to Sector 8 and tell them to transfer some of their men to Sector 9, that entire sector is going to burn to the ground if we don't give the SAMU some space to get in there and fight the fires!"

Lieutenant Gray took a moment of breath from his orders as he watched the police officers in front of him fighting a horde of civilians back from the police headquarter station. They were in Sector 1, which was deemed to be in fairly good control. As he looked out from the police headquarter station, he could see fairly good control amounted to absolutely nothing. Police officers and civilians exchanged hits, and the civilians regularly throwed self-made explosions at the police baracades. Further along the city skyline, one could see many patches of smoke rising above the high rise of the city. They were coming from Sector 2, 7, 8, and 9 which had gone into full riot situation. Everything in those sectors were being smashed, and the gendarmerie could do little but sit low and arrest those rioters which were fortunate enough to be walking in small groups. In Sector 2, The Segan Royal Army had begun deploying its marines into the city and small artillery shots could be heard eminating from the northern downtown sections. With the army called into action, he could tell this would be a several day operation, and that many people would be sent to detention camps, and many others would be either injured or killed in the tension.

"Hey! S.P.N.N.'s no longer blacked out!" One of the Sargeants from within the police station shouted, "I'm getting a weak reception through!"

"Hold on, they're going for another push!" Lieutenant Gray jumped down the stairways leading to the streets and grabbed a batton, helping his fellow peace officers hold the line to the police headquarters, "Give him a good whack then!"

The Sargeant ran out of the police headquarters, with his stun rifle in hand, "S.P.N.N. states we're not the only city encountering these riots, two other planets are reporting the same thing in the Zone!"

"F***, that's not good news!" Lieutenant Gray glanced over, "Fire stun rifles! Get these monkeys running!"


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Several Days Later
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"Come on everyone, out and about!" The police lieutenant shouted as he entered the quarters of the police station, "Shift Alpha move it! Come on we've got a lot of work to do, those rioters are still out there and we haven't even gotten half of them in here! Move it! Go!"

The police lieutenant shifted some of the immobile bodies on the double bunk beds. These were some of the young graduates from the local police Academy who had never imagined they would be in the middle of a literal war-zone fighting some of their former peers. The Lieutenant could see from his waning police forces that the battle against fatigue and lowering morale was starting to impact his troops. He himself wasn't sure the police was going to be able to hold out against these endless waves of rioters. They had arrested over 200 rioters, probably more than they would arrest in a regular single month, but it had done nothing to create a dent on the rioters outside. The Lieutenant himself hadn't had a moment of shut eye for 48 hours, and it seemed like he wasn't about to get any. All the sudden, he heard a scream and the sound of windows crashing falled by an explosion which rocked the Police headquarters. He ran out of the bunkers, followed by some of the weary police officers, and entered the main office of the police station, seeing some of the consoles burning from what had seemed to be a bomb. The rioters were back, and in force. He turned around, seeing the blank stares of his police officers, he felt anger at the fact it was his police station being attacked.

"Let's go, grab your shields and get out there! MOVE!" He shouted with a voice that made everyone start gathering their gear to enter the riot scene again.

"Lieutenant, we're recieving a message from the Military, they're still stuck in Sector 2, but they want to talk to you," The deputy assistant of the police station shouted from the communications room.

The police lieutenant jogged over to the communications room, and grabbed the visual headgear which allowed his holographic projection to be seen by the military, "Lieutenant Devraux, Gendarmerie HQ here, over."

"Delevanaus Squad Alpha Leader," The Corporal replied, looking at some of his files, "We've just recieved a communique from Segan Fleet Command, seems the government called for some alien reinforcements for us. We're to expect Tholians and even damn Carnians to be arriving here soon to relieve our friends. Do you copy? Over."

"Gendarmerie HQ," Lieutenant Devraux replied, seeing that this meant they were going to get probably large amounts of fresh reinforcements, "Acknowledged on that, are they going to need a safe landing pad? Over."

"Delevanaus Squad Alpha Leader... Affirmative, we're sending the Tholians as soon as they arrive here to your sector in order to try and get us some sort of safe passage and communication route between you and us. May need to clear a landing pad at Gendarmerie HQ, can this be achieved? Over."

"Gendarmerie HQ," Lieutenant Devraux glanced outside, seeing the overturned police shuttles being currently used as barriers to the gendarmerie headquarters, "We don't have one right now, but I guess we're going to have to do something, over."

"Acknowledged, Tholians expected in 12 hours... Will that be enough time? Over," The corporal glanced over his strategic files again.

"That should, and then some, over," Lieutenant Devraux glanced over, seeing his deputy watching over his shoulder, he nodded to him as if to say they could do the assigned task.

"Understood, we'll try to counter-attack here in mass to give you enough time to set up your landing field, over," The corporal turned around, "Have to go, we're under attack. Delevenaus Alpha Squad OUT."

Lieutenant Devraux immediately turned to his deputy, "Come on, lad! We've got work to do! Sound the general alarm, get everyone up, we're going to need to set up a whole new front of defensive barricades!"