Allies
Captain W'Rdah asked, "What's going on over here?"
Zemma looked and was glad for the extra pair of eyes. Something was happening on the bridge. A firefight. Zemma started locking down everything. The industrial sections of the ship were not vast and ornate as the Lords and Ladies Promenade; they could be pressurized hall by hall. Zemma locked every door. She wasn't going to let this coup spread. The morning shifts were soon to start and she didn't feel it necessary to have personnel just going about their business get involved in it by accident. Now she could turn her attention back to the bridge cameras.
Well, there he is!
Commander Vaako! Perhaps Lord Marshall Riddick had a friend after all? The bridge crew itself was trying to stay out of the line of fire but there were already several dead Commanders and a weary looking Vaako holding his own. The man who stood toe to toe with Riddick on Crematoria found little challenge in the Commanders who spent too many years around the War Room and not enough time in war. But he was outnumbered in a small space.
Zemma looked back to the cameras she last saw Riddick and company. She got on the PA system. "Sir, if you're done there? There seems to be an incident on the bridge requiring your attention."
Zemma knew he was done for now, there was no more movement in her infrared camera range though she couldn't be sure if Captain J'Pheth was a part of the carnage or not. She assumed Dame Vaako was locked securely in her apartment. Zemma opened the nearest lock that would lead to the bridge and dialed up the lights from black to dim.
"This way, Sir." Zemma said over the PA.
Something white caught her attention on the bridge camera. The Witch? She was with Lord Vaako but without ears she couldn't know why. Vaako was trying to push her back; he raised his gun towards the insurrectionists. The Witch shimmered and became solid in front of him, taking fire and falling.
Zemma didn't know what to make of the scene. What the hell was the Witch doing there? Zemma never got around to questioning, or killing, her. Commander Vaako must have gone to her after Captain J'Pheth came to him. Why? And why would the Witch take fire for Vaako? It's not the now, she thought, Riddick will figure it out when he gets there.
She led him to the bridge but didn't dial open the door right away. She had something in mind.
"Sir, Commander Vaako is currently pinned down to your left. I believe his intentions are honorable." She couldn't hear his response, if any, as there were only eyes, not ears in this particular hall. "Thirty seconds to door open, Sir."
She didn't have any computer control on the bridge but she still had eyes and environmentals. And the Public Address system.
"Make way for the Lord Marshal!" She amped up the volume to near deafening just in that room, then hit them with the drum again, only with a little more bang. The radical change in air pressure would probably give most of them an instant and blinding headache. The ones that kept their heads would feel it for hours. Then she cycled the lock.
Riddick and the three captains exploded in the door but found little resistance left. Men with weapons found themselves relieved of them before they really understood what had happened. Those that fought died.
Commander Vaako smiled in relief.
Interesting.