It was more of a gasp than a groan, but it worked. The male guard walked over to Stephen and gave him a gentle nudge in the side with his boot. Using what little strength he had, Stephen wrapped his arm around the guard's foot and rolled towards him. Kirk had rolled himself on top of the guard's leg, throwing him off balance and backwards against the hallway wall. It also rolled Stephen onto his back, where the absorbtion armor in his vest was thicker. Instinctively, the female guard raised her weapon and struck Stephen in the back. He slumped over and decided to 'play dead' while his lungs filled with air once more. It wasn't hard, even with the armor, the disruptor impact still stung like crazy.
Warily, painfully, the male guard wrestled his now sprained foot from the 'unconscious' intruder's grasp and backed away cautiously. Meanwhile, the female guard took a step forward. Kirk's whole body ached from the shots. The one thing he was trying to AVOID was getting shot... now he had been shot TWICE. His side was particularly painful. He guessed his stitches had pulled loose. Using eye movement, he reoriented the receptors in his mask to look behind him. Through the pain, he could feel movement coming back to his body. He began his meditations once again to force the pain back and to focus his mind on the task at hand. He would be ready to move when the moment was right.
The female guard kicked his legs once, then twice. Stephen didn't move. The male guard kicked his rear end. Again, Stephen kept from moving. The female barked some kind of order to the male. Slowly, his weapon still pointed at Stephen, he reached for Stephen's shoulder. This would be his moment. The guard grabbed his shoulder. Cautiously, the guard turned Kirk over so he was on his back. Stephen allowed his hands and legs to fall outward and prone. Even more cautiously, the guard reached for Stephen's mask.
Stephen snapped his fingers on his right hand. It made a dull, rubbery sound. For a moment, the guard moved his gaze onto Stephen's prone right hand. That diversion was all Kirk needed. His right leg quickly retracted back and caught the male guard in the stomach, forcing him backwards towards the female guard. The female, unable to get a clean shot, tried to move the male out of the way. The male, being moves backwards and to the side, couldn't get a clean shot, either.
In too much pain to simply hop up, he spun around on the ground so he was on his stomach facing them. He slid his knees under his stomach, looking a bit like a frog about to jump. Instead, he used his momentum to lunge himself at the female guard as she was tossing the male out of the way. The two collided as the male guard was knocked to the wall again. Kirk and his assailant fell to the floor. The female guard, still holding her weapon, attempted to aim it at Stephen while he drew his right elbow up. He dropped his elbow into her chest before she could finish aiming. She grimmaced in pain as the air left her lungs. He grabbed her fairly limp hand holding the disruptor and aimed the weapon at the male guard as he turned around. Kirk fired at him as he raised his weapon. Even with the stun setting, the romulan guard was thrown several meters down the hall, near T'osa's unconscious body.
Kirk could feel the female guard beginning to resist him. She had regained her breath and was starting to wrestle with Stephen for the weapon. Finding it a stalemate, she instead raised both her legs up, tossing Kirk over her own body and landing him on his back with a painful thud. He let go of the disruptor as it twisted his wrist on the way over. Fighting back the fresh pain, he spun around on the ground again as the female guard tried to regain her feet. He launched at her a second time as she began to stand. Still in the process of repositioning the weapon in her hand, it went flying down the hall as the two fell to the floor again. She drew her left leg back intent on striking him in the head. He quickly let go of her as her foot flew backwards. He caught it centimeters away from his face and twisted it until it popped. She let out a cry in pain, then tried to scamper forward.
Stephen got to his knees, breathing heavily. He was definately out of shape. It was then that he saw what she was moving towards... the other guard's disruptor. Jumping in the air from his kneeling position, he projected both his fists forward. He landed on top of her, his fists planting deeply in her back, just below her ribs. She let out another scream and collapsed back to the ground. As she struggled to at least push herself off the ground, Stephen moved up her back, then grabbed her head. I am SO going to hate myself for doing this, he admitted to himself. He pulled her head back, then threw her forehead to the ground with a loud smack. Momentarily, she went limp. Then, in another proof of romulan durability, her arms started to move.
Kirk lunged for the disruptor himself as she feebly attempted to grab at his legs. He took the weapon, pointed it at her as she looked up at him, an open wound on her forehead, and pulled the trigger. The weapon discharged and struck her squarely in the back. She went limp and collapsed to the ground.
Stephen staggered to his feet. There was no telling how much time they had lost, but with T'osa still unconscious, they probably wouldn't make the transporter in time.