Of course, an alarm would start blaring incessantly almost as soon as they pulled the storage door closed behind them.
Rolo cursed. "Looks like they've noticed our escape."
Shiro, having come to the same conclusion, nodded grimly. "We have to keep moving."
"Any idea which way we should go?" Rolo asked.
Shiro opened his mouth to reply, but was quickly cut off by Nyma, "Left down the next corridor, then the third right."
Shiro and Rolo both turned their heads to look back at Nyma with incredulous expressions.
"What?" she asked, "There's a map." She pointed to the opposite wall.
Shiro and Rolo looked where she was pointing and saw that there was indeed a map on the wall.
"Great work, Nyma." Shiro said, automatically falling into his Black Paladin persona, "Let's go!"
No less than a second later, a voice from behind them commanded: "Freeze!"
Shiro whipped his head around to see four Galra guards standing at the end of a hallway with their weapons aimed at him and his companions.
He lit up his arm and prepared to raise his shield and step in front of Nyma, who was closest to the the group of guards, but she was faster. Almost before he could blink, Nyma had pulled out two of the guns she had retrieved from the storage room and had aimed them at the guards.
"I don't think so." she said, her tone light and confident.
"Drop your weapon!" one of the guards ordered.
Nyma aimed a charming smile at him, "Why don't you come make me?" her tone has turned downright seductive.
"Help keep them distracted!" Rolo, who was between Nyma and Shiro, hissed at Shiro, already beginning to dig through the pack he now carried on his back.
Shiro nodded and stepped forward, his shield ready to be raised in a split second's notice and his arm easily visible.
"I said FREEZE!" the guard Nyma had been seducing with her smile shouted at Shiro. "And I told you to drop your weapon!" He turned his attention back to Nyma, who continued to aim that charming smile at him.
"Didn't you hear the lady?" Shiro asked, working to keep his own tone light and conversational as he stopped next to Nyma, "She said you should come make her drop her weapon, and I don't think shouting at her to do so is working, is it?" he directed the question at Nyma.
"No," she said, "It's really not."
"Maybe he just doesn't get it." Shiro said. "Maybe you should spell it out for him."
"Or, maybe he's too afraid to get close to a lady." her voice had taken up that seductive tone again.
"Both of you, shut up!" the guard in question commanded, and Shiro did not miss the slightly flustered tone to his voice, "Stand down or we will shoot!"
"Hey, man." Rolo's easy-going voice suddenly piped up from behind Shiro, "I think he really is scared of getting close to a lady. Guess he'll never have the chance now."
Shiro had exactly 3 seconds wonder what Rolo was planning to do before a bottle of something green and speckled with blue went flying over his head, straight into the group of guards. He had another second to think that Rolo had a really good throwing arm, and another half a second to raise his shield and hold it up to protect himself, Nyma and Rolo from the blast that erupted from the thrown bottle as soon as it landed between the cluster of guards on the other end of the hallway.
The blast wasn't particularly big, just enough to seriously injure those standing close to it, but the structure of the hallway pushed the blast out and Shiro and the other two would have been badly injured as well, if not for his shield.
As soon as it was possible to do so, the three of them sprang up and ran; Shiro and Rolo following Nyma's directions to the escape pods, the alarm still blaring incessantly in their ringing ears.
The pods themselves were guarded by two sentries, which Nyma easily picked off with her gun. Rolo dashed straight to the control panel and started the sequence that would eject the pods. There were two in total. Both doors slid open with a quiet hiss. Nyma immediately stepped into one of the pods. Shiro was close behind her but stopped at the door when he saw Rolo pause to dig in his pack again.
He pulled out two bottles of Sulphora Poison and popped their lids off. Then he reached back in and pulled out a bottle of Pixurite. He sprinkled a handful of the Pixurite into one of the bottles of Sulphora poison and then dashed back to the door of the room they were in and hurled the bottled hard in the direction they had come from. A loud boom soon followed. Then Rolo readied the next Pixurite-Sulphora bomb and rolled it into the other escape pod.
"This one will take a little longer to blow since I didn't break it." Rolo explained and then stepped past Shiro, into their escape pod. "Alright, boys and girls, hold onto your butts and say your prayers, we are getting out of here!"
Shiro grinned as the door slid closed behind him. He let Rolo handle the flying and turned to watch as they were released from the ship. He couldn't quite help himself then. He lifted his natural arm and extended his middle finger at the Galra ship. He knew it was childish and premature; they weren't safe yet, but damn if doing so didn't send a little wave of satisfaction rolling through him.
