Okay, where were we...


The yellow moon buggy hit Eagle One's aft ramp with a solid WHAM at full speed. The impact propelled it and its occupants ungracefully into the rear cargo hold.

"What was that?" Tanya yelled from the cockpit.

Kano screwed his head around to see the former occupants of the buggy now deposited on the Eagle's floor.

"Paul and Sandra are back!" he announced while unstrapping himself to go and help them out.

"Thank God!" Tanya said with sincere gratitude. Then taking into account the magnitude of the sound of their arrival she asked, "Are they alright?"

"I don't know!" Kano said while kneeling down to assist small data analyst Sandra in getting up. "Well, Sandra's okay!"

"Thanks," Sandra said after Kano lifted her off of the cabin floor. "Paul?"

Kano and Sandra tugged at Paul by his arms, but he was only nominally conscious and barely able to keep his head up.

"Paul looks bad!" Kano yelled toward the cockpit. "Where's Doctor Russ-?"

Just then Helena vaulted up the Eagle's steps…out of the hail of projectile darts being fired by the aliens outside.

"There's so more of them shooting at us now out there!" she informed everyone breathlessly. "Is everyone okay?"

Without waiting for more information she immediately tended to Paul and lay him down in one of the compartment seats. She examined his eyes, and noted his pupils were highly dilated and rolling upwards. She touched the bloody oozing top of his head.

"Did that thing bite you?" she asked.

"Yannannh myynhh ummp fehhh dah?" Paul replied incoherently.

"Okay," she patted him comfortingly. "I'm thinking it injected you with something like a neuro-specific bio-toxin. Hopefully some anti-venom and haemo-philitic narcan will dilute the poison out of your system. You don't have any known allergy to either of those do you?"

"Naa-ahnthum..." Paul drooled and slurred-out woozily.

"I'm going to take that as a no," Helena said quickly as she set about filling her hypos.

Sandra watched on with worried relief that Paul was being looked after. She was roused by the sound of Commander Koenig's voice emanating from the commlocks.

"I could use some help out here!" John yelled. "Someone get out here and cover the other side of the ship!"

"I'm coming!" Sandra responded.

Just then, the Eagle's engines revved into a high-pitch whine, signaling that they were hot and ready for launch.

"We've got main motors!" Tanya shouted from the command module. "Lift-off ready in 15 seconds!"

"We gotta get Alan!" Koening announced urgently. "Alan! Come in, Carter!"

And over the zaps of his laser fire and the bangs of the primitive alien guns finally came the the relatively cool Aussie voice of Alpha's Chief Astronaut...

"Hello, Eagle One! Boy, am I glad to hear you all start up, but you guys weren't planning to leave without me were you?"

Back at the Eagle everybody breathed a sigh of relief.

"Get back here NOW!" Koening yelled while firing off a few remaining shots of his depleting ray gun.