Finally we have come to the end of series 03, but not the end of this story... As you can see by the title it is a two part episode, as the next one begins season 04. To save you all from getting new alerts etc, I will continue through this story; with any luck s04 e01 will be finished by next week and posted. *This story contains course language and strong scenes of violence in places; you have been warned*.
SGU s03 e20
Callous pt 1
Sergeant Greer stood at the open gate with his plasma rifle facing the Prior who had just landed. The Prior inhibitor was working unknown to the Ori, removing the Prior's hold over Greer.
It had began; no longer would the Tau'ri and other races be afraid of the Ori, and First Sergeant Greer was about to give them the bad news.
Greer turned on his radio so Destiny could hear and yelled:
"No longer will we be afraid of the Ori: No longer will you cause tyranny to defenceless peoples: No longer will Origin be the way. There is change coming, and the Tau'ri will be the leaders of that change. So I give you fair warning; return to your own galaxy, and let the free will of others reign."
The Prior laughed along with his men, and then snapped back to authority "You dare to challenge the power of the Ori?"
Greer stepped one foot back into the gate to keep it active, having been on for ten minutes now; he discretely snapped a small cylinder into the side of his modified plasma rife, and aimed at one of the Ori ships three hundred metres away and said with quiet intent:
"Yeah, I do!" he fired.
The plasma blast cut straight through the shields like they didn't exist, and ripped a hole clean through the fighters hull causing it to erupted in flames; the sight stunned all of them into cowering low to the ground, except for Ron and the Prior.
Greer looked at the Prior who was shocked that their shields had failed, and used the first movie line that came to him. He pressed the small button on the transmitter ring on his finger and jumped backward into the gate, saying loud enough for the Prior to hear;
"Yippy Ki Yay Muthafucker..."
From space a two hundred kilometre radius sphere of blue lightening energy radiated outward from the planet surface, where Greer had just been standing; the Valeyian E.M.P device, didn't kill the Prior or his men: just the ones unlucky enough to be flying ships in range, which fell out of the sky. The Prior inhibitor had also exploded from the blast.
1stSgt. Greer fell on his back in Destiny's gate room to the applause of everyone standing there.
Captain Scott reached down and helped him up saying "I couldn't have said it better myself!"
Ron smiled at Matt and also Everett who had joined them; "Was cool hey...you should have seen the Prior's face when I shot through their shields; thank you Castell!" said Greer
Everett put his hand on Ron shoulder saying "Yippy Ki Yay..." he laughed; "Bruce Willis would have been proud."
Lisa ran up to him and hugged him with kisses "I thought I'd lost you..." her tears of sadness turned to tears of joy.
Ronald held her in his strong arms and said softly "I'm not going anywhere babe..."
Greer let go of Lisa and turned to Decca who was still standing with young Dale's mother; he walked over to him and put out his hand "Thanks..." nodding his head to hold back showing emotion.
Decca just smiled and nodded once; he was finally on Destiny with some of his men. Now his real intentions were coming to light; gain their trust, and use it to take over the ship. One thing that stuck in his mind was saving young Dale, and the look of gratitude on his mother's face; Decca had truly lived up to his word of defending this family, and unknown to his crew he would deliver all of these people safely back to their own planet after Destiny was his. Somewhere inside him, Ra's torture had failed to take everything that he was; Decca was cold blooded and callous, but would never hide directly behind a child or use one as a soldier: he considered that act to be the mark of a coward.
Orders were given to escort the people to the community hall; Andrew was the only exception as he stayed with Everett to find out what was going to happen.
Sgt. Greer introduced him to his General "Andrew, this is General Everett Young military Commander of Destiny."
Andrew shook Everett's hand saying "I don't exactly know what to say; thank you for risking your peoples' lives to collect us, we would have been defenceless against the Ori."
Everett smiled warmly at Andrew "You can thank Captain Tez; she was the one who alerted us to your predicament."
Tez came into the gate room and immediately walked up to Andrew and hugged him "Oh, thank the Vale'ions your safe..." she said happily to him.
Andrew looked at the woman who he had come to know well over the years "Tez, what happened; how did all this come about? We've never had so much violence on our planet before...Your people are they ok?"
Tez couldn't keep it together much longer and finally broke down in tears; unable to speak she held onto Andrew for her life: Everett filled him in.
"Andrew...her planet was hit first by the Ori; they annihilated their world and killed everyone they could. We don't know if there are any other survivors, but I have two more ships on the way to find out; I'm sure there are, we will find them and help to rebuild their lives."
Andrew held his sad friend and looked at Everett with a steely determination "You find them; you give them back what has been taken; and stop this destruction of good people!" anger was building within him.
"I promise to do everything within our power to stop the Ori, once and for all; you have my word" replied Everett with just as much dedication.
Chloe called on the com "General, we need to leave...do you want me to set an intercept course with the Ori?"
"No; head to the Fildara system and scan for survivors, we'll take on the Ori when Apollo and the Ursini get here, we have too many people onboard to risk it."
Tez had regained her composure and asked to show Andrew around; Everett agreed as the blur of FTL came over Destiny.
Andrew looked around "What was that?" he asked startled
Tez explained in a way he would understand "The ship travels faster than light; the blur is like a time delay as we break past light speed...it's sort of like the sonic crack of your rifle bullet breaking the sound barrier."
Andrew just looked around him at the ship "Faster than light...amazing"
Tez said to him "Do you want to see what it looks like?" she led him to the observation deck...
Decca and his men were now in Destiny's community hall along with the other farming families; his men knew the plan well, wait until the off shift when most were asleep and then find some very high quality hostages. Once again he waited patiently for the right moment; he settled down and got some sleep, Andrew's wife looked at the man who had saved her son:
"Poor man, he always seems to be sleeping..."
Everett had now turned his attention to a different person, one who was under the influence of communication stones. Zanx was resting on his bed as the door opened: three masked men burst in and arrested him, and covered his head with a black hood. Destiny had detected a signal coming from his room and notified the bridge.
When the hood was removed, Zanx found himself in a small interrogation room; facing him were two people in space suits with darkened visors. There was silence before he heard distorted voices in the distance; unable to tell where they came from.
"We know you are not Zanx" said a female sounding voice.
Zanx looked at them and said "What do you mean, why am I here?"
"We know your communication stone was destroyed in the Fildaran ship" said the deeper voice.
Zanx began to laugh; "You're too late I'm afraid...What's with the suits, to scared to show yourselves?"
The first voice answered "No. You are in a room that has a controllable atmosphere; have you noticed it is starting to get cold?"
Zanx didn't give in "No I'm fine..." he suddenly started to feel lighter than air.
"That is the artificial gravity being turned off; next will be the air... Only you can stop this."
Zanx looked at them hard "Fuck you; you will all be dead soon enough!" the person on his right pressed there arm control and he heard a hissing sound.
He looked at them "You'll be killing Zanx too; I know how the stones work..." he said calmly feeling the effects of the air venting into space.
"We don't want you dead; that would be too easy..." said the second voice
Zanx could feel the first signs of air depletion and hypoxia; he breathed heavily "You...won't ...do...it"
His breathing was made more difficult without gravity too "Zanx...will...die...too"
The woman in the suit was having a hard time watching what was happening, but wouldn't let on as the safe oxygen level dropped well below the 20.9 percent it should be.
Zanx could no longer talk and gasped horribly as his nose and ears began to slowly bleed; finally his head slumped forward. Destiny rapidly replaced the air and gravity in the room the moment she detected the shift in consciousness; the link was broken. A medical team on standby rushed into the room and attended to a barely alive Zanx; Krystal removed her helmet:
"Is he going to live?" she asked with despair.
Amanda replied quickly "He is weak, but he should recover...and he is himself."
Everett took off his helmet saying "I'm really sorry you had to see that Krystal, but there is no other way to break the connection without using the gate; it's just a shame he wouldn't give us any more information, we still don't know who or what..."
On Decca's Ha'taks ship hiding in the folds of space, a man fell forward strapped to a seat; blood drained from his orifices as the men around quickly tried to resuscitate him, but to no avail.
One of them spoke "They must have taken the air away from him to break the connection; I doubt Zanx would have survived either…hahahaha…oh well; too bad!" they laughed callously at the thought of Zanx's death...
Krystal leaned over Zanx and gave him a small kiss on the head "Hi stranger, how are you feeling?"
Zanx tried to smile at the girl he was crazy about, unbeknown to Krystal "Like shit…what…happened?"
A tear formed in Krystal's eye and ran down "We had to save you; they had control of you through communication stones…"
Amanda and T.J walked over to him "Hello Zanx, I'm Amanda and this is Tamara; you can call her T.J. The stones weren't the only things causing you problems; we found a memory suppressor in the back of your neck, which would have been how this started. Can you remember anything at all?"
Zanx tried to think, but on fragments returned "I was on the planet…CVX-367A…with…Krystal…when I was…grabbed from behind…while taking plant…samples…but that's all…I can…remember…"
Krystal looked at Amanda somewhat surprised "That planet…it's the farming planet!"
T.J jumped to the com "General, can you come to the infirmary, its urgent."
Everett was in his room with Te'arly who was trying to get some sleep, as she said "Go my love, everybody needs you tonight…"
Everett cuddled her and kissed her gently "I'm sorry…I love you, back soon"
Te'arly smiled warmly with her eyes shut "Me too…"
Everett walked to the infirmary, passing Eli and Ginn on the way; the halls of Destiny were almost empty as most of the crew got some rest before arriving at the Fildaran planet; "Good night General, see you in a few hours" said a very tired Eli...
General Traise nodded at his right hand man, who quietly passed on the order. He went to Andrew who was still awake, telling him that he had important news to tell General Young about the Ori; Andrew agreed to his request and asked the guards to let them out...
The two new recruits didn't know what hit them as Decca's men took them out silently, using a small fast acting toxin that rendered them unconscious for any number of hours.
Andrew turned around at the sound of someone falling "John! What is going on?"
Decca answered calmly as his man handed him the private's pistol and spare magazines "There has been a slight change in plans Andrew" as he checked there was a round in the chamber; "I want you to stay with your people, and look after them; when this is all over, I promise to return all of you to the village. Now go back inside, and tell everyone all is well; this shouldn't take too long..."
The four of them split up into two and two, with Decca heading down the hall to the nearest CI screen "James, disable the internal sensors in the mid and forward section..." he ordered.
James listed them as under maintenance to avoid suspicion from Destiny and the crew; they heard voices from the hall behind them.
"Eli, come on; I'm tired baby...stop it..." as she giggled:
Traise and James snuck around the corner and spotted them; they jumped out pointing guns at Eli and Ginn, as Eli had Ginn up against the wall and didn't see.
Ginn jumped in absolute fright at the sight of the most feared man in the Lucian Alliance "Eli!"
Eli jump back and turned just as Decca walked up to him "Hello Eli; and who do we have here...hmmm let me guess, you would be Ginn...the traitor. Well Ginn the traitor...why don't you tell Eli who I am...yes?"
Ginn stammered the words out "G...G...General Decca...Traise" Eli could sense untold fear in her voice.
Traise was menacing but Eli wouldn't back down "What do you want; you know Destiny can see and hear everything...it won't be long before they get here..." he tried to sound tough.
Decca smiled and back handed Eli across the face, knocking him against the bulkhead wall causing his nose to bleed "I ask the questions Eli, you give me the answers or Ginn gets to die twice; but not before James and I make you watch as we have some fun with her first...do you remember Ginn?"
Eli gazed in question at Ginn who only had extreme fear in her eyes; she stared back without speaking, her eyes begging "no, I didn't..."
Decca watch the question in Eli without words "Oh, I see Ginn...you didn't tell him... Maybe I should; you see Eli...we use to be together, Ginn and me...oh, she was such a dirty girl, and so much fun..." Decca grabbed Ginn by the face and planted a soft kiss on her lips...
Eli's blood boiled as Ginn silently whimpered and cried; when Decca released her, Ginn spat in his face; he pulled out the pistol and put it to Ginn's head. James was holding a gun on Eli as Decca wiped his face with his sleeve.
"Oh Ginn, I should kill you for that...What do you think Eli, should I kill her for that?" Ginn could feel nothing but panic as Eli answered in slow motion;
"I'll do it, anything you need, I'll do it; please just don't hurt her" Eli's tears hit the floor along with his blood; Traise pistol whipped Ginn across the face, fracturing her jaw and breaking her nose.
Eli screamed "Noooooo" as she crumpled to the deck semiconscious.
"That was your warning Eli; next time she dies..." Decca put the 9mm away...
A tired Everett stood at Zanx's bed as T.J explained what he said; he was still awake and had remembered a few fragments more.
"Four men...crashed ship...big guy..." he passed out again.
Everett looked at Krystal "Does that make sense to you?"
Krystal suddenly put it together "Dale, the little boy...he told me that four men had crashed an alien ship on the planet a couple of days before we arrived; no one else mentioned it..." she ran the scenario through her mind "He said they told everyone that someone was chasing them and they needed to hide."
Everett was looking at the story as a military plan "So they hid them in plain sight, unaware of their intentions..." he got on the com in discrete mode and called Rush, Scott and Greer to the bridge."
On the bridge a few minutes later Everett told them what he knew; "Krystal said she also picked up strange energy readings from an empty corner of the field. My guess would be a second Tel'tak in cloak."
Matt said "That would make sense; they would have been the ones to grab Zanx."
Nick was thinking outside the square "So...what if they fake a crash, stay with the villagers, and then get on Destiny just before an Ori invasion; meantime we have several undercover signals go off the ship to somewhere... My question is; how did they get the Ori to find that planet, and get us to go there in the first place?"
Greer added "The big guy, the one they call John...he has defiantly had some kind of military training, the way he picked up Sgt. Wallace...was to perfect..."
Everett had a theory "They have a Ha'taks with a Ur'torina drive; they could hide in the folds of space undetected...even the Ori can't catch them in there; all reports from the detectives working with SGC, I.O.C, and the Fifth Alliance say a large man of solid stature. Our spies have said he is known as General Decca Traise; by all accounts he is capable of anything, at any cost...I think we may have inadvertently let him onboard Destiny..." Everett's mind darkened with the thoughts of what Castell had warned about.
Matt spoke "So he would be here to finish what the Alliance started; take control of Destiny."
Nick had another idea "If they were hiding, chances are they knew where the Ori were too; and led them to this side of the galaxy to find the inhabited planets. I think Zanx was just a target of opportunity to maybe get a spy onboard Destiny and tip off the Ori to the farming planet. The distress signal on Tez's ship could have been picked up by the Ori, why wasn't it?"
Greer made a statement "General, even if half of this is true, it's extremely complex and full of possible holes..."
Everett responded "From all reports; so was the theft of the drive plans...this Decca is very capable; Greer, I want an immediate double up of the guards at the community room."
Ron radioed his marines "Corporal Stevens this is Greer, please respond"
The radio responded after a few moments "Would that be Sergeant Ronald Greer I'm speaking too?"
Matt and Everett sprang into action; Nick hit the CI screen to check out the systems; Ron answered "Who is this?"
"HAHAHAHA...haven't you worked it out yet? How about I let you ask a friend?" Decca put Eli on with a warning "One wrong word and bye, bye Ginn" he pressed the button "Greer, it's Eli; his name is General Decca Traise...they got Ginn!" he screamed as Decca gave him another back hand. "Now, Sergeant, as you heard we also have his traitorous girlfriend; let's make a simple trade:"
"You give me Destiny; I give you a lovely planet with a gate, freedom, and Eli and Ginn intact and alive...how does that sound?"
Everett took the radio "No deal Traise..."
Traise got infuriated "Fuck off Everett! I was talking to Sgt. Greer, your new negotiator...now put him back on or Eli dies right now!"
Greer took the radio back, "Sorry Sir" he said to Everett "I'm here...General" he snarled.
"Good, now that's better; so do we have a deal?" he asked fully knowing the answer to come.
Ron looked at Everett who nodded "General Traise...Even Eli knows the way this works; as much as I care for both of them, I cannot give you the ship."
Traise stayed calm expecting the answer "Very well" he held the radio on but turned away "Sorry Eli, they said no" the next thing the crew heard was a single gun shot...
"Oh Jesus!" cried Greer as he dropped the radio on the floor.
Chloe was sitting in Kirks chair and screamed at all of them "What the fuck have you done! He just killed Eli!"
Nick who stayed calm through the whole conversation knew better "No, not yet he hasn't; Destiny wouldn't let anyone else lock out the bridge controls..."
Everett yelled back "Chloe...are you still linked with the ship?" he turned to Matt, "Get Amanda on the line, we need her help..."
Chloe thought for a moment "General, Eli is safe for now...but he is shutting down Destiny's internal defences; we'll try and stop him..." she fell into an almost trancelike state and then came too with terrifying words "get me to the chair; now!"
Everett cried out "Rush get that door opened!" it opened as he said it.
Matt grabbed Chloe who had gone somewhat weak from the fight "Are you ok?"
"I'm just a bit weak, get me to the interface chair..." he rushed out of the bridge as three marines ran in;
Greer yelled orders "Secure the bridge at all cost guys..." as he radioed his other men on an emergency frequency only to have a scary message come back.
"Sir our armoury has been hit, three men are down... They took vests, weapons and ammo."
They had reached the interface chair room and ran inside, with Matt placing Chloe in the chair; he gave her a small kiss;
"Are you sure about this Chloe?"
She nodded "Do it, it's the only way I can help..." Matt looked at Nick who was standing at the computers; he nodded his head.
Rush activated the chair as the prongs tapped into Chloe's mind; her world went quiet as she walked out of the interface room to find Lady Destiny standing there. She looked like she was cold hugging her arms around herself.
"Help me Chloe...I'm getting a virus..."
Traise had gotten Eli to upload a program to destroy Destiny's "cognitive thought process" and remove "her" from the computer systems. Although Eli had to do as told he very cleverly and quickly encoded a key to get Chloe into the system; he figured that she would be connected in Kirks chair and would know what to do; he figured right.
Decca on the other hand now had half an arsenal at his disposal, but had sent his men on another mission in the crew area. They took out several of Destiny's men and made their way to the crew quarters in search of a far greater prize; with Destiny unable to warn anyone, they easily penetrated the area and found their target. Entering the room they quickly injected a mild sedative, just enough for a short time to remove them; Decca's ace up his sleeve.
With Eli's work done, he took him back to Ginn and stood outside the door "Now Eli, consider this your lucky day; since you did cooperate with me I'll let you two be together..." Eli gasped when the door opened and he looked at Ginn, bleeding and tied up on the bed "You can finish what you two started if you like; we've got her all tied up for you, so do what you want with the traitorous bitch...hahahaha" Decca locked the door.
Ginn howled as much as she could with her injuries and gag "I...m...soo...ry...I'm...sor...ry" she tried to say through her crying; Eli untied her and took out the gag, crying himself while trying to console her from the horrific pain she was in, mentally and physically: "They didn't touch me, apart from tying me up..." she said to ease his concern "That stuff he said about me and him; it was all lies Eli to hurt you...please believe me."
Through the tears of his heart seeing what they had done to his beloved Ginn broke Eli; he had never experienced pain on this scale ever in his life. He kissed her softly on the head as he held his weeping goddess in his arms;
"I love you love you love you sooo much...I'm sooo sorry I couldn't protect you; this is my fault not yours... Of course I believe you" that was the turning point in Eli's life; he poured some water on a towel and very gently cleaned around Ginn's face as his mind raced through every scenario...
Chloe was having better luck inside Destiny's systems; the two of them had managed to restrict the virus away from her identity files and main cortex. They started work on an antivirus to clean it up and slowly took back control of Destiny's main functions; Eli had been cleaver enough to allow small key holes in the virus for them to destroy it from within. Chloe was able to get the bridge back online and most of Destiny's sensors; all was going well until they hit the sensor array for Eli's quarters, and saw what was going on.
Chloe fell forward sick to her stomach with Lady Destiny catching her "Oh God no! What have they done to them?"
Eli sat on the bed with a pistol in his shaking hand; he had kept it under the bed and forgotten all about it in the mayhem; Greer had taught him well on how to use it with holograms, but Eli had never fired at a real person before. Destiny and Chloe could now sense what he felt; sitting in the interface chair Chloe's nose started to bleed and her eyes teared as she used every part of her consciousness, creating a hologram of herself in Eli's room while still fighting for Destiny...
"Rush she's bleeding, get her outa there" yelled Matt;
"I can't turn it off; Chloe is in control" he yelled back...
"Eli...this isn't the way..." said Chloe
He looked up at the fragmented image "Chloe?" he said even more confused
"Eli, I'm...in...in...the...interface chair" the hologram flickered "We have contained the virus thanks to you Eli, you saved Destiny" trying to give him hope.
Eli's shoulders slumped as he played restlessly with the gun "But look what they have done to Ginn" she sat up and looked at Chloe; who put her hand to her mouth in shock "They beat her Chloe; how does she live with that?"
"Eli I'm sorry and don't know how, but getting yourself killed is not the answer; Ginn needs you more than ever, now!" Chloe flickered again
"Unlock the door Chloe or Destiny; whoever you are..."
Ginn spoke "Let him go..." she didn't want Eli to see her like this; Ginn was strong and knew she would survive.
The door opened; Eli looked at Chloe "Not this time..." he carefully made his way out headed towards help...
Greer's men had managed to take down two of Decca's; but not him or James. It was Everett that got the radio call;
"Oh, General Young; I think I may have something that belongs to you... let me see, it's very beautiful and... Oh, maybe pregnant..."
Everett's heart fell to the floor...and shattered; he screamed through his gritted teeth into the radio;
"YOU'RE A FUCKING DEAD MAN TRAISE!"
"HAHAHAHA... Oh that's funny; give me Destiny and she lives. By the way Ev, she is really pretty; her breasts are nice a firm in my hands..."
Everett smashed the radio against the wall in rage; Chloe came too in the chair as Destiny took control back over everything and destroyed the virus, all her systems came back online. She immediately sealed Decca, James and Te'arly in the gate room and informed the crew; all gate room systems were locked out, they had nowhere to run. If not for Te'arly, Destiny would have just vented the room immediately.
Sgt Greer got on the radio "Give it up Traise, you got nowhere to go; the room is locked down"
"Oh, well you seem to forget I have a rather important hostage... How about you send Everett down here and will sort this out man to man?" he said in a smug way...
Eli made it to one of the gate room doors after sending Amanda and T.J to Ginn; he could see Traise holding Te'arly and James at the CI attempting to get the gate working. Eli decided he would have a better chance from the service door and made his way around; he checked the pistol was loaded and safety off, then waited for the moment.
Traise stood in front of the gate holding Te'arly, his arm outstretched with a pistol; what he didn't let on was that he was down to his last clip which had only seven rounds remaining. He figured one was all he needed.
Marines were now at every doorway in full battle gear; Everett ordered the doors open and stood in plain sight:
"Well General Traise, what now?" he asked looking hard into his eyes
Te'arly lifted her head slightly, still feeling the effects of the sedation; although she was standing by her own accord. She smiled at Everett, before crying softly; she was powerless to defend herself against Traise.
"It seems we have a situation General Young; I have something of value, and so do you: give me Destiny and I'll let all of you leave.
Everett shook his head "You know we tried to figure out how all this come about; Zanx under control of the stones, the Ori just showing up, a ship crashing on a planet... Oh, and a blip on our screens from time to time. It's funny; two people from a far less advanced race than both of us put this together, enough that we could work it out. So, how about this deal; I'll dial the gate back to the farming planet, and you can leave without Te'arly in your hidden Tel'tak. You would be long gone before we could get back"
Rush was watching on the screen from the bridge "Franklin, pull up the gate diagnostics quickly..."
Nick looked over it "Damn it;" he quickly said "I was going to try and block Te'arly from going through; but it needs to be done at the gate!"
Back in the gate room James was now hiding behind some cargo with his weapon aimed at Everett's head; from where Greer and his men were, they couldn't get a clear shot. Then Greer spotted Eli with the pistol; he had the drop on James. As Greer looked at Eli, their eyes meet as he spotted him and stared back hard. Greer could see the look in Eli's eyes, they were filled with anger and pain at the man in his sights; Ronald gave him the nod of approval, Eli focused his anger and aim.
James had Everett in his sights and waited for the word, giving Decca a signal he could see from the corner of his eye.
"Oh Everett, but I have one surprise left for you;" a lone shot rang out.
Eli stood with the gun pointed at Decca's head as James's lifeless body slumped to the floor, the blood oozing from the hole in the back of his skull.
Decca spun around with his gun at Te'arly's head "Go on Eli...are you that good?" he yelled with anger as he heard the marines lock onto him from all directions; Destiny dropped from FTL and immediately he said "Open the fucken gate or she dies"
Everett did as he asked; the gate spun around as Decca moved both of them forward to avoid the wormhole stabilizing. Every gun in the room was trained on him as Everett stood there un-armed; Traise weighed up the odds and let go of Te'arly who just stood there facing Everett, while Decca pointed the gun at her.
Everett ordered "Let him go..."
General Decca Traise was beaten and back into the gate with one foot "I told you I had one more surprise Everett":
He leapt backward into the gate as he fired the pistol...
Te'arly stood there and put her hands to her chest, as her eyes widened when she started to fall; her world went into slow motion as she heard Everett scream;
"!" he rushed and caught her before she hit the deck, cradling her in his arms.
She looked at him with her dying breath, as the blood poured over him from her ruptured aorta;
"Love...you" her head slumped.
Everett, kneeling on the floor with her dead body in his arms, let out a primordial scream:
"AAAAAAHHHHHHHRRRRRRRR!"