When the elevator doors opened they quietly walked out, and headed for the tram. Aira-ty than broke the silence. "What the hell happened? Why the hell did he attack us? I met a large amount of the crew, and all had clean good backgrounds, and had good personalities, why did so many people just... snap.?"
"I don't know Aira-ty, i just don't know. I think all this is because of that dang marker, that is in the cargo hold... Why was the marker taken off the planet?" Emily looked at Aira-ty expecting to get some dumb excuse.
"Some organization wanted it, and the company had no use for it, so they agreed to sell it to them... for a good price."
Couple of questions swam around Emily's head. "How much?'
Aira-ty smiled. "200 billion credits."
Emily stopped in mid track, almost running into M2. "Did they accept to that?" Aira-ty nodded. And Emily mouthed 'wow'. They ran into couple more Slashers but they were able to kill them with ease. As they rounded a corner and saw two slashers lying on the ground. They decided to keep their distance for they didn't like the situation. Emily knelled down trying to get a look at them. "Are they dead?"
Aira-ty pulled out her blaster, and shot the Slashers, they jumped up, and tried to attack them, but Aira-ty killed them. She looked at Emily. "I will take that as a no." They continued on their journey, and arrived at the Tram Station. And it looked like luck was on their side, for the Tram was actually there this time. Emily chuckled in happiness. "Finally some luck." They all piled in the Tram, and set a destination for the Gun tower that looked over the Comms array blast doors. It took them awhile, and they ran over some slashers that got onto the track , when they arrived the platform was on fire. They both looked out the window at the blazing flames.
Aira-ty looked at Emily. "What now?" To answer her question M2 went out side and used his fire extinguisher to make a path to the door. As they made there may down the blazing tunnels, they has to seal their helmets for the smoke was to thick.
Emily looked around trying to see if there were any damaged pipes, but she didn't see any. "What cause all this?"
Aira-ty did a quick look around. "No clue, but on the plus side, and the creatures would have burned to death in all these flames." Emily nodded in agreement. When they got in sight of the door that led to the elevator that would take them to the guns, a slasher tried to attack them, but before it could reach them, it fell over dead, and on fire, this happened a couple times before they were in the elevator. They both took their helmets off. Aira-ty looked at Emily. "I do not want to go back down there."
Emily looked at the floor buttons. "We can take another route, after we get done here." When the doors opened they say a small row of 5 Laser cannon gun batteries. Emily cracked her knuckles. "Lets get to work." When they got into the seats of their guns, she saw what the growth went up to, it was a giant slug like creature that attached it's self on the hull.
Emily than heard Aira-ty yell "OPEN FIRE!" She than started to shoot, she watched as her green bolts slammed into the creature. They continued to shoot it, but three tentacles came out of it, and started to rip off parts of the ship, and throw it at them. Emily yelled. "Ignore the Tentacles, the ship's armor is strong enough to hold against them." She complied and continued to shoot the creature, but it seemed it wasn't doing a whole lot. She decided to shoot the tentacles. As she shot the tentacles, she could see the creature start to move, she guess it was hurting it, for she couldn't hear the creature.
She yelled over at Aira-ty. "Shoot the Tentacles, it's like the Slasher, you have to shoot off it's limbs." They than got to work shooting off the tentacles, when they shot off the original three more came out, and continued to throw debris at them. So they hot off those three, and the next three, and than the next, it started to seem like the creature had unlimited tentacles, but when they finally shot off the last three, it started to do a jerking movement, and than detached from the ship, and slowly float into space. Emily smiled, and they got off their guns. "Ok now we need to head back to the comms array station and turn it on" Aira-ty nodded, and they got back into the elevator, she decided they wouldn't go down the blazing tunnels of hell and go to a different floor.
When the doors opened, they saw the hall way was entirely covered in the fleshy growth stuff, Emily almost threw up, as she saw that there were bodies hanging from the roof. She also recognized one of them, as Derek. She felt a small thing in side her cry out.