"Ok, so I like the idea of tranqing everyone (Monique: "Yea, we can tell."), and I like the idea of taking their uniforms and masks, but the body bag feels like it would raise questions. People might stop us and be like "what's in the bag?", then we'd have to explain ourselves, and by then, we'll be busted. But earlier, you said that if we look busy and like we belong, people won't bother us. What if we load him up in a wheelchair or a hospital bed or something, and we just run as fast as we can for the loading bay, while looking like we're trying to save his life. People won't try to stop us, because it'll look like we're trying to keep him alive and if we stop, well this guy might die. We do that all the way to the ship, then we get out of there, and get as far away as possible before they try to get us back. Thoughts?"

"I think it's a better spin on that idea, but we'll have to do it absolutely perfectly", Monique says, "One screw-up, and we're all busted, and we're all bubbled."

James pipes up from the ship, "Plus, we'd be exposed in the ship at that point. Are you absolutely sure you wanna try this?"

Jody takes a second to think about and sighs. "They're already looking for us. They may even know we're on here, and we're the farthest away from the loading bay that we can be without being off the ship, so we're gonna have to get through nearly everyone. It's not the best plan, but unless someone can find a super-secret teleporter room on here or about 500 more sleep darts, I think this is our best shot. You guys in?"

Clash and Monique nod to her. "Don't think we have much choice, but we'll give it our best", Clash says.

Jody gets her tranq gun ready, and whispers to the crew. "Alright then, three targets left. Where's the first one, Gazelle?

Gazelle scouts out the room and finds one of them in the break room, enjoying a drink. "Out the door, four doors to the right, you'll find one sitting on a couch."

Jody tells the other two to stay put, and she sneakily walks down the hallway, trying not to make a ton of noise. Once she gets to the break room door, she opens it casually so as not to scare the person inside. Before she can even look up at Jody, she's darted and slumped over in her chair, knocking over her drink. "Next?", she says calmly.

"The other two are talking to each other in the room directly across the hall from you, and it looks like they're about to walk out." She sidles up to the doorframe and waits to hear a door open. The two people walk out the door and start walking towards Dr. Stewart's office. Jody steps out from the other side of the wall, fires twice, and both doctors drop as well. She exhales, gets an "all clear" from Gazelle, and gets Monique and Clash.

The three of them stash all of their bodies together in Stewart's office, and they start searching through the rooms together, searching for everything they may need for a hasty escape. First, Clash finds a closet full of doctor's scrubs, and they all put on the ones that fit the best, although at Monique's size, the closest one she can find still shows her belly a little, so she keeps her normal clothes on underneath it. Jody finds a gurney in the supply closet, and turns it on. It lifts up off the ground automatically and floats at chest level, presumably useful to avoid the terrain of the planet. She turns it off and brings it over to Dr. Stewart and, with a little help from Monique, they get him up on the cot, before turning it back on, lifting him right up at their level.

They keep searching through the supply room to find anything else they could use to convincingly portray a scenario like this. An oxygen mask, a heart monitor (which Clash has the bright idea to attach to himself, since his heart rate would be going wild when they get out there), and some straps to keep Stewart secure on the board.

As the women are getting him secure, Clash goes through the doctors' communication devices and finds the channels for each part of the ship. "Would we sound more official if we called ahead?", he asks them. "I'm trying to think about how this exact situation would go down if someone was actually trying to transport a critical patient off the ship."

Monique thinks about it for a second and agrees. "If you can make the device work, then sure. It would let them know we're coming, but they'll see the doctors instead of us."

With the doctor secured and the door to his office jammed shut with a waiting room chair, the three of them head out the door of the medical bay. Thankfully the hallway is still empty, as everyone seems to still be at the meeting. They pull the masks up over their faces to hide their identity, and Jody calls out to the Wyvern.

"Any faster routes to the loading bay than the elevator?", she asks.

"Not that I can see, that way looks pretty quick."

"Alright James, we're going to have to be as precise as we possibly can be about this. We need to get to the loading bay at exactly the same time, otherwise they might start asking questions to whoever gets there first. Let's get in, and get out before anyone can think twice."

"Understood. Gazelle still has his eye on you guys, so there's no reason why this wouldn't work."

"Alright guys, let's do this", Jody says as she gives a nod to Clash. He turns the open sign on the doctor's office to make it read "closed", then he tunes his communicator to the loading bay's channel, and takes a deep breath before buzzing their line.

"Attention… loading bay people, we've had a… cardiac… failure in the doctor's office. We're on our way down there, expect a ship momentarily to take us to um… Pilver. Repeat, incoming ship for immediate transport off the ship." He pauses for a second, cringing a little, while hoping that sounds believable.

"Roger, we have an opening in the bay."

Clash looks at the others and nods to them. "Nicely done, Doc", Jody says while Monique gives him a thumbs up. The heart rate on Clash's monitor is already going crazy, but there's no turning back now.

The racers start running down the hallway with Dr. Stewart still tied down in his gurney. The elevator opens up and a few people come out of it. The meeting seems to have ended, they're about to have company. They board the elevator alone, but on their way down, two people step onto the elevator to join them. They look at Dr. Stewart and then at the "doctors" treating him. Jody starts reaching for her dart gun again, but Monique says something instead.

"Please stay away from the patient, we're trying to keep him stable right now." This seems to get the people's attention, and they step back a little. Jody tries to look official by opening Stewart's eyes, something doctor-ish, but only then remembers the eerie black eyes that he's sporting. She regrets doing that.

They make it all the way down to the bottom level, and start running down the hallway, heading to the loading bay. The hall's now almost full of people from the recently concluded meeting, but seeing a gurney being pushed down the hallway makes people reflexively get out of the way. A few of them can tell it's Dr. Stewart on the gurney and they verbally offer their support to them. Seems like no matter where he is, people can't help but respect the High-Flying Medico.

They make it to the loading bay, and are annoyed to find no ship waiting for them. "Come on, James, where the heck are you guys?", Jody says through gritted teeth as she heads for the lone vacancy in their parking lot. Just as she finishes speaking though, James's ship comes from around the corner and turns around in place for a smooth landing in the loading dock. The people in the control room seem a bit confused as his ship sure doesn't look like a medical ship.

"Attention incoming ship, please identify yourself", says a voice coming from the control room in James's cabin.

He picks up the microphone and speaks, "Yea, this is Dr. O'Donnell of St. Pilver Hospital, requesting immediate landing and takeoff."

"I don't know that hospital, standby while we check your credentials." James chuckles a little as he still opens the entrance ramp anyway for the three racers.

At this point, the control room people know something's fishy about this ship, and they begin closing the bay doors to try and trap them inside. Once the racers get on the ship, McCloud quickly closes the ramp behind them, and presses a few buttons on the control pad. He radios the people who just came on, "Everybody hang onto something, this is going to be a rough exit."

Jody stands up, expecting the ship to already be flying upwards. Instead, the ship seems to be rumbling, almost like it's charging up. "Why aren't we moving yet? We've got people about to attack us. Unless… nononoNONONO JAMES, DON'T YOU DARE!"

In the cockpit, James is powering up the engines and smiling a devilish grin. A group of security guards are about to force their way onto James's ship, but they can see what he's about to do, and they run as far away from the ship as they can. Once the ship is charged up, James hits a button, sending the ship forward instantly into hyperdrive. The intense blast propels the ship forward, through the closing doors and out of the protective air bubble around the entrance, but it has a secondary effect. A huge blast of energy blows out into the loading bay that toasts any ships that happen to be inside there. The incredible amount of energy it takes to launch the ship forward at millions of miles per nanosecond is enough to launch the space station it's docked in back by miles, tossing the giant station around like a ragdoll, and throwing anyone that's inside it against the walls and ceilings of the structure. Luckily the bay door's closed now, so no one is launched out into the vacuum of space, but it's a violent shake-up that leaves everyone onboard disoriented or injured.

Inside the ship, Jody, Monique and Clash are pressed up against the back wall of the ship, with Clash screaming in terror, feeling like he's in the middle of a gunfight with whatever ships are surely following them now. Jody and Monique are pinned up against the wall because of Dr. Stewart's gurney, and even with all of this rumbling still going on, Stewart is still out cold with no chance of waking up anytime soon. After a couple minutes like this, the ship finally slows down to the point when they aren't pinned to the wall anymore and they all can catch their breath. Clash puts his ear to the wall and expects to hear laser fire, but there's nothing. Just the sound of the ship in movement.

"I think we got out of there. We did it guys! Guys?"

Clash turns to Jody, and the look on her face is one of immense rage, like someone's just made a new enemy for life. "MCCLOUD!", she yells out as she storms up the halls of the ship, ready to give him hell.