[USS Falcon] The Start of Peace - If

[LTCMDR Siobhan MacCristen]

A Post By Lieutenant Commander Siobhan MacCristen
Location: Planetside
Timeline:
Tag: Syvek, Kurowsa, Orion, D'ghor, Merak

Merak could hear the Marines in the back answer Nabhelk with a who� rah. Merak just shook his head, brought the Gryphon over the LZ, and brought it down dropping the ramp. The Marines where already up and running out the Gryphon firing at anything that looked or walked like a Breen. For Merak he stayed on Gryphon picking up a phaser rifle. He wanted to be out there with them but he was not going to Emma here alone.

�Emma you stay down and don�t leave my site understood.� Merak told her, then tapped his comm badge. �Falcon One to Archangel leader. Gryphon is on the ground so get the blonde ass of yours moving.�

�Merak,� Mac gasped silently. �Where?� she asked and held the rifle at her waist as they exited the antechamber and met up with Orion and a dirty and disheveled Syvek. The Vulcan looked like he�d been crawling around in a cave somewhere, or maybe archeologists always managed to look that way.

�South side of the temple, in the courtyard.� Merak told Mac over the comm.

Merak moved to the ramp leading out of the Gryphon to stand guard. He would have much preferred to be in there with the Marines but with Emma on the ship, he was not going to leave her alone unprotected. They were going to have a long talk about this when they got back to the ship.

�We�re making our way down the stairs now, but it appears we have a welcoming team between us and the Gryphon. I think they�ve taken this personally,� she knelt and fired off two quick shots at a Breen who�d made a run up the stairs. The humidity had become oppressive, making it difficult to breath, and physical exertion only made it worse. In the corner of her eye, Mac saw the Gryphon, sitting in the middle of the field. A curse shouted in Klingon made her whip around towards the bottom of the stairs.

�ghuy'� D�ghor grunted as a Breen soldier slammed into his already cut arm.

Taking his Batleth D�ghor makes quick work of the Breen that attacked him then throwing him over the railing down the stairwell. D�ghor waves to the rest of his men to move forward killing every Breen that was between him and the Archangel team at the top of the steps.

�Get those people moving Lt Commander!� D�ghor shouted over the battle in the stairwell. �The men and I will clear the path, these Breen have a lot to pay for the destruction of my ship� D�ghor told her.

True to his word, the last of the Vorn crew was cutting a bloody path for the Archangel team to bring the hostages down. Outside the temple, the Marines that Merak brought down with Gryphon where laying down heavy fire to anything that looks walked and acted like a Breen. Surprisingly with how out number they where only a few of the Marines where hit and most of them not bad enough to keep from fighting.

�You heard the man,� Mac turned to scrutinize the delegates. Only one needed assistance walking, and one of the Klingons was helping him. The rest, although beaten and exhausted, would be able to make it to the ship � if they could. She pivoted back around and faced the enemy. �Orion, come with me; Kurowsa, Syvek, and Takahashi, get them to the Gryphon.�

[Orion, Syvek, Kurowsa]

If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run �
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

Sixty seconds � an eternity when things were bad. Her father would have told her that time was objective and was not the enemy. Just sixty-seconds would give the delegates time to get there. They had to make that time stretch. The energy pack in her rifle was at fifty percent, enough . . . maybe. If it came down to hand to hand, she�d do it without hesitation, but it was ugly business. �Captain D�ghor, help us clear a path!� she shouted and hoped he�d heard her.

[D�ghor]

Grit ground beneath her boots with every step down towards their destiny. Fallon was going to owe her big time for this one � all of them were owed. She felt the delegates and her team moving quickly behind her and down the stairs, Mac and Orion used their bodies to shield them, stepping sideways. She could see Merak on the ramp of the Gryphon, firing at the Breen moving towards the Archangel team. Once they realized the game was lost, they�d probably kill the Romulans and Klingons rather than try to retake them.

�Nearly there, Merak,� Mac rasped into her comm link; her throat was dry and tight.

[Merak]