For Goodness Sake : Willow, What's the Matter?
10 Nov 2024Willow Thorn
Link to Off Station postShe was slipping into shock. She hadn't had enough time to even ask Maul about his head, or how they did looking for leads on Creamy, before they were in trouble. Again, Willow had been ambushed for no reason she could fathom, by an organisation that did most of there work with a gun. Her breath was coming in shallow and fast, but the tears hadn't began to full until she realised she was being separated from the guys. Seeing Vasil and Maul pushed away through other doors weakened Willows failing grip on control.
Gordova shoved Willow in to a sterile looking room with a bench, some lockers and a shower head. Gordova pushed Willow again, making her trip over the bench forcing her to put her hands on the surface to stop herself falling over.
"Strip" Gordova commanded.
Slowly standing up with her back to Gordova, Willow imagined all the horrible things that could happen in a room like this, but most of all she was scared what would happen when Gordova found the glass knife Willow always had hidden in her clothes.
"STRIP" barked Gordova again.
She didn't want to, but Willow was too scared to disobey the man behind her. By now, her hands were trembling so hard, Willow couldn't even grip her blouse firmly enough to to pull the neck line apart.
"For fuck SAKE" complained Gordova advancing on Willow. "If you don't get that shit of, I will"
His hand gripped her clothes at the centre of her chest, and his fist pushed Willow into the bank of lockers. She couldn't believe this was happening. Being captured and treated like property had almost broken her before, and now she had to relived the nightmare again. As the agents hands did what ever he wanted to Willow, she gave up and closeted her eyes, but Alice drew the knife from its hiding place and pushed it into Gordova's neck.
Willow, being a mortician, had a very good understanding of anatomy, and cutting human flesh. There for, so did Alice. Pulling the knife out was very hard, and Alice had to put her knee against Gordova's hips to get enough power to do so. Standing back, Alice watched the surprised Gordova pawing at his neck fall to his knees, then onto his face.
"Well then" said Alice checking the room for a camara. She was very pleased to see there wasn't one.
While Willow was too scared to pay attention to anything, Alice had been watching closely. Gordova had use his hand on a biometric reader to open the door, so Alice would need that. She had to stand on the knife and rock it back and forth, but Alice managed to cut it off eventually. Picking it up by the index finger, Alice placed it wrist down, over the showers plug hole to drain.
After checking Gordova's pockets, Alice put the lanyard with his ID around Willows neck, and put his laser carbine on the bench. She walked over to the mirror with the pocket-pack of tissues Alice had found, and look at what she had to work with.
Willows face was a mess. "Oh you poor girl" said Alice, looking out the eyes Willow wasn't using right now "Don't worry, I'll fix you up and keep you safe" Looking around, Alice saw Willows tote-bag in a box by the door.
"Perfect!"
Fetching the bag, Alice fixed Willow's makeup and put her Power-Link back in its pocket. After making Willow presentable again, Alice did a little customisation to Gordova's laser carbine. Willow's body was very weak, but at least she shared lots of useful skills with Alice. Pausing at the door, Alice huffed.
"Silly me! I'd forget your head if it wasn't connected, wouldn't I?" Popping back to the shower, Alice picked up Gordova's hand, and used it to open the door before popping it into Willows tote-bag.
She didn't check the coast was clear before stepping out, time was of the essence, and someone that looked like a short teenage girl didn't look all that threatening to people with guns. Fortunately, the coast was clear. The massive ice giant the station orbited reflected while, ice-filtered light through the big window. Alice admired the view as she set Gordova's laser on the sill and turned it on.
Focused photons leapt from the weapon doing very little to the thick glass but heat it up, but thats all it needed to do for now. Picking a direction, Alice left the weapon discharging at the glass, and let Gordova give her a helping hand with the security doors. Walking in to the next section Alice paid attention to the letter designation, and kept counting.
"Six, seveven Section D. Nine ten"
Another door opened "Twelve. Section E. Fourteen"
Through another door "Sixteen. Ah, section F. Nineteen"
Standing on the other side of the door, Alice leant passed it using Gordova's hand to open room F's door then ducked back charging up Willows Power-Link.
"Hello?" called a voice from inside. "Who's there. I'm in the middle of an interrogation"
Still counting, Alice waited. Mag assisted foot steps came to the open door, and a guy looked out to see if anyone was there. It was the one called Estevez, the agent that had taken Vasil for questioning. Pulling the trigger in Willows Power-link, Alice dropped him.
Now wasn't the time for Alice to introduce herself to Vasil. Willow liked the man, and Alice didn't mind him either, but they didn't know how he would react to someone so different to the women he was friends with, so Alice stayed out of sight. Vail would have to make his own way out now Alice had cleared a portion of the path.
"Oh bother, I've lost count thought Alice as the glided over the the next door.
The next section was not like the last. Two guards were talking as Alice drifted in between them.
"Good morning gentleman" said Alice looking at ceiling and walls for breach safety equipment hatches.
As far as the guards knew, a calm girl with a warm smile had just come in from the interrogation facility. They didn't recognise her, but she was just standing there smiling a friendly smile. Also, she had an ID card around her neck.
"Er, haven't seen you before said one of the guards"
"Nor I you" said Alice wishing she had kept count.
The other guard was better at his job. He was looking from the ID to Willows face and working out they didn't match. While it was always fun watching people wonder what to do next, what ever he was going to do, it wouldn't go well for Alice or Willow. But Alice knew something the guards didn't. What she didn't know was when because she had lost count.
"Hand's up" said the guy worth his pay drawing a pistol and pointing it at Willow. Alice would kill him first.
Alice complied and waited. Every vestige of civility had left Willows face because someone had a weapon on Willow while Alice was supposed to be protecting her. A distant pop was followed by a the station rocking and a massive changed in the air pressure as a window in integration section C had been blowen out.
Doors slammed shut, and the lights turned red, but by the time the sirens had started, the guard with the gun had a glass knife pushed into his ribs, and the other man was a victim of Willows Power-Link.
The safety measures Alice had been banking on opened now there was a hull breach, and Alice quickly put on one of the emergency pressure suits and retrieved the handle what would let her manually open any door the station systems didn't register as a breach threat.
With a worth while disguise that would let her blend in during an emergency, Alice would take Willow somewhere Maul and Vasil was likely to find her.