Babylon 5: Outrageous Fortune

[Leif]

Kirth Warren

Kirth takes better cover behind the door, COMPLETE cover, that is. "I think she's asking for you, Ashley."

 

[Shayuri]

"Don't shoot!" Ashley urged, holding up a hand. "We're here to help. My name's Ashley Logan. I'm going to lower my gun now."

She did so, slowly, with no sudden moves.

"We saw the shuttle go down. We have medical supplies."

 

[Dr Simon]

The woman seems to calm a little, and powers down her PPG.

"There's... there's two more in here," she says, indicating some limbs sticking out from under a tangle of broken acceleration couches, "but I think they're beyond help. C-can you do anything?"

 

[Shayuri]

"We're going to try," Ashley promises. "Kirth. Sarhat. Lets get this debris off of them so we can see how bad it is."

She looks at the conscious survivor. "Can you tell us what happened? Why the shuttle went down? Miss...?"

 

[Leif]

Kirth Warren

Kirth will assist Sarhat in removing the loose debris while listening intently to Ash and the survivor.

 

[Dr Simon]

"Dyson. I - Ireen Dyson. I, I don't know what happened. It was a routine landing, then all the power went off for a bit, next thing I know, bang! The pilots didn't even warn us for impact. The pilots... Oh God, have you checked them, are they okay?"

Kirth and Sarhat clear away some of the debris. There are two people under there in a bad way. They are both alive, barely, but maybe not for long. You would need a stretcher or litter of some kind to move them.

 

[Leif]

Kirth Warren

"A little help here, people? We've got injured crew members in this wreckage and we need a stretcher or a litter to get them out. And STEP on it, doesn't look like they'll last much longer in there."

 

[Dr Simon]

Sakira gestures for Max to lend his considerable mass to the task of freeing the trapped shuttle passangers. The reporter kneels to examine them.

"I know a little first aid," she says, "Comes in handy when you go poking around like me and Max do. I'll do what I can."

Lars' voice comes over the communicator.

"If you need a stretcher, I haven't got one but I reckon we could rig something together from the bunks. I'll be... wait..." There is a pause filled with the sounds of movement. Then Lars comes back on air. "Something on the long range scanners, closing fast."

"A rescue ship?" says Sakura hopefully.

"Nnnooo, I don't think so," says Lars. "The reading doesn't make sense. Its as big as a shuttle, but it keeps changing shape, like a giant blob or something."

 

[Leif]

Kirth Warren

"Giant blobs in space, headed this way. I've got a very bad feeling about this! But at least I'm armed, so I can shoot at the insidious aliens as they take over my brain and I die a horrible death. Or perhaps I'm being a bit melodramatic?"

 

[Shayuri]

"Lars," Ashley snapped, fear making her voice crack. "No time for questions. Power the crawler down. Completely down. All systems completely off. Life support too. Do it now and don't ask why."

She closed her eyes and put a hand over her mouth. She had no idea if her sudden intuition was correct, but if it wasn't then they were probably all in a lot of trouble.

"Us too," Ash said quietly, turning off her personal equipment. "Turn off everything you can without dying. Minimum power."