[dcs_p]”Ya like that?” Xandar asked, grinning from ear to ear. “I call that a right
hook…you know, like the kind you pulled on me?” Eyes almost burning, Xandar
stood across the command center from the pirate. Weapons lay all around the
room but Xandar refused to arm himself. Instead he dared the pirate to try
picking one up. “Why don’t you try for that pistol, eh BECKETT?” Xandar’s words
dripped disgust. His fists tight at his sides, he waited.[/dcs_p]
[dcs_p]”I have some explaining to do, you should know that. I know you saw me kill the
other pirates.” Beckett confessed. “You see I’m not what you think I am. I’m not a
pirate. Well I’m a pirate but I’m an agent posing as a pirate.”[/dcs_p]
[dcs_p]”Sure you are. Whatever you say “agent” Beckett.” Xandar said. Walking slowly
across the room, he neared the pirate.[/dcs_p]
[dcs_p]”Wait, wait. Alright I’m a pirate. But I need a dropship captain, one I can trust.
This guy Redjack Ryan killed all of my family. All I want is to kill him and his men.”
Beckett said. Beckett stay perfectly still against the hatchway door. Letting
Xandar close, he did not try to arm himself.[/dcs_p]
[dcs_p]Xandar rushed Beckett. Taking two quick steps he grabbed the pirate by the
throat and pushed him hard against the door. Raising back his right arm, he
delivered a devastating blow to Beckett’s skull. The pirate’s body slumped down
in Xandar’s grasp. Beckett had taken at the very least a concussion. Xandar slid
him off to the left side of the door, and Beckett dropped like a rag doll. “WELL.
What are you waiting for?” Xandar bellowed. Bending down, he looked through
the hole to Joanna.[/dcs_p]
[dcs_p]”Open the damn door Harlow.” Joanna ordered. Xandar grumbled, then punched
the button and the hatchway opened. “Nice work on the pirate but that doesn’t
excuse you for being an ass.” Joanna frowned, walking into the room. Steven
was still unconscious, but the smoke was nearly absent now. “Michael is dead by
the way. He was shot by either this bastard before us, or by the pirate who
caught my top on fire.” she said, pointing to her scorched hair.[/dcs_p]
[dcs_p]”Michael’s dead? This is bad. Anything else I should know?” Xandar’s adrenaline
was letting off. The news of Michael’s death brought him back to reality.
“Well the remaining pirates are on their way to this room. I expect they’ll be at
least 10. In other words we are in for one hell of a fight.” Joanna dropped into her
seat, sadly looking over to Michael’s empty chair. “You have any ideas?”
Xandar looked up to the small room’s ceiling. “Well we have weapons but its
going to be a tough fight.” Still staring at the ceiling, he mentally weighed the
options he had. “When are they boarding the ship?”[/dcs_p]
[dcs_p]”They aren’t boarding the ship. They already have. They’re the leftovers from this
joker’s group!” she pointed to Beckett on the floor. “We better hope they aren’t
too much like him or we’ll be dead in 5 minutes.” Interrupting her last words,
Beckett moaned from the corner of the room.[/dcs_p]
[dcs_p]”By the way, drag him out of this room and I’ll put a bullet in his head.” Joanna
sneered, checking the ammunition on Dobs’s pistol.
Grabbing Beckett, Xandar slid the pirate’s body out into the corridor. Instead of
Joanna following, she just turned in her seat and aimed at the pirate. “Get the hell
away from him Xandar…by the way, cover that corridor with the gauss rifle. It
should be pretty effective at sniping pirates.”[/dcs_p]