The interior of the command module was in semidarkness, lit only by various red, blue, and green instmment lights and the sex asian com faint glow of computer sex asian com screens.
"That should be the
bridge," said Jamil, squatting down sex asian com for a look.
They kept their voices low, although after the racket the hull plate had made, whispering seemed a sex asian com bit ludicrous.
"You couldn't prove it by me," Xris muttered, replacing his tool hand with his weapons hand. "sex asian com Jamil, you know your way around--you go first. Set weapons on stun. We're trying to save lives, not end them."
"That include ours?" Jamil grumbled.
Carrying his beam rifle, he jumped through the hole. Xris heard a clatter and sex asian com a soft curse. "You okay?" he asked softly.
"Landed on top of a goddamn chair." Jamil groaned. "Banged hell out sex asian com of my knee. I--"
A bright flash of light ended the conversation. Jamil hit the deck. The shot hit the chair.
"Marines,"
Jamil sex asian com reported, reverting to his comm. "The door leading from our position on the drop sex asian com ship's bridge to the facility's airlock is standing wide open. The Marines must be in the airlock itself. They have sex asian com a clear shot at us through the door. Their weapons are not set on stun?"
The chair's upholstery was starting sex asian com to smolder.
"sex asian com Can you reach the controls to shut the door?" Xris asked.
"sex asian com I can try." Jamil rose to a crouch, using the chair for cover. He made a tentative move.
A laser blast nearly took off sex asian com his head.
He flattened back down. "They'sex asian com ve got scopes, infrared."
"Damn!" Xris sat back on his heels, tried to sex asian com think. "Tycho, get down there. See what you can do."
Tycho dropped lightly through the hole, sex asian com carrying his favored sniper rifle. He was nothing but a blur in the shadowy darkness, sex asian com yet laser fire zipped and crackled all around him. He dropped on all fours, crouched like a spider, and skittered sex asian com for cover behind a navigator's platform.
"They've got them pinned