“Shut the door!!” Mala shouted, shoving a new cartrage into the the butt of her taser as she ran past.

“But Capitan-!” Nenicy called after, but his words were lost in the chatter of gunfire. A laser shot past him, burning his nose. He cried out in pain, reeling backwards, but he scrabled to smash his hand onto the control panel and shut the door.

“Danciel, I hate pirates,” Cherriux snarled into his mic as his fighter ship shot out of the docking bay.

“Warning!” the ship’s automatic alarm started going off…