I awoke to see Pvt. Dagger sitting on a crate, apparently, I had been out for only about 5 minutes and we weren't much behind schedule. Alright, just gotta take out the tube and then the base. "Lieutenant, the devices," I started. "Already on, sir." "Good, let's get a move on. I hope that you diverted the one from the docking port to put on the tube." "Yes, sir" I set the arming device for the explosive on the birthing tube. 5 minutes. "Let's go!" I ran out of the small room and onto the stairs once again, everyone left alive followed me. "Agghhh!" Crow shouted behind me. "What the hell?" I turned around to see 3 pirates and a neosapien. I shot. One pirate fell, the other shot. The shot went right into thigh. I set it to multiple shot firing and pulled the trigger, the neo got about 20 times, but the other 2 pirates remained. Well, it was at about this time that the explosives went off, and I went flying! Right onto the remaining pirates. Dagger and Preston opened fire, taking them out of the way. O'Muirdagh pulled me up again and supported me. "This is not my day," I said to myself, "alright, you two," I pointed to Dagger and Preston, "arm all of the devices, 15 minutes." They complied. Crow stood up again. With the help of O'Muirdagh, I barely limped towards the other exit, the docking port. When we arrived at the docking port, O'Muirdagh started the ship there up, and said to me, "We don't have enough fuel to get off this rock." This was not my day. "Alright, we will leave, go to where we left our gear, and put in all the fuel from there into this piece of-" "We don't have enough fuel for that either." "Oh God, what's next!" Crow shouted. Just then, Dagger and Preston arrived, "All set," Dagger said. "Crow," I started, "you good enough to walk? Or run, rather?" "Yeah." "Alright, carry me to the site where we left our gear." We left, the men carrying me and his own gun, as fast as they could, until we reached the site. "Get us the hell out of here!" I shouted at the comm unit. "Where are you?" the voice at the other end crackled in. "Track us, suit number 55201-B" I shut the unit off. "Get ready, boys, the explosion will come in, 1 minute, 19 seconds. But before that, look, pirates," I pointed out, "They'll be here in about 10 seconds. Another laser bolt shot through the rest of my arm, "Damn it!" I switched the hand in which I held the gun, and shot. We at least had the pods and our armor to withstand the attacks, and after about 5 minutes and when we could hold our own no more, half of Gamma Squadron came. The pirates didn't care, they had no place to go, nowhere to hide, only death remained. "Well, Captain, looks like I got here just in time," the voice of Hobbes cracked in. "Shut up!" I snapped back. Just now a pirate came up to me and slammed the butt of his gun into my forehead. When I came-to, I was in the medical bay, Dr. Rhodes standing over me. I had bandages over all of my arm, my head, and my leg. "Well, Captain, looks like you got yourself pretty banged up. Oh, and although the captain said that you wouldn't have to go on that diet, I can over-ride his orders on medical issues, so, I'll see you tomorrow in the exercise room." The End.