Ok, change of plans: should be ready so far.
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Chapter 11: Pain
Pain. That was all she was able to think of at this moment. It felt as if Antimonys arm would kill her. She tried what she had learned in her training and focused on something else instead. However, it did not work and she could still feel that burning pain.
It must have been ages since Gladius departure and she wondered what was going on, as she could suddenly hear someone yell from the outside. The sound of this unknown voice was strange, but harsh, she could not understand a word it was saying and to her surprise, she could not sense the one speaking. However, she knew that she had to help the Teidar, as she was the only other crewsister that was awake. Also, everyone knew that spoken words and Teidars did not mix well. Such situations usually ended in burned down cities, destroyed colonies and a lot of dead sisters. Someone had to keep her under controll before things got worse and she still had no idea how she would do that.
The red haired Listel tried her best to stand up, as she could sense the more and more aggressive feelings coming from Gladius. She already had attacked one, no, two of those unknown intruders. Antimony had to help her. Again pain was filling her mind as she managed to pull herself out of the copilots chair. Then a looud bang and flash of light showed her, that the situation had gotten worse than she had anticipated. One or more intruders moved in afterwards in the cabin, followed by more shouting and then something that sounded like a burst of weapons fire. The Listel could feel that Gladius was in trouble, maybe injured, which meant she had to move faster and pull herself togehter.
She tried to hold her broken arm stable as she moved to the cockpit door, as fast as she could. The door was still partially open, as Gladius had left it, but she had no trouble getting trough it and leaned against it, as she was through. Suddenly, someone shone a light in her face, glaring her vision. At first she couldn't tell who or what it was. Then it lowered the light and he could see it for the first time. A person.
It looked strangely familiar to her. Two legs, two arms, one head. So no Umiak, which was a good thing. It was wearing some kind of bodyarmor and a helmet, but looked more muskular than a Loroi warrior. A weapon was in its hands, strangely looking, with a flash light attached to it. At first she thought it might be an android of some kind.
But then she could see how it looked at her: puzzled, confused, as if she was some sort of trick. No android or cyborg would do that. So she tried to figure out more about it and managed to get a look at its face. It somehow looked familiar, too. Almost like that of a Loroi male, but there was some hair on his face, around his mouth. She had never seen something like that and must have starred at it for a while, as it starred back at her.
Were had she seen something almost like that before? The pain made her thoughts slow and thinking felt like walking through the Mezzan dessert without oxygen. Oh, yes... Finally she got it: it was the ambassador of humaniti and the pictures of his dead crewmates, she had to think of. Although the ambassador had no such hair on his face and his body was less muskular than the individual in front of her, this was the only explanaition she could think of.
Antimony was unsure what to do next. How would this "human" react? How confused was he? There was only one way to find out and she really had hoped that the Mizol would be doing it: she had to speak with him.
"Do not shoot. We come in peace."
He looked at her, even more confused than before. Suddenly she could see more movement in the darkness and another one of those supposed humans stood up. He had been kneeling next to Gladius, as she could see now, who was lying on the floor and she could not tell how injured she was. Antimony was not able to sense him, too. At least two more stood in the back of the cabin and had turned around in her direction, but she could not see what they were doing there. Her telepathic signature detection had failed again, too. The individual with the facial hair then turned his head to his side and said in an, for Loroi standards, unusuall and very deep voice:
"Wie gehts dem Fähnrich? Sie wird hier gebraucht!"
To her confusion, she did not understand a word he said. Had the ambassador tricked them or were they a different sub species of humaniti? She had to find out what was going on.
"Can you understand my words?"
He turned his head to her again, again looking puzzled, but after a brief moment, he answered. She had trouble understanding him at first, as he had some kind of heavy accent, she had never heard before.
"I... can understand you. But... there are others who are better trained in talking with you."
The human than turned his head to his side and spoke again, in his strange language.
"Wird das heute noch was?"
"Wir sind gleich da."
One of the others in the back answered him and after a while, she could see another human getting closer. At first she thought he was helping one of her crewsisters moving to them, but she could not sense her. As they came closer, Antimony could see, that she was human, too. The human female looked injured, in pain and almost in worse shape, than herself. Red blood was running down on the side of her face and she seemed to had trouble moving. Nevertheless, the female looked at her with curious eyes and spoke to the Listel:
"I am Fähnrich Ludovski... We just wanted to offer our help and are sorry if there was some kind of missunderstanding. But... can you tell us who you are?"