Maiden's Raid Pt. 1

[A Face in the Crowd]

(people involved in this thread are Sidney, Georgia, James and Roger. Pt2 will be ther other crew memebers)

(Setting the Scene: The Trinity Docked at the air lock to the back left corner of the ship for cargo off load. The members escorting the crew will go from the bck of the ship up to the front of the ship where the companions are helled at marked by an 11 on this image. The third person going to collect the payment would be going to the number 12)


The trinity had docked moments before and the a security team of three people where waiting at the door for them. When the hatch opened they infomred that they would have two of their people escort the companion and a third could go to collect the payment for the delivery. "Be quick, their starting this thing in 15 minutes.

There were alot of VIP's who were showing us and that is why the Trinity was forced to dock at this point. It had worked out in the Trinity's favor normally they would be docking on a different floor for the delivery but private security was showing up for a very high government official. There would be alot more security then normal and many of them well trained in what they do.

[Sidney Bainbridge]

Sidney walked along the path to the back stage area on the Maiden's Mercy with the others. One hand on the companions arm lightly to 'escort' her, or at least seem like he was. Of course she knew the plan and was complient, hopefully. His left hand was resting on the grip of his revolver. He was ready to spring in to action if anything happened. "We ready for this everyone?" He asked the others as they got ready to round the corner to the back stage eneterance. They would surely wonder why the third memeber of the team was there and hadn't stopped to get the payment for the companion.

When they did turn the corner they saw two guards at the door with the door just swinging shut. Sidney was able to get a quick survey of the inside of the back stage area there were three guards and several companions in there. Though he didn't see Kalli, then agin he didn't see the whole area inside, she could still be in there and he hadn't caught a glimps.

As they finally got up close one of the guards spoke up. "Well take her and her papers from her." He said to the group as the other reached out to tak her arm. It was time for them to decide how they would approch it from here.

[Kalli Ann Bernett]

Kalli had gotten her composure back most of the way now that Mr. Dover was gone. He had dropped her off about two hours prior. She was still under armed guard from the four gunmen in the room. She had been keeping an eye on them all looking for any weakness in anything they did. Maybe she would be able to get a gun from one of them.

The odds of her being able to take all four of them alone was not going to be good. She knew though that the Trinity crew would come rescue her. Even though she had been told they were all dead and at first had feared it might be true she hd to believe it wasn't and that they were coming for her right now.

If they were out there they would come in hard for her and when that happened she had found the guard she was going for. He seemed to pay less teention to the others and wa always the farthest from the door. Most likely the newest person to the crew. He was their weakest point and her chance to help. Outside from behind the curtian that lead on to the stage she could hear a crowd gathering. She wasn't going to have much more time to wait for the crew to come save her before this auction began.

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Outfit

[Roger Davis]

Despite his prior plans to go in guns blazing with the biggest guns he had, the plan now allowed three of them to infiltrate and the plan was to send their three 'best' shooters in: Sidney, Roger, and James now that he was miraculously walking better. The gunhand had to stow his rifle and settle for a standard assortment of numerous pistols.

The trio made their way through the ship escorting their companion to the drop-off point. Roger had been slated as the one to pick up the payment but the plan was to avoid that altogether and just go straight for Kalli. There were merits to that plan but Roger also liked the idea of getting some cash out of the slaving bastards. Him being separate and actually doing what was expected also bought more time before discovery and when things did go down he could add to the confusion by adding a third point from which the slavers would be attacked. But that plan was unnecessarily dangerous, splitting the forces and put them all at risk.

Having reached the drop-off point it only took the guard a second to look at the group, do a mental tally, and then begin to object to the presence of a third escort for Georgia. "Hi." Roger said with a smile as he fired pointblank into the first guard. He reasoned that talking was likely only to bring the rest of the guards over and thus take away the advantage of surprise. Roger stepped further into the holding room and swept the area with his outstretched arm, firing as the other targets presented themselves.

[James Clark]

James had brought his signature revolver with him that he had used ever since the war it was reliable and had never failed him. Today however it was his secondary firearm. He had a sawn off shotgun attached to his hip ready to start shooting.

"Ready" he told Sid following just behind. James cautiously looked around he didn't want any surprises coming at them from behind.  They approached the guards and Roger took the first one at close range. James was behind the others and drew his shotgun and fired at the guard hitting him in abdomen.

He then followed Roger into the room. He threw a table over for cover and then started firing at the guards in the room. James came within a whisker of getting hit and that really pissed him off. He looked down the barrel of his gun and fired at the man. It felt got to be able to be in the heart of the action again. The injection was working, for now at least.

[Kalli Ann Bernett]

Kalli jumped just a bit when she heared the gun shots from outside the room. In a matter of seconds Roger and James had entered the room. She had to act and quick too before she froze up and couldn't do anything She stepped behind one of the guards pulling a side arm from his hlster.

everything seemed in slow motion to her as she stepped back and raised the gun. The barrle came to point at the mans spine midway up his back. Her finger squeezed the trigger, fire burst from the gun, the shell of the round ejected as the gun began to recoil back. The round flung out of the barrel and connceted with the mans spin. Blood spattered from the entry point back on to her.

The guard fell to the ground and Kallis aim followed as she sent three more rounds on to his back. With a swift push of her foot she charged to where James had knocked the table over for cover. She slide around the side of the table and took up position beside James. She kept her head down as the two fired rounds at the other guards remianing in the room. She wasn't much help at this point but it wasn't long before the few guards in the room were finished off. Now it would be time for them to get out of there.

Kalli grabbed on to James' jacketand squeezed it for just a moment. She couldn't even explain how happy she was to see them. She knew they would come for her, though she was surprised Sid wasn't in there with them. That is untill she heard the sound of gun fire outside the door.

[Sidney Bainbridge]

As the gurads were looknig to have Georgia turned over to them Roger and James went in to action. A few quick shots and the guards at the door were down and Roger and James were inside the room. Sidney of course wanted to be in there with them but he had the companion with him and had to remain outside the room to keep her safe. He coudl hear shots being fired back and forth inside the room and before they know it there were people rushing around outside.


It was to be expected from the shots being fired. Sidney opened the door in to the theater area and blasted a few rounds in to the roof of the auditorium. In seconds the crowds in there were scrabbling to get out. People by the dozens rushed out the door and past him and the companion. The mess would provide them with a bit of cover to try and get back to the Trinity. A good thing too as there would be security coming soon, and lots of it.

He waited at the door to the back stage for the others to finish up and get kalli. If they weren't quick they would be swarmed with security from all directions. They would be pinned down.

[Roger Davis]

James had moved swiftly behind him and soon the room was cleared. Even Kalli had managed to join the battle and take out one of the guards before making her way over to them. They had to move quick before things got out of hand here. The other guards would be on alert and though they didn't know exactly who was doing the shooting just yet, none of these encounters would go as smoothly as this one just had.

Roger was about to leave the room to join Sid and clear a path to get Kalli the hell out of there but then it hit him how little they had actually thought this all through. Sure, Kalli was the objective but there were a few other girls in here, waiting to be sold. For every single extra person they brought along their chances of escaping dropped and that was assuming none of the girls would become a liability or even betray them out of some sort of cognitive dissonance or Stockholm Syndrome. Still, leaving them to their fate was unconscionable.

The gunhand gave a quick wave signalling for everyone still alive in the room to follow. They weren't the mission but if they could keep up then they'd be free of this place. "Let's go. We're leavin'."

[James Clark]

James was so relieved to see Kalli when she came running over to him and when she tugged on his jacket as if to say she was happy to see him. There was never doubt in his mind about coming back for her he would do it for any of his crew. But ever since St. Albans he held a soft spot for Kalli. There would be time for hugging and kissing later however. Right now they needed to get the hell out of here "Let's move" he belted at the top of his voice. He simply nodded at Roger it was a noble thing to do making sure all these girls got out in one piece.

[Kalli Ann Bernett]

Kalli was glad Roger had decided to help the other ladies in the place out she was going to demand they did the same if he hadn't. She was still working to get herself fully composed and having shot the guard hadn't helped her. She had never shot anyone before and the though that she had taken a life was a hard pill to swollow, but she could worry about that after she was safe and back on the Trinity.


She let go of James jacket completely when he let them know it was time for them to head out. "thank you." She said fairly quietly to James before she stood up. Kalli was more then ready to go for that and she lead the charge out of the room. As soon as she got outside the room there was Sidney and some other young girl she didn't know standing next to him. "Come on Sid, lets get out of here." She said as she began to head in the direction the rest of the crowd was headed. She wasn't to sure where they were going to go but she knew it had to be away from the stage area so that only left the area to the rear of the ship.

[Sidney Bainbridge]

Sidney continued to stand out in the crowd keeping an eye on Georgia to make sure she didn't get lost in the crowd as they swept passed them. The others had finished up in the room and wouldn't be but a moment longer when SIdney noticed a guard moving through the crowed before the guard had a chance to even notice them he grabbed him by the shoulder and kneed him in the chest, doubling him over.

Sidney pressed his revolver to the back of the mans head and pulled the trigger sending him to the flood only to be swollowed up by the stamppeding crowed. Just then Kalli and the others burst from the room and began to make their way through the hall. SIdney grabbed Georgia's arm and pulled her along as they made their way with the others.

[Roger Davis]

In and out already. Sidney had held from the outside while they cleared the room. He'd also helped create even more of a panic to screen their escape. Kalli took the lead, heading toward the aft of the ship and safety. It probably wasn't the best decision since she had no idea where they had docked and if they ran into a heap of trouble it would defeat the purpose of the mission to have Kalli get recaptured or even shot while on point so Roger ran after her, ready to protect the young mechanic and also direct her back to the ship if needed. With any luck they'd run into the second team in only a matter of moments and from there it would be smooth sailing. There's nothing better than a perfectly executed mission and so far the mission was going off completely according to plan.

[James Clark]

James stayed behind to make sure that the no one came at them from behind and for good reason too. Four guards appeared from a side hatch. James quickly dispatched two of them with quick successive shots with the shotgun before dropping it drawing his revolver. He took the remaining two out.  Waiting for a couple of minutes too see if any others came. When he thought it was safe to proceed James quickly ran on after the others. He caught up with Sid, Roger and Kalli. "What's the plan?" they hadn't accounted for the additional companions coming with them.

[Kalli Ann Bernett]

Kalli trudged along with the others as they made their way aound the hall and tward the stairs. It was fairly smooth sailing as they rushed with thr crowd through the area but when they arrived at the open area where the stairs were they could he shots being fired. Though the crowd Kalli could see others were on the far side of the room.

THe problem was by now there were several guards positioned on the stars. As Kalli tried to make her way across the area several of the guards took shots at her. Kalli jumped back around the corner and waited for the others. "How are we going to get to the other side?"

They were so close now but still cut off from the rest of the crew. Hopefully they would be able to get across some how. Kalli leaned around the corner and shot off a few rounds tward the stiars.

[carolina]

[hey sorry I haven't posted for ages, I've been really busy with exams so I haven't been online much lately!]

Arriving on the Maiden's Mercy, Georgia had felt much more calm than she had expected. Despite still seeing the Trinity crew with the suspicion that one normally associates with gun-wielding strangers, she still knew she was safer with them than with the people who had kidnapped their friend.

All that kept running through her mind was that for these first few steps all she had to do what was what she had been taught to do; look pretty and go along with what she was told. She allowed herself a moment of fantasy, to believe that this was a party after all, just an opportunity to wear a beautiful dress and prove herself as a good Companion. But the fantasy ended fairly quickly.

She remembered smiling at the guards, and then after that her memory was just a blur of noise and blood and people running past. Before coming on the ship she had had some hope that maybe some sense of courage or heroism in her personality that she didn't know about would make itself known at this point, but she had no such luck. Instead came her inevitable panic and confusion as she tried to follow Sidney and avoid getting lost in the chaos.

She recognised Kalli from the photo of her that she had seen, and smiled weakly at her, the best attempt of a smile she could manage in the state of fear she was in. She saw as well the other girls that they had saved, and she felt suddenly very proud; not of herself, she knew full well that she hadn't been especially useful, but of these strangers who she had found herself with. They had done an unbelievably brave thing to help people apart from their friend. She felt a little guilty for any mistrust she had had towards them at first.

Ignoring all these thoughts for a second, Georgia focused her concentration on her two most important concerns; staying close to Sidney for safety, and bringing her breathing back to a normal rate. She had started almost hyperventilating when the crowds had rushed past. Breathe in... breathe out... Her fantasy of parties and pretty dresses had all but disappeared. Regardless of the panic she was feeling, this was much more fun than that.