AWF Chpt 119

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=Chapter 119=
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===Jail Break===
Black Lion Class Battlecruiser, CSS Veil of Light
Jump Point
St. Ives System, St. Ives Compact
June, 3030
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Henry led them as they ran down the passageway. Hap had no idea where Henry was leading them, but he seemed to know where he was going. As they jogged down the passageway they saw four men in black coming toward them.
Hap didn't have any weapons, Henry had taken one of the stun sticks and Dmitry took the other. Hap just balled his fists and sprinted. The pitch in the engine changed. Hap felt like he had accidentally leapt into the air. The engines became quieter and ship stopped moving. It took Hap a moment to realize they were no longer moving which meant there was no thrust to create pseudo-gravity. Selene barked as Hap reached out to catch himself before he hit his head on the passageway's ceiling.
He glanced ahead to watch the ROM agents kick off the deck and grab the bars built into the sides of the passageway and pull themselves forward and propel themselves down the passageway. He watched one of them reach into a pouch on his belt and pull out a stun stick.
To Hap's left across the passageway Henry was holding onto bars of the wall and had braced his feet. "Lad, take the bastard in front o' me, and I'll take yours." Henry said in a quiet growl.
Hap nodded as he grabbed the bar on his side and braced his feet. He kept his eyes on the man rapidly drifting toward him, and tried to remember anything useful from the few times he did zero-gravity training, and the one time he did zero-gravity close quarters combat. From what he could remember, this was going to hurt.
Henry pushed off like and Olympic swimmer and tackled the man coming toward Hap. The agent that was going to attack Henry tried to reach out and strike him with a stun stick but Henry was just out of reach. Hap kicked off of his bulkhead as hard as he could and grabbed the agents outstretched arm. His momentum carried them both into the other bulkhead. Hap tried to twist his arm and turn the stunstick on him as they both twisted in air, bounced off the bulkhead and struck the floor.
Selene made a series of confused growls and barks unlike anything Hap had ever heard. He glanced up the passageway to see the coyote flailing her feet as she rapidly approached him. He didn't have time to guess how she was processing the idea of zero gravity. Hap could see Joker drifting aimlessly, and Mags was yelling something in Spanish to Selene that sounded like murder and assassinate. Mags was trying to reach Joker and get him into the fight. Hap figured Joker must have launched Selene.
Hap felt his back hit the deck and he brought his feet up and placed them on the agent's chest. He kicked hard and sent him in the direction of the coyote. The man tried to swing his stun stick but Hap swatted it out of his hand. Selene made a savage growl as she came in contact with the agent and bit his wrist. The ROM agent tried to get her off his hand as she violently shook her head back and forth sending them both spinning out of control.
Hap pushed off from the floor and tried to reach for the stun stick that had gone spinning away. As he almost got his fingers on the melee weapon he was tackled. A third ROM agent had entered the fray and he slammed Hap into the bulkhead. Before Hap could react his assailant grabbed the railing and braced himself so he could knee Hap in the gut. Hap doubled over from the blow and bounced off the bulkhead again.
Hap used the side of his fist to strike the man's wrist as hard as he could. The man kneed him again but lost his grip and sent himself away from Hap. Hap tried to recover and find the stun stick but his assailant kicked off the bulkhead across from him and tackled him again. Hap raised his arms above him before he was hit, and drove his elbow into the man's back and tried to knock him loose.
Alarm klaxons started to sound. Hap glanced over to see the fourth ROM agent use a intercom console to report the escaped prisons. Hap raised his arms high and combined his fists and brought down the double axe handle punch on the agent attacking him. The man grunted, and he reached for the passageway railing again. Hap struck his hand, and he responded by spinning him and Hap around and kicking off the bulkhead to drive both of them into bulkhead across the passageway.
Hap hit the wall hard and the back of his head struck the metal surface. He saw stars and tried to clear his head by shaking it. He saw the stun stick float by and stretched to reach it. His opponent took the opportunity to punch Hap in the side.
The fourth ROM agent glided into view. He already had his stun stick out and was positioning himself to hit Hap when Selene and the ROM agent she had by the arm collided with him. They also sent the floating stun stick right into Hap's grasp. Hap activated the stun stick and drove it into the neck of the man pummeling him. He felt him jerk and then go limp. He pushed him away and took a moment to recover.
Selene was now tangled with two ROM agents, and Hap smirked as he wondered if their zero gee training included how to handle coyotes.
Joker was now sailing down the passage way and called out, "Stun Stick!"
Hap sent the stun stick to Joker and as he took it, and Hap shoved him toward the coyote and ROM agents. Joker grabbed the nearest ROM agent by the leg and hit him with the stun stick. Selene gave another vicious shake and Joker held on as they tumbled. He hit the floor and used the leverage to stun the other agent.
Mags was following closely behind Joker. She could see that Selene still had the unconscious ROM agent's arm in her mouth. "Selene, Liberar, Liberar" she said.
Selene growled, but let go and drifted slightly away from the ROM agents.
"Help me, lad." Henry called out to Joker as he gave his ROM agent a brutal kick and pushed him away toward Joker.
Joker was crouching close to the floor and pushed off so he could catch the ROM agent and use the stun stick to render him unconscious. Joker pushed him away to drift aimlessly down the passageway.
"Thanks." Henry growled, then looked at Hap. "Ye good?"
"I've been better, but we have work to do, and I want my wife back." Hap answered.
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