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Tina drew her pistol and fumbled with it, trying to get a shot. Priscilla wrestled for control of it, trying but failing to use Tina as cover. Boiy and Sertan shot her up, blasting loose and disabling connections, until she lost power. [Sertan 84, Boiy 67, Tina 34, Priscilla 31]

The room went quiet. It'd been fifteen long seconds since any of the Rushers had tried to get in. Another asteroid swung lazily into view, crawling with movement.

Priscilla ripped the shotgun free from Tina's hands, booting her hard in the stomach, knocking her free from the deck and smashing her suit's EVA jet control pad. [Priscilla 112, Tina 56]

Tina drifted as Sertan raised his gun. Bullets fired, but Priscilla shifted aside, hurling herself towards Tina and grabbing her, turning to use her as cover while she fought and drifted. [Sertan 73, Priscilla 97]

Priscilla held the rifle like a club, looking for all the world like she'd been programmed to.

Tina brought the program up again, refreshing her algorithms and trying to access emergency control. Priscilla's visual feedback was filled with pixelation and strange interference, and she swung her fist at Tina, advancing towards her. Priscilla managed to smash the drone antenna, leaving her beyond control. [Drones 8]

Boiy fired his gun into the crowd, picking his shots and killing rushers as they came in. [Small Arms 74]

Cross stepped up beside him, gunning down rushers in even greater number. They advanced side by side. [Small Arms 87]

Sertan joined them, stepping up between them in the advancing wave, grey alien fluid pouring flying back as he gunned down more and more of the alien figures [Small Arms 85]

Stella drew the plug into the laser turret and started it up. The generator thrummed to life and the gun registered alignment with her suit. A bright white dot appeared on the wall, and as Stella swept it the rushers flash boiled. Bodies exploded and tore in two, geysers of grey fluid erupting into gas, hurling parts of bodies across the room. She easily held them to the entrance now, a wave of rushers at the entrance exploding like dumplings in the microwave. [Laser 70]

Above, an asteroid spun into view. Alien debris seemed to teem with rushers, leaping up towards you as the asteroid spun out of sight again.

The gate pulled you in as you approached, hurtling you through it. The world seemed to spin, and you were dizzy as you arrived, stepping through into the gate room. A field of stars filled the entrance door where once there'd been a hallway moving sideways. They moved swiftly across the hole, but you were given little time to think it over as alien rushers began to pour through, climbing in from the surface of the gate room.

You still felt like the room was spinning.

The gate opened, and the bomb was pushed through. Carmine shifted his stance, closing it, then started again, to make sure the bomb hadn't destroyed the far gate. A moment later, it was open. A laser turret was packed up and available, along with a Gauss, a demolition kit, and an autodoc.

Mr. Carmine brought up a cart, and it stopped. "This is the bomb. I can dial it up and send it through whenever you'd like."

With no one objecting, the meeting concluded with designs on making a rail system for the gate. Only Tina was really capable of building, so she was going to get to work, with the others meeting up when the bomb system was ready to go clear the far side.