Silence rang out clearer than the klaxon alarms blaring after his joking quip to Alex. He supposed the armor plating of the fighter craft was quite soundproof, that or Alex had gone and gotten herself knocked out or worse. This question gave the slaver cause for both alarm and pause, as he struggled with a momentary conundrum. In the fleeting moments that Alex spent fighting against the clock to not only disable the beacon but save her hide, Zasz debated whether or not to leave her to her death and write her off as a loss. Despite his earlier statements of saving her and thoughts of her usefulness to his operations, if Alex had done her job and bit the bullet, Zasz could vent her along with this entire encounter and be none the worse for wear, apart from the critical damage done to his vessel.
The captain had escaped from tighter spots in the past.
Those heavy, metallic gauntlets removed from the craft's hull as Zasz monitored the signals repeating outward from the Greenhouse, and sure enough, true to her word, Alex cut off the second to last beacon. All that remained was the one aboard the Diem Vuong, which he could easily tend to himself.
In that cold, calloused heart of his there a scale was weighed to the threat Alex could bring upon him, opposed to the skill of her ability and compatibility she shared with Zasz's personality. Two pieces to the left, one to the right...back and forth the measurements went in his mindscape.
Then resonated a dull thud against the tinted cockpit, then another, and Zasz simply tossed his personal metrics aside. Zasz was a man of his word, and not a coward. Such actions were so unlike the slaver that he felt a brief twinge of shame wash over him. That only doubled his renewed resolve to get his mechanic to safety. Oculars darting across the surface of the craft, he scanned for any means to readily access the cockpit only to grit his teeth in dismay that the force he'd need to apply might dislodge the vessel from his own ship.
Grappling onto the hatch with whatever leverage he could muster, the captain pulled with perhaps a touch too much exertion. A groan earned from the Greenhouse as the fighter's hull shifted and brought friction against the larger vessel. This wasn't how he'd prefer to die, spaced in a botched rescue attempt, but his options were slim. Alex seemed to answer his prayers though with her struggles inside, the click of latches releasing the cockpit door and allowing Zasz to fling it upward.
Greeted by a pale flailing hand, he wasted not a second in freeing her from the inner working with a firm tug into his solid arms. Like Alex, Zasz would be greeted with a hiss of green gas, though it was a feeble amount, the filters in his lungs caught the foreign particulate and analyzed it as he carried the redhead away from the source for her to breath in the clean air. In theory, the defense mechanism should only be lethal to the races encompassing the Russlion's empire, which was a rather limited selection. The gas would still feel like a kick in the lungs, likely more painful than that descriptor, but she'd live once it filtered out if her system. "You did it, Alex, shut down the beacons and managed to free yourself. You are full of surprises." A deep laugh from the captain as he rocked her small frame as gently as possible in his sturdy one. "Now we just have to get to the Diem Vuong, shut down its transmitter, get the fuck out of this region on sublight engine speed alone before other enemies show up, and hope the ship doesn't tear itself apart. That doesn't sound so bad, right?" Even at his worst, Zasz Fenris tried to remain optimistic, though he wasn't sure he sounded it in the moment.
The captain had escaped from tighter spots in the past.
Those heavy, metallic gauntlets removed from the craft's hull as Zasz monitored the signals repeating outward from the Greenhouse, and sure enough, true to her word, Alex cut off the second to last beacon. All that remained was the one aboard the Diem Vuong, which he could easily tend to himself.
In that cold, calloused heart of his there a scale was weighed to the threat Alex could bring upon him, opposed to the skill of her ability and compatibility she shared with Zasz's personality. Two pieces to the left, one to the right...back and forth the measurements went in his mindscape.
Then resonated a dull thud against the tinted cockpit, then another, and Zasz simply tossed his personal metrics aside. Zasz was a man of his word, and not a coward. Such actions were so unlike the slaver that he felt a brief twinge of shame wash over him. That only doubled his renewed resolve to get his mechanic to safety. Oculars darting across the surface of the craft, he scanned for any means to readily access the cockpit only to grit his teeth in dismay that the force he'd need to apply might dislodge the vessel from his own ship.
Grappling onto the hatch with whatever leverage he could muster, the captain pulled with perhaps a touch too much exertion. A groan earned from the Greenhouse as the fighter's hull shifted and brought friction against the larger vessel. This wasn't how he'd prefer to die, spaced in a botched rescue attempt, but his options were slim. Alex seemed to answer his prayers though with her struggles inside, the click of latches releasing the cockpit door and allowing Zasz to fling it upward.
Greeted by a pale flailing hand, he wasted not a second in freeing her from the inner working with a firm tug into his solid arms. Like Alex, Zasz would be greeted with a hiss of green gas, though it was a feeble amount, the filters in his lungs caught the foreign particulate and analyzed it as he carried the redhead away from the source for her to breath in the clean air. In theory, the defense mechanism should only be lethal to the races encompassing the Russlion's empire, which was a rather limited selection. The gas would still feel like a kick in the lungs, likely more painful than that descriptor, but she'd live once it filtered out if her system. "You did it, Alex, shut down the beacons and managed to free yourself. You are full of surprises." A deep laugh from the captain as he rocked her small frame as gently as possible in his sturdy one. "Now we just have to get to the Diem Vuong, shut down its transmitter, get the fuck out of this region on sublight engine speed alone before other enemies show up, and hope the ship doesn't tear itself apart. That doesn't sound so bad, right?" Even at his worst, Zasz Fenris tried to remain optimistic, though he wasn't sure he sounded it in the moment.
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