Screaming like a stuck mynock.

So Will tries to parry the claws as best he can but he still gets some long scratches across his side.

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Guppy reaches into his bag, grabs his spray on deodorant and sprays it in the face of the soldier, in the hope of either making it stoned or at least blurring its vision by the residue.

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The soldier seems visibly confused and impaired by the spray (it rather mists up those glowing 'eyes' on his helmet) and pauses hesitantly for a moment.

Meanwhile, Lagos apparently spots a small shuttle nearby, and starts tugging Guppy towards it.

Two soldiers jump into their path, backed up by a person who is clearly not a Sith - an unarmoured, burly man with what looks like a baseball bat.

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Using that moment of distraction, Will uses his sword to go after the man with a baseball ball. Hopefully that will buy them the time to all get in.

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Guppy isn't sure at all that the deodorant is going to work on two people.

Those blades look deadly, and if his guns and unarmed combat won't work he's not sure what to do...

So instead he gets a clear shot and shoots the unarmoured man with his blaster, freeing up Will to take on one of the remaining men.

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The man screams, bat clattering to the ground as he collapses, clutching his shoulder.

The soldiers pay him no attention, raising their claws, as the deodorant-sprayed soldier approaches from behind, slowly and cautiously, as he still can't really see properly.

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Will's in the midst of taking on the other soldiers but does spot the one approaching Guppy and slashes at his leg.

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Guppy launches himself hard at the remaining soldier, to knock him as far from Will as possible, then throws the deodorant at the soldier's feet and shoots it with his blaster.

It explodes, violently, knocking Guppy back too, but he gets up quickly and runs past them, looking behind to check that Will is winning.

He hopes so. He's out of ideas.

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The leg-slashed soldier sprays blue liquid, as the armour is cleaved apart to reveal a mass of what appear to be plastic tubes holding a luminescent, bright-blue substance. Exposed muscle can be seen in the spaces between tubes, but the soldier doesn't appear to actually have any skin as such.

One of the other soldiers is knocked back by the explosion, right off the edge of the bridge (no handrails, for shame), whereupon he plummets down quite a way. The fall doesn't seem to faze him, but it does mean he's far, far away.

Lagos takes the chance to dash over to the shuttle, open it, and hurry in.

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The explosion rocks Will slightly as he keeps fighting and tries to see how much longer he has to hold them off before they can leave.

Those blades hurt but he doesn't have time to think about that now.

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"Come on Will, run!" Guppy yells. The palms of his hands are lightly burned from the blast, and he has no arsanel left to help him with. He knows he's bleeding somewhere, it's trickling down his leg.

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The remaining soldier is taking down, spraying blue liquid everywhere. For a moment, there's stillness.

Then, in unison, every soldier, on every level of the docking bay, drops down to one knee, heads bowed. Reluctantly, the unarmoured men, with their makeshift weapons, also drop down to their knees.

At a balcony high above, a black-and-gold armoured figure appears, cloak trailing behind him. Will and Guppy might recognise him as Enzu Koren, the man from the news broadcasts.

Slowly and deliberately, he reaches to his belt, pulling a lightsaber from it and igniting it, red blade extending upwards with a hiss.

At which point, the engines on the shuttle starts.

"Get in!" Lagos calls. "We're ready to leave."

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Will runs towards it and pulls Guppy in, so he ends up falling which hurts, those claw things are cruel.

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"Thanks. Please tell me you can pilot." Guppy says, collapsing on the floor next to Will.

He opens his bag and tries to get out the skin fuser without touching either of his palms. If he can get the skin to heal up fast enough he can help, or something... his trouser leg is wet, his hands are shaking and his vision full of the little black spots that threaten to make him make an ass of himself.

"I'm sorry." he says, over and over again as he tries to heal himself up.

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Lagos doesn't reply, but there's a rumble as the ship lifts off, turning and soaring out of the docking bay.

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On his balcony, Koren flicks off his lightsaber, staring after the ship.
"Bring me a vessel, and inform the Exchange that our alliance, and our rule of this station, must unfortunately come to a premature end. I want all troops back on the Wyrm within half an hour. I won't be responsible for the fates of those who remain behind."

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"There should be kolto and bandages in that box near the door," Lagos says. "Painkillers, too. They'll do a good job on any wounds you have." He pauses, frowning out the viewscreen, as the massive, crustacean-esque ship turns about and towards them. "We may have a bit of a bumpy ride, though."

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Will grabs some kolto and puts it on Guppy's hands, taking the fuser out of them,

"Naught to 'pologize for, just rest. Thank ye, just glad to get out o''er."

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"Thanks." Guppy says to both of them. He crawls over to the nearest available seat, with one next to him for Will, and straps himself in as best he can, keeping his head low.

"Will, can you bring the bandages please? How hurt are you? Honestly? If you help me get rubber gloves on over the kolto I can help you, otherwise I can talk you through it."

He pulls his trouser leg up with the edge of one finger, trying to get a look at what's bleeding down his leg. Having established that he hasn't severed any major vessels, he balances that leg on his knee and uses his forearms to apply pressure above the wound.

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The ship shakes a little, then harder.

"We're taking some fire. Those Interdictors are designed to hit much bigger targets than us, so we should be alright until they send out fighters. The Wyrm doesn't seem to be firing at all, yet."

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Will gets the gloves for Guppy, and takes off his cloak to see. The claws ripped right throw his shirt and the slashes range from not too deep to one long and deep on down his side,

"Na sure, 'urts a good bit, but dinna think its too bad."

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Guppy gets the gloves on, somehow, and quickly applies a firm dressing to his own leg before tending to Will, because if he does his usual party trick of passing out when he loses blood he won't be a lot of help.

"That one will need stitching or fusing." he says, indicating the big slash. "When we can get the bleeding to slow down anyway." He grabs a large pad and applies pressure, his hands still shaking more than the ship.

He hopes he didn't kill too many people back there, not least the two aliens who helped them with sanctuary. But there wasn't really any way to have collected them.

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Its worrying how Guppy is shaking and Will pats his shoulder,

"We're alive, Guppy."

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Guppy's gut feeling is to say 'I don't know how much more of this I can take'.

But he doesn't, because he doesn't have a choice; it's take it or die.

Everything seems to be going wrong, and he's struggling to have faith that they're going to make it through alive.

As the ship gives a judder, it occurs to him that he hasn't taken his motion sickness medication. However suddenly that doesn't seem very important any more.

"Let's get you cleaned up." he manages to say to Will. "Put plenty of pressure on the wounds, get some kolto on the pads to speed it up."

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"Aye."

Will would give him a hug but he's hurting and thinking along the same lines just not as much about death more just worry. Focusing on putting pressure on his wounds helps.

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