Invasion! 1 - TOS 79 - First Strike (c) by Star Trek

Author:Star Trek [Star Trek]
Language: deu
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Inc.
Published: 2011-02-06T10:07:09.062000+00:00

Chapter Eleven

UNLIKE THE BODY of the ensign whom Kellen had just killed, the Iraga's wound gushed no liquid onto his fist, but instead puckered around it. He felt no spine, but assumed there was one in there somewhere, and aggravated the blade across the body from side to side.

The Iraga gasped and arched backward against him. Its mouth stretched open and its limbs thrust outward. Kellen pulled it down until he could twist the tentacles around the creature's face and stuff them into its mouth and down its throat, guttering any cry it tried to make.

He waited for it to die, but it would not die. It cranked to this side, then that side, trying to pull itself free of his grip and the blade digging into its back. Soon it began to go pliant in his arms and he let it drop.

It slid down his legs and rolled to the deck at his feet, staring up at him with bitter green eyes that had no pupils.

"Security to Mr. Scott. Emergency."

Kellen looked up, and stepped to the archway. The senior engineer was reaching for the nearest panel.

"Scott here."

"Sir, Mr. Giotto here. Captain says to notify you of intruder-alert status. We've had a call from deck four. Yeoman Tamura went to ask the Klingon general if she could bring him dinner and she found Ensign Brown on the floor of the VIP quarters. He's been killed, sir, and there's no sign of the general. We're attempting a biosweep for Klingon physiology, but we haven't pinpointed anything yet."

The engineer's face turned stony, and for a moment he glared at the comm as if it had done the killing. When he spoke his voice was like metal grating on metal. "Acknowledged. Scott out." He looked up and snapped his fingers. "Mr. Hadley! Go to Security alert status two in the lower section. Double guards at every entrance. Let's clear this deck of all but assigned personnel. Arm the lot and set up in teams."

"Yes, sir, Mr. Scott. Johnson, come with me! Elliott, come down here!"

Suddenly there was confusion all over. The demons were rounded up and shuffled out of Kellen's sight. Guards with phasers jogged through, and his plans for sabotage were snuffed before his eyes.

So the plans must be altered.

He stepped back to the poisonous body, yanked his dagger clear of the Iraga's back, and quickly retracted the two claw extensions. Taking the hilt in both hands, he braced his legs wide, raised the heavy center blade as the creature looked up beseechingly at him, and brought it down with all the power in his thick upper body. The blade crunched through the Iraga's throbbing neck and went a finger's length into the deck.

Sawing deliberately, he ignored the free flood of white fluid and gray organs. Finally he twisted his left hand into the frantically jerking tentacles and pulled as he cut. The eyes flared as if the demon knew what was happening to it. The lips moved open, closed, open, closed,

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