Hyperdrive, Part II

[k_in_black]

 
[After this]

Turns out K does have time to aim at the hooded figure standing before him. It just doesn’t make any difference. His staccato burst of white-hot energy slams into the Entity.

No damn effect.

“Aw, shit!” K growls, turning and diving for the hallway as the air in front of the figure shimmers, contorts... and then something rips into the bulkhead right behind where K was standing, leaving it blasted and smoldering.

From the hallway, K hears a low, wet chuckle.

“Laugh it up, Slick,” K calls out as he re-calibrates the blaster, then taps its emergency power reserve. “Got your fine for damages right here.” The Man in Black snaps into a firing pose and takes several steps back, pulse blaster raised to unleash hell the moment the Entity steps out of the galley.

Nothing.

K waits. He’s a patient man.

Still nothing.

“Shit,” K grumbles again. Only one way to play this, and that Entity knows it just as well as he does. He slips over to the other side of the hallway, blaster still raised and takes step after careful step back toward the open doorway. Then with a rush, K throws himself through the door, falling to his knees, blaster braced in both hands.

Empty.

"SHIT!" K roars a third time. He leaps to his feet, and slams the activation trigger on a nearby control panel. As the protective seal slides back, K sweeps the room with his blaster. "Computer! Initiate code omega 7-3x-beta-tau. Re-task to hibernation unit, authorization K-23-F-kshtna-niner-delta. Initiate crash-revival system on my mark.... Mark!"

He's never going to hear the end of that from F and N, but dammit, they’ll be alive.

K flat out runs for the hibernation chamber, but by the time he gets there, the two Men in Black are already coming around.

"Goddammit, K," F groans, "What the hell are you thi--?"

"ON YOUR FEET," K shouts. “We’ve got an Omega class threat on this boat, so haul ass or get ready to start sucking down Oil."

With a chorus of "FUCK!" F and N lurch off their hibernation cots, falling flat on their faces before scrambling back to their feet and pulling on their gear.

K, meanwhile, is already back by the doorway, glaring down the shadowed hall.

"Looks like we get in-flight entertainment, after all."