Saved by the bell

Before I could start to have a full breakdown, however, the floor beneath me suddenly lurched hard, and I was flung against the cot on the far wall. Suddenly alarm bells ran out, only adding to my headache that I was now starting to understand was the side effect of whatever **** they had shot me with to abduct me.

The creature ran to a panel on the wall "Laston here what the hell is going on!" it barked into it

"It's the damned Federation!" a voice responded slightly tinny from the intercom. "They must've followed us and are trying to be the classic goody-goodies and rescue the poor innocent species" the sarcasm was palpable, even over the intercom. "I need you up here now Laston, we weren't expecting that first blast and Yerlo knocked himself out on the console when we lurched. get up here now, those prisoners aren't going anywhere, and our Jumper isn't going to be ready to jump for another 30"

The creature apparently named Laston. barked back a confirmation, and without a second look marched through the doors leaving the rest of us trapped in the brig.

The next couple of minutes seemed to last ages, as the ship was rocked back and forth multiple times as the Galvaxis was fired upon by the Federation ship. I wondered if this was where I was going to die. in a fiery explosion in a spaceship after being **** by aliens. Well if this was it is certainly a unique way to go.

Before I could think more along that path though, the ship shuttered and lurched once more, and when I picked myself up. I could see that all the lights were out. the only lights remaining were the glowing red emergency lights, and as luck would have it, the main power going out seemed to have also knocked out the **** field covering the cells.

"alright come on, we gotta go!" I said to the rest of them, they must be able to understand me, I figured that when I was out they must've implanted some sort of translator inside me, that's the only way I could think of as to why I could understand Lanston in the first place.

The others followed me and we poured out of the ship. The journey was terrifying as the ship was occasionally rocked again by more and more weapons of fire. We managed to stumble around and found some sort of escape pod, right as the warning klaxon, which was still blaring over all the noise of the fight. changed to a message stating "WARNING SEVERE CORE BREACH, SHIP DESTRUCTION IMMINENT, ALL HANDS TO ESCAPE PODS" one of the aliens took over, clearly proficient in this escape pods, design or controls. and blasted us out of the ship, right as it exploded into light and shrapnel. the **** of the blast threw us even further away. and caused me to smash my head against the wall. sending into the black of unconsciousness once again.