The party gets seperated.

"These should be the turbolifts or something similar." The Lieutenant said, approaching a pair of sliding doors. "If we can work these we'll be able to get up to the deck the command centre is on."

The party had followed the directions they'd seen on the computer console, there had been a number of verticle shafts running through the ship which appeared to be the method of getting from deck to deck. This shaft had been the closest one to them.

"Computer, open these doors." The officer ordered.

The doors slid back to reveal an empty shaft. Eighteen leant forward and looked up and down, pulling back she turned to the others looking puzzled.

"I can't see any lifts." She informed them. "I can see doors to other decks though, but the shafts are smooth and I don't see how we could climb up."

"We want to go up computer." The Lieutenant said loudly.

There was a buzzing and lights came on in the shaft, at floor level a brightly glowing disc of light materialised. The Lieutenant cautiously tapped her foot on the disc.

"It feels solid." She said. "Like a **** field. I'm going to try it."

The ebony skinned guradwoman stepped into the liftshaft and onto the disc. Looking down she could see through the disc, though the bottom of the shaft was several decks below and hidden in darkness. She looked back up unsettled by the sight, if the disc vanished again it was a long drop. Eighteen followed her onto the disc.

"You two wait here." The Lieutenant said to Twelve and Calvo. "We'll try it out and you follow if this works. Computer, take us up five decks."

On her command the doors slid shut and Twelve started forward in surprise, she commanded the doors to open again and the slid open. Of the Lieutenant and Eighteen there was no trace. Looking up, only the next couple of doors could be seen.

"Eighteen, Lieutenant can you hear me are you ok?" Twelve shouted up.

Her voice echoed inside the void as she anxiously waited for a reply. There were a tense few seconds before the Lieutenants voice boomed down the confined space.

"We're fine Twelve, but this lift thing disappeared once we stepped off and we can't get it back. Try it from tour end."

Twelve attempted to order the disc again, but though she tried different commands the liftspace remained empty. She yelled up the shaft to her comrades that the lift now seemed inoperative.

"Eighteen and I will press on to the control centre," The Lieutenant told her. "You and the male look for another way up and try to meet us there."

Twelve stepped back from the doors and turned to Calvo. The ex convict was staring at her with an amused grin and a thoughtful expression. Twelve was suddenly acutely aware of how tiny she was compared to the brawny smuggler and that she was naked beneath the jacket that Calvo had given her. Her thoughts flashed back to the shuttle ride when she'd caressed Calvo's cock with her toes. Amongst the guardwomen back at the compound it had always been a cruel game to arouse their prisoners to erection by brushing against them or caressing one another. They would laugh at the bulges in the men's trousers and delight in their frustration. Now however she had no other guards for support and no painstick to control her charge. Twelve blushed scarlet as she realised that dwelling on these thoughts was making her nipples harden and her pussy clenched reflexively as she imagined what Calvo's cock would feel like. She shook her head with an effort to dispel the thought.

"Follow me prisoner," She barked, emphasising the last word in an attempt to reassert her command. "We'll head to the next shaft and try to access the command deck."