Boarding Training

"CORRIDOR THREE NOW!"

"GET THOSE DAMN CONTROLS LOCKED DOWN!"

"THREE COMING DOWN THE RIGHT!"

"Having fun ensign?" Katla asked, smoothly taking up a position by the crate the young woman was hiding behind. The sounds of battle echoing all around them in the cargo-bay-turned-training-area. Katla couldn't see the expression on the ensign's face but she assumed it wasn't friendly.

"I am proud to serve in any way you need." Her aide replied, cowering even further as energy rounds impacted close by. Katla took a moment to loose a few shots of her own before returning her attention to the clearly uncomfortable girl.

"You know these are just sim rounds right? You won't even feel them through your armor." Katla fired again and this time was rewarded with a marker on her HUD designating a kill. "Or are you that scared of a kiss?" Astrid had realized that the typical Viking reward would be a bit much for the Avalonians. As such, instead of a blowjob, a simple kiss was the ante for getting killed.

"I-I am not scared of such things! Its... just beneath my dignity to be in such a brawl as this. Yours as well!" The ensign protested. Two of the 'enemy' gunners had traced back Katla's fire and were pelting their cover with suppression.

"Why? There's every chance we could be boarded at some point. Rather lose some dignity now if it means I'm the one fucking later. Watch this." The two shooters had gotten complacent, going for solid impacts on the cover itself instead of where someone would emerge from. Katla took full advantage, blitzing out from the right side with her weapon on full auto she forced both of them down. Not halting she dashed across the open ground, vaulting over where the two had thought themselves safe and hosing them down before they could react. Their weapons lights turning from green to red to indicate a kill even as the two marks appeared on her HUD.

"DRILL END DRILL END!" The announcement came a moment later. "Hacker team successful. Take an hour while we reset, claim prizes and then get ready to do it again. That was sloppy."

Katla removed her helmet, enjoying the feeling of the ship's recycled air on her skin. Her two final targets doing the same. Neither of them seemed to regret being killed by the former Viking. "So. Who wants to be first?"

Leaving behind two thoroughly kissed sailors she returned to Jaclyn.

"Commodore are you sure it is wise to be so... cavalier with the crew? Some of them might get ideas." The ensign asked.

"I like people with ideas. Much more fun than stupid ones." Katla replied, looking around for where her first kill had gone off to. A quick collar to HUD link letting her know that they were busy claiming a few of their own prizes. She'd get them later her aide was clearly bothered by something.

"I mean ideas about your dignity. While the claiming of prizes is of course a good and noble endeavor engaging in such action among one's crew could lead to over-familiarity." Katla wondered what book Jaclyn was quoting from. Probably the manual of decorum. Katla had only skimmed the book so far but it had a lot of passages like that.

"If you take care of your crew they'll take care of you ensign. Back on Asgard that has a bit more of a broad meaning." The look on the ensign's face at that was priceless. "But it holds true even without that. If you fuck up people get fucked. If you do everything right. People get fucked. Its better for your people to already know that you're human rather than have a swift education about it. Now come on. I'm going to show you how to use that weapon."