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Steve struggled to break free of the Lanius' trap, but he only managed to keep scratching his hands in the process and start bleeding. Of course he was in the medbay so any damages could theoretically be healed only to be caused again...
"The Rebellion is the only hope for the galaxy! Freaks like you do not belong in this universe!" he shouted "The Lanius are an impossibility and must be purged over all other alien scum!"
He smirked again "Face it. How does a being like you exist in the universe? You're not a machine like the Engies or the Rockmen. Your whole species is an anomaly!"

((Just saying, feel free to kill Steve. I'm not saying he's important or anything. He just knows a few things about the Rebellion that might be useful. Because without a good replicator and while the ship is idle... Tabitha's not going to be doing much))

(^)

(I'm going in as two people right now).

*Targon*

The blue Mantis couldn't stand that stupid prisoner any longer. He streaked to where he was pinned by the Lanius, shoved him out, ripping his arms off in the process thanks to Arkangel's sharp body parts, and threw him to the floor. "I HATE REBEL MEATSACKS!!!" Targon shrieked, and with that chucked the already-dead body at the wall.

*Carolyn Soong*

"I c-came to apologiz-z-e" Carolyn said, stuttering, "I'm sorry. Terribly s-sorry. The Federation wanted to clone me, but I wouldn't stand for i-it." She gulped as she eyed the drone pinning her to the wall. "I ran away. They're coming. They could be here in fifteen minutes. Maybe ten. We need to move. Please give me another chance. Let me on your ship, at least drop Data and I off somewhere safe. Think of Targon, I'm practically his guardian. Legally, actually." She held her breath, waiting for the drone's reaction. Would Quintet honor their memory working together or kill her because she abandoned him?

As Steve was thrown against the wall, he coughed up blood and gave another smirk at the Mantis. Somehow the blood loss and missing limbs didn't kill him - a look at his dismembered arms would indicate why. They were robotic. One of the arms had its middle finger raised at the Mantis before it collapsed from lack of input.
"Think on that, foolish insect" he coughed as his body went into low-power mode.

Meanwhile Tabitha felt a slight headache as she checked the console. "Guys, hate to break it to you but the O2 system is down. Looks like someone needs to restart it before most of us die of CO2 poisoning or asphyxiation, whichever comes first and whoever's in the room with Arkangel. No offence..."

(See?! I was always good at Pokemon! My true power awakens! Not the FTL drive's though.)

Quintet looked into her terrified eyes with the camera, deeply satisfied.
"You wouldn't stand for it? Then why were you with me? This was a criminal run, and you were a criminal. You stood for our raids and fights, but not one measly clone?! Do you know what I do on my spare time? I-WH-NO-"
Quintet took a moment to think when the EMP blast hit. The communications were reset and he quickly shut them off again.
"I always dreamed of this moment. For every year I spent in captivity, I planned this out. Re-ran it more times than I could care to count, hoping to one day savor every moment of it. I will never forgive someone like you, not for what you did. You not only betrayed me, you locked me in an near-eternal prison, thinking I'd never come out. And you know fair and well people like you and me don't enjoy that. So why did you do it? Why did you really? Did you hate me? Were you an agent? Or were you just... greedy?"
Quintet shoved the rifle closer to her, still enjoying her imminent horror.
"You know I was the only one that was allowed to be greedy."

Quintet dragged Dr. Soong to the medbay, sealing the doors as soon as he got in.

(Deez plot points tho)

Targon received another message from Data on a private comm, extremely fuzzy. "Carolyn in imminent danger. Your presence is requested. Quintet will kill her."

"WHAT!?" Targon howled with anger. "I KNEW that glitch mess of codes was a no good-" He stormed out of the medbay, "OOH, he'll PAY!" The Mantis went straight to their hacking and typed in a command, only to find it inoperable. Quintet had shut the system down. "Shoot." Targon bumped into the door as he tried to exit the room; it had locked shut. That couldn't stop the enraged Mantis.
The door was a mere pile of metal when Targon whizzed out with his cyborg arm and actually started to tear a hole in the wall. "If I can't get to you with codes, I'll shut the ship down!!" He screeched, his one eye alight with an anger only Mantis held. "Data, when I say now we'll both shut down our ships completely, no power whatsoever. It's the only way to kill him."
"Negative; there is no way." Data replied. "Quintet will hibernate. There is no way to stall him except shutting down our ship." Targon realized that he was trapped, and he stopped slashing the wall.
"Fine. Data, reload your system into that chip in your brain using 1's and 10's. Then shut down your entire ship along with the drones and implode yourself." He ordered.
"Understood." Data shut down the ship and drones, put all of his code into the chip and promptly dissolved, save for the chip.
This unique chip, once disconnected from the Engi would destroy its ability to conduct electricity, making it literally impossible to get into it unless you fixed it by hand.
(Data had wireless access to the entire ship through his head, just to clarify. How is this possible? He was made by one of the most intelligent computer engineers in the universe).
(I'm confused.. I thought Quintet had no emotions whatsoever. Does this mean he still has some kind of emotional core)?

(Would that intelligent computer scientist be Targon? Or Mrs. Soong?)

Kr woke from his sleep very suddenly. He looked around and tried to find the cause of his awakening. There was muffled yelling coming from somewhere in the ship. He noticed it was stuffier than usual in the room. Kr got up and checked the oxygen readings. They were around 50% and dropping. There were no signs that they had been in a battle. What is going on here? He tried the comm, but it was dead, no response. Now suspicious of what was happening, he walked out of the room and into the hallway. The lights were normal, the hum of the drive was gone, but it was supposed to be being replaced. The yelling had turned to loud scraping and tearing noises, like someone was trying to get through a door. Kr went toward that sound and found the door to hacking locked and Targon inside. He seemed to be saying something about "shutting down the ship." Kr yelled to Targon inside: "Are you trapped in there? The comm's not working and the oxygen looks like it's turned off."

Quintet suddenly lost all access to the drones of the ship. After that, all of his access points began to shut off. The ship had been shut down and it was closing in on him. He suspended himself in the programming, quickly disabling any programs that would automatically shut him down.
He attempted to access the communications to no avail. He had lost all sense of physicality, simple suspended in the balance of one file.