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Jack & Travers

Jack and Travers had been on Nash just trolling around when Traver's comm beeped. Flipping it open he said a few short words then listened. Closing it, he glanced at his brother.

"She's back." He didn't need to define which "she" he meant. Jack knew he had been referring to Kat.

"When?"

"Darwin just docked on Vextis. No word yet if they found what they had been looking for though." Travers stopped and fingered a necklace with brilliant green stones, smiling softly as he thought of his wife.

"I'll head over and find out." Jack was stopped by a strong hand on his arm.

"No. I learned with Kat.  Let her come to you.  Don't push her Jack, she'll only drift farther away." Travers' voice was gentle, but his hand was firm.

Jack sighed heavily, then nodded at the necklace. "You know what that'll get ya, right?" He laughed at Travers' blush.

They had just stepped onto Krita from Nash when all hell broke loose. Just inside the lock, the two men were stopped by the complete power shutdown, followed immediately by the flashing of the red emergency lights. Like a scene out of a comedy, the brothers glanced at each other then behind them into Nash as they began to realize this wasn’t just a ship problem.

“What did you do now?”

Jack blinked at his brother. “Me? Its your ship!”

As if on cue, Travers comm began signaling. At first, it brought in a couple of random reports of single attacks but as they made their way deeper into the ship, those reports began to grow in alarming numbers.

“Shit. They’re in Nash… wait. Vextis is hit too. Its all the same, no power and people getting attacked by unfriendlies. JACK!” Travers’ blaster was immediately out, and firing even as his brother dodged an incoming shot. His own blast hit dead center mass, but Travers gaped as it appeared to fizzle millimeters from connecting. The man’s blaster turned in his direction.

“Bloody…..” Travers dove to the far wall, hitting hard and he felt the heat of the man’s shot go over his head. He glanced up in time to see Jack’s shot also fizzle against the chest of their attacker. “They’re not working!”

“Ya think?!”” Jack rushed the man, slamming into him with a full on body block sending them both into the wall. Travers quickly got to his feet to help his brother who, by this time, had been raining fists down on the man’s face.

Once the Morghan brothers had subdued their man, Travers flipped open his comm. “Keishon. Where are you?! Good! Stay there.!” He growled as he listened to his wife on the other end. “Dammit woman. Stay there! I’m coming for you. Do *not* make me look for you! Ok.. we’ll be there soon. Keishon? I love you.”

Jack cocked an eyebrow at his brother. “We’re not going, are we? You know she’s gonna kill you if you survive this, right?”

Travers sighed heavily. “She’s locked in our rooms. The doors won’t open. She’s safe, Jack. I can worry about everyone else as long as she’s safe. As for my own death at her hands, remind me to pick up a really big diamond on Nash before I see her, will ya?”

Jack’s comm beeped and both men fully expected Travers’ wife to be at the other end. The relieved smirks were identical when they saw the incoming was Joke.

“Damnit Jack. What the hell is going on out there? Vextis is running amok.” Jack and Travers could hear Joke’s anxiety mirrored their own. Travers let Jack deal with their friend as he began searching the downed man’s body. He came away with nothing more than a blaster.

As he waited for Jack to finish with Joke, Travers studied the man’s blaster, thinking that maybe the field suppression Lawrence had talked about was contained within the weapon. After watching both shots to the chest fizzle, he figured there had to be one somewhere on the man. Unfortunately, nothing significant jumped out at him. No apparent modifications or improvements. Just a standard blaster.

“They caught one of the attackers. Seems Dylan’s girlfriend, the one they lost on the moonbase tried to kill him. They have her on Vextis in the Archeology lab. She’s unconscious, but alive.” Jack was watching down the connecting hallways as he spoke.

“Better than this guy. Might want to pull your punches on the next one.” Travers stood, slipping the new blaster into his belt at his back. “Bridge?”

Jack took a moment to glance down at the body, then back to his brother, before nodding. “Bridge.”