Space Explorers : In Theory

All hell had broken loose around sickbay, the shiny black things were pushing out in all directions and regular shipboard issue phasers were about as much use as a chocolate teapot.

The Captain had reluctantly authorised the release of heavy weapons from the secure armoury on deck seven, on the provision they were set to stun. Use of the kill setting was an absolute last resort, matter of life and death, option.

Lieutenant Blat had reservations about that seeing as it was his security personnel hanging their arses out on the line, but the Captains reasoning that it was their crewmates trapped inside those glossy seamless shells was a compelling argument.

He'd already grabbed an assault phaser from the armoury and was heading back to sickbay, liaising with the rest of the security team when they abruptly dropped off the comms net.

Which wasn't possible, those disturbingly sexy things could disrupt comms and transport which was why all the bulkheads between here and sickbay had been locked down to try to contain them, they were using site to site transport to move personnel in and out of the contained areas when they could get clear signals.

Then he heard the screams behind him. He reversed course, trying to tell the bridge what was happening but his comm unit couldn't connect. Squaring his manly jaw he retraced his steps to the armoury and abruptly stopped, rocking back on his heels as his mind tried to comprehend what he was seeing. *What the .... there's no way you can fit a tentacle that far up Lt Juggins arse ...' then his training caught up with him, he raised his assault phaser and fired at maximum stun.

To his horror it had no effect other than to stop the sleek, painfully sexy figure from doing whatever it had been doing to his hapless crewmate.

With hands suddenly slick with terror sweat he dialled the phaser to 'kill' setting and fired again.

His stomach turned to a ball of ice as the blast had no effect whatsoever, the shiny black figure simply straightening up and looking over its shoulder at him.

'Oh ..... fuck'