Chapter III: Reunited

Alex, you make your way over to the pale man but before you can jump out to attack him, he jumps out of his cover and grabs you by the neck. He wrestles you around to use you as a human shield. He aims his gun at Cass. "Drop your weapons meat bags!"
Alex, you feel a this layer of something that might possibly be metal under his uniform.

Cass, you aim for Zephyr's head but right as you press the trigger, the pale man's shout distracts you and you miss your target.
You look over to the pale man and see the situation Alex has gotten herself into

The pale man grunts at Alex joke, seemingly not impressed.
Marbo, you hit Zephyr square in the chest but the needle gets deflected by his armor.
Your phaser shot at the pale man is tricky because he's holding Alex. You shoot at him and would hit him in the arm he's holding her with but he dodges out of the way, loosening his grip on Alex as he's moving. Alex you can try to roll Feelings to get free

Seeing that at least Marbo has more than one weapon, the captain leans out of his cover and yells: "Someone give me a weapon! I can help"

Marbo will look to the captain, and toss the phaser to the captain.

"Think marbo... Think. Must be some way to penetrate the slugs armor...."

He says aloud to himself, staring down at the rifle.

His peripheral vision catches his medical satchel, still hanging off of him, and he has the idea he needed.


"Eureka!.. Commander! Zlam! Cover me"


Marbo digs into his satchel, pulling out a laser scalpel with a thick guage projection blade.
He quickly unscrews it, and lays the parts in his lap. He pulls the bolt on the rifle and ejects one of the darts and dismantles it as well, combining the micro rocket projector from the dark with the battery and blade projector of the scalpel, and threading it all together very carefully with a bit of medical tape.

He slides the new war crime up over the gurney, taking aim at the pale man again, and yells out.

" Slugman! Zlam. You will release your hostage, or you will die. Loaded into my weapon is a microrocket projection system mounted to a 28guage nonlinear projection scalpel. In laymans terms, I have made a laser knife gun. It is more than capable of penetrating your armor, and yourself, and searing a hole through youre entire host. You may think that is no threat due to the regenerative nature of your slime," Marbo stands fully upright, undoing the latches on his collar and letting it drop to the floor with a heavy metallic slam, revealing his scars, and other injuries from the previous slug who tried to mouth-love his pretty face, "But marbo is a fishy boy, and he knows a thing or two about how to deal with a worm."

Not-Zephyr, still holding his phaser to the [s]captain's neck[s] back of the captain's head, looks at the remaining guard and directs a series of unintelligible clicking noises at him. The guard looks at him uncertainly.

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Turning to the rest of you Not-Zephyr says, "Everyone drop your weapons or the captain gets it! I will not be placed back in captivity, I'd rather die first!"

Edit: We decided in discord that i didnt have the captain in my grasp, but I am for certain behind him with a phaser to his head.

Marbo swivels to face zephyr, Laser Knife Gun pointed straight to his head.

"As a medical doctor, and specialist in xenobiology, and also having first hand experience with your species, Marbo can say this from a scientifically factual standpoint..." Marbo takes a deep breath, choking up on the rifle to make sure the shot goes true, "You do not have the balls."

Kendall grabs an item next to her and tosses it to the far side of Cass, on the opposite end of the room, and then she tumbles in the opposite direction, firing at both Zephyr's face and the pale man's face, and rolls behind another piece of cover.

Alex, you bite into the pale man's hand hard enough to release a burst of blood. The man doesn't appear to feel any pain but instinctively, his hand twitches away from you and you use this moment to get away from him and dive into cover. The pale man's hand fixes itself up immediately after so the only proof of your bite is the blood in your face and mouth and on his sleeve.
He aims his phaser at you and fires while clicking aggressively. Alex, give me a Feelings roll to not die. Someone else can feasibly help if they tell me how.

Marbo, he seems to have turned out your long-winded threat because he doesn't react to it really.