Shore Leave: Cottage 114

When Moira claims to be Cass, the intruders look between the two women for a moment but, on top of the fact that she is older, Moira is also very convincing, so the leader turns to her. "Come here then, Commander", he says.
When Cass activates her commbadge and hands Nic the phaser, the woman seems to notice something suspicious. She takes a step towards Cass and is looking to investigate when the leader says: "Dont worry about that girl. She won't try to play the hero again, I hope"
The woman hesitates but decides not to argue. She still seems suspicious about Cass but lets it go for the moment.
When prompted by the attackers, Theliak rises from his chair slowly and with some effort. Leaning on his cane, he walks towards the leader.

When Alira makes her comment, the leader just looks at her with an expression of superiority on his face, as if he knows something she doesn't.

Julia is very tense, ready to jump up any moment but when Alex puts her hand on her leg, Julia glances over to her mother. She puts her hand on Alex' and holds it tightly, slightly relaxing her posture. Theliak walks calmly around the table. He nods and smiles at Julia to reassure her and then looks between Moira and Cass without saying anything.

"All we need are your personal override codes, a voice print and biometric data, nothing we can't get right here and now", the leader says. He takes a long look first at Moira, then at Theliak. "Of course, I have to make sure you give me the right codes. It's a good thing you spacefleeters are so compassionate."
He looks over at the other man and nods towards the table. "The young girl", he announces and the second man walks up to the table and points his phaser right at Lisa. The cadet shrinks down and leans against Alira. Her breathing is fast but she doesn't scream or let any panic show.

"Now which one of you wants to go first?", the leader asks Moira and Theliak.

"Let's talk about it later.", Vega whispers in response to Zephyr's question. "Just make sure I don't get shot"

Nic immediately sinks to one knee next to Cass. He puts a hand on her face and says: "Moira, my love, you will be okay, I promise!" He then turns his attention to the leader and yells: "My girlfriend is suffering from Shallig's disease, we need a moisture breather and at least ten milliliters of scillophine or she will die"
The leader looks at Cass for a second before getting distracted by Moira. He points his phaser at Moira when talking to her but lowers it slightly afterwards. "Stay back while we deal with this, commander" He points at the other man: "Lennik, you're the medical expert. Check out if they're telling the truth." Turning to the woman, he adds: "You secure the hostage. I don't want them to get any ideas."

The man who was pointing his phaser at Lisa lowers it and walks to Cass, right past Alira, the woman keeps her phaser up as she walks around Cass, Nic and her ally towards Lisa. Once she gets there, she harshly grabs Lisa's shoulder and pulls at her, trying to get her to stand up. Lisa is still leaning against Alira so if Alira wants to intervene, she is in a good position to do so. She could also attack the man who's checking out Cass since he is focused on her and not paying attention to Alira.
The leader is forced to divide his attention between Moira, Theliak, Cass and Lisa. Things are obviously not going according to his plan but he's not even breaking a sweat. He takes a step back to gain extra distance to Moira and a better view of the situation.

Suddenly, a lot of things happen at the same time.

Nic reaches for the man's phaser but doesn't quite reach it before Cass fires her phaser beam into the man's chest. He flies backwards and falls on the ground where he stays motionless, his phaser still locked in his hand.

Alira hits the woman right in the jaw and can feel and hear a loud crack as her fist connects. The woman tumbles backward but doesn't go down. When she looks back up at Alira and Lisa and spits out some blood, Alira can clearly tell that her jaw is broken but that somehow does not stop her. She raises her phaser and curses unintelligibly. Without hesitation, she fires at Alira and Lisa.

The leader's half second of distraction is enough for Moira to get a really good blow to his arm in that makes his phaser fly to the ground. As Moira expected, his left arm comes up to hit her in the face in retaliation. Moira tries to dodge the blow and then bite his arm but she is just a little bit too slow. Instead, the fist connects with her open mouth, although a bit awkwardly due to her attempted dodge. Her teeth and jaw hurt but she doesn't feel any teeth breaking or being knocked out. The leader pulls his hand back and Moira can see that her teeth did manage to draw some blood, although not much. His initial instinctive reaction out of the way, he reaches into his belt and draws a short but sharp knife.

Theliak moves back towards the table. He wouldn't be of any help in a physical confrontation anyway so he opts for going into cover. He's not moving very fast, though. Alex notices that Julia is crawling to the side of the table closest to him, planning to get out of the safety there to help him.

Helena yells "Cass!" and throws the phaser she got from resort security to her sister. Cassandra catches it and aims at the leader, readying a shot at him.

Alira pushes the woman's arm down just in time for her shot to hit the ground and none of the party guests but she can't get her to drop the phaser.

Moira, channeling her bar fighting experience, manages to kick the man's junk and then use the opportunity given by his pain to disarm him. He curses at Moira but recovers quickly. He ducks reflexively as Cassandra fires a phaser beam at him that should have been almost impossible for him to see coming and manages to avoid it, then he swings his fist at Moira's face.

Nic climbs over the unconscious man and reaches for the phaser. It takes him a second to get it out of the man's hand but then he comes back, phaser in hand and a grin on his face. "Now the fun can begin!", he says to Cass.

The woman who had been attacking Alira and Lisa steps back after Alira manages to stop her again. She turns and now faces Theliak, who's still walking to the table and Julia who is just crawling out from under the table to help him.
The woman fires a shot at Theliak. She hits him in his arm and he falls to the ground immediately. Julia screams and the woman aims her phaser at her head. "One wrong move and this girl is dead, too"