Shore Leave: Cottage 114

The leader manages to hit Moira right in the face. She will definitely have to get her face checked out by spacefleet medical after this is over. It hurts a lot but she can't be certain whether or not there's any real damage. She does manage to tackle him in response however and the two of them go to the ground together with Moira on top of the man. Immediately when they hit the ground, the man reaches for the knife. The phaser is out of immediate range but Moira could try to get closer to it and reach for it but she would expose herself to an attack in the process.

Alira hits the woman's gun arm and pushes it away from Julia, knocking the phaser to the ground in the process. Unfortunately, in that moment, Alira moves in the way of Cass' fire and takes the full stun blast of her phaser. She goes to the ground and loses consciousness. Seeing the person right next to her go down to phaser fire, the woman ducks and narrowly avoids Nic's phaser beam. With a hint of fear in her eyes, she reaches for a steak knife on the table and, taking the easiest option, grabs Alex, putting her between herself and the phaser fire, the knife pressed against her neck.
Alex notices that Julia seems to be panicking. She keeps looking from Theliak to Alex and back, unsure on where she should go and in the end, not really doing anything because of it.
"This has gone far enough!", the woman announces, pressing the knife firmly against Alex' neck. One move and it will penetrate her skin. "We are going to leave now and if you want this woman to survive, you are not going to try and stop us!"

Julia looks back at Zephyr but doesn't go to him. Instead, she moves over to Theliak, keeping her eyes on her mother but wanting to see if her fiance is still alive.
Lisa kneels next to Alira and checks her pulse and breathing.

The woman steps farther back from the table, trying to get some more distance between herself and everyone else. She still has Alex at knife point and Alex is getting the distinct feeling that if she doesn't relax the way she's holding the knife, Alex' neck won't survive this much longer.
When Cass says this, the woman responds: "You're the good guys, aren't you? If this shit goes wrong for us, we'll end up in a holding cell, big deal. If you make a wrong move, this one is dead."
The leader doesn't go for the stab. He allows Moira to go for the phaser and uses that time to get up. He still has the knife in his hand but he raises his hands slightly to indicate he's not going to attack again right away.

He then looks at Cass. "I don't know what game you people are trying to play here but it ends now. I don't care about these fucking access codes so I don't care if you are Cassano or not. We are leaving now and you are coming with us to ensure nobody decides to try and stop us." As he is talking, he moves away from Moira. He points at Alex, wh ois still being held hostage and moved closer to him by the woman. "If you disagree, she dies."

The leader waits for Cass to come up to him, then he takes her in a hold similar to the one the woman is holding Alex in. He's holding his knife to her throat but not as tightly as the woman is doing. The leader looks at the unconscious man they're leaving behind. "Make sure when security picks him up, they give him a comfy cell."
They move backwards until they reach the corner of the house and disappear behind it.

Table Crew

Cassandra curses loudly and sinks down to her chair, the phaser still in hand. Helena runs over to Theliak to check his vitals with Julia. Nic gets up and sighs. In response to Moira, he says: "My ship is on the other side of the sector. I can order it here but it'll take a while." He walks over to Alira to check on her. Lisa is still leaning over her, looking very scared. Max walks over to Moira. He has kept his head down during the encounter and still looks pretty shaken. "What do we do now?"
Vega takes a few deep breaths, then turns to Zephyr. "I swear I did not know any of this would happen."

Hostages

The attackers lead you onto the road and then into the garden on the opposite side of it. There is another man waiting there. He looks a bit older than the others, blond and more elegant. He doesn't fit the rest of the group.
He's armed with a Consortium phaser rifle and his expression is confused when he sees the group arriving. The man holding Cass says: "Change of plan. We have to leave now."
The man raises his phaser rifle and fires a stun beam at both hostages, knocking them unconscious.

Helena stands up again after checking Theliak. "He's alive. If I didn't know better, I would say these people lied to us and they did have their phasers set to stun" She smiles at Julia who is sitting on the ground next to Theliak, touching his hair and looking very relieved. Helena then walks over to the table and searches under the table by her seat. She pulls out a commbadge and says: "I'll talk to security"

Nic leans over Alira and slaps her face hard enough to wake her from her unconsciousness. The phaser wasn't set to a very high level. As soon as Alira opens her eyes, Lisa hugs her tightly. She's not saying anything but Alira can tell that she's crying. Nic grins and says "Sorry for that but welcome back to the land of the living" before his expression gets serious again.

Cassandra walks up to Moira and says: "Technically, Helena is the highest ranking officer of our group" She looks over at her sister who's fiddling with her commbadge and who slightly shakes her head at this. "But it doesn't matter now, I guess. How could this have happened? It's supposed to be impossible to get phasers onto the planet. And with the additional security on site, someone should have been able to stop these people."

Vega looks between Zeph and Moira, her usual facade of carelessness is dropped a bit, although her real expression is still hard to read. She doesn't reply to Moira's question and instead leans against Zephyr for him to hold her.

Working on her datapad, Moira realizes that there is heavy interference that makes the use of communicators as well as finding them like she had wanted, impossible. The attackers must have set up a device to stop anyone from calling for help. The moment Moira notices this, Helena also gives her the same information.