Shore Leave: The Warehouse

Endra doesn't reply immediately but after a second, she shrugs and says: "I understand" Her voice sounds calm and casual. She removes the phaser and holster from her belt and drops it on her bed, then shows the wine bottle to everyone at the table. "Should we all share this then?"

"Calm down, commander. We are on the same side, but don't think I'm stupid enough to not notice that you don't really trust us yet. Until the admiral can confirm our story and you start believing us, we unfortunately can't treat you the same way as the rest of our team. There just is a risk that you will try to backstab us." He turns to Endra. "I don't think we'll have any wine at this point, but thank you."
After this, the group sitting at the table disperses. Sandra goes back into her bed, Hector sits down next to her and the two of them talk quietly with each other. Hector does most of the talking while she nods or shakes her head in response. Endra lies down on her bed and reads on a datapad. The cadets stay close to Cass and Alex as they seem to trust you two more than their kidnappers. Chad keeps his mouth shut because every time he opens it, Rachel glares at him. She is very quiet, too, only attempting some smalltalk with Cass and Alex from time to time.

Eventually, about an hour after the end of the poker game, a small electronic device on one of the shelves starts vibrating for a few seconds. Hector immediately gets up. "It's the admiral. Everyone, meeting outside in two minutes." He looks at Cass. "You were eager to meet Tanner. This is your chance. He'll explain everything - and hopefully convince you that we're telling the truth"

Less than two minutes later, you are all outside the building. Hector, Sandra, Endra and the man who stunned you and whose name you still haven't heard yet are standing in the first line with the two cadets, Alex and Cass behind them.
The kidnappers are all armed with handgun phasers but they're just carrying them in holsters, not in their hands. Cass and Alex are fairly certain that the phasers are there in case one of them or of the cadets try to flee.
After another minute, six people in spacefleet uniforms materialize a few meters in front of Hector and his people. All of them are armed, some with rifles, some with handguns. A man with a dark ponytail in red spacefleet uniform steps forward. "We've been sent here by Admiral Tanner", the man introduces himself. His eyes move from one person to the next, resting on all of you for a second before moving on. Eventually, he says: "There were only supposed to be four people plus two kidnapped cadets here." He looks at Cass and Alex. "Who are you?"

The man, seemingly satisfied with Cass' answer, doesn't reply and focuses his attention back on your kidnappers. "You are Commander Hector Andoras, right?", he asks.
Hector confirms and is just starting to say something else when, in one swift movement, the man with the ponytail raises his rifle and fires. Before anyone can even react, Hector disintegrates completely.
Immediately, all of the new arrivals raise their weapons and begin firing. Endra jumps behind a tree and draws her weapon. Sandra and her remaining ally move towards the building while firing at the uniformed attackers. One of the attackers goes down almost immediately while the others keep firing.

The cadets run towards the entrance of the warehouse, trying to get back inside. Endra leans out from her cover to fire two shots at the attackers but both just barely miss their mark. She turns to Cass and Alex: "Run!"

In less than two seconds, the situation has turned from a peaceful meeting between allies into a full-on warzone.

The cadets reach the door to the warehouse first. Rachel opens the door and immediately gets hit by phaser fire from the inside. She vaporizes just like Hector did. Some of these attackers must have transported inside the building as well. Chad stops running and instead of changing direction, stares in shock at the spot where a moment before, his friend was still standing. Sandra adjusts her course to circle around the warehouse instead of going inside. She fires at the attackers as she's running and hits one of them who sinks to the ground from the stun beam.
Endra runs towards Cass and Alex. She fires at the attackers as well but her focus is on you two so she doesn't hit anyone. She points in a direction that leads you away from the warehouse and past the attackers. It's a risky path to take when trying to evade phaser fire. "That way!", she yells. "Fast!"
The last member of your kidnapper's group moves towards Chad, trying to cover him and draw fire away from the cadet to himself. He's holding out for the moment but with the superior position and firepower of the attackers, it doesn't look like he will survive long like this, especially if Chad doesn't start moving soon.
Two members of the attacking group turn their attention to Cass and Alex. They aim their rifles at them for a moment and then fire.

Phaser fire flies past you on all sides but miraculously, you both manage to avoid all of it, although some of it gets way too close for comfort.
Cass even manages to shake Chad out of his shock. He looks at her and immediately follows her and Alex. The man covering him tries to follow but gets stopped by a barrage of phaser fire that keeps him from going that way. He turns and instead follows Sandra in the other direction.
Cass, Alex and Chad run as fast as they can after Endra who let's them catch up a bit before picking up more speed. She throws her phaser at Alex. "Shoot at them, keep them away from us! I have to find the right way", she yells.
She leads you through the forest, mostly staying in the same direction but making adjustments and turns here and there. Behind you, you hear yelling, phaser shots. Some of the attackers run after you, some stay behind to take care of the others. You're not gaining much distance to the people chasing you but in the sprint, they at least don't get much of a chance to fire at you and if they do, it's not very accurate.
"Stay close together. Anyone who gets separated from the others is dead.", Endra yells over her shoulder.