Free Into The Void by Ryan Frieda Page B

incoming hostiles Omega. We need you now.”
                  “On my way,” Captain Steele said.
                  Captain Steele pushed his team hard to get there. He sneaked up on one guy and was able to tear the helmet off and shove his knife through the guy's throat without damaging his space suit. Shadow did the exact same thing to another man. That solved the problem of getting the VIP's out of the ship and into the vacuum of space.
                  Captain Steele's team pushed forward until they reached the survivors. Ark Angel and the others were taking heavy fire. Captain Steele's team opened up on the enemy clearing the area.
                  “Their behind these doors. Catalyst's still working on unlocking them,” Ark Angel said.
                  “There! Done!” Catalyst said as the doors opened.
                  Captain Steele looked into the now unlocked area. He saw about 50 people. He looked around and saw six kids, no older than six years of age.
                  “Omega to actual we have a problem. Come in.”
                  Captain Steele waited to hear back.
                  “Omega to actual. Come in.”
                  Captain Steele waited again.
                  “Omega to actual, we have young kids on board. Need extraction.”
                  Captain Steele waited.
                  “Negative Omega. Your mission is diplomat and general. We need that intel. We can not bring in a ship, scans show too much debris for safe extraction.”
                  Captain Steele stood in disbelief. He knew for a fact that there was more than enough space to get the survivors off of the ship. There wasn't too much debris either. Was this the military he was fighting for? To leave kids to die when they didn't need to? This wasn't the way his military normally did things.
                  Another large explosion caused the ship to shake violently. Captain Steele knew that as bad as that explosion was it wasn't long before the the ship's life support fell and the general and diplomat would die right where there were.
                  Captain Steele pointed at the diplomat and general and said “You two, get into this. We're leaving.”
                  As the diplomat and general moved towards the group, Captain Steele looked at the kids one last time. A little kid held out his hand for help and started to try and float to him. Captain Steele turned away knowing that if he tried to help this child he wouldn't and couldn't abandon him but would need to.
                  “I'm sorry,” Captain Steele whispered as he turned and signaled Catalyst to lock the doors shut.
                  Catalyst locked the doors shut as the ship shook again. Captain Steele pushed his team to leave the ship. As they left a breach in the hull he looked around and saw that there was enough room for a rescue ship but he pushed aside his emotions for now. He knew that whatever he was being trained for and the military intelligence that they would get was far greater than six small kids. He didn't know what that could be, but he knew that it was needed.
     
     
     
                  Captain Steele wandered around the tail end of the object for several hours while Jamie downloaded all the information possible. He stayed in close proximity as if to guard her from any unknown threats. He was trained to protect anyone downloading valuable information. After several hours he decided to sit down for a quick bite to eat. He was lucky that the DSSM suit allowed you to choose what you wanted to eat. He decided it had been several weeks since he had a bacon cheeseburger with seasoned fries so he chose that. As he sat there and drank his cheeseburger paste he wondered about what had made he feel like he was being watched. It