Jade and the others run to look out the back of the ship.  Jade has her LAW rocket launcher ready.

The Hyperion begins to move forward.  It will easily outdistance the creatures.

"Wait!" Locke says.  "Slow us down.  Don't outrun them."

You all look at Locke with the look one saves for those truly insane.

"Let's keep them chasing us, but don't lose them.  If we can find a way to capture that whale creature and take it back to Zion, then we can perhaps use it to fight back against Zero-One."

He looks around at everyone as the ship starts to slow and once more the creatures start to catch up.  "Any ideas?"

Screed looks back in worry, "Um, I dunno, but I'd like not to get too close.  Can't we stay further away and fire EMP rifles at it to feed it and keep it trailing us?  What would an EMP blast from the ship do?  Fill it up?  Overload it's senses?  No, never mind.  We'd be sitting ducks if it didn't work."

Jade holds her fire but is prepared in case anything--anything at all--goes wrong.  "I've seen what these things can do.  You sure you want to risk it, boss?"  She remembers her near death experience and the way one of these wormy whale monsters came up from under the ground and swallowed Lazarus whole.  Not to mention the mutants slashing through the top of a train car with nothing but their claws.

"You sure about this?" she repeats.

Cistron was rudely stirred from sleep by the turbulence, the continuous sirens, and the other crew members running past her quarters. With great effort she forces herself to her feet, and down the hall to see what the commotion is all about. "...Do I really want to know?!" She inquires to no one in particular.
This message was last edited by the player at 01:39, Wed 18 Apr 2007.