After opening five doors in the long hallway the two Black Razors found a small storage room filled with weapons and they grabbed as much as they could carry. Keeping her other guns put away in her pack and on her belt, Asha opted to keep her .44 in her hands, while Ben put everything away but his Zeus-class fusion pistol. The alarms had stopped when he'd hit the third switch, but now there was no sound in the hallway but their footsteps, and Ben would have easily welcomed the piercing alarms again, not only to soothe his nerves, but also to cover up the sounds of their approach.
He glanced sideways at Asha. In her armor, which was not unlike the TRV suits they used on Earth, it was impossible to tell what sex she was. The big, globular helmet made her look like some sort of bug or robot, and he was sure he looked just as ridiculous. The armor was made out of a thin Taerian metal, light and easy to move around in - not much heavier than regular police armor. It was much stronger, however, protected by a waterproof electron-deflect force sheild that lost power with each hit it sustained. According to the people at the training facilities, translated by Councillor Kiriam, the sheilds on 1X level (there were three levels) could easily take shots from numerous grenades, and even two or three SPNKR missiles (Ben wasn't anxious to have this proved). However, once all of your sheilds were gone, you could be easily killed by most known Pfhor weapons, or at least severly injured.
On the inside of the helmet there was a console. Near the bottom were two strips of color, on red - the sheilds indicator - and one blue - the oxygen indicator. Both were full. Above them was a green console screen. The left side of it was a list of the ammunition he had, but could be toggled to show what weapons he had or what items. The other side showed what weapon he was using and what was left in the clip. To the left of all this was a motion sensor, where he was a green square in the middle of an approximately fifty-foot radius. It showed Asha walking to his right as another green square, and any non-human/baerson would appear as a red triangle.
At the end of the hallway there was a door. Their motion sensors showed great movement, Pfhor and otherwise, behind it, and they could hear gunshots and the sounds of Pfhor shock sticks. The voices of Pfhor and humanoid wounded and dying bounced through the hallway. "Here goes," Ben said, and opened the door.
As the door slid upwards Ben and Asha began firing of the Pfhor. Their two guns had about the same force, but Ben's had a greater range and could fire overloaded shots that would kill almost anything in the room with one hit. Afte a moment he began to see other aliens in the room besides the tall stick-carrying Pfhor (he had ceased to think of the baersonai as aliens since seeing the Pfhor). There were shorter ones, clad in either green or purple armor, carrying guns almost exactly like his MR-75B machine gun/grenade launcher, and one huge tan-colored monster with plates on it's arms easily mistaken for wings at first glance, that fired some sort of green plasma bolt from a contraption on its shoulder. Ben watched it fire on a human, and when the Black Razor's sheilds ran out his armor acted as a conductor for the strange bolt, and he was killed instantly. Two shots from Ben's fusion pistol had nearly the same effect on the alien, but instead of frying to death under its armor, it exploded.
The fight lasted only a few more minutes, leaving all of the aliens and many soldiers and crew dead. While the unhurt went around taking care of their dead and wounded Ben ordered a technician to go find help and knelt down next to a pile of dead aliens. He ripped off their armor and helmets and looked at their wounds and outer anatomy.
Asha knelt beside him. "What the hell are you doing, Santini?"
"They're weaker than us, under their armor," he told her. "Even the big ones."
"Are they all Pfhor?"
"I'm pretty sure. See, they all have the same body shape and three eyes. But it's like there's subspecies or something."
"That's great. Was this all of them?"
"I doubt it," Ben muttered, looking around the room now. Up on the bridge there was a terminal, and he bounded up a few steps and accessed it.

The pilot and navigator were killed in the initial boarding, so I have taken control of the ship with Durandal. However, the Pfhor are somehow bypassing some of our securities and have downloaded Tycho, our third AI, into their systems. We think they're getting in through some of our computers, but with Tycho gone it would be easier to shut them down manually than for me to bypass his circuits. Take extreme caution - the Pfhor you killed are only a fraction of the ones on the ship, and now that they have Tycho they might be able to get past our sheilds again. Hurry. *****Jump Pad Teleport Ready***** ***Prepare to Teleport***