In the criminal realm of Vanejin VI usually the most nefarious aliens can be found. Some of them reach great levels of fame, or infamy, and their name carries a long list of assaults, blackmail, and sabotage among other crimes. Such was a man by the name of Garrtre Moltre, a once famous warlord of a backwater system that took his people to glory before being forgotten once he was no longer needed. With his band of raiders he had begun to dabble in the business of slavery, collaring all kinds of exotic women wherever they went.

Operating in deep space and far reaches of every system the band, although big, knew patience and struck in a lightning fashion at vulnerable bases and outposts before leaving, letting pursuers or authority forces little time to group up and counterattack. The increase in their activities forced a group of system-wide authorities to make a joint operation to destroy the raiders of Garrtre and capture or eliminate the warlord. The attack was supervised by a number of ADD agents who stayed in secret among the joint forces. The Directorate used its resources to coordinate and guiding the decisions of the attack without giving out its participation.

The blockade done around the raiders was a success, but not a definitive one as they wanted. Throughout the massive battle, ships of both sides suffered casualties and destruction, with Garrtre's forces being driven to the last few ships. The last four ships that escaped include Garrtre's flagship and his three escorts. During the escape, ADD agents had already infiltrated the ships and neutralized two of the escorts, rendering them immobile and ready for capture.

The other pair of vessels had already jumped to a nearby star but all systems in the vicinity were hostile. It was a matter of time before they reached him in the damaged ships. At this moment Rahs was contacted as he was in the star system along with other mercenaries to defend the warlord. Garrtre's plan was to reach an outlaw outpost in space, move to another ship and escape.

The flagship was a few hours away from reaching the outpost. It had sustained heavy damage, various sectors vacuumed and blocked and most of the personnel were dead or in sick bay, to be probably sacrificed or left behind later. Rahs was already in the flagship, as an additional guard to keep Moltre alive. These were vital hours for the warlord for if he reached the outpost it would take only an hour or two to escape and be millions of light years away. For an expert ADD agent, this was a crucial moment to stop him, lest they had the audacity to cause enough havoc in the outpost to delay departure.

The ADD had managed to sneak agents onto the escaping vessels and while a few had been disabled and captured...two had escaped. But not without a hidden member, unknown to the crew a figure had infiltrated the ship just before they escaped to another system. Akiko Reiya, one of the ADD's prominent members known for her assassin skill-set, her ship in the chaos had cloaked and clamped onto the vessel before it vanished to the other system. Her goal was to kill Garrtre Moltre. The young agent hadn't struck yet as she knew she had to be careful about this. Her equipment and sword at the ready as she activated her suits camouflage function. She slowly slips out of the airlock her ship was docked with. Wearing a mask incase she was in a sealed off area before she began moving swiftly through the ship. The security was slightly damaged thanks to the battle but she watched and avoided any potential trouble alerting the Crime Lord.

The pretty woman moved with swift speed pulling out a small device she latched onto any door controls to hack them to open and slip into the other sections of the ship. She first was heading to the ships internal engines...to plant some hidden surprises for them just incase things went pear shaped with her assassination attempt.

The airlock hissed as the pressurization procedure commenced; however, a warning light came up and notified the agent that those docks were vacuumed. With her device she managed to hack the door open past the warning and moved to the hangar bays where there was no oxygen and no lights to guide her. She wandered through the dark corridors for a few minutes until she found an exit to a hub of corridors that led to other parts of the ship. They were tight, convoluted which made them easy to get lost in there without knowledge of the ship's interior, but at least she had a destination if she followed any one of them and they retained life support capabilities.

Akiko found the signs that directed her towards the engine room. As she head on that way the agent heard a door opening, loud sounds from engines and the door closing again sealing away the noisy machines. Footsteps approached from the front. They were turning around a corner and if she retained her camouflage the bandit, a fleshy alien with four arms carrying two shotguns, wouldn't see her. But she still had little space to maneuver to move past him as he walked by with his large build almost encompassing the width of the corridor. She was very close to her first objective but she had no knowledge on whether it was completely safe for now.

Akiko frowned as her Mask had a HUD that gave her a minor night vision look while keeping her oxygen needs fulfilled before reaching the more proper parts of the ship, but she kept the mask on for now turning off the Night Vision as it had a motion proximity radar allowing her to keep track of any movement even out of visual range. She heard the engine noises and the opening of doors frowning as that hulking alien moved through the hallways. She kept her camouflage on for now to avoid him noticing her yet. She looked upwards spotting some pipes on the ceiling. Leaping with amazing leg strength she grabbed two pipes and using her legs hoisted herself up above him and kept still...letting him walk past.

She kept calm, still and slowly moving as she slowly lowered back to her feet when he passed her before she approaches the door. Using her radar to check for any moving lifeforms inside before she began hacking the door to let her in if no one was inside the room. If she did detect someone she kept hacking the door....one hand moving to a small throwing knifes she kept on hand. Knowing she'd need to be quick if someone was inside.

Either way the door was opened and she quickly moved inside. Staying to any shadows she could just incase while heading to a portion of the engine room and began planting small little charges on the engine making sure it would cause enough damage if needed to be detonated.

The agent was successful in hiding from the incoming soldier by hoisting up along the pipes in the ceiling. He continued on, oblivious to the presence of the femme fatale, and she lowered herself without a noise before continuing to the engine room. She stopped before the door and her motion sensors caught the presence of one entity inside, to her left behind the walls as the room seemed too large and curved in some areas to give space for the heavy machinery needed to move this flagship.

She readied her knives and soon enough the door was hacked and opened. But trouble was quick to appear. Dead ahead against the wall was a soldier leaning against the wall. The radar must not have noticed him since he appeared to be perfectly still just resting before his head moved instantly to the open door. With Akiko camouflaged the way seemed empty.

"Huh?" He pushed himself away from the wall. "Hey, Hurg, is that you? Don't play games right now, oi..." He readied his rifle and seemed equipped with a short sword of some kind, by the looks of a sheath he had. He got closer to inspect the door and hallway, reducing any free space Akiko had to maneuver before moving past him and on towards the engines.

"What was that?" said another voice further inside, which must have been the alien she noticed before entering. His steps approached and by the looks of her radar appeared to be only some meters away behind a large rack of instruments and an engine.
"This door opened on its own..." said the first soldier, tall and blue.

"Wasn't it Hurg?" called out the alien further inside as he made his way around the corner to have view towards the entrance.

Akiko frowned at the surprise of the second figure who'd been napping somehow completely still near the door. She moved to the side to avoid him waiting until he moved enough for her to slip past as she headed into the engine room. Keeping to the sides and shadows. She was used to slipping through tight places to get to where she was needed. Avoiding the other alien in the room she moved so to place the charges carefully into hidden parts of the engine room ready to cause chaos whenever she wishes. Nodding to herself she looked around the engine room for other ways out of the room. She clutched her sword though itching to use it but now wasn't the time.

If she could see another way out of the room she'd approach that option. If not she'd sneak back to the entrance and see if she can slip back out before they notice anything strange.

The two aliens converged at the door, still puzzled at what had opened it in the first place. One of them moved for the corridor while the other kept inspecting the hatch and mechanism. All while Akiko set the charges in dark, hidden spots across various places on the engines. Afterwards she tried to locate any other way out or she would have to risk moving and sneaking by two soldiers that were moving a lot around the exit of the room.

However, she managed to notice a vent on the wall. It was too high to comfortably remove the lid and sneak but there were a few racks placed nearby that she could try and climb. The vent seemed small; she could fit in there but it was tight enough that she would have to crawl and slither her way around the vents.

Akiko frowned as the two aliens were focused on the door and no other door like exits were around for her but she noticed the vents. Carefully she slipped up the racks moving carefully to avoid making noise before she removed the lid of the vents...keeping one eye on the door before slowly placing the lid away in a corner as she knew trying to put the lid back on would cause too much noise. She carefully slipped herself into the vent as slow and carefully as she could...sliding into the vents and out of sight...turning off her cloaking once deep enough inside she began slowly crawling through the tight vents. Her mask checking the vent pathways to the bridge and her target while she slowly crawled deeper into the ships bowls.

Her form moved carefully to avoid making much noise and draw attention as best she could, following the guide of her HUD while sliding her way through the vents. Hopefully with no interruptions she'd slip in and find herself closing in on the bridge and peeking inside to see who was in the room.

Her sensual form became visible again inside the vents where she had sneaked in without the other two soldiers noticing. To climb and remove the lid without making any noise would be slow, and by the time she got inside both men had gone back to check around the engine room, the vent too high to quickly notice her. Even moving inside the duct was difficult with so little space to maneuver inside. Her breasts mashed beneath her and ass pressing against the metal, thighs rubbing along as she followed the HUD to navigate amidst the labyrinth of ducts inside the flagship.

There were some rats and other critters inside that mostly ran away from her but others, more territorial, tried to sting or bite her. However would she deal with them without making much noise?

After a long while of moving inside the vent pathways, the mask had led her to the corridors near the bridge. Looking through the lids and by the noise beneath her, activity was much more pronounced around these parts. More than ten soldiers were in the hall outside the bridge alone, guarding and on standby for any orders. But the vent continued inside the bridge. There, Akiko could see the large, prominent figure of an alien clad in dark red armor with spikes with a feathered helmet crowning his head. That was Garrtre, standing in the middle of the room amidst other crewmen piloting and revising the aspects of the ship. There were a couple of guards along the walls. One of them was a syrictae in dark gray armor, with two weapons strapped to his back and leg besides a sheathed melee weapon that seemed to small to be a sword but too intricate to be mere decoration.

"How long until we reach the outpost?" growled Garrtre.

"ETA 60 minutes, commander."

Akiko mostly used her arms to bat the beasts away. Thanks to her suit despite it's skintight appearance it was durable and made sure the creatures were most annoying than anything as she moved deeper through the ducts. Noticing the armed guards on the approach to the bridge as she smiled and slipped inside. Her eyes noticing the red armored figure that was Garrtre. She smirked with the guards she'd need to do this quick...one strike was all the time she'd have before the guards were upon her. Plus as she heard she only had 60 minutes left.

Her eyes noticed the syrictae with narrowed eyes...something about that one got her instincts flaring up in warning. Seeing the many guards and soldiers she needed a big distraction to at least lower the numbers...and smirked before she moved a hand and lightly touched a button on a small remote she had...arming and detonating the charges she set on the ships engines....causing an explosion and no doubt sending the ship into a panic. During this she slowly gripped the vent...watching silently for now ready to open up and slip in during this chaos.

A series of huge explosions rocked the flagship, the entire structure quaking as if it threatened to break and split in two. Lights flickered and some of them went out, the consoles on the bridge flaring up and dimming until they slowly normalized. Even Akiko herself would feel her body get shaken and hitting against the vents as the entire ship lost its engines. The vessel lost thrust and soon the strange sensation of constant acceleration kicked in as it began to drift forward and slightly rotating out of control.

"What the hell happened!?"

"Sir, we just lost the engines! The ship is not responsive, we are drifting dead in space!"

"Call those assholes back in the engine room, what are they doing!?"

"They aren't responding, they probably died in the explosion, hull damage is severe on the stern!"

"They must have come like the others. Quick! Get more soldiers to search the entire ship thoroughly, we can't let them take over this one! Get the radars and sensors into overdrive, scan the entire vicinity!"

As his second in command left the bridge barking orders at the other soldiers at the corridor, Rahs pressed a few buttons on the device around his wrist before cocking the rifle on his hands amidst the crew trying to revive the ship from their consoles. Garrtre was standing furiously in the middle at the main platform, hands almost breaking the handrail in his frustration and anger. The other guard took out two small swords and stood in a more combat-ready posture.

Akiko grimaced as she jostled around from the ship being flung from the explosion. Before she carefully pulled the vent out...trying to lower any noise while the crew were busy trying to get the ship working. She watched them carefully while slipping herself a little deeper out...before pulling one of her knives out...and with practiced focus...swung it and launched the sharp blades towards Garrtre's head to try and kill him before anyone can respond. She didn't stay still though no doubt this drawing attention to her as she slips out of the vent landing gracefully and draws her Katana as the blade glows with the energy to sharpen it's edge even more.

Akiko drew two more knives and flung them towards the closest guards she could aim at. Not saying a word just sinking into her cold assassin. She slashed her blade quickly and cut down any guards that attempted to grab her. The woman glaring with that cold frigid stare.

"Watch out!"

The attention had been drawn just as Akiko launched her knives. In less than a second they reached Garrtre, but with the shout from Rahs and his helmet the knives couldn't penetrate as perfectly as she had anticipated, the warlord turning with a growl. The graceful agent landed in the middle of the bridge, a katana glimmering with the lights as she quickly sent a new wave of knives towards the alien guard with the short swords, who was held back deflecting them. One of the crew members left his post with a short blade drawn and charged at her.

He could prove little challenge to her, but amidst the confusion and sudden attack a tendril from the syrictae slithered between the shadows and consoles and lashed towards Akiko, trying to wrap around her waist and throw her forcefully against a wall, Rahs firing a volley of heated bullets at her as soon as his attack commenced. Garrtre took out the knives that had embedded in his armor and drew out a long blade with serrated edges.

Akiko glared as she quickly slices through the blade and head of the alien attacking her. But his attack distracts her as she feels a tendril around her waist and throw her towards a wall. But Akiko twists in the air so her feet and legs take the wall and stops the slam. She quickly moves her sword to slash at the tendril to force it to release her as she deflects and blocks the heated bullets.

Akiko kicks off the wall as she moved with graceful movements of a highly trained assassin. Her blade cutting through one or two more guards as she focused on Garrtre who drew his own sword as she approached him quickly. Knowing she needed to handle this fast. Her senses knew that Garrtre was one of the big threats along with that one who swung her to the wall.

Akiko reaches the same level as Garrtre her blade drawn as he casually swings it to the side flinging the blood off her blade as she glared heatedly. "I hope you weren't thinking capture and imprisonment was your fate?" She asked calmly...the first time she speaks, her lightly Japanese accent despite speaking basic dialect.

The first dead body lied on the floor, sliced head bleeding on the floor at the warlord's feet. Before making another attack, the agent was thrown against the wall but she flipped around, cut the tendril and blocked the bullets with her sword. More guards died as she made her way towards Garrtre a second time, meeting him calmly as he drew out his sword.

"Death is a much better favored fate. But it's not my time yet, and I can't say the same for you, fucking bitch." The warlord readied his stance but before any of them could act, Rahs jumped the railing to the platform and now carrying his shotgun aimed at Akiko.

Without a word he glared at her and pulled the trigger, cocking the weapon and firing again to drive her away from Garrtre.