The Quantum Leap - Part 29

The flashlights shined against the unpowered, unlit bulkheads with behavior like a moth hovering around a blue light. Where there was no light shining, there was pitch darkness, and several sidearms at the ready to fire. All-the-while, seemingly distant eerie metallic creaking and groaning sounds swept through the corridor. At the end of the curved corridor, the away team stopped as the majority of the flashlights focused on the deck some fifteen feet in front of them.

“What-the—freak!” Jorgensen said with a shocked tone as the away team surrounded the immediate point of their curiosity.

“What could have bent a piece of wall plating like this?” Aaen swallowed as he asked Jorgensen. Jorgensen knelt down and visually examined the metal, and ran a scanner over it. The metal’s bent so sharply, the only way to restore its condition is to melt it down and rebuild it. . .but these scratch marks, these metallic scars—and all these huge dents!—the wall panel was brutally attacked!

He quickly reasoned the BANG they heard was the sound of someone—or something— broke through this wall and then destroyed this panel! But if it wasn’t an onboard explosion that did this, then—

“Captain, I think it’s safe to say the answer is—”

ANOTHER SHREIKING SOUND. FROM THE RIGHT! The away team snapped, shining their lights down the corner.

“—about a hundred feet that way!” on the left!

ANOTHER SHRIEK! Aaen noted wide-eyed. WAS THAT SOMEONE SCREAMING? WHO WAS THAT? Aaen wondered. “GO! GO! GO!” he clenched his sidearm as he raised it, aiming at the corridor’s curvature.

Another thundering BANG. Whatever caused this one shook the metal framework in the deck. Aaen gestured for the away team to watch the door and line up along both sides of the doorway. The next signal was to Jorgensen to manually override the door’s sensors and force it open.

“HELLO? Who’s there?” a female voice shrieked from behind the door.

Aaen shined his light in front of him. Jorgensen was making quick work of his task.

“OH-MY-GOSH—!” the female voice shrieked. “HEELLLP!”

Jorgensen looked at Aaen, signaling ‘READY!’ and nodded.

Aaen gave the signal.

With a command, the doors’ controlling inner workings sparked as the doors rushed open. The away team snapped. Their flashlights went up with their sidearms—

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