"Risky Disguise ( zakOctober 2024 15: Trojan Horse ) " by WBoson
Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2024 10:37 am
"Would you hurry up and get all that on??" hissed Liska, adjusting the shoulder strap of one of her newly-acquired armor plates. Her fellow rebel agent Kisani glared in response. "I'm going as fast as I can! These sluts take forever to take apart!" she complained, pulling another white cylinder from the motionless stormtrooper in front of her and sliding it onto her own body.
"That's why you take them out quickly," Liska replied, her voice dripping with stress-heightened condescension. Kisani was just as stressed and just as testy. "Oh, you mean like, by blasting them? And leaving a moon-sized hole in the backplate that's gonna get your dumb ass caught??"
Liska was about to really let Kisani have it, but the sound of a door hissing open and the approaching clunking of yet more armor cut her anger off at the knees. "Shit. Uh...stay here and keep getting changed. Don't start shooting unless I do. If that happens then--" she gestured at the shuttle on the landing pad behind them "--we'll have to abort." Kisani nodded, a doubtful look on her face. "Good luck."
Liska scrambled for the last pieces of her armor, knowing she had to stall the approaching troopers soon to have any chance. Swearing under her breath as she came up short, she slammed the helmet over her braids, held her belt together with her gloveless left hand, and with one last breath to steel herself, stood up from behind the barricade and strode towards the approaching detail.
"All under control here!" Liska announced, raising her only properly-uniformed hand in a casual greeting. "No additional units needed!" The approaching stormtroopers, a squad of six, pulled up short. "Are you sure, unit?" the squad leader asked, suspicion evident despite her electronically-filtered voice. "There were some strange energy readings from this pad. They said it looked like a blaster bolt on the scopes."
"Nope, no blasting here!" Liska responded, painfully aware of the draft of air on her upper back from the charred opening that would disprove her lie if seen. "Probably just an issue with the shuttle, the crew are working on some fluctuations in the repulsorlift inverters. Should be fixed pretty soon." She was sweating intensely. Would they buy it?
The squad leader spoke again, her tone growing impatient. "TK-8663, why is your armor so poorly attached? And where is TK-7380?" Panic shot through Liska, and through Kisani as well. Shit. They were blown. Kisani reached for her blaster, getting ready for a short, brutal gunfight. "I--er, sorry ma'am, I--what do you--I just..." Liska sputtered. She had nothing. She was screwed. She--
With a sigh, the squad leader cocked her helmeted head, breaking her formal stance and putting one hand on her hip. "8663, be honest with me. Were you and 7380...fornicating...on duty? Again?"
A spark of hope exploded in Liska's chest, and she struggled to keep it from bleeding into her voice. "OH! Uh...YES! I mean, yes, ma'am. Sorry, ma'am." The officer sighed again. "Dammit, you two...I have to write you up this time. Both of you report to the head of security as soon as your shift is over. You'll each receive a demerit." Liska did her best approximation of an Imperial salute. "Of course, ma'am. It won't happen again."
"See to it," the officer barked, and with that she and her squad turned and headed back towards the base. Liska breathed a massive sigh of relief as the doors whooshed shut, deflating a little in her borrowed shell as the finally identically-clad Kisani stepped up to greet her. "That was too damn close." "Yeah." a moment of silence, then Kisani spoke again, gesturing back at the two slumped figures now clothed only in their skintight bodygloves. "I think whenever I call them sluts from now on, it's gonna be appreciative."
Liska giggled. "You do you. I'm still gonna say it mean!"
Trojan Horse was one of the more out-there prompts, but I knew pretty quick that I wanted to do a stormtrooper uniform steal for it. It could be anyone under all that armor, after all! It does mean some similarities between this and yesterday's posts, but if you're here, it probably means you don't mind a double or triple dose of dark, shiny, full coverage bodysuits. ;P