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Whooo! Everyone, I wrote up DRH's death sequence, as well as the continuation of some other bits of the RP.

Oh, and by the way, all fleeing ATLAs vessels are interdicted and either captured or destroyed by cloaked Sargoth warships that were keeping an eye on all his territories.

 Michael hadn’t seen the Sargoth vessel until it was right on top of him. All around him, Scourge in their toxic environment suits (nobody can survive long on the surface of Venus without one) appeared from cloaking, aiming their antimaterial rifles at him.

 A short while later, Michael was in an interrogation room. And a very unpleasant one at that. The Sargoth poked and prodded at him, trying to get everything he knew about the Tarak hives.

 Michael’s will was not to be broken, however. He clenched his teeth throughout the entire interrogation process, despite undergoing torture that would have had the strongest men weeping.

 “Alright, he’sss made of ssstronger ssstuff. Let’sss go to plan beta, hmm?”

 They guided a shackled and blindfolded Michael to another room. When they removed his blindfold, he was standing on a balcony, overlooking a room. Most of the room was occupied by a seething pool of water. Above this pool were several dozen platforms. Almost all of them contained an innocent Human citizen, except one which carried Shurtagul. The last bit of the room was some sort of seating area, much like sporting event bleachers on Earth.

 “Hello, Michael.” A feminine Sargoth voice said over a radio. “You resssisssted our interrogationsss. Very impresssive. But we get our information, one way or another. You sssee, each one of thossse platformsss containsss an innocent person of your own ssspeciess. You can give usss the information we want, or you can watch thessse innocccent people die. A demonssstration.”

 A Sargoth carrying a spear jetpacked up to the platform where Shurtagul stood. He jabbed Shurtagul in the back, causing him to fall into the water below. It then became clear why the water seethed so.

 As Shurtagul got nearer to the water, an immense sea serpent leapt from the waters and dragged Shurtagul down. Several others of these immense sea serpents joined in, ripping Shurtagul apart. The Sargoth cheered, the Humans screamed.

 “Do you sssee, Michael? If you give us what we want, you can sssave the innocccentsss. Refussse, and you will kill them. Well?”

 Michael kept his mouth shut. The Sargoth jetpacked over to another platform, and was about to jab the spear into one of the Human’s backs, when Michael spoke up.

 “Alright! Fine! Don’t kill any of them! I’ll give you what you want! I’ll lead your forces to the nearest Tarak hive, and show you how to kill them.”

 “You have made the right choiccce. Essscort him to the launch bay.” Two Sargoth guards led Michael out. The moment he left, the trapdoors opened on all the platforms and the Humans fell into the jaws of the beasts below.

 Later, on the surface of Venus…

 “Here it is!” Michael said to the Sargoth army behind him. “Now, in order to destroy this hive without waking the Tarak is like this.” He took a Sargoth soldier’s gun and fired several blasts into the hive. He then handed the gun back to the Sargoth soldier and ducked for cover.

 The angered Tarak burst from the hive and immediately engaged the assembled Sargoth army. Michael crawled along the ground on the outskirts of the battle, hoping not to be noticed. Thankfully, the Sargoth were too focussed on their lust for battle to pay him any mind. He managed to covertly knife a Sargoth with one of their knives he had gotten off a dead body, and took its hazard suit. He then fled the battle, allowing the two fighting sides to continue their battle.

A short while of travel later, he managed to get far enough away he felt safe to send an encrypted SOS message.