The Last Scout Page #6

you know,

the person that knows

the most about the ship.

I would base it completely on

looks, guys. Bridge, come in.

Bridge, here.

What's happening, Captain?

We found a survivor,

a small Chinese boy.

Yeah, Jane. But the airlock

is not working.

Can you unlock it from your end?

There's no problem on this end.

Pegasus, release the airlock.

Outer airlock has been sealed.

Override must be

manually entered.

I'm afraid that would be me.

What do you mean?

Captain, I locked it.

In case any survivors

from the Chinese ship

try to gain access

to the Pegasus.

Yeah. Well, it's just us and

a boy. So you can let us in.

I can't risk it.

We don't want whatever happens

over there happening in here.

You're just going to have

to stay there

until we understand

what's going on.

Open that f***ing door, Edward.

Edward, it's just us.

There's no risk.

Open the door.

That's a direct command.

Captain, with you

and Mike off the ship,

I'm the next person in command.

And I will not risk it.

You guys shouldn't

even have removed your helmets.

We don't know what happened

to the crew over there.

We don't know if they got sick.

You have endangered

the entire mission by-

I thought he'd never shut up.

Just hoping Edward

calm down a little, sir.

Hayley.

Manually reversing override.

Airlock opened.

Based on looks, you hear that?

Yes, so that means me.

You wish.

You have endangered our lives

by doing this.

You should have left him over

there to die. You know what?

Better yet, you should have

finished the job yourselves.

He is just a child,

for goodness sake.

Would you happily have

Lila killed, just as easy?

- That is different.

- How come?

Lila is not our enemy.

His people are.

It's exactly the attitude

that got us here

in the first place.

Well. You know what?

Like it or not, we are here.

And his people are after

the same thing we are.

You know,

I highly, highly doubt that

two flags

are going to be planted

in the same sand together.

Hayley! What can you tell me

about him?

Not a great deal.

He is between four

and six years old,

malnourished,

poor state of hygiene.

Severely traumatized by whatever

happened on that ship or

the sheer fact

that he's been there

for however long.

He is sedated now.

I'll talk to him

when he wakes up.

Captain, I have Pete

wanting to speak with you

from the Dragon.

Go ahead, Pete.

Captain, I've checked the

anti-matter supply over here.

There's hardly anything left.

Nowhere near

what we need to get home.

Are you sure?

A hundred percent.

Checked it twice.

Looks like they didn't leave

anything for the trip home.

Copy that.

I'm sending Mike over now.

Strip down everything

that's not nailed down.

As soon as you guys are done,

we're heading out.

Roger.

You're happy? F***ing wonderful!

Can you believe all the cool

stuff they had it here?

You definitely checked

all their reserves. Right?

I checked it

and I checked it twice.

Look just accept it bud,

theirs was a one way trip.

Hey, you think they knew

something we don't?

Yeah. Get to the planet.

Claim it

before the westerners do.

Right, come on.

Let's get this out of here.

Yeah. Good idea, mate.

Because I just removed

all the isotope guards.

I can feel the heat already.

What's going to happen?

Well mate,

in a couple of minutes

the ship won't be here.

I'll see you back on board.

All right?

You hang back for a bit.

Hey, man, that's not funny.

I think he would have

made me captain eventually.

No, he would have done.

You can even get there

with the open door.

That was because

I was letting you,

- like audition for the role.

- Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

- I was feeling sorry for you.

- Yeah.

- Oh, crap.

- What?

I've left my pad behind.

Here, take this.

Oh, forget it.

We ain't got time.

Oh, we've gotten minutes.

I thought you said the ship

was going to blow.

In ten minutes.

I'll meet you on the bridge.

- It won't be a minute.

- All right. Be quick.

I will.

Pete to Bridge.

Go ahead, Pete.

Jane,

the airlock is sealed again.

Pete, are you still over there?

Yeah. And I'd really like

to get off about now.

No one over here has touched it.

Edward.

No, he's still out

in the Medi-bay.

Pegasus, who ordered

the airlock be sealed?

Jane.

It was The Dragon herself.

Hull breach.

Emergency airlock containment

procedure initiated.

What the hell was that?

Some sort of explosion

in the airlock.

Are we still secure?

Inner door is sealed

and intact...

- Outer door is f***ed.

- He's still over there.

What do you mean

Pete's still over there?

In the other ship.

He went back to get something.

Now he's f***ing trapped.

Pete, how long you have

before that engine goes bad?

About seven minutes.

Okay, Pete.

You need to listen to me.

You get yourself

into a spacesuit

and you can space walk across.

There's no good.

We left all the spacesuits

and the helmets

on the Pegasus for spares.

Sh*t yeah that's right.

Okay. Okay, Pete.

Listen up.

I'm going to move us over

close to you.

You open

your airlock door anyway.

The explosive decompression

will throw you over to us.

You can survive in space

a few seconds without a suit.

When he gets across,

how do we let him back in?

The outer airlock door

is hanging off.

If we open the inner one

we lose the atmosphere

from the whole ship.

We'll lock down

the whole section.

No, no, no, guys, guys.

That's going to take too long.

It's going to be manual override

and once we vent out

the atmosphere

- it'll blast him back. Pete.

- Yeah.

I need you to get

to the escape pod

and we'll pick you up

after launch.

Okay. On it.

- Mike.

- Cap?

Get to the Med Bay,

check on Edward,

make sure

he's still unconscious,

and make sure that Hayley

has the boy.

Jane, move us away

from the ship.

- Mike, get a weapon.

- Got it.

Sir, shouldn't we wait?

Jane, just do it.

Warning.

The Dragon's antimatter chamber

is destabilizing.

Warning. Pegasus is within

predicted blast radius.

Still no pod launch.

Come on, Pete.

What the hell is he doing?

No escape pod.

Pete.

It's okay.

I know what has to happen.

I'm sorry.

Me too. Listen...

The oxy-generation units,

they need pressure releasing

every three to four weeks

otherwise the valve blows.

And we don't have

too many valves left.

And if you need the valves,

they're actually in the

maintenance cabinet in my room.

Pete.

Listen, because you need to know

some of this stuff.

The Medi-bay:

The emergency batteries

in the Medi-bay

are actually currently powering

the water recyc system.

Ah, so if you need the Medi-bay,

for someone's appendix

or something like that,

you need to manually switch it.

It's been an honor, Pete.

Likewise.

I'm sorry. I am so sorry.

I shouldn't have let you

go back.

Hey, hey, shut up.

There's nothing

to apologize for.

You take care of yourself,

all right mate?

- Pete.

- Hey, hey scamp.

Please come back, Pete.

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