The company

"the dropship!"

"yeah, no shit!"

"squad, this is Ramirez"

"report"

"we suspect sabotage"

"by who?"

"who else?"

"Thane?"

"yes"

"making our way back now, come on Marines double time!"

Boots thudding against the deck, Ramirez and  made it in time to see that the dropship was fully active and taking off, with the marines trying to shoot it down the whole way. Ramirez pointed his smartgun at it and unloaded, but the shots merely bounced off the armor plating and hit the ground. By the time the dropship was away half of our ammo was exhausted, and it turned around to the back of the ship, right when the sarge told everyone to haul it back inside the ship in case he decided to come back a deep rumbling was heard throughout the ship as shock-waves reverberated through the hull. This time, we grabbed everything unloaded while the sarge shouted "MOVE! Go go go! To the bridge! To the bridge! Double time it marines!"

The groan of metal was heard as we hauled it to the bridge, in false hope we can get away before Thane could completely scuttle the ship, but something screeching behind us followed by a muffled hum said that something else would keep that from happening. The whole ship pulsed with bright white light as the experimental FTL drive was damaged in sync with the rockets fired from the drop-ship. I yelled for people to hit the deck when I saw that there was a solid stream of fire rapidly closing the distance, passing over our heads by centimeters, then got back up and continued to the bridge, but the damage was too extensive, the ship gave a defeated shriek while the drive caused my vision to fill with harsh white light, then nothing.