The Kleeth patrol boat skims in, just over the surface of the water. It then drops a canoe into the water, then turns and exits the scene silently.

Adrianna, the Bethran, and I are in the canoe.

I paddle the canoe, slowly and quietly toward the darker patch that's the shore of our island target. I have a nifty little Kleeth supplied navigation device that tells me how far I have paddled, how far I have to go and how long that it'll take me to get to the shore.

Adriana and I each wear a sort of body suit that covers each of us, from top of head to toe. Each suit also has a face cover that allows us to see out, but kills the light oval of our face. Each suit has a pattern that matches the rocks of the island shoreline and a blue gray color that matches the color of the rocks and also blends in well with the water.

When we get about ten minutes from the shore, I silently signal Adrianna and she lies down in the canoe and removes her body suit and then puts on just a pair of skin colored, skin tight booties, that maintain the image of the lady being totally nude, while still providing some foot protection. I paddle into the shore, exit the canoe and then pull it further up onto the rocks of the shoreline. I tether the canoe to a large rock and then I begin to crawl not quite toward the gate of the Ru'ull installation.

Adrianna waits until I have covered much of the distance to the gate. Adrianna then gets up, out of the canoe and begins to do what would, in the average person, be described as walking. Adrianna, however, sort of undulates toward the gate. Her movements are smooth and unhurried, except for a bit of tit jiggle. She reaches the gate and the gate guard.

The gate guard can't believe what he's seeing. He steps forward to try to touch the vision of sexiness that moves toward him.

I put a knockout dart into the son of a bitch and he goes down like the sack of shit that he is.

Adrianna reacts as if shes shocked and surprised at the collapse of the gate guard.

A second guard comes out of the facility, on the dead run, with a pistol at the ready.

I put a knockout dart into the second son of a bitch and he goes down like a sack of shit being thrown onto pavement. I'm up and moving through the gate, past Adrianna, then into the facility. I go along a main corridor and then turn left, into a side corridor that the Kleeth told me would lead to the central air intake for the facility. In the Kleeth supplied black light, I spy a figure, coming out of a doorway. I put yet another knockout dart into the figure and then I'm at the air intake. I yank out a hose from my body suit and then activate the release of the highly pressurized knockout gas, into the air intake. I try to keep watch for any signs of movement, but aside from me seeing an imaginary Ru'ul in every shadow, I'm alone in the corridor. I wait, what seems like hours, until the container inside my body suit empties and then I turn and retreat, back toward the main corridor, still keeping watch for Ru'ul. My face mask also serves as a gas mask and I'm living off a very limited amount of air contained in a very small tank inside my body suit. I get to the main corridor and back down the corridor trying to look for pursuit and also trying to check on Adrianna. I see yet another Ru'ul guy in front of Adrianna and I turn and prepare to put a knockout dart into the guy. However the guy topples backwards and there's some sort of dart, in his eye. I get to the gate area, activate the call for the Kleeth and ask Adrianna, "Are you alright?"

Adrianna poses nude for me and asks, "Do I look alright?"

I turn to face the main corridor, in case of more Ru'ul pursuit. I say, "Much more than just alright. Where did you get the throwing dart?"

Adrianna laughs and says, "Where do you think that I got the throwing dart?"

"Not from your clothes, since you don't have any clothes. Not from your booties, since they were skin tight."

Adrianna chuckles, "That leaves just one place."

I say, "A weapon from within a weapon."

Adrianna lectures, "First they look at it, then they die from a dart that comes out of it."

I tell Adrianna, "I can cover the gate. You need to get back to the canoe and get dressed. The way you look now, it will distract the Kleeth guys, when they get here."

Adrianna says, "Well, yes. However, nudity does provide me with a very good negotiating basis. With that, Adrianna is gone,.

I expect the Kleeth to come in, via a patrol boat, or some such. However, the first two Kleeth that I see descend into the scene via some sort of devices, that let them drop from the sky and land on the rocks, without too much jolt.

(The two Kleeth are what I later learn are called Paragrav Rangers. They drop on what are called anti-gravity units. The units are tiny engine powered, with the engines operating at about 110% of capacity, allowing the Paragrav Rangers to drop into battle and then worry later about how to get back out. The Paragrav Rangers is an all volunteer outfit, considered to be the top Kleeth soldiers. They drop and deploy. They speak no English. They check the three Ru'ul downed just inside the gate. They slap some kind of handcuff restraints on the two I got with the knockout darts. One of them checks the boy with the dart in his eye. He turns to me and makes a throwing motion, then sort of shrugs at me. (Did you do the deed?)

I tell the guy, "Bethran."

The guy says something in Kleeth, of which I speak only maybe a word or two. (However, what he said was something like, "How can they look so sexy and fight so nasty?"

The two Paragrav Rangers then do something with a comm unit and then they go into the dark of the main corridor.

I wait for what seems a lot longer than it actually is and then I'm joined by a squad of Kleeth Marines.

The squad leader speaks a little English. "You alright?"

"Yeah."

"Bethran alright?"

"Yeah, she got one of the Ru'ul."

"Paragrav Rangers inside?"

"Yeah, they landed, secured the live Ru'ul and then went inside the facility to hunt for more Ru'ul."

The squad leader says, "Yeah, that's how they operate. If not enough trouble, they go look it."