It was time for a reckoning. Smit or whoever it was was about to be rescued from clinging to the outside of a short-transit pod only to be smacked around by a pissed off android and eventually atomized by a collapsing antimatter reactor core.

He was not going to have a very good day.

"Okay a-hole!" N-XS snapped, "What the hell do..." but her last words were again sucked out into the vacuum of space.

The figure was there, and she hauled him in roughly and threw him onto the deck-plate.