31Less than an hour later, the battle was over. The Commonwealth had won--if losing the Marine Corps Commandant to the Reds could be called "winning." Scott survived, though Frank had made another run at him in missile mode and been barely deflected by Trane and Khalil.
Two hours later, Scott was evacuated from the surface of Oberon aboard one of the drop ships. When the drop ship's gangway opened inside the landing bay of the Sun Tzu, he looked out--and found himself face to face with a line of rifles pointed in his direction.
The guns weren't aiming at him, though. When Scott walked down the gangway, the Diamondbacks holding them parted to let him through. They were much more interested in the cluster of twelve shackled Red prisoners debarking behind him.
The Diamondbacks and Com
