The BLTS Archive - Night Moves First in the Night Moves series by Sue Duenn (sduenn@optonline.net) --- Comments: I had a plot bunny hit me when talking with D, and I got roped into making it a reality. Kinda hard to say no M, R and D though--part of the reason you'll see in the story. The most important part though, is that they've quickly become great friends and I'd never want to disappoint them. Archived to EntSTSlash on 12/29/2002. Archived at EntSTCommunity with the author's express permission. --- The island was barely visible on the dark horizon--the only light coming from the stars and the sliver of moon in the sky. Three heads bobbed silently in the water, gazing at the island. A gloved hand came up, holding a small non-reflective pair of binoculars to one set of eyes. The matching hand raised just above the surface of the water signaling to the others the position and number of guards on the island. As one, they moved off again towards their prey. They exited the water on the tiny beach of the island--a few feet of sand at low tide before a thirty foot cliff face. Blades were unsheathed, held knowingly in deadly hands, no flash of metal seen as they moved up the cliff face in three different directions. The eight guards were dispatched quickly and silently, each with a clean slice to the throat. Outside the lone building on the island, the three reconvened. The tallest of them, obviously the leader, gestured for silence then lead the way to the main door. Hand signals were given out and understood, they stormed the one room shack subduing the two occupants in seconds. Signals were again given out, verifying the all clear. The leader loosened his hold on the occupants and removed his black nylon swim hood revealing close cropped light brown hair. Touching a finger to his throat, he murmured then nodded to the other two. In the dim light, all the occupants of the shack could tell was that the three men were big, but more importantly, human. They had been held on the remote island for close to a month--ever since their ship, the Enterprise had attempted to trade with the inhabitants of this world. Captain Jonathan Archer had a good idea who the men were, but not how they got there. For centuries, the military had had special operations groups--people trained to do the impossible. One of which was extraction of kidnapped dignitaries or other VIP's. He never thought he would have counted as such a person, but the extraction team proved things to be different than he thought. As the other two removed their hoods, the leader looked at Jon and nodded. His voice a deep baritone and with a light Texan drawl said, "Chopper'll be here in two hours. Be ready at 0300 to leave." He turned his companions, speaking softly so the Enterprise officers couldn't hear. Archer stood and asked, "Why can't we just go back the way you guys got here?" The leader looked at Archer as if Jon were a petulant child. "We would make a twenty nautical mile swim back to our re-entry point to float in an alien ocean with no space pod, because?" Archer actually blushed. "Sorry, I should have known better than to question you." The leader nodded. "On that count, you're correct." Jon stood forward, hand extended. "In any case, I'd like to thank you for coming to get us. You obviously know who we are, but we haven't had the pleasure of a formal introduction." The leader's eyebrow went up in a perfect imitation of a peeved Vulcan. The less you know about us the better--for all of us. If you feel the need to address us, you may call me M," pointing to the others he continued, That's D," he said pointing to the blond, "and this is R. We've got just under two hours and we don't plan on spending the time chitchatting with the extractions." M turned and stripped out of his wet suit, careful to be sure that he had a knife at close reach in its ankle holster. Even in the dim light, his impressive body shone with a light sheen of sweat, and both Archer and Tucker had a hard time keeping their eyes off the sight. Tucker had to bite back a moan as he watched D and R follow suit. Within moments, the three extractors were completely naked and sitting on their wet suits, talking quietly to each other. Trip looked to Jon and asked quietly, "Why they doin' this to us?" Jon tore his eyes off the men reluctantly. "The suits are made for the freezing ocean. In this warm air, it gets quite uncomfortable." Trip nodded and the men's eyes were drawn to their rescuers again. D looked up and saw the frank appraisal on the Enterprise officer's faces and his blue eyes flashed. "Doesn't bother you--us bein' nekkid, does it?" Jon had to swallow hard to keep from allowing his tongue to drop from his mouth. "No, no, not at all." He felt a bead of sweat pop from his forehead as he noticed D getting erect from their stares. He certainly hoped the men would go on patrol or something and soon--it was not going to be easy to keep his hands to himself if this was consistently presented to him. He snuck a glance to his right and saw that Trip was having much the same problems. If they'd been alone, there was no question he and Trip would betearing each other's clothes off in passion. Jon saw movement from the corner of his eye and was mildly shocked to see his partner crawling across the floor to the extractor code named D. He was even more shocked to hear the southern drawl dripping with desire when he asked, "We need to thank you--can I taste it?" D grinned and looked at his two companions. "Ain't this special? I think I d best let the man have a taste, don'tcha think?" R tried not to grin as he rolled his brown eyes and looked to M. "Always has been, always will be a horn dog." M looked to the other men in the room, his eyes turning icy. "Not a one of you is to touch R. I don't give a shit what you do to each other, but touch R and you're dead." Jon nodded mutely as he turned his eyes back to his partner going down on D. He didn't even flinch when he saw M plunder R's mouth--it just proved to him he was the only one not giving or receiving anything. He reached down between Trip's legs and stroked the man's hardness through the remnants of the tattered blue uniform. During their month of incarceration they had devised was to take and be taken without the removal of their clothing--it was a matter of survival. Jon put this knowledge to good use as he prepped his partner for entry. He got rock hard looking over at the two extractors--M pounding into R ruthlessly to both their enjoyment. Looking back to D, he saw Trip take D fully down his throat and knew the exquisite pleasure that Trip's throat could bring. He couldn't take it anymore and plunged into Trip, sliding in easily. In moments it was over for all five men. It was only a moment though before M stood up and scouted outside the shack again, confident despite his nakedness and what they had all just done. "Rest while you can. Chopper's here in sixty." He sat back down on his wet suit and leaned back against the wall closing his eyes. It seemed like only seconds went by before M stood up once again and began donning his suit. The other two extractors took the cue and followed suit, the team ready and anonymous with hoods on in less than two minutes. Again, hand signals were used to convey the group to the pick up point,silence to be understood by the Enterprise crew. Trip, strung tight as a wire, jumped and almost screamed when M tapped him on the shoulder, pointing up into the sky. Not a blade of grass was moving, not a sound was heard, yet there was a helicopter with a rope stairway lowered. He took the hint and quickly clambered onto it, D following one rung lower to shield Trip's body from possible attack. Jon jumped on next with M following directly behind him. R brought up the rear, going up the ladder from the other side to keep their backs watched. Without hesitation, R brought his hand up and a high pitched scream could be heard from the other side of the island followed by a splash. The team got their cargo into the helicopter and signaled the pilot to get them out. Trip, who had seen R's move, said, "What the hell did you do? Vulcan mind phaser or something?" R looked at him quizzically. "Oh, you mean this," he said, pointing his hand into the shape of a gun directly at Trip's head. "Phase pistols emit too much light for covert operations, so we have a high frequency microwave emitter installed. It's silent, invisible, and deadly. We had company just as we left." He shrugged. "I took care of it." "Malcolm's gonna love this one," Trip said grinning. "He's gonna wish he'd been here for this--all these cool weapons and stuff." M shook his head and smiled, putting one hand on each of the Enterprise crew s shoulders and squeezing in the Vulcan nerve pinch. "Time for memory erasure, boys. You know way too much for your own good." --- Phlox woke the men in sickbay. Slowly, Jon and Trip sat up on their biobeds and looked at each other. "Gentleman, good to have you back. Now, can you tell me just what happened?" Trip frowned, "We were there for a month, in that shack. Then we woke up here. How'd we get out?" Jon pondered. "Something to do with two people named Aurora and Cruella, I think." "Yeah, that's it," Trip said and turned to the doctor. "Yeah, not people though--a chihuahua and a cat. They saved us." He frowned. "That doesn't sound right, but that's what I swear happened." Phlox frowned. He'd come across this sort of thing before from other people who had been rescued in such a manner. "Couldn't they have given you normal memories at least?" He sighed and shook his head, scanning the men before releasing them. --- The End