When a power exchange blew out and switched to the fallback, Amos or Clarissa had flagged it for repair before he could remember how to pull up the damage control schedule. Mfume and Steinberg were at stations amidships, Lombaugh and Droga down in engineering, two teams of pilot and gunner ready to take over if the Free Navy cleaved the cockpit off the ship. Naomi was in the next couch over, breathing in ragged gasps. He wanted to talk to her, to ask if she was okay, to offer her some sort of comfort.
He tried to imagine her response. It was just another way that he could try to control something. Marco receives Pa's video message saying she's defecting and he retreats inward. Rosenfeld Guoliang , part of the inner circle, gets anxious that Marco hasn't issued any orders to the fleet in response, and says he's going to start giving them himself soon.
Marco eventually responds by ordering the destruction of the Witch of Endor , a ship following Pa. When Pa finds out the Endor was destroyed, she decides that the best course of action for still getting the necessary supplies to the Belters in need is to ask Fred Johnson who she still vehemently hates to protect her ships.
Naomi tells Bobbie that she can be a permanent part of the crew if she wants to be; Bobbie isn't sure about it since she's just been made Mars Junior Ambassador. They meet with Fred to discuss Pa's defection, and Fred wants none of it until Bobbie tears him a new one: the OPA isn't lining up behind him, afraid of joining a coalition with the inner planets.
Holden tells Fred he's contacting Pa and Fred can get off the Roci if he doesn't like it. At Medina Station, the first ship built on the other side of the rings, the Proteus , has arrived, with Captain Montemayor commanding. Rumors are that Marco asked Winston Duarte defected Martian military commander that got Marco many of his ships to send the ship, but the Proteus says it's just there to help.
The Roci leaves Ceres without Fred and his crew and rendezvous with Pa. Marco has destroyed another ship, the Munroe , that was under her command. Pa agrees to transfer control of the Minsky over to him--and Ceres launches missiles.
The Roci shoots them down just in the nick of time; if Pa's ship would've fired, all hell would've broken loose. Holden insists that Fred didn't fire the missiles, Free Navy agents did, and Pa still agrees to the transfer. She gets the hell out of there.
Prax is starting to feel the oppression of the Free Navy. When his subordinates ask for the data on their recently deceased colleague's partition, Prax puts it out there for them, unencrypted.
Later, after everyone leaves, he logs in as a guest and sends the results to Earth and Luna. Avasarala chastises Fred for working with Pa, calling him and Pa pirates, but after he tells her about all the resources he'll be sending because of the collaboration, she says she guesses they're all pirates now. Fred calls Ceres for help and one of the ships breaks off to intercept; Bobbie uses some fancy maneuvering to take out the two support ships with the Roci's railgun. The Pella, however, gets wise to her tactics and dodges the rails every time--but Bobbie notices it dodges the same way every time, so she shoots some PDC rounds and missiles in the dodge path, then fires the railgun.
The Pella dodges straight into the PDC rounds and is forced to retreat. Bobbie fires missiles; Holden, video-conferencing with Marco, sees Filip and, realizing he can't bring himself to kill Naomi's son, disarms the missile right as it's about to hit.
During the battle, the high-G evasive maneuvers cause Fred Johnson to have a stroke and die. Holden sends Avasarala a video message explaining what happened and she has a mini-breakdown. She eventually pulls herself back together and replies to Holden that he needs to make the OPA meeting work in Fred's place. Pa finds out from Sanjrani that since she diverged from Marco's original plan, there are barely enough supplies to last the Belt, Earth, and Mars From intercepted data, it appears that not all the ships made it through, however.
Holden meets with the OPA heads and tells them he wants to take over for Fred and enact his plan even though Fred never actually told Holden his plan. Anderson Dawes, newly defected from Marco's inner circle, shows up to the meeting uninvited and Holden, wanting to appear strong in front of them, tells him he can't be in the meeting since he wasn't formally invited.
Dawes later convinces the others to give Holden a shot, even though they all seem reluctant. When going over the post-battle logs, Amos notices that Holden disarmed the torpedoes. He confronts Holden about it and asks him if he's really the best man for the job; Holden says "no", but that he was given the job and will follow through next time. Amos says that's a good enough answer for him.
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