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==[ORIGINS] USS HOOD: Carry the News II== | |||
===by Dave Kiel=== | |||
SD 2261.140 | |||
Cedria met the harried new Security chief on her way down to the transport pad. | |||
"We've found the escapees, sir. They took you up on your surrender offer." | |||
"Excellent." She said, looking at him as he fell into stride next to her. "I | |||
think we've found our crew members and I had this vision of one of them getting | |||
into a wrestling match with their twin and all of a sudden we wouldn't know | |||
which one of them to shoot. I hate it when that happens." | |||
They walked into the transporter room to see Steele and the Doctor she was sure | |||
had been poisoned to death by a killer bunny. "Are you fit to return to | |||
command, Captain?" | |||
He looked at her. "Any damage to my ship, lieutenant?" | |||
"Not so much as a scratch, sir." She turned hearing a very oddly familiar | |||
voice. | |||
"I'm the one who kicked Zade's ass?" Cedria Quall walked up to where Cedria | |||
Zade stood, both women dressed in skirted gold uniforms. Cedria Zade noted the | |||
midriff baring design of her counterparts outfit and the lack of the telltale | |||
`X' shaped scar that marked a Trill as joined. She looked into matching blue | |||
eyes and marveled at the exactness of the other universes duplication; the same | |||
eyes, same smooth skin, same light auburn hair, same tiny little scar from that | |||
tree when she was nine, and the same coppery shade of lip gloss she had chosen | |||
that morning. It made all the bewildering differences almost hard to believe. | |||
Then Cedria remembered that this was technically a first contact mission and | |||
there were decorum's and protocols that were to be followed. | |||
Zade however was a corrupting influence, and the corners of her coppery lips | |||
turned in a wry bit of mischief. "You're kinda hot." | |||
* * *** * * | |||
It was only seventy-five minutes later when the crewman from the alternate | |||
universe settled into a borrowed shuttlecraft for the journey home. Jeri, | |||
Cedria and Cedria had worked out settings to get them back using the Tholian | |||
device that would also short out the connection between universes. Knocking the | |||
two Branes reeling away from each other. | |||
The settings they had to input had the side effect of overloading any nearby | |||
warp core to the point of a sudden and spectacular breach. Gar stood by ready | |||
to shut down the shuttles core at the right moment to spare them a frightening | |||
and sparkly death. | |||
Captain Steele of the other universe had been remanded into the custody of | |||
alternate Commander Merrick with the caveat that he was not to be executed in | |||
Federation space. Steele was still shackled in arm and leg irons after his | |||
daring three feet of escape earlier that day. | |||
It was agreed that Hemux was the likeliest candidate to be the occupant of the | |||
missing shuttle, but Halifax had not found a trace of her after losing the trail | |||
a mere parsec away. As each minute in this universe was degrading their | |||
molecular cohesion even further the decision was made to launch then. After all | |||
if anyone could find a way to prevent their cells from turning into goo, it was | |||
the molecular exobiologist. | |||
Jeri said a final goodbye to this universes version of her husband and climbed | |||
aboard. The shuttle doors closed and the bay doors opened. Cedria lifted off | |||
and glided smoothly out and away from USS Hood. She settled into the vector of | |||
their return course and waited until they were safely away from Hood. | |||
"We should make sure we don't emerge near any other ships, away from star lanes | |||
lest the surge destroys any passing ships. A light year should be sufficient." | |||
Gar offered. | |||
Cedria looked over her course and smiled as she engaged the warp engines. "I'm | |||
sorry sir, but that is not the plan." | |||
Dr. Corbett chuckled and drawled. "Welcome to the resistance, folks." | |||
The shuttle hit warp and the Tholian device thrummed to life for the final time, | |||
it surged and Gar hit the emergency shutdown of the shuttles power core. A | |||
blazing blue light enfolded them and their stomachs twisted as the shuttle | |||
bridged the dimensions and shot back into its crews original universe,… right | |||
between the nacelles of the TSS Constitution. | |||
"Emergency power to engines." | |||
"Im already reading a warp core breach." | |||
"Aft shields, lets get the hell out of here." | |||
Captain Steele looked out the rear viewport at the shuddering ship of his | |||
archrival. "Ha ha ha ha! Suck that, Veld!" A hammer to the right of his jaw | |||
sent him into a blissful slumber. | |||
Commander Merrick returned to his seat next to Jeri, rubbing his fist. "That's | |||
still fun the second time around." | |||
NRPG: A proper sendoff to the survivors of TSS Hood and a tying up of a few | |||
loose ends. | |||
Respectfully submitted; | |||
David Kiel | |||
Lt Cedria Zade, | |||
NAV, USS HOOD NCC-1703 | |||
ASR: ORIGINS | |||
Cedria Quall | |||
Trill Assassin, The Resistance | |||
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