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==[ORIGINS] USS HOOD: A Simple Plan== | |||
===by David Kiel=== | |||
SD: 2261.095 | |||
MD: 2.1140 | |||
Captains Cabin TSS Hood | |||
<snip from Revelations by Andy and Steve> | |||
The door slid open and 4 red jacketed security men had Cedria in the corridor on | |||
her knees hands resting on her head. "Commander Merrick had us bring this | |||
traitorous trill here to you sir." | |||
Jack looked out at the small group and hoped he didn't appear as surprised as he | |||
felt. He recognized the lead security officer as Gene Lowl and hoped to hell | |||
these officers were loyal to the captain and not someone else. Finally an evil | |||
grin broke out across his face. "Gene why don't you bring her in here and we | |||
have a little fun with her before we carry out her punishment?" | |||
"Yes sir!" | |||
Jack moved aside as the four red shirts dragged the Trill into the cabin. They | |||
were clearly intent on their prey and did not notice as Stile pulled a hypo from | |||
his pouch. Suddenly the hypo hissed and the first red shirt went down followed | |||
closely by the second. The remained two lurched up in surprise turning on the | |||
doctor. It was a move based solely on instinct and one that allowed Jack to | |||
send one crashing into the wall as Cedria easily, and viciously disabled the | |||
last. "Stile make sure the other two are out for a long time." | |||
"Done sar." He answered as the hypo hissed twice more. | |||
"Good." Jack looked up at the trill. "I hope you have a plan." | |||
<snd snip> | |||
She looked at the Captain and the doctor, she was a lowly ensign and had never | |||
seen them this close. If she had they would have been dead already. | |||
Cedria had waited, once she had been led out under arms from the Flight Deck she | |||
had been pretty much decided. Officially out of time, she had to go to plan B, | |||
pretty much the same as plan A only with an explosion to bring them out of | |||
cloak. The sight of her led away under arms would bring too much attention, she | |||
couldn't squirm far enough away from that attention anymore. Talk, bargain, | |||
seduce, none of it would leave her with anything but a giant crosshairs on her | |||
everywhere she went. | |||
So everything got simple. | |||
The loneliest corridor they dragged her through was to be their end. But they | |||
didn't. They were smart enough to keep her ten deep in guards the whole way. | |||
They were smart enough to keep her kneeling once they arrived. The first | |||
opportunity was in the Captains quarters, with their libidos working in | |||
overdrive already parceling up her favors. That's when she moved and in a flash | |||
one was bleeding and unconscious. | |||
And the others were already down. | |||
So she looked at the Captain and the doctor, she was a lowly ensign and had | |||
never seen them this close. But she wasn't exactly as dim as Starfleet liked | |||
its crewmen. She looked from one to the other and everything started to make | |||
sense. The engineers inability to hang on to his weapon, the first officer | |||
calling her Zade. The Captain letting Arcturus turn the ship into armed camps. | |||
The Doctor, well, taking a break from examining female crewman. If these mirror | |||
folk were as different as advertised this Doctor must live like a Priest. | |||
"Your, plan?" The good doctor prodded her. | |||
What lie to tell, how to twist them to her purposes. A little lost girl who | |||
needed help? `oh please brave federation officers, save helpless little me.' | |||
Or a play on their sympathies. `We just want to live quiet live, free from | |||
oppression..' Hmmmm. She could ask for water and stab them when they turned | |||
their backs? What to do. | |||
And the answer came to her in a little burst of symmetry and simplicity. How to | |||
get them to cooperate? Cedria Quall told the truth, the plain and simple truth. | |||
"I am with the Resistance. I mean for this ship to die, especially its Captain. | |||
In our universe the twelve Constitution ships are the power in space, and after | |||
this journey there will only be eleven…." | |||
And she continued, she explained about the complicated cross wiring that turned | |||
every juncture of the shield grid into its own happy little flash bomb. How the | |||
next time TSS Hood raised its shields they would be helpless, dead in space | |||
without any protection as every power junction from level two to the working | |||
nacelle blossomed into oh so much fiery ash. She hadn't been able to get close | |||
to main power but all the little flows, the junctures the capillaries if you | |||
would, all cross wired to flash when the shields engaged. | |||
She told them about the shuttle that shed engineered to obey her and not any of | |||
its safety protocols. How she had been caught altering her back up shuttle, but | |||
that the prime one was ready to go. She was about to explain the small | |||
explosive lattice on one of the port cloaking generators that would let her | |||
reveal her ship to the USS version when the security officer she had immobilized | |||
groaned and something in his chest detonated, silencing him rather abruptly. | |||
"What was that?" Captain Other-Steele asked. | |||
"Sorry," she said, showing the small dagger she had used and had been hiding in | |||
her palm. "In my universe, Trills are kinda, a race of assassins and general | |||
opportunists. I'm both. That was a toxin, it settles in the spleen and liver, | |||
which harden, warm up and eventually, explode in a sorta fatal way." She | |||
smiled, trying to look friendly. | |||
"We need you to take a few people with you in your escape shuttle. Hemux, Jeri | |||
Merrick,…" Other-Steele turned to Other-Doctor. | |||
"Their Sean, and their Stile from what I've seen. And mother, I'm not killing | |||
her in any universe." The Doctor added. | |||
"I want to live too." Lowl said from the floor, raising his free hand while | |||
clutching his broken nose. | |||
"Him, too." Steele motioned turning to Cedria. | |||
Cedria tried very, very hard not to look like she was completely convinced that | |||
she was having a conversation with escaped mental convicts. "Um, yeah, that's | |||
just a great idea, anything else?" | |||
Steele looked at Doctor Corbett. "The Tholian device." | |||
Doctor Corbett explained how the Tholian device needed to be overloaded just so | |||
to seal the bridge between the universes. Cedria considered all of it carefully | |||
and decided on a plan of action. Kill these two and go ahead with her original | |||
plan B. | |||
Corbett was sufficiently clever enough unfortunately to realize she might have | |||
something of that nature in mind. "No, little assassin. Drop the blade." | |||
She let the small blade clatter to the Captains desk. "Fine then. We will do | |||
it your way, but it would be a frackload simpler if everybody dies." | |||
NRPG: Now how to get Merrick and Corbett back to their TSS ship bundled in the | |||
escape shuttle and then beam the real Captain away before it switches universes. | |||
Should be easy really. | |||
Respectfully submitted; | |||
David Kiel | |||
Lt Cedria Zade, | |||
NAV, USS HOOD NCC-1703 | |||
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