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==[ORIGINS] USS HOOD: Andorian Standoff== | |||
===by Scott Lusby=== | |||
SD: 2261.020 | |||
Timeframe: immediately after "Catch and Release"; concurrent with "The | |||
Doctor is In") | |||
Setting: Baggage Disbursement, Spaceport, New Detroit | |||
<<snip- from my last post, "Catch and Release">> | |||
The Andorian quickly keyed his wrist communicator as he led the doctor | |||
towards the rear of the baggage sorting area. "Gar here- I have Doctor | |||
Sahen. Where are you guys?" | |||
"Don't move, Gar." | |||
The Star Fleeter stopped short; he found himself staring down the barrel of | |||
an Andorian-model phaser, close enough to his face for him to notice it was | |||
set to kill. | |||
And it was in the hands of the one person he felt certain, at this moment, | |||
wanted him dead at least as much as Doctor Sahen. | |||
"Thank you for bringing Doctor Sahen safely to me, my dear," Avae Zh'sharav | |||
said with a smile that only looked disturbingly evil to Gar at the moment. | |||
As she took his phaser from him, he held his hands up over his head, palms | |||
out. | |||
**Where the hell is the cavalry?** he wondered. | |||
<<end snip>> | |||
Avae reached for Sahen, but Gar stepped between them, hands still raised. | |||
"I can't let you do that, Avae," he said, his tone soft but firm. | |||
Avae allowed the corners of her mouth to curl. "I'm the one with the | |||
phaser, Gar," she said, reaching to pull the Romulan geneticist towards her. | |||
Gar stepped in between again. "No," he said, this time more forcefully. | |||
Now the curl in her lips was gone, and Avae stepped back, her phaser pointed | |||
right at Gar's head. "Don't make me kill you, Gar," she said. | |||
There was something in her voice, a slight tremble, too delicate for those | |||
without antennae to pick up. Gar, however, did not miss it. | |||
"You won't," he said, and lowered his hand, slowly, agonizingly, reaching | |||
for her phaser. | |||
Avae's grip tightened on the weapon as Gar's hand drew nearer. "Gar- don't | |||
make me do something I don't want to do!" she shouted. | |||
"You can't," he said. "You are still in love with me." | |||
Avae's hand dropped just a little, and her eyes flickered for a moment. | |||
Then, suddenly, just as his hand was perhaps a few centimeters from the | |||
phaser, her eyes flashed cold fire, and the weapon came up again, her finger | |||
staring to depress the trigger... | |||
Gar had no more time; instinctively, he slapped at her arm, knocking the | |||
phaser away milliseconds before she would have had enough pressure on the | |||
firing stud to fire the weapon. | |||
However, his victory was short-lived, as she lashed out, and nailed him with | |||
a boot to his chest, sending him sprawling backwards on his back. | |||
His head slammed into the hard cement floor of the hangar, and instantly he | |||
felt dazed, unsure of his whereabouts...he swore Avae had somehow managed to | |||
clone herself a few times, for he now saw four or five of her... | |||
...as well as 5 phasers, all pointing at him. Yet, try as he might, he | |||
could not get up; his head was ringing, as if there were a fire alarm | |||
blaring inside of his head. | |||
"We could have had a wonderful life on Andoria," she whispered. | |||
Suddenly there was another explosion; Gar winced, and finally the gray fog | |||
creeping into his mind thickened and turned slowly to black... | |||
<<NRPG>> | |||
Come on guys- where the hell are you?? Gar is in trouble here... :) | |||
Respectfully Submitted, | |||
-- Scott Lusby | |||
/\ LCDR Gar Th'elenth | |||
Chief Engineer | |||
USS HOOD NCC-1703 | |||
AND | |||
Avae Zh'sharav | |||
Am-Tal Operative | |||
STAR FLEET: ORIGINS | |||
==[ORIGINS] USS HOOD: Routine Journey== | ==[ORIGINS] USS HOOD: Routine Journey== | ||
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==[ORIGINS] USS HOOD: Final Boarding Call== | ==[ORIGINS] USS HOOD: Final Boarding Call== |