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==[ORIGINS] USS HOOD: Ain't no Bigger Crazy than Texas== | |||
===by David Martens=== | |||
SD: 2261.042 | |||
The song was working. The pair of venomous herbivores were still backed into a | |||
corner. Trill music was generally more melodic but Padrek had gone through a | |||
phase inspired by a personal tour he'd done of Orion Ore Processing town | |||
saloons. She noticed movement and a man turned the corner behind her. | |||
She recognized the ships doctor immediately. She had read his bio and he was | |||
wearing the strange hat shaped like a differential equation. Something from | |||
Texas she recalled, whatever Texas was. He turned to a wall unit and said, with | |||
a slight slur to his voice, "Computer, end noise." | |||
Cedria rolled her eyes and hit stop on the hand unit she was using to play the | |||
music. He removed his hat and executed an awkward sweeping bow, his movements | |||
somewhat short of the smooth grandeur she assumed he intended. He was drunk, or | |||
drugged. "Fantastic." She muttered under her breath. | |||
"Stile Corbett at your service Miss." He said and began twirling a rope in a | |||
practiced but no less bizarre aerobatic performance. Apparently the plan of | |||
battle with the rabbits was music and a show. | |||
"Are you insane, those things carry a deadly poison on their horns? Just back | |||
away and call security now." She said in frustration. | |||
Corbett put his hat back on, his eyes never leaving the rabbits. "My sanity is | |||
always in question; however, I'm afraid these rabbits and I have a score to | |||
settle." | |||
"Don't even thin…" She shouted. | |||
Corbett interrupted her with a shout of "Yee Haw," as he took off after the | |||
rabbits. | |||
He ran one down and inexplicably managed to catch one leg with his absurd | |||
twirling rope. He moved quickly to bind it in an impressive display of loops | |||
and completely without managing to die of neurotoxin. She was impressed enough | |||
by his display of what she could only assume was blind luck that she completely | |||
forgot to drop down from the ceiling of the corridor. | |||
"You can come down now." He said and she let go, dropping to the floor and | |||
landing smoothly, her left hand slipping around him to pull the hypo deftly from | |||
his kit. There was no way she was letting an intoxicated man trust his insane | |||
luck twice. She dialed up the dosage and aimed for his neck. Her hand changed | |||
course and smoothly retreated to move behind her head when he turned suddenly to | |||
face her. | |||
Cedria pretended to brush back her long auburn hair as she got her first face to | |||
face look at the ships doctor. She was struck by the vivid nature of his eyes, | |||
they were a bright green, lighter than her own foresty green and slightly | |||
luminescent. They were also a bit addled and somewhat euphoric. "Have security | |||
get this one, it'll be out for at least three hours. I'm going after its | |||
friend." He said and turned and ran after the little monster before she could | |||
tranquilize him. She was left standing over the limp rabbit with the doctors | |||
hypo. | |||
Cedria looked down at the empty corridor and shrugged, slipping her hand comp | |||
into her pocket. "Well, I can say I met him the day he died." | |||
A pair of security officers turned the other corner and she pointed to the bunny | |||
at her feet. "Take this one back to zoology or to the brig or wherever you take | |||
attack rabbits. I have to sedate a Texan before he gets himself neurotoxified." | |||
She turned and sprinted down the corridor after the doctor. | |||
A left , right and two lefts later she heard phaser fire from behind her. | |||
Turning in place she ran back in that direction. A couple more turns and she | |||
noticed a splattering of red on the deckplate. She slid to a halt beside it, a | |||
smeared smattering of blood followed by a small trail heading toward a | |||
turbolift. The doctor had clearly been killed here. She frowned at his | |||
misfortune, dialed the dosage back down to rabbit level and continued in the | |||
direction she assumed the bunny venom thing had run. She heard a scream and the | |||
snarl of the beastie and ran in that direction. | |||
A left and a pair of rights later she turned the corner and a beam of phaser | |||
fire slashed through the air two inches from her waist. She threw herself to | |||
the deck on her back and slid under the beam. A second beam joined it just | |||
missing the flash of mottled brown, tan and white that leapt over her fleeing | |||
security and a Denobulan armed with a tricorder.. Her arm shot up reflexively | |||
snaring it by the chest as it arced overhead. She pressed the hypo to its leg | |||
before it had a chance to slash her with its horns. She slid into the wall, | |||
bounced off and then laid the creature carefully on its side. | |||
She breathed heavily for a few moments looking up at the light fixtures of | |||
corridor B. The big B was printed on the wall next to the big 12 that indicated | |||
that she needed to pay a lot more attention to when she got off lifts on this | |||
ship. | |||
A red shirted security officer looked down at her suddenly. "Sorry about that, | |||
miss. Didn't see you there." | |||
"Quite alright, crewman." She said, sitting up on her elbows. "Take the rabbit | |||
to the brig and book it for disorderly behavior. Don't touch the horn thingy's, | |||
they sting." | |||
Cedria rubbed her hip which ached a bit from the impact and sat up looked at the | |||
wide eyed Denobulan standing nearby. She held out her hand and smiled, "Cedria | |||
Zade, I'm the new Navigator, nice to meet you." | |||
NRPG: Heh, I had to rewrite this twice as new posts showed up. I had to cut the | |||
scene where she found out the Doctor was still alive and it was someone elses | |||
blood, but she does find that out. | |||
Unless they escape the brig and beam to a cloaked ship, the rabbit menace is | |||
subdued. | |||
Respectfully submitted; | |||
David Kiel | |||
Lt Cedria Zade, | |||
NAV, USS HOOD NCC-1703 | |||
ASR: ORIGINS | |||
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Commanding, USS HOOD NCC 1703 | Commanding, USS HOOD NCC 1703 | ||
STARFLEET: ORIGINS | STARFLEET: ORIGINS | ||
==[ORIGINS] USS HOOD: Make Yourself Useful== | ==[ORIGINS] USS HOOD: Make Yourself Useful== | ||