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==[ORIGINS] USS HOOD: Everyone Has a Plan== | |||
===by Brian V. Mansur=== | |||
SD 2261.063 | |||
Scene: TSS HOOD | |||
Commander Sean Merrick of the Terran Sovereignty Ship HOOD bellowed angrily at | |||
Gar's engineering team. The estimated repair time for the Tholian device had | |||
been 3 hours. That deadline had ended 20 minutes ago. Looking over the crew's | |||
work, it was plain that their haste had made them sloppy. On any other mission, | |||
it would not have mattered to him. He would have excoriated the guilty for | |||
being less than perfectly efficient and then he would have seen to it they got | |||
done the job right. Punishments would have been dealt out none too kindly | |||
afterward, but under Merrick, none too harshly either. | |||
But there was much more at stake this time. For both he and his wife Jeri. Her | |||
attachment to the project made her a target of Steele's legendary wrath. It had | |||
been all Merrick could do to redirect the Captain's suspicions of sabotage or | |||
ineptitude to Gar's people. The thought of it all made Merrick huff in | |||
frustration. Merrick always marveled at what a complicated and convoluted man | |||
his Captain was. Warm and hearty when things went as expected. Vindictive and | |||
cruel when they did not. But unlike other superior officers that Merrick had | |||
known, Steele at least knew what realistic expectations were and what weren't. | |||
It was a quality that had endeared Merrick to Steele. It was possible to please | |||
him and that was good. And Steele did not forget his friends nor favors done | |||
him. | |||
Were it not for the horrific temper the Captain commanded, Merrick would have | |||
truly enjoyed serving him. In the end, however, Steele's harshness was just one | |||
more reason that Sean and Jeri had conceived, among other things, their | |||
desperate plan of escape. | |||
Jeri had sabotaged the Tholian device deliberately. | |||
They had no intention of leaving this mirror universe. The plan, they both | |||
knew, had been a desperate gamble all around. They hadn't known if this mirror | |||
universe would be a better place than their own. But given the corrupt, | |||
psychotic hell that was their world there, it was a risk they had agreed to take | |||
together. | |||
When the ship had jumped, Merrick's heart had lept at the blaring alarms and | |||
desperate reports coming up from engineering. But when he went down to survey | |||
it himself, he saw the misty eyes of his darling wife. The truth was there. | |||
The plan had failed. The device could be repaired and would be. They needed | |||
only a little time and those dilithium replacements. But Merrick had not become | |||
the first officer of a ship like the HOOD by giving up at every little setback. | |||
They would simply have to find a way to get off the HOOD *before* she left for | |||
the Sovereignty while making sure that the device really was destroyed after the | |||
second jump. Even if it took a miracle, he intended to find a way to make it | |||
happen. He would not see his unborn child raised in the Sovereignty. Not that | |||
place of end war, treachery, cruelty and murder. | |||
NRPG: Everyone seems to have a conspiracy going on this ship, so I figured I'd | |||
throw in one more. Background: Corbett knows about Merrick's plan, was a little | |||
pissed about the unilateral nature of it, but understands Merrick and Jeri's | |||
reasons. He will support their escape attempt, but not go with them. Assuming | |||
any of them survive the other threads tightening around them ;-) | |||
Respectfully Submitted, | |||
Brian V. Mansur | |||
LCDR Sean Merrick | |||
FO, USS HOOD NCC-1703 | |||
ASR ORIGINS | |||
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