Plans within plans

Posted on Wed Jan 7th, 2026 @ 6:54pm by Captain Mira Rodale Lance & Lieutenant Commander Awal Kronnelti & Lieutenant Commander Ech'am G'ginloss & Lieutenant Betaras K'ner

1,852 words; about a 9 minute read

Mission: Into the mirror
Location: USS Chuck Norris
Timeline: Present

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{Captain’s family quarters }

Mira crossed her legs. Her bare foot rocking back and forth as she pinched the bridge of her nose.

“You knew this was all going to happen and yet to didn’t tell me before?” Mira was fighting with her anger. “You let him get kidnapped.” She hadn’t realized it, but she had jumped up and got in an attack stance, ready to attack him.

“You know the rules, everything has to happen as planned or the timeline will snap.”

Mira sighed. “How convenient and yet you saved me?”

“There will be a time you will died, Mira. That I can’t change. But,” he held up a finger to stop her from arguing with him. “Others interfered with the timeline and it had to be changed. After all, we must keep the timeline correct.” He told her with a smile.

“So, I get me son back?” she asked him. At his nodded, she added, “do any of my children get hurt or….. lost, taken or anything else?”

He gave her a frown. “On this mission, no. THAT’S all I can tell you Mira. Don’t ask for more. I am breaking the rules already.”

Mira frowned as her hands squeezed the arms of the chair as she sat back down.

“You will also need to think outside of the box. Taking the Norris might not serve your needs on this mission. There are the Orion, Orion space, Gorn, and mirror universe. “He told her, knowing she would find out the other problems facing her, but that was enough to get her started down the right path.

Mira’s eyes flicked to the screen on her desk. It would seen his entry on the ship had not gone on notices. She smirked and pushed the door to Bing, letting the door open to Awal and K’ner.

“Good evening, This is TC.” Mira told them.

“TC?” the man asked confused. Then laughed when he realized she had not remembered his name.

Mira shrugged. “Time cop?”

He chuckles but then frowned as he realized she had told them about him.

She looked at Awal. “Where is Kevin?”

“Kevin was investigating the explosion on the base.” His eyes still on what he thought of as an intruder.” He is in his office, looking at that board of his.” Awal told her.

Mira nodded, relieved. “Would you please…..” but before she could finish, there was a power drain on the ship. Causing the lights to fickler. Mira ran passed TC, into the kids room. They were still there she activated the extra shields for that room. “Vaytoc, guard!”

Walking out, she said, “bring him.” She told Awal.

K’ner walked over to the kids' room, re-checking the shields and nodding at Kolar who sat up with wide eyes. She motioned to her eyes, then around the room, then at him. He nodded, with a serious look on his face. K'ner surreptitiously messaged Billingsly and Chbet to double-time it to the Captain's quarters.

Mira went the short distance to the XO’S office. Walking in, she frowned. Kevin’s tea was spilt. The cup was still warm.

“Computer, Locate Commander Kevin Lance.”

=/\= Commander Kevin Lance is not on the ship.=/\=

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Mira pinched the bridge of her nose. Then she glared at the time cop. “where is he?”

“that I honestly don’t know. He was to be apart of this mission.” Now he looked a little worried wondering if someone was again interfering.

Looking down at his PADD Awal frown, “He didn’t use the transporter to leave or walk out the hatch but Ech’am just entered the ship.” Awal told her.

“have him come here” Mira asked as she studied the board Kevin had up. All details and facts he was trying to put together. “ we need to brief him. “

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Walking along the corridor heading to the medical bay Ech’am got a buzz telling them that his presence has been requested by the Captain of the ship. Barely having been back and settled he had known it was customary to the humans to get screened by the medic first, and with the Captain knowing this, yet wanting me to forgo this means that something is wrong. It means that whatever is going on is more vital to the crew then ensuring that my medical readiness is up to date. Changing direction Ech’am heads towards the turbo lift in order to track down the ships commander.

“Computer, what is the location of Captain Mira?”

=/\= Captain Mira Rodale Lance is currently in the XO’s office =/\=

Heading to the XO’s office takes a handful of minutes, and upon arrival Ech’am enters, knowing this must be urgent.

“You called Captain.” LT Commander Ech’am said.

Seeing Awal standing near the captain Ech’am gave the traditional klingon greeting to his brother in arms.

Mira nodded. “Yes. Its good to see you, again. Welcome back.”

K’ner walked in with Vaytoc.

“Vaytoc, where did Kevin go to?” Mira asked her large black feline. Vaytoc walked around sniffing the air then lifted his lip. Mira got the impressions of Kevin just being there then gone but someone else was with him and he smelled odd. Well, that wasn’t good.

She rubbed the back of her neck. “I think Kevin has been Kidnapped. We need to find out if he is still on the base or taken off the base. Next, I am going to be receiving orders for a mission back into the mirror universe.”

“Mira!” the time cop didn’t seem to like her frankness with her crew.

“What? All of us have already been there. Its not a secret.” Mira frowned, then she turned to Awal “We are going to take the Harbinger on this mission. The Rasmehlier flagship has been refitted with human luxury, but I kept all the Klingon power. We will need to use the cloaking device. I know we have one on the Norris but we can’t use it for long periods of time. The Harbinger is going to need to be prepped for a long trip. We do have replicators on the ship but we also have a kitchen and mess hall.”

She turned to K’ner. “I need someone to go over to make sure medical is up to your standards while we look for Kevin. I also need all the kids brought over to the Harbinger. I am not leaving them for 6 months.”

K'ner nodded. "I have reviewed the specs since the modifications. I'll want to take some things with us, but easily done in short order. The kids are selectively packing as we speak."

"I'll contact Dianna and have her help bring the kids over to the Harbinger along with Spike." Said Awal, "Ech'am it's good to have you back brother!"

"It is indeed good to be back brother, man have I got some tails for you. From legendary relics of the klingon empire being found on an outskirts planet in the neutral zone between federation and klingon space, to being challenged by an upstart kid wanting my position." Ech'am directed towards his brother.

"Have you guys been messing with the time continuum again? Is that why Samson is bothering us again. Give me the brief version because you have some explaining to do." Stated the newly arrived klingon getting thrown back into the broiler after barely climbing out of it with that challange.

Mira nodded, “ok” she could breathe now. Her eyes went to TC “if there is nothing you can add get off my ship.”

That must have been what security was waiting for because two men stepped into the office to take him. “Vaytoc I need you back with the kids.” She had hoped he could just track Kevin down but nothing was easy. “ a briefing she thought and waited until the doors closed to give her time to think of all the things that had to be covered.

“ I am married “ she chuckled “ I didn’t see that one coming. We ran into two Qs a male and female that wanted to see if they could produce baby Qs. The female literally turned into me and had my son Kolar. Since he wasn’t Q they didn’t want him. Son number one.” She held up one finger. “ Then we got pulled into the masters matrix for a year. That was insane but child #2 was born a baby girl named Ashla.” Mira bit her lip and held up 2 fingers. “and child #3. Yeah seems I might have had twins there. 3rd child has been taken by A group in the mirror universe. A little boy Jason. “ she held up 3 fingers.

Mira sat on the desk. “child #4 is adopted, she is Klingon and .. .Yeah that’s a longer crazy story to. The Chancellor has me in charge of house Rasmehlier until my nephews come of age and now I have to protect house Har’lok along with its heir. “ she pressed her lips together in thought. “I think that covers most of it. Now our problem, house Klingjil is either working with or have been taken over by a group of Klingons from the Mirror universe. They attacked house Har’lok and house Rasmehlier. Klvll Klingjil was defeated by Kevin in combat. On one of our. . .trips” yeah that was more precise then mission. After all they had been planning on a vacation and got pulled into more trouble.

“We heard talk of a passage way in Orion space that lead to the mirror universe. We need to find it, close it and stop whatever plans they have to take over our universe. Along the away see if we can find a group of woman kidnapped, find a Federation ship that was sent to investigate. Get Kevin back and find my son.” She smirked at K’ner “easy right?”

"Simple, as always." K'ner mirrored the captain's expression, even as she watched her scrolling datastream of her teams' prep. Both Medical and Hazard teams were moving at an ardent pace...

Walking around the desk, Mira activated the computer screen. “Computer, scan Starbase for Commander Kevin Lance.”

=/\= computer Kevin Lance is not located on the base. =/\=

Mira frowned. “Start looking for area shielded from scans. Then send out teams to check, visually. Enlist house Rasmehlier for more aid, just tell them it’s a challenge to see if they can hunt him down. Winner gets a barrel of bloodwine.”

"I'll take Billingsly over to the Harbinger with the first transfer, as soon as Mrs Kronnelti takes on the children. We'll have quarters ready and systems checked by the time you're ready to depart." K'ner kept a watchful eye on her invisible HUD display as she sent off another message to Nod and Peke about gear.


OFF:

Lt Betaras K'ner
Hazard Team Combat Medic TL-B / CMO
USS Chuck Norris

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Captain Mira Rodale Lance
CO USS Chuck Norris

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Lieutenant Commander Awal kronnelti
Chiel of security and tac
USS Chuck Norris

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Lieutenant Commander Ech'am G'ginloss
Ambassador
USS Chuck Norris

 

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