Grab and go

Posted on Fri Apr 17th, 2026 @ 10:11pm by Captain Mira Rodale Lance & Lieutenant Betaras K'ner

2,141 words; about a 11 minute read

Mission: Into the mirror
Location: Harbinger / Orion
Timeline: Present

On:

{Harbinger holodeck}

The changes to his mom made Kolar’s eyes widen when he saw her. Mira placed Ashla on the grown to crawl around before she sat on the grown with the kids. Ashla was getting the hang of crawling faster than Mira had thought she would.

Kolar touched her skin. “Are you staying like that?” He asked her. His voice a little unsure.

“Nope, we’ll be back to normal once we start heading home.” Seeing the look on his face, she grinned. “Yeah, voice is different too.” Mira told him.

Shan’nara nodded. “It’s a nice voice very….pretty but your old voice, I like better.”

“I do too.” Mira told her with a grin. “We will be at Orion in a few hours. I’ll be heading out to get some information on where your brother is.”

Kolar nodded. “And dada too?”

Mira swallowed hard. “I hope so, honey. There was a human man taken over to the mirror universe, but I don’t know if it was him.”
Intel reports just assumed it was. Other Intel reports had a Kevin Lance filing for medical leave, then divorce. It just didn’t make any sense. Still, it hurt. Of course, if someone wanted to hurt her, taking her baby and husband would do it. The kids and Kevin were her only weakness.

“You will find him, mama. You can do anything!” Kolar told as he wrapped his arms around her neck.

Hugging him back, she smile. I hope he always feels that way, Mira thought. She never wanted to let him down.

{Family Quarters/Harbinger}

The kids were out with Diana and Zimia while Mira read as much of the mirror universe history as she could. It was a brutal and blood soaked history lesson. Far worse than what she has read or Earth’s history. The Terrans were so different from the humans. She shook her head and mumbled out loud “by all that is holy.”

The door chimed.

“Enter” she looked up to see Chin walking in with a PADD in his hand “Captain, you’re not going to like this.”

Mira sighed as she adjusted herself in the chair. “I haven’t liked things since Thanksgiving, Chin. What is it?” She asked him, softly.

Walking over to her, he downloaded what he had found into her station.

Mira’s breath caught in her throat at seeing Kevin. “When was this?” She stopped the play back, not wanting to miss anything on this message.

Chin cleared is throat. “Just before we lost power on the ship I think. It was an outgoing message. We must of lost it with the power outage.”

Mira blinked then turned back to the screen.

Chin had stopped her from reactivating it. “it’s bad.” He warned her.

She pulled her hand from his and activated it.
(playback)
Keven took a seat in his chair. His hand rubbed over his face before he sent in a report to someone on the screen he was looking at.

A voice was heard. “Are you sure this is what you want to do?”

Keven nodded. “This isn’t what I was lead to believe. She is a beautiful woman and entertaining. I haven’t had much trouble manipulating her, but these kids.” He shook his head no. “it doesn’t seem to stop. With the Odinskus kid showing up and now a missing one? No, I am done. I’ll go back into undercover work. I don’t want deal anymore of this. Name change, facial reconstruction. The works. I have filed for medical leave. In a few days she should be getting the divorce papers. She’s too proud to fight this or argue about it.”

“What about the last name?” the male voice asked.

Keven sighed then shrugged. “Doesn’t matter, it’s not my real name anyways. It’s time I move on. I completed my last assignment concerning her.”

There was a chuckle. “You have done well. Welcome home.”

Keven smiled then ended transmission.

The play back ended.

Mira wiped a tear from her cheek, shaking her head. “It’s a fake … a holo program. It’s not him.”

“That was my first thought, too. I checked it, the computer would tell if it had been a holodeck program. It’s not a holo program. Besides the beard change, which it could have been him changing it for the leave, I checked voice recognition. It’s his voice, Captain. I am so sorry. For what it’s worth, we all thought he was… it looked like you two were good together.” Chin told her.

Mira nodded. “This doesn’t get out. See to it, Chin. I am not signing it, so delete it. Delete everything thing. I am not going to deal with this.” She told him.

Chin nodded. He would lock it down and hide it under so much security it, would not see the light of day. At least, until they came back to this universe. “Aye, Captain. One more thing. Have you gone over the crew roster? We have a new crewmember. Lieutenant JG Edvin Nyquist. Short guy brown hair and eyes?”
At Mira’s puzzled look he continued “ he is really old but looks like a kid still. He is from Miri.
“No. Kevin normally checks that. I assumed Montgomery would since he is acting XO. Mira answered him not taking her eyes off the frozen image of her husband.

Chin nodded then turned to quickly left. He so didn’t want to see her cry or something.
Mira’s hand touched the screen. “Why? What’s going on?” when she could pull her eyes away she noticed the wedding photo of two of them wasn’t on the shelf behind his chair and Horga'hn was missing. Odd she thought as she downloaded the video onto a small device. Delete it from her console and dropped the device into a hidden storage compartment in her bedroom.



{Shuttle bay }

Mira left her leggings and crop top on as she slipped into to her black EV Suit.. they had no ranks or emblems on it to give away who she or her group were. Same with the weapons they were taking. Mira checked the charge of the phaser then placed it on her side. The other hip had a blade. The last was a stun baton she carefully checked the power then added to her arsenal.

She turned to her people holding up a PADD.

“This is Jizok. He is high up in the Orion syndicate to be dangerous and powerful , but not high enough that he would travel with an entourage. Still, he should have the information we need. We knock him out and bring him back to the ship. He is a big guy at 7 foot tall so, it’s not going to be easy getting him back to the shuttle. Any questions?“

Seeing only determined faces she nodded. “Lock and load. Let’s get this done.”

Mira entered the shuttle and took the co-pilot seat.

Awal took the pilot seat. “You ok?”

“No, not really. But I am getting my baby boy back. Then, I think we need a vacation. Start coming up with ideas, brother.” She gave him a wink then laid in coarse. “By all that is holy, this place is a cesspool.” She looked at the view screen at Orion.

The Harbinger put up shields and moved away to hide the ship, while Awal activated the cloak on the shuttle and took them in.

{Harbinger bridge}

Montgomery watched as the shuttle took off towards the planet. “Chin how component are you with the Orion Language?”

Turning in his set Chin gave him a shrug “Captain Rodale I mean Lance is extremely talented with languages and she expects the best. Zimia is better with this language then myself but …..” he stopped speaking to listen to something “ Commander there is a problem in transport room one. Sending security there now. Looks like Bishop decided to try to transport down to the planet.”

Montgomery frowned “we aren’t within transporter range! What a fool. Have him detained in a cell until the captain gets back. No contact with Ripper. I don’t even want them to see or hear each other. What about Sandman?”
Chin pushes a few buttons “ looks like he is sleeping in his quarters. His guard is still in the corridor.”

Drumming his fingers on the arm of the command chair Montgomery nodded. If the guy makes any trouble he will be sitting in a cell. The plan was to move the Harbinger out of sensor range. The shuttle would handle the business then they would rendezvous with the Harbinger. His main job right now was to keep the kids and the ship safe.

“they landed. We will be out of range in a few moments to get any more updates. “ Chin told him. “nothing of importance being Said on the comms. “
Montgomery nodded. What was that old saying? No new us good news.”

{Orion}

“Lets see how close we can get to land. It’s a busy planet. Ships coming and going we don’t need approval to land. Of course the mirror universe planet will be completely different. K’ner, do you have us tracking the location of the night club?” Mira asked

K’ner took her queue. “Port display,” she intoned, thumbing towards the screen over her head behind her. The picture was panned out to their approach, then it narrowed quickly as the buildings began to show more and more detail. She stopped it still rather high up as a blue dot started blinking.

“This is the target location.”

A blue-dotted line fanned out in two directions. “Routes he’ll most likely take.”

A red circle pulsed. “Local Orion security facility, as best I can determine, so let’s avoid that going in or out.”

Mira gave a little smirk “ ok so no going in an asking for directions.” She nodded like that might have been a possible plan she was scratching off her list.

Three green dots blinked in different locations. “These are the least occupied, and possible safe points for us to rendezvous if we get split up, or need to hold up.”

“These orange spots are locations we should be able to wreak havoc if needed for the least collateral damage if it comes to a fight. Automated kiosks mostly, with a few dens of ill-repute if our information is accurate.”

The picture stayed on that view for a few seconds for them to study, then zoomed in on the blue dot, showing 3D POVs along the routes the target should be moving along.

Mira raised an eyebrow, “Only A few dens of ill-repute? That would be the whole planet . “ she gave a little chuckle then pointed to a bag sitting in the corner of the shuttle. “Alright that bag has some Orion currency, pass it out and use it if you need to fit in. Two assigned to the ship protection, the rest of us will split up into two groups. Four on each team.” Her fingertips rubbed her forehead as Mira felt a headache coming on. “Hopefully we will catch him before he arrives at the club. We will need to distract him off his normal route to forcibly invite him to leave the planet with us.” The man is a criminal so her conscience wasn’t bothering her about kidnapping him. To many planet’s had filed charges against him and star fleet planned to incarcerate him afterwards.

The shuttle moved suddenly to avoid another . “Can you set us down there?” Mira asked Awal. He nodded. Their was a few Klingon ships that had landed in that area so hopefully they would just blend in.
Getting out of the shuttle they moved out.

Mira looked at the stunner. It looked more like a club to her. “ does this thing really work?” she whispered. She tilted it to get a look at the bottom handle better and heard a zap sound. One of the people walking in the area dropped “ Oh!” Mira blinked in surprise. She hadn’t planned on it working at all but her gloved hand touch the activation button.

Awal chuckled as he lifted the poor man and moved him out of the walkway “the nap will do him some good. Should I let you keep that new toy?”
Mira grinned as she made sure it was deactivated and slip it into the holster on her back. “Maybe?” she blushed a little and wondered if it would even show up on her green skin.

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Captain Mira Rodale Lance
CO USS Chuck Norris

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

 

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