Let's go
Posted on Wed Oct 7th, 2026 @ 4:10am by Commander Kevin Lance & Captain Mira Rodale Lance & Lieutenant Betaras K'ner
1,545 words; about a 8 minute read
Mission:
Starbase 364
Location: Starbase 364
Timeline: Present
ON
{USS Chuck Norris family quarters}
Mira gave a sigh as she rolled over. Morning came far too quickly. She could hear the kids squealing, then laughing. She rolled her eyes, wondering what they were up to in their bedroom.
Reaching over, she activated the video monitor and shook her head. Shan’nara and Kolar were having a pillow fight while Jason and Ashla laughed at them. Ashla took her bear and hit Jason with it. But he just pouted and hung his head like he was going to cry. Ashla frowned, dropped her bear then hugged him.
A bare foot slipped from the bed as she moved to get up. It was going to take awhile for Jason to understand how to play.
Zimia rushed into her quarters and looked at her. “You’re up. How did things go with Kevin?” Seeing Mira’s little shrug, she gave her a smile “I got this.” Zimia told her before rushed into the kids room.
Mira smirked at her actions. She then sighed and slipped into black leggings, a long sweater dress the that almost reaching her knees, and her soft soled boots.
Mira pulled her long amber colored hair into a high ponytail before she turned it into a messy bun. Looking into the a mirror, she have herself a little nod of approval. She looked off duty. Her Curls framed her face.
She slipped from the room before the kids saw her. From past experience once they saw her, they didn’t let her go and she needed to find out about the mission.
{BRIDGE}
“Report?” Mira asked.
Montgomery frowned. “You here to take back Command?”
Mira frowned. “I never turned the ship over to you. I haven’t heard anything from command about it.” She gave a little shrug like it was out of her hands.
Montgomery frowned, knowing she was still giving him a hard time about that.
He handed her a PADD with the new mission brief on it.
“All crew reported in?” She asked him.
”yes and your old gar…..”
“Don’t say his name, you know what happenes when anyone does.”
The man would show up. She had avoided him all week and wanted to keep it that way.
“He is planning a dinner.”
Mira’s eyes met his over the PADD. “When?” she asked, suspiciously.
“Tonight.”
“No. Let the colony Captain… Jor know that we are ready to leave. The sooner the better.” Mira told him, firmly.
“Okay. Then we can be ready in two hours… Captain.”
Mira frowned. She looked at one of the new crewmembers. “Is this a crewman’s child?” she asked a little confused.
Montgomery chuckled. “No and check out his age.”
Mira blinked. “interesting.”
Her eyes met his, “Coordinate with Captain Jar and get us off the base.”
Montgomery nodded. “The man was begging to leave as soon as possible. “Will you be taking the CON before we leave?”
Mira raised her delicate eyebrow. “No. I think it might be better to do that after we leave. “She gave him a grin because as soon as she took command it would be flagged as her being well enough for whatever games the Admiral had planned.
Montgomery frowned as Mira walked off the bridge.
{Hallway outside of the bridge}
Just as she stepped into the corridor, Mira caught site of Vaytoc’s tail disappearing around the corner. What are you up to, she thought as she followed after her large cat.
Turning the corner Mira put both hands on her hips. Vaytoc was following Jason. How he made it out of this crib and out of her quarters was something she would have to look into. He was babbling as he crawled.
{ Medical, USS Chuck Norris }
“Interesting,” K’ner opened, thumbing along the file on the new crew members.
Billingsly smiled. “You found the one on the Onlie flyer eh?”
K’ner nodded. “I knew one once. Loved pranks, but pouted a lot. Never moody for long.” She thumbed through more files, reviewing the rest of the exchanges since their return.
“Anything we need to prepare for?” Anya was looking through the requisitions they’d received, inspecting the actual content. She’d yet to catch a discrepancy but the CMO was a bit of a hard nose about that.
“No, nothing we haven’t seen before, or thought ahead about. This will be a milk run I’m sure.” K’ner smiled ever so slightly.
{Outside Engineering}
Kevin stepped out of the upper level of the Norris’ engineering room. He had spent the morning going over the ship’s propulsion modifications and power plant upgrades with Lieutenant Walker. Everything was in order and he was looking forward to getting under way.
As he exited, he was confronted by the sight of Jason crawling in his direction followed by Vaytoc, then Mira in a odd procession. When Jason saw him, he sped up his crawl and Kevin reached down to pick the boy up. “Dada” Jason cooed.
Jason had, for whatever reason, taken to Kevin much more than he did the rest of the family. Kevin presumed that it was the boy’s contact with the Emperor that had made the bond with himself so nearly instantaneous.
“Good Morning,” Kevin said to Mira, “You look like you are feeling better.”
Mira nodded “I woke up to the noise of the children laughing. The kids had engaged a pillow fight. This little one escaped his crib and quarters. I found Vaytoc following him. He normally doesn’t show that much curiosity, especially without being led by Ashla. I thought I would let him explore.”
Jason giggled. “da, ma, dat.”
“Dat?” Mira asked him.
Jason’s little hand swung toward Vaytoc.
“Oh, cat.” She gave him a grin then looked at Kevin. “I have been asked by another captain to exchange missions.” She rolled her eyes. “Seems he is hoping for a little excitement and wanted the fun of handling the a diplomatic mission.” She chuckled as if any of their diplomat missions had been fun.
“His was basically an escort mission. We see that the Colonists ship gets there safely. Watch them land, then hang around for a few days until the USS Cambridge joins us with another colony ship. Then we leave. Sounds crazy simple. We leave in…..” Mira lifted her PADD to check the time. “15 minutes, crew is all accounted for and I am still avoiding Admiralty. Seems there is a dinner that I plan to avoid. I don’t care who has been invited.”
=/\= Mariten to Captain Lance. =/\= Her voice sounded panicked.
Mira tapped her commbadge. “Captain here.”
=/\= I lost him! I put Jason and Ashla in for a nap then Kolar ran out with Shan’nara talking about going to the sweet spot on the ship. Then then….Jason wasn’t in the room!=/\=
Mira bit her lip, trying not to laugh because is wasn’t funny. It was just there had been times in the last few months it had happened to her. “I got him. He was with Vaytoc.”
=/\= oh! Oh he is gone, too. Dianna just showed up. We are taking them to the holobay =/\=
“OK, and is Kolar next to you?” at hearing his voice Mira added. “If I hear of you sneaking off to the sweet spot again without me, candy Privileges for a week will be cut.”
There was the ‘ah ma’ followed by ‘yes mama’.
"Speaking of cats," Kevin smiled at the interaction between Mira and their son, "I will need to release M'Niras before we depart. Did you want to speak to him first?"
Mira blinked a few times then she looked around her M’Niras would come walking around the corner at that moment. “he is on the ship right now? He has been on the ship this whole time?” Mira placed her hand on the corridor wall then felt Vaytoc press his head against her leg. “no if I can avoid getting pulled into one of his crazy furball schemes then I say we run while we can.”
Kevin nodded, "I'll make that happen. And you might not want to attend an official dinner but how about we get together the senior staff and their significant others for a dinner aboard ship?"
Mira took Jason into her arms kissing the spots on his forehead. “That sounds nice.” He had said aboard the ship so nothing on the base could mess it up. Jason gave her the baby hand sign for hungry and Mira smiled “you want food now?” she asked him copying the food sign he grinned and nodded “good I forgot to have breakfast this morning and a cup of coffee sounds really good.”
"It does but don't you think Jason is a bit too young for coffee?" Kevin replied with mock seriousness. Mira stared at him for a beat then stuck her tongue out at her husband. His face split into a broad grin and she couldn't suppress a giggle as she turn towards the mess hall.
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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Commander Kevin Lance
Executive Officer & Dad Joke Practitioner
USS Chuck Norris
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