Return
Posted on Wed Oct 11th, 2023 @ 6:34pm by Captain Mira Rodale
Edited on on Wed Oct 11th, 2023 @ 6:56pm
Mission:
The Return
Location: Outpost 383
Timeline: Present
on :
{Outpost 382}
Closing her eyes, Mira tried to center herself. This was crazy. "What happened to the officers and civilians? 477 people"
Rodriguez cleared his throat. "Do we know for sure this outpost had that many people?"
Mira snapped her eyes open to look at him.
"No, Captain Williams said that." She frowned."The same Captain Williams that didn't recognize me. So I guess it's possible he was Undine and lied."
She closed her eyes again. "I need a Raktajino." she said as an afterthought.
Her brain was a little slow without caffeine. Little sleep and no caffeine was a bad combo for her.
Rodriguez tried not to laugh at the face she was making. He really did, but he knew how much she relied on caffeine. "Maybe if you cut back on the caffeine, you would not be bouncing off the walls at night?"
Widening her eyes at him, she said, " I do not bounce off the walls. bite your tongue ensign. " She pointed a finger at him, then frowned at all the blood on her hands and uniform.
Rodriguez pulled a small bottle out of his pocket. "Here, have one of these. its caffeine pills. "
Mira took the bottle from him and poured a few in her mouth. He frowned. "That was more like 15 cups of coffee."
"it's your fault I got so little sleep. You messed with my program. " Mira told him. Then she looked out the window as she wiped her mek'leth off on her pants and slipped it back in place.
Rodriguez smirked he had done just that as a prank. She took pranks well.
Turning around, Mira looked everyone over. "Anyone get scratched? Hurt? If not, we keep looking." She used the tricorder to scan outside. No mutant DNA or flux DNA nothing. Quickly, she opened the door and walked out with a phaser in one hand and a tricorder in the other to head to another building.
Blast started coming from one of the buildings in the section that she thought Lt. Kronnelti was at. Then, the outpost had shields come up for a short time defecting shots.
Running in that direction, thinking the Undine was targeting their ship. She gave her comm a tap as she ran. they were no longer connected to the Captain.
The next, she knew large arms wrap around her and flying a few feet from where she had been running "incoming." Someone yelled as Sokolov rolled them out of the blasts.
"Quick thinking. Thanks." she yelled over the blasts. Hiding her face as rocks fell.
Getting up, she went to dust herself off, but it was hopeless her uniform looked like what it went through. blood, dirt, and sweat. It's not a good look.
Her comm badge chirped.
=/\= Haz Team to Rodale... Haz Team to Rodale... high altitude relay in place. We've shot a tight-beam update to the Norris. Opfor have vacated the area and we are inbound to your location.=/\=
Letting out the breath she was holding Mira had braced herself for bad news, but that sounded all good.
They started moving again and hadn't gotten far when she sensed movement up ahead and held one hand up with the tricorder to stop her group. That's when she heard Rodriguez curse. Looking down at her blooded jacket, she could see dots of light.
"Oh hell. Don't shoot! I am the XO." Damit, they meet her in the Transporter room. Did she look that bad?
One of them said, " Your reading as an Undine "
Mira's eyes widen as her mind races. How? "The blood." Slowly, she put her weapon on the ground along with the tricorder and slipped out of her bloody jacket. "Scan again. But if you want me taking anything else off, you'll have to buy dinner first." she said as a joke.
Two of them stepped forward then nodded the all clear.
"Sorry Lt.Commander "K'ner said
Mira shook her head as she said, " Never apologize to me for doing your jobs." she rubbed her forehead it still hurt as did the cut on her hand.
She gathered her belongings on the ground, leaving the bloody jacket behind she stood.
"Alright the Undine, no commications with the ship, and we can't find any crew from the outpost alive. Great, " Mira said sarcastically, summoning up the away mission so far.
She took a few steps and then stopped as a thought hit her. " The Undine had to have come on a ship. We didn't pick up a ship from orbit. " Turning around to look at her team, she said,"since the Undine can change shape and thier ships are made of the same material as they are . Couldn't they ships change shape as well."
that was an unsettling thought.
"We didn't get to the mess hall or medical center. Yet"
off
Lt.Commander Mira Rodale
XO
USS Chuck Norris
