Coming home
Posted on Tue Nov 21st, 2023 @ 5:10pm by Captain Mira Rodale & Commander Kevin Lance & Lieutenant Commander Awal Kronnelti & Lieutenant Tracey Walker Jr & Lieutenant Betaras K'ner
Mission:
The Q Effect
Location: S’Tokkr Alpha Three
Timeline: Present
on:
{S’Tokkr Alpha Three}
=/\= "USS Chuck Norris to Lt.Commander Mira Rodale." =/\=
Mira tapped her comm badge with a little surprise when she had left the ship. They hadn't been able to send anything through the planet's atmosphere. "Rodale here, Norris."
=/\= "Storm is headed your way. We believe it should hit in 30 minutes." =/\=
"Received, Rodale out." Mira shook her head. "You heard it. 30 minutes we have to be in the air."
With a concerned look, Kronnelti asks if 30 min will be enough time to get in the air?
"It's going to have to be. we won't have a minute to spare." Mira bit her lip, seeing people start running for them. "Kronnelti take the first group back. Get as many on as you can in the shuttle. I'll get the 2nd group."
Aye commander, Kronnelti gathers as many people as he can. =/\= "Kronnelti to Chuck Norris, I have me and 6 others that needs to beam aboard."=/\=
Mira did not wait to see if the Norris could beam people up she ran for the group. "Lives are the most important " yelled for them to move it. The storm would take what was left of this ship and area. They had two shuttles not too far away.
K'ner broke off from Mira as they split the group and all but herded them towards the shuttles on the ground. She tried to push as much as she could... "Are there any more left behind?"
Meier seconds later Kronnelti was beamed back down. In the distance the Lt saw several small figures and he ran to them.
As he got closer he noticed it was a group of children crying looking for their parents, Kronnelti kneels down ensuring he will find their parents. Kronnelti then takes a second to see where the nearest shuttle was so he had the kids run with him, Kronnelti trips but he yells to the kids to keep going.
=/\= Kronnelti to Rodale, I have a small group of children coming your way to the shuttle =/\=
Right after Kronnelti made his transmission he suddenly was swallowed up by the storm.......
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Buckner, the adult Fawuine male, heard the transmission about the children over Kevin's communicator and began moving toward the open cargo ramp and into the dust storm. Kevin extended an arm to stop him. "What are you doing?" he asked.
"The children are in danger," Buckner replied, "I must protect them."
Kevin locked eyes with the taller Fawuine. The determination was clear. "I get it," he said, "but let's be smart about it." He pointed to the crawler that was angled against the back wall of the cargo bay.
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Children? Mira stepped out of the shuttle to look for them. Just as she was about to run back for the kids, two of the Haz team members yelled, "we got them. Start the shuttle. "
Heading back inside, the young pilot shook his head ."We are over loaded, we will never be able to take off."
Mira knew as the storm got closer, the harder it would be to use the transporter and fly. "I'll do it, Ensign." She slipped into the chair and ran her fingers over the console tapping buttons and changing settings. Hearing the shuttle door being closed, someone yelled out, "Go!" she powered up and took off.
These were the same shuttles her mate had on his ship, and she had....... borrowed them a lot. "Make sure the ship is loocked on to anyone we missed." she yelled to the crew. Right now, both her hands were busy just keeping them flying.
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The storm whipped around Kronnelti and the three Fawuine children. They were lowing in panic and he did his best to protect them from the stinging sand that was carried by the wind. Several times he felt the tell-tale tingling of the beginning of transporter dematerialization but it never completed. They must be having trouble locking on.
He looked in the direction of the Klingon shuttles, shielding his eyes, but the storm had cut visibility to near zero. He considered crawling in their direction but it would be too easy to get hopelessly lost and perhaps fall into one of crevices on the plain.
Suddenly, Lieutenant Lance was standing next to him, wearing an oddly shaped faceplate that was clearly too large for him. "I've got them, Buckner," he shouted.
Kevin leaned down to Kronnelti and shouted in his ear, "I've got a line tied around my waist. Follow it back to our vehicle." He took Kronnelti's wrist and placed the Klingon's hand on the line. Kevin then picked up two of the Fawuine children. "Let's go!" he shouted.
Kronnelti got up and started rushing holding the line, sand whipping around him stinging every part of him until he reached the ship.
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The shuttle groaned under the stress of the winds and sand, but her fingers flying over the LCARS like a concert pianist, Rodale managed to get them above it.
The console to her left lit up in alarm. "Sir, the Romulans, they've changed trajectory. They're coming up fast."
The shuttle shook as green flares of disruptor fire slammed into the shuttle. Walker fell as the deck plating seemed to shift from underneath him. Regaining his feet, he wiped a trickle of blood from his forehead.
"We're not going to last long like this." He said.
"I don't plan to die yet, Walker," Mira told him.
The young ensign next to Rodale said "You're crazy! You know that our shuttles can't take this kind of maneuvers "
Mira laughed, "Just figuring that out, Ensign." She pulled a hard right then up. " I know this class of Klingon shuttle she can take it."
"I want my mommy."
Mira had to blink back tears when she heard the words. "We will find her little one." Mira called back.
Just then, their Klingon ship fired on the Romulan ship, chasing them. "Son of a targ". Mira banked left, still going up and away from the storm. They cleared the planet's atmosphere, and Mira smiled "home." The Norris crew was keeping the Romulans off them, and she landed in Shuttle Bay one. "K'ner and Walker, make sure our guests are taken to sickbay."
K'ner nodded. "Give 'em hell commander."
"Rodale to the bridge. Shuttle one is back. Do we have everyone?"
=/\= Kronnelti to Mira, shuttle 2 is coming in hot I need all personnel to clear the landing area!! =/\=
Two minutes later the shuttle approaches Norris she's smoking and can barley make it, Kronnelti shouts brace for a hard landing!
=/\= Kronnelti to Norris, I need emergency personnel to shuttle bay 2 =/\=
The ensign gave Kronnelti the seat calling him crazy. "I am crazy," the Lt said as he pulled up last minute clearing the open bay and landing hard, scraping the floor.
The shriek of the shuttle careening along the deck screeched in Kevin ears caused him to wince in pain as his body pressed against the harness that was arresting his inertia. He reached out, more from instinct, to hold the child next to him in its seat. After what seemed like an eternity, the shuttle came to a rest and the horrible noise died down. Kevin released a breath that he didn’t realize that he had been holding. “I should have worn my brown pants,” he said to no one in particular.
Buckner, sitting across from him, cocked his head to the side. “How does the color of your pants matter?” he asked.
Kevin shook his head, “It’s not important.”
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Now that both shuttles had reported in. Mira cocked her head to the side wondering what would happen now? Q didn't pop up scaring the crap out of her. From the trial with the Q's she didn't think it was over but if they had anything planned she guessed she would just find out in their own time. Looking down at her Klingon uniform she frowned. It was dirty. One of these missions she would like to come back to the ship and be clean while she reported in.
Heading out of the Shuttle Bay she made her way to the bridge.
OFF
Lieutenant Awal Kronnelti
Chief Security
USS Chuck Norris
and
Lieutenant JG Betaras K'ner
Assistant Chief Medical Officer
USS Chuck Norris
And
Lt.Commander Mira Rodale
XO
USS Chuck Norris
and
Lieutenant Kevin Lance
Chief Flight Control Officer
USS Chuck Norris
