Taken!

Posted on Thu Feb 22nd, 2024 @ 5:08pm by Lieutenant Commander Kevin Lance & Captain Mira Rodale & Lieutenant Awal Kronnelti & Lieutenant T'Pralik & Crewman Dianna Kronnelti

Mission: Visit to Eden
Location: USS Chuck Norris
Timeline: Current

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{USS Chuck Norris, Deck 3}

Dianna had left the café after Zimia went back to operations. She took out her padd and located the gym.

As she entered it was empty and quiet but that was good as she wanted to walk around, hmmm computer play old earth classical music please.

The computer chimed once to acknowledge and 'Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis', a Bach cantata began playing as Dianna examined the equipment in gym.

The Child of the Collector followed Dianna into the makeshift gym and began a detailed analysis of the space to share with the Architect. The Child went about its task unnoticed as its internal gravitic drive bent light around it. When it finished it's task, it turned its cold clinical gaze upon the single life form. The Keeper confirmed that the organism was not amongst those previously cataloged.

Dianna was enjoying the Bach cantata as she worked through a set of bicep curls when her world suddenly went dark.

{Commander Rodale's Quarters, Deck 1}

Vay'toc laid comfortably on the quilted pad next to his pack mate's bed. It was a comfort that he had come to enjoy since accompanying her from the place of his birth to this place of shiny rocks and light. He had also become accustom to not needing to be endlessly vigilant for predators, at least when ever his pack mate was away.

The doors to Mira's quarters open and Vay'toc lazily opened an eye half expecting Spike to come bounding in. But his playmate wasn’t present nor any other being. Confused but no overly concerned, he closed his eyes and resumed his nap.

What seemed like only moments later, Vay'toc's eyes snapped open. Something was wrong. The room still looked like his pack mate's lair but it didn't smell right. It didn’t smell like her.

{Mess Hall, Deck 2}

Lieutenant T'Pralik was idly seated on a small 1 seat table, gazing as the last crew members left their lunch shift in the canteen. She'd decided to start sitting here as often as possible, to be able to judge the state of the crew, and know about any potential problems before they even happened.

As she drained the last dregs of her delicious Andoran coffee, she stood up and stretched a little. The day had been quite long already, yet she still had much to come. She was placing her cup away, when she suddenly noticed how silent the mess hall had become. With no more crew members there, an eerie lack of noise was prominent.

With a start she realised that she couldn't even hear her own footsteps, or the clink of the coffee mug on the table. Confused, and beginning a little to panic, she began walking towards the exit, when the edges of her vision began to fade as well.

She was still three meters away from the door when her legs gave away, and she too fell face flat onto the cold stone floor.

{USS Chuck Norris, Deck 3}

Dianna thought that she had blacked out for a moment. She stood with the dumbbells still in her hands and had a touch of vertigo when she opened her eyes. The cargo bay cum gym looked the same and the Bach cantata continued to play.

Then she noticed that the same cantata was playing like a song on endless repeat.

Dianna opened her eyes as they had become fuzzy at first as she got up something was wrong, hearing Bach cantata loop over and over she started to get very scared.

Shit she thought my baby, she put her hands over her tummy and she was relieved to feel it moving around but where am I Dianna thought and does my husband know something happened.

Zimia walked into the gym with her kitten in her arms. "Oh, thank God you're here! the ship feels weird. I can't seem to find some people. Did you hear Mira has dissappear. Kronnelti is really mad. I went to talk to him, but I can't find him on the ship. Sel'uk told me everything that happened."

"Breathe Zimia, Let's see if we can find Awal since he is back" Dianna told her

Zimia nodded, " For some reason the computer isn't working Watch. 'Computer were is Lt. Kronnelti?' " Nothing, no response. "Computer where am I?" again nothing. "See? it's supposed to answer us back. I hope the mess hall is working or we are going to be really hungry."

Dianna watched her. Clearly the young woman was scared and for some odd reason that made her want to take charge. "Are you hungry? " Dianna couldn't see how she would be but it was possible.

Zimia hugged her kitten and nodded "Milk and cookies makes me feel better when I am scared."

"Then let's go to the mess hall." Dianna told her.

{Mess Hall, Deck 2}

Lieutenant T'Pralik opened her eyes. She was still in the mess hall, her coffee cup siitting serenely on the table where she had placed it.

Walking in Zimia smiled, seeing T'Pralik " we aren't alone!" she told Dianna.

T'Pralik raised an eye at the overly bubbly Ensign.

"Why would you say that Ensign?" T'Pralik asked.

"Not everyone is here and the computer stopped talking to me." Zimia nodded.

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