Reunion

Posted on Fri Apr 26th, 2024 @ 8:27pm by Captain Mira Rodale & Lieutenant Commander Kevin Lance

Mission: Flux
Location: USS Chuck Norris
Timeline: 1.1 Million Years Ago

on:
{Sick Bay, Deck 2}

Kevin walked into the sickbay where Mira was sitting up on a bio-bed playing with Kolar on her lap. He had been regularly checking in on her since her rescue but she had either been asleep or not entirely lucid. That she was happily playing with their son boded well for her recovery.

“Hello, Mira,” he smiled hopefully.

"Hi hun, " she smiled. Kolar turned his head to look at his father. "Da da!" He took Mira's long hair into his hands "ma ma" he looked like he was showing Kevin he had found his mom.

"Good job, Cub," Kevin's smile broadened genuinely.

Mira smiled. "Your timing was amazing. K'ner didn't think we would have made it to much longer." she held her hand out him hoping to get him to come closer. "I was worried I would never get to tell you I love you again." She smiled. "I do love you."

Kevin quickly approached to take her hand in his own. "I love you too," he said as he leaned in for a kiss. "I was worried that we were too late. I heard that Kronnelti died on the table but Sto'vo'kor didn't want him yet."

Mira kisses him. "He died on the planet too. I was.....close to it. I couldn't breathe anymore. When we came to in a cell, Kronnelti didn't have his memories for a while. I tried to talk to the people holding us. But all they kept saying was the ship wasn't there and that you and Kolar hadn't been born yet. They told me I just needed to live my life for the next 50 years. The crazy nut case." Mira shook her head. "They knew the ship was coming. They even had files on us." she told him. Her fingers played with Kolar's hair.

"They are so afraid of the Gorn. That if they were waiting on a way to destroy them before they had space travel?"

"It's possible," Kevin said, "I have been in contact with the Protectors in this time but I don't get the sense that they want to find and destroy the Gorn, just stay out of their way. Which unfortunately includes wanting to keep us here for another three years. They are afraid of the Gorn and think that us returning to our present would somehow compromise them."

"Three years? But no matter how long we stay here going back can't be that set in the time line. We could over shoot or under shoot. Plus we can't leave our people down on that planet for three years." She sighed "do we need them to get back?"

Kevin nodded, "I left Lieutenant Walker and a security detail back in the future to safeguard the displacement 'anchor'. I don't think that negotiation is working. I may need to arrange another show of force." He clearly was not happy about the prospect.

Mira bit her lip. "They had no problem taking us prisoner... I wonder if they have done this before? How many of the people down there are prisoners."

she closed her eyes. "Three years.... the ship couldn't support us that long. We would need supplies. It would be too easy to get us all dependent on their drugs. They could make us all forget about returning home. They had me to the point that I didn't know my name. I didn't remember Kolar's name... That cure of theirs is dangerous."

"Do you think that you are feeling up to negotiating with Lucin's people?" Kevin asked, "The doctor says that you are mostly over the psychotropic effects to the food and water. You are much better than I at getting others to see reason."

Mira smirked. "You mean I am more stubborn." she grinned up at him. "We could try the bad CO , nice XO, and see how that works......" She rubbed her forehead. "How did you get the ship here? Can't we just reverse it on our own?" She was trying to put details in her mind.

""Nice XO hasn't been working," Kevin admitted, "In fact, to get us here, I had to destroy a mountain."

Mira's eyes widened "Wow I would not have thought of that." she nodded.

"It worked," Kevin shrugged, "I was able to convince Lucin to send the entire ship back. Once we found you, I was hopeful that we could convince someone to send us back."

"How is it done?" Mira asked.

Kevin colored slightly, "I don't really understand the science but they use a thermal source to power a temporal displacement device to move their cities. There are displacers here in the past that send the cities back to the future. So we need to get Lucin's people to operate the machinery to send the ship back."

Mira nodded slowly she didn't understand things like that either. She never really tried. "They told me they couldn't send up back for 50 years." her eyes were on Kolar. There was no way she was going to raise him here or trap her people. "they know of the prime directive. They had my file. So this isn't a first contact the rules don't apply. We have a force trapping us here. They no longer fall under the nice rules. I bet if we make their lives so annoying, they would happily send us back." She smirked. "When is the next meeting set?"

Kevin looked at the ship's chronometer, "A little more than an hour and a half " he stated. "Plenty of time for a shower, a good meal, and a change of uniform,."

Mira nodded "Ok time to make them sorry we are here." She smiled
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Lieutenant Commander Kevin Lance
Executive Officer
USS Chuck Norris

and

Captain Mira Rodale
CO USS Chuck Norris