Unexpected Return

Posted on Thu Aug 27th, 2009 @ 2:04pm by Captain Vorn Krace & Commander Acle Walex

Mission: Into a Devil's Heart
Location: USS Iapetus - Shuttlebay
Timeline: MD03 1017hrs

As Vorn and Acle both walked into the shuttlebay, still in their dress uniforms from the funeral ceremony only minutes earlier, the small, one-man escape pod could be seen in the centre of the bay, where the tractor beams had set it down. Immediately, Vorn recognised the registry number on the side of the pod - NCC-83721.

"It's one of ours," he told Acle, pointing at the stencilled text. "From one of our shuttles." He examined the pod with a more critical eye. It was undamaged in any sense, no scorch marks to indicate that it had been launched as the result of a battle or anything. Infact, it looked in perfect condition, aside from a few impact marks of minute space debris that anything would pick up as it travels through space.

Acle moved beside his captain. The registry number certainly matched. If it was true that this was one of their shuttles, however, that meant that it was one of two, or hopefully even both, crewmembers that he very much wanted to talk to. Acle stepped slightly in front of his captain, not overtly shielding him, but, clearly putting himself forward. A man (or women) who stole a ship was capable of quite a lot.

"Open it up," Vorn instructed the young woman in services gold who was standing next to the pod, awaiting the order. As she nodded, she tapped at the controls on the side of the shuttle, and the three of them watched as the hatch opened on the side of the pod, allowing the occupant to climb out.

Ashley could only see a white bright light as her eyes tried to adjust to the sudden opening of the escape pod. She heard voices and knew they might be Orion slavers or pirates who had plans for her. So she rapidly climbed out and attacked blindly at the nearest voice, catching the poor female in the stomache with a side kick, then proceeded to attack the other 2 voices. Her eyes still blinded but blurry she instinctively attacked the one in a blurry white/grey, catching him in stomache with a punch, then backed off slowly for a minute as her sight returned to her. She soon realized what she had just done and collapsed to the ground, on her knees. Suddenly she vomited in a upward spray at Krace, catching his dress uniform from the waist down, then suddenly she collapsed again and assumed the fetal position as she held her stomache...

Acle had reacted instantly. He could not move in time to protect the technician, but, he did step fully in front of his commanding officer. The blur had moved incredibly fast, and Acle had not been expected a fully trained Martial Artist to come flying out of the pod like a bat out of hell. He had not had time to bring up his hands to protect himself and he could not dodge without endangering his commanding officer. So, he was the dubious receiver of advanced martial training of an experienced agent.

Acle backed away, almost doubling over despite his training. That women hit hard. He barely kept himself aright, and brought his hands out before him, readying himself for a counter-strike. He knew he could take the petty officer, if his damn breath would come back anyway. The problem resolved itself for him, however, when the petty officer fell to her knees in front of him.

"Erugh." Vorn didn't quite know what to do in regards to having the Petty Officer's vomit spewed upon his trousers. =/=Medical officer to the shuttlebay=/= he said, tapping his combadge. In her current state, he didn't think that the woman would need a security team to restrain her, though he'd make sure to tell the doctor to put her behind a forcefield in sickbay once she got moved there.

Annalyn had teleported to her quarters to change into her working uniform when the call came in. Finishing dressing and slipping on her lab coat, she grabbed the Med Kit she kept handy, and teleported to just outside the shuttle bay, and entered to see the Captain down by person curled up on the floor.

"Petty Officer. Can you understand me?" Vorn said to the woman curled up on the floor. He wasn't sure what to do in terms of her physical well-being until the doctor got here, and he didn't know what her mental state would be, so he tried to keep his anger with her in check. He still didn't know after all whether she'd only been acting on orders, or whether she'd even gone voluntarily.

Wrinkling her nose at the smell, "I have her Captain, I will get her to sickbay and evaluate her while you go change. The med team should be here any moment."

"I c....ca........can, unnerstand you. I..m..Sorry I lashed out, I been in that pod for 3 days eating the rations they didn't agree with my stomach. As for my current situation, I went Brown under false pretense's. Half way through, before we did anything, he attacked me, in a way violating me. Sedated me and sent me in that pod which thanks to that, I want to rip his reproduction organs out for his transgressions against me, sir." Ashley said feeling much better and leaned up only to have her back against the escape pod.

Vorn nodded, letting the PO know that he had understood what she'd said. He'd didn't believe that Peter would have it in him to 'violate' her, as she had said, and she'd probably simply used a term too strong for the action done.

Running the Tricorder over her. "I want you to come to sickbay with the med team, so I can do a thorough check up on you."

"No I can make it on my own, just give me a second to recovery from laying one crewmen flat and my CO in the stomache and ship CO well, his pants. Tend to Acle and the crewmen before me. Go." Ashley said pushing LaToon aside as she pointed both Acle and the crewmen.

"Go with the Lieutenant to sickbay, Petty Officer. Annalyn; take the Ensign with you too. I don't think Acle's too badly hurt, and I want to speak to him for a moment anyway."

Acle fully straightened, his lungs finally remembering the art of breathing. "I'm fine Captain." he said softly, still not fully recovered. He then looked at the Petty Officer, his voice becoming as cold as the void outside the ship. "We will talk later Petty Officer."

The Med team entered the shuttle bay. Annalyn turned to the other two. Acle was rubbing his Stomach, but scanning showed only bruising, not anything broken. the Ensign was still holding her stomach, so Annalyn motioned to the stretcher team to take her to sickbay. Moving back to Ashley, "Come with me," and took her arm.

"Fine." Ashley said using LaToon as a counter weight as she pulled herself up with the help of LaToon. Then fell back down as she grabbed her head and puked again but this time it was all over the floor.

Something was definitely wrong with Ashley, so instead of waiting for a new med team, she put her hand on Ashley's shoulder and teleported them both to sickbay, laying her down on the floor. She signaled some people to come help her get Ashley up on the biobed.

Vorn turned to Acle after it was only them and the shuttle bay technicians in the room, who were a fair distance away and wouldn't overhear them anyway.

"Thoughts?" he asked his closest friend on the ship.

Acle snorted softly "About a million of them. I doubt that she is fully telling everything. That would be extremely stupid of her, and stupid is one thing she is not. However, she is here, and the Lieutenent Commander is not. She needs a full debriefing, which I would like to at least be present. She is a trained intelligence operative... She won't give away vital and possibly incriminating intelligence without a fight. All this being said... My gut feeling is that she is being at least a little truthful." Acle grinned.

"Any of that help out Captain?" he asked wryly.

"You basically echoed my own thoughts," Vorn replied, smiling slightly at the man. "I'll let her get checked out by Annalyn first, and then we'll sort out a time to debrief her. I'll likely schedule it for after we dock with Ronin, or just before. For now though," he looked down at his ruined uniform. "I'm going to go get changed."

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Captain Vorn Krace
Commanding Officer

Lieutenant Commander Acle Walex
Chief Intelligence Officer
Acting Executive Officer

Lieutenant Annalyn LaToon
Chief Medical Officer

Petty Officer Ashley Williams
Intelligence Officer
USS Iapetus