Investigating The Residential District

Posted on Sat Oct 31st, 2009 @ 12:23pm by Commander Jordan Gunning & Lieutenant JG Lucas Jameson

Mission: Into a Devil's Heart
Location: Residential District

[ON]

The blue haze faded around Jordan's eyes as he swept around the area with his phaser. The residential district of the planet was left in dissarray. There were very few people about and certainly no-one that needed the attention of a stun shot to the chest. He replaced the phaser in his holster and looked around at the smouldering remains of the district.

Turning to the Chief Engineer he raised his eyebrows a little. "What d'you reckon, Lieutenant?"

"I reckon we need to stop whoever did this." Luc replied, a scowl on his face "And that you shouldn't put me in a room with him alone. I garuntee only one of us would come out, and it wouldn't be him."

"Anything from a more technical standpoint, Lieutenant?" Jordan replied with a chuckle. "How long do you reckon all this will take to rebuild?"

"I haven't a clue." Luc replied "If I were to guess, I'd say at least a year, clearing the debris and evacuating survivors will take a good couple of months before the work at rebuilding can even begin."

Jordan looked around and spotted something familiar. It was almost like a really hideous sense of deja vu. The distinct nip in the air did nothing to retract the feeling as Jordan's eyes were drawn closer and closer, narrowing in on one area.

"This is where Pendragon was standing. We're on the right track, I think."

"I think you could be right Lieutenant." Luc said, pulling out his tricorder "There's a residue here. Could be blood from someone being hit. You any good at tracking?"

"I'm a tad rusty, to be honest." Jordan stated. "Lucky we've got tricorders in all honesty."

"True but it's not as fun." Luc said with a wry grin "Even when things get morbid, if you can't have some fun in some way, what can you do?"

"Panic. Sob, cry. Eventually you'd end up killing yourself from the inside out." Jordan pulled himself to the top of a small slope and looked out across the massive opening where a number of buildings had once been. "This is insane. We can't let this continue."

"You're right about that." Luc said "Someone needs to bring the one that did this to justice."

"Well, there's no better group to do it." Jordan looked around, "Doesn't look like there's an awful lot more we can do here, Lucas. We'd better report back to the Iapetus."

"Agreed." Luc said before grinning "And please, call me Luc. Lucas sounds way too formal for my liking, don't know why."

"No problem." Jordan said, tapping his commbadge. "Gunning to Iapetus. Two to beam up."

[OFF]

Lieutenant Jordan Gunning
Chief Security/Tactical Officer
USS Iapetus [NCC-83721]

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Lieutenant (JG) Lucas Jameson
Chief Engineering Officer
USS Iapetus [NCC-83721]