Post by Lt. Commander Liz Sur'Shess on Oct 12, 2013 8:36:07 GMT -8
"I figured I'd leave the destruction to you and security. This wishing game can turn deadly in an instant. Ensign Bergin somehow wished to be clobbered by an asteroid. We all need to be on our toes at all times. Stay sharp, Commander."
Liz's grin disappeared as the Captain's did, her professional side coming out as his did. She glanced over at the Ensign as he mentioned the asteroid, eyes flicking to the huge hole next. That must be where it had hit. The Captain finished his exhortation and moved off, heading over to the Counselor.
Liz glanced at Jenison, though she had more eyes for the gun in the sec officer's hand than anything else. She'd only caught the tail-end of the woman's explanation, but she could identify it well enough. It was a good model, the sort of thing you should be happy to have on your side if you had to kill something. Or stun something. Or incapacitate something while you pounded the stuffing out of it. She was about to say so when a new voice entered their conversation.
"Anything new?"
Robin came up beside them, his own eyes going straight to the gun, too. "Is that a TR-11... something?"
The sec officer answered promptly, with a model Liz was rather familiar with. If memory served her correctly, she'd played with it in the holodeck a couple times. "Good gun," she said, nodding to it. Her eyes came up, wandering past the two others as she glanced around, halfway hoping there'd be something worth shooting. Instead, they landed on the Captain.
The Captain, swaying in place, gasping against something, the last syllable of a strangled word coming from his lips. And the ghay'cha counselor was just standing there... "Captain!" Liz shouted, taking a step forward, her heart beating an uneasy rhythm. Not again. She couldn't let this happen again, a Captain disappearing right from under her nose, practically before her eyes, transported away in an instant because they hadn't been paying attention...
Robin set out running past her, quicker than she could, and she jumped after him, feet pounding even as the Captain disappeared with a barely-glimpsed shimmer, an impossibility that had become far too familiar over the past several hours. Momentum slacking, Liz fell to her knees. She heard Robin already barking questions above her, questions that seemed very relevant but far away at the same time, but her eyes were locked on the place the Captain had disappeared from. Not again. The idea that this was a dream, that they were just imagining things, flitted through her mind for a moment, an automatic attempt at personal consolation, but she still felt as if she'd failed somehow, an empty pit in her stomach.
She surged back to her feet, turning to Robin to say something, to call out to Commander Hireen... And then the nightmare got worse. Robin froze, staring wide-eyed into the middle distance, his legs slowly crumpling beneath him. "Robin," she began, reaching towards him, hand passing through him as if he weren't even there. "Robin, no!" she yelled, trying to hold onto him even as he disappeared into whatever ether this madcap world had sprung from. There was a moment where the only sound she could possibly begin to fathom was her own heartbeat, an insistent pounding in her ears. Her mind only slowly began to get around to the other bits of her job: like troubleshooting, and figuring out the pattern in their being picked off, if there was one, and how this might reflect on the Talon, if they were still linked to it, and...
And the statistical likelihood that the Captain and Robin were still alive, and who else might be alive on the Talon and not here, and whether they were going to be rescued. And definitely whether Robin was still alive somewhere out there. "Ql'yah taHqeq," she said flatly, turning to second Alyssa's call to Commander Hireen. Orders. They needed orders...
Her head felt light, oddly fuzzy, as if she weren't quite managing to see everything clearly. "Commander, I think..." she trailed off. She'd somehow lost control of her tongue, and then her legs went out from under her, feeling somehow disconnected from the rest of her body... the world went black just before she hit the ground, and then there was nothing.
End Liz
Liz's grin disappeared as the Captain's did, her professional side coming out as his did. She glanced over at the Ensign as he mentioned the asteroid, eyes flicking to the huge hole next. That must be where it had hit. The Captain finished his exhortation and moved off, heading over to the Counselor.
Liz glanced at Jenison, though she had more eyes for the gun in the sec officer's hand than anything else. She'd only caught the tail-end of the woman's explanation, but she could identify it well enough. It was a good model, the sort of thing you should be happy to have on your side if you had to kill something. Or stun something. Or incapacitate something while you pounded the stuffing out of it. She was about to say so when a new voice entered their conversation.
"Anything new?"
Robin came up beside them, his own eyes going straight to the gun, too. "Is that a TR-11... something?"
The sec officer answered promptly, with a model Liz was rather familiar with. If memory served her correctly, she'd played with it in the holodeck a couple times. "Good gun," she said, nodding to it. Her eyes came up, wandering past the two others as she glanced around, halfway hoping there'd be something worth shooting. Instead, they landed on the Captain.
The Captain, swaying in place, gasping against something, the last syllable of a strangled word coming from his lips. And the ghay'cha counselor was just standing there... "Captain!" Liz shouted, taking a step forward, her heart beating an uneasy rhythm. Not again. She couldn't let this happen again, a Captain disappearing right from under her nose, practically before her eyes, transported away in an instant because they hadn't been paying attention...
Robin set out running past her, quicker than she could, and she jumped after him, feet pounding even as the Captain disappeared with a barely-glimpsed shimmer, an impossibility that had become far too familiar over the past several hours. Momentum slacking, Liz fell to her knees. She heard Robin already barking questions above her, questions that seemed very relevant but far away at the same time, but her eyes were locked on the place the Captain had disappeared from. Not again. The idea that this was a dream, that they were just imagining things, flitted through her mind for a moment, an automatic attempt at personal consolation, but she still felt as if she'd failed somehow, an empty pit in her stomach.
She surged back to her feet, turning to Robin to say something, to call out to Commander Hireen... And then the nightmare got worse. Robin froze, staring wide-eyed into the middle distance, his legs slowly crumpling beneath him. "Robin," she began, reaching towards him, hand passing through him as if he weren't even there. "Robin, no!" she yelled, trying to hold onto him even as he disappeared into whatever ether this madcap world had sprung from. There was a moment where the only sound she could possibly begin to fathom was her own heartbeat, an insistent pounding in her ears. Her mind only slowly began to get around to the other bits of her job: like troubleshooting, and figuring out the pattern in their being picked off, if there was one, and how this might reflect on the Talon, if they were still linked to it, and...
And the statistical likelihood that the Captain and Robin were still alive, and who else might be alive on the Talon and not here, and whether they were going to be rescued. And definitely whether Robin was still alive somewhere out there. "Ql'yah taHqeq," she said flatly, turning to second Alyssa's call to Commander Hireen. Orders. They needed orders...
Her head felt light, oddly fuzzy, as if she weren't quite managing to see everything clearly. "Commander, I think..." she trailed off. She'd somehow lost control of her tongue, and then her legs went out from under her, feeling somehow disconnected from the rest of her body... the world went black just before she hit the ground, and then there was nothing.
End Liz