14-7

Posted on Jul 18, 2014 @ 1:07pm by Lieutenant JG Kyle Calhoun
Edited on on Jul 18, 2014 @ 1:55pm

Mission: The Tangled Webs We Weave
Location: USS APPARITION

“14-7”
Location: USS Apparition NCC-20401
Scene: Bridge
Stardate 2.140710
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“Captain, you have an incoming call. Its from Commander Drake.” Jax startled at the name, Drake had been a member of his crew for a time before he left with the Pendragon.

“Is it marked Private?” Jax asked.

“Yes sir.”

“In the ready room then.” Jax got up from his seat, and crossed the darkened bridge into his office. Jax sat in the desk chair and turned on the monitor in front of him. He rarely used this room, preferring to sit on the bridge or in CiC to keep a hands on feel for the job and whatever mission they were on. Currently all resources were geared towards locating his twin. “Channel is secure Drake.” He spoke into the monitor. It wasn’t until then that Drake appeared on screen. “damn!” he exclaimed. Instead of an image of a man of similar age of himself, one of his fathers age appeared on screen.

{{Yes I know, a shock. But never mind that, time is of the essence.}}

“What’s going on?”

{{We know you are looking for the Bonviva, and Davidson kids. As well as your twin.}}

“We?”

{{Again, little time. We know in the general location of where they are at, You have to find them within 4 days of half of them will be dead.}}

“Explain. And do so now.”

{{When the Pendragon returned to what used to be Federation Space, we got a run down on what had been happening. You do find the kids, but not before it’s too late. Your twin executes the Bonviva kids after forcing the elder Davidson kids to perform unspeakable acts to try and save themselves. We both know that you have a very dark edge to you that makes you perfect for Intel work. Well your twin let that take over and watched the torture of children for the sheer glee of it, then sent a recording in full holographic detail of the action to Ambassador Bonviva.}}

“I thought that she was doing as she is told and went to Risa for an extended vacation.”

{{Chris screwed up, and his message was seen by others. So they took it upon themselves to do something about it. He finds out and punishes Xana by having her kids raped and then murders them.}}

“Send me everything you have. I want locations and evidence and well everything. I swear I will kill that galactic fuck up.” He was pissed, his face turning bright red, which totally clashed with his hair and made him look like a sun ripened tomato.

{{Transmitting. Also, once you grab the kids, You cannot tell Xana about it. There is more that that group needs to accomplish that they wont if the kids are returned. Take the Apparition to the Romulan Border, and wait. Your scanners will pick up an older cloaked ship. Aid any assistance you can to them to make sure they are not detected.}}

“You expect a lot. Xana is going to kill me. Tell me one thing, how long did it take you to get home, how much time before everything goes to hell? And will ruining my friendship with her, and possibly Daisy, one of my oldest friends be worth it.”

{{It’s already started. The Federation was finished by the time we got home after 25 years. You and everyone you knew were gone. Your very lives and the innocence of 3 kids and 2 young adults are at stake. Is that worth friendships?}}

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1.3 Hours later
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Jax had been physically ill at the recording he had watched. Literally. As in he had to sprint to the attached loo. He couldn’t believe someone with his own genetic structure and History could have made another of their own genetic structure and similar history do something like that. The file included data on what happened to the kids after this, LJ had killed himself 3 weeks later, Gavi turned to drugs and was killed in a street fight on Khitomer 3 years after that, and Erika wound up lost in her own mind in an institution, being tended by a rapidly aged and distraught mother. Jax tried to compose himself as much as he could and walked back onto the bridge. “All stop.” He ordered walking to the forward viewscreen.

“Ship is at station keeping sir.”

“What I’m about to say, does not leave this room. All of us have been together since this ship launched, some of us before that even. So you know I don’t do this lightly.” Jax paused for a few moments trying to collect his thoughts on what he wanted to say. “We are abandoning our current mission. Yes it may cost the life of an operative, but the flip side is the innocence futures and lives of a group of kids. You all know I have been sequestered away quite a bit over the last week or so. My twin, created by a cosmic accident has gone rogue. I don’t know if he is following someone elses orders, or if he truly has gone insane, and frankly I don’t care. He has involved a group of children from two families that I am very close to. If anyone disagrees with this action, please step forward, I will dismiss you from duty and my log will indicate you were not involved in this.”

Nobody said anything for a minute, before his Insectoid Zindi Tactical Officer spoke up. “We should kick ass sir. Nobody fucks with hatchlings.”

Jax ignored the breach of protocol. The overgrown cockroach was the newest member of his crew, coming on board 3 weeks after launch, had grown on him over the past few years. “Helm, set a course for the Armagosa system. Engage transwarp as soon as we are clear. Engage cloak. We are cutting directly across Romulan space.” He pressed the all ship comm. “All hands, we are going silent.”

All around him the ship surged with power while the transition into transwarp was made, and the ship turned from standard cruise mode, to reducing its electromagnetic signature by 80 pecent. Even shutters dropped over the windows so that light from inside couldn’t be seen. All subspace transmissions and ship identifiers were turned off. Quietly they slipped into the night.

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12 Hours Later
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“Approaching Armagosa Star System. No planets, No star.” His helm officer reported.

“That’s because it went Nova, and destroyed everything.”

“Chatter down. I want detailed scans of the system, find me anything that is emitting a power signature.”

“Scan will take approximately 6 hours to complete.”

“Remain on yellow alert.”

For seven hours the ship slid silently through the barren system looking for anything that could hide a group of kids while keeping them alive for weeks. “Captain, sensors picked up what looks like a Starfleet cargo container on the far edge of the system.”

“Intercept course.” He had to admit, this was a great place to stash something or someone. A dead star system out in the middle of nowhere, one of the best places to hide someone, other than in plain sight on Earth. “Full sweep. I want to know if that’s real or a decoy.”

“Standard Starfleet Container, outfitted with life support system. Registry listed as it being lost during the war. Power levels at 98 percent. Light shields, to protect it against space debris, and its been outfitted with thruster packs to keep it at station.”

“Lifesigns?”

“Five sir.”

“Transporter lock?”

“Negative. Scattering field in place. Also reading several security detection grids surrounding the area. If we tamper with the grid at all it will blow the container.”

Jax leaned back in his chair, trying to think what he would do if he were on a mission to kill kids. “Tactical, lock phasers on target, power source only.”

“Sir, that will destroy the container.”

“You have .3 seconds to get a lock on those kids and initiate transport before the super structure fails and they die. Fire.”

The ship fired its main phaser array into the belly of the container, A fireball erupted on the screen as 5 beings coalesced into existence on the bridge. Jax stood as the transport finished and approached the kids. “Are you all alright?”

“The 4 year old shrunk behind his sister at the sight of him. Dahlia glared, while LJ and Gavirosh took threatening steps towards him. The crew held the older boys in place while Erika ran up and kicked him in the shins as hard as she could. “Damn! It wasn’t me ok?”

“Likely story asshole.” Gavi exclaimed, ripping his arms from the OPS officer holding him in place. “Hands off goon!”

“LJ, you know far better than anyone else there's more than one of us out here.”

“Yeah, you and me!”

Jax sighed. “XO, take them below, get them some decent clothes, and a hot meal. Mr Franklin, cloak the ship, Mister Darwin, set a course for Sensor platform, bravo Romeo-1. Maximum transwarp. We aren’t done yet.” Now he had to go aid someone he really couldn’t stand too well. Michael Kane.

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NRPG: I cut out the video as to what Jax saw from the files that made him sick. if you really want to know ask i will tell you.
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Captain Jaxsper Lawrence
Commanding Officer
USS Apparition


Lieutenant JG Kyle Calhoun
Chief Engineer
USS Pendragon
E: swiften@yahoo.com

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"ICH leidest weil Ich bin besser"