Mission 2 - The Great Escape

[Sjet]

Keth was so excited, at both being given a job and what amounted to a field promotion (He WAS Security!!), that he left at a trot. Well more of a sprint. Actually if we’re all being honest he just seemed to vanish, leaving behind a little dust cloud out line where a 3 meter tall felinoid had been. The only way of knowing that Keth had been there at all was the fact he had left behind his phaser rifle, which was cheerily making party noises as its barrel was pointed at some of the other guards.

As it would later be discovered, through the Orion’s ships black box recorder, Keth didn’t need a weapon to cause damage. He was damage.

His first port of call on his mad dash through the Orion ship was a turbolift shaft. Actually his first three ports of call had been some sealed bulk heads, but he’d opened them easily enough by digging his claws into the seams. Unlike Starfleet pressure hatches these ones set off alarm when he opened them, which made finding the speaker boxes so much easier: Orion's were seemingly very thoughtful about noise pollution. The turbolift he was stood before had a very handy diagram of the ships layout…which unfortunately was nothing like the Legacy’s. It wasn't even in English, or one of several dozen Huanni dialect’s he was fluent in. That was rude.

But not as rude as the Orion punching him in the kidneys.

Keth turned from the map and slapped the bulky Orion male. He only had to do it once, as the wet slapping sound was joined by the crunch of breaking jaw bones and gurgling ‘whee’ of a flying body through the air. The Orion with the misshapen jaw line landed on the floor, and Keth looked back along the corridor at the four other bodies similar splayed out.

Should he clean those away? He wasn’t sure. What would happen if TK came along and saw them, or worse tripped over them? Okay now Keth was worried, because even though TK was super awesome, Tk could get angry.

Or worse…He might get mad. At Keth.

Keth dashed away rom the turbolift now and began to tidy away the bodies. A convenient locker attached t the fall soon finding itself stuffed to capacity with unconscious and bleeding Orions. Of course he had to take all of the weapons out of the arms locker first to make the Orion fit, and the lock didn't really work after he’d ripped it off. He jammed one of the Orion’s bladed weapons through the latch, keeping the bowing out metal from popping open.

But now Keth had exchanged a pile of bodies for a pile of guns…would TK be mad if he found a pile of guns? Maybe Keth could jump out at him later with said pile of guns and shout ‘Surprise!’. Yes, yes that sounded quite logical.

He opened the locker and tore off one of the Orion’s tunics and turned it into a makeshift carrier for the weapons. He had to tighten it a few times to make sure nothing would fall out by mistake, leaving a trail of dropped energy weapons in his wake. As he did this he noticed the chronometer on his wrist was still tracking the mission time.

One minute and two seconds since he’d been sent on his super important mission by TK…he was behind schedule. So Keth opened the turbo lift door, stepped into the lift car with his big bag of guns, and pressed the button to take him to what might be the bridge. Might be the mess hall. If it was the mess hall he’d grab some snacks for the others after sampling a few dozen of them first.

Keth was in a very happy, content place, as he moved his wandering knot of murder and mayhem deeper into the ship.

He loved away missions!

TAG-Dear sweet Mike what have you done to this poor orion ship?!

Ensign Keth Soban
Security
USS Legacy
…Did someone give him a bazooka?!

[Cmdr Phil]

Turning to Phil, Cindy said, "And now we wait. As soon as those Orions know something is wrong, I am certain that they will appear. Go to yellow alert."

Phil opened ship wide comms, “All stations - Yellow Alert.” He felt the wave of adrenaline as he toggled the setting, hoping it would keep his mind clear rather than lowering his own defenses.

It was a mere five minutes later when Luke saw two blips on his screen coming towards Legacy.

tag - Luke

Calling out, "Hail them," Cindy turned to Phil and said, "Let's see what they are made of and hope that Williams knows what he is doing."

“Aye, sir,” Phil acknowledged. He had meant it purely as acceptance of the order, but it came out a little more heartfelt. If Williams’ plan didn't work… well, they would need a very impressive Plan B very quickly.

tag - Luke

Cindy adjusted her uniform slightly as a large male Orion appeared on the screen. "You are trespassing in our territory. This planet is under Orion Syndicate protection."

Her conversation with the Orion could have gone better.

"You have five of your minutes to return her or we shall fire." With that proclamation, the screen went blank.

Looking over again at Phil, Cindy observed wryly, "Williams' plan had better work."

“I appreciate it would be far from the desired outcome, but… we should probably prepare for the risk that we may need to hand her over to them…” Phil raised a hand, aware Cindy would object before he had even finished the sentence, “perhaps with a subcutaneous transponder so we have the option of sending in a rescue mission afterwards?”

tag - Cindy, Luke

[Amanda Rose]

[T-Prime]

[Sjet]

[Amanda Rose]

Cindy watched as the Orion who had been talking to her went down in a heap. She watched in horror and admiration in the efficient way that Williams took down the Orion bridge. However, with the second Orion ship turning to face the planet, she had more than a few concerns about what was going to occur next. She sternly told Luke, "Fire on that second ship!"

tag - Luke

As Legacy fired on the second Orion ship, the Orion ship fired on the planet. Cindy prayed that nobody was injured. If so, she knew that Williams was going to be first on her list for a demotion. "Fire torpedos," Cindy cried out in a determined voice.

tag - Luke

On the first Orion ship, Ensign Wetzler called out to Lieutenant Williams, "Our designated scientist was able to send a false image of the city to both Orion ship sensors. So, the city below is likely safe. However, I believe that we are in a bit of trouble, Lieutenant. My understanding of Orion is rudimentary, but I believe that when we got on this ship, we triggered a self-destruct sequence. I think we have thirty of our seconds to get off the ship. "

tag - Williams

The second Orion ship exploded after being struck by Legacy's torpedos. Small cheers were heard on the bridge but Cindy ignored them. "Status report," she called out to Phil and Luke. "Status of Williams' Orion ship and the planet."

tag - Phil/Luke

[KendleRJ]

Nav's fingers flew on the controls, making steady but small adjustments and would continue to do so until someone had told her differently. Her thoughts were on those who had gone across to the Orion's ship, and now, after redirecting the security protocols, she had begun to disengage and disassemble the items that had been spewing out pheromones for the last who-knows-how-long.

It was delicate work, made even more so by the fact that they were still attempting to maintain the level and copious amounts of data (false as it was) being sent back to their Mother (or Father) ship. Her head was on fire, a steady throbbing in her forehead and temples... she knew she hadn't replaced her oxygen supply but it was far too late to be concerned with such a trivial thing. She had heard, at least she thought she had, the Captain call for torpedoes, and surmised that they were under attack. Her mind went to the Engineering crew and like a hammer, she recalled her own deplorable behaviour during the whole incident.

Well, it was going to be an interesting Court Martial after all was said and done.

Another pang of pain rippled through her skull which punctuated her own failure, and refocused her thoughts and energies on the tasks at hand. Only a bit longer and then? She could take a pain killer... or go for a drink or something. Did they have last drinks before you were thrown into the Brig? Well, now was not the time to ruminate on that... Frankie still needed her.

Tags All (or not... just wanted to keep her in the game, so to speak)

[T-Prime]

[Amanda Rose]

Astra watched as Williams hit the floor. She knew that the transporters could not get everyone off timely. Taking charge, she ordered, "Wetzler, get your team to the ship. Anyone in the aft section needs to high tail it there and take off immediately." She then called out, knowing that a certain Ensign would need specific instructions, "Ensign Soban, get to the Orion ship bridge now."

Looking down at Williams, she cursed at his unconscious figure, "Always having to clean up male messes. I swear you men are no worse than children." She cleared Williams from any wreckage so that beaming would be no issue.

tag - Soban & Wililams?

She called out to Captain Cindy, "Away team on the bridge ready for beam up. Lieutenant Williams is injured. Have a medical team ready."

Luke, had just finished destroying the second Orion ship when Cindy heard the cry. She immediately ordered, "Shields down and beam the away team back, now. Med team to the transporter room. Transporter room, get them here quickly and once here, let me know immediately."

The transporter room reported that they had arrived. Cindy ordered Luke, "Shields up NOW!" Her voice rang clearly and urgently through the bridge.

tag - Luke

[Sjet]

Keth was now getting Orion blood on the clean transporter room floor. And no matter how much he tried to shoo it away with his foot, it just kept smearing around in a growing puddle. It was probably from the arm he was carrying, as it had belonged to an Orion who had been very rude. It wasn't even that Keth had had to pull very hard to have the limb just pop right off. Keth tossed the arm to the back of the transporter room, hoping no one would have seen it and better still no one would link him to the mess on the floor.

Of course his EVA suit was liberally painted with that dry and wet emerald tones of alien blood, so...well he could just say the Orion had bled ON him. Yeah...yeah it was there fault, being all full of blood and having high blood pressure. He wondered if he could ask the transporter tech to beam a few over to clean up their mess?

"What? I didn't make all this blood." Keth said as everyone stared at him "My bloods purple, this is green. Clearly not mine."

He'd tried to smile, but with his helmet liberally doused in the stuff he had to claw a little smiley face on his visor instead.

"Sooooooo...did we win? Because I won lots! I got me a hammer, and I got you all swell souvenirs..." Keth looked for his big...bag of...

They were back on the Orion ship.

TAG-All in the transporter room

Ensign Keth Soban
Security
USS Legacy
What will he do when he finds out TK is injured is anyone's guess.