Posted Nov. 2, 2020, 2:53 p.m. by Ensign Tellek Bog (Engineer) (Charles Stevens)
Posted by Crewman Quinn Emery Kindle (Yeoman / RTF) in MPT- “Six Hours From Evil”- Deck 13-Containment level 3
Posted by Civilian Kara Nakuto (Engineer (Consultant Researcher - Yellow)) in MPT- “Six Hours From Evil”- Deck 13-Containment level 3
<snip>Posted by Crewman Quinn Emery Kindle (Yeoman / RTF) in MPT- “Six Hours From Evil”- Deck 13-Containment level 3
Posted by… suppressed (2) by the Post Ghost! 👻Kara nodded then returned to the console, her hands tapping in a slightly more polite message than the Tellarite had suggested.
=^= Lt Hampton, this is the Leviathan. Can you hear us? Please respond. =^=
- Kara Nakuto (Consultant Researcher)
After several moments, the pulse received several bursts of energy, which the computer interpreted and translated. “Yep.” The automated voice responded.
Storyteller S
“Thank the Gods!” Bog squealed. Hampton was deranged, frighteningly so but he was crew and despite there rocky start the Tellarite had learned to respect him.”Now we need to crack this egg and get him out!”
Bog
The half-Klingon grinned broadly at Bog’s reaction to his superior’s response. “You are not so gruff as you pretend, Mr Bog,” she teasingly commented. Then, with no small measure of relief herself, she prepared and sent a second message. This time substituting none of that efficient Tellarite wording.
=^= Mr Hampton, if you are done with your vacation then we could use your assistance. The situation on the ship is dire and your doppelganger has assumed a rather malevolent control. Anything at all you could tell us, about the orb or about the other Leviathan or about the other…you, it would all be most useful right now. =^=
The color drained from Bog’s face, “Doppelgänger?!, you mean their are two of him?”
Had she revealed too much? The multiple layers of secrecy and classification within the ARU was something the half-Klingon was continually grappling with. She saw no advantage to withholding information from those who could make use of it the most. But at the same time, Bog’s alarmed reaction was a potent reminder of why, at times, it made some sense to remain silent.
With an apologetic shrug to the Tellarite, Nakuto nodded a silent confirmation of this most unsettling of developments.Quinn was running, full tilt running down the corridor, until she rounded the junction and came up on the Containment level 3 area where Bog and others where working. She slid to a halt and looked at the Tellarite, “Captain ordered me to talk with you about Hampton’s status.” she said without preamble, she was tense and none too happy about the situation.
- Quinn Kindle, Yeoman/RTF
“Then talk wile we figure out how to get his mangy hide out of that blue egg. Any ideas how to crack it, Klingon?!” He was seriously considering dumping it into a Star, or better yet a singularity.
Bog“Let us see what Mr Hampton responds,” Nakuto suggested. “It is possible that his view from inside the orb is vastly different to ours.”
Then, turning to Kindle, she commented, “His status? Well, he is alive. Currently contained within this orb, which some might believe is the best place for him. And were the current situation less urgent then I might have been inclined to agree.”
She laughed briefly but the tension refused to dissipate and quickly her eyes returned to her console. “We are in communication with him, however, and in the process of setting him free. I only hope that turns out to be the right thing to do.”
- Kara Nakuto (Consultant Researcher)
Several pulses emanated from the orb, and in a few moments, the automated voice that was becoming synonymous with Hampton’s spoke out again. “I’m afraid I’m not help to you there, I am not sure what’s going on in the outside world, but my best guess is I am inside some sort of quantum realm, I am attempting to break out of it, but I’m not strong enough yet.”
Storyteller S
“Some one tell me about this second Hampton!” The the color had come back into his face, to be replaced buy the nailed on a chalk board screech of his teeth grinding.
Bog
Quinn looked at Bog, “There’s something that looks and talks like Hampton but he’s gone the way of Evil Overlord and wants us all dead, if we can get him out of the orb before he actually gets to Evil Overlordness things should start looking up. Or we make it worse. I don’t know for certain yet.” she figured being honest was best than sugar coating since they didn’t really have the time to play nice.
- Quinn Kindle, Yeoman/RTF
“He will not be escaping the confines of the orb anytime soon, I am afraid” the half-Klingon countered. “So right now our primary focus must be to maintain the orb’s stability and indeed its continued existence in our dimension. As for the other Hampton, how might we be of assistance there, Miss Kindle? Do we have reason to feel imminently threatened by him?”
- Kara Nakuto (Consultant Researcher)
Quinn looked at Kara, then back to Bog, “As I said the Evil Overlord Hampton lookalike wants us all dead. If that’s not threatening enough what is?” She shook her head. “There’s information that was downloaded from the other Leviathan and there’s a team checking it out as well.”
- Quinn Kindle, Yeoman/RTF
“Describe this new Hampton to me, Yeoman. Remember your basic psychology from your training? Is the new Hampton and egocentric paranoid ass or a Narcissistic prick?” Bog was curious, was this actually a super powers time travailing Hampton or had the Orb created a simulacrum from a poorly understood model of Hampton.
Dr. Bog…
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