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Ready Room - Calling Faye

Posted Aug. 5, 2020, 12:16 p.m. by Warrant Officer Walker Darach (Chief Operations Officer) (Steve Johnson)

Posted by Lieutenant Luke Wyatt (Chief of Security) in Ready Room - Calling Faye

Posted by Lieutenant Faye Calloway (Mission Specialist) in Ready Room - Calling Faye

Posted by Lieutenant Faye Calloway (Mission Specialist) in Ready Room - Calling Faye
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Faye frowned. “You know, I was planning to ditch the combadge, right? Like what person in their right mind who is supposed to be a spy would keep something on them that could be tracked?” She sighed as she took it back. “But I will make sure security can’t trace me and I try to make contact with Blue. Though I can’t guarantee that it won’t be used as a decoy if needed,” she said, her eyes gleaming just a tiny bit. Already the adrenaline was starting to pump through her as she readied herself for this rather

“It isn’t going to be able to track you, thus the modifications. It will however as soon as you attach it to a comm station and relay ‘help’ fro your handler, to let us get a trace to see just where the signal really goes. It’ll help us in verifying their location getting a headstart on the whole proving you innocent thing.” Jack answered, knowing they needed more evidence than ever to help free her.

“I have a couple programs I can activate on the fly too,” Faye said within abrupt exhale, resigned to this ridiculous path she had opted for.

Cochrane gritted his teeth and said “Now is the part I hate the most.” He reached into his desk and pulled out a type 1 phaser. He set it to its lowest power level, but wide beam. He then slid it across the desk. “Not a soul on this ship will believe that you simply ran away from the three of us. Fire, the alarms will sound for weapons discharge. That should give you a solid 3 or 4 seconds to hit the turbolift and make your ‘getaway’. Hit all of us so that we can say you incapacitated us temporarily. Medical will back it up when they scan us after your ‘capture.”

Cochrane, CO

Faye stared at him, utterly astonished. A part of her brain (the more rational part) understood what he was asking her to do, but the reality was that Faye had never fired at weapon at someone who was not her enemy. Ever. Now, that definition of enemy could change, but the principle was one that important to her. These people, regardless of any of her personal feelings towards one, were not her enemy, so she swallowed hard as she stepped closer to the desk. “How did you know I wasn’t already packing?” she said, knowing that he’d know she was joking. She hadn’t been anticipating anything like this to happen, but even then she’d only have considered secretly arming herself if she thought it had been necessary. It hadn’t been… until now.

“I mean she could just hold us at phaser point and leave then we set an alarm of her escape…” Jack said with a concerned look as he seemed to feel this skipped a few steps. “But I guess it does give us more probable cause than normal…”

Creed, XO

“Plausible deniability helps too,” Shara said with a sigh. Well, they were in a right mess, so they might as well go for it, right? Not that she was entirely keen on being shot today.

Faye tossed a quick glance at her mother, her mind already having a hard time with this whole life-upending situation. Her little world had shattered as soon as her mother walked into the room. What was a little more? Reaching out, she slipped her fingers around the phaser and stepped back.

Her stomach churned but Faye simply rolled back her shoulders and took the other officers in for a moment. “So, anything else we need to settle before I potentially toss my career and life out the airlock?” she said lightly, as if they were discussing a malfunctioning environmental control.

~Faye Calloway, Data Specialist

Cochrane smiled with a look that said ‘Well… here we go.’ and then looked at Faye.

Faye met his gaze and held it. So many things that hadn’t been said, that she wanted to say, but now was netiher the time nor place. Perhaps there never would be one. That was a sobering thought, but it did help to reminder her of what was at stake here.

“Not in the face. That’s my money maker.” and he winked.

Cochrane, CO

Faye couldn’t help but start to laugh, but she physically stifled it with her hand so that anyone outside the ready room wouldn’t be confused about the sequence of events. “Wouldn’t dream of damaging such a lovely face,” she quipped.

Shara watched the brief exchange with curiosity but also something of a knowing. What she knew, well that was the questions. She folded her arms as she mentally braced herself for what was about to go down, but a deep part of her knew that this was a terrible idea. Yes, it had been Faye’s choice, but she knew her daughter better than anyone thought she did and what she did know was that there were certain things that Faye should do her best to never revisit. And now they were going to waltz right into one with no preparation. Was it her place to worry? Maybe, maybe not. But knowing what she knew, and having seen what she had, Shara knew that it wasn’t just the next few minutes or hours they needed to worry about, but what happened to Faye in the aftermath of these events. Not all wounds were physical.

“Just hurry it up, the longer we banter the more things look suspicious,” Jack grumbled as he still wasn’t sold on this all, his perpetually suspicious nature.

Creed, XO

He was right and the procrastination of the inevitable moment was only making her more nervous. Stepping away from them, phaser in hand, her fingers pressed buttons, keeping the light stun setting but altering the beam width to wide dispersal. She should check it, and she did very casually with her back to them.

She was moving towards the door, then spun abruptly and fired, aiming midlevel. It had been up to them to make sure they were in a safe position, but if not well… it would make for a more realistic scenario.

On the bridge Luke was the duty security officer, which was common being as there department was the biggest nor the busiest so they operated between shifts and during the night were always only on call. However this one particular time the chief Security officer was present as the ships internal sensors pinged something on his display.

Phaser fire detected, Ready Room is what displayed across his console setting several things into motion.

Tapping his comm badge =^= Yellow Alert, Phaser fire detected in the ready room. Secure Transporter rooms and shuttle bays. Security detachment to the Ready room and adjoining decks immediately =^=

Luke didn’t wait a response as he moved to the bridge’s small arms locker and took a phaser, setting it to stun before running to the ready room.

Arms still crossed, Shara fell backwards, stumbling into unconsciousness, her head just narrowly missing the wall.

Not even checking to see if everyone was down, Faye shoved the phaser into her right pocket and casually stepped out of the ready room moving with purpose but no obvious hurry to the turbolift.

As Calloway reached the lift, she hit the call button. It was not waiting there. Well crap. But fortunately for her, it had to have been only a deck down because it soon arrived just as the bridge alert had gone off indicating that there had been weapons fire. Whomever was at the security station would note that it came from the ready room.

Faye slipped into turbolift, her hand casually in her right pocket. They couldn’t see her fingers gripped lightly around the weapon, its presence strangely calming. Her expression was utterly calm and neutral as the turbolift doors slipped shut.

~Faye Calloway, Data Specialist

~Commander Shara Calloway, Starfleet Intelligence

Walker was on the bridge at the Ops console when he saw Faye walk out of the ready room with a purpose, straight to the turbolift.

“Lieutenant, is everything ok....” but before he could finish, the turbolift doors closed.

Painfully slow considering the size of the ship and the fact the ready room was on the same deck but the time it took for him to get the phaser and navigate through the shift change as people streamed onto the bridge and corridors he finally made it to the room. The sight in front of him was most certainly the ‘Worst case scenario’ as he saw both the XO and CO unmoving and slumped over.

=^=Wyatt to Sickbay the Captain and XO are down, I need medical to the ready room now! Lockdown the ship we have an intruder.=^=

Moving across the room he checked on both their pulses whilst asking “Computer who was previously in this room.” two more security officers entered the room with phasers drawn and scanning the room before one leaving and the other coming to help Luke with the CO and XO.

“Sir, We have secured the transporter rooms and shuttle bays but we’re unable to also secure all the decks, there’s just not enough of us.” NE Wilson explained to Lukes great annoyance, after this mission he was asking for a Brig, an office and more security officers.

  • Lieutenant Luke Wyatt

As the lockdown order popped up on his screen, he noticed the security officers headed towards the ready room and followed.

“What happened in here?” he asked, noticing the Captain and XO on the ground.

WO Darach - COO


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