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A Troubling Journey (Cheeseball III, everyone interested invited - Side Sim

Posted June 5, 2020, 12:48 a.m. by Lieutenant Alexandra Robins (Xenobiologist) (Kate O'Neill)

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Kai Oliver Kingstone (Chief Science Officer) in A Troubling Journey (Cheeseball III, everyone interested invited - Side Sim

Posted by Lieutenant Alexandra Robins (Xenobiologist) in A Troubling Journey (Cheeseball III, everyone interested invited - Side Sim

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Kai Oliver Kingstone (Chief Science Officer) in A Troubling Journey (Cheeseball III, everyone interested invited - Side Sim
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Kai stood up and helped Chris to take the route with him toward the shuttle hatch. Following his subordinate, he took on the way a tricorder and one of the phaser rifles he was sure he would have not used. Apparently they would have been essential to survive on the planet.
Exiting the spacecraft the CSO took a deep breath, still mumbling about his injury and as he looked around he said “Well. Chris, before you leave, take the remaining phasers. We don’t know what we can find. Lexi?” He called her “let’s find a good place for a shelter before departing.”
Knowing he was still the lowest in grade, it was funny to him to give order to someone higher in rank.

“Alright…” Chris said as he went back grabbing more of the gear.

Ensign Kai O. Kingstone - CSO

Grabbing a backpack from one of the storage compartments she slid it on her back and came up behind Kai. “Sir,” she said in a happy tone, “what if we just bring a tent with us. That way we can spend more time if needed exploring than coming back to a base. Turns out Aedan Teller spared no expense on anything here,” Lexi patted the pack before sliding it onto her back.

“If we have one still intact we can do that. Otherwise, we will have to use our brute force to create a shelter.” He smiled at Lexi and checking that Chris was behind them at the same time.

“Too bad we didn’t bring Drayke with us then. Is it wrong of me that I kinda wanna see the angry Irish come out when he taunt him with a pile of sticks and say show me your mad engineering skills,” Lexi teased?

“Hey give me one of those,” Lexi gestured to Chris for one of the phasers he picked up which Kai had asked him to grab. As he placed it in her hand her nose wrinkled up. “Wait why did I get the girl gun,” Lexi looked at Chris. His phaser was definitely larger than hers. “Gimmie yours,” she motioned for her husband to pass over his weapon as she waved the smaller version at him with her other hand.

“Because unlike you I passed my firearms training… you get that until you pass rifle handling.” Chris said as he refused to hand over his rifle.

“hey you two!” called both officers “just don’t fire those things. We might “break” something” he giggled.

Turning her focus back to her boss, Lexi pulled out a tricorder. “So what do you think that black thing is,” she posed the question to the group, “maybe a fungus or slime mold?”

Lexi

“That big?” he asked curiously “Well, if it is something that lives, then wow that’s some huge being. I guess anyway it is something built.” Kai concerned about the nature of the black thingy.
All around species of luminescent fungus and plants were surrounding the environment. Tall were the threes with a blueish and mostly green color. Also some weird animals walked freely all around the group that in the forest was walking in: then a puffy and seemingly innocent animal came along them and so the CSO stopped everyone “Lexi? Come here.” he called his subordinate for some scanning. The animal seemed to be pacific and curious. What they could not predict would have been a virus that was spread everywhere and even that fluffy ball was pathogen-filled.

Ensign Kai O. Kingstone - CSO

“Yeah boss,” Lexi walked over to where he was standing.

Lexi Robins.

“This is all fascinating and all, but shouldn’t we be finding ways to communicate to the Atlantis? Who is gonna pick us up after you two nerds find something new and exciting?” Chris suggested, shaking his head as they fawned over the fauna.

Robins, Stellar Cartogprahy

“Everything has its time. For now we are going to focus reaching that weird black thingy and look at the nature around us. The communication are stuck but maybe we can take with us the Comm Relè.” Kai said crouching toward the white fluffy thing “is this safe to touch, Mrs. Robins?” Asked her teammate while he looked through the little creature eyes.

“It seems innocent enough and appears to be mammalian in origin or maybe ornithological,” she attempted taxonomy on a visual examination. The case of the Earth’s platypus showed this was not the best scientific method at times but right now she didn’t have anything else. Pulling out a tricorder, Lexi began to scan it as she spoke. “My guess is yes,” she said waiting to get back a reading.

At a certain point, then something was spit into everyone’s face: nothing stinky, nor harmful, but still sticky.

“Ugh,” she wiped at her neck feeling the sticky substance cling to her like a spider web. “Okay so instead of a chick we might be dealing with an Onychophora,” Lexi flicked it off her hand. “That’s a velvet worm,” she stated for the record. “This stuff reminds me of that lets just hope it doesn’te paralyze us making us easy prey,” she studied the mucousy substance.

“Oh jesus! That is gross!” Kai shouted as he stood up and cleaned his face “well… ugh. Look around, I’ll going to take the relè with us so we will have a chance to communicate if we find a good spot.”
As he said he returned to the shuttle but struggled to take the massive module. Then, with the big box on his back, Kai returned breathing heavily and grumbling about his pain “Oh jeez, I’m not practiced. Let’s go?” Asked to his former team members.

Ensign Kai O. Kingstone - CSO

“Chris go help him,” Lexi said off-handed still studying the thick sticky substance the creature had shot out. “And bring me back some stasis jars. I want to get some samples of this to study later.” It was then Lexi got a huge smile. “Oh my god maybe if we find a way to chemically bond it with the boom slime we can make it target specific.”

Lexi Robins

“You always find something to add to our weapon uh? Also when we’ll update Starfleet Command about our discovery? They waited our report some weeks ago.” Kai asked Lexi giggling “anyway it is better that you analyze that substance. If we will return to the Atlantis, which we will do, we need to know if it contains harmful virology agents.”

“Easy,” Lexi shrugged. “Stasis container and if that doesn’t hold I am sure Drayke has some sort of containment field. If that fails it is not our problem but engineering.” Her tone was upbeat and perky from years of knowing how to game the system for what she needed.

As they kept walking, Kai found a good place where to put a tent. Not too far from the shuttle and not too far from the apparent tether or whatever it was. As he laid down the comm relè, Kai took the tent bag and started to remove the items from the sack.
“Well, we will firstly install this. Then we can try to find some food and go to check that thingy. If you want, Lexi, you can stay here and install a basic lab for all your experiments. Chris? You may try to find some edible stuff. I don’t think that the Atlantis will be able to find us right away and these supplies will not endure.”
He took some sticks and started assemble the tend.

Ensign Kai O. Kingstone - CSO

“I love that idea,” she glanced at Chris with a huge smile. While they shared a few of the household chores, having a baby meant slipping into more traditional roles and a routine. Lexi didn’t mind doing the typical stuff like cooking, cleaning, and laundry because having a two year old meant Chris was on constant, babe can you fix this duty. Chris also was the one that tended to get up with Ruth in the mornings and when she woke at night. It was probably because he had missed so much time with Ruth as a baby. Lexi would do all the cooking for eternity just to have a complete night sleep however, the idea of Chris making dinner without a replicator did intrigue her. “So what’s on the menu,” she joked to her husband as she began to open a few cases and spread them on a blanket.

Lexi Robbin science.

Upon time, Kai had finished building the tent. It wasn’t fancy, although it had bright colours to locate survivors easier “And this is done… phew” He cleaned his sweat “Alright! Tomorrow We’ll be departing for that structure in the horizon. For that time, the Atlantis should be aware of our miscommunication and should start searching for us… I hope.” He looked at both of them. In his first Away mission as lead, Kai would have never thought that it would have been a stranding survival one. What a start! He thought “I’ll be searching for wood and build the ‘furnace’. Don’t get too far!”
Taking the emergency axe, the phaser and a bag, Kai took a nearby path and started searching for a dried dead tree.

(once Ensign) Kai O. Kingstone - CSO

“Go with him,” Lexi hooked a thumb at Chris. It was not that she doubted Kai’s ability but with two of them they could carry more wood. It would also afford her some peace and quiet. While she loved Ruth, the thought of a few hours off the grid as they were was a small slice of heaven. If she sent Chris with Kai, the options were endless. She could nap, read, nap. On a ship with a thousand people, Lexi was not going to let this chance for isolation slip by.

“He is our boss and if you go you can…assist him,” Lexi mulled over her words nodding in the general direction of the CSO.

Lexi Robins


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