Posted by Major Shinzo “Oni” Honda (2IC, Air Group) in Lardel’s Office, tag IRIS

Posted by Lieutenant Colonel Krin “Hannibal” Lardel (Commander, Air Group (CAG)) in Shinzo in his quarters. Open to any and all

Posted by Major Shinzo “Oni” Honda (2IC, Air Group) in Shinzo in his quarters. Open to any and all
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Shinzo was laying on his couch with a very red and soaked bandage around his hand. he didn’t even try to do a proper bandage. He just didn’t care anymore. He was drinking his rum by the bottle and was getting pailer by the hour. He had a lot to think about with his encounter with the counselor. What she said mostly made sense and so did what he had to say and the fact that she was a piece of crap and bad at her job made him mad. In fact, no one form his squad will go and see her and they will see someone else.

Major Shinzo Honda, “Oni” Brave Squad Leader

There was no knock, no chime… no nothing. The door simply slid open…

And Lardel walked in.

He moved to stand next to the couch and shook his head. “Oh for… get on your feet, Marine. NOW.” he said, and the look on his face said now was not the time to argue.

Lardel, CAG

The Major hadn’t shown up on the flight line to go over the patrol routes for the day. Siraa had gone over it for him. She assumed his appt with the counselor had run over. She didn’t mind covering the brief for him. That’s what they were there for; it wasn’t a big deal. But when a few hours later Siraa hadn’t seen him, she sent Vapor to find him.

Vapor approached the door and heard the colonel barking out a ‘NOW’ Vapor did a quick about face and walked away to report to IRIS. No one wanted to be near the Colonel when he sounded like that. Vapor was totally sure she hadn’t done anything to incur the Colonel’s wrath, but better not to be in his line of sight.

IRIS and Vapor

Shinzo stood up fast, too fast and became dizzy from the sudden blood rush and alcohol but managed to stay on his feet and saluted. “Major Honda reporting as ordered sir.” He said in a slightly slurred voiced.

Major Shinzo “Oni” Honda,

Lardel’s jowls shook as he clenched and unclenched his jaw over and over. “Gods be damned, Shin… you are on fu<%!ng duty!!” He noticed the bloodied hand and cursed… loudly. Slapping his commbadge, he barked =/\= Corpsman to Major Honda’s quarters. NOW. IRIS, get your ass up here too. =/\= He put his hands on his hips and shook his head. “Tell me what the hell happened, then.”

Lardel, CAG

=/\=Aknowleged Colonel.=/\= What now? Siraa fell into a steady jog from the flight deck on 13 down to the aviator barracks on deck 16. She let the Corpsman enter first. Siraa noticed the blood drops on the floor. Her eyes followed it about the room and then landed on the drunken figure of Shinzo and his bandaged hand and the absolutely livid visage of Lieutenant Colonel Krin “Hannibal” Lardel. “Zztann!”

Mar Cpt sh’Rharror, Delta SQLD

“I know sir.” He put his head down in shame and then raised it up. “I was pouring my heart and soul out to the counselor after I went in to apologize for the night before. She agreed to have a session with me. Then I noticed a couple of things. One, I think I have a person disorder and I do not want it any longer, after I realize that I used this Oni thing to get me past the hard times, well now I am comforatble with where I am at and am afraid to let it go and the damage that it might cause if Ido. The second, I found out that she really wasn’t listening and did not take anything I said seriously and was just like, “This is just another session and you mean nothing.” I just snapped sir. I mean I have never done that before. I snapped and I was hurt that I told this lady things I wouldn’t tell my wife, if I had one. Then when I got out of my stoper, you were here yelling at me. That is what happened.” He felt ashamed of himself that it went this badly.

Major Shinzo “Oni” Honda, Bravo Sqd Ldr.

Lardel just shook his head. He looked at the Corpsman and said “Fix him up. No one knows about this, Doc. You copy?” The Corpsman looked at Lardel. Even though he was Enlisted, the Corpsman had a special relationship with the Marines they served with. Technically Star Fleet Medical Personnel, Corpsmen were specialized first responders trained specifically to serve with Marines. Doc Mcallister said “Really, Colonel? You’re gonna say that to me?” and he knelt next to Oni and unwrapped his hand. “F#ck.” he said. “Glass in it. Bad, but no ligament damage it looks like.” He ran the tricorder over it and gripped the wrist in one hand and pulled a pair of tweezers out. Mcallister was ‘Old School’, but a better medical tech no one knew of. “Oni, this is gonna hurt. Don’t twitch.” Lardel glared at his friend and said “He’s got a little pain coming, I think.” He then looked at IRIS. “Captain, you are the acting Group XO. You good with that?”

Lardel, CAG

“I understand Doc and I also understand Colonel. There needs to be.” He just stood there, motionless and unflinching while the Doc took care of his hand.

Siraa watched as Mcallister went to work on Shinzo’s hand. She would cuss again if it wasn’t so unprofessional. What was up with him lately? Was he cracking up? He let that uppity counselor get to him again?! Come on. She shook her head, white curls bouncing. “Yes Colonel.” But she caught Lardel’s gaze for a long moment. No she wasn’t good with it. She would cover for Shinzo any time, step in wherever she was needed. She was NOT however good with whatever was going on in here. When did Shinzo steal her call sign?

Mar Cpt sh’Rharror, Delta SQLD

Shinzo nodded to Iris. He knew she was uncomfortable with the wording of the order but Oni knew it was for the better right now. Iris was a great choice. He understood and knew he wasn’t fit to lead at this moment and when he got better, he still wasn’t. He needed to be mentally fit a well and he knew the Colonel would make damn sure of that before he got his command back.

Shinzo “Oni” Honda, Bravo Squad Leader

“Fine. Major, you are grounded until further notice. You are also restricted to your quarters. Doc, make sure he’s good to go. IRIS, on me.” Lardel said and he walked out of the room and into the hallway. “Come with me. And not a fu<&ing word in these halls.” and he marched through the passageways in complete silence until they walked into his office.

“I understand sir.” Was all Shinzo said as he waited for the Doc to finish. Once the Doc was done he asked him to help him box up all of his booze and told him to hold onto it for him. There needs to be a change in his life and that was the calling. “Go ahead and keep all of it. I won’t need it again. Thank you for your help.”

Siraa fell into step beside him, marching along at his pace. Even if Siraa could come up with something to say, she wasn’t dumb enough to say it, here, in the corridor. Shinzo was on Lardel’s list now and she had no desire to be on it too. Really if she was honest she now had a list and Shinzo was on hers too. What was going on with him lately? And the glass and cuts and the blood. It was everywhere. He hadn’t even tried to clean up, just let it keep bleeding, and then drunk on duty. Nope, Siraa was good and mad too by the time they entered the flight deck and climbed the stairs to his office.

Lardel was never one to lose his cool. Oh, they had seen him mad, but no one ever saw him so mad his lost control… until right then.

Before IRIS could sit, Hannibal grabbed his helmet off the wall and hurled it at the window looking out over the flight deck. It hit so hard the face-shield shattered and Hannibal started to cuss a stream of profanity so epic in it’s heat and creativity, anyone overhearing it would swear he was speaking an entire language based only on obscenities.

IRIS didn’t flinch, just watched as the helmet flew past her nose and the shield broke. His aid stepped out of his office at the sound and the cussing. The flight deck paused and looked up. Siraa just took a step further into the office and let the door close behind her. She prayed they were all smart enough to get back to work and be busy for hours to come.

Finally, he calmed down and flopped into his chair. He opened the desk drawer, pulled out a green bottle and two glasses, and filled both to just below the rim. “Drink. Then we discuss.” and he took a large gulp.

Lardel, CAG

Shinzo “Oni” Honda, Bravo Squad Leader

Siraa eyed the glass before her gaze slid to the Colonel, disbelief and wariness. Did he really just offer her alcohol? She decided very quickly a smart ass response was not in her best interest. She sat and picked up the glass taking a measured swallow of it. Ice take him, this was a mess.

Mar Cpt sh’Rharror, Delta SQLD