Posted by Commander D’Vash Odinson (First Officer) in Bridge: Main Sim (Tag Sathut)

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Pretha Oberon (Chief Security Officer) in Bridge: Main Sim (Tag Sathut)

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Collin Harding (Chief Medical Officer) in Bridge: Main Sim (Tag Sathut)
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SNIP

Sathut was currently on the other bridge, but once he was hailed he quickly as he could headed up towards the actual bridge.

Sathut, CNS

“Right, the Commander’s the Commander. I’m next. Oberon, mind looking over my shoulder? Now that we know you are who you say you are, you can make sure I don’t falsify my own results.”

Harding drew his own blood and handed his tricorder off to the Security Chief so she could read the results.

Harding, CMO

Making sure the nervous NE could see everything, she glanced to see the results. Nodding with a smile, she glanced at the wild card in the room. “He’s fine… Do you believe us now?” She glanced at D’Vash and slowly moved towards him. She kept talking to the NE too keep his attention. “What can I do to personally convince you?”

Her intention was to get herself between the XO and the shaking phaser across the room.

Pretha
CoS

The NE lowered the phaser slightly. His knuckles still white on the phaser. “If we have been infiltrated for any amount of time, who says they havent found d a way to falsify results if they have any deep cover agents?!” He shifted his grip and raised the phaser again. “Computer is locked out, and if I dont know anyone besides my self is I cant trust any of you. Now if you all dont step into the conference room and stay there I will fire.” While his hands were shaky. But his eyes were full of conviction.

-GM

D’vash raised his hands slowly and spoke calmly. “Ensign, listen to me. trust has to start somewhere. I’m going to trust you. That’s the first step, okay? Now, I’ve called Counselor Sathut up here to the bridge to help. My knowledge of this other universe is limited to what I’ve read in Starfleet files. The Terran Empire are conquerors and subjugators. From what I’ve read, they decimated Sathut’s race in THEIR universe. The race has been completely wiped-out. There would not be a counter-part to Sathut in their universe, so there can be only one of him on this ship. THIS universe’s Sathut. He is someone you CAN trust. No double exists to take his place. Does that make sense?”

The XO had read classified reports from interactions from the mirror ‘verse, but had read nothing about the Raka and their fate. He was making this up as he went along, hoping that the Counselor would catch on quick enough to help convince the ensign to lower the weapon.

Odinson (aCO)

Collin kept his tricorder in his hand and his hands perfectly visible as he watched the interplay between the NE and the XO. In his mind he remarked at the luck of having a race aboard their ship extinct in the mirror universe to handle this exact situation. Another part of him wanted desperately to test the NE’s blood. He seemed authentically worried, but convincing actors were /not/ extinct in the mirror universe.

Harding, CMO

The NE raised the weapon at Odinson, “How would you just happen to know that some race is extinct over there?” He looked to the rest of the Bridge Officers, “None of you find that foreknowledge odd?” The NE gripped his phaser tighter and fired at Odinson.

-GM

“Because, ensign, my background is in Intel. My clearance allows me access to classified reports. Some of which deealt with the Mirror------“

D’vash noticed the trigger finger squeeze. . . .

Somewhere around this time … =^= Surall to Bridge. Our .. visitors .. who fled from their makeshift bridge here on this deck have dispersed throughout the ship. Most notable is at least one who is in the vicinity of Deck 3 armory. I am also sending you a maintenance report that would be of interest to you. =^=
- Sural

Pretha smiled calmly at the NE. “He would know because Sathut would have mentioned it when discussing his past when coming aboard. Don’t you think it likely that lamenting over the loss of an entire race is something that would come up?”

She slowly shifted away from D’Vash. While protecting him was her gut reaction, dividing the attention of the NE had to take priority. Sathut was about to enter the bridge. If she could make a triangle between herself, the lift to the bridge and D’Vash, perhaps she could get a moment to disarm the panicked man. She just hoped that if he swung on her, D’Vash would think the same thing and take the chance. Of those on the bridge, he was the only other one she knew well enough was capable of having her back, so to speak.

She glanced at D’Vash as she spoke and hope they were all on the same page. “Wouldn’t discussing his background have been common talk, Sir? I mean, with such an elite person on board, certainly we would want to know if more of his species were part of Star Fleet, right?” Already she was about six feet from D’Vash though moving slowly and making it seem nonchalant.

Pretha
CoS

OOC: Note that the phaser was fired.

-GM

Collin hadn’t moved far from Odinson after taking the XO’s blood and testing it. Oberon’s attempt to de-clump the senior officers was smart, but it seemed too little too late. Collin’s time embedded with Starfleet Marines had made him more comfortable with combat situations than the average Starfleet doctor and his reflexes were good. Ever since raising his hands for the NE, he’d kept a keen stare on the man.

He didn’t react as the man raised the phaser again. Nor did he act as the NE questioned Odinson. Only as the NE’s eyes moved wildly across the Bridge and he emphasized the word ‘odd’ in a way that made the hairs on Collin’s neck stand up, was the CMO convinced to move. He wasn’t graceful, but he was fast. A quick bend of the knee and he launched his weight at Odinson, counting on his momentum and mass to drop them both o the floor with a distinct lack of grace.

Harding, CMO

At the same moment the phaser fired, D’vash was taken off-guard by the bull-rushing Harding. . . .

OCC: Am I hit? That’ll teach me to be AWOl by about 7 days!!!
OOC: You and me both… stupid RL…M

Odinson (aCO/XO)

OOC: Whether you are or not is up to you.

Thanks to Harding’s action, D’vash was hit with a glancing blow to his shoulder. Still, it hurt like hell as his right arm went numb.

Sathut stepped into the Bridge at that moment and took a few moments to assess the situation. The doors opening made a swoosh sound, possibly causing a critical distraction for the others.

“Ensign Gary,” his purr-like voice called out gently, the diminutive officer lifting his arms out toward the ensign but not stepping out of the lift. “I’m not entirely aware of the full extent of the situation, but I ask you to please… lower your phaser…”

Sathut, finally showing up

The NE wheeled around and fired again, this time at the newcomer from the lift. “See?! The lift is still active!! Why wouldn’t anyone lock the access so we can be protected from them?!?” The look on his face moved from determination to hysteria.

-GM

OOC: Can we assume this means Odinson and Harding managed to avoid the first blast of the NE’s phaser?

IC: From his prone position, half on top of Odinson, Harding managed to maneuver himself into a crouch, body half-blocked by one of the command center chairs. The situation had lost all semblance of control and that meant they had one choice. His light blue eyes looked first to Odinson and then to Oberon. He was no telepath and neither were they, but they’d served together for going on two years and he hoped they could read his face well. It was time to take the NE out.

The NE was swinging around wildly, but his last point of attention was on Sathut who had appeared from the turbolift behind Odinson and Harding. That left Oberon on his flank. If Harding could draw his attention even further, he just might set it up where Oberon was out of his peripheral vision and Odinson only on its edge.

It was worth a shot.

“Stop it,” he said firmly, moving to the side, still crouched, but slowly rising. “You keep shooting at everyone you’re going to hit a good guy. Remember your training.”

Harding kept moving laterally, hoping to draw the NE’s attention giving Oberon and Odinson an opening.

Or he just might find himself a target.

Harding, CMO

The shot registered half a second too late and Pretha felt her heart fall to her feet at the sight of the beam heading for the XO. But it was Harding who had anticipated what she hadn’t. The curse under her breath was covered by the momentary chaos and slamming of bodies and chairs as people took cover.

Then everything went into slow motion. Time was suddenly measured in inhales and exhales.

Inhale… the doors opened to the lift and the NE fired again… exhale
Inhale… Harding’s voice reached her ears. But the words weren’t meant for her, so she drown them out… exhale.
Inhale… “ENSIGN!” Her voice came out almost oddly crystal clear to her ears as her arm drew the phaser at her hip and raised it… exhale.
Inhale… The shot was fired. She aimed for his arm, hoping to merely disarm him. But with his erratic motions, if he jerked at the wrong moment, it would be a chest shot… exhale.
Inhale… Her left hand pointed to the XO without her eyes moving. “STAY DOWN!” she ordered without hesitation or preamble… exhale.

Part of her just wanted to wound the NE. But a part of her, one she may or may not confess to a councilor later, wanted him dead for endangering them all. Her eyes glanced to Sathut and Harding to see if anyone else was hurt. Then her gaze went to the NE once more. It hadn’t been a whole minute, but seemed like an eternity. But then… shooting someone always felt that way.

Despite the actions she had taken, there was a calm to her that Harding would recognize from their captivity he had observed. But to those who didn’t know her, she had suddenly turned frighteningly cold and calculating with a visage on her face no one would recognize save the CMO, perhaps… if he even cared to remember those moments so long ago.

Pretha
CoS

As Harding moved, D’vash rolled over to take cover. When the doctor made his move to distract the NE. He knew Pretha had her sidearm. He was about to move when she yelled and the next moment hear the whine of her phaser. . . .

Odinson (XO)

OOC: Nice post Melissa!

IC: From his semi-prone position Harding watched the scene before him unfold. Later he’d remember it with the rapidity of its reality, but in the moment things seemed to slow unnaturally. He let his attention leave the NE for a second as he heard Oberon’s commanding voice. His light eyes shot her way just in time to see her expression harden and her arm raise. If he were honest with himself later, he’d admit he felt a moment of relief in seeing that look on the Security Chief’s face and he hoped she hit her target.

Harding, CMO