Posted by Civilian Kara Nakuto (Civilian, Former CO) in Drone²

Posted by Civilian Kara Nakuto (Civilian, Former CO) in Drone²

Posted by Ensign Reira Akaba (Scientist) in Drone²
Reira muttered to himself as he tapped at the controls onboard the shuttle which was shaking quite violently, it clearly didn’t like the velocities it was going at.
“Come on you old antique, keep working!” He spat angrily at it, not usually showing emotions but for once he was emotionally invested.

The sensors on the Viking beeped as an odd subspace resonance was detected, similar to a warp drive signature. It was approaching at incredible speed. A shuttle, Federation in origin but heavily modified dropped into visual range, it’s hull seemed to be covered in blue energy which crackled like lightning and it was clearly out of control.

Reira was suddenly thrown forward into the control console as the drive shut down. “Chikuso!” The drone swore in his own language, rushing over to it. “We’ve got about… 20 seconds.” He estimated, going over to the sickbay and grabbing his heavily sedated passenger out of the biobed, remotely activating transporter controls on the shuttle.

The two landed on the bridge, both collapsing. Reira was pretty badly injured, he had a lot of bruising and several cuts which still bled and one or two burns, his right wrist looked fractured. The other was a human woman, an ex-drone like their Science Officer who appeared to be physically fine but in the process of having her Borg implants removed, her arm had been replaced along with her eye.

Kara Nakuto could currently be found on the bridge of the USS Viking. There was no real reason for her to be there, the engineering station could be adequately manned by any of the officers actually assigned to that department and, of course, the centre seat was no longer her own. But still, she felt a certain amount of…belonging here. Or perhaps it was merely misty-eyed nostalgia that kept drawing her back to this space.

Whatever the reason, she had been idly reading scans at a terminal when two figures appeared with a great deal of calamitous fanfare in the centre of the room. Leaping to her feet and reaching for a phaser, before recalling that she, of no position, had no longer any right to bear arms. Instead, she began to take cautious steps forward until she could gain a full view of the intruders. Clearly they were both hurt, but that was not the primary observation of the half-Klingon. No. It was the hair. Lilac, to be precise. And jarringly familiar.

“Reira?” she called out, hesitantly, her eyes scanning the other occupants of the room to be sure that this was no hallucination. “You are back…again?”

Kara Nakuto

“Yeah. Sorry about the disappearance, I had something to attend to. Well, someone.” He admitted, getting up off the floor and lifting his passanger who was now awake after extending the warp field of the Viking around the shuttle’s, the energy stabilizing. “Sorry, I invested far too much in that shuttle to have it explode… The transporter system must have accidentally taken the sedatives out, she’s waking up.” Reira whispered as the woman with him got up off the floor unsteadily, she had brown eyes this time and black hair but her facial structure, skin tone, build and age along with her appearance made her Himika Akaba, Reira’s mother who was assimilated along with him 16 years ago.

“I… can’t think straight.” She mumbled, clinging on to the structure of the ship for support. “It’s the anesthetic, I was worried you’d become violent again but the memory upload seems to have worked.” Reira explained, his face a mixture of emotions. Concern, happiness, fear. Neither of them were the same people since they last saw each other over a decade ago. “Reira… It’s really you.” Himika stated, hugging the smaller drone that would crush most humans tightly. “You’ve grown up so much…” She smiled, reminiscent. “You remember me?” He stated, rather surprised. “How could I forget my little boy? You’re all I thought of when they assimilated me, that you’d be alright. Where’s… Leo. I think that was his name, my husband.” The female ex-drone stated, her memories still unclear.

“Leo… Changed. I’ll let Kara explain, she was my CO. It’s complicated.” Reira stated, the mere mention of his father made his skin crawl as he left for a moment, his injuries needed tending to. “I was the Chief Science Officer aboard a Federaton Vessel, can’t remember which one… Blasted memory.” Himika stated, watching her son go before turning to Kara.

Ensign Reira Akaba (Science)

Civilian Himika Akaba (Ex-Lieutenant, previously CSO of the USS Avenger)