Away team
Posted on Sat Apr 20th, 2019 @ 2:01am by Commodore Jane Saulitis & Lieutenant Commander Angus Murphy & Commander Dominic Aldrich
Mission:
The Fool's Odyssey
Location: Marga III
Timeline: MD 03 11:00 Hours
770 words - 1.5 OF Standard Post Measure
Shev stood in transporter room one, uncharacteristically impatient in waiting for his away team. Ordinary circumstances he'd be calm as can be. But this wasn't normal. He'd never been in a situation where a crewman had gone missing before, he wanted answers.
He fiddled with his phaser, just to have something to do.
Chief Cravens, of the engineering team, walked into the transporter room, gave a side glance to the XO playing with a phaser before hoisting his gear bag up on his shoulder and stepping onto the transport pad. "I hope we don't have to use that, sir." He, too, had a phaser issued to him per away mission protocol but he kept it on the holster for the moment.
"So do I, Chief." Shev said. "Believe me."
Petty Officer Shelly Doodle ran into the transporter room, her cheeks flushed as clearly she'd been sprinting all the way. "I'm not late am I?" she panted, as she checked her gear and her phaser. She smiled sheepishly as she tucked a blonde strand of hair back behind her ear.
"Not at all." Shev replied. "A little early in fact."
"Apologies," Jexasi said as she walked through the door. In her hand, she finished calibrating her phaser and holstering it as she stepped toward the transporter padd. She checked out the team and said, "Be ready for anything, hopefully this will go smoothly."
Lieutenant Commander Aldrich entered the room with a small field pack strapped to his back, phaser on his hip, and a calm demeanor. He noticed that the rest of the room seemed to be somewhat tense. However, given his past experiences this seemed to be a simple operation. Get to the surface, run short range scans and hunt down the crewman.
Zeria started as there were suddenly bodies appearing in front of her, right in the middle of the garden, on top of the vines of her prized Vulteo plant. She put her hands around behind the back of her head and waited patiently for them to fully materialize. It was basically all she could do to keep from blowing her top. "Can I help you?" She asked, her eyes daggers.
Shev looked up and he could see the anger in her eyes. He got off quick as he could and motioned for the team to do the same. "I'm terribly sorry, Miss." He said. "My name is Shev. My friends and I are looking for someone. His name is Stef. Last we saw he was dressed like us. Have you seen him?"
If there was one thing Cravens knew how to spot, it was an angry woman. He backed up so that he was standing clear of any of the plants and gave the woman an apologetic smile as he took his hand off his holstered side arm.
Shelly jumped as the woman spoke, looking down at her feet and beyond. "Oh...oh..." she muttered, jumping back to get out of the garden. "We...we didn't know there was a garden," she stammered apologetically.
Taking a couple of quick deep breaths, Zeria decided that they hadn't known about her prized plant that she'd just spent the last six months working on nor that it was hours away from blooming which they only did once in their life and that this plant had the biggest bud she'd ever seen and now them tramping all over it might kill it off because it was extremely sensitive to touch. "Zeria," she muttered her name. "Yes, the boy with the pointy ears? You'll want to talk to Razmi, she lives on the outskirts, on a farm. That direction, just keep following the road, you can't miss it. It's about a kilometer walk."
Dominic knelt next to the plant and scanned it with his tricorder. "Ma'am," he said to Zeria. "It appears that the plant will be fine. Very few of its xylem tubes were damaged. If you brace it and water it, it should mostly heal itself." He then stood and secured his tricorder. He then nodded to the XO and made himself ready to move.
She glanced at him, eyes raised slightly but didn't offer her thanks, she merely watched them as they walked away wondering where they had come from in the first place and what impact they might have on their little town.
Lieutenant Commander Shev Th'aziavak
Executive Officer
PO Shelley Doodle
Science Officer
npc Lhaes
Zeria
Local Flower Farmer
Marga III resident
pnpc by Saulitis
Lt. Cmdr. Dominic Aldrich
Chief Science Officer
Chief Petty Officer Noble Cravens
Engineering Officer
Lieutenant Jexasi Rai
Chief Security Officer
