"Just a coincidence"
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Stardate: 60298.2034
Setting: Unknown Planet: Underground Control Room
After a minute of Luke's tinkering on the control panels, he finally looked up at Lea with a grin. "We're in luck!"
Surprised, Summers looked away from the small robot, throwing a questioning glance at the charming man. "You call everything that has happened to us so far luck?"
Onison mused over this a second. "Point taken, but look at the glass as half full. We're no longer captured."
The Intel woman's stomach growled, making her realize a very important truth. "We're also not getting any meals, irregularly or otherwise. And we're also still stranded on this planet. So, Sherlock, where is this an improvement?"
With a few keystrokes, Luke displayed something up on the screen. It was the skematics of the underground facility. "Because, my dear Watson," he retorted playfully, "no more than 500 meters away from us lies our ticket to freedom." With a few more keystrokes, a part of the map enlargend, showing a shuttle bay. His grin grew wide at her suprise.
"The gods of luck just never quit, do they," Lea said, suddenly excited. Almost as suddenly, concern grew. **This is too much of a coincidence... we break free, and the first place we come to happens to have a way off the planet?**
Almost as if reading her mind, Luke eased her concerns. "Luck doesn't have much to do with it. I've been down here for quite some time, and I've heard the guards talk... from what they said over the years, I figured this would be here."
She smiled. "And here, I thought it was just a coincidence."
He laughed. "Come on. Go get the shuttle ready. I'll see if I can't scrounge up some food."
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=/\= YET ANOTHER POST BY =/\=
Christopher B. Del Gesso
{christopher.delgesso@us.army.mil}
POSTING AS
Lt(Jg) Rawyvin Seth
Cheif of Security/Tactical Officer
USS ANUBIS, NCC-18501
AND ON OCCASSION
Luke "Loki" Onison
Terrorist/Criminal Mastermind
Mordsythe - Freelance Agent
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