"Luck's end"
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Stardate: 60298.1435
Setting: Unknown Planet, Comm Panel
Loki was furious. "You imbicil!" He hissed at Xan over the screen. His underling's image was staticy, but from what Loki could tell, Xan had suffered a few injuries. "You let Starfleet get away with the source?"
"I didn't realize she was Starfleet!" Xan protested. "I didn't put two and two togther until after they left. They're still around here somewhere."
"Damn you. You just cost me big, you know that?" He yelled, enraged. Abruptly, his demenor turned much cooler. "Make yourself scarce Xan. If I ever see you again, I will kill you myself." With that, he cut off the communications. He stared at the blank screen angrily for a minute, figuring out his next plan of attack. He had lost the opportunity to bring Summers and the source together, and use her skills to inturpuret the source, thus allowing him to work the stone.
The stone. It was no longer safe here. And he wasn't quite sure that it would be safe with him either. He pondered his options. At long last, he came to a conclusion. "Yes... it is the only way."
Up until now, he had losely used his cover story. It was time to resume his original identity. It was time to once again become Luke Onison. It was the only way to get access to the source. He rubbed his face, thinking. "I'll bring the girl back to Starfleet. They'll accept me, at least long enough for me to discover what is in the source. And then, I will hold the power." His face contored into a grin.
His reflection grinned back at him as Loki. Slowly and sutblely, his grin changed into a more pleasent smile, and his eyes became more commpassionate. A minute later, Luke Onison smiled back at him, ready as ever to decive.
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Stardate: 10298.1450
Setting: Tolar IV, Fools Gold
Xan looked stricken with Loki's reaction. He had never performed more incompitantly. He needed to escape. He know Starfleet was nearby, and the whole situation had quickly unraveled with the arrival of the many other parties. He had barely managed to escape the Cardassians when Enaii and her bodyguard had abandoned him. And now, he was not sure if he was going to escape at all. He started up his engines, and prepared to run.
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Stardate: 10298.1451
Setting: USS ANUBIS, Bridge
(Serena's stuff, altered)
"The armor is designed to deflect the majority of incoming fire away from the sensitive areas making disabling the ship very difficult but if we can manage to get the ship in this exact position we should be able to bypass the plating and knock out their primary power source." Rawyvin explained.
"Always wanted to see if this class of ships could pull something like this." Tam chuckled.
Serenna looked up from her consul. "I better speak to David and see if he can divert a little more power to the inertial dampeners before we get started, I just hope that Capt. Simmons has had the chance to speak to him about the time frame we are going to be working with."
(My stuff)
Rawyvin nodded. "Alright. Now, once we knock out their primary power, we'll have to take out their..." A beeping on his screen inturrupted him. He looked down, studying the display. His face fell. "Uh oh..." He turned to Serenna to report, but as he was getting ready to speak, he saw her facial expression. Apparently, the report had been sent to her as well. He shrugged, reporting anyway. "I guess the situation on Tolar is getting a little too hot for him, huh?"
Tam grinned at Rawyvin's little joke, but Serenna kept a straight face. "We cannot let him escape."
Seth raised his hand. "Just curious- how do you intend to pull off our little plan and stop him at the same time?"
Serenna glared at him before tapping her badge. "Bridge to ICG..."
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Stardate: 10298.1443
Setting: Unknown Planet, Shuttle Bay, inside unknown ship
(Tiffany's stuff, altered)
Luke came in to see Lea reaching for the self destruct control "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Luke almost screamed/whispered, paniced, causing Lea to jump and retract her arm.
"I was just trying to read these strange markings," Lea replied in a guilty tone.
"Reading is done using your eyes," Luke said, calming down a little, sliding into the pilot's seat of the shuttle. "What you were trying to do was something entirely different."
(My stuff)
She sat back, embarressed, quietly observing Luke work the controls of the ship. After a few moments, she obeserved outloud "You seem to know your way around with the ship..." Her tone was slow, and carried a trace of suspision.
Luke turned to her, raising his eyebrow. "Well, I hope I do... if not, we're not getting too far," he smiled.
This time, it didn't seem to work with her. His strange behavior had finally managed to make her wonder. "How do you know what you're doing?"
Luke looked surpirsed, and then looked away, turning red. "I... wasn't totally honest with you back in the cell." Summers stared at him, awaiting his explination. He sighed heavily. "I probably should have told you... I mean, you are in Intel and all, but I was just kinda hesitant..."
she raised her eyebrow. "What do you mean?"
He looked at her, embarressed. "I actually worked a little bit of Intel. When I was captured, my ship was trailing a suspected terrorist cell. They kept me alive all these years because they thought evenutally I'd break." He chuckled. "Funny enough, they stuck me down here, and forgot all about me, and I've been rotting here ever since."
She looked taken aback. "Oh... but... that doesn't explain..."
"This is all written in a made up language," he said, indicating the controls. "I studied this group as part of my assignment. I learned all about them and how they work. I know a lot about these guys, and learned a lot that is probably not even on file because of my capture."
"Made up language?" Lea asked, now feeling guilty for her suspisions.
"yeah. Kinda like Esperanto, only this is based on far more languages than just Terran, and it has it's own script." He hung his head. "I'm sorry for not telling you sooner."
"No, no..." she said quickly. "I'm sorry. It's just... so much of this escape seemed so... easy, and everything has been so hard... and..." She began to become emotional, without even knowing why.
Luke got up from his chair. "Whoa, it's ok. No harm no foul..." he crouched down next to her, placing his hands on hers.
She shook her head, trying to laugh it off. "You must think I'm silly."
"Not at all," Luke insisted. "Hey, we're almost out of here. It's alright. You can trust me."
She smiled at him, and then surprised the both of them- she hugged him. Luke froze in awkwardness for a second, and then put his arms around her, returning the hug. They didn't move or say anything for a minute, and then finally, Lea pulled away, bright red.
Luke simply smiled, somewhat embarressed himself. "Yeah... uh... well, anyway, you should brace yourself for the trip."
She cleared her throat. "Why is that?"
He returned to his seat, once again working at the controls. "Cause I have a very funny feeling that our luck is about to run out."
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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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