"Just Another Nightmare"
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Stardate: 60298.1737
Setting: Oceanic World, inside the downed shuttle
Lea held the blanket against her body like a second skin. Yet the SFI Agent could not stop shivering, shaking so much that she could barely see. The inside of the shuttle was pitched black, the only light reaching them coming from the forward windows.
"So," Lea asked of Luke who had gone to look out of the windows, "how long before we freeze?" Luke scanned the dark water beyond the glass to see if maybe their rescue was at hand. As Loki he had hoped that maybe his own people would have picked up the distress signal. As Luke Onison though, he had hoped that a Federation ship or one of their allies would respond saving him from killing those incompetent idiots who had shot them down.
Luke had been ready to give Lea the bad news that their rescue seemed to not be coming anytime soon when a large shadow passed over the windows.
"What was that?" Lea asked. As faint as the light that reached them had been, its sudden disappearance had been impossible to miss. "Is it a ship? Are we being rescued?"
Luke did not reply right away. What he had seen had not made sense, so instead of answering without knowing, he searched for the cause of the shadow that had come and gone. "I'm not sure," Luke said after a little while, "I can't see anything."
The sound of something rubbing against the outside of the shuttle made Luke and Lea jump. Like a metallic mesh being used to peel the pain off the ship, the sound was deafening.
"We are getting rescued!" Lea said bouncing up to her feet, still holding on tightly to the blanket that had been around her. The SFI's joy was dampened when she saw the expression on Luke's face. A few seconds later the deafening sound was heard again, this time coming from the other side of the ship. "What are they trying to do?"
Luke stood in the middle of the small ship, looking around as if able to see beyond the walls of their sinking prison. Lea could not understand why he had not appeared more pleased at the sound of what she thought was their salvation.
"I don't think we are being rescued," Luke said.
"If whatever is out there trying to get a hold of us is not another ship, then what is it?"
"That!" Luke replied pointing to a huge serpent-like creature slithering past the forward windows.
"That thing is HUGE!"
"And my guess is that its also hungry," Luke said sighing with disbelief. "Its likely trying to figure out how to open the ship up to get the prizes that are inside."
"Great," Lea bitched, "just great. So instead of freezing to death we are going to end up as cold snacks for whatever that thing is out there."
The next attempt to crack the shuttle's shell sent Lea flying into the arms of Luke who just turned and smiled. As much as she enjoyed the gesture, Lea doubted that the man's optimism was going to be able to get them out of this predicament. It seemed that their final moments had finally come.
"What if we went back to the surface?" Lea asked.
"We don't have the power to push the water out of the cargo area," Luke answered. "If we could have, I would have gotten us back to the surface a while back."
"What about hand weapons?" The SFI Agent asked, feeling around the darkness in the hopes of finding some sort of phaser.
"Lea!"
"WHAT?"
"What exactly do you intend to do if you do find a weapon? If you fire it you will pierce the shuttle's hull and allow the water to come in." Luke pointed out, having taking Lea by the shoulders to stop her from doing something stupid. Onison could understand that she was scared, more like terrified, but they could not afford to become hysterical.
"So what do you suggest we do?"
Luke wrapped his muscular arms around Lea and pulled her in as close to him as he could. The sound of the serpent rubbing its scales against the shuttle filled the ship once again making Lea wrap her arms around Luke's body.
"We do the only thing we can," Luke said in a whispered voice, "We wait and hope."
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Tiffany Rose {lady_tiffany_rose@mail.com}
Ensign Lea Summers
Currently:
Undercover SFI Agent
Once assigned as:
Assistant Chief Medical Officer
USS ANUBIS
2005 post #019
