Following the Trail (part 1)

Posted on Wed Apr 16th, 2014 @ 12:51pm by Ensign Maria Delgado & Commander Alexandra Vance & Commander Hans Munich & Lieutenant Ilse Frost & Lieutenant Commander Damion Wolfe & Lieutenant Roberta Andrews & Ensign Kela Sirel

1,051 words; about a 5 minute read

Mission: Revenge
Location: Calypso
Timeline: After "Looking for the Lost"

ON

Maria walked onto the bridge to take a turn at the science station. The first person she noticed when she stepped off the turbolift was Hans, which made her smile.

She replaced Ensign Matilda and logged in, running a quick scan to see if there was anything in particular she needed to report, or pay attention to.

When she was satisfied, she turned to Munich. "Anything you need from me, sir?"

Munich turned to see Maria was safe, she had not been taken with the rest and he realized that he could have said a few things. He tried not to smile as he was on the bridge but able to hide the relief on his face for those that knew anything of him.

"Three sixty degree scans for anything out of the ordinary that could hint where a ship could have hid?" He suggested.

Maria nodded, looking down at her station so her hair covered the smile on her face. She ran a full sensor sweep, collating the data.

When she was done, she looked up. "No place to hide, sir, but there are tetrion emissions that indicate a cloaked ship was nearby."

"Could you scan the emission field size and give it to tactical, maybe they can guess some classes we might have to face?"

"Porsupuesto," she replied in Spanish.

She gathered the data and sent it on its way, then turned to the officer at Tactical. "All yours."

Kela tapped at the tactical console rapidly. It was almost like playing on her piano, each key gave off its own little note. It made he smile a bit inside as the sequence finished. "Fils de pute! (Son of a Bitch!)" She yelled out in a seemingly flawless french accent. She took a moment to gain her composure before speaking again, this time the accent was no where to be seen. "I have several classes from several species that use the same emission. Science is going to need to give me more if you want something more accurate."

Maria raised an eyebrow. "Okay. Let me see what I can find." She ran the emissions through the computer. "Um, Ma'am ... it's a Starship. Excelsior Class."

Kela looked over to Maria from her console and replied. "That's not surprising. A Excelsior Class isn't all that common for private use. Those ships have been bought and sold since most of them were decommissioned, but one with a cloaking device might be letting off more then just a warp trail." She began to tap at the console, looking back down toward it as she continued. "Different types of cloaking device's give off different types of fields. I can probably use the sensors to detect which of those fields are strongest and, chances are, those are our bad guys."

"Great," Maria said. "You're welcome to use science." Anything they could do to find the ship would be great. She gave the tactical officer access to the sensors and began a search of the database for different types of cloaking devices.

{Andrews' Quarters}

The twins Olivia and Oliver had made themselves comfortable in their new quarters, but like most children, they were curious and wanted to explore. After walking through various corridors(everyone was in a hurry - once or twice they were stared at, but no one seemed to pay them any mind) they had accumulated com badges, which they had found 'lying on the floor,' in various places. Taking them back to their cabin, they decided to 'have some fun,' so they pinned on a couple and patted them."Oliver to Bridge," the young lad said, "Olivia to Science," the young girl said.

As Maria was manning the science station on the bridge, the computer sent the communication to science to her station. "Delgado here," she said.

Oliver looked at Olivia.."Nowwww you've done it!" Olivia yelled at him.

The voice was not one that sounded right, the years spent with Subspace Relays and listening to things had tuned Munich's ear well. "Master Oliver..." He hoped he was right as the voice sounded young. "What is the rule about Children hailing the Bridge?"

Oliver hung his head.."I'm sorry," He pouted. "Where's Dad?" Olivia piped up

"We're trying to figure that out," Maria replied gently. "A number of people are missing. We think another ship took them away. But don't worry, we'll find them." Her tone was gentle and reassuring. The last thing she wanted was to cause these poor kids any further worry.

Oliver looked at Olivia. " Miss Delgado, Mam? What should we do with all these badges?" He asked..

"Bring them to the bridge. Give them to Lieutenant Munich so he an see if there's any way to use them to find your father," Maria said.

Oliver's face brightened.."THE BRIDGE?!?!?" He shouted. "Wow..we've *never* been up there..we're coming..." Olivia and Oliver gathered up the com badges in their hands and hurried towards a turbo lift. They stood on their toes to hit the 'call button,' for the lift, then got in. "BRIDGE!" Shouted Oliver..He then flashed a big grin. The lift came to a stop, and the doors opened. Oliver and Olivia craned their heads into the Bridge. "Wow!!" They shouted in unison. Oliver searched some faces. "Umm.. is there a 'Lieutenant Munich' here? We were told to bring these badges to him."

Munich turned to face the children, he saw a handful of Comm Badges and realized that he had a bad feeling. HE turned and ran a placement of the comm badges of those lost, and it was the forlorn conclusion.

"I am Munich." Munich stood from his OPS console and moved towards the children. "I will take care of them and thank you for finding them." He winked. "Might even cancel out the 'unauthorized use' of fleet communicators." He gave a slight grin and an idea struck him. "If these were left behind then they were not included in the Transporter..." He gave a wider smile. "Please take those to Ma.... Ensign Delgado in science for me please."

(To be continued...)

Ensign Maria Delgado
Science Officer

Lieutenant Hans Munich
Chief Operations Officer

Ensign Kela Sirel
Tactical Officer

Oliver and Olivia Andrews
Children

Commander Alexandra Vance
Executive Officer

 

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