Incoming (part 3)
Posted on Sat Mar 28th, 2015 @ 6:38am by Commodore Samantha York & Lieutenant JG Talia "Phoenix" Richards & Lieutenant Yui Hirasawa & Lieutenant Ilse Frost & Lieutenant Roberta Andrews & 1st Lieutenant Leroy Mangalia & Commander Hans Munich & Ensign Wilfred (Wedge) Miles & Ensign Boregard (Bojay) McKay
Edited on on Sat Mar 28th, 2015 @ 6:53am
1,086 words; about a 5 minute read
Mission: Deadly Diplomacy
[CONTINUED]
[OLD]
"Three down, two to go," Phoenix announced gleefully. "Good job, guys."
One of the remaining two fighters had broken off and was on her tail. Her computer notified her that it was trying to get a weapons lock. She lined up her aft torpedo launcher and shot two missiles at it, turning sharply and hitting her thrusters to get out of the way of the ship as the two missiles hit their target. "Don't let the last one get away," she ordered the other two.
[NEW]
Wedge had a probable angle of attack, he arced the fighter in that direction, his concentration focused on the targeting system as he had the eight o'clock high position, the rear port dorsal view of the fighter as he pinwheel into a killing angle as his tone of lock sounded while he pressed the button.
Bojay saw an open belly of the beast coming up from the front under the starboard wing; his targeting sights were just closing on the enemy ship; the tone sounded as he fired.
The fighter exploded in unusual brilliance.
Got'em" Bojay sounded loudly flying under the cloud of destruction.
"Another Wedge kill!" Wedge announced as he passed over the cloud.
"That was mine!" The two said in unison while scissoring back intro a formation.
"Good job, whichever of you got him," Phoenix said, chuckling.
"Base, we're going after the mother ship," Phoenix said to Mangalia. "If we move now, we have a chance of catching it before it jumps to warp."
"Your on point Phoenix, me and Bravo will wolf pack from the front." Slapping the launch alarm he ran from ops and ran to his fighter. Keying in, he was a second or two behind the rest of Bravo as he punched out at full throttle. He'd hear about it later but that would come when it came.
[10-Forward]
Frost grabbed a tray with some food on it and found a quiet corner to sit in where she could look out the view port at what occurred there.
[Fighters]
"Got it, boss." Phoenix headed for the far side of the moon so she could hopefully catch the ship by surprise. She hoped the ship waited for someone to follow the ion trail, so she was going to take another course. "Wedge, Bojay, you ready?"
Bravo streaked up to the opposite side of the moon than that of Alpha. "Eyes peeled. Keep her from going to warp and everyone come home safe."
"Roger that." Wedge fell into formation to the five o'clock position of the lead.
"That sounds like a plan." Bojay took the eight o'clock position from the lead fighter in the formation.
[Bridge]
Samantha listened quietly to the chatter between the fighters, until the mention of the larger ship. "Andrews, Brown, find out what you can about that ship."
Andrews looked over her panel. "Roger, scanning now.."
Sam ran a hand through her hair and looked to Munich. "See if you can find and decrypt their comm signal."
"I am on it." Munich said as he went to the Comm console ad began working his magic. "The wavelengths of the signal vary with the encryption; finding da wave vill take only a moment." He told the Commanding Officer. "Cross referncing the background noise and filtering it ut will get ridof their cover." Munich talked his way through.
"Captain, you have a priority one message."
Sam looked up, surprised. "I'll take it in my ready room. Munich, you have the bridge," she said as she went to take the call.
[Lounge]
As Frost watched the fighters fly around. She picked up her spoon and scooped up a pea and leaned it over the curve of her fork and launched the pea until it hit the view port. She took the next one and aimed once more and smacked her hand on the table to launch the pea it hit the view port but it was off target. She set the spoon up again and added a pea and readied it to launch. Her hand landed hard and the pea spun in the air and headed towards the view port.
[Fighters]
Phoenix flew just above the exosphere as she rounded the back side of the planet. A ship that looked like a modified freighter loomed on the edge of the horizon. It, too, hung low, using the atmosphere to help protect it from scans. She took several readings and sent them to Mangalia and the Calypso. "This puppy is armed to the teeth. How close are you, boss?"
[Bridge]
Yui was sitting at the helm as the Calypso orbited the planet. Suddenely the helm began to beep loudly as a warning flashed up on her screen.
"What the..." she said. The power levels in the helm console was increasing and the capacitors were starting to overload.
She jumped out of her chair as the helm console overloaded and exploded. However Yui didn't quite clear it, high voltage electricity hit her throwing her across the bridge. Her head hit the bottom of the wall knocking her unconcious. The helm console sat there in pieces, a small fire now happily chattering away where Yui;s fingers had been only moments earlier.
"Bridge to Doctor Frost, emergency on the bridge." The ensign said as she tended to Yui.
Munich used the OPS console to gain access to the Computer Linkage. The powers granted him as acting Executive Officer allowed him to switch the Helm controls remotely to the OPS station. WHile he was not a Helmsman he could compensate for the drift as the ship was angling out of orbital status, to an observer it resembled a sinking ship as the plane of the Orbit passed upward from the center line with the Calypso moving in the negitive Z azmuth.
"Come on you Svine of a Console..." His German accent coming out as Munich fought the 'manual overrides to get the ship to rise back to the Orbital altitude. "Ve are getting back into Orbit..." He told as he steadied the ship. "Cold someVone get a Helm replacement as Communications iz not da best to be doing dis."
(To be continued...)
Lieutenant JG Talia "Phoenix" Richards
Fighter Pilot
Ensign Wilfred "Wedge" Miles
Fighter Pilot
Ensign Boregard "BoJay" McKay
Fighter Pilot
Master Sergeant Leroy Mangalia
Flight Leader
Commodore Samantha York
Commanding Officer
Lieutenant Roberta Andrews
Chief Science Officer
Lieutenant Hans Munich
Chief Communications Officer
Lieutenant Ilse Frost
Chief Medical Officer
Lieutenant Yui Hirasawa
Chief Flight Control Officer
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