Everyone and No One (part 2)

Posted on Mon Jan 11th, 2016 @ 2:21pm by Lieutenant JG Ronnie Wolfe & Lieutenant Commander Jennifer Tate & Lieutenant Commander Damion Wolfe & Ensign Tallas Shirol

991 words; about a 5 minute read

Mission: Of Gods and Men
Location: Lancaster's Quarters

[CONTINUED]

[OLD]

"My fear makes me human. Overcoming my fear makes me stronger," Ronnie said. She found a solid object and grabbed it with one hand and waited for the person to show himself again.

[NEW]



Damion rushed down the corridor. "Blue! Give me something." He said as he approached the door.

"Umm... room temperature is altered. Same as in Lieutenant Commander Tate's. But... I am only getting one life sign." Tallas replied confused.

"What?" Damion whispered softly. "One life sign?"

"Wolfe. Wolfe. Wolfe. It's a Copperfield!" Tallas shouted from the combadge.

"Whose coping a feel?" Damion question.

Tallas let out a frustrated groan and responded. "No. Not Cop a Feel. Copperfield. As in the magician."

"Blue? Are you saying an old Earth Magician is doing this?"

"No?! Smoke and mirrors, Wolfe. Holograms." Tallas clarified.

"Of course." Damion responded, running his hand through his hair. "This person used the computer system to do everything. Get around. Alter room temperatures. Site to site. Why wouldn't they resort to holograms at one point. They must know we are onto them."

Tallas tapped frantically on her console. "What do we do, Wolfe?"

Damion stopped at the door and took a minute to think. "Can you find a way into the program?"

"I don't know. Maybe?" Tallas replied softly.

"Blue! There is no maybe, here. Either you can or you can't. I need to know!" Damion shouted.

"Yes! I- I- I- can." She responded nervously. "I can stop it and-"

"No. Don't stop it, Shirol. I need you to trace it. All the programs have to have an origin. An identifying code. A source code, Right?"

"Yeah."

"Then find it. Trace it back to its source. I need you to use your skills to find who is doing this and cut them off. Trap them. Cut off their only way of escape. Box them in, Blue. I know you can do this." Damion said softly into the combadge as he placed his hand on Ronnie's door. He closed his eyes and tried to reach her telepathically. "I'm here, Ronnie. I'm outside. Listen to me. It's not real. It's a hologram. A program. They have to be using a portable holo-emitter."

"A what?" It was a hologram? "It's changing form. First a female, then Stryfe, then you. It wants me to be afraid." But knowing Damion was just outside gave her more confidence. "Fear is the mind killer," she said to the hologram.

"Precisely!" The hologram hissed with a hint of excitement.

"But the answer is not removing fear. It is overcoming it," she insisted. "You want power by causing fear."

"Like you said Lancaster, fear is the mind killer. Conquest over the mind is the ultimate power. Your bond makes you weak, he makes you weak Ronnie. You are capable of so much more." The voice replied.

"No. My bond makes me stronger. Damion and I are stronger together," she insisted. "Damion, I'm glad you're here."

"We'll see." The figure said stepping out once again in the form of Damion. "Night night, lieutenant. Don't let the bed bugs bite!" He said sharply pushing Ronnie onto her bed. The moment she hit the bed, she would feel the sensations of many little legs crawling along her skin. The figure of Damion disappeared into the darkness, laughing sinisterly at Lancaster.

She felt the small creatures crawl across her body and cried out. Then she hopped off the bed to see what was crawling over her. Dung beetles. Hundreds of dung beetles.

Damion clenched his fists as he felt the fear and heard her cries from inside the room. He closed his eyes and tried to work his way through his anger, but he felt it getting stronger and stronger. "Tallas... do whatever you can to keep that thing inside the room."

"I'll try, Wolfe." Tallas replied nervously as she tapped her fingers frantically on her console in her office.

He took another deep breath and opened his eyes. "Can you get me in there?"

"Yes."

"Open... the... door." Damion replied as he cringed his teeth trying to hold back his fury. As the doors slid opened, the light from the hallway illuminated him from behind, covering him in an aura of light as the rest of him seemed to be hidden in a dark silhouette. "Games over." He said in a deep and firm voice as he stepped in. The dung beetles vanished from Ronnie as the doors closed behind Damion. "Well aren't you a handsome devil." He said softly with a bit of an evil smile as he looked to the hologram. He still held the handle of his retractable blade in his hand, gripping it firmly.

Ronnie brushed off the last of the dung beetles and ran over to Damion, feeling much better now that he was here. She wanted to hug him, to be held by him, but the hologram was still in the room, so she settled on giving his free arm a quick hug.

"It's in the corner," she said, indicating the shadow where the hologram was hiding.

"Small words of an insecure mind." The hologram replied, not emerging for it's shadow.

"Says the person hiding behind a hologram." Damion said softly as he took a step forward. "What's wrong. Afraid to do your own dirty work or does the fact that you still have to deal with a conscience still bother you." His tone changed quickly to a darker one as he stopped, staring coldly toward the hologram. "Some people just... can't... handle.. it."

The hologram simply snickered. "Perhaps it is your helplessness that drives me, Lieutenant. I've already killed one of your friends, what's one more?"

(To be continued...)

Lieutenant Ronnie Lancaster
Assistant Chief Science Officer

Lieutenant Damion Wolfe
Chief Security/Tactical Officer

Ensign Tallas Shirol
Security Offcer

Evil Hologram
NPCd by Jennifer Tate

 

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