Caught -- for real! (part 1)

Posted on Sun Jan 24th, 2016 @ 10:01am by Lieutenant JG Ronnie Wolfe & Lieutenant Mira Jayna & Lieutenant Commander Jennifer Tate & Ensign Tallas Shirol & Logan & Spock The Monkey
Edited on on Sun Jul 17th, 2016 @ 5:24am

1,109 words; about a 6 minute read

Mission: Of Gods and Men
Timeline: Immediately after Caught! (part 2)

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Jayna walked onto the Horus to be greeted by a happy Spock, who jumped onto her shoulder and hugged her around the neck. "I missed you, too," she said to the Capuchin. "Is Tallas still here?"

Spock nodded his head and pointed to the main computer room. "Thanks," she said, hugging Spock.

The two of them walked into the room where Tallas was still working on the computers.

"Hi," Jayna said. "We need to find out where the misdirect is so we can find out who is really behind the attacks. It's probably something that looks benign or you wouldn't have missed it."

"I wouldn't have missed it. I shouldn't have missed it." Tallas replied, taking a sip of her straw. "Is Wolfe angry? He's angry. He's definitely angry." She pouted as she crossed his arms over the console and placed her head down in her arms. "Grrrr! How could I have messed this up?!"

"Don't worry, Ensign Shirol. Nobody is perfect." Horus replied softly through the shuttles intercoms. "Logan and Jayna will often make similar mistakes. The important part is you learn from the mistakes. You shouldn't put yourself down so much over them"

"He's right," Jayna said. "Not even the Big Bad Wolfe is perfect." She looked up at Tallas. "Isn't he always angry?"

She walked over to her own station and activated one of her Maquis programs to look for any sort of unusual activity or any sort of dummy programs while she carefully backtracked Shirol's work. The other girl was good, Jayna had to admit that much. But even an expert could be fooled if someone knew what they were doing.

"You should do all the work. I'll just mess it up again." Shirol replied as she placed her Cafe-Pow on the counter and sighed softly. "Wolfe was counting on me and I blew it. I let him down. I let everyone down."

"No, you won't," Jayna assured her. "You did a great job. The person behind this deliberately framed Melanson. You had no way of knowing that. And the person has been hiding from everyone for months. He or she is very good."

Tallas placed the straw of her Cafe-Pow gently back on her lips as she let out a sigh of disappointment. She didn't like to let people down. She hated to fail. More so, she hated the idea of being bested at something she felt she was good at. "I guess." She replied softly.

It took two hours of careful sifting, but they finally found it. "Found it!" Jayna announced to Tallas. "Come here." She pointed out a tiny program embedded in the holomatrix. "That's what she's using. Everything points to Petty Officer Melanson. The data comes from her station. Yet, this program here is the real puppet master." She activated a sandbox program and carefully followed the strings, masking her trail through the air filtration system and the comm system.

She looked at Tallas. "No wonder you missed this. Anyone would have, if they weren't looking for it specifically."

"You didn't miss it." Tallas replied as she looked to the screen. She went through the data herself and saw what she did wrong.

"I didn't miss it because I was looking for a master program that was affecting the data. You didn't know there was such a program," Jayna again assured the girl. "Nobody knew there was such a program."

Jayna didn't dare use the comm system. "Logan, we found her. The real mole is Senior Chief Petty Officer Li Kara. She's currently in her quarters," she replied telepathically.

"Finally." Logan replied over the combadge. "Someone I can hit." He said with a slight laugh as he cleared his throat and continued. "I'll let Damion and Remy know whats going on. Good work, Kitten."

"You can thank me later, Tiger," she replied. It would be nice to get bak to something more akin to normal when this woman was finally caught. "Be careful. Just because she doesn't know you're coming doesn't mean she won't be prepared for you. She's dangerous."

There was a pause. "Better yet, I'll join you."

Jayna turned to Tallas. "You and Horus are in charge here. If Senior Chief Petty Officer Li Kara tries anything, shut her down."

"I'll do my best." Tallas said as she placed the Cafe-Pow back down and tapped onto the console. "A lot of good that will do." She mumbled softly.

"I will be here to assist you in any way I can, Ensign. We shall get this done, Jayna." Horus replied.

Jayna was heading for the enlisted quarters when she practically ran into Ronnie Lancaster. "Sorry," Jayna said.

"No problem. Is everything okay?"

"Fine. I'm in a bit of a hurry, if you don't mind," the Intel officer said.

Ronnie was not telepathic, but she had a good idea where Jayna was going, based on what Damion was working on. "You found her, didn't you? Can I come along?"

"No."

"Okay, then I'll just follow you," Ronnie said.

"Fine then, come along, but stay out of the way."

The two made their way to the door and rang the chime. "Land shark!" Jayna announced, not sure if anyone but her would recognize the reference to an old skit from an obscure Earth show called "Saturday Night Live!"

Li Kara looked curiously at her door wondering whom had come to see her. Visitors were infrequent to her quarters making this all the more curious. She set down the PADD she was working on and walked over to the door opening it to reveal a science officer and an intelligence officer. "Good evening ma'am." She said looking to each officer. "How can I help you?" Her thoughts did not give off any perception she was hiding anything or deceiving the two. Only of surprise of their visit.

"Could we talk to you for a minute?" Jayna asked. "About a problem in the shuttle bay."

"A problem?" Kara asked curiously wondering why an Intel officer and a science officer were asking her questions and not her own staff. "If you give me a moment to get my uniform on and grab my combadge I'll get my staff on it right away." she said moving away from her door to her bedroom.

(To be continued...)

Lieutenant JG Mira Jayna
Assistant Chief Intelligence Officer

Spock
Intelligence Officer

Ensign Tallas Shirol
Security Officer

Lieutenant JG Ronnie Lancaster
Assistant Chief Science Officer

Senior Chief Petty Officer Li Kira
Shuttle Bay Operations

 

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