Princes of the Universe Begins

Posted on Sat Jul 18th, 2020 @ 1:42pm by Lieutenant Verdeath Newmark & Lieutenant Lei Shan

1,447 words; about a 7 minute read

Mission: Food for the Gods
Location: Holodeck.
Timeline: 3 days into return voyage evening.

ON:

Shan drummed her fingers on the top of the table. She'd left work early and had intended to go work out, but... She just didn't feel like it any more. The idea of going to gym- alone- just no longer appealed. Which was strange because usually a hard workout was her go-to when she wanted to blow off some steam.

Then again, sometimes a work out wasn't quite enough. Sometimes, you really had to have... an opponent...

She dashed into the bedroom and grabbed a trenchcoat from the closet, carefully arranging it and the concealed items in it around her body. She grabbed up her commbadge and was about to shove it into a pocket when she paused and tapped it instead.

"Shan to Doctor Newmark. You busy?" she asked.

Newmark had been doing more of his paperwork at home rather than at his office so he could occupy himself while Nhallia takes care of the baby and is not one to allow a Doctor trained person much access to their child. She felt she had to be the perfect mother and he was getting short tempered.

=^= Hello Shan, what can I do for you? =^= Newmark answered. =^= I am just going over paperwork, so not really busy. =^=

"Headed to the holodeck, thought I'd go hunting. Care to join me?" Shan asked as she strode out the door and down the corridor.

=^= SHould I break out the sword? =^= He asked as he was rising from his chair and heading to his side of the closet.

Shan grinned. "Of course. Unless you intend on giving up the title without a fight."

=^= You should be so lucky; who scouted you if I remember.=^= Newmark had his long coat and sword in hand, heading the door.

She laughed, a quick hard exhale as she rounded the corner/ "No one scouted me. I bullied you into letting me join, as I recall," she replied, closing the commlink with a tap of her fingers and tucking the badge into a pocket of her coat.

"Heading out Love." Newmark gave a cursory comment about leaving while doubting Nhallia noticed over cooing the baby.

Nhallia was pacing in the next room, patting Aurea's back to help relieve her gas. "Alright, Baba," she called, a little distracted as Aurea squirmed uncomfortably. Nhallia glanced out to the doorway in time to catch a glimpse of him and to see he was carrying some of his holodeck gear that he used in one of his sword-fighting programs. Her attention was quickly drawn back to fussy baby in her arms.

He could really use a good bit of sword play; get out some aggression, but not so much as to lose his head; in combat or in his style, and working with SHan would always add a new bit to an already aggressive situation.

Passing his badge into a pocket he was ready to have some fun. He made his way and entered the Holodeck.

"Okay Shan what we looking at as challenge?" He asked.

"I don't know- and don't care really. Just find me a fight," Shan said as they stepped inside together.

The door opened to a dark night in a city scape, the water on the ground from rain earlier in the simulated day. The alley the two stepped into was grimy, how the computer had so accuratly replicated the smells of an alley but could not get a decent synthale always eluded Newmark.

The lighting from the street lamps seemed to be greater than usual; giving adequate light to have been a filming crew and also to have the normal view as they moved. The doors of the arch closed and faded into the background of the longer part of the alley. Shan and Newmark stood at the end of the alley across the street from a park. The trees were sparsely together the boarder a brick retaining wall five feet hight ; wrot iron gating above, with a large entrance just ahead of them.

The simulated low hum of other Ageless advisories buzzed in their ears and a light stimulation to their bodies signaled the presence ahead in the park setting.

"Should we keep them waiting?" Newmark said drawing his Long Sabre with the cross wire basket type hilt to protect his hand as he glanced over. "United front for the initial round?"

Shan drew her own sword- a Chinese dao- from underneath her trenchcoat. She flexed her grip slightly; it felt good in her hand. She grinned. "Of course- after you, Dread Pirate Roberts."

Newmark moved into the park past the entrance as the buzzing in his head was getting stronger as he took care with his balance and stride. the fack the buzzing felt in both ears in uneven tone set the hair on his neck up.

"They are splitting up, flanking maneuver." Newmark supposed.

"Split up and go on the hunt, or select our ground and make them come to us?" Shan asked as she scanned the park for any signs of movement.

"United fronts back to back does have advantages." Newmark noted. "We can always break up if needed; yet, when have two of their side really worked well together? Most likely an alliance to take us out and then..." He shrugged.

Shan shot him a teasing grin. "Of course. Yes. Obviously, they'll turn on each other. Unlike us." Her smiled was totally innocent right before she turned to lead the way up a slight rise to more open ground.

"There can be two less..." Newmark said while following and watching their backs. "Open ground will make them come to us."

"And let us see them coming so they can't get the drop on us after they've confused us by circling and making us get our signals crossed. You know as well as I do that too many of us setting off the alarms gets baffling and you can't trace them."

"Once we have field of vision we can care less about where the impulses are; they must come to us." Newmark said.

She bared her teeth at him. "Well they better hurry up. I'm not waiting around all night."

"Be a virtuous woman... patience is a virtue in not losing your head." Newmark was sweeping the lower end of the clock giving Shan the top end.

"You know me better than that," Shan laughed. "Neither patient, nor virtuous."

Slowly a figure emerged at the eight o'clock position while the second man from the two o'clock. Newmark noticed a woman; nearly five foot ten and looking to be quite the Demure mixed with muscles. SHe had a long sword; the short cropped hair was Yellow and black; split her head in two at the hair line. It had to be some fashion fad. SHe wore a long coat over an A-shirt and leather pants woth full length leather boots hip high and seemed to squeak a bit as leather tends to do.

"I am the Pirate Roberts of the high seas and Master of the seven." Newmark said as a challenge.

"I am Yana of the Gypsies, princess of the Dance and taker of heads." The woman had the lingo and accent.

If Shan had been paying more attention to Yana, she would have missed the huge blond hulking figure that rushed out of the darkness at her back. However, she wasn't paying that much attention and she whirled back in more than enough time to get her sword up to block.

"Taking my head without even an introduction?" Shan taunted and she whirled away. "Chivalry really is dead."

The man facing her was just over six feet tall. His blond hair was shoulder-length. "From a bygone age, old lady. Just like you," he said. "But fine- you wanna know. James Heally. From Brooklyn."

Shan grinned. "Child. You have no idea. I am Chiu Jau, Empress of the Lost Empire. Today you meet your ancestors," she told him.


Yana was the one making noise and when the first echo of steel to steel from thir ally ; she took the lunge to try and get around Newmark. "He deflected the slightly larger blade aside and side-stepped. Letting the lunge and her balance continue before he took his swipe at her side as she jumped back and gave ground; blade centered again and ready.

"CHeap shots at a lady." SHe jeered.

"You are all talk." Newmark chuckled, ready for another trick. "Might we also ask how low the standards are for 'a lady' in his case?"

"You..." She growled and charged with Cross pattern slices meant to drive Newmark back; he stood ground and parried the more high energy consuming attacks.


TBC

 

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