Reunited, part 1

Posted on Sun May 2nd, 2010 @ 1:24pm by Commodore Samantha York & Commander John Sheridan & Lieutenant Lorne Jaxara & Colonel Damon Raine & Lieutenant Kaj Mikkola & Lieutenant Commander Leanne Bowen & Major Leroy Mangalia & Lieutenant JG Erin Tal & Lieutenant JG Nava & Lieutenant JG Randall "Iceheart" McGraw

1,195 words; about a 6 minute read

Mission: What Lies Beneath?
Location: Tiberius IV/ USS Orion
Timeline: Current

ON

[Firefly]

Ensign McGraw just bit his lip as he listened to his orders, and realized that even though it might not be the greatest way to start his new posting as a Wing Commander, that orders were orders. He tossed his as yet unpacked duffel in his locker and headed down to the Shuttle Bay to prep the firefly for flight. He didn't really notice anyone as he made his way down, but just whistled absent-mindfully, and dove in on the pre flight checks.

'I could do this with my eyes closed,' he thought to himself, then sighed and went inside to start her up and head out. "Bridge, this is Ensign McGraw, requesting permission to launch per orders to pickup the away team."

[Bridge]

Suzette was again manning the comm. "This is the bridge. You have permission to launch when ready. Good luck."

Sheridan walked into the bridge reloading. He saw Suzette out of the corner of his eye.

"Report"

"The firefly is almost to the pod," Suzette replied. "Last message from the away team is that they were all back on the pod waiting fur transport."

Nava stepped onto the Bridge to watch the proceedings. She remained in an out of the way place that gave her full view of the Bridge.

"Outstanding, do we know the status of the team? Lets get medical ready, not sure if there's been injuries down there." Sheridan sat in the second chair.. "Engineering we need full auxiliary power if we can get it. If not I need a solution."

"Two injured," Suzette replied. "I don't know more than that."

"Bridge, this is Engineering. Sickbay is stable for now."

A Ghezun ran out from a turbolift. "Rascally Varmint!" Came the annoyed voice of Lorne Jaxara, as he chased it.

Firing a few phaser bolts at it, Lorne came running out of the other turbo-lift.

The Ghezun gracefully dodged all four phaser blasts, one of which caused the Ensign at Security and Tactical to pass out, stunned.

Theh Ghezun darted into an open Jefferies tube access door, and Lorne scrambled after it, firing his phaser a few more times.

Erin got off the councellers chair and dropped to her knees, making sure the stunned Ensign was unhurt from the tumble before shaking her head after the Ghezun, keeping the unconcious officer out of the busy path.

[Tiberius IV]

Everyone was back on the pod and the equipment stored, ready to return to the Orion.

The trip had been unusual -- for an away mission. For the Orion, it was yet another strange trip. Each of the three trips to planets had been eventful and unexpected.

Samantha did a quick check of her team, making sure everyone was accounted for. She stopped by Ewan for a moment. "Are you comfortable?" she asked.

Ewan grimaced slightly. "As alright as I bloody can be I suppose." As irritated as he was his brogue came out, thickening his words. I dinnae know why I volunteered to leave the Starbase and come here, mostly because I cannae remember. But I can say this, I swear someone should knock me on the head again if I ever willingly say I want tae come back." He smiled slightly as he said that last part and looked around.

"Doctor Bowen will take good care of you," Sam assured him. She nodded to the corpsman to come and make sure Ewan was okay.

They were all in their seats and strapped in when the message came that the firefly was ready to pick them up.

"Commander York, Ensign McGraw here with your ride home. Getting a little interference with the sensor telemetry, so I can't quite pin down your exact location. You are going to need to get me exact coordinates so I can come down as close as possible for pickup." Randy looked at his sensors, and once again cursed as the emblems jumped to yet another location 100 meters away.

Fortunately, Sam already had that information. She sent him the coordinates. "We'll send out a microwave burst for you to track."

Randy glanced at the coordinates, and programmed in a course that would set him down about 10 meters ahead of them. "Locked in on your position, Ma'am, and will be touching down in 30 seconds. Suggest you stick tight, and I will have you home before you know it."

He laughed just a bit as he finally had visual on the away team, and waited for the landing sequence to kick in. Once the ship was on the ground, he ran to the hatch as it opened. "Heard you had some wounded, need a hand?" Randy quickly stood as he left the ship and approached the away team.

Kaj was the first to shout, having had first-hand experience with this particular chunk of sand and rock.
"We're fine down here, get the hell off of this rock before we lose another firefly to the dust Ensign!"

Randy nodded, grabbed some gear off the ground and loaded it aboard before racing back out to make one last sweep. As soon as he was sure he had everyone, he popped the hatch controls, and raced up to the cockpit to get the firefly in the air. "Brace yourselves," he bellowed, "Cause this is GOING to be bumpy!" He raced his hands across the controls like a pair of well-trained thoroughbreds, launching and simultaneously side-slipping with millimeters to spare, as he attached to the pod.

He looked back into the transport, easing back on the amount of thrust and once he had the flight plan locked in, took a look to check on everyone in the back. Once he was sure that everyone was secure, he hustled back up into the cockpit, and contacted the Orion. "Orion, this is Ensign McGraw. Away team recovered, requesting an emergency beam out of one crewman to sickbay once I give the mark. Transporter room will need to lock on to the one human life sign that doesn't have a combadge."

The signal was beginning to break up. "Mc--aw, ---- is -rion. We'll --------- when ---- clear."

Randy was starting to sweat, hoping he was misreading the comm traffic. He boosted the gain, and tried to get the Orion to resend their traffic. "Orion this is Ensign McGraw, say again, there is heavy interference."

"McGraw, ---- Orion. We'll transport ---- you're clear. Acknowledge."

(To be continued...)

Ensign Randall McGraw
Wing Commander
USS Orion

Ensign Suzette de Fresa (NPC)
Science Officer
USS Orion

Lieutenant Commander John Sheridan
Executive Officer
USS Orion

Ensign Nava
Chief Counselor
USS Orion

Lieutenant Lorne Jaxara
Chief Security/Tactical Officer
USS Orion

Ensign Erin Tal
Chief Diplomatic Officer
USS Orion

Commander Samantha York
Commanding Officer
USS Orion

Ensign Ewan Fraser (NPC)
Pilot
USS Orion

Lieutenant JG Kaj Mikkola
Chief Flight Control Officer
USS Orion

Crewman Smith (NPC)
Medical Officer
USS Orion

Lieutenant JG Leanne Bowen
Chief Medical Officer
USS Orion

Lieutenant JG Lire (NPC)
Tactical Officer
USS Orion

Private Trent Kushner (NPC)
Marine
USS Orion

Sergeant Kara Melo (NPC)
Marine Scout
USS Orion

1st Lieutenant Leroy Mangalia
Marine XO
USS Orion

Marine Captain Damon Raine
Marine CO
USS Orion

 

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