You Did What? (part 2)

Posted on Thu Aug 13th, 2020 @ 10:45am by Lieutenant Commander Amber Quinn & Lieutenant JG Pippa Patterson & Lieutenant Remy Boudreau

1,039 words; about a 5 minute read

Mission: Caverns of the mind

[CONTINUED]

[OLD]

"I did, but she didn't," she said quietly. "We can talk about this later. I need to see what's going on with the man they brought out. What is his name?" She picked up a PADD. "Ah, yes. O'Brady." She touched his arm before turning to follow Boudreau. She was definitely looking forward to spending some time alone with Paris.

[NEW]

"To be fair, as long as you knew I wasn't serious, I could really care less what she thought." Paris replied, looking away slightly, before stepping away from the table to follow her. "Less having to do with you being the superior officer and more to do with... well... I am sure you know why your opinion matters more to me." He tucked his hands in his pockets as he stood there and watched her. "Just let me know when you want me to do... something."

She smiled at him. "You can let the captain know about Jansum and Nagano or you can prep another room for our wanderers." Later, she'd have a private word with him about his tendency to poke sleeping bears.

"Lucky me." Paris replied, a slight smile on his face, as he walked over to a console. "So... just to be clear. The idea of leaving them behind is off the table?" He looked over his shoulder and held his hands up before tapping the console again. "Just want to make sure."

"If the Doctor and Lt. Boudreau would accompany me I think we could have the two back in pretty short order?" Troilon requested. "The Doctor can make sure we keep them from harm and access the condition of the Boss and Azusa?"

"What about the guy you just brought in?" Amber asked. "Never mind. Just go. I don't want either of them to get hurt." She figured if there was something seriously wrong with the man, the doctor would stay. Amber could do basic triage.

"Sorry Commander." Troilon took a breath. "I am used to following the Boss." She admitted. "I was not thinking, whom would you assign ma'am?"

Amber sighed. "Lieutenant, I said take two people, I did not specify which two. I left that to your judgment." While Jansum was generally responsible for assigning his own team to away missions, Amber wasn't so sure she would recommend Troilon any time soon.

"Stick to the gut reaction, need the doc to evaluate our people and the Lieutenant Boudreau as he knows the caves as well as I do ma'am. Quick in and out."

'I'll go with. I'm an OK shot with a phaser.' Boudreau paused, 'Jansum was bitten or ... I don't know licked maybe by some kind of reptile in the caves. He became pretty aggressive pretty quickly after that ... like he was almost asserting dominance.'

Boudreau tapped the chest of his environment suit, 'I'd recommend we suit up as well. No telling what else on this planet can cause us to regress.'

"Okay. If you can find the lizard, bring it back," she said. "I agree about the suits. You're in charge, so I'll leave that to you."

He smiled tightly, 'if I can spot it, stun it, stow it, I'll bring it back for us, no problem.'

She chuckled. "Thanks. Good luck."

Troilon nod to her two partners it was time to go.

Nodding in response, Boudreau holstered the phaser he had retrieved and picked up a spare medical kit, 'just in case.'

Knowing that she wore only the mask and such Troilon nod. "I always listen to the experts and any protection against what happened to Boss is right in my book.

"Just give me a little 'ole moment to change and Ah will be ready to go." Nicoles said as she placed her Med kit and satchel aside to get into a suit.

Both women were back in relative short order, Troilon had her hand phaser and rifle slug when she arrived. Nicoles had the Belt Medkit and her satchel with tricorder and a phaser on her belt, but is looked awkward on her.

"If everyone is ready I think we should go get our people?" Troilon suggested.

'We're good to go,' confirmed Boudreau, 'it's your show Lieutenant Troilon, let's get it on the road.'

"I do not see our Engineer holding up should those neanderthals get... frisky, The Boss; Lt. Jansum I mean, might be getting a work out." Troilon said as she moved forward. "Let's go get them back before someone gets hurt?"

This time she was not stopping until she got to the caves.

Boudreau nodded at the XO and wheeled about on his heel to follow the Security officer, a determined set to his shoulders.

"Paris to Aurora. We have come into some issues down here. Jansum and Nagano have seemed to have wondered off. Our very honorable Orion escort has taken a team to retrieve them." There was a slight paused before adding. "Oh... and as a side note... we've managed to uncover a new friend. The away team brought him in. Once we have more information we will pass it along. Away team out."

Pippa felt a little out of place at this point. "I'll just...stay out of the way."

Amber turned to her. "I've got the name of the man you brought back, but I don't have enough of his history. You're welcome to see what you can find in the computer."

Pippa smiled. "I'll do that. Thanks." At least she was doing something productive. She had to admit, she didn't really like just sitting around.

Amber smiled at Pippa, then at Paris before going to check on the man they brought back.

Paris watched Amber walk off before turning to Pippa. "Let me... I mean us... know if you find anything interesting." He said before walking away, following Amber.

Pippa nodded, then headed for a terminal to see what she could find.

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Lieutenant Commander Amber Quinn
Executive Officer
USS Aurora

Lieutenant JG Paris Deville
Chief Flight Control Officer

Lieutenant JG Tistakee Troilon
Security Officer
USS Aurora

Lieutenant Remy Boudreau
Chief Science Officer
USS Aurora

Lieutenant JG Pippa Patterson
Operations Officer
USS Aurora

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