Ambush! (Part 2)

Posted on Sun Dec 17th, 2023 @ 5:58pm by Commander Patricia Cooke & Lieutenant Charlotte E. "Charlie" Yeager & I-400 & Boso Gane & Oko Gane & Lieutenant Commander Tsukasa Izumi & Lieutenant Commander Drauc ie-Jia'anKahr & Lieutenant Commander Lahki Bakshi Dr & Major Achilles Aurelius & Lieutenant Akira Kogami & Lieutenant JG Eradaar Ezazzan & Lieutenant JG Danielle Sidney
Edited on on Sun Dec 17th, 2023 @ 5:59pm

1,842 words; about a 9 minute read

Mission: From the Inside
Timeline: After 'Ambush! (Part 1)'

Previously, on Star Trek: Missouri:

Eradaar stepped forward another talon, her tail behind her thrashed briefly before going deathly still. Her eyes were focused on the Hebitian, but her peripheral was open to surprises. She gently lowered her phaser a bit. "I need to help him," she emphasized, hinting toward the Ferengi who most likely was near death by now.

"When your captain allows us to take possession of our legally-obtained Dilithium, you may pass." The Hebitian responded.

"Can't let that happen:" Patricia said. "Not until we know what you plan to do with it."

"Oh, I'm so glad you asked, because I wanted to take the next five minutes to monologue about my evil plan:" I-400 said.

And now, the continuation:

The words had hardly left I-400's mechanical mouth when shots suddenly erupted from behind the away team: Several armed mechanical women, imperfect copies of I-400, opened fire on the Federation intruders:

It was an ambush!

"Shit, get down!" Akira shouted, quickly pulling Akira behind some crates.

The Gorn roared. Not a hiss, not a warning, but a complete and primal roar. A phaser shot had struck her on her shoulder, but it had done little in her state of mind in response to the shock and pain than to absolutely enrage her. Some part of her mind kept a handle on losing it all. She maintained her aim at the Hebitian across from her and fired - set to stun. Everyone was now considered an enemy to her presently that didn't wear a uniform.

After she fired her phaser, she turned on her claws to face those behind her. Part of her shoulder was burnt from the phaser strike and smouldering.

"Captain!" she shouted as she started to bring her phaser to bear again. "Ambush!"

"No shit, Lieutenant!" Patricia responded, having already spun around and begun returning fire.

Seeing the impossibility of their situation, Eradaar glanced black and saw with her side-eye that the Hebitian had been hit and was down. To her front was the real trouble, however, and she stowed her gear on her belt before leaping forward and in two strides made contact with the nearest imperfect I-400 copy. Blows began to be traded as Gorn met wits with machine, fists and teeth and claws being utilized to rip and tear metal as the machine fought back viciously.

Lahki fired immediately, then moved into action. "Eradaar, you're hit...when you can, get over here," she said, yelling from down the corridor, as she moved down the hall, firing at drones and anything that wasn't obviously Starfleet in her path. She hated this, but she HAD volunteered.

"Aye, Doctor!" Eradaar said, but as she did she lifted up the impossibly heavy frame of the disfigured I-400 and used her strength to rip it in half. Sprays of oil and fluid gushed out as the screams from the battered and brutalized frame died down. She grunted as she threw the two halves down, sizzling and burning. She was no longer herself.

Lahki fought an urge to puke as the lizard person broke the Borg literally in half. Not that Lahki didn't understand, but she wasn't keen on violence-she fixed people, she didn't break them.

Another blast of phaser fire struck her tail, causing her to scream in agony. The pain was unbearable as she saw the latter end of it sizzle like it was quickly being dissolved. She ignored it, her rage too focused and apparent, and the situation too dangerous, for her to fail now. Gorn blood flowed from her initial shoulder wound as more added to it from her tail. The nearest I-400 mockup was her next target, the one that had shot her tail, and she rushed against it with a roar of fury.

This one didn't take as long to subdue, perhaps to how fast the Eradaar had accosted her. The Gorn grabbed her phaser and the arm that held it and ripped it from the robotic socket. She then violently threw this arm at the nearest I-400 to the Captain to defend her, then ripped out the second with little to no mercy in her actions. She then began to proceed to beat the chassis with it as the disfigured model screamed for mercy and whatever forsaken gods allowed its existence.

"Today would be nice, Lieutenant!" Akira shouted as her team attempted to provide Eradaar with some cover fire so she could get safely get over to Lahki. "We're losing ground, and fast!"

Lahki aimed over Eradaar and fired, hoping to assist the others as Eradaar got closer. Lahki could work if she could just get. a little. closer. Lahki moved forward, duck-walking to avoid being hit, and drove a hypospray into the other's backside. "That'll help the pain for now, until I can get a better look," she said.

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[USS Missouri, Engineering]

Lieutenant Commander Drauc ie-Jia'anKahr was at the main engineering panel, he was eavesdropping on the away team with the modifications he made to the sensor array. While he may not be able to "hear" the conversations he could place individuals' The sensors detected phaser fire. Drauc hit his combadge =/\=Drauc to the bridge. Are you detecting the phaser fire the away team seems to be in? Definitely a crossfire situation. I have notified transporter chief to be on standby for emergency transport.=/\=

On the bridge Tsukasa tapped her comm badge in response. "We are yes," she replied. "Get a lock on the away team." She ordered softly.

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[Mining Facility]

As the phaser fire broke out, Klawe staggered to his feet, taking cover with his guard.

"Shoot them!" He ordered.

"Which ones, sir?" The guard asked.

"ALL OF THEM!" Klawe snarled.

As the firefight raged, Patricia and the rest of the away team suddenly found themselves under fire from Klawe's men, shooting indiscriminately at them and at I-400.

"Oh, for fuck's sake!" Patricia cursed when she realized what was happening, turning to Eradaar. "Well, Doc; looks like that Ferengi you were trying to help has just turned his cronies on us!"

"Doctor?! I'm the Chief Counselor!" Eradaar corrected as she turned to see where the Commander was mentioning. She cursed in native Gorn at the sight of the Ferengi's group betraying them.

Lahki shook her head. "Get behind me!" She yelled.

Grabbing the dead remains of the I-400 she had just finished, the Gorn continued to exhibit her alien strength as she lofted it and threw it at the nearest machine. It would stagger it enough for the Eradaar gab its head and rip it off, utilizing the decapitated mechanism to throw it at the nearest biological enemy. A satisfying "OOF" was the result, which pleased her, before she locked eyes with the Ferengi.

It was a menacing, predatory glare. The oil and fluids from her mechanical kills dripped from her snout as she continued the stare for a few seconds, then she bolted to her left to duck a phaser shot, rolling, then bringing her phaser up to aim and fire at the Ferengi - set to stun.

"Gee, I'd hate to be one of her patients..." Akira muttered nervously.

Eradaar finally managed a clearing as she rushed over to Lieutenant Kogami. The Gorn was practically smoking. Several parts of her uniform were missing, cuts and scrapes that were bleeding were all over her body, and she had three direct phaser strikes; one to her shoulder, one behind on the left side of her back nearest her left shoulder, and one on her tail - the tail looking the most severe as part of it was missing.

As she sought cover behind a bulkhead nearest the Chief Security Officer, the Gorn went to a knee and her expression dimmed briefly. All the fatigue, all the pain, all the hurt suddenly catching up with the Gorn as her natural flow of adrenaline ebbed to a point that almost completed weakened her. She grasped the wall, her claws scraping against it, and she fought the urge to pass out. She had lost a lot of blood. After a moments respite, she managed to raise her head up to look at Akira.

"I've never been this angry before," she revealed in a moment of vulnerability. "It just happened ... just happened."

A moments pause as she caught her breath, then the moment of weakness abated. Her eyes shot open, reptilian pupils dialating into slits as she looked around sharply. "The Captain!" she shouted in alarm, "where is the Captain? We need to get her to safety!"

Lahki moved. "NO. You need to come with me. You're no use to anyone hurt. Or dead," the Doctor said.

The Gorn glared daggers - or perhaps, claws - at Lahki. After a brief moment of weakness, she relented. Using the remainder of her strength, she followed the Doctor.


"Thank you. I realize I am asking you to step away from a fight for a moment," she said, quietly, taking the Gorn to a corner. After a scan, Lahki shook her head. "I can't help much until we're back on the ship, but I can give you something for the pain and the swelling," she said. She extended another hypospray. "I'd feel better if you agreed to beam out of here, though," she said. "We know you can fight, we've seen it. You don't need to prove yourself," she said. After administering the hypospray into the Gorn's arm, Lahki touched it gently, like she'd done for her own children when they were small. "Ok, you should be able to hold them down, but try not to physically exert yourself anymore," she said. "Let's go," she said, turning around, and taking a firing stance again.

Patricia had managed to corner the main I-400 unit.

"Oh, uh, the Dilithium's getting away!" I-400 quickly pointed out.

"And you're not going anywhere!" Patricia said, shoving her phaser rifle into I-400's mechanical face.

"Of course not, I'm... Already there." I-400 taunted. "You'll catch on... Once you catch your breath..."

Patricia then shot the main I-400, disabling the unit, but not the rest of the I-400 drones.

"Cooke to away team:" She said, beginning to make her way back to the beam-in point. "I-400 might be plotting to depressurize the-!"

Patricia rounded the corner and she trailed off by what she saw, or rather, where she found herself, next...


A mission post by

Commander Patricia Cooke
Commanding Officer

Lieutenant Commander Tsukasa Izumi
Executive Officer

LCommander Lahki Bakshi-Williams
Chief Medical Officer

Lt. JG Eradaar Ezazzan
Chief Counselor
USS Missouri

Lieutenant Akira Kogami
Chief Security Officer
USS Missouri (NCC-78316)

Major Achilles Aurelius
Marine Commanding Officer

Lieutenant Commander Drauc ie-Jia'anKahr
Chief Engineer

Lieutenant Charlotte E. "Charlie" Yeager
Assistant Chief Flight Control Officer

Lieutenant JG Danielle Sidney
Assistant Chief Intelligence Officer

I-400
Antagonist

Boso Gane
Supporting Antagonist

Oko Gane
Supporting Antagonist

 

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