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Star Trek Adventurer	By : Tcr Category: +S through Z > Star Trek: Online Views: 2690 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter 18: ...But I’ve Seen Him!
“What do you think, Erra?” Taka asked.
“About what?” her tone was acidic, though Taka could hear less of the anger in Erra than before.
“Him,” Taka answered, motioning towards the corpse they hadn’t taken their eyes off. Who else? What else?
“What do you mean, Takala?” Erra asked.
She sighed as she glanced at Erra. How could the Bajoran really not know what she meant by that? Was there anything else she could have meant? Taka returned her glance to the corpse and pursed her lips, remembering what she said - what she promised to Tanis only a few short hours before and not saying anything in irritation. Her antennae betrayed that feeling, though, as they twisted and folded over.
“Think he was native? Invader? Someone who just showed up after and got lost?” Taka asked.
Erra glanced at Taka. “Trying to start a random conversation, Taka?” She sighed and her gloved hand brushed through her brown stubble. “Maybe you want to talk about the weather? Or our hair?”
“If you want to,” Taka said with more than a little sarcasm in her tone. She pursed her lips again, mentally scolding herself for being dragged towards a fight. “Purple suits you, Erra. Dare I say better than your natural brown. As for the weather, it sucks out there.”
“Sucks in here, too.” The Bajoran sighed and pressed her lips together. Her brow furrowed. “Honestly, I don’t know. Judging from the uniform, I’d say it’s unlikely he was here for vacation, so if he was native, he was part of their military.” She looked at the couch behind them, eyes darting over Korolevna and Tanis. “What worries me is that he,” she motioned back at the corpse, “might have had something to do with this world being eradicated.” She returned her sights back to the body. “Gives me the creeps looking at him.”
“How so?”
“Reminds me of the Cardassians,” Erra said.
Taka looked at the body. She couldn’t see the resemblance, but that didn’t mean anything to her. Andorians hadn’t suffered under the oppression of the Cardassians for half a century, she didn’t have the same thoughts, even if Erra and the rest of the Bajorans serving Starfleet kept them hidden beneath their calm facade.
“Those neck ridges… They just remind me of the Cardies and their ridges,” Erra commented. “Even that cranial ridge look like the foreheads on…” Erra sighed.
Silence passed between them. Taka wanted to say something, wanted to say anything. Despite how much they had drifted apart, despite the hate that Erra still held towards her, Tanis had been right; they had been friends before. Some lingering sentiment of that friendship still tugged at her, regardless of how badly Erra had treated her in the last few years.
“What scares me more is the idea that the Borg are here,” Taka said. “We’re in their home territory, Voyager pushed through here and barely come out the other side. If it hadn’t been for the Undine threat at the time, the Borg would have assimilated them all.”
“Your grandfather was assimilated, wasn’t he?” Erra asked. Taka raised an eyebrow. “What are you surprised about, Taka? We were friends.”
“Didn’t think you’d remember me telling you anything,” Taka admitted. “We’ve hardly talked in the last year and you were more than pissed at me.”
Erra shrugged. “Being pissed at you to the point that I wanted you out of the Academy doesn’t necessitate forgetting everything you said.”
“To answer, yes, you’re right,” Taka said. “Engineer aboard the Enterprise-E in 2373. When the Borg took it over, he was one of the first taken by those bastards.” She looked at Erra, remembering Tanis’ words. She sighed. “You’re right.” Erra murmured something unintelligible. “You’re right, Erra, about the Kobayashi Maru.”
Erra cocked an eyebrow. “Now?”
“If I’d been facing the Borg, like you, we wouldn’t have lasted all that long,” Taka admitted. “And my choice to ram the ship wouldn’t have worked, it’s true. It’s been tried before.”
“The Melbourne at Wolf 359,” Erra nodded. She motioned to Tanis. “She talked to you, too, didn’t she?”
“Excuse me?”
“Tanis, she talked to you, too,” Erra repeated. She chuckled with a shake of her head. “That shouldn’t surprise me.”
“She wanted me to make peace with you, to, as the humans say, ‘bury the hatchet’,” Taka said.
“She actually believes that can happen?” Erra asked. She shook her head. “Tanis, ever the optimist.”
“She’s tired of being stuck between us.”
The realization of how Taka said it seemed to slam into Erra’s mind. The Bajoran woman had never thought about it like that, either, Taka realized, hadn’t realized her own complacency in making Tanis feel terrible. Erra’s eyes dropped and she nodded.
“Io will never be forgotten and I accept my responsibility, Erra,” Taka said. “I made the decision that left you scarred and in the Academy infirmary for six months making up your classes. I am the reason for that and I have to live with that knowledge. But Tanis is right, we need to stop this, for her sake. And I know you care about her.”
“As much as you do,” Erra admitted. She turned away from Taka as she did, shaking her head. She never should have admitted that, not to the woman Tanis had declared her love for.
“I know.” Lightning cut across the sky and illuminated parts of the room.
“Aw.. te..,” static distorted the voice coming from the four commbadges, but it was clear enough to distinguish Commander Watson’s voice from it. “Pl..se r..po..”
Taka offered a relieved grin towards Erra as she tapped her commbadge. Her antennae relaxed as she said, “Adventurer, good to hear your voice, what we can of it. Any way to boost the signal, we’re getting a lot of static here.” She stepped up to Captain Korolevna and patted her on the shoulder gently.
“Best .. … do,” Watson’s voice stated. “M’.kl.. d..e b.s. she c...d. P..ar.. .ons in...fer… wi.. comms, En..gn zh’..”
“Understood, Adventurer. Retrieval status?” Taka asked as Korolevna’s eyes opened. “Captain, Commander Watson’s managed to break through the interference. At least, somewhat.”
“Trans...te.. ...not ..ck on,” Watson stated.
“Commander, this is Captain Korolevna, try reconfiguring the alignment and narrowing the annular confinement beam using a skeletal lock,” the Captain said, rising from the couch.
“..Ma.ter …. W..n’t ...k, i..s too ..ncen..at.d.”
“What about the runabouts?” Erra asked.
“Good idea,” Taka agreed. “They could send down the Mississippi to our beam in co-ordinates, once they’re on final approach, we could haul ass back that way, get to the runabout and get out. It would take a bit of reconfiguring of shields and that, but I’m sure Ensign Hiland or M’Akl could do that while a pilot flies.”
“The only problem would be returning. Those polaric lightning bolts would wreak havoc on the runabout’s shields,” Erra stated. “Unless…” The Bajoran fell silent for a moment. “There’s an old trick I learned from my mother before I went to the Academy. Starfleet used it to great effect during the Dominion War, I’ve been told, but…” she trailed and stopped, looking between Korolevna, Taka, and Tanis. “I’m not sure anyone wants to stay here any longer than we have to.
“If the runabout runs through the nutations, much like we do with the Borg, on similar frequencies to the Dominion weapons, the polaric energy wouldn’t be able to pierce them and, in this case, could bleed it off into the atmosphere without any damage,” Erra stated. “I’ve been told that most Starfleet vessels used similar methods to counter the Dominion weapons and it worked to varying degrees.”
“Jem’Hadar weapons are polaron, not polaric,” Korolevna stated.
“I know. That’s why I said it might be able to bleed it off into the atmosphere without damage,” Erra repeated. “The polaric energy here is less concentrated. If it wasn’t, it would be just like that bomb that dropped. We wouldn’t be here.” She stopped for a moment. “Polaron and polaric energies are very similar, Captain.”
Korolevna looked at Taka.
“I agree with Erra, Captain,” Taka nodded. “It may not work, but this storm could be the start of it and I don’t want to be here if it gets worse.”
“And we have to report back to Admiral Banacek what’s been found here, sir,” Erra added.
Korolevna nodded. “Wake Ensign Lanul.” Taka nodded and patted Tanis on the shoulder. Korolevna tapped her commbadge. “Commander, what about sending the Mississippi through? If you have Ensign Hiland accompany Lieutenant Palmer and set the shields on a shield nutation of Jem’Hadar polaron weapons frequencies, we believe you’ll be able to make it through with little to no damage. Do you copy, Adventurer?”
“Ac….led…, Cap….,” Watson replied. “P...mer a.. ..land .. ...face, ...ation.. Shi… n..tat…, pol…. ..apons freq….ies.” Static ate away at the communications, but Korolevna understood enough to know he understood what she had said.
“Inform us when they’re on final approach, Commander,” Korolevna stated. “Away team out.” She glanced at the corpse lying on the ground. “We need to take that with us. The Adventurer’s computers could tell us who that was and whether they’re friend or foe. Zh’An, think you can carry him all that way?”
Taka moved to the body, kneeling down and lifting it onto her shoulders in a fireman’s carry. “He’s a bit heavy, but I should be able to do it, Captain.”
“Well, take a load off your feet, you’ll need all the strength you can get, Ensign,” Korolevna stated, motioning towards the couch. A crack of lightning struck the metal of a building across the street, shooting sparks every which way. “Hopefully Lieutenant Palmer can get down here quickly enough.”
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