Posted by Lieutenant Commander Bethany Kovra Gadi (Chief of Security) in Nothing is Guaranteed

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Aasrel Izei (Chief Medical Officer) in Nothing is Guaranteed

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Bethany Kovra Gadi (Chief of Security) in Nothing is Guaranteed
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It took only moments for the tests to be run on the sample, especially when the alarm sounded on the tricorder. There were only a few things that set of such alarms: contagions (none detected), unknown matter present (none detected), toxins (none detected), foreign bodies (none detected), foreign organisms (none detected)… or illicit substances or other Security triggers (… … …). But to complicate things, the result that set off the alarm was locked and required Command Level Security Access to view. That meant one of three people: the CO… the XO… or the ship’s Chief of Security.

GM

Bethany sat up. She’d heard enough alarms in sickbay the last few weeks to know something was wrong. “What is it?”

Bethany

“Security alert, my credentials aren’t high enough to access the results of your blood tests.” Aasrel said, giving the PaDD a confused look. “Here. Do yours.” He said and handed her the PaDD.

~ Aasrel

Bethany sat all the way up. “What?” He didn’t need to be empathic to pick up the incredulous confusion in her voice. “You’ve done dozens of blood tests on me in the last months. You’ve never been locked out.” She took the PaDD and started to put in her clearance code and stopped. She had this gut feeling that once she did, she would be in a living nightmare that she would never wake up from.

T’Jal had always told her, ‘Your ignorance won’t protect you from reality.’ Better to know. She entered her access code…

Bethany

Ahe entered her code, and what was displayed made no sense.

The alarm was triggered by a centuries old alert designed to identify specific genetic sequencing models; specifically those in Human DNA. And while Bethany’s normal blood had been tested many times through the years of her career… the majority of blood inside her wasn’t her own. Hence the alarm when the tricorder, which as a mobile device that still had Federation data current to the moment the ship’s computer core was severed from the Fleet, made the connection and sent out the Priority alarm.

An alarm indicating sample that was tested was from an Augment.. Not a modern illegal genetic-manipulation… but a sequence specific to the program that Augments who nearly destroyed humanity and who ushered in a Second Dark Age on Earth.

Augments like Khan Noonien Singh.

Bethany was saved by perhaps one of the most dangerous and destructive enemies the Federation had ever known. A single Augment destroyed dozens of Federation starships. Destroyed entire planets. Killed millions of individuals across myriad civilizations.

And, as of a few minutes ago, was on board their ship.

GM

Bethany read over Aasrel’s shoulder. She didn’t know exactly what that meant for herself. What it had done to her, but she knew what she had to do. She cursed softly. “We have to tell the captain. We could get in a lot of trouble for this. Me especially, but we can’t not tell her.”

Bethany

Aasrel nodded. “I really don’t want you in trouble but we can’t not say anything.” He frowned to himself. “I should’ve had someone watching him. He’s probably gone by now.” He shook his head. “No wonder you healed like that. It’ll wear off as your own blood recovers, thankfully. But some.... Uhm, ally you have.”

~ Aasrel

Bethany couldn’t think about that now. It was too late to tell her people to lock the ship down. If the mysterious donor was worried about being caught he would have left already. If not, they were all in trouble. She couldn’t even begin to contemplate what the person’s motives were or why they would risk being discovered now. And for her. “We didn’t know, you just needed a blood match. If we hide it, we’ll be in more trouble. Not to mention the havok this person could cause if we don’t find them and make sure people are looking for them. We might lose our careers,” she shrugged. That was a small price to pay for doing the right thing.

=/\=Gadi to Kiernan. Captain I need to see you in the CMO’s office, right away. It’s urgent.=/\=

=/\=On my way.=/\= She responded.

“You’re office will be more secure.” Bethany got up and crossed sickbay and went into his office to sit down.

Gadi, COS

A few moments later the Captain walked in. Seeing Gadi, she sat down on the edge of the desk, looking down at the Security Chief. “So? What’s the emergency?” Sara had been tense since this assignment began and something about this situation promised not to help.

-CO