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A tall balding man carrying a bowler hat in his hand walked out from the Captain’s Ready Room. His hands were gesticulating wildly and the silver cylinder in his left hand was almost hypnotic in it’s motions. Finally he crouched a little and put on his best horror voice, hands to the heaven’s in mock supplication.

“You’re all doomed”.

“Like hell we are,” Past Ghubari remarked darkly.

It was at that point that he realised that there was a twins convention happening on the Athena’s bridge. He hesitated for a brief microsecond…

Gamemaster Conspiracy Theorist (GMT)

Two totally silent swift bolts of black lightning flew at the man, one high and one low…

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Current Ghubari fired her phaser at Pierce, hopefully sealing the deal as Past Ghubari reacted with anticipated speed and moved swiftly out of the way. Nico, now! the current version thought to her companion, hoping it wasn’t a grave mistake.

Fl. Captain Koraia, CO

NOW!

Echoed in Nico’s head from Night skin. Like a 16 kilogram coiled spring the Treecat sprang from the console just to Pierces left flank. Nico had a mission, his people’s needed him. Shadowbrother Hi, Shadowbrother low, Energy beam, only one place to go. Nico had been told to take the thingy away from Crazy eyes stupid hat. The easiest way wo disarm a being when you were equiped with needle like teeh, and six limbs of razor edged 3cm claws, was to be literal. Nico teeth went for the wrist. True hands grabbed the item. His hand paws on the mid limbs attempted to shred the forearm, and his hind quarters with its true paws and his sharpest claws attempted to debone and seperate the arm at the elbow. as in insult he knocked the hat off with his tail. also giving Shadowborther one or two access to the phaser he had belted on.

Nico the Tree Cat

The phaser burst hit a personal energy shield but the distraction had done it’s job. Nico was firmly fixed on Pierce’s arm and had the device held tightly. Pierce held on for grim death and that in the end was his undoing. He screamed in pain and despair as Stark’s claws ripped him through the hamstrings and his entrails at precisely the same moment. Unbelievably the man through sheer stubbornness would not let go of the device. He desperately tried to turn the servo to aim it at the vengeful Nico, with strength born of desperation it slowly started to turn.

Meanwhile on the main screen a blast of energy from the Counter Strike vessel ripped into their shields and the whole ship groaned in agony.

Gamemaster Conspiracy Theorist (GMT)

The weapons fire tore Past Ghubari’s attention and she moved over to her Captain’s chair, letting their ‘guests’ handle their intruder for a moment. It was more than mind-boggling, but at the moment, the other vessel was her priority. “Arm phasers and photon torpedoes, fire when ready.”

OOC: Luke, you can play your ‘Past Self’ here. As can anyone else who was on the bridge earlier.

R”han spun in his chair squinting at what had to be at least a dozen temporal paradoxes in the making. Although somehow he was more concerned that he wasn’t one of them. That could have meant he died in the previous time line… which would mean he would have to be extra focused not to die in the current one. “Aye.” He said with a slight tone of incredulity. He guessed his role was to pretend there wasn’t a mass of hand to hand combat occurring on the bridge as he was ordered to fire the phasers and photon torpedoes. “Firing.”

Fl. Captain Koraia, CO

Kaylee watched both what was going on with Pierce and also what was happening on the view screen. At this moment, she felt mostly helpless. Somehwere in this timeline, she was probably following a cat who would later turn into a woman.

Doing the only thing she could think of, she rushed over to Past Ghubari’s side, taking a seat next to her. “Captain, that man is a threat to our very existence,” She said. “He must be stopped.”

-Kaylee Baxter

“Oh, I’m well aware of that, Commander,” Past Ghubari said, her pale amber eyes fixed on the screen as weapons first from the Athena moved to strike their opponent. It seems people have it well under control.” She allowed her gaze to shift to Kaylee. “You’ll forgive me if I try not to wrap my brain around this too much at the moment. Since I’m clearly behind in all of this, I figured it best to focus on keeping the ship in one piece, while you lot save time… or whatever it is that the end result will be.” Was she weirded out by the fact that a version of herself was on the bridge? Most definitely. Not the craziest thing to ever happen to her, but it was vying for a top slot. “If you want to help me, tell me how to keep the Athena intact.”

Nico, also known amongst his people as Laughing Leaf, the Captain’s companion, and current combatant for the control of the wand thing with Crazy eyes stupid hat. Nightskin needed to have time to fight back. That was Nico’s job at the moment. It was instinctual, Nico somehow knew there could not be two Nico’s when this ended. There was still the other Nico far below him, coming to this point in time. The cat was an empathic creature that was Intune with the world around him. Few understood that could sense emotions, even fewer knew that he could communicate mind to mind. Pierce was truly out of his mind could sense the chaos that was his mind glow. It was angry, confused, and needed to lash out. It had a need to hurt and cause pain. As the wand turned towards Nico, Shadow brothers were tearing the flesh of the man, and still the man wished to cause the pain to Nico instead of surrender. So instead Nico surrendered to him. Turning the entire arm, letting the wand touch his face, at the same time it touched Pierce’s. With every ounce of Empathic power Nico had he reached out to the Chaos of Crazy Eyes stupid hat. Rubbing his soft furry chin against the man’s cheek, Nico gave a bone rattling purr, and poured love, safety and hope into Pierce. Making him comfortable with doing what it was to the both of them.

Nicodarius Laughing Leaf, Tree Cat, Captain’s Companion

There was surprise from both Ghubari’s at the treecat’s actions, of which both felt keenly. Of course, sometimes in a fight, stopping the fight was the only answer.

The surge of love unmanned Pierce in a way that nothing else could have. Years of temporal narcosis, stress and a nagging guilt complex were utterly consumed in that moment. Pierce’s hatred and anger had been the only thing keeping him alive and as the adrenalin surge was wiped, he simply… died.

Also In that moment the servo’s inbuilt security system kicked in and blasted Nico with a bolt of concentrated energy. Unfortunately Pierce and two Stark’s were attached at the time. All were blown in separate directions and lay still on the ground with the servo left spinning on the floor in the middle of it all… like a clock telling the time.

A second blast hit the ship and the servo skidded across the floor…

Gamemaster Conspiracy Theorist (GMT)

“We are overmatched Captain.” He looked at the sensors, “Minimal damage to the target. Firing again.” Well he wasn’t going to give up the ship without emptying his chambers.

Current Ghubari utilized all her physical training and the opportunity available to her to grab that servo. Keeping low, she dropped to a knee, grabbed the servo with her hand and rolled away, all the while aware of the fact that the ship was about to be destroyed if something couldn’t be done. One hand holding her phaser, there other holding the servo, she tapped her commbadge with her fist to activate their special communications channel. =/\=Koraia to Orvos. We have the servo. Tell me you have a way to keep this ship in one piece or else it’s going to be a bunch of pieces again.=/\=

Looking over to the side, Current Ghubari was focused. “Stark, either of you. Secure Pierce!” Then she looked to Kaylee. “Kaylee, catch! If he moves, stun him again,” she said, tossing her phaser very adeptly to the diplomat.

Fl. Captain Koraia, CO

R’han

The servo’s inbuilt security system kicked in again and Current Ghubari was stunned into oblivion and thrown unceremoniously into the Captain’s chair. Once again the servo fell free and skidded across the floor.

There was an ominous pause in the fire from the other ship. The Athena’s shields were shredded and the other ship was equally manoeuvrable and circling in for the kill.

Gamemaster Conspiracy Theorist (GMT)

Past Stark managed to crawl over to Nico, as he got closer he could hear the little fellow’s irregular heart beat and breathing. Present Stark got to his feet unsteadily and looked down at Pierce’s lifeless body. If the body so much as twitched he was going to kill it… again.

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