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Posted by Mar. Captain Erve Manhattan (RTF Commander) in Manhattan’s Office - Cobb makes a delivery

Posted by Captain Zachariah Cobb (Commanding Officer) in Manhattan’s Office - Cobb makes a delivery

The Captain remained still, looking down the now empty box. He stayed like that covered in glitter as he processed the informations and realized that now he had to clean the whole office, knowing that fine glitter was a pain the back to remove “You gotta be kidding me, Doctor.” He breathed away some of the glitter on his tongue and on his glasses “Why to me? Why?” He stared the Captain helpless. Then as he moved down the box on the floor and sat again back, Erve put his arms triangle like and could only say “Casela you’re done.”

M. Capt. Erve Manhattan - RCO

Cobb’s eyes grew so wide he worried they might burst along with the balloon. He should have known better than to trust the tricksy doctor!
“Now, Manhattan, I had no idea!” he began to defend himself, but then the more he looked on at the RTF chief, sparkling like a cheap disco ball in some seedy, backstreet bar, the more he struggled to keep his own face straight.

“Well, don’t you look a picture,” he continued as his own enjoyment grew. Stepping back, he found a place to lean against the wall and folded his arms against his chest. “I’ve heard tell that once you get showered in glitter, it never fully leaves you. A man can go a decade or more and still be picking sparkles out of his beard!”

• Captain Zachariah Cobb

“Yes yes, funny. Wow! Doc, how funny.” He clapped his hands “Good lord. Captain, I may not be totally happy about this but the fact is that glittered or not we have a bigger problem. I have an agent who is injured and it is clearly not my fault! What if I get hanged like a disco ball by the court martial?” He asked to Zachariah. Knowing he was enjoying the sort of joke, Manhattan tried to keep the spirit of high even though he was really, really annoyed “If you encounter the milady, tell her I will get a revenge, with a cherry on the top!”

M. Capt. Erve Manhattan - RCO

His laughter diminished quickly as he was reminded of the Counselor’s predicament. “Look, I realise I know little of your operation or your methods. But what I want to know, Mr Manhattan, is how does an officer emerge from a simple training session so badly injured that she has to undergo surgery to piece her ribs back together, eh? Explain to me, please, just what the hell you were thinking allowing things to escalate to such a dangerous level?”

Pushing away from the wall, he advanced on the RTF chief, clouds of glitter spurting into the air as he pounded the deck with his boots.
“These people look up to you. They trust you with their lives. And you put them in the bloody hospital? Now you’d better have a damned good explanation for what happened here or glitter will be the least of your worries!”

• Captain Zachariah Cobb

“Okay, then, Captain.” He stepped and took a PaDD from the nearby closet “If you want an explanation I’ll let the holodeck feed explain what I have done.” Typing something on the console, Erve accessed with his security code to the feed of the holodeck where that day they had the training session “I am surely pretending to have the best from my men, but nuts if I ever told you that I massacre my agents to get perfection.” And there you go, the video showed the 2nd Squadron all around the two of them that were fighting. Erve in the period that was registered seemed mostly to be repelling the attacks than getting his full strength on Casela. The only times he did an offensive move was then limited by the Captain’s knowledge that the Lieutenant was indeed still undergoing a recovery period since the XO beating “I leave you the comments, I am not the one who broke the vase. I already said my version, I sent Casela to seek the Doc for various injuries she have sustained prior the training and she came back telling me she was fine so I let her get the training session going.” He also handed a report PaDD.

M. Capt. Erve Manhattan - RCO

Cobb fell silent as he watched the footage play out on the screen in front of him. Once it had finished, he ran a hand through his hair and then cleared his throat.
“Ah, I see. Well then, it looks like I was mistaken, Mr Manhattan,” he attempted to swallow his own anger. “I’m not too big to admit when I’m wrong so…my apologies for misreading the situation. Although,” he added, casting an eye over the glitter-drenched room, “It seems like I’m not the only one to have marked you as the culprit.”

So if not Manhattan, then whom? His XO? Cobb could hardly bear to think Raauhl capable of such brutality. But someone had injured her. And she was possibly the only person who knew the truth.

“I think it is time to pay a little visit to our patient.” he growled, turning and marching out of the room…

• Captain Zachariah Cobb

OOC: Jay, it’s entirely up to you if Manhattan comes along also or not