Posted by Lieutenant Toveka Brine (Chief Science Officer) in Main Sim - Security Office - Bait and Switch

Posted by Gamemaster Mr. Snuggles (Gamemaster) in Main Sim - Security Office - Bait and Switch

Posted by Lieutenant Toveka Brine (Chief Science Officer) in Main Sim - Security Office - Bait and Switch
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The woman nodded. “I am unsure if this would react well to the process of beaming, but if in your scientific opinion it is worth the risk, the sooner we deal with this situation the better.”

Mr. Snuggles (GM)

Toveka friend and looked at Tenkiller as she spoke. “I don’t know how it would react, either. Perhaps in the case it would be protected?” She wasn’t sure if it was worth the risk of the XO. But if they could time the transfer to when the XO departed… maybe it could work.

Toveka
CSO

As she waited for the go ahead to use the transporter, she knelt down and began to pack the artifact into the case in her hand. The idea want the greatest, and she knew it. But something had to be done. These aliens needed to get off the ship. And the XO has to remain safe.

Toveka
CSO

Tenkiller just gave her a nod, giving her his approval of the plan. It was a risk, but the sooner they dealt with this the better.

Mr. Snuggles (GM)

Once everything was packed and secured, she stepped back several feet. “Ready to transport,” she sighed. This better work. The idea of it going sideways, harming the XO, or anyone else for that matter, worried her. Times like this, she hated having an analytical mind. In the space of two heartbeats she had already thought of a half dozen ways this could go terribly wrong.

Toveka
CSO

There was the feeling of all of her particles disassembling and then reassembling themselves back together, and she found herself on board the ship, safe from any sort of enemy.

Mr. Snuggles, GM

((Little lost, sorry… Thought only the package (carry case) was being transported to the shuttle. Then the XO would be taking it away from the OP to draw the bad guys away… Lol… What’d I miss, or miss interpret? Or is this a twist to run with? Lol))

OOC: Its a twist, you’ll see what it means in a bit, but I can add more detail ;)

Looking around Toveka was struck with the fact that no-one was on the ship, no-one except for the Victorian dressed woman. “Oh look, you got pulled along. I was wondering if the shard was going to pull something else along with it.”

Mr. Snuggles (GM)

By now Jessica and her team had made it to the hangar with the decoy. Looking around she needed a pilot. “You,” she snapped her fingers at a man in a flight suit sitting at a console. “I need you to get me a pilot yesterday and one of these birds in the air,” she said slightly out of breath. She had run here the entire time knowing that she needed to complete the ruse of having the false Shard in her bag off the ship. She had no idea how the other team was doing or if the enemy was even following her.

Jessica Teller XO

A brunette female aviatrix walked around the corner as the XO finished her request of the Wing Chief. The tall woman wore a flight suit with gold oaks leaves of a Major on her shoulders and smiled as she replied. “I fly… I’m pilot” The sarcastic tone was strong with this one. “How can the Wing be of service, Commander?”

Major Nicole “Siren” Harper, Wing Ops

The technician looked out at the hanger, where all but one of the ships have been transformed into various flying vehicles from different periods in Earth’s history, one even being an old biplane. “I suggest you take the only one left Ma’am.”

Mr. Snuggles (GM)

“Are any of them even space worthy,” Jessica looked at the technician like they were insane. “The one on the flipping left was last flown by the Red Baron. I mean do you even have a clue as to who that man is?”

“Besides it has an open cockpit…it’s space.”

“Ma’am,” a crewman walked up looking confident and almost eager. “I have been working on a project.” Pulling out a small black box, forward. “It’s a force bubble for lack of a better word. It can contract and expand....like enough around that plane.” He pointed to the biplane as if Jessica needed the visual. “It will work and will give you a breathable atmosphere for about an hour.”

Jessica was applauded ingenuity. Hell, she promoted people for it but this was insane. “That is all fine and dandy but the last man to fly that thing died three hundred years ago.”

Jessica Teller XO

The woman looked confused and chuckled. “I could probably fly it…” She laughed. “… but only in a skin suit!”

Siren

Toveka almost jumped when she heard the woman. Turning around, she frowned slightly. “The transporter was only supposed to bring the case. Are you saying you wanted something more than the case to arrive? Why? It’s supposed to be bait for the raiders. This was supposed to beam in,” she indicated the case, “and those inside beamed out so the raiders would think there were people and these troublesome artifacts here.”

Her voice rose and fell in frustration. Looking around, she wondered where the XO was. Wasn’t that the plan? First Tenkiller was called away, now this! Had the plan changed and she missed it? Unsure whether to be angry or worried, she glanced at the woman a moment. She had two seconds to explain herself. Then Toveka was going to reprogram the transporter and get herself out of there… whatever there was.

Toveka
CSO

“It’s quite simple really, the shard is radiating my energy, which probably expanded around you and made you seem like part of the fragment.” The woman shrugged. “But I’m a scientist, so what do I know?” She gestured to the elevator. “Would you like to join me on the way to engineering? We can have a nice chat while we go to dispose of that… thing.”

Mr. Snuggles (GM)

OOC: Sorry, I was trying to be all mysterious and have Toveka be having a moral quandary in a hallucination moment from a different entity, that is my mistake lets just course correct and have her on the shuttle if you would prefer that.

((Ooc… Sorry, thought I’d messed up lol))

Toveka frowned and rubbed her temple. “Of course.” She had been out of touch with the Security Chief and the XO, so if the transporters put her here, there was a reason. Right?

But stepping into the hall, the Science Chief balked. “Where the XO? I was supposed to get this to him. I really would double check what’s happened.” She shook her head and reached for her comm badge.

Toveka
CSO

While Toveka’s hand was raising up, towards her communicator, it was almost as if the woman in front of her shimmered. A hand suddenly grabbed her wrist before it could be hit, revealing the security chief standing to her side staring at her with a blank smile. “Do not worry Toveka, this is all part of the plan. There is no need to report in.”

Mr. Snuggles (GM)

Toveka jumped. Her immediate reaction was to try and yank her hand back. But seeing the Security Chief, who she thought had been called to the XO’s side, was suddenly holding her hand. “What? What do you mean?”

There had been a brief time when her and the Chief had been close, and it was that time left her automatically relaxing her tug and letting him hold her in place. “I don’t understand. When did the plan change?” She shook her head as her body shivered. “You aren’t making any sense. And how did you look like that… That woman?”

Part of her mind screamed that something was wrong. But, sadly, the whisper that the Chief was someone she trusted her life with, was a bit louder. “What are we supposed to be doing?” She stopped trying to remove her hand from his grasp.

Her face calmed to its usual stoic flatness as she looked at him. She was trying to figure it when things had changed and how.

Toveka
CSO

He turned his head a little too much to the side and held out his hand. “Give me she shard. This woman has agreed that she is too dangerous to exist, so we are going to fix the tablet. Once we do, things will go right back to normal.”

The woman nodded. “I see now that I was too hopeful, but in order to preserve order, I will do what I must.” However, on the wall behind her, it was almost as if it was beginning to crack apart, and a tiny bit of light escaping through.

Mr. Snuggles (GM)

Mr. Snuggles (GM)