Posted by Captain John Tiberius Glen (Captain) in Main Sim - Transporter Room - Landing Party
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=^=Prepare for transport.=^= came Kords voice over the comms.

With a swirl of transporter energy the away team vanished from the remains of the planet and reformed safe and sound back on the Merrimack.

Glen was surprised that they had been transported into a containment field. From the looks of it, a level three. So, they had only exchanged one force field bubble for another. He was a little annoyed actually. He needed to get back to the Bridge. He wanted a status update from Kord. He wanted to know why the planet had been annihilated. He wanted to know why there had been radio silence for so long. He wanted to know what had happened to the Ark Angel. There were other issues to deal with too. Ginger that cat had gone missing again, Bre Davis had given birth to her twins and Dr. Ghassan’s illness, which he wasn’t supposed to know about, had got much worse. He couldn’t deal with any of those from inside a force field.

Jasper was glad to be home but he did not advertise that fact as he put his gear away back in the lockers as he quietly left as he watched the other briefly as he moved towards the door and waited. “Will that be all sir I need to get back to engineering.” Jasper said in a soft quiet tone.

“We aren’t going anywhere yet,” Glen replied. “Not until someone lowers this containment field!”

Twonk approached the perimeter of the containment field, the tricorder in his hand already scanning.

“This’ll only take a few moments.” he said watching the display for scan results.

“Make sure it does!” snapped Glen. “I can’t afford to be delayed any further!”

Twonk was startled by Glen’s abruptness and nearly dropped the tricorder. He recovered it after fumbling it rather comically for a couple of seconds. Giving a sheepish smile he resumed the scan.

Nkosenye stepped next to the Captain and lowered his head and spoke softly so he wouldn’t be overheard. “Sir, may I suggest you take a breath?” he said, his tone respectful but stern. “They are just protecting the ship from any contamination we may have brought back with us. Standard protocol. I’m sure you wouldn’t want us exchanging Serpents for a bio-hazard on board. One enemy at a time, Captain.”

“Sorry, but I need to get back to the Bridge,” replied Glen. “I don’t like not being in control… and I’ve always disliked being confined… but that’s another story…”

The scans came back cleans as they could expect nothing seemed amiss…

“Besides, we just survived an entire planet going boom, I think we’ve earned a breather” William said with an unusually quizical look, almost sadly so.

Twonk double checked the results, nodded and tapped the transporter console lowering the containment field.

“Welcome aboard.” he said standing at attention.

“Sorry, Mr Twonk,” said Glen. “Neil, isn’t it? I was out of order just now.”

“Everyone return to your departments and duty stations,” added Glen. “The Merri looks like she saw some action while we were away, so you will have plenty to do. I’m going to the Bridge to see Kord.”

As much as Tia wanted to see Kord as well, though was embarrassed suddenly to admit, she knew she had to get to engineering. She was the CE, well at least the interim one, so it was her job to get things back to spic and span and most definitely within (if not better than) specs. If Krod had remained here, he was fine. She would be satisfied with that.

She glanced at Jasper and nodded. “I need you in Engineering, but go to your quarters, freshen up and take a couple hours to regain your ship legs. It’s been a long day. But return to engineering as soon as you are ready. I will need all hands to help see what toll this day has taken on the ship and her systems.”

Making sure no one else needed her, she headed out of the transporter room and headed for engineering. She could find a clean jumper there, she thought as she reached up to reset her ponytail back in regulation.

Tia
CE