Posted by Lieutenant Tandra Mika (Chief Mental Health Officer) in Late for a Very Important Date

Posted by Lieutenant Séan Iven (Counselor) in Late for a Very Important Date

Posted by Lieutenant Tandra Mika (Chief Mental Health Officer) in Late for a Very Important Date
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Sharah dropped the probe to the tricorder she was holding. The clatter drew Ilena’s attention a scant second before Sharah moaned and began to shake.

=/\=Fayth to Ivan=/\= There was no answer. She moaned this time the shaking increasing “Sharah, what is it?”

Sharah’s black eyes shown with fear at Ilena. Mika! Mika! Where are you? We’ll send help. I’m here.

=/\=Fayth to Ivan, respond please.=/\= Still no answer. Sharah couldn’t not do something. It took her precious moments to seek out Sean’s essence. She wasn’t familiar with him. She paused and hesitated. She shouldn’t she couldn’t.

Sharah you can, it’s okay. You can save her life. Ilena felt the horror and fear rush through the doctor and could hear her thoughts. She knew how afraid Sharah was, but her gift was made for this if nothing else.

Another wave of pain shook her and Sharah became resolved. Sean! Fayth’s voice sounded in his mind, She’s awake. He’s HURTING her!

~ Sharah (written by Capt Kelpie)

Séan was moving around the streets and alleyways of Oed with Thyr as a psychic intrusion and voice sounded in his mind which caused him to stagger. He went down to one knee to catch himself as he struggled to keep his mind from spinning. Who had spoken into his mind? It sounded familiar but the suddenness caught him off guard. Wait, that was Sharah. So the ‘her’ she was referring to must be Mika! Hoping that Sharah was still linked with his mind he directed his mind towards her, We’re looking for Tandra now! Narrowed it down to a district of the colony but having a hard time find her exact location.

Counselor Iven

There was no response for a moment. She’s underground, there is a heavy metal door. No windows, she can’t hear anything from the outside. Then she gave him a description of the man as best as she could pick out from Mika’s thoughts.

Lt. Cmdr. Fayth, SFCMO

Thyr paused and gave Séan a weird, but almost… concerned look when the man staggered and knelt. “What’s the problem?” He asked, turning toward Sean. “Not to belittle your pain, but we don’t have all day.”

~ Thyr

Séan spoke through gritted teeth. “Dr Fayth… reached out psychically to tell me Lt Mika is in immense pain. Likely being tortured.” He grunted with physical and mental effort to get back to his feet. “We need to hurry before we’re too late.”

Counselor Iven

“Sounds like we already are,” Thyr replied grimly. “Did the telepath give you any kind of hint to where to look?”

~ Thyr

Séan shook his head just as grimly. “Just that we’re in the right area but no exact coordinates. She did say though that Mika was in an underground room with a heavy door. A reinforced basement maybe? How many of those are in this district?”

Counselor Iven

Shivan frowned. “It’s probably custom made. Not much other reason to reinforce your basement like that.” He thought for a moment, “Look for buildings with signs of being renovated and buildings that look like they have a basement, air vents, windows, anything like that near the base of the building.”

~ Thyr

Séan nodded in response as a little bit of hope glimmered in his eyes. “We’ll find you Tandra.” He whispered to himself as they continued the search.

Counselor Iven

They kept looking around that part of the city, until they came across a building. It was a regular looking building with open curtains, but an Andorian passed by the window - it was quick, just a moment, but Séan might recognize him - he’d been seen in the psych wing at the hospital.

~ Thyr

Séan did his best to not react to either the building or the person he saw. Instead he signalled to Thyr and kept walking past. When they were out of sight he stopped and turned. “I think we’ve found it. Very briefly I saw someone walk past the window who I recognize from the hospital. I know that in and of itself isn’t actionable intelligence but I think it’s the best we’re going to get.”

Counselor Iven

Shivan blinked. “Alright, well, I’m gonna go in there weapons blazing, so if you’re wrong…” He gave Séan a look. “Are you sure about this?”

~ Thyr

A look of hesitation flitted across Séan’s face. He sighed then nodded his head. “Like I said it’s the best chance we have and we may already be too late. On the chance that I am wrong however no killing blows. If nothing else than to keep a murder investigation from blowing your cover but more importantly for me I don’t want us killing innocents.”

Counselor Iven

Shivan scowled, “I’m not a complete monster, you know.” He said. “Okay, I’ll go in first, you stay back.” He eyed Séan, “Yes, you’re Starfleet, but you’re a counselor.” He sighed a long sigh, “I’m not letting you get hurt.”

~ Thyr

“I’ll stay behind you but I’m not staying back. You came with me at my request so I’m not letting you take all of the risk.” Séan said as he took out the knife he’d brought along. “I’m right behind you Thyr. I got your back.”

Counselor Iven

Shivan hmphed with a small nod. Then he went up to the door, drew his own knife, and kicked in the door. “Where’s the counselor?”

~~ Thyr

Séan followed Thyr into the building while his eyes tracked for threats. He saw the Andorian come around on Thyr’s blind side and prepared to swing something heavy at him, so Séan dropped a shoulder and rushed the man. The tackle knocked the wind out of the Andorian and left him collapsed against a wall but all of the ruckus brought out three more people and one was armed with a disruptor pistol.

Counselor Iven

The pistol was the biggest threat, those things were especially dangerous to Andorians. How far away was he? Less than twenty feet. Shivan rushed the one with the pistol, aiming for an incapacitating, not killing, injury.

~ Thyr

The pistol man rushed a shot in a panic but thankfully it missed Thyr and took a chunk out of the wall behind him. The other two split their focus between Thyr and Séan, they charged their respective targets.

Counselor Iven

Thyr noticed the one behind him, but his focused remained on the one with the pistol. He tackled the man, slamming him to the ground.

~ Thyr

The disruptor was knocked from the man’s hand and disappeared across the room. Meanwhile the man behind Thyr went to stab him in the back while aiming for his spine. At the same time Séan got hit with a club in his side but tripped up his assailant and was grappling with him on the ground trying to get him into a chokehold.

Counselor Iven

“Hey, look-” too late, Séan, was hit with the club. With the distraction of trying to protect the Counselor, he wasn’t able to dodge the knife, only to move enough for the strike to miss the spine. Instead, the blade was impaled in his side. He turned and delivered a heavy blow to his attacker’s face.

~ Thyr

Séan was able to get behind his attacker and got the man into a proper chokehold. It would only take a few seconds to render him unconscious but that was time he was unable to provide backup to Thyr. The knife was still in Thyr’s side as the wielder of it went down in a heap. The disruptor wielder took the opportunity to kick out Thyr’s feet and brought him back to the ground.

Counselor Iven

Shivan fell as his feet were kicked out with a pained grunt. Immediately he rolled away from his attacker and threw his own knife at the man.

~ Thyr

The man sort of squeaked as Thyr’s knife embedded itself into his shoulder and he dropped back down to the ground. Séan finished rendering his opponent unconscious and was getting back to his feet when he saw the guy who stabbed Thyr grab a bottle and start a hard swing. “Watch ou…”

Counselor Iven

Shivan was barely able to duck and move to dodge the swing, wincing as he did. But the bottle missed his head and collided painfully with his shoulder instead. He kicked at the man’s knees, trying to knock him off balance.

~ Thyr

The man went down in a heap with a grunt but he held on to the bottle. He rolled to the side and got up onto a knee as he warily surveyed his surroundings. Two of his crew were out of action, there were two intruders in the house, and the big one was up and moving his way. “Find the disruptor!” He shouted to his one remaining ally as he moved to fend off both Thyr and Séan.

Counselor Iven

Thyr wasn’t too hard to fend off. Knife still stuck in his side, he was neither nimble nor swift. He moved toward where he’d seen the disruptor go, trying to beat their opponents to it.

~ Thyr

Séan moved to confront the bottle wielding guy and in his move to do so he grabbed a nearby chair and swung it hard against the other man’s body. There was a spectacular crack as the chair seemingly disintegrated and the man was flung across the room. The man searching for the disruptor stopped at the sound and looked back in shock.

Counselor Iven

Shivan took his chance. Apparently, Séan did not need protection. He scrambled to the disruptor and snatched it off the ground where it had fallen. He turned and aimed, ready to shoot, but he hesitated. No killing blows. We don’t need a murder investigation to blow your cover.

~ Thyr

The man looked back at Thyr and froze. Yeah he intended to use that disruptor but looking down the proverbial barrel of it himself instilled dread in him. So he did the only thing he thought reasonable and that was slowly raise his hands and appear less threatening. Séan chucked what remained of the chair elsewhere then approached the last conscious man. “On your knees and hands on the back of your head.” As the man complied he moved up behind him and took out a length of nylon. He moved the guys wrist to behind his back and bound them to his ankles. He gave Thyr a look and asked, “You good?”

Counselor Iven

As soon as Séan had him secured, Shivan dropped the weapon and leaned on the wall. “I will be. Need help. Secure the others.”

~ Thyr

Séan nodded then moved quickly to bind the other three while they were still unconscious. He then returned to Thyr and pulled out a bottle of biofoam. “So naturally this is going to hurt. First I’ll pull out the knife, insert the end of this, then dispense the foam to temporarily pack the wound. I’ll put an adhesive bandage over the top but we’ll need to get it properly seen to after this. You ready?”

Counselor Iven

Shivan nodded without any intent to actually ‘get it seen to’. To him, he’d dealt with things like this before and he’d do it again to avoid going in. “Do it quick, get it over with.”

~ Thyr

Séan enlarged the tear the knife had made in Thyr’s shirt then sized up the wound. “Alright. Here we go.” He carefully but firmly gripped the handle and pulled it out in swift motion. With the knife removed he set it aside and inserted the biofoam can’s tip into the wound. Then with the foam inserted and the wound packed, he slapped the bandage over the hole. “Whew. You doing okay?”

Counselor Iven

Shivan had gritted his teeth and clenched his fists. He nodded but held still for another few moments. Then he looked at the four captured people, then Séan. “Look for the counselor. She’s got to be here somewhere.”

~ Thyr

Séan shook his head. “We know she’s in a basement but instead of charging in blind we need more information.” He pointed at the one captive still awake. “I’m not squeamish about things but you’re probably better suited to extracting information and we’re in a race against the clock.”

Counselor Iven

Shivan pulled himself to his feet and stretched, wincing. The information would be easy to get. He’d learned much from Jezem back during their work together.

~ Thyr

The information was gotten pretty quickly and Thyr’s knife work barely got used. They learned the location of the basement door, the process of opening it, and that only one person of their crew was left and in there with Mika. Séan got ready to rush down and enter to save Mika but hesitated and looked at Thyr. “Are you going in with me or staying to watch these four?”

Counselor Iven

Shivan eyed Séan, “You’re going to go into a room with a definitely armed criminal alone? No. We both go.” Wielding the knife he’d been stabbed with, he prepared to go in with Séan.

~ Thyr

Séan nodded and then led the way to the door. He entered the access code and once the lock opened he pulled the door. It made more noise opening than he wanted but he still hoped to have the element of surprise. At least enough so the man didn’t kill Mika outright.

Counselor Iven

Shivan followed him down. “Get him! Get him! Move!” He shouted as soon as the door opened, rushing into the room. The man in the basement, the Betazoid, had been standing in front of Mika. When the door opened, he moved swiftly snatching a knife and made a move for the bound counselor, who cringed and closed her eyes.

~ Thyr

Séan had his knife out and threw it hard at the Betazed, which embedded itself into the shoulder holding the knife. He grunted as the knife fell free from his fingers and stepped back as his other hand reached for something sharp on the cart behind him.

Counselor Iven

Shivan tackled him, the shock of impact hurting his injury. “Stay down or you’ll never move again.” He said, the knife held against the man’s chest.

~ Thyr

The man glared up at Thyr but didn’t move in the end. He could feel that Thyr would follow through on his word just like he himself would not hesitate to kill Thyr if their positions were reversed. Séan quickly approached Mika and saw the appalling state she was in. “Tandra I’m here. You’re safe now.” He started undoing the various restraints holding her to the chair.

Counselor Iven

As soon as she was free she pulled herself up and hugged Séan tightly, crying. “You came.” She said softly. “I hoped you wouldn’t endanger yourself like that.”

~ Mika, CMHO

“Yeah well, security wasn’t being very productive and the likelihood of rescuing abducted people sharply declines after twelve hours.” Séan held Mika against while not minding the blood or tears. “I couldn’t wait. Luckily I had some help in finding you.”

Counselor Iven

Thyr took that as a great time to quietly drag the unconscious criminal out of the basement before he could hear the uncomfortable thank yous.

Mika picked her head up off of Séan and looked around. “You did? Who…?”

~ Mika, CMHO

Séan smirked as Thyr disappeared with the last criminal. “Oh, just my dubious and oft poisoned friend. With security already doing an investigation I couldn’t go to anyone in Starfleet to expedite things.”

Counselor Iven

Thyr brought the guy upstairs and then sat against the wall with a huff. Carrying full grown men around wasn’t easy wounded.

Mika thought for a moment and then gave him a teary look. “That shady Andorian you’ve been seeing in your off hours? Why on…” She sighed and shrugged, “Thank him for me, okay?”

~ Mika, CMHO

Séan nodded then gave Mika a worried look. “Are you okay to move or do I need to carry you? I didn’t bring a comm with me so we can’t transport out from here.”

Counselor Iven

“I’ll walk,” said the prideful Mika. She didn’t move though, just leaned against him. “Maybe I won’t walk.”

~ Mika, CMHO

Séan successfully stopped himself from chuckling. Instead he supported Mika’s back with an arm then scooped her legs to hold her in a ‘princess carry’. “Any objections to bringing you straight to the hospital? I could clean you up and autosuture the wounds you’ve got but you need appropriate medical attention.”

Counselor Iven

Mika rested her head against him, her arms folded against herself. “Sharah. I want to see Sharah.” She looked up at him, scrunching a hand in his shirt. “Don’t go anywhere.”

~ Mika, CMHO

“I’ll get you to Sharah.” Séan said softly as he went up the stairs and headed for the front door. On the way he looked in Thyr’s direction and gave a grateful nod. He hoped Thyr understood his urgency in getting Mika tended to as soon as possible. Plus he was kind of hyper-focused on her wellbeing at the moment and didn’t realize he was irresponsibly leaving all of this mess to Thyr. “No one could drag me away from you.” He said in response as he brought them out of the house and toward the hospital.

Counselor Iven