Lieutenant Commander Hiro Sato sat in his cabin aboard the USS Voyager-B and looked outside, where stars were speeding by. He had a cub of Sake in one hand. Real Sake, not the Syntehol stuff, mind you.
He glanced over to an old 2D picture. It showed one of his ancestors, Hoshi Sato together with her friends of the NX-01 Enterprise. He sighed.
“Why do I have to end up here?” he asked and looked directly on the face of his ancestor,” This whole ship is nuts. The Captain is a dragon, his Number One is a dragon and his sister, the security officer is a weapons nerd and the Ops officer is a prankster. Not to mention the main computer”
Hiro himself was the chief engineer of the Voyager-B. He chuckled a bit.
“But I’m not really better. I mean, I sit here in my dark cabin and speak to a photo of my ancestor.”
His mind wandered to his co-workers in the command staff. The Captain and the Commander were okay, if a bit strange. But than again they were dragons. Lieutenant Zed Michaels was the Security Officer and a real weapons nut. He even had an original and working H&K MP-5 in his cabin.
And than Lieutenant Arthemis. Hiro wondered if it suddenly got hotter in his cabin. Lieutenant Arthemis was a practical joker and without a doubt the hottest stuff aboard. Five feet eight raw attractiveness. Perfect in every way. Red eyes and flaming red hair, tamed by a pair of horns that was curling around her head.
Before he could go further into daydreams about Arthemis, he was interrupted.
“Michaels to Sato.”
Hiro sighed and taped his communicator.
“What is it, Lieutenant.”
“Sir, it would be better, if you could come to the bridge. We got a problem.”
“What problem?”
“We…”
Michaels couldn’t end his sentence, as she ship shook violently and the blinding light from the outside blinded Hiro for a second.
“What the…”
Hiro got up and ran towards the next Turbo-Lift. Only Moments later he entered the bridge. His eyes searched for Captain Saotome and his sister, but he didn’t find them.
“Where’s the Captain or the Commander.”
“Sorry, pal. But they are not aboard. They disappeared as we got zapped here.”
Hiro looked at the source of the voice, that looked like an old man.
“Zapped?”
The old man shrugged.
“Got a better idea about what happened?”
Hiro glared at the old man, who was the holographic embodiment of the main computer. When the Voyager-B was build an accident with some holographic characters and the bio-neural gel pads lead to the creation of the main computers own personality. An annoying personality at times.
“What happened?” he asked and looked at Lieutenant Arthemis.
“No idea.”
“No idea?”
“I got nothing on the sensors. Nothing, zip, nil, nada, niet, nichts.”
“Any damages?”
Arthemis nodded.
“Yep, the whole control program for the Slipstream-Drive is deleted. We won’t be able to enter Slipstream for maybe seven to ten days. But we still have the Warp-Drive.”
“Damn.”
For the first time in his Starfleet career he didn’t know what to do. He sat down at the engineers console.
“Sir?”
“Yes?”
“We have intercepted a subspace message, that concerns us.”
“What?”
A divided picture appeared on the main screen. One showed the Captain and the Commander and the other some guy surrounded by women.
“The text says something about ten thousands credits reward for capturing them, or something. The text-part of the message is damaged.”
“Where?”
“Earth.”
“$&!%$&%!$&%$%!&$&%$!.”
(“Wow, Caps-Lock swearing.” “Shut up, old man.”)
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(Posted Thu, 24 Jul 2003 00:03)
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