[New Haven] Enemy close to home
Posted on Wed Feb 10th, 2021 @ 7:45pm by Captain Daniella Le Williams & Colonel John Sheppard & Commander T'San & Commander Kitara Paghal & Major Charlena Dilucca & Crewman Recruit T'Meela & Lieutenant General Craig O'Donnaghue-Meran & Wing Commander John "Wolf" Harrington & Flight Lieutenant Sandra "Fanthom" Risa & Kadja Ae & Lieutenant Commander Drakord
Edited on on Wed Feb 10th, 2021 @ 7:53pm
2,200 words; about a 11 minute read
Mission:
[Joint Mission]Happy ever after
Location: New Haven Operations center
Timeline: MD006 19:30
––Dan and Nidria’s lounge––
As the wedding had come to a close the red alert went off. An operations officer in the operations center has signaled it down. The man tapped his commbadge as the alert filled the base hallways. =/\=This is Lieutenant Noc, base commander and fleet commanders, please report to the operations center immediately! Red alert! I repeat, red alert!=/\=
Captain Daniella Williams and Colonel John Sheppard, who had been taking turns on commanding the base during the wedding preparations, both looked at each other a moment. Then Daniella tapped her badge and said, =/\=Lieutenant Noc, hold your station, we are on our way.=/\=
Meanwhile John looked to the present guests. “Lieutenant Noc is an able officer; he wouldn’t have disturbed us if it weren’t urgent. Generals!” He nodded to the two fleet commanders and nodded to Shras, “Admiral!” He then turned to Captain James Stewart. “Captain Stewart, please follow us, and maybe the other Commanding Officers would like to follow us as well?” He turned to the other guests. “Please enjoy your time here, should you be needed on your ship, your commanding officer will order you so.”
Talim Meran stood next to General Meran. “We’ll come with you.” She turned to the two Klingon ambassadors and the Althen Liaison. “Please join us as well. I sense something in the Lieutenant, and something really powerful coming is to us. I didn’t want to say it, but it’s telepathic, just like…” She paused and then pointed to Orson.
T`San and T`Meela looked to Orson and then back to Talim. “They are Crescent?” T`Meela looked to Orson. The two Vulcans hadn’t sensed it, not until Talim mentioned it. If Talim sensed it, then Orson would have sensed it as well.
Commodore Chelsea Meran walked in between her sister and the two Vulcans. She bowed to her sister and her brother-in-law. Then looked to T`San and T`Meela. “Why wasn’t the admiralty informed of the presence of these powerful telepathic beings on the base?”
Talim just shrugged. “I had sensed the boy when I came here, there is something off, but I am not alarmed by him. I am however more concerned by this one.” Talim now pointed to Kadja. “She comes in disturbing this wedding like she owns the place, she is also telepathic, but unlike the boy she closed her mind for me. I don’t trust her. Why is she not in custody?”
General Meran put his hand on his wife’s shoulder. “Everyone, we can stand here arguing about it, but I trust my wife’s senses, so that means a Crescent ship is on its way to this base, if it’s not already here. We need to get to the operations center immediately.”
Commander Drakord walked up to Kadja and put his hand on her shoulder. “I will take care of this one, sirs.”
Major Charlena Dilucca stepped up as well. “Commander Drakord, I will assist you; the Crescents are not to be trusted, I had to deal with them in the past.”
Both Sandra and John jogged into the Operations center together. “What’s up?” John Harrington asked. Sandra Risa was looking on as well, “Yeah what’s going on?” she chimed in. Both CAG’s were on the station for the wedding and with the red alert, John and Sandra knew that their pilots were already manning their fighters.
Kad-ja looked around a sardonic look on her face, of course it looked like she had called for backup, had she? they would never know. Her eyes locked with the man holding her shoulder and she looked up not a drop of emotion on her face, not a quirk of her mouth.
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Craig Had been in his office when the red alert had sounded, grabbing his sidearm he chased out of his office, pressing his comm badge “ All Stations ready hands” He ran into operations “what in god’s name is going on?” he said looking at everyone present.
“Lieutenant Noc, sir, admiral,” Noc said. “I sounded the alarm. He looked behind Craig as Captain Williams and Colonel Sheppard came in, followed my General and Ambassador Meran. He nodded to them, “General, Ambassador, Captain, Colonel.” He then turned on the large screen. “This just came into the sector 10 minutes ago. There is no one in the area, as everyone is at the base, but the base is where they are heading.
Marci looked to the screen. “They must have a death wish; the entire fleet is here.”
Noc looked at his console. “I detect no weapon signatures, so those are disarmed. Their shields are raised, and they don’t seem in a hurry either.”
“What do you have on long range scanners, lieutenant?” Sheppard asked.
‘Nothing, Colonel,” Noc answered, “They have come alone with their weapons down.”
Craig looked to Marci “Well General we can’t say they aren’t ballsy” he said walking up to Noc “Give me a vitals scan and weapons over view I wanna know what these guys are packing?” he said looking over the screen, Pressing his Comm badge “General O’Donnaghue to Jackdaw be ready for potential Battle” he said looking around, Pressing his comm badge once more “Vallaror Adux to Operations Please its urgent” Craig awaited now, his son and nephews were out there in the vastness of space and he couldn’t get to them if this got nasty.
Vallaror was just exiting the bar, when his temporary comm badge sounded “Adux on my way” he said with a puzzled look on his face, breaking into a swift run. His senses told him something was wrong seriously wrong, entering operation his hand falling at his side “In the name of the Sea is that a Crescent war ship?” He said looking to the view screen “How and when did this abomination rear its head?” he asked to all precent, panic written on his face.
The crescent moved in closer. Daniella and John looked at the screen. The tension was really felt. Then Daniella broke the silence. “Hail them.” All eyes were suddenly on her. “Well, standard procedure right. They don’t appear hostile, no weapons, no shields, maybe they are here to talk.”
Marci nodded in agreement, “I agree with you, captain, but I do feel we should be at yellow alert, and advice all ships to go to yellow alert. We can’t be too careful.”
Daniella nodded. “Yellow alert. Open hailing frequencies.” Noc nodded to her. “Hailing frequencies open, captain.” Daniella looked at the screen. “This is Captain Daniella Williams, from the Federation Starbase New Haven. Please state your business in this area of space.”
The screen flipped on, and it was seen on all screens on all starships currently near, or docked at, the base. The image was dark. The person on screen seem to be wearing what looked like sunglasses. It was a woman, pale skin and demeaning look on her face. “Captain Daniella Williams, of the Federation Starbase New Haven. I am commander Anais Li. Commader of the scout ship Luna. Head matriarch and clan leader of the Li clan. I am here on behalf of her holiness Empress and high priestess Amilla De. Do you speak for the entire fleet?”
Daniella looked around for the moment. “No, I do not, I am the commander of this base. Do you wish to speak to my commanding officer?” She wanted to turn to the Generals and the Admiral when Anais interrupted her. “No, I want to speak to the person that speaks for the entire fleet.” Daniella was uncertain what she was talking about.
This was when Talim spoke up, “Anais is a female commander, she will speak to her equal. Women have a dominant role in her society, even though men and women are equal, in their culture a man doesn’t speak to a woman in power, it must be a woman of equal power.”
“Why wouldn’t she speak to me, we are equal in rank?” Daniella asked.
“No, she is here on behalf of her Empress,” Talim explained. “This means, despite having the Commander rank, she is awarded temporary the rank of High commander, which is equal to that of Admiral or General.” Talim walked up to the screen. “I am Fleet Ambassador Talim Meran, I speak on behalf of the Federation and the Fleet.”
Anais looked a moment to her and then nodded, “I have a message to both the Federation and the fleet.” She looked straight into the camera and then said with a stern voice, “The Cleansing has begun, the cleansing of the Alpha Quadrant. The Cleansing of the Federation, the Cleansing of Starfleet, the Cleansing of the Klingon Empire, but first we will start with the Cleansing of Mystic Fleet and Task Force Mystic Knights.” She then was quiet a moment and then continued, we will start with your weak pathetic Avalon station.” Then the communications broke, and the power started the fluctuate. “Captain, Generals, Admirals, Ambassador,” Came Noc’s nervous voice. “I have no control.”
Then the screen flipped back on and they saw the Crescent ship leave, and there was nothing they could do about it. The image was broadcasted on all ships. Talim sighed. “Their powers are formidable that they can do this.” She then looked to the screen again. “There’s a ship coming in.”
What happened next left everyone in horror. The Crescent ship powered up their weapons and fired on the vessel. Everyone could see the explosion, before the ship went to warp. Then power was restored and immediately people wanted to know which ship that was.
Then the message came. The USS Constantinople, and according the flight records it was taking Admiral Bich Le back to the starbase.
Craig and Vallaror stood there in utter disbelief, craigs eyes welled up and he held onto the young Altan for support “By the gods they just destroyed Admiral Le’s ship” Craig said breathless, he looked around to everyone the somber and sad atmosphere in the room was choking. He looked to Commander Drakord, “I want her in my office NOW!” Craig shouted “Talim, Marci I trust you will want to be a part of this as well” his fists were balled, and he was sad, angry and mourning all at the same time.
Talim heard the news come in and then turned around to Captain Williams. Daniella just stared to the screen as quietly as she was keeping silent, but Talim could feel the emotions racing through Daniella. Chelsea walked over to her as she said over her shoulder to her sister, “You go with General O’Donnaghue, Ambassador. I will take care of Captain Williams.” Talim nodded. Chelsea was still angry with Talim, but despite she was a professional when need be.
Drakord stood at attention as he said, “Yes, sir.” He didn’t need more words to know by ‘her’ he meant the Crescent prisoner. He then left the operation room.
Talim nodded to Craig and her husband. “Generals, let’s go.”
John Harrington stood there still with his mouth agape, and still in complete shock. Sandra cried out as the ship was destroyed. Neither of them moved from where they were, both in shock, paralyzed by what just had happened. Suddenly John grabbed Sandra and hauled her down to where the fighters were. His people were already powering up their fighters. Shaking Sandra, “Sandra, snap out of it”, he said and slapped her in the face once.
“Damn it John! You didn’t have hit me!” Sandra barked at John. =/\= Risa to all fighters ready to standby mode. Full armament compliments, “she said as she watched the fighters power up. This was going to get ugly fast and she wasn’t about to get caught with her pants down.
Chelsea was now standing next to Daniella, but Daniella seemed very calm, even though Chelsea could tell she was holding back her hurt. She then heard Sandra call the fighters to arms. "Belay that order!" She shouted. "We need to check on the site. We can get the Crescent later. We have to make sure everything is secured. Send two ships...send the Shanghai and the Valkyrie now! Have the rest of the fleet scan the perimeters." AS she put her hand on Daniella's shoulder she said softly, "We shouldn't be caught with our pants down again like that."
Lieutenant General Marci Meran (Laban)
Mystic Fleet JFC
Lt Gen Craig O'Donnaghue
Joint Fleet Command
Commodore Chelsea Meran
Fleet Chief Of Staff
Captain Daniella Williams
Commanding Officer USS Ottawa/Starbase New Haven
Colonel John Sheppard
Marine director TF Mystic Knights/Mystic Fleet
Commander T'San
Base CMO/Base XO
Major Charlena Dilucca
Shanghai Chief Security/Marine CO/2XO
Commander Kitara Paghal
Medical Director Paghal medical center/Saigon XO
Lieutenant Commander Drakord
Base Chief of Security (NPC Daniella Williams)
Ambassador/Vice-Admiral Talim Meran
Betazoid/Starfleet ambassador
Wing Commander John "Wolf" Harrington
Task Force Assault Fighters Director/New Haven
Kadja Ae
Crescent Prisoner
Lieutenant Noc
Operations Officer Starbase New Haven
NPC Colonel Ellie Ijaan
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