Hepta Mission: The One and the Same

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Daniel was bought back to reality they sharply by the arrival of the diplomats, looking at them the man looked ready to kill.

“I knew I shouldn’t have trusted you” the male diplomats shouted at the women next to him, Daniel moved quickly across the room “what has happened?”.

“she moved her army forward into my territory, instead of away like agreed”, the female diplomat responded quickly “did you really think I would pall back and let you claim my people’s land”. both diplomats looked at each other, Daniel quickly checked they did not have phasers on them which they did not. Carefully looking at each diplomat he began to think how to deal with the problem. He caught a glimpse of a knife in the hand of the male diplomat and quickly moved to push the woman out of the way, but he was to slow to reach her in time and the blade slashed the side of both him and the women. She quickly responded by kicking him in the face while Daniel shifted over to pick up the knife.

In pain Daniel checked that the female diplomat was not going to do anything further then reached for his comm. badge, “Commander McCormick, please report to the talks chamber, both diplomats are injured and will need you assistance” trying to sound as calm as possible. Daniel watched both diplomats carefully as Joan came up the stairs, Daniel pointed to the diplomats indicating they needed her help first. He was hurt but not bad enough that she should worry about him first.

Joan nodded and turned to the female diplomat who was sitting up against the wall pulling out her tricorder. Daniel began to look elsewhere trying to think how he was going to deal with all of this.

Daniel was brought out of thought by Joan mentioning something as she started scanning the male diplomat.

<Tag Joan>

“What! You telling me that they are similar, how much?”

<Tag Joan>

“So you are telling me that these guys are not two separate races but one. Well that makes sense though, they have been at peace for so long because they were once one people”

Turning to look at the diplomats it was obvious that they were not aware that they were in fact one race by the shock on their faces. Daniel was about to say something to them to try and calm the conflict, but before he got the words out he felt weak and collapsed onto the floor, and everything went black.

[bezantrul]

[Ooc sorry but the ideas just keep flowing]

The tactical officer patched the signal through to the view screen. And the captain of the federation ship appeared on the screen. Commander Nikmund greeted him and thanked him for the timely arrival.

“No problem, I’m Captain Keate of the U.S.S Mansfield, we would like to congratulate you and your cadets on a brilliant mission, we have the real ambassador aboard our ship.” Captain Keate said. The bridge was a mixture of confusion after that comment was made. Whispers of What’s? Who’s? Why’s? And Where’s filled the atmosphere.

“Excuse me Captain?” Nikmund said with a hint of uncertainty in her voice.

“Well we have been monitoring your mission from the word go, it was just meant to be a simple diplomatic mission, in ambassador negotiates and then out no danger, but Star fleet intelligents got wind of a plot and replaced the ambassador with a decoy….”

Bezan couldn’t help himself. “ Then who is that poor man lying dead in sick bay?”

“Who are you cadet?”

“Cadet First Class Bezan Trul” There was a long pause and then Nikmund scowled at Him and he remembered the chain of command “Sorry Sir”

“That’s ok Cadet Trul, But to answer your question the Brave Officer who gave his life is Lieutenant Gary Peters. He volunteered for the mission and the idea was to draw out the assassins but sadly his lose will be greatly missed.”

“So we were just puppets in this mission” Bezan stated anger fuming in his bones.

“Cadet leave the bridge” Nikmund ordered

“But….”

“That is an order cadet”

Bezan still fumed left the bridge and stood outside for a for minutes and then Nikmund joined him.

“ Ma’am I’m sorry about what happened in there it’s just that……. That man deserves more, he gave his life to star fleet and we were nearly killed, I think he should be….. Be remembered somehow.”

Tag Nikmund

[wford]

"Excuse me, Mr. Ford," said a smaller native. "I think we discovered something you might be interested in."

William watched Joan leave and contemplated asking her to stay and hear what the man had to say, but thought better of it. She ha enough things to worry about at the moment, and if it was anything important he could bring her up to speed. "What is it?" he asked.

The native made an odd guesture, which might have been the equivalent of a shrug. "We weren't sure at first if we should bring this up, but there are many transporters my company has constructed in the last few years. They take a lot more energy than your Federation transporters, but that isn't a problem for us. All we do is install them. Anyway, one of my affiliates noticed that two of them have been moved without our knowledge. Normally we keep a record of all transporter usage, because we don't want a lawsuit. Now that those two are missing, we can't be liable. Its in our contract that if our recordings are blocked or destroyed by transporter users, we cannot be held accountable."

William was confused. "Wait, you said that two were stolen. How?"

"Why, it is quite simple," replied the man. "Our transporters are easilly taken apart and rebuilt elsewhere. How else would we install them outside our factories?"

A shiver ran down William's spine as he made a mental note never to use the transporters on this particular planet. "I see. Thank you for your help."

"Of course," replied the man. "Anything we can do for our future business partners." He smiled and left William to contemplate the latest development.

[anderson]

Joan walked into the meeting, and healed what she could on the two diplomats. She sighed and then realized what she had stumbled onto. She told the cadet, then sat down nearby. Suddenly she heard Alex Nikmud's voice, and jumped.

"Hepta to away team, report," Alex had said and Joan smiled.
"Good to hear your voice Hepta. We lost our ambassador, and the two races are one. It looks like radiation was the cause of the changes with one side of this race," Joan reported hoping things were looking up for their ship.

"Another Federation vessel has come. They are here to help, and should send down an away team to take over the peace talks. They have an ambassador with them. As for our ambassador, he is dead. As soon as the other away team arrives return to the ship," Alex ordered, and Joan complied.

"McCormick to the rest of our away team. Report to the hall below where the peace talks are being held. I will let you know more of what is going on when we meet you there," Joan said and a couple of men strolled in. She smiled.

"Let me guess, you are the ones taking are place?" Joan said, and one of them nodded only. She walked over to her cadet.

"Alright cadet, time for us to leave, lets go find the rest of the away team," Joan said and they walked out and downstairs to where everyone was waiting.

=^=Away team to Hepta. Five to beam up," Joan said looking around. She realized she had missed this, and hoped that soon enough she too would be able to join in on another mission. ~Just not too soon. I'm not sure I could handle another mission right after this one.~ Joan thought. "Energize."

Once back on the ship, Joan went up to the bridge.

"Captain, all aboard and ready to go, confused as ever," Joan reported making Alex smile.

[duplicate]

OOC: That's fine cadet. I like ideas, conspiracies, twists, ect. ect.

IC:

Alex heard about the ship, and realized the cadet had ordered everyone to do things. She sat back and smiled as the cadet did what was needed. She thought about reprimanding him, and then decided not to. She was about to talk to the CO of the ship when the cadet did. She ordered him to go into her ready room and wait for her.

"I'm sorry, sir, that won't happen again. I will talk to him about that. I will also contact the away team having them leave as soon as your guys arrive on the planet. We will get home as soon as we have impulse or warp drive back online. Good luck to you captain," Alex said and left them to their job. She sighed wondering which to get done first, and thought the cadet could wait a few minutes more.

=^=Hepta to away team, report.=^=

Alex listened then issued some orders. She had the link closed knowing they would be aboard soon enough. She sighed and went into her ready room where the cadet was waiting. He said what he had to say.

"Cadet, I fully plan to make sure he is remembered. I'm sure Joan will agree as well as the Commadant when we get back to the starbase. He will stay in sickbay until we get back home. Next time, I suggest you let me talk to the CO of another starship. I don't mind you stuck your nose in there, but its best to let command talk to command. Less tension and all. Right now I need you in Engineering getting our warp and impulse drives back up. We are heading home as soon as possible. Report on the status of those drives when we can get moving. Dismissed," Alex said letting the cadet go.

Alex then headed back to the bridge discovering that the away team was back on board.

"The other ship is going to be taking over. We played decoy long enough. As soon as we have impulse or warp we are heading home," Alex said and told navigations to stand by.

OOC: Alright boys and girls. Let's wrap this up. The mission is basically over.

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As Daniel returned to the Hepta he wondered what he should do now, looking around most of the officers left the Transporter Room. He turned to the Transporter officer and began to ask questions about what he had missed on the ship, knowing he couldn’t just ask the captain. He listened intently to the lieutenant working out he had been on the bridge when the initial attack was made. After listening to him for a few minutes Daniel decided to go to Engineering and see if his fellow cadet was okay.

As Daniel entered the turbolift he was greeted by the face of Bezan looking quite annoyed with something. “Well Bezan what have I missed?” giving Bezan a strong smile to show he just wanted to hear if he was okay.

<Tag Bezan>

“I am sure things will get dealt with when we get back to the Conqueror. But we will not get there very fast if you do not get the engines working” laughing slightly at his joke. Turning to leave Daniel flashed a smile to Bezan. Thinking it was no point him trying to start the evaluations again he went to his quarters to rest, knowing that if anyone did not like that they can always shout at him.

As he entered he picked up his Padd to see if any messages had turned up while he had been away, ~just one from my sis, well I can ignore that till I get back~ moving to the bed he laid down “computer dim lights to 10%, Alert me when we are 1 hour from the Star Base” as the room darkened Daniel fell asleep hoping that nothing else would happen before the got back.

[bezantrul]

"Well Bezan what have i missed" Biers said to Bezan as he lifted his head from his work.

"Well the ambassador isn't the ambassador and he was assasinated,we've been attacked twice and i got to stand on the bridge" Bezan paused thinking about the star fleet officer in sick bay "i just think that man should we should have a ceremony for the man in sickbay, show him some gratitude, but anyway it is good to see you well"

“I am sure things will get dealt with when we get back to the Conqueror. But we will not get there very fast if you do not get the engines working” laughing slightly at his joke. Turning to leave Daniel flashed a smile to Bezan. Thinking it was no point him trying to start the evaluations again he went to his quarters to rest, knowing that if anyone did not like that they can always shout at him.

"Nearly done" Bezan shouted after him in a childishly joking nah nah nenah nahh form.

Then he got back to work with Anderson helping him all the way, When they were done they finnished with one final diagnostic and test program and then Bezan tapped his comm badge.

=/\= Cadet Trul to Commander Nikmund, We're ready to go home=/\=

Nikmund responded and bezan thought to himself now would be a good time to rest.

As if reading his thoughts Anderson turned to him and said " Cadet you can take a little R&R now, You've earned it"

"Thanks ma'am" Bezan said and left the engine room.

~~~~~~~~~A short while later~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Bezan tossed and turned in his bunk he couldn't sleep, so he sat up sliding his legs over the edge. Standing up he walked to the replicator machine and ordered a water. Then he left his quaters for sick bay.

As he walked into sickbay, the silence became eary and he saw the man with a white sheet covering his whole body. He moved closer and took a seat next to the Bio bed. Staring he tried to think of something to say, speaking to the dead was always difficult.

"I'd like to tell you you were very brave, knowing you could die. You must really believe in star fleet. I'll make sure personally that your family are informed." Bezan paused as if waiting for a response or trying to figure out what he would say. "I salute you sir" Bezan stood and saluted then walked out of sick bay.