What The Kosst Just Happened?
Posted on Tue Jan 29th, 2019 @ 7:33pm by Lieutenant Commander Garai Fenia PhD
496 words; about a 2 minute read
Mission:
Season 1 Interlude I (E2.5)
Location: Overwatch Station, Sickbay
Timeline: following "Rodi Kill The Queen"
It was over. They were back and safe. The more she thought about that word, the more she realized when it came to this place it held a rather different meaning. Sickbay was a flurry of quick action. Quarantined triage, with the Marines taking precedence as well as the rescued crew, especially the little slug. What was his name again? Eighte. She'd never met a member of the Aevanari before, only vaguely heard of his race. When this was over and it recovered, she'd have to meet it, talk to it, have a first hand experience.
She'd also have to thank Sergeant Kos and especially Corporal Thorsen for getting her through that kosst hole in one piece. As she stepped into the quarantine area, she could feel herself being stripped out of her jacket that had gotten some of the goo on it when they encountered the woman down in Deep Storage.
Prophets, they were the lucky ones, she and Kos' Marines. All they had to do was go in and assess/rescue and then completely purge the place. Eighte, Commander Mrazak and the others.... How does one deal with what had happened? Or were they just that used to horrors that they just went on with it? Questions plagued Fenia as the fumigation and cleansing process began around her. Her mind focused again and her breath held as she waited for the verdict. From what she knew of the horror that was MT-8756, code named The Synchrony and their methods, she was fairly certain she hadn't been infected. Her Doctorate however was in forensic sciences rather than the Medical field. So her 'assessment' held only so much water.
Garai let out a sigh of relief as the medical technician waved her through, murmuring something she barely registered as she looked over at where the others were receiving treatment. This was to be her future for the time being, it hit her then. Dealing with the horrors to protect Starfleet and the Federation at large from them. Whispers of Memory Theta hardly did them justice, now that she had experienced but a taste of what these people must have dealt with on a daily basis. She was part of this now. Part of the invisible, unknown line of defence.
Another someone murmured something and gently nudged her aside. Her eyes fell on Rodi Kos. They way he fought with the creature...was akin to tales of heroes fighting off terrible monsters in most races' folk tales. It made her wonder if those stories had been based on certain truths never spoken about after the events. Would stories be told about them in centuries and eons to come? Stories another scientist would study to determine the truth of them, just as she had been doing for ages now?
Either way she was part of this now.
"Prophets walk with us all...." she muttered softly as she was lead to a nearby bio bed and examined.
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