Rescue pt 3

Posted on Sat Sep 24th, 2022 @ 3:39pm by Commander Antonia 'Tony" Stoffels & Lieutenant JG Kiara Rahl (Jansen-Carey)

Mission: The Lost Brother

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As Soran's team moved closer to the Bird of Prey twelve Warriors stepped out and headed East. He saw that they were splitting into three groups, they were definitely planning to ambush the Colonel. They were in for quite the surprise he thought with a smile, he turned to Tony.

"Commander, keep the guard on the left in your sights, don't fire till you get my signal." Soran nodded to Drew, "Sergeant activate the COMM jammer."

"Right on it." Tony acknowledged.

Soren moved quickly and silently toward the Warrior on the right. He drew a tactical hypospray, grabbed the guard and tranquilized him.

Soran pushed the warrior aside and looked up to see the second Warrior fall from Tony's shot. He hoped the signal jammers would keep phaser shot from tripping the ship's proximity alarm. The Angosian plugged a code breaker into the door of the vessel. He looked over his shoulder to see the team moving in.

"Drew, deactivate that antenna, Harmon cover him. Wagnor ordered, "The rest of you with me.

Tony nodded and followed Soran while adrenaline flowed through her body. She had always worked out and kept herself combat ready but in a career as a navy counsellor she had not been in many fights before.

Kiara watched silently, keeping an eye out for any unexpected trouble.

The door is open to reveal a Warrior he drew a disruptor and Soran grabbed his arm and the two began grappling.

Tony wanted to help but not get a clear shot. And she dreaded shooting the wrong man by accident. So she kept a close eye on the fight in case she did see a way in and then also watched if Kiara was still safe.

After a quick moment thorn was able to turn the Warrior towards Tony. He heard the shot and felt the Klingon go limp. He nodded to Tony and motion for the team to follow him into the ship.

"Come on." Tony motioned to Kiara. "we need to be quick." She let Kiara proceed her into the ship while she kept up the rear-guard.

Kiara followed on behind the others with Tony following on behind her. Once back at the ship she wanted to check over Soran making sure he was alright after his fight.

Soren and Capelly moved quickly into the ship with the team moving in step behind them. Soran referred to the triquarter strapped to his arm. " There are two human life signs a deck above us. I'm not using the lift."

"There's an access tube." Capelly said. Perhaps we'll have to go up on a time and they probably know we're here."

"I'll open the hatch, you toss this." Soran handed him a grenade. "Then I'll go through."

"Ease up hero!" The marine barked. It's my turn."

From the smile on face he knew it was a playful jab. He'd felt his shoulder pop while I'll grappling with the Klingon so letting someone else take the lead was a solid plan.

"Alright I'll still grab the hatch you toss the grenade and go."

Kiara was watching, noticing Soran appeared to have injured his shoulder. “I can take a look at your shoulder for you Commander.”

"There's no time, I'll be fine." Soran spoke in his calm command voice. "Once we get that hatch open everybody goes up the ladder, deal with what you find at the top."

"Can you climb?" Tony asked under her breath while she still kept an eye out for any ambushes.

"Yes." Soran whispered. Before climbing up behind Capelly The men adjusted themselves on the ladder so that they could both reach the hatch. Soran pried the hatch open and Capelly threw a stun grenade and they shielded their eyes flash. Capelly jumped through and a firefight began.

"Go time!" Soran shouted.

As she was not a combat officer Tony kept an eye on the rear and kept keeping an eye on Kiara's security and moving her along safely so that when they got to the hostages she could do her job.

Wagnor came up through the hatch and began laying down suppression fire.

Carter climbed the ladder. He went through the hatch and then reached down and offered a hand to Kiara, while Soran and Capelly stood guard.

Kia took the helping hand, she was hating that everyone was looking out for her, but she had little choice.

Capelly looked at Wagnor, he'd seen a lot of men in combat. Everyone's reaction was a little different, but this man's face was so calm. He didn't think the Stoffels would be so close to a sociopath, but... His eyes looked cold.

“Are you going to let me look at that shoulder now Commander?” Kiara moved across to Soran. “You need to be able to use it.”

Before Soran could answer the lieutenant a door hissed open and he charged forward, the Angosian let out a battle yell. He drove the butt of his rifle into the head of the warrior who'd opened the door. Capelly was at his side and shot another Klingon before he could react. They were now in a narrow narrow corridor from here on out it would be close quarters fighting. Wagnor checked to see if the whole team was behind him. He adjusted the grip on his rifle to better use it as a melee weapon.

Tony felt anadrenalie rush herself as she followed. But she also worried about her brother and Tasin aand was praying they would find them alive. So she kept up the rear looked out for an ambush and was not paying attention to Ren very much.

Wagnor looked nodded to Capelly before changing the door at the end corridor the marine moved instep with him. A door hissed open a door hissed open behind Soran and a Warrior stepped out swinging a mek'leth at Tony.

“Commander!” Kiara spun around motioning to the company they now had, and the fact that he was heading for Tony.

Tony saw him a fraction to late and had trouble deflecting the blow and was now off balance but not injured yet.

“What kind of Klingon warrior fights an unarmed woman?” Kiara looked at the Klingon. “Afraid your Klingon honour will be tarnished when you’re beaten by a female?”

The warrior gave grinned Kiara his mek'leth and pulled his daqtagh and squared of with her.

Kiara hadn’t let anyone know what her interests were until now, as she stepped over and picked up the mek’leth. Swinging it around a few times for balance she smiled. “Perfect, so...let’s have a little fun shall we?”

A phaser bolt hit the Warrior straight between the eyes, the Klingon went down. "We don't have time for that Kiara, You're the Medic! You can't go down!"

Soran said calmly, "I'll take that."

He motioned to the mek'leth, then in a quiet voice. "I'll make it up to you later."

Kiara nodded. “Sorry Sir, Commander” She looked towards Soran then Tony. “I don’t normally leap into a fight.”

Tony had to swallow away jealousy. "good job, Kiara." She said."Thank you for saving me."

Kiara offered a polite nod. “I didn’t mean to leap in quite so dramatically, I just saw an opportunity to help and took it. To be honest I feel like a spare wheel with everyone looking out for me.”

Soran turned his attention back to the door Capelly bypassed the lock and the door hissed open. The Angosian stepped through there was a shout, a clash of metal and a severed Warrior's head rolled into the corridor. Capelly stepped over the Klingon's head and followed Soran. There more shouts as the others followed into the room.

A Warrior thrust a painstick into Soran’s chest as he charged into the chamber. He could feel his shoulder coming out of joint as he slashed the Klingons chest. Soran could see Capelly grappling with the other Warrior. Lieutenant Carter charged in to Capelly, he brought the butt of his rifle down the enemy's head. As he did he slipped on the block on the floor and their was sickening cracking sound has he land on his back on the deck. Capelli dispatched his opponent and turned to help lad. While Soren turns attention to the two prisoners.

Two young men were laying on the ground both covered in blood and filth. The youngest a brown haired young man who looked in his early twenties was unconcious. The other man, a redhead with grey eyes looked a few years older, his pale face made him look even younger but his eyes were open and stared at the rescuers.

"You took your time." he whispered.

"Really?" Soran smiled. "Show little gratitude smart ass."

The fingers on his left hand were going numb from having his shoulder dislocated and he was shaking from the painstick. Soran activated is COMM "Wagnor to Drew, do you have the anti-beaming field down yet?"

=^= We're in business, Sir. You better hurry!

"Tas!" Tony said. She looked between the two men.

"He is alive, Tony but in a bad way." Tasin winced. "And I can't move."

Tony looked at Kiara. She did not have a medical tricorder on her herself. Then she noticed Ren.

"Kiara look after my brother and Tasin London, if you have a spare med kit I will look at Ren."

"No, check on London and Stoffels and get them transported to the Resolution." Soran barked. Tony help Capelly with Carter. "

Inside Kiara was reeling at having to step over a severed head, but she was doing her best not to show it. She could see Soran was in need of urgent treatment, but orders were orders. She nodded before grabbing a spare kit and tricorder for Tony. “Commander...here you go.”

"Thanks Kiara." Tony said and then turned back to Ren. "With respect commander. You need help now to make it back to the ship as well. And I am making both a medical and a command decision." She said firmly. "It will take a minute to give you more pain control and something against shock. You will be no use to us in shock. Remember I have a medical degree."

Soran nodded and let her inject him.

Making her way over to Tasin and Nick, Kiara quickly scanned them both. “We need to get these men out of here ASAP!” She grabbed out her emergency medkit and did what she could, but both men were in need of urgent sickbay treatment.

"This man has compound fracture!" Capelly said, as he tried to aid Carter.

"We need to get him to the Resolution as well." Soran said.

Saran took one of the transport beacons off of Kiara belt, "Secure the other two to London and Stoffels."

“Aye Sir” Kiara did as ordered placing one on Tasin London and the other on Nick Stoffels.

"Commander this man's going in shock," Capelly called out. As tried to aid Carter.

Carter let out a cry of pain, "first away mission and I broke an ankle slipping on the floor!"

"You're survived boarding a Klingon vessel," Soran clipped the bean on to him. "You did good kid."

"Wagnor to Resolution, three two beam directly to Sickbay."

"Acknowledged." Xavier replied, "give us a few seconds, we are a bit busy..." The ship rocked "Get repair crews to deck 7. Beaming now Commander."

OOC: Currently have a jp started but michael (Chief tactical officer isn't responding... :( )

The three wounded men dematerialized.

Tony sagged against the wall as the adrenaline got to her. Her brother and Tasin were alive and they had good chance to survive. They had done it.

“Are you alright Commander?” Kiara looked to Tony as she made her way over to Soran. “Your shoulder is badly dislocated Commander, I can see that just by looking at you. The sooner it’s put back, the better off you’ll be.”

"I'm fine." Tony gathered herself. "Can I help?" She nodded towards Ren.

"Let's put it back it doesn't have to be perfect, but we're not done here." Soran said looking at carnage.

Tony was still trying not to look too closely at the room. She had to keep her head together and keep functioning. There would be time to break down later. "We need to take some prisoners to figure out what happened here." Tony said.

Now Kiara’s patients were gone she was standing trying not to fall apart, the shock of seeing the chopped off head combined with the state of her current surroundings was a disturbing to say the least.

"Don't bother numbing me up, just pop the joint back in. I'm used to it… Kiara?" Soran said.

Kiara heard her name called, quickly wiping away a tear she turned to look at Soran. “Sorry Commander, I was just...daydreaming.” She walked over to him positioning her hands on his shoulder. “Are you sure you want to do this here? Sickbay might be better.”

"Just do it Lieutenant," He said quietly, he put one of the straps of his tactical vest between his teeth and bit down.

"He is tough." Tony said and held him so he could not move even if he had no intention to. Better safe than sorry. "Do it now."

Kiara nodded. “Okay on three...one, two...” She didn’t bother with three as she popped Soran’s dislocation back where it was supposed to be positioned. The pop was audible. “There..”

Soran felt the pressure and heard a pop, for a moment the pain was an excruciating. He felt the circulation returning to his left arm and his fingers felt all tingley. He nudged Tony out of his way and vomited.

Kiara waited before offering a wet wipe along with a hypo of pain relief. “How does you feel? Have you got sensation back?”

"Thank you, I can feel my fingers now." Soran said. Wiping his mouth, he waved away the hypo spray. "Pains gone, I don't need that."

The Angosian didn't look anyone in the eye as he assisted the situation.

Tony grabbed the hypospray from Kiara. "We need you functioning, not showing off how tough you are. Let's get some prisoners and move back to the ship."

"It has nothing to do with being tough, the meds cloud my perception, like you said need me functioning." Soran said, pushing the hypospray away.

"You think I would let them carry something that would could you?" Tony whispered. "Trust me, Ren. You need to focus on getting us out of here. Not on keeping your composure. Let me help."

"Fine go ahead," Soran said.

"Thank you." She whispered back. "And I am sorry." Tony knew she should not have tried to badger him, old memories of his therapy came back. But the situation of the bodies around her was getting to her. She could smell the klingon blood around her.

Kiara was focussing on getting the hell out of their current situation, that and Soran’s high pain tolerance. “You must have one hell of a pain tolerance Commander.”

Soran was interrupted by Capelly's communicator.

=^=Wrasse to Capelly

"Capelly here, " the Marine Captain answered.

"We gotta get your team off that vessel, we're picking up an energy spike in the engines." The pilot said, We think they've activated a self-destruct system. We'll have a transporter lock on you in a moment."

"Do it," Soran said.

Capelly activated his communicator "Capelly to Drew, report."

=^= Ensign Hampton and I have taken three prisoners and we're ready to transport. This kid's not bad for a navy grunt."

"Good work. But let's get the hell out of here now!" Tony said.

Wagnor's team materialized on the marine shuttle, The shuttle was moving too quickly for the inertia dampeners. Soran felt another bout of nausea, but he was able to keep his composure.

Tony nearly lost her footing but managed not to completely fall on her face. Then she began to smile. They had bloody done it. Nick and Tasin were safe.

The shuttle rocked forward Soran grabbed a railing and put an arm round Kiara to keep her from falling out of her seat.

Kiara offered a polite smile as Soran held her up, she appreciated that he was looking out for her.

Tony braced herself and managed to keep her seat somehow. Again there was that tiny twinge of jealousy when she saw Ren helping Kiara.

"The other teams are in trouble, we need to give them air support." Capelly said. "The Resolution is not answering our hails, we're on our own."

"Shit." Tony said now worrying about her mother. "Proceed with the air support." She did not have to tell them to be carefull not to hit their own people. "and get contact with the Resolution back ASAP."

Yes ma'am," Capelly nodded. It would be best if we could draw some of those Warriors Warriors away from our personal."

Soran stood and grabbed his rifle, " We can beam down and attack their flank. That should draw them away."

Tony sought Ren's face to make eye contact and ask him that way if he was really up to it. If not she would take command now.

"We're not done yet," Soran said calmly. "I've got this."

"The fleet boys have done their part," Capelly said. "Give my Marines a chance, besides I think we both know the Commander is the best shot of anyone here. "

Tony nodded. "I believe you. We have to save my mum now." She knew Capelly understood, the man was utterly loyal to her father.

Soran took the extra power packs for his rifle and handed them to Tony, " Be careful down there I'll take the tactical station."

He gave capelli a serious look, "you take care of my people."

"Of course, Sir."

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