Season 2 Ep 1 Page 03

- USS Tomcat - Bridge -

=/\=Sterling to Tomcat, are your sensors detecting anything unusual =/\=

"If necessary we can move a couple of table beside this beam here Commander Sterling, the tables will absorb any small arms impacts. And it would allow time to beam out if necessary too." Cahill said after Sterling finished talking to the Captain.

"Good idea doctor do you have a tri-coder, can you scan for belligerents"

“Yes Commander”

Activating the Comms =/\= Only explosions Commander, what in blue blazes is happening down there? =/\= Jasmine asked.

=/\= Seems all hell is breaking loose, but so far I haven't seen any enemy troops so is this a terrorist attack or an actual enemy action, and if so who is the enemy?=/\=

=/\= I see do you need extra troops? =/\= She asked.

=/\=Yes Ma'am precaution would seem to indicate that caution is the better part of valour=/\=

Looking at Donovan =/\=Understood Maia sit tight extraction team is en-route, Tomcat out =/\= Jasmine said and swivelled to face Donovan. "Major get an extraction team together and get our people out of there, if you can pull the other Captain's out, do so, but do not compromise your team." She said.

Donovan looked at her Commander and nodded and quickly left the bridge.

- Galen IV Meeting Room -

Alexanderia looked at her tri-corder and found something odd. It showed the explosions were in areas that had no importance and seemed to be a distraction. oO Odd Oo she thought to herself, no real high targets of military importance. If we were under attack it would be illogical to do this. She looked around. And noticed everyone in the room was as surprised as she was. She moved closer to Sterling.

In a low voice so others did not hear her talking she spoke.

"Commander take a look the explosions are targets of no military importance and appear to be a distraction. But what the distraction is for I don't know."

Cahill was looking at her tri-corder and heard what Commander Sterling said. She pulled up the information and reached out to Sterling. “This way there is no way anyone other than us know what we are doing. Take a look for yourself Commander Sterling, still not sure what is going on."

She heard the Klingon’s taking, And makes out like she could not understand them but she did listen to what they were saying. oO They seemed to know less than we do and are also taking in the little information they can gather. Oo Cahill thought to herself.

Cahill looked at Commander Sterling, in a low voice and says to her. “The Klingon’s have 2 platoons ready to beam down if Captain Dorf tells them too." She said.

=/\=Lemoris to Sterling, I found Lt. Sheela we are heading your way, there is a lot of fire in our area, please have Dr Cahill standing by just in case=/\=

=/\= "Lemoris to Sterling, I found Lt. Sheela we are heading your way, there is a lot of fire in our area, please have Dr Cahill standing by just in case"=/\=

=/\= "Acknowledged, Dr Cahill will be standing by. Do you require assistance"? =/\=

=/\= No Ma'am I think we can handle it, I will call you if we need help, you might want to tell the Tomcat tol get a transporter lock on us just in case. =/\=

=/\= "Understood Jelan keep your head down".

Maia tried her best to find out who the assistant administrator was and he was the Romulan V'kar. It turned out he was dead too...So much for a functioning government.

=/\= Sterling to Tomcat. I am sorry to report that the mission has failed, but the administrator and assistant administrator are dead, we are awaiting instructions =/\=

Jasmine looked around, suddenly things taking a turn for the worst, pressing the button on her chair arm.

=/\= Tomcat here, Maia link up with Major Donovan and get to their beam in site, make sure all our people are with you before you leave, also I will want a sitrep when you get back =/\= Jasmine said.

Sheela ran around the corner, skidded to a stop as her eyes opened wide at the chaos she had caused at the Communication / Computer Building as it was ablazed with smoke pouring out the various windows on all levels of the two story building. She blinked and looked at the little case she was carrying.

"Oh squeakies!" Sheela gasped and then laughed softly in her place of observation.

Armed troops from the various ships and the Talarian's strong presence of their security troops out numbering those that came from the ship.

Sheela activated her Commbadge to include the Tomcat and those of the Tomcat Crew on the ground. =/\= Squeak! Colony Data storage and Com's building on fire. 6 Orion Security Forces; 3 Cardasian Troops; 5 Klingon troops; 2 Romulan troops; plus 10 Talarian Sec-troops dead. =/\= Sheela calmly reported. Watching a platoon of Marines appear several seconds after she reported over the Comms channel. =/\= Exy! Iz have requested. =/\=

Sheela moved back into the shadows out of sight, but could watch the enfolding drama.

As Bravo Unit materialized Donovan turned to her second "Jelan take six Rifles and go get Lieutenant Sheela and bring her back to the meeting building" She said.

“Yes Sir” Jelan responded.

As the Marine Captain took half of Bravo Unit to go locate Sheela Donovan and her group not encountering any hostiles for the moment made it to the building where the briefing was taking place, she looked around as other Bravo rifles took up defensive positions.

Cahill was looking at her tri-corder and heard what Commander Sterling said. She pulledl up the information and reached out to Sterling. “This way there is no way anyone other than us know what we are doing. Take a look for yourself Commander Sterling, still not sure what is going on."

She heard the Klingon’s taking, And makes out like she could not understand them but she did listen to what they were saying. oO They seemed to know less than we do and are also taking in the little information they can gather. Oo Cahill thought to herself.

Cahill looked at Commander Sterling, in a low voice and says to her. “The Klingon’s have 2 platoons ready to beam down if Captain Dorf tells them too." She said.

“Keep any eye on it” She said.

"Commander Sterling is Doctor Cahill with you and are any of the other ships Captain's here?" Donovan asked, she realized that using the Captain's private bodyguard unit was Somers making a statement, saying you screw with my people and friends you will face my best troops.

"Ah Major, just in time. Just about, Dr. Cahill is in the next corridor looking for the administrator. We are uninjured. We are however missing Lt Sheela. I was just trying to get a fix on her location. She is somewhere near the records center or the computer core". Sterling replied.

Major Donovan turned to Capt. Lemoris and said.

"Jelan take six Rifles and go get Lieutenant Sheela and bring her back to the meeting building" Donavan ordered.

"Yes Sir! Rifle team two and three follow me". Jelan ordered.

Jelan led his team out and disappeared into the smoke.

Suddenly there was another explosion then two more...Maia heard what she thought was disruptor fire.

"Marine Captain Lemoris has gone looking for Sheela, he will meet us at our beam in site, we must go now before any hostiles get this far in."

"No Major we need to try and find some of the other starship captains. We are charged with their protection". Maia said

=/\= Sterling to Dr Cahill where are you"? =/\=

A Marine Unit from the Tomcat arrived Cahill heard the noise of a transporter beaming in and decided to make her way back to Sterling after double checking the Talarian Administrator who was partially covered by the ceiling which fell in on him when a near explosion rocked the building.

Cahill went over to check him for any signs of life "It is to late he is dead." She said as she looked at Commander Sterling and shook her head sadly. She heard her name mentioned and loudly said "I am returning to Commander Sterling now and the Administrator is dead." I rejoin them and standby to see what happens next.

- Transporter Rooms 1 + 2 - USS Tomcat -

Donovan had assembled the whole of Bravo Unit and all had assembled in the transporter room. As they set their Phaser Rifles to heavy stun the transporter operator in both transporter rooms beamed them down to the same location. Hearing of and knowing what was going on down on the planet were two different things.

- Galen IV - Beam in site - Meeting Room -

A Marine Unit from the Tomcat arrived Cahill heard the noise of a transporter beaming in and decided to make her way back to Sterling after double checking the Talarian Administrator who was partially covered by the ceiling which fell in on him when a near explosion rocked the building.

Cahill went over to check him for any signs of life "It is to late he is dead." She said as she looked at Commander Sterling and shook her head sadly. She heard her name mentioned and loudly said "I am returning to Commander Sterling now and the Administrator is dead." I rejoin them and standby to see what happens next.

"Bravo Unit is here to extract our people and any ship Captain's that wish to leave this place" She said then looked over at the far corner of the building and saw Administrator Krolic's lifeless body crushed under part of the ceiling, sadly shaking her head, she returns her attention to Sterling.

"Marine Captain Lemoris has gone looking for Sheela, he will meet us at our beam in site, we must go now before any hostiles get this far in." With that Donovan fell silent.

"No Major we need to try and find some of the other Starship captains. We are charged with their protection". Maia said

Sheela watched a team of marines split off from the main group. All she now had to do was get by the Talarian Security Forces which were showing up in force and stopping everyone that was an off worlder.

She was stuck there as the Talarian Security Forces were pretty much everywhere and now escorting their prisoners off to someplace out of sight. All she had to do was avoid getting caught till she met up with the marines that were obviously sent to find her.

She moved behind some garbage cans in the shadow, where she could watch everything the best she can without being discovered by anyone, unless she wanted to be found.

Sheela shook her head as she literally screwed the pooch on this one big time. But was she gonna confess this? No way. Let the blame fall on the Orion’s or one of the others. Klingon’s she could run circles around them. Romulan’s were tougher. Cardies, she just made their lives miserable and frustrated as all get out to the point they just packed up and left.

=/\= Squeak! Colony Data storage and Com's building on fire. 6 Orion Security Forces; 3 Cardasians Troops; 5 Klingon troops; 2 Romulan troops; plus 10 Talarian Sec-troops dead. =/\=

Maia knew that was Sheela...

"Did you hear that, Looks like Sheela has run into some trouble". Maia said.

“This way there is no way anyone other than us know what we are doing. Take a look for yourself Commander Sterling, still not sure what is going on." Cahill replied.

Maia helped Dr Cahill turn over a table to help absorb the impact of small arms fire, it wouldn't last long but it was better than nothing.

=/\="We could use a little help down here Captain".

=/\="Understood Maia sit tight extraction team is en-route, Tomcat out" =/\= Somers replied.

Sheela sat in her hidey spot, keeping an eye out on the situation. It had gone to hell in a hand basket! Suddenly the Com's and Data storage building exploded again with another gout of flames. It seamed that someone wasn't lucky to grab their bag of tricks with them. Another explosion sounded in the distance and the whole community was up in arms.

She looked around from her spot and the colonist was running all over the place. She was about to move when her Commbadge went off. She covered it quickly with her hand, to muffle the emitter.

=/\="Sterling to Lt Sheela, What is your position"?=/\=

=/\= Squeak. Iz hundred and fifty meters from the Com's and Data Storage building. Exy =/\= Sheela responded back to Sterling just as she saw Captain Lemoris with his troops.

"Sheela where are you?" Lemoris shouted after he noted a dampening field that was scrambling his tri-corder..

Sheela smiled and slipped out from her hiding spot. "Squeak!" She yelled to get Lemoris attention, waving both her hands to show she was unharmed. She waited for the Marines to give her the signal it was safe to for her to approach them. She kept an eye over her shoulders as she moved to put the building between her and the trigger happy Colonist.

Jelan and his fire team were looking around for Lt Sheela when he heard her talking..

"Squeak. Iz hundred and fifty meters from the Com's and Data Storage building. Exy"

"Lt Sheela"? Jelan asked.

"Iz here!" hoping she won’t get shot in the process.

Jelan checked her over for wounds, then said "I'm under orders to find you and take you back to Commander Sterling, looks like we are getting out of here. Follow me".

Sheela approached the Captain Lemoris and his team, keeping her hands visible as she scampered up to the team. Nodding to each as they gave her a smile and nod.

"I'm under orders to find you and take you back to commander Sterling, looks like we are getting out of here. Follow me". Lemoris spoke to her when she got within the group.

"Squeakies. like old times Captain?" Sheela let him check her over. "Lead the way." She took her place within the platoon. On of the soldiers gave her one of his extra weapon for the "just in case" scenario to her. She was in excellent health. Just a bit more dirtier from all the running around.

Sheela made a quick check and smiled widely as she had all of her equipment with her. Plus the info she acquired from the Colony's Science department building.

"Yeah were still getting shot at, also in case you didn't know the chief administrator is dead, Im not really sure who is in charge of this goat rope anymore".

Jelan carefully looked her over for wounds and once he was satisfied Sheela wasn't injured, lead the way back to Commander Sterling. The place looked pretty shot up, dead bodies were everywhere and in the distance Jelan could hear what sounded like disruptor fire.

"Squeak," Sheela spoke as she shrugged as she got in line with the troops, nodding to those that were familiar with her and with them.

"Stay behind me Sheela I'll get you out of here, I think we are going to head back up to the Tomcat, were you able to find anything useful?."

"Squell, yup!" Sheela spoke as she moved up behind Lemoris. "A gold mine in mineral wealth. Also a source chemical to K-White." She said moving with him back to join up with the rest of Away Team and the other Marines.

"Stay behind me Sheela I'll get you out of here, I think we are going to head back up to the Tomcat, were you able to find anything useful?."

I smile as Lt Sheela comes around the corner with the rest of the team following closely. "Commander Sterling. The other team approaching by the Eastern corridor. Everyone watch your fire. No you are just in time for your check up Sheela. Want to do it her or on the Tomcat?"

Sheela squeak/giggles hearing the comeback from Alexanderia. She stops and gives Alexanderia a quick hug, "Iz like yooz. When wez get on the Tomcat." Moving off to join Sterling and the rest of the away team and the Marines. "Iz have the goods yooz requested." Looking at Sterling.

Cahill gave Sheela a hug and smile, "you know I did all physicals before we let the docking station and everyone including you is good to go. Unless you are injured or transfer to another ship." She said.

"Iz know, Doc," As she slipped several discs into Cahill's uniform pocket, while Sheela kept her distracted during the hug.

she listened to what was said and kept a watch out for anything unusual. Only a couple of flickers so far and nothing to worry about. The attackers may be doing recon to see what kind of assets that are here and what they will need for an attack.

Then she scampered off to see Sterling. " Commander Steringz. Iz got the goods, lets leave while leaving is good."

Having completed her task Donovan and her squad returned to the meeting all and looked at Sterling "All people accounted for Commander, I do agree with the El tee we should be going, things are getting worse out there" She said.

With that Donovan looked at Sheela and now pulled rank "Lieutenant Sheela, could you please remove whatever you put in doctor Cahill's pouch and hand them over to me" Donovan phrased it as an order, for a Major was equal to that of a Lieutenant Commander, she held her hand out for the items Sheela placed into the Doctors bag unbeknown to Cahill.

”Whot stuff? All in the Doctors bag is her medical stuff.” Sheela looked at Donovan. Totally carefree and business like.

"Lieutenant Sheela, please do not lie to me I am a telepath and I know you placed items into the doctors bag, kindly hand them over" When they were handed to her Donovan looked at Sterling "Here you go Commander, please make sure the senior Staff get a look at these for some reason Lieutenant Sheela is trying to pass to the right flank when she should be passing back.. Ahem slight of hand" Donovan added at a strange look on her terminology from Sterling.

Alexanderia watches what is going on and then moves into position for beam out. She makes sure that there is some separation between herself and Major Donovan. By allowing a couple of others stand between them.

"Ready to beam out when ready Commander Sterling."

Maia spied Sheela and the others running towards her.

Finally everyone was here..

"Good Lets get the hell out of here"

=/\="Sterling to Tomcat Landing party ready to beam up"=/\=

As we are about to beam out I hear explosions in other areas of the compound. "Looks like we are leaving at the right time the perimeter is starting to collapse around us." She smiled as the familiar sound comes through of the transporter beaming the away teams out.

Once on the ship, Cahill looked around, oO so nice to be home and in a reasonably safe place Oo She thought and stepped aside and waited for further orders.

Maia had a few things to answer for this mission was a failure and she couldn't even begin to guess at what happened both the administrator and his deputy were dead and the Galen IV peace talks ended in disaster.

She smiles as Sheela shows her the cotton balls and then adjusts her bag for comfort after she puts it back on.

"Squeak-ever," Sheela reached into Cahill's medical bag and pulled out the first thing she touched. A small baggy of cotton balls and handed them over to Donovan. "Happy now? Don't yooz feel real great that yooz foiled the great Cotton ball Caper from this colony? Now the citizens can resume their happy life again knowing their cotton balls are safe from the likes of mez."

Everyone watching this turned away to hide their smiles. Sheela stared right back at Donovan. "Iz will be sure to put yooz in for a medal."

Sheela walked off, resettling her pouches of equipment about her waist. Moving towards the pick up point.

With that the Marines and the Fleet Officers stood close "Ready to beam up when you are Commander" Donovan said to Sterling as she gave a sad shake of her head when looking at Sheela.

What ever was handed over to Donovan, were definitely different that Donovan thought they was. But then people were always accusing Sheela of strange things when they don’t understand. As for a telepath accusing someone and being wrong. Definitely will ruin their credibility.

She looked at Major Donavan, and removed her medical bag from her shoulder. She handed it to her and the stepped back.

"You have my permission to search it if you feel it is necessary. I do not break Starfleet rules and regulations Major Donavan. You may have whatever it is. And I do not like being made a pawn in something."

Looking at the Doctor "relax Doctor Cahill, I am not accusing you of anything, you are an unwitting pawn in this so you are innocent" Donovan said as she reached into the bag and pulled out the items Sheela had placed in there, she did it because Sheela did not move.

For her own reasons Sterling remained silent.

With that the Marines and the Fleet Officers stood close " Ready to beam up when you are Commander" Donovan said to Sterling as she gave a sad shake of her head when looking at Sheela..

As for being a Major in the military there are times when something that even those outside of Intelligence shouldn’t dare to tread. Sheela ignored Donovan. And was acting way too calm, given the situation.

With that the Marines and the Fleet Officers stood close " Ready to beam up when you are Commander" Donovan said to Sterling as she gave a sad shake of her head when looking at Sheela.

Maia just shrugged puzzled.

Cahill looked at everyone with a puzzled look on my face she did not exactly know what is going on so she stood still. oO I don't want it to look like I am part of something I know nothing about. Oo She thought to herself and she looked at Commander Sterling and awaited orders on what to do.

=/\=Understood Commander, get it done and beam back up, Tomcat out =/\= with that she closed the link as the crew and ship went to Red Alert.

Jelan and his team continued the search they ran into some Talarian’s who had captured a group of Orion terrorists. The rifles made it to the Commcenter and found it on fire..

"Sheela where are you He shouted after he noted a dampening field that was scrambling his tri-corder.."

“Iz am here” Sheela responded.

Maia then heard the thrum of a Federation transporter then watched as Major Donovan and Capt. Lemoris along with a squad of rifles materialized.

Jelan and his 2 fire teams searched the corridors heading to the computer core and ran into Dr Cahill.

"Dr Cahill where are you heading did you find the administrator"?

"I am returning to Commander Sterling now and the Administrator is dead".

Cahill returned to Commander Sterling and took up a position with her and the other Marines. "The administrator is dead; from his injuries and there are a few other minor injuries of other colonist but their medical teams have it under control. I also passed the other team of Marines looking for Lieutenant Sheela; I let them know that I was coming back here to standby with you. The Klingon’s were talking in Klingon and they have 2 platoons of Marines standing by to transport down if needed. They seem relived that the Federation Marines are on the ground and securing a safe area for now." Cahill reported.

“Understood Lieutenant, we need to get out of here” Sterling said.

She noticed some flickers of movement in the area but none showed their presence so they cannot be identified. The Marines had established a defensive parameter so that they can provide all necessary defence if anything happened.

Looking at Sterling “The other delegations are nervous but seem relieved there are extra security forces here. I heard that some Orion’s were taken prisoner while I was out checking the wounded and injured." Cahill reported.

Two marines expand the size of the defensive area to make room for the rest to return to our position and I make ready in case someone is injured. I look at Commander Sterling and smile giving her a thumbs up to let her know we are ready when they return.

She is still seeing some shadows moving in one of the hallways. She decides to mention it to Commander Sterling. She points to the hallway, "Commander we have some move in the east hallway. Not sure who it is though."

A marine had given her a phaser rifle if she needed it, she picked it up in case cover fire is needed.

- Meeting Site - Galen IV -

Sheela came scampering around the corner right into Alexaneria view. Seeing the weapon pointed right at her. "Oh Squeakies! Iz didn't know yooz hated Rodents... Or did Iz miss my latest medical check-up?"

Alexanderia smiled as Lt Sheela comes around the corner with the rest of the team following closely. "Commander Sterling the other team approaching by the Eastern corridor. Everyone watch your fire. No you are just in time for your check up Sheela. Want to do it her or on the Tomcat?"

She put herself on standby to treat any injuries. As they came in as they did she checked them over and find only minor bumps and bruises. One Marine has a minor cut that she treated and stopped the bleeding in a few seconds. Like all marines he complains and tries to avoid the treatment.

"I am relieved everyone is back in one piece. I look at Commander Sterling and Captain Jelan. OK what is the plan now?

“I am okay” Jelan responded.

“I am good, but we may have trouble” Sterling responded shortly after.

Sheela winked at Alexandria, letting the Medic know she was joking. Giving the young woman a pat on the shoulder for her vigilance. " Good work, Doc."

Cahill was taken aback by Sheela’s sudden show of affection.

Moving onto Sterling, "Wez sturred up a hornets nest here." Looking around at all the dead. "Wez leaving soon?"

"Yes we are Lieutenant"

As they were about to beam out Cahill heard explosions in other areas of the compound. "Looks like we are leaving at the right time the perimeter is starting to collapse around us." She smile as the familiar sound comes through of the transporter beaming the away teams out.

- USS Tomcat – Transporter Room/Bridge -

While things were happening down on the planet, Jasmine headed down to the transporter room and waited for the away teams to arrive back on the ship.

=/\="Sterling to Tomcat Landing party ready to beam up"=/\=

From her position in the transporter room Jasmine answered the Communications =/\= energizing =/\= She said and closed the link.

Once on the ship, Cahill looked around, oO so nice to be home and in a reasonably safe place Oo She thought and stepped aside and waited for further orders.

Jasmine was standing there looking at the away teams, she studied Donovan who gave her a telepathic report, but this only darkened her mood, as she looked at Sheela, then finally to Sterling with crossed arms. Standing straight she looked at the teams.

"Okay all but Commander Sterling, Major Donovan and Lieutenant Sheela are free to leave and get cleaned up" She said and looked at Cahill "fine job Lieutenant, now go get you cleaned up and return to your duties in sickbay" She said.

"Thank you Captain" As she snapped to attention and took her leave

Nodding in response she waited till Cahill and the other away team members had left and then returned her attention to the remaining three "Okay all three of you, my Ready Room, now" She said and it was not a request, she watched them leave the transporter room, she turned to the transporter operator and gave him a sad and resigned smile, the Petty Officer had been with her from the start.

With that she left the transporter room and headed up to her Ready Room a longer way to allow her three Officers to get to her ready room first.

Once on board the Tomcat, Sheela recovered the disc she had stashed on Cahill uniform. She carried her pack with her gear over one shoulder, head to secure her gear, but was delayed by Somers to report to the Ready Room. She nodded and took off quickly, pausing long enough to drop off her gear in her den and beat feet up to the ready room with the disc that was causing a lot of fuss over.

Maia materialized on the pad...oO What a zoo!0o she thought.

She looked around just to make sure the rest of the team was with her.

"Everyone okay"

The others seemed to just nod.

Captain Somers met them halfway to the briefing room, dismissed some of the others and had Sterling, Donovan and Sheela follow her hew rest of the way to the Captain's ready room.

Maia listened as Sheela made her report.

"So Maia, concerning Sheela and Donovan and what happened between them on the planet?" The Captain asked.

Maia thought about that before she replied.

"They are both good officers but Sheela is unorthodox in her approach to her duties, that being said I must concur with her opinion. We beamed down into a carefully laid trap. I don't know yet if the civilian government was involved as most of the government is now dead. It would seem that our whole purpose for being here is now gone. The shock troops were Orion not Romulan, however they had a cloaking technology that effectively hid the ground troops from orbital scans. The precision of the attack was well executed, and the provisional militia was overrun in less than twenty minutes. There were three attack waves, and the total amount of troops used was approximately 30,000. They gave better than they got. There armour was advanced The Citadel was guarded by 5000 colonists militia. They struck the head, heart and main body. They did not take prisoners. It was all we could do to get the computer core before it was destroyed and then get out of there. Had we had the entire battalion we wouldn't have made much of a difference".

She watched things happening and used the time to see how the crew was responding to the high level of stress from the mission. Everyone seemed to be holding up well. As Ensign brought by a table for me to review. After she reviewed it she acknowledge she had seen the information and handed it back to her.

She looked at the screen and watched what the other ships were doing and wondering what will happen next.

- CMO's Office Sick Bay -

Not knowing what was going on she went to Sick Bay and entered her office. She removed her jacket due to it being dirty and hung it on a chair. She then checked out all reports from the Head Nurse and ACMO. Everything went like clockwork while she was away.

She went to the replicator and got a cup of strong coffee and took a drink. She activate the lock on the door to keep everyone out and then removed all her clothes and went to the shower to clean up.

She finished her shower and came back out. She picked up a robe and put on and then took her clothes over and put the dirty ones in the sonic cleaner. She turned it on and went about her duties. With it being 2AM no one would be likely to bother her. Checking all medical reports on injuries and all other patients. She got a frees cup of coffee and a steak dinner from the replicator. She sat at her desk and was thinking.

I take the uniform out of the sonic cleaner and hang it in a storage cubical where I keep extra uniforms should I need them. Sometimes I slept in my office to be close to what was going on in Sick Bay.

oO She finished eating and got rid of the left overs and got another cup of coffee and decided to take a stroll. She ended up on the bridge and just stood there looking around and thinking. She watched as things was happening around me and could not help but think of what the future held. The OA was a complete trap and we were lucky no one got killed or seriously hurt. What She saw from the Orions was it seemed they were there to take prisoners and to transfer them back to be slaves for them somewhere. She had filed a written report with her thoughts to the Captain and decided to let her handle it the way she seen fit.

- Captain's Ready Room -

As Jasmine entered all three Officers were standing at parade rest facing the desk, on the wall above them was the 95th Rifles battle standard and Honours standard and in between those was the Federation flag and on top of them all was the Starfleet Delta with the Riflemans Regimental bugle emblem in the middle surrounded by a laurel wreath. Stepping around the group and sitting down at her desk, foloding her hands on the desk as she leaned forward and looked up at them.

"At ease" She said and when the three had relaxed a little "Okay Major Donovan, Lieutenant Sheela; you pair first" She said looking at the pair, Donovan said something telepathically and Jasmine gave her a dirty look. "Lieutenant Sheela, in all my time as a full Marine Colonel before joining Pegasus Fleet, I have never until now sensed dissention, now I know you each have a part in this, so maybe you can tell me what you ACTUALLY put in Doctor Cahill's pouch and why? Lieutenant Sheela" She said looking at the Mousian.

Sheela smiled softly, "The gathering place was bugged by others than Colony Administration. As for me placing things in Cahill’s pouch or medical bag, was to throw off pursuers and worked admirably by Major Donovan." Giving Donovan a smile, "Yooz must have forgotten that Field Agents are taught to defeat even telepaths to a level of it being second nature."

Turning her attention back to Somers, "This disc has the info that Sterling ordered me to get and plus some. Contain shipping data to chemical that is part of the formula for K-White to the Cardassian’s. Industrial gems to the Orion. Ores.. Starship grade ores, Dilithium, Duranium, Titanium, Industrial Diamond deposits was up for grabs. Thus It brought on the Klingon’s and Federation. If the Romulan’s were there .. they kept a very low profile. As you noticed."

Sheela finished speaking and listened to Somers and Donovan speak. She tossed the disc onto Somers desk.

"I see, Major Donovan please repeat verbally for those here who are not attuned to your telepathic thoughts, on why you took the actions you did?" Jasmine asked the Major.

The Marine looked at her CO "Captain, I find that trying to read a Mousian mind is almost as hard as reading a Ferengi's mind. While a Mousian is easier than a Ferengi, the Mousian mind is still really alien, too alien for my telepathy, this both fascinates me and worries me. But I only got a partial impression of Lieutenant Sheela being subversive and placing something clandestinely into the good doctors pouch, I had her pull the item(s) out and she brought out the most innocent of items, this puzzled me, for while they were not medical in nature they did not look harmful, I handed them over to Commander Sterling, who passed them back to Lieutenant Sheela. Now I can only guess that her actions were of the slight of hand and she knows I am a strong telepath, thus she managed to trick me" Donovan said.

Jasmine mulled that bit over "Thank you Major, you may leave" She said and watched what happened next with some confusion and interest.

Turning to Sheela "Lieutenant Sheela, know this while your furtive actions and sly communications to your superiors trying to hide it from all on the bridge is dangerous, I have nothing but admiration for what you do. You will one day I have no doubt be given the option to Command your own Starship and even make command rank. I on the other hand being too strong a telepath will never make it past Lieutenant Colonel and I will never be given the chance to command my own ship. I urge you to choose a side and stick with it, Commander Somers is worth it" Donovan said.

Sheela looked at Donovan, "Then stick to Marine stuff and leave the sneakiness stuff to mez. Iz don’t tell yooz how to do yooz job. So don’t interfere with mine. As for ship command, Iz don’t want it. Iz just want to be returned back to that rock they dug mez out from under."

She watched Donovan leave and then listened to Somers go on her rant about her job. She just listened to Somers with a neutral expression.

“Yooz have some good security measures aboard this ship. Iz just defeat those that interfere with mez job. Yooz want good intelligence in a timely manner, then Iz use unconventional methods that ARE NOT recognized by other star empires as standard Federation Intel Protocols which there are countermeasures for, or been compromised by traitors or sleeper agents within Fleet Itself. "Sheela paused in her speech and typed into the replicator and got herself orange juice to recharge herself with. "So with mez outside knowledge and skills being compromised by the leaks in Starfleet HQ and SFI. And nosey telepaths who think theyz can do mez job better by interfering with mez job. They can have at it!"

Sheela moved back and flopped down in a seat, "Yooz might as well send mez back to Fleet HQ. For obviously my career in Intelligence is over with. So there will be no choice to make as yooz so kindly pointed out to mez."

Sheela took a drink of her orange juice and finished it off. She stood up and placed the empty glass to be recycled on the replicator tray. ”It is obvious that Iz am a threat to someone here on the Tomcat not suppose to be here. Otherwise Iz wouldn’t be getting all this flack."

On her way out of the Ready Room, she paused, “This smells of the Romulan’s. They all disappeared before everything went to hell in a paw-basket. Squeak. One more thing, Colony leaders were Romulan Puppets before theyz made the big discovery in ores and wanted to go independent to keep the wealth for themselves.” She pointed at the disc that lay on Somers desk. Then she disappeared out of the ready room, heading down to her den to secure her gear.

"As you wish, Captain, Commander, Lieutenant" Donovan said nodding to each in turn and then left.

Jasmine turned to the remaining pair with a bewildered look "well that was.... Interesting" She said then looked at Sheela "Lieutenant Major Donovan was not the only one to notice your actions on the bridge, I have noticed them on occasion too. So you need to choose a side, Me and this ship and Starfleet or your hidden superiors you report to, don't make an immediate choice now, think it over. Also from this moment on, you will NOT be furtive in your actions unless you are speaking to your contacts I know you have spread around the Federation and some beyond its borders I do believe. Remember Lieutenant I have monitoring devices in the ships computers, its a program that cannot be located by anyone other than the tech Officer installed it. That Officer was a Commodore from SFI and I have records of communications from your access time to people outside Starfleet. I sent them off to my contacts and they picked out and showed me the ID numbers to your superiors and noted that all the others were to contacts so I asked them to concentrate on those to your superiors" She said.

Then pointed at Sheela "NO MORE TO YOUR SUPERIORS WITHOUT MY OR COMMANDER STERLINGS APPROVAL, UNDERSTOOD?" She asked loudly, the more sedately "When you have answered my rebuke to you" She said.

Sheela responded much as Jasmine expected, but she heard the Mousian out.

"I see, thank you Lieutenant, remember what I said make a choice, let me know when you have chosen a side, we are done here, dismissed" Jasmine said and watched the Mousian leave, she watched the camera and waited till Sheela had rounded the corner, then turned to Sterling. "So Maia, concerning Sheela and Donovan and what happened between them on the planet?" She asked.

“I do not really know Captain I had the welfare of my crew on my mind, but those two have always butted heads, do not know why but they do.” Maia said.

"I see, please be seated Maia, feel free to replicate yourself a drink, you know you are not to blame for what happened down on Galen IV, do you not? So speak to me Maia what actually happened down there, forget the bit between Sheela and Donovan, I want to know about all but that" She asked.

Maia got up and replicated some green tea.

"Captain as mission leader it was my responsibility to see to the safety of the delegates, through extenuating circumstances I failed in that mission, further while trying to salvage something of the mission I put Dr Cahill and Lt Sheela in danger as well as the away team and the reinforced fire team we called down. In retrospect I realize there was nothing we could have done, the attack was so savage and upon us before we could even assess a response".

*Sigh* "So Maia what is your assessment of the situation in the wake of what happened down on Galen IV?" Jasmine asked.

"It was a trap Captain. Someone presumably the Orion's wanted us out of the way, however it could also have been Section 31, the Tal'Shiar or the Obsidian order".

"Well that is the hazards of Command unfortunately, so what's your take on the Sheela attitude, Donovan practically apologised to her before she left, I guess not many people can pick up on Trellian tones *sighs* So views on Sheela spill?" Jasmine asked.

"I think she is working for someone else or at least answering to someone else, she could be part of Section 31, at least that's what I think".

"I see, I know she does things under the table and she thinks she is getting past all the ships systems undetected, but I allow her to think she is better than us as she gets me information when I need it. If my cousin was here, she would probably respond to Sheela with vehemence as Alex Somers does not like Starfleet Intelligence, and the way Sheela does things Alex would end up in a penal colony for murder *small laugh at the thought of her Cousins reaction* I think your debrief is over, shall we return to the bridge?" Jasmine asked.

"Aye Captain". Maia replied..

As they were about to leave her Commbadge sounded, she halted them both as she tapped to make the two-way connection.

- Sheela's Den/Aft Airlock -

Sheela cleaned up her gear and put it away as she looked over her quarters for signs of tampering and invasion. A lot of her little tell-tales were still in place. She nodded as she looked at the neatly stacked crates along one wall, still secure in place.

She would have to make a subspace call soonish to alert her Handler that there may be trouble heading their way.

She secured the door to her quarters, pulled out her Subspace Communication pack and specially designed evac suit.

Once she got her gear ready, she transferred her mission data she had garnered from the Colony and set up a warning that there may be trouble with her floating around Fleet Headquarters starting within the Marine Department.

As she finished up with that, she slung her gear on to herself and slipped out to the nearest airlock. She quickly overridden the security and taking it off the detection system, so anyone looking at it from another location, would show that the Airlock wasn't used.

Sheela then entered the Airlock, suited up as she powered up her subspace com's system. Once she was ready, grabbing the set with her message loaded aboard and waiting to be sent. She exited the ship on a tethering line.

Once she reached the end of the tether line length, she sent the burst transmission on it's merry way. Securing her gear, worked her way back into the USS Tomcat.

She carefully stowed the tether line back in it's case. Got out of her evac suit and returned to her den to secure her gear.

Aft section Officers level

S'arila was looking out of a viewport at the rear, she often came here to look at the stars and apply blocking techniques as the beings on this ship broadcast their thoughts and emotions. Her eye caught a glint of a suited figure the window she was at was above the aft airlock, she sensed Mousian thought patterns, so it must have been Sheela, she probably found a way around the security system and wanted to send a communication to her contact, Donovan sighed and tapped her Commbadge.

- Captain's Ready Room -

=/\= Donovan to Somers=/\=

After tapping her Commbadge =/\= Go ahead S'arila =/\=

=/\= You Chief Intelligence Officer is at it again, she bypassed the security on the aft airlock and is space-walking, probably communicating something to her contact, she did not remain out long, so it was probably a short burst transmission. =/\= Donovan said.

=/\= Thank you Major, now forget you saw it and do not confront Sheela about it, I know not many, you included like how she does things, but she gets me information when I need it. In return I allow her to do what she does, I have learned to be flexible when dealing with Lieutenant Sheela, let the matter drop, understood? =/\= Somers said.

=/\= Yes Sir, I am on my way back up to the bridge, Donovan out =/\=

When the line had closed Jasmine went over to her computer and tapped something in "Yup Sheela accessed the aft airlock with a bypass code, its a good thing that she is useful and that I have adjusted my tolerance level for it" She said and finished typing something else on the computer and looks up "Maia return to the bridge and take us to Yellow Alert, and launch Raider Squadron I want a CAP flying around us while we are stationary" Somers said.

"Aye Captain" Maia replied.

Jasmine nodded as she watched Maia leave, then sitting down she pressed the Comms unit.

=/\= Lieutenant Sheela, report to my Ready Room promptly, Somers out =/\= She said and waited for the Mousian to arrive.

- Sheela's Den/CO's Ready Room -

Sheela received Co's summons as she just entered her Den, =/\= En-route =/\= Was all she replied with as she secured her subspace communicator.

She set up her usual little telltale signs for tampering and left the her den. She headed on up to the bridge, taking note of the condition level of alert in progress. Soon she was tapping the chimes to the Captain's Ready Room. She looked over the bridge crew at their jobs, as she waited.

"Enter" Jasmine said in response to the door chime.

Sheela Entered and Jasmine studied her.

"Please be seated Lieutenant" She said indicating to the chair in front of her desk then waited till the Mousian was seated. "You may as well know that you were spotted sending some kind of transmission to your contact I would guess. You bypassed the security lockouts on the airlock to send this message *pause* while I am not angry at you, I am somewhat disappointed and this leads me to ask, how stupid are you Lieutenant?" She asked with just pure curiosity in her tone.

"Iz may look stupid in the eyes of others when Iz do things that are strange. Itz called self preservation. This ship is full of compromises." Sheela looked calmly at Somers. "Iz took every precaution for the security. Iz don't understand whot yooz mean if yooz were concerned about mez safety."

"What do I mean! lets see we are in an unstable area of Federation space, an area that could become hostile with Orion Slavers and you my Chief Intel Officer takes a space-walk in the middle of a crisis, it is either guts or sheer stupidity, that caused you to do this, could you not have awaited till it was safer to send your message?" Jasmine asked now smiling to show she found Sheela's actions amusing.

Sheela gave a soft squeak/giggle as she spoke, "Ustability means to mez is in middle of a gang war and crap is flying all over the place. This is nothing but an interlude of calmness." Sheela looked thoughtful, "Sometimes information need to be sent ASAP, regardless of the risks involved. It could save many lives. Including those aboard this ship. By getting more help into the area before everyone is caught short handed. A lot of troops like yooz and those under yooz command like timely and advance warning of whot to expect is heading yooz way. Even though everyone still has to walk into the situation. At least yooz can be prepped for it if/when it does show up."

"Indeed, now I know what you get up to El tee, while I have never tried to find out who your contact is, I do know what you do and because you always bring me information, 99% of the time it is reliable I give you lots of leeway" Jasmine gave a little smile.

At least that 1% Iz analyze wrongly from the data given and perceived from mez perspective. Is still pretty accurate. The players are usually different and everyone is able to adjust quite quickly. Better the Orion’s than the Romulan’s whoze have an entire Empire behind them. Orion’s have to weigh the cost short term and long term against operating expenses.

Sheela looked thoughtful, "Iz noticed Donovan reported mez to yooz. Does she have a grudge against mez? Or Iz operate outside what she perceives as normal and a threat to her way of life? "

"As for Major Donovan, when you were both here she actually apologised in her own way, its the tone and words she used, it took me sometime to understand them myself. As for the Majors responses and actions towards you, you have to understand that coming from a race of telepaths as strong as she is, they had no reason to have an Intelligence service that has agents who have their own agendas. *looks pointedly at Sheela* So the notion of SFI and Section 31 agencies is foreign to her. Also you think she was hostile to you! That pales compared to her reaction to Section 31" Jasmine shuddered remembering Donovan's reaction to confronting someone from S31, they guy ended up in a Starfleet prison hospital on life support and ended up with a shrink as the guy had his mind practically shredded by Donovan's telepathic ability.

Sheela eyes narrowed to mere slits at hearing that. Ears become more pronounced in their fullness and reached over to type in a command on her ever-presence wrist computer. "Whot happened that she so sour against mez? Am Iz a threat to her?"

"Oh! Donovan shredded his mind, as S31 does not officially exist no charges could be brought, but it did halt her advancement, when she said the highest she could go was Lt. Col she was not kidding same for a command of her own. Her actions had an equal and opposite reaction. But any further interference from the Major has been nullified, you need not worry about her prying into your affairs. Saying that to get back onto topic as to why I have summoned you here."

Sheela nodded as she relaxed back in her seat, comfortably. "She can rest herz mind. Iz mezself hate those from S31. Bunch of terrorist whoze give Intelligence Operatives a bad name. Just being mez species, eliminates mez from being targeted for use, except for termination."

"Indeed, this task requires we do each other a favour"

Sheela tilted her head to the side a bit to show she was willing and curious to listen to what Somers had to say. 

Sheela snickered at that. "Anything else?"

"I will need to know the name of your handler and his/her Comm frequency, should anything happen to you they will need to be notified and I promise that I will not use it unless you die in the line of duty and only you and I will know it" She said and paused.

Sheela looked thoughtful as she mulled this over. Her tail weaved curves behind her. "Call SFI if Iz die in the line of duty or captured. Mez Handler will find out.." Looking ever more thoughtful. "An independent unit with no connection to the ship's systems. It will have an internal rechargeable power source. Iz will add only yooz to mez security system to allow yooz access to mez den. Simple operation. Turn on the power, hit red button. Shut it off. Once red buttom is pushed, that will be the last transmission it'll ever make." Sheela smiled, "that is all yooz need to know. I'll supply mez own equipment as yooz already know Iz have come very well equipped. The Transceiver will be placed next to the flowers yooz call Daisies."

Sheela looked thoughtful for a few minutes, "Before yooz get yooz panties all wadded up, Iz don't even know the frequency and not know whoze mez handler is. When Iz do an eye to eye meet, Mez handler always looks different and the name always different. For all Iz know.. Mez handler could be Donovan or Sterling or even an Orion Raider Captain. Definity not Borg, Breen, Species 'Whot-Ever-Their-Number-Is' from their Fluidic Dimension."

"What is in it for you is a direct link on a high secured frequency to your handler, this would save you taking dangerous space walks just to send a message. A Commline can be set up in your quarters, I will also have access to this, but as I know you will use it to contact your handler or family only I will not monitor it.[/b] She waited for her response.

"Species 87472, I can understand a limited contact basis, you will have a secure link to your handler, but this bit is cast in stone, only you and I will have access to this terminal you will have it will be equipped with an option to connect to the system, I will promise that I will only access it in an extreme emergency, otherwise I will not look at it and it will be coded to my clearence code not even my XO will have access, this is between you and me, and with this ship system connection option, which will allow you to access ships databanks and all things pertaining to Intelligence work. If I access it for anything other than what I have said you will know by the access log with a name, understood?" She asked.

"Iz have other computer access with different equipment. That is a dedicated subspace burst transmitter and used for only sending reports in. Iz upload it with message, then hit the transmit button when Iz ready to send it." Sheela spoke softly. "Iz then pull the power cell and recharge it for the next transmission."

"Right" She said then entwined her fingers and leaned forward "I have a job for you Lieutenant, one for which you are aptly suited, you feel up to a challenge?" She asked.

"Whot is this challenge, before Iz agree to anything?" Sheela watched Somers with a bit of interest. Her tail wiggled slightly as her ears perked up.

Still looking at the mousian intently "Something nasty happened down on the planet, I do not know what exactly, as I was not there, you were, so what I want you to do, is to return to the planet and this time I am taking the gloves off you. The data on the Romulan's... Inaction and seemingly fore-knowledge of current events worries me greatly. *pause* I am guessing the the Romulan Captain is Tal'Shiar and we both know how slippery those can be" She said with a smile.

Sheela looked thoughtful, ”Iz may know how they operate, but theyz have their own twist in the matter of things. It’s like handling an ice cube in smooth steel gloves. Slippery.

"Exactly, very slippery. Your task should you choose to accept it is to return to the planets surface and find the colony's most secure databank, hack into it and then to any foreign computers, concentrate on the Romulan's, copy what information you find and return, should you encounter any opponents, you are to incapacitate them only. Should you get captured, I will deny all knowledge of you and you will be on your own" Jasmine said.

“Iz take mez own shuttle craft, then.” Sheela eyes sparkled as she leaned forward, looking forward to the mission. “And will kill as Iz see fit if that’s the case. Besides Iz no rat! Iz Mousian.” Sheela gave Somers a cheeky smile.

Looking at Sheela "I am kidding El tee, about the denying all knowledge of you, no you will be shuttled down to Galen IV, Barker will fly you down in our Spec Ops Venture class scout ship, it has a cloak so getting in undetected will not be an issue. The Venture scout will wait for you at its LZ one klick from the complex for two hours exactly, you are to infiltrate locate, copy and download any data concerning Orion's, the attack on the Colony, any Pirate links and see if the Romulan's have some hand in this, you all okay with this Lieutenant?" She asked.

”Iz still want mez own shuttle with warp capabilities. None to go with mez. As it may take longer than two hours.”[b] Sheela looked thoughtful for a few minutes, [b]”If the shuttle blows up…well send in the Marines, minus Donovan.” It was obvious she seriously distrusted Major Donovan. ”XO may be right about the Orion’s being the visible troops in this matter. But theyz are the puppets. Wez need the Masterminds behind this.”

Sheela nodded, already figuring out the equipment she would be using. Having a shuttle with cloaking would be very nice for a clean planet infiltration. From there it would be just patience and timing for the rest of the mission. Iz will fly myself. Wez have deal.”

Looking at Sheela and becoming firm "Only kill if needed and only if the intruders are an immediate threat, understand? She said and paused.

Sheela just nodded, knowing more to come. She just wondered what it would be. Sometimes it paid to let the other person do all the speaking as she already laid out her terms.

Barker will take you down in a shuttle, I will give you five hours to carry out your task, he will wait in the shuttle, you will be solo when you touch ground, this is an order Lieutenant, I have granted your private Comms unit, but you must also tow the line, you are part of this crew, my crew and I will not have you go down there alone, understand?" She said.

“Iz work a lot better a lone. Some things are not for others to see. Captain,” Sheela spoke calmly, “Iz am when Iz a board this ship. Once Iz leave on an assignment, Iz become independent with only mez to worry about.”

Giving her a raised eyebrow "This is set in stone Lieutenant, non-negotiable Barker will fly you down there to a wooded area one click from the main center of the colony, there you will proceed alone with the task I have given you. *pause* You will have five hours I cannot allow more, I know you are very resourceful little Mousian, so five hours should be ample time for you to complete your task. Also some updated information for you the spaceport and all warp capable craft have either been locked down and is currently under heavy guard or has been destroyed, so your only way out is back to the shuttle" She added.

Sheela just wrinkled her muzzle. “Barker so much as twitches the wrong muscle or get frisky, he’s mine to deal with. That means radio silence once wez depart the Tomcat.” Not liking the situation of having another to worry about doing the wrong thing.

"Glad we are on the same page, oh and one more thing Lieutenant, should you get captured, you will not have to worry about Major Donovan coming to rescue you, I will be doing that. *pause* Also your shuttle was being upgraded, it seems Lieutenant Serron authorised much needed engine and warp upgrades, a new shield and sensor and Communications suite too if I am not mistaken, think he got it from SFI. But he has vanished and thus your shuttle is not space worthy at this current moment in time" She said.

”Oh Squeaken Great! No wonder why yooz offered to let mez have another shuttle. To placate mez with this news! Probably stripped mez shuttle for another one!” Sheela was clearly upset and it showed. “Lieutenant Serron has no say whether mez shuttle gets upgraded! That is totally up to mez when that happens! Not some Desk Jocky who thinks he or she knows better because they sit in the Ship’s CEO’s Office! Iz know mez shuttle was in great shape.” Sheela thought a few moment, eyes got wide. “Mez security system got him and the only way to cover up was to think BS story up. It exploded on him and the parts are all over the Shuttle bay. With Lieutenant Serron vaporized.” Sheela let loose an insane giggle that makes other think twice about her sanity. ”Squang! The program worked nicely! Eyes sparkled with merriment. ”No wonder why it stopped sending the okay signal to mez.”

Looking at the Mousian with bewilderment "You are a suspicious little Mousian ain't ya!" oO Oh yeah this chick is mad Oo Jasmine thought "Your ship defences did not take Serron out, he vanished by some other means. After he found a strange security system of yours he swore he would never go near it again, so it sits in a high secured area still in pieces he was in his quarters when he vanished a tachyon residue was left behind.

“Oh! Mez waz thinkin’ it waz mez security system for the momentz” Sheela responded.

"Exactly strange, but I have had to move on, but no one has gone near the remains of your ship, I do believe thought that Serron wanted to give you a gift, hence the updated systems, he was about to install them when he came across your security system hence why he refused to return or go anywhere near it, you seem awfully happy, I am guessing Donovan is on your mind."

”No wonder why Donovan mad at me. She lost her pet stooge. And she doctored the reports, hoping Iz wouldn’t find out. Iz rarely go down there to check up on mez shuttle. This must’ve happened recently…like when Iz was on planet with the Away Team. Theys didn’t want anyone to find out, so theyz doctored the report.”

Looking at her shocked "Donovan and Serron rarely mingled Lieutenant, outside of duty they remained apart, as for her attitude towards you I have told you why, she is a strong telepath and has what seems an innate dislike of intelligence people, so it is not personal Sheela, also I know it is in your nature but you got to start trusting the rest of us and stop being so hostile. I suppose that there is more protection on your shuttle?" She  said.

”Another tamper proofing device/program to prevent such unauthorized entry. And It was posted on the outside where everyone could read it.” Sheela wondered who else came up missing.

"Why do you have your own shuttle anyway?" Jasmine asked.

”In mez line o work, Iz gotta be sure of an escape out of a bad situation. Also to prevent such unwanted intrusion. Iz made it lethal for anyone trying to access the shuttle of mez. Iz figured wrong about the stupidity of the crew.”

Becoming cross "Lieutenant Sheela, for a start NO ONE from the Tomcat has been lost to your security system, your shuttle has been in isolation since Serron refused to go near it, but I am assuming that you have a good reason for such defensive system?"

“Remember Iz am a civilian and live in close proximity of criminals who whont lose any sleep over mez demise. Squoooo, so Iz set up a bio-trigger to set off explosive at unauthorized access to mez shuttle craft.”

"Lieutenant the moment you came aboard you were conscripted into Starfleet, conscripted to my crew, so while there are criminals who would not lose sleep over your... demise, I WOULD lose sleep, now for all your rebellious nature and extremely suspicious nature you are too valuable to me and this crew.

Sheela nodded, getting herself back under control. She was touched down deep at the concerns of Somers. Figuring she was like the others, just another CO who wanted everyone under their thumb.

"Back to your mission Barker is only your taxi, the moment you land on the planet and exit the shuttle you will be on your own, Barker has not the training you do, no he will remain on the shuttle and bring you back in five hours, you understand?" She asked.

”Squeak,” Sheela nodded, once more calmed down as her mind compartmentalized the latest on Lieutenant Serron and her shuttle to focus on the mission at paw. “Anything else yooz want mez to find out also while Iz down there?”

Sheela was all business like and already making a list of equipment to bring with her. She didn’t even wait for the signal of dismissal a she was already heading for the door of the Ready Room.

Jasmine looks at the departing and with a sigh "Dismissed" She said, then notified Barker to get a shuttle ready and she would meet him down there and then signed off and initiated a site to site transport to the flight deck. She appeared right in front of Barker scaring the hell out of him.

NOTE: The Mission Lieutenant Sheela is on will be in the Co-incidental Section.

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