Now What

Posted on Thu Feb 27th, 2020 @ 2:27am by Senior Chief Petty Officer Duran-Yeager Syal
Edited on on Fri Jan 1st, 2021 @ 5:15pm

Mission: Mission 16: Hoist the Colours
Location: Various Locations - USS Roanoke
Timeline: 1100Hrs - December 12th, 2390

Up in the tower, Teval and Aerin where talking to each other while Anastasiya had Hakaya cradled in her Arms. Hakaya was busy purring.

"So," Teval asked, "Our species is extra galactic then."

Aerin nodded," Yep, The Akurian confederation is a million planet strong superpower from that galaxy, though a peaceful power nonetheless."

Teval looked very surprised," Thats a lot of planets."

It was then that Teval looked out the tower window and noticed that Zara was coming to the tower. As usual, she had her shit untucked and her vest unzipped. But she also looked like she had little sleep and was possibly hungover.

When she arrived to the tower itself, she automatically blinked in confusion. If this was some sort of inter-species mating orgy she walked in on, Tane was sure Nalla would never have approved. Still, it was not Tane's business to pry in such things, nor did she really want to know what happened after the purring.

"Umm...." The half-awake Trill stammered for words. "If I'm... umm... interrupting something, I can urm.... go... Yeah." The Trill nodded in agreement to her own statement.

Hakaya fell off of Anastasiya as she rolled over in surprise at Tane's arrival.

"Interrupting what," Teval asked in confusion.

Aerin simply said, "Huh, what."

Did they really have to ask that question? Because Zara truly did not want to answer. They had to be playing with her. So the Trill tried to move over the question by looking directly to Teval.

"I erm..." Zara began nervously. "I um... You want to be the umm... Acting XO Commander Vakar?"

Teval could not figure out what Zara was so flustered about, then not really realizing what Zara was asking he said, "Wait, what, uh ok sure."

Relief hit her face as exiting the tower seemed very near. She nodded her head. "Good. Please gather your shit and come with me... I'll erm... wait outside."

By the way her eyes darted around the room, one might expect Zara thought the climax had still to come and she was perfectly fine leaving and letting this bunch of weirdos reach said climax.

As Zara left the tower, the realization dawned on Teval, "Wait, What did I just agree to." He then left the tower as well. Everyone else left in the tower just looked at each other in confusion. Then Hakaya broke the silence, "What just happened."

Teval then asked Zara outside the tower, "So what was it that you wanted me to do again."

"Take XO for erm... 'til Torilla is ready," Zara answered as she began to relax a bit more, the further she walked away from the sex den.

Teval waited as he processed the information, and then said, "Um, o.k. I guess that's fine, we aren't running flight ops anyway."

"Good. I need someone to hold XO with Torilla out and Saint's being a jerk about it. So you're my only O-5 left," Zara spoke with half-apology and half-frustration. "I know you don't like me much, but you're the only one left."

Teval paused before responding, "Well, believe it or not, my opinion of you is getting better. Your willing to put yourself at risk for Torilla's sake, so you have my respect. I think we can get along."

"Well we need to see what engineering's problem is," Zara began to count of her hands. "...I'm not sure if our chief is brilliant at his job, or just lucky."

Teval rolled his eyes, "Yeah I heard about that, any other issues I need to address."

"The CAG's down. Desert Fox's down. Looks like Boomer is in charge, but without proper leader ship, I don't want all available birds deployed," Zara noted very respectfully. "I don't want to stress Boomer's workload unless he's ready and has a list of options that best keeps both wings operational."

Teval shrugged, "Well most of second wing can't deploy anyway the deck crew still needs another week just to get the first 12 valkyries running for 2nd wing. The remaining 20 that are salvageable are still going to take another 3 weeks before they are operational."

"Fucking hell," Tane spoke with a nod. "Well... we're a one wing-op then. Suppose we'll have to pull the Del-Fly birds out for this. You agree?"

Teval nodded, "Yeah the Flyers are all good, shouldn't be a problem. Anything else I need to deal with."

"Might want to check and see how security is fairing... They usually have about ten in the drunk tank this time a day," Zara shrugged.

"Alright I'll see what I can do."