Taskmaster From Hell

Posted on Fri Feb 28th, 2020 @ 2:16am by Chief Warrant Officer Ryi "Taffy" Amlari
Edited on on Fri Feb 28th, 2020 @ 2:16am

Mission: Mission 29: Songs Around the Campfire
Location: Planet Surface - Yeneer G1
Timeline: 0800Hrs - March 10th, 2391 - Time Dilation: 5 Years

"Tau Two to Tau One... are we there yet?" Warrant Officer Brianna Perry was bored and they had only been doing their sweep for four hours already, she wanted to go back to the Barn and get some chow time.

She was hungry as she sighed loudly. "Yo, Taffy... speak up already?"

"Tau One to Tau Two keep your pants on Brianna." Taffy shot back at Perry. "We still haven't found the lost shuttle yet. They could be in trouble so we are gonna be out here until we find them."

Brianna growled. "My systems just went dead.." she suddenly closed her eyes tightly as there was a loud noise, then a dozen alarms suddenly sounded all at once.

"Oh hell!" Taffy shouted. "Did you put your shields up in the magnetic storm?" Taffy was trying not to panic.

"What!. Like where!"

"That Gas giant is pulling you in!" Taffy shouted back. "If your impulse drives cannot break the gravity you need to get ready to use a short warp burst!"

"Negative... my warp drive is down..." she suddenly felt odd, she shook her head to clear the sudden and strange effect. "I'm seeing a few moons around the Gas Giant... but I wanna take some readings of the gas giant."

"Damn it Perry!" Taffy yelled at Perry. "I'm going to try and pull you back with my tractor beam."

"Oh relax... you young pups... always so afraid of the dark... go on then. set down... idiotic kids.." the older woman growled as her com system suddenly shorted. "What the!"

Tau One to Tau two respond!" Taffy shouted "Perry are you there?"

Only faint crackling could be heard and nothing else.

"Stupid pig headed woman!" Taffy yelled out as she searched her sensors for the wayward fighter.

Suddenly the alarm started beeping. "Alert, you are out of fuel. Land immediately." the ships computer intoned.

"What?" Taffy looked at her controls in disbelief. "I'm going to kick the ass of the guy who did maintenance on this bird!" Taffy looked around and spotted a decent looking moon. "that will have to do." Taffy told herself.

Taffy turned the fighter and plotted a course to the moon. "Perry are you out there?" Taffy asked. Not hearing a response Taffy turned on her emergency beacon.

The sensors indicated that there was a Federation runabout, set down on the largest moon of the Gas Giant.

"The Tolkien! I found her!" Taffy got excited then remembered her bird was also in trouble. Taffy moved the bird as slow and as high as possible to conserve what little energy she had left. She spotted a clearing near the runabout and set down.