The Sky is Falling

Posted on Sun Mar 1st, 2020 @ 5:39pm by Lieutenant Commander Gwen Parri & Commander Anjoli D'Bari & Senior Chief Petty Officer M'aotoke T'gar

Mission: Mission 34: Between Two Fires
Location: Various Locations - USS Clydesdale - Tarod IX
Timeline: 1100Hrs - June 25th 2391

Music Soundtrack: Halo Reach - Long Night of Solace

Chief Petty Officer Chief Petty Officer Anjoli D'Bari blinked her eyes as she regarded the Betaziod woman before her. "So... Gwen, I think this idea is just a little out there... Orbital Skydiving... what if the chute doesn't open?"

"You worry too much Anjoli." she pronounced the name as 'Ann'jo'lee' as she left off the last letter in the Orion woman's name. "Sometimes I love that about you but other times.... you worry way too much."

"I worry a lot because you don't seem to worry at all."

"Anjoli, look orbital skydiving is quite safe really." the smaller Betaziod woman explained. "really," she added. "The ship will have us on a constant transporter lock and with all the other ships around.
It's not like we're going to be running into battle any time soon."

"Mmmm... I still think it's dangerous."

"Oh, it is... Well, let me put it this way... If one thing goes wrong for any reason, one dies." Gwen was at times extremely brutal in her opinions and thoughts, her need to quench her energy through sports was at times almost endless.

Anjoli D'Bari was far more subtle in her leisure pursuits and she preferred to watch half the time rather than participate unless it was aquatic sports in which case she was the first to quite literally dive in headfirst. "Why don't you try joining me in the pool for some water sports.."

"I tried surfing... it was a disaster.," Gwen responded.

"You never gave it a chance." the Orion woman smiled. "Parasailing....?"

"I never liked heights.."

"That's bullshit woman.." Anjoli laughed at the smaller woman. "You're the one who wants to orbital skydive from orbit.."

"I tell you what... " Gwen Parri regarded the taller woman before her. "You come orbital skydiving with me... and I'll dive into the pool with you."

Anjoli smiled but then she paused. "Wait... that's too easy."

"Yep... but seriously... you'll be fine. The guys who look after our gear make sure that we will have no mishaps..." Gwen explained. "Its safe these days?"

"Safer then surfing.... or Water Polo... at least I can keep my feet on the deck." she paused. "and I have admirers staring at my ass and other body parts."

Gwen raised an eyebrow. "You seem to enjoy being on display. Something I should know?"

"You worry way too much." Anjoli smiled. "You recall who I sleep with on a nightly basis and who I make moan?."

Gwen sighed. "Oh alright.." she sighed softly. "So... skydiving then?"

"Yes," Anjoli responded. "Let's go before I change my mind on the subject.."

Twenty minutes or so later the two women were being checked out in their equipment as they were fully geared out before they boarded the shuttle they would borrow for this space jump.

Chief Petty Officer M'aotoke T'gar who was the conn officer was also doing double duty as the pilot for this hop. "So... you ladies ready for this?" the Caitian inquired.

"Oh, you betcha" Gwen Parri responded as Anajoli D'Bari simply gave a heads up.

M'aotoke smiled as she stepped onto the shuttle as she tapped the display before her. "T'gar to Flight Ops." she commented. "This is M'aotoke." she pronounced her name as 'Mao'Toke'. "on shuttle eleven,. requesting permission to launch."

"Shuttle Eleven, this is control... precision granted." came the response as she turned her head. "We're ready to go ladies..." the Caitian addressed the two armor clad women behind her in the back area of the shuttle.

Gwen Parri smiled under her armor. "Lock and Load..."

Anjoli D'Pari added. "Jacked up and good to go."

M'aotoke T'gar sealed up the shuttle as she got the shuttle underway as the shuttle exited the hanger as the view of the planet came into view as the hanger quickly vanished before she sealed the cockpit section from the back section. "Ladies I am venting the atmosphere from back there..." the Caitian explained as she mentally counted to thirty before she proceeded to do exactly that.

"Approaching launch site." the Caitian female smiled before she brought the shuttle to a stop in low Tarod orbit. Gwen reached over as she tapped the 'open' button with her gauntleted fist, the hatch opened in silence as the light went from red to green.

Anjoli sighed softly as she turned and walked out of the shuttle, she felt a nausea-inducing wave of acceleration then what came was a disorienting sensation of weightlessness as the planet slowly rotated over her head as she looked down, all was silent as she spotted Gwen moving above her relatively speaking.

"Tau Two to Tau One." came Gwen's voice. "How are ya doing?" she inquired.

Anjoli raised an eyebrow. "More or less.... this is a hell of a view." as the majestic curve of Tarod blueish green northern hemisphere spread out beneath her, its albedo so intense that the Orion woman had to squint to prevent herself from being dazzled by the brightness before her suits systems adapted to it.

There was still nothing but silence before she watched the contrails begin to steam from her armor plating as she looked over the statistics of her armor, her life support and everything else.

"Looks good here.." Anjoli said quietly.

"You okay?" came the request from Gwen, her wife and flight mate for this hop.

"Yeah... all my statistics are in excellent shape."

"Nice... we're entering the mesosphere.... you'll start to feel like a comet in a moment." Gwen added a moment later.

"Lovely." Anjoli responded softly. "Incoming.." she added before she looked down at her systems. "Looking for a good landing site... selecting... and selected, routing data to you now." the larger Orion fed the data to the smaller Betazoid women.

"Looks good." came the response.

Anjoli watched the atmosphere thicken as her contrails extended as she watched uneasily. "I should be in the lower atmosphere momentarily." before the Orion glanced at the altimeter which displayed her height from the ground, it was dropping like a rock from ninety thousand feet as she looked back up But she couldn't see far as she knew that her mate was nearby but Gwen was above her and higher up from the ground. "Don't pull your chute yet.... wait a little longer."

"When?" Anjoli responded.

"When your in the lower atmosphere.... whats the weather like at our landing site?"

"Clear and cool." Anjoli responded. "temperature of about fourteen degrees Celsius and its early evening there." the larger Orion explained. "I didn't bring foot as we're not staying long." she added.

"You killjoy." came the expected response.

"Yep." Anjoli paused. "Why do you need to have sex with me on every single planet we visit?" as Anjoli smiled as she gently powered up her chute. "Approaching forty thousand feet." she added. "I'm going to pop my chute at about twenty."

"Because I like the ambiance of each planet. Its something new. " Gwen's response came back to the larger Orion woman "Confirmed on your last." came the second response. "Whats your armor integrity?

"Eighty Three percent."

"Not bad... usually it gets into the low seventies or the high sixties.." Gwen's response was troubling. "Can one... burn up, doing this?"

"Anjoli... this is a frighteningly dangerous sport... its also good for special forces to go a quiet insertion onto a planet to conduct a mission. " came the unexpected response

"Lovely... So I'm risking my ass for a thrill"

"More or less.... yes." Gwen responded. "But... you do have such a nice ass.."

Anjoli sighed softly. "Passing twenty." and with that, she yanked on the ripcord, the chute deployed as she expected it to before she felt her speed cut itself by three quarters, she groaned as she felt the stress ripple through her armor plating before she watched Gwen Parri shoot past her.

"Pull your chute." Anjoli commented quietly.

"Nah... I'm gonna wait until I'm a thousand feet."

"I can always abort the hop." Anjoli responded. "Don't be stupid about this..." clearly the Orion woman was not to be trifled with, as she was the ships Chief Medical Officer.

"Oh alright.. I'm at fifteen anyway... pulling my chute.." a sigh came from the Betazoid woman. "You're serious about aborting?"

"I'm considering it..." Anjoli responded. "Don't toy with me Gwen, you know better then that..." the larger woman growled. "Those who toy with me, do so at their peril.."

"Yeah.... I'm Sorry."

"At least you pulled your chute.." Anjoli watched as the clouds passed from below her to above her as she approached her final landing site when Gwen's voice came over the com system. "I landed... good location.." came the explanation.

Anjoli smiled as she braced for her landing and moments later, she landed on the ground as the suits computer began to retract her suits chute back into her armor as she ended up on her face being dragged along the ground, she then sank both her hands into the ground in an effort to stop herself from sliding too far, moments later she skidded to a stop before falling flat on her face, Anjoli groaned softly as she picked herself up before Gwen appeared to help her up.

"Easy, you had a rough landing.." as the tall Orion groaned. "That was.... a heck of a landing.." Gwen sounded impressed. "You had fun... admit it.."

"Somewhat... flying is easy.... landing is hard." Anjoli responded as she turned to regard the smaller woman who was three quarters of a foot shorter then she herself was.

"But you made it down to the deck.. which is what you wanted." Gwen explained as she tapped her combadge. "Parri to Clydesdale, we're down on the deck... two to beam up."

"Stand by for transport." and with that, the two women were beamed away, the only records that the two women were ever there was the rough landings on the ground itself.