Oddball

Posted on Mon Feb 24th, 2020 @ 1:03pm by Commander Luhanna Wintersnow

Mission: Mission 12: Hitchhikers are Escaped Convicts
Location: Various Locations - USS Shadow
Timeline: 0900Hrs - February 14th, 2390

Master Chief Petty Officer Luhanna Wintersnow gazed at the PADD in her hand, she had recently stuck in for some weapons training for the upcoming assignment, also she needed her sniper certification.

She had been told that Lieutenant Cabal Ash-tor was the man to go see for weapons and combat training so she rose to her feet or rather her hooves and strode out the door after asking the computer for the other officers location.

She walked into the armory next to the range. "Greetings." the Draenei female who was three and a half centuries old greeted everyone within, she knew she stood out in everyone's memory with her purple skin, her horns, slicked back chestnut colour hair as well as her tail but what she was sure was the biggest crowd pleaser was her size sixteen hooves.

"I'm here for weapons training... I was told to come to you."

"Welcome to the range" Cabal said as he walked over to the desk with a selection of rifles on it.

Cabal still dressed in combat blacks but now with a rip or two in them, still having his own personal rifle on his back but with quite a few less knives on his person and lacking the pair of phasers strapped to his legs looking over at a quite apprehensive Luhanna "don't worry you will not be using this rifle" Cabal says with a smile and points over his shoulder at his own personal rifle.

Cabal picked up a rifle off the desk and walked towards Luhanna, handing her the rifle "Have you ever used one of these before? This is a basic mid to far range rifle, this rifle is easy to use it is pretty much aim and shoot"

Cabal leads Luhanna towards the firing stool "computer stationery marksman target 50 yards standard weather conditions"

The target appeared in the range.

Wintersnow lifted the rifle in her hands as she took aim as clearly she had practice, she smiled. "I have the target."

"Breath in, relaxes, get the target that you want in the cross hairs as this is only a 50 yard target, make sure you have the butt of the rifle in your shoulder, finally Pull the trigger" Cabal says as he stands to the right of Wintersnow.

Wintersnow considered her target; her eyes narrowed before she breathed out before she pulled the trigger and sent two blasts of energy downrange. The first spent itself against the target as the second shattered it.

Cabal smiles and looks down the range, happy "Well done, just a small note you will not always get a second shoot, care to try again?"

With that the target resets, Cabal stands behind Wintersnow and alters her holding of the rifle slightly so that it is more comfortable and easy to hold "sorry if that was a bit close to comfort, but you will now find that easier and the recoil will not knock your aim off"

Wintersnow raised an eyebrow, it was not often someone got to manhandle her as she felt her tail brush against the betazoids leg, she then turned her attention back to what she was doing as she ignored everything else save herself and the target before her as she squeezed off one round which
spent itself against the target, disintegrating it.

Cabal smiled content that Wintersnow had got the hang of a stationary target, "Now for something a little more challenging it think? Computer reset target, 50 yards, but this time moving left right standard walking speed."

Cabal looked at Wintersnow, "Don't worry it is just like shooting a stationary target apart from it is moving, aim for the target and then aim ahead of the target by one ring of your crosshairs, good luck"

Luhanna steadied herself and her breathing before acquiring the target with her rifle and again she squeezed off one round, which shattered the target, something she had expected.

Cabal looking very impressed at his student smiled "Well you are almost there with the basics of how to use a rifle, but before we complete your basic training with a rifle there is one thing you will always have to deal with, the weather"

Cabal grabs from his back a PAD and passes it to Luhanna "This will help you, with what is to come next at least, it will help you calculate the adjustments needed for weather conditions. Computer reset target, add weather factors to moving targets"

Wintersnow raised an eyebrow; she waited for the targets to present themselves.

Cabal walks over to the replicator and gets a cup of tea "Want a drink Wintersnow? Computer generated targets"

With that the new targets appear for Wintersnow to shoot.

Wintersnow blocked out everything except her and the targets, quickly she acquired them both before putting two shots into both targets, one for each of them and just like that she had killed both, the entire process had taken a little under six seconds. "I've been alive for over three centuries... this is not my first barbeque Lieutenant." the Draenei commented with a smile.

Cabal put down his cup of tea with a smile and walked over to the bench with the rifles on picked up a large calibre rifle walking over to Wintersnow "I expected nothing less from a lady as young as yourself, I think it is time we moved onto something with a little more kick to it. I take it you have fired one of these before?"

Cabal reached Wintersnow and handed her a large carbine phase rifle, he then stands a few paces back from her and looks down the range. "Computer reset range, target distances 500 yards, standard training conditions, one standard target. You might want to lay down for this" Cabal added with a bit of a smile.

Wintersnow smiled before turning a slightly darker shade of blue before accepting the rifle before placing the rifle on the deck, then she proceeded to lie down before her targets, she lifted the rifle as she took aim and with one squeeze of the trigger, the first target basically exploded before quickly acquiring and destroying the second target.

Cabal looking very impressed and wishing that all his students where up to this standard "Very good well done, Computer reset targets, add weather conditions three different weather conditions one after each other with new sets of targets." The range started to go all-dark and with that thick dark clouds appeared overhead and it begins to rain on them with intermittent crashes of thunder and lightning.

Luhanna meanwhile didn't move as she felt the water begin to soak into her uniform, she was clearly used to dealing with inclement weather as she sighted the first target then she destroyed it with one round.

She felt the weather suddenly clear and turn blazingly hot as the power of a star began to dry her uniform out as she felt the grit of sand blast past her, she then realized she was dealing with a sandstorm as she ignored it all before demolishing the second target.

She then sighted the third as the sand turned to snow and the temperature dropped to below freezing a sea level on a planet like Earth; she felt the snow begin to pile up on her and around her as she placed a plasma bolt through the third target.

She then climbed to her hooves, what's more she was also covered in snow and sand, clearly it didn't bother her in the least as she shook herself off. "I might try going for an ice swim." she commented.

"An ice bath dose not sound to bad" Cabal said with a smile, Cabal then pulls two cigars out of his leg pocket and passes one to Luhanna and then gets his zippo out of his pocket and offers to light Luhanna's cigar.

Luhanna raised an eyebrow as she held the cigar in her hand as she shrugged, she then unwrapped the end she was to smoke as she accepted a light as she inhaled a lungful of pollution.

She regarded him. "Its different, where did you get these?"

"I got them on earth, I keep a few on me when i go on missions, they are called a victory dances and I use them as a celebration it is a tradition i got from my grandfather" Cabal turns and salutes Luhanna "Congratulations Master Chief Petty Officer, you have passed your sniper certification, i would be happy to have you have my back as over watch."

Cabal then drops the salute and walks over to his personal locker in the armory places his rifle in his locker then turns back to look over at Luhanna "Where you just here for sniper training or some combat training as well" Cabal asked from over at the lockers.

she smiled as she plucked the stoogie out of her mouth before she spoke "I'm also hoping to get some combat training... close quarters and ranged." she commented. "Trouble with ranged." she reached out with her arm as a shipping crate that was two foot squared, suddenly jumped into the air and went hurtling towards the Lieutenant before she raised her hand and it came to a halt. "I have some very strong Psionic abilities."

Cabal reacts quickly unsheathes his Katana from his hip and cuts the crate in half, sending the contents flying over the floor in front of him, before the dust settles, Cabal has re-sheathes his Katana and is sliding across the floor towards Luhanna, on doing so he takes out her feet knocking her to the ground with a load crash that rattled around the room. Before he stops he jumps up back onto his feet.

Cabal turns round and offers Luhanna a hand and to help her back to her feet "not bad, I can read minds and make people think they see what they did not with through the manipulation of thought. Don't worry I keep it a fair fight for training and don't use them."

Having helped Luhanna back to her feet, Cabal takes a few steps back from her "Computer activate close quarters combat training ring." On the ground beneath there feet appeared several matt’s. "Let’s dance madam" on saying this Cabal bashed both his fists together twice and the swinging his right arm in front of him face and clenches his fist and swings his arm to one side and then observes the combat stances proclaiming 'BRING IT ON'

Wintersnow had not moved from where she was standing, she mentally cleared her mind while she prepared for the bout to come. She took one step forward as she knew he would not come to her before she threw a punch at him, then she swung around as she lashed out with one of her massive hooves, connecting with his chest.

Just before Wintersnow's hoof connects with chest he braces himself allowing the hoof to connect with his chest on doing so he takes a step back winded, although he was sure he had not broken any ribs it was still going to leave a mark, he grabbed her thigh between his hands and spins her leg, taking Wintersnow off balances and smashing to the ground with an almighty thud, this time landing on her face. "good hit just need to be careful of the counterattack, don't hold back lets see what you have, I’m yet to visit the med-bay i might as well go for a real injury." Cabal says slightly gasping for breath and now bouncing on the balls of his feet.

Wintersnow raised an eyebrow as she regarded him. "No..." she answered evenly, she regarded him with a dark look as her eyes changed from cyan to a deep red. "So you want to get physical with me..... you should have warned me first.." she paused before changing into her weir form as she reverted back to 'normal' or as normal as it got around her.

Cabal going a bit red and blushing, "Well Luhanna we can get physical if you want, we just need to be careful so no one gets hurt" Cabal winks at Wintersnow and smiles looking down at her and just seeing her just laid still not even her tail twitching. Waiting for Wintersnow to get back to her feet, "I don't need to enter your mind and during training, I would not, it is not fair on you and if I was nor fair on myself, I was just able to read your move from your stances"

Wintersnow raised an eyebrow as she regarded him. "I'm the only Draenei in Starfleet." she explained. "How can you know anything about my species?" she inquired as a smile graced her lips, she decided he needed to learn as she pointed to a crate which lifted up off of the deck, then suddenly it went hurtling towards the Lieutenant before she halted it in mid-flight about a foot or so from where he was standing. "Never turn your back on a Psionic Lieutenant and never assume I'd stop the crate in mid-flight." she regarded him as she explained. "If I wanted to hurt you, I wouldn't stop with a simple beating. Never loose sight of that..." she explained as she crossed her arms under her breasts.

Cabal not flinching or moving yet still keeping his eyes firmly on Wintersnow, the only he makes is to go for his Katana again, but knowing that this time that same counter would not work, he just smiled and looked over at Wintersnow but not letting his guard down raised an eyebrow "I know you are the only Draenei in Starfleet, I only know what I have read about your people and your service record which is limited. I was able to read your stances as I am a master of Krav Maga, an almost perfect martial arts form."

Cabal leans up against the crate, the whole time not taking his eye off Wintersnow, "I don't use my abilities all the time, and only when I need them as peoples minds and thoughts are there own and it is not my places unless I need to go poking through them. That is good to know, just so you know i have no fear of death, as today is a good as any day to die."

There is a slight pause and Cabal salutes and in the next movement extends his hand to Wintersnow, "Master Chief Petty Officer there is not a lot more that i can teach you and I am quite happy to clear you for away missions. Is there anything else? If you are interested I’m looking for a new sparring partner. How is your combat with swords?"

Wintersnow regarded as she carefully considered it, and then she shook her head. "No." she answered. "I prefer sabrestaff's and Bo staff's" she raised an eyebrow as she shifted her weight ever so slightly. "But it would be an unfair fight.... you want someone to train with you and that's not me." she responded. "I must turn you down."

Cabal walks over to his locker and finished putting all his knives and other gear back in it then turning back to Wintersnow "I was more looking for someone to spar with instead of the Holodeck all the time, never know you might have been able to teach this old dog a new trick or two. Just out of curiosity why do you say it would have been an unfair fight?"

Wintersnow smiled. "I tell you what I will do..... I'll let you see one of my training programs.... loser buys dinner."

Cabal smiled back, "Deal, I know a nice little restaurant in France, Earth. They do the most wonderful steak. Or at least the Holodeck version of it"

"Very well... the game is... capture the prize." she commented. "lets go.. the holodeck is this way." and with that she turned and walked out of the range.

Cabal takes his swords back out of his and attached them back to hip, he then closes his locker and walks out of the range, but not before leaving a PADD on the bench for the quartermaster, it reads:

[Start]

Equipment requisition request.

Quartermaster could I please get my throwing knives replenished to there number of 24 before we arrive at the Triangle as i will require them for the upcoming mission.

Many Thanks
Cabal Ash-tor
Chief Security Officer

[End]

Cabal then walks out of the range and follows Wintersnow to the holodeck.