More friends, More Voles

Posted on Tue Feb 25th, 2020 @ 4:44pm by Division Admiral Thomas Lasky & Lieutenant JG Rachael "Ripcord" Yamaguchi-Cullen & Commodore Siaxx "Bluemoon" Dvald-Vaxx MD & Jillian "Phoenix" Sullivan

Mission: Mission 15: Old Ghosts
Location: Various Locations - USS Roanoke
Timeline: 1200Hrs, December 7th, 2390

Hakaya was busy supervising the deck crew working overtime trying to get fighters operational, and right now, they where focused on the 12 valkyries that where in the best possible shape, when Hakaya saw Zara walk onto the hangar deck, with little warning, one of the voles squeaked and ran by her, making a beeline for her fighter, when a phaser shot went off, missing the vole wildly, and missing the old fighter by centimeters. Hakaya looked for the guy whom fired the phaser, and she saw it was the extremely overweight michael bremor.

Fives turned his head as he looked down at Rachael Yamaguchi who was helping him with maintenance. She was young but was eager to learn, which was a great help.

"Claw Wrench please?" he inquired as he heard a phaser blast, he turned his head as he watched a vole scuttle across the hanger and into the one fighter owned by Captain Tane, he sighed softly. "Fuck!"

"What?" Rachael called up. "Fives?"

"Yeah.... the skipper has voles in her bird..." he commented with an amused smile.

Rachael paused as she handed him his tool. "The skipper as in Phoenix?"

"No... The Captain..."

"Oh... oh shit!" Rachael noticed the Captain as she came around the corner. "Fives... incoming"

Fives pulled himself out from under his display as he poked his head out of his fighter to see the Captain pass them, the look on Tane's face was clearly the cause of Rachael's distress.

Zara was at a full run now, headed for her fight with all haste. She'd drawn one of her knives from a holster in her boot and proceeded to attack the varmet.

"I want the prick's head on a spike, for guiding the god damend thing in my fighter," the captains shouted to the deck gang. "Two weeks R&R for the one that brings me his head."

Just about everyone whom saw Bremor fired, proceeded to point at the overweight security guard. The look on his face was priceless.
Zara came to a halt as she watched the crew point Mickey out. This caused Zara to focus her attention on the overweight man and she tossed the knife at him with the intent to kill. And instantly was going for her spare knife as she ran at him.

Bremor immediately squealed in terror, and somehow, the knife missed him as he ran as fast as his squat legs would take him. The phaser flew out of his hand and hit Abbado in the back of the head, and in a flurry of italian curse words, he chased Bremor as well. Bremor, not paying attention to where he was going, tripped over a tool box, loudly scattering tools everywhere, as he went down like a ton of bricks, and catching the attention of everyone in the hangar.

Zara reached him first and true to her infamy, proceeded to kick him in the balls several times. "You... are.... an... idiot," she spoke between kicks, and only stopped when her knee got tired.

Rachael smiled as she watched, Fives meanwhile sighed as he turned and went back to work. "Rachel... hammer."

"Okay." and with that the teenager went back to work as the dark furred Caitian officer stalked over, the crewman was now more or less standing on her tail. "I'm gonna kill him." she hissed.

She nodded to the Captain who was more then a half foot shorter then she was. "Captain.." she greeted the Skipper before turning her attention to Bremer who was cowering on the deck in writhing pain from being kicked a few times. "Crewman.." she hissed angrily as her claws slid out of their sheaths.

Bremor squealed again and voided his bowls, while Hakaya retrieved the fallen phaser, and with cattleprod in hand, stood next top the fuming Abbado.
Nasao growled angrily. "What in fucks name is wrong with you... every time I approach, you void your bowels!" she rasped in rage, her tail twitching. "I'm gonna fucking hurt you crewman..." she added. "go and change your pants... then report to waste extraction....there you will remain... until called for.." she waved her paw at him. "Go... Now!"

Bremer paused one second too long as she finally blew a fuse. "NOW!!!" she roared before she took a swipe at him, missing but not by much before he tried to run, he only fell flat on his face.

Hakaya looked at Fordring, and said," Chief, can you make sure that he gets off my flight deck and doesn't return."

Then without waiting for a response, "Hakaya turned to Moni, "O.K. Fat ass and his equally fat brother are never allowed anywhere near the pod again. Otherwise, I might just leave his body parts in your quarters."

"If you do.. I'll feed him to my cat." Nasao replied indifferently. "however.. I'll have them reassigned to waste extraction, permanently."

"Sure," hakaya replied as Fordring dragged the incompetent idiot off the flight deck by the foot. Teval, having heard the commotion from the tower, came down to investigate, phaser rifle in hand.

"Someone tell me what teh fuck is going on?" zara noted with a frustrated sigh while she made her way to her fighter with a knife in hand.

"We have a cardassian vole infestation," Taval commented, frustrated," Cortesy of these piece of shit valkyries that starfleet gave us. 33 need
complete overhauls, three are complete writeoffs because of fucking voles, and we found 3 cats, 7 pidgeons, a dozen rats, multiple hornets nests, and fuck knows how amny of these voles."

Zara rubbed her face in frustration and confussion. "How the fuck are we supposed to have an operational group ready to fly in four days?"

Meanwhile, having been fed up with anymore surprises, Hakaya wandered around the hangar bay with a tricorder, scanning each fighter very thoroughly. After about 15 minutes, she, Wukari, and Zarloos had three more cats, a mother and two kittens, a puppy, a raccoon and a fox. Hakaya's tricorder also picked up at least a further dozen hornets nests, though thankfully smaller ones, a wide variety of other insects, and several ants nests, as well as several further, but thankfully dead voles. Hakaya looked at one of the valkyrie fighters, one of the last ones to be inspected, which was currently cordoned off by a force field due to having an absolutely massive hornets nest of at least several thousand of the insects in it.

Wukari pulled out a padd to see what breed the felines where, nad after some time she identified the breed as Somali cats. the mother was just over two years old, while the kittens where about 12 weeks. But then , unable to restrain herself any further, she sat down, picked up one of the kittens, held, and petted him, saying, "I want this one."

Rachael ambled over as she smiled. "Anyone claim these two yet?" she gntly began to pet the larger of the two cats, who began to pur once she relized that Rachael's intentions were peaceful. "No?"

Hakaya answered,"No, and we already have one pregnant maine coon anyway."

Rachael gently plucked the cat as she picked her up. "Mmm... I'll claim these two." as she reached down and she gently picked up the kitten. "You guys okay with that?" she cooed at the mother cat who blinked at her.

"If nobody objects... I'm gonna take these two to sickbay and get them looked at.. make sure all is well with them." she turned to the Wing Commander. "You gonna get yours checked?"

Wukari simply nodded, and went with Rachael to sickbay with her new friend, as well as taking the dog down as well.

Zara just facepalmed at the small ark of animals. Then went back to climbing into her fighter to find the vermin she was originally after. "I want any pets claimed before the vermin decontamination, spade and neutered!"

Whitepaw, whom had been working on a fighter, came over with spots of grease on his fur." I see we have more arrivals." looking as Wukari and Rachael left with their new friends in hand.

Rachael entered a sickbay a few minutes later with the Wing Commander following her with a cat in one hand and a dog in the other.

Rachael was half tempted to claim the German Shepard for herself as Siaxx raised an eyebrow. "Holy crap.. more cats and a dog this time?"

"Yep," Wukari commented with her new found kitten. "Though Hakaya went over each fighter thoroughly with a tricorder so there will be no more surprises in the fighters. Aside from more hornets nets and a variety of other bugs, no other animals are in them."

Siaxx smiled. "Outstanding." she responded. "Bets way to deal with Hornets honestly is with CO2." she explained as she looked down at the Dog. "Heya little guy... you okay down there?"

Rachael gently placed her two cats on the biobed as Siaxx gently reached down to pick up the dog. "hey.. its okay.. let me have a look at you." she was gentle and within moments the dog was lying on the biobed before Phoenix as she scanned each of the animals in turn. "Okay.. Wukari, your little one is hungry and dehydrated." she explained. "let me give her the shots and you can take her home...."

Siaxx produced some hypos as she proceeded to inject them all with the shots. "Let me know what name you give for her... and I'll update your records accordingly."

Wukari commented lightly," yeah, you should see the monster of a nest we found in 3rd squadrons 11th fighter. That thing must have several thousand hornets in there. Currently its cordoned off with a force field, and Teval probably will gas them to death."

"What teh hell is going on with my planes?" Phoenix asked, annoyance heavy in her voice, though she found her left hand gently petting the shivering the puppy. It was oddly calming to her.

Siaxx smiled as she proceeded to examine Rachael's new roommates. "They are malnourished and dehydrated. also I'm willing to bet they've not had any decent attention.. be gentle.. the mother will be protective of her youngling."

Wukari rolled her eyes in disgust," yeah we got the fighters for second wing yesterday morning, and the condition of the valkyries is just horrible. My guess is that they where left in an open storage depot on New holland for about 10 years with no one looking after them. Three are complete write offs due to cardassian voles, and in terms of other animals found in them the final count is six cats, seven bird, a dozen rats, a dog, a raccoon, a fox, and far too many cardassian voles."

Wukari paused, sighed, then continued. "In addition there where over 2 dozen hornets nest, though most are small. Though one was the size of a basketball, and the other is enormous. 3 of the fighters are complete write offs, while the other 33 are in various states of disrepair. We can get 12 up and running within a week or two, but the others may take longer. We still arent done evaluating the full extent of the damage."

Siaxx looked at Phoenix as her Bengal cat mewled softly before he bopped Siaxx's hand, as he gently ran her fingers through the kitty's fur as it purred at her.

"Fucken hell..." Phoenix shook her head in shock and annoyance. But they quickly turned to happiness when the puppy started to suck on her index finger like it was a nipple. The pup clearly had not been fully weaned from its mother.

Wukari picked up her own little friend and then said to Phoenix," Well, it would be nice if you could come up to the hangar bay and help us out in fixing all these birds, we are having to pull double shifts now to get these things operational and any additional help would be appreciated."

"Tane's got me on light duty for strikin' the Spoonhead," Phoenix reminded the other woman as she began to scratch the underbelly of the puppy. "I can' do much until her and the new shrink says I can."

Wukari then left sickbay with her new friend, leaving Phoenix with Siaxx and their new puppy.

Siaxx smiled. "Let me look him over for you." she commented as she produced her Tricorder. "You wanna keep him?" she inquired, coming right out with it.

It was not as if the two of them could create a child between them. And Phoenix did feel drawn to the little pup. That's why she nodded very happily. With her flight status revoked, this puppy gave her new life, it seemed.

"Yeah. I do. If it's all right with ya?" Phoenix asked sheepishly.

"Well she's in good heath if somewhat malnourished and dehydrated." Siaxx explained. "Let me give her, her shots then we can take her home.." Siaxx replied with a smile. "She likes you... so... we'll keep her... same as Shonax..." Siax commented. "Our home is more crowded but... I'm not going to complain... "