From: Kenneth Field (envision_at_fidalgo.net)
Date: Mon Jan 15 2007 - 19:11:06 PST
"Agent Provocateur"
(continues from Kim's "Report")
Location: GS-2
Stardate: 2.70115.1841
Scene: Terran Embassy
Xana Bonviva, Terran Ambassador, glanced up as her BORG Chief of Staff, Tomas' Vukovic stepped quietly into the room. For all the time they spent together, she still could not read the expressions on his face when he was determined not to let them show. But the blandness of his features convinced her something was afoot.
"Ambassador, I have a request."
"Tomas, you can call me Xana here in private. You know that, right?"
"Yes, Ambassador," he said, the thinnest of smiles barely making it to his face.
But before he could say what his request was, the comm set on her desk trilled, the monitor unfolding from the flat surface, and the face of her husband, Commander Gene McInnis filled the screen.
{{Xana, we have incoming. A BORG cube. And they're asking for you. Is there something you might have forgotten to tell me about this morning at breakfast?}}
"No," she shook her head, glancing away from the screen to Tomas' impassive face. "But I think I know someone who might."
{{Is Vukovic there?}} Gene took the hint.
Xana swiveled the monitor about so that the pickup would bring Tomas' into view as well.
"Here, Commander," Tomas' nodded. "I was about to explain this to the Ambassador. I apologize for the abrupt arrival. I was only notified moments ago myself."
"Notified? Of what?" Xana wanted to know.
"I have to go, Madame Ambassador. The BORG have invoked a clause in my contract with the BORG Federation. Although the local BORG Embassy has no need of my services as Liaison, apparently there is another situation requiring my presence. They have the right to call upon me."
"You're a free man, Tomas'," Xana reminded him, aware of the internal struggle the Slavic BORG endured.
"And as a free man, I am compelled to honor my commitments."
Xana sighed and nodded. "Patch them through," she said to Gene.
**WE ARE THE BORG.** the polyglot voice thundered.
"How nice for you," Xana smiled, knowing that the BORG would not understand the sarcasm. "State your business."
**WE REQUIRE THE ASSISTANCE OF THE BORG DESIGNATED TOMAS' ALEXEI VUKOVIC. COMPLY.**
"You really need to explain how annoying they can be," Xana mentioned to Tomas'.
The man shrugged eloquently, his eyes hidden behind sunglasses.
"I will comply. However, I need ..."
There was a swirl of energy, a sickening green color, and Tomas' was gone.
"Now wait just one damn minute!" Xana raged.
**TIME IS A FACTOR IN THE EQUATION.**
"You do not penetrate the security of the Terran Embassy without permission!"
**PERMISSION IS IRRELEVANT.**
{{They've gone into transwarp,}} Gene observed, glancing off screen. {{I'll file a formal complaint with the BORG Federation, but I don't know what good it'll do.}}
"They have my Chief of Staff," Xana stood behind her desk. "I'm not going to just give him up."
{{I'll see what I can find out,}} Gene promised. {{Maybe the local BORG Embassy can fill us in.}}
"I'll come along, if you don't mind," Xana said. "They might not be able to stonewall the both of us."
{{I'll meet you at the Embassy. You might want to bring Eileann along.}}
"As if I could stop her," Xana said. "See you there."
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NRPG: At Kim's request, Tomas' is off to try and help the crew of the PROPHECY. It shouldn't affect anything on the GATE, unless we want it to. LOL.
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Kenneth Field
envision_at_fidalgo.net
aka Commander Gene McInnis
ExO/GS-2
aka Lt. JG Mowree Nurunyon
CNS/GS-2
aka Tomas' Alexei Vukovic
Aide to Ambassador Xana Bonviva
Terran Embassy
GS-2
aka Maury R. Tee
Professor of English (Retired)
Proprietor of "Impulse Drives,"
a little shop of horrors
GS-2, Promenade
"I start fighting a war, you're definitely gonna see something new." Malcolm Reynolds -- "Serenity"
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