GS-2: SS ANTONINE: cockpit (“Going Down”)

From: Joy Phillips (jkatjovi_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Feb 14 2007 - 02:42:36 PST


“Going Down”
(Cont’d from Rahul’s “Docking and Going")

Location: SS ANTONINE
Scene; Cockpit
Stardate: 2.70214.1025

Xana Bonviva settled uncomfortably in her seat, Eilean
sat next to her the Xenexian chief of security looking
calm and in control the Bolian ambassador for Earth
admired her silently and imagined how frazzled she
looked, her fears where alleviated slightly when she
glanced over the shuttle at her husband who grinned at
her. She gave him a small smile back and then went
back to feeling uncomfortable.

Gene was leading the away team partly because Kat was
pregnant partly because he’d drawn the short straw and
had a reputation for being slightly more diplomatic
than his superior officer. The half bajoran sighed and
rubbed at his nose ridge.

Gene watched his wife fidget and allowd himself
another small smile, he’d persuaded her to leave their
daughter in Kat’s very capable hands on the ship until
they where sure that this planet was as safe as they
had been led to believe, his attention was destracted
from his wife by Hannibal who was sat next to him
fidgeting almost as badly, the large security chief
had been banned from bringing any weapons but he was
almost as good as a klingon at hiding them about his
person.

Hannibal nodded at his XO when he realised his
attention was on him but offered no words of
explanation to his discomfort.

Putting it down to him being unarmed Gene glanced at
the young doctor he was holding a medi-kit and looking
eagerly around him. He smiled slightly and then
glanced into the cockpit at the other two members of
the away team, Neos Velsu was settled into the
co-pilots chair next to him Nick Cannon was deftly
piloting the shuttle craft.

“we’re about to hit atmosphere.” The pilot and ops
officer spoke up. “you might all want to hold on.”

Everyone shifted slightly to brace themselves
expecting some kind of tubulance to hit them as they
moved from space to the resistance of a planets
atmosphere. Instead a white light slid effortlessly
through the craft and those sat inside it and the
shuttle seemed to glide effortlessly.

“What was that?” gene snapped, he stood up and moved
forwards to see the white light across the viewscreen.

“Some kind of sensor.” Neos answered his fingers
tripping across the console in front of him.

“some kind of tractor beam.” Cannon answered almost at
the same time, the two looked at each other and then
at their consoles.

“which?” Gene demanded.

“Both.” Neos answered calmly while Nick struggled with
the controls of the shuttle. 

“I have no control over the shuttle commander.” The
FCO said quietly he half glanced back at Gene’s wife.
The XO took a deep breath and nodded, 

“OK then, let’s just relax and let them take us in.”
he glanced at Nick and then smiled. “just stay alert
incase anything goes wrong.”

Still standing between the two chairs he glanced out
the viewscreen and took a minute to watch as the
clouds broke open, they where staring down into the
green/blue sea of this planet, as far as the eye could
see was water, a white colour was visible and was
approaching fast, as he watched it changed becoming
more apparent that it was some kind of structure,
green and blue lines could be seen giving it almost he
impression of a large block of granite. 

Within a few miles the changes to buildings and rivers
or canals became visible, the capital city of Telleran
IV was built over the sea, water was pumped around the
city constantly allowing the two sentinant species to
live amongst one another in a mixture of roads and
waterways, buildings and tanks.

“It almost looks a little like Venice.” Gene glanced
over his shoulder at his wife who had joined him in
the cockpit.

The tall man glanced out at the strange aliens lined
up around an area as the shuttle was lowered carefully
to a small shuttle port he shrugged and answered, “I
challenge you to find anything like those in Venice.”

Xana smiled and shrugged, “a few thousand years ago
people where saying the same things about us.” She
sighed and stood up straighter, “our welcoming
committee?”

“certainly looks that way.” Gene answered, “your lead
or mine?” he suddenly asked the ambassador for EARTH
seriously.

**

NRPG: Proper contact, anyone want to run with this?

Joy Phillips
The madness behind
Commander Katlina Potter
CO
GS-2

And currently

Lt Xon Wright
jACTi
Starfleet Academy EARTH





 



		
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