From: V. Rahul Chandra (vrccan_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed Jun 04 2008 - 12:01:31 PDT
=========== “Drills” Continued from Bethany’s Untitled Post =========== Location: USS PATRIOT Stardate: 2422 [2.8] 0604.1439 Scene: Holodeck -> Corridor A conduit exploded to the left of a group of marines, spewing out noxious chemicals into the nearby area. Two marines were able to quickly reach for their gas masks, but the others in the group didn’t move fast enough and were tagged out by their assault rifles being drained of power. This was one of the many methods used in drilling to signify people that had either been wounded, knocked out or killed in combat, as those marines would now have to leave the holodeck and go over what went wrong, watching the rest of the simulation from a monitor on marine deck. The two marines were Daniel Clarkson and Josh Morris, both of whom had been assigned to the second team of marines according to the lists that had been made about by Colonel Maverick. They rounded one of the corridors, dodging an energy beam from a Jem’Hadar weapon. As they crouched around behind the corner, they noticed that they were in a dead end. “What the hell?” Morris asked. “This wasn’t a dead end in the last simulation.” Daniel fired a few rounds of his rifle at the Jem’Hadar at the other end of the corridor, effectively keeping them at bay, before ducking back behind the partition the two men were using to shield themselves. He looked at the dead end they’d found their way into before shrugging his shoulders. “I examined the program beforehand,” Clarkson said. “It’s set to randomize the corridors.” Morris fired a few times, before quickly ducking out of a way of a rifle blast that almost knocked him out of the drill. “Why would they do that?” he demanded. “This damn assignment’s hard enough without adding randomization factors into it.” Clarkson waited for the blast to go past him before quickly spinning and firing, taking one of the Jem’Hadar soldiers at the other end down. “If I had to guess,” he half-shouted. “It’s because the powers that be have no idea what the insides of these buildings we’re going to penetrate look like.” Morris’ answer was cut off by the appearance of two Jem’Hadar behind them, as if out of nowhere. Before either marine could react, the soldiers had placed their weapons against their backs and fired. As soon as the shots went off, the layout of the installation disappeared, replaced by the familiar holodeck that they’d come to know over the course of their careers. “And that’s that,” Daniel said grimly, getting up off the crouching position he’d been in when they were blindsided. “We were the last two in the simulation.” “They’re firing at us from in front, beaming in behind,” Morris said. “This simulation’s starting to get a little bit frustrating.” Daniel smiled sympathetically, but said nothing to Morris. “Computer,” he said. “Transfer the results of this simulation to my terminal.” As soon as the computer beeped its acknowledgement, Daniel nodded to Morris and the two men headed out of the holodeck, walking down the corridor outside. “So what now?” Josh asked. “We debrief,” Daniel replied. “See if anyone can find anything good and then cover everything else that went bad.” He shook his head. “And then we drill again…and again if we have to. Whatever it takes to give ourselves a fighting chance of accomplishing something when we get down to the surface.” “We need more information,” Morris said. “We don’t even know for sure that it’s a building we’re penetrating.” Daniel nodded. “It could be a building, a ship, an orbital platform or simply a starbase of some kind,” he said. “I don’t really care what it is, but having to infiltrate a place covered with automated defences and Jem’Hadar soldiers while at the same time not knowing anything about what it looks like inside is not something I’m looking forward to.” Morris nodded his understanding. “Does this mean you’re going to lobby Colonel Maverick for more information?” “No,” Daniel answered. “If he thought we needed to know something else he’d have told us by now.” ============ NRPG: Just moving things along! ============ Rahul Chandra <vrccan_at_gmail.com> Playing… Lieutenant Commander Jeffrey Gorman, MD Executive Officer USS PATRIOT & Major Daniel Clarkson, MD Marine Executive Officer USS PATRIOT No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.24.6/1482 - Release Date: 04/06/2008 7:10 AM From HyperNews_at_youth.net
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