USS STONEHENGE: E4: Somewhere in a forest ("Rubber banding wall of death")

From: Joy Phillips (jkphillips82_at_googlemail.com)
Date: Thu Oct 09 2008 - 13:13:45 PDT


"Rubber banding wall of death"

(Cont'd From "The Melody of Trees")



Location: E4

Sceme: Forest somewhere

Stardate: 2.80910.2103



Izzy was trotting ahead of the rest of the team, her shoes tied with their
laces and hanging over a shoulder, her uniform jacket wrapped around her
waist and tied together with the arms, leaving her own arms bare to the wind
and sun, her socks had gone missing a while ago and her trousers were rolled
up to below her knee as she whistled cheerfully whilst keeping an eye on the
tricorder. Her skin was flushed with yellow almost as though it was
reflecting the sunlight; her hair had changed to brilliant silver and was in
fact reflecting light



"You don't have to enjoy this quite so much you know." The voice of Peter
came from behind her still grumpy from being dumped upside down in a tree.
Izshlana ignored him and disappeared ahead of them.



"I swear she acts like a kid sometimes." Peter muttered watching his own
tricorder to try and find some signs of the other team.



"That's because she is." Mathew pointed out quietly. "Her race live as long
as Vulcans, maybe longer, she never told me for sure. She's only 20
something by her own terms which by my reckoning makes her around 8 compared
to humans."



Peter looked at his husband unconvinced. "Seriously?"



Mathew nodded cheerfully. "Apparently if the Dominion hadn't conquered her
race she'd still be in schooling for another 20 years. She is the
personification of someone being forced to grow up too quickly due to a
war."



"You're pulling my leg." Peter responded and looked over his shoulder at
Aerdan. "Tell me he's pulling my leg?"



The CMO shrugged his shoulders. "Physically she is as advanced as any human
in their twenties, although when I conducted a medical exam of her mother
before and after the baby was born the amount of physical degeneration was
much less than you would expect in a human of her age, in fact their was
almost none. So yes, Izshlana is of a long lived race. I can only assume
then that Mathew is right in suggesting that Izzy maybe as mature as my
daughter." As an after thought he muttered. "She certainly acts like it on
occasions."



They walked past a tree and Izshlana jumped from behind the thick trunk
yelling "BOO!" as loudly as she could. Birds fluttered from their nests with
squawks of annoyance. Peter, Mathew and Aerdan simply exchanged a look. The
last man shrugged his shoulders and said.



"See?"



"See what?" Izzy asked looking around them all. Urika managed to stifle a
little laugh.



"We've veered off course." The science officer answered changing the subject
with grace, "If we're sure we still want to move north."



"We keep going north." Peter agreed firmly.



"Then we need to head more that way." Urika answered watching her tricorder
that had now become a compass; she realigned herself with the north and
pointed.



"Any suggestions on how we can get in touch with the other team yet Ronnie?"
Peter asked as he started heading off.



"Not as of yet." Ronnie answered. "But Maddie wont leave us wandering around
in circles for long, something is bound to happen sooner or later."



Peter pursed his lips although a small smile formed on them as he considered
his adopted sister. "It's the "Something" that I'm worried about." He
declared.



Aerdan shrugged his shoulders about to say something he paused and looked
around his antenna dipping slightly, he took a step to his left and hit an
invisible wall and bounced back. "Commander." The doctor lisped and nodded
to the XO. "I might have found the first something."



Being unperturbed by the bigger man stopping mid step Izzy threw herself
into a run and smacked into the wall. She got a step through it before it
rebounded and threw her across the track they had been following and hit a
tree trunk. "Ow." Izzy muttered.



"But…" Mathew said slowly trying not to laugh too loudly at his assistant.
"All things considered that was an excellent plan." He grinned at her and
put his thumbs up. "Two thumbs up and an A for effort."



Izzy grinned back. "It's rubbery." She declared. "See there was a reason why
I did that."



"You wanted to fly?" Mathew guessed.



Peter hid a laugh and shook his head. "Well we don't want to go that way
anyway." He pointed out softly and then looked at Aerdan, "how did you know
it was there?"



"The wind sounded different." He answered. "It was coming from a different
direction, I figured something was there." He moved backwards antenna
fluttering around his head "It starts here." He declared from a few steps
back the way they had come.



Izshlana stood up and Aerdan quickly stepped between her and the rubber
invisible wall. "I'd rather not treat you for a concussion." He supplied
with a shake of his head.



Izzy grinned and hugged the blue man. "I knew you cared."



He rolled his eyes and looked at Peter who was calmly, and carefully,
running his hand along the wall, he reached were Aerdan had been standing
and his eyes narrowed as the rubbery substance didn't stop but instead ran
in another direction perpendicular to where they were standing. "OK, this is
a corner." He declared turning he looked at the group. "So do we investigate
or ignore it?" he questioned.



**



NRPG: well some character stuff and an invisible wall… Woot.



Joy Phillips



Lt JG Izshlana Vort

aSec/Tac

USS STONEHENGE



And



Commander Katlina Gorman

AWOL

Somewhere in the gamma quadrant


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