Post by LucianG on Mar 31, 2007 9:21:05 GMT -6
Amy
I stood for the longest time just staring at the water, wondering about the odd stranger who had disappeared beneath the surface. I knew that she had left, but I couldn't help but wonder who she was.
She had walked right up to me, as if she knew me. But that couldn't be true. All I've ever known is here.
I suddenly began to feel weak, dispite being so close to the water's edge. I turned and noticed the rest of the group moving away. To be separated was nearly unbearable to experience, and I ran to catch up.
As I joined up the leader came to me and pointed out the similarities between the tattered clothes I wore and those of the stranger. He seemed to know more than he was telling me, but I didn't care. I belonged here. Such matters were unimportant to me.
* * *
Nefeteri
Teri realized that her boots were weighing her down with water but from where? She decided that the best idea was to take them off and leave them in the entrance to the cave. Her world was coming back to her now but she still needed to recover Lt. Amy. She was back under the water that Teri had now come to distrust. It took all one's senses away. She had to fight it anyway. After throwing her boots in the entrance to the cave, Teri took a deep breath and dove back into the water. The less time she was in it, the less time her mind had to wander. She knew Lt. Col. Charybdis would be glad to see Amy as would the others. Perhaps this would make him like Teri a little more after all her other blunders around him.
Teri swam and looked around her. Quickly she saw light above her. She emerged into the lake from which she had come. Amy was standing with who seemed to be the leader of this tribe. She was shaking her head no to him as if she didn't want to be rescued but belonged with them. The elder person kept pointing to the lake. Teri swam to the shore and strode up to where Amy stood with the man.
"Lt. Amy?" she spoke. "I've come to take you back to your people." Amy seemed not to understand. She stared at Teri with a blankness on her face.
"Sir, I have to take her back," Teri was adamant. He spoke in a different tongue but somehow the words seem to agree with her. He nodded and raised his staff to the water's edge.
Teri turned around to look in it's direction. He walked Amy and Teri to the edge in which Teri waded and pointed to Amy. She did not want to go. Then with a suddeness of a snake he hit Teri on the back of the head with his staff. She sunk into the water. Amy saw this and saw the stranger disappear into it's depths. Instinct took over and Amy dove in after her to pull her to safety. Once she got into the water Amy lost her way back to the lake. It was as if a top covered where they had come from. Amy grabbed Teri by her heavy jacket and pulled her along the watery cavern until she saw another underwater cave. It seemed to go up and was lit above. She dragged Teri to it's shore and then looked back at the water. It seemed to say no to her this time. She shook her head and still couldn't remember her name but the clothing Teri wore seemed familiar. Perhaps she was one of her kind but now she couldn't remember the tribe nor what had just happened.
Teri slowly began to awake and rubbed the back of her head. She realized instantly that she was soaked to the skin. She looked at Amy and her torn clothes plus beaded hair and then back at the water. She couldn't remember what had happened nor who this person was. Nothing made sense. She shivered in the wet clothes she had on and pulled her heavy Warriors jacket off. The woman who was with her continued to stare at the water. Teri rubbed the back of her head once again. Where they had been must have been underwater but that was as much as she could remember.
* * *
Amy
I sat on the edge of the water, not even noticing the woman sitting next to me. All I could think of, all I could feel as I stared at the water, was a sense of loss. It started as just a tear forming on the edge of my eye, and then suddenly I was wailing with sadness that took over my whole
body. I shook, I crouched down into a little ball beating my fists at the sand, I sobbed with every ounce of energy I had. What the woman was near me was doing, I didn't notice.
Then suddenly it passed, and I grew very still. I sat up, my eyes were open, I was awake, yet I acknowledged nothing. I just might stay this way forever.
* * *
Nefeteri
The woman sat sobbing while Teri attempted to speak with her. It was of no use. Finally, Teri now shivering in her wet clothes decided to build a fire. She would figure out who this stranger with half of a Colonial Warriors garb on was after they were dry. Luckily Teri found the needed wood and what seemed to be flintlock at the mouth of the cave. She could snare a fire with it since her own things were drenched and no good. Her blaster was gone. Where had they been? Who knows. Where they were going was a given. Teri was with it enough to realize she needed to contact the Callisto. She still had her comm link. After getting the fire begun, she decided to use the comm.
"Ensign Teri to Callisto, please come in anyone."
The gruff voice she had come to love was that of Lt. Charybdis.
"State your problem, Teri. We have had search teams looking for you and Amy most of the day. Do you have an excuse for yourself?"
"No sir, I have a strange woman with me. She is not communicating in our language. Something happened to us both but for the life of me I can't remember. We are in a cave and I have begun a fire. We were in the water. Sir, do you think this could be Lt. Amy?"
"What does she look like? Over."
"She has torn Colonial Warrior garb on but her hair has been darkened and she is wearing beads in her hair. She doesn't want to communicate with me. Sir, what should I do?"
Could it be hope against hope that this was Amy found at last? He would forgive Teri everything she had done to him if it was.
"Teri, do you have a cave opening for the smoke to get out? Over."
"Yes sir. I built it at the entrance so if anyone saw it they could come help us."
"Sit tight and I will have Major Brie look for the smoke. You have no clue as to where you might be?"
"No sir. Let me get dried off and I will scout the area. I don't think this woman is going anywhere. She seems to be grieving for what is under the water.'
"Keep a good eye on her. You don't know what she might do. In an afterthought, "Teri if this is Amy you have done us all a great service."
"Sir, I was just doing my job."
* * *
Lucian
Titon and Rose were rushing to the bridge of the derelict, intent on disarming what appeared to be a self-destruct device. Unfortunately, the Colonials, if Colonials had last inhabited the ship, had figured that intelligent creatures would try such a tactic, so they'd set traps along the way to slow them. At the first hatch, Titon opened the hatch slightly and found a trap similar to the one about which JustinB had warned them. Several others followed, but finally, they burst into the main control room. Numerous computer screens were flashing.
Titon said, "Rose, look for the auto-destruct sequencer monitor. We'll have to hack our way into the system, or we're all going to be space dust in three centons, 67 microns."
Rose started searching to the left as Titon worked his way to the right.
"Osh, guys, we could use you up here!" shouted Titon.
* * *
2:98...2:97...2:96...
"Anything, Rose?" asked Titon, who was looking from position to position. Based on what he'd seen in the schematics for this type of ship, it was obvious that the bridge had been redesigned at some point over the yahrens, so the controls were nothing like what he had expected. The person who had rigged this system had used every trick in the book to make things work.
Rose scanned the controls for anything unexpected, particularly on the few monitors that were working. She came to the next station, and after glancing at the counter on the wall, she said, "Titon, I may have found something here."
2:45...2:44...2:43...
* * *
“I think this is it,” said Rose. “There’s some type of scanning device next to this monitor.”
They looked at the monitor that was displaying seven boxes. A line at the bottom of the first box was blinking, and at the bottom of the monitor, the countdown clock showed 2:24.
“Looks sort of like a retinal scanner of some type. They probably decided to use a human retina as the key to unlock the system, just in case the Cylons came aboard,” said Titon. “Move in and see if you can activate it.”
Rose frowned at him, but he wasn’t looking, as he sat down at the station and started tapping the touchpad. She looked through the small hole, seeing only a bright light, but she moved forward until her face touched the guard. Her eye was only millimeters from the surface of the lens. She had to resist squeezing her eye closed with all of her willpower since the light was very uncomfortable.
“You got it! It’s activ—OH FRACK!” said Titon. “There’s a sequence code, and we’ve only got 1:97 left. I’ve got the first couple, but I’m going to need help with some of these.”
They looked over the list, and between the two of them, they were able to answer all of the questions, filling in the number, except the seventh and final blank.
“I have no idea,” said Titon, looking at the last question as the counter ticked down to 0:47. “By how many points did the Taurans win the championship in the last interplanetary Triad championship before the Cylon attack? How in heck am I supposed to know that?”
“Don’t look at me,” said Rose. “Do we risk guessing?”
“I suspect if we get anything wrong, it’ll blow immediately, or maybe with a five or ten micron count, but if we don’t do something, it’s going to blow in 0:30 microns anyway.”
Osh stepped into the room and asked, “Get it taken care of, guys?”
“Osh! How many points did the Taurans win by in the championship game in the last interplanetary Triad championship before the Cylon attack?”
“Huh? What are you talking about? They lost by four points to the team from Sagitarra,” said Osh.
“Quick, minus 4!” said Rose. Titon punched in the numbers as the counter ran down to 0:12.
“Autodestruct sequencer deactivated,” sounded the computer voice. The counter read 0:09.
“Let’s find out what we’ve got here,” said Titon. “Whatever, looks like we’ve got a mess to fix up if we have any hope of ever getting this ship going again.”
I stood for the longest time just staring at the water, wondering about the odd stranger who had disappeared beneath the surface. I knew that she had left, but I couldn't help but wonder who she was.
She had walked right up to me, as if she knew me. But that couldn't be true. All I've ever known is here.
I suddenly began to feel weak, dispite being so close to the water's edge. I turned and noticed the rest of the group moving away. To be separated was nearly unbearable to experience, and I ran to catch up.
As I joined up the leader came to me and pointed out the similarities between the tattered clothes I wore and those of the stranger. He seemed to know more than he was telling me, but I didn't care. I belonged here. Such matters were unimportant to me.
* * *
Nefeteri
Teri realized that her boots were weighing her down with water but from where? She decided that the best idea was to take them off and leave them in the entrance to the cave. Her world was coming back to her now but she still needed to recover Lt. Amy. She was back under the water that Teri had now come to distrust. It took all one's senses away. She had to fight it anyway. After throwing her boots in the entrance to the cave, Teri took a deep breath and dove back into the water. The less time she was in it, the less time her mind had to wander. She knew Lt. Col. Charybdis would be glad to see Amy as would the others. Perhaps this would make him like Teri a little more after all her other blunders around him.
Teri swam and looked around her. Quickly she saw light above her. She emerged into the lake from which she had come. Amy was standing with who seemed to be the leader of this tribe. She was shaking her head no to him as if she didn't want to be rescued but belonged with them. The elder person kept pointing to the lake. Teri swam to the shore and strode up to where Amy stood with the man.
"Lt. Amy?" she spoke. "I've come to take you back to your people." Amy seemed not to understand. She stared at Teri with a blankness on her face.
"Sir, I have to take her back," Teri was adamant. He spoke in a different tongue but somehow the words seem to agree with her. He nodded and raised his staff to the water's edge.
Teri turned around to look in it's direction. He walked Amy and Teri to the edge in which Teri waded and pointed to Amy. She did not want to go. Then with a suddeness of a snake he hit Teri on the back of the head with his staff. She sunk into the water. Amy saw this and saw the stranger disappear into it's depths. Instinct took over and Amy dove in after her to pull her to safety. Once she got into the water Amy lost her way back to the lake. It was as if a top covered where they had come from. Amy grabbed Teri by her heavy jacket and pulled her along the watery cavern until she saw another underwater cave. It seemed to go up and was lit above. She dragged Teri to it's shore and then looked back at the water. It seemed to say no to her this time. She shook her head and still couldn't remember her name but the clothing Teri wore seemed familiar. Perhaps she was one of her kind but now she couldn't remember the tribe nor what had just happened.
Teri slowly began to awake and rubbed the back of her head. She realized instantly that she was soaked to the skin. She looked at Amy and her torn clothes plus beaded hair and then back at the water. She couldn't remember what had happened nor who this person was. Nothing made sense. She shivered in the wet clothes she had on and pulled her heavy Warriors jacket off. The woman who was with her continued to stare at the water. Teri rubbed the back of her head once again. Where they had been must have been underwater but that was as much as she could remember.
* * *
Amy
I sat on the edge of the water, not even noticing the woman sitting next to me. All I could think of, all I could feel as I stared at the water, was a sense of loss. It started as just a tear forming on the edge of my eye, and then suddenly I was wailing with sadness that took over my whole
body. I shook, I crouched down into a little ball beating my fists at the sand, I sobbed with every ounce of energy I had. What the woman was near me was doing, I didn't notice.
Then suddenly it passed, and I grew very still. I sat up, my eyes were open, I was awake, yet I acknowledged nothing. I just might stay this way forever.
* * *
Nefeteri
The woman sat sobbing while Teri attempted to speak with her. It was of no use. Finally, Teri now shivering in her wet clothes decided to build a fire. She would figure out who this stranger with half of a Colonial Warriors garb on was after they were dry. Luckily Teri found the needed wood and what seemed to be flintlock at the mouth of the cave. She could snare a fire with it since her own things were drenched and no good. Her blaster was gone. Where had they been? Who knows. Where they were going was a given. Teri was with it enough to realize she needed to contact the Callisto. She still had her comm link. After getting the fire begun, she decided to use the comm.
"Ensign Teri to Callisto, please come in anyone."
The gruff voice she had come to love was that of Lt. Charybdis.
"State your problem, Teri. We have had search teams looking for you and Amy most of the day. Do you have an excuse for yourself?"
"No sir, I have a strange woman with me. She is not communicating in our language. Something happened to us both but for the life of me I can't remember. We are in a cave and I have begun a fire. We were in the water. Sir, do you think this could be Lt. Amy?"
"What does she look like? Over."
"She has torn Colonial Warrior garb on but her hair has been darkened and she is wearing beads in her hair. She doesn't want to communicate with me. Sir, what should I do?"
Could it be hope against hope that this was Amy found at last? He would forgive Teri everything she had done to him if it was.
"Teri, do you have a cave opening for the smoke to get out? Over."
"Yes sir. I built it at the entrance so if anyone saw it they could come help us."
"Sit tight and I will have Major Brie look for the smoke. You have no clue as to where you might be?"
"No sir. Let me get dried off and I will scout the area. I don't think this woman is going anywhere. She seems to be grieving for what is under the water.'
"Keep a good eye on her. You don't know what she might do. In an afterthought, "Teri if this is Amy you have done us all a great service."
"Sir, I was just doing my job."
* * *
Lucian
Titon and Rose were rushing to the bridge of the derelict, intent on disarming what appeared to be a self-destruct device. Unfortunately, the Colonials, if Colonials had last inhabited the ship, had figured that intelligent creatures would try such a tactic, so they'd set traps along the way to slow them. At the first hatch, Titon opened the hatch slightly and found a trap similar to the one about which JustinB had warned them. Several others followed, but finally, they burst into the main control room. Numerous computer screens were flashing.
Titon said, "Rose, look for the auto-destruct sequencer monitor. We'll have to hack our way into the system, or we're all going to be space dust in three centons, 67 microns."
Rose started searching to the left as Titon worked his way to the right.
"Osh, guys, we could use you up here!" shouted Titon.
* * *
2:98...2:97...2:96...
"Anything, Rose?" asked Titon, who was looking from position to position. Based on what he'd seen in the schematics for this type of ship, it was obvious that the bridge had been redesigned at some point over the yahrens, so the controls were nothing like what he had expected. The person who had rigged this system had used every trick in the book to make things work.
Rose scanned the controls for anything unexpected, particularly on the few monitors that were working. She came to the next station, and after glancing at the counter on the wall, she said, "Titon, I may have found something here."
2:45...2:44...2:43...
* * *
“I think this is it,” said Rose. “There’s some type of scanning device next to this monitor.”
They looked at the monitor that was displaying seven boxes. A line at the bottom of the first box was blinking, and at the bottom of the monitor, the countdown clock showed 2:24.
“Looks sort of like a retinal scanner of some type. They probably decided to use a human retina as the key to unlock the system, just in case the Cylons came aboard,” said Titon. “Move in and see if you can activate it.”
Rose frowned at him, but he wasn’t looking, as he sat down at the station and started tapping the touchpad. She looked through the small hole, seeing only a bright light, but she moved forward until her face touched the guard. Her eye was only millimeters from the surface of the lens. She had to resist squeezing her eye closed with all of her willpower since the light was very uncomfortable.
“You got it! It’s activ—OH FRACK!” said Titon. “There’s a sequence code, and we’ve only got 1:97 left. I’ve got the first couple, but I’m going to need help with some of these.”
They looked over the list, and between the two of them, they were able to answer all of the questions, filling in the number, except the seventh and final blank.
“I have no idea,” said Titon, looking at the last question as the counter ticked down to 0:47. “By how many points did the Taurans win the championship in the last interplanetary Triad championship before the Cylon attack? How in heck am I supposed to know that?”
“Don’t look at me,” said Rose. “Do we risk guessing?”
“I suspect if we get anything wrong, it’ll blow immediately, or maybe with a five or ten micron count, but if we don’t do something, it’s going to blow in 0:30 microns anyway.”
Osh stepped into the room and asked, “Get it taken care of, guys?”
“Osh! How many points did the Taurans win by in the championship game in the last interplanetary Triad championship before the Cylon attack?”
“Huh? What are you talking about? They lost by four points to the team from Sagitarra,” said Osh.
“Quick, minus 4!” said Rose. Titon punched in the numbers as the counter ran down to 0:12.
“Autodestruct sequencer deactivated,” sounded the computer voice. The counter read 0:09.
“Let’s find out what we’ve got here,” said Titon. “Whatever, looks like we’ve got a mess to fix up if we have any hope of ever getting this ship going again.”