The Firebird Project

Posted on Tue May 29th, 2018 @ 12:07am by Lieutenant Commander Siivas McKenzie & Lieutenant Velth Andurean
Edited on on Tue May 29th, 2018 @ 12:08am

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Mission: Past Tense
Location: Risa, N.R.O. DUS Eleganza, Bridge
Timeline: 2265
Tags: Firebird,Deltans

Siivas started awake, sensing odd things. He was laying on cushion where he and Andurean had ended up, inside his suite of the Deltan Enclave on Risa and lifted his head from where he lay partly twined with the Kolari hybrid. Andurean's eyes opened and focused on him though he hadn't moved and his breathing pattern hadn't changed. As they were still in physical contact, he sent silently ~What is that?~

~I believe its Charybdis~ Siivas replied absently, focusing on the sensations and sensory information he was getting. It was odd, certainly, for him to form parmynara with a non-Deltan and one he had never formed the intimate relationship of sexual contact with. But the fact was, he had. And he suspected it had formed during one of the times they had touched, her being an untrained Vulcan-heritage and new to her slowly awakening abilities.

Stupid Romulans.

As he returned to the present, having determined what was happening and her approximate direction, he found that Andurean was sitting up and speaking into his communicator softly. It wasn't a Starfleet ban he was on either. As Siivas' queried him silently where their feet touched, Andurean responded and then jumped to his feet and went to his luggage, pulling out something Siivas had hoped he would some day have the distinction of seeing, just not for himself.

Andurean pulled out an oblong case that looked covered in fabric, like a duffel bag but after a few touches here and there, the entire thing fell open to reveal a length of some sort of gray material that had been wrapped around more gray material and objects.

And a great many weapons.

Andurean squatted and quickly put on the under-garment and in the process glared at Siivas, who realized he had things to do as well. He started, jumped to his feet athletically and moved to his clothing. As Andurean began to put on the armor that went over the clothing, Siivas was slipping into a white body stocking and then fabric socks that once he put them on and sealed them, turned into thicker-soled boots. Siivas sent a message telepathically to Shareen and Xian and S'tall, giving them instructions, since he was the longer-range telepath in their group. He listened for their responses and smiled slightly as they acknowledged and confirmed the requests.

He glanced at Andurean, who was about to put on the lower-face mask and the over-mask that would apply the sensory distortion around himself after he pulled up the hood on it. The entire suit of armor worked passively, used ambient energy and applied ancient and sure technologies to create the effects it produced. As it was, it was also highly recognizable to those that knew what it was and knew that no one dared use it as a disguise who wanted to not be tortured until they begged to die and them posted where they could be found, unable to die on their own, as an example to others. He swept on a poncho-like drape with a diaphanous hood and picked up his medical case, leaving a note that all the Deltans in the enclave would recognize and see to anything he left behind.

Andurean quickly checked his weapons as light began to bend and warp around him, blurring the edges of his body to such a degree very little could be made out. Siivas moved to the communications console, opened a channel to Earth and the Federation Ambassadorial Offices and sent a transmission of coded data. He waited until the sent-confirmation displayed before he deactivated and wiped the terminal. That the message would be seen was not in doubt, nor was that the wrong people would see it first.

It just wouldn't matter.

They received the signal they were waiting on and Andurean entered a code into his personal communicator. All at once, he and Siivas and the three other members of their medical team planetside beamed out using a very much non-Federation transporter.

A few moments later

"We have them," S'tal said from the console she reclined at. The touch-screen like interface was sleek and organic looking, the curving sentiment that went into the overall design of the "bridge" of the vessel they were on marked it as clearly being of one race: Deltan.

Shareen reclined in another personal couch across the space with the ship's Master, Siivas and Andurean all standing in the central area. The Master raised his hands at waist level and a console rose from the floor to his hands and he looked at the smaller displays, the curve of Risa on the forward wraparound screen that gave a much-wider field than was typical.

"Its good that you have their tracer-codes," the Master, one Helios, a Deltan El-Auran hybrid murmured to Siivas as he worked the console and look at Shareen.

Silently she shook her head, "Too far away to get a positive lock."

The master's hands slid across the console and the view changed, the planet's curve changing as they were moving around it in a different orbit. "Risa Operations, this is the Eleganza, we're altering our orbit to attempt a rescue of visitors to your world as we're the closest vessel capable of responding to their distress call. Copies of the call and all scans are en route," he added as he sent the data to them of the scans, sans the tracer data and a faked distress call. "These individuals appear to be Starfleet personnel attached to the Starfleet vessel, USS Bonaventure, in orbit now. We're copying them as well but we calculate they cannot arrive in time. Eleganza out," he added and then closed the channel.

Siivas gave him a look, which he ignored. "Blame the El Auran part of me."

"I know your mother," Siivas reminded him pointedly but was smiling, "I know where you get it."

"Yes great grandfather," Helios smirked as he replied.

"Transporter range in ten," Shareen advised.

The console beeped from incoming messages from the Bonaventure and from the planet, which Helios ignored, focused on the console and flight control as they skimmed the atmosphere dangerously and left a plasma wake so wide and bright it was clear across the night sky on the ground!

"Four, three- ," and there was a flare around the shuttle as it turned itself and a significant portion of the mountain-side around it into... nothing.

Helios froze and in shocked silence, the rest of the team seemed likewise. Siivas, however, pulled the sensor data and stared at it and then ran it backwards and watched it again. "This..." he tapped the display of the particles the computer didn't recognize, "I know this."

Helios turned and stared at him for a second, and as Siivas began detailed sensor sweeps of the area that were surprisingly comprehensive and precise for a civilian vessel, Helios brought them into a geosynchronous orbit over the spot where the shuttle had exploded.

Siivas left that running and hit a contact, making a console emerge from the wall and he advanced to that side to take control of the sensors and libraries from the command console. In a few moments of silent work, he grunted softly. "Temporal inversion. The inertial field compensators surged a second before the particles reacted with the warp field. The warp field," he gestured and a display showed the warp field of a shuttle of that class on the board and he touched it, making it flash yellow, "was brought up in a standard configuration, to enable eftee-el but it was inside a gravity well so it inverted. And inverted warp field has the same subspace e qualities as..?' he turned to the others, as if teaching an engineering class and was looking for a student who had done the homework.

"A subspace event or singularity," a dry voice said as a bald Vulcan-hybrid entered the bridge and nodded to Helios and Siivas with respect.

"The properties of a singularity create temporal drag the close you get to the center where the mass is highest due to the mass-to-velocity requirements of relativity. The inertial compensators on a shuttle and a starship," Siivas gestured to the engineer again.

"Override the effects of relativity and match realtime and subjective warp-time together to prevent chronological dimorphism," Revas replied slowly, already knowing where this was going and raising a hand to jump ahead, though he needed a moment to think.

Helios waited a moment and then asked softly, "Chances?"

"Surprisingly good," Revas replied, cocking his head sideways slightly and giving Helios a significant look. "If she is as brilliant as our reports stated, then the Firebird may have saved them all."

Helios looked at Siivas who stood and waited. Despite being the eldest, he wasn't the ship's Master nor was he the ranking Priest. Helios considered for several moments and turned to Shareen, "Contact the Federation Ambassador and tell her I said we need immediate reassignment for the five of you to Project Sleepwalker."

She nodded and bent to the console.

"Bonaventure is attempting to scan us," S'tal announced.

"What are they seeing?" Helios asked.

"Cartoons," she replied with a chuckle.

"I'll take their call in my office," he nodded to them and headed off to one side. Revas gave them all a bow and gave Siivas a circumspect look of approval and smiled before departing back to engineering. It was extremely likely they would need to be elsewhere very quickly and that significant deeds were going to be needed. For his part, that meant ship efficiency and his place was with his engines.

Andurean stepped over to Siivas side and slid his fingers through Siivas' stealthily, his presence and the gesture one of support. Siivas looked up at the approximate place of his eyes and nodded slightly. ~I suspect we have a great deal more to do~

~There are moments between now and then~ Andurean replied through the touch ~I am glad that I have spent the ones I've been allowed with you~

~Do you suspect there will be no more?~ Siivas asked easily.

~I do not presume~ Andurean replied.

~If I smack you will the snake kill me?~ Siivas asked.

~Its very likely~ Andurean replied mock-soberly but he was pleased and that was clear.

~Then shut it and stay close 'cause I have a need for more moment with you~ Siivas told him ~After all, you made such a big deal about chasing me around, was it just for a single experience?~

~If I smack you will you kill me?~ Andurean replied.

~That depends on your intentions now doesn't it?~ Siivas replied, and grinned.

"You know we can hear you right?~ Shareen said to the air from the other side of the bridge.

"Yeah, why don't you two go have more sex now? The rest of us have work to do and all you're doing is polluting our minds," S'tal added sourly, but she was smiling.

Siivas grinned at Andurean who, finger still entwined, led him off the bridge to go do that.

 

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