Peace and Quie--- Disasters Part 1

Posted on Saturday October 6th, 2018 @ 3:37pm by Captain Sumire "Remi" Rembrant & Neil Loren

2,149 words; about a 11 minute read

Mission: Season 2; Mission 2: It's Only Fun Until Someone Gets Hurt
Location: ODS Crimson Shield
Timeline: October 19th 4566; Afternoon/Evening

Remi had left the lounge and decided to take a breather away from the station; thankfully with her father's fleet and his toys she had something to do that with. She headed to the port with a small bag of her belongings after sending a VX to Sheplin. He and a small group of soldiers were waiting at the dock. "Princess; we have prepared one of the small ships for you. My crew and I will be coming with you." She nodded at him. "Whatever; I get you are my keeper since my father sent you here to protect me... Stop calling me Princess as well..." Remi walked pas them and into the small ship. Sheplin and his men followed. They took positions on the bridge and others of them on various other places."Where would you like to depart Miss Sumire?" "Anywhere but here." Sheplin nodded as he let her take the command chair and stood at her side. "HELM request permission to disembark and head at your leisure." The small ship made its way out in space and to a gate wandering space. remi left the bridge heading to what would be her room on this small ship; it was still very nice for such a small s hip. She dove into the bed after removing her boots and laying on her chest she took one of the pillows hugging it and nuzzling it. "Peace and quiet..." She said staying like this only adjusting her head so she could breathe; closing her eyes to nap like this.
(Shes not in uniform right now btw; shes in a pink short sleeve shirt and short shorts.)

A few hours in as she naps, the ship's communication bay received a transmission that is broken solely off the distance to the signal source, a male AI voice of british origin narrating the transmission, picking it up from the middle. "ssszz-perie-zzzing a class zzzzzziinnngggssss.... er...zzzzcency. Currently there are zzzzzssss.... casualties. and zzzzssstttiiinnggszzz... survizzztttss..."

On the bridge upon hearing a broken communication and detecting what seemed like a distress beacon the officer looked to Sheplin. "Captain we have an incoming communication.... It seems to be a distress call... Audio only." "Bring it up." Sheplin and the officer exchange glances. "Reach Sumire." The ops officer calls to her room repeatedly and finally she wakes up and rolls around on the bed dropping the pillow at her side. "Didn't I ... wait I never did tell them not to disturb me..." She groans and sits up rubbing her eyes and then stretches out responding to the com officer via VX in her head since she didn't feel like talking that she would be there momentarily. She then gets up off the bed after putting her boots back on and then she grabs her small box putting on the device that turns into her uniform. She is now in one of the royal unfiroms which is all white with a cape. She heads for the bridge with her sword and sidearm mumbling.
While she was on the way Sheplin has the com officer respond that the ODS Crimson Shield would be responding to their distress call to render aide.
"What's happening..." Remi asked Sheplin as she walked in. "A distress call... We are currently en route." "I'll take a team." "Bu-" "Shut up; you command this ship; not me..... assemble a team" She said coldly to him.

"This message will zzzzssstt ..." it breaks off and a moment later comes back as they begin to get closer, the signal improves. "eat upon completion and/or response. We are a commercial vessel experiencing a class 5 infectious disease emergency. Currently there are Seventy eight casualties, and One Survivor. This message will repeat upon completion and/or finish upon response."

Sheplin has his men go to meet with Sumire and has them prepare a bio hazard containment setup. Sumire just shrugs. "THats what poweres suits are for..." She then got into one of the three on this small ship. With it holding her sword it looked like a six foot seven monster with a sword. Two of the other men get in the others and take the kit with them.


Upon recieving the com officer's response the ai responds back. "Oh thank god. This vessel has been waterlogged without aid for six months. I thought we would never be relieved. Our coordinates are..." he lists the coordinates and leaves an open com.

The ship shortly arrives close enough to get a transporter signal over and the three powered suits transport over. Sumire instructs the other two to search other sections as she heads for the command level.

Remi and the guards immediately in entry discover a ship that's mostly powered down, every display offline or stating "The ship is in low power mode, please enter an administrative password to continue." the room appears to have been a break room made into a makeshift med center with semi decomposed and natural mummified dead bodies laid out on couches and makeshift stretchers. The ai sees them enter, sighing in relief and speaking over the ship's speaker system "Words cannot express how quick this outbreak took the lives of my crew. I am "heart"broken as you would say. Though... the one survivor, he is with me in the command center. I recommend a gentle approach as he is very traumatized..."

One of the men heads to the ships engineering area. The second goes for security. Remi heads for the bridge to check the logs and converse with the AI as well as to meet who the survivor is. Upon arriving at the door Remi exits her suit turning the VX on atmospheric filter mode which basically acts as a form fitting invisible forcefield to block out the atmosphere and any biological or virus organisms. She puts on a small O2 mask and canister on her back that was in the powered suit's emergency kit. She also changed her uniform into something more  normal she would wear before entering the room. Upon exiting the suit the powered suit closes itself and just kneels. Remi then enters the room.


The doors to the bridge begin to open, the door on the right catching upon a malfunctioning gear in the entryway. Remi hears someone gently snore in the bridge,  then sees paperwork and emergency supplies stacked up scattered everywhere. she sees the computer system is antiquated but updated to work well enough, a tube holding a hologram of a the ai who looks towards her with a concerned but welcoming smile. "Welcome aboard the "Super Space Shipping" fleet ship eleven eighty seven b..." he says ironically....
Jayce lays asleep with visible distress but at least a relaxed comfort in his face on a couch with multiple blankets and pillows aimed to a near a bay window viewing out to space, sheets pinned around the couch to hide it from view to give him the most comfortable thing he can in his situation "nmmnn... I'm happy to be ...aboard... Thank you"...(edited)

Remi squeezes through the door barely able to fit with the tank so she takes it off her back setting the large canister inside the door and them fitting her small figure through the door easily with wearing a tanktop, shorts and small combat boots. She then closes the door scanning the room and detecting that this room at least did not have whatever infection was in here. She turns off her shield and takes off the mask setting the canister to the side she tilts her head at the man on the couch and waves at the AI. "Hi; I'm Sumire rembrant with Trinity... So my escorts seemed to respond to your distress call without telling me... What happened here?" She asks the AI; it was kind of not believable someone so small in stature (shes tall for a girl especially an Asian but like skinny; not too skinny though).  She approached the man and scanned him with her VX then came over tapping him lightly as she knelt down waiting for the AI to explain while she awoke him and tried to offer comfort while figuring out what was going on.

The ai hums softly "It's too much to explain out right... one of the shipment crates was tainted with an infection... a fluenza virus of some sort. Everyone who interacted with the cargo became ill and then spread it around... in three months it ended up decimating the entire crew." Jayce immediately jumping up and shouting out, shocked, hugging the blanket tight up to his chest. "... oh god... you weren't on this ship before..." he says, looking her over, her seeing he's wearing a uniform with a logo that has a shield holding "SSS" in a space ready, catching font... "you're not wearing the uniform..."


(shes dressed in a tank and short shorts; so its pretty liht; but yeah thats the character the new her is based off of so with that light of clothing; shes hot)
Remi overheard the explanation and nodded. "That is the thing about space travel; its confined... Transporting things is even more a safety hazard... and people laugh at customs inspections..." She then noticed Jayce jump at her touch and removed her hand form his side as she was kneeling over him she moved back slightly. "Your correct; I am not with this ship or its crew; I'm Sumire... my friends call me Remi... I am part of a rescue team sent from a ship that responded to your ship AI's call for help. "I'm with the Trinity Tactical Unit... Basically think of us as the specialists the military calls in when they can't handle something." She explained calmly then asked. "And you; are sir?"(edited)
 
After a moment of silence, him seemingly taking this in, he begins to cry from both joy and boiled over stress.  "such a damsel in distress situation I'm in..." he laughs ... "Trinity comes to save a simple cargo ship's lone survivor..." He wipes his eyes, sitting up, her realizing from his facial appearance he's not going to be entirely mentally stable. "Oh... you asked me a question... I'm ... Jayce... I just got this job... was praying it would be the brick that sets me for life... I guess.. my job is to help Watson figure things out."

Remi pulls up data on this ship in her VX and moves the menu  out of her HUD so she could still look at him while looking it over. It was a research cargo ship; it seems in addition to transporting some goods they were working on AI research here. "It's okay... you'll be fine... you are safe now..." She moved in for a hug just lightly taking him against her patting him but not too harshly. "You were lucky to have found us... or rather us find you... but that doesn't matter... Lets talk about what you want and get you somewhere more safe;; if that is okay? We can figure all this out later... Okay? I'll protect you Jayce." Remi said to him while sending the AI a VX message to copy him/her-self to Remi's VX along with the ships logs so they could get to the bottom of things in more detail; she also messaged Sheplin to have a tug called to tow this ship back to the city ship with them.

Jayce leans into her hug, breaking down a little and hugging her tight. "thank you... thank you... thank you miss..." The Ai sadly smiles, and nods from the hologram tube, copying himself and a full descriptive break down of the event, as well as every log recorded since take off from their origin point. The ai then says softly "My name is Watson. if you want to make the ancient Sherlock joke, go ahead. " he jokes, trying to lighten both his mood and everyone else's.


Remi pulls him in more tightly letting him cry. "No need to thank me... This is what I do; help people." She messaged the AI thanks for the information and also that she would not degrade him by making such jokes that he is a person just like everyone else. She hoped that not making eye contact with the AI did not offend him but she was more focused on caring for Jayce at the moment. The two officers had secured the ship and notified Remi of everyone else on board being confirmed as dead; they confirmed as much that it seemed like an illness killed the crew; further investigation would be conducted by the Spaceflight Safety Commission as this was a civilian matter upon return to some Federation Port of Call.
 

 

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