Ribbons and Bows

Posted on 23 Dec 2020 @ 8:18pm by Captain Jonathan Reynolds & Lieutenant C'Tora Kuroka

Mission: Mission 5 - Season of the Witch?
Location: Meladoste (Epsilon Sigma 4 - Main Foyer and sickbay)
Timeline: MD4 11:30
1088 words - 2.2 OF Standard Post Measure

Previously on Hide and Seek.

"Okay doc get some scans and True do you want to take the lead in talking to him. He seems, like the ones we spoke to on the bridge to be acting childlike,"

"I don't think we are in any danger but lets access some consoles and get a firmer idea of the schematics of this place and see if we can find any recent logs as to what happened or records," he indicated Aidan, "at what they were working on."

Continuing on,

C'tora discreetly began a scan of those that were approaching the away team. He spoke softly enough to be heard by the away team but not those that were coming towards them. " They all appear to be in good health physically, but mentally about six to twelve years of age. They have seemed to have mentally regressed for reasons I am unable to explain at this time. I shall run a through scan of the environment to make sure we're not walking into any unknown dangers."

C'Tora moved slightly away from the group and began testing the Air, Soil, Rocks and Foliage.

C'Tora went and checked the colony's medical center. after a half hour was able to restore about 10% power to the building. He tapped his combadge. " C'Tora to Captain and Security. I am at the colony medical center and have several items to report. First off, I have been able to restore partial power to the medical center. It seems that someone has used several monitors, Isolinear chips and fiber optic and made a gaming system. We'll need a engineering team to straighten things up before I can access the records and see if they had any information on what happened to the colony."

C'Tora sighed before continuing. " After leaving the medical center I encountered six young ladies. The first one said her name was Mindy and kept calling me Buttons, tried playing jump rope with my tail and said bye bye lady love you and wandered off. The second one wanted me to take her flying and called me Totoro and went back to playing with her doll when we didn't fly. Currently I am with Susan, Charlotte, Linda and Lucy. Currently I am being petted, brushed and having ribbons tied into my hair. At least the ribbons match my uniform, I shall return shortly. "

Michael heard C'Tora's comment and chuckled, imagining what the doctor would look like. When he raised his head from inside the console he stifled a laugh.

=^=Any idea of whether the previous doctors and nurses, who could possibly be I suppose your admirers currently doing your hair ..." Jon mused, "had found anything?=^=

"Sadly no Captain. The only comment they made that I found curious was that it was fun to play down by the pond and then plenty of giggling. They were however disappointed that I had no fingernails for them to put nail polish on." C'Tora replied. " I have however managed to get some blood samples from a few of the injured that need to be sent up to the ship for full analysis."

"That is something that I will be needing to do, is place boosters and make it to where we can transport the samples. Otherwise I'll need to use the shuttle to get the samples to the Andromeda. Didn't you say you were at the medical facility all ready?" Turning to look at C'Tora. "We could see about analyzing the samples here. Or would it be better on the Andromeda?" He could have offered to help C'Tora take the ribbons out but his hands were a bit dirty.

C'Tora sighed. " It would be easier and faster on the ship, But we are uncertain how it is spread. So until we are I would prefer to do the work down here with samples worked on the ship in conjunction with the medical center down here. I am not willing to endanger the safety of the ship and crew on a unknown, and we can't be certain 100 % that the bio filters will work on whatever this is. The call is yours Captain."

=^=We don't actually know if what's happened is something that will spread but try to work that out doctor please. We need to understand what's happening so yes do any tests you deem necessary.

Set up base here doctor and liaise with Lieutenant Lau to organise any supplies you require to come down on the second away team. Also yes lets get those boosters in place to try get beaming an option,=^= Jon said.

=^=I'm still leaning towards this is something that's been brought in. So I want to speak to the other colony as there's records of a couple of traders making the journey over. Perhaps they are more cordial than we know or they are keeping an eye on this place,=^= he mused.

C'Tora responded. =^= Aye Sir. We'll get a list together for the next team to bring down. Did you just mention getting booster units for beaming? I'm no engineer nor do I know if they can do this, But could they link two boosters together to work in tandem? If so wouldn't that at least double the field integrity? Just a thought. =^=

=^=Thats how I understand the science too Doctor. Before you get to bogged down in all that though can I ask you come back here,=^= Jon requested sharing a look with True. =^=We think Morgans started with this too.=^=

=/\= "I'll get the boosters worked on very soon." =/\= Michael answered.

C'tora responded. =^= Aye Sir!! I'll be there swiftly. C'Tora out. =^= He turned to Michael . " The Captain has called and asked me to come look at Morgan. I think he may be coming down with this Illness as well. I'll be back shortly and we'll start getting set up for when the gear arrives." He dropped to all fours and took off in a sprint.

Michael raised his hand in a farewell, then looked at his grimy hands. He could have gotten the ribbons out of C'Tora's fur but figured his friend wouldn't want his hair to get covered in whatever goop that he had just found.

A short trip there and C'Tora arrived. He arrived and drew himself to his full height. He closed his eyes and held up a hand before anyone could say anything. " Before you say something I have a favor to ask...... Could someone PLEASE help me get these ribbons and bows out of my fur please."

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