Editing The Sevant Murders (section)

===MXO Lee & Base Camp finds out===

(Planet's surface - Base Camp - 1st Lt Richard Ian Lee -  1712)

"NO NO NOT them, Not the children"  

Rich looked over quickly at the outburst, his phaser already coming up
by reflex, before he realized they were not under attack. 

"Kestra!" the Captain said, "Who're you talking to? What's happened?
What children?"

"I have had contact with Vanyssa."  Kestra said with tears still running
down her face, "Vicki and her children.........are dead"  

Lee frowned behind his faceplate. 

"Dead? What happened? An accident?"

"She said the terrorists executed them," was the Doctors reply.

"Terrorists? What terrorists?" 

Rich's grip on his phaser tightened. "Bastards..." he mumbled. 

"Does Sevant know yet?" 

(reply Kestra)

"Uh oh..." Rich said, there were few people he would rather not cross
with bad news, the Commander was one of them. 

"Rivers to Commander Sevant and Lt Nakamura," 

There was nothing, though the Captain tried again a couple more times. 

"Captain, I have made contact with Vanyssa," Kestra was saying, her
voice still sounding shocked as well it might. "She has asked what our
status is and is letting the Admiral know as I speak.  Do you have
something you want me to relay to her for the Admiral?"

Rich turned away to look out at the woods, in the general direction that
the FO and TAC/SC had last been seen heading at full speed. His eyes
darted back and forth, looking for any sign of movement or life, though
nothing was showing up. His simple scanners could pick up nothing, even
his eyesight could see further. 

"SUSAN, PAIN, MURDER, LOSS, MY FAULT, I AM SORRY"  

Rich spun on his heel, suddenly sorry that he hadn't been paying
attention to what was going on behind him. 

"She looks like she's having an epileptic fit! Someone help me here!" 

Rich dropped the phaser and fell to his knees beside the woman. The
Captain placed something in Kestra's mouth as Lee drug at his memory of
Basic First Aid on what to do in the event of a seizure. The only thing
he could remember off the top of his head was not to hold the body
still. 

It became a moot point a moment later, however, she suddenly went still.
The captain grabbed the Doctors medkit, and scanned her with a medical
tricorder once it was dug out. Rich glanced up as the Captain closed the
tricorder, and watched as Susan moved Kestras body onto her side. 

"Does anyone else here have any medical knowledge?"

Rich shook his head slowly, "Nothing that would cover this." he said
quietly.

(reply any)

The Captain stood, and beckoned to him. Rich looked once more at Kestra,
laying prone on the ground, then grabbed his phaser and stood to join
the Captain.

"Lt Zzt, Lt Lee, I think we can take it that the Nimitz has no way of
contacting us save through telepaths for the time being," she said. "If
they could use the comms system, they wouldn't be relaying messages
through Counselor Winters. Since Lt Troi is out of it for the time being
at least, that means we are on our own. So, in the absence of Commander
Sevant and Lt Nakamura, you two are my seconds in command. If either of
you have any constructive ideas as to how we can get some kind of
communication going with either the Nimitz or our lost crewmembers, I'd
like to hear it. Now."

Rich looked down and sighed audibly. "Best I can think of for the lost
crewmembers is to shoot our phasers into the air once every couple of
minutes. It would provide a beacon to follow." He looked up again, and
he thanked the BDU cameo scheme for hiding his face. "But Sevant is
telepathic as well, at least to a point. I would lay a bet that he heard
the same message the good Doctor heard, which means he could be anything
from out cold to a raving lunatic by this point. With his Vulcan
ancestry, and his obvious predisposition to emotion, I wouldn't have the
first clue as to guess the end effect."

(reply Any)

A Wind started to blow, almost as if there was a storm approaching. Rich
could feel nothing, but his suit sensors registered it and the Captain
turned to the source, curiously. He pulled out his scatter-gun again and
followed close behind her. 

A light formed, and immediately stepped in front of his Captain, fell to
his knee, and pointed the Scattergun in the general direction. A body
took form, and a few moments later a face he didn't recognize wearing a
Starfleet uniform appeared before them. 

NRPG: As tall as Rich is, he would still cover the Captain fairly well
on his knee.

RPG:
Rich closed an eye, and continued aiming at the being, as the Captain
spoke up. "I am Captain Susan Rivers, commanding officer of the USS
Nimitz. Who are you, where do you come from, and what do you want with
us?"

"I am the guardian of this system, right now you see just the hologram
of her because she is elsewhere.  What I want from you... are answers?"

Rich blinked his eyes a couple times, and said nothing. He slowly
pointed the scattergun down, there was no way he would be able to fight
a hologram. This was shaping up to be interesting, if undesired.