A Dark Horizon

[ltcolonelallen]

"Permission granted,Cordais I know you need your science station to do your job you may leave as well."

[***Tarawa Action***]

Still chuckling,"You already know my answer Blue Skin.In fact I will tell you another truth very soon the drop ships will release and head to the ship.I have programmed into the ships computer if I am captured and cannot be rescued the ship will blow its warp core and my crew may all die with honor."

[Major Jaylas Aniri]

She nodded.

"To ease your mind I will them not to send any teams to your ship and why. We had a similar fail safe. And what of you and Kerth?"

She took her blade off and began to play with it. If she could she would have tears forming instead her antenna's drooped so much they nearly laid on top of her head in a haphazard way.

"There is a price I will pay. On Andor we have a mountain side. We have caved niches in it and when one of our warriors die off Andor, or as a hero on Andor, a vial of blood is taken from that warrior, and placed there. It is called the Wall of Hero's"

"I cannot explain the beauty of that wall as the sunlight hits the frozen vials of crystallized blue blood. It is an inspiration to all. I will never be found on that wall. No matter what deeds I perform, or how well I fight. You can not go there if you have been cut in half. I am now and forever less then a warrior cause my word as a warrior was not kept. That is my price."

She watched as they reached into their uniforms and took something out.

[***Tarawa Action***]

"You Blue skin Jaylas are a warrior do not think otherwise.I have come to realize your ship is not made up of all warriors or you would not be telling me this."

"I advise you to tell your colonel he has little time if he wishes his ship to survive."

They looked at each other placing palm against palm,"Jaylas we have a place called Ferdon.In our culture all warriors meet there as brothers even the Thealon's.I will hold a spot for you and will be waiting."

With that they both looked at each other and bit down hard on a false tooth.In it contained a poison/acid.They grimaced in pain but made no sound as they fell to the floor in convulsions as there bodies were destroyed from the inside out until nothing was left but a puddle of dissolved tissue.

[Major Jaylas Aniri]

She watched them knowing what they were about to do. And did nothing to stop them, it was their right to die with honor.

She got the data disk and ran to the TL. "Computer Bridge"

Getting off she ran the few feet to the RR after shouting to Helm to clear the area in the opposite direction of the Alien ship at full warp.

The ship lurched as it jumped into warp.

Breathless she ran into the RR and placed the data disk on the table.

"Their ships core will explode in less then minute I have helm leaving the area at full warp. That is a record of everything said while I was there."

[ltcolonelallen]

He felt the ship lurch as it went into warp,Jay came rushing in tossing a data disc on the table and telling them what was happening.

Grabbing the disc he headed for the Bridge,"Mission failure blood for blood and what was accomplished by it? Everyone to your posts sound red alert raise shields and prepare for the shock wave!"

[Major Jaylas Aniri]

She stood there and pondered over all the events. In her heart she knew she did the right thing and maybe C'tent was right and her honor as a warrior was intact she would need to consider this before surrendering her honor blade as she intended to.

She left and took her position at security.

[***Tarawa Action***]

AS THE TARAWA JUMPS TO WARP THE DROP SHIPS DISENGAGE WARP BACK TO THE ALIEN SHIP.

[Lt Cmdr Melvin Moon]

He looked up momentarily as he heard the Colonel's office doors open and Major Aniri step out. He opened his mouth to greet her but then got a strong empathic wave of anger from her ( if he can read her that way ) and noticed the laid back antenae. He remembered a friend of his and when his ears were laid back, he was very angry and upset. Assuming this was the case here, he went back to watching the tactical scans without a word

He was surprised when She came running out of the TL a few minutes later, ordered Zarlena to engage warp at Maximum to leave the area and turned to go into the Colonel's ready room as fast as she ran out of the TL

He glanced to Zarlena, with the same surprised look he had when Major Anira ran out of the TL. He watched as MCapt Dorius done as asked/ordered. He then tapped a key, the viewscreen switching views as the Tarawa warped out, the veiwscreen catching the scene as the Alien fighters turned around and crashed into their own mother ship. His jaw dropped, shocked

[***Tarawa Action***]

AS THE TARAWA CLEARS THE ARE THE ALIEN SHIP EXPLODES IN A HUGE SILENT HELLISH FIREBALL.

DUE TO THE QUICK THINKING OF ONE CREW MEMBER AND THE BIDGE CREW THEY CLEARED ENOUGH OF THE AREA SO THE SHOCK WAVES ARE ONLY MILDLY FELT BY THE TARAWA.

[Lt Cmdr Melvin Moon]

He watched the aliem ship explode in a brilliant ball of light and felt the ship shudder slightly as the shockwave from the explosion passed through

He breathed a silent sigh of relief as the battle was finally over but he felt saddened since he wished he could have maybe helped the aliens home, back to their own space

Now he knew the casualties from the battle, from the Tarawa at least, could now rest and heal from their injuries

He then felt an empathic sense of sadness on the edge of his mind and thoughts and he looked around. Looking to Major Anira, he sensed she was the source. He also noted the position of her antenae, which seemed.. drooped, almost wilted. In his friend that he mentioned earlier, that would indicate sadness.

He wasn't sure how to approach her but his betazoid side came to the fore and he turned and asked her

"M'am, is there.. something wrong"?

[Sergant Thomas Kinsely]

Thomas would listen to what orders Lt Conner gave out. "Yes, Ma'am.", he would reply.

He would turn and looked over a few of the marines that were still standing around. He took them aside and would begin to give them orders to clean up a mess.

"You four, start picking up some of the heavier objects.", he would say to some of the marines.

Just then, he heard the red alert and then felt the mild shock wave. "What the..?", he would say.

[kyahrichardson]

She swears as she sees the explosion on sensors. The enhanced shields hold as the ship is rocked by a shockwave. She takes the shield configuration offline carefully and diverts power back to replicators and other secondary functions.

+T+ Bridge> "The enhanced shields prevented us from taking damage from the shockwave. We will begin repairs immediately."

+T+ Justin Kinsely> "Should I join a repair team since I'm down here in engineering anyway?"

[1st Lieutenant Justin Kinsely]

( Sorry about the post, but needed to make a back post in some areas since that the alien's equipment and weapons had to be off before the ship exploded. Some parts are before the ship exploded. )

Justin would get up from his chair, exited the ready room and quickly walked across the bridge towards the turbo lift. He decided it would be best if he remain on the bridge instead. He went to a console mainly for the engineering. His fingers quickly taps on the console. Taps on his badge.

"Kyah, We need to gather the weapons and equipments that was left behind by the aliens and beam it back on their ship. I know that we had a lot of useful information from them, but no telling of how much their equipments already change the timeline.", he would say to Kyah as his fingers would quickly move across the console.

"To make the long story short, they are from another time era and it would just not be a good idea to keep them on the ship.", he continued to say to her over the commbadge..

He taps on his commbadge for ship wide announcement. "Anyone holding the alien's equipment or weapons, put them down so that I can transport them out in 3 minutes.", he would say.

Justin would able to locate all the alien's equipment and weapons and would beam them back on the alien's ship. Just as soon as he did that, he noticed that they would go into red alert and then felt a mild shock wave. He had no time to ask what happened, he just quickly would make sure that the shields were still up. Then noticed that Kyah had already started on working on the shields. Glad that someone was there to help without him asking.

Moments later, he would hear Kyah over his commbadge. "You can if you want to, Kyah.", he would say to her. "I will be down in engineering momentarlly.", he would say.

He signed off the engineering console and goes into the turbo lift. "Main engineering.", he would say as the doors closed behind him. Only moments later, he would arrive in main engineering.

[1st Lt Kestra Elbrun]

Kestra watched how some came and went from the bridge and then to the ready room. Her 'senses' were basicly going up and down at the moment. She could already sense that something went wrong with the alien prisoners. Kestra was somewhat surprised that the alien's ship blew up.

When Major Aniri came back onto the bridge, she could already sense what kind of mood she was in. Kestra knew that Androians may not want to talk when they are in a bad mood.

Kestra would go up to her, gave one of her smiles for reassurance. "Major Aniria. I know that you are not yet ready to talk, but I just wanted you to know that when you are ready to talk, I am here for you, Ma'am.", she would say to her.

As counselor, it is her job to be there for her crewmembers whenever they need her. To help keep up morial among the crew. She only hoped that some of the crewmembers would understand that she is not there to interfere, but to help them.