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Guest Alien Logs:Bantos IV- Judy
Title: The Race for Space: Trapped, Part Four
Setting: The ruins of the Federation Observation Team, Kappa Kappa Alpha's
Base
Location: Bantos IV
CLUNK.CLUNK.CLICK. The closet door opened.
Her heart stopped. There in front of her was one of those killing light guns!
Judy gasped. Lulu screamed. Aldrich remained motionless. Judy quickly pushed
Lulu and Aldrich behind her. She braced herself to be shot with the light.
"It's OK . . . I'm not going to hurt you.
I'm here to help," said a short woman about Judy's size. She waved for
the security team to put the phasers down and withdraw.
The CMO of the USS Eagle stepped forward
to soothe the children as she tried to get close enough to administer medical
attention.
Judy just glared at the strangers
behind tear filled eyes.
"Will you let me help you?" the
doctor asked.
The children said nothing.
The CMO tried again, "Can you understand
me?"
Judy yelled, "Go away!" She tried
to make her voice sound grown up and angry, but her voice was too frail and
cracked. She was too scared to pull it off.
The youngest girl, Lulu,chimed in,
"Go way!!"
The remaining child, the youngest of
all, just stood there dazed and frozen as if paralyzed.
"Calm down, I want to help you.
I'm a doctor. I'm a member of Starfleet. What happened to you?
Can you tell me?" the short woman asked.
Guest Alien Log: Judy
Title: The Race for Space: Trapped, Part Five
Setting: The ruins of the Federation Observation Team, Kappa Kappa Alpha's
Base
Location: Bantos IV
The Away Team that
the USS Eagle beamed down to search for the missing Federation Observation
Team located the base, one missing scientist and three alien children. The
oldest, Judy, was almost beginning to believe the Eagle's CMO who told her
that she and the other strangers were here to help them, not hurt them. The
youngest girl, Lulu, watched the oldest carefully to see what she should
do.
Dr. Laleia-Lii continued to be as calm
and soothing as possible. "Will you let me help you? Where do you hurt?
I can try to make it better," she offered.
The oldest child said
nothing but pointed to the unconscious alien, a Vulcan male.
The good doctor moved
slowly, towards the Vulcan, trying not to alarm the children.
Lulu finally got the
courage to speak. She whispered to her friend, "Judy?"
The older child
whispered back, "What?"
"I'm scared," she
said with fresh tears beginning to roll down her dirty cheeks.
"Me too. We need to
get out of here. We can't do anything for that one (the unconscious Vulcan
scientist) anymore and we've got to get back before our parents or anyone
else's knows we were here," Judy whispered back.
The good doctor overheard
them and said comfortingly, "There's no reason for you guys to be scared
. . . we're here, and you're safe now."
The older child saw
the drawn phasers and looked up at the men holding them. She turned her face
to the CMO, "Who is with you?" She needed to figure out if the woman was
related to these strangers with the killing light and if she and these others
were bad like the last ones who began the killing. Somehow they looked more
like the first group of strangers to her, the ones who got hit with the killing
light.
The doctor gestured
to the two security officers with her, "They're with me. We're all here to
help you."
The older woman leaned
over the unconscious patient and began to slowly and carefully to scan him.
The tricolor showed that man was indeed a Vulcan male, middle age, just as
he appeared. It automatically checked the DNA of the Vulcan and confirmed
him as S'Tronn, medical officer and member of the missing Federation Observation
Team. Then it displayed his medical status. He was critical, unstable and
unlikely to survive.
"Why are you so scared of us?"
she asked gently. There was a puzzle here and the children had a piece of
it. Laleia-Lii could feel it in her old bones.
The older child glared at the younger
girl as if to say nothing.
The younger one grumbled back and said
aloud, "I KNOW! " By this she meant she knew she should not tell the strangers.
"Hmm," the CMO said aloud more puzzled.
"Why won't they tell me?" she wondered.
The CMO thought and chose her
words carefully and asked nonchalantly as she tried in vain to stabilize
her patient, "Are you scared of the thing that Johnson is holding?"
Lulu replied, "Yes,"
and began to sob uncontrollably.
"Shh..." the CMO said
soothingly. "There's no reason to cry. I could understand how you would be
afraid of it. Sometimes I am, too. But this time, a good person is
holding it, and he won't use it to harm
you. Only to keep other things from harming you. Do you understand?"
"What is that?" Judy
asked feeling more comfortable and letting her curiosity get the better of
her for a moment.
"What is what?"
The younger girl was
comforted but still warily watching Ensign Johnson's every move.
"Ohhh . . . the thing
that the Ensign is holding?" the doctor asked as she returned to her task
which she knew was hopeless
"Yes. It kills," Judy
said not meaning to reveal what she had seen.
The CMO wasn't sure what to say.
She was under strict orders to not reveal their technology to the planet's
natives. "It's, uhh... it's a magic weapon. It shoots . . . magic . . .
at things. Yes, it kills, but only if the wrong people use it. Johnson is
a good "magician," and he won't use it to hurt anything but monsters."
"Why does the magic kill?" the CMO said
fumbling for some explanation that didn't involve breaking the Admiral's
and Captain's orders. "Well, if you got attacked by a monster, would you
want the monster to hurt you? This magic is supposed to protect us from monsters,
and allow us to protect other people from them as well. It's our job to protect
you," she said pleased that it sounded better to her than she had hoped.
The older child did not buy that for
a second. It must be real she reasoned. She thought some more and got
mad at herself for not pretending to believe them. She decided it was best
to try to feign believing thinking that maybe these people would just let
them go if she pretended to believe. Her priority was to get Lulu and Aldrich
back home before anyone noticed. They all had a big secret to keep.
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