<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">Mission: The
Flames of Purity<br>
Day: 16 <br>
Stardate: 2445.09.16<br>
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(USS Exeter - Sickbay– CFO – Lieutenant - Ire Williams - 0841)<br>
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<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">Ire looked at the
medical staff who was scanning him again. Who then injected him with a
hypospray.</span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">“Okay that should
help with the pain, dizziness and the unsettling feelings.”</span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">“Thank you.” </span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">“But I still….”</span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">=^=Captain to Lt.
Williams, Ire, I want you to prep a runnabout, the Broken Bow. Just in case
whatever energy build up prevents transport. Go ahead and have one of the
Type 20's prepped to, the Leonardo. In case we need to hit two locations=^=</span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">He shrugged apologetically
at the medical staff as he tapped his comm badge.</span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">“Yes Captain.”</span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">=^=Welcome back
by the way. Williams out=^=</span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">“Thank you
Captain it’s good to be back.”</span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">He looked back at
the medical staff who was scrutinizing his tricorder. </span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">“Look the Captain
needs me to get back to work. I promise that I will come back as soon as we got
ourselves out of this situation.”</span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">“Okay I will
return you for duty as long as you wear this neural monitor so that we can monitor
your brain activities and see if there is any long term damage from your
implant getting fried.”</span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">“Thank you.” </span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">He took the
offered monitor and placed the small device behind his ear. He looked at the
medical staff again who nodded, signed the PADD to activate his discharge from
Sickbay and move off to help another patient.</span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">(Runabout Brocken
Bow -CONN – CFO – Lieutenant - Ire Williams - 0853)</span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">He had left the
Leanado going through its automated power up and preflight. Although he had been
keeping an eye on it from the Brocken Bow`s systems. He fingers moved across
the console as he brought up main power. He could feel the loss of fluidity
that he used to have and felt a pang of loss. Even without his direct link with
the crafts systems that he had, had via his data port link he was still slower
now then he had been before. There was a quiet nagging in the back of his mind
that if he could not fly and was decertified he would have to be moved sideways away from flying to
another department like Ravok, Trip and Greta. Apart from Greta flying was the
only other thing in his life. Being in command of a fighter squadron had been
challenging and rewarding in its own way. Even getting promoted to lieutenant had
been an achievement but he was just a pilot at heart and was happy just to fly.
But if he lost that what would he do, what could he do.</span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">He clenched his
fists and took a deep breath.</span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">“Come on Ire get
a grip you have job to do. That is the most important thing at the moment the
rest can be dealt with later.” </span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">He opened his
fists and rested his hands on the console as the computer beeped that is had
finished and the Brocken Bow was ready to fly. He scrutinized the information
coming from Leanado, the last thing that he needed was for something to go
wrong because he was not paying attention. Once he was happy that both craft
were ready he tapped his comm badge.</span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp3df86b63MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">“Lieutenant
Williams to Bridge. Shuttle craft Leanado and Runabout Brocken Bow are ready
for launch.”</span></p>
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