Night Terrors

Posted on Fri Jan 18th, 2019 @ 7:39am by Lieutenant Paul Sharpe

Mission: A Day in the Life
Location: Sharpes Quarters
Timeline: Current

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It had been some time since his Fiancee Alexandria Somers had left for a new post as a ships XO, he had found out that it was a ship thought lost in battle long ago. It seemed that the USS Powell still had some life left, unfortunately, that is all he could find out, this told him that the ship had a secret mission, so now here he was once again left alone, he had wangled this posting to be with Alex.

Now as he readied for bed he began to feel apprehensive about his future without his better half. He laid in bed and read an old book, it was a present from Alex, an old fashioned affair type paper book called The Art of War, he had read it a lot and was still trying to understand it, eventually he felt himself relaxing, so he put down and turned out the light and was quickly asleep.

《 Dreamscape 》

Paul suddenly found himself in a darkened place and lights started to come on, he realised he was holding something, he looked down and saw that it was a Phaser Rifle. He had a weapon harness on that held photon grenades and two flashbangs plus some spare power packs. Suddenly before he knew anything he was pulled down into cover by someone, he looked at the person, everything but his face was in focus. The person was verbally speaking gibberish, but to Paul, it was as if he was actually speaking normally.

"Get with the program Sharpe, you want to see your wife and children again, then focus on staying alive" the person said, it was then he noticed the persons rank of full Commander, realising he was in the future, his he felt for the pips and felt three, he looked in a reflective surface and saw it was two pips plus a half pip signalling he was a Lieutenant Commander, he did not know how far in the future he was. Then he noticed a numerical display and instead of the hands counting up they were counting down, it was a very long string of numbers, when he focused on it the countdown blurred, but when he looked at it at a glance was perfect focus, then his attention was brought to the present time as a plasma rifle blast narrowly missed him, he dived behind better cover and began firing back while trying to see who was shooting at him.

As the fire was exchanged one of the armoured figures pushed towards them, all Sharpe knew was that it was an Orion armour set and he had Plasma rifle of Romulan make. He quickly dispatched the attacker, but there were hundreds more behind the first one, they were rushing the defenders, who quickly shot then, when the fighting had stopped he stood up and assigned some lookouts and looked for the security detachment Commander only to find him face up, eyes open wide in surprise, he gently closed them as some medics arrived at his location, then he felt pain in his arm and noticed he had a plasma wound which the medic was quickly fixing.

Suddenly he was fighting disorientation as he found himself on the bridge of a Defiant class ship in the Captain's seat, he was still in Operations colours, so he was not Command, but somehow he was currently in charge of this ship, he looked at the view screen and saw a Jem'hadar fighter groups of three ships, they showed True Way markings and the view screen show the ships pulse weapons firing multiple times until they destroyed one of the ships, a second was followed, the third was a little more wily and evaded his ship's fire. He still did not know what the name of the ship was, but suddenly his ship was the one being chased and fired at.

The helm officer avoided as best she could but as the Defiant class ship fired its rear torpedo, the True Way ship fired, the torpedo mortally wounded the enemy ship, but at the cost of her own life as the bridge crashed around him "Warp core going critical Captain" the officer manning the engineering station warned.

He sighed heavily and pressed the communications button on the panel to his right "ALL HANDS ABANDON SHIP! USE ESCAPE POSTS AND SHUTTLE PODS" he ordered as those still alive headed for the nearest escape pod. He got to him and as he climbed in he saw a glowing fireball come towards him, again like before it was if it was all happening in slow motion he looked around to see a slow crewman in midstride, then looked back at the fireball heading his way as the hull breached he felt himself getting sucked out and he felt a scream leave his lips.

《 End Dreamscape 》

Paul sat up bolt upright in bed panting as he had just done a five-mile hike in full combat gear and sweating profusely he looked around the darkened room panting like an old tired nag, steadying his nerves he got out of bed on shaky legs and headed to the refresher station and turned on the tap and splashed some water on his face.

"Goddammit, not had one of them in a long time" he said and he went to the cupboard and pulled out a small glass and then out of a chiller a bottle of Andorian Ale and poured himself a small one and knocked it back and shuddered "okay something has to be done about this, but in the morning" he said to himself putting the empty glass in the sink and bottle back in the chiller and returned to bed, where it took him time to calm down before he finally dropped off to a dreamless sleep.

The next day he stepped into the shower bleary-eyed and got a nice shower on and after a hearty meal which made him feel a lot better , he got ready for what the day had waiting for him, he looked through the morning reports as he drank his mug of tea.

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Lieutenant Paul Sharpe
Security Officer
Starbase 332