A righteous vanquishing of horrors
Posted on Thu Aug 15th, 2024 @ 9:56am by Commander Rovak & Lieutenant Commander Alex Flynn & Lieutenant Atna & Rhianha Creon & Llaudh Drusilla Creon & Lieutenant Alph & Lieutenant JG Ga-Tirothai & Senior Chief Petty Officer Azlav Aitrell
Edited on on Mon Aug 19th, 2024 @ 1:27pm
1,245 words; about a 6 minute read
Mission:
Startup Sequence [0]
Location: CIC, DS13
Timeline: Immediately after 'Theophany in blue'
Like he’d just stirred from a daydream, Rovak lost sight of the glowing blue watchman and his crystal fortress, returning to the CIC at the moment the Faraday had returned to the dock.
“Red alert.” Rovak ordered to the surprise of all. “Fire pulse phasers and a full spread of quantum torpedoes directly into the singularity, target phaser arrays on any irregularity or protrusion you can perceive.” From the frenzied jolting of his antennae Rovak could tell the tactical officer Aitrell was surprised by the order, but thrilled by the decision.
The station let loose its formidable arsenal, and distant shadowed explosions flared strangely through the singularity after long stretches of temporal transition. A reaching black appendage emerged as it had before, but it was quickly bisected by phaser arrays, and retreated back within the event horizon. It was followed by more, but the phaser and torpedo impacts seemed to slow them and keep them at bay.
“Rovak to Ambassador Creon.” Rovak tapped the panel on his armrest as soon as he was done giving instructions. There was no response to his hail.
“Computer, where is Ambassador Creon?” Rovak asked.
“Ambassador Creon is in her quarters. Her communicator is set to do not disturb except in emergency situations.”
“Computer set bridge transporter for internal, beam me to the Ambassador’s quarters." Rovak ordered, moving out of his seat and down the stairs to the transporter at the rear of the lower level. He stepped in, and stepped out in Creon’s quarters.
Creon was sitting with her daughter, who rested leaning against her mother. They watched out the window as the weapons fired, undisturbed by Rovak's arrival.
“I apologise for the intrusion, Ambassador, but it is a grave emergency.” Rovak said.
“Speak.” Creon said, putting her arm around her daughter.
“I need you to tell me everything you know about the rainbow bridge.” Rovak said.
Creon looked at him like he was growing a second head. “I don’t fathom what you’re talking about.”
“This is no time for Romulan discretion, Ambassador. We require everything you know about the subject to avoid the destruction of this station and the deaths of everyone aboard, yourself and your daughter included.” Rovak told Creon.
Creon felt a bristling sensation as the Vulcan outlined the threat. Her composure faltered slightly, and she revealed her annoyance. “I am not being coy, Rovak. I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“I do.” Young Rhianha said, with neither Rovak nor Creon taking her seriously. She stood up and moved to the room’s computer terminal.
She brought up a holographic display in the middle of the room that she moved to, an image of the station. She tapped the reactors at the bottom of each docking hub and the sensor arrays and projectors on top.
She created a simulation of each docking hub projecting a different kind beam through it’s arrays, tachyon, nadion, graviton, polaron, verteron and chroniton, at varying levels. The beam would be directed at the next dock, which would capture and recycle the projection into its own tranceiver. A fantastical waste of energy, but one that the simulation suggested created a unique energy field that would be able to be directed using the station’s arrays. Drusilla pulled her away from it when she was done, holding her gently around the shoulders from behind.
“How do you know this?” Rovak asked the girl. Rhianha seemed to falter as he did so, growing suddenly tired and almost sickly.
“I’ve known since I got here.” Rhianha said, and her mother guided her away, saying something to her quietly.
“Do you have what you need?” Drusilla asked Rovak, turning to him as she hugged and released her daughter before she disappeared to her room.
“Thank you, Ambassador. We will discuss this later.” Rovak said, leaving through the front doors.
All Drusilla could do was nod. She did not understand.
Rovak returned to the CIC less than two minutes after he’d stepped out the door. “Mr Atna, does the information from the Ambassador’s quarters make sense?”
“I think so. Ga-Tirothai says it’s possible but we will have to cut back on weapons while it builds. It will take a few minutes.” Atna told the CO.
“Begin the rainbow bridge sequence.” Rovak instructed.
Alex got up from her seat and close enough to Rovak’s speak discretely, leaning against the upper height of the seat’s platform and resting her arms against her raised knee. “Where is this from?” She asked.
“Later.” Rovak told her.
Alex nodded, understanding. She returned to her console and brought up the sequence notes and looked for an unfilled task.
“Tachyon beam, online. Polaron beam, online.” Chief Aitrell relayed to the bridge as the first of the six beams connected, immediately caught by receivers on the neighbouring dock. Each had a distinct chromatic profile.
“Setting reactor output for 75% of maximum.” Ga-Tirothai announced as the incredible power draw began.
Phasers continued to dice the emerging arms and damage the mass of whatever reached through the anomaly, but no matter how small it was blasted down to, it continued to regrow from itself at the surface of the singularity with apparently infinite energy. With the power to weapons reduced, each new arm that emerged got closer than the previous one as the phasers struggled to charge in time to keep them all at bay.
“Thirty seconds to the activation point described in the sequence profile.” Ga-Tirothai told Ops.
“I am seeing the anomalous fusion effect described in the sequence profile. The beams are fusing and becoming self-sustaining.” Alph announced as an opalescent aurora-like energy began to coruscate between the central points of each docking hub, a ring of light around DS13.
"Reactors at 90% power, Commander. If this gets much higher we'll need to take the weapons offline." Ga-Tirothai cautioned.
“Can you direct the effect?” Rovak asked.
“Yes, sir.” Alph said with 87.8% confidence.
“Aim it into the anomaly. Full power.” Rovak ordered.
Korusca fired the positioning thrusters to turn the station so all six docking hubs were visible to the anomaly at once. The aurora glow pulsating between the hubs seemed to be coalescing in the centre of each.
The beam, or more accurately, all six beams were released into the anomaly, demolishing the negative entity and sealing the breach. The singularity was gone in a flash. There was stunned silence through the command center. The hum of a sympathetic vibration through the hull from the reactors was obvious, but reducing.
“Report.” Rovak instructed, standing from his seat.
"More than 40 percent of our fuel reserves were depleted in that single operation, sir." Ga-Tirothai responded.
“Scanners report the anomaly is gone. No, wait. There is a single atom at it’s centre, one of matter our sensors do not understand. It seems to be a puncture in spacetime. But the gravitic effects and the entity are gone. Focused scans reveal empty space on the other side of the atomic pinhole.” Atna stated.
Rovak sat silently for five minutes. “The danger is passed. Stand down red alert.” He said at the end of the time.
“Commander. Atna. Office?” Alex said in odd cadence, turning to face Rovak.
Rovak nodded and stood up.
Atna did the same. The crew seemed ready to celebrate, they were confused by the senior officers looking forlorn and suddenly disappearing.
“Mr Alph, you have Ops.” Rovak told the Android.
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