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allmhadadhOr: The Brig is the Happening Place to Be!
Whatever was happening to this ship, whoever she was, wasn't good. It sounded like a battle; all around him, he could practically hear the energy shift through her as power was redirected from one place to another, and the shudders of shots taken.
It was a strange place to be trapped, on a ship with no name, surrounded by humans wearing unknown uniforms, in the middle of a battle.
How the bloody Hell did he get here from San Francisco?
Scotty didn't move from his spot, despite the chaos. Whatever had happened that found him waking up in some strange medical facility and required him to be under guard implied one of two things: Either he was under arrest for some crime he didn't commit and this was some sort of civilian vessel, or he was captured by an enemy that he had hitherto not known about. In none of those scenarios did he plan on sticking around to get all of the fine details.
He was a little more calm now than he had been when he'd known for certain he was being pursued; then, he had been so frantic that he fumbled quite a bit when he was pulling these... touch-screen panels off of the access doorways to hot-wire them. If not for the fact that his mind could trace those connections and piece together what was what even in that state -- sometimes especially in that state -- he would have probably been caught.
But he was a swift study; after the first few, he got good enough to spend only about thirty seconds on each one, and replaced the panel like new again once the door was opened. Not out of any sense of duty. Just because he knew better than to leave a trail that could be followed.
Now some calmer, though his head was still hurting and he had realized he was half-starved, he tried to work out some sort of battle plan. If this was a ship, given her size, she was bound to have shuttles. If he could figure out where the shuttle bay was, he might be able to use all of this chaos to his own advantage.
Unfortunately for Scotty, he never quite got the chance.
Between the headache and the fact that he was actually a bit more calm and therefore not running on pure instinct, he didn't hear the approach. A shadow fell across the narrow edge of light between the bulkhead and the sensor probe he'd hidden behind.
He looked up and went from mostly calm, to entirely afraid, to mostly feral just that fast, scrambling backwards with narrowed eyes and tensing for the run, or the fight.
And ran smack into the guard who'd been waiting on the other side.
--
Jessep rethought, pretty quickly, his assessment that the kid wouldn't be able to put up much of a fight. Mostly because by the time that they literally threw him in a cell in the brig, not a single one of the three guards had escaped unscathed.
Between the three of them, there were two black eyes, one split lip, one cracked tooth, many bruises and a number of sore or pulled muscles.
Jessep had almost forgotten how pissed he was when the kid had looked up, hiding in a space too small for the guards to get into, wide-eyed and obviously startled and scared. For that instant, the guard thought that this was just some frightened, baby-faced kid, barely an adult, who was in over his head. Just give him a good talking to, and take him back to sickbay.
And an instant later, that sort of sweet, scared look vanished into something considerably more dangerous and the fight was on. And it didn't stop. And size sure didn't come into play. It took all three of them to half-carry, half-wrestle the kid to the brig, and not once in that entire time did the kid quit fighting.
For their part, they handled themselves admirably and didn't give him any tune-ups along the way. Even if he was a crazy little bastard, they weren't thugs. But by the time they chucked him into the cell, every one of them hoped that they would never have to deal with him again.
"Send a message to Mister Scott that we have his... charge down here," Jessep said. "Don't interrupt him, just send a message." Then, casting one last look at the brig cell, he muttered to a man who couldn't hear, with a small smirk, "Have fun, Chief."
Whatever was happening to this ship, whoever she was, wasn't good. It sounded like a battle; all around him, he could practically hear the energy shift through her as power was redirected from one place to another, and the shudders of shots taken.
It was a strange place to be trapped, on a ship with no name, surrounded by humans wearing unknown uniforms, in the middle of a battle.
How the bloody Hell did he get here from San Francisco?
Scotty didn't move from his spot, despite the chaos. Whatever had happened that found him waking up in some strange medical facility and required him to be under guard implied one of two things: Either he was under arrest for some crime he didn't commit and this was some sort of civilian vessel, or he was captured by an enemy that he had hitherto not known about. In none of those scenarios did he plan on sticking around to get all of the fine details.
He was a little more calm now than he had been when he'd known for certain he was being pursued; then, he had been so frantic that he fumbled quite a bit when he was pulling these... touch-screen panels off of the access doorways to hot-wire them. If not for the fact that his mind could trace those connections and piece together what was what even in that state -- sometimes especially in that state -- he would have probably been caught.
But he was a swift study; after the first few, he got good enough to spend only about thirty seconds on each one, and replaced the panel like new again once the door was opened. Not out of any sense of duty. Just because he knew better than to leave a trail that could be followed.
Now some calmer, though his head was still hurting and he had realized he was half-starved, he tried to work out some sort of battle plan. If this was a ship, given her size, she was bound to have shuttles. If he could figure out where the shuttle bay was, he might be able to use all of this chaos to his own advantage.
Unfortunately for Scotty, he never quite got the chance.
Between the headache and the fact that he was actually a bit more calm and therefore not running on pure instinct, he didn't hear the approach. A shadow fell across the narrow edge of light between the bulkhead and the sensor probe he'd hidden behind.
He looked up and went from mostly calm, to entirely afraid, to mostly feral just that fast, scrambling backwards with narrowed eyes and tensing for the run, or the fight.
And ran smack into the guard who'd been waiting on the other side.
--
Jessep rethought, pretty quickly, his assessment that the kid wouldn't be able to put up much of a fight. Mostly because by the time that they literally threw him in a cell in the brig, not a single one of the three guards had escaped unscathed.
Between the three of them, there were two black eyes, one split lip, one cracked tooth, many bruises and a number of sore or pulled muscles.
Jessep had almost forgotten how pissed he was when the kid had looked up, hiding in a space too small for the guards to get into, wide-eyed and obviously startled and scared. For that instant, the guard thought that this was just some frightened, baby-faced kid, barely an adult, who was in over his head. Just give him a good talking to, and take him back to sickbay.
And an instant later, that sort of sweet, scared look vanished into something considerably more dangerous and the fight was on. And it didn't stop. And size sure didn't come into play. It took all three of them to half-carry, half-wrestle the kid to the brig, and not once in that entire time did the kid quit fighting.
For their part, they handled themselves admirably and didn't give him any tune-ups along the way. Even if he was a crazy little bastard, they weren't thugs. But by the time they chucked him into the cell, every one of them hoped that they would never have to deal with him again.
"Send a message to Mister Scott that we have his... charge down here," Jessep said. "Don't interrupt him, just send a message." Then, casting one last look at the brig cell, he muttered to a man who couldn't hear, with a small smirk, "Have fun, Chief."
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Date: 2009-08-06 08:02 pm (UTC)Since it's not classified, he shakes his head again. "Nothin' about this ship's Constitution-class." His reasoning being that the Constitution, NCC-1700 was officially launched this year after trials, where she was the NX-1700; in theory, then, what this Kirk fellow is saying is that this is the 1701, yet unnamed in the San Francisco Fleet Yards and not even close to completion.
Though, admittedly, when he says the words 'Constitution-class, there's a wistful, longing note in his voice, if only for a moment. No doubts that some things must be universal, regardless of the age. And he certainly has studied what was released unclassified about the Constitution; he knows what her class should look like, and this isn't it.
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Date: 2009-08-06 09:25 pm (UTC)He turned back to the kid.
"It's different, certainly," he said, working on the assumption that, even if it wasn't Jim's own universe Scotty was referring to, he did understand the confusion. "But I assure you, the Enterprise is a Constitution-class vessel, just launched this year." Keep him going about the ship, Jim thought. If nothing else, Scotty would respond to that.
((OOC - Just realized that if I'm not getting notifications, Spock might not be either, and she's probably checking in from her phone. So sorry, Spock, if you were going to jump in.))
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Date: 2009-08-06 09:52 pm (UTC)[[OOC: I'm not getting any myself, which sucks.]]
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Date: 2009-08-06 09:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-06 10:09 pm (UTC)"Cadet Montgomery Scott, Starfleet, SCC 224056 E." Which is easy enough to parse out -- Starfleet Command Cadet (which the original was, before transferring permanently into Engineering), the year he joined the service and his acceptance number, then E (engineering) which is his minor study.
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Date: 2009-08-06 10:17 pm (UTC)"We're going to have to leave you here until we determine where you're from and convince you we mean you no harm," he said. He was tired, Spock was tired, and Jim needed to know what the hell was going on. "Are there any questions you would like to ask in the meantime? Anything you won't dismiss out of hand, that is."
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Date: 2009-08-06 10:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-06 10:34 pm (UTC)"Because, Mr. Scott, the Enterprise has, of late, seen a number of unauthorized and potentially dangerous visitors. Until the exact nature of the disturbance can be discovered, we are playing it safe. It's not meant to be permanent. We'll make you as comfortable as possible, and I assure you someone will come for you soon."
This business of not being captain, Jim thought, was extremely trying when one was used to it.
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Date: 2009-08-06 10:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-06 10:43 pm (UTC)"All right," he said. "I'll have that arranged for you. And a hot meal. But no more fighting the guards, or we will have to consider you hostile."
Jim would leave word with Security that Scott could be taken to the shower but utmost care must be taken to see that he remain in custody. There was something to be said for earning the boy's trust.
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Date: 2009-08-06 10:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-06 11:38 pm (UTC)"Good. I'll see you soon, Cadet."