Surprises

Posted on Sat Oct 31st, 2020 @ 3:26am by Lieutenant Commander Arianna Sky Kamar

Mission: Survival of the fittest
Location: Deck 10- outside the tenforward

Jane held the small ball of fur firmly but gently away from the lounge manager. His angry eyes did nothing to dissuade her. "It's a living breathing creature! You can't murder it and feed it to people are you insane!!!"

A small crowd had now started to gather to watch the fantastic spectacle that had erupted in their midst. The man who was filling in for the day scoffed. "It's a damn tribble they are not good for anything else now give me back my property or I'll have security come and take it from you." He declared much to the cheers of a few spectators. But security was already alerted.

"It's murder!" Jane spat back vehemently "I'll see you briged for mass genocide you butcher!!" Jane hollard back passionate in her anger to save the helpless creatures.

"It's lunch you brainless twit!" Was the retort emphasized by him shaking a ladle at her menacingly.

"I'll take it to the Captain if I have to! He would never stand for such out right cruelty!" And then a short brown haired human female the obvious owner of the voice in question came bolting around the door Tribble in hand she crashed into a spectator full speed sending herself rolling.

The lounge keeper was in pursuit and stopped as he saw the collision occur and couldn't help but laugh. Still Jane had managed to keep hold of her fuzzy loot even amidst the chaos.


Arianna came down the corridor, full flight, her klingon legs carrying her quickly to the scene of the commotion. "What in the name of Kahless is going on?" she bellowed, looking at the Ensign and the Lieutenant.

Jane looked up from where she was laying somewhat dazed from the floor. She clutched the Tribble closer to her chest as she attempted to sit up.

"Crazy knob stole one of my Tribbles I brought on fer the lunch special. Seems to think the nasty rodents deserve to be free or something. Should have her drug off to the shirk. Or better yet the brig for stealing." The lounge manager said his eyes shifted from the well known wife of the ship's Captain. As an engineer and part Klingon he felt he now has an ally in this madness.

Jane sat there her mouth opened and closed a few times as her cheeks grew bright red in her indignant fury. Finally she said in a voice tight with barely concealed rage. "I am the ships counselor."

"Well God save us all." The manager said contemptuously.

"Guess again, who gave you permission in the first place to bring live animals on this ship? Second, this is too cute to kill and if memory serves, they are pets," she said. Arianna reached out to the counselor for her to put the terrified creature in her custody. "May I counselor," she said gently.

Jane had finally gotten back to her feet and gave the little furball to the lieutenant commander it chittered in response letting out a for of squeaks and musical like pips as it nestled easily into the other woman's hands. "He has a crate of them in the kitchen. He was pulling their teeth out and shoving them full of worms."

The manager gave an exasperated sigh. "I put in fer permission to make Gak R'tik Chue. It was approved. The only way to keep fresh gak larvae fresh is to store it in something alive so it can eat it and get mature. Tribbles stomach acids are not strong enough to kill the larvae and are small and manageable. You have to remove the same teeth or they will bite your damn fingers off while you shovel the larvae in. And no one would keep a Tribble on a ship as a pet they eat wires like spaghetti if they are getting loose plus they are nothing more than a stomach with a big mouth anyways." Then under his breath " whole damn ships gone crazy."

"In the first place if these creatures are so destructive, as you say, Captain Kamar would never allow them aboard. Second, they are not Cardassian Voles, who do eat wires and electrical items such as you suggest. Third, the only thing they are known to eat is grain, which was established back in the 21st century on Space station K-7, which they ate poisoned grain. Now they multiply like crazy, whis is due to their appetites but they are in no way destructive to this ships systems," Arianna said, looking at the cook. "Security, get the crate and remove it to the science lab and erect a forcefield around it so they are protected. I am taking this to the captain," she finished saying nodding to the Ensign smiling. Still petting the now cooing tribble, "Cute thing. It purrs, oh how sweet," smiling at the creature.

The man rolled his eyes but wisely said nothing more. He stalked away muttering to himself about damn meddling women and their bleeding heart tendencies.

Jane grinned in triumph. "That actually went better than I expected. My last protest saw me gassed and horse whipped." She reached out and petted the little creature. The crowd seeing that the show was over made haste to disappear.

"Thank you for all your help ma'am. I appreciate it more than anything." She ten looked back to the Tribble and said as though it could understand her. "Don't bite her or the Captain you owe them one lil guy." Then she stepped back to let the LT Commander take her leave. She made a mental note to put in to have one sent to her office as a therapy animal possibly.


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Lieutenant Commander Arianna Sky Kamar
Chief Engineering Officer

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Ensign J. Doe
Counselor