Chapter 55 - Teaser!! (Patreon)

Needs one final brief polishing and spell check, but I should almost certainly be able to get this latest chapter published by Friday night, so you'll have it available for some weekend reading. :-) In the meantime, enjoy the teaser!

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We materialized on the Enterprise’s transporter pad to the blaring of several loud alarms coming from the transporter control console and a forcefield snapping into visibility trapping us on the transporter pad.

“Security team to transporter room 1, on the double,” the transporter operator requested over the ship’s internal comms. “Energy weapons detected in transport. Weapon deactivation protocol has failed. Transport protocol five has also failed.”

I raised an unimpressed eyebrow at the man who glanced at me fearfully before turning back to his console. Whether that was because I was an Augment, my imposing figure, or the fact that I was Admiral in rank, I didn’t know, nor did I particularly care. I remained still anyways, doing nothing to exacerbate the situation, nor either brandish or remove my sidearm from my hip, only gesturing minutely for T’Maz to let me handle this.

Per my ship’s standing orders my entire crew wore at least a sidearm whenever on duty and T’Maz, even though a Federation patriot through and through, favored a Romulan disrupter pistol these days given how disrupter weaponry had proven more effective against Collector armor. While she preferred the sheer versatility of a Federation phaser, she was exceedingly pragmatic like that.