Chapter 41 - Teaser! (Patreon)

For the first time, I really considered using part of chapter 41's lemon scene for the teaser.  That'd be a first for me.  I actually think it came out rather well and will be the first lemon in several chapters given all the adventuring lately.  Anyways, expect the full chapter to drop tomorrow night! :-)

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I had beamed onto a lower deck to get a lay of the land, as it were, planning to slowly and cautiously make my way to the bridge of the ship. T'Maz questioned why I didn't just beam onto the bridge in the first place, since the ship was empty according to our advanced sensors. It was that lack of caution, even from a hardcore and experienced Section 31 agent in this case, admittedly one that was not a full-time field operative, that confirmed that even T'Maz was infected with Federation/Starfleet stupidity, though much less seriously than most. That kind of thinking, the lack of appropriate caution, was exactly what got so many Starfleet away teams in trouble on the show, seeing one or more of the red shirts on the team killed per mission. I was trying to live my life with all that in mind as serious bullshit best to avoid. Those repeated mistakes and acts of stupidity, in my opinion, weren't going to be my mistakes too.

Riding up in the still functional turbolift to the bridge, my caution and the many hard and bloody lessons I'd learned during the Occupation when we’d outwitted a technologically superior and better equipped Cardassian military, was paying off once again as my armor's head's up display (HUD) lit up in red with numerous high priority alerts. My armor's sensors had detected several life signs on the supposedly empty bridge. Some might say that I wasn’t being cautious enough as I’d taken a turbolift, instead of the Jefferies tubes, to reach the bridge, which had alerted the people hidden on the bridge. In this case, that was a calculated risk, and was part of the reverse ambush I was executing. In the privacy of my thoughts, I admitted that I had also probably taken the turbolift because I had had just about enough of that during my last covert mission.