“No response from camera number 1” said Carolyn
“Camera failure?” asked Karen
“No, something is blocking the door, so the camera can not leave the housing.” replied Carolyn. “Switching to camera number 2.”
This time there was a visual from the camera.
“Well at least there is light” said Lori
“Carolyn, start recording these images, Lisa feed these images to the rest of the UNSF using tachyon pulse and standard radio.” ordered Karen
“Is that wise boss?” asked Lisa
“They know we are coming, we might as well let the rest of the UNSF know what we know.” replied Karen.
Karen then went to the intercom and said “Probe control, Captain.”
“Probe, go ahead Captain” replied Lieutenant Lynn Park.
“Lynn prep an emergency probe, have it record the images from D9 and make sure it can launch on a moment’s notice.” said Karen
“Will do Captain. When do you want to launch it?” asked Lynn
“When I say so.” replied Karen
“You want an orbital probe or a landing probe?” asked Lynn
“Orbital probe will be fine.” replied Karen
“Will inform when it is ready. Probe out” said Lynn.
“I take it is for just in case?” asked Valentina.
“Yeah, just in case.” replied Karen. “What does it look like from camera number 2?”
“Nothing interesting.” replied Carolyn “Switching to camera number 3.”
The view from camera number 3 showed as much as camera number 2, which was nothing but some light parts, and dark parts but no movement. Carolyn typed in a few keys on her keyboard and said “Switching to camera number 4.”
The view from camera number 4 was the same as the other two cameras.
“How many cameras does this outer marker have?” asked Karen
“Fourteen,” replied Carolyn “seven on the top of the marker, the other seven on the bottom of it.”
“And these four we have been seeing where are they located?” asked Karen
“All on the top.” replied Carolyn
“So are seeing the ceiling of this star ship?” asked Karen
“It would make sense.” replied Carolyn “I will try one of the cameras located on the bottom of the outer marker.”
Carolyn typed a few more keys on the keyboard and said “Here is the view of camera number 10.”
“What the hell?” asked Karen.
The view showed two separate forms of different colors, each form had two limbs heading towards the foreground of the camera.
“Are those heads?” asked Lori.
“I am just your average run of the mill geophysicist,” said Carolyn “but they kind of look like butts to me. Should I call Dr. Cruz for a second opinion?”
“It would not hurt.” replied Karen.
“Sick bay, science” said Carolyn
“Sick bay, go ahead” it was Ensign Margaret Wilson who answered the call.
“Hey Maggie check out the view being feed to screen number 2 and get Dr. Cruz to take it a look at it.” said Carolyn
“Will do” said Margaret. Three seconds later the intercom comes on, it was Margaret “What the hell is this Doctor Oshiro? Is this some sick and perverted joke. No wait, did Lisa put you up to this? I can tell this is something she would do. Ohhh I am going to get her for this.”
Carolyn looked at Lisa. Lisa then said “She still hasn’t forgiven me for the time I lent her that tape.”
“What tape?” asked Carolyn
“The video tape that had ‘The Latex Girls take over Microsoft’ on it” replied Lisa.
“And I spent the next two weeks getting the third degree from my mother, my grandmother, my three aunts, my fiancé’s mother, his older sister, his three aunts about me being a rubber clad lesbian that was into bondage.” said an upset Margaret “And the wedding was almost called off because of it.”
“It was not my fault my brother put that on the tape. I thought it was an episode of ‘Touched by an Angel’, honest.” said Lisa
“Oh and what about the whip and that rubber thingy” said Margaret
“It’s called a catsuit” said Lisa
Realizing that this was wasting time Karen interrupted the exchange by saying “Maggie the image you are seeing is a live feed from outer marker D9 which is inside of unknown starship, not one of Lisa’s jokes. What we wanted was Dr. Cruz’s opinion of what we are dealing with.”
“Will find her.” said Margaret “Sick bay out.”
Karen shakes her head at Lisa and sighed at her. Lisa turned at Carolyn and asked “What did I do?”
“You should have given that catsuit to the Captain.” replied Carolyn.
“Really?” asked Lisa “I did not know she was into that.”
“Not the bondage part mind you, damn it.” said Carolyn
“What?” asked Lisa.
“Your two porn stars, Lisa” replied Carolyn, “they are gone.”
“My porn stars?” asked Lisa.
Posted by Helen at November 17, 2002 1:33 AM