by Mellice Cem
91225.20
Concurrent with Every Lock, Save One
-=Somewhere in the forest on Sibalt=-
91225.20
Concurrent with Every Lock, Save One
-=Somewhere in the forest on Sibalt=-
As he transported back to his hidden base camp, Mellice was laughing like a loon. He set his paintball rifle down beside the log he most enjoyed sitting on by the fire pit. Clearly, this day had gone far better than he had imagined. Not only did he manage to confound, confuse and all out baffle both teams as to who was using the blue paint pellets, but he also had a bit of fun at the expense of some old friends. First it had been both Doctor Hartcort and Commander Briggs, and then he had an absolute ball tormenting his former nemesis from the Aries, Zanh Liis.
It had been a long day for everyone, especially himself, and Mellice needed a hot bath in a nearby spring. He removed the ghillie suit of leaves, twigs and sticks he had constructed to conceal himself with the day he had arrived upon Sibalt, when he learned the nature of the games that would be taking place. The tug-of-war he had mucked up from afar, while the game of paintball he'd mucked from a lot closer. As for the final game of capture the flag, he'd be even closer than he had been for the previous match. For this game, he'd be taking people out of the game as 'prisoners' by abducting them personally to be held in his own detention area that Jelca and her cohorts have designated for him to use.
It was while he was en route to the hot spring that he nearly tripped over something sticking out from under the cover of some fallen leaves. Furrowing his brow, he knelt down to the ground to inspect the mysterious protrusion. Once he brushed the leaves away, Mellice made the first of several frightening discoveries.
Bodies. Mellice was about to take off to find Zanh Liis, when he heard the sound of voices and footsteps approaching. He ducked behind a tree to avoid detection.
"Rued will have her revenge soon and this Dabin Reece will be dead along with his friends, but first in order to really make them suffer, we need to take him and his wife tonight. Putting her in peril will really drive him mad." Vrex laughed maniacally to his partner.
Mellice listened more as Vrex and Grom spoke of what Jelca had planned for Dabin and the rest of the Serendipity and Alchemy crews. What he overheard made his skin crawl as these “games” were become a matter of life and death. Now, he was altering his mission to sabotage the games. It was the only way to keep Captain Zanh and her crew keep safe from a fate worse than death. If only he could tell Zanh Liis, but judging by the bodies on the ground, Rued had already replaced the real officiants of these games with her own people, and they would surly be ready to attack at the first sign that the Starfleet crew was wise to their plans. His only choice was to do what he could to spoil their plans, and hopefully find a way to get the Serendipity crew out of harm’s way in the process.
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Lieutenant (jg) Mellice Cem
Assistant Security/Tactical Chief
USS Revolution NCC-71605-A
Former Games Saboteur
Lieutenant (jg) Mellice Cem
Assistant Security/Tactical Chief
USS Revolution NCC-71605-A
Former Games Saboteur