Lt. Tracy was quite disturbed by the last "simulation" the captian had run. The captian had ordered the ship across the nutral zone, then seemingly attacked and destroyed two romulan warbirds. The point was to show the Romulans the threat of the T'Kil but it didn't seem right that the captian didn't inform any of the bridge crew. She found out the rest of the story in the mess hall. She overheard the conversation between Gwen and Rommie. Upon hearing it was a bet Josie really wasn't hungry any more. She quietly left the mess hall and made her way to the ships holodeck. Once there she put in her special programing. It left the safties on but at a bare minimum. All injuries except thoes that were life threating were real. She was quite sure that if the CMO, XO, or CO learned about this she would most likely be in big trouble. She started the foes at level five, all dangerous villans from her home Earth. She fought hard and came away from level five with a few scrapes that Max sealed quickly. She stepped up the program. Level six. Dangerous turned to murderous. The villans were out to put her down for good. They used the full extent of powers. This only made Neta..."no" she thought to herself "She wasn't Neta here she was just Josie here. Josephine Tracy. Neta was part of a super hero team. This momentary distraction earner her a slash across her mid section. Her Belly started to bleed. Max sent his Nano Meds to start closing the wound. But she had regained her focus. Josie worked her way up to level ten. At level ten was only one villan. The one who had almost killed her. He was huge, red and resembled some sort of Devil. She had mistaken him on thier first encounter for Nightchild's older brother. But the big red guy wasn't as dumb, or as slow as Nightchild's brother. It took her by suprise and had landed a blow to her body that had broken several of her ribs. Thankfully her team has a healer. Medica took her injuries and got her back in the fight. But now she was faceing him alone. "So, child. It is down to you and I. If my memory serves me correctly you were merely a distraction last time we met. Something to draw my attention while your more powerful teammates could get into position. You nearly died in our last confrontation." His eyes narrowed and a wickedly, evil grin spread across its massive red face." How charming you believe that you can survive another round with me. This time I think I will kill you slowly... Better yet... I will let you live as my slave. I will infict unimaginable pain on your mind and body untill you are broken to my will. This will be fun." Josie didn't bother to tell him that the first time they had fought that she was still useing her first generation computer system. She wasn't completely alone. She had Max. The red villan started swinging at her but she made sure she wasn't where his attacks landed. She tagged him several times. But it was like hitting a brick wall. Her knuckles were soon very bloody and all she was doing was ticking this guy off. It was like the time she read in this worlds comic books when Spiderman fought Superman. Spiderman couldn't hurt Superman but Superman couldn't swing fast enought to hit Spiderman. Josie decided to try something diffrent. She ran away from the red villan and around the corner. "Fleeing so soon?" He taunted. " I will find you. If I have to kill every living thing in this city, on this pathetic world I will. Runni- UGH!" Josie had run around the building and slammed into the brute from behind. She didn't know if she had damaged him but the suprise had knocked the wind out of him. This gave her a second idea. Something she had seen in a movie. With the red villan on the ground she ran round him in circles wide enough that he couldn't reach her. Running at her top speed she made a cone around him sucking all the air upwards. The air got very thin very quickly. The red villan tried several times to move into striking range but Josie moved as he moved. Soon he was gasping for breath and collapsed unconsious. "Simulation Ended." the computer said and the scene faded away. Josie stopped. She was breathing hard and her body hurt. She hadn't done a work out like this in a long time. If these T'Kil were as tough as their ships then she would need to get back into fighting form because it looked like the Federation was going to need all of its resources to battle this threat. And it would be nice to have her as a suprise on their side. Lt. JG. Josephine Tracy Cheif Science Officer USS Eagle __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com