<USS Avalon> A perilous journey Part I- Felicity

A perilous  journey
Part  I
a log by  Felicity Roan
 
Felicity and Dylan set off for the  coordinates that had been given to him by 
their older brother, Sebastian,  presumed dead more than a year ago by 
Starfleet.  Both of them were  nervous, afraid and concerned about what they 
might 
discover when they got to  their destination.  A fake, a fraud, an impostor.  
Felicity wanted  them to be there rather than have to bear the thought of 
actually seeing her  brother again after so long.  Why had he disappeared?  Why 
hadn't he  contacted them before now?  Why was he in hiding?  These were just a 
 
few of the questions lingering in her mind.
 
The twins barely spoke more than  three words the entire journey there.  They 
stepped out of the transport  and made their way to the resort where they 
were to make contact and checked in  to the facility.  They went to sit by the 
pool and hoped to spy him.   After three hours of nothing, they were about to 
leave when a small boy handed  them a data chip and disappeared.  "7pm, 
Sharkey's Finn, table 3 -- SR" was  all that it said.  They discovered that the 
place 
in question was on the  other side of the moon, in the heaviest populated 
settlement.  At 6:30 they  arrived and tried to talk the other out of following 
through.
 
"Dylan, this is clearly a trap,  let's go now before we have REAL problems.  
I really want to stay in  Starfleet until I have another position lined up ... 
and you should too.   Always have a back up plan, Dad taught us this!"
 
"Felicity, I hear you ... but  we've come this far, we HAVE to meet him.  
Even if he's a fake... a really  good fake, just to see him for a few minutes, 
wouldn't it be worth it to  you?  C'mon, we'll go in, take a look around and if 
we don't like what we  see... we leave, okay?"
 
"Dyl... I'm really not feeling so  great about this ... what if they are 
kidnappers, murderers, or  worse..."
 
"What could be worse?"  He  looked at her with a look that made her sigh and 
follow him inside.
 
Sharkey's Finn was more than just  crowded ... it was wall-to-wall with 
humanoids and other life forms that had she  not taken Xenobiology I and II at 
the 
Academy, she couldn't even begin to  classify them as anything in the known 
universe.  The bartender, a Ferengi  named Gop took their orders and they tried 
to figure out which one was  table 3.  There were about 50 tables or so, they 
figured it couldn't have  been too hard.  Except none of the tables were 
numbered.  Dylan tried  asking for Table three from the Maitre'd twice, but he 
only 
pointed at the  restrooms.  So much for that tactic.  He tried to persuade 
Felicity to  use her feminine wiles, but that went over like a brick into the  
sea.
 
Finally, at 7:20, they made their  way upstairs to look at the crowd below.  
The same small child appeared and  motioned them towards the back of the bar.  
There sat two hooded  figures.  When the twins sat, they discovered they were 
both males in  their 30's, neither of them Sebastian.  Felicity realized this 
quickly and  began to rise from the table, "Where are you going?  Don't you 
want to see  your brother?  Do you think he'd just show up in public?  Who 
knows  who has followed you or if you're here to really see him..."
 
Felicity sat and said  nothing.  Her mind was racing in circles ... and she 
was dumbstruck by all  of this.  "Listen, your brother wants to see you, but 
needs to make sure  you're still who he thought you were ... and we're here to 
make sure of  that."  He turned to the other chap sitting next to him, who 
nodded.   "You've completed the first trials ... you're clean of bugs and it 
doesn't look  like you've been followed."
 
"In about 20 minutes, we'll  leave.  This visit will be short and sweet 
folks.  Your brother cannot  resist exposure.  What he knows could lead to his 
death and the death of  your family...all of you.  I warn you that sharing what 
you see and hear  this evening with anyone outside of this table would be a 
misfortunate decision  on your part.  So, drink up and we'll head out. You can 
call me Buddy and  this is Guy."
 
Felicity felt a pit in her stomach  the size of Australia.  She knew Dylan 
felt one too.  He tried to  reach out to her, "Okay, okay, okay ... please 
don't 
tell me I told you so... I  don't want to hear it from you.  What the hell 
has Sebastian gone and  gotten himself into Felicity?  I'm really wishing we 
had 
gone fishing like  you suggested now."
 
"Dylan, I won't tell you I told  you so yet... I'm more concerned about who 
Buddy and Guy are and why they are  being so doom and gloom.  I hope this 
doesn't take long, I have a meeting  at Starfleet Medical in two days."
 
Just as they said, in 20 minutes  the two men stood and asked Felicity and 
Dylan to follow.  As they stepped  onto their transport, they were blindfolded. 
 
What was in store for them at  their destination was just the beginning.

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