<USS Avalon> Cleaning out the Avalon B Part 1

Cleaning out the Avalon B Part 1 
 
By, Adrian Phillips, Delaney Scott, Walker Texas Ranger, Skyler. 
 
 
 
The click on his boot was a soft but audible sound as Adrian turned to 
the door and entered the shuttle bay. He had sent the word out to the 
companies and then proceeded to suit up. Before he was finished with 
that however, he received a message from Walker explaining to him the 
situation regarding the new Operations Officer and the telepathic 
whiplash she could be expecting at any moment. Since they were of the 
same race it only made sense to Adrian to grant Walker his request to 
stay onboard to help protect her if this shock were to occur during the 
mission.

So Adrian called up Delta Company and his good comrade Dora Fane to 
assemble for this mission, and of course the shuttle bay was a bustle of 
activity.

Marines, all fully geared up, were moving back and forth as they set 
about loading up two of their APC shuttlecraft, which were just now 
humming into life. It was with this sudden realization that whomever the 
deck officer onboard here had received his message informing her of the 
situation and had adequate time to prepare the shuttles. Stepping into 
the deck, Adrian looked around for anyone who was needing him at the 
moment, knowing that his marines had everything under control for their 
launch in the next 5 minutes.
*****
Laney had finished her report on the Regellian shuttle and had just 
stood up to stretch a little when her console beeped. Pressing a key, 
she saw that a text message had just come from the office of the marine 
captain in charge of /Avalon/'s security forces. She knew that they had 
at last arrived at the former /Avalon/, which had been hanging dead in 
space for some time. The message was brief, stating simply that he would 
like the APC shuttles prepped and ready for flight within six minutes.

She had to grin, even though there was no one to see. This Phillips guy 
obviously didn't know anything about her, because she knew in an instant 
she could have both prepped and ready inside of two.
*****
She'd purposely faded into the shadows, figuratively, anyway, when the 
squadron of marines came marching into the shuttle bay. They were 
speaking to each other in clipped tones, checking each other's gear and 
the shuttles. One of them signaled to a tall, dark-skinned man of 
African descent, who merely nodded in return as he surveyed the scene.

Laney decided to be bold. He was certainly an interesting-looking 
fellow, observant, alert. . .Marines were supposed to be intelligent as 
well as lethal, and to be perfectly frank, she'd never met one. Walking 
over she introduced herself. "I'm Ensign Delaney Scott, Mr. . .?"

Adrian turned to the woman who had approached, a Starfleet officer with 
a mustard-colored undershirt. He nodded. "Marine Captain Adrian 
Phillips, Ensign. You the deck officer?"

Laney nodded. "Yes, sir. If I may, why are only marines going over right 
now? I'd have thought some of the old ship's crew would have wanted to 
go along."

Adrian's expression was stern. "Thanks for getting our shuttles ready so 
quickly. What's up is sensors picked up several life signs on a ship 
that doesn't even have an atmosphere. We're going to secure the ship and 
detain the looters." He hated looters, but sometimes couldn't blame them 
if the situation was that bad for them. If it was purely profit on the other 
hand. . .

Laney, although she had not served on /Avalon/'s predecessor, grew 
instantly alarmed. Part of her even wanted to go along, to help take 
back the old ship from whoever it was that had taken it upon themselves 
to rifle through what didn't belong to them.

"You guys be careful," she said to Adrian.

He looked down, and seeing genuine concern on her features, flashed a 
reassuring smile and a wink. "We always are. And since you got our 
ships ready so quickly for us, I think I'll have to tell Engineering how 
impressive 
the deck officer is." She was quite pretty in his view, though a bit old to be 
an 
ensign. Who knows, maybe she decided to join 'fleet later on in life.

*****

Walker, now that Talea seemed to be more confident, tapped his commbadge. 
"Ranger to Phillips. With your permission, Sir, I feel that given the 
importance of this mission to those who served aboard the /Avalon/-B and 
my species' abilities, I could be an asset to the mission, Sir. Can be 
there in under thirty seconds, suited and ready." He knew this required 
a time-jump, but he knew his energy would allow it. Besides, the needs 
of the many outweighed his need to be near Talea during this time of 
crisis for her, and she would prefer he not allow her problem to affect 
his career, he was certain. He got into his armor, gear and RSMC-issue 
ELSS, then teleported down to the proper shuttle bay, waiting the 
Captain's word.

Adrian turned to look at Walker now that he had materialized in front of 
him and chuckled. "I would have given you a few more moments, so you 
could walk over here, Sergeant, but this works just fine. Head over to 
the second shuttle and meet up with your company, I'll inform Delta 
Company to stay here on patrol, we head out as soon as I enter the first 
shuttle." He nodded and gave a salute to Walker, then nodded goodbye to 
Laney before turning and heading over to where Delta Company was.

Walker stated, "Yes, Sir." He then proceeded to where he was told to go. 
After his squad was aboard, he activated the suit with a crackle 
sounding as the suit's fields activated. He was perfectly aware he was 
safe from anything short of a crew-served phaser cannon.


 Looking around once more Adrian nodded at the fleeting form of Scott before 
checking to see that all of the marines needed were assembled into the two APC 
shuttles. He grinned silently to himself and then clicked his headset as he set 
off towards the first shuttle. "Avalon this is Captain Phillips, we are geared 
up and prepared to depart, pending approval." 
 
"Captain Phillips you are cleared for departure and please be careful over 
there. Report in as soon as you know what is going on. Good Luck." Skyler could 
do nothing but wait now and see what to see what the ultimate fate of the 
Avalon-B would be. 
 
"Thats the green light, lets roll!" He stated to the helmsman as Adrian shut 
the hatch, watching the other shuttle follow suit as with a small rumble the 
APCs lifted off and headed out of the shuttlebay towards the awaiting Avalon B. 
 
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