Yet another fatal threat to the BD crew
Dirk woke with a smile on his face. He just couldn't get the picture of Major
Harris in drag walking around the ship singing show-tunes. As his feet hit the
floor, Holly appeared on the monitor in his room. "Good morning, Bell. I've
got something rather peculiar that I'd like to show you."
"What's that, Hol?"
"I don't know exactly."
"What do you mean, 'I don't know exactly'? Do you have something to show me or
not?"
"I do, but I don't know what it is just yet. But so far, it doesn't look good."
"Why tell me? Why not White Wolf? He's in charge now."
"I thought that you might be interested. After all, you were poking around in
my files. After invading a computer's privacy, the least you could do is humor
him."
"Oh, alright!" Dirk didn't want to take it any further. "Show me."
"It'll take a while. I'll get back to you." Holly disappeared. Dirk took his
morning shower and got dressed. The room was a little more peaceful since Dren
got his own rooming assignment(have to do something about that). Too bad the
third technician rooms weren't quite as good as most of the other crew's. But
mostly, Dirk was worried about Holly. He was getting worse and Dirk now knew
why. Something had to be done and quick. It wouldn't be too much longer before
the AI completely cracked and the entire ship would be up shit creak without a
paddle.
"Got it!" Holly reappeared and a print out formed below the monitor. Dirk took
it and looked at it.
"Holy smeg! Are you sure about this Holly?!" Holly stood still for a second
and then slowly nodded. "I'd better get on this. Dirk made his way to the
brig. A small guy with glasses was on guard. "Who the hell are you?"
"I'm Arthur. The guys put me in charge while they hunt down some evil
hologram." He pushed his glassed, with the ever so classic white tap keeping
them together, back up his nose before they slid off.
"I've never seen you here before."
"Well, the other guys like to play a little game with me. They stuff me into
the security department's broken vending machine and then order things to give
me an electric shock. It's all in good fun. I'm like the brother they never
had." Arthur seemed ecstatic by the other's "fondness" for him.
"Or the little brother they accidently killed," Dirk remaked. He ignored the
little guy and entered the brig. He walked until he got to the cell Allie had
occupied. All the while Arthur followed yelling that he couldn't go in there
and that Dirk shouldn't make him use force. Dirk grabbed Arthur by the collar
and hauled him up to eye level. "Who was in this cell?"
"I can't divulge that infor...." Dirk shook him and restated the questions
several times. To Arthur's credit, it took many attempt before he finally
broke. "One Allie Fletcher."
"Where is she now?"
"I don't know. She was gone when I came in." Dirk dropped him and ran to the
drive room. White Wolf was in his temp. office going over some documents. Dirk
didn't bother with the formalities, he just burst in and laid the print out on
WW's desk. "Sir, we're in deep shit, pardon my French. It seems as though one
Allie Fletcher is in possession of and/or releasing a toxic gas. It's in small
quantities at this state and little more than dangerous than a convience store
burrito, but it might get worse and deadlier."
OOC- take it away acting captain, my acting captain
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