Night Shift.

<hope this is something like you wanted Onion>
 
Who:- Jay/Rio, Drive Room crew.
When:- Day after Jays sever tlking to by Tara
Where:- The Room of Drive
 
Alota and White Wolf were both off duty, typically Jay was supposed to be as well but got landed into takin the night shift in the Drive Room because 'Alota didnt feel like it and Jay has to cos' hes her husband' I think were the words passed  through the chain of command. One of the downsides of being CNO meant that ike Kayn before him, drive room shifts were inevitable, he HAD hoped that what with his current 'medical condition' he'd get out of it, but alas no. And so here he was at 0200 hours, sipping a strong coffee and getting bored of explaining to the drive room staff why Rio Lomaz was suddenly allowed to give them orders.
"Status?" He asked Efof, or as he appeared to the crew, Kara.
"Cruising at three-quarters lightpeed, maintianingcourse for station 457, shiny lights blinking and dials....wiggling'
That was the fourth time hed asked that in last fifteen minutes, hoping beyond hope that maybe juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust maybe something may happen.
He slumped back in the captains chair, stood up and brushed the hamster fur off the seat and off Rio's trousers before she saw it and sat down again, taking a one last swig of the coffee.
"Goddamit this is boring!" he said aloud to no-one in particular. "Someone do SOMETHING!"
"You know" said Allie, who'd also been lucky enough to get the night shift, "You're tempting fate Jay!"
"GOOD!" he said "The tedium in here almost ALMOST matches the doc's arrogance!"
"Sorry if we bore you!" Allie said jokingly.
"Im gonna get a coffee...you want a coffee?" Jay said, getting up for his 3rd or fourth caffiene fix since the single most interesting thing this evening, the stuffed toy falling off the top of Ashley's console when Efof accelerated.
"um...commander.." said the ensign manning the comm's station.
"Yeh? Whats wrong?" Jay replied
"Distress call coming in, looks like were the nearest ship"
"On speaker"
The speakers crackled into life "This is..<ffffffffffffffft> ..gan of space corp. colony Zanarkand we.<ffffffffffffffft> tack, repeat we are under attack!"
Jay suddenly awake and excited "Open a two way channel"
"Done"
"This is Lt. Cmdr Chrysler of the JMC Blue Dwarf, we are on our way with back up, whats the nature of the attack?"
"Thank you commander,. I..I dont what they <ffffffffft> want,  they just showed up and <ffffffffffft> ..ing the place apart"
"Who?"
"We dont know who they are! MONSTERS!"
"We can be with you in 3 hours can you hold until then?" Jay said signalling to Efof to change course and 'welly it'
"I..I dont...."..the signal was cut out.
"Get him back!" Allie, who had joined Jay at the comms station shouted to the ensign. "I..I cant Miss Fletcher.."
"Why?" demanded Jay
"Zanarkands...gone"  
"What do you mean gone?" siad Jay "How can a planet just go?" 
"Reading a a massive explosion...the entire planets been wiped out"
"Monsters..." Jay said "..insects." he muttered below his breath.
"Efof, maintain course for station 457" he looked at Allie "if you say I told you so..."
 
 
 
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