Imperial Phoenix Divergence chapter 1
Posted: 2010-03-13 01:02pm
Hehehe just when you all thought you were safe I have returned!
Hello Sheppard, Dalton, Yates, Phong and the rest of the gang of ASVS how the hell are you doing?, well I hope.
Anyways here's my STvsSW fic that is a complet spin off of Sheppard Imperial Phoenix fic and it takes place between the fifth and sixth parts of Sheppard's IP fic so you might want to read them before reading this fic of mine so you know what's going on with the over all story line.
So sit back, realx with a fav drink and let the terror began.
LT.Hit-Man
Imperial Phoenix Divergence
Chapter 1
Grand Admiral Sheppard was dozing in the high backed chair in his ready room, the call about LT.Hit-Man's disappearance in the wee hours of the morning after there recon of DS-9 had thrown off his sleep schedule and since things where at a stand still before he and his forces rampaged across this back water galaxy he decided to take a quick cat nap.
As he hovered in between a waking state and the dark realms of the land of nod he started to relax as his when he heard a wispiering much like that of a wind storm as it wafted though a burned out building that had been put to the torch, " IIIIITTT'SSS TTTOOO QQQQUUUIIITTTEEEE HHHEEERRREE!" ( If you have played RA2 can you guess who that sounds like?)
" Hun?! " grand admiral Sheppard thought to himself for a moment, " MULHAHAHAHAH!" as an insane peel of laughter that shattered the stillness of his ready room and bring Sheppard back into a terrified awakened stated that had him scrambling for the PGX-21 disruptor pistol that he had taped to the bottom of his desk.
" DAMM IT! LT.HIT-MAN GET YOUR SKINNY CRACKED ASS OUT HERE NOW!" Grand Admiral Sheppard screamed at the top of his lungs as he wildly waved the disruptor around as he looked for any sign of the loony Sith lord as he felt the acids in his guts started to churn wildly.
" You rang?" Grand Admiral Sheppard heard from behind him and spun around to see LT.Hit-Man nonchalantly leaning against a wall with a sadistically bemused look on his scared face, his arms folded across his blaster scared stormtrooper armor.
" WHAT IN THE SITH DO YOU THINK YOUR DOING!!!!!!!!!" Sheppard sputtered as he considered blasting the LT right then and there.
" Well as you know that Commander Sissco invited us to the Bajorin harvest festival right?" LT.Hit-Man said to a fuming Sheppard who was doing his best to maintain control over his rage at having been so easily frightened and the LT added, " Well since you declined the invitation I thou-"
" I candled that because you took off or don't you remember that I stated that there was to be no hot dogging by anyone under my command!" Grand Admiral Sheppard rasped with a deadly tone to his voice that caused LT.Hit-Man's sarcastic smirk to change into a an evilly gleeful smile.
" Well I sorry how was I to know that my *gift* shopping for you on such a joyous occasion would cause so much trouble." the LT said with a mockingly regret filled tone of voice that caused Sheppard's eyes to bug out and then added " Well I guess then you don't want so I might as well give it to someone who appreciate the thought, you know you really hurt my feelings." and started to walk towards Sheppard's ready room door with a feigned look of hurt on his scared face.
Grand Admiral Sheppard felt his blood run cold for a moment, if the LT had done anything rash then the whole operation to put this galaxy under Imperial rule could be in some serious jeopardy.
" What did you get me?" Grand Admiral Sheppard asked in a calm tone of voice as a few beads of sweat trickled down his deeply troubled brow.
LT.Hit-Man looked over his shoulder, gone of the look of hurt having been replaced with his third most fighting smile, the one he reserved for door to door evangelists and opinion poll takers.
" I thought you might like some fine Bajorin festival music." LT.Hit-Man said knowing that he now had Sheppard's rapt attention and threw something towards him.
" OH FUCK ME! " Grand Admiral Sheppard thought to himself as he saw a glimmering shine off of what the LT had thrown towards him, he had good reason to fear the object that was plummeting towards him, it was well known that anything even the most benign object could become a weapon of mass terror and death after the LT had gotten his hands on it and if the LT bared a grudge against him for having him clean out the waste reclamation unit his life could very well be measured in seconds.
On the other hand if Sheppard refused the LT's gift that in it'self might just the thing to send the loony cyborg over the edge.
But what helped Grand Admiral Sheppard in making the decision to except the LT's gift was the fact that he was kind of curious as to know what *exactly* did the LT mean by Bajorin festival music.
So Grand admiral Sheppard reached and snatched the object from the air and luckily he managed to keep from wetting himself as his hand made contact with what the LT had tossed to him, he was half expecting what ever it was to explode in his face.
Sheppard looked at the object in his hand and it was a data crystal, he looked up and saw that LT.Hit-Man was walking out the door of his ready room, " Enjoy, I have some other * matters * to attend to." the LT said in a malevolent wispier but Sheppard could detected a strange, almost purring undertone to his voice.
" LT.HIT-MAN GET BACK HERE!,I DID NOT DISMISS...you!?!?!?!" Sheppard had started shouting as he chased after the LT but his voice died off as he found himself look out at the bridge of his ship and found himself face to face with a very surprised looking bridge crew, of the LT there was no sign of him.
" I hate it when he does that! " Sheppard snarled as he walked back into his ready room, sat down at his desk and was about to slot the data crystal into the reader when he started having seconds thoughts about what was on the crystal, " What are you doing you loony son of a bitch? " Grand Admiral Sheppard thought to himself as he looked at the crystal as a multitude of ghastly images swirled around in his mind.
" Don't worry it's nothing that can be traced back to us............I think?!?! NHAHAHAHAHAHAH!" Sheppard heard the LT say and spun around wildly looking for the out of control Sith lord but saw that he was alone in his ready room.
Sheppard let out a deep sigh, laid the crystal down on his desk then opened a drawer on his desk and pulled a glass, a fair sized bottle of Coruascant moonshine and an even bigger bottle of pink liquid anti-acid drink, he knew that he was going to need them both as he then slotted the data crystal into the reader.
Grand Admiral Sheppard just about flipped his lid when he saw the image of the krinkle nosed Bajorin bitch Kira what-ever-her-last-name-was as she was talking with Odo the shape shifting head of security of Deep Space nine and they where on what appeared to be the command center of DS-9!
With a slight tremble in his hand Grand Admiral Sheppard poured himself a glass of the moonshine as he watched Kira talk to Odo, " Are you going to be at the harvest festival ?" Kira asked the shape shifter who told her that he would be join her later on Bajor, he would be working a bit late reviewing the security logs of Grand Admiral Sheppard and his party, that there was something about them that had set his nerves on edge.
" Note to self have Odo killed ASAP." Sheppard thought to himself as he finished pouring his drink, feeling that Odo was going to be the most troublesome of all the DS-9 crewers.
Suddenly the view pan left and up to show the image of Benjamin Sissco, " It looks like Grand Admiral Sheppard and his routine will not be joining for the harvest festival." Sissco said to Odo who's face grew dark and thoughtful as he walk down to join his command staff, * I wonder what's up with that? *
Sheppard spewed the moonshine out of his nose and all over his Grand Admiral's uniform when he heard the ghostly wispier of LT.Hit-Man!
Grand Admiral Sheppard was stunned and wuffed at the data viewer to back up a few frames as he tried to clear the lingering fiery hootch from his tortured nasal passages, he replayed the segment of the video where Sissco was walking over to Odo and Kira and sure enough there was a ghostly wispier of LT.Hit-Man himself.
" Computer freeze playback." Grand Admiral Sheppard honked at the data viewer and said back in his chair, ether LT.Hit-Man was far more versed in the dark arts of terror, assassination and sabotage that was his stock and trade then he let on or these Federation types where even more stupider then they had been lead to believe for them not to notice the deadly Sith lord in there midst.
" Computer resume playback." Grand Admiral Sheppard said with a raspy voice and with a very keen interest as to what else the data crystal held.
" Did Admiral Sheppard say why he would not be joining us at the festival? " A very suspicious Odo asked Sissco who told him and Kira that they where having trouble with there warp drives, that the strain of there journey from the empire to DS-9 had caused a slightly dangerous fluctuation in there warp core's anti-matter containment grid, there was a wispiering chuckle from LT.Hit-Man and Sheppard saw Kira shiver slightly.
" Perhaps we can send over a few engineers to help them out..sort of a goodwill gesture you know?" Milles O' Brian said that caused the spectral giggling of LT.Hit-Man to repeat it's elf but this time only slightly louder then before and that set Grand Admiral Sheppard's some what ragged nerves on a keener edge as the image of the Feds finding the LT spying on them played out in his mind.
" No Miles Admiral Sheppard said that they had it in hand and that they would consider any outside intervention to be a dishonor to there hard working Imperial engineers." Sissco said with a wistful sigh and then added, " Constable why don't you take the rest of the night off, I don't think that this Admiral Sheppard or any of his people will be causing us any trouble and enjoy the festival I'm sure that if there's any trouble we can handle it."
Odo let out a snort, " I'm sorry commander but there's something about these Imperials that is bothering me more then just there attitudes and political beliefs and until I figure it out or find that it's really nothing to worry about it's going to keep bothering me."
The view panned back to Kira who was doing her best to talk the Constable into reconsidering his decision to stay behind, " Sorry Kira but this is something I have to do but I'll be down on Bajor in time for of feast ok?" Odo said in a softer but still gruff tone of voice.
" Ok Odo you do that." Kira said and gave Odo a peck on the cheek as Odo was leaving the command deck.
" Major I want you to tell Ki' Wyn that as the emissary I will be there in an hour to help with the festival if I can." Sissco said to Kira who told him that she would do that and thanked him, knowing that Sissco never really cared for the whole emissary deal and then asked if she could take her leave so that she could freshen up for the festival.
" By all means Major I'll see you soon." Sissco said as Kira started walking towards the transporter pad.
* I don't think so you dumb cunt * wispiered the LT as the view panned to show the computer console that Chef O'Brian was sitting at, O'Brian however was reading from a data pad that some Fed technician handed him, then there was a soft beeping noise as a button on the panel lit up briefly.
" OH BLOODY HELL! Commander you had better come and look at this!" Milles yelled as he turned back to his computer panel as the view zoomed away from him and back to Major Kira who had one foot on the transporter pad but had stopped and looked over to O'Brian who was cursing up a storm as Sissco was walking towards him and asking what was the matter.
" The entire plasma relays for all the transporters on the station are depolarizing! " O'Brian said as he started to type away at the computer panel.
Grand Admiral Sheppard just sat there and watched as O'Brian and Sissco where talking at a furious pace as the plasma relays continued to depolarize.
" LT what the fuck did you do?!?!" Sheppard thought to himself.
" Sir I told you that we needed to replace those plasma relays a week ago!" O'Brian snarled as he continued to type away at the computer panel then with an exasperated curse he hit the computer panel with a balled fist to vent his growing frustration.
" I'm sorry Chef I put in an order for the replacements yesterday and Starfleet told me that they would be tomorrow, I thought you said that the relays would hold out for a week." Sissco snapped back at the fuming O'Brian who said to him that they should have held out for that long.
The view of video pan back over to Major Kira who seemed to be praying of all things, thankful that she had not been in mid transport when the plasma relays went for a shit and the video closed in on her as the LT walked up to her.
" Commander what the hell is going on here!" a slightly whining voice and the view panned to the right to show Doctor Bashir enter the command center with a slight limp and then the video show a set of cross-hairs appeared and centered themselves on the Doctor's forehead and Sheppard could hear a low growling from the LT and Sheppard reached for the bottle of moonshine and with good reason, juring the after recon report Admiral Daala mentioned that he had been hit upon by the doctor then not only did the romulan try and recruit Admiral Daala after she expressed her disinterest in the doctor via a swift kick to the happy sacs but also made a pass at the Admiral.
Even though they would not admit it LT.Hit-Man and Admiral Daala had more then a slightly passing interest in each other but woe to anyone who was dumb enough to make mention of it as the Imperial med-techs can attest to as they treated the luckless souls who had made a remark about the matter in the presence of the Admiral or the force forbid the LT.
" Not now doctor, O'Brian is there anyway to get the transporters on line?" Sissco asked a very irate O'Brian who told Sissco that without the new parts the transporters where as good as dead as the cross-hairs disappeared as the video show a close up of the Doctor who was bitching about some medical supplies that had been lost in mid transport.
* Your so dead! * the ghostly voice of LT-Hit-Man wispiered with a venomous haltered that Sheppard felt the hairs on the back of neck stand on end as the video showed such an extreme close up of the left side of Doctor Bashier that Admiral Sheppard could count the hairs in his ear then the view zoomed back a few feet from the Doctor who was looking around wildly with fear on his boyish face.
" Doctor are you all right? " Sisco called out as Bashier forced himself to calm down, " I'm fine." he told Sissco and left occasionally looking over his shoulder as the view of the video centered on Major Kira who was now cursing to herself.
Sissco looked over to the Major and told her that he would tell Ki'Wyn that he would help out the festival himself and that she might be able to get a lift to Bajor on a shuttle that was taking on a few passengers as part of a tour of the wormhole and would end with the tourists arriving on Bajor for the festival.
With that said Kira walked over to a turbolift, she did not know however that she would not be alone in the turbo-lift as she made her way to the promenade.
Admiral Sheppard reached for the glass and poured himself a hefty slug of moonshine as he watched the Major walking along the promenade though a sea of beings as she made her way towards one of the docking bays, LT.Hit-Man would occasionally reach out and tap her on the shoulder, he would giggle as the Major's frustration grew each time she turned to see who had tapped her but found that there was no one around her.
The video showed a small shop that had a variety of trinkets that was being sold by and elderly bajorin man and the view panned towards a bundle of odd flowers with glowing bulbs as the Kira walked by.
* Hmmm these will come in handy. * the haunting voice of the LT said as the view showed a rack of crystal ornaments behind the old bajorin and slowly the rack began to slowly rock back and forth, picking up speed with each passing moment.
CRASH! the rack of crystal ornaments spilled it's contents that shattered into millions of itty bitty pieces with such a noise that the poor old bajorin just about jump out of his skin as the view shifted back to the bunch of odd flowers, * YONK ! * the stealth mode LT said as the flowers seemed to disappear as the old bajorin began to clean up the mess of shattered crystal.
Admiral Sheppard just shook his head as he poured himself another drink as the video showed the LT sneaking up behind Major Kira as she entered the shuttle never even suspecting that her death was standing right beside her in the somewhat crowed shuttle.
After awhile the shuttle landed on Bajor and the Major was walking at a brisk pace to her home after an hour or so she came to her small, one story house.
" Right let's see here." Major Kira said to herself as she started grab a few thing from the cupboard in the kitchen of her home for a quick bite to eat.
After a few minutes of prepping her dinner he took a look at her wrist crono, " Shit." she muttered as she realized that time was running out for her before the festival was to start so she put down the stuff she was fixing for dinner and walked into the bathroom and began to draw a bath for herself, when she came out of the bathroom she started to strip off her uniform.
" What the fuck? " the phantom LT.Hit-Man muttered as he watched as the nude Major Kira resume making her dinner.
Grand Admiral Sheppard just sat there with his jaw hanging around his knees after all this was the last thing he was expecting to see when suddenly his guts began to quake and so he reached for the pink anti-acid as he counted to watch the video as he took a long swig from the bottle.
Grand Admiral Sheppard spewed the pink stuff though his dully aching nose when he saw the naked Kira suddenly start doing herself with a hasperat root she had been chopping up for dinner.
Outside of Grand Admiral Sheppard's ready room the bridge officers suddenly stopped and looked at the door of the Admiral's ready room as they heard " Yes oh yes Odo, harder, HARDER I SAY YOU SHAPE SHIFTING WONDER!" and a few minutes later there was a loud feminine scream from the Admiral's ready room, the bridge officers just looked at each other, shook their heads and when back to work with a smirk on there faces.
Grand Admerial Sheppard just sat there slack jawed as he watched a panting Kira slowly pulled the well marinaded hasperat root out of her dripping pussy, headless of the prink anti-acid that had dribbled out of his mouth, rolling down his chin and dripping onto his crisp white uniform paints and leave a nasty pink stain on them as the Major looked at the hasperat root with longing her eyes then suddenly she took a huge bite from the root and threw it into the pot of boiling water and walk into the bathroom.
* Well it looks like we now know the root of her crankiness is eh Sheppard? * the LT said with a low chuckle
Grand Admiral Sheppard wiped his chin as his mind came back to the real world and he let out a curse then he wiped off the video monitor that he had sprayed when he saw what the bitch of a major considered to be a fine example of Bajorin cooking, there was a low singing from the bathroom as the major cleaned herself up and a few minutes later she came out of the bathroom, stirred the meal she was cooking then walk into the bedroom to get dressed.
After a few minutes the video showed Kira come back into the kitchen and finished the prepping of her meal, as she sat down to eat the door chime rang, she ignored it as she began to hastily eat.
The door chime pinged again and a frustrated Major Kira got up from her seat and yelled " Ok Ok hold the fuck on!" he snapped as she went to answer the door, the video panned to show a shot of the LT looking down at the partly eaten meal and a black tube seemed to appear out of thin air, the top was popped and the LT poured something into the food, stirred it up a bit as a ranting Major Kira came back to her dinner while muttering, " Damm kids!, if I ever catch the little fuckers playing their silly games I'll brake there fingers!"
The video panned to a wide shot as the LT backed away from the table and the Major sitting down and started to shovel her meal into her mouth, " That's right you fucking whore you eat it, all of it! " LT.Hit-Man snarled, leaving Grand Admiral Sheppard wondering just what the fuck LT.Hit-Man was doing and more importantly just what had the insane Sith lord spiked the Major's food with.
What ever it was it was not going to be a pretty when it took effect Sheppard was certain of that.
Grand Admiral Sheppard decided that it was time for another drink even though his rumbling guts thought it was a very bad idea but he took a swig from the bottle as the video showed Major Kira finishing her meal, not knowing that she had just sealed her fate and then she walked out of her house muttering that she was going to be late for the festival.
* Exit, stage left, Mwhaaahahaha! * LT.Hit-Man cackled as the video showed a shot of a mirror when suddenly there stood the LT in a black hooded robe over his old stormtrooper armor with that evil smile of his that was the last thing his victims saw as their souls was fed to the Dark Side as he looked at the mirror from under the hood of his robes!
" Ooooohhhhh SHIT! " was all Sheppard could say as it dawned on him how the LT was able to walk around DS-9 without anyone knowing that death was walking in there misted.
After a few hours the video showed the unfortunate fate of a gang that had tried to mug the LT as he was making his way though the capital city that the festival was taking place.
Grand Admiral Sheppard decided that it was time to lay off the moonshine as his guts felt like someone had sliced open his guts stuffed him full of WP and shoved a lit match down his throat and started sucking back the pink stuff as the video showed a large open air gathering of Bajorin and Federation personal in front of stage that was lined with the top brass from DS-9 and the heads of the Bajorin government and the Vedic assembly, Sheppard could see that Commander Sissco was to the left of Ki'Wyn who was giving a speech on how the profits had seen them though there dark times when the Cardassines had occupied their world then the Dominion war and that is why they are giving thanks this year.
To the right of Sissco was Odo and Kira who was mooning at Odo who looked over at her with a smile, there was Doctor Bashir sitting beside Kira and Ezri Dax and they where exchanging a few looks of their own.
Ki'Wyn finished her speech and told everyone it was time to celebrate, with that said they sat down and began to eat as did the gathered Bajorins and Federation personal, not knowing that they had an uninvited guest who was watching them from the shadows with a truly evil smile.
" Anytime now " came the LT's voice from the video that had zoomed in on Major Kira who was smiling as she was talking to Odo and Ki'Wyn, as there was a building tension in his voice that had Grand Admiral Sheppard sitting on the edge of his seat as nervous as a long tailed cat in a room for of old ladies in rocking chairs and he could feel that death was ever so close.
" Hey Odo did I ever tell you about the time Ki'Wyn and me fooled a bunch of Cardassens into thinking that the weapons we where smuggling to the resistance was nothing more then spare parts for the mines?" Kira asked Odo with a look of wistful remembrance and an underlying look of lust, the mood of the festival was happy go lucky as it went on and she was in a good mood.
" No Major do tell I would like to hear that." Odo said as he caught the look in Kira's eyes and morphed his foot into a long tentacle and slowly ran it up her leg with a lustful twinkle in his eyes.
Major Kira's face flushed for a moment and she took a drink from her glass of cold spring wine, " We told the Car-" Suddenly Kira started to cough.
" Major are you ok?" Odo asked as he reached out to pat her on the back and he slithered the tentacle off of her and morphed it back into a leg and foot.
Major Kira held up her hand to show that she was ok and muttered that she had just drank a little to fast as she continued to cough a little harder.
Sissco, Ki'Wyn and the rest of the people at the table noticed that there was something wrong with the Major as she suddenly stood up and leaned on the table as she continued to cough as there was a lung shredding pain in each of her couchs
The rest of the gathered Bajorin and Federation personal looked up at the table and began to point as they talked excitedly amongst themselves as they watched Major Kira flop onto the table on her back and started thrashing around, sending plates of food flying everywhere as her agonized screams shattered the festive mood.
" GET OUT OF THE WAY! " Doctor Bashir yelled as he ran to Kira's side, tricorder in hand as Odo and Sissco where struggling to hole the convulsing Major down as her screams increased in volume and urgency.
Major Kira felt like there was a mining crew inside her body with heavy drilling equipment as she continued to trash around in hellish agony as a huge lump was forming in her chest, Doctor Bashir was taking some readings from his tricorder when suddenly there was an obscenely wet ripping sound that defied description as the chest of her uniform top was drenched in an explosion of blood and she found herself face to face with a blood covered worm like thing that was slowly turning towards her.
" This is your death, courtesy of the Galactic Empire you REBEL BITCH! " she heard in her mind and the last thing she saw and heard was the worm like thing open it's fanged maw as blood and slime dribbled over it's body as it looked right at her as her terror filled dying scream did a duet with it's furious hissing-scream as her soul was fed to the Dark Side.
There was a moment of stunned horror as Odo, Sissco and Doctor Bashir, who's faces where covered in Kira's blood just looked at they thing that had ripped it's way of her chest their minds refusing to understand what it was that was now facing them in the ruined remains of Major Kira's shattered chest as her head tilted to the right and blood began to spill from her agony twisted mouth, staining her lips like an obscene parody of lipstick.
Ezri Dax had fainted and when she hit the stage the bloody monstrosity turned towards the sound, bit's of Kira's ragged flesh fell from it's wickedly fanged maw as it let out a blood curdling hiss that turned Sissco, Bashir and Odo's blood to ice water.
And all hell broke lose as the gathered Bajorins and Federation personal ran screaming in mindless terror, trampling one another in blind fear as they sought to escape from the horror that had be born in blood at this time of thanksgiving causing scores of injuries and a few deaths as the hell spawned terror leapt from it's fleshy prison at Doctor Bashir and began to rip into his face with a ravenous hunger.
Commander Sissco and Odo backed away from the thrashing Bashir in mortal terror as the doctor was rolling on the table screaming for help as the bloody nightmare continued to eat away at his face, Ki'Wyn dropped dead of fright and the few Bajorin and Federation security officers that had been on hand to make sure that things went well at the festival began to reach for there phasers.
Bashir managed to get a hold of the blood drenched demon and pulled off of his face and ripping away what was left of his face and lips in a spray of blood and managed to throw it away from him, Ezri Dax had awoke from what must have been a bad dream to find herself drowning in an even greater nightmare as she watched Bashier rip the thing from his face and fainted back into the safety of mental oblivion.
As soon as the thing hit the ground it began to head towards the nearest source of food, the Bajorins and Federation personal that had been trampled and lunged at a vulcan man who was now screaming in mindless terror but fate was in a forgiving mood as more then a dozen phaser blasts vaporized the thing before it had a chance to make a meal out of the vulcan.
Grand Admiral Sheppard just sat there his mind unable to deal with what he had just bore witness to when the video cut to the cowled figure of LT.Hit-Man how was now sitting in what appeared to be the cockpit of a Federation shuttle.
" I always said that Bajorin festival music is such *scream* won't you agree?" LT.Hit-Man said as Grand Admiral Sheppard was puking his guts out but when he heard the smiling image of LT.Hit-Man say that there was more to this gift then the music Grand Admiral Sheppard force himself to stop puking and looked at the video as his horror began to grow as a squad of stormtrooper entered the ready room with there E-11's at the ready, when the bridge officers heard Major Kira's dying screams they felt a cold wave of terror grip them because there was no mistaking that scream for the one earlier as she * rooted * around in her kitchen and some of the bridge officers called for the stormtroopers to check things out as they found there hands reaching for there side arms without understanding why.
Grand Admiral Sheppard held up a shakey hand to keep the stormtroopers at bay as the image of LT.Hit-Man continued to speak.
" That thing is what I called a chest burster they come from LV-426, you remember that shit hole of rock that me and the Cleaners stopped off at right?"
" Well after I was finished cleaning out the WRU I went back there and this is what I found.", the video was replaced with what looked like technical information, " I feel that these things would back for a very formidable biological terror weapon, HOWEVER I must say this, any world we would use these bugs on would have to be completely exterminated of all life you have no idea on how dangerous these things are."
Grand Admiral Sheppard began to get to his feet as the image of LT.Hit-Man reappeared with a sadistic smirk.
" I hope you enjoyed the show as much as I did after all a rebel is a rebel no matter what galaxy their from and one less rebel leaves the universe a little cleaner." and began to fade to black, the LT's damning laughter filled the silent ready room.
The stormtroopers looked at each other for a moment as Grand Admiral Sheppard in a very badly stained uniform looked at them, they could see the seething rage in his eyes.
" GET ME GENERAL YATES AND CLEANERS NOW OR I'LL HAVE YOUR GUTS FOR BOOT LACES!!!!" Sheppard roared as he fought to keep himself from flipping out and shooting everyone in sight.
The stormtroopers ran so fast that one would think that they where about to hit hyper-space.
" LT.Hit-Man you have gone way to far this time, when next we meet there's going to be the Sith to
pay! " Grand Admiral Sheppard said as he walked out onto the bridge and started to make his way towards his quarters to change into a new uniform, the rest of the bridge crew did not even look up from there stations, they had heard what the Grand Admiral had said to the stormtroopers and from they way they ran from the bridge they know that it had better make themselves look busy instead of standing around like a bunch of yokels from the ass end of the outter rim.
Unaware of what had taken place Admiral Daala was walking to her quarters ever since the mission to Deep Space Nine her work day consisted of battle sims crew evaluation reports and maintenance work, in short she was board out of her skull.
Admiral Daala walked into quarters and kick off her boots and was going to hit the shower when her hand went for her blaster pistol, someone was in or had been in her quarters, there was something in the air that was out of place with the way her quarters normally smelled.
" Ok looks like someone been fucking around here but who? " she thought to herself as she looked down at the carpet in her quarters to see if she could find any kind of foot impressions that someone would have made when they entered her quarters but she found none, using her nose she put her back to the closest wall and followed the scent that was hard to make out as she slid along the wall towards her bedroom.
Admiral Daala licked her lips as she sniffed the air, yes the smell was becoming stronger, more discernable, the smell was like that of something like vanilla and silk, Admiral Daala whipped around the corner in a low crouch as she looked around the bed room, her blaster following where her eyes were looking and when she look at her bed she froze.
Above her bed was a bunch of strange looking flowers with glowing bulbs but that was not what made her freeze up in wonder and a slight bit of dread, the flowers had been impaled on the wall above her bed's headboard by a foot long combat knife that had been driven into the wall with such unimaginable force that there where small cracks emanating from the center of the flowers.
" What the fuck?" Admiral Daala though to herself as she stood up and walked over to the flowers as she holstered her blaster on a hunch that who ever had done this was long gone.
She reached for the combat knife and tried to pull it out of the wall with all of her strength but after a few minutes of her swearing like a stormtrooper she gave up on that and part the stems and found the ones that had been ran though with the blade and began to brake them open to free the flowers from there impromptu wall mount, as the stems where being broken open a clear sap began to oozed out of them and the air was filled with a rich silky, vanilla scent that Admiral Daala found not to be all that unpleasant.
" Tarkin ha-" Admiral Daala was starting to think about her one true love that had been Moff Tarkin who had given her the rank of admiral, given her the respect that she had fought hard to earn where as other Imperial personal only gave her contempt and a leering gaze as a flood of painful memories came back to her and she fought to keep the tears from flowing.
Tarkin had never been one to give flowers and other such nonsense to show her his love for her but he had shown his love for her in other ways some of them base and other more subtle but the one thing that endear him to her was the amount of trust he had given her when he put her in charge of the Maw complex that would turn into a prison that would test her mettle in ways she had never thought possible.
She sat on her bed staring at the flowers as the maelstrom of memories and emotion continued to batter at her iron will as the memory of the last time the two of them had spent together before they parted ways forever, the passion that seemed to ignite the very air around them as they danced the timeless dance of the lovers, or the way the leatheren ropes that he had tied her down to the bed chaffed her skin as he had his way with her or the sounds they made as she tied him down and rode him like a dewback.
Admiral Daala wiped away the wetness that was starting to from in her eyes, after that was done she took a closer look at the combat knife that was imbedded in the wall, after a few minutes she realized that it was a stormtrooper's weapon.
" I hope you like the flowers, when I saw them it was your face that came to mind." A low voice said from behind her.
Daala slowly turned around, her first thought at the sounds of the voice was to reach for her blaster but something in that voice stayed her hand, standing there was LT.Hit-Man in his battle scared stormtrooper armor, however there was a strange look on his scared face that she could not identify.
" Is this your idea of a joke?" Daala said with a cold tone of voice, given the LT's bloody and well deserved reputation she was on her guard for all she knew he could be setting her up for some slight she may have caused him even though she was secretly terrified of the cyborg Sith lord but yet there was something that was rubbing her the wrong way about this whole situation.
LT.Hit-Man let out a snarl, " I don't need this fucking shit! " and quickly turned to leave her quarters and Daala found herself breathless as she finally came to understand the strange look on the LT's face it was a look of dread and confusion but what left her standing there like an eviscerated victim of one the LT's mad rampages was the look of hurt in his slightly misty human eye!
Admiral Daala was about to call out after the LT but when she felt the air in her quarters suddenly grow cold but that was not the only thing that held her to the spot where she stood like a helpless rebel ship in an ISD's tractor beam there was the confusing torrent of feelings that where washing over her like a bursted dam.
By the time she found the resolve to find the LT and confront him about what was going through his mind he was long gone, surprisingly there where no mangled bodies of any Imperial crewers who might have had the shit ass luck of running into the LT in the mood he was in, Admiral Daala made her way back to her bedroom and sat down on her bed as she tried to sort out just what the hell she was feeling at that moment when she first found the flowers that the LT had given her and with a frighteningly savage outburst of rage she threw the flowers as far away from her as she could as a few tears forced their way out of her pain filled eyes.
Daala looked at her blaster and not for the first time she wondered what a blaster bolt across the ol' brain pan would feel like.
Days later Grand Admiral Sheppard called a meeting of his command staff to figure out just how thery were going to handle the LT.Hit-Man situation, after the LT had left Admiral Daala's quarters he had high jacked the ISD _ DoomFane_ after forcing the surviving crewers off at light saber point, he had killed a few of them that had been stupid enough not only to openly voice there objections to the LT taking the ship for a spin but did so to the loony Sith lord's inhumanly cold face!
" So Sheppard do you have any idea of what flipped the LT's cookie this time?" Phong asked as he lazily drummed his fingers on the briefing table.
" No I don't but I have a damm good idea of when the LT slid off into the deep end." Grand Admiral Sheppard told his staff as he looked them over, noticing the slightly distracted look in Admiral Daala's eyes at the meeting wore on, After the LT took off for parts unknown Sheppard had noticed that Admiral Daala had become distance and even a tat snappish as he as the fleet looked high and low for the absent LT.
It had gotten to the point where Admiral Daala's bad mood almost end in one of his crewers picking up his teeth as she tried to knock them out of his skull like a set of dominos's being thrown down for a game if Sheppard not ordered her to stand down, after when he had ordered her into his ready room he asked her what had her knickers in a knot.
Admiral Daala told him coldly that it was a female complaint and gave him a look that had set his teeth on edge, Grand Admiral Sheppard could tell that there was a lot more to the reason why she was tearing around like the queen bitch of the universe then the natural life cycle of a human female but with the loose cannon named LT.Hit-Man prancing about the galaxy and more then likely to throw there well laid plan to conquer this ass backwards galaxy down the shitter they had pressing matters to take care of at the moment, he gave her a reprimand and a dire warning to mellow the fuck out or she would be cooling her heels in the brig until she was in a more charitable mood.
General Yates was picking his teeth with the edge of his thumbnail as he asked Sheppard what he had meant by that and when Grand Admiral Sheppard held up the damming data crystal that the LT had given him and added " When he gave me this * gift * a few days ago.", there was a slight drop in the room's normally pleasant temperature as their eye's took a good look at the seeming innocent looking data crystal that was indistinguishable from any other data crystal.
" Would this happen to have anything to do with the sudden quarantining of DS-9 and Bajor?" the man known only as
* The Butcher * asked as his eyes narrowed slightly as if he was trying to read the info in the data crystal.
" Got it in one." Sheppard told The Butcher, wondering what was going in his mind, from the couched words between the two of them The Butcher vaguely hinted that he and the LT had worked together juring the early weaponztion of Travme at the late Emperor Palpatine's instance as he slotted the data crystal into a reader, not only did he have to deal with the LT going AWOL on him but he had to shuck and jive Commander Sissco, the Federation and the Bajorin government as they put themselves under quarantine due to the LT and assured them that they where not infested with the life form that had come to dine with them as Major Kira's dinner guest at the harvest festival to keep them from boarding there ship in a polite way and without giving any kind of hint that they had an inkling as to what had happened on Bajor.
By a strange twist of the Dark Side neither the LT or The Butcher had ran into each other since they joined up with Sheppard, in fact until this, his first meeting with Sheppard and his command staff The Butcher had no idea that LT.Hit-Man was running with Sheppard and his crew.
Needless to Sheppard was not sleeping as well as he normally should and it showed as he keyed the play button on the data reader, at lest this time he would not have to change his uniform after the video was done, wisely he had declined to offer his staff any refreshments lest they suffer the same indignity that he had.
After the video was done Sheppard looked around the table, General Yates had his head in his hands and was muttering something to the effect " What the fuck did I do in my past life to end up in this mess."
, LV-426 had given him nightmares for a few days and he was damm thankful that he and most of the Cleaners had gotten off of the dismal rock in one piece as well as cursing himself for not seeing that something was like this in making after Sheppard had grilled him and rest of the Cleaners on there mission on LV-426 with greater interest then he normally had for a post mission debriefing.
Phong looked like he was about to puke right then and there, not because he was squeamish when it came to blood and guts, No what had his guts high balling was the fact that before Sheppard had called him to the briefing he had finished a dinner of hasperat stew, Phong considered himself somewhat of a coinsurer of fine foods and since he had came to DS-9 and Bajor he had been indulging his passing interest in Bajorin foods.
Rather or not if Phong would continue to indulge his taste testing of Bajorin foods was anyone's guess....but the smart money would be on not.
The Butcher had a deep and thoughtful look on his face as if he was thinking on away that the chest burster could be used as a bio-weapon as the LT had suggested.
Admiral Daala was in a world of turmoil as she just sat there staring off into space.
She had met the late Kira briefly and until she had started spouting off about rebellion and guerilla warfare she did had not cared about the bajorin major one way or the other, so when she saw the major take the last train to the coast she was in agreement with the LT's comment of one less rebel the better but what had her in a silent uproar was not the fact that they way the LT had taken Kira out of the game, everyone knew that the LT was one sick son of a rancor but she did not figure him to be a pervo to boot as he watched the major do herself with the hasperat root but she was wondering if the LT had been peeping on her when ever she had taken a shower and what not.
" So will thi-" General Yates was about to ask if the LT's high handed game would throw off there invasion plans when suddenly the door to the briefing room hissed open.
* Bop, bop, bop * a child's brightly colored toy ball bounced and rolled to a stop in the middle of the briefing room, leaving a trial of slime in it's wake, they looked up at the door and saw seven some odd feet of a nightmarish monstrosity spawned from the lowest, darkest pit of the Sith.
For a moment on one moved as the thing walked into the briefing room, it's wickedly clawed feet making a nerve rattling sound much like that of fingernails being slowly dragged across a blackboard as it walked towards the toy ball.
Hello Sheppard, Dalton, Yates, Phong and the rest of the gang of ASVS how the hell are you doing?, well I hope.
Anyways here's my STvsSW fic that is a complet spin off of Sheppard Imperial Phoenix fic and it takes place between the fifth and sixth parts of Sheppard's IP fic so you might want to read them before reading this fic of mine so you know what's going on with the over all story line.
So sit back, realx with a fav drink and let the terror began.
LT.Hit-Man
Imperial Phoenix Divergence
Chapter 1
Grand Admiral Sheppard was dozing in the high backed chair in his ready room, the call about LT.Hit-Man's disappearance in the wee hours of the morning after there recon of DS-9 had thrown off his sleep schedule and since things where at a stand still before he and his forces rampaged across this back water galaxy he decided to take a quick cat nap.
As he hovered in between a waking state and the dark realms of the land of nod he started to relax as his when he heard a wispiering much like that of a wind storm as it wafted though a burned out building that had been put to the torch, " IIIIITTT'SSS TTTOOO QQQQUUUIIITTTEEEE HHHEEERRREE!" ( If you have played RA2 can you guess who that sounds like?)
" Hun?! " grand admiral Sheppard thought to himself for a moment, " MULHAHAHAHAH!" as an insane peel of laughter that shattered the stillness of his ready room and bring Sheppard back into a terrified awakened stated that had him scrambling for the PGX-21 disruptor pistol that he had taped to the bottom of his desk.
" DAMM IT! LT.HIT-MAN GET YOUR SKINNY CRACKED ASS OUT HERE NOW!" Grand Admiral Sheppard screamed at the top of his lungs as he wildly waved the disruptor around as he looked for any sign of the loony Sith lord as he felt the acids in his guts started to churn wildly.
" You rang?" Grand Admiral Sheppard heard from behind him and spun around to see LT.Hit-Man nonchalantly leaning against a wall with a sadistically bemused look on his scared face, his arms folded across his blaster scared stormtrooper armor.
" WHAT IN THE SITH DO YOU THINK YOUR DOING!!!!!!!!!" Sheppard sputtered as he considered blasting the LT right then and there.
" Well as you know that Commander Sissco invited us to the Bajorin harvest festival right?" LT.Hit-Man said to a fuming Sheppard who was doing his best to maintain control over his rage at having been so easily frightened and the LT added, " Well since you declined the invitation I thou-"
" I candled that because you took off or don't you remember that I stated that there was to be no hot dogging by anyone under my command!" Grand Admiral Sheppard rasped with a deadly tone to his voice that caused LT.Hit-Man's sarcastic smirk to change into a an evilly gleeful smile.
" Well I sorry how was I to know that my *gift* shopping for you on such a joyous occasion would cause so much trouble." the LT said with a mockingly regret filled tone of voice that caused Sheppard's eyes to bug out and then added " Well I guess then you don't want so I might as well give it to someone who appreciate the thought, you know you really hurt my feelings." and started to walk towards Sheppard's ready room door with a feigned look of hurt on his scared face.
Grand Admiral Sheppard felt his blood run cold for a moment, if the LT had done anything rash then the whole operation to put this galaxy under Imperial rule could be in some serious jeopardy.
" What did you get me?" Grand Admiral Sheppard asked in a calm tone of voice as a few beads of sweat trickled down his deeply troubled brow.
LT.Hit-Man looked over his shoulder, gone of the look of hurt having been replaced with his third most fighting smile, the one he reserved for door to door evangelists and opinion poll takers.
" I thought you might like some fine Bajorin festival music." LT.Hit-Man said knowing that he now had Sheppard's rapt attention and threw something towards him.
" OH FUCK ME! " Grand Admiral Sheppard thought to himself as he saw a glimmering shine off of what the LT had thrown towards him, he had good reason to fear the object that was plummeting towards him, it was well known that anything even the most benign object could become a weapon of mass terror and death after the LT had gotten his hands on it and if the LT bared a grudge against him for having him clean out the waste reclamation unit his life could very well be measured in seconds.
On the other hand if Sheppard refused the LT's gift that in it'self might just the thing to send the loony cyborg over the edge.
But what helped Grand Admiral Sheppard in making the decision to except the LT's gift was the fact that he was kind of curious as to know what *exactly* did the LT mean by Bajorin festival music.
So Grand admiral Sheppard reached and snatched the object from the air and luckily he managed to keep from wetting himself as his hand made contact with what the LT had tossed to him, he was half expecting what ever it was to explode in his face.
Sheppard looked at the object in his hand and it was a data crystal, he looked up and saw that LT.Hit-Man was walking out the door of his ready room, " Enjoy, I have some other * matters * to attend to." the LT said in a malevolent wispier but Sheppard could detected a strange, almost purring undertone to his voice.
" LT.HIT-MAN GET BACK HERE!,I DID NOT DISMISS...you!?!?!?!" Sheppard had started shouting as he chased after the LT but his voice died off as he found himself look out at the bridge of his ship and found himself face to face with a very surprised looking bridge crew, of the LT there was no sign of him.
" I hate it when he does that! " Sheppard snarled as he walked back into his ready room, sat down at his desk and was about to slot the data crystal into the reader when he started having seconds thoughts about what was on the crystal, " What are you doing you loony son of a bitch? " Grand Admiral Sheppard thought to himself as he looked at the crystal as a multitude of ghastly images swirled around in his mind.
" Don't worry it's nothing that can be traced back to us............I think?!?! NHAHAHAHAHAHAH!" Sheppard heard the LT say and spun around wildly looking for the out of control Sith lord but saw that he was alone in his ready room.
Sheppard let out a deep sigh, laid the crystal down on his desk then opened a drawer on his desk and pulled a glass, a fair sized bottle of Coruascant moonshine and an even bigger bottle of pink liquid anti-acid drink, he knew that he was going to need them both as he then slotted the data crystal into the reader.
Grand Admiral Sheppard just about flipped his lid when he saw the image of the krinkle nosed Bajorin bitch Kira what-ever-her-last-name-was as she was talking with Odo the shape shifting head of security of Deep Space nine and they where on what appeared to be the command center of DS-9!
With a slight tremble in his hand Grand Admiral Sheppard poured himself a glass of the moonshine as he watched Kira talk to Odo, " Are you going to be at the harvest festival ?" Kira asked the shape shifter who told her that he would be join her later on Bajor, he would be working a bit late reviewing the security logs of Grand Admiral Sheppard and his party, that there was something about them that had set his nerves on edge.
" Note to self have Odo killed ASAP." Sheppard thought to himself as he finished pouring his drink, feeling that Odo was going to be the most troublesome of all the DS-9 crewers.
Suddenly the view pan left and up to show the image of Benjamin Sissco, " It looks like Grand Admiral Sheppard and his routine will not be joining for the harvest festival." Sissco said to Odo who's face grew dark and thoughtful as he walk down to join his command staff, * I wonder what's up with that? *
Sheppard spewed the moonshine out of his nose and all over his Grand Admiral's uniform when he heard the ghostly wispier of LT.Hit-Man!
Grand Admiral Sheppard was stunned and wuffed at the data viewer to back up a few frames as he tried to clear the lingering fiery hootch from his tortured nasal passages, he replayed the segment of the video where Sissco was walking over to Odo and Kira and sure enough there was a ghostly wispier of LT.Hit-Man himself.
" Computer freeze playback." Grand Admiral Sheppard honked at the data viewer and said back in his chair, ether LT.Hit-Man was far more versed in the dark arts of terror, assassination and sabotage that was his stock and trade then he let on or these Federation types where even more stupider then they had been lead to believe for them not to notice the deadly Sith lord in there midst.
" Computer resume playback." Grand Admiral Sheppard said with a raspy voice and with a very keen interest as to what else the data crystal held.
" Did Admiral Sheppard say why he would not be joining us at the festival? " A very suspicious Odo asked Sissco who told him and Kira that they where having trouble with there warp drives, that the strain of there journey from the empire to DS-9 had caused a slightly dangerous fluctuation in there warp core's anti-matter containment grid, there was a wispiering chuckle from LT.Hit-Man and Sheppard saw Kira shiver slightly.
" Perhaps we can send over a few engineers to help them out..sort of a goodwill gesture you know?" Milles O' Brian said that caused the spectral giggling of LT.Hit-Man to repeat it's elf but this time only slightly louder then before and that set Grand Admiral Sheppard's some what ragged nerves on a keener edge as the image of the Feds finding the LT spying on them played out in his mind.
" No Miles Admiral Sheppard said that they had it in hand and that they would consider any outside intervention to be a dishonor to there hard working Imperial engineers." Sissco said with a wistful sigh and then added, " Constable why don't you take the rest of the night off, I don't think that this Admiral Sheppard or any of his people will be causing us any trouble and enjoy the festival I'm sure that if there's any trouble we can handle it."
Odo let out a snort, " I'm sorry commander but there's something about these Imperials that is bothering me more then just there attitudes and political beliefs and until I figure it out or find that it's really nothing to worry about it's going to keep bothering me."
The view panned back to Kira who was doing her best to talk the Constable into reconsidering his decision to stay behind, " Sorry Kira but this is something I have to do but I'll be down on Bajor in time for of feast ok?" Odo said in a softer but still gruff tone of voice.
" Ok Odo you do that." Kira said and gave Odo a peck on the cheek as Odo was leaving the command deck.
" Major I want you to tell Ki' Wyn that as the emissary I will be there in an hour to help with the festival if I can." Sissco said to Kira who told him that she would do that and thanked him, knowing that Sissco never really cared for the whole emissary deal and then asked if she could take her leave so that she could freshen up for the festival.
" By all means Major I'll see you soon." Sissco said as Kira started walking towards the transporter pad.
* I don't think so you dumb cunt * wispiered the LT as the view panned to show the computer console that Chef O'Brian was sitting at, O'Brian however was reading from a data pad that some Fed technician handed him, then there was a soft beeping noise as a button on the panel lit up briefly.
" OH BLOODY HELL! Commander you had better come and look at this!" Milles yelled as he turned back to his computer panel as the view zoomed away from him and back to Major Kira who had one foot on the transporter pad but had stopped and looked over to O'Brian who was cursing up a storm as Sissco was walking towards him and asking what was the matter.
" The entire plasma relays for all the transporters on the station are depolarizing! " O'Brian said as he started to type away at the computer panel.
Grand Admiral Sheppard just sat there and watched as O'Brian and Sissco where talking at a furious pace as the plasma relays continued to depolarize.
" LT what the fuck did you do?!?!" Sheppard thought to himself.
" Sir I told you that we needed to replace those plasma relays a week ago!" O'Brian snarled as he continued to type away at the computer panel then with an exasperated curse he hit the computer panel with a balled fist to vent his growing frustration.
" I'm sorry Chef I put in an order for the replacements yesterday and Starfleet told me that they would be tomorrow, I thought you said that the relays would hold out for a week." Sissco snapped back at the fuming O'Brian who said to him that they should have held out for that long.
The view of video pan back over to Major Kira who seemed to be praying of all things, thankful that she had not been in mid transport when the plasma relays went for a shit and the video closed in on her as the LT walked up to her.
" Commander what the hell is going on here!" a slightly whining voice and the view panned to the right to show Doctor Bashir enter the command center with a slight limp and then the video show a set of cross-hairs appeared and centered themselves on the Doctor's forehead and Sheppard could hear a low growling from the LT and Sheppard reached for the bottle of moonshine and with good reason, juring the after recon report Admiral Daala mentioned that he had been hit upon by the doctor then not only did the romulan try and recruit Admiral Daala after she expressed her disinterest in the doctor via a swift kick to the happy sacs but also made a pass at the Admiral.
Even though they would not admit it LT.Hit-Man and Admiral Daala had more then a slightly passing interest in each other but woe to anyone who was dumb enough to make mention of it as the Imperial med-techs can attest to as they treated the luckless souls who had made a remark about the matter in the presence of the Admiral or the force forbid the LT.
" Not now doctor, O'Brian is there anyway to get the transporters on line?" Sissco asked a very irate O'Brian who told Sissco that without the new parts the transporters where as good as dead as the cross-hairs disappeared as the video show a close up of the Doctor who was bitching about some medical supplies that had been lost in mid transport.
* Your so dead! * the ghostly voice of LT-Hit-Man wispiered with a venomous haltered that Sheppard felt the hairs on the back of neck stand on end as the video showed such an extreme close up of the left side of Doctor Bashier that Admiral Sheppard could count the hairs in his ear then the view zoomed back a few feet from the Doctor who was looking around wildly with fear on his boyish face.
" Doctor are you all right? " Sisco called out as Bashier forced himself to calm down, " I'm fine." he told Sissco and left occasionally looking over his shoulder as the view of the video centered on Major Kira who was now cursing to herself.
Sissco looked over to the Major and told her that he would tell Ki'Wyn that he would help out the festival himself and that she might be able to get a lift to Bajor on a shuttle that was taking on a few passengers as part of a tour of the wormhole and would end with the tourists arriving on Bajor for the festival.
With that said Kira walked over to a turbolift, she did not know however that she would not be alone in the turbo-lift as she made her way to the promenade.
Admiral Sheppard reached for the glass and poured himself a hefty slug of moonshine as he watched the Major walking along the promenade though a sea of beings as she made her way towards one of the docking bays, LT.Hit-Man would occasionally reach out and tap her on the shoulder, he would giggle as the Major's frustration grew each time she turned to see who had tapped her but found that there was no one around her.
The video showed a small shop that had a variety of trinkets that was being sold by and elderly bajorin man and the view panned towards a bundle of odd flowers with glowing bulbs as the Kira walked by.
* Hmmm these will come in handy. * the haunting voice of the LT said as the view showed a rack of crystal ornaments behind the old bajorin and slowly the rack began to slowly rock back and forth, picking up speed with each passing moment.
CRASH! the rack of crystal ornaments spilled it's contents that shattered into millions of itty bitty pieces with such a noise that the poor old bajorin just about jump out of his skin as the view shifted back to the bunch of odd flowers, * YONK ! * the stealth mode LT said as the flowers seemed to disappear as the old bajorin began to clean up the mess of shattered crystal.
Admiral Sheppard just shook his head as he poured himself another drink as the video showed the LT sneaking up behind Major Kira as she entered the shuttle never even suspecting that her death was standing right beside her in the somewhat crowed shuttle.
After awhile the shuttle landed on Bajor and the Major was walking at a brisk pace to her home after an hour or so she came to her small, one story house.
" Right let's see here." Major Kira said to herself as she started grab a few thing from the cupboard in the kitchen of her home for a quick bite to eat.
After a few minutes of prepping her dinner he took a look at her wrist crono, " Shit." she muttered as she realized that time was running out for her before the festival was to start so she put down the stuff she was fixing for dinner and walked into the bathroom and began to draw a bath for herself, when she came out of the bathroom she started to strip off her uniform.
" What the fuck? " the phantom LT.Hit-Man muttered as he watched as the nude Major Kira resume making her dinner.
Grand Admiral Sheppard just sat there with his jaw hanging around his knees after all this was the last thing he was expecting to see when suddenly his guts began to quake and so he reached for the pink anti-acid as he counted to watch the video as he took a long swig from the bottle.
Grand Admiral Sheppard spewed the pink stuff though his dully aching nose when he saw the naked Kira suddenly start doing herself with a hasperat root she had been chopping up for dinner.
Outside of Grand Admiral Sheppard's ready room the bridge officers suddenly stopped and looked at the door of the Admiral's ready room as they heard " Yes oh yes Odo, harder, HARDER I SAY YOU SHAPE SHIFTING WONDER!" and a few minutes later there was a loud feminine scream from the Admiral's ready room, the bridge officers just looked at each other, shook their heads and when back to work with a smirk on there faces.
Grand Admerial Sheppard just sat there slack jawed as he watched a panting Kira slowly pulled the well marinaded hasperat root out of her dripping pussy, headless of the prink anti-acid that had dribbled out of his mouth, rolling down his chin and dripping onto his crisp white uniform paints and leave a nasty pink stain on them as the Major looked at the hasperat root with longing her eyes then suddenly she took a huge bite from the root and threw it into the pot of boiling water and walk into the bathroom.
* Well it looks like we now know the root of her crankiness is eh Sheppard? * the LT said with a low chuckle
Grand Admiral Sheppard wiped his chin as his mind came back to the real world and he let out a curse then he wiped off the video monitor that he had sprayed when he saw what the bitch of a major considered to be a fine example of Bajorin cooking, there was a low singing from the bathroom as the major cleaned herself up and a few minutes later she came out of the bathroom, stirred the meal she was cooking then walk into the bedroom to get dressed.
After a few minutes the video showed Kira come back into the kitchen and finished the prepping of her meal, as she sat down to eat the door chime rang, she ignored it as she began to hastily eat.
The door chime pinged again and a frustrated Major Kira got up from her seat and yelled " Ok Ok hold the fuck on!" he snapped as she went to answer the door, the video panned to show a shot of the LT looking down at the partly eaten meal and a black tube seemed to appear out of thin air, the top was popped and the LT poured something into the food, stirred it up a bit as a ranting Major Kira came back to her dinner while muttering, " Damm kids!, if I ever catch the little fuckers playing their silly games I'll brake there fingers!"
The video panned to a wide shot as the LT backed away from the table and the Major sitting down and started to shovel her meal into her mouth, " That's right you fucking whore you eat it, all of it! " LT.Hit-Man snarled, leaving Grand Admiral Sheppard wondering just what the fuck LT.Hit-Man was doing and more importantly just what had the insane Sith lord spiked the Major's food with.
What ever it was it was not going to be a pretty when it took effect Sheppard was certain of that.
Grand Admiral Sheppard decided that it was time for another drink even though his rumbling guts thought it was a very bad idea but he took a swig from the bottle as the video showed Major Kira finishing her meal, not knowing that she had just sealed her fate and then she walked out of her house muttering that she was going to be late for the festival.
* Exit, stage left, Mwhaaahahaha! * LT.Hit-Man cackled as the video showed a shot of a mirror when suddenly there stood the LT in a black hooded robe over his old stormtrooper armor with that evil smile of his that was the last thing his victims saw as their souls was fed to the Dark Side as he looked at the mirror from under the hood of his robes!
" Ooooohhhhh SHIT! " was all Sheppard could say as it dawned on him how the LT was able to walk around DS-9 without anyone knowing that death was walking in there misted.
After a few hours the video showed the unfortunate fate of a gang that had tried to mug the LT as he was making his way though the capital city that the festival was taking place.
Grand Admiral Sheppard decided that it was time to lay off the moonshine as his guts felt like someone had sliced open his guts stuffed him full of WP and shoved a lit match down his throat and started sucking back the pink stuff as the video showed a large open air gathering of Bajorin and Federation personal in front of stage that was lined with the top brass from DS-9 and the heads of the Bajorin government and the Vedic assembly, Sheppard could see that Commander Sissco was to the left of Ki'Wyn who was giving a speech on how the profits had seen them though there dark times when the Cardassines had occupied their world then the Dominion war and that is why they are giving thanks this year.
To the right of Sissco was Odo and Kira who was mooning at Odo who looked over at her with a smile, there was Doctor Bashir sitting beside Kira and Ezri Dax and they where exchanging a few looks of their own.
Ki'Wyn finished her speech and told everyone it was time to celebrate, with that said they sat down and began to eat as did the gathered Bajorins and Federation personal, not knowing that they had an uninvited guest who was watching them from the shadows with a truly evil smile.
" Anytime now " came the LT's voice from the video that had zoomed in on Major Kira who was smiling as she was talking to Odo and Ki'Wyn, as there was a building tension in his voice that had Grand Admiral Sheppard sitting on the edge of his seat as nervous as a long tailed cat in a room for of old ladies in rocking chairs and he could feel that death was ever so close.
" Hey Odo did I ever tell you about the time Ki'Wyn and me fooled a bunch of Cardassens into thinking that the weapons we where smuggling to the resistance was nothing more then spare parts for the mines?" Kira asked Odo with a look of wistful remembrance and an underlying look of lust, the mood of the festival was happy go lucky as it went on and she was in a good mood.
" No Major do tell I would like to hear that." Odo said as he caught the look in Kira's eyes and morphed his foot into a long tentacle and slowly ran it up her leg with a lustful twinkle in his eyes.
Major Kira's face flushed for a moment and she took a drink from her glass of cold spring wine, " We told the Car-" Suddenly Kira started to cough.
" Major are you ok?" Odo asked as he reached out to pat her on the back and he slithered the tentacle off of her and morphed it back into a leg and foot.
Major Kira held up her hand to show that she was ok and muttered that she had just drank a little to fast as she continued to cough a little harder.
Sissco, Ki'Wyn and the rest of the people at the table noticed that there was something wrong with the Major as she suddenly stood up and leaned on the table as she continued to cough as there was a lung shredding pain in each of her couchs
The rest of the gathered Bajorin and Federation personal looked up at the table and began to point as they talked excitedly amongst themselves as they watched Major Kira flop onto the table on her back and started thrashing around, sending plates of food flying everywhere as her agonized screams shattered the festive mood.
" GET OUT OF THE WAY! " Doctor Bashir yelled as he ran to Kira's side, tricorder in hand as Odo and Sissco where struggling to hole the convulsing Major down as her screams increased in volume and urgency.
Major Kira felt like there was a mining crew inside her body with heavy drilling equipment as she continued to trash around in hellish agony as a huge lump was forming in her chest, Doctor Bashir was taking some readings from his tricorder when suddenly there was an obscenely wet ripping sound that defied description as the chest of her uniform top was drenched in an explosion of blood and she found herself face to face with a blood covered worm like thing that was slowly turning towards her.
" This is your death, courtesy of the Galactic Empire you REBEL BITCH! " she heard in her mind and the last thing she saw and heard was the worm like thing open it's fanged maw as blood and slime dribbled over it's body as it looked right at her as her terror filled dying scream did a duet with it's furious hissing-scream as her soul was fed to the Dark Side.
There was a moment of stunned horror as Odo, Sissco and Doctor Bashir, who's faces where covered in Kira's blood just looked at they thing that had ripped it's way of her chest their minds refusing to understand what it was that was now facing them in the ruined remains of Major Kira's shattered chest as her head tilted to the right and blood began to spill from her agony twisted mouth, staining her lips like an obscene parody of lipstick.
Ezri Dax had fainted and when she hit the stage the bloody monstrosity turned towards the sound, bit's of Kira's ragged flesh fell from it's wickedly fanged maw as it let out a blood curdling hiss that turned Sissco, Bashir and Odo's blood to ice water.
And all hell broke lose as the gathered Bajorins and Federation personal ran screaming in mindless terror, trampling one another in blind fear as they sought to escape from the horror that had be born in blood at this time of thanksgiving causing scores of injuries and a few deaths as the hell spawned terror leapt from it's fleshy prison at Doctor Bashir and began to rip into his face with a ravenous hunger.
Commander Sissco and Odo backed away from the thrashing Bashir in mortal terror as the doctor was rolling on the table screaming for help as the bloody nightmare continued to eat away at his face, Ki'Wyn dropped dead of fright and the few Bajorin and Federation security officers that had been on hand to make sure that things went well at the festival began to reach for there phasers.
Bashir managed to get a hold of the blood drenched demon and pulled off of his face and ripping away what was left of his face and lips in a spray of blood and managed to throw it away from him, Ezri Dax had awoke from what must have been a bad dream to find herself drowning in an even greater nightmare as she watched Bashier rip the thing from his face and fainted back into the safety of mental oblivion.
As soon as the thing hit the ground it began to head towards the nearest source of food, the Bajorins and Federation personal that had been trampled and lunged at a vulcan man who was now screaming in mindless terror but fate was in a forgiving mood as more then a dozen phaser blasts vaporized the thing before it had a chance to make a meal out of the vulcan.
Grand Admiral Sheppard just sat there his mind unable to deal with what he had just bore witness to when the video cut to the cowled figure of LT.Hit-Man how was now sitting in what appeared to be the cockpit of a Federation shuttle.
" I always said that Bajorin festival music is such *scream* won't you agree?" LT.Hit-Man said as Grand Admiral Sheppard was puking his guts out but when he heard the smiling image of LT.Hit-Man say that there was more to this gift then the music Grand Admiral Sheppard force himself to stop puking and looked at the video as his horror began to grow as a squad of stormtrooper entered the ready room with there E-11's at the ready, when the bridge officers heard Major Kira's dying screams they felt a cold wave of terror grip them because there was no mistaking that scream for the one earlier as she * rooted * around in her kitchen and some of the bridge officers called for the stormtroopers to check things out as they found there hands reaching for there side arms without understanding why.
Grand Admiral Sheppard held up a shakey hand to keep the stormtroopers at bay as the image of LT.Hit-Man continued to speak.
" That thing is what I called a chest burster they come from LV-426, you remember that shit hole of rock that me and the Cleaners stopped off at right?"
" Well after I was finished cleaning out the WRU I went back there and this is what I found.", the video was replaced with what looked like technical information, " I feel that these things would back for a very formidable biological terror weapon, HOWEVER I must say this, any world we would use these bugs on would have to be completely exterminated of all life you have no idea on how dangerous these things are."
Grand Admiral Sheppard began to get to his feet as the image of LT.Hit-Man reappeared with a sadistic smirk.
" I hope you enjoyed the show as much as I did after all a rebel is a rebel no matter what galaxy their from and one less rebel leaves the universe a little cleaner." and began to fade to black, the LT's damning laughter filled the silent ready room.
The stormtroopers looked at each other for a moment as Grand Admiral Sheppard in a very badly stained uniform looked at them, they could see the seething rage in his eyes.
" GET ME GENERAL YATES AND CLEANERS NOW OR I'LL HAVE YOUR GUTS FOR BOOT LACES!!!!" Sheppard roared as he fought to keep himself from flipping out and shooting everyone in sight.
The stormtroopers ran so fast that one would think that they where about to hit hyper-space.
" LT.Hit-Man you have gone way to far this time, when next we meet there's going to be the Sith to
pay! " Grand Admiral Sheppard said as he walked out onto the bridge and started to make his way towards his quarters to change into a new uniform, the rest of the bridge crew did not even look up from there stations, they had heard what the Grand Admiral had said to the stormtroopers and from they way they ran from the bridge they know that it had better make themselves look busy instead of standing around like a bunch of yokels from the ass end of the outter rim.
Unaware of what had taken place Admiral Daala was walking to her quarters ever since the mission to Deep Space Nine her work day consisted of battle sims crew evaluation reports and maintenance work, in short she was board out of her skull.
Admiral Daala walked into quarters and kick off her boots and was going to hit the shower when her hand went for her blaster pistol, someone was in or had been in her quarters, there was something in the air that was out of place with the way her quarters normally smelled.
" Ok looks like someone been fucking around here but who? " she thought to herself as she looked down at the carpet in her quarters to see if she could find any kind of foot impressions that someone would have made when they entered her quarters but she found none, using her nose she put her back to the closest wall and followed the scent that was hard to make out as she slid along the wall towards her bedroom.
Admiral Daala licked her lips as she sniffed the air, yes the smell was becoming stronger, more discernable, the smell was like that of something like vanilla and silk, Admiral Daala whipped around the corner in a low crouch as she looked around the bed room, her blaster following where her eyes were looking and when she look at her bed she froze.
Above her bed was a bunch of strange looking flowers with glowing bulbs but that was not what made her freeze up in wonder and a slight bit of dread, the flowers had been impaled on the wall above her bed's headboard by a foot long combat knife that had been driven into the wall with such unimaginable force that there where small cracks emanating from the center of the flowers.
" What the fuck?" Admiral Daala though to herself as she stood up and walked over to the flowers as she holstered her blaster on a hunch that who ever had done this was long gone.
She reached for the combat knife and tried to pull it out of the wall with all of her strength but after a few minutes of her swearing like a stormtrooper she gave up on that and part the stems and found the ones that had been ran though with the blade and began to brake them open to free the flowers from there impromptu wall mount, as the stems where being broken open a clear sap began to oozed out of them and the air was filled with a rich silky, vanilla scent that Admiral Daala found not to be all that unpleasant.
" Tarkin ha-" Admiral Daala was starting to think about her one true love that had been Moff Tarkin who had given her the rank of admiral, given her the respect that she had fought hard to earn where as other Imperial personal only gave her contempt and a leering gaze as a flood of painful memories came back to her and she fought to keep the tears from flowing.
Tarkin had never been one to give flowers and other such nonsense to show her his love for her but he had shown his love for her in other ways some of them base and other more subtle but the one thing that endear him to her was the amount of trust he had given her when he put her in charge of the Maw complex that would turn into a prison that would test her mettle in ways she had never thought possible.
She sat on her bed staring at the flowers as the maelstrom of memories and emotion continued to batter at her iron will as the memory of the last time the two of them had spent together before they parted ways forever, the passion that seemed to ignite the very air around them as they danced the timeless dance of the lovers, or the way the leatheren ropes that he had tied her down to the bed chaffed her skin as he had his way with her or the sounds they made as she tied him down and rode him like a dewback.
Admiral Daala wiped away the wetness that was starting to from in her eyes, after that was done she took a closer look at the combat knife that was imbedded in the wall, after a few minutes she realized that it was a stormtrooper's weapon.
" I hope you like the flowers, when I saw them it was your face that came to mind." A low voice said from behind her.
Daala slowly turned around, her first thought at the sounds of the voice was to reach for her blaster but something in that voice stayed her hand, standing there was LT.Hit-Man in his battle scared stormtrooper armor, however there was a strange look on his scared face that she could not identify.
" Is this your idea of a joke?" Daala said with a cold tone of voice, given the LT's bloody and well deserved reputation she was on her guard for all she knew he could be setting her up for some slight she may have caused him even though she was secretly terrified of the cyborg Sith lord but yet there was something that was rubbing her the wrong way about this whole situation.
LT.Hit-Man let out a snarl, " I don't need this fucking shit! " and quickly turned to leave her quarters and Daala found herself breathless as she finally came to understand the strange look on the LT's face it was a look of dread and confusion but what left her standing there like an eviscerated victim of one the LT's mad rampages was the look of hurt in his slightly misty human eye!
Admiral Daala was about to call out after the LT but when she felt the air in her quarters suddenly grow cold but that was not the only thing that held her to the spot where she stood like a helpless rebel ship in an ISD's tractor beam there was the confusing torrent of feelings that where washing over her like a bursted dam.
By the time she found the resolve to find the LT and confront him about what was going through his mind he was long gone, surprisingly there where no mangled bodies of any Imperial crewers who might have had the shit ass luck of running into the LT in the mood he was in, Admiral Daala made her way back to her bedroom and sat down on her bed as she tried to sort out just what the hell she was feeling at that moment when she first found the flowers that the LT had given her and with a frighteningly savage outburst of rage she threw the flowers as far away from her as she could as a few tears forced their way out of her pain filled eyes.
Daala looked at her blaster and not for the first time she wondered what a blaster bolt across the ol' brain pan would feel like.
Days later Grand Admiral Sheppard called a meeting of his command staff to figure out just how thery were going to handle the LT.Hit-Man situation, after the LT had left Admiral Daala's quarters he had high jacked the ISD _ DoomFane_ after forcing the surviving crewers off at light saber point, he had killed a few of them that had been stupid enough not only to openly voice there objections to the LT taking the ship for a spin but did so to the loony Sith lord's inhumanly cold face!
" So Sheppard do you have any idea of what flipped the LT's cookie this time?" Phong asked as he lazily drummed his fingers on the briefing table.
" No I don't but I have a damm good idea of when the LT slid off into the deep end." Grand Admiral Sheppard told his staff as he looked them over, noticing the slightly distracted look in Admiral Daala's eyes at the meeting wore on, After the LT took off for parts unknown Sheppard had noticed that Admiral Daala had become distance and even a tat snappish as he as the fleet looked high and low for the absent LT.
It had gotten to the point where Admiral Daala's bad mood almost end in one of his crewers picking up his teeth as she tried to knock them out of his skull like a set of dominos's being thrown down for a game if Sheppard not ordered her to stand down, after when he had ordered her into his ready room he asked her what had her knickers in a knot.
Admiral Daala told him coldly that it was a female complaint and gave him a look that had set his teeth on edge, Grand Admiral Sheppard could tell that there was a lot more to the reason why she was tearing around like the queen bitch of the universe then the natural life cycle of a human female but with the loose cannon named LT.Hit-Man prancing about the galaxy and more then likely to throw there well laid plan to conquer this ass backwards galaxy down the shitter they had pressing matters to take care of at the moment, he gave her a reprimand and a dire warning to mellow the fuck out or she would be cooling her heels in the brig until she was in a more charitable mood.
General Yates was picking his teeth with the edge of his thumbnail as he asked Sheppard what he had meant by that and when Grand Admiral Sheppard held up the damming data crystal that the LT had given him and added " When he gave me this * gift * a few days ago.", there was a slight drop in the room's normally pleasant temperature as their eye's took a good look at the seeming innocent looking data crystal that was indistinguishable from any other data crystal.
" Would this happen to have anything to do with the sudden quarantining of DS-9 and Bajor?" the man known only as
* The Butcher * asked as his eyes narrowed slightly as if he was trying to read the info in the data crystal.
" Got it in one." Sheppard told The Butcher, wondering what was going in his mind, from the couched words between the two of them The Butcher vaguely hinted that he and the LT had worked together juring the early weaponztion of Travme at the late Emperor Palpatine's instance as he slotted the data crystal into a reader, not only did he have to deal with the LT going AWOL on him but he had to shuck and jive Commander Sissco, the Federation and the Bajorin government as they put themselves under quarantine due to the LT and assured them that they where not infested with the life form that had come to dine with them as Major Kira's dinner guest at the harvest festival to keep them from boarding there ship in a polite way and without giving any kind of hint that they had an inkling as to what had happened on Bajor.
By a strange twist of the Dark Side neither the LT or The Butcher had ran into each other since they joined up with Sheppard, in fact until this, his first meeting with Sheppard and his command staff The Butcher had no idea that LT.Hit-Man was running with Sheppard and his crew.
Needless to Sheppard was not sleeping as well as he normally should and it showed as he keyed the play button on the data reader, at lest this time he would not have to change his uniform after the video was done, wisely he had declined to offer his staff any refreshments lest they suffer the same indignity that he had.
After the video was done Sheppard looked around the table, General Yates had his head in his hands and was muttering something to the effect " What the fuck did I do in my past life to end up in this mess."
, LV-426 had given him nightmares for a few days and he was damm thankful that he and most of the Cleaners had gotten off of the dismal rock in one piece as well as cursing himself for not seeing that something was like this in making after Sheppard had grilled him and rest of the Cleaners on there mission on LV-426 with greater interest then he normally had for a post mission debriefing.
Phong looked like he was about to puke right then and there, not because he was squeamish when it came to blood and guts, No what had his guts high balling was the fact that before Sheppard had called him to the briefing he had finished a dinner of hasperat stew, Phong considered himself somewhat of a coinsurer of fine foods and since he had came to DS-9 and Bajor he had been indulging his passing interest in Bajorin foods.
Rather or not if Phong would continue to indulge his taste testing of Bajorin foods was anyone's guess....but the smart money would be on not.
The Butcher had a deep and thoughtful look on his face as if he was thinking on away that the chest burster could be used as a bio-weapon as the LT had suggested.
Admiral Daala was in a world of turmoil as she just sat there staring off into space.
She had met the late Kira briefly and until she had started spouting off about rebellion and guerilla warfare she did had not cared about the bajorin major one way or the other, so when she saw the major take the last train to the coast she was in agreement with the LT's comment of one less rebel the better but what had her in a silent uproar was not the fact that they way the LT had taken Kira out of the game, everyone knew that the LT was one sick son of a rancor but she did not figure him to be a pervo to boot as he watched the major do herself with the hasperat root but she was wondering if the LT had been peeping on her when ever she had taken a shower and what not.
" So will thi-" General Yates was about to ask if the LT's high handed game would throw off there invasion plans when suddenly the door to the briefing room hissed open.
* Bop, bop, bop * a child's brightly colored toy ball bounced and rolled to a stop in the middle of the briefing room, leaving a trial of slime in it's wake, they looked up at the door and saw seven some odd feet of a nightmarish monstrosity spawned from the lowest, darkest pit of the Sith.
For a moment on one moved as the thing walked into the briefing room, it's wickedly clawed feet making a nerve rattling sound much like that of fingernails being slowly dragged across a blackboard as it walked towards the toy ball.
The LT's here?! *flees to shithole planet*