Recert is Two Mints in One (backpost)

Posted on Wed Oct 30, 2019 @ 4:59pm by Lieutenant Penelope Naroot & Commander Cullen Walker

981 words; about a 5 minute read

Mission: Nibiru
Location: Holodeck 1
Timeline: Before Watch a Fight

Penny's uniform was pressed and sharp and she had a padd in hand ready to go when the XO approached. "Good morning, Commander," she said, brightly. "Ready to fly?"

Walker grinned. "I can fly. Last time I flew, it was a shoot Mission. This should be cakewalk, by the book."

"Yes I reviewed your record as well as your marks from the Academy courses," Penny said. "You're a pretty good pilot. We'll do three phases and see how you perform." She smiled sweetly at him and led him into the holodeck, where a recreation of the new Victory's bridge was already activated. She sat down at the Ops station, crossing her legs and resting her padd on her knee, then gestured to the helm. "Your station awaits," she said.

Walker sat down at the station, "Time to do a full pre-trip." He laughed. Too many times, on assignments, you just don't have time. He did his pretrip in stages. He checked the power systems, communications, shields, and weapons. Then the first checks of the propulsion systems, the ones that could be checked on a flight deck.

Penny watched him carefully, making notes on her padd and nodding along. As he completed the checklist, she checked it off as well. "Excellent. Take us out and we'll do some basic maneuvering."

Walker went through the process of moving them forward, manual control through a simple asteroid field. It wasn't a high grade field, but it was something and did take some skill. He moved in and out. Simple maneuvers. He grinned that Walker grin. Then put the ship into a counter clockwise spin, manually and then righted the ship.

"Show off," Penny said, making notes. "But can you dip on the z-axis between the two up ahead?"

He grinned, "I'm a Walker." He followed her instructions, it took both hands and proximity sensors said he came in a little hot and very close. "In a combat situation, I would have failed. By that I mean, I would have hit that."

"Bold of you to admit that," Penny said, grinning cheekily. She made a few more notes and an alarm went off. "Speaking of..." she said, looking at the Ops board. "Two Breen fighters coming up on our port side."

Walker reacted, "Eyes on, they have powered weapons. Attempting evasive maneuvers." When that failed and they fired on us, he rerouted tactical to helm. He moved the ship into position and fired back, taking out weapons and propulsion. "Bastards scuffed my ship." He could have destroyed them, but didn't. Starfleet Regulation and his own code. He didn't need to kill. "That was an evasive maneuvers test only, wasn't it?"

"Well not only," Penny said, grinning mischievously as the ship jolted and the red alert sounded. "Might also be a black hole nearby. Thanks for the idea," she grinned.

Walker furrowed his brow, which made his ridges more blatant,. He started going through the playbook for this kind of spacial phenomenon. Starting with reverse thrusters, he launched a scanning buoy so scanners could get a good picture. He used the data readings to know which thrusters to burn and for how long. Next thing, if this didn't work, would be warp.

Penny watched his hands move watched the simulation data come in. "We're still being pulled into the singularity," she warned.

Walker pushed maneuvering thrusts to maximum burn. When it didn't work, he attempted to go to warp. He did have another idea, but when thrusters don't work, warp usually does. The other way could damage the ship.

The ship lurched as they suddenly broke free of the gravity well. "We're free. Well done." She smiled at him. "I know you know how to steer, so I thought I'd throw a few surprises and see how you do. You handled yourself very well. Care to try the Ranger out next? It's a bit tighter, but very fun to try some tighter turns."

Walker looked at her, "We may have to break up my recerts. I have a few other departments to hit up."

"Not a problem. I've got most of what I need so there isn't much more for you to do," Penny said.

"Since you like surprises, you want me to handle-your-hand to hand combat and phaser recerts next month?"

Penny tilted her head, thinking. "Phaser yes, hand-to-hand no," she said after a moment.

Walker looked at her, "I have won the Kyoga Ryu Kumite, Mokbara, and Starfleet Martial Arts Championships."

"Well...I wouldn't wanna hurt you," she said, giggling girlishly.

He cocked his head, "I've been hurt before." He thought he was being flirted with. "There are other things we could do."

Now it was Penny's turn to tilt her head. "Such as?"

Walker grinned, "I could write a program and we could watch Lua and then we could load a surfing or scuba program. Then Loco Moco? It is made with meat in a can."

Penny's head stayed tilted as she processed the idea. "Sounds fun. Might make me homesick. I did a bit of surfing on leave but not scuba diving. That'd be great." She smiled then tilted her head again. "How will we practice hand-to-hand combat underwater?"

Walker looked at her. "One would either do kata with balance training or Advanced balance training and spar. However, that is also a lung capacity test because we don't use scuba gear."

She nodded. "Either way, sounds fun. I'm in," she said, smiling.

Walker grinned, "The ship comes first. We have to get everything running smoothly on the ship, then we arrange details."

"All work and no play," Penny said, standing up. "In the mean time, I'll update your records." She smiled at him. "Thanks for coming, Commander."

Walker grinned, "Your very welcome." He turned to leave the holodeck.

Penny watched him go and grinned, checking another thing off her padd.

 

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