It Has Passed

Posted on Thu Apr 1, 2021 @ 12:24am by Lieutenant AJ Taggart & Lieutenant JG Ardal King

689 words; about a 3 minute read

Mission: Archangel
Location: Taggart's Office
Timeline: After "Der Vredestichter"

ON:


When the sterilization process was done, King boxed up the pieces. He had run several different sterilization processes of different types on these. Considering where they were, he had run the extra cycles. He put them in his bag and made his way to the turbolift. He called out his deck. He stood up to make room for a security crewman

The Security crewman flinched and touched his phaser and then stopped himself, "You look bigger and meaner on two legs."

King looked at him, "It has been stated." When the turbolift door opened, he made his way out and dropped to all fours and made his way to Taggert's office. He pushed the buzzer when he got there.

AJ sat at his desk going over the training reports with a steaming cup of coffee in his hand when he heard the buzzer. Setting down the steel mug, he turned towards the door. "Enter!"

The bear like alien came into the office, "I believe the Commander, Anderson, and Levesque are conspiring against me. I am not allowed to return to my more hazardous experiments and away missions until I return these to you, apologize to you, and write a report." He used his front legs to push himself up on two legs just long enough to get a tray out of his bag and offered him the specimen tray. It had a clear top, so it was obvious there was nothing but the parts. "I'm sorry for showing off during the requals and eating your target. These have been run through the sanitizing cycle ten times."

AJ took the tray and examined the shredded contents. “Your apology was already accepted before you made it. I have to say that your maneuver, while unorthodox, was quite impressive. Next time, just try to concentrate on the task at hand- it’ll serve you well.” He removed a PADD from the rack and pulled up Ardal’s service record. Giving it a few quick taps, he added a quick comment. “You’ve officially been cleared- we’ll pretend this didn’t happen. Understood?”

Nodding to the Lieutenant as King lowered himself to all fours. "Yes, Sir." He saw the Lieutenant make notes in the intraship communication part of his file. It wouldn't take long for him to get cleared to do his Experiments and go on away Missions after that note. "Lieutenant, if I may, can I come run PT with your crew?"

His file had two run times in it, one biped and one quadruped. His biped run time was barely passable for the mainstream security departments. His quadruped run time was extremely fast, faster than Vulcans showing off. "The Quadrant we are going into has violent cultures, the kind that tend to ignore Scientists. I would like to be prepared for that. My former Team lead used to refer to me as the Evil, Sadistic Teddy Ruxpin."

“I don’t see why not- we typically go every morning at 0400 with full gear runs every Monday and Friday. Just try not to make the team look too bad. After all, four legs are faster than two.”

A grin pulled across sharp teeth, "If I really wanted to make people feel bad, I would stand up on two legs. I have a very obvious baculum."

"Yeah, then definitely stay on all fours. The last thing I need is a harassment complaint." he said. "If there's nothing else, you're dismissed, Mister King."

King turned to leave, "I apologize for the horrible biology and zoology joke." He left the office, the baculum was the joke, he used it to distract people from the Cultural reasons for not walking on two legs. The cultural which probably stemmed from an evolutionary, his knees didn't evolve to stand upright for long periods of time.

AJ waved his hand. "No need for an apology, Lieutenant. Now, if you don't mind, I do have some paperwork to get back to." he said, motioning to the stack of PADDs on his desk.

King disappeared out the door. The clicking of his claws fading as he got further away.

:OFF

 

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