The Misadventures of Jason Haines - Vengeance Mine
Posted on Tue Feb 2, 2021 @ 10:36am by Lieutenant Jason Haines
Edited on on Tue Feb 2, 2021 @ 10:53am
1,070 words; about a 5 minute read
Mission:
Things Past
Location: Pangae Coastline
Timeline: MD 3 minus 13 days, 2000 Hours
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A couple of days after having met Torvan, Jason decided he wanted to go back to the colony for a brief visit and gather any intel worth hearing. After catching and cooking some fish, Jason headed out for a nice cross country run to the colony. He was pleased with his physical progress as he made the run in a day and a half. He thought briefly of contacting Alanna, but he wasn’t quite ready yet, so he stopped himself from opening his communicator.
Torvan was quite surprised that Jason had shown up with fish so soon. The biggest piece of information that was of use to Jason was Soran kicking the Cardassians off the station. He wondered how that was going to work out given the relationship with the Xi’Cadians.
By the time Jason left the colony the name of Fish-mon had made it around to most in the bar. It took Jason another day and a half to get back to his camp. Although he had enjoyed being at the colony, he felt much better getting to the beach. As the sun was going down, he made himself a campfire and laid back and just took in the stars and listened to the waves splashing against the shore.
After about a half-hour he started to stoke the fire when one of his warning traps went off. He heard someone trying to be quiet as they cursed, but those were two things that weren’t normally compatible.
“You can come out now”, Jason said after having gotten his phaser.
A ragged looking Tellarite came out of the tree line with his own disruptor in hand. He looked at Jason with a scowl and an eye that was sizing him up.
“You are Sovok’s slayer, aren’t you?” the Tellarite asked.
Sovok’s name was one that he hadn’t expected to hear. It felt a bit like a knife being stuck in him.
“My name is Jason and yes I killed Sovok”, Jason replied. “Who are you and how did you find me?”
“I’m D’arsk”, the Tellarite answered. “and I followed your ‘signature’ so to speak. Took me a bit to figure things out given those damn Vulcans left that portal a pile of slag.”
“How do you know about that?”, Jason asked warily.
“We had been a group that was supposed to rendezvous with ch’Zath and give him support when he hit that portal”, D’arsk answered. “We were waiting on a ridge and watching Sovok’s camp when you showed up and started showing those Vulcan’s what for. You need to come back with me, we need someone like you.”
“Look, I was just trying to save someone close to me”, Jason said. “And what do you need me for?”
“Sovok tore a lot of people away from those they were close to”, D’arsk replied. “Him and that toady Tarik. I wish you could have given them worse, although driving a knife through Sovok’s brain was a nice touch. We need you to lead us, because believe it or not, there are worse than Sovok.”
Jason sat there quietly for a few moments. They idea of finishing what Soran started appealed to the dark side of himself that he had been quite connected to as of late. Killing every damn Vulcan in the multiverse had crossed his mind quite a few times in the past month.
“Look”, Jason said. “My place is here. You need to find someone in your dimension to fill the void ch’Zath’s death caused.”
D’arsk lifted his disruptor and shouted, “NO!! You are coming with me! There is no one else!”
“What about you?”, Jason asked.
D’arsk snorted and replied, “I’m just a scientist, helping to make bigger and better weapons.”
“Well, I know for a fact that dimensional and temporal travel is very dangerous”, Jason said calmly. “and I don’t see anyone else from your dimension here with you. A leader takes the lead on the dangerous road to protect those who follow him.”
His eyes darted to what looked like a tricorder on the Tellarite’s belt. Jason motioned for D’arsk to give it to him. The Tellarite handed it to him warily. Jason typed a few things into it and handed it back to him.
“What’s this?”, D’arsk asked.
“It’s the chemical formula for a mineral called Trellium D”, Jason said. “It can be synthesized.”
Trellium was not something that was normally covered in Starfleet geology classes, but in the study of various Starfleet ships that had temporal and dimensional encounters, Enterprise NX-01 was covered extensively in Jason’s first year of intelligence training. The crews of the ships named Enterprise seemed to excel being involved in time and dimensional shifts. NX-01, 1701, 1701A, 1701C, 1701D, 1701E all seemed to have excelled at it. Only 1701 B had not had any adventures of the sort.
“What of it?”, D’arsk said.
“In my universe Vulcans have a very adverse reaction to it, driving them insane and if they are exposed too long, it will degrade their neural pathways so much they will die”, Jason said.
D’arsk’s eyes grew wide. Jason smiled and winked at him.
“Normally it would have to be administered in a liquid format”, Jason said. “but I am sure a smart individual such as yourself might find a way to make an aerosol form that could cover a larger area and get into the membranes of the nose and eyes and such.”
“Sounds like you have given this a lot of thought”, D’arsk said.
“Nah”, Jason said with a lying smirk. “Just something that I whipped up off the cuff. Good luck.”
D’arsk snorted and left the camp satisfied with what Jason gave him in lieu of coming with him. Jason watched him leave with a bit of an evil stare hoping deep in the core of his being that the Tellarite would be successful. Soran had exacerbated an already volatile situation by sending them there and in her arrogance got ch’Zath and his friends killed, almost got the away team killed and managed to get Alanna raped. He would be damned if he were going to feel guilty finishing what Soran started.
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