More confusion

[messner 0]

Messner was wondering around the corridors of a ship.  But what ship was it?  Messner groaned, falling against the wall in confusion.  "What the heck is going on..?" he wondered aloud.

"Oh, yeah.. the Qob.. of course..  I have duty pretty soon."  Messner's senses came back to him.  For some reason he had been particularly groggy this morning and was wondering down the hall outside his quarters without being fully awake.

He stretched and yawned, and slapped himself across the face.  "Aaah, that's better.  Wow, for a minute there, nothing made sense at all."

 

FLASH * FLASH * FLASH

 

"all..." Messner heard himself say, but suddenly he couldn't figure out why he said that, or what scentence it might have been the end of.  He thought about this for a moment, before realizing that he couldn't figure out any aspect of what was going on!!

He looked around and saw what looked to be the turbolift of a starship, not the starbase he thought he was on.  Had he just been transported?  Why is this ship on red alert while docked at starbase in deep Federation space?

Suddenly there was a sound of a distant explosion and the ship lurched violently, throwing him out of the door of the recently stopped turbolift and onto the bridge of the ship.  Everything looked to be in the heat of battle.  What the hell was going on??

Messner tried to force himself to calm down.  "Come on Raolin, just stay calm and remember your training.  You probably bumped your head and lost your senses, but you still have a job to do..... uh, but what is that job?"

He braced himself against a console that was more modern than any he remembered seeing and took stock of himself.  He was carrying a phaser rifle... and wearing his sword on his back, and had just arrived on the bridge.  But he couldn't remember ever being posted as security.  All he could remember was lots of menial jobs in the academy.  During this battle situation he must have been nonessential personnel drafted for extra firepower in case they got boarded!  "Okay, Raolin, just stay focused and alert and you can get the bump on the head treated later."

He looked around the bridge skeptically.  What the heck was this place, and who were all these strange people?!?