Toy Soldiers

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“Toy Soldiers”

 

Mona was becoming use to the fact that things went from 0 to 60 in Starfleet. Was she being shot at? Yes she was. What was going on? Jamie had been shot and she had quickly run to pull him towards some sort of shelter. She looked at Kairi and yelled for her to find cover. Then she looked around to see if she could find who was shooting at them. She spotted some movement from behind a large object, what was it? She made out the head of a Catain, the markings on the fur looked oddly familiar. As she pulled Jamie things started to slow, Mona felt her head spin as she started to remember something.

 

She was a little girl and her grandmother Min had read her a book of ancient earth fairy tales. Mona had become obsessed with it and wanted to build a castle for herself. With the help of her grandmother she had constructed a makeshift castle in the park. It was beautiful in Mona’s eyes. Min had given her some blue material to use as a moat and Mona had set up all her toys as the guards. But in the end her defenses had not been enough. As she played she started to hear noises from the nearby trees. She looked around and before she had any time to react one of her guards fell having been hit by a rock. As she went to pick up her stuffed pink pig another guard fell. Someone was ambushing her castle. Another rock flew by almost hitting her. “Who was throwing rocks at her?” she wondered. She looked towards a cluster of trees and heard laughing. Another round of rocks came flying at her and her useless guards. She started to cry and tried to find cover. Crouching behind a box she looked around and saw a group of boys running away. She watched them through her tears and thought they looked so familiar. So much like her brothers, but why would they be throwing things at her?

 

Mona shook her head and tried to focus on the present. After her accident there were so many things she couldn’t remember. Over the years she had come to terms with random thoughts of her childhood filling her head like a dream, as if they weren’t her memories. She would have to talk to Min about it later, but now was not the time to think about it. She had to focus, Jamie was down and they were in the middle of cross fire. She was the ranking officer and she was not going to let any of her crew fall. She needed a plan, get Jamie someplace safe and then get back to the ship. Yes, it would have to do for now. Keep everyone safe, that’s what she would do. Keep them safe.

 

 

Dr Desdemona Levy

Chief Medical Officer