The waking nightmare...Kroells's logs

[Travis Kroells 0]

The waking nightmare…Kroells’s logs

 

Travis sat on the bridge in Fred’s chair.  It had been over a half an hour since Spencer left and another fifteen since ensign Clueless had went to get a report from his quarters and never returned…Travis absently stared out into space via the main view screen.  He knew now wasn’t the time to fall asleep but his current loneliness on the bridge sleep was not deniable…

 

“Red alert!”  Fred yelled as Travis found himself on the bridge once again but this time at his usual science station.  He looked around to find the bridge hell on earth.  The entire engineering station had been blown out as evidence as to why there were no engineers on the bridge.  Travis could here over the explosions and the fires people screaming.  

 

“I want to know what kind of a torpedo that was! And how it penetrated our shields!”  Fred yelled above the chaos.  “Lieutenant are you just going to stand there looking at the view screen or are you going to do something!”  Fred yelled from his  chair over to Travis.  He turned around and attempted to get his bearings strait.  An other massive shock went through out the ship as he could see the science station next to him explode sending Spencer flying across the bridge.  

 

“Sir!”  Lieutenant Garnoopy yelled across the bridge while viewing Spencer lying on the ground.  “All attempts to remodulate the shields have failed!”  Fred nodded and turned to Travis.  “Lieutenant I want a way to defend against those torpedoes!  Now!”  Travis felt the sting of the last order deeper then he thought he would.  He quickly ran several scans coming to the conclusion that they were being attacked by some unknown ship…using an unknown warhead.  

 

“Sir the ship has leveled up to the main engineering room…Their firing another barrage directly at the core!”  “Lieutenant shields now!”  Fred yelled at the top of his voice.  Travis moved to hit the panels but his arms instantly began to fill with lead.  His legs refused to support him any more as he began to fall to the ground only saving him self by grasping the edge of the station.  “They have fired…Ten seconds to impact!”  Garnoopy yelled.  Fred instantly appeared over Travis as he struggled to raise an arm.  

 

“Your pathetic lieutenant.  I can’t see how you made it past basic training.”  Travis mustered all his strength as he slowly began to lift the arm.  Spencer got up and walked over to him…he couldn’t believe it he thought a blast like that would have killed him.  And he was right the way Spencer looked he shouldn’t be alive.  “Look at me…This is your fault.”  The entire bridge staff began to chant the same hideous saying “We have to pay your you mistakes.  Your fault yet we pay.  Your fault yet we die.”  Travis lost what ever strength he had as he fell to the ground.  “Your fault yet we die.”

 

 

A man in a command uniform walked over to him…Travis strained to see the pips signaling he held the rank of a captain.  He could feel the massive shake as the ship began to come apart.  Stations exploded, people flew and died.  The unknown captain grabbed him by the collar and lifted him to his height.  As the rest of the bridge began to come apart he muttered but two words.  “Wake up.”  

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