Two Medics and A Psycho Sec Man

[JasFMcCellan 0]

Willow was standing there, looking about herself, and pulling on a coat. Here was her team: an assistant medical officer and an incapacitated security officer. This was not the best day to have problems understanding how to use the long-range option on her hand scanner. She scowled at it and then turned to Marks, remembering just in time to stop scowling so she would not freak him out...

 

"Jas, can you make any sense of these scanners?"

 

Ensign McCellan sneezed and walked over to Willow. "What kind of sense would you like?"

 

Giving the scanner to Jas, she asked, "Please help me figure out which way to go." Then she looked over to Marks. "How you holdin’ up, partner?"

 

Jon pulled the blanket tighter around his shoulders and then turned to Willow. "Partner? I thought my name was Marks?"

 

Jas shook her head and tapped on the scanner. Her hands quivered in the cold air. She worked at it a few more moments and nodded her approval. "We have to go north west, there's a beacon signature there."

 

Nodding back at Jas, and grabbing Jon, Willow headed in the direction Jas had pointed. "Okay, so we go north west. And yes, your name is Jon Marks... I just said partner because."

 

Jas looked at Marks and nodded to Willow. The three of them with arms linked began to make their journey towards another escape pod, and possibly fellow officers and crew.

 

Jon's head was literally swarming with incoherent thoughts. His eyes continued to dart over the horizon as he tried to make sense of who and what he was. "Ok... Obviously I am having some sort of problem here. Since we have a long walk to... Uh... Wherever that thing is telling us to go... Um... Can you tell me some more about me?"

 

Willow wondered what she should and shouldn't tell him. Shrugging, she decided to just tell him whatever. "You're a very outgoing guy... uh... you have family back on Earth. You're single, aged... um... twenty something... and you've been on Challenger for a few months now..." she looked over to Jas for help.

 

Jas looked at Willow, her expression a little bit dumbfound. "Liverpool" She simply said, hoping it would smack Jon's head a little so some memories fall through. She waited.

 

Jon just stared at Jas. "What in God's name is Liverpool?"

 

"I remember you saying that it was the academy you went to."

 

Willow's face expressed the same amount of confusion on that one. "Um... well... you've visited several planets with Jas and I... there was the one where you helped me gather fruit..."

 

Jon suddenly perked up. "No no, that was Interpol."

 

"You DO remember." Jas blurted out.

 

"Remember what?"

 

Willow was starting to feel as confused as Jon had been looking. "So you remember Interpol?”

 

Jon looked from Willow to Jas. "What’s Interpol?"

 

Jas didn't feel as confused as frustrated, but tried to manipulate the information to help Jon remember. "Thomas Brian Marks." She said blankly.

 

Jon looked puzzled and suddenly grabbed his head again. "I WAS NEVER GOOD ENOUGH WAS I DAD??? NOW I HAVE TO WATCH THEM ALL DIE!!! DIE!!!" Jon suddenly collapsed in the snow, shaking wildly.

 

"That's it!" Willow hollered to no one in particular. "I am giving him a sedative." She pulled a hypospray from one of the many bags she had and started to administer it to him.

 

Jas knelt by Jon and stopped Willow's Hand.

 

"You never hurt her on purpose. "

 

"Hurt who?" Willow wanted to know... but really she wanted to know where Jas was getting all this.

 

Jon suddenly stopped shaking and sat up. "Hurt? Who did I hurt?'

 

Jas thought then tried again. "You can live up to be as good as T. B. Marks and you didn't do anything to embarrass your self like on Acamar.”

 

Jon returned to his feet and shook his head. "Acamar? T.B. Marks? I don't know what you're talking about. And... Why am I covered in all this snow?"

 

Willow, still on the ground, shoved her face into the snow for a moment before standing up. "Okay... I'm feeling lost. Can we find the others please?

 

We have reached another impasse. Jas thought and pulled Jon up. She looked to Willow. "Lets go."

 

The trio walked with Jon through the cold towards the beacon. Suddenly, Jon stopped moving his feet and began staring at the frosty breath that was coming out of the others mouths. "Sabotage..."

 

Willow couldn't tell if she was coughing or laughing. "What kind of sabotage?"

 

Jon looked at Willow with a look of utter confusion. "I... I don't know. That word suddenly appeared in my mind... What happened to me? Why was I in the Sick... Um... Sick... Place."

 

"Sickbay" Jas said. "You were in a coma, there was a sabotage, the mess hall."

 

"Do you remember any of that?" said willow

 

"No," Jon admitted.

 

Jas sighed again. She continued throwing words at him. "Jon, Marks, Starfleet, Challenger, Gamble, Grey, Acids, Gas, Remember when I was helping Grey to synthesize a counter agent against the gas?"

 

Willow, sort of getting what Jas was doing, attempted to do the same. "Erm... berries, Klingons, shuttles, phasers, muwaherm, Moose and Moore..."

 

Jon just stood there with a blank look on his face. "I don't know... I know they must mean something but right now all I hear are words. But... Something else tells me there are meaning to them like I used to kn - LOOK OUT!"

 

Jas and Willow sharply turned to see what was there.

 

Suddenly, a loud roar was heard and a white-tiger like creature sprawled from the snow. It made a lunge high into the air and landing fast towards them. With a lightning fast reflex, Jon grabbed the Phase Pistol out of Jas's belt and fired one round into the creature, dropping it to the ground steaming and dead.

 

He sat there for a moment, staring at the kill and then at the pistol. He suddenly dropped the pistol back into the snow and looked wide-eyed at his companions. "How did I... I..."

 

Willow half smiled at him. "Well at least we know we're safe with him. Unless he starts thinking we're some big... white...furry thing." She picked up the phase-pistol. "Can we continue now?"

 

Jas admitted that she was really frightened. She stood there, stiffly.

Jon absently put an arm around Jas. "Its ok I think... I just wish I could figure out what the hell is going on..."

 

Willow blinked at them, felt cold, and wondered what to do.

 

Jas blinked, still recovering from what just happened and the cold. She thought about just how remotely possible it was for a big furry white beast to lunge on them. "Must be the north." She said dryly.

 

Jon just nodded absent-mindedly, still trying to figure out how he did what he did, or rather, how he knew to do it. As the trio continued their trek north, they are forced to wonder what other dangers await the doctors and their mentally-unstable patient...

 

 

Lt. Willow McDaniel

CMO

Challenger

 

Ens. Jas McCellan

AMO

Challenger

 

Ens. Jon Marks

ASEC

Challenger