"Hero Complex"

[Trichon 0]

Trichon teetered on the edge of life and death. The radiation was slowly destroying his body, and it was nobodies fault but his own. Once again he thought he would play the hero and in the face of inevitable destruction save the day. It was a hard lesson to learn that the world didn’t work like that. A warp core breech on the Arc had been imminent and everything they had tried to do had failed. As a last resort he thought he could manually release the warp core and save the ship. Fitz had tried to stop him but he simply placed an emergency beam out device on his uniform and watched him shimmer away.

 

As he had neared the release Main Engineering had started to grow warmer and radiation started to leak into the bay where Trichon had sealed himself in. The release lever was hot to the touch, trying not to think about it Trichon reached down and grabbed a hold and started trying to release it. As he felt his hands go numb from the pain he heard his comm with the captain and many others telling him to get out of there before it was too late. He heard the computer tick down the numbers and he thought to himself that this was the end. He heard the core breech and saw a bright flash of light and then nothing.

 

He was suddenly aware of the hard deck plating of a shuttle craft below him. He opened his eyes for one moment and saw Merri looking down on him. Her eyes welled up with tears and a look of fear. She didn’t even see him open his eyes. "Hey there angel." he coughed loudly, "How do I look?"

 

Before he could receive his answer however the shuttle lurched to one side, "We've lost the stabilizers during the shockwave. I'm going to have to put it down." he heard Fitz yell from the front of the shuttle, "Its going to be a rough landing. Everyone hang on." The shuttle sprialed down towards the surface of Risa the last thing Trichon saw before he passed out again was the surface of the planet rising up to meet them....