Unwelcome Memories

Posted on 13 Apr 2018 @ 11:52pm by Lieutenant JG Felix Langston

674 words; about a 3 minute read

Mission: The Search Begins
Location: Crew Quarters
Timeline: MD 1 || 0345 hours

The memories came in flashes. The thoughts rushed in and out like rapids on a river crashing against the rocks on the shore. Faces and names long dormant flooded his mind as he sank deeper and deeper into subconscious thought. Suddenly, Felix Langston found himself in an unfamiliar gray corridor. Alert lights pierced the dark corridor and alarms blared, making his eardrums throb. He looked to his side, seeing his sister and two brothers cowering in fear as two Starfleet officers stood with pointed phasers at the door at the end of the hallway. Felix and his siblings huddled together as Felix looked up to see his mother hugging his shoulders tightly.

"Stay back!" one of the Starfleet officers said. "Make sure you don't come any closer!"

Felix hugged his sister tightly as she held their two younger brothers.

"They've already breached the lower decks!" the other officer said. "You think this door'll hold?!"

"It's gonna have to," the first officer said, steeling himself and adjusting the grip on his phaser. "There isn't anywhere else for these civilians to go."

Felix heard the sound of phaser fire and screaming on the decks above him and below him. He fixed his terrified gaze on the door at the end of the corridor, hoping that it would hold against whatever chaos was outside. He reached up and clutched his mother as his siblings sat whimpering with him.

A noise came from the door. BANG BANG BANG. "Open up in there!" a voice on the other side screamed. The two officers clinched their jaws and silently readied their phasers. The commotion on the other end of the door stopped. Suddenly, a loud KA-CHUNK came from the other side of the door. The two officers looked at each other apprehensively as a faint beeping sound emerged.

"Oh no no no no no..." one of the officers said as his voice trailed off. He had just enough time to scream "GET BACK!" before the door exploded in front of him, sending him and the other security officer flying backward in a violent storm of metal and flame. Felix and his siblings shrieked as they made themselves as low to the floor as possible. One of the officers' phasers clattered on the floor of the corridor and landed in front of Felix.

Felix's mother immediately stood up and grabbed the phaser. "Get them out of here!" she shouted to Felix as she turned back to the intruding pirates and began opening fire, taking out two of them in three shots. Almost instinctively, Felix grabbed his sister and brother by the wrists as his other brother trailed behind them, sprinting down the corridor, hoping that they could find some way out.

Felix and his siblings came to a Jefferies Tube access point and clambered inside. They climbed down and through many winding corridors until coming to the Shuttle Bay. They sprinted toward an open shuttle while a man in a Flight uniform frantically waved them inside. The door closed behind them as the shuttle rocketed off from the wreckage of the civilian cruiser. Once away, Felix held his siblings as the four of them slowly slipped into tears, suddenly remembering they never had the chance to say goodbye to their mother.

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Felix then sat up in his bed, wiping the cold sweat from his brow once he did. He found himself in his quarters on the Black Hawk. Bleary-eyed, he looked around in the dark room and then out the window as the star field raced by.

"Computer," he croaked, "what time is it?"

The computer beeped affirmative upon hearing the question. "THE CURRENT TIME IS ZERO-THREE FORTY-FIVE HOURS," the voice confirmed as Felix rubbed his eyes and laid back on the pillow. His pulse raced as the lay wide-eyed staring at the ceiling.

Felix sighed as he unsuccessfully tried getting back to sleep. "Computer," he said as the familiar chime beeped, "start brewing some coffee. It looks like today's gonna be another long one."

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