The past.. The Watch

Posted on Sat May 1st, 2021 @ 7:28am by Avalon [ADMIN NPC]

Mission: Darkness Rising - A Phoenix Lalor Sub Plot
Location: RISA
Timeline: ** BACKPOST** 2395 - After the Elysium returned to Sol System during their hunt.
687 words - 1.4 OF Standard Post Measure

Commodore Heling sat quietly in the wonderfully appointed office in the well hidden bunker and watched the recorded feed from the Elysium. The Watch had the Command crew scurrying like rats on a sinking ship. It was... amusing. They were doing very well. They were not under his command, and they were obeying orders from their previous commanding officer.

And by doing so, they were distracting the Elysium's Command team from their search for him. His thought broke off as an officer in gray appeared in the doorway. "Commodore" he said coldly.

"Ah Lieutenant. What can I do for you?"

"Ah commodore, that is very easy. You can come with me and surrender to the Elysium's crew." Jackson Heilong raised a phaser rifle and aimed it at the Commodore. "You see Commodore, you are a loose end, and they do not like loose ends as you know."

Jasper Heling laughed. "Oh Lieutenant, what makes you think I will go quietly."

"I am hoping you won't." Came the cold reply. "The others, they do not know, what you did to the Elysium, which trapped us in the Andromeda Galaxy. All in the name of revenge on a man who didn't know you existed."

"And you think you do know?"

"I do indeed know. I also know that if Commander Lalor gets her hands on you, she will show you no mercy. She may pay lip service to the Federation laws but you are a traitor and she hates traitors, and I am sure if you are delivered alive, your brig cell will lose oxygen somehow and you won't make it to your trial. After she unleashes her crew onto you in an interrogation." Jackson smirked.

Jasper studied the young lieutenant before him. He had been assigned to the Elysium as a contact to Magnolia. And had led the cell after Magnolia's demise at the hands of Admiral Sharr.

"And just how do you think this is going to go?" He asked Heilong.

"Well, two ways Sir. One you resist, I shoot you and leave your carcass where the Elysium crew can find it. The other, we fight and I still leave your body for discovery. Either way Commodore, your life is over."

Heling stood up and brushed his hands together. "I doubt it. You are not a murderer Lieutenant."

"You do not know what I am Commodore." Jackson coldly replied. "I have done things in the name of the Watch, that would give nightmares. This, is just another duty."

"They will kill you, you know."

"Who? The Federation? Or the Watch?" He smirked.

"Both." The Commodore replied.

"Ah commodore, the Watch may try to kill me, but they are not my true masters. Come along now Commodore, let's do this.." He waved the Phaser rifle and followed the commodore out of the office.

The underground bunker was well shielded against all scans and there were all types of different blocking devices around. Jackson had evacuated the base hours earlier while the Elysium was in orbit and now was going through the chaos his so called team was causing.

The Commodore noticed that they were alone now. Helong was efficient he would give the young Lieutenant that. At least there was no one around to watch the event that the Lieutenant had planned.

Jackson was not sure he would get out of this himself but he had a plan. Already he had sent the needed clues to a locked box in one of the Main resorts. A message addressed to the chief of security of the Elysium would be delivered within the next few hours. It was very concise in its instructions.
He counted the steps and then said "Halt."

Heling stopped and turned. "And now what?"

"You die" Jackson snapped the rifle into position. Two swift shots later, the commodore was dead on the ground.

"That was for Andromeda." He said to the body with two smoking holes in its chest. Then he turned and walked away.

The body would remain there until the Elysium crew got there to recover it and the information from the Watch computers.