Ensign Noemi Lim - Jinxes coming home to roost

[Ensign Noemi Lim]

((Shuttlebay Corridor, IRW Ifir))

Noemi looked back at the doors they had just come through. They had stopped whatever it was from getting out after all. Even if the doors didn’t hold whatever was coming for them back for long it would at least buy them time.

Lim: Go back behind the doors? It would at least give us cover from whatever is coming. 

Another bang echoed through the corridor, as if to settle any potential argument.

Suddenly Adea ducked, as a metal pipe struck the bulkhead next to his head, and skittered down the hallway behind them.

Adea: We are Starfleet officers, we come in peace!

Yinn: We're on a rescue mission, we mean you no harm!

Lim: What they said.

Not the most dignified addition but in the moment Noemi couldn’t think of anything else that wasn’t repeating exactly what Adea and Yinn had already said. 

A low growling came from the shadows. Whoever or whatever it was, they didn't sound Romulan. 

Adea: ::calling down the corridor:: If you do not relent, we will be forced to fire. ::to his officers, as he drew his phaser:: Stun only, to start with.

Noemi double checked the setting on her phaser as she edged backwards, ready to dive behind cover if needed.

Lim: I’m set.

Adea: Response

Another low growl sounded from down the hallway in response. At the edge of their lights a shadowy figure appeared, indistinct, even with the light straight on it, but clearly person shaped. It was also large, their head nearly brushing the corridor ceiling. 

Noemi tried to expand her senses outward towards the person to at the very least get a feel for what they’re working with. If whoever they were could at least be reasoned with.

She felt nothing.

She didn’t hit the barrier, she just felt nothing.

Lim: Commander? I can’t feel anything from them, can you?

Adea/Yinn: Response

Whether it was their continued noise, some movement they made or maybe it could sense that they were using Betazoid abilities on it, but the figure turned aggressive. With a loud roar the figure raced towards them, far faster than .

Noemi fired her phaser, but it did nothing to the charging figure. In fact she’d swear later that the phaser fire didn’t even hit the thing. She swapped her phaser off of stun and raised it to fire again when the figure vanished into thin air like it had never been. 

Her heart felt like it was going to beat right out of her chest from all the adrenaline coursing through her. This was how people died of shock.

Lim: Okay. Disappearing shadow men. Man. 

Adea/Yinn: Response

She took several deep breaths, trying to calm her racing heart. 

Lim: So. ::She took one last deep breath::  What do you think, haunted ship, eldritch forces or dimensional phase shenanigans? 

Adea/Yinn: Response

Lim: I vote eldritch forces. They spaced too deep into things mortals were not meant to know.

She was a woman of science enough to know that there were things science couldn’t define despite what they wanted to think.

Dimensional phase issues would be the more likely one of the three, but the feel of this entire mission was so far on the spookier side of ‘science gone wrong’ end of things that she just didn’t believe it. At least on its own.

oO Note to self: Apparently if you mentally comment that the mission you just finished was the worst, the universe will hear and take that as a challenge. Oo

Adea/Yinn: Response

Tag/TBC

Noemi Lim

Ensign

USS Eagle

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