Sheena's Hunt for Her Parents

Posted on Sun Jan 30th, 2022 @ 4:51am by Captain Maia Sterling & Lieutenant Commander Sheena Toran-Blake & Commander Ryan Blake

Mission: The Riixian Insurection
Location: Shuttle/Betazed

ON:


When her shuttle landed, she jumped into the bush and sent the shuttle to a staging area that was secure. Sheena searched out the minds of her grandparents and headed in their direction. It was by a miracle that her grandfather had learned the location of the bunker where her father was. Her grandmother knew where her mother was being held through a friend who was working in the capital. The hard part now was to get both them, her grandparents and herself back to the Leto alive.

Having so many uninhabited islands on Betazed, made it great for having hidden bunkers and area stockpiles. Be it weapons, or food, these areas were well hidden and nearly invisible.

Sheena made good time in reaching her grandparents, aside from the two little skirmishes her security entourage eliminated as they arrived at the meeting place. After giving both hugs and kisses they sat down to plan the rescue of her parents.

"Grandfather, how did you ever find dad? I thought you said he was impossible to find," Sheena said as she checked her gear.

Regan Toran looked at his granddaughter with fatigue and concern. Obtaining the information where his son-in-law was being kept had come at a price. He had served in the Betazed judiciary for decades, and as such, precided over numerous cases as a magistrate. One of his last cases before retirement six months ago had been a matter of high treason against the state. The defendant had been sentenced to death and it had taken calling in every favor he'd had to commute the sentence to life with parole at 20 years. The defendant had then provided a list of safe houses used by the Riixian Caliphate. Vaughn was now confirmed to be held at a safe house in the Southern Province of the main continent. He carefully laid out all the information to Sheena.

Ciri Toran was 97 years old, and still fairly spry for a woman of her advanced age. She was also a good hostess. She brought out some coffee and cookies for her grand daughter hobbling just a bit. For a woman of her advanced years she moved better than she had in 20 years, the excitement of the times had seemed to invigorate her.

"Refresh yourself young one." Ciri thought at Sheena. Her telepathic abilities were as formidable as her wealth and resources.

"Thankyou grandmother," Sheena thought gently back, as her own telepathic abilities were just as strong. "You are looking good these days. Tell me where they have mom. I have to get a coded message back to the Leto for the marine detachment to meet us here in the staging area. We can't do this without them," she verbally said, finishing up her cookies and coffee.

"They are underground on the 2nd moon under Niation falls. The caliphate has a base 2 kilometers under the waterfalls. Your parents are there. there is an abandoned missile silo approximately 5 kilometers southwest of the base. Most of their resources are focused on controlling the vote. They seem to have a limited ability to control thoughts or at least crowd them out. You must not underestimate them." Ciri said.

Sheena examined all the information her grandfather showed her and agreed that the marines should come directly to the staging area 5 klicks southwest of the evacuation point where Sheena had sent her shuttle. Even with the marines going in and control of the bio weapon ahead of Sheena, the only thing that was on her mind was to get her injured parents and her grandparents out safely and quickly back to the Leto.

"Grandfather how soon can we get moving? Both dad and mother are in trouble and injured. Neither of them can I sense which means they are too badly injured or worse," Sheena said next to tears.

Regan gave Sheena a gentle pat on her shoulder. "Rest for a few minutes. We can leave when your team is ready."

"I have to send an encrypted message to the Leto with the coordinates of the location of the weapon. My CO is going to send in the marines to destroy or capture the weapon. I can't wait for the marines to back us up getting mom and dad. Their injuries are too severe", Sheena said to her grandparents.

"I have a subspace transmitter which you can send and encrypted message." Ciri thought.

"Thankyou grandmother," Sheena thought to Ciri. Once in front of the view screen Sheena began, =/\= Priority One Message to Leto, Capt. Sterling. Have located parents and bio weapon. Marines will be needed to get the weapon secured and destroyed. I will extract parents from an old missile silo on the second moon. Niation falls is where the missile silo 2 miles under the falls and we will extricate them and not wait to rendezvous with you mid flight to Betazed. End Communication =/\= Satisfied that the message was sent, now was the time to move out.

Regan hugged his granddaughter. 'Bring your mother and father home little one."

=/\= Leto Acknowledges, we will form teams once you get to Niation falls you will rendezvous with the 95 rifles and assume operational command. Leto Out =/\=

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Regan Toran
Sheena's Grandfather
Betazed Judiciary Magistrate (retired)

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Ciri Toran
Sheena's Grandmother/Retired diplomat
Toran Matriarch

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Lt Commander Sheena Toran
Executive Officer
USS Leto NCC-80916