As Ensign Nevaeh Stroyer ran off Lieutenant Taylor Kazansky saw the corridor of Starbase 12, where she’d been a new baby Security Ensign, and had to chase teens and others who had caused a disturbance in the shopping and common areas of the station. Taking off at a run she yelled, “Hey you Frengi, drop whatever you stole and get on the ground.”

She was in good shape, obviously, as she was a security officer still, but lacked some of the sheer speed she’d had back then when she was still doing track and field. Still, her long legs and pursuit of the criminal brought her nearer to Stroyer. Or at least near enough for an attempted diving tackle of the younger woman. Launching herself in the air she tried wrapping her arms around the other woman’s torso and pulling her down.

“Help!”, screamed Stroyer as she was tackled, ending up painfully on the floor. She had no idea what Kazansky saw, but she was very aware of what she perceived – that reoccurring nightmare of an undercover missions gone wrong. It has never actually happened, but it was something the Ensign had always worried about.

She had to get a message out, no matter what it took. But first, she had to make sure the enemy stopped pursuing her.

No, she wasn’t a security officer, and she (quite literally) lacked the punch of one. But that didn’t mean she wasn’t putting up a pretty good fight as she struggled to break free, and eventually managed to do so.

She scrambled back to her feet, and if she had looked behind her, she would have seen Kazansky doing the same but running off into a different direction. Then again she didn’t even perceive the woman as Kazansky, so having “the enemy” make a run for it was more of a happy development than the reason of concern it truly was.

Naveah sprinted towards the nearest console, furiously inputting the necessary commands for a distress call… until the hallucination faded, and she stared at the initiated self-destruct sequence on the screen in front of her.

“Ensign Shahr? Lieutenant Morishita?”, she called out, and when no reply came, she tried the comms.