The Tribalator 3: Rise of the Tribbles

Posted on 29 Jul 2014 @ 3:53am by Commander Luke Wyatt & Ensign Jaana Voutilainen
Edited on on 30 Jul 2014 @ 8:05pm

1,015 words; about a 5 minute read

Mission: Episode 06 - Legend of Souls
Location: USS Galileo - Deck 6, Waste Recycling
Timeline: MD 07 - 1630 hrs

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Luke wasn't best pleased he to had now been drafted into helping with the ongoing pandemic of the tribbles. He had been paired of with someone outside of his department just like most so that it didn't interfere with the ships operations but luke was certain they were far beyond that. Leaning against the wall next to near one of the turbo lifts on deck 6. Checking his watch he saw he was a few minutes early but he felt restless wanting to get this over and done with.

Jaana rounded the last corner and saw that the person she was paired up with was already present. She still had some trouble finding her way around the ship. "Lieutenant Wyatt?" Jaana asked.

Luke pushed of the walk with he elbows and held out his right hand "You've got the right person, you must be ensign Foutilanen?" He asked unsure on the pronunciation.

"Voutilainen," Jaana replied and shook his hand. "So, what do we need to do axactly here? Catch Tribbles?"

"Voutilainen" Luke repeated to himself quietly before answering her question "I guess that's the plan, the little pests have gotten into the waste recycling and you can imagine the growth they're going through with all that rubbish... This is just the ring I warned them about"

"Warned them about what? Hungry tribble?" she asked as she pulled up her sleeves, ready to do something about the tribble problem. They were everywhere and she had tripped over them numerous times.

Luke followed suit an topknot his jacket placing it on the corner of one of the consoles "Pretty much, as soon as they said that they were going to the Tribbles farm on Rigel I warned them not to bring Any back, naturally they did"

Jaana giggled. "Offcourse they did. And who can do the clean up. We..."

"...Do" Luke laughed "Right shall we get down to it?" he asked standing facing the door.

"Do we have a choice?" she replied as they entered the waste recycling room. "Oh my" Jaana said as she saw the size of the tribbles in the room. "They are huge!"

Luke looked around the room as tribbles purred at their presence "This is possibly my worst ever nightmare send me against battalions of Borg any day" he picked up one particular large one "This guy is on steroids geez"

"So what are we suppose to do about them? Can't just shoot all of them. They are living beings." Jaana said as she looked around the room and sighed about the number of Tribbles.

"Round them up and take them bit by bit to the science labs, they're trying to keep them contained there until we can find a better way if getting rid of them" Luke was fine with shooting them he disliked tribbles a lot!

"Ok" she said and knelt beside the tribbles. "Can't we just transport them all to that lab, instead of bring each of them."

"I wish we could but the transporters are being prioritized for the transfer of teams going down to the mine and back, if everyone used the transporters they most likely explode!" He joked wishing that they could use the transports it would be far more easy but the sheer mass of Tribbles would be a nightmare to lock onto.

Jaana packed up hands full of tribbles, carefully trying to hold them as they moved without breaking them. She headed for the door with her first load and turn to Luke. "Shall we?"

"Let's begin" he said somewhere behind a pile of tribbles...

1 hour later

Luke sat down, his sleeves rolled up and his jacket over his head "That was so much harder than I thought it was" came his voice from underneath his jacket "Are you still alive?" He asked.

"Barely, but yes." Jaana said. In the last hour they had been moving tribbles from this room to the science lab. She also heard some interesting rumors. "Are the rumors true? About you and Tuula?" she asked.

Luke let put an audible sigh "News travels so damn quick on this ship! I am interested to hear what exactly you heard though!" He asked sitting up and removing the jacket from his face.

"Well, according to the rumors, you're my brother in law and you two made out this morning in the mess hall." Jaana said with humor sounding in her voice.

Luke had to laugh at that "Wow, well you have to give them credit for imagination! To tell you the truth we did kiss but it was just a ruse to get rid of that jerk she said she'd used to see in the pass."

"That sounds exactly like Tuula." Jaana said. "So I don't need to threaten you with bodily harm if you treat her badly?"

Nodding in agreement he laid back down "Well not anytime soon but she was a great kisser!" He teased the truth was he didn't know how he felt about it. He had only just recently kissed scarlet who he now understood was only ever going to be a friend despite his heart ache.

"Hey," she said as she give him a elbow to the ribs. "That's my sister you're talking about"

Luke laughed "I'm joking, I'm joking! So what exactly happened with this guy? She didn't stick around to explain much" he asked turning on his side and propping himself up by his elbow.

Jaana moved over to the wall and used it to lean against with her head. "That's the weird part. They dated for a few months and then broke up. But seeing how she is responding to his presence here, I feel there is more going on then a simple break up. She really detests him."

Luke nodded, "Clearly! Enough so she'd kiss a complete stranger in arts rot to scare him off"

Jaana chuckled. "Believe me. She has done crazier stuff. But this one definitely ends in the top 5"

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Lieutenant (JG) Luke Wyatt
Acting Chief Security Officer
USS Galileo

Ensign Jaana Voutilainen
Stellar Cartographer
USS Galileo

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