Early Release

Posted on Sun Jul 26th, 2015 @ 6:54am by Lieutenant Mickey McClane & Commander Bertrand Cuprum & Commander Cor Cordale & Lieutenant & https://victory.pegasusfleet.net/index.php/personnel/character/8
Edited on on Tue Sep 1st, 2015 @ 11:56pm

Mission: Shoreleave and Repairs
Location: The Mess Hall
Timeline: Sometime after Mickey was released and re-evaluated

Mickey McClane, now a free man. Went to the mess hall. Acting Ensign Aladdin was with him. He decided to host a party to the fact he had been released. Mickey, was just wanting to enjoy his life again, now that there was no confinement he can get his act together now. Mickey arrived at the mess hall wondering if the Chef had prepared for food.

"Chef Summers?" Mickey called out as Aladdin sniffed for him.

"Well, i guess he's not here but boy the food looks great." Mickey said as he was surprised that he was that damn good.

Aladdin picked up on his scent. "He's in the back Mickey."

Trax Barely heard his name as he was in the back pantry looking for something. He stopped and moved back to the dining area. "Hello there What can I do for you? Mickey wasn't it and Aladdin??" Trax asked them both.

"I want to say my good man. You did a fine job. All this food and all that, well done. Take the rest of the day off and join me in my party for my release. Thats an order" Mickey said to him seriously but nicely as well.

"Aye sir!" as he gave an ancient salute towards Mickey and Aladdin. As he gave a laugh afterwards. "I don't see why not I am relatively done with everything anyhow." as he walked over to both of them. "So Whats your pleasure?? He asked moving towards the small makeshift bar He set up earlier.

The Thux padded into the Mess for a little relaxation when he heard Trax's question. Well, ask a question, expect an answer right?

"My pleasure?" he chuckled, "As far as drinks go, Kentucky Bourbon, neat, and warm it up a bit if you could." the Thux requested of the chef-turned-bartender. He saw Mickey and Aladdin, and gave them both a nod as he took a seat with the group. "Mick, Al. Good to see you both." he abbreviated their names.

"I'm having the strangest feeling of Deja'Thux here." he joked with a smirk.

"Nope not today, besides I'm a free man i intend to enjoy myself my good man." Mickey said to the thux nicely. He then picked up some romulan ale. "Don't tell Bertrand, and i won't. Besides, we never got to have that chat" Mickey snickered. "This party's boring my good man time to invite some people.

Mickey said as he tapped the com.

=A= Any and All available officer's please come to the Mess hall=A= Mickey called through the intercom.

It sounded to Moriloth that there might be problem. Rather than call for clarification, she lightly hastened to the galley. Upon seeing the festivities, she drifted over to a corner. As was common, Mori's imaginaries didn't all manifest at once. Her Orion drifted among the tables with a smile. Her new Borg, however, was contented to sit quietly with her in the corner. She asked, "Thirsty?" He slowly shook his head.

Wyatt heard the call come over the overhead speakers in his quarters. At first he was confused as to why everyone was being called, but he shrugged his shoulders and decided to see what was going on. Wearing civilian clothing, he exited his quarters and headed to the mess hall. A couple of minutes passed by, and Wyatt entered the mess hall, where people had already assembled.

"OK! Kentucky Bourbon Neat and heated! got ya!" as he got the drink together. "here you go!" He looked at Mickey again. "Well I see your all set Mickey!" He grabbed a glass of ice and added some water and relaxed with that for the time being.

"Thank you kindly good sir." Cordale said as he claimed his glass.

"Wheres, Antos? He should have been here by now" Mickey wondered

"Antos is coming down the hall!" Trax commented as he was mixing a sumarian sunset in a glass. As the doctor entered the door noticing that Trax and Mickey were chatting. Antos smiled politely as he felt on parade as he moved to the Bar. "Hello Antos! Here this is for you I believe you need this."Trax commented as he passed the drink towards the good doctor as he tapped the glass as the mixture came to life with an amazing glow."WOW!" Antos said looking amazed. "But how??" Trax stopped him before he spoke."I know!!" Trax said quickly as he took a drink of ice water."thank you!" Antos commented with a slight blush.

Antos looked at mickey and Aladdin."hello Guys! looking at them. and blushing a bit more. "I see you back into the forbidden drink! Antos commented quietly at them. Trax looked up Its fine Doctor besides this is a freedom party for Mickey here." Trax commented lowly. "Ok we better keep an eye or mind out for the police so that Mickey don't do a return trip back to confinement." Antos and Trax commented at the same time like they were twins. As the both let out a small laugh. "We better keep our thoughts controlled as well! He might pick up on it."Antos said quickly. Trax looked at him a moment like he was going to say something bad then stopped. Antos noticed the look. "I know I know!" Antos let out a sigh."I just don't want to let this happen again !" Antos moved away towards the windows and looked out at the stars passing the window.

Aladdin walked to Antos and kindly smiled at his shipmate. "If you think that Bertrand got the upper hand last time wait until you see what mickey can do." Aladdin said nicely as he looked at mickey and he brought out a new invention to keep Bertrand out of our heads in the meantime. "I made it, because i preferred if we didn't have our minds violated. I call it the mind blocker, for parties only, Antos. And watch this" Mickey got out his second invention the portable wristwatch which made the romulan ale disappeared. "Now, that my supplies and party stuff is set. let's do it" Mickey said as he turned on the mind blocking machine to keep everything to ourselves.

Trax felt a light wave of dizziness a moment but cleared as fast at it came on. Antos looked up back to them at the bar as he got a wave of dizzyness come over him and he quickly took a seat. "how much testing have you done with theses devices??" Antos asked calmly as he took a good drink of his samarian sunset drink that Trax made for him. Trax was going to ask the same thing but Antos beat him to the question. "Is the bottle cloaked?" Trax asked before antos asked on that one.

"So... you made a something that can block telepathy... and then you made something else to make the booze vanish?" Cor asked with a hint of skepticism. "Seems the easiest way to do either of those is to not think guilty thoughts..." Cordale started before taking a swig of his bourbon. "Ooo that's good. So yeah, no guilty thoughts, or just have a mind that folks don't enjoy looking at." a pause. "As for the booze, rather then Romulan Cloak the Romulan Ale, why not trim back on the restricted stuff and get a taste for something less restricted?" Cor motioned his bourbon around.

"Restriction Free Booze, Mickey. Restriction Free Booze. Hear it's siren's call." the Thux gave a good chuckle before he took another swig.

"Keeping our minds clear of guilty thoughts will help in case." Antos said calmly. Trax agreed with him. "An extra ounce of prevention is a plus." Trax looked at the door a moment. the went back to drinking his water. "Maybe we should play some cards or add some music to the gathering." Trax offered.

"I play a mean bass." Cor said in somewhat of an answer to Trax's remark about music. "I favor the four string fretless. Some folks tell me I should play a bass with more strings, but as you can see..." he held up his hands. Four fingers and a thumb on his living hand, and two fingers and a thumb on the prosthetic. "... I quickly run out of fingers."

Mickey decided to reveal his secret of the romulan ale he had. "This is my special blend of romulan ale. It's Blue punch." Mickey snickered as he decided music would be good. "Cor, can you play stand by me?" Mickey asked nicely and Aladdin joined in. "If he's doing stand by me i'll be the backup dancer.

"Really? You sure that isn't Blue Punch with a kick?" Cor asked with a snicker. "Sure, lemme go snag my bass." and Cor put his drink down with the 'I'll be back for that' look at Trax, then headed out of the Hall.

He'd return a few minutes later with a case in one hand, a small cube with a handle by the other hand, and a small PaDD under an arm. He pulled up a stool and put the cube down, showing it to be some form of speaker. Then he opened the case, showing a legit four string bass inside. A wire was strung between the bass and the speaker, and Cor gave one of the strings a pluck. The hum of the bass through the speaker told the Thux all he needed to know. Everything was working. He set up the PaDD to stand on a backstand, which had the music sheet for the song displayed. A quick few strums to tune the bass to his preference, and he was set.

Even though he was actually Left Handed, he played as though he were a Righty. Easier to hold the neck with fewer fingers, and also easier to keep an eye on said fingers.

"Funny!? Mickey?" Antos commented as he finished off his drink and placed it on the bar. As he took a seat in the corner away from the others. Trax looked all he could do is shake his head. As he refilled his ice water. "Well are you going to play for us??" looking at Cor. Trax was going to say something more but He thought Antos needed time alone.

"Mickey requested an oldie but goldie, 'Stand By Me'. I have the sheet music here." and after a few more tuning strums, he started to play. Say what you want about his fashion sense or his choice of booze... this Thux could play a mean bass.

Mickey got up and danced. "Cor, your right i did add a little bit of flavor. But not to much, besides i don't want to mess up" Aladdin then joined in as a backup singer. He didn't howl, or be loud, he sang in perfect tone that matches the song as he was glad this was all said and done.

Antos could admit that Cor was very talented player. He could feel the music hitting his soul. ~Why did he pick that song~ Antos thought to himself. As a tear fell from his eye as he turned away as he focused out the window. Trax barely caught the change in Antos even with the dampener on. It started to give Trax a headache as he had to really concentrate on Antos to tell. "Excuse me!" Trax said quietly not to interrupt the others as he went to check on Antos. He quietly moved to the other side of the room where Antos said staring out the window.

"Antos are you ok? I noticed a change in you?" Trax asked him standing next to him. but not touching him. "You haven't heard have a seat." Antos said wiping the tear away as he tried to hold his control. Trax sat down near him as he started to tell him what had happened during the occupation of Betazed and the murder of his grand parents and He had been forced to watch and he was the next for torture and die but the Dominion forced bugged out leaving him tied to there torture device as they left it on and left. "The song was my grandparents favorite." Antos said as another tear escaped his eye.

"Oh! My Goddesses!! I had no I dead you were part of that ordeal." Trax sat there in shock. "I was on earth when all that happened." Trax said quickly still a bit shaken. As he moved closer to him to give him a warm hug and he helped strengthen his barriers at least for now. Antos did not fight the hug off. He embraced it and took comfort in it. "Thank you!" Antos commented quietly to Trax. "No thanks are necessary Antos!" Trax commented as he continued to hugs a bit longer before letting go as he sat back as he tried to let it all sink in. "I am glad you made it alive." He said softly to Antos.

"Me too!" Antos commented softly to Trax. "I would have never seen your sparkling personality I have missed for so long ago." He smiled briefly as the smile faded as fast as it appeared. Trax looked over at the others as the song finished. "How about something a bit more cheery! " Trax asked quickly. Looking back at Antos lets get you to loosen up a bit you definately need it." trax commented as he grabbed Antos hand and made him come back towards the bar. Traxs grabbed a pitcher of Andorian Brandy and sat it on the counter and poured them all a drink. "A toast!!" Trax commented quickly "To absent family and friends!" As they both drank there drinks straight down.

"To family." Cor said, joining in the toast as the song ended. He took a moment to take a swig of his bourbon, and then.. "Cheery, eh? Okay, here's the ole' Thux theme song."

He gave his bass a strum, and then he started to tap his foot to a beat. Then the bass started up. Then, and blame the bourbon... the Thux started to sing.

"Wwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell... Some people say a man is made out of mud, A poor man's made out of muscle and blood. Muscle and blood and skin and bones, A mind that's weak and a back that's strong."

"You load sixteen tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go! I owe my soul to the company store."

Cor could hold his liquor, but whether he could hold a tune? It wasn't terrible... but at least he could play the bass.

Trax was not sure if this song was better then the first one. It still sounded rather sad to him. Anto was uncertain himself about the new song but he agreed cor was a great player and a fair singer." I need another drink."Antos commented to Trax and trax filled both there glasses. "here you go!" Trax commented quietly checking to see if anyone needed refills.

Cor finished the song, and then took a swig of his bourbon. "The Thux theme song," he gave a smirk, "So, what's next on the list?" while random strummings turned into something of casual background music. Well, the bass line of casual background music.

The door swished open and the rabbitess Valeria made her way in. To those in the Mess Hall, she gave a polite nod. "Afternoon gentlemen, ladies. Apologies for arriving late." she announced, before she turned her attention to Trax the barkeep. "Black tea, if you please?"

"So, what's the cause of the occasion?" she asked.

Trax moved away from antos to get Valeria her order. "One fresh black tea coming up."Trax said with a small smile. as he got everything together. "here you go All for you>" As he check others drinks before moving back to Antos.

The only two that he knew so far was Valeria, and the doctor. "Hello again, Lieutenant," he said addressing the rabbitess. He was at the bar already, nursing a whiskey neat.

The rabbitess turned in kind to glance at her boss with a nod, "Lieutenant." she replied in kind, then gave a soft smirk, "We need to stop meeting like this." she joked.

Aladdin Noticed Morolith, he then walked up to her. He was casual and formal as he usually is and a gentleman dog, too. "You seem lost there kiddo?" Aladdin said nicely as he offered his paw to her.

The human offshoot returned her usual glazed-over stare for a moment. She took gentle hold, "Nah! I'm making all kinds of new friends!"

"Hey, your the new science officer?!? Welcome to the party, have something to eat" Mickey said to him nicely as he didn't catch his name, maybe he will in a minute. as soon as he walks up and puts away the romulan ale like drink into his watch. He then brought out a new drink for the group.

"Punch romaine, y'all. I made it myself for special occasions. it was a cocktail drunk by the first class guests on the titanic during their last dinner. But we will change all that as we will be the finest crew in the fleet" Mickey said proudly and triumphantly.

Antos looked up. "I can drink to that!!" as he downs the drink in one shot. Trax just stared at him a long moment.Before moving back behind the bar to get more Ice water for him to drink. Trax looked at mickey now. "Yea! That's a good toast." Trax grabbed his water and moved casually back to Antos. "Slow down Antos I don't need me pealing you off the floor." Trax commented quickly. Antos turned to him and looked into Trax's eyes. "I'm sorry!" Antos said as he moved back to the corner again to get some distance between the others and him. Trax looked as he moved away he moved around the bar and stopped him. "Your not alone and you don't need to push me away." Trax commented as he placed his hand on Antos chest to prevent him from moving any further.

"Please Antos I am here now I am sorry I was not there before But I am here now." Trax Commented as he focused on the moment and ignore everyone else. Antos stopped fighting Trax as he gave in let him help him. Trax was going to say something but was stopped by Antos started to kiss him on the lips for a good minute. Before coming up for air. as Trax's face showed shock at the surprise of the moment. "Thank you!" Trax commented finally. as he found a seat quickly before falling over. Antos continued to look at Trax a moment before he spoke. "no thank you!" Antos said as he finally smiled at Trax and the others. "You gave be the courage to move past my problems and create a new bond." Antos said calmly to Trax.

Trax Started to smile as the words sank in. As he took a drink of his water he had with him. Antos moved back to the bar and grabbed another glass of water and took a seat near Trax. An d sat there quietly as things settled.

Valeria turned to watch the scene between Trax and Antos. At the culmination she gave a soft smile, "It's such a pleasure to watch something resolve itself nicely." she commented before taking a sip of her tea.

"You said it sister." Cordale commented as he continued to strum some background bass.

Mickey went up to the table with his punch romaine. He then tapped his glass gently for everyone to hear. "Officers! May i have your attention, Please? Thank you, and cor don't stop playing your music. Mickey said nicely then turned to this toast. "Gentlemen, ladies, imaginary people and Acting Ensign. We have all gather across the universe to amass into the unknown reaches of the Beta Quadrant. Now at least with all of us we would turn out to be a find crew. But As for the Newly Promoted Commander, i will have to be honest. Ever sense that time i threaten suicide on myself, he made me more fearful of him but yet. Yet, he made me more appreciative of life, But even though I'm going to follow the rules more. There is two things for me that y'all will expect. One we will be having party's like these down in the mess hall more, but the party for the newly promoted commander was awesome at best. But he still has a lot to learn about us, but i will give him the benefit of the doubt, that crazy Son of a gun went through hell on Wolf359. The federation that we once were is gone, but now this is a different federation era, we have to move on. But lastly on the first note, let's never forget who we are. Second, thank you all for taking me and my dog in under your wings, i know i am a Crazy Bastard, but you know whenever we have good friend to keep us going, it makes us look forward to next day." Mickey said and then toasted to the small group in the room. "To friendship" Mickey smiled at the group. "Indeed" Aladdin smiled and jumped in.

A smirk played across the rabbitess' features, "To friends." she chimed in, holding up her tea.

Cordale gave a nod at the toast to join in, but without a third arm he couldn't exactly join in on the toast.

"Fellas, Stay here enjoy the party i need to call Commander Bertrand. No he's not invited i want my piece back. Antos and Cor, lock the door until i come back. I'm going outside, Aladdin stay here" Mickey said to the three as he went out to the hallway hoping Antos and cor locked the door.

Antos stood up and walked to the door and tapped the lock door controls. As Mickey instructed then came back to sit with Trax. "So whats next??" Antos commented calmly to the others as he debated over playing the piano again. He had not played it since his grandparents death. Trax knew he was toiling over something. "you don't have to right now?" Trax told him. "there is plenty of time to start again you already did one milestone we don't have to over do it." Trax said with a smile. Antos looked at him. "I know its been a great while since I played the piano." Antos said with a sigh. "This whole deal was tugging hard at his heart." Trax said. "enough torture!! that's my job!!" He smiled an evil grin at Antos as he blushed a bit after the comment. Antos blushed a bit himself after that comment as he took a good drink of water.

"OK!!OK!! Not now." Antos finally said quickly to Trax as he settled down. "Good!" Trax came back quickly. "I will soon!" Antos gave an evil look at Trax. "OK!" Trax commented and got quiet as Trax returned back to the bar to get another glass fill of water. He hoped all went well with Mickey as he tried to wait for him to ask for remittance to the party.

=A= Commander Bertrand, to the outside door of the mess hall please?=A= Mickey called him through the com-link.

A voice spoke behind him, "I'm already here, Mickey."

Bertrand was leaning on the wall just out of Mickey's direct line of sight. He straightened and moved over to Mickey holding out the antique replica phaser and charge pack.

"Your 2270 era phaser," he said passing the unit across. "They were notorious for power loss through the Type 1 housing interface, which is why we switched to the more integrated modern version. You might want to look at the Key grip, too. I think the trigger pulls to the left."

"I'll check it out later, i might just build a new one soon. The 2285 era, i like that one the most but I'll check this out later" Mickey said smiling as was happy to have his piece back.

"Also, your blue punch is a nice touch. I might even be tempted to join you in a glass."

Mickey pulled a bottle of the blue punch which has it labeled for commander Bertrand himself. "Better not have any right now commander, remember your on duty. Oh, then you must know..." Mickey said with disbelief, but he should remember that no matter what Bertrand would always find a way

Looking at Mickey's stunned expression Bertrand actually laughed, "I wouldn't be much of a chief security officer if I didn't know what was happening on my own ship, would I. I could've read half of it from Cor when he left to get his bass, or from you now, given you stepped outside of your suppression field. I didn't need to. You forgot one important thing from the meeting."

Bertrand held up the PADD he had which was showing a video feed of the party behind the locked doors. It appeared as if the footage was being taken from hip height and it wasn't clear how it was being taken till someone leant over and asked the camera if it would like a pat.

"24 hour surveillance, remember?" Bertrand reminded him. "And that means you need to take him with you when you decide to step outside for some reason."

"Oh, sorry." Mickey just said and short.

Bertrand eyed the man, his emotions were awash now that he was outside of the inhibitor; pain, shame, fear, desperation, frustration. Bertrand drew a grim face.

"Tell you what I am going to do, just this once," Bertrand said to the newly reinstated Operations officer. He tapped the PADD and the screen went dead. "Let me know when the party is over so I can turn it back on. And if you breath a word of this to anyone I will have you back in stocks for breaking bail."

"Thank you, Commander." Mickey said in short as he was about to knock on the door.

Bertrand turned to leave and then turned back, "Can I ask a favour?"

Mickey turned around with a look on his face hoping it wasn't bad. "As long as you don't send me to the chief engineer to do a level three diagnostic on the port plasma relays." Mickey chuckled a moment. "What is it though, Commander?" Mickey was waiting for his favor.

"Turn off that damn inhibitor device," Bertrand grimaced. "It's giving me a headache."

With that Bertrand turned, the Dormant PADD in one hand, and bottle of blue sugar water in the other, and left Mickey to his party.

Mickey just laughed and knocked on the door. He heard it unlocked from the otherside. "Well, at least i got my piece back. Everyone, i think the commander was annoyed with the inhibitor, that prevented him from knowing the room. I'll turn it off, but at least he will respect our privacy" Mickey smiled as he walked up to cor. "Cor, can you play the song. Only yesterday, sang by the carpenters?" Mickey asked as he drank a sip of punch romaine, and reappered the blue punch.

"Only the Bass parts." the Thux said with a smirk. He brought his current 'background' piece to a close and finished off his bourbon. "If I'm gonna be playing, gonna keep it straight for the moment. Think I can get some birch beer?" he asked Mickey. "Gonna stay dry for the while, too much booze and the fingers get sloppy." a pause, "All of them." he smirked.

"Of course, Cordell." Mickey said as he put up the punch romaine back into the watch but left the blue fruit punch out. "The blue fruit punch is non-alcoholic so we're fine any other drinks we have is nothing to worry about" Mickey said nicely

"It's Cordale." Cor said with a smirk, "If you're going to butcher Ferengi, please just call me Cor, and let me try some of the blue." he smirked, "And I can hold my liquor. Please. I'd be a poor Thux if I couldn't. Just easier to play when I know where all eight of my fingers are."

"And yes, Ferengi." he now held his head up to display the collar he wore, and the hexagonal dog tag attached. Etched into the surface was a Ferengi number.

"Of Course, Cordale." Mickey apologized as he grabbed his guitar and joined antos with music.

Balance had been restored. In Mickey's eyes things will be different.