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--- current_story:threading_the_needle_part_2 [2020/09/28 02:19] – cromwell
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-~~DISCUSSION~~
 ====== Threading the Needle, Part 2 ======
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 **Location: Infirmary, Joint Base Jarok, Galorndon Core**
-Leon carefully scanned his patient in the biobed.  It was the third such scan he had made in the past five minutes, ensuring that all cardio-pulmonary signatures were normal -- or what accounts for normal under borderline malnutrition metabolisms.  Captain Stryker still had some "meat to put on his bones" as Nat Hawk's vernacular expounded back aboard Republic.  However, that didn't explain what appeared to be the inklings of a heart attack in the command center an hour ago.  While his electrolytes had returned to normal, his pulse was still slightly elevated, as was his blood pressure and galvanic skin response.  The appearance of Republic's assistant CMO had apparently caused a shock to his system that was a bit too much for his body to tolerate considering the current shape he was in.  While Shannon hadn't fully explained the reasoning behind the captain's reaction to her, she had an equally intense emotional response that indicated there was more going on here than anyone else realized.
+Leon carefully scanned his patient in the biobed.  It was the third such scan he had made in the past five minutes, ensuring that all cardio-pulmonary signatures were normal -- or what accounts for normal under borderline malnutrition metabolisms.  Captain Stryker still had some "meat to put on his bones" as Nat Hawk's vernacular would have expounded back aboard Republic if he had been there.  However, that didn't explain what appeared to be the inklings of a heart attack in the command center an hour ago.  While his electrolytes had returned to normal, his pulse was still slightly elevated, as was his blood pressure and galvanic skin response.  The appearance of Republic's assistant CMO had apparently caused a shock to his system that was a bit too much for his body to tolerate considering the current shape he was in.  While Shannon hadn't fully explained the reasoning behind the captain's reaction to her, she had an equally intense emotional response that indicated there was more going on here than anyone else realized.
 The sandy-haired doctor closed his tricorder with a brief sigh before taking one last look at the medical monitor on the wall.
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 "What about you, Virtus?" Saal asked the Malthusian engineer.  "You're the one who hates quantum reality crossovers.  You okay with this?"
-"As much as I dislike having people from different quantum realities walking around in foreign spacetime continuums," admitted Vic.  "The fact that the body of OUR John Carter has been traipsing around YOUR reality for four years doesn't seem to have affected things much over there.  Yes, I think we can make room for Captain Stryker here.  Besides, your captive Romulan centurion doesn't seem to want to go back with you either.  Something about duty -- or 'mnhei'sahe' as he called it -- to never show his face in the empire again due to his dishonor at losing his charge to an enemy.  If your mission today is a success, then it will have been worth the trade and we can unravel this entire mess we're in.
+"As much as I dislike having people from different quantum realities walking around in foreign spacetime continuums," admitted Vic.  "The fact that the body of OUR John Carter has been traipsing around YOUR reality for four years doesn't seem to have affected things much over there.  Yes, I think we can make room for Captain Stryker here.  Besides, your captive Romulan centurion doesn't seem to want to go back with you either.  Something about duty -- or 'mnhei'sahe' as he called it -- to never show his face in the empire again due to his dishonor at losing his charge to an enemy.  If your mission today is a success, then it will have been worth the trade and we can unravel this entire mess we're in."
-"Not to put the pressure on you," Shelby piped up.  "But there's a lot riding on this mission.  Keeping Captain Stryker and your Romulan prisoner here won't change things in the here an now.  But, if it's one less thing you have to worry about on your way backwards and forwards in quantum spacetime, then I'm perfectly fine with it."
+"Not to put the pressure on you," Shelby piped up.  "But there's a lot riding on this mission.  Keeping Captain Stryker and your Romulan prisoner here won't change things in the here and now.  But, if it's one less thing you have to worry about on your way backwards and forwards in quantum spacetime, then I'm perfectly fine with it."
 "Now remember," warned Vic.  "There should be NOTHING of inorganic substance from this quantum reality with you when you leave this universe.  Tissue, flesh, food, and drink are all fine.  But, if you left anything else behind... ANYTHING bigger than a single strand of synthetic fiber from your clothes... it has the potential to become a chroniton magnet.  I don't want to be seeing you two again if we can avoid it."
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 "Energize."
-//(to be continued)//
+//([[current_story:threading_the_needle_part_3|to be continued]])//
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