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     Cmdr. J. Darek |
The six hounds erupted just meters away from Darek Smith and Maiko D'Rall, Smith snarlled ferociously and started firing at the incoming attackers, but the hounds were fast and managed to dodge most of the shots Smith pumped out. Behind him, he could hear Maiko struggling to free her fallen father from the rubble of what had once been her home. Pity flooded Smith. He knew what it was to lose family. He had lost it all when he had come to M64 with the fleet. But he had found a new family, that of the Fleet at large and Coronado in particular. As the Hounds closed, and he picked one off, the thought of his own death at these creatures' hands didn't frighten him. But he realized in that instant that though he might never see his own children ever again, he had come to think of Maiko and all the other young officers on Coronado as his children after a fashion. When he saw the hounds snarling faces coming towards him, the ensign, and her injured father, Smith knew that he couldn't just let them die. He did what he would have done had his own daughter been there facing such odds. "Smith to Teresa!" The Coronado first officer shouted over the roaring of the hounds. "Two for emergency beam up!" Maiko looked up in question as Smith slapped his commbadge onto her father's shoulder. Before she could say anything to him, Smith shouted again to the open channel. "Energize!" ============== Christian D. Clem '01, aka "Aggie" Cmdr. J. Darek "BMF" Smith, XO U.S.S. Coronado NCC-97901 |