Post # 30 " The Bird and the Spider"

Posted on Tue Jun 30th, 2020 @ 10:39pm by Commodore Cyndi Song & Captain Jackson Porter

Mission: The Restroffs (Space Spiders)
Location: USS Amandora
Timeline: Concurrent to 20-24

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The growth of webs increased dramatically near the Amandora rather suddenly as the wing squad observed.

Still launched after escorting the shuttle back from the Brol vessel it was the duty of Captain Jackson Porter to protect the ship like bees around the hornets nest.

Porter watched as the webs grew while they flew in a CAP around the Amandora. He keyed his comm. =/\= "Porter to Foster, keep an eye on the webs. There's no telling what's going to come out of them at any moment." =/\=

=/\= "Roger, sir. I'll stay on the Amandora's ventral starboard side." =/\=

=/\= "Sounds good, I'll stay opposite of you. Porter out." =/\= The line closed and Porter glanced down at his scanners. The webs were still expanding, but other than that, there was nothing too weird on his scanners. He keyed the comm again. =/\= "Porter to Amandora." =/\=

" This is Lt Kordell at tactical. We have a situation in the cargo bay. Please continue your patrols. Sensors show numerous spiders heading this way if possible try to deflect them from reaching the Amandora."

"Wonderful," Porter said to himself. =/\= "Roger, we'll do what we can. Porter out. Foster, form up on me. We're going to try and turn these spiders away from the ship." =/\=

=/\= "Roger, moving to your position, sir." =/\=

First Officer Will Raymond quickly arrived upon summons from Lt Kordell.

" Status report?"

" Sir the fighter were in bound but I have deferred them due to the situation in the cargo bay. Numerous spiders are moving toward us with a web." Kordell reported.

" Maintain shields, communications are being attempted." Will replied.

Meanwhile more spiders emerged from the funnel web as they began firing lobs of proto energized webs at the fighters.

" Sir the spiders have targeted our air wing."

" Captain Porter defensive posture minimal weapons if possible." ordered the XO.

=/\= "Aye, sir, we'll do what we can, but I can't guarantee that our lowest settings won't still hurt them." =/\=

" The Captain is in negitiations with these spiders. Bob and weave Captain Porter." Will replied.

=/\= "Roger, Porter out. Foster, set your phasers on their absolute lowest setting. We want to drive them away from the Amandora, not kill them." =/\=

=/\= "Aye, sir, following you." =/\=

Porter and Foster both set their weapons to their lowest settings and turned towards the spiders. =/\= "Ready...fire!" =/\= Golden phaser bolts fired from both ships. Porter's volleys bounced off of the hard underbelly protection of one. However, Foster's shots were too perfect and the second volley sliced off one of the legs of the lead one.

=/\= "Crap!" =/\= Foster exclaimed.

=/\= "Cease fire!" =/\= Porter replied. They both watched to see hot the group would react. The one that lost the leg curled up like a typical Terran spider would, and the others all spread out to avoid the new perceived threat.

=/\= "Porter to Raymond, I think we have a problem." =/\=

" What's the problem Captain?" Will asked.


The attending spiders quickly pounced on the injured one and devoured it as its energy seem to fuel them up. Then turning attention back to the fighters.


< Bridge >

Will watched and tapped his badge.

" Raymond to Captain Song. You wanted on the bridge." he said. The ships deflector was in perfect parallel to produce sufficient repulser power to slow their forward advance.

" Create a repulser beam and fire it at that cluster." he ordered.

" Sir we only have 50% power to the tractor as shields are at maximum." replied helm.


Cyndi arrived on the bridge just in time to hear the report. "We'll have to risk it, fire."

Helm fired and the repulser beam repelled the dozen or so spiders back allowing the fighter time to high step back to the ship.

" Fighters aboard, shields up." Kordell reported. " Captain the spiders are retreating."

Then a strange call come to Cyndi from Kal, the boy.

=/\= Captain...this is Kal.The spider mum wants to go home.=/\=

Cyndi tapped her com-badge "Kal I've had the spiders beamed back into space, has the spider mum said where her home is? I'll be more than glad to help her get there.:

=/\= The Crystal planet.=/\=

Cyndi walked over to science and scanned the area, not finding a planet made of crystal tapped her com-badge "Kal ask her how we find it. And ask her if she's released those ships yet as per our agreement."

=/\= Ma'am the ships were released.=/\=

"I'm not willing to risk warp yet," Cyndi commented as she tapped her com-badge "Engine room bring the impulse drive on line." Turning to science "Scan those ships and see who may need help."

Several ships began crippling away but the closest, the Brol vessels husk stayed wrapped in the webbing.

"The Brol ship is not free, try locking on a tractor beam and see if that will pull them free," Cyndi said

" Tractor beam, aye." replied helm.

Pulling the vessel to along side the Amandora.

" We have it along side Captain."

"Good, how heavily damaged is it?" Cyndi asked

" It is encased inside the webbing. Like a butterflies cocoon sort of." helm replied.

Will went back to tactical and scanned the Brol ship. To his surprise he discovered that there was a faint life signs aboard.

" Captain I have a life sign reading on the Brol ship. Transporter room is on stand by to beam it over."

"What type of life sign?" Cyndi asked "And can we beam what ever it is out of there with the webbing encasing it?"

" Transporter has a lock."

" Beam it over and place it in quarintine. Captain I will go down and check it out." Will replied.

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