Return for Innocents (II)
“Well, we won’t get any work done, just by sitting around, will we?”, Alexa was right. “Captain to sickbay!” - “Sickbay here” - “Mick, what would you say to a little cosmetix surgery?” - “What do you mean, Captain?” - “Well, I’m in the mood for something more … Romulan today.” - “No prob.” - “Martin out!” He and two of the others went to sickbay, to undergo cosmetic surgery, which made them look like Romulans. Once they were finished and dressed up, the three went to the transporter-room. “I’ve found a nice and quiet location on the outskirts of the capital.”, said the transporter chief, “It’ll take you about half an hour to get to the Imperial Hall.” - “Thank you!”, Captain Martin looked around at his fellow officers, “All set? Well then… Energize!” They dematerialized in a swirl of little blue and yellow photons.
At nearly the same time down on the planet, three visitors from out of town, entered the crowded main street. Authentically dressed and visually altered, no one suspected them to be offworlders. They even talked romulan, so it seemed to passers by. And naturally no one held them up, as they were entering the government district. One of them whispered: “They must be in here.”, and pointed towards a staircase, which was leading downwards. They were beginning to hear voices coming out of a room left to the lower landing of the stairs. The visitors were hiding next to the door and all three raised their weapons and set them to kill. None of the occupants survived.
As Orions away team arrived at the council chambers, they noticed a group of Romulans running out the back door. Lt. Gamblin noted: “Strange.” - “It sure is.”, answered Martin, “What would it take to make you running away like this.” - “Probably if I had murdered someone?” Martin and Gamblin were staring at each other for a couple of moments, then they realised that Gamblin had to be right about that and started to run towards the entrance, out of which the others had emerged just a minute ago. They hasted down the stairs to the room, where they had met the Praetor two days ago, just to find the dead Praetor lying in state. Right beside him were two bodies flat on the floor. Gamblin turned them around, so the away team could see the corpses faces. It was Tvarek and the ‘other’ Praetor.