[2259.116] -- [Away Mission on Dayoumir VII] -- [Open Post]

[kirktastic]

(OOC: If you want to be a part of this away mission, please read the whole post including OOC comments at the end for all information, captains orders, etc.)Kirk stared down at the ice planet on the forward view screen unhappily. He didn't have the best relationships with ice planets, and the idea of going down to this one had him less than pleased

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AWAY MISSION - It be cold, Vulcan.

[npc_aliens]

Spock would wake to silence. A silence that was almost a sound, a constant far off impossible sound. It was cold, but not nearly as cold as it had been. It was somewhere in stone, a brilliant blue stone that gave off a faint light. No snow. In the distance, something gleamed white.

The pressure was diminished, but not gone, and it was close. Something was waiting for him.

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[cso_spock]

He still hadn't shaken the rage completely. There were distractions--love, work, danger--but none of it truly soothed the blame he placed on Nero, and he doubted it would ever really disappear.

It didn't mean that this blast didn't hurt, the sheer magnitude and intensity of it making him curl up and press his forehead to his arm as he tried to compartmentalize it away.

I am not them.

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[npc_aliens]

YOU COME AND INVADE OUR WORLD, LIKE THEY DID. THEY DESTROYED OUR WORLD, DESTROYED OUR KIND.

It was screaming now, its anger building.

YOU COME AGAIN TO HARVEST WHAT YOU PLEASE.

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[cso_spock]

This was like dealing with a child. A human child.

Or, similarly, a Romulan.

You do not know that. He still tried to get through. A migraine began to build right between his eyes. There is nothing here that I want.

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[npc_aliens]

I have witnessed it since they've come! Their machines that dig into the ice, leave holes in a dying world!

It focused on him, like a laser.

We want to live again.

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[cso_spock]

Spock wasn't so certain that he could maneuver himself away from the sight, either, anchored where he was against the bones and into this other mind.

How do you know doing this will resurrect...you or your world? His hand was beginning to ache, too. I assume you took the others, and yet you are still not "alive."

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[npc_aliens]

There must be a way, must be a way to save them...!

Something rolled over Spock. It was as strong as that anger, but this time, it was a great void of sadness. It pulled on his mind, then pulled it down into darkness.

He saw a completely different world. It was lush, and beautiful, and he could see the creature as it once was. It was almost reptile like, with shaggy layers of scales. Two great blue eyes with no pupils, and it was as large as one of the great dinosaurs of Terran history.

It had children... a mother. Those children discovered the thing in the ground. Shiny and strange and alien. She warned them to stay away, but strangers found them. They started to kill her children, one by one, and roast and devour them while the land around the alien-thing started to die.

There was no where to go. They couldn't swim, and there was no where left on the planet as the green died faster and faster. The water tasted bad, couldn't drink salt.

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[cso_spock]

Ecological disasters weren't foreign to his mind or the history he had learned; Vulcans hadn't always shared their land well, eliminating what could kill them or taming what was smart enough to surrender. A different time, a different planet, both gone. This, too, tainted his memories of dinosaur films and books he had been provided as a child.

There may be a possible solution, or a way I can assist you, but only if I am alive. Spock did want to help, pushing through that desire and willingness towards the creature, but he wasn't so skilled as to directly change its mind.

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[npc_aliens]

The creature only continued. It's emotions poured over Spock as the creature watched the last of her species die, lumbering pregnant, her life-mate dead and gone as he protected her. She found her way to a deep cave, somewhere warmer than the above ground. She was exhausted, afraid.

She was intelligent. No others of her kind had been seen since her life-mate died. She gave birth laying in the very depths of the cave. Her children suckled at her, but there was little to give.

They died, one by one, without ever having seen the light of day. The overwhelming sense of grief, loss, as she nosed the dead bodies of her last litter. Alone. Alone.

Then, alone, she died.

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[cso_spock]

Unpleasant. He had felt worse but this would be a near second or third, the horrible, cold, empty feeling of dying. In the back of his mind, it almost felt familiar, but he didn't know from where (or whom).

How are you here, if you are dead?

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[npc_aliens]

Could not leave their bodies. Was so angry.

That feeling of revenge again, wanting payment. The creature's ethereal form moved, and stopped in place. For the first time noticeable, under some of the larger bones, were two smaller piles of bones.

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[cso_spock]

He opened his eyes (when had he closed them?) to glance towards the creature he could see, and then around. The pieces matched with the tale, at least, though he didn't want to examine the details too closely. Spock could notice other things about himself, too, like his fingers were starting to turn green at the tips.

...I have told you before, we are not them.

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[npc_aliens]

You tear at the Earth without regard. Your people disturb my body! Her head turned, and there not too far away, was a frozen corpse. It's eyes were staring and it died with a look of absolute terror and pain.

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[cso_spock]

Not the end he wanted to meet. You cannot blame them for their ignorance...and killing me, us, will not bring an end to this disturbance. The only way this will stop is if I am able to tell them to stop.

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[npc_aliens]

There was a feeling of being drained, like the energy was leaving him like water down a drain. Am so hungry... must feed my children. They will never stop, never learn.

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[cso_spock]

Desperately, he tried to grasp at the energy that was leaving him, but it slowly found cracks in his concentration before finally leaving him.

STOP. There hadn't been another moment in his life where he wanted to know the eschak more than now, as mythical as it might have been. At least then he would only have to contend with the cold.