Bloody Captain – Scene 1
by HoD Ro' Matlh & Sogh HoS Matlh & Soghla' Jared

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Title   Scene 1
Mission   Bloody Captain
Author(s)   HoD Ro' Matlh & Sogh HoS Matlh & Soghla' Jared
Posted   Thu Jul 01, 2010 @ 4:07am
Location   Bridge
Timeline   Three days out of Ubatti, on route to DS7
OOC: 1) Ro' gets drunk and goes to the bridge demanding HoS use the sensors to 'Find' whoever was responsible for the House Matlh smuggling. When he is unable, Ro' Beats him senseless, destroying the Sensor panel in the process.

Ro’ sat in his room, a bottle of strong wine in his hands. He watched the vapours evaporating from the lip of the bottle neck. Much like his dreams and aspirations had vanished. He was a warrior, perhaps the greatest warrior in the Matlh fleet. And CoQ had him playing nursemaid and cargo ship. A sword was not meant to cut wood. Warrior muscles are no good for domestic chores.

He had to back down from the Cardassians while running medical freight. He had to be nice to the Romulans. He had been nice to the Federation when everything in him had wanted to shoot the sanctimonious Human in her chair. Now he had sat through two days of incarceration and left Ubatti after paying for the privilege.

And now there was this new thing. Somewhere out there someone was trading on the name of House Matlh, and bringing dishonour to it. This would NOT be tolerated.

With a growl he rose from his chair (on the second attempt) and flung the bottle aside. He strode out of his door into the boom corridor. Turning to his left he made his way to the Bridge in a couple of short strides.

Jared was in the Captain’s chair but as soon as Ro’ appeared he slipped quickly out, leaving the command back in Ro’s capable hands. He moved quickly to the back of the bridge, nodding to HoS at tactical on his way out.

Ro’ strode forward and stood glaring at the screen, not even noticing the TiQ’s departure.

“Ya! QalwI’ nIHpu’ ghoD Matlh yISam.”
[Tactical Officer! Find me the corrupt filth who have been smuggling Matlh goods.]

HoS drew himself to his full height from beneath the damaged sensor panel he was trying to fix. Another engineer was on the other side trying to assist but HoS was cranky. Blood was smeared across the controls. He eyeballed 'Ro with his good eye for a moment before thinking better of a challenge. He merely grunted in the direction of the panel. He braced himself for another backhand hoping that 'Ro would be more reasonable given the demands of the request on the state of the equipment.

Ro' strode next to HoS, understanding the grunt for what it is.

"WIyvammo' qay'law'a'?" He snarled. He grabed hoS by the back of his head and rammed it into the panel. "Chaq tI'moHlaH!" [Problem with the Tactical Panel? Maybe this will fix it.]

"net qoj... net qoj... net qoj..." [or this, or this, or this]

With each blow he slamed the big Warrior's head into the metal and plastic panel. The other engineer made himself scarce bake to the Communications console. One final blow left an eruption of sparks. HoS dropped over the panel blood flowwing freely from his head, but otherwise unmoving. Ro' looked in digust at the broken panel and called for the Chief Engineer to fix it.

"TELL!"