Judgement Part 6: Return

Posted on Sat Dec 2nd, 2017 @ 9:41pm by Major Hailey Weston & Staff Sergeant Nyx'e'Trixe Valentine & Chief Petty Officer Eries Capillon & Lieutenant Commander J'Loni Mo'Bri

Mission: https://wellington.pegasusfleet.site/index.php/sim/missions/id/4
Timeline: July 2nd, 2399 1345

ON:

By the shuttle, Hailey hammered on the skin with a fist three times, "Fire it up, Cally, we gotta move fast."

Hir'e'Meta stepped up to the two women, his face impassive as he knelt by the dead priestess and jerked the sword free. He took a few steps to retrieve three other swords and brought them back to the two. Nyx glanced at him, “My Lady, please.. I need to be on my feet.”

"Nyx honey, you are already on them. I picked you up already. The medic is just waiting for us. Just hold on a little while longer", she said, tears rolling down her cheeks.

Nyx leaned heavily on J'Loni, still having a hard time breathing, worked her mouth and spat blood off to the side, “My Lord, I claim victory in this Judgment.” She ground out.

“And victory is granted, priestess.” He said drolly, with a slight bow to her, “You are granted your request; Tial is quit of you and you are no longer of Tial. You are exiled and are no longer welcome on the planet of your birth. Should you return, you will be branded a deserter and shall face the punishment accorded to that charge.” His smile was very slight, “It should never have come to this, you should never have been granted your armor.” It wasn't said in an insulting way, just the way he believed.

"None the less she was granted her request and won with honor and dignity. Nyx, you have a home. I welcome you to the House of L'Keth as a warrior of that House. Your new home is Quono'S. Be proud warrior of House L'Keth. Now let's get you patched up and back to the Wellington", J'Loni said.

You have fought with honor, Priestess, here and in the past, no one has ever defeated a Sixth from the ranks of the Third. He handed all four to Nyx, who clutched them to herself as if they were the most precious things in the universe, “Your swords and those from Tilas'e'Tori Nethteli as your spoils. Honor is everything.” He brought a hand clenched to his chest, then with a flicker of movement, gestured to two of the black-haired soldiers to come and retrieve his superior's body. “Get her medical aid, such valor should not be allowed to die.” He said softly to J'Loni before he turned and walked off.

Two heartbeats and the same number of steps later, he turned back, “Priestess of the Third Class Nyx'e'Trixe called Valentine.” He pronounced, “As is my privilege and by rights, having defeated a Priestess of the Sixth Class, I hereby elevate you to the rank of Priestess of the Fifth Class of Bey'a'Dande. Find someone to escalate you, none of Tial will.” With those words, he turned again on his heel and walked off to where his soldiers and officers awaited him by their shuttle.

The warrior picked up Nyx, and raced to the shuttle in record time handing her to the doc. "Please save her or you will answer to me personally" she growled.

Captain Hailey Weston, doctor in her Marine uniform gave her a level look, "Then do as I say exactly, ma'am. Inside, put her on the floor and be ready to hold her down." Even as she spoke, she'd pulled her tricorder out and had started a scan.

Nyx had closed her eyes, focusing on her breathing. From Hit'e'Meta, that had been... Kind.

"Breathe Nyx as I taught you slow and evenly, remember the pain is flowing out of your body with the water as it passes over you", she said as she held her down.

"Cally, get us the hell back to the Wellington and don't spare the warp nacelles. Just dump the impulse into them if you have to hun. You get red lights just holler and I will be there in a flash!", she hollered at her.

Turning her attention back to the doctor, " we should buckle her up. This could get bumpy", she added.

A quick scan with a tricorder along with the brief glance at the wound point, "Sure we could... We could also take a hand blender and shove it inside her and turn it on." Hailey muttered, "We sit her up and all that blood that has leaked into her gut? That will compress her diaphragm and put too much pressure against her lungs and heart. I don't lost my patients to shit like that. You're an engineer, find some way to keep us from sliding around."

Hailey didn't even bother to listen to J'Loni's answer if there were any, even as the rumble and scream of the engines sounded, "Lieutenant, I am going to put you into a coma now. You don't want to feel what I am gonna do, but trust me, I will get you back to the ship alive."

Nyx could only nod, breathing was getting harder.

J'Loni flew next to Cally, and her experienced hands flew over the console board bringing the IDF dampeners to max and the SIF up to max, shunt power from all other non essential systems, to give the power needed to steady the shuttle for the hell bent ride back to the Wellington. "Cally, keep this baby steady cause the doc is doing his job back there. We are going to be coming in hot so the timing of reverse thrust is going to be critical in timing it just right. You can do it girl...I have faith in your flying", she said smiling at her.

Calypso's grin back to J'Loni was a mix of determination and joy, "You have no idea how hot we're going to be coming in. But steady as she goes, aye."

"Wellington, this is Mo'Bri, shuttle returning with wounded Nyx aboard. Have Medical in the shuttle bay. We are coming in hell bent for leather. Mo'Bri out!", she said.

"Wellington to Mo'Bri, understood. Will alert Medical to meet you in shuttle bay. Wellington out", came the reply.

"Cally, be right back hun", she said. Cally just nodded her head, not taking her eyes from the shuttles path or her console.

J'Loni went in the back to help the doctor. "Doctor, notified the ship of our return and will have medical standing by in the shuttle bay as we come in. The shuttle is flying steady now. What can I do to help?", she asked quickly.

"I am about to expand and open this wound." Hailey said curtly, "You will hold the extenders," She pointed at the two metal pieces she had already inserted in preparation, "Then I am going to be removing her kidney and then try to get the bleeding under control." She reached up and gently but firmly turned J'Loni's face to her so she could look right into her eyes, "You will not jerk your hands. You will not pass out. If I can't at least slow this bleeding, she will die before we get her back. Do you understand me? This is NOT going to be pretty, or clean, or neat and you're going to see a side of her you will NOT want to see now or ever again."

With skilled hands of an engineer, J'Loni held the extenders still, and not even move at the sight of what she saw. She was so used to seeing blood, guts, wounds she couldn't even begin to describe, it was like second nature for her. Watching the doctor hunt for the bleeder, she prayed that she would finding it soon. Meanwhile, Cally was flying the shuttle like she was born driving them. With the help of the strengthened IDF and SIF, the shuttle did not vibrate like it should have bucked, and for that, she was great full.

The towels Hailey had replicated and laid out around the armored form while the engineer had been up front, then had removed the armor and tossed it to the side, had already been soaked with blood. The ruined kidney lay in a lump on one of them and it seemed like all the blood in Nyx's body had leaked out. Hailey knew that wasn't true, only about a liter and a half had exited the body all told and she'd cleared out the remainder of the loose blood she could, grateful that where she'd had to extend the wound meant she didn't have to haul the intestines out to get at where she believed the artery, oh yes it was an artery, that had been cut.

She finally caught sight of the steady flow of exiting blood and breathed a sigh of relief that the induced coma had stopped it from spurting."Right... I am going to ligate this enough to slow the bleeding, not stop it... If I cauterize or cut it off entirely, in this case, the artery will balloon and explode." She grabbed one of the suture kits and expertly tied a self-tightening knot and eyeballed how tight it was, stopping when the flow turned more into an ooze. Then she grabbed one of the sterile towels and packed it into the cavity after a quick look around the inside. She took the extenders from J'Loni and slowly closed and took them out, slapping what looked like plastic onto the wound, "Now we wait."

Gently, J'Loni took Nyx's hand and held it. "Nyx don't you die warrior Priestess. I am here with you", she said, whispering into her ear.

"Cally! Step on it!", J'Loni screamed!!

Calypso had spent the intervening forty minutes overriding safeties and had edged the warp drive forward more and more into the red until she felt the very first shiver from the controls. Then she'd held it just below that and glanced back one time. She'd run medevac flights before, seen the shattered husks of troops with all sorts of injuries and this one looked bad. The sheer amount of blood, that she resolved to clean herself, as well as the coating to the elbows the Marine Captain had had forced her to swallow hard to keep her gorge down.

Now, she accelerated hard, the vibration seeming to want to tear the tiny ship apart as she went past the specs and warnings, silenced of course, blinked on the screen. Then, though it seemed like hours but was more likely only about half of one, she dropped out of warp far too close to a planet and vectored instantly at max power towards the familiar Sovereign-class starship, "Control, Control, this is shuttle Tango-Hotel-Xray One One Three Eight requiring priority approach to Wellington. Medevac flight Tango-Hotel-Xray One One Three Eight, one patient, critical requiring priority approach to Wellington."

"Wellington Control," an unfamiliar voice sounded, "We are expecting you, medical is waiting at shuttle bay one."

"Roger, out." Cally cut the comm, then glanced back at the others, "We are making a hot entry, meds are waiting. Hold onto your nipples ladies!"

“Wellington, Mo’Bri here, Have engineering standing by in the shuttle bay with damage control teams stranding by to prevent warp nacelle flame ups. Mo’Bri out”, she yelled. Not hearing any acknowledgment, she laid herself over the body of Nyx to prevent any movement of her unconscious body from movement as Cally turned the shuttle suddenly. She stayed in that position for the rest of the trip.

The shuttle finally ceased shuddering as it made a surprisingly graceful controlled spin, then went back to shuddering as Cally frantically slowed the shuttle. Finally, the shuddering stopped and the shuttle slid the last hundred meters back into the shuttle bay and Cally set it down as gently as if the deck would buckle with the weight, dropping the ramp as she did.

Three blue uniformed personnel hurried across the deck as it settled and Hailey gestures at Nyx's feet to J'Loni, "Lift on three, one two three." She counted fast, quickly moving them over to the gurney where two of the nurses started moving her away quickly. J'Loni moved together with them as a team.

Hailey placed one hand out for J'Loni, but a finger on the forearm if the blonde nurse still there, "Nurse Capillon, prep her for surgery and if she's not ready, get Dr Lin ready, interrupt her if you need to. Internal abdominal bleeding, slowed not stopped, kidney analog removed, we need to grow a new one, we need at least five units of compatible blood, push two hang three, put in a central line ASAP. I'll be there in three minutes."

"Oui, Madame." The nurse hurried off after the gurney.

Hailey turned to J'Loni, "The hard part is over, we got her here, but you can't follow her right now.. As soon as I know something, I'll let you know." She sighed, "Give me a few hours, we'll grab a beer and I'll give you all the information I have all right? We'll know within a couple hours what's going to be the result. Take those with you," She gestured to the quartet of swords, "You know better what she wants done with them, and I'll call you as soon as I know anything, all right?"

“Done Hailey, just don’t let her die. She is now a member of my House. Taking the four swords, she left the shuttle bay for her quarters.

Hailey gave her an odd look, then shook her head slightly, not her concern. With a half-skip to turn around, she took off at a run.

OFF:

Lt. Cmdr. J'Loni Mo’Bri
Chief of Engineering
USS Wellington

First Lieutenant Nyx’e Trixie Valentine
Marine CO
USS Wellington

Marine Captain Hailey Weston
Trauma Surgeon
USS Wellington

Chief Petty Officer Eries Capillon
Head Nurse
USS Wellington

Lieutenant Calypso Skyie
Chief Flight Control Officer
USS Wellington

Priest Fifth Class Hir'e'Meta Lotalla
XO, Keyal to Tilas'e'Tori
TCS Bey'a'Dande