Captain Menchez - Moartor Outpost
Menchez beamed onto the station. His away team of Klingons began firing into approaching Augment after Augment. Until one of the Augments ran up the wall and landed a downward kick into his lead away team member, killing him.
"The name's Hokke," he introduced as he grabbed the nearby weapon of another Klingon and force-palmed the warrior up his chin so fast, the whiplash broke his neck. "I never thought anyone would find this place."
Menchez fired his disruptor into Hokke, sending the Augment flying back into a wall. He fired again and again. "Perfect for hiding the Chancellor, then."
"Captain?" came the entrance of Gaurantan, an old Klingon and Dahar Master.
The Captain's eyes widened in shock. "Gaurantan? What are you doing here? It was you that gave me the intel about this place."
"What are you talking about? I did no such thing. You are not supposed to be here! The House of Kovog has worked closely with Augments as we have great plans for the Empire."
Menchez shook his head. "Then who gave me the intel about this place?"
"He must be destroyed, Captain," said member of Menchez's away team Lieutenant Ceser. "He's a traitor to the Klingon Empire."
He nodded. "This is treason at the highest order!" Menchez opened fire, prompting his remaining two officers to comply and fire as well.
"Ugh!" Gaurantan was hit in the shoulder when more Augments flooded in from behind him.
They ran for Menchez and his warriors, but Menchez signaled them to fall back and run down the other end of the corridor. They suddenly approached the Brig, where Chancellor J'mpok was being held behind a large holding cell.
Meanwhile, out in space, five more ships arrived and each fired a tricobalt torpedo into the Hav'ok. The Ha'vok activated a point defense system, destroying the torpedoes, and opened fire on the newcomers.
Inside the Brig, Menchez and his two officers Ceser and Bugh began working the many control panels to release the force field around the cell. J'mpok looked on in shock. "This is foolish, warrior."
"The Empire needs you, Chancellor. It's been proven many times in the past that without stability, we would fall," Menchez said as the force field was released.
J'mpok shook his head. "That may be true, but it is useless since we are dead here. You do not know these Augments. You do not know who they are."
"So what?"
Just then the room filled with Augments aiming rifles. Three Ferengi whips were launched at Mencez, Ceser and Bugh, wrapping and shocking their weapons off and then each of them to their knees. A tall man named Ruko, stepped in. "So, you've come to meet us, have you? Greetings Captain."
"We're more resilient than you can imagine," coughed an injured Hokke, who walked in with several smoking disruptor blasts in his chest. "We may not have been the ones to put that changeling in the Great Hall, but we and our alliance with the House of Kovog were able to get him."
Each of Menchez and his officers were force-kicked into J'mpok's cell before the force field was brought up again. Ruko walked over. "We are known as the Children of Kahn."
Menchez's communicator chirped with an incoming transmission. The Captain slapped his wrist communicator, but all he could hear was static. "General, can you read me? General?" But there was nothing. "If you can get this, then get out of here. Our deaths will be all for this day."
Hokke smirked from the other side of the cell as his dampening field blanketed communications. Ruko nodded to the augment and left the Brig to get back to his business.
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I.K.S. Kragoth, Bridge
The Ha'vok hailed the Kragoth. "This is General Kro'nok. What happened to Menchez?"
"This is Jengo, of the Children of Kahn. We've taken over your precious Kragoth with the utmost of ease. Now it is you who must surrender, Klingon." The Augment spat at that last word. He'd almost grown sick of them at this point.
"We will never surrender to a peta'Q such as yourself!" The Ha'vok responded with a spread of chroniton torpedoes and generated numerous gravity wells around the enemy. They were definitely planning on fighting to the death.
More ships decloaked, outside the parameter of the wells and fired heavily of beams and torpedoes upon the Ha'vok. As soon as shields were burned through, the General was transported away and into the cell with Menchez and J'mpok, within the station. There was then a massive disruption of the gravity plating as a ship exploding rocked Moartor Outpost.
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Moartor Outpost, Brig
"Oh, General. I see you were able to make it. Welcome," Menchez said, trying to ignore his reaction to the dishonour of being captured. Then he turned to Hokke who was working at a console. "You may have captured us, but we discovered your shapeshifter! If you think you can fool our kind, you have another thing coming to you."
Hokke suddenly stopped working and looked up. "What? The changeling was discovered?"
"Exactly. I threw a knife into his head, much to the chagrin of others, I assume. It just seems like something that would elicit a disputatious gripe."
The augment cringed. "That was too early! You don't have to immediately save the universe right away you know! Learn some patience and style! Are you that quick in the bedroom as well?"
"Klingons destroy the bedroom! And what are you talking about?! You said it yourself, that you didn't even put the changeling there. That someone else did. What control do you possess?"
Hokke walked over with his disruptor, aiming it at Menchez and Kro'nok as he lowered the forcefield for a moment to pull J'mpok out. "I'm at least able to go with the flow. We augments are superior to everyone, especially you, but even more especially, the humans."
"At least we have honour. In that we are superior," the Klingon argued.
He chuckled as he put the forcefield back and retrained his weapon on the Chancellor. "Do you? My intel on you suggests you sent your crew to their demise on Hanon IV. That is the highest form of dishonour! Never mind. We're bringing the Chancellor back to the Empire."
"You're what??" J'mpok blurted in confusion.
Hokke shoved him out the door. "You think we care about what power you think you have? We were just maintaining the status quo until the House of Kovok was able to complete their remuneration with us. They are not there yet. So, until they are, you go back to continue the status quo. Also, feeding two prisoners is one thing, but three? We have our limits, and it is certainly of that in patience with you."
"So, do you know any Klingon games to pass the time?" Menchez said, turning to General Kro'nok as the others left.
Kro'nok growled. "My ship was just destroyed, and my crew killed with the ship. Do you think I'll want to play a game?" He sat back in the cell, sighing. "They were a good crew, too. They died an honorable death, at the very least, and they all served honorably until the end. Especially T'Kek. He may have been 'only a Reman', but he served in many battles..."
"You'll have to forgive my rhetoric, General," Menchez replied. "It is a remnant come from a previous life."
He watched as another human Augment, Lobo, entered the brig to take the previous one's place. Glancing back at his away team members Ceser and Bugh, Menchez turned to Kro'nok.
"What do you think our odds are against this one Augment? Do you think we can take him?" Menchez asked.
Kro'nok nodded. "We can take on anyone, or die trying."
Menchez turned and glared at his two warriors. They got the hint and began shoving each other.
"You call yourself a Klingon? You are pathetic!" Cesar said.
Bugh head-butted the other man in anger. "I am at the correct amount of adequacy as per my personnel file! You will pay!"
"Hey, stop that!" Lobo said as he noticed the two Klingons. "I will kill you if I have to!" He took out his disruptor and walked over to the force field. When the two didn't stop, Lobo dropped the field and aimed for them. Instead, Menchez grabbed the out-stretched arm, redirected it and back-handed Lobo with the other fist. The disruptor fell and Lobo regained his balance to move into Menchez and grab him with both hands.
Menchez struggled and threw Lobo into a stumble toward General Kro'nok. General Kro'nok grabbed Lobo and bashed his head into the wall, hoping to knock him unconscious. Lobo pulled himself out, albeit bewildered, and readied himself for another go at the General. A group of three Augment security personnel suddenly entered the Brig and before they could react, Menchez ran toward them and launched a momentum-driven fist at the front guy.
"Ugh!!" the lead guy, Pren, was punched to the side wall, while Bugh and Cesar leapt into attacking the other two.
The Captain followed his victim and fired a succession of fists at the Augment, each one swiftly deflected and redirected by Pren who was quick to regain focus. Pren appeared to be more agile than some of the other Augments. He then lofted a kick into Menchez, sending the Klingon back and into a console.
Kro'nok grabbed Lobo and tossed him into the other augments, and rushed to Menchez. "Cover me! I have a plan."
"Yes, General," Menchez nodded as he grabbed a disruptor off one of the augments and aimed it outwards. His two officers followed behind.
The general deadpanned Menchez. "Was there not a dampening field preventing the use of disruptors?"
"I believe it was merely a communications dampener," Menchez said, checking to make sure. He fired the disruptor at Pren, who got up and attempted to approach. Pren was hit, but not out. Menchez fired, now twice, and sent Pren back into the other augments, with smoking craters in his chest and shoulder.
Kro'nok reached back and pulled out his Honor Guard disruptor rifle, and blasted the rest of the augments with a pulsewave shot.
"Guess my plan won't be necessary, then."
"Did they not remove your weapon after capture? Hm, seems the Augments are slipping." Menchez observed as he entered the corridor. There, more Augments turned from a corner and opened fire upon them. Menchez took cover behind a crate and returned fire, knocking one Augment to the ground.
Kro'nok took cover and fired a photon grenade into the group of augments, blasting them all backward.
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Captian Kadaj - I.K.S. Furt'gh
The slim, youthful Klingon Defense Force officer sat with one leg over the arm of his chair as the really old and decrepit Bird of Prey dropped warp near the Outpost. His crew had taken notice of the large fleet.
"What the baktag? My contact tricked me again. This looks nothing like a pleasure planet!" Kadaj said, sitting up at the view on his screen.
His tactical officer, Mille, observed as well. "You know, we really need to stop taking advice from that lonely Yridian information dealer. I think he just talks to us because he eats by himself."
"Agreed," Kadaj replied. "Take us back to Qo'noS, where the gagh is always fresh and the Orions are always in that one alley way."
But Mille's console beeped. "Sir, I'm reading Klingon lifesigns on the station, moving at a quick pace through its corridors."
"It is good to know there are Klingons out there who value the practice of exercise. Good on them."
Millie shook her head. "Disrupter fire as well. I believe they are under attack."
"What!? I specifically left the homeworld to vacation. This is outrageous! Fine. Let's try to get in close, to transporter range. But then I want suggestions on where to go next."
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I.K.S. Hav'ok
The Breen first officer, Nar, got up from under a fallen support beam, somewhere on the bridge near the command chair of the bridge. He looked around, trying to see through all the smoke. He spotted the chief science officer, a Reman named T'Kek, laying on the ground. He walked over and checked him over more closely. "He's dead," he said, grimly, looking up at the enemy fleet on the viewscreen, as hard as they were to see through the fog in the air.
The engineering officer, a Klingon named Cho'fek, spoke up. "We've suffered several internal explosions throughout the ship."
Nar nodded, and turned back to the command chair, noticing the empty chair. "They captured him." Nar stated, entirely serious. "...but it appears they think they actually destroyed us."
A liberated Borg science officer took over T'Kek's station and responded. "Three Klingon lifesigns, currently in the middle of disruptor fire. Menchez's ship was taken over. Our other support vessels, destroyed. We still have 2 more frigates phase shifted, in case we need them to--"
"Send one back to Qo'Nos and have them report on the situation. Set the Hav'ok on a course back to the nearest outpost and have the other frigate beam me aboard." The Breen replied, continuing. "I'll come up with some kind of plan to rescue the Chancellor, the General, and Menchez."
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Captain Menchez - Moartor Outpost, Corridors
Suddenly, a crowd of Augments flooded the four Klingons from behind. The overwhelming numbers overtook them, and Menchez's two warriors were apprehended and dragged away. Menchez began elbowing and punching Augments at close range. "This is a dishonorable tactic!"
He direct-punched one Augment into two, knocking them back and then stepped off the chest of another Augment to elevate himself into a force-kick of one taller Augment. The taller man caught the foot, holding Menchez in mid-flight until Menchez spun himself to kick the man down with the other leg. Landing, Menchez multi-punched several Augments away.
General Kro'nok readied his Honor Guard rifle and began firing pulsewave blasts at the augments, driving them back. He reached for his belt, pulled off a stun grenade and lobbed it at the augments, while turning to Menchez. "We must go on!"
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Fer'Jai Frigate, I.K.S. Ter'Yai
After Nar beamed aboard, he headed to the Bridge, which was close by. An officer, a Lethean, turned around and faced Nar, speaking up. "So what do we do now?"
Nar replied. "Rescue the Chancellor and the others, obviously. We may be able to use the vessel's phase shifting to our advantage."
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Captain Menchez - Moartor Outpost, Corridors
Menchez nodded to the General and continued on throughout the corridors. A few Augments were close behind them until one of them grabbed Menchez again and pulled him out of motion. "Curse you, you genetically birthed bIHnuch!"
"Really, is that how to treat your favourite captor?" came the sly confidence of the Augment named Hokke. He blocked the sudden punch of Menchez and returned a palm to his face.
The Captain held his forehead for a moment and then took a stance against Hokke. "You will suffer the might of the Klingon Empire!"
"How about this: I have the Kragoth and all your crew and if you don't want to lose another crew, you'll join me aboard your ship with your access codes," Hokke suggested as he placed a hand on his hip.
Menchez snarled. "You seriously believe any Klingon would allow capture? We would rather die!"
"Oh, I have no intentions on killing you or your crew. But if left unchecked, I will maintain their lives in such a way they would never find honor. Would you like that, Captain? I believe honor was the issue you had been dealing with in the first place." He smirked. "Allow me your ship and I will allow you and your crew the honor they so deserve."
For a second Menchez was about unleash a fury of Klingon passion and fight, before he realized it was the same madness that led him to lose the last time around. Instead, Menchez unclenched his fist and turned to General Kro'nok. "Sir, continue without me. Survive. I will see you in Sto-vo-kor."
"That's a good man," Hokke said as he smiled again. He shoved a nearby Augment away and grabbed Menchez by his uniform. "Two to beam up."
Hokke activated an enhancer device and both he and the Captain dematerialized. Out in space, the Kragoth rotated and jumped to warp.