Out of the Blue... Into the Black

[Rebecca Talon]

"Always a good plan," Rebecca said still wiping her greasy hands with a piece of filthy cloth. There was a bruise over her left eye.

She tossed the rag into a nearby wastebasket and sat on the edge of the desk. "So, how many of us has Dominus copied?"

[Nick Ryder]

"No idea and what the hell did you do to your eye Becca? Seriously... those guys have to play a little less rough. Alabaster skin does not take a punch very well." Nick said as he reached into a compartment in the wall and pulled out a case marked 'Becca's Boo Boo Box' "Yes, I've kept this thing all these years because you always look like someone's beating you up. You bruised yourself when you smacked yourself getting out of bed." he chuckled and took Kinsey's arm. "Pulled out of the bed and then reached up to brush her hair out of her face and then WHACK! I was ready to beat someone up." he rummaged through the box. "Let's see... there we go." he handed her the medical device. "And there's concealer." he chuckled lightly. "I've got one for you too Kins... I got surprisingly good at matching concealer and foundation and applying it. When Rexi and I were still dating, sometimes we'd have to go incognito, so that meant concealing her spots. Or making new ones to match whatever planet we were on."

[Rebecca Talon]

"Goddamnit Nicholas!" She chided, and playfully tossed the stuff back at him. "I am not accident prone!" She smiled and shook her head admonishingly. "I enhanced the shields, and brought the torpedo launchers online. You're welcome. Now, what about a Trojan Horse? Dominus has to have a hard on for Ja'larin after her stunt, and I SERIOUSLY doubt he has much love for me." She dug into a pocket and pulled out a dime sized silver disk. "Implant this subcutaneously, and our klidens, and communicators are beamed right to us. Once we locate him we call in the cavalry."

[Nick Ryder]

"Got one under my left thumbnail." Nick said as he held up his hand. "Rest of the hand has all kinds of metal bits so one more won't set off any alarms. Jack thinks I should do this thing where he essentially clones my own tissue and rebuilds the skin and bone and muscle, but it's come in handy over the years and people think if they 'crush' my hands, I'm useless." he nodded his head. "So are you planning on using J'Larin as our 'Trojan horse?"

[Rebecca Talon]

"Both of us. There's a chance he'll kill her the second he sees her. We can't take that risk. We'll need some redundancy."

[Nick Ryder]

"Just got you back, not really planning on losing you so soon." Nick reminded her. "Or you too Kinsey. No sacrifice plays. Gets hairy, beam out, get back here, call in the Marines, whatever... we're not exactly officially sanctioned to be here. This is a covert rescue and possibly assassination. I'm not splitting hairs here, we get a clear shot at taking out Dominus and his power base, we take it."

[Kinsey Calhoun]

"I couldn't agree more but I don't like the idea of Becca going." Kinsey said as she looked over at her. "Jack's last request before he was taken was to keep you from Dominus. I don't know why but I'm sure he had his reasons maybe he saw something in his time traveling. I don't know but I'd feel better if you were both here. Besides we might need our asses rescued and just think you'd both get the pleasure of saying you saved Khan."

[Nick Ryder]

"Heh... yeah he's saved my ass a couple of times. Don't... don't ask." Nick looked at Becca and Kinsey and shook his head. "I am thinking we need to limit the number of us Iljuna users on external operations. There's targets on our backs."

[Kinsey Calhoun]

"Even better reason for you to stay on the ship. Thank you for continuing to make my case for me." Kinsey said with a smirk.

[Nick Ryder]

"We'll pick our battles." Nick said as he nodded his head. "Main thing right now is finding out where Starbase Python or whatever he's taken to calling it is."