Space. Finally a frontier. These are the voyages of... wait, the voyages of the stardock?
CUT!
Admiral Toby Reed was walking down the corridors of the stardock, waiting. He was starting to get dizzy, too. Why did this thing have to be so round, anyway. The Romulans, the Klingons, Earth.. everyone has a round starbase. In this case, the Borg were the only ones who were a bit original with thier Nexus. But then again, they wanted to assimilate all humanity, so that wasn´t good either.
„Admiral Reed, please report to the Starfleet Commander." The loudspeaker said.
„Fucking finally." Toby grumbled, then scurried off to the office.
„Ah, Admiral. Delighted to meet you." The Commander shook Tobys hand before he could deny it. It was quite obvious that his highest superior wasnt very straight to him.
„Please, have a seat. I hope you didnt take any further injuries from your trip on the USS Jackhammer." The gay commander asked, while sitting down on his gay bottom himself.
„No sir, not at all. Well, maybe some mental injuries, but those won´t hold me back from..." Toby didn´t want to say „Duty" or „serveing" around a gay person. „...from working on a spaceship."
„Good, good. Thats quite good. Do you know why i called you into my office?"
Because you want to stare at my manly chest again... Toby thought, gritting his teeth. He was known in the entire Alpha Quadrant to be killing everyone he didnt like. ...or, at least, in his mind. „Nope, dunno why im here. I should be back on the Jackhammer to fix it up again." Disprite his rank, Toby was mostly used for mechanic work. And he even enjoyed that from time to time... if he could work alone.
The more the Commander looked at him, the more Toby seemed to feel something pokeing against his anus. Thankfully for him, it was simply his paranoia.
„Starfleet has been building a ship, a prototype, to test out serval new technologies. Since you are one of the few surviors of the latest incident, we choosed you to be its Captain."
This speech hit Toby like a brick. But one made of cotton candy.
He? A Captain of a starship? His own, very own starship? Seemed too unrealistic to imagine.
„This bait has a hook, hasnt it." Toby pointed out, still in a doubt.
„Yes, indeed. First off, youll be the only male onboard the ship. Second, your... faithful coworker Subcommander Crimson will assist you."
Ugh, not her again. Toby thought. Her sarcastic nonesense drove me insane too much already. But still, it might be not too bad.
„Your first mission orders are simply to stay out of trouble with this rare prototype, and test its abilitys quietly. You are dismissed."
Finally out of the clutches of the Commander, Toby ran down the round hallway towards the turbolift, almost smacking right into someone.
„Hey, watch it, Idiot! ...wait a moment..." Crimson looked deeply at him, then started to giggle.
„Im sorry, Admiral Sir! I wont let it happen again, Sir!" She engulfed in a rush of giggles, mocking him.
„Yeah, yeah. Just you wait until were in outer space. Im known to abuse my underlings."
They both stepped into the turbolift.
„What made you get the NX 01-C anyway? Your last performance wasn´t so impressive, as far as i remember." Crimson grinned.
„Yours was worse. The stupid antimatter you set free almost blew up the whole ship and you ran around screaming instead of stopping it. If you would, You might be the captain now. So shut your mouth, damn you."
„Were not onboard yet, Wiseguy."
They both got to the observers deck, where all the ships in the dock could be seen.
„Be on the lookout for an unususal ship. Its a prototype, so it might look wierd." Toby said, before looking around in the bunches of space vessels.
„Theres a strange one!" She pointed her finger towards an gigantic ship, a Souverein class Warship.
„Thats the ENTERPRISE, you dumbass. The Starfleets flagship. Howd you get through the acadamy anyway?" Toby grumbled, keep looking.
„Oh shush.. just because i like biggies." Crimson sneered back, also looking.
„Thats too much information, thank you very much. ... hey, what about that, at the end of the dock?" Toby pointed out to a wierd shaped, but undeniablely federation shaped starship, almost as big as the Enterprise-E.
Crimson took out her foldable binoculars and took a closer look.
„USS Lone Bird. Hey, that might be... yes, i hate to say it, but youre right. Its registry says NCC-NX 01-C. Wow, its a pretty big one for someone who never commanded a ship before."
„Don´t look down on me, you whiny little girl. You didn´t even see the bridge of a ship before." Toby stepped back from the windows, grabbing Crimson on the arm, heading back to the turbolift.
„I can walk myself, you know!"
Walking down the long , airtight sealed corridor at the „Shuttle"deck, they headed right for the Lone Bird. Its appearance was somewhat similliar to the Interpid class, but much longer and with four warp exausts. Two of them were mounted on the ships hull with tiny hinges on them, but the other two were located on the second set of hinges, on the traditional positon. The sharply designed things that looked like warp exausts were actually oversized impulse engines.
In the front, there was a tiny warp exaust as well, and two little impulse thrusters were located on the oval shaped saucer section.
Finally, they reached the airlock. As it opened, a tall, flat chested girl with short hair awaited them.
„Welcome to the Lone Bird, Admiral. Welcome to you as well, Subcommander. With you two, were now fully operational." The girl spoke in a soft, but disiciplined voice.
„Good to hear." Toby simply replied after stepping into the ship. The doors closed again as Crimson entered as well.
„Im Sandy Fokker, the person in charge for the sensor arrays. Im just an ensign, but i studied the blueprints of this ship all the time as we waited for you two." Sandy said, starting to head towards a turbolift.
„Alright... then lets hear what you know." Crimson said, without asking for permission from Toby.
„This ship was built in New Orleans, 2374. It was fitted together at the Stardock at the same year. Our total length is 953, 77 meters and our mass exeeds 700000 tons. We have a total crew of seven, since most of our ship is operated automatically, but everything on board is also suitable for manual use."
„Cool." Toby dryly replied as the turbolift charged upwards.
„Our maximum speed is Warp 9,8 at nominal warp, and we can go to three times Transwarp with some stress to the machines. Our Impulse thrusters gain speed of up to 500 kilometers per second, and this ship is the first to be fitted with a Subwarp engine. We can reach Subwarp two." Sandy said, obviously excited.
„Subwarp? Isnt Impulse already slow enough?" Crimson asked, confused.
„Subwarp means backwards warp. Back in time, silly." Toby sneered, listening to Sandy further.
„Exactly. Well, our armory is quite a lot for our peaceful times. 15 Phaser to the front, 5 to the back. 5 torpedo launchers to the front, two to the back. Five plasma cannons on each side of the ship. And then, we have a series of top secret new weaponary... youll have to read the manual to know of these." Sandy sighed at the last sentence, then the doors opened again, revealing the head of the ship.
„Welcome to the bridge."
The style of the bridge was quite modern, ususally found in the Souverein class. Toby didn´t hold back a bit as he plopped down on the comfy Captains seat.
„Aaaaah... great. Great. Fucking great i tell you. I just love leather seats."
„That was way too much information than i could handle, Reed." Crimson giggled, sitting down on her own, Polyester seat. Unlike most spaceships, the Lone Birds bridge had seats for everyone, since everyone would be on thier station almost permenantly.
Sandy sat down on the sensors console, starting it up. „I would suggest calling your crew on the Intercom, Sir. Its the third button on the console."
Toby blinked, then pushed the button on the seat.
„Ehem. This is Admiral Tobias Reed speaking. I welcome you all fullheartedly onboard the USS Lone Bird. Before we start, i ask you to join us on the bridge as soon as possible for a quick assembly."
Toby released the finger from the button and sighed happyly. „Aaaah.. i always wanted to do that. It feels so great to have my own ship. ... wait, Sandy. The Commander told me i´m the only male on this ship. Izzat right?"
Sandy blinked, turning to him, then nodded. „Affirmative, Sir."
Crimson rolled her eyes as the hidden pervert in him came forth again.
„Computer, list up the breast sizes of the crew, sorted by specification."
Even the Computers voice was female. „G cup: First Officer Nina Mortis. E Cup: Ensign Skittles Verona. E Cup: Leutanaint Seras Victoria. D Cup: Ensign Mina Harker. C Cup: Subcommander Crimson Taternate. A Cup: Ensign Sandy Fokker."
„Now, what did THAT accomplish, exept makeing ninety precent of the personal on board blush?" Crimson grumbled, pointing to three blushing girls standing near the turbolift. The fourth one, however, was grinning. Toby reconized her instandly and sighed deeply.
„Im very happy to serve here, Captain! Meow!" Skittles replied cheerfully at her own, Cat hybrid kind of way.
„Im sure the Captain appreciates that, Skittles..." murmured Nina, also a cat hybrid, but less instinctive than her.
„I didn´t know my chesticles were so small" Mina said, looking down slightly.
„... i didnt even wanna know that from a computer..." it came from Seras, a vampire girl.
Toby looked them all over... they really were all chicks down to the purest sense of the word. Well, maybe exept for Crimson.
He stood up, and shook the hands of everyone, almost recieveing a hard slap from Nina, who apperantly didnt like his little joke.
„Again, welcome aboard the Lone Bird. Now, take up your positions, then well gonna start this huge baby for the first real time."
They all obeyed quickly. Nina sat down above him, on the tactics place where she could see all of the big screen, Crimson just made herself comfy near the Captains seat, Seras apperantly sat right next to him, as his right hand, to be percise, Mina took up the position of the weapon console, while Skittles literally jumped onto the steering console.
A few buzzes were heard as one console powered up after another.
„Awright... everyone ready?" Toby asked... they all nodded. Skittles gave him a thumbs up, while Crimson just made a slight grin.
„Good.. then lets go for it. Nina, power up the warp cores.. and get ready. Skittles bring us out of the dock with impulse speed."
„Aye Sir!" Skittles replied with a playful giggle, makeing two sharp turns to get out of the locking clamps. Then, she started forward, heading for the door.
„The Commander has a message for you, Captain." Nina said, boredly.
„I can guess it, but put it on the loudspeaker. Skittles needs the screen."
„USS Lone Bird, you are clear for takeoff. And remember to stay out of trouble. See you all soon." Toby shuddered at his voice again, but shrugged.. the hangar doors opened, and Skittles quickly leaved the dock.
„..are we far enough yet?" Crimson asked unpartincely after a few seconds.
„Yes... almost. Now we are." Sandy answered her.
„Alright... Warp one, go for it." Toby loved to give this command all by himself.
The big screen showed a blur of lights as the stars went into stripes, and they exceeded lightspeed for the first time ever.
To be continued.