The Colonel and The Techie

By Hydra350

Disclaimer: I am not even close to being on the same level as Michael Bay. I'm just playing with his toys for a little bit.

Summary: An extra person is sent to the asteroid. She happens to be Ronald Quincy's best friend and the one that built and programmed the computers on the shuttles.

Warnings: Slight crossover with Sherlock with an honorable subplot mention of the movie Masterminds.

Sharpe/OFC

Kathy McDaniels was born in England she had gotten a degree for computer engineering and biothermal aeronautical computers. Her two best friends growing up were Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. Kathy and Sherlock had dated when they were teenagers but when she went to college the relationship broke apart. They were still friends of course, but now that she worked for Sherlock's older brother Mycroft who headed MI5 they barely saw each other anymore.

Kathy had kept in contact with one of her good friends from the university by the name Ronald Quincy. Sherlock and Mycroft didn't want to admit it out loud, but they knew Ron was smarter than both of them combined and Kathy loved the man for it.

Meanwhile in America, they had received news that would change the world. An asteroid the size of Texas was heading right for Earth. First thing Ronald Quincy, Dan Truman and the rest of NASA figured was who was going to be the flight crews. They had contacted Nathan Gruber, Jennifer Watts, Maxwell Davis, Anthony Tucker, Timothy Halsey, and Willie Sharpe. They were briefed about what was happening and they kind of all paled in horror.

Ronald Quincy was looking at the space shuttle schematics and was biting at his top lip.

"Dan?" He called over while Dan was talking to everybody about a mission regarding a drilling crew. Truman motioned for everybody to wait a second as he walked over to Ron.

"Yeah Quince?" He asked and saw the worried look on his friend's face.

"The biothermal computers on the shuttles…?" Ron started and Truman's face fell in horror.

"No…to hell with that Quince! I'm NOT letting that woman anywhere NEAR NASA!" Dan shouted at the other man confusing everybody else in the room.

"Dan you know she's the only one that can do it faster than me." Ron informed his friend. Walter Clarke stood up from the table.

"If he's talking about McDaniels then I don't see how we have a choice Dan. She's faster than all of us with bilateral cross switches, including you."

"Son of a bitch…" Dan grumbled darkly and nodded in defeat. "Bring her in."

"Who is McDaniels?" Colonel Max Davis asked curiously.

"A computer technician." Walter informed them and the flight crew looked confused.

"Why would we need a Computer Tech?" Nathan Gruber asked and Ronald snorted in laughter.

"Considering she was the one that built the computers inside the X-71's, I would think she is the perfect choice." Ron informed the flight crew and their eyes widened slightly.

A few hours later Kathy McDaniels was escorted from England to Texas and they pulled up in front of the NASA Space Agency.

"Oh that's never good." She grumbled to herself.

"Kathy?"

She turned around and adjusted her laptop bag on her shoulder and hugged Ronald Quincy.

"Long time no see Quinn." Kathy greeted her friend and he blushed. "Aw you still blush when people call you Quinn!" Kathy grinned at him.

"Follow me Kathy."

Kathy followed Ronald along the hallways and she noticed a flight crew standing nearby and she briefly met the eyes of a blue-eyed man about half a foot taller than her. She readjusted her bag again and hurried to keep pace with Ronald.

"Be truthful Ron. I'm not going to like this meeting am I?" She asked and Ron sighed.

"Probably not."

"I give you points for honesty." They entered the main conference room.

The flight crew watched as this 'McDaniels' walked through the hallway. Willie Sharpe met the girl's eyes briefly and swallowed seeing the extremely green eyes. They were as bright as his blue ones.

"She looks too young to be the builder of the macs." Jennifer muttered darkly and Max Davis snorted in laughter.

"Don't let the looks fool you Jen. I read her file, she's 35 years old."

"Kind of hot for a computer nerd." Nathan Gruber admitted getting a glare from Sharpe.