"It's okay, just stay calm, lass." Finn whispered as 25 year old Amanda tried to reach out and stop the trainers from flushing her eyes out, Finn holding her hands in his as Amanda's screams had died out and left tense breathing behind.

Seth had gone off script again but this time, he had pepper sprayed Amanda's eyes and left the brunette frantic as she couldn't see properly.

"I swear I had no idea he was gonna do that out there!" Hunter said, Amanda backing away as he tried to touch her.

"How the hell did he get the damn pepper spray, Hunter?!" Amanda responded.

"That's what I'm gonna find out… can you see at all, kiddo?" Hunter questioned.

"Just a bit…" Amanda said as her right hand wrapped around Finn's left one and he lightly pressed his forehead against hers. "Why does he keep doing this, acting like this?"

"I don't know… but it's fast becoming clear that he's even more careless than we thought." Finn replied, his free hand lightly rubbing Amanda's left shoulder.

Hunter decided to let them be and headed down the hallway… when he reached Seth's locker room, he heard Paul Wight, better known as Big Show, yelling.

"That damn kid could be blind, you fucking psycho! Mandy's traumatized again, all she did was walk out there dressed up like she does at NXT events!" Paul yelled after grabbing Seth by his shirt, the 7ft tall and 380 pound wrestler furious and Seth shoving him away. "Boy, what in hell's name did that sweet little girl ever do to you?!" He growled.

"What in the world's going on?" Hunter heard, turned and saw a woman a bit taller than Amanda.

"What happened out there wasn't part of the script and now that lady I watched grow up, her eyes could be badly damaged… who are you?" Hunter explained.

"Capt… Lori. Lori Zayba." The woman answered.

"Nice to meet you." Hunter said before opening the door with authority and charging at Seth, who tried to run. "Oh hell no, you don't, not after you basically assaulted Mandy on live Tv!" He yelled, grabbing Seth by his hair and shoving him into a chair.

"It was just a little blast of pepper spray!" Seth responded, Hunter punching him.

"She's halfway fuckin' blinded, that's not little! You must've used half the damn can!" Hunter shouted, Lori stepping back a bit… and Seth jolting and trying to free himself frantically as he saw her hand travel to her side as though reaching for the handle of a gun.

"Follow me." Paul said, Lori doing so and the two reaching the trainers room. "Known that girl since she was 10 years old, her brother brought her to nearly every event… nothing like this has ever happened before, not to her at least." He said before knocking on the door. He opened it, Amanda moving her head around even though her eyes were bandaged.

"Paul?" Amanda said as Paul rested his left hand on her head and lightly rubbed it. "Is… is someone else here?" She asked, rubbing her now makeupless face.

"She's called Lori… military of some description, right?" Paul answered.

"Along those lines. Just on a bit of a shore leave." Lori replied.

"And right into something that wasn't even supposed to happen… he's getting the hell beaten out of him, right?" Finn responded, Amanda's left hand still in his right one as more footsteps were heard and John and Nikki ran in and over to Amanda.

"Times like these, I wish you still had the chain so I could wrap it around my hand and beat Seth to a pulp." Amanda said as she knew John was on the left side of the examination bed.

"Same here, kiddo." John responded, kissing Amanda on her forehead.

Back at the hotel, Amanda had gotten cleaned off and was in pajamas before she was helped to the bed by Finn and reached at the bandages around her eyes, Finn stopping her.

"I think… she was gonna kill him had she not been taken out of the room." Amanda said as she felt the bedsheets and comforter being pulled over her and up to her shoulders before Finn stretched out next to her and rested his right hand on her left side.

"She would've... and Seth would've deserved it." Finn whispered, pulling Amanda into his arms and kissing her on her forehead.

"They just… help each other…" Lori said quietly…

"All senior officers report to the bridge."

"Computer, pause program, save current time frame." Lori said, everything freezing and a chime sounding in response. "End program." She added, the room fading in a yellow grid to a plain room with a framework of lights and rods around the walls. Her clothing changed, from her leather jacket and leggings back to her yellow shouldered Starfleet uniform.

With that, she left the holodeck, returning to the corridors of the USS Mustang.

It was quieter… she went to the nearest monitor in the wall and pulled up the video of the incident itself, watched it and saw that the pepper spray had been tossed to Seth from a fan in the audience. Lori couldn't see what the fan looked like because of the mask and dark clothing… but she could see something.

Looking closer revealed black nail polish on the person's finger nails.

"Should've worn gloves…" Lori said before pausing the video.

"Something wrong, Captain?" She heard, turned and saw the ship's counselor, Oryda.

"Just looking at an old tape… I chose the aftermath of the WWE pepper spray incident for the holodeck program, it just… intrigued me." Lori replied, motioning to the paused image of the tape.

"It also horrified you…" Oryda said.

"It did… treating his friends like that, now he could've lost her for good." Lori responded.

"Are you deciding on going back? To keep more incidents from breaking out?" Oryda asked.

"Obviously a holo program can't change the actual past but… I'd be interested to see what will come of it if I get involved." Lori replied.

"Captain? Just be careful, okay? She clearly was wounded from it and that never goes away." Oryda said.

"We've all been through quite similar as a crew… Hakeev's arena was…" Lori replied, trailing off.

"It made you fight for your life… forced you to fight endlessly to survive… in that way, you and Amanda Cena are alike. You've both had your lives threatened, made terrible decisions and lived on through It." Oryda said.

"We have." Lori said before leaving.

She had to know where to start… and it wouldn't be easy.