I am your commanding officer now.

He refrained from pointing out that a civilian could not be considered an officer, given he doubted the woman ever spent any time in uniform. She was no more a military officer than Lester, but then, Becker knew very well what sort Lester was, and he rather preferred it.

So he had no problem lying so blatantly and baldly to her face. Conveniently, not one of the people who might have recognized his falsehood was present.

Becker turned on his heel and went to the main security station. He met the questioning gazes of his lieutenants, giving a brief shake of his head. They would not resist the attempted coup…

For now.

For now, Becker chose to take a page out of Lester's handbook, and he quietly obtained a small device from the ops storage. This outrageous and dangerous take over of the ARC wouldn't last very long, if Becker had anything to do with it.

And if he was very lucky, he could neutralize Christine Johnson while he was at it.

After all, his brief was the security of the ARC. Captain Becker took his assignments very seriously.