Authors Note: This is the third story in what will hopefully be a long line of stories. This story continues the adventures of the Lieutenant Simon Hartstone. While not necessary to read the two stories "Punishment" and "Captured!" it would be advisable to set up why this new character is aboard Voyager. If you read "Training" I should let you know I have decided to take that down considering I don't know where to take the story as well as the fact of the matter is I wasn't too happy with the first chapter I wrote and the second chapter wasn't going so well either. I wanted to write a story that included the whole Hazard Team and not just about Lieutenant Hartstone and I obviously wanted to write a kick ass story as well. Also I don't know how to work out stardates, I have looked on the star trek website to try and discern a pattern for them but their doesn't seem to be one they just seem to be a load of random numbers, I have set this in season 6 after the episode "One Small Step." I wanted log entries to feature more as I think they were a primary way of story setting on most of the Star Trek episodes.
Happiness
Read Chapter 1 for disclaimers and some other junk.
Chapter 12: The Road to Recovery
Simon watched the velocity disc as it flew through the air, he span to dodge it as it came around for another pass, he fired again and hit the disc which changed course before it come whizzing back at him faster than before. The disc was roaring at him at a good 30 kilometres an hour and he was having trouble raising his phaser to make the shot. He ducked the disc and he turned to face it but the disc had also turned with great speed and was heading towards him. Simon was still trying to dodge it forward rolling under the disc he hit his knees and he saw the disc's shadow on the deck plating, it was getting larger fast, he got up and he ran up the wall and somersaulted over the disc as it clanged into the wall. Simon landed on his left hand, in a one handed handstand before flipping over onto his feet; Simon took a few steps back as the disc got its bearings again and rising up from the deck. It whizzed towards Simon again who this time raised his phaser and shot the disc again with a five second bolt which made it change its trajectory again before coming back even faster. Simon ducked again, now the disc flying at a good 40 kilometres an hour he thought after that sustained shot added cumulative speed to the disc. Simon dropped the phaser noting this had now turned into a dodging exercise as he sidestepped the disc but it whipped round faster than before and it decided to come in low, to which Simon leapfrogged the disc, he hit the ground and as he was about to move again a chime filled the air which distracted him for a split second, and before he could move again the disc hit him in the left shoulder, which sent a sharp pain through his left arm. Simon got up as he watched the disc disappear into thin air; he turned and looked at the door
"Damn he found me" he already knew who was at the door before he even asked the computer, he had been hounding him now for the past week and a half and he was starting to get tired of it. "Computer who is at the door?" he asked out of formality rather than needing to know
"The Emergency Medical Hologram" the computer responded pertinently, he expected the Doctor. "Open the doors computer," he said with a slight smile on his face as a furious Doctor walked in.
"Lieutenant Hartstone what the hell do you think your doing! Again I find you evading me, I ask the computer where you are, it said your quarters, when I go there you aren't there and I find your comm badge on your nightstand next to your bed. I ask the computer to track down you life signs and it says you're in your office at Hazard operations, so I head there to find out you aren't and you have fiddled with the internal sensors to constantly give me the wrong locations, I have been to the Hazard ops, the Mess Hall, the Bridge, and Astrometrics. I had to have Seven of Nine locate and remove the algorithm, so I could track you down, once and for all"
"Well Doc, I need to get back on my feet and I don't need your constant checks ups, making me feel like a baby"
"I know you wanted to get active again after the first week, and I agreed with you, but you push things to far, to fast."
"Doc, the only way I am going to get up to full strength is by testing my own limitations." The Doctor opened up his tricorder and started to scan,
"Lieutenant you have been playing your upgraded version of velocity, haven't you, your heart is beating at 120 beats per minute, your adrenaline levels are through the roof, and I can tell your left arm has been under stress. How fast was the disc going?"
"Computer how fast was the velocity disc travelling before it hit me"
"The disc was travelling at 42 kph" the computer responded
"42 kph!" the Doctor exclaimed "I would have been alright if you the computer had said 20 kph, but 42 kph"
"Excuse me Doctor, is this over because I do have to return to my quarters"
"Why?" the Doctor asked as Simon took a swig from his water bottle, and picked up his bag and started to head for the door.
"If you must know Doc, I have dinner plans, and I can't go in a sweaty work out suit" the Doctor was surprised by this and Simon enjoyed the look on the Doctor's face.
"Dinner! Now this is something I approve of, may I ask who?"
"No you can't Doctor, I haven't been here long but I already know who the main spreaders of gossip are on this ship and you are one of them."
"What! I do not spread gossip!" the Doctor was genuinely surprised by this statement "I sometimes impart information that I may hear to other people but I am not a gossip"
"Doc, every time someone comes into sickbay, you ask if they have heard or seen anything you should know about"
"I am chief medical officer and I need to know what is going on around the ship, in a medical capacity of course."
"And Crewmembers Stephanie James and Crewmember Mark Moore, holding hands on the way to the Holodeck is something you need to know in a 'medical capacity'" Hartstone smiled, the Doctor looked on rather a little sheepishly.
"See ya later Doc, like I said I gotta go" he waved at the Doctor, and walked through the door leaving a stunned Doctor.
THE ENDR + R please because when it comes down to my own work my opinion doesn't matter (because I think my work is awesome) and plus look out for the fourth instalment. Where Lieutenant Hartstone will face his greatest enemy yet, he will need all his cunning, wit, wile and agility, to defeat it. Thanks for reading and peace out.