Chapter 17

Federation Ship

Ambassadors Quarters

Bi'Anka smiled and it was a very feral smile as her eyes went to a mode that allowed her to track in complete darkness. Sitting back in her mistress' room she could hear Captain Reynolds and Janae talking about her. She knew she was a legendary myth to most and she relished in the idea that her background was as mysterious as she had managed to keep to her own self. Walking over to the M'lar's bed she slumped to the floor and watched the door and her mistress. Her ears were attuned to the conversation going on in the common area of the quarters.

"Her people are sought after and their pelts bring high prices on the black market." Janae had walked to the replicator and ordered a drink "Ginger tea with a splash of vermouth." The drink appeared in the replicator. Picking up the tea he walked to the sofa and flopped down. Taking care not to spill his drink. He watched Reynolds walk to the door and he cautioned. "I would not bother her right now she is dead to the world. She will be that way for a few more hours before she is up and at it again."

Reynolds paused and looked to Janae. "Why not check on her to make sure she is fine? We have heard nothing from her since they carried her in here and put her to bed." Reynolds leaned against the door folding his arms over his chest and looking curiously at Janae with a hint of a smile.

"Because that she bitch will tear you apart. I told you she will protect her against friendlies or enemies, you saw what she did to me a while ago." He sipped his tea and sighed then smiled. "Perfect. But don't take my word for it, open the door and see if she does not growl like a true wolf and be prepared if she just wants to warn you it's a growl, if she is in full protection mode it's a growl and a pounce and the pounce will not be pleasant."

James Reynolds was not a stupid man he was a captain and took risks but he was not stupid so taking the advice of Janae he walked to his friend's side and flopped down next to him. "So, is she normally this over protective?" He lifted his feet and rested them on the coffee table and looked sideways to his friend.

"Yep, and as long as I have known them both, nothing gets past her unless she is dead or unconscious and I don't trust her even if she has been declared dead she is a wicked piece of work and I feel sorry for any male that tries to cuddle up to her, they take their life in their own hands." Reynolds had found her attractive for a female Klingon and very well built, that butt was tight enough he could have bounced his communicator pin off it.

"So, how did you by pass my security to get on my ship without asking permission?" That was the main reason he had decided to stay and have a chat with his old friend instead of having him thrown in the brig and he was not sure he would not still have him detained. For all the good it would do because he knew Janae knew his way around most security cells. That was not why they were here; they were here to transport refugees to Boreth.

Janae sighed softly, "You know I don't divulge my secrets but in your case I will tell you, the safety wall that is suppose to be engaged for this ship has been tampered with and it was a simple matter of by passing your security defenses and pin point her and beam directly to her side." He smiled, sipped his tea and winked at the Captain. "If you want, I can show your analyst and your security chief where the breach occurred and you might be able to find out who disabled your system to begin with and reinstate your protocols. But do me a favor let me get off this ship first before you reinstate."

Bi'Anka frowned hearing they were on a non-secure ship and she was suddenly very alert to her surroundings. Taking M'lar's pin off of her shirt she slipped her pin on in its place and put M'lar's on her chest. If anyone tried to transport on her lock they would be in for a rude awakening when the very pissed Volkarian she wolf appeared and made them sorry they had even attempted to take her mistress. Checking the area around her, she walked to the view port and raised the shielding cover to look around at the star field outside the viewport.

Walking to the door she looked one last time at her mistress and entered the common room. "I would request the rest of her guard be allowed on this ship. This ship is not secure and she is not secure and that makes all on the ship a threat to her safety." She glared dangerously at Janae.

"Oh don't get your leathers in a bunch Bi'Anka, I can get Tork, Dovka, and HmfiC here like that." He snapped his fingers and to show that he meant it he had preplanned a demonstration to James to show him how vulnerable his ship was. When his fingers snapped three figures appeared in the common area by transport. Mara had locked on to the three security honor guards of M'lar and when she heard the snap she transported them to Janae.

The three males took up immediate defensive positions standing back to back with each other. Bi'Anka folded her arms and narrowed her eyes. "This way." She nodded her head to over her left shoulder. Turning she walked to the secured door and opened it to stop and frown. Her mistress was not in the bed and that was not a good situation where she was concerned. "She is gone Captain and if she is not found by the time I get back from tearing your ship apart looking for her, I will then tear you apart. Alert the others on her ship she is missing and see if we can locate her."

Janae chuckled, "Oh goodness gracious me Bi'Anka you are trying to be a super bitch today. Relax she is on my ship. I just did a demonstration with those three and M'lar to make my point to James me boy here." He clapped the Captain on the shoulder. Snapping his fingers again, a very befuddled half asleep M'lar stood in the center of the room.

'I changed pins with her how did you get her off the ship?"

"Simple I knew you would exchange pins so I had Mara lock onto your pin and transport expecting it to be M'lar." He shrugged expressively and smiled charmingly.

"What is going on?" She looked exhausted and then nodded to Janae. "Oh, never mind. Look wake me in twelve hours and we will begin again." She turned and walked to the room that she had previously occupied. Walking to the bed she fell face forward and was sound asleep again.

It was as she hit the bed that the klaxon went off alerting of an unauthorized intruder report being broadcast ship wide. "Now see my point is someone did not want your protocols in place to prevent someone from beaming onto your ship with your knowledge. I believe with that delay it would have given someone enough time to plant some delayed bombs and transport off." Reynolds was minorly upset over what he had just discovered.

"Who would want to . . . " then he stopped his question it was obvious, by the way the three male guards now stood guard in the room and outside the room. "Never mind. So she has a few enemies is that what you are saying?" He had found her to be very attractive too, a short thing that did not appear to be much of a threat. She certainly was no warrior or of the warrior cast but there was strength about her with those peculiar powers she seemed to possess.

"Yeah you could say that and she is a royal pain in my ass, but she pays good and so does her old man. So, I offer up my special talents and help when they need me and apparently they needed me tonight." He watched the door open and three security officers burst through the door with weapons drawn.

Seeing the Captain relaxed and sitting comfortably in the common area of the quarters they snapped to a salute. "Captain, we traced the breach in here are you all right?"

"I am fine Greene, you might send Mr. Trammel to me we have a problem with our protocols and security. I have witnessed three unauthorized transports because I am told our system to prevent these from happening have been disabled, so I need a full diagnostic run on the entire ship and make sure all security protocols are in affect and you might take Mr. Janae with you he is an expert in disabling such protocols and could possibly show you where the breach occurred."

The young man snapped another salute nodded and turned to leave taking his team with him.

Six hours later Ambassador's Quarters

"Mlar . . . M'lar . . . Help us M'lar . . . find us and help us! We are all dying and we need you M'lar . . . " The voice was distant but she could hear it in her deepest sleep, sitting up she looked around the room and saw Bi'Anka sleeping lightly by the door, with Tork on the other side. He had his eyes closed but he was alert he opened his eyes to see his mistress sitting up.

"We have to go, there are others calling to me, come we need to get back to my ship." She slid from the bed and grabbed her cape. Bi'Anka stood up in one fluid motion and stood poised to follow wherever she was directed. M'lar walked to her common area of the quarters she had been assigned and stopped short. Reynolds and Janae were still camped out in her living room.

"Gentlemen, I need to get to a terminal that will allow me to lock on to locations and be prepared to beam aboard more survivors they are calling out to me and I don't know how they know I am here but they are calling to me by name!" She was in a frenzy to help and she was still hearing the voice calling to her.

HmfiC stepped forward and shook his head. "No one but those you already rescued are aware of you and your name my lady. I would be very careful of what you think you are hearing."

Reynolds found it odd that they would be calling out to her by name when he had not learned her name until she was beamed to his ship. "I have to agree, I will take you to a terminal but I would suggest you direct us to pin point the location and allow my officer to transport for you." M'lar sighed and then nodded, she was exhausted and knew she was not reasoning this out very well.

Together they walked down the hallway to where Janae had just installed the new protocols for security and waited while M'lar directed the ensign to key in the coordinates and be prepared to beam. "Wait, beam them directly to the shuttle bay and we will be there transmitting the coordinates back to you here." Reynolds nodded to Janae who now took on a more serious attitude than he had before.

"I am going to put her in a shuttle and we can transmit from there James. Tell your man to transport them now." Janae along with Bi'Anka , Tork, Dovka and HmfiC walked rapidly to a shuttle and entered as the first to transport began to shimmer into view. As the large Klingon males appeared on the ship they drew their weapons and began to fire at Reynolds. Hitting his pin he called for a security lock down and red alert with security to his location.

M'lar frowned she noted the male leader and stood up and directed her thoughts to him, she found he was blocking her and then he was in her mind. "You thought you could escape us? I don't think so. You will die this night along with that wolf she bitch you have protecting you."

M'lar smiled lifting her hand she held it forward and concentrated on the index finger, "Paralyze from the waist down cease breathing." She waited and the power surged forward and the four male warriors that had appeared with the leader were suddenly frozen in place, their eyes going wide and the ability to breathe gone. "You may be able to block my abilities to enter your mind but you can't block me from manipulating your body functions pa'taq!" She heard him call her a few choice names and fall forward on his face.

"Release." She commanded as She dropped her hand and watched as they were swarmed over by a flurry of Federation officers securing them and their weapons. Janae cautioned them to remain in the shuttle. Exiting the shuttle he walked to the security team. Removing their communicator pins he smiled.

"Now we have you and your ship Lorq, you will regret this and then some you tried to attack an Ambassador on a Federation ship and they do not take lightly to that breach plus I am sure that we can find a nice little bed for you on Rura Penthe." He watched the rage boiling on the male Klingon's face. "Be glad I did not release the Volkarian on you she wanted a piece of you really bad. Do you honestly think once she was done with you that you would have anything left that identified you as a Klingon?"

Bi'Anka stepped out of the shuttle, she had heard every word he had said and she walked as any predator stalking its prey, Lorq saw her eyes and they were no longer the deep green but had turned wolf yellow and were elliptical. He swallowed hard and Janae was pretty sure he had just soiled himself. "Keep her away! Don't let her near me." He watched her mouth open and he saw her teeth had elongated and she was slowly beginning to revert to her wolfing shape. She no longer walked on two legs but had bent over and was now walking as a large wolf with a growling slathering mouth.

Reynolds would not have believed it if he had not witness this himself just now. The whole body was no longer that of a female Klingon but one of a wolf with long fur, yellow eyes and a scent for fear and death. "Bi'Anka, you don't want to do this. I know you are mad but you should return to your mistress she is very distressed you just revealed your true nature."

The wolf's large head turned to peer over at the tiny Klingon female standing in the doorway and she saw her smile. Turning she lunged for the male Klingon throwing him back on the ground, the others walked away as she sat on his chest and growled and each time he tried to move she would snap at his face and throat. Slowly she began to transform back to her Klingon form. She leaned over him into his face. "The next time, I won't let anyone stop what I wanted to do just now. Consider yourself lucky. However, I promise nothing for the crew on your ship. If I get there it will be bathed in their blood when I am done."

She flipped off his body into a standing position and walked with the grace of a wolf back to the shuttle and took up her position in front of M'lar. "Did he wet his pants?" M'lar asked under her breath.

"Yes, and he is not about to forget he was just given a reprieve by a Volkain wolf she bitch. He will have that to take to his execution because I fear your father will be wanting his life before this is said and done." The security officers escorted the males from the room. James Reynolds had seen a lot of things in his life time but he had never seen anything quite like he just witnessed.

"You weren't kidding earlier." He spoke softly to Janae. Janae had held his breath he had seen the nod and the smile on M'lar's lips when Bi'Anka had looked back to her mistress. She knew that M'lar had just authorized her to do whatever she wanted to this male and he was not going to stay around and watch her rip him apart.

"I told you she is an original and she is a higher order of the wolf people, she can shift from one form to another they are rare and their pelts come at a higher price on the market unfortunately no one has been able to skin one because the hunter becomes the hunted and they rarely live. Those like Bi'Anka rarely live to be an old age if they do they assume their wolf form and go underground and are never seen again. I have seen some try to say they have a shifter's pelt but they never are and those poor unfortunates that make that claim rarely live long enough to poach again."

Reynolds sighed deeply, "So should we locate their ship?" He turned to his security chief.

"Not necessary, I already sent the information to Mara and Modak and I suspect they are already on that ship and disabling it as we speak. They should be visible in about five minutes and you can send a security team to the ship. You will probably find around six more males and females on that ship. They are zealots and were looking to take a chance with M'lar being weakened by her exhaustion. They had not expected to see her guard with her on this ship."

Reynolds nodded, "Well I will get back to the running of my ship. I believe that your Cleric wishes to return to her own ship."

Janae frowned, "Not possible it is at capacity and I feel she would be safer here in your keeping Jim. I know she will kick up a fuss but you just tell her she has ambassador status and you would be happy to send her back to the surface of Qo'noS if she so desires but I have a feeling she will stay here now she has her main guard with her."

"So we are transport detail . . . " The words were cut off when the ships alert went off again. "Shit, now what!" Reynolds walked to the com panel and hit the button. "Captain Reynolds to the bridge."

"Captain there has been another eruption on the surface. A less populated area but a massive explosion has ripped apart the western region's mine sections. I believe there are reports of injuries and there is a request to start evacuating the areas around this newest eruption."

James turned and saw M'lar squatting down rocking on her heels she had her eyes closed and her face had gone a deathly pale color. "What the . . . "

Janae stepped away from Reynolds. "She hears them when they die, their souls pass through to her and she sends them to the dark fleet. I am just as sure there were several deaths that occurred with this last eruption. We are going to have to get her near the area so she can pin point any survivors."

HmfiC shook his head. "There were no survivors this time. She feels at least five hundred died in that explosion. She is unable to feel anything but their confusion and pain."

The room was filling up with personnel that had been ordered to report to the Captain in the shuttle bay. "We will be transporting from the surface to the ship refuges to be taken to the planet Boreth, I want this an organized evacuation and I will expect you to be sensitive to those that we transport. You have your orders lets get on it." He watched with pride as his crew scrambled to make way to collect refuges to be transported.

"Bridge to Captain."

"This is Reynolds."

"We have a Captain K'Ter'r on line and he wishes to speak with the cleric he says it is of some urgency."

"Put him through to here in shuttle bay two."

K'Ter'r appeared on the view screen and he looked annoyed. "Where is the Cleric?" His demand was forceful and intimidating to most.

He watched M'lar step forward. "What is it Captain?" She looked bad her face was drawn and pinched and her eyes showed the pain she was feeling.

"I am going to the surface to collect my family and would request you come to my ship and sit in my chair until I can return." M'lar turned to Bi'Anka, and nodded to her and then turned back to the Captain.

"Transport me now." The captain nodded to his transportation chief and they watched as Bi'Anka disappeared and appeared at K'Ter'r's side. "What is this!" He growled and watched M'lar sigh and then nodded again.

"She exchanged pins with me, transport me now Captain and be quick, to also bring over Tork, Dovka and HmfiC or they might get annoyed." She felt the static on her arms and the hair to stand up and she shimmered from view along with Tork, Dovka and HmfiC.

K'Ter'r's ship

K'Ter'r stood on the helm of his ship, turning command over to the Admiral he felt a slight relief as he waited for her to appear and when she had he was off the bridge and heading to the shuttle bay. "Bi'Anka go with him he may need help. I have Tork, Dovka, and HmfiC."

HmfiC stepped forward, "If you don't mind my lady I would like to go with the Captain and help him. I think I would be more agreeable as a companion than our dear Bi'Anka."

M'lar waved her hand and nodded. "Then go on and hurry back we have a lot of work to still do."

'Iw Blng

"Do you really need to be so apprehensive Captain? I mean let us face it if you don't settle your anxiety you will give yourself a stroke or pop a blood vessel in your brain which would be very bad." Far had fussed to much and now it was making his host even angrier. "All right I will be quiet but I am going to start directing your blood to another part of your body to preserve your strength."

Captain K'Ter'r was growing anxious and he was mad that the pipsqueak was becoming annoying. "Look do what you want but I have family in that area that just blew up so be quiet and let me do what I need to do to save any of my family before its too late."

HmfiC knew what was happening and kept quiet, he manipulated the shuttle and set it down on the outskirts of the area that had just suffered an eruption. The town was covered in ash and the area was still being pelted with rock from the explosion. There were towns people moving out into the streets checking on one another and their neighbors. Seeing the shuttle they rushed to the shuttle seeking help.

"I think I will have them line up here and start having them transported to the ship." HmfiC was taking charge of those in this town that had been situated almost forty miles from where the eruption had occurred.

"I am going to search for my family, they live six blocks over and two down." Captain K'Ter'r was worried at least he had seen this section of town had only suffered from the fallout he had hopes that his family was safe and he could get to them.

"Listen good Klin, gather what you can carry, and come back here ad we will transport you to the ship we came from to take you to wherever you wish to go." HmfiC stood so tall amongst those humble people that had gathered around their shuttle. He was a tower of strength and calm in a sea of chaos.