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Director's Cut / Re: [2373] USS Renegade: It's a working holiday challorn, anything can happen
Last post by RyeTanker -It was well into the evening when the chime sounded. "Enter!" he called and the familiar form of Chief Zangari walked in. "You asked to see me sir?" He asked in his usual deep and accented version of Federation standard. A tight grin pulled at the Asian Security Chief's mouth. "This was scheduled so don't act like it so sudden." The Chief grinned back, but was quite punctilious about protocol at times, so he waited for Commander Lin to invite him to sit. It wasn't a long wait as he was waived to a seat opposite the desk. Lin didn't bother waiting for Zengari to take a seat before turning around to a cabinet and pulling a dark brown bottle with a long neck. Zengari arched an eyebrow inquisitively. "Saurian Brandy?" Lin placed two clear glasses between them and poured the viscous golden liquid. "Indeed, and only the best." After a couple of fingers were poured in each glass, the two men clinked and sipped, a long established tradition before they got down to business.
"So, how did she do?" Zengari smiled. "You do have the rest of the department to worry about sir rather than one errant cadet." Commander Lin snorted his amusement. "She's also the XO's daughter and the newest addition to the crew, so stop evading and answer the question." The Chief shrugged. "She did fine." This caused Commander Lin to pause with his glass part way to his mouth and gave the Chief a measuring look. He took a quick sip then put his cup down. "Okay, we both know that tone. he started as he set the glass down and crossed his arms on the desk. "She did more than okay didn't she? Almost handed you your ass on platter I'd venture?" Commander Lin's grin turned into a small smile. Zengari gave a matching grin. "Not even close sir, but she does have potential. We can review the video." he offered and the Commander nodded as he pulled up the relevant portion of training.
When the video came up in its paused form, Commander Lin's eyebrows rose. "Please tell me you got her to change first." Big shoulders shrugged. "Can't. It's one of those odd dispensations from Starfleet, not often used, but still on the books. Andorian's can wear lighter for hard training." The security chief looked back incredulously. "She quoted the regulation sir and I looked it up. She's right." Commander Lin exhaled with acquiescence even as he thought. She's gonna be trouble. The fight helmet was definitley sensible, but the tank top and capris shorts showed off a lot of blue and the effect was noticeable as several men and women from all species stopped to watch the vision cautiously walk onto a mat where the Chief stood waiting with his arms crossed. The two stood facing each other and if he'd really wanted to, Commander Lin could have isolated and listened in on the conversation, but that wasn't the purpose of the review and he waited patiently while occasionally sipping on his brandy.
After a few more moments, the two separated and took up positions a few meters from each other. A crowd gathered and from his guess, the security chief guessed it was to see the newbie, but mostly to watch the Chief Zengari demolish her. In a good natured fashion of course. There wasn't too much expected as the two moved towards each other and began circling each other. Zark didn't seem to be a fool as Zengari started off jabbing at her while the smaller woman dodged out of the way, or deflected a few punches and kicks that got too close. She held out for a good few minutes, playing defensive, and he inexperience showed as Lin noted several places he would have taken pot shots at the Chief to keep him off balance. The image of the Chief seemed to have run out of patience as he surged forward in a blur that caught the Andorian by surprise and her body bent from a punch to her mid section followed by a knee to the head that brought her back up quickly. Big black arms wrapped around her and Commander had to wince as the lithe blue woman was smacked into the mat. Several other agreed with the sentiment as their bodies naturally recoiled. A few placed hands in front of their faces, while others clapped. The chief got off the cadet and offered his hand to her to help her up and she hesitated for a moment before accepting it. The hand-to-hand instructor placed his hands on his hips and spoke to the cadet for a few moments and she shook her head from side to side, then nodded vigorously. She seemed to be bursting to stand on her tippy toes so she could try and match the Chief's height like she wasn't going to back down.
The test seemed to go on longer than expected as Zengari and Zark went at it with each other. The Andorian got a several shots in and managed to knock down the Chief a couple of times. The first time didn't elicit much comment, anyone could get lucky. The second one elicited a chuckle as Lin took a sip of brandy and paused the video. "Losing your touch Chief?" The Chief offered a tight smile as he took another sip. "She's got guts and talent sir, what can I say, she really wanted to get at me." Commander Lin made a come forth gesture to get more details ad Zengari gave a small shrug. "She's going to have an interesting set of bruises and leave a bit of a bloody rag, but she did get close more than I expected." Lin nodded at this assessment."Did you take part in any of the martial competitions during training?" Zengari took a sip and nodded while his eyebrows narrowed at the non-sequitor. "I checked her record at the Academy, and she had quite the fight in the ring with a Vulcan. Miss zh'Ptrell won by the skin of her teeth on points, but it was noted that both fighters had to visit the infirmary afterwards." Commander Lin gave a smile. "Our feisty Andorian spent some time throwing up after the fight, and her opponent needed to have her nose fixed." Chief Zengari nearly choked on his brandy at hearing how violent the contest had gotten.
That gave the Commander an idea and he began watching how the Andorian moved when she got close to the Chief and the hand to hand expert sat as he let his boss think as he watched the replay. "She seems a bit stiff doesn't she?" he pronounced afterwards. Commander Lin tapped the desk for a moment. The answer was in front of him. He was sure of it. There was something in the way she moved that indicated a greater potential than the stolid dogmatic movements of the boxing ring. The Security Chief's eyes narrowed as he pulled up her short service record and scanned it quickly. The answer seemed to pop out as he looked at her extra-curricular activities. "Chief, I think we need a movie night." This was not what the enlisted chief was expecting and he replied with an understandable "Sir?" Commander Lin turned back to him and took another sip. "We need to expand this young woman's cultural breadth to properly appreciate something besides the holodeck, something like movies. Zengari's stomach began to sink. "You don't mean..." Commander Lin gave a tight smile. "Indeed I do, she's got the combination, so in the next few days, she's going to watch The Avengers and learn to fight like the Black Widow." At hearing the title of the movie, Chief Zengari stifled a groan at the new round of art related madness his boss was going to infict on himself and the XO's daughter.