Beach Voodoo

Posted on Thu Sep 13th, 2018 @ 12:29am by Captain Enalia Telvan & Maica III 47 & Lieutenant Commander Thex sh'Zoarhi

Mission: Holographic Horrors
Location: Artan Fortress Beach

Thex smiled to herself as she read the padd she'd brought with her. With the artificial sun shining over the dome she was feeling incredibly happy. The soft sound of the waves moving up against the lakes moved against the shore mear feet away from the andorian. This was heaven for her.

Her antenna twitched slightly as she heard footsteps approach her. Propping herself up on her arms she looked up at the captain and her wife walking towards her. " Hello, guys." She said warmly.

Maica was in a pale green unikini that was a bit retro, but was charming, nonetheless. It almost blended in with her skin and if it weren't for the poly-sheen to it, you might mistake it for her skin. "Thex! It's good to see you again. How have you been? I hope you don't mind if we join you." Without waiting for approval, the green skinned hologram set a rather large picnic basket on the sand and spread out a beach blanket for herself and Enalia before she flopped down next to the cerulean engineer. Even made of holographics, in this harshly lit beach, you couldn't really tell she wasn't flesh and blood as her giant mammaries bounced and bobbed and sweat beaded on her skin.

"Sorry, we don't mean to intrude," Enalia added as she removed a robe and laid out a bit more elegantly on the other side of her wife. "You did pick the best part of the beach though, so please excuse us for imposing." She was dressed in a red and black string bikini that left scant square centimeters to the imagination.

" No need to apologise it is your station after all." Thex said as she adjusted herself slightly into a better more comfortable position. She was wearing a pale blue and black bikini and boyshorts. " Just enjoying the water whilst checking out some paperwork I've been dealing with. It's nice I can actually swim. Last time I was here one of my arms was in a cast. "

"Well, now you can swim to your heart's content," Maica replied. "And you'll join us for our picnic, right? I made a variety of sandwiches and I packed a variety of flavors of alcoholic citrus drinks."

" If you don't mind that does sound rather nice. " the andorian replied as she placed her padd down on her own blanket. " Just been talking a look at the holo incident seeing if i can make sense of where some of the holograms came from."

"Especially since some of them are supposedly not in our database, or modified versions of things." Enalia had been pondering that as well. "Was it Rita that said it seemed like the storm was studying us? The more we look at the data we gathered, the more I'm finding myself agreeing with her. There might be something to that human gut after all. Maica love, it's illegal to eat human guts, isn't it?"

"Yes, yes it is." Maica replied, matter-of-factly.

"Darn... I'll just have to rely on her then." Enalia said this as seriously as she could in an attempt to mess with Thex's head. She'd never really eat another sentient like that and she knew voodoo wasn't real.

" Well she's not the only one seeing odd patterns. I've searched both the Federation and civilian hole databases and i can't find any sign of the program i had to deal with in the hanger. " Thex replied grinning slightly at the captain's words. She had a rather good sense of when the captain was trying to mess with her.

"Then the question becomes where the data for the programs came from." Enalia rolled over face down as she contemplated this. "Since it didn't come from us, that means it came from the storm, which means it was sentient after all. That means it was studying us. Watching how we reacted. Or trying to kill us off, considering we're the first survivors of such a storm."

" Perhaps it was an artificial creation though i have no idea what species could create something like that. Perhaps some test to see how we'd act in a situation like that?" Thex pondered from her spot.

"Either way, it treated us like a kid with an ant farm. It shook us up and watched us scurry around trying to survive." It was a bit of a grim analogy, but Enalia thought it appropriate.

" Makes you wonder if it let us go on purpose. Still, i wonder what data it got out of making me dance in the hangar bay." The andorian pondered.

"I'm wondering what it got out of having me nearly eaten by a million tribbles..." Enalia counter pondered.

Maica sighed and got up, popping open her picnic basket. "I'm wondering if these sandwiches are going to eat themselves." Handing a wrapped set of handmade sandwiches and an ice cold vodka and lemonade canned drink to each of them, she settled back down on the blanket with her own holographic version of the same.

Thex smiled as she took a sandwich and the drink before taking a bite out of the sandwich. " These are very good. " She said as she ate her sandwich.

Enalia nobbled as well. "I think you might have outdone yourself again, my love."

"Thank you. I used fresh watercress and the bread was made this morning." Maica looked proud of herself as she too ate on her holographic sandwiches.

" You can tell. Much better than anything I could come up with. I'm a terrible cook." Thex replied between bites.

"Cooking takes practice," Maica replied. "Even with all the years of experience and knowledge preloaded into me, I had to practice at it a fair bit to get the simplest of things right."

Enalia chuckled softly a bit. "Yeah, the first few days after she came online, she had trouble making tea. She couldn't get the water to boil. It was cute though."

This little piece of information caused Maica to blush and smile at the memory. "Yeah, that was embarrassing. Here I was, one of the most advanced pieces of software in the galaxy and you had to teach me how to boil water."

" You can't program everything from the get-go. First thing they taught us at the academy. First time i tried coding a replicator all it made was a pale pink goo that only Naari's could eat." Thex said sharing her own tale of embarrassment.

"Mmmm... Recycled protein..." Enalia knew that description. She also knew the taste from her family's survival training. "I'll stick with my wife's amazing cooking, thanks. Maybe you could start giving people cooking lessons."

"I'm not sure I have enough time in the day now, but here and there couldn't hurt," Maica replied.

" Maybe you should. I'm not sure if i can make it i have to try and contact my grandfather tomorrow and it might take a while." Thex replied.

"With all the duties I have now, official classes will have to wait, but any time you need help, just let me know." Maica smiled brightly. "I hope your conversation with your grandfather goes well."

" I hope so too if i can get the jellyfish on the line he's....." Thex began before her communicator began to bleep. " Speck off the devil. That's him now." Excuse me i have to go and take this. I'll talk to you later." Thex said as she stood up.

"Good luck then," Enalia replied, waving happily as she nibbled another sandwich.