>
> >******* in the conference room *******
> >
> > Upon Kitanya's entrance both Brell and his toadie stood to
> >attention. What was coming next there were not ready for...
> >
> > >
> > > "As you werre," she said, taking a seat. "I've been doing some
> >rrresearrch and I've come to some conclusions." She went over something on
> >one of the PADD's she had, making them sweat a little.
> > >
> > This kind of talk was not to their likeing. As she went on they became
> >more and more nervous. Especially the young host shot. He started to
> >sweat just a bit. Brell on the other hand became agitated, and it was just
> >beginning to show when....
> > >
> > > After a time, she finally looked up. "Afterrr talking to yourrr field
> >commanderrrs and rrreviewing the missions that have eben taking place, I
> >find the situation herrre to be completely unaccaptable. Which is why the
> >two of you arrre going back to Earrrth and will be on standby until I can
> >find someplace to put you wherrre you can't hurrrt anyone."
> > >
> > The young stud replied, "What! "
> >
> > Brell piped in, "This is outrageous! I have run this station as well as
> >it can be run. You have no right to do this. Admiral, I have powerful
> >friends, and they will not be happy at this kind of slander that you do
> >here. You had better reconsider." the Commander said angrily.
>
> She looekd up calmly, but there was a fire in her eyes that warned not only
> of a dangerous commanding officer, but a dangerous feline predator who
> wasn't all that far away evolutionarily from her carnivorous ancestors.
> "Arrre you thrrreatening me, Commanderrr?" she asked coolly.
>
"Now why would I want to do that, Admiral. I am just giving you
some friendly advice." Brell replied.
>
> "It's not slanderrr if it's the trrruth," she said, with a sharp edge to her
> voice. "Not only do I have the accounts of everrry single field commanderrr
> on this base, but I have the intelligence analyses you've been spewing out
> of yourrr ass and giving to them, analyses that disrrregarrd crrritical
> intelligence inforrmation and underrremphasizes orrr fails completely to
> warrrn teams of what they arrre heading into. I have the mission rrrecorrds
> that show rrrepeated unneccessarrry trrrips to the same locations, which
> even a cub could figurrre out will alerrrt the enemy to theirrr prrresence,
> and I have a severrrely wounded operrrative in sickbay because his team was
> almost wiped out an a mission that should neverrr have been orrrderred!"
> Her voice rose as she spoke, but never out of control, just forcefully
> emphasized, and angry. "How can it possibly be slanderrr when I have all
> the rrrecorrds rrright herrre in frrront of me that prrroves everrrything
> I've seen? And I don't give a damn who yourrr frrriends arrre, Commanderrr,
> I will not have my people butcherrred because you can't seem to get it
> rrright!"
>
"There are different interpretations on those reports, Admiral.
You have yours and I have mine. SO if you take me and my XO back to
earth, who will run the outpost? You do not have anyone qualifies here to
do that, now do you???" he replied his anger being partly tempered by
the ferosity of the cat's demeanor.
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