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Continuation from Field Test

"You bet there's something on my mind. I think - "
"Mind?" Monica scoffs, coming to join us. "Think? That would be a first."
"Sit down, Monica," I tell the redhead. "Before you overheat." I raise her body temperature three degrees and she looks ready to pass out, taking refuge in the corner with a champagne bucket, sucking on ice chips. "You were saying, Captain?"
Megan runs into the ballroom, apologizing for the intrusion, handing Fontaine a secure storage device. She transmits the video to the main screen. Split screen presentation of the blonde suffering in a self perpetuating plasma field and McEndicott's tracking of the plasma to the point of origin.
Namely my personal quarters.
"You attacked me," she says, "needlessly and without - "
"Yes, yes, I do good work," I state honestly.
"Oh!" the Captain says, taken aback. "You don't deny it?"
"Hardly," I state confidently. "This was a test of you, your abilities. Your perseverance. The charges against you. All of it. I needed to test your mettle."
"I knew there had to be a good reason - " Megan starts.
"That's all very convenient," the Captain says, moving closer, trying to challenge me with dominant posture and attitude, though she's hardly enough to intimidate me. Even without psionics, I could squash her like a bug.
Still, points for trying...

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Continuation from Field Test

"You bet there's something on my mind. I think - "
"Mind?" Monica scoffs, coming to join us. "Think? That would be a first."
"Sit down, Monica," I tell the redhead. "Before you overheat." I raise her body temperature three degrees and she looks ready to pass out, taking refuge in the corner with a champagne bucket, sucking on ice chips. "You were saying, Captain?"
Megan runs into the ballroom, apologizing for the intrusion, handing Fontaine a secure storage device. She transmits the video to the main screen. Split screen presentation of the blonde suffering in a self perpetuating plasma field and McEndicott's tracking of the plasma to the point of origin.
Namely my personal quarters.
"You attacked me," she says, "needlessly and without - "
"Yes, yes, I do good work," I state honestly.
"Oh!" the Captain says, taken aback. "You don't deny it?"
"Hardly," I state confidently. "This was a test of you, your abilities. Your perseverance. The charges against you. All of it. I needed to test your mettle."
"I knew there had to be a good reason - " Megan starts.
"That's all very convenient," the Captain says, moving closer, trying to challenge me with dominant posture and attitude, though she's hardly enough to intimidate me. Even without psionics, I could squash her like a bug.
Still, points for trying...