UNKNOWN CAVEInzjana was down a tunnel that lead to a dead end, or more to the point, was now a dead end when she heard the distinctive sound of Phaser fire. Bolting back the way she had come, Inzjana made it to where the Phaser rang out to see Kali unconscious and being carried back to the main group and a stunned medic with a Phaser in his lap as he sagged against a wall of the tunnel.
Anger welling up inside of her, Inzjana calmed herself using the Vulcan technique of expelling emotions without the need to meditate and waited for Ryder to round the corner with his charge. Like a stalking cat, Inzjana moved to the prone Edosian, picked up the medics Phaser and with all her Vulcan strength, broke the weapon in two and tossed it aside.
Knowing what it was like to be shot by another Starfleet officer, Inzjana raised her Disruptor and aimed it at the Edosian, knowing full well that she could pull the trigger on her own weapon that was set to 'kill' and no one would be the wiser. How easy it would be to pull the trigger and end the life of this pitiful being in front of her and make all the bad thoughts go away. After all, it wasn't the unevolved pond scum of a science officer that had shot Inzjana and left her for dead, but this low life had still tried to terminate Kali.
What to do? Allow Huqma to live and be sentenced to rehabilitation at a Federation facility? Was that justice? After all, Kali could die from her wounds, as Inzjana almost did from her own shooting, what justice was that for Kali?
Inzjana depressed the trigger even more, not quite to the firing position but it was close? She wanted to, but what would that say about her? After all, Vulcans have a respect for all life in all its forms, but right at this moment, a moment of anger at the injustice of it all, she really didn't care about Vulcan philosophy, or did she?
For what seemed like ages, Inzjana stood there with her Disruptor pointed at the Edosian medic, her finger beginning to ache as she maintained the position of pre-fire of the trigger.
Luckily for Huqma, Inzjana's better angels got the best of her, as her Vulcan side reasserted itself as she deactivated the Disruptor and placed it back in its holster and made her way back to the rest of the away team, in time for Inzjana to receive new orders. It was just as well, that no one knew how close Inzjana had come to murdering Huqma, a fact of life that every Vulcan must live with, but control.
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Ian snarled the medic's name when he saw Ryder carrying Kali.
"Gibbons!
Moving to help Ryder he growled.
"What happened? Did that wench Stamen send in security?"
Not waiting for and answer, Ian focused the science officer.
"Mister Inzjana, new orders, find out what this jackal of a scientist was working on!"
Ian looked at growing fiasco and wondered what he'd done karmically to account for his badly this mission was going, as each minute continued to be worse than the last.
"Aye Commander," Inzjana stated, redirecting her direction slightly to arrive at the mad scientist's lab, doing her best to ignore the remains of her fellow beings.