Samantha's Third Chance Chapter 1
#2 of Samantha's Third Chance
To Samantha's surprise she wakes up and not in the least cold. She feels a blanket on top of her and she hears strange sounds and a constant hum. She opens her eyes and sees she is in a brightly lit room with strange looking beds and instruments. A head pops into view, it is a head of a balding human male with an arrogant look in his eyes. "Oh good your awake. We almost lost you and the Admiral was about use his powers, but thanks to my genius and skill I manage to get you back without him." He stands up and hits a pin on his left side. "Sickbay to Admiral Q."
"Yes Doctor?"
"Your guest is awake."
"I'm on my way down."
"Who said that?" Samantha asks clearly puzzled.
"The Admiral of course. How are you feeling." He takes a device, pulls something off it and begins waving that part at her.
"Fine, just confused. What are you doing and where am I and how did I get here?"
"I'm scanning your vitals. You have an interesting biology. Your on board the U.S.S. Firefox, currently the yacht of Marshal Admiral Q who brought you here."
"Why?"
"Because I need your help." Samantha looks over and sees a young looking human male wearing, in her mind a ridiculous outfit. He walks towards her and extends his hand. "Admiral Q though you can call be Paul Samantha." She hesitantly shakes his hand.
"Thank you for saving me. What can I help you with considering what powers you have? I thought I was dead."
"You nearly were." He looks past her to the doctor. "Is she good to go?"
"Yes sir. She's as healthy as I can make her."
"Good you can shut yourself off now." The doctor nods.
"Computer, deactivate the EMH." And he disappears to Samantha's shock.
"Amazing." She finally says as Q chuckles.
"Come." She follows him to the door which opens for him with no visible sign how. She watches with amazed curiosity. She then follows him down the hall.
"Where are we going?" She asks.
"The armory. Need to get you set up for your job."
"Which is?"
"There is someone who needs protection and guidance. Unfortunately events are keeping me from doing this personally." The room stops and the doors open to reveal a red anthro horse. "Spirit."
"Hey dad. Just letting you know that I'm off."
"Okay, Samantha meet Spirit Cimarron my son."
"Hi Samantha." Spirit extends his hand.
"Uh, Hi." She shakes his hand.
"Well cya later dad." Spirit snaps his fingers and disappears in a flash of white light. They continue on until they reach another set of doors and head in. Despite the strange weapons she recognizes the racks as weapon racks. She looks around and Q heads to a cabinet and begins to pull out items. He hands her a set of leather armor along with a small sword, a bow with a quiver of arrows. "Change into these." And points to another door. She goes and after a few minutes comes out wearing the outfit. "Does it fit?" She nods.
"Yes very comfortable." He then hands her a strange sack and helps her put it on so she sees how it fits.
"There's some meals ready to eat in there for you just follow the instructions and some medical supplies." Then he lifts up a small bag. It looked like a typical bag but had a small chain attached to it. "Attach the chain to your belt so it's hard to steal. There's some gold coins that should last awhile but you eventually need a job." She attaches the sack to her belt and looks back at him. "You ready?"
"As much as I can be."
"Okay, I'll stop by every now and then to see how your doing." He faces away from her gestures with his arm. A portal appears. It looks like a sideways whirlpool made of green light with the occasional green lightning bolt striking out.
"Just step into it." She hesitantly approaches it then looks back at him. He nods at her with a smile on his lips. She looks back at the portal, takes a deep breath steps through.
She feels like she's flying as she travels through the portal. Soon it ends as she drops to the ground. She gets up and looks behind her to see the portal closes behind her. She looks around and finds her self in a wood at night. She looks up and sees a familiar skyline. She spends a few minutes savoring the feel of the ground and wind, things she though she'd never feel again. She then hears a scream off to the right. Sighing she says. "We here we go." and races off in that direction.