Mortal Protection Services Chapter 23: VII.PDEA: Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel

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VII.PDEA: Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel Ingamar A man in some fine silk pajamas came sprinting into the room. I knew him. He was me. I mean, he was clearly a separate entity, now, but I knew he was... at some point, me. Or maybe we were both something else before, back when were were still one. Jim's arse, I looked like shit. Like I'd been awake on meth for a week. I mean the other me looked like shit. My me me looked fit and strong. "Bweetop scoodoodle bop." He said. "Neuronga tripito? "Ahh... Wish I really was a linguist." I thought for a moment. "I don't suppose you understand me do you?" He looked as confused as I was by his word sounds, what with that cocked eyebrow. I'd take that as a no. We both started stroking our chins. Mine clean shaven, his several weeks untended. I was thinking I, 'Wish I had a real beard right now too.' I stroked my chin again and Riker's Beard! I had it, a solution. "Darmok, and-" I started, but he cut in. "Jelad! At-" I join him. "Tenagra!" We shouted together. We shared a brief laugh. It was a start. "Rai and Jiri at Lungha?" I asked. 'Are we new friends meeting together in a place of peace?' "Lungha, her sky grey." he replied. 'We're friends, but shit's fucked here.' He beckoned me over to monitor on the wall and shouted some more jibberish I didn't understand to others who were no doubt listening. A moment later a satellite image of a growing scourge mass appeared on the monitor. "Lungha, her sky black ." I replied. 'Dawg shit is MAD fucked here.' Dilt My far more physically fit doppelgänger was right. We were fucking boned. "Shaka, when the walls fell." I told him, "Mirab his sails unfurled." 'Our defenses have shattered. We should run through the portal.' But he shook his head, no. "Ekiteo, his eyes closed." 'You do not see the truth.' "Krototic mumbalogo, nit." He said into his wrist comm, and a few seconds later four elephant sized powered armors walked through the open portal. They had little holograms of the man inside's face floating in front a few seconds after they came through. It was very effective in making me not shit my pants, which had been my initial instinct on seeing them come through the portal. I didn't know what any of those weapons did exactly, but they were obviously loaded for bear... or Scourge. "Tembo, his arms wide," stated my handsome new friend. 'A gift.' He gave some orders to his four men in human jibberish, and very shortly a few more, non powered armor people poured through the portal, and started running tests and doing support tasks on the powered armor. They spoke quietly, and in the same Earthican way as my better looking, fitter self. "Darmok," I placed a flat palm on my chest to indicated myself, "and Jelad," I put a hand on his chest. "Ingamar," He said, and put my hand back on my own chest. "Dilt." I replied. "Ingamar and Dilt at Terra." He pointed at the monitor with growing scourge mass on the planet below. "The Beast of Terra." "Uzani, his army at Terra?" I pointed at the four Purifier class powered armor suits that had come through the portal. 'You ARE here to help, right?' He looked at his support staff running last minute checks on the power armor, and they gave him a series of thumbs up. Good to know that hand sign hasn't changed in 1500 years. "Uzani, his army with fist open." Ingamar pointed at the scourge mass on the monitor, then punched his own open palm and twisted his fist back and forth like smooshing a bug. "Uzani, his army with fist closed." 'We are ready to strike.' I nodded. "Be a dear, dear and bring up the quickest path to an airlock off this space station to this monitor. I think our new friends here want out. I'm pretty sure they're going to fuck up that scourge mass real bad." The route on the monitor appeared, it wasn't far, only a few doors away. Ingamar pointed at it and said, "Jrept tepellium, skitopple dopple." "Hup Hup." The four powered armors answered before they marched out of the room straight to the airlock. Ingamar