When Scott rushed onto the Command Deck, Rexis called out to him immediately. "Corporal!" Clearly, she was busy as hell--the whole place was--but she still spotted him right away. "Get to the medicenter!"
Scott stopped in his tracks. Perseid must have figured out where he was going and called ahead...not that Scott was going to let it distract him from the question he'd come to ask. "The Red ship. What happened to it?"
"Gone from the system," said Fong, who was floating in his antigrav harness nearby. His hands danced over the holo-controls fanned out around him as he spoke. "Course unknown."
Scott scowled. "What are you talking about? Didn't you follow it?"
Fong didn't say a word. Instead, he shook his head and slid his gaze toward Rexis.
Scott took the hint and turned his
