Joint Log | Gen. Sharpe & Col. Towers | New things are often repeats of something old

Posted on 241411.03 @ 6:06am by General Richard Sharpe & Colonel Adam Towers
Edited on on 241411.13 @ 3:10am

Mission: The Fight For Peace [GQ Plot]

=/\= Highclere Castle, Yorkshire =/\=

Sharpe arrived home via a transporter beam, and was none too pleased. He'd anticipated retiring, made plans, sorted things out - and was not happy in the slightest that he'd been... well, there was no other word for it was there? He'd been bent over the table and buggered, right there, in the Admiral's office.

After a few minutes, he got changed out of his stupid Starfleet monkey suit and changed into marine uniform. He sent word to Towers to come see him. Since Adam was staying at Highclere for the time being, it wouldn't be long until the Colonel was in attendance.

Towers was still in BDUs, albeit clean ones at least, and answered the call quickly.

"What's up?" Towers asked, entering the room.

"Take a seat, Adam." Sharpe said, his arms crossed over his chest as he looked out the window over the estate.

"Uh-oh. I'm in trouble again." Towers said as he grabbed the nearest chair.

"You and me both." Sharpe sighed. "But lets start with the good news. Your commission has been reactivated, and you're formally being reinstated back in command of the 5th."

"Colson will probably be about as happy as anybody about that, but that's good to hear." Towers observed drily.

"Your unit will be integrated into the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Force, which will be assigned to the Gamma Quadrant. Not such a huge shock for you, since you were stationed on Zetari - but I will be the CO of the 3rd MEF." Sharpe explained.

Towers frowned. "I thought you were done? Malone wouldn't take the chains off?"

"So did I." Richard said, turning back to face Towers. "Apparently, because of the severe loss of senior officers, all retirements have been cancelled. They're even bringing retired personnel back after years of being out of the fleet. 'Exigencies of the service' is what Malone said."

Towers winced. "Sounds like the point is they have to keep you around yet want to get you as far away as possible. Isn't MEF a 3 star billet? A little below your pay grade, I think."

"I did point that out." Sharpe replied. "I think he ignored the question. In any case, I have my orders, and so do you. We're to report to Camp MacArthur, Texas - and prepare the 3rd MEF for departure."

"Alright then. I'll let my boys and girls know of the reassignment." Towers said. He wasn't going to push anything or stick around. A brooding Sharpe was not the kind of lion you wanted to poke at.

"You're taking this rather well, don't you think?" Richard replied. "We'll be living off a ship, since there's no Zetari out there to be posted to. God knows what's going to happen."

"I'm not the one who just had my retirement shit on, General. As long as I remain useful and busy, you're not going to hear me bitching about much. I don't have anything to tie me to Earth or the Alpha Quadrant anyway." Towers replied.

"Alright." Richard said. "You knew that sector as well as anyone else. I'm pretty sure I remember there being a sizable marine base on Zetari colony. Am I right?"

"Not a populated one. Command preferred us to be based off of Zetari. It made deployments faster, and then after that we had the Vesuvius. If the base is still there I have no idea what kind of shape it would be in." Towers said. He paused for a moment as a thought occurred to him.

"Is Vesuvius coming with us?" He asked.

"I'm not privy to that yet, but I would imagine so, if the 5th is coming." Sharpe replied. "I'm going to send you and your people on ahead of the main force to secure the marine base to house the MEF."

"Are we expecting trouble? The Dominion?" Towers asked.

"Malone says things are unsettled over there, but he didn't say the Dominion specifically. To be honest, I thought they'd retreated into their own space, and were staying well out of things." He sighed. "We should always expect trouble, Colonel, we're marines - its what we do."

"You know what I mean. When do you want us to leave?" Towers said gently.

"Give your people some RnR time, they deserve it. One week liberty, then take the Vesuvius through the Spinward wormhole to Zetari Colony. It's where Malone intends to start his work, might as well base ourselves there. I hear they're going to build a new Starbase." Sharpe said.

Towers nodded. He'd take no RnR time himself, he rarely did. But the 5th did deserve to take a breath. "I'll let Fischer know. Even if they do build a new Starbase, it'll be a while before it's up and running. We'll have to have that base ready in the interim." Which actually made Towers feel a bit better. He preferred being on the ground as opposed to a ship or a starbase.

"Well, you'd better go give out your orders." Sharpe replied. "Carry on Colonel."

"Yes, sir." Towers sketched a quick salute and left the room.

=/\= End Log =/\=

General Richard Sharpe
CO, 3rd MEF
Gamma Quadrant Command

Colonel Adam Towers
CO, 5th MEU
3rd MEF