Hanging out with the crew

Exiting the med bay, your group sort of clustered together in the hallway. T’Lyn was the first break off.

“Now that I have verified both of yours complete recovery, I am returning to my assigned duties,” T’Lyn stated, facing the group with her hands behind her back. “I will be repairing damaged circuits for the secondary sensor manifolds.” Aelita perked up a little.

“Oh, can I join you? I want to see how the Federation handles circuitry,” Aelita asked, causing T’Lyn to spend a moment thinking it over. “I might be able to help speed up repairs.”

“Maybe you can finish earlier and join us in the mess hall for Never Have I Ever night?” Starfire suggested bringing up the event marked on some of Voyager’s community boards.

“I accept your proposal,” T’Lyn stated, causing you to let out a little laugh. T’Lyn noticed and raised an eyebrow. “I was not referring to a proposal of marriage but rather Aelita’s suggestion to join me.” You chuckle a little.

“I know, I just found it a little funny.”

“Indeed,” T’Lyn deadpanned before walking down the hall with Aelita slowly following behind. You waved goodbye to your pink haired wife before looking at Mariner and Starfire and grin. Mariner returned your grin with a smirk and leaned back with a hand on her hip. It took a second but Starfire realized what was going on and let out a little sigh before she smiled slightly.

“The Terror Trio on the prowl again,” Starfire rolled her eyes as she crossed arms under her ample chest.

“So many bubbles!” Shouted a naked human woman as she ran out of the coed showers as a cloud of multi-colored bubbles quickly enveloped her and other fleeing crew members.

“How is this possible! The sonic showers are sonic!” A towel clad guy questioned right before they slipped on the soapy floors. As people tried to manage the bubble crisis and helped those caught in the bubbles, three shadowy figures snuck away.

“Who did it?!” The people gathered in the mess hall startled as a shout came from Neelix’s kitchen. The Talaxian burst out of the kitchen. “Who moved around my ingredients?!”

“Go go go!” Cheered the crowd of villagers as they gathered around a table. At the table in the holodeck simulation, Starfire was armwrestling with the biggest, strongest, and drunkest guy in the whole holo-village. The two were straining to move the other’s arms with Starfire appearing to be slowly losing.

“I have 2 to 5 odds on the redhead,” Mariner called as she collected fake money from the villagers and replicator rations from the crew members. Once Mariner saw that she wasn’t getting any more takers, she signaled you. You signal Starfire who instantly slammed her opponent’s arm to the table, breaking it. “Sorry folks but that's how the cookie crumbles.”

“Well that was a great way to kill three hours,” you stretched as Mariner and Starfire exit the jefferies tubes after you. You helped Starfire up as Mariner brushed off dust from her uniform. You looked around and noticed that your group had exited the tubes only a few doors away from the mess hall. “Well that’s lucky.”

“I’m impressed with how your technique had improved the efficiency of the repair,” you heard T’Lyn voice just as she and Aelita turned the corner and into your line of sight.

“And that’s luckier.” You waved at Aelita who gave you a bright smile before your groups converged on the mess hall door where several other people were steadily streaming in ones and twos.

“I heard rumors of strange things happening around the ship,” Aelita stated, giving you a raised eyebrow and half smile. “You three wouldn’t happen to know anything about that?” You, Mariner and Starfire shared a glance before returning to Aelita and T’Lyn.

“No.” “No.” “Yes.” You and Mariner turned to Starfire with unimpressed looks. She looked back confused before her eyes widened. “I mean no.”

“I believe they are attempting to deceive us.” Aelita nodded with T’Lyn’s statement.

“We’ll tell ya later,” you finally said as you opened the mess hall door, the sounds of pouring drinks and chatter were just starting up.

“So…” Tom Paris sounded out as he thought of his next words. “Never have I ever slipped on a banana peel.” To the surprise of most people in the room, you, Starfire, Mariner, Aelita, and Harry Kim all took a drink. Though Aelita and Starfire took a sip of non-alcoholic cider.

“My mom’s homeworld breeds bananas specifically for being slippery as part of one of our sports,” you half explained.

“She would bring some around when we were kids and help us set them up for the perfect prank,” Mariner recalled. “We got Worf twice and nearly broke his spine.” You got some affronted looks at that statement.

“Well,” Neelix said to get everyone’s attention. “How about moving on?” Neelix pressed a button and a screen cycled through the randomizer. Your name popped up.

“Never have I ever…walked into a glass/clear door,” you finally say after thinking about it. Only Aelita and Harry Kim took a drink this time much to your disappointment. “I forgot that non-automatic glass doors are out of fashion.”

“I’m going to make this more exciting,” Aelita declared proudly once it was her turn. “Never have I ever…been turned into a zombie.” You gulped down your drink.

“Wait seriously? You’ve finally been zombified?” Mariner exclaimed, her own shot halfway to her lips. She drank it before leaning forward eagerly. “You managed to stay unbitten during the Aegis IV necrovirus, the Starbase 37 rage plague, and the Green Wave during that weird week on DS9.”

“And you got infected each time,” you teased.

“Our new ship, the Winged Heart, was owned by a divorcing couple and the husband received the ship,” Aelita explained. “The wife decided to booby trap the ship, not realizing that her former husband was going to trade his ship for something bigger. The zombie floor was only one of the traps and James got bitten making a safe path for the others who were with him.”

“Wait, so the wife just happened to find a bunch of zombies for the trap?” Neelix asked before he gave a look. “What’s a zombie?”

“Well…” You started to reply before realizing that there wasn’t a good way to tell the truth. “I’m not sure where she got the zombies, an investigation was going on but I don’t remember what happened after. And zombies are technically the risen undead who have a hunger for the living but the definition has expanded to describe those that have similar behavior.”

“That thought is going to haunt my nightmares,” Neelix shuddered. “Maybe we stick to more light hearted topics.”

“Like what?” You ask, half of your ideas wiped.

“Well…” Neelix dragged on before snapping his fingers. “Never have I ever eaten licorice.”

“Red licorice or the black licorice?” Starfire asked, causing several of the crew to pause in their drinking.

“Umm, either?” Neelix decided to cause almost everyone to drink.

“Never have I ever mistaken hot sauce for ketchup,” Starfire interjected, causing you to snap up straight.

“You were the one who switched the bottles around!” You accused her. You couldn’t taste anything for a week.

“You still have to drink James,” Aelita pointed out after setting down her drink. Harry Kim decided it was his turn as the group decided to abandon the randomizer.

“Never have I ever…gotten drunk and thrown a singing fish through a window,” he said, causing Tom Paris to groan and gulp a shot.

“I told you in confidence!” And to some people’s surprise but not yours both Mariner and Aelita also took a shot.

“It was singing Free Bird on loop!” Mariner defended herself. You remembered that night especially since you were the one who filled the song queue with Free Bird. You gave Aelita a inquisitive look as you haven’t heard this story.

“At my old job, some of my co-workers organized a little after work get together. A hacker made a singing mermaid sing Anaconda nonstop. I had to do something,” Aelita explained with a little shrug. You wonder if that mermaid was a toy/decoration or if it was a shrunken character modded to sing on command.

“Oh, I got one!” Tom Paris announced while giving Harry Kim a sinister grin. Tom ignored his protests and continued. “Never have I ever gotten captured by a tribe of Amazon-like women.”

“It was a holodeck malfunction, it doesn’t count,” Harry Kim protested while you took a shot. That got people’s attention, especially the guys.

“A shuttle I was using crashed landed on a garbage planet and I got captured by a large tribe of women that had also ended up there over the years that had gone a bit feral,” you explained. “An AI manipulated them and tried following its original orders to create a female utopia or something. They were going to execute me via Snu-Snu but some of the tribe were still more or less sane and a little rebellion later we were rescued.”

“Do you remember that woman with white hair that was on our ship and our pilots?” Aelita asked Mariner who gave an unsure nod at white hair.

“Friends Mirajane, Hera, Sabine, Keira, Bulma and Nami were all part of the Amazonia Tribe,” Starfire nodded eagerly. “They told me all about the different tribes that had appeared, like the Road Warriors and the Tinker Eyes.”

“What’s Snu-Snu?” T’Lyn asked with a PADD in her hands.