Nile Freeman
The fact is, when Nile had been born, this was all just sci-fi. Idolizing Nichelle Nichols's Uhura does not mean you expect to eventually be her. (Even if your fighting style makes you more the Zoe Saldana version.)
But she can’t help but think of some of those old away team missions she’d watched on the screen as she makes her way across each new planet’s surface. Even if the reality was a lot more Wild West than that old Federation. No matter how the world changes, warriors are still needed - she’s not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.
Problem is no matter how many years they have of practice behind them, the Guard can’t be good at everything, which is why they have other crew with them. Mortal crew. Like Dami, the pilot whose skills had been needed to make it to this pick up, the pilot who is currently stuck in this predicament with her.
This was supposed to be an quick run, and their delivery was definitely not supposed to be booby trapped. Yet the forcefield that activated behind them once they got what they came for, cutting off comms as well, really doesn’t bode well. They have a deadline to make, people to be saved off the back of this.
There is a way out if she wants it, she knows. For her, there is always a way out. But it ain’t going to be pretty. “Don’t worry” she tells Dami “It may not look it, but I’ll be right back” and she leaps into the wall of electricity across the opening that holds them prisoner and feels the barrier - and her body -overload.
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She wakes as Dami grabs her by the hand. “Alright boss?” they ask as they pull Nile up, seemingly unaffected by how she’d blown the forcefield and gotten them free.
“Alright” she responds, blinking as she tries to get her vision back from the blinding light, the overload of electricity. But she feels a hand in hers, tugging her along, and she doesn’t need to see to follow. Dami can fly through anything, they can lead her from this place.
Her vision doesn't really come back properly til they make the shuttle - eyes are so complex and therefore slow to heal. In the heat of the moment, in getting away from here, Nile tries to put the less dire problem in the back of her mind. Mainly, the fact that Dami seems completely unphased by her electrocuting herself to death.
"Yeah boss. We already knew you guys are kind of weird.“ is all they say when the job is done and Nile finally asks, after Dami’s expert flying has gotten them free yet again. “Don’t hold it against you none though.”