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With little in the way of deliberation, today's council meetings take little time. The seems to go by with heightened alacrity. You agree to kill Yvette Yarachenko.
Within seconds of the decision being made, you have your hands on your phasers. Only, there are two problems. The first is that Yarachenko has moved very quickly, and the second is that Umbrunda now stands between you and her. He crouches in a fighting stance.
One of you stuns Umbrunda, and then there is nothing between you and Yarachenko. She draws her phaser to retaliate but her body begins to glow from the several phasers already hittin gher. Showing amazing fortitude, she still manages to aim her weapon before she slumps over.
You look, but see nothing emerge from her body.
You wait for a few moments, but no creatures are still to be seen. You wonder at what is going on. You were sure she was under alien control.
As one of you reaches forward to pick her up, the creature suddenly jumps out from underneath a tear in her skin, under her clothing. That person is not fast enough to keep the alien creature from latching onto their hand. Two of you manage to pull it away, but not without it taking the bottom half of the hand with it. That person's pinky is now in the mandibles of that creature.
Within a second, phaser fire begins to hit the creature again and again. Its seems more formidible than the previous one. Ultimately it dies, and sick bay arrives.
Umbrunda reveals that his species encoutered these things long ago, and know a special particle that they emit when thhey are in a host's body. As such, he was able to scan people once a day, but no more, because the process takes too long.
Several doctors take the process and replicate it. After two days. everybody has been scanned and comes out clean. You have managed to eliminate the infestation before it became too deep to scourge.
There were many deaths along the way, such as the entire crew of the USS Perseus and Relentless as well as the Klingons, the others who died here in the council chambers, and numerous other mishaps that have happened over the past week.
However, you have survived. You are a bit more suspicious of each other, but life will continue much as before. There will be mouring, and then there will be acceptance.
And there will be life, unfettered by the control of unknown aliens.
Game over. The Federation has won.
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