From sratliff@runet.edu Tue Nov 18 19:43:20 1997 Path: news2.ispnews.com!news1.ispnews.com!europa.clark.net!4.1.16.34!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news-in-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!128.143.2.44!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!newslink.runet.edu!not-for-mail From: sratliff@runet.edu (Stephen Ratliff) Newsgroups: alt.startrek.creative Subject: NEW Marrissa's Revenge 1/1 (TNG/RL) Date: 19 Nov 1997 03:43:20 GMT Organization: Radford University Lines: 105 Message-ID: <64tn8o$3t8@newslink.runet.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: viking.cs.runet.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: news2.ispnews.com alt.startrek.creative:9263 Title: Marrissa's Revenge or What Comes Around. Author: Stephen Ratliff (sratliff@runet.edu) Marrissa's Revenge I had just come back from the lab when I found her in my room. I know I started this Revenge Fic craze, but that was because I didn't think I would be a victim. After all, my characters usually get what they want. It wasn't like I had done anything like those Q writers who I had spent the last two days getting out of trouble. That hadn't been easy. I mean Q isn't someone you toy with. I had find Q's parole officer first. If I'm going to argue with an all-powerful being, I want to have some back up. I was lucky that Q was tired of watching over Q. He gave me the job of parole officer for Q. True it is another job to my already overloaded day, but it does have some nice benefits. I got Q to let JJArrow out of High School. Alara no longer has to revise all of her stories to reflect Q's views, but I couldn't convince Q to let her out of the tower yet. I do want to see Chapter Four of Only Human. He's letting Julia stop writing, and Mercutio doesn't have to run any more. Then there is Greywolf. Who knew Kirk and Spock would duct tape the poor wolf up and leave him. I got some adhesive remover and got off the remainder of that duct tape. Unfortunately the remover smelled bad, so I had to dunk the wolf in some perfume. If you smell Strawberries, you know Greywolf is near. Robin Lawrie will be glad ASC has that insurance policy. Chakotay taking out her modem was covered. Now that was a 56K fax modem with speaker phone, right? "Excuse me," the young girl said. "As much as I enjoy hearing how you righted wrongs and triumphed over evil, this isn't Sailor Moon, and I have some things I'd like to talk to you about." "What is your complaint, Marrissa," I asked. "It's not like I've done anything really bad to you. I mean just look at the Q writers." "I can't read most of those, I'm only 12," Marrissa responded. "As for what you did to me, I think I can give you quite a list, now where is the computer?" Marrissa looked around the dorm room, but she wasn't going to find any. "I don't have one here," I replied, straightening up the quilt my grandmother Ratliff had made, so we had a place to sit. "You're a Computer Science Major, and you don't have a computer?" Marrissa replied with an air of disbelief. "I keep it at home," I responded. "The Sparc 5s in the lab are better than anything I can get anyway." "Never mind. I want to know why you killed my parents off." "It seemed like a good idea at the time." "It seemed like a good idea at the time, It seemed like a good idea, do you have any idea how that sounds? Killing a little girl's parents off because IT SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME!" "Alright, alright, calm down. I just needed a member of the kid's crew other than Alexander to be related to a command crew member." "That I understand, but Captain Picard? A cold fish makes a better father." "So he's not perfect. My choices were not that good. Data has no emotions. Doctor Crusher and Worf were taken. Troi, well I just couldn't see it. As for Riker ... well with his rep, I didn't think him adopting a girl would be a good idea." "I see what you mean," Marrissa said, pulling a chair over and sitting down in it. "But why did you have to draw out my grief over 3 stories." "Over compensation," I replied, relaxing as the storm seemed to be over for the moment. "You see I have these critics over on the group rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc who have been complaining that you didn't grieve enough, so when I revised "Enterprized" and "Battle For Bajor", I added some scenes and then the idea for "All the King's Horses" came up. I wasn't going to go back and do the other two, and "All the King's Horses" fit better after them anyway." "Well I guess that explains it," Marrissa commented. "I'll be going now. Oh, and by any chance do you know the way to Duke University? There is this guy named Adam Cadre that I've got to talk to about making me eat my own daughter." "Here's a map, and let me know how it goes," I replied. "Any other stops?" "Well there is Anne-Lise Pauch," Marrissa said. "I think she's somewhere in Great Britain." "What did she do?" "Nothing, I want to thank her. And then there is Mike Barkledge, I'm thinking of having Jackie get rid of all his Credits. I would go after Tim McLees, but Clara likes his drawing so I'll stay away from him for now." "Well thanks for stopping by," I remarked as she got up to leave. "Next time stop by when I'm in Roanoke. There are some neighbors I'd like you to meet." "I'll stop by during Thanksgiving. I should be finished with Adam and Mike by then." With that, Marrissa tapped her communicator, and with the order, "One to beam up," disappeared in a whirl of light. All she left behind was a list. Things to to to the Author of Dark Marrissa. Poor Adam. -- Stephen Ratliff CS Major, Radford University. sratliff@runet.edu Radford, Virginia 24142-7496 rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc's polite target. Marrissa Stories Author http://www.cs.runet.edu/~sratliff/ http://www.cs.runet.edu/~sratliff/FAQs/ FAQ Maintainer and http://www.cs.runet.edu/~sratliff/index/ Index Maintainer for http://aviary.share.net/~alara/ alt.startrek.creative "Just as I was about to tell him, my science project struck." "Your science project ran amuck on the Enterprise?" -Rene and Marrissa Picard discussing the episode "Diaster" in "All the King's Horses