Doing Something That Comes Natural

[Mr. MacLeod, meet me now in the Conference room. Devore out.]

Mac taped his combadge and went into the conference room and saw that Captain Devore was speaking with a Marine wearing Corporal stripes his gray shirt underneath his green tunic.

"Sir. You called for me ?" Mac said standing at attention.

Captain Devore turned and looked at the Lieutenant and motioned for him to come over to the view screen at the opposite end of the officer's conference room.

"Lieutenant MacLeod meet Corporal Barnes, he is one of the Marine squad leader."

MacLeod shook the human's hand and then returned his attention to the Captain for which he waited as to why he was called to the briefing room. Barnes stood fast as Devore's attention went to the Jem'Hadar.

"All right Mac. Once we have defeated the Barien fleet we are going to head directly to the Limerus. I had to leave my insertion crew. I may need you to lead the the away mission. If so, you'll take Barnes' Marine squad and a few security personnel.

Mac was full of questions and was uncertain why he was given the command of the ground forces.

"Sir. Why me ?" He asked.

Devore looked at the Corporal and dismissed him. Devore then took his seat at the head of the table.

"Lieutenant when were you activated by the Dominion ?" Devore asked.

"In 2375. The last six weeks of the war."

"Did you see any of the final days ?"

"Yes, but not much. I was on Vondrak III when the cloning lab was hit. In total I killed twenty-three Cardassians. You must forgive me sir, but I thought then a lot different then I do now."

Devore sat back and seemed interested in hearing a Jem'Hadar's view point on the war.

"Sir, I felt that the Founders were the one's that were the right ones. Bring order to chaos. The Federation was not in chaos at that time they wanted peace for as long as possible. The Founders were not for peace or they would not have created the Jem'Hadar at all."

Devore gave a smile and then stood up and walked over and grabbed a cup of coffee from the replicator, "Well you're the worst kind of soldier." Devore said to Mac catching him off guard. "You think before you act and you question your objectives. However that is good at least I know you won't be ordered to the slaughter. You were bred to fight tactics and the thrill of battle was put into your DNA. That's why I picked you to lead this mission Lieutenant, your have knowledge several hundred years old placed in your mind before you were even born. You won't fail or well, I will have to trust that you won't."