Fleet
USS Vesuvius Mission posts only plus combined Bellicose/Ves posts
After the
medical exams were through, Sonak headed back for the bridge, and just in time
it seemed.
"Captain, picking up a distress call from a Klingon
freighter close to the Cardassian border. They
are...demanding...assistance."
"Set course, maximum speed," Sonak ordered, "as soon as all the
crew is back on board." She touched a few buttons in the arm of her chair.
"Captain Sonak to all crew, report back to the Vesuvius within 5 minutes.
We are answering a klingon distress call. All hands battle stations!"
She changed channels and hailed the Black Tulip. "Admiral, we have
received a distress call near the Cardassian border, we are going in." She
only hoped the ship would not start acting up this time. Her engineering team
had been unable to purge the salt from the systems and thus they kept acting
up.
Mr Spedmo, set course for the cardassian border, Dean, scan for the klingon
freighter. Skok, keep an eye on the starfields, announce any oddity you find. Martens, stand by on weapons, go to yellow alert. Reckus,
keep sickbay ready for Klingon casualties." She sat down and looked at
Fox. "Finally some action."
"Yellow alert. Phasers and torpedoes on standby."
=^= This
is Lt Reckus in Sickbay. Sickbay ready and standing by =^=
from
starbase:
Majeski
grinned as he watched his old ship take off.. he Ordered the helmsman to put the ship in the experimental
canipault in the starbase.. he personally was going to push the button on this
one
He let out a ginn on his view screan in the launch control room Sonak held her
hand up
"Wait Majeski don't get to fung ho yet" Sonak said
"Captain becareful....I don't want to see any of you retuned in a coffin"
He smiled
"Will do" Sonak said then she nodded where ready
Majeski hit the release button and watched the mass hulk canaplut forward out
into space Majeski looked in awe "F*** me we actually fit a soverigen In
that thing , good speed sonak " He said ot himself
"Thank
you commander, and to you too," Sonak said, as the Vesuvius sped out of
the system. "All hands this is the captain, there will be a staff meeting
in briefing room two in thirty minutes. I want you all to dig up any
information your department has on Cardassians, and in particular Cardassian
and Klingon relations."
-- briefing room two --
Sonak sat down and waited for her senior staff to file in. As soon as everyone
sat, she turned on the computer. "We are going to perform a rescue operation.
The Cardassians have attacked a Klingon freighter, who has issued a general
distress. I want your input on how to perform this operation. The USS Black
Tulip is standing by, ready to come to our aid. Something is fishy here, since
the Cardassians would not attack the Klingons without reason. Well, nearly not
without reason. We also need to find out what the Klingons were doing near the
Cardassian Demiliterized Zone, shortly DMZ."
Spedmo
sat and listened. "Captain. I have been brushing up on my history and the
most recent star maps are ten years old Is that going to present a
problem," he said sounding concerned.
"That
should not present a problem mr Spedmo," Sonak replied, "But if you
see any changes please give us a warning, and log the changes to the charts.
Anything else?"
She looked around the table, hoping there would be more questions asked now and
less later when it was too late to ask.
Lieutenant
Claire Steenbergen -God, lieutenant- sat at the briefing table doing her best
to keep her attention on the new mission. She sighed and apparently loud enough
to disturb the ones sitting next to her. In her thoughts she rolled her eyes,
but she was able to suppress that gesture. She felt like putting her feet on
the table, making herself comfortable and starting to hum a nice song. But no,
she had to pay attention. Thus, she crossed her arms and leaned back in her
chair, the only form of getting comfortable that was morally allowed, and gave
her last try to keep her attention.
Tactical
analasys of the Cardassian Union:
Many years ago the Cardassians were known for their peacefullness and their
spirituality. They lived for the land, with ideologies of cooperation and
benevolence. The planet Cardassia Prime was plunged into an era of plauge and
poverty. Out of this era came the military power known as the Cardassian Union.
All governments were then unified under one single tyrannical, fascist body
where masses were put second in favour of industry, expansion, and conquest.
For five centuries, the governing authority of the Union has been the Detapa
Council, which encompasses its two principal agencies The Central Command -the
military, and The Obsidian Order -security. The military employs the common
structure of the chain of command, with a Legate being approximate to an
Admiral, a Gul a Captain, and a Glinn a Commander or Lieutenant.
The Order makes it mandatory for each Cardassian citizen to have a molar
extracted in childhood for cataloguing purposes, and all are kept on record as
a means of identification, and to some degree nearly all adult citizens are
scrutinized, tracked and observed. Security and control is strict, and internal
surveillance is as big a part of normal operations as foreign espionage.
In the 24th century the Union was involved in a drawn out conflict with the
UFP. Ever since first contact with this organization during the Bajoran
occupation, mutual mistrust and disagreements over territory had been common
place. The war effort cost the Union very dearly, as the fleets were severely
depleted, resources became low, and hundreds of thousands were lost.
On the verge of defeat, a truce was reached and new non-aggression treaties
agreed on. It was not something the Union was happy to offer, it was little
better than a surrender, but it was absolutely necessary if they were to
regroup and move forward. It was a political decision that saved the Cardassian
Union.
After the war was over, and the treaties were signed, a special 'Demilitarized
Zone' was installed.
In 2372, a civilian coup overpowered the military, and the Detapa Council ended
up taking sole charge of Union affairs. It was feared by external onlookers
that Dominion spies, in the way shapeshifters had taken control, and the
Klingon Empire decided to act quickly and invade Cardassia to take control of
the situation.
Gul Dukat soon took the leadership of the Union upon himself and in secret
forged the unholiest of alliances with the Dominion. Such a union, he thought,
could only make Cardassia stronger, possibly invincible. The inevitable war
which followed began well for the new alliance, but things soon started to turn
sour, as the Union found themselves to be in a similar position to the
Bajorans, as Cardassia was occupied and their fleets and resources were
arbitrarily exploited and squandered.
The Cardassian people now nurse the ruins of an empire left ravaged by the war.
It will take a huge effort to rebuild their cities and reestablish industry
with a strong economy, these are priorities that come before the reconstruction
of the fleet. It may be some time until The Cardassian Union becomes a viable
power once again.
Sonak
nodded. "Thank you Lieutenant. I can see that you spent a lot of time
gathering this information" she said. Nick tried to keep his flustered
cheeks under control. This was his first report and to gain praise from the
Captain was good news indeed. "Thank you ma'am" he replied.
'So far so good' she was thinking to herself. She was pleased with how the
junior officers were presenting information from their departments. She looked
around the table at her officers, all sitting expectantly and perhaps a little
nervously in their seats. She spun her seat around to face the CMO.
"Doctor Reckus. Would you be so kind as to give us any information as to
the state of health of the Cardassians?"she asked. Reckus stood up
"It would be a pleasure Captain" he replied.
He addressed his fellow officers. "I know most of you will know this but
let's start with the basic physiology and anatomy of the Cardassians" he
started.
"Right, with regards to physical stature the Cardassians are tall,
long-necked and humanoid in appearance. Their bodies are marked by several bony
protrusions and ridges: one from the shoulder to under the ears, whose bottom
lobes in turn are more pronounced forward to the jawline, and from above the
eyes and back over the head to the rear base of the skull, showing through
hair. Despite this they possess a limited exoskeleton and other ridges run from
the nose line to the forehead, and along the chin to define a sharp jawline.
This gives them a damage resistance and they are slightly harder to kill then
other species.
Their skin type and hair vary from light purple to a greenish hue and near
black.
They have a high tolerance to heat and they have also developed night vision.
If the ambient temperature is lower than that that they are used to then they
find it extremely uncomfortable. Likewise they cannot stand anywhere that is
too bright for their eyes.
The most serious known illness to the Cardassians is the YARIM-FEL SYNDROME.
This terminal illness attacks the digestive tract; circulatory and respiratory
centres and it also ravages cartilaginous tissue. With no known cure, the
symptons of the sufferer can be alleviated by using a neuro regeneration processess'
and hexagen therapy.
That is the end of my report Captain".
"I
see you have done your homework Mr Reckus," Sonak said, and looked around
the table.
When there were no more questions she dismissed the meeting and walked out of
the room. Just outside she caught Jatan by his sleeve. "Are the result
from the physical in yet?" she asked, "the medication you gave me
helps but I feel it is not going away."
After her talk with Reckus she continued her way to the bridge. "What is
the status of the two vessels?" she asked, as she sat down in her chair.
The two vessels seemed to be still facing each other, but the Cardassians were
no longer firing on the Klingon vessel.
"Klingon vessel, this is Captain Sonak of the Federation Starship
Vesuvius, can we be of assistance?"
"Cardassian vessel, stand down your attack, you are in Federation
territory."
"Ma'am
the Klingons communication array is down. We're recieving comms on an
antiquated radio sygnal."
"Patch it through lieutenant."
"Vesuvius, this is Captain Kron of the IKF HIvje'. We request you dispatch
of these Cardassian *comminications begins to fuzz*....be careful Captain.
There is more here than meets the eye."
Sonak looked over at Nick.
"Martens, open a channel to the Cardassian warship."
"Cardassian vessel, stand down your attack, you are in Federation
territory."
The screen flickered to life with the face of a Cardassian Gul. Behind him
officers ran to and fro on tasks unknown to the officers of the Vesuvius.
"I am Gul Mirak. State your business."
As the captain began to negociate with the Mirak Nick began monitoring the two
ships in front of them. The klingon vessel was obviously out of commision
despite being very heavily armed for a frieghter. The Cardassian ship was
virtually unscathed which seemed very odd. He scanned the Klingon armorments,
sure enough there were more than enough weapons systems to take out the Guls
cruiser.
"We lay claim to this sector and the Klingons were simply in our way. And
now you are in our way."
"You have no grounds for this Mirak. The Union lost the war, go home and
lick your wounds." Sonak challenged
The Gul was very agitated by that jest.
"You speak so confidently. I hope you'll reconsider leaving before this
gets uncomfortable for you."
Sonak looked over her shoulder at Nick. "How much of a threat are
they?"
"Not too much. We have a slight advantage in the new weapon upgrades from
last month."
Tha Captain turned back to the screen to call the Guls supposed bluff.
Nick kept surveying the situation on his sensors. There suddenly appeared
tachyon emmisions off their port and starboard bow. A sinking feeling fell over
him. He looked over at the ops officer who had noticed the same readings. Both
looked at each other wide eyed.
"Umm Ma'am?" Nick stampered. "We may have a problem."
Soank waved back at Nick for him to mute the channel. Gul Mirak was still on
the screen and watched the crews reactions.
"What Lieutenant?"
"We're not alone."
A puzzled look flashed across Sonaks face.
"You see Captain,"Mirak started,"you may want listen to your
tactical officer. What he will tell you is that you out gun my cruiser. Just as
the Klingon ship did. However you do not out gun my fleet."
With that word 2 ships decloaked. One had a minor plasma leak on one of its engines
obviosly from the Klingons.
"Two Keldon Class battle ships decloaking."
"Red Alert!!"
As soon
as Reckus walked through the doors into sickbay the call for red alert came
through. 'Now what?' he thought to himself. Ensign Caldwell approached him with
a PADD in his hand. "Red alert has just been called Doctor. Apparently
some ships have just decloaked." Reckus took the PADD "Oh great. Well
good job we're ready for action then isn't it?" with a wry smile he looked
down at the information contained infront of him - the results of the crew's
medicals. As Ensign Caldwell walked off towards the desk by the window, Jatan
called to him "Clean bill of health again Ensign, you are disgustingly
healthy John!" "Thank you Sir, yes Sir" mocked Caldwell, and
made up an elaborate salute to emphasise the joke. Both burst out laughing, and
each returned to their respective stations. Reckus was still chuckling to
himself as he sat at his desk. Sometimes, when it was appropriate, it was good
to have a laugh at work; it broke the tension that sometimes could be present
in the atmosphere. And because sickbay was pehaps not utilised as much as the
other areas of the ship, it gave Jatan a much easier time then some of his
colleagues. But as soon as the casalties - minor or major - started to come
through the door, it was back to being the ultimate professional in the field.
"Computer, please display the medical record of Caldwell, J. Ensign"
The computer beeped and bought up Ensign Caldwells file. Jatan opened it and
began to download the results of the medical into Caldwell's file. As much as
he loved being CMO, he didnt enjoy all the paperwork.
"End record. Authorisation Code Reckus one one five theta"
beep. authorisation code accepted. record updated
His attention returned to the PADD, and he scrolled down to Sonak's results. He
looked through the information that was on there, and as he did so a smile
started to spread across his face. 'Just as I expected' he thought to himself.
He tapped his Comm badge =^= Sickbay to the bridge =^=
=^= Sonak here, go ahead Doctor =^=
=^= Just to let you know Sickbay is ready on full alert. Oh and Captain when
you get a minute, please would you come to see me in my office? Reckus out =^=
Sonak
wondered why she was called down to sickbay again. She shared a surprised
glance with Fox and stood up. =^= on my way doctor =^=
She turned to Fox. "You got the bridge Number One," she said. She had
asked Reckus earlier if there were any results in yet and he had shaken his
head in denial.
She walked down to sickbay, annoyed by the blaring of the red alert claxons and
the red lights. "You called doctor?" she called, as soon as she
entered.
Sonak saw Reckus busy in his office, occupied with reading PADD's so she
reckoned the doctor had not heard her. She walked up to the office and knocked
on the door. "Doctor?" she asked again, "you called? The ship is
on full alert so I really cannot stay very long. We are about to be attacked by
a Cardassian fleet."
Spedmo
couldn't believe what was happening. Cardassians in Federation space the
thought bothered the android. "Red alert all hands to battle
stations," Sonak hed said. Spedmo was moving with lighting quickness. He
stopped for a second to register the sensor readings. A grin spread on his
mechanical face. "Commander Fox I have some good news. The Black Tulip is
two and a half minutes away and coming fast," he said with glee.
The ship
shuddered as the Cardassians started firing on the Vesuvius as though they were
of one mind.
"Shields!" Sonak cried as she was slammed back into her seat on the
next salvo, "engineering, we need more power to our defensive
systems."
"Seliv here," her bondmate replied from engineering, "we are
doing the best we can captain but we are facing a few problems of our
own."
"The best is all I ask," Sonak replied. Her bondmate had no rank but
since the current CEO had vanished, and the assistant engineer was sick, he was
the best they had under the circumstances.
The ship shuddered again. "Sonak to Black Tulip, we could use your assistance.
We are under attack from three Cardassian vessels all capable of cloaking. We
are trying to defend a Klingon freighter." She turned to Dean.
"Evasive maneuvers, pattern Gamma! Keep our bow to the Cardassians and our
stern to the freighter!"
<after
sickbay reply>
Spedmo
worked furiously to keep up with the orders Commander Fox and Captain Sonak
were barking. "Captain Sonak in a moment we will beam you here. In the
mean time keep yourself in the way of the cardassians," Elron said in a
loud voice. Spedmo watched in awe as he saw the Black Tulip move into
the path of the Cardassian ships. The Tulip was doing moves thought to be
impossible. Bema is a graet pilot. Even when he is doing moves people think
a Soverign Class ship should not do he thought to himself as he saw two
cardassian ships explode. "Enginerring to bridge we have a serrious
problem," the enginerring officer said.
Kate
slithered through the engineering department. Sloan had taught her to be silent
and stealthy not matter the cost. She would honor her mentors memory by
following his teachings. The Section 31 operative had shown her ideas and
concepts she would have never dreamed of. But now he was gone because of some
officers on Deep Space 9.
She glanced down at the device she held in her hands. A series of buttons and a
display lined the side of the 10 pound device. She pressed one button and it
whirred to life. Silently she walked over to the anti-matter storage units and
began placing a series of the devices on each pod.
The door behind her began to whoosh open. She hid behind one of the containers
and cautiously watched the new arrival. In strode Chief Engineer Seliv carrying
a matinence case. He glanced around the room and immediatly noticed the devices
attached to the pods. With a look of concern he walked over to one and hit his
combadge. "Bridge I think we may..." *THUD* His body collapsed to the
floor after a blow to the back of the head.
Kate activated the timers on the devices and returned to her quarters via
jefferies tubes as not to arouse suspicion.
There laying on the floor was Seliv. His eyes stared off at nothing. A pool of
green blood slowly puddled under his head. His combadge beeped.
=/\="Seliv, are you there? Seliv respond!=/\=
The timers quickly reached zero and detonated their payloads.
------on the bridge-------
Nick stood at tactical. They had systematicly destroyed 2 of the three
Cardassian warships with the help of the Black Tulip. Now they were
concentrating on disabling the last as to salvage it experimental Transwarp
drive.
The last salvo from the Vesuvius knocked out the power on the Cardy ship. A
cheer rose up from the crew.
"Incoming communication from the Tulip."
"On screen."
"Very well done captain! We're sending boarding partys now to retrieve the
Transwarp drive. Elron out."
=/\=Bridge I think we may...=/\= came from Seliv.
Just as the Captain began to respond a low rumble spread through the ship. It
quickly turned into a violent shudder. Sparks flew from consoles and systems
began flickering.
"What the hell!" Nick blurted from Tactical as his station died.
Ops started yelling out damage reports.
Suddenly the computer broke in.
"Core breach in progress. Cascade reaction faliure in 5 minutes."
"Prepare
for saucer separation!" Sonak shouted over the tumult, after reports had
told her that the release clamps for the core had been sabotaged. The core
could not be ejected so a saucer separation was the only choice to save the
crew.
"All hands proceed into the saucer section. Separation will be complete in
two minutes." She glanced at Martens. "Can we contain the breach
until then?"
Sonak sat down in her chair restlessly. Something was amiss but she could not
figure out what. Two minutes later she felt the clamps release the drive
section of the Vesuvius. "Ahead full impulse," she ordered, "put
some distance between us and the drive section." She tapped the arm of her
chair. "Sonak to Elron, keep distance between you and our drive section,
it will explode."
She watched the screen as she saw the drive section explode. She uttered a
scream as she felt something snap in the back of her mind. "Seliv!"
she screamed, falling down on her knees, clutching her head. What she had felt
was the mental bond between her and her bondmate that was snapped when the
section exploded.
Seliv had remained behind, overlooked by the crew because the saboteur had
carefully hidden his unconscious body, therefor disabling the crew to find him.
<previously>
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"Sorry Captain, I didnt hear you there. Please take a seat"
apologised Reckus. Sonak sat down opposite him, trying to register any sense of
emotion that may be given away in his face.
"Doctor, I cannot stay long. Things are getting somewhat hairy out
there" she said. "Dont worry Captain, I understand" he replied.
He picked up the PADD from his desk, and accessed her results again. "Well
I'll keep this as short as possible. You're results are back from the tests
that we did earlier" he said. Sonak shifted in her seat slightly.
"And all the tests all came back fine, you are in perfectly good health
Sonak" he continued. "However, it did highlight something that is the
reason why you have been feeling so lethargic and nauseaous recently. It also
confirms my original thoughts."
He paused momentarily, not for effect but to let his mind focus on what he was
going to tell her.
"Captain, you are pregnant" he said finally. "I'd say between
6-8 weeks gone" he added, studying her reaction...........
--- back
post to before explosion ---
Sonak sat back on her chair and actually smiled. "Pregnant?" she
asked, "I should have guessed that. Do you know what it will be yet?"
She wondered if it would be too soon to tell, 2 months was not exactly much.
Despite the hectic of the current mission she was happy with it.
"Thank you for telling me doctor," she said as she stood up,
"please keep sickbay at alert, we may be sustaining casualties very
soon."
<reckus>
--- present ---
Sonak looked up from her kneeling position, her face tearstreaked from grief.
"Status," she managed, as she crept back into her seat. "
amage
reports from all departments as soon as possible please, and I would like a
casualty report. Contact the Black Tulip, we will be needing their
assistance."
She sat back and gazed at the screen, oblivious to the reports shouted down at
her from all directions. She grieved her husband, knowing his katra was lost
forever. What was she going to tell her young children? And the child now
growing within her? That child would never know his or her biological father.
She knew that Seliv wanted her to find a new mate after a suitable grieving
period, they had discussed this when they were bonded. If she had died first,
he would find a new mate and raise their children, now this task befell on her.
Leaking
plasma conduits, sparking controll panels and flashing lights surrrounded a
figure sitting behind a desk her legs folded up agaist her trunk and her arms
round her head and ears as if she was trying to ignore the screaming sounds of
panick. While tears rolled over her cheeks, she was gently rocking her body,
maybe trying to comfort herself. If one would step closer, a humming sound could
be distinguished and if that one was also very attentive he could hear it was a
Bajoran lovesong.
<<All hands proceed into the saucer section. Separation will be complete
in two minutes.>>
People were running down the corridor, but Claire stayed down, almost silently
rocking. Then someone suddenly stopped. A panting young man kneeled beside her.
"Come on, this part of the ship is gonna blow, let's go."
Claire stopped humming and looked up. The man's face immediately turned into an
uncomfortable look that didn't hide his pity as he saw the tear tracks on the
lieutenant's face.
"It's no use..." was all she said, but she let the young man pull her
up.
pre
explosion
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Reckus looked up at her. "Not currently, no" he answered. "It
would be maybe another 6 weeks I would have thought. Maybe less than that, but
we will be monitoring you anyway. Would you want to know the sex?" he
asked. Sonak nodded. "It would be nice, yes Jatan".
"Well like I say, I will be monitoring you and trying to sort something
out if the current situation worsens" he replied. Sonak went to turn
towards the door, stopped and turned back to face Reckus. "thank you
doctor, as always you've been kind and corteous. Will you let me know when you
will need to see me again?" she asked. "Certainly Sonak. I will work
out the dates and then call for you, or leave you the dates in advance"
"Thank you Jatan, I would appreciate that."
Sonak walked towards the door. "Oh Sonak..." called Reckus after her.
"Please look after yourself. Its not just yourself that you have to think
about now. And I dont want to have to pull you out at any time" he added.
Sonak nodded and walked out of sickbay.
<present>
Reckus stood and looked at Sonak. A couple of hours previously he had given her
the news that she was expecting another child, and now that was all she had to
cling onto Seliv. He looked to his left and saw Ensign Caldwell. They exchanged
looks and Reckus nodded. Reckus returned his gaze at the Captain, who sat with
her head in her hands........
It was
pandimonium on the bridge. Spedmo was sad that the ship he had been serving on
had just been destroyed. He smiled at the amazing abilities of his counterpart
on the Tulip. "Captain all but one of the crew made it. I am sorry but
Commander Seliv did not make it," Spedmo said. "Thank you
lieutenant," she replied.
Her hands
still pressed against her face, grieving, Sonak got up from the deck and
clambered back into her chair. "Signal the Black Tulip we will do what we
can still to complete our mission," she said, her voice flat and devoid
from emotion, "what is the status of the remaining Cardassian vessel? And
that of the Klingon Freighter?" She looked up at Dean, and then at Skok.
"How many of our civillian crew can that freighter hold? Get me the
captain of that freighter. All non-essential personnel will be beamed over to
that freighter. The Klingons will bring them back to starbase bellicose, and
then we will finish our job."
Her eyes flashed with anger as she returned her gaze towards the remaining
Cardassian Vessel. "I want to know who sabotaged my vessel and killed my
husband. Who derived my children and my unborn of their father. That someone
will pay, I promise you."
Claire
leaned on the man's shoulder, she didn't even know his name. But he was kind
and he brought her back to her senses. He's right, she thought when she saw the
debris through a window and wounded people everywhere. Let's do something.
She turned towards the young man: "Thanks for bringing me here, eum,
..."
"Lieutenant Ryan, Steve Ryan, you're the new counselar I presume?"
Claire flushed: "Some counselor huh, sitting back there scared to
death."
"Well, it happens to all of us, I understand."
"Thanks you're very kind." She sighed. "I think I will be needed
on the bridge, bye!"
"Wait..."
"My name is Claire Steenbergen." She knew he was going to ask that,
and indeed, as one would look at his face, a satisfied smile could be seen.
-------on the bridge---------
The door swooshed open. Claire looked around, and immediately her senses were
drawn to the captain. Although she's not of an empathic species, there clearely
hung a strong sense of pain in the air, not physical pain, but it came close to
that. Claire couldn't really define what exactly it was she was experiencing.
No-one had noticed her entering the bridge. Then the captain said something
that made Claire step forward.
"I want to know who sabotaged my vessel and killed my husband. Who derived
my children and my unborn of their father. That someone will pay, I promise
you."
"Captain," Claire said which made Sonak turn towards the counselar:
"I think it's better if you if you take some rest now."
The captain raised from her chair. Was that a bit of irritated anger in Sonak's
glance?
Claire's noze started itching again, but she took a deep breath and soon the
itching was gone:
"I believe you are not objective anymore. I strongly advise you to leave
your post to your first officer on grounds of personel involvement. You will
not let this ship take unnecessarily risks."
Sonak raised an eyebrow: "Well, is my new, young counselor putting me of
duty?"
"No, I'm merely advising you to do so yourself. This crew is tired and
wounded, the ship is broken, how can you expect of them to follow your orders
for your revenge?"
The Vulcan captain took a moment to think and controll her emotions, only a
little moment but it was there.
"It is merely my duty to investigate this attack."
"And it is mine to advice you that now is not the good time."
"So
noted lieutenant," Sonak said, her voice flat but anger was clearly
audible, "but I believe I am in command here, and the only one that can
relieve me of duty is the chief medical officer."
She glared in Reckus' direction, hoping he would keep his thoughts to himself.
She was in no mood to be critisized.
"Anyting else counselor?" she asked icily, "if not then I
would like the security teams to find out who sabotaged my ship."
Claire
knew this was comming, but it was the only thing she could do.
"Fine, you're in command after all, and again, I know I can't relieve you
from duty, but I can strongly advice you to do it."
Then Claire prepared herself to leave the bridge:
"Oh, and Captain, just this: Don't expect me to follow your orders in full
agreement."
And she left the bridge to go where people did need her.
"Fine,"
Sonak snapped, as she returned her gaze to the screen, then turned sideways to
face Fox. "Have you been able to raise the Klingons yet? I might just beam
everyone to their vessel. Senior staff is to remain behind." Her gaze
softened as she saw the shocked expression on her friends face. "Do you
think I am mad to do this?" Her gaze went around the bridge, locking eyes
with everyone present. "Do you all?"
Nick stood
as if the world had just ended. His face was white and hands shaking. They'd
just eluded death. The captain seemingly in a rage began pacing the bridge.
"Do you think I am mad to do this?" Her gaze went around the bridge,
locking eyes with everyone present. "Do you all?"
"No ma'am," echoed from around her.
Sonak walked over to Nick station and grabbed him by the collar of his shirt.
Her eyes glowed with rage over what had just ocured.
"Find whoever did this! I wan't them to pay for what they've done
here!"
Nick nodded quickly. She let go of him and turned back to her chair. With a
shudder he hit his badge and called up what remained of his security team.
Reckus
surveyed the scene before him. Even role play using the most sophisticated
computer generated results could not have prepared him for this. Before the
explosion he and Ensign Caldwell had managed to grab everything that they could
from Sickbay. Still it didnt really amount to much.
Sonak was sat in her chair, still in a state of shock. Commander Fox was also
in a state of disbelief. Reckus knew that his Captain was strong but the
current situation could prove to be too much, even for her Vulcan mind.
He swallowed hard and walked towards her. "Captain?" Sonak looked up,
2 red puffy eyes staring wildly at him through a face smeared with soot and
tracks from her tears. "What am I to do Jatan?" she asked. Reckus
smiled gently at her. "Do you think that I am mad, and that I need to be
relieved of my duty?" she continued. Reckus shook his head "No ma'am,
I do not believe you to be anything other than of sound mind" he replied.
"But I need you to understand that my concern is not only to yourself but
to the little one that you carry at the moment". She nodded in agreement
"I want to find who did this despicable act of terror. But I promise you
that I will do so with a clear mind and sound judgement. No matter what my
heart may tell me" she said. "The last thing I want to do is to
relieve you of your command. Please help me so that I dont have to do it" he
pleaded. In her eyes he could see some emotion as she agreed to try to remain
calm.
"Try
to remain calm." Sonak repeated in her thoughts. "Commander you have
the bridge." She said to Fox who knodded at her. Then she walked to her
readyroom, sat down in a chair and ordered the replicator to make her a tea.
After a while she tabbed her com-babge. "Sonak to Fox, come to my
readyroom." "Yes, Ma'am." Fox replied "Fox out..."
Fox stood up, looked arround and gave command to Dean and walked to the
readyroom. When he entered he saw Sonak sitting in her chair. "How can i
help you?" Fox asked.
"I want to ask you a favor..." Sonak started. "Anything. Just
ask." Fox interrupted. Then Sonak explained she wanted to do a mind-meld
with him, to try to remain calm and take her thoughts off the loss of her
bond-mate Seliv. Fox agreed, he would do anything to help her.
The two of them sat down, facing eachother. Then Fox took Sonaks hands and
placed them on his face. She did the same with his. While doing to Sonak says "Your
mind to my mind. Your thoughts to my thoughts." And both drift off in
thoughts.
After a
while, Sonak pulled back from the meld and actually managed a smile.
"Thank you Fox, I will never forget this. For now I should be fine, your
friendship helped me accept this loss somewhat. Now, I would like your
suggestions on how to handle this situation."
She paused, gazing in the distance as she idly held her cup of tea. "I
still want all non-essential personnel to be beamed over to the Klingon vessel,
so that they can be transported to Starbase, where they will be safe. We have
to try and end this conflict with the Cardassians, and we need the Black Tulip
to assist us after they have retrieved the transwarp unit."
Together they walked back onto the damaged bridge, where damage control teams
were working to repair as much damage as possible. Sonak walked over to Reckus
and gave him a sad smile. "I am sorry for my behaviour before," she
said, and looked around, "I also owe Ms Steenbergen an appology, would you
find her for me? I do not wish to leave the bridge at such a crucial
time."
Reckus
nodded "apology accepted". He was never one to really bare a grudge
anyway. He smiled back at Sonak "please don't worry." he continued,
squeezing her shoulder gently. "This whole mess will get sorted, and
justice will be done". Sonak looked around her "I certainly hope so
Doctor, I cannot let the people that did this get away with it." She sat
back in her chair, this time rubbing her temples in thought. "Please find
Counsellor Steenbergen for me. I think we are both owed an apology from the
other". "Very well Captain although I cannot approve of the tone that
she took." Reckus replied. "That sort of thing is not on." he
added. "Jatan, I will deal with that but I am glad that you noted her tone
too. Things will be fine, honestly." Sonak again managed a brief smile at
Reckus to let him know that she was a bit more relaxed than before.
Reckus left the bridge in search of Claire.....
Claire
sat on a table in the messhall, which luckily wasn't blown away. A racktajino
stood in front of her, still untouched. Her gaze was staring in front of her,
she seemed thoughtless.
Jatan Reckus had a feeling she might be here, though he didn't get any help
from the computer as the comsystems were temorarily down.
"Lieutenant Steenbergen, the captain expects you on the bridge,"
Reckus said to her.
After a moment Claire decided to look in the doctors face. Then smiled
unecpectadly:
"So doctor how are you?"
"I think you heard me counselor, it's urgent."
"Hmm, then what do you think about all this? Do you think the captain is
wisely acting?"
The doctor was getting irritated by the pretence of the young counselor.
"You are ignoring the captain's orders, I suggest you'd go to the bridge
right now."
"I understand, you think it's ok huh? Well, I suggest she'd come here and
tell her herself what she wants."
"What's the matter with you?" Jatan was really getting enough of
this, "I think you owe our captain an apology!"
"Hah, and she is our holy captain, I assume..." Claire's eyes
gistened wickedly, she didn't seem to be herself anymore. She stood up:
"You know what, doctor, maybe I should go to her, yes..." Claire
seemed thinking and then she left, looking calm. The Jatan stared after her
when she left. He had some concerning thoughts about the counselor.
"Captain!
3 ships entering the sector at high warp!"Nick blurted out as he read his
scorched console.
Could this day get any worse? Her bond mate dead, her ship crippled and now
more ships warping in. Sonak groaned from the command chair.
"I'm getting two Galor class and a Sovireign class. It's the Lone
Wolf!"
Sonak looked up from her hands in bewilderment. The Wolf was in permanent
drydock and wasn't an active ship in the fleet. Now it was flying at high warp
with two Galor in pursuit.
"Incoming communication."
"On screen." Sonak said standing and regaining what little comporsure
she had.
"This is Commander Majeski of the Lone Wolf. We're here to help!"
Her gaze
brightening, Sonak got up from her chair and actually smiled a little. "I
think the tides just turned," she said, "Mr Majeski I never thought I
would say this but you are a sight for sore eyes. Are you able to hold my
civilian crew so that the senior staff can engage into battle? This ship is not
done yet and I am not done and I will not give in too easily."
She gave a wide grin at Fox, who looked equally surprised as she felt. The Lone
Wolf was far from space worthy but in her current condition, the Vesuvius was
in worse shape than the ship that just came to their rescue. "I think we
have not yet faced our worst commander," she said, "but the best
thing that happened in this mission so far is coming to a halt right in front
of our bow."
The door
swooshed open, again nobody was paying attention to the arriving counselor.
Claire sighed. Although she saw the captain was busy talking with the captain
of the Lone Wolf, Steenbergen walked up to her and interupted her:
"So, Captain, you wished to see me?"
Sonak
waved her off. "In a minute Lieutenant, wait in my readyroom. This is
important."
She did not look to see if the counselor actually moved off or remained.
Instead, ignored the counselor, though she really did need to talk to the young
woman. "Commander Majeski, normally I would invite you over but currently
we are short of space. THe ship is in shambles and we are barely able to keep
her afloat, so to speak. I am sure you would have wanted to come back to your
own turf but I promise you that you will come over later, when this is over. I
will owe you a dinner then."
She turned back to Steenbergen. "I thought I asked you to wait in my
readyroom. Please follow me." The two women entered the ready room and
Sonak remained silent, waiting for Steenbergen to react her anger off. She
could see the young woman was troubled but she felt it could never be as bad as
her own trouble.
Claire
looked straight in the captain's eyes. Her anger was tempered, for now.
"So the doctor told me I was needed here..." Claire tried as innocent
as possible.
A silence. The captain raised an eyebrown. " D on't you think you crossed
the line back there?"
Claire grinned: "What line? That thingy you can't keep away from stepping
over? It's not that I'm the only one who makes mistakes."
"So you admit that you were wrong?"
"Not quite. I believe one should cross the line when it's necessary."
"Well, I can quote that argument too."
"Yes," Claire seemed not too agitated, though her voice had a
sarcastic tone, "but in your case you put the life of others at risk, unnecesarrily
at risk."
Again, silence; captain Sonak seemed in thought.
"Yes
so you said numerous times already," Sonak finally said, "but I do
not believe that I did. We had no choice and if the ship was left in one piece
all would have died. Now, sadly, or fortunately, we have only one casualty.
There could have been many more."
Sonak regarded the young woman for a long moment. "You seem to have
something else on your mind. Remember that I am not only your captain but that
I may also be your friend. Anything you tell me in confindence remains that
way, same as anything I tell you. You know from your own profession that
talking helps, so tell me what is on your mind."
She sat down in her chair and invited Claire to sit in the other. Silently
waiting for Claire to start speaking, she gazed out the window, looking at the
debris from their own drive section. She felt a single tear slip from the
corner of her eyes down her cheek as she grieved her husband once more.
"If it is loss, you are not the only one who has lost," she
whispered, closing her eyes, breathing in deeply.
Claire's
nose tickled again, did she just saw something glistening in her eye...?
She sighed, again, she knew she was acting foolishly. And captain seemed at
ease now, though a great sense of grief filled the room... and not only the
captain's grief.
Claire's legs trembled and then she collapsed, luckily there was a chair neaar
her where she could throw herself in. Her legs were no longer capable to
support her. And no longer could she hide and keep up her tears. Now she
realised how stupid she acted.
She let her salty tears flow, while the captain looked at her.
Sonak
watched helplessly as her counselor broke into tears before her. She had sensed
something was gnawing and knew she should have asked about it a long time ago,
when she had first sensed it.
She pulled a tissue from a compartiment in her desk and silently handed it to
Claire, then sat back down and watched the woman sob. "Sonak to Reckus,
please come down to my readyroom. I think I may need your assistance here. Fox,
it would be good if you joined the doctor for a moment. We have a
problem."
=^= Sonak
to Reckus, please come down to my readyroom. I think I may need your assistance
here =^=
Reckus looked up from the desk that he had made his temporary triage area. He
was quietly praying that there would be no more casualties anytime soon as
there really was no room. Still smarting from Steenbergen's outburst he was in
no mood for anything right now.
=^= Received Captain. I'm on my way now. =^=
He picked up his tricorder and case and stood up. "Ensign, please look
after things here. I shall be in the Captain's ready room should you need
me" he said. Ensign Caldwell nodded, and sat down in the chair.
Reckus walked through into Sonak's ready room and saw Sonak and Steenbergen on
the floor and noticed that Claire was sobbing uncontrollably. "You called
for me Captain?" he asked. Sonak sat up and looked at Reckus. He noticed
that she had been crying too. "Yes Doctor" replied Sonak. "Please
could you take a look at Lt. Steenbergen?"
Reckus nodded and pulled the tricorder out. As he proceeded to scan Claire he
turned back to Sonak. "What happened Captain?"
"You
ask me?" Sonak asked, clearly surprised, then realized that the doctor was
meaning Claire's mood.
"Well she was in a state when she re-entered the bridge and started
ranting at me, but I told her to take it into my readyroom. Once here I told
her I would like to be her friend and that she could confide in me no matter
what was wrong, and then she started sobbing. I have not been able to get a
sensible word out of her. Can you give her something to calm her down?"
~I could use something to calm down. This has to end soon, real soon~
"Is Commander Fox on his way? I need him to lead the evacuation of the
crew to the Lone Wolf. The senior staff will have to remain behind to tie up
some loose ends."
"Yes
he said he would be here as soon as he could". Reckus attention was drawn
to the readings on the tricorder. Claire was lying at his feet, still sobbing.
Sonak was trying to calm her as Jatan was scanning her.
"I think Ms Steenbergen may be suffering from some form of depression
Captain. It may well have been bought on by the attack and the fact that is the
first time that the Counsellor has been in an engagement and battle situation
since leaving the academy...." he tailed off. "Who counsels the
counsellors eh?" asked Sonak. Reckus smiled wistfully at the Captains
observation. He re opened the case that he had brought with him and selected a
green vial and the hypospray. "This should help to calm down Claire a
little. It's a derivitive of Valium" he said. Sonak nodded.
As Reckus injected Claire with the spray, her breathing slowed and quietened
and she stopped sobbing. "I think she needs to be relieved of her duty
Captain. You know I hate to do this...." "I know Jatan, I know. I
will have her beamed out with the non essential personnel" interrupted
Sonak. Reckus nodded "Ensign Caldwell can look after her then and monitor
her" he replied.
The door of the ready room opened and in walked Commander Fox. "How may I
help Captain?" he asked, not failing to notice Claire lying on the
floor.....
Claire
felt warm and fuzzy... She looked around and saw somebody kneeling beside her.
She put out her hand to touch the person's face.
"Heeeeeeeey," she seemed... happy?, "it's you captain!"
She giggled.
The captain was a bit surprised of the woman's touch, but took her hand and
placed it neatly on Claire's thy.
"Come let my help you up," Sonak said while she tried to pull the
counselor back up to her feet.
However the counselor was not at all cooperating.
Reckus sighed. "Maybe it's better to beam her out, she's too calm and lame
now from the valium, apparently she's quite sensitive to it."
"I'm not going anywhere." Claire cried like a baby and then she took
her combadge and smashed it on the ground. "Leave me alone," and she
pushed away captain Sonak. Luckily she was very weak and Vulcans are strong.
Sonak just took a step backward.
Sonak
looked at Reckus somewhat bemused. Perhaps Claires bajoran physiology needed
sedating more....
Reckus drew up another vial of the Valium type injection and sprayed it into
Claire's arm. This time it had the desired effect and Claire slipped into a
soft unconsciousness. "I really wish I had a sickbay" said Reckus.
"I am going to have to find somewhere to monitor her Captain" he
continued. Sonak nodded. "Agreed. Let's see if we can find somewhere to
put her for the time being."
"As
a matter of fact," Sonak finally said, "you can use my readyroom for
your practice. It is a private room, probably the most private one left on the
ship, what is left of her."
She looked up at Fox, who had remained at the door, overlooking the
conversation between the doctor and the captain quietly. "Anything to
report?" she asked, "is the Lone Wolf ready to receive our
crew?"
Nick
stood at his station for the 29th strait hour. A large yawn escaped as he
stuggled to cover his mouth. The adrenaline was slowly wearing off. He hit the
button on his consol to call up his replacement.
Ensign Ortega walked up and replaced him. "Get some rest, you look like
you've been to hell and back."
Nick smirked and patted his compadre on the shoulder.
The turbo lift ride seemed shorter than normal. Mind you half the ship was
missing so that could've been it. He walked out into the hall and made his way
to the preschool to check on Yannis. As he walked he looked at the distraught
faces of the crew. Every couple meters or so was a family setting up their own camp
for the night.
Lighting was dimmed and sections of the walls had burned out. Finally he came
to the school.
Yannis came bolting towards him. "addy
Daddy!!"
"Hey kiddo! Haveing another one of your adventures?"
"Yep!" she said with a yawn.
"I think it's time for your bed time."
"Ahh," she wined and buried her head into his shoulder. He nodded to
the officer in charge. She smiled and went back to attending to T'Kimi and
Sevus.
"Lets go find mommy," said to Yannis.
~~~~5 mins later~~~~
Kate lay on the bed. Her head throbbed from the shockwave impact. The icepack
on the side of her face kinda helped but not too much. Nick and Yannis walked
into the room.
"Night mommy."
"Nick munchkin." Kate said hugging her daughter. "Off to
bed."
The little one groaned and sauntered off to her room.
"What happened to you!?" Nick asked with concern.
"I was down visiting Irene Dobson when the blast happened. A piece of the
cieling fell and hit me." She pulled away the ice pack to reveal half her
face was black and blue. "I don't remember much before or after that. It's
all a haze."
Nick walked over to the replicator and called up some native herbs from Tandar
mixed into tea. He passed the glass over to Kate who winced at the flavor.
"I havn't had this stuff in ages." She joked.
"It'll help with the pain."He comforted.
Kate leaned over into her husbands arms and started sobbing.
"It'll be ok, everything is going to be fine." He rubbed her back
softly.
"Thank
you Captain, I appreciate that" replied Reckus. Sonak nodded "No
problem, you need it more than I do".
=^= Captain to Bridge. Ensign Caldwell, please could you come to my ready room
=^=
=^= Yes ma'am, on my way =^=
The door of the ready room swished open and Caldwell walked in. Sonak and Fox
watched as the two men scooped Claired up gently and lay her in a corner of the
ready room, muttering to each other as they did so.
"Sorry Commander, you were going to say?" as Sonak turned back to
Fox.......
<the Martens quarters>
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"It'll all be ok" repeated Nick. His wife continued to sob gently.
"I just want this nightmare to be over" she finally managed to get
her words out. Nick gently kissed her forehead. "Listen, I don't know how
he managed it but Commander Majeski got the Lone Wolf to us. They will help
us." Kate managed a weak smile.
"You get some sleep darling. You look so tired" said Nick as he
stroked her hair. "I am so sleepy. I can't really keep my eyes open. They
feel like they're burning" she replied as she lay her head on the pillow.
Nick stayed with her as she drifted off. Although he had been on duty for so
long, and his body ached for sleep, he did not yet feel ready to get into bed.
He went and sat by the comfy chair by the window and gazed out into the vast
space in front of him. At least they still had their quarters....unlike some
poor souls on the ship. As he slowly dozed off thoughts of Cardassians and
Klingons and explosions played through his mind......
<Later>
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"Daddy, Daddy!" Nick woke up to feel his sleeve being tugged by
Yannis. "huh?!" he mumbled, trying to focus on his daughter.
"Whats the matter darling?" he managed to ask. "Mommy's not
waking up, and I even jumped on her! Is she playing a game?" she replied.
The words jolted Nick to life immediately as he raced out of the chair and
towards the bed. Kate was still lying in bed, apparently asleep. He tried
shaking her and calling her name to rouse her. Panic suddenly entered his mind
but somehow he pushed it aside.
=^= Nick Martens to Lt. Reckus =^=
<Captains readyroom>
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Reckus and Caldwell were exhausted. They had been up and down treating people
since the explosion and it was really taking it's toll. They both sat near
Steenbergen, backs resting against the wall. "Jatan, you get some rest, I'll
cover for a while" said Caldwell eventually. Jatan looked at Caldwell, and
then at Claire's peaceful form. "No, you were on duty well before I. I
will take first watch" he replied. Caldwell nodded and made Reckus promise
to wake him when or if required. Jatan watched as Caldwell dropped off, and
found himself leaning his head back against the wall momentarilly closing his
eyes. It wa so quiet, save for Fox and Sonak talking in the background........
=^= Nick Martens to Lt. Reckus =^=
Yep, too good to be true he thought to himself....typical.
He tapped his comm badge =^= Reckus here. Go ahead Nick =^=
=^= Doctor please come quickly to our quarters, it's Kate =^= Nicks voice was
almost wobbling as he spoke.
Reckus grabbed the tricorder and medical kit.
=^= Don't panic Nick. I'll be straight there =^= he said as he was already
racing out the door towards the turbolift.
For Jatan, sleep would have to wait.........
Nick sat
on the bed cradeling his wife in his arms. He whispered softly in her ear and
stroked her hair gently.
"You're going to be ok. I'm not going to lose you a second time." he
said softly, voice wavering.
A chime came as someone was at the door. "Come." little Yannis
chidded.
In walked Jatan with a medkit. He imediatly went to scanning Kate. Within
seconds his tricorder began beeping histericly. He pulled out a hypospray and
dispensed it into her neck. Little Yannis stood clinging to her daddys arm
wondering what was going on.
"Is she ok daddy?"
"She'll be ok." Jatan comforted with a "this is serious"
glance at Nick.
Nick looked down at his little girl and spoke softly in her ear. "Go find
Trent. I'll help take care of mommy."
The little one looked up at him with glassy eyes, "ok."
Yannis ran off down the hall in search of her playmate.
Jatan walked over to Nick.
"She has massive internal injuries, a fractured skull, and a shattered
cheek bone. We need to get her to the Lone Wolf as soon as possible. Theres not
much I can do without the proper medical facilities. All I can really do is
keep her comfortable and stable until then. But if we wait too long she might
not make it."
Nick looked at the floor. A tear rolled down his face. Jatan put a hand on his
friends shoulder. "It'll be ok, don't worry."
------knock-out
Claire-------
Wind was blowing in Claire's waving hair. She sniffed, there was a fresh smell
of wet grass. Then she noticed she was riding a white horse. She petted its
neck and felt its body moving underneath her while he was galloping the steppe.
Then suddenly the horse turned pink and it started to grow. And it became
fatter.
Then she saw she was riding a fat elefant, a mad pink huge elefant. She was
scared to death and then she fell from the elefant, not as she would expect on
the soft wavy grass, but in an endless, dark pit.
Silence. Then two lights, they came closer, it were eyes, staring, cold, blue
eyes. Then a faint light shone. It seemed candle light. Soft music began to
play. The eyes were Xantcha's, Claire could clearly see her. Xatcha smiled,
took Claire's hands and pressed her against her body. They started a dance, a
waltz. They laughed.
Then, all of a sudden, Xantcha started laughing hysterically and her eyes
turned black like ink. Claire, again terrified, started screaming....
aaaaaaaaah!
Again,
Sonak had to interrupt her attempt at talking to her first officer when she
hears a piercing scream coming from her readyroom. Both officers run towards
the office and storm in, to find Claire lying thrashing on the floor and
Caldwell unable to calm her down nor wake her.
Kneeling beside the thrashing woman, Sonak tries to wake her up gently, but
when that failed, she told Caldwell to move aside. She gives Claire a firm slap
on her cheek, causing the womans eyes to snap open and stare back at her in
shock.
"I regret hitting you," Sonak said, "but you were a danger to Mr
Caldwell. He tried to calm you but you nearly knocked him out. You were having
a nightmare I believe. Would you care for something that helps you sleep or
would you prefer to remain awake and assist the evacuation teams?"
She turned to Caldwell. "Do you think she is up to assisting in the
evacuation? I believe Ms Steenbergen needs something to do, rather than sit
still. It helps for me to be active, perhaps for her more so."
<-- In
the ready room -->
Cardwell agreed with Sonak. "Yes, it might help." he said. Then
looked to Claire, who nodded in agreement.
Then Sonak got back to Fox. "Well commander? Any news on the Lone
Wolf?"
"Yes Captain, i've contacted them and they're ready to take our personell
onboard. We only have to gather everyone and get them transported to the Lone
Wolf."
"Make it so then." Sonak replied. "And Commander.. Claire will
be helping you with the evacuation." Fox nodded. "Yes Ma'am" and
walked back to the bridge.
<-- on the bridge -->
"Dean, we must gather all civilians and junior officers at our transporter
rooms. You make sure everyone gets there and no one stays behind." Fox
said.
"Yes, Commander." Dean replied and walked off the bridge. And gathers
some other operation officers to aid him.
Then Fox turned to Claire. "Come we must get to the transporter rooms to
prepair everything for this evacuation."
<-- Transporter room -->
When Fox and Claire got to the transporter room already some junior staff had
arrived. Immediately Fox contacted the Lone Wolf to ask if they were ready for
the first arrivals. They acknowleged and the first officers walked to the
platform. When they all stood there Fox walked also to the platform.
"Energise" He said. Claire was behind the console and tabbed a few
'buttons'. A blue glowing light appeared and they we were gone.
--after
evacuation--
The Klingon vessel was again under attack from the remaining Cardassian vessel.
The Lone Wolf could not engage in battle, so it was up to the Vesuvius to save
them once again, however the saucer was in no condition to fire.
"Mr Martens, set a course for that Cardassian vessel, ramming speed!"
She tapped her combadge. "Mr Fox, be extra alert, we are going to ram
them. Beam us out just before we are going to hit that vessel!"
She sat down as the saucer coursed at ramming speed at the cardassian vessel,
looking at the screen stonefaced.
Nick
laughed from the Nav consol. It was like plaing chicken with shuttles back in
the academy, only this time the intent was much worse. The ship lurched forward
as he hit full impulse and aimed towards the Cardassian cruiser.
~~~Cardassian Bridge~~~
"Gul! The Vesuvius is moving!"
"What!?"
"Sir, they're moving towards us. Collision in 20 seconds!!"
The Gul looked at the screen of the once elegant starship moving towards them.
"TAKE IT DOWN!! TAKE IT DOWN!!" He yelled (OFF had to quote Theoden
from ROTK )
~~~Vesuvius~~~
The ship shook violently as the Cardassian ship turned and fired.
"Shields holding. We're almost there." Nick reported having taken
over part of Nav from Spedmo. Consoles sputtered and exploded.
"Keep going." Sonak commanded. Spedmo nodded.
"Impact in 5, 4, 3, 2....."
With a deafening crunch the Vesuvius rammed itself into the midsection of the
Galor. Everything on the bridge lurched forward, consoles and people flew
forward as the inertial dampners went offline. However none of the crew hit
their inevitable end. Fox had managed to beam them out in time.
~~~In space~~~
The Vesuvius slammed into the Galor Class cruiser. Hull plating crumled and the
underlying conduits exploded. The Lone Wolf flew past and tractored the Klingon
vessle to safty as the two ships spiraled in a death embrace.
The saucer section lodged itself into the Galor, leading edge poking through to
the other side. In a flash of white, red and orange both ships exploded in a
fury of debris and anitmatter reaction.
~~~Lone Wolf~~~
Nick stood on the Bridge with his fellow crewmates and their rescuers. They all
watched in awe as their former home shattered into thousands of pieces in a
grand fireball. Off in the distance the debris of the drive section could be
seen, the saucer would now join it's drive section counterpart.
<Martens
family quarters>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Nick still looked at the floor. The thought of loosing his wife was too much.
"Look at me Nick" commanded Reckus. Somehow Nick lifted his head and
stared straight into the Doctors eyes. "I'll be damned if I'm gonna loose
her" Reckus continued. "But with no Sickbay and just the basic
medical support its pushing it to the limit. I am going to do everything I can
for her."
Nick nodded "I know, I know. I'm just so scared of loosing her; she means
everything to me."
Reckus looked down at Kate and then back at Nick. I'm going to keep her here
until it's time to move. I need to make a quick report and send it to the CMO
aboard the Lone Wolf. That way they can have everything that they need to know
before she gets there." Nick looked completely shell shocked, and lost in
thought. "When we get there though, will you...I mean..." Nick
struggled to find the right words. "I want you to look after her..."
he said finally. "I'm sure the Lone Wolf's Doctor is more than capable to
look after..." "No!" interrupted Nick. "You're her
doctor...please Jatan..." Jatan could see a myriad emotions in Nick's
eyes. He sighed Id be the same too i guess"Ok Lt. I cant promise
but I will talk to the CMO." Nick nodded as more tears ran down his face.
Jatan rummaged in his medi kit and pulled out a hypo spray. He turned to Nick
"Listen, I know the Captain will want you back on the bridge shortly, and
something in my mind is telling me that you want to be there when the
Cardassians get their come-uppance. Really I should pull you from duty, but I
think you can hold on til this is over." he said. "Yes Jatan, I need
to do this." replied Nick. "You planning to give me something?"
Reckus nodded."It's a natural stimulant and anti depressant. It should
just help to keep your mood level for a while, but I want you to report to me
when we get out of here." Nick agreed and as he felt the cold spray flood
his blood stream he felt a wave of relief.....
<ready room>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Caldwell passed Claire fit to help with the evacuation, although he had given
her a boost with a dose of a mood supressant. As the Captain, Commander Fox and
Claire left the ready room, he felt a wave of relief which lasted for all of 2
seconds....
=^= Ensign Caldwell please come to the Martens' quarters =^=
Reckus' voice came over load and clear.
=^= Yes Doctor, on my way =^=
now what? he wondered to himself
<before
final confrontation>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
After briefing Caldwell and leaving Kate in a stable condition, Reckus walked
out into the corridor, heading towards the turbolift. He bumped into Yannis who
was happily playing with Trent. She ran up to him when she saw him coming from
seeing her mother.
"Doctor Jatan!" she called. Reckus stopped and turned to see the
little girl coming after him. "Hello sweetie" he said. "Doctor
Jatan, is my mommy going to be ok?" she asked. Reckus got on his knees so
that he was level with her face. "Mommys just got a poorly head and a big
bump on it" he replied. "But she will be just fine and I'm going to
give her some special medicine to make it better" Yannis smiled
"Thats good. You're a lovely doctor" she said and gave him a little
hug. "Thank you Yannis" he fished into his pocket and 'magically', to
Yannis at least, pulled out a lollipop each for her and her friend. "You
two be good - Mommy needs to rest ok?" the two children jumped up and down
"Thank you Doctor Jatan - we will!" they said in unison.
Reckus carried on towards the lift. When he got in he asked it to take him to
the bridge. As the lift gently hummed a vision of a massive explosion suddenly
came into his head. He could feel the loss of life and a feeling of justice.
But he knew he'd be watching from afar. Damn these visions he thought to
himself. They had been coming more and more frequently. He promised himself
that when they got back to the Bellicose he'd get in touch with his Mum and ask
her about it......
<bridge>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sonak sat in her chair, her mind working overtime. What they were planning
would be spectacular....
She noticed the Doctor entering the bridge and smiled briefly. "How are
things Mr Reckus?" she asked. "Not good Captain, I need to talk to
you" he replied. "Well my ready room has been vacated so we can talk
in there. I take it Mr Caldwell has briefed you with regards to the
Counsellor?" said Sonak as they walked to the ready room. "Yes he
has, I just hope that once we are out of here I can assess her properly"
he responded.
They both sat down at the Captains desk. "Captain, Kate Martens is in a
critical condition, I'm worried that she might have a sub dural haematoma or a
had a sub arachnoid haemmorhage and I barely have the things to keep her
condition stable." Sonak saw the worry in his eyes. "And I had a
really wierd thing happen to me in the lift up here" he added. And he
explained to Sonak what he had seen. "Sounds like you are developing some
kind of psychic abilities Jatan" she finally said. "Premonitions,
seeing the future..." Reckus nodded "Thats what I have been thinking
too...I really need to speak to my Mum about it" he replied.
Sonak smiled "It's a gift Jatan. That may be why you are an excellent
physician too. A natural healer". Reckus blushed a little, and cleared his
throat. "I am writing a clinical history for the CMO of the Lone Wolf and
a request c/o Mr Martens as he wants me to treat her when we are there" he
said. Sonak looked at the desk and then back at Reckus "I am sure neither
the CMO nor Commander Majeski will have a problem with that. I will talk to
Chris" came the reply.
"She also needs to be beamed out asap from her quarters straight to their
sickbay" "Again, leave it with me. I will make sure that Mrs Martens
gets out and into the proper care. But I need you to stay here as one of my
senior staff. Will Ensign Caldwell be happy to beam across with her?" she
asked. "Sure Sonak, he knows that thats likely to be the case" Reckus
replied, fiddling with his fingers. Sonak placed her hand on his "Jatan,
Kate will be fine. I know it's wierd for you not having a sickbay and that
there's not much of this ship left...but everything will work out. Trust
me".
--- On
the Lone Wolf ---
The senior staff had been beamed straight to the Lone Wolf bridge, and Chris
jumped up to relinguish his seat to his former commanding officer. Sonak
motioned him to remain seated. "You command her Chris," she said, as
she gazed at the great ball of fire that was once a part of her beloved ship,
"take us back to Starbase Bellicose, keep the Klingons in tow."
--- later approaching the starbase ---
"Sir, the starbase is under attack from Cardassians!" someone shouted
from Tactical.
Instictively, Sonak took command without realizing she did. "Release the
Klingons, let them signal their fleet for support, they owe us that much.
Engage the Cardassians, cripple only. There have been enough deaths for today.
Signal the station that we are here to aid them, then signal the Majesty and
the Black Tulip recalling them to the station to aid us!"
She knew that the Black Tulip was the fleet Flagship, but now was a time to
take action, not think who was actually in command of the fleet. "See if
you can raise the Tiger Shark, Olympus and Raven, we need all assistance we can
get!"
Majeski
looked at Lt Summers "Mrs Summers take us in full implse"
"Aye sir" Majeski looked at Sonak "Looks liike were about to
have even more fun , Raise shields Red alert"
"Mr Frassanito ready wepons"
The Lone Wolf carged into the four Cardassian ships at full tilt and open fired
The fist three shots only shook the ship the fourth sent Majeski flying off his
feet and he stood up.
"Mr Frassanito ready a 8 spread of quantum torpedeos and fire on the
nearest ship"
Majeski watched as the torpedeos slam into thier target
"Nice one Majeski" Sonak said , Chris's only response was a grin and
he looked at the screen .. there were stilll three more . to his surprise the
next three hits shook the ship sending people out of thier chairs
"Report "Majeski ordered
"Sheilds down to 54 percent minor damage in the astrophonics bay"
Frassanito said
Sonak looked at the view screen and thought for a moment but Majeski had a
devieus Idea "Why don';t we eject the core and denoate it close by the
ship , we're close to a starbase not to worry about having one "
It might work "Bridge to engineering" Majeski called
"Engineering here"
"Mr Hawkins...Eject the core and prepare to detonate it on my
command." Majeski said
"I beg your pardon sir?" Hawkins said
" Do it , just trust me commander" Majeski said
"yes sir" Hawkins said
Sonak looked at Majeski like he was out of his mind."Are you sure about
this commander?"
"Trust me Sonak , my father pulled the same stunt 60 years ago against the
Romulans , belive me the cardassians are even dumber ... it will work"
Sonak craned her neck backwards and wondered if this was even the same person
that servered under her command months ago... or was this a person who was
ready to command this ship she decided the answer B was the reason ... was he
anything like his father who was once starfleets commander in chief ? she decided
to test it and let Majeski run his ship "Chris....lets see if your like
your father"
Majeski turned to her."I'm gonna stand above my old man"
He gripped Tojikins hilt and smirked.."Eject it"
Majeski and the bridge crew watched as the core spun towards the ships on the
bridge Lt Nick Martens commented " I bet those idiots are trying to figure
out what the heck we are doing "
Majeski grinned "They'll figure it out soon enough, by then they will be
screaming for thier mommas"
"Mr Summers full impule move us away ...Mr Frassanito DETONATE"
In space the core blew up inbetween two cardassian ships sending them in
opposite directions the one closest to the Lone wolf crashed into the third
slicing it in half what the Lone wolf did get far enough and was hit by the
shock wave
On the bridge all hell broke lose ,the shileds failed and the tatical station
exploded sending Frassanito flying over Sonak and Majeski 's head and striagh
into Lyida Summers
Lt Summers felt Frassanito's body hit her back and her chin slammed into the
helm sending her unconsious
Nick flew to tactical "Shields down wepons offline....and oh great....
intruders on Deck 3 ..5 10 ..12 14 19 and 20
Mejeski looked at sonak and slowly drew Tojikin there was no expression on his
face he looked at Lt Martens at Tatical.."Lets flush em off the ship shall
we"
"Captain Sonak, you have the bridge , I'm going to clear out my ship
" Majeski said
Nick looked At Majeski and nodded , Sonak only looked at them sure it was
scuicide but thats one thing they all wouldn't let happen , allowing the
Cardassians on one of the most advanced ships in the fleet.
Majeski and Martens met up with a security team on Deck 2 "Time to take
out the trash " Majeski said.
Stunned,
Sonak sat down in the center chair, absently rubbing the armchair. She knew
what Chris and Nick were going to do was close to suicide but it had to be
done. She only hoped the Klingons would remember who saved them from the
Cardassians and at what cost they had been saved: one civilian and an entire
ship.
"Hail those Klingons," she said flatly, "I want to know if they
are sending reinforcements. Us and the Black Tulip are no match for the
Cardassians. The Starbase is in no condition to defend itself from such a large
fleet, they have sustained a lot of damage."
She turned to Dean. "How many Cardassians are we facing and is there any
sign of Klingon or Federation reinforcements? And how fast can this ship go
without a warpcore? Get me the ship specs a.s.a.p."
Just as
Nick was about to leave his station he answered the Captians request for ship
count.
"We're facing a fleet close to 12 ships. It consists of 4 Hideki class
escourts, 4 Galor Class cruisers, 3 Kelodon class destroyers, and a Hutet class
Dreadnought."
With that he turned over Tactical and joined Majeski in the Turbolift.
Sonak
stared after her current and her former tactical offcers and shook her head.
"I hope they know what they are doing," she said, standing up from
her chair. She still felt a bit queezy and now the medication Reckus had given
her would be wearing off.
She turned to Fox. "I am going to see how Ms Steenbergen is doing down in
sickbay. I also heard Mrs martens is down there and a lot of other crewmembers.
I am going to see if I can give the medical staff a little hand. You have the
bridge commander."
-- down in sickbay --
"Jatan, is there anyting I can do to help here? Is Claire any better, I
think we are going to need her on the bridge soon. Also, I believe I am due for
a check-up. The medication you gave me is wearing off."
Majeski
and Martens and both ships security teams pushed the the Cadassians down to
Deck 12 ,
Martens had a nice cut on his head and he turned to see Majeski who was cutting
a cardassian down with toujikin .
"There's too many" Martens shouted
Majeski 's face turned into a wolfish grin "Not for long "
Martens paled he knew what was comming he was gonna use Toujikins full demonic
power not just it's puressure. Majeski swung his sword and the destruction was
instintanus and a blue light flashed and the entire corrdior was torn apart
taking the cardassans with it .
Majeski stood there breathing hard "we gotta clear off this ship , there
is even more in engineering"
"Great" Martens clutched his phaser rifle and looked at the fried
corrior no a trace of the 30 cardassians that where there "Lets keep
moving"
Nick
stood about 8 feet behind Chris. Occasionally he'd fire off a potshot at some
soldier who missed out on Chris's wrath.
"I really hope the cleanup crew is androids cuz I wouldn't want to clean
up this mess," Nick winced as he kicked a severed arm out of his way.
Chris grinned at his pale companion.
With that the two made thier way down into the heart of the ship. Every once
and a while the ship would shudder as the battle outside raged.
Nick glanced out one window as they walked past. There out in space was a
massive Hutet class starship. He stopped and stared out at it. Those things
were only legends told by crews from the Dominion War. 70 decks of pure power
and more teeth that a Ferengi Razor Grub. Fleets were known to have been
destroyed by just one of them. Chris walked over to see what Nick was looking
at. He saw defiant class base support ships buzzing around it like flies on a
cow. Only this cow had guns, mind you so did the flies. The security teams
muttered amongst themselves about the behemoth hovering near the starbase.
Chris shook his head, "They're really trying to kill us now aren't they.
Lets keep moving."
Majeski
grabbed a cardassian and glared him in the eye the moment they reached deck 13
, he wirled him around and flattened him against the nearest bulk head
"How many of you guys are on this ship?" Majeski spat
"Like I am going to tell you the" cardassian spat
Chris didn't expect Nicks hand to Reach over him and grab the cardassian and
drilled his head into the bulkhead
"How about going out an air lock or tell us " Martens said
"You woudn't" He sneered..
"Accidents do happen" Majeski "And btw ... you guys all smell
really bad" he threw the cardassian a couple of feet then grabbed toujikin
and pointed it at him... "Go tell you little buddies that we're comming
"
The cadrassian ran off leaving the security teams watching him go
"Sir was that wise " an ensign said
"Ahh I'll kill him later ...but first..." he hit the panel closest to
him and the guest quarters opened and Majeski Reached in and grabbed a
sputtering James Dean
"Come on princess , you comming with us" Majeski said
Dean stared at Majeski "YOU ??? YOU AGIAN? WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?"
Majeski just grinned "Welocme to my ship , now if you will excuse me i am
the Current commanding officer on this ship be a little more polite ", he
patted dean on the head and looked him "Come we have more cardies to toss
out of the airlocks"
"Cardies? ..is this what the noise is all about ? " Dean asked
"You didn't hear the red alert"? Martens said
"No I was sleeping" Dean said
Majeski merely looked at Dean "Never mind about your snoring we all know
you sleep like the dead but we are gonna be buried in space if we let them take
the ship"
Handing Dean a phaser rilfe the headed to Deck 14 ... were sickbay was that
conatained Children, Sonak and his and Nicks wife.
*If they touched my wife I'll kill ever single being on this ship * Majeski
thought.
Sickbay
looked like something from a 19th century military hospital. Extra trolleys had
been brought in as all of the biobeds were taken up by serious casualties.
Moans and groans resonated around like a dull hum, and it was certainly not a
place for the faint hearted.
"Time of death, 20.00 hours" said Reckus, pulling a white sheet over
the dead crewman's badly damaged face. Whilst jotting the death particulars on
a PADD, he mumbled a small prayer over the body, willing it to find peace.
Reckus was saddened that he could not save the young man, but being part of the
job, he had to push it to the back of his mind and get on with the next
patient. Anyone and everyone on the ship that had medical or first aid
knowledge had been roped into helping out in sickbay - there were too many
casualties for just 3 people to deal with. Even the EMH had been activated and
was busily running round sickbay, assessing people as they came in.
Reckus went across to the biobed next to his office, where Kate Martens lay.
Her monitor beeped and flashed, showing her vital signs and saturation levels.
He picked up a tricorder and scanned around her head. The swelling and bruising
had gone down, but it was still early days. He had successfully performed
surgery to alleviate the pressure and to repair the fracture in her skull. Her
cheekbone was going to need another couple of treatments but that was the least
of his worries. He sighed as he compared readings with this mornings, still no
change.
Claire Steenbergen was sitting in the office, looking calmer then she had done
on the Vesuvius. He had assessed her with some standard psychological tests and
it emerged that she was veering towards slight manic depression. Currently she
was ok for duty but he needed to watch her for the next few days - mood swings,
that sort of thing. Now she was just resting for the moment, he was aware that
she would be needed soon......
His thoughts were disrupted by the doors to sickbay opening "Jatan, is
there anything I can do to help here?" Captain Sonak asked. Jatan turned
towards her and smiled. "That would be great Captain - we need all the
hands we can get down here" Sonak surveyed sickbay and grimaced.
"It's a terrible day for the crew of both the Confessor and the
Vesuvius" she commented. "Is Claire any better, I think we are going
to need her on the bridge soon." she continued. Reckus pointed towards the
office. "See for yourself, she's a lot calmer than earlier. I've managed
to perform a psychological analysis on her, and I am of the firm belief that
she has a form of manic depression." he replied. Sonak nodded thoughtfully
"Has her medical record been updated?" "Yes Captain, I always
update the crews files when I have seen them" replied Reckus. Sonak turned
back to face him after staring blankly into the office. "I'm sorry Jatan,
I know you keep your records all sorted - I'm just not really thinking straight
at the minute. Also, I believe I am due for a check-up. The medication you gave
me is wearing off." Reckus walked over to the desk in the office to access
Sonaks medical records. hmmm your 12 week check is due next week, I can
certainly give you some more medication if you feel it necessary?"
"Please Jatan, I feel I need it more than ever" she answered, her
eyes falling to the ground. He squeezed her arm gently "I know we have a
counsellor on the ship, but if you feel you ever need to talk, my door is
always open Sonak".....
--*-- USS
Confessor --*-- (prev USS Lone Wolf)
Martin was not happy , he was familiar with the USS Vesuvius and
now he must learn again about the basics of ship .
Not that this ship is a lot different from the Vesuvius , but still some
sections are different . They are in a battle and he must learn fast .
" What is the status Commander ? " Martin looked up and he
saw Captain Sonak watching him .
" Well , Captain . I'm sure we are in good condition . Everything
is working . I'm just doing some last adjustments ."
" OK . Carry on Commander ." Sonak said and walked away .
Martin looked at her for a moment .
~ She seems very strong although her big loss . ~ thought Martin .
Then he returned to do his work .
Rachel
was moving as fast as she could to keep up to Dr Jatan Reckus she volunteered
to be a nurse for the man before, she emptied a hypospray into Mrs Kate Martens
neck.
"There that should help with the headace" Rachel smile and patted her
hand then moved onto the next patient by the sick bay doors when the ship
Rocked violently from a hit then suddenly the lights dimmed and the she heard
pounding at the shickbay doors.
they heard a popping sound at the jeffries tube hatch by the surgical bio bed
and then her husband Chris Majeski , Nick Martens and a sleepy James Dean
emerged, Majeski Picked up a empty duffle back and began filling it with
medical supplies and Reckus looked at him wondering what the hell was going on
" Dude...What are you doing " Reckus hissed
Majeski glared at him and said" We need to clear off this deck, because if
we don't 47 cardassians are going to pile up in here and use this place as a
shooting gallery"
"Fair enough" Reckus said then he turned to Rachel "Start
clearing these people out then he tunred to the Confessors CMO Dr Rubin , we
have to get these people out of here"
They took about 5 min to get every one in the Tubes the last ones were Rachel
was trying ot get Kate Martens off a bio bed when the doors broke down and
pieces of metal when't flying catching her in the forhead leaving a large gash
on her forhead, "ARRGGHHH " She hit the floor and the next thing she
knew that she heard a loud roar and Sonak helping her to the Jeffries tube
while nick carried his wife while and she heard Reckus shout
"Majeski come one you can't face that thing it's too big"
Chris who jumped over Rachel and landed in fromt of her when the doors broke
was taken aback when a large grey creature stood in the doorway
It let out a roar and stepped forward and Majeski rose toujikin infront of him
the creater swung it's massive arm down and Chris jumped back out of it's way
and the mass arm came crashing down and put a hole in the deck
He craned his neck and he saw Cardassians cheering on thier over szed pet
He jumped at it and swung Toujikn at it's mouth "Take a breath mint ugly
he shouted " and swung
The creature met the challange catching the sword in it's mouth
Sparks flew and Majeski tried tugging it free and to his horror he hear
cracking sounds comming from the sword and cracks started to appear on it there
was a loung bang like and explosion as the sword broke
"AuuuHHHgg" Majeski let out a cry as the he fell flat on his back and
the creature still had the end in it's mouth
"NOO " Rachel screamed out and Sonak was trying ot drag her into the
tube out of harms way but it was kinda hard ot hold her sitting in a crouched
position
rolling her eyes she wispered to Rache"come he is trying ot save us"
The Creature took a swat at Chris and there was a spray of blood as he when
flying across the room and he hit the wall beside the entrence to the jeffrise
tube
Rachel let out a cream and Sonak took advantage of the situation and pulled her
in
Sonak closed the dooor did she imagine it .. but when she seen Chris's body
laying limp his eyes where glowing red and there where purple marks on either
side of his face.
Sonak had
a hard time keeping the Elven woman under control as she struggled to get back
to the hatch, and her husband. Finally she pulled a hypospray containing a mild
sedative out of her pocket and pressed it against Rachel's throat. "You
must come with us Rachel, there waits suddend death if you go. You have a
throne to think of, your people need you, Chris can stand his own, believe me.
Remember how he saved us from that river monster? On his own he slew the
creature, saving us."
She knew she was babbling but she hoped it kept Rachel from going back.
Carefully she dabbed a tissue against Rachel's forehead, attempting to stanch
the bleeding. "Come, we must go to the bridge, from there we may try to
get rid of the Cardassians. I believe the Klingons have sent word that they
will come to aid us."
Sonak turned to Reckus and Martens. "I think Kate will be safest in the
readyroom, it is large enough to funtion as an office. Otherwise Briefingroom
One is fairly large to function as sickbay."
Chris
stood up all in his mind he felt nothing but the joy of killing the large
hulking creature that stood before him spat out the end of his sword and his
feet
He looked at it and smiled letting his fangs stick out he was in his drow form
.. he doesn't know who he is or what he is doing nothing but killing he cracked
his knuckles by curling his fingers a bit and smiled at the creatrue and then
jumped at it
"WORTHLESS TRASH" Majeski shouted and he took one swipe and the
creature was sliced in to a doezen peices he stood there for a second and let
the pieces fall around him then he looked up and grinned
the cardassians started to back away from what seems to be a crazed mad
humanoid creatrue ..
"ARRAAHHHH" Majeski let out a death cry and started slashing at
whatever was in his path with his drow claws by the time he reached the end of
deck 14 the entire deck was littlered with bodies that was in his path his drow
blood was unsealed and now he was out of control this is his thrid
tranformation soon he will lose himself to his drow self
He looked back at the damage he had doen on deck 14 and laughed
"heheheheh"
Steppeing into the trubo lift he made his way to Deck 19 where most of the
cardassians where in engineering.
Dean
followed the rest of the crew in the Jeffries tube after a few min the all
stopped the passages was blocked between deck 8 and 7. Dean took his tricorder
out and scanned. Seems all Jeffries tub in this deck have breached and our only
way to the bridge is the lift.
“So what our option commander?” Sonak asked.
“I may have an idea but will need to get to the control consol on this
deck the problem is that we have Cardassian intruders on this deck. Ill try to
get to the room alone and if my plan work ill give you a call.”
“I don’t want to risk your live I want you to take someone with
you.” Sonak replied
“Its better if I go along. Go at the nearest exit and wait for my
signal.” Sonak knew she could count on his ops officer he never had let
her down.
Dean started crawling with his rifle in the hand away from the group. After
meters long of crawling, he finally ended to the hatch he wanted. He took his
scanner out and detected 2 Cardassian inside. After having make himself a good
idea of their location he opend the hath with one hand and with the other he
fired on the Cardassian, and before they could have done anything both of them
were down.
Dean slipped down to the room and activated the console. He only hoped the
stupid action of Majestic with the warp core hadn’t damaged the
holoemitters to much. After having passed a few scan Dean saw that his crazy
plan could work with a lot of luck. He started programming as quickly he could,
using the computer holographic database. The Cardassian would have a nice
surprise. After a few minutes he had finished what he intended to do. And just
before initializing he said to himself. “Here goes nothing.”
As the program activated Dean heard weapon fires outside. His Cardassian
hologram would sure confuse a hell the intruders and maybe kill enough of them
before the holographic grid of this deck would fall down. And after a few
minutes he heard loud explosions. The grid had just given his last sign of
life. Dean tapped on his commbadge. “Its now or never captain."
<Before
Majeski kills creature>
Reckus had a split second to decide which patients went out first. "Get
all the walking wounded out of here now!" he ordered. Ensign Caldwell
stood by the entry to the Jeffries tube, making sure that before their patients
left Sickbay they were fit to crawl through the tubes. As patients started to
pile out Reckus stood by Kate's biobed, checking her vital signs. Sonak came
from the tube to speak to him "Thats nearly all of them Jatan. What about
Kate?" she asked. He looked at her "Yet again I'm going to have to
prepare her to move her. I really don't like this Captain" he replied.
Majeski bounded up to them. "Im sorry buddy but this is just the way it
is. To loose one sickbay is bad luck but to loose another is just
careless" he tried to joke. Reckus looked at him "save the jokes for
later, please Chris? Right now, I really need to figure how to get Mrs Martens
to safety" as he spoke he craned his neck around Sonak to see Lt Martens
watching intently. "And I dont particularly want another fine starfleet
officer to loose a beloved - there's been far too much of that today already."
he continued. Majeski nodded thoughtfully "Well I'll continue to cover
your back but you need to think of something fast" said Chris. Whatever it
is he could smell it coming - and fast. Reckus looked at the vials on the
trolley and picked one up. He snapped it into a hypospray and administered it
into Kate's neck. "That will keep her stable for a while and still in deep
sedation" he said. Rachel Majeski came to help Jatan move Kate across onto
a special rescue stretcher. "Nick! Come and give me a hand!" shouted
Reckus to Martens who had been keeping an eye on the proceedings. Nick gave his
weapon to Dean and rushed across to the biobed "I thought you'd never
ask!" he said. The pair of them picked up the handles at each end of the
stretcher and started to hurry across to the jeffries tube. Sonak stuffed a
pack with as many medical supplies as possible, along with Rachel. When it was
full she swung it on her back and raced towards Reckus. Suddenly Reckus stopped
dead, eyes shut. It was happening again....a dark force was about to come into
sickbay and create havoc and destruction. Something large and dark, with teeth
like swords. Sonak felt her CMO stiffen "Are you having another
vision?" asked Sonak. Reckus nodded "Yes!" he shouted back to
her. By now the sound in sickbay was unbearable. "What did you see?"
she asked, not really wanting to know what he had seen. Suddenly a massive roar
filled the air as some terrible being crashed into the room, launching itself
at Majeski. "That!!!" replied Reckus......
--------before
the monster attacks----------
Claire Steenbergen was helping the wounded into the jeffries tubes. As she is a
CNS officer, she had a medical training at the Academy.
Claire scanned a young Bajoran woman lying on a biobed, at first sight she
looked quite normal, except for some bruises and that she was very weak. It was
that weakness that Claire didn't trust. And indeed, the scan proved that she
had lost a great amount of blood, though the wound looked minimal, clearly it
was worse than first thought. Steenbergen turned towards Reckus:
"This woman needs a bloodtransfusion."
"That's impossible now, how long can she last without it?"
"30 minutes tops. Doctor she will die, we can't leave her like that!"
Reckus thought a bit, but than sadly said:
"I'm sorry but I need to occupy with patiënts that can be
saved."
And he left Claire stupefied behind. But then something sprang up into her
mind:
" Doctor wait, " Claire's call made Reckus turn round," I got an
idea. What if I give this woman blood? I'll stay with her while we go into the
jeffries tube."
"Are you sure that your blood is compatible?"
"No, I'm not, but there's a chance. I'm half Bajoran and my blood type is
O negative, there's a large chance she'll make it. I know my blood isn't tested,
but I think it's worth a try, better than doing nothing and let her die."
Jatan Reckus seemed convinced: "Alright, do it."
Claire immediately turned towards the woman:
"Hello, I'm Claire, I'm going to help you, you'll be allright. What's your
name."
The woman weekly looked up: "Prin Lena...," she whispered.
"May I call you Lena?" Claire asked the woman she held in her arms.
Lena nodded. She wasn't a Starfleet officer as she looked at her uniform. Lena
laid her head against Claire's shoulder. A familiar feeling ran through her
body as she looked at the woman. But Claire shook it of and called the EMH to
assist her in doing the transfusion.
Spedmo
was pained by the death of the Vessuvius but he cleared his mind as the
helmsman flew from the console. "Spedmo take the helm," Captain Sonak
yelled. Before he knew what he was doing he was moving for the console. Once he
got there his android hands were a blurr. The lieutenant twitched his head and
a servo sounded. Nick Martense looked curriousiouly at him but the android was
moving he barley regitered that he shut his emotion chip off.
Sonak
tapped her combadge as she heard Dean his voice, after opening the hatch. THe
Cardassians were lying spawled on the deck and by the look of it they were
either dead or unconscious.
"I do not know what you have done to manage this, but the way is
clear," Sonak called, "find yourself a way to the bridge and meet us
there."
She turned to Reckus. "Better get the patients to Briefingroom One, so
that we can get Mrs Martens stable again. After that I will have to go back to
the brigde to see how we are faring at defending the station."
--- bridge ---
After helping Reckus settle down the patiens as best as was possible, Sonak
returned to the bridge. A lot of consoles were smoking and the air smelled
acid. "Status," she called, coughing as the foul air touched her
lungs, "computer, clear air on the bridge."
=^= acknowledged =^= the computer responded, and immediately the bridge looked
a lot clearer.
Sonak stared out the main screen and saw that the majesty had come to their
aid. "This is good, now what is keeping the Klingons, have they responded
yet?"
"Yes ma'am," a crewman offered, "they are sending a small fleet
to assist us in fighting off the Cardassians."
"That is good, let me know when they are within hailing range."
"Klingon
fleet in range ma'am." Nick said reading his station.
"General K'loth of the IKS Q'ud is hailing."
The image of a nobel Klingon appeared on screen.
"Captain, I offer my fleets assistance. It's the least we can do for your
helping the Empire with this latest ordeal."
"Glad you could join the battle General. May your glory and honor be
entrenched in legend."
"Thank you Captain, K'loth out, Q'pla!"
A couple different stations around the bridge beeped as the klingon fleet
decloaked. Immediatly the escourts took to dispatching the smaller Hideki class
ships. The larger vessels, a Negvar and 2 Vor'cha, began concentrating their
fire on the giant Hutet battleship.
Off in the distance the Lone Wolf flew. Whenever it would get the chance it
would fire a volley at it's prey. Nick knew that no one would be able to stop
the beast(Chris) they just beamed over to the Lone Wolf.
From behind him came a sigh. It was Reckus. Nick looked over at him with an
inquisitive look. Reckus looked very preturbed. "Thats the second sickbay
I've lost this week. I should ask command to make the Captians readyroom
surgery ready."
Suddenly the deck shook. "We just felt the detonation of a Galors warp
core. Those Klingons are effective!" Nick said with awe.
Sonak looked down at her status panel. "Target your fire on the Hutet. The
smaller ships aren't as much of a problem. Take it down Mr. Martens."
"With pleasure."
Sonak sat
back with a satisfied smile on her face. The Cardassians were finally being
dealt with and shown their place. She still wondered why the Cardassians had
attacked at all and turned to her security officer.
"See if you can find a live Cardassian for us to question, I would like to
know why they attacked."
She turned her gaze to the main screen again, watching the Klingons wreak havoc
amongst the Cardassian fleet. There were many things you could say about a
Klingon, and one of them was that they were rather efficient warriors. She
admired their strenght of will and their honor and wished the Cardassians could
be more like them, honor-wise.
She caught Reckus remark about sickbays and turned to him, smiling sadly.
"The next ship will have a grand sickbay, which will be secured on its
own. You say the word and none can enter. How is Mrs Martens, did you get her
stabilized? She was in engineering before the explosion, I read in the reports
of other crewmembers, as soon as she wakes I have a few questions for her. She
may have been the last person to have seen my husband."
She gazed around the bridge, making eye contact with each of her department
heads. "Know this, you have all done extremely well ever since we got
pulled into this battle. However, if I find one of you was responsible for the
destruction of our drive section, I will make sure his or her life will be
miserable from now on. I have no doubt that all of you acted honorably in the
last few days and I sincerely hope that none of you were involved."
Her voice was hard and flat, devoid of any emotion when she said it, her face
also an emotionless mask. She saw the shocked faces around her, and knew
instantly her crew was not involved. For that she was glad, since she sensed
their sincerity as she watched their shocked expressions at her harsh words.
"Status of the Cardassian vessels, the Klingons and Starbase
Bellicose?"
"I
shall certainly look forward to having a secure Sickbay" replied Reckus.
"It will be nice to have a new home, that I can lock in a split
second" he added, a brief smile flickering across his face. "It can
also be customized to a certain extent, so it will be fairly unique" Sonak
added.
"So how is Mrs Martens now?" "She is doing ok, but because I
cant hook her up to proper monitors I'm having to have her watched closely. Neuro
obs would indicate that she has suffered no adverse effects so far." he
replied. "But she will be sedated for a while yet Captain, and I want her
to have her in for at least 5 days after she awakes. After major brain injury
and surgery there is always chance of a relapse" his face now had the
serious look that very rarely made an appearance. Sonak stood up and walked
towards him "I'm glad to hear that her progress is satisfactory. Would you
please keep me updated Jatan?" Reckus nodded "Yes Captain, certainly.
If you have time to see me soon then you may come for your checkup"
"The
fleets are still here ma'am. Klingons have lost one bird of prey and have a
second drifting powerless. The Cardassians are taking more damage. All Hideki's
are gone, 2 Galor and a keldon are destroyed as well. The Hutet is taking
significant damage but it sure can take a beating."
Sonak looked back at Nick.
"That leaves 5. Whats the status of our fleet?"
"The Wind Star and Trilogy are in a defencive position around Bellicose. The
Jamestown and Hyena are doing strafing runs on the Hutet and the Lone Wolf is
chasing a Galor in circles. Umm I'd like permission to check up on my wife
ma'am."
Sonak nodded and Nick moved to the briefingroom. There laying on the floor was
his wife. He walked over an knelt next to her and grasped her hand.
"Hang on babe, I'm here. Don't worry, I'm not going to leave you." He
whispered in her ear. "I need to go back to work now."
He leaned down and kissed her on the forehead. As he did so the world burst
forth in an array of colors. Before his eyes flashed images. Images of Seliv to
the antimatter storage pods and finally to a reflection of Kate in the mirror
sporting a black jumpsuit with a bruised face. The expression on her face was
one of satisfaction.
Just as fast as the images started they ended. Stunned Nick looked down at his
wife in shock. Was she the one who caused all this grief? Shakeing his head he
silently walked back out onto the bridge.
Claire
woke up, a wait against her chest made breathing more difficult. She looked
down, it was Lena. The young woman slept.
Suddenly a device round her wrist was bleeping. Claire noticed that the
transfusion was complete. She felt somewhat weaker and a deep yawn confirmed
her fatigue. The sound had woken Lena. As her eyes met Claire's she smiled
shyly. Indeed she looked better now. Colour had reappeared on her cheeks and
the wound on her thy had been treated with a dermo regenerator.
"Thanks for staying with me, " she whispered.
"It's alright, it was my pleasure..." Claire said while she
discovered how beautiful Lena's auburn eyes were.
A flush appeared an the woman's face.
Oh, dear, Claire thought, did I just say that?
Sonak
turned back as Reckus made his remark about the checkup. "I appear to have
some time now Jatan," she replied and walked back into the readyroom.
"But I do have to return to the bridge after the checkup.
----- after the checkup -----
Sonak walked back onto the bridge and resumed her seat, watching as the
Klingons destroyed another Cardassian Vessel. She looked sideways at Fox and he
looked as glum as she felt. Despited the odds of them coming out of this alive,
the situation on the Confessor still looked glum. "I do hope that the
Cardassians will surrender soon if they want to come out of this alive. Their
chances have decreased immensely." She turned around towards Martens.
"keep an eye on them, fire at will. Preferably cripple only, there have
been enough deaths."
Dean took his rifle and and walked to the door most of the cardassians on this
deck should be dead or uncoucious by now. As he exited The commander saw lots
of cardassians body liying araound, he didnt bother to see if any was stil
alive, his only concern was to get as quickly as possible to the bridge.
Half conscious Glinn Karev was lying on the ground between all the cardassian.
Suddenly he heard footsteps coming his way. He saw a starfleet officer coming
around the corner of the corridor and layed very still hoping he would pass.
The officer quickly passed him and when he was arround another corner Karev
stood up and followed him and tried to subdue him from behind.
Just as Dean neared the turbolift he heard something form behind. When he was
about to turn around the cardassian hit him with all his strengh. Dean felt
himself falling and his gun was out of reach. He immediatly went back on his
feet and looked the person who had hit him. It was a cardassian officer and he
didnt looked happy that Dean managed to get back on his feet.
The two of them stood there, looking at eachother for a moment. Karev saw Dean
had lost his gun and quickly tried to get it, but Dean was a fraction faster
and prevented Karev from getting it. Knocked him down on the floor and picked
up his gun again, immediately
pointing it toward Karev and taking a few passes backward.
"You seem to be an officer and this is why i won't kill you. We need
answers." Dean said
Snowfall just rounded a corner and saw Commander Dean and an unknown Cardassian
facing eachother. She bounced on all fours towards them, coming to a skidding
halt behind the two, just as Dean spoke. "You need any assistance
commander?" she asked, flipping her tail, her fur standing out widely. She
looked like she had been singed on all sides as her white fur was blackened on
some places. "I could claw him for you?" She extended her claws,
displaying them with pride.
"No need" Dean answered. It didnt look like the cardassian would
talk. "Okay we will see this later now move toward the turbolift." He
said to the cardassian pointing his rifle towards him. The cardassian walked
forward without saying a word and he kept his silence until they had reached
the bridge."Captain i am bringing you a prisoner." dean annouced as
they walked on the bridge.
Sonak and Fox both looked toward the turbolift when they heard Dean. In front
of him walked a cardassian. Both started to question him, but Karev kept his
silence. It took them about an hour to get something out of him, but finally
Karev said he would surrender and told them everything.
Spedmo
was moving with lightning quick reflexes. "Captain I have a report form
the Tulip. It is on its way at maximum warp," Spedmo reported. Captain
Sonak nodded as she busied herself. Everyone was soo busy no one saw the beam
of a transporter light appearing on the bridge save for one. The android
lieutenant moved as if he were not human to tackle the Cardassians now on the
bridge.
Nick was
still in shock on what has happend .. but also with the images he had and idea
to save his friend Chris at Rachel's request and keep on the ship , without him
harming anyone. he had cargo bay one cleared out and the enitire cargo bay was
surrounded by a level 10 force field. Including the floor above and below .
He beamed him aboard and had Sonak and Rachel go down there to figure out what
to do with him.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Majeski didn't know what was happending he was about to finnish off the last
cardassian in engineering when he found him self on the lone wolf the entire
ship was almost empty.
He chased several cremebers attemting to rip them apart when he then again
found himslef on the Confessor this time in a large room what looked like a
cargo bay he ran to the door and he hit the force field at full tilt snarling
and growling he was thrown back . then he tried ripping though the floor again
he hit a forcefield and was thrown back.
Then he when beserk he tried ripping the bulkhead abprt and he hit another
force field. He was about to rip the celing apart when the doors opend reveling
Rachels face was streaked with tears and Captain Sonak and another face his
father but he didn't reconize them, he saw them as mortals nothing more,
"Chris it's me you wife please talk to me" Rachel pleaded
"Let me out" Chris growled his voice was hoarse , sounded like some
beast in a sense in his Drow for thats all he is
"Can't do that Majeski you a good man we want to help" Sonak said
"LET.......ME.......OUT " Chris snarled and launched himself at them
his right claw first and Rachel screamed and ducked but Franklin Majeski and
Sonak stood perfecty still and Majeski hit the forcfield again
Sonak studied his face his eyes where glowing red and green pupils and the
purple streaks on the side of his face stood out but what caught her attention
was the purple moon on his forhead.
"Majeski we can't let you go" Sonak said stiffly , it hurt her to do
this to her friend but he was out of control his hands where burnt because of
the forcefield but she knew what Chris's father told her he doesn't know who he
is or what he was or feel fear or pain .. he was like a machine .
"Son" Franklin said " this is for your own good"
Snarling Majeski launched him self one last time Sonak hit a panel and this
time Majeski stuck to the forcefield for five seconds and then dropped to the
floor face first
"Sonak to Reckus, We have a pantient for you in cargo bay one his hands
are burnt and we want him in sickbay ...and please keep him sedated if he wakes
up there is no telling what he will do"
Sonak turned to Rachel," You said you know how to return him to
normal"
Rachel let out a sob and nodded " We need to reforge his sword , with one
of my hairs in it....it's the only way"
Sonak looked at Franklin Majeski ex commander in chief of starfleet "How
long will this take "
Franklin looked at Sonak " An hour mabye if done by my hand 45 min"
" Do it , please I have a small mission for your son " She turned to
Rachel " You do realize what I plan for you husband , he may not
return"
Rachel nodded and looked at her husbands limp form then she pulled out a hair
and handed it to her father inlaw .
Reckus came down and then he looked at the lump in the forcefeild "Good
lord his hands"
He entered and pressed a hypo in Chris's neck to keep him unconicous and begun
treating his hands.
Nick
stood at his console in a daze. The auto fire sequencing was working beautiful.
The computer was running the targeting lists, and weapons as he stood there
thinking about what he had just encountered.
What he had just transpired was a myth. It is regarded that Tandarans were at
one point highly developed telepaths now it's only a myth. Now the people are
only mildly telepathic but even that is a rarity. Those who have the gift are
hidden for fear they will be hunted down and killed. And what he had just
encountered worried him.
The ship rocked violently breaking him out of his stupor.
There on screen was the pieces of the Hutet battleship. Slowly it drifted in
space various sections leaked plasma. A cheer rose from the bridge crew, over
the comm came congrats from the various weapons officers of the fleet.
Sonak was
thrown out of her chair when the ship rocked violently and landed hard on the
deck. She rubbed her legs as she got to her feet, a painful expression on her
face. The armrests that were supposed to prevent this from happening had failed
to do their job properly, but the engineering crew had worse things to take
care of right now.
There were still three Cardassian vessels attacking the station and on the main
screen she saw the Black Tulip take one for her accound. ~well done, Elron~ she
thought and smiled as she saw the Cardassian vessel be crippled. "Sonak to
transporter room, beam the survivors of the Cardassian vessel we just crippled
to Cargo Bay Four and place forcefields around it. Provide them with ration
food and water, and small comforts to live. They are prisoners of war and are
to be treated accordingly. Treat them with the respect they are due."
"Aye ma'am."
Sonak turned her gaze back to the main screen. "Contact the Black Tulip,
see if the commander of our flagship has any specific orders for us."
Dispite
the ship being thrashed the ex commander in Chief Franklin Majeski looked at
his son a little more closely , how close was he to losing himself to his drow
form his son was nothing but snarling and growling beast , he drove the
repaired Tojikin into the floor in front of the of the entrance to the cargobay
and backed away Reckus and Rachel looked at each other and backed up as well if
chris didn't grab that sword with Rachels hair in it it could get chaotic.
Rachel stiffed as she felt the sword pulse the she felt her husband pulsing
with it, she watched as Franklin
lowered the forcefield, and Majeski's drow half fough his elf half for control
, the drow half wanted to rip the three people apart and his elf half reached
for the sword.
"Come on chris you can do it mate" Reckus wispered as they watched
him stagger to the sword , the ship rocked again and Majeski was knocked off
his feet but he got back up and started foward slowy again still fighing
internally
"I love you " Rachel wispered
Majeski slowly raised a shaking hand to grab the sword him and the sword pulsed
again this time every one saw it
His hand gripped the sword and he fell over tojikin still in hand .
"Alright "Reckus cheered and he started forward to check on Chris
when Rahcel grabbed him in mid stride
"Look" Rachel said
"Christ almighty " Franklin said "His drow self is trying to use
tojikin , if he swings that ......"
Rachel nodded the entire corridor and every one in it mabye half the ship would
be demolished no need help from the cardassians
Then Majeski fell foward they all froze ,
"Jeezus, can't any get pain killers here? " Majeski grunted
"He's back " Rachel and Reckus rushed forward and helped pick up the
once beast.. the marks on his face where gone
"I think Captain Sonak has a mssion for you my son " Franklin said
"get me to the bridge" Majeski said sheathing tojikin in his belt
with tensaiga and Rachel and reckus eached grabbed and arm and hauled him up to
the bridge
The ship was still under attack when they got there
Sonak crawled forward to Majeski who nodded to Rachel and Reckus that he could
stand on his own
"Majeski" Sonak said "Your going ot cardassia after this mess is
over"
Majeski squinted "Huh?"
"I wanna know what the Cardassians up to and your going to find out for
us" Sonak said
Rachel looked at Sonak "I wanna stay aboard with you "
Sonak
nodded towards Majeski. "I would advise you to keep a low profile and
possibly disguise yourself as a Cardassian to keep suspiscion from
yourself." She watched as Majeski left and wondered how exactly her former
CTSO had been cured. One look from both Rachel and Franklin Majeski told her
enough, the sword had been reforged.
She turned towards Rachel. "You would be welcome to stay Mrs Majeski. Your
medical skills are widely known and well received among my crew. I have been
told Mrs Martin is improving greatly under your care. I personally welcome your
assistance and would indeed welcome your stay. Once we have a new ship you
would receive your own quarters, they would probably VIP quarters since you are
a Federation Royal."
Sonak
watched the screen once more and saw that the last few Cardassian vessels were
increasing their speed and jump to warp, running from the battle scene.
"Cowards," she murmured, but smiled softly nonetheless.
"Open a channel to the Klingons."
"Channel open Captain."
"Captain Krell, I would like to thank you for your assistane. The
Cardassian fleet has been destroyed and the surviving vessels are fleeing
home."
"This was a good day to die," the klingon captain replied, "we
will follow them and make sure they leave Federation space, or face the
concequences. Qa'pla Captain Sonak." He signed off and his fleet jumped to
warp.
Sonak sighed, she was not used to dealing with Klingons. "Well seems we
got out of this one fairly well. What is the status of our fleet?"
"We're
getting an update from the fleet ma'am. The Trinity is adrift, lifesupport and
main power systems still online, her manouvering systems were knocked out. The
Windstar is leaking plasma our her port nacel and has a massive scar down her
port side from a collision with the Hutet debris. Jamestown reports minimal damage
and is working to tow the Hyena back to base. The Hyena was evaced and is now
operating with a skeleton crew. I'm currently waiting for a comm from the BT
and the Lone Wolf."
Nick looked over the reports. "The majesty is still reported inside some
sort of subspace bubble."
"Very good lieutenant. Take a break, we all need it. Go check up on your
wife." Sonak looked back at him with a compassionate look, well as
compassionate as a Vulcan can get.
Nick nodded and made his way to the observation lounge. There his wife still
lay curled up in the fetal position. Her chest rose and fell with her rythmic
breathing. He sat down and gently caressed her face with the back of his hand.
All of her surface wounds seemed to have been healed. He sat there and wondered
why she was still in a coma.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Kate slowly sat up. The side of her face still sore from the incident. She
looked around the room, no one seemed to be there. Slowly she made her way out
and onto the bridge. There she saw mangled bodies standing about bridge. The
bodies were those of the command staff and various other officers. One of the
bodies turned to face her. His face was charred and cracked. A section of his
skull could be seen where the skin had burned away. Two intense brown eyes
stared at her through the charred flesh. "Why did you do it?" he
asked. The voice from the body was that of Nick.
Another voice joined in. "You killed us all." It was Sonak. She stood
in front of her chair. Smoke rose from fresh phaser burn marks on her chest.
"You will pay for what you've done." yet another voice said behind
her. She whirled around and there stood Seliv. His green eyes glowed intesly at
her. Green blood dripped down his charred face from the top of his head.
"You will pay!"
All the " dead" crewmembers slowly began to circle her. Out from the
circle walked a little girl. Her hair burned away and her skin a deathly pale.
"Why mommy? Why?"
All at once the " dead" began reaching for her mumbleing away at her.
The voices grew louder and louder. She let out a scream and fell to the deck.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Nick sat next to his wife in the lounge. Suddenly she bolted upright and
screamed. Just as soon as her scream ended her eyes rolled back and she flopped
back to the floor unconcious.
"Doctor!"
screamed Nick at the top of his lungs. Ensign Caldwell ran across to Nick and
his wife. He noticed Kate starting to spasm as her arms flailed around wildly.
He noticed the panic in Nick's eyes "Whats happening to my wife Ensign?"
he asked. Caldwell grabbed a tricorder from the bag next to him, tapping his
comm badge at the same time in one fluid movement
=^= Dr Reckus, please come to the captain's ready room. This is urgent =^=
After treating Majeski, Reckus was making his way with Sonak back towards the
bridge. "Now what do you think is wrong?" she asked, raising a
quizical eyebrow.
"I have no idea" replied Reckus. "Ive seen more casualties in
this last couple of weeks then I ever had whilst working as a houseman after
graduation" he said. Sonak could see he was weary and drained. But all her
crew were, they desperatley needed a rest. She smiled sadly "You will
deserve your R&R Jatan". The two of them walked into the turbo lift.
"Bridge please" said Sonak. "It will be time for your 12 week
scan Captain. When do you wish to come and see me?" he asked.
"Tell me Ensign! What's happening?!" Nick repeated again. Caldwell
shook his head "I don't know Sir. Her readings are off the scale" he
replied. The door of the ready room opened and Reckus ran in. "Report
Ensign" he said. "Lt Martens came into visit his wife. Her condition
was stable until about 10 mins ago. She emitted a loud scream and then
collapsed, although she wasn't conscious at the time." Reckus grabbed the
tricorder and started to scan Kates head, who was still wildly thrashing
around. "Then these convulsions started and although I have tried to calm
her, there has been no response to it." he continued, looking worriedly at
Jatan. The tricorder was beeping like mad. "She's gone into neurogenic
shock" replied Reckus, stoneyfaced. Nick was looking extremely bewildered
"What does that mean?" he asked, voice shaking again. "I think
it would be an idea for you to leave Mr Martens" replied Reckus, busily
looking through the vials of injections. "No, I want to know what's
happening to my wife" Nick replied.
Reckus suddenly got another of his flashes in his head.... he could see Kate
holding something, like a metal box, then he saw Seliv standing in
engineering... and then he saw and felt the explosion again. He shook his head
from side to side, trying to get his mind focused. He didnt understand what was
heppening to him.
He focused again and placed a yellow vial into the holding unit of the hypo
spray, looking up at Nick as he did so "Please don't make me pull rank on
you Nick. I will keep you updated on her condition but this is not the time.
Please wait outside, I promise I will find you when I have her stabilised
again" Reckus said firmly.
Sonak
stared at Reckus, was the man so tired he had not heard her response the first
time he had asked the question?
"I have time now Jatan, if you have the time. After that I want you to get
some rest, you have been in tow the past few days without much rest and I do
not wish you to topple over from fatigue. I will hear no objections Jatan, that
is an order."
Her expression softened, "now where do you wish me to wait for you? The
readyroom?"
<backpost>
When the
Guls of the three remaining vessels saw the Black Tulip coming into action,
they agreed they were greatly out numbered and decided to flee while they still
could.
On all three ships the command was given to turn around and go into warp as
quick as possible. While they were turning the Black Tulip fired their phasers
at one of the vessels and left it crippled.
Before they could fire at one of the remaining vessels, both had engaged there
warp engines and fled from the battle zone.
the Brige
crew on the confessor we're cheering he noticed that no one was cheering near
the the navigation are as the secondary helmsmen Lydia Summers lay dead on the
bridge every on gathered around and Rachel laid a hand on Chris's arm
"Chris?.." she asked
Chris looked at Sonak for permission, she nodded she knew what he was asking
with two swords at his belt he grabbed Tensaiga's hilt and drew it
"Crikey he's still insane" An unfortunate crewmeber who wintnessed
Majeski's out of control masscare in engineering on the cardassians.
"Hardly" Majeski said flatly and he swung Tensaiga down on the fallen
officer
Every one on the bridge gasped at what was done but then silenced as Lt Summers
moaned then begun to move she blinked around and looked at every one
then asked "whats going on?"
Majeski sheathed Tensaiga and said nothing he merely turned and walked away
leaving those who knew him stunned he actually saved a human
Majeski headed to the turbo lift to leave the bridge and he stopped behind
Sonak "Majeski report to sick bay for sugical alteration and perpare to
head to cardassia "
Neither of them turned around to look at eachother
"Yes ma'am" and he left
Sonak looked on and watched as people stared in awe at Lydia Summers Leaving
Sonak with an odd thought *what would make him save a human, he hates them
practicaly except for a few?* the thought burned in her mind on why Sonak
looked at Rachel who looked just as bafled as her.
Spedmo
looked at the situation with a grim look. He saw several Federation and Klingon
ships on fire. His console started blinking and beeping. A broad smile spread
on his face. "Captain the Black Tulip has just arrived," he stated
just as the Helm station was engulfed in flames and the bridge rocked
violently.
Later:Spedmo awoke in sickbay and he was completley unaware how he got there.
Reckus
stared blankly at Sonak. It was true he felt like death warmed up, but had he
really not heard her earlier response? "I'm sorry Sonak, my mind is just
not focusing properly" he answered softly. He leant his head against the
wall, closed his eyes and breathed deeply. "And these visions are starting
to disturb me slightly. I just dont understand the reason behind them or why
they have suddenly started" he added. "Your mother was psychic, maybe
there's a link there" she replied. "You need to find out from her
about that possibility Jatan"
Reckus nodded. "Let me see what is happening upstairs. Then we will
conduct your scan" he said as the turbo lift was taking them up to the
bridge.
"Captain,
incoming message from Bellicose station," the duty officer at OPS called.
With Dean off duty, Sonak was glad she had another capable officer to fill in
for him.
"On screen."
"It is audio only, and marked for your eyes only ma'am," the officer
replied, almost rueful.
"Verywell, relay it to briefing room one." Sometimes her readyroom
being a sickbay office was quite an annoyance."
She walked over to the briefingroom and accessed the message. She was relieved
at getting a sign of life from the station. After several hails had failed,
they had lost hope of finding someone alive in the bubble. Her expression grew
surprised as she heard the message from Admiral Clark. She was to report to the
USS Kulaks for an Intelligence mission to a fleetyard. She erased the message
and called on Commander Fox.
As Fox arrived, she needed his discretion as this was not to go beyond the
rooms walls. "I am called away on an intelligence mission. It will not
take long, you will take command of the Confessor for as long as my
absence."
Majeski
now stood in sonaks ready room disgruntled... he looked like a cardassian and
it clearly showed that it pissed him off
"Sonak....." Majeski said "This better be worth it"
Sonak handed him a PADD "these are your orders , Find out what the
cardassians are trying to prove and find out if they really attacked the
klingons and why and you to blow up any military buildings"
Majeski rose an eyebrow "You want to to play with explosives"
There was a blank look on her face then she realized what he meant by that
"Yes of all people I chose you to blow up things , so don't get carried
away"
"Yes ma'am" Majeski said
"And please report to me every 12 hours ... don't make me worry about you,
you wife is about ot me come my assisant medial officer and I don't need to
have her looking at your dead body" Sonak said
Majeski only smiled put his hands behind his back and gave a slight bow and
turned to leave
"Majeski......wait" Sonak said"On the bridge was it just me or
did you save a human?"
Majeski stopped he didn't tune around and look and her his eyes narrowed in
irritation at it and then walked out.
"Incoming
subspace message from Bellicose "
Captain sonak after re-checking our records we think captain Goodman should be
left in command of the Kulaks His has serve on board a klingon Vessel before
doing a officer exchange program so he should fill at home doing so
captain you three senior captains are all we have at this time any other
command experience officers are trap on board the star base
Captain sonak Starfleet believe that with the Division of marines and the ship
you have at your command you can put a end to this cardassian attack and bring
this whole situation to a close computer end transmission.
"AYe
sir," Sonak sent back to the station, then turned to Fox. "Seems I am
not going anywhere at all?"
Soft
music floated through the air and the sent of honey flours drifted in whisps.
Vines with the flowers lined the walls of the small bamboo shack. Out on the
beach couples danced in the breeze enjoying each others company. Others huddled
around a camp fire holding glasses and laughing at jokes about hair and people.
The band sat on a stage playing through classic love songs for the dozens of
couples who had arrived to the party. Up above them flew a banner which read
Graduation 2382 in bold silver and gold letters. The mass of couples swayed to
and fro as the sway of waves on the ocean, letting the music carry them away.
Others had congregated around the rickety bamboo bar where the drinks were
served. Occasionally one or two guys would egg on another to go ask some girl
to dance. Generally the guy being egged on would bail out and slump against the
bar. Most were too busy watching a sports game or chatting it up with the
bartender to care about the single pretty women.
"Oh come on man, whats the harm in asking her? The worst she could say is
no."
"Thats exactly what I don't want to hear."
"Look at her! How could you not? Plus I hear she's the Commandants
daughter. Could be good for you to be hooked up with the big mans little
girl." One jabbed. "If you want I could go ask her." He put down
his glass and got up.
"No no, I'll do it." He grabbed his friend by the shoulder and topped
off his drink. He walked over to the group of girls standing a few meters away.
His target caught his eye as he approached.
"Well hello there handsum," She said.
All his confidence suddenly deflated, panic filled his eyes. He looked back at
his friends, they waved their arms for him to continue.
"Hhh... hhh.. hi," he stampered, his hand scratched the back of his
neck, "wanna dance?"
The beautys full lips smiled, "Of course." She took his hand and led
him out onto the dance floor. Off in the distance he could hear the cheers from
his friend as they ordered a round of drinks in celebration.
The two of them danced slowly, arms wrapped around each other, eyes locked. Niether
said a word for what seemed an eternity. Slowly she leaned up and kissed him
softly on the lips. She then placed her head on his shoulder and whispered in
his ear, "I'm Kate."
"Nick," he replyed stunned at what had just transpired.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Nick awoke with a start as his alarm went off. So much to do today. Luckily
Yannis was staying with the Dobsons during these long shifts and this hellish
mission. He quickly jumped into the sonic shower to freshen himself up, then
dressed and headed to the mess for some coffee before his duty shift.
-On the
USS Black Tulip-
As the remains of the Cardassian fleet was either fleeing or floating dead in
space, Elron stood up from the command chair and walked to his ready room. "Excellent work everyone. ONE, you have the bridge.
Let me know if anything unexpected happens," he said as he left. He
sat down at his desk. "Computer, set up a
secure channel to the rest of the Second Fleet - authorisation
Elron-Gamma-Epsilon-Nine. Transmit the following message." He began
to write.
USS Confessor (Vesuvius crew):
Analyse the energy field surrounding Starbase Bellicose and attempt to reverse
the effects. Secure the sector and defend it from any further assault. If able,
join the Black Tulip in Cardassian territory.
USS Majesty:
Analyse the energy field and attempt to reverse the effects. Review sensor data
pertaining to unidentified alien vessel.
USS Raven:
Continue investigating the Dorian mining operation and follow the transport to
find out whom it's working for.
The USS Black Tulip is going to travel to the source of the original subspace
readings. This is a system a few days journey into Cardassian space. We will
find out the true extent of the Cardassian plans and hopefully find out where
this technology came from.
He didn't think the Majesty would actually be able to receive it, but it was
worth a shot. As the orders were sent, the voice of ONE could be heard over the
comm system. "Admiral, there's something
happening outside the USS Majesty."
"On my way."
As Elron returned to he bridge, he looked at the view screen and was surprised
by what he saw. Clearly magnified on the large screen was a burning banner. It
read: USS Majesty Radio 2 88-91 FM 3am ships time...
Slap My Top...
Elron shook his head. Only the Majesty crew would think of something so crude
and amusing. "Gary, make sure the Vesuvius has
seen it too. Bema, prepare a course for Cardassian space. Once we've spoken to
the Majesty we'll be making a move."
Reckus
woke with a start, Madness' song "Grey Day" playing as his wake up
call. He'd forgotten to lower the volume and music now blasted around his
quarters.
"Computer, reduce music to volume level 4" beep Volume level 4
selected
He sighed and lay his head back on the pillow. He had needed the sleep so
desperately, but initially found it difficult to drop off. However he was
grateful that Sonak had ordered that he take at least 12 hours rest. He knew
that Ensign Caldwell would need to be relieved soon, as he too was showing
signs of sleep deprivation.
Rachel Majeski had also been a great help to the medical team, although seeing
her husband in such a state could not have been easy.
He got out of bed and decided to take a nice refreshing shower before reporting
back for duty. His first mission after relieving Caldwell would be to check
Kate Martens. He was duly worried about her - and even more alarmed by the
visions that were coming more and more regularly.
Spedmo
looked up as the turbolift doors open and Captain Sonak walked out. "Good
morning Captain. How was your sleep?" he asked. "Very well
lieutenant. How did shift go last night?" she replied knowing her helmsman
didn't get tired."It went well. You have a message from Admiral Elron and
I am on my way to grab a bite to eat," the android replied. "Good I
want you to be ready to return here at a moments notice," the captain
said. "Aye ma'am," the lieutenant replied as he left the bridge.
After
thorough analysis of the bubble that surrounded both Starbase Bellicose and USS
Majesty, Sonak decided they should do something about it. Also since no live
messages between station and ship were possible, someone had to go over there
to bring Admiral Clark a recent mission update.
Analysis had shown that time was slightly delayed withing the bubble as it went
by slower by approximately 24 hours, so in essence they were still witnessing
the battle with the Cardassians.
Sonak had called a briefing only a moment ago, with all departmentheads in
attendance. "We need to get to starbase Bellicose," Sonak started, as
soon as everyone was seated. "I propose I myself go and Lieutenant
Martens. We do not know what the situation is on the station, but we know they
are alive. Fox, you will be in command of this vessel and are to go after the
Black Tulip, assist them in finding the source of this bubble, what created it
and why."
She turned to Nick. "I could use your expertise Lieutenant, you may refuse
coming along." She saw Reckus start to rise in protest and she knew
exactly why he wanted to protest. "I promise you Jatan I will be careful.
I will try not to get into any trouble and I will certainly not pick any
handfights." Jatan Reckus sat down but he looked quite glum. Sonak
understood his reaction but she felt she had to go. She had the experience in
similar situations.
"Mr Martens, report to transporter room one and bring an elaborate
engineering kit. I will carry some equipment myself if need be. We will be
issued Phaser Rifles and backup-battery."
--- later---
Sonak walked into the transporter room, wearing a case with engineering
supplies. She herself had learned a lot from her late husband, who had been an
extremely gifted engineer. She knew Nick's qualifications were also above
average but she needed him as security officer more.
Together they stepped over on the transporter pad and were transported over
instantly. They shimmered a few times before rematerializing completely, after
which the Bellicose transporter chief looked at them in sheer amazement.
To both Sonak and Nick the man seemed to be moving in slowmotion, so they could
only guess what they looked like to him. A few secons later his movements
increased so it was apparent that they were adapting to the timeframe of the
station.
"We need to find Admiral Jack Clark," Sonak said, ignoring the man's
stares, "it is urgent." The chief gave them directions and both Sonak
and Nick walked off, exchanging a look of curiosity and even excitement.
Nick
chuckled at the shock they had just given to the chief. It must have looked
bizare that a quick flash of blue appeared then two blurs slowly phased into
existance, voices going from chipmunk to normal in a few seconds.
He reluctantly gave directions to where the Admiral was stationed today. Nick
looked out the window as they walked. There slowly moving in space was the
fleets of klingons and cardassians. "Facinating." Sonak commented as
they gazed out.
As they walked past a railing which looked down 5 decks they could hear the
sounds of battle. Yells and phaser fire echoed up. Nick looked at the Captain,
"I'll meet up with you later." Sonak nodded.
He unholstered his rifle and ran to a turbo lift. "Lieutenant Martens to
all security personell on decks 11 through 16. fall back to defencive
positions."
"Very
well," Sonak replied, knowing Nick would indeed meet up later if he were
able too. She also knew that he would take charge of the security team if a
teamleader failed to take charge.
With that settled, she set on walking towards Jack Clark's office, wondering if
he was at all on duty. She tapped her combadge. "Captain Sonak to Admiral
Clark, I would like to have a word with you at your convenience, it is
important..."
She was about to continue when she heard a sound behind her. She whirled around
her rifle at the ready but it was too late. She saw a vague shadow but the
weapon aimed at her was cleary of Federation issue. Just when she pressed her
own trigger a bright orange beam caught her square in the chest and she was
slammed backwards into the bulkhead and slipped to the deck unconscious. The
comlink to the admiral was still open.....
=/\= Star
Base bellicose -Deck 6 =/\=
Admiral Clark :> Captain Sonak what going on where are you jack could her
Phaser fire in the background of the transmission Jack taps, his comm. Badge
Operations this is admiral Clark I need a emergency location of captain Sonak
right now
Operation officer voice > sir captain sonak is on deck Nine
Admiral Clark :> send a security team there on the double ill need them
there Admiral out”
Deck Nine the security team has not arrive yet Admiral Clark enter a Storage
bay where Captain Sonak last transmission came from Jack stood alone, in the
center of the dark room, his phaser still drawn. he felt a cold shiver run up
his arm, just before the lights activated.
There on the floor was Captain sonak out cold from a phaser hit just at that
moment three security officers enter the storage bay doors
Admiral Clark :> taps his comm. Badge sickbay I have a emergency transport
to sickbay captain Sonak she been hit by a phaser hit and is out cold
Medical officer voice > standby for emergency transport Admiral Clark stand
back as captain sonak dematerialize .
Admiral Clark :> Lieutenant I wont you scan this storage bay for any clou to
who shoot captain sonak you just don’t attack a Starfleet captain and get
away with it ill be in sickbay if you need me admiral Clark exit the storage
bay heading for the turbo lift.
~~USS
Confessor~~
Jatan was
feeling refreshed and like a new person as he made his way to the bridge. The
doors to the bridge opened and he walked through "Permission to come
aboard the bridge?" he asked. Commander Fox spun his chair round to face
Reckus "You are as always, welcome to the bridge at any time Mr
Reckus" he smiled. "You are looking much better Commander" he
added. "Thank you Sir, I do feel it" replied Reckus. Jatan looked
around the bridge - everyone appeared to look much better than they had done
for a long time. "Is there any word yet from Captain Sonak or Lieutenant
Martens?" Jatan asked, feeling slightly sick in his stomach. "Not yet
Jatan, we are still awaiting communciation from either them or the
Bellicose" replied Fox sternly, himself sounding worried. Jatan nodded.
"I am going to relieve Ensign Caldwell now, and will be in the makeshift
Sickbay if you require me" as he turned to walk through to the Captains
ready room.
Majeski
hit the ground with a loud splat and he rolled into a pile of garbage * Stupid
cardassian* he though
He looked at his wrist and the holoprojector that made him look like a
cardassian was fried because some idiot decided he was a spy *technically he
was* shot at him now running for his life.
He grabbed to gernades and lobbed them at his pursuers and they whent off next
thing he knew three body's came at him
"DAMMIT" HE shouted and ducked as they whent over him "You guys
are supposed to go the opposite direction " he yelled at the corpses
"Not at me"
He booted the nearst body out of his way and continued running an explostion
whent off just ahead of him sending him into a near by river in mid air his
last though was *crud*
He hit the waster and found him self now floating down it
*Next time someone asks me about Cardassian Voles never say they are cute* He
thought
He was washed up on the side bank at the edge of the city and found a military
base full of armed cardassian and more or less to his surprised Romulans.
He decided to contact Sonak "Majeski to Sonak "
"Fox here"
Majeski "WTF? Fox? GAH .... where is sonak ?"
"She is on the bellicose what can i do for you ?" Fox said
"Giving my 12 hour report " Majeski said
"Report?" Fox asked
Majeski threw three more gernades at some storeage space unknown to him
containing quantum torpedeos and they went off with several loud explosions
"Ok i think i have the general idea " Fox said slightly amused
"Get ahold of Sonak and Clark and tell them that the Romulans are working
for the cardassians and yes they did attack the Klingons as stupid as they
are" Majeski said "Majeski out"
He heard to clicks at the side of of his head "Going somwhere elven"
*Oh lovey five faces that only a mother would love * he though and looked up to
see five romulans pointing rifles at his head.
~~
Starbase Bellicose~~
Nick sat
hunkered down behind a table with a couple other officers. A few feet away on
either side were more officers. Four meters on the other side of the hall holed
up in a shop were 7 heavily armed Cardassian soldiers.
"There was a flash and some blurs. Suddenly a blur passed Johnson and he
fell to the ground, his neck broken." One officer whispered.
Another piped up,"It was brutal, we lost 6 men before they phased into our
time. These are the last of the invaders that we could find."
Nick nodded, "Lets move O'mally and thingyson over to the left, Mitchelson
and Wagner right. Berg and Whaller will take point and Dakota and I will come
in through the ducting system. All right people lets move, COVERING
FIRE!!"
With that the group began laying down fire as their comrades moved into
positions.
~~~5 minutes later~~~
Nick got the confirmation from the different teams, everyone was in position.
With a double tap on his badge the sygnal was sent to move in. Dakota smiled,
she and Nick sat together looking over the ragtag group of Cardys through a
vent grate. Berg tossed a photonic pulse grenade in ahead of the group to stun
anyone too close and the battle began. 3 of the 7 had been taken by the grenade
and the others were only more agitated.
One of the Cardassians tossed over a table for cover and began firing at
anything that moved. Another was taken down immediatly by a blow to the head
from a fallen piece of cieling. The security forces took up strategic positions
behind tables and pillars.
"Surrender!" O'mally yelled across the room.
"Never will I do such a thing," A Cardy countered.
Slowly and quietly Nick and Dakota walked up behind the remaining 3. "I
suggest you do so. Drop your weapons."
Bewildered at what had just happened the 3 officers dropped their weapons and
placed hands on their heads.
=/\=Lieutenant Martens please report to Infimary=/\=
"On my way. Dakota, Whaller and thingyson, you're with me. The rest of
you, deal with these P'tak."
The group nodded and the 4 began making their way to sickbay.
~Begin
Log~
=/\= Deck 1, Star Base bellicose =/\=
Just as admiral Clark walk into the sickbay Doctor Andrea Clarkson had just
whipped out her tricorder, and started scanning Captain Sonak . After taking a
quick minute to analyze the scans, she opened her med kit, took out her hypo
spray, and began looking for the correct vial. She found it, and nodded in
satisfaction.
She administered the vial of Rexlin to Captain Sonak "This should relieve
most of the pain you've been having. If anything should continue to bother you,
please let me know."
She closed her med kit, and stood up. "Admiral sir , a word please."
She walked over to a secluded area of the room, and waited for Admiral Clark to
join her.
He approached her. "What is it, Doctor?"
Dr ‘Clarkson glanced around the room, suspiciously. "When I scanned
Captain Sonak I discovered that ......" she well did receive a phaser hit
to her left shoulder knock her back against the wall knocking her out the
phaser hit we have repaired and she is currently out of her coma but sir
….
Admiral Clark:>" I don't have time for this, Doctor. What did you
find?" He said.
"I found .that she is four months pregnant " Dr’ Clarkson said
bluntly.
"as in pregnant with a baby ?" He asked.
"That's correct, Admiral . I don't see any immediate danger to Captain
Sonak , or her child
Admiral Clark:> but Doctor her position in this mission is key. However,
when I get back to my office I will star look for a replacement , Doctor I want
her kept under close medical observation….
However, for right now, this is between you and I." Jack said.
Dr’ Clarkson nodded, then another officer was both in to the sickbay a
Lieutenant O’Malley he also had been shoot with a phaser , much like
Captain Sonak had just Been previously……..
Dr’clarkson rushed over to him. She pulled out her tricorder and started
scanning.
She closed it a moment later, and summoned the other medical officer.
"Crag , prepare standard bandages."
She whipped out her hypo spray, and inserted another vile of Rexlin. She
applied it to Lieutenant O’Malley’s neck. She turned back to her
medical officer and extended her hand.
"Anabolic Protoplaser."
She received the instrument, and activated it, slowly moving along the large
wound in his arm. Within a matter of minutes, the wound was healed.
She stood up, and also helped Lieutenant O’Malley to his feet. "Are
you alright, Lieutenant?"
Admiral Clark :> Doctor keep me up to speed on you patints jack taps his
comm.badge security this is aDmiral clark I wont you to post a security detal
in sickbay and start a top to bottom search for the person that responsible for
thise attacks on captain Sonak And now Lt’O’Malley im on my way to
operations Admiral out
~End Log~
---- a
few hours later -----
Sonak woke up slowly, feeling sore all over and extremely dizzy. She wanted to
sit up slowly, as her senses told her they would not handle a normal action of
movement. Before she could even move the face of the EMH hovered in her small
line of vision.
"o
not move captain, you were injured badly."
Sonak squinted against sickbay's bright lightning. "What happened?"
she asked, then her eyes widened in shock, "my child!"
"Your child is fine," the EMH said, smiling soflty, then beckoned a
nurse. "Lieutenant O'Malley will take further care of you captain. I want
you to take a few more hours of rest, if Admiral Clark had not found you as you
did, you would not have survived."
Sonak nodded and took no attempt at sitting up. She gazed O'Malley in his eyes.
"Send a message to the USS Confessor. Commander Fox needs a status update.
Find me Lieutenant Martens, I need to talk to him. Martens is somewhere on this
station. We need to get rid of this odd bubble around the station."
O'Malley nodded and walked off to take care of the requests, while Sonak
pressed a hand against her head and allowed a soft moan to escape. Finally, she
fell back to sleep with a relieved smile curving around her lips.
~~USS
Confessor~~
Reckus
was on the bridge again, and had heard Chris' mission report. 'Typical' he
thought 'only Majeski could get himself into so much trouble'.
Commander Dean was sat at the Operations station when he was alerted to an
incoming message. "Doctor, there's an incoming subspace message for you
from the CMO of the Bellicose" he said, looking in Jatan's direction.
'That's funny, I wonder why?' he asked himself. "OK Commander, please put
it through to the Computer in the Captain's readyroom" he said. "Very
good doctor" replied Dean.
Jatan went through to the Captain's room and sat at the desk. The Federation
logo was replaced by the face of Andrea Clarkson, the CMO aboard the Bellicose.
"Greetings Doctor Reckus, how are you?"
"I'm well thank you Dr Clarkson. How are things aboard the
bellicose?"
"Theyre OK, steady as usual. Sometimes it seems like they never stop coming!"
Jatan laughed although he was beginning to wonder exactly why she had got in
touch with him.
"What can I do you for?" he finally asked.
"It's regarding your Captain - I have updates on her current
condition"
Jatans blood ran cold. He knew something wasn't right.....
"What happened?" he asked.
"She was hit by phaser fire to the chest, it was somewhat touch and go.
Luckilly she was found soon after it had happened" she replied.
Reckus ran his hands through his head "I was afraid this would
happen" he said. He looked back up at her face on the screen. "Please
download the medical records to this mod and I will add them to the Captain's
medical file" he said.
"Very well, I shall do that now."
The monitor flashed up a message FILE TRANSFER IN PROGRESS several times
and then it beeped to inform him that the transfer was successful.
"Her child is fine at the moment, no undue distress in the womb
noted" she added.
"Well thank you for the update Doctor" Jatan said sadly. "Is
there anything else I can help you with?" he asked.
"Well Sonak has been asking after you - she is of course worried about her
baby and as you are her CMO it might be of benefit to her treatment and
prognosis" she answered.
"It would put my mind at ease but I need to seek permission from the
acting CO" replied Jatan. "My AMO is competent enough to look after
things here for a few days. I will see what I can do"
"Very well, we shall be hopefully seeing you soon then Commander"
"True, I will let you know when I hear myself. Goodbye Dr Clarkson"
As the monitor went off, Jatan felt a little happier. He left the ready room
and went back to the bridge. He approached Fox.
"Commander, I have a really big favour to ask of you...."
"Yes
go ahead Doctor." Fox replied.
Then Reckus told Fox a lil what happend and that Sonak was asking for him.
"Ofcourse you can go." Fox finally said after all Reckus had told.
"You go pack your things, i'll inform the transporter chief."
"Thank you, Commander" Reckus replied and walked off the
bridge."
About half an hour later Reckus entered the transporter room. "Ah, i've
been waiting for you an officer behind the transporter console said. Please
take ur place at the platform."
Reckus
thanked Fox for letting him leave. He packed up his things and restocked the
medical field kit. He also downloaded Sonak's medical records into a PADD
incase he needed anything from there.
He briefed Ensign Stockwell on Kate Martens and a couple of the other crew's
conditions who were still under observation. He bid his farewells to fellow
crew members and made his way to the transporter room.....
Counselor
Steenbergen walked down the corridor to her newly assinged quarters. However
since the USS Confessor is a smaller ship, she had to share her quarters. She
was about to find out with whom.
The door swooshed open. And there she was: Prin Lena. Sitting on one of the two
beds, she looked up as Claire walked in.
"Well," she said smiling, "I've been waiting for you."
Claire was a bit stupefied, she hadn't seen Lena since she left the 'improvisated'
sickbay.
"..., hatchee!" that damn nose, Claire thought, while a flush
appeared on her face.
"I wanted to thank you for saving my life...,"
"Oh, it's nothing," interupted Claire.
"So I asked to share your quarters, 'cause I couldn't find you as you were
too busy helping the woonded. And so I've brought you this."
The young woman opened her hand, she held a Bajoran earring.
"Here, take it."
"No, I can't it's yours." Claire had noticed the same family emblem
as the one sowed on Lena's right sleeve.
"You saved my life, it would be inapropriate not to accept my gift."
The counselor sighed. "Allright. Thank you," she said while she took
the earring from out of the Bajoran woman's palm.
"So I see you have Bajoran blood, are you born on Bajor?"
Claire wondered when that was coming up. This time she took a seat before she
let out another sigh, yet this one was coloured with slight melancholy.
"Yes I was born on Bajor. unfortunately I don't know who my parents were.
They left me in a monastary. Untill my human fosterparents adopted me. I was
raised on Earth. I almost don't know anything anymore from Bajor."
"Maybe that is why you joined Star Fleet?" Lena suggested.
"Maybe, but I don't know it for myself yet, I'm still looking for the
person who I really am. Bajor isn't too far from here, and yet I didn't visited
her yet."
"I see."
Then there was a silence, Claire seemed lost in thought and didn't seem to want
to continue her story.
"Well it's late know, and you look tired. Let's go to sleep," the
Lena whispered.
Claire Steenbergen knodded and made her way to the bathroom.
Dean hadd
been scanning these weird buble for some tiem and what he ot from the sensore
didnt make any sense. they seemed to exist inside and outside our normal space
and trying to bring them down in the normal space wouldnt be of any use cause
both dimesion where the station was, were bind.
"Any suggestion Cmdr Dean ?" Sonak asked.
"No and the reading dont give any sense."
"Why is that ?"
"Well its nearly like the station is here wihout being here."
"Well we see it on our screen."
"Yes captain, but this bubble is some sort of barrier between our
dimension and an other dimension of our universe."
"So its some sort of dimension bubble."
"You could call it that way, no the trouble is we dotn know anythin of the
dimension inside the bubble. So we dont know what could result from one of our
attemps to bring down the bubble. If we had data about the inside then we could
start to considere way to get our people out of there. If only we had a way to
communicate with them."
Dean stated to think if only they could communicate, crap the station was so
near and so far at the same time he was geting anxious that their people would
be trapped there for quite some time.
"Damn i can see them but contact them." Dean though "Wait a sec
see... contact." It could be the solution why didnt he thought of this
earlier.
Laser communication, information brought through light it was used in the 21st
century on earth. it seemed the only solution and it was worth a try.
"Captain with your permission i'd like to recofiure the defelctor to emit
lasers." Dean said to his captain.
"Lasers... " After a few seconds sonak saw what Dean wanted ot
say."Permission granted lets hope this will work commander."
Dean started to modifi the deflector, as he finished he only hoped his plan
would work.
Crewmen
Rachel Mori pick up a tray full of medical intruments and moved it over to the
side of Kate Martens bed and begun checking her vitals wating for Reckus to
return for more duties for her,
She served with him as a nurse before but never in a starfleet uniform she
tugged at it it was itchy and it felt wierd. She moved over to another
crewmember who looked like he was standing near a console when it exploded ,
she empty pain killers from a hypospray into his neck then gently ran her
fingers though his hair and spoke softly to him to reassure him.
She returned to Kate Martens and wrote p her vitals on a PADD and found her
self missing her husband , Setting down the tricorder she left Stockwell in
charge and whent for a drink in the messhall.
~~Starbase
Bellicose~~
Begin
Log~
=/\= Chief medical Office, =/\=
Dr. Clarkson sat down with her lunch, and picked up the daily report to read.
She got about halfway finished, when the door chime rang.
"Enter." Andrea said.
One of her nurses entered, carrying a box. "This came addressed for the
Medical Department, sir. What would you like me to do with it?"
"It depends, what's inside it?" Andrea asked.
The nurse raised her eyebrow. "It's a uniform sir."
Andrea grinned. "Go ahead and set it down. And please inform Mr. Brielle
that he can be discharged once he gets his uniform."
The nurse nodded. "Yes sir." She then turned and left.
Andrea finished eating, and set the report down. She picked up the uniform, and
headed out of her office.
She found Ben, and casually walked up to him. She handed him his new flight
suit. "I think this belongs to you." She said with a grin.
He said to her "I see you've been promoted Lt?well done"
She nodded gracefully. "Yes. Thank you." She paused very shortly,
then continued. "And I've signed your notes. You're free to leave as soon
as you want."
He said "Thanks for everything and will you thank everyone else for
everything as well please I got to go and report to my squadron and the
wing."
Andrea nodded. "Alright. Do you know what to do?"
He replied, "yeah thanks. see ya"
Andrea nodded and headed back to her office.
~End Log~
=/\=
Bridge, IKS Krulak =/\=
Captain Hank Goodman sat in the command chair of the IKS Krulak, Captain
Mathews to his right in the XO's chair. Major Klag was hovering around the
bridge, not exactly thrilled that someone else was in command of her vessel.
Hank spoke first, "Status of the Tobruks?"
"Two troop carriers flanking us as ordered, sir. Ready to follow us into
warp."
"And the Starfleet vessel?"
"We're still waiting for acknowledgment from the Sanatoria and the Fighter
Wing, Captain "
"Very well. Keep me apprised. Captain Mathews the Bridge is yours."
He stood and indicated Braden, "Ready room, Major." Together they
left the Bridge....
<<Short, aye, but it sets up everything being ready on the Marine end...
Yes sir >>
Reckus
was ready. "Ok, lets go for it" he said, and then he looked up at the
console "Right Chief, ready when you are" "Good luck
doctor" he replied. Reckus' form took on a blue shimmery light as he was
beamed to the bellicose transporter room.
When he got there, he began to suffer from the effects of the bubble being
around the bellicose - unbeknown to him they were the same effects that Sonak
and Martens had experienced when they had beamed across. The Bellicose
transporter chief didnt look half as surprised this time - he was getting used
to it by now.
Reckus felt fine but it was like someone had pressed the slow play button.
Everything about how the chief moved was so slow...and Jatan guessed that he
himself must look as if he was on some sort of amphetamines. Suddenly the chief
had begun to speed up slightly and then everything seemed normal. Physics wasnt
one of Reckus' favourite subjects but he knew that it must be the effect of
coming through the bubble and then everything settling down after a few
minutes.
"Welcome back to the Bellicose Dr Reckus" said the chief. "I
will let Dr Clarkson know that you have arrived"
"Thank you chief, it's nice to be back, although I wish the circumstances
could be better" replied Jatan. He made his way through the door and
towards the turbolift. He wanted to get to the Bellicose's sickbay as soon as
possible.
Sonak was
dreaming, something Vulcans did not do often. She had woken up a few hours
earlier and had asked for a message to be sent to her ship, after that she had
fallen back into her comatose state.
Cries were heard all over the ship, and Sonak sat in the centre chair,
frozen in place. She knew not what she could do, apart from hold her stance
against the Cardassians, who were winning ground rapidly.
Suddenly someone, she recognized the voice but could not couple it to a name,
scream that the warpcore was about to overload.
"Eject! Eject!" Sonak had shouted over the noise, but eject had been
impossible as the release clamps had been sabotaged.
"Preparing saucer separation," someone beside her called, Fox she
knew. She shot him a grateful glance for his quick thinking. They had just
barely separated the drive section from the saucer when the saucer vibrated
with the explosion of the drive.
Sonak felt something snap at the back of her mind. She screamed in agony as the
bond between her and her bondmate was abruptly broken. She had believed him to
be safe with the rest of the engineers, but now she knew she would never look
upon her beloved again. She screamed his name.
"Seliv!" Sonak screamed as she bolted upright. Nurses came runing,
trying to push her back onto the bed, but she fought them off.
She fought like a lioness defending her cubs, nervepinching the poor nurses as
they tried to push her back down. She knew not what exactly she was doing, as
she was not awake, she was still dreaming, fighting off cardassians, mistaking
the medical personnel for the enemy.
Nick sat
next to his captain as she awoke in terror. The nurses rushed over to restrain
her only to be rendered unconcious by her neck pinch. The security team that
had acompanied Nick stood back as the lieutenant attempted to calm his captain.
"Captain it's ok, you're safe" Nick comforted grasping her hand. Her
pulse was racing so fast her body shivered.
"We're under attack!" She yelled as another doctor tryed to give her
a sedative. She retaliated by making him join his crewmates on the floor. The
two security officers looked at Nick with horror as he comforted Sonak.
"Mr. Martens report!" She ordered in the same panic as when the
Vesuvius was destroyed.
"Ma'am we're on the Bellicose. The Vesuvius is destroyed."
A soft "no" left her mouth at the news. She sank to her knees on the
floor and began sobbing. Just then Reckus came running into sickbay. Nick put
his arm around his captains shoulder and said soflty as not to alarm her,
"Jatan is here to help. Let him."
Sonak nodded and Nick and Jatan helped her back up onto the biobed.
Reckus
was alarmed to see Sonak in such a state as he came in to Sickbay. Nick Martens
was trying to help calm her down as she lay on the floor. He heard Lt Martens
say "Jatan is here to help. Let him" and saw Sonak nodding. He put
the medical field kit on the trolley next to her bed and got down on the floor
with her.
"Captain?" he said looking straight into her eyes. She was sobbing
gently as she looked back at him "It's all gone Jatan, all gone" she
replied, her voice shaking.
"I know, I know" he said softly. "It's all going to be alright
though" he continued, rubbing her arm gently. "Come on, I'm here to
look after you now" She nodded and allowed herself to be helped up by her
chief of security and medicine. Minutes earlier she had been fighting like a
lioness and now she was like a little lamb. "Please let me give you
something to calm you down Sonak? I want to make sure you rest now." Jatan
asked.
She let herself be lain down on the bed as Jatan administered the calming
sedative into her veins.....
Sonak
heard familiar voices, her own crew and waned herself on her own ship, in her
own sickbay. She felt the hands of the nurses trying to hold her down, though
she could not remember how she had ended up on the floor.
She had her eyes open, but saw nothing but images of her dream, of past events,
yet she heard Martens tell her that Reckus was here, and heard him plead to her
to let him help her.
~who are these people~ something in her mind said. ~my crew~ another part
replied fermly.
Sonak shook her head in confusion, as she felt Reckus hand touch her bare arm.
~bare~ she thought, while immediately the response ~sickbay garment~ came up.
~too tight~ she thought, absentmindedly pulling the hem of the shirt in an
attempt to widen it.
She felt Reckus presence in her mind, through the simple touch, and she did not
know if she wanted him there. Yet, his presence was comforting and she let
herself be lifted onto the bed again, after a tranquillizer was administered.
Sonak felt the medication take effect and her muscles relaxed, and she let out
a sigh. Yet when she closed her eyes, her dream started all over again, but
this time she could not bolt upright, scream out but she could cry. Tears
streamed down her face as she relived past events. She wanted to reach out to
her friends, knowing that they were standing beside her. She wanted this to be
over, move on, but she found it hard to let go however illogical it may be.
Finally, the dream ended and she fell into a restless sleep, dreaming of her
late husband, how they had met, the birth of their twins and now the birth of
her unborn. Would their children grow up without a father?
The dream ended also, end this time her sleep was fitful and dreamless, as it
should because Vulcans never dreamt.
The
readings from his tricorder were not giving Reckus too much cause for concern,
but the deep dream like state that seemed to have taken a hold of Sonak was
causing her body to twitch involuntarily from time to time and as Jatan looked
up he saw tears rolling down her face. But as he gazed at her face he saw
deeper than the facial features of his Captain, it was like he was seeing into
her soul and her thoughts. He could see and feel the thought processes and
emotions coursing through her body and mind. He touched her arm gently and felt
what was like static electricity in his fingers. Before his eyes it was like a
mist had cleared, and he could see clearly what Sonak saw. He kept his hand on
her arm and shut his eyes. He didn't know if it would do any good but he tried
to send positive and warm feelings to the Captain. Maybe it would help her to
recover. His arm became warmer as he visualised a white light from his hand
slowly going up Sonak's arm. It was strange but he could almost feel her
response - that she knew he was there and trying to help. But it suddenly all
became too much for him and he withdrew his hand. Whatever was happening to him
he didnt understand fully, and he had a gut feeling that if it spiralled out of
his control it could do more harm then good.
Jatan sighed - he had to sit down as he felt slightly dizzy and drained. As he
went to sit down he got the shock of his life - in the reflection of the glass
in the office he saw Seliv. He looked back but in that split second the figure
had gone. He shook his head and told himself that he was just seeing things.
Nick Martens came back into Sickbay. "Hey Doc" he said "How's
the Captain doing?" Jatan looked across to the Captain and then back at
Nick "She's OK. A bit more stable then when I first arrived" Reckus
replied. He didnt want to share what had happened between him and Sonak just
yet.
"Whats happening? You look a little flustered" asked Reckus.
"We
just got a message from the Majesty. It seems they've figured out how to get
past the barrier."
"Thats great!" Jatan remarked.
"Well no. It turns out that the barrier is sentient."
Jatans eyebrow went up in surprise. "Sentient!?"
"I apparently has a great fear of fire. The Majesty managed to get out by
burning standard issue boxer shorts in close proximity to it." Just then
the lights dimmed then came back to full. "It's draining station power and
if we don't so something soon we'll have none left."
=/\= Clark to Martens=/\=
"Martens here sir."
=/\=Could
you meet me in Ops. We're having a department meeting on how to deal with this
thing. I'd like you to attend as you are the acting head of security.=/\=
"Aye sir, I'll be right there."
Several
hours later, Sonak woke up feeling much better. Yet she felt something was
amiss, as the nurses stared at her very peculiarly.
She remembered nothing of her dreams, or her actions during her comatose state.
She sat up slowly and glanced about herself, taking in her surroundings.
"How did I end up here?" she wondered aloud, as her memory of
previous events returned. She just looked up to see her tactical officer
re-enter sickbay and exchange a few quiet words with her chief medical officer.
Suddenly Sonak heard something and she tilted her head to listen. It was not
the nurses whispering amongst themselves, for they had cleared the area. Nor
was it the whispered conversation between Jatan and Nick, this sounded
differently.
Sonak listened, extremely concentrated, trying to catch the conversation, but
it was not exactly that, it was more of a feeling. ~who are you~ Sonak thought,
hoping that whoever was 'speaking' would pick it up and respond. Then Martens
approached and told her that the bubble surrounding the station was sentient.
"I believe the bubble is trying to communicate," Sonak said softly,
and looked at Reckus, "are you picking up anything? I am hearing some sort
of whispering, but I cannot understand who or what is trying to
communicate." She looked at Martens. "What is your hypothesis?"
"It
would make sense that it would communicate telepathicly. It's not like it can
verbally say 'hi'." Nick smirked. "But I'm hearing the whispering as
well."
"You? Telepathic?" Jatan looked shocked.
"It's rare for my people but it is possible. Not very strong, but it's
there."
"Wheres a betazoid when you need one." Ensign Whaller quipped from
behind Nick.
"Indeed." Sonak said from her biobed.
"We could try using low range radio and subspace signals. Short of haveing
a Betaziod or doing a mind-meld, if that would even be possible, we're going to
have to try conventional means of communication."
Each of the crew members sat around, grim looks on their faces. Nicks face
suddenly lit up.
"What if we took a shuttle to the perimeter and allowed the thing to take
control of it's systems. It would allow it to use the communications systems to
make contact with us."
Sonak
returned the smirk. "Not that I would really need to mindmeld, but your
idea is sound. We should try the shuttle, perhaps we could communicate with it
and tell it it is a danger to the station."
She got up from the biobed and joined her officers. Let us go to OPS and see if
the admiral agrees with us."
Reckus
was listening intently to Sonak and Martens discussion. suddenly he heard
something else other than their conversation. He wasn't sure what to do but
decided to try and converse with it in his head. 'No harm in trying' he thought
to himself. ~what do you want?~ he asked in his mind. ~information; knowledge~
came the response. "Captain, come down to ops in 15 mins. I will discuss
with Admiral Clark our ideas, Reckus you come too buddy" Reckus and Sonak
nodded. Martens left Sickbay and then there was only Sonak and himself still
there. Sonak was sitting up looking at Reckus, she had heard the exchange
between him and whatever the bubble really was. "You are becomming
mentally stronger Jatan" she remarked. Jatan nodded "I have really
felt that recently" he responded. "What information do you think it
wants?" she asked trying to think what a bubble could want with Starfleet.
Jatan rubbed his chin thoughtfully "I honestly have no idea" he
answered. "But it's good to know that we can communicate with it. Much
better than burning boxer shorts at it!" Sonak agreed as she had never
heard of anything like burning standard issue underwear at a being.
"Jatan, I think I have an idea" she said suddenly.....
Sonak
explained her idea to Jatan, reminding herself to brief Martens when they met
up again.
"Here is the idea. We sent a shuttle out of the docks on autopilot and ask
the creature to take over the shuttle, then it can send communications using
the shuttle's computer to the station, or make contact with someone in the
shuttle directly. We could get to learn a lot from this creature, and in return
it can learn from us. The shuttle we can fill with information from our
database. I hope the short burning has not scared it."
She gave her friend a wan smile as the idea unfolded itself. "It is worth
a shot. We shall see what martens and Clark think of it."
The two headed for OPS and explained the idea to Martens and Clark, who stared
back at them in wonder.
=/\=
Sickbay =/\=
Andrea walked out of her office, a PADD clutched in her hand. She found Ben,
sitting up on a bio-bed. She handed the PADD to him. "Here you are
Lt," Reckus
"What's that?"
"Just read it."
He turned to her. "Thanks." As she handed him the other PADD.
She saw the grin appear on his face. "I take it your happy then?"
"Yeah thanks, and thanks for everything you and your staff have done and
will you thank them for me."
"Of course Lieutenant . Let me congratulate And good luck
Lieutenant."
"Thank you, Doctor...now can I get out of here Captain sonak ask ?"
she flashed her a smile.
She gave a slight chuckle. "Sure thing Captain ." She reached into
the deep pocket of her blue lab coat and pulled out her personal medical
tricorder. She opened it up, and pressed a few buttons on it.
"Well," she began her synopsis. "over all, you're as healthy as
a horse. You've healed up nicely." She closed the tricorder and returned
it to her coat. She headed to a table of PADD's and filled it in with the
correct information. She brought it to her, and pointed to a discreet blank
spot on it. "I need you to put your thumbprint right there, please."
She watched eagerly as she complied with her request.
After he was finished, she returned the PADD to her, where she placed her
thumbprint in the blank box on the other side.
"You're free to go, Captain . Have a nice day!"
"Thank you, Doctor."
She watched him depart, and walked into her office. She took the PADD and slid
it in her filing cabinet of release forms, then returned to her chair. It was
not but 5 seconds later, when her comm. badge chirped.
"Cmdr, Christopher to Dr Clarkson."
"Doctor Clarkson here. What can I do for you, cmdr ?"
"Doctor, I need you to send a physician to deck nine . An inexplicable
injury was sustained in the storage bay . Can you have someone there in five
minutes?"
"Yes, sir . I’ll be ready for a briefing in half an hour. I've been
meaning to get out." Andrea said with a grin.
" out."
Andrea scurried for her emergency med-kit, snatched it up, and returned to the
main sickbay. There she loaded it with a few extra vials of medicine, trying to
prepare for any kind of encounter. After she had loaded the kit to the point
where she was satisfied, she charged out the door and headed for deck nine then
she could still have time to be at the senior command briefing. which will
start in 25 minutes.
The three
officers of the USS Vesuvius/Confessor were gathered in a meeting with Admiral
Clark, explaining their findings on the bubble.
"We feel that we can establish communication with it and tell it that it
is harming us," Sonak commented, "we therefor ask permission to take
a shuttle just out of the hangars and try to talk to it, ask it to kindly
remove itself from the proximity of this station."
Clark nodded, then gathered his PADDs. "Take a shuttle and do whatever you
feel necessary." He stood up and walked out, leaving the three officers
alone.
"Well, let us get to it then," Sonak said.
-- somewhat later --
Reckus, Martens and Sonak had taken out Shuttlecraft Conspiracy and Martens had
maneuvred it so that it was hovering between the edge of the bubble and the
station.
Reckus had configured the computer so that the entity would be enabled to read
the databases and communicate by voice should that become necessary. The three
of them concentrated on contacting the entity, holding hands in an attempt to
increase their personal power.
~we invite you to enter our computer~ they thought ~your presence is harming
us, please remove yourself from the station~
The consoles sparked as the entity obviously complied. They opened their eyes
and saw that the bubble was indeed gone from the station, and it was not
surrounding the shuttle either.
"I am here," the entity said, clearly audible, "and I regret
having caused you harm. I thank you for your information, and shall attempt to
leave information of my own species into the computer of your station. Now that
I have entered this craft, I cannot leave it."
Sonak permitted a small smile. "Allow us to beam back to the station and
the craft is yours to explore the universe. Please return to us some time to
tell us of your travels."
The entity made a happy sound and the trio beamed back aboard the station,
while the shuttle took off to explore the universe.
"Sonak to USS Confessor, three to beam aboard."
~~ USS
Confessor
"Sonak
to USS Confessor, three to beam aboard."
"Aye Ma'am" The officer in the transporter room replied and activated
the transporter. He also notified Fox that he was beaming the three officers
back onboard.
Fox stood up from his chair and rushed off the bridge leaving Dean in command.
When he arrived at the transporter room Sonak, Reckus and Martens were just
walking off the platform.
He greeted them "Welcome back." He smiles.
In the mean time, Claire and Lena arrived on the bridge seeing Dean in command.
They asked where Fox was and Dean told them he went to the transporter room to
welcome Sonak back onboard the Vesuvius.
Already they arranged some things for the party on the bridge. Now that almost
no one was there they could finish their prepairations.
~~and so ends the fleet mission~~