"Words and Actions"
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Stardate 60331.2220
Braced against the bulkhead Derek looked over at the large man he had
recently freed. One part of his mind tracking on the two disguised Marines
another part on the man he was about to go into a hand to hand battle with.
Studing him he noticed the basics he was a large human, 6' 6" at least
strong build with an almost gentle air about him, until you looked in his
eyes. There was a lot of sorrow there, but the most striking thing was the
red ring around the iris of his right eye. His study of the ships crew
manifest allowed his mind to click on a name... Dawson. There was more but
now was not the time.
The man looked at him and held up three fingers as a count down to action.
The two Marines stepped through the door and many things happened at once.
They paused at the sight of their two compatriots trussed up on the deck.
David stepped into the Marine on the left grabbing his weapon and using the
leverage to push the marine off balance.
Derek reached out grabbing the other marine's left arm and spining him face
first into the bulkhead, a move that would have disoriented anyone. But the
even though the Breen EV suits made many normal moves difficult the Marine
spun back to his right pulling Derek of balance and tossing him to the deck,
losing his weapon in the move. Derek was just rising to his knees when the
Marine landed on him forcing him to his back. The EV suit did not allow for
real swinging of the arms so the marine layed his arm across Dereks throat,
as he struggled.
Derek even being a Vulcan could not stand up to the pressure being exerted
against his throat and slowly his vision began to dim as he began to pass out.
David using the leverage afforded by the Breens weapon easily pushed him off
balance, taking the weapon he tried to turn it around to use but the marine closed on him wrapping his arms around the big man's body trapping the weapon between them. Face to face with the Breen, David pushed off from the bulkhead driving his legs as hard as he could to keep the Breen off balance. David drove him back slamming him against the auxiliary console. As the Marine's arms relaxed David spun his right forearm against his head, once, twice, three times and the marine went limp.
David verified he was out cold and eased him gently to the deck. Grabbing the weapon he turned to Derek and the other Breen. He slammed the butt of the weapon against the Breen's head who promptly collapsed on the Vulcan half-breed. Rolling him off of Derek he reached down and helped the ensign up. As Derek slowly recovered David locked down Engineering to forstall anymore visits and began trussing up their two newest captives.
"Mr Dawson... do you know how many Breen are on Board?"
Glancing up he gave the supposed Ensign an appraising look. "No, and that
could be a problem."
Derek Raised an eyebrow. "Well sir I see a few options."
David stood he was still suspicious of this unknown Vulcan Ensign but this
was not the time to get into it all.
"Ok... Ensign what options?"
Derek did not miss the tone or the slight hesitation in his superiors voice.
"Well sir we control Engineering we could shut down all Drives, we could
flood the ship with the Intruder defense gas. We could slip to a transporter
room and do a site to site transport to the bridge. Or we could initiate the
ships self destruct.
David just stared... "Ensign you know it takes the Captain and two other
command officers to initiate the self destruct"
"That's true sir... but the Breen don't know that. We could have the
computer go into the audible countdown... without actually activating the
system"
David knew all the systems on board and even he did not see where this
ensign was going. "I do not belive that it can be done with our Systems."
Derek gave a wistful little smile.
"Not with the HATHOR's systems... no sir, but I can key in my ships systems
to the main computer and activate its self-destruct which would be heard on the bridge... we dont have to say what ship is about to self-destruct"
"What ensign would be the point?"
"A distraction on the bridge may give the crew the split second needed to
act. Also if the Breen are meeting another vessel they may call it in to
evacuate or even grab a shuttle. I am only giving options sir... I am under
your orders."
David was impressed, although he felt there were better ways. His own was to
shut down all systems. But even that could not be done without more
information on what the other members of the crew might be doing.
Derek looked at the big Engineer and realized there was one more option.
"Sir even though the HATHOR's internal communications are out, my com-badge
works thru my ship" Derek held out his com-badge.
David slowly reached out and took it into his hand. looking down at it he
smiled.
Pushing the activator...
"Engineering to Bridge..."
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Flight Control Officer (pending) 2005 post #575
Setting: USS HATHOR, Engineering
Brian Matthews (dragonsslayer@excite.com)
USS ANUBIS
