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Counting Noses

Posted on Sun Oct 10th, 2021 @ 2:21pm by Commodore Keiben Haistro & Lieutenant Commander Melanie D’BrooNi- Haistro & Commander Peter Horn & Commander Lillian Carter & Lieutenant JG Anek Tua & Lieutenant Commander Junjie Han & Senior Chief Petty Officer Jonathan Stoun

1,515 words; about a 8 minute read

Mission: Episode 3 - Fear Is Fear Itself
Location: Various
Timeline: Mission Day 4 @ 1730 Hours


Habitat Ring, Deck 3 - Section 21


Over the combadges there would be Tamaska's voice,

"This is Commander Holt, if there are other crew members here on the station, please report!"

She continued on, "Those that were on the Yosemite are now here on the station. Please are you there, are you okay?"

"Commander. I am so happy to hear your voice," Mel said her hand reaching up to her comm. Badge. If Tam was here the chances were high Keiben and Charlie were also not dead.

"I am glad to hear your voice as well Mel, this whole situation is rather bizarre." Tam replied.


Station Operations


He tapped his combadge quickly to respond. " This is Junjie. There are seven of us currently in Ops in good health. I regret to inform you the Jelani is in the sickbay status as a casualty. " Trying his best to keep the emotion from his voice. " That Damn crazy program killed her! " Some harshness creeping into his tone before softening again. " I'm just glad to hear that you and the others are doing well. "

"Lieutenant Han, some of us will be arriving where you are at and am glad to hear that you and the others are well. I am sorry to hear of Jalani's death." Tamaska's voice cracking at that last comment.

"I'll just be glad to see you when you get here. " Responded Junjie. " We've all been through some ordeals, Both real and otherwise. I'll explain more when I see you and give you a full report."


Central Core - Main Computer Access


"This is Commander Horn, I am with Captain Haistro and I am going to take him to the infirmary. He is alive, but unconscious. My son Connor is also with me. I do not know where the rest of my family is." Despite his best efforts, Peter could not keep the hit of fear or worry from his voice.

"Peter, Ilyas is with me," Mel said. "He's fine and will be relieved to know you are."

The counselor let out an audible sigh of relief. "Thank you doctor. Have you heard from Hayley?"

"No Peter. I'm sorry. I have only seen Ilyas," Mel replied back. "Has anyone seen Charlie?"

"Charlie is in sickbay with Keiben." Tam remarked. "From what I am understanding. They both are there. Charlie is okay."


Station Operations


After they had managed to restore main power, Lillian was trying to access the internal sensors. "Carter to Haistro. I've got the internal sensors online. They're showing all the crew is on board, there are several large groups in the outer docking ring, habitat ring and the upper part of the central core, but they're all accounted for."

Tamaska tapped her commbadge. "Carter, the captain is unconscious. Glad to hear that they are all accounted for. Thank you."

Lillian was happy to hear Holt's voice but concerned for the wellbeing of the Captain, hoping he would recover quickly. "Acknowledged Commander. I'll keep you informed anything develops up here. Carter out."

Satisfied the internal sensors were online, Lillian turned her attention to the external sensors. She called out to the others "Can someone have a look at the external sensors. It would be nice to know what's going on outside."

"Lieutenant Carter!" Called out Junjie. " I know what is wrong with the sensors. A few of the boards are damaged and not working at a hundred percent. If I can get to Engineering and get the parts I need, I should be able to at least know what is going on in the system in about an hour. Anything further out I would suggest sensor buoys to extend our range. I'll be heading out to get the parts. "

Edward Teach eyed Junjie and then spoke up. " Mister Han Sir, your an officer and should stay and help the Lieutenant keep this place running, Besides I need to stretch me legs. "

Junjie's face flushed slightly. " Um.. Thank you Mister Teach, Then carry on please and bring the parts back as soon as you can. " Edward walked out the door with a slight grin on his face.

After some time, the sensor display sprang to life. "Nice work." Lillian said then she frowned. "Sensor range is appalling!" she said to one in particular. "We won't get much of an early warning of any ships approaching."

Studying the readout she could just pick up the Copernicus floating lifelessly not too far away and she sighed. Her first deep-space assignment hadn't turned out quite as she had expected.
She also picked up the outline of an Oberth class starship which was where the distress call had originated. Then she spotted something she wasn't expecting. A Federation Runabout.

"Carter to Holt. Sensor range is limited due to the Briar Patch but I'm picking up a Runabout heading for us. I'm going to attempt communication Standby."

Tamaska answered, "Do so, and a runabout coming here?" Tam was a bit confused then her face cleared up, the Federation must have picked up their signal!

She tried the communications array, hoping that it was working. "This is Lieutenant Carter of the Federation Starship Copernicus to the Federation Runabout. We are currently located on the abandoned Cardassian Space station. Do you read me?"

"Copernicus we read you. This is Commander Reynolds. We have been despatched to try find out what happened to you and the Yosemite. Can you transmit coordinates?"

“Acknowledged Commander. I’m sending you our coordinates. You’re about 10 minutes out. All the landing pads are locked down at the moment I’ll have an engineering team meet you at one of the upper docking pylons.”

"Receiving. We are on route," Liam replied back.

Tam arrived and looked around, feeling better now that she could see that others of the ship had made it.

Junjie walked behind Tamaska and whispered to her. " During my waking nightmare I believe I cried out my feelings for you and cried in agony when I thought you had died. "He stopped for a moment before continuing. " So I think the only people on this station who don't know that we're in a relationship is either dead, unconscious or stone deaf. I hope I haven't embarrassed you. "

Tam jumped when she heard Junjie. "Oh am I glad to see you also we've got a shuttle coming in?".

Lillian was glad that the XO had arrived in ops and came over. “Commander I’ve been tracking the runabout on sensors and I’ve sent them our coordinates. They should be docking in the next 10 minutes.” She paused and took a deep breath. "I was there when Jelani took her own life. Whatever those holograms were, they appear to be gone now. How is the Captain?” She asked as a sudden cold shiver moved through her that made her rub her arms.

"I am truly sorry to hear that." Tam's eyes tearing up at the news. Then she realized she needed to contact Charlie. "Miss Brooks, what is your status please."

"I'm not in sickbay. I didn't go. I needed some time to myself before you all decided to throw me in the brig," Charlies voice came over the comm. "If my mums dead Tam I need to also contact Paddy. He will need to be my legal guardian now."

"Charlie, you will not be going into the brig, you kept everyone safe, and you did what you had to do. And I am certain that others will be agreeing with me as well. Also, Charlie your mother is alive! You don't need to worry about finding another legal guardian. " she closed up the commm badge and turned to Lillian while she continued on her report.

Lillian continued “As well as the runabout, there is the Yosemite and Copernicus nearby. The Copernicus is in one piece…. Just… but she’s badly damaged. I think we better arrange for some temporary quarters for the crew here on the station tonight while she’s repaired. The station herself is not in too much of a bad shape considering. Main power is back online but we’ve got minimal defences and sensor range is poor. The upper and lower pylons appear to be ok but the landing pads have been locked down.”

Tam nodded, "Okay that would be a wise decision. It would be nice to have a place to sleep after all of this." Tam said to Lillian, then tapped on her comm badge. "Ensign Matthews will you report to Operations."

She turned towards Junjie and Agapov. "I'm going to ask you, Sage, Agapov and her siblings to go help get some areas set up for us to sleep in." Tam looked towards those in operations. "This is going to be needed." giving a tired smile.

Adrian nodded. "We'll do our best ma'am," the young science officer answered, turning to the siblings. "Right... any of you read Cardassian?"

END

 

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