[open] Checking out the ______

[Sharpay Harper]

Sharpay made with the haste to arrive at the shuttlebay. There were currently only two security guards posted outside. And they were the same rank as her. This should not be a problem. "One side, coal dust twins. Something inside requires immediate attention." Sharpay stated with authority as she breezed right through the doors.

"Wait." One of the security ensigns said as he just stood in the doorway. Sharpay turned around.

"Can't ensign, I have a schedule to keep. Do you want to be the one to which I call the captain and Lieutenant Mishtak just to say some security ensign stopped me from containing the obtuse experimental kalandra devise that could blow us up?"

"Well, uh, no."

"Good. Now get back to your watch, and thank you for you concern. I'll remember to tell the heads of security about your good effort."

"Thank you." The officer went back to his watch on the outside of the shuttlebay. Sharpay rolled her eyes. "How in the world did he ever manage a passing grade?" There was no such thing as a klandra devise, and the word obtuse was also another word for 'stupid'. "He will do great things."

Sharpay got close to the shuttle which in all honesty looked like a gigantic kind-sized prune. Using the tricorder Ensign Triad tossed her, Sharpay began scanning the shuttle. "Huh..."

The young ensign tapped a few buttons on the tricorder and managed to open the door to this alien shuttlecraft. "Touch tone controls, blown out ship systems..."

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[Crewman Janet Chan]

As Chan approached the shuttle bay, one of the ensigns assigned to guard it looked pale, he saw her and tried to fix himself, make himself look as though he had not just seen a ghost.

"Ensign, Lt. Xena is on her way. What's the situation so far?"

She was not prepared for the answer.

"Well Crewman, ensign Harper is here and.. umm... do you know what a 'obtuse experimental kalandra devise' is?"

It took her a moment to register exactly what he had said, she held in her chuckle.

"Why don't you take a short break Ensign, I'll keep watch here until the Lt. arrives, the radiation from the device in question might be affecting your mental state adversely."

The ensign nodded and walked off down the hall, thinking he needed a large glass of water and a visit to sickbay. The other security officer, an enlisted man, smiled as the ensign walked off.

"Good one ma'am, I didn't have the heart to tell him he was an idiot."

"That's understandable. When Lt. Xena arrives you can go and check on him, until then you are the guard on duty here."

With that she walked into the shuttle bay to find Sharpay. She knew the ensign didn't need a security escort but wasn't sure that Xena would agree. So Chan quickly found the engineer and reported to her.

"Ensign Harper, I will be your security escort. Not that you need one, but for appearances just go with it, please."



TAG: Sharpay/Any

[Sharpay Harper]

The door made the hiss sound. Obviously someone else just came in. Sharpay looked over her shoulder a brief second to see whom the footsteps belonged to. They belonged to none other than Crewman Chan; a rather competent officer. Now knowing who it was Ensign Harper went back to scanning the shuttle, or rather started to.

"Ensign Harper, I will be your security escort. Not that you need one, but for appearances just go with it, please."

Well, definitely smart... Shar thought with a little grin. It was the words: 'just go with it please'. Had Chan been talking to Mishtak? "Alright, I'll go with it." The blonde agreed with a light nod of her head. "So long as we don't waste any time." Shar stifled a laugh. "By the way, aren't you going to ask how I got inside? Or did Mister Dipstick already spill the beans?"

Tag: Chan/Any

[Xena]

Having to keep a sharp eye on the young mischief maker, who was now a tag-a-long per orders, Chan got to the shuttlebay before Xena did. "Alright boy." Xena addressed Shawn as she nudged him through the shuttlebay doors, while giving a curt nod to the security guard at the door. Which there was suppose to be two of them. Taking a hold of Shawn's upper arm, Xena took a step back to question where the other guard was. The response she had gotten back; Xena plainly laughed out loud.

She'd have to sit officer gullible down and talk to him later. Ensign Harper was sneaky, yes, bu that was a rather weak story for any person to swallow. "Sharpay, I'm a little disappointed in you. Surely you could have thought of a better story than that. Don't tell me you're letting yourself go."

Xena then looked to Shawn. "Not that I'm in anyway condoning what she did. So don't go getting any ideas."

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[Elise Triad]

I’m making good time Elise thought to her self as the turbo lift stopped and she made her way to the shuttlebay to have a look at what was happening there as well. Elise gave the security guard a slight nod as she walked past him and into the shuttlebay to find not only Ensign Harper but Crewman Chan, Lt. Xena and a small boy, Shawn was his name if she remembered right.

“Quite the gathering we have I see” Elise slowly walked around the shuttle scanning it with her tricorder and stopped once she got to Sharpay putting herself between Sharpay and everyone else “I see you got the door open and I can only hope you did not go in yet” lowering her voice so the others could not overhear her “On a small side note I’m not with ‘snitch patrol’ as you put it.” There was little expression on Elise’s face telling Sharpay this was no joke to her “Internal affairs is a branch of starfleet intelligence, yes, but I’m a field agent. That’s not to say that if the caption needed me to I would not look into the crew for her. Dig up things that they would rather keep hidden. So let’s not lump me in with IA.” Elise then smiled at Sharpay as if was an old childhood friend she had not seen in years, almost a look of pure joy “So let’s not push this any further, I would truly hate to have to dislike you as we may be working together more in the future”

Bringing her voice back to a normal volume Elise walked over to the shuttle’s open door and looked inside “It looks as if a few systems are burnt out” Elsie gave her tricorder one last look before stepping inside.

[Mishtak]

//"Mishtak to shuttlebay, report."//

His voice was gruff and his frustration at not having reports or answers was obvious, at least to anyone who knew him well enough to know his temperment and personality...



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[Sharpay Harper]

“So let’s not push this any further, I would truly hate to have to dislike you as we may be working together more in the future”

As soon as Elsie turned her back Sharpay rolled her brown eyes. Like, dislike. It didn't much matter to her if people were fond of her. Sharpay didn't have to prove anything to anyone. She was here because of her skills. Sure it would be wonderful if she could get along with everyone because it made working with a person a little easier, but whatever. No one can please every person.

However, as far as Sharpay was concerned Elsie was fairly easy to get along with, and the way she had spoken to her sort of reminded Sharpay of one of the friends she had made as a teenager. Impressive. Shar could not exactly stand people that had no back bone.

//"Mishtak to shuttlebay, report."//

"From the outside it looks like a king sized prune." Sharpay commented. "The engineering aspect, well, I wouldn't brag about her. Then maybe I would..." Sharpay paused for a brief moment as she went back inside, and started to poke around. "The controls look a bit like our Alpha Flyer. She's 'hands on'."

Sharpay looked around a bit more as well as scanned. "Even more hands on sin-" Ensign Harper stopped mid sentence. Her tricorder was picking up a Borg signature. "Crap!"

Tag: Xena/Any

[Xena]

"I don't like that 'crap'." Xena commented. As Elsie and Sharpay were inside, Xena was checking the outside of the shuttle at the moment. Besides, Xena didn't really want Shawn to step foot inside that shuttle unless it could not be helped. From the comment from Ensign Harper...

Xena looked at Chan. "It's your shift." Xena then looked to Shawn. "Stay with Crewman Chan."

Xena stepped inside the shuttlecraft. "Oh! What is that smell?!" Xena eyed Sharpay. Please don't let the 'crap' refer to the Terran 'number two'.

Xena scanned with her tricorder and stepped over to an open, blown out circuit control on the wall. "Chan, go to one of our shuttles and bring me a med-kit!" Xena ordered, as she outstretched a hand to nudge Sharpay out of the way. "This ship has engaged the Borg before we found it. Nanoprobes have been detected. I'll be using a medical device to remove them."

Tag: Chan/any

[Mishtak]

//"Mishtak to Security, send an additional detail to the shuttle bay. Wait outside until Lt. Xena gives you further instructions."
//

The message would come through Xena and Chan's comm badges as well, alerting them to the impending arrival of reinforcements should they be warranted.

Roughly five minutes later the door to the shuttle bay opened and the two guards from earlier entered, they approached Lt. Xena.

"Lt. The detail has arrived and is waiting for your orders. What are we dealing with?"

They actually seemed to be in better shape now than they had when Sharpay had arrived, but that might also be because they could be in danger now and they hadn't been earlier. Still, they didn't exactly inspire confidence...



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[Crewman Janet Chan]

Chan heard the Crap and was ready to shoot something, but heard different orders instead. Having been told it was her shift she went over to Shawn.

"Guess you'll be helping me now."

Xena then asked for a med kit from one of the shuttles, Chan nodded and looked at Shawn.

"If you know what a med kit looks like, grab one from shuttle five over there. I'll get the one from three."

And she moved off the the farther shuttle in search of a med kit, hoping Shawn would be able to make himself useful at the moment. She scoured the shuttle looking for the med kit and finally found it, someone had put it away in the wrong compartment. She exited the shuttle and handed the kit to Xena.

"What are we dealing with Lieutenant?"


TAG: Xena, Shawn, Sharpay...

[Elise Triad]

Elise stopped as soon as the nanoprobes had been detected. Damit! She looked down at her PADD and called up the readings from all three tricorders. If I have to spend hours in sickbay getting scanned over this I will not be happy

Elise had seen that it was the tricorder Sharpay had been given that picked them up. My knife is no use with nanoprobes but.. Just then Xena called out for a medkit then almost right after Mishtak ordered more security to the shuttle bay.

Elise stood back and let Xena to her task as she herself started scanning everyone in the shuttle. Elise knew that she would be ordering everyone in the shuttle, if not the shuttle bay, to sickbay to be scanned for any nanoprobes when this is over. Elise looked over to Janet when she handed her medkit to Xena.


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[Shawn O'Conner]

Don't go getting any ideas. Shawn ran through Xena's words in his mind. It was already a little too late for that! Shawn was always getting ideas! This alien shuttle fascinated him. The door was open, but Xena wouldn't let him go inside. Shawn almost tried to sneak off, but he knew Xena would catch him. She was one person that sometimes knew what Shawn was thinking before he did.

Not soon after Xena handed him off to Chan. She was pretty cool for a person that was of lower rank. Why Chan was not promoted to ensign yet was beyond him.

"If you know what a med kit looks like, grab one from shuttle five over there. I'll get the one from three."

Finally, some action!

Shawn zoomed to shuttle five, and effortlessly got inside, got a medkit, and zoomed back to Chan. And while the adults were busy Shawn took his chance to creep into the alien craft, and start to poke around. After placing the medkit on a damaged console Shawn crawled behind some loose tubes and what looked like part of the ceiling that was hanging down slightly.

"We are the Borg." Shawn said emotionlessly; imitating the collectives hail. The young boy had discovered a Borg corpse. Shawn reached out and touched something on the dead drones arm. A odd shaped device started to spin round in circles. "DUDE!"

Shawn swiftly came back out, and dusted the rubble off his head. "It's spinning out of control!"

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[Xena]

Xena used a long device from the medkit that looked almost like a syringe to suck up the nanoprobes. That way they could not get on anybody, and could be disposed of properly. There was no doubt left that this alien in sickbay was attacked by the Borg. However to make the situation more tense; when Xena looked around she didn't see Shawn. "Where is Shawn?"

"DUDE!" "It's spinning out of control!"

"What did you do?!" Xena handed the medical device to Chan. "Suck up the rest of those nanoprobes." Xena ordered as she drew her phaser and walked over to where a swirly, clicking sound was coming from. She pushed a support beam to the ground and saw the dead drone. "Well that's just great." Xena muttered.

Xena shot at the drone. Nothing. Putting her phaser away, Xena motioned Sharpay over.

Sharpay was there in a split second. She scanned the drone then carefully reached out and pressed a series of controls on the drones arm. It stopped. "Don't you go anyplace Shawn." Sharpay warned as she backed away. After she did Xena decided to break the drones neck just in case. After the snap of the neck she touched her badge.

"Xena to bridge and security, we found a dead drone on the alien craft. A cybernetic implant was activated briefly. I recommend we go to yellow alert and do continuous scans for Borg."

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[Elise Triad]

Elise was focused on her readings as Xena was gathering the nanoprobes. Something was not right with this shuttle, she could feel it in her bones. That was when Shawn announced his findings in a way only he could and Elise herd the buzzing sound.

Elise turned to set her PADD on the panel behind her and turned around in time to see Xena shot the dead drone with her phaser. Elise knew it was a good move and she would have done the same however braking it’s neck was a little over the top for even for her.

“It looks like we are all going to be taking a walk up to sickbay after this.” Elise added as she moved to the drone. Moving a few things out of the way Elise got the drone on the floor of the shuttle “Lets have a better look at you” she said more to her self then the others as she knelt down beside the body. Scanning the dead borg with her tricorder Elise picked up the residual traces from weapons fire other then Xena’s but nothing to show that it was what killed the drone.

“Ensign Harper. I want you to have a look at the environmental systems, look for anything out of the ordinary. Lieutenant Xena it may be time for the child to step outside.” Elise looked up at her as she drew out her knife and turned the drone over “It’s going to get a bit messy”

I wonder why the failsafe was not used to destroy this one Elise thought as she readied to remove the neural transceiver and interlink.


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[Captain La'Mara Tiho]

//"Take that drone to sickbay. See if you can find the cause of death, then jettison it out into space."//