Previous Next

Rescue Rangers Arrival Part 1

Posted on Mon Sep 22nd, 2014 @ 11:32pm by Captain Enalia Telvan & Lieutenant Commander Charon Edomar & Lieutenant Commander Jennifer Stanson & Commander Angelica Fairchild & Lieutenant JG Rhett Beaumont & Staff Warrant Officer Nexi

Mission: Something Amiss
Location: Various
Timeline: MD4 0700

-=USS Hera Bridge=-

Enalia was on the bridge well before they dropped out of warp. The helm had plopped them at the exact coordinates at the exact time he needed to and she was pleased. They were only a few thousand kilometers from the pulsar so with any luck at all, their presence was masked completely.

"Fire up the full scanner suite. I want a map of that complex as soon as possible." Enalia called out. From the ops console, the ensign there nodded and started the scans immediately. Soon Enalia had readings coming up on her sensor display, but it wasn't very detailed. "Narrow the subspace confinement beam. Let's see if that clears it up."

"Yes, Ma'am." the young ensign replied as he modified the scans. It took about a minute more, but the data was finally coming in and in pretty great detail - Enalia could even see where they ventilation shafts were.

"Get this data to the team and have them launch as soon as possible." Enalia called out.

Charon stepped on the bridge just about a few moments after they dropped out of warp. He walked down towards the captain in a brisk pace. For a moment he just stood there and waited. Moving in closer he handed her a PADD. “We are as ready as well ever be. Emergency repair crews have been assigned in case we need them. Everybody with half a clue of how to handle a medical tricorder has been assigned to support the medical staff in case of a emergency and I ordered security teams to be on standby. In case we have some uninvited guests.” With everything he had done he still believed this would end in catastrophe. No matter what, this was going to be their trial by fire.
With that said Charon slumped down in his seat. He didn't look like he had slept much in the last couple of days. At least to people who could tell whether a Ullian was well rested or not.

Taking the PaDD, Enalia looked over it as Charon spoke. "Thank you, Number One. Let's hope nothing goes too wrong now." She knew it would, though she still hoped as she stared at the main viewer.


-=Runabout USS Selune=-

In the shuttlebay, the team was preparing for launch...

Jennifer was first to arrive at the shuttle. This was no coincidence as she wanted to get there before Nexi to make sure all of the systems where working as they should without being tampered with. She also wanted to be fully prepared for any situation that could occur during the mission. She began various system tests until the others arrived.

Not wanting Nexi to beat her to the shuttle, Angelica made her way there quickly... but not quickly enough to beat Jennifer. She ignored the intelligence officer, pausing near her only long enough to check that she'd bothered to grab a phaser. Beyond that, she had little concern about Jennifer's well-being, and small talk... well that just wasn't necessary.

Ensign Rhett Beaumont had some of his engineering equipment with him in an engineer's kit, slung over one shoulder. Additionally, he had a tricorder and a standard type-II hand phaser per protocol. Weapons were a large part of Rhett's childhood. His family dealt arms and he himself when on business dealings was often escorted by guards who were quite heavily armed. However, Rhett himself was a piss poor shot.

Hopefully, nobody would need him to save them through his use of a phaser. He hurried along and rushed into the shuttle. He wanted to get this mission over with. I should have kept my mouth shut. I could have remained aboard Hera safe and sound in my office or in Engineering thought the young Chief Engineer.

"Yes, you should have..." Nexi whispered into Rhett's ear as she seemingly appeared out of nowhere from behind him. She brushed passed the offensive Orion and to the cockpit. "We ready?" she asked Angelica as she settled herself into one of the seats.

Grunting, the Chief Engineer turned around and glared at Nexi. Don't you have better things to do then get inside my head?" thought Rhett. "No body likes a prying little hussy" he said, whispering back to her.

"Oh, when I start prying, you'll know it, pretty boy," Nexi replied with lopsided grin. as she leaned back in her seat and kicked her feet up onto the cockpit console. "Seriously, the clock's ticking and I'm not getting paid for overtime, so lets get a move on!"

You think I'm pretty? he thought with a smirk. I'm flattered but you're a little too... butch for my taste.

"Feet off the console." Jennifer said firmly as she looked back at Nexi. She starred for a brief second at the ragtag group that where coming along for the mission. She wondered why Starfleet Intelligence would send them instead of an extraction team who are highly trained for this exact type of mission. Nevertheless this is what they had so she would have to make do.

"Yeah, yeah," Nexi griped at Jennifer as she removed her booted feet from the console, sitting up straight so she could work at the console. As she swapped the graphic interface from Starfleet Standard to Ferengi language output, she reached over to flick Rhett on the ear, hardly the most painful retort she had ever delivered, but more than enough to satisfy her need to punish him. "We need to have a talk with Starfleet Communications about the Ferengi output on these controls, the translations suck!" She swapped back to Starfleet Standard; she'd have to do the best she could with that...

Rhett flinched at the flicking of his ear. Bitch he thought, keeping his reply silent. He knew some Ferengi but most of his knowledge was of common business words and phrases like 'Show me the money' or 'Deal or no deal?' or his personal favorite 'I'll have your lobes for this!' The Chief Engineer listened to Nexi complain. "What is Ferengi for shut the hell up and live with it?"

"Behave, children, or I'll lock the two of you in a cabinet!" Angelica said sharply, hoping to put an end to the bickering. She would do it too, if they kept arguing like that. "Beaumont, get your flight check done. Nexi, shut up and leave the boy alone."

"Together or separately?" Nexi ask rather seriously. "Because if I'm stuck in a cabinet with him, I just might kill him."

"I'll kill both of you if you don't start getting along." Angelica normally had a more even temper, but arguments inside tiny shuttles rapidly grew loud and raucous, and she wanted no part of that.

"Fair enough," Nexi said evenly, then locked her eyes on the facility schematics. "Alright, so how do you want to approach this one?" she asked as she put the schematics on one of the screens so they could all see them. "I don't like the layout, there's something off about it..."

Rhett smirked. "Kill her first. I want to watch" he said as he settled down in the craft.

"Stow it, Ensign." Angelica looked at the schematic that Nexi had pulled up. "Building looks... asymmetrical. That can't be right..."

"Right!" Nexi nodded her agreement. "Romulans are obsessed with symmetry, so this building, even if it was built by the Remans, should be symmetrical." Nexi reduced the scans to a wireframe image, duplicating the image and flipping it, matching it up to where the complex's design had started to mirror itself but stopped. By overlaying the image, they could see that a whole wing had 'mysteriously' disappeared. "I'll bet you just about anything that our target is in there."

"I'd bet you're right. If there's one Vulcan thing they just couldn't shake it's the symmetry. It's the real reason their ships look like birds... natural symmetry. Looks pretty and fierce at the same time." Now that the missing wing was so obvious, Angelica easily traced out where its outline should be. "It'll be a secure door. Nothing we can't eventually get through, but definitely an extra obstacle."

"That's probably not the only obstacle. It's been in my experience that complexes like these have transport inhibitors. I've never tackled a Romulan facility, but if they're even half as paranoid as rumored, a beam in won't be possible. If we're tagged, a beam out might be possible, but that depend on just how paranoid the Rommies are at this complex. Then there's the matter of finding and releasing our target, then finding a safe egress... They are not going to make that easy." Nexi may have been goofing around earlier, but now she was all business. Now, she was doing what she did best. "I have a personal cloak to help get me in so I can disable security and surveillance, but I'm worried they might have developed technology to detect me through the cloak or even to inhibit cloaking altogether. Anyway, it's an option, but I want extra ideas in case that's not viable."

"If nobody is going to pilot this damn thing...." said Rhett assertively as he stood up and navigated himself around the small craft. He found himself plopping down at the helm. He looked around and studied the controls at the console. Like riding a horse...right? Oh yeah, I remember why I do not enjoy this. I failed my piloting exams several times. "Y'all might want to hold onto to something. Some kind prayers may also be nice" said Rhett warning them.

"Ensign, power up the engines." Jennifer ordered the perky young Engineering officer who had taked the helm. She pressed a button on her console opening up a communications link to the Bridge, "Runabout Selune to the Bridge, we're all ready here, Sir. We'd like permission for departure." she said taking charge as she was the ranking officer in the craft.

"Yes, Ma'am!" shouted Rhett with some excitement. The Ensign went to work with a quick pre-flight check. All systems operational he thought to himself as he looked over the 'instruments' on the console before him.

"Permission granted, Selune." Enalia replied personally. "Good luck and be sure all of you get back here in one piece."

Yeah, no promises thought the Orion Chief Engineer. "And we have a go" he said to himself as he 'fired up' and watched as the Shuttlebay was readied for the departing craft. Slowly, Rhett lifted the shuttle up and carefully proceeded out of the starship's shuttle bay.

As soon as the Selune cleared the bay, Nexi went to work on sensor and the deflector array to send out interference that would prevent the facility from detecting them on sensors. It was almost a shame Nexi hadn't been able to offer her ship's cloaking device to help, but this runabout was far too big to be adequately covered by her cloaking device. "Now we're more or less invisible, little more than space dust on sensors," Nexi said as the runabout sailed through the inky distance that separated them from their target. "Any of you three good at infiltration?" she asked as she glanced back at the facility layout to consider their next move.

Angelica could lie or be honest... and this time there was no benefit to either. Both options risked breaching any trust she might build with the Hera's crew. "I have some experience with it," she said after a moment's pause. "But not with a group."

"You and me both," Nexi admitted distractedly as she studied layout. "I'm used to working alone, so this is new to me too. I suggest we split into two teams, one to keep security busy and one to go after the target."

"I have a lot of experience with infiltration, with a team and alone." Jennifer told Nexi and Angelica, "Two teams is a good idea, but if all of the attention is brought to the distraction team while the other gets the target, how will the distraction team be extracted? I assume that Romulan security there will be tight and even more so once they are alerted of an intruder. Thoughts, anyone?" she asked aloud however it was directed at Nexi and Angelica.

"The point is moot if we can't even get in," Nexi said. "I think a beam in is impossible, I'm picking up transport inhibitor signatures. Plus I'm detecting radiation from magnesite reinforcing the inhibitor field. I think we can still beam out with pattern enhancers, but how to get in..."

Not wanting to reveal too much about herself, Angelica looked at Jennifer. "Ball's in your court, Commander."

Jennifer looked at Nexi and Angelica, "Well, I've done some digging into the facility and the Magnesite mine was very smart on the Romulan's side as we cant get in. But if we cant get in via transport, neither can they. They must have some way they are getting in and out of the facility. They do, however, have a chute in which they can deliver food from the upper levels to the lower. So, we can either get through that way or find the way that the guard use, which will most likely be heavily guarded." she said taking a pause for a brief second, "Now, the planet has no atmosphere so we can't really land and get in that way. Anyone have any ideas?" she asked aloud.

"I don't think the guard's entrance is wise." Angelica studied the diagram for a moment, visualizing where those elements were. "The chute might have less security, but I'm not certain of its safety."

"Have we packed anything like plasma grenades or flash bangs?" Jennifer asked Angelica. "We could use those to stun the guards then you and I will go down first, take them out and then the rest can follow." she told Angelica.

Angelica grinned kind of crookedly. "Of course. I keep a handful of stun grenades within reach on the ship... I'm not going down to a planet without them."

 

Previous Next

labels_subscribe