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Engineering Intruders

Posted on Thu Feb 14th, 2019 @ 1:06pm by Commander Rita Paris & Captain Enalia Telvan & Lieutenant Commander Thex sh'Zoarhi

Mission: Dance of the Valkyries
Location: USS Hera, Deck 24, Main Engineering
Timeline: 2396

The engineering bay of the USS Hera was abuzz with noise, as the ship's engineering team did what they did best. The andorian chief of engineering's antenna was vibrating slightly at all the noise, as she yelled out instructions to her men. "Right, I want repair teams on deck three, four and seven patching up the power grid, and I want it fixed yesterday. I do NOT want us to be using the backup power grid if that ship comes round for another attack run," she yelled, blowing some of the smoke from a few of the exploded consoles out of her face.

"Boss, warp core is holding," called one of the engineers, to which Thex gave a grin. Something was going right at least. "Very good- everyone else, you know the drill. Start with the highest priority systems and work...." the cold-climate commander began, before her antenna began to detect the faint vibrations that could only be one thing- the displacement effect that preceded a transporter effect.

=^= Thex to the bridge, we have intruders! =^= the andorian yelled out as several Valkyries right out of a classic Conan the Barbarian painting materialized in the room.

The lead Valkyrie, a frosty blonde Nordic goddess clad in high-tech Norse styled armor complete with a flowing purple cloak. Setting her broad shoulders on her sturdy muscular frame, the ice-blue eyed warrior woman raised her spear to point it at Lieutenant Commander sh'Zoarhi. "Kill all who oppose us and destroy this place, my sisters. Valhalla awaits!"

Which was when the spear was struck by a surprisingly precise phaser beam. An amplified and authoritative woman's voice rang out.

"Get down, Commander!" as another beam struck the lead Valkyrie, irritating her even as she drew a spiked mace from her belt and with a 'phoont!' sound a gas grenade landed amongst the shieldmaidens of Odin, who moved to scatter.

Thex brain was already working as her legs began to move as he crew scattered. knowing her uniform would provide no protection against these women the andorian was sprinting over to the replicator that held the emergency environmental suits.

The leader of the Valkyrie was in the way of the andorian. Thankfully she was busy shooting at the assigned security team who were taking cover on the second floor.

Drawing the heaviest tool in her belt the Andorian grabbed the Valkyrie's cloak and with a jump that could only come from the athletic chief engineer she leapt over the Norse warrior woman, pulled her cloak over her helmet before bringing the tool down on her helmeted head as hard as she could, Which resulted in a resounding 'CLANG!'

"Seriously, who wears capes into a firefight?" The andoian yelled as she leapt away, and scrambled over to the replicator. Standing on the pad, she knew the five seconds needed to replicate the suit. The seconds dragged by before the familiar suit was beamed onto the andorian. Just as one of the Valkyrie's spears smashed into the replicator, sending sparks and metal flying.

"Oh great, another thing I needed to fix." She yelled at the woman as she used the spear as leverage to throw herself over the Norse warrior. The warrior woman, unsurprised by the leap, redirected Thex's armored form to drive her into an island panel that controlled the inertial dampeners in engineering. When the panel only cracked and didn't shatter, the chooser of the slain raised her spear to plunge it into the back of the Andorian engineer when a phaser beam glanced off her armor, and she turned to face one of the gold-clad security officers.

"Drop your weapon! Do it now!" the Security officer barked.

Thex didn't waste any time and with the speed that she thought with wrapped her legs around that of her Norse opponent and pulled the woman to the floor. Leaping up the andorian grabbed the spear from the woman's grip, and brought the rear of the weapon slamming into the woman's helmet.

Before Thex could do anything another of the Norse warrior women was on her and it took every move that the andorian had in her chimera fighting style of andorian, federation martial arts and Orion dancing moves to dodge and block the warrior women's spear thrusts. That was when a lance of phaser fire took the Norwegian immortal, and dropped her to the deck. All about the compartment, phaser fire could be herad alongside violent battle cries, and crashing equipment.

A gold armored security officer stepped into Thex's line of sight, phaser moving as they secured the perimeter before calling to her. "Lieutenant Commander, are you hurt? Do you need assistance?"

Even as she spoke, the security officer fired again at a target Thex couldn't see from her vantage point.

"No, I'm fine ensign, other than the fact my engineering bay has been invaded by Norse warrior women. Can someone toss me a rifle?" Thex said as one of the security officers threw her a phaser rifle. "Right, boys- lets teach these women not to mess with the Hera!"

"Between our people and your people, ma'am, we seem to be handling it." As the Valyrykor were all working and moving independently, they were committing some havoc. But they didn't know which systems were which in the Starfleet engineering sector, and while they were acting as random agents of chaos, the security teams were coordinating with the engineering crew and pinning the shieldmaidens of Odin down and stunning them into unconsciousness. As another boarding party appeared, half a dozen phaser beams of varying intensities fired, and the intruders dropped as soon as they had fully materialized.

"Schwartzman, L'rrull, start tagging them for transport. We don't know how long they're going to stay down, and we don't know how many more are conning."

Another Valkrie boarding party began materializing beside the warp core, only to be cut down in an efficient display of phaser fire by the two Klingon women stationed there for the sole purpose of guarding the ship's most precious material resource. "I got four to your three, S'rina. You are a slow old woman!"

"It is because you are lazy and use the wide beam setting, which a child could use, V'nis," shot back the other Klingon petty officer, both watching the battle around them through the head's up displays in both their visors as well as theit helmet interiors. Both were recent graduates, as were most of the Security team, and the skills drilled into them in security training were still very fresh in their minds, and it showed.

"Engineering, what's our ETA on more than emergency power?" came a familiar voice from the bridge.

"Give us a minute we have norse warrior women down here." Thex yelled as she and a few of the security personnel blasted another of the Valkyrie into unconscious. "Cover me guys," Thex said as her fingers got to work on the console. The Norse girls had made quite a mess on her systems, but nothing she couldn't work with. Okay, I need to bypass the negative electromagnetic pulse multiplexer to get primary power back online. I can run it through a few systems to get it back online for now, but please tell me we won't be getting into another fight with a Norse gods warship." The andorian said as she got to work.

"They seem to be ignoring us for the moment, but we really need more power for transporters and engines as soon as you can get them to us. And if you can spare it, we could use some shields," replied Enalia from the bridge. Things weren't looking much better up there, but at least they didn't have a dozen Aesir trying to kill them and bash everything in sight.

"Working as fast as we can captain. I can run a few bypasses to get power to the transporters and engines, shield may take a few minutes until my repair teams can fix a few blown power conduits." Replied the andorian as she got to work. This what she did best and it wasn't long before a smile was on her face as power was flowing to the transporters and impulse engines.

"Thex to team three ETA on power to the shields?" She said tapping her combadge. "Three minutes boss, we have to patch the hull breach first." Came the reply.

The battle outside the USS Hera would wage for a bit longer. But in Main Engineering, the security and engineering forces had defended the starship from powerful invaders, with a minimum loss of functionality, and no loss of life. The Hera would fly on to further adventures, and her crew would have one heck of a story to tell.

 

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