KezTrek was helping Rajin with getting the Knights computer online when she heard a shout from Springer, running around the corner to where the shout had come KezTrek found her self face to face with a phaser and Springer lying appearing mostly uninjured on the floor "Put down the phaser" she ordered the man standing before her he was human - or at least appeared to be although with the burns he'd apparently suffered to his face and hands it was difficult to say - and wearing a yellow Starfleet uniformmm. "No, get back or I'll kill you" the man a Lt according to his pips said "I am the First officer of the Fang we received your distress call, we are here to help" KezTrek said trying to reason with the evidently frightened man - if there was one thing she knew it was that a frightened man was also a dangerous one - "No get away from me" the Lt said "Lt please put down your weapon we will not harm you" again trying to reason with the man "NOOOOOO" the Lt shouted firing the phaser. KezTrek jumped out of the way but was still hit on the arm, pulling out her own side arm she used her good arm to fire at the Lt who was standing immobile - probably in shock - with the phaser still pointed where KezTrek was last standing, the Lt hit the deck with a thud. By this time the rest of the away team had gathered round after hearing the noise, "Commander" Doctor Shipley bent beside her concerned "are you alright" she asked "I am perfectly fine Doctor the wound is superficial, please see that the Lt is alright" she ordered motioning to the Knights Lt as she stood up. "I'll need to get him back to the Fang quickly but he should be ok" Shipley reported after scanning the Lt "Very well Doctor arrange for him to be transported to the Fang, however unless it is absolutely imperative that you go with him I would prefer you left him to the treatment of your medical staff and remained here, there are still other crew members who require your assistance" KezTrek said waiting to see weather Shipley would be staying or going, not that she did not trust the ships other medical personnel however for some reason she couldn't name she felt that she would prefer that Shipley remain on board the Knight.....

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Stolen Weapons

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Counseling the counselor

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Mysteries

 

Drew walked back onto the bridge after he received Leah's report "Lieutenant you said you had proof" he said as he headed for Ops "Yes Sir" Leah replied "I have been examine the records for weapon transfers for the pas..." she was interpreted be a beeping from her console "Sir a ship is de-cloaking of the port side" "On screen" Drew ordered a Klingon bird of prey appeared on the screen "Sir its charging weapons!" the officer at tactical reported "Shields" Drew ordered the Fang rocked as disrupter fire hit the her shields "Report" Drew called out has he took his chair "Shields at 90%" the officer reported "Lt. JG Lamont hail them" "No response sir" the Fang rocked as another rally of disrupters hit it. "Sir shields at 80%!" Tactical called out "Very well" Drew told him "Target there weapons systems and fire all phasers" this time the other ship was a bit slower returning fire "Sir they are retreating!" Lamont called out "Get them in a tractor beam" Drew ordered "I am betting they are the ones who attacked the Knight" "They are to fast sir but they are hailing us" "On screen" Drew said expecting a Klingon but instead a Orion appeared on the viewer "You have won this round Starfleet but next time I will" the screen then went blank "Shell I follow them sir" Troi asked from helm "No Lieutenant I don’t want to leave the Away Team but track his movements we will go after him soon...

Drew walked back onto the bridge after he received Leah's report "Lieutenant you said you had proof" he said as he headed for Ops "Yes Sir" Leah replied "I have been examining the records for weapon transfers for the pas..." she was interpreted be a beeping from her console "Sir a ship is de-cloaking of the port side" "On screen" Drew ordered a Klingon bird of prey appeared on the screen "Sir its charging weapons!" The officer at tactical reported "Shields" Drew ordered the Fang rocked as disrupter fire hit the her shields "Report" Drew called out has he took his chair "Shields at 90%" the officer reported "Lt. JG Lamont hail them" "No response sir" the Fang rocked as another rally of disrupters hit it. "Sir shields at 80%!" Tactical called out "Very well" Drew told him "Target there weapons systems and fire all phasers" this time the other ship was a bit slower returning fire "Sir they are retreating!" Lamont called out "Get them in a tractor beam" Drew ordered "I am betting they are the ones who attacked the Knight" "They are to fast sir but they are hailing us" "On screen" Drew said expecting a Klingon but instead a Orion appeared on the viewer "You have won this round Starfleet but next time I will" the screen then went blank "Shell I follow them sir" Troi asked from helm "No Lieutenant I don’t want to leave the Away Team but track his movements we will go after him soon...

The chief watched the reams of data pass before his eyes

“Computer, increase speed”

The data sped up, almost too fast to read but the Chief seemed to be able to keep up..

The chief stopped whistling long enough to pick up some tools and begin making more adjustments

Suddenly a panel nearby started to sound an alarm.. The ravaged sensors of the Knight began to transmit fresh data, it appeared that there was a second ship out there and there was an exchange of fire.
Ragin stared at the screen in disbelief, wondering could the Knights systems be malfunctioning.
Then he tapped his comm badge
"Ragin to the Fang, what going on over there?"
Drew's voice filtered back
"we've had a run in with what appears to be a member of the Orion Syndicate, please take what you can and report back to the fang"
"aye captain"
Ragin Collected his assortment of tools and data pads, and started walking back to the transport site.

As soon as Rajin informed her of the attack on the Fang and Drew's orders KezTrek had everyone pack up, the Doctor had already returned to the Fang with the Knights Lt a short time before and had sent to nurses in her place, although KezTrek had been apprehensive about it she had not commented when the Doctor had told her she must return with her patient. "That's everything" Rajin reported "anything else could be left for a Starfleet salvage team to collect". "Very well, Lt Chase have you located anymore life signs" KezTrek asked "No Commander we had one but we lost it about five minutes ago, I can only assume who ever it was is now dead" Chase reported. "I see" KezTrek raised an eyebrow in what would be considered a typical Vulcan movement - not one she used often but occasionally it slipped forward without her realizing it "Everything has been beamed back to the Fang" Rajin said "Good set transported for 20 second delay and beam us back" KezTrek ordered "Yes Commander" Rajin said and did as ordered while everyone else stepped onto the transporter pad. 20 seconds later the familiar tingle of the transporter beam was felt and they found themselves back on the Fang "Start sorting through everything we brought back from the Knight, I would suggest you ask Lt Lamont to assist you" KezTrek ordered Rajin and turning to the rest told them to report to duty stations before himself heading to the Bridge.

"The Away Team are back onboard" Lamont reported from Ops "They have returned with parts of the Knights computer log" "Trylophis and Leah help Rajin in downloading the information" Drew told his officers "Try and analyze as much as possible". Just then KezTrek and Jerry entered the bridge "Welcome back" Drew said to his FO as she took her seat "Did we receive any damage during the battle Sir?" KezTrek asked "Not much we managed to keep the shields up" Drew replied "Jerry your assistant was tracking the movements of the other ship keep an eye of it and transmit the current heading to the helm" "Yes Sir" Jerry replied "Mr. Troi same heading as the Orion ship warp 6" Drew ordered.

Lt Lamont and the Chief sat looking as the data from the Knight was displayed on screen in engineering. The display showed the condition of the data, the large black chunks indicating where data was damaged beyond salvage.
There were a lot of black chunks.
"Computer display tactical information for the past two days, cross-reference with the data from tactical on the fang regarding the Klingon ship."
The computer processed for a moment then spoke
"match found"
"display" asked Lamont
the data flashed up and the readings matched.
The ship that attacked the fang and that attacked the Knight are one in the same.
Ragin turned to Lamont, "would you go to the bridge and give this to Drew, please" handing Lamont a data pad.
Lamont paused for a second, then nodded.
Once Lamont left the room Ragin turned his attention to the screen again
" computer, new search, this time all reading associated with the Klingon ship, and anything matching them, or resembling them, in the Knights tactical and sensor logs for ... say the last month"
the computer replied "Estimated time of completion: two hours"
"begin" and Ragin picked up a tool kit, and left engineering for
his quarters.

Leah stepped out of the turbo lift and entered the bridge. Cmdr. Drew looked up "anything found yet Leah?"
"Yes sir, the ship that attacked us is definitely the same one as the ship that attacked the knight. Rajin is still working on finding other useful stuff."
"Good, Lt. I want you to stay on the bridge, we are tracking the Orions and I need you at the Ops. Please analyze their course and see if you can find out where they might want to go. We need to think faster than those pirates to outsmart them."
"Aye Sir" she said and started working on her station.

Ragin was hard at work in his quarters when there was a beep from the computer
"analysis complete"
Ragin sighed, he'd just remembered the huge amounts of data this comparison would be likely to produce
"display, text speed at personal settings"
the data was displayed quickly on the terminal in the Chiefs quarters
a good 15 minutes later the Chief rubbed his eyes.... But the Data was almost conclusive. Transferring it to a data add Ragin' headed for the bridge
*** on the bridge***
"Drew? May I speak with you for a moment?" Asked the chief almost as soon as the turbo-lift door opened
The captain turned to regard his chief of engineering, "yes Chief, what is it?"
Ragin' Handed over the data PADD
drew looked at it, and began to frown
"if your right..." he began
"if I'm right the Knight was being dogged by up to Three Cloaked Orion ships for a good month before it was attacked, they just didn't pick up on the signs"
"if I hadn't known exactly what I was looking for it would have taken me a while to notice it too..." added the Chief.
Drew nodded and turned to face the bridge, "scan for these patterns and watch out, the Orions may try something"
drew turned back to say something to the Chief but all he saw was the turbo life door closing.
Drew shrugged, Ragin' had never been the most orthodox of officers....

Drew called up his personal screen to see the progress being made on tracking the Orion ship's movements. Noticing something Drew called out "Mr.Troi full stop" turning to look at both Jerry and Leah Drew transferred his data to both there stations "Look at this it looks like the Orion’s have set up a false trial for us to follow" looking at the data more closely Jerry spoke up "I agree Sir it looks like they have taken three different routes and looped round each other" "Sir" Troi spoke up from the helm "I transferred your data to my screen and I believe I may have discovered there correct course if we head back 2 light years on a course of 222 mark 371 we should catch up with the pirates in two days" "Very good" Drew said as he faced the main view screen "Lay in a course Warp 8 lets make up for lost time" "Aye sir" Troi called out. Drew waited for the familiar rush of the ship entering warp drive but felt nothing "Is something wrong Mr. Troi?" He asked "Sir the warp drive is off-line" Troi said he shock "What!!" Drew barked just then Rajin's voice sounded over the inter comm "Sir the Warp Drive has just went off-line" "We have just discovered that Mr. Cajan any ideas on the problem?" "Yes sir it appears it was sabotage!”

The chief threw the data pad across engineering in frustration
and swore, loudly.
The engineering crew were taken aback by this, the chief seemed to be very irritable these days
Drew walked into engineering just as the chief was about to hurl another PADD
"Chief!"
Ragin' spun, eyes ablaze to see who had just called out to him, his face softened as he say Drew walk into engineering
"Drew, who ever did this was smart, they covered their tracks really well, and they done enough damage to keep us here for at least 12 hours. At least."
Drew regarded the chief, and was concerned, he hadn't seen the chief look this bad ever
" Ragin," said drew in a concerned voice " are you ok?"
The chief looked drew right in the eyes for a second then looked away and picked up another datapadd
" I’m fine captain, really I may need some rest..., I believe the crew in engineering can handle this on their own, permission to go to my quarters"
drew nodded, " permission granted"
as the chief left engineering Drew ordered the rest of engineering to begin work on the engines...
as drew left he almost stopped dead in his tracks.. He just realized that it had been the first time Ragin' had ever called him, or anybody else who had every commanded the fang "captain".

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Suspects

 

Cmdr. Drew was worried. How was it possible that there was a saboteur working for the Orions on his own ship? How could it be? First the news that there had to be someone cooperating with the Orions in star fleet command, and now even here. He didn't even want to imagine the Orions infiltrating star fleet. The threat seemed to get bigger every minute.
"Lt. Lamont and Lt. Troi. I want you two to go through the personal files of all crewmembers especially the new ones to find out whether anyone might have connections to the Orions or at least a dark past. Mr. Troi, maybe you can find out something with your special sense. Unfortunately the counselor is not feeling well but she might be able to help you too later. We need to find out who did this to prevent further doing!"
"Aye Sir" came the response from both Lamont and Troi.
Leah started accessing the personal files. Fifteen new people had come aboard at the last stop at a starbase. Those had to be checked first. Looking through the files Leah couldn't find anything suspicious. All of them seemed to have a regular star fleet career and recommendations of their previous officers. Of course there was always the possibility that they were fake as well. "Mark, why don't you and Counselor Triano start questioning those people while I keep checking the files for possible mistakes that would prove that one of them is fake."

Drew walked into the Ready Room after leaving the bridge to KezTrek he had ordered Leah and Mark to check through the crew files but they was one thing only he could do check the senior staffs records. Even though he trusted them all completely protocol dictated that he check through their files for anything in-cremating he hoped he wouldn’t find anything....

Mark Troi had contacted the Counselor, only to find she was still unwell and so he decided to start questioning people himself. Troi tapped his commbadge "Crewman Gilford please report to the observation lounge" Troi said. The observation lounge was the best place for this he summarized - with the counselor out of action he really couldn't use her office and at least the observation room was private. "Crewman Gilford reporting as ordered Lt" Gilford said entering the observation lounge "Yes Crewman please sit down" Troi said........

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The Bar

 

Lt Commander Springer had just left the bridge to take a well-earned break. He headed straight to the Bar to catch up on the good times he has had. Mr. Springer didn't have many friends, so he sat alone as usual, but was surprised when he saw who bumped into him......
Beckie was feeling extremely agitated. She went to her quarters for a while and started getting antsy. She got up and started to walk around the room. Her mind was running in all sorts of directions. This ancient urge to mate was getting to her. She tried to keep a grasp on her emotions and found it extremely difficult. She felt all cramped up in her quarters, she could not meditate here. She needed.......Beckie Went out of her Quarters and walked to the Turbo lift.
Triano: Deck 10
The turbo lift took her there and she got off and headed to 10 forward. When she entered she saw several "prospective mates" but only one caught her eye.
She walked up to the to a table that only occupied one person. The way the table was situated no one could hardly see anything. So Beckie sat down, and grabbed Springer's arm and placed her hand on his face, and started to link with him. Springer who was totally surprised fell back out of his chair and onto the floor all the while Beckie was on top of him linking them together to begin the 'Mating' process, But before it was completely finished several security guards pulled her off of him......One of the security guards tapped his comm badge
Porter: ((Porter to the Commander Drew))
Drew (Drew here))
Porter (Sir we have a situation with the Counselor))
Drew:*somewhat disturbed and thinking ~what now?~* ((On my way))
"well. A surprise that was." Said Mr. Springer as Beckie was escorted to the other side of the room. Then Mr. Springer saw someone. That someone disturbed him enough that he walked straight out of the room, passing Commander Drew without even noticing him asking what had happen. Mr. Springer headed straight to his quarters. "Computer, is there anyone aboard the ship with the name Divar or Krelna aboard the ship?" "Negative" was the reply from the computer. Jerry thought about this for a minute. "Computer, how about the name of Helen Hunt?" "Affirmative. There is a Helen Hunt as a crewman in Engendering." The Computer replied. "Give you give me a complete History of her on my computer please?" Springer asked and headed over to his computer. "Crewman Hunt, can you please report to my quarters right away!" Mr. Springer said tapping his Comm badge. "Yes Sir." Hunt replied.
10 minutes later.
"Sit down Krelna. It’s been a long time." Mr. Springer said. "Indeed it has." Krelna replied "So what do you want MR Springer!" Krelna said. "I am going to chuck you in the brig. Just tell me who the other one is." "NEVER!" Krelna said as she made for the door, but it didn't open. "Computer, is there a Crewman Dean Jones aboard?" "Affirmative" the Computer said. "Looks like I found him." Mr. Springer said. "Mr. Springer to security team, Go get Crewman Jones from engineering and put him the brig for further questioning." Mr. Springer said on his comm badge. "Well, I guess I will see you later Krelna" Springer said. "NOOOOOOOOO!" Krelna replied, lunged at Mr. Springer, who pulled out his phaser and stunned her. Then Mr. Springer carried her to the brig, with allot of people looking strongly at Mr. Springer. He entered the brick to see Crewman Jones on the floor of the brig. Mr. Springer chucks Krelna into the brig with Crewman Jones. "Mr. Springer to Commander Drew." Springer said
"go ahead" Drew replied
"I have found the saboteurs." Springer replied. "They are in the brig."
"Good, I will be right there. Drew out." Drew replied

. Drew walked into the brig to find Lt. Cmdr. Springer looking very pleased with himself "Report" he ordered "Sir I believe these two are the saboteurs" Springer informed him "I have had dealings with them before" "Very well Mr. Springer begin questioning them Lt. Troi can help you

"Can you please leave Crewman James" Mr. Springer said to the Security guard standing at the brig with him. After he had left, Mr. Springer started questioning the two. "Just what do you think you guys are doing? Trying to get me killed?" Springer asked. "Exactly. Were not the saboteurs, we are to assailant you. You have caught us, good for you. But, only two of us. There are more." They replied. "Attempted murder? But why? WHY?" Springer demanded "Cause, you left. IF you stayed, well we could have gone far. WE didn't know about the saboteurs. Our mission was to kill you" They replied. "WELL I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF YOUR LIES!" With that, Mr. Springer rushed out of the brig, telling Crewman James not to let anyone see them unless they where a high ranking officer. With that, Mr. Springer went straight to Commander Drew. "Captain, my I have a word?" Mr. Springer said. "OK, what is it Mr. Springer?" Drew replied "Well, it’s the two in the brig. Can we go somewhere private?" Springer replied and they both went to a far corner of the room, where no one could hear them. "What is it Mr. Springer?" Drew asked. "Well, the two in the brig were here to kill me. They are two people I know......meet them.....don't want to know them while I was on a Romulan world. I join their gang. They were outcast. No one accepted them. They were like the Orions.....Well tried to be. I thought.....I guess I jumped the gun, but what should I do with them? I don't want anyone knowing!" Mr. Springer said as he awaited the Captains reply.

Drew nodded his head "Keep both of them locked in the brig until we head back for Starbase in the mean time I would suggest that you have an armed escort with you at all times" "Sir I am the Chief of Security of this ship I have no intena..." he was cut of as Crewman James voice came through Drew's comm badge "James to Drew" "Go ahead" Drew replied "Yes sir there has been an accident in the brig just as the ship's engines came back online a power surge killed both the saboteurs... Sir it looks like more sabotage" "I knew it" Jerry said "They told me there are others onboard the ship they must have killed them to stop them telling us anything.
*There you go everyone a murder mystery as well, everything will become clear later on in the sim I promise*



Jerry tapped his comm badge " chief, there has been an accident.."
The chief cut across him " I know jerry, I've just got the news, and I’m already working on it...."
Jerry paused for a second, then replied "keep me informed"

the chief looked at the readout for the brigs power grid... whoever had done this was very clever. Their tracks weren't in anyway evident, but just how they had managed it was a mystery, as he could see no tampering with the power lines near the cell

the chief snatched a tool kit from the locker in engineering and ran towards the brig.
** In the brig**
the chief finally hauled himself out of the paneling from which crewman James had reported the surge coming form, in his hand was a small crystal device
crewman James spoke " what *is* that"
the chief sighed ".... Dammed if I know... but I want you to deactivate all power to the other cells"
Crewman James done as he was ordered, and the Chief stepped into Cell #1
he paused before kneeling before the corresponding panel in this cell. Quickly the chief loosened the bolts, and attached a magnetic clamp to the panel
" stand back crewman" called Ragin' as he gripped the clamp and pulled
nothing happened
the chief waited a second, remembering something about booby-traps having a time delay. Then he ventured forward, and caught a glimpse of a similar device to the one he had taken from the cell next store.
The chief was relived to see that it was un-powered.
He removed it and then cleared all the other cells ....
Taking the devices he had collected the chief tapped his commbadge
" Ragin' to drew and Jerry"
in unison they responded " yes?"
"I've got something interesting here, looks like I found what killed the two Saboteurs... its not Starfleet tech anyway.... Meet you both in electronics lab in half an hour, I want to start some tests..."
both jerry and drew responded affirmative.
The chief headed towards the lab, toying with one of the devices in his hand as he walked
"curiouser and curiouser" he mumbled to himself as he walked .

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In engineering

 

The doors of main engineering slid open and the chief strode in
" ok boys and girls, how are we getting on?" Asked the Chief in an almost jovial tone. A crewmember nervously handed the chief a datapadd, and then quickly took a step back lest the PADD be hurled in her direction.
The chief smiled " ok lets get this ship on the move people!" The chief seemed to be his old self and the crew around him relaxed.
The chief scrolled through the ship reports for the time he had been away, one item caught his interest

**** 2 crewmen detained in brig cell 2: charge; sabotage ****
the chief nodded and began to make some more adjustments to the ships systems

** 30 minutes later**

Ragin' tapped his commbadge "drew, were ready to begin the re-start of the ships engines.. "
Drew sounded weary as his voice filtered back to the chief "very well chief, begin when ready"
the chief began the re-start sequence and the displays for the ships engines that had, up to now, been dull and lifeless sprang into color
the chief stood back and smiled.
To quote some old 20th centaury TV he had once studied the chief announced loudly "I love it when a plan comes together"

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On the Bridge

 

KezTrek was relieved that the Engines were working again, although she was a little perplexed as to why the two officers who had been charged would have sabotaged the ship - something didn't add up, but seeing as they had know other suspects it seemed as though they were guilty. "Lt Troi" Drew asked "are we still tracking the Klingon ship?" "No sir" Troi replied "we lost them about 20 minutes ago". Drew sighed "Ok, set a course on their last know heading and see if we can locate them again" Drew Ordered sitting back further in his chair and leaving his crew to do their jobs.

While the Fang was trying to catch up with the Orions Leah had other worries. Now that she knew that those two crewmen weren't really Starfleet officers she tried to find out how they had managed to get aboard the Fang. They both had come aboard at the last crew exchange at the star base and their personal files didn't show any hints to their dark past. Either they were fake, but for Leah couldn't find any proves for that, or, they were real but belonged to a different person. An idea came to Leah's mind. She analyzed the picture in the file, and there she found it. The picture had been modified in both of the files exactly by the time they were docked at the star base. They must have had killed those two poor crewmen and taken their place. Now that she knew, she hoped she could find the other saboteurs as well.
"Computer, check all personal files for picture modifications in the last three months... How many modifications found" "NONE" answered the computer. Whoever was the saboteur was much more clever than those two and wouldn't be found easily...

Lt Troi was worried, not really about the Orions, although they were a danger but more about the Saboteurs. Since to crewmen had been arrested for it everyone had been uneasy but something felt wrong - the whole situation gave him a since of foreboding, maybe it was his Betazoid senses that where giving him these feeling but he didn't like them one bit. "Lt Troi" KezTrek said from her place in the First Officers chair "any sign of the Klingon Vessel yet?" She asked, this made Troi even more uneasy, KezTrek was not easily agitated and yet she asked him something that he would have told her anyway had the ship been located "No Commander" Troi replied curtly, this whole situation was severely reeking havoc on his empathic senses and he didn't like it one bit.

Drew walked onto the bridge with concern after his conversation with Jerry and the news about the saboteurs. "Is everything all right Captain?" KezTrek asked "I am not sure KezTrek the saboteurs have just been killed according to the Chief and Jerry it was more sabotage" "More sabotage?" KezTrek said in shock "It gets worse Commander according to Jerry it was an assignation attempt on his life the saboteurs told him that their are more of them onboard after what happened in the brig it looks like they where killed to stop them talking" Drew informed the bridge crew as well as KezTrek

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In the electronics lab

 


The chief was busy with one of the crystal devices when Drew and Lamont walked into the electronics lab "what have you got for us Mr. Cajun" asked drew
the chief shrugged his shoulders "not a lot, but I have more of an idea how this works. Its hooked into a power relay, then primed for a certain signal, in our case the re-activation of the warp engine, then it emits an energy surge into the room, killing everything instantly." The chief continued "the devices aren't too complex, they had to be set in every cell so as to be sure to catch the saboteurs, and I think they are Marquis is design, but these have been on sale on the black market for quite some time....so every nut in the galaxy probably has one"
the three of them stood in silence, digesting the new information when Lamont spoke up "how did they know?" Drew and Ragin looked at Lamont "how did they know what?" Lamont cleared his throat " well the devices were probably planted during our time at DS9 as the brig has been guarded since then, so how did they know that we would catch saboteurs BEFORE the engines were restarted, and if we could catch them at all.... something's not right here" the three men stood for longer in Silence. Each one in deep thought finally Drew spoke “your right Lamont, chief, continue your work, Lamont; check everyone that came in and out of the brig since we first docked with DS9. We need answers people, not more questions"
drew and Lamont left the chief in the lab to continue his work the chief looked at the device he had been working on, crude but effective, but he had little belief that their saboteur would be as crude or as easy to find as this device had been

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In sickbay

 

Beckie soon woke from her agitated state.... Feeling good as new...~the wonders on modern medicine.~ She thought. She needed to go apologize to several people, but Springer was the main one. She got up and the doctor came over and did several bio scans. Shipley: Looks like that hypo helped out. Not a sign of the 'flu'
at all. That should be some good news. The doctor then began telling her about the new crewmember that may need her help. 'Seems that he was mentally injured and he is suffering severely from that.' Triano: Yes! Indeed it is. If it is ok with you Anna, I need to talk to some one. Shipley:*looking at Triano she decided Beckie was better* 'sure Beckie. With that Beckie left the sickbay and she walked around the ship and so far no one was saying anything about how she reacted to her 'flu'. She went to the Bridge and didn't find the Captain there. So she decided to go to 10 forward. When she got there she noticed that Captain Drew was there. She hasn't seen him there very much. To see him in 10 forward was, well a bit strange to her. Triano: Hello Captain, (not quite knowing what to say) Out for a drink? (Sitting next to the Captain) Vulcan ale (she said to the barkeep.)
Drew: yes, Counselor. A captain has to relax sometime. Would you join me at a table? Beckie looked at her new captain and nodded both the captain and herself grabbed their drinks and went to sit at a table with a view..
Triano: The Doctor tells me that we have a new passenger aboard and that he is having some problems. Drew: yes.. I need for you and the doctor to get on that and help him out....

 

Shortly after Beckie left sickbay, the doctor was looking over some recent test when the crewmember from the Knight sat up unexpectedly. Anna could tell that, even through his shaking, he was trying to say something, but she couldn't make it out. "Doctor to Counselor Triano" "Triano here" she replied, "Counselor, our patient has woken up on his own and is in what seems like a seizure of some sort, he is trying to tell me something, but I can't understand him. You need to get to sickbay immediately." Beckie stood up "I'm on my way doctor" Beckie walks up to Anna where she has a tricorder in hand. Beckie walks around the table and looks at the patient. He was not awake yet so she cleared her mind so she could get a feel for what he was thinking about. So far all she could tell was that he was extremely scared.*

Triano: Anna. I am not getting much. Beckie was enjoying the Conversation when Anna Called. Seemed like that person in sickbay was coming around. Triano: Sorry Captain. Duty calls. Drew: Sure thing. Let me know any development.
Triano: I will Captain. Beckie leaves 10 forward and heads to sick bay

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The Bridge

After some sleep Drew returned to the bridge "Morning Commander" he said to KezTrek as he sit in his chair next to her "Morning - I take it you managed to get some sleep your 10 minutes later for duty" "Some yes" Drew told her as he read the night shift report "Trylophis I want you to help Leah analyze everything that came onboard the ship during our stay at DS9" "Aye sir" Trylophis replied as he left the bridge to find Lamont "Jerry I want extra security around all major parts of the ship especially Engineering and the Bridge" "Yes sir" "Mr. Troi what is our status on catching up with the Orion’s?" "We have gained speed during the night Sir we should catch up with them in 2 hours"

2 Hours later
"Sir we are coming within range of the Orion ship it appears they are attacking another ship" Troi reported from the helm "Red Alert" Drew ordered "Jerry I don’t want them getting away as soon as we drop out of warp fire a spread of quantum torpedoes take out there engines and then lock them in a tractor beam" "Yes Sir!" Jerry relied eager to catch the pirates. The Fang dropped out of warp next to the Orion ship before the Orion’s even had time to reposed they where locked in the Fang's tractor beam "Jerry beam all the bridge crew straight to the brig" Drew ordered "Done sir" Jerry replied "KezTrek you and Jerry get down to the brig and question them try and discover what connections they have with the saboteurs" "Sir" before replied as they left the bridge.

"Brig" KezTrek ordered as the turbo lift doors closed behind her and Springer. "Think they'll talk Commander" Springer asked "It is doubtful, however we even if they will not tell us exactly what we want to know we may find out other information that could be of use" KezTrek responded. "Maybe we'll be lucky and have captured a couple who are willing to talk" Springer observed "Highly unlikely, however anything is possible" KezTrek responded with a raised eyebrow as the turbo lift came to a stop. "Ensign" KezTrek nodded to the guard outside the brig "how many Orions do we have in the Brig" she asked "We have seven in there Commander but so far all they have done is insult and threaten us" the young Ensign replied. "Thank-you KezTrek said and she and Springer entered the Brig.
"I am Commander KezTrek of the Federation starship U.S.S Fang, this is our Chief security officer Mr. Springer, your ship is held by one of our tractor beams and if needed we can tractor you all the way back to the nearest Federation base, so it would be in your best interests to comply and answer our questions" KezTrek stated mater-of-factly. The Orion simply looked at her, not moving and not speaking. "Very well if you do not wish to cooperate you shall be transported to the nearest Federation out post and arrested, Mr. Springer arrange for a full sweep of their vessel and its computers, I want any information we can get, also continue questioning them at one hour intervals, if they so much as say a word I want to know about it" KezTrek ordered looking at the security officer "Yes Commander" Springer replied, leaving the Brig to go and do as KezTrek requested. "If you decide you might like to cooperate the guards can contact me" KezTrek said leaving - Orions where not known for the cooperation so it was unlikely they would talk but stranger things had happened.......

Bridge:
Drew was satisfied after they had captured the Orions. A first victory in what looked like a very dangerous mission.
Lt. Lamont pulled him out of his thoughts "Sir, the ship that was attacked by the Orion's is hailing us. It's a Ferengi vessel" "Put them on screen Lt." Drew said with a sigh. Ferengi really weren't his favorites. "Aye Sir". A Ferengi Damon's face appeared on the screen. "Thank you for saving us Federation ship, but as we haven't asked for help we won't be ready to pay for the rescue."
Don't worry about it" Drew said shaking his head. How could money be the only thing that mattered? "Maybe you could give us some information instead. Those Orions have destroyed a federation star ship. Did you have any incidents with them before, or do you have an idea why they attacked you?" "They offered us a deal, but there was no profit for us" the daemon said furiously. "Then they attacked us. They want to steal our fortune and advanced technology I tell you." Drew considered something for a moment. "Why don't you join us over here and tell us all about that deal. It might help us stopping whatever they are planning. This might be of help to the federation and the Ferengi, and if the Grand Nagus hears of this you will be highly awarded..." The Ferengi looked skeptically. "Let me think about this captain..." He interrupted the connection.

"Sir" Leah spoke up "The Ferengi Damon wants to speak with you again" "On screen" Drew "Captain I will accept your offer" The Damon told Drew "Thank you Damon" Drew replied "Of course you will mention our agreement to your Admirals want you Captain" the Ferengi said with a croaked grin "I will make sure the Grand Nagus finds out" Drew told him with a sly grin of his own "Now that we have negotiated our contract I will beam aboard your vessel" "I will make the agreements at once" Drew told the Damon "Very well I will talk to you soon Captain" the Ferengi said as he cut the transmission "Drew to KezTrek" Drew called out to active the comm system "Go ahead Captain" KezTrek replied "Commander we have a Ferengi Damon coming onboard it was his ship we just rescued once you have finished your rounds the bridge is yours" "Yes Sir" KezTrek replied "I just need to go to Sickbay then I will come to the bridge" "In that case I believe you have the bridge Mr. Troi until KezTrek arrives" Drew said as he left the bridge to meet the Damon



"I would at least expect the Captain to greet me personally" a high pitched voice sounded from the transporter room as Drew exited the turbo left "Indeed I am greeting you personally Damon" Drew said walking into the room "I am sorry I got held up" "Ah Captain as I was just telling this fine young officer I have important information to tell you" the Ferengi told him "For an extra price" he added with a grin "I suggest we carry out our meeting in my Ready Room Damon" Drew said "We can discuss matters in private"

Ready Room
"This is all the tactical data we recovered from the attack" the Damon told Drew as he handed him a PADD "I see" Drew said as he read the data "Now what is this important information you have to show me?" Drew asked with annoyance at the Ferengi's reluctance to give away any "free" information "For that Captain I believe it would be best if you transported over to my ship - I would recommend you come alone" seeing Drew's reluctance the Damon demanded angrily "Still don’t trust the Ferengi Captain after years of peacefully corporation a Hum’on will still not take a Ferengi word" "Very well I will transport to your ship" seeing the Ferengi walking towards the door leading to the bridge Drew stopped him "It may be best if we take the back exit my First Officer and Senior Staff do not like me leaving the ship with out an escort"




Ferengi Ship
Damon’s Ready Room
"I thought it best not to transmit this information over sub space" the Damon told Drew as he began to active an computer file on the screen "More likely he wanted a better price for it" Drew though to himself "Lets see it then" Drew suggested "Of course Captain" the Damon said as he activated the screen, Drew froze has he recognized the face that appeared
"I have contacted Captain Drew and told him not to continue investigating our actions, our placement managed to sabotage the Fang's warp drive so you have to get as far away from the Fang as you can" the familiar face continued "Drew's not someone who gives up easily but if he want then we have ways of making him to" Admiral Hank said with a evil smile Drew could not believe it as the Admiral who had taught him at the Academy and who Drew had gone to for advice for years plotted his downfall.



The chief walked onto the bridge and was beside Mr. Springer before jerry had realized he was even on the bridge
"what have we got?" Asked Ragin'
jerry stepped aside to let Ragin' look at the terminal
the chief nodded to himself as he scrolled through the data
"have we sent anyone over there yet?"
"Not yet, we're awaiting the captains return" replied jerry.
"Jerry, I'd like to be one of the first to go over there, the Orions won't just leave data lying about for us to find, and we need all we can get at this stage.
Also if I were you I'd be careful exactly *who* you let over there, we still have a saboteur on board"
jerry raised his eyebrows
"chief I don't need to remind you who is in charge of security on this ship"
the chief had already started back to the turbo lift,
"off course not, jerry, its just a helpful suggestion"
the doors slid shut after the chief and jerry exhaled loudly.
Some days the chief got to him really badly. Today seemed to be one of those days

After Drew had beamed back and entered the bridge, he had a troubled expression on his face. Leah looked up to him and could tell immediately that there was something wrong, it wasn't the simple worry about the Orions. Drew noticed her look and stepped up to her. Yet, for a moment he froze. How far could he trust his lieutenant? She hadn't been aboard for a very long time. Yet, she had done important work in finding out that there was something wrong in star fleet, if she was the saboteur she wouldn't have done that. He couldn't push away all worries but then decided that he had to trust her. If he couldn't trust his senior staff, whom could he trust?
Drew: "Lt., can I speak to you in my ready room for a moment?"
"Sure captain" Leah answered. She wondered if she'd find out what was wrong now.
They entered the ready room and Drew sat down in his chair. "Lt. Lamont, earlier you have made the assumption that there is a traitor in Starfleet command, an ally to the Orions. I believe I have found out who it is."
Leah looked shocked. She had hoped that there was an other explanation for the fake lists. "May I ask who it is, Sir?"
"It seems to be Admiral Hank." "Admiral Hank?" Now Leah was completely shocked. "The one that teaches at the star fleet academy? I can't believe it, I used to like his classes."
"I couldn't either, Lt. but the evidence seems clear. Therefore I want you to check connections of all crewmembers to Adm. Hanks. Maybe we can find the saboteur like that. He must have brought him aboard. Also I want you to make a list of all unusual actions of Adm. Hanks that could be prove his connections to the Orions. You are not to speak about this to anyone but Cmdr. KezTrek, and me is that clear?"
"Yes Sir. I will start working on it immediately." Now the look on Leah's face was as troubled as on Drew's. She really had liked Adm. Hanks. How could he do such a thing? She left the ready room and began her work.

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Lt John Doe

 

"Doctor, Counselor" KezTrek greeted as she entered sickbay "Commander what can I do for you?" The Doctor asked "I just came down for a progress report" KezTrek said. "The patient has woken up, but I gave him some sedative to make him sleep awhile longer so his body can heal better. I am presently running a DNA pattern through the ships computers to find out who he is, so far we've had nothing useful from him" Shipley said. "I see...." KezTrek trailed off as a strange feeling suddenly overcame her and she had to hold a bio-bed for support "Doctor, Where is he" she asked standing up to full height again, "over there, why?" Shipley asked motioning to a bed on the other side of sickbay. KezTrek didn't answer but moved quickly over to the bio-bed where she saw something quite shocking "Daniel" she almost whispered "what?" Shipley asked "Daniel O'Neill, he was.....A friend back at the academy, I haven't seen him in years, I thought he was dead" she said looking more closely at him "I can't believe I didn't see it before, Doctor I have to get to the Bridge I want to know as soon as he is awake again, understood?" KezTrek said "Yes Commander" Shipley said "Good, Counselor I would like you to come to the Bridge at your earliest convenience, there's something I'd like to discuss with you". "Yes Commander" the Counselor replied "Thank-You Counselor" KezTrek said laving Sickbay her thoughts occupied by the man sleeping in sickbay.

Beckie could see obviously that KezTrek was disturbed. She couldn't help over hearing the First officer. Did she really know this man? Beckie went to the computer and asked for a biography on Mr. O'Neil, If that was indeed who he was then it would be a bit easier for her to do her job, and KezTrek really knew him as she said she did, Then that might have a better chance helping him. She finished with the Doctor and followed the First officer up to the Bridge.

Triano went to the Turbo lift and ordered it to take her to the bridge and a few minutes later she arrived while KezTrek was talking to the captain. Beckie went over and sat in the chair next to the Captain. "Commander. You wished to speak with me?" "Yes Counselor, if you would please come to my office" KezTrek said leading the way.

First Officers - Private Office
Once the door was firmly shut KezTrek turned to the Counselor "Can I offer you a drink?" She asked, "No thank-you Commander" Beckie replied "Commander with all due respect I don't think you asked me here for a social visit, did you?" "No Counselor I didn't, as I said in sickbay Daniel O'Neill was a friend of mine at the Academy, that's not quite true" KezTrek admitted "No I didn't think it was, I assume the two of you were Involved romantically" Beckie asked "Yes, but more than that....I....We....lets just say there were circumstances, anyway if he's here I...I would like to deal with him myself as much as possible counselor, however he is your patient and I have no intention of changing that I would however like you and I to 'collaborate' if you will on this" KezTrek said, she had her reasons the Counselor did not need to know them, no one did, but Daniel O'Neill wasn't just any Starfleet officer and she couldn't let anyone know what their 'relationship' was...... "Of course Commander, I'd be happy to work with you on this" Beckie said "Good, I will arrange a time for both off us to talk to him together first, for now though I have work to be doing, if you will excuse me Counselor" KezTrek said "Of course Commander, I'll speak to you later" Beckie said and left "indeed counselor you will speak to me later" KezTrek said before exiting her office heading for the Bridge.

While the Counselor was on route to the sickbay Beckie was going over the conversation with the Commander. ~There is something else the she is not telling me. She was very angry when she saw that man. Almost to the point of loosing her control.~ thought Beckie, being part Vulcan gave Beckie a very large help in empathic abilities. Even though her 'logical' part was in constant war with her 'illogical' part, Beckie was still her own person. And was going to get to the bottom of Keztreks's dilemma. She knew the Commanders, Anger was part of a self-protection device of her feelings, and that she probably know her own actions. Again the counselor was not certain. She would have to keep an eye on the Commander.

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Relieved of Duty

 

Troi had a strange feeling, something wasn't right but he couldn't put his finger on what it was, something about the captain was bothering him but he had know idea what to do, 'perhaps I'll talk to Commander KezTrek' he thought. As soon as shift was over Troi made his way to KezTrek "Commander can I speak to you for a moment" he asked "Of course Lt, I have to go to Sickbay so if you can walk with me" KezTrek said "Sure Commander" Troi replied as they headed to the turbo lift. "So what can I do for you?" KezTrek asked "Well it's about....well the Captain, I know I’m not a counselor but the past while my Betazed senses have been really on alert around him - I don't know what it is but something is not right with him I thought maybe I should tell you" Troi said "I see. Well thank-you Lt, I'll look into it" KezTrek said as she got of the lift and Troi followed. As the two headed toward sickbay chatting Springer Contacted KezTrek "Springer to KezTrek, I need to speak to you Commander I've found something you should see" KezTrek tapped her badge, "On my way Mr. Springer" she said tapping it off. "Mind if I join you Commander?" Troi asked it really wasn't his place but he still wanted to talk to her about Captain Drew "Of course not Lt Feel free" KezTrek replied as they made their way back to the bridge "Commander" Springer said handing her a pad as she scanned down the pad her face changed to show a shocked expression "Mr. Springer I want a security team to meet me out side the Captains quarters in five minutes" KezTrek said heading for the turbo lift "Yes Commander" Springer said but the Commander didn't hear him.
Troi followed behind KezTrek quickly as the two made their way to Drew's quarters. "Ok stay here and wait for me to signal you" KezTrek said tapping the buzzer on the captains quarters "Come in" Drew called "Captain may I have a word" KezTrek said standing just inside the door to assure the doors didn't close "Captain after evidence found by our Chief of security I must relieve you as duty and place you in custody, Please do not fight this Captain it will only make it worse" KezTrek said her voice even shocking Troi with the lack of emotion coming from her. "What, Commander explain yourself" Drew commanded "I believe I just did, take him to the brig" KezTrek ordered the security team who moved in and took custody of the Captain quickly, thankfully with out resistance. "Keep a guard on him at all times" KezTrek said as the crewmen took Drew away "Lt Troi would you please tell Mr. Springer that Drew has been taken into custody and ask the rest off the senior staff to meet me in the observation lounge in one hour" KezTrek ordered "Yes Commander" Troi said still shocked by the events he'd just witnessed, and quite worried about what was going to happen now......

"This is outrageous" Drew said to the two security officers "I demand to know what the hell is going" "Shut up traitor" the guard almost spit in Drew's face "I will not be spoken to it that manner Ensign I am still a Captain and I will be treated with the respect due me rank" Drew barked at him as he was thrown in the brig "Whatever you say 'Captain'" the Officer replied with a grin "This is mutiny" Drew called out as the Ensign left the room "KezTrek to all senior staff report to the conference room in one hour" Drew looked down at his comm badge KezTrek had forgotten to remove it from him "Drew to all hands Commander KezTrek has committed mutiny I repeat Commander KezTrek has committed mutiny" "Mr. Drew you will cease using your comm badge I am not the one who has committed any crimes" KezTrek replied "Neither have I Commander!" Drew shouted with great anger.



The senior staff were in the observation room, "OK so what is going on here" Ragin asked "A good question Chief, earlier on Mr. Springer presented me with some evidence that points to Captain - Mr. Drew being a saboteur, This coupled with the fact that over the past few hours several crewmembers have claimed to have 'problems' if you will - with Mr. Drew, the latest of which was Lt Troi shortly before the suspect was apprehended. Mr. Springer if you could go over your evidence again for everyone's benefit" KezTrek ordered and sat back to listen to something she had never thought she would here - evidence the 'Captain' Drew was a traitor..........

"What?!!!" Said Beckie..."I don't believe that for a moment. Evidence can be forged. there has to be a mistake." Keztrek looked up to the counselor and said. "Counselor, I do not like being the one that put the captain in the brig, but we have to take precautions." Beckie had more of a mind to spout some very rude words to the commander. She wasn't about to be put in the brig with the captain though. Insubordination was a very punishable offence.. And if Beckie was any thing she was not insubordinate. So she sat back and listened to the rest of the crew talk about the captain.



Leah was sitting in the chair waiting for Mr. Springer to start showing the evidence. She agreed with Beckie that evidence could always be forged. She couldn't believe that the captain would sabotage his own ship and conspire with the Orions. She had seen the tape that the captain had gotten from the Ferengi. Was it possible that he faked that? Leah couldn't believe it, but she decided not to speak of it as Drew had wished. If the saboteur was someone of the senior crew they would arrest her too if they knew what she knew. It was also possible that Cmdr. Keztrek had gotten the order from Adm. Hanks to arrest Drew without her knowing that Hanks was the conspirator. She would wait to see the evidence and then draw conclusions to see whom she could trust.

Springer stood "Well the evidence isn't quite as conclusive as I'd like under most circumstances but there are several things:- Firstly there is the whole business with the Sabotage we had to our Warp core after looking into every possibility I decided to check the Voice Logs, I didn't think anyone would have been stupid enough to use the voice activation so I didn't check them at first, but after checking and re-checking the logs I found Captain Drew's voice recognition prints, some one had tried to delete them but I was able to recall the file. Also the security systems visually record everything that goes no in engineering and although I thought the logs had been erased I was able to find a couple of fragments, they all showed Captain Drew tampering with the Warp drive systems. And finally Captain Drew has been sending communications to an Admiral Hanks at Starfleet command who has been a suspected Spy for several months now - I was informed about the Adm. two months ago but was ordered not to report anything to Captain Drew because of his relationship with the Adm." Springer Finished his report and sat down. "Thank-you Mr. Springer, now I understand that none of you want to believe that Captain Drew could do this - I myself do not wish to believe it but non the less for now at least Captain Drew is a suspect in this crime and will be treated accordingly - Mr. Springer I would like you to question the captain at he earliest possible convenience, also Counselor I would like you to talk to him if you have time - This is a big priority people - but we still have to find the Orions so don't get to caught up in this. Lt Troi how long till we intercept the Orions?" Troi looked at her, "About an hour Commander" Troi replied, this whole situation made him uncomfortable KezTrek could tell, not surprising really considering he could since the emotions of everybody on board. "Good........" KezTrek was cut of by the ship lurching forward "Bridge to KezTrek, we are under attack" came the call over the comm system as all the officer headed to the bridge "What happened?" She asked "they just appeared, no warning at all" the Lt that had been on watch said "This is Commander KezTrek to all hand we are under attack all hands to battle stations" KezTrek said sitting in her own chair - she just couldn't bring her self to sit in Drew’s chair. "Return Fire KezTrek" ordered as the Fang fired on the enemy vessel.............

Drew was flung against the wall of the brig as the ship rocked "What now" Drew groaned as he picked himself up. Suddenly all the lights went out in the brig and Drew heard the sound of the force filed fading out "I need to get to the Bridge" he said to himself as everything starting to blur and Drew heard the sound of an transport with shock he released he was being transported of the Fang and on to another ship with everything was just as dark "Ah Welcome Captain Paul Drew" a deep voice said "Where I am?" Drew called out "Your worst nightmare" the voice replied.... Fang Bridge "Sir the ship is retreating" Springer reported from tactical "We hardly even damaged their shields" he said in shock "Sir I have detected a transport pattern" Leah called out "Where from Lt. JG KezTrek asked with concern "The Brig... Commander, Captain Drew is gone!!!!!"



"What....get him back now" KezTrek ordered, "We can't Commander not at this range" Lamont said from her station "Fine helm follow them, Lt Lamont as soon as we are in range in want you to beam Drew back" KezTrek was angry how the hell had they managed to get Drew, there shields hadn't been taken down, the only way is if they knew the frequencies - The Captain - dam it he must have somehow transmitted our shield modulation to that ship so they could get him out, "We're coming up on them now Commander" Troi reported "Lt Lamont are you ready" KezTrek asked "Yes Commander" Lamont answered eyes focused on her control panel "Now" KezTrek ordered "Commander I can't get a lock" Lamont said fingers moving quickly over her control panel. "Commander our warp drive is failing" Troi called "What?" KezTrek shouted in a most un-Vulcan like manner "How?" she demanded "I don't know" Troi said as the ship came to a stand still, "Find out what happened and keep track of that ship, as soon as engines are back up in want you to follow it" KezTrek ordered "I'll be in the ready room" and she walked off the bridge...... "Lt. Lamont to engineering" Leah called out after Keztrek had left the bridge. "Do you know what happened?" Ragin answered. "Looks like more sabotage! The captain must have arranged everything, to have the warp drive fail after he is beamed out. Very clever!" Are you sure it was the captain?" Leah asked. She still had some doubts about that. She couldn't get the message of the Ferengi out of her head. There wasn't any evidence to show connection of the captain to the admiral, in contrary, the admiral didn't speak very highly of Drew. Of course the captain wouldn't have showed her the message if it did.
"Well, we don't have direct proved yet" said Ragin. "But as the captain is gone now we must assume that it was him that arranged all the sabotages and also this one. Who knows what other surprises he has? We will need to check every system for virus’s etc. Now that he's gone at least he can't prepare new sabotages."
"I will start checking immediately" Leah said. "Lt. Troi, will you help me please. Lt. Ragin you better try to get the engines online again, we need to follow the Orions as soon as possible."
Leah closed the connection to engineering and first checked the transporters. She hadn't been able to get a lock on the captain, and now she found out why. The transporters had also been sabotaged. With a sigh she started to check the other systems. Yet she couldn't give up the thought that it had been a conspiracy against the captain and that the saboteur was still on board the Fang. She decided to keep checking connections of crewmembers to Adm. Hanks later on.

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Sabotaged systems

KezTrek sat in the ready room going over all the Captain's logs, including personal logs looking for clues - quite frankly it seemed like a pointless as is was unlikely Drew had left any clues but even so regulations had to be followed. The *BEEP BEEP* in the ready room indicated someone was outside waiting for admittance KezTrek sighed and sat back, "Come in" she called admitting Leah Lamont into the room "Commander we have gone over every system but there is nothing new to report, we can only assume the saboteur left everything other than Warp engines and transporters alone" KezTrek noted the Lt's unwillingness to assign Captain Drew as the saboteur, and in all honesty KezTrek couldn't blame her, she was young and loyal to the Starfleet ideal, she probably didn't even want to consider a Starfleet Captain could do such a thing, put it had been shown in the past that it was possible and it was possible here. "I see thank-you Lt, how long until Warp Engines are back online?" Lamont sighed "The Chief reckons at least another two hours, how every sabotaged the engines did a good job". "Indeed, very well thank-you Lt, if anyone needs me in will be in sickbay with the Counselor" KezTrek said and dismissed Lamont leaving just behind her and going to the turbo lift heading for sickbay..........

Anna and the counselor were standing on both sides of O'Neill's biobed, giving him a hypo spray and trying calm him down, when Commander Keztrek walked into sickbay. "Commander, I was just going to call you, My patient has been up for a good half-hour but he refuses to talk to anyone but you now that he knows you are here." The doctor said. Keztrek looked at O'Neill and walked over to him, He immediately calmed down and stared blankly at the commander.

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Counselors views

Beckie decided to let the commander alone with O'Neil. Looked like they need to have some time to sort out their feelings. She knew how Vulcan's were. They didn't like to show their feelings. Beckie was part Vulcan as well. But Beckie chose to embrace her feelings. After all they were apart of her.

Keztrek: Counselor, I need you to go to the bridge and see what you can dig up. you have the Bridge.

Beckie walked to the bridge. She was looking over some of the reports about the time the Captain was taken away. She looked over all the communication logs and found some minute traces of deleted files.

Triano: *walking up to Leah* Lt. I have some files I want you to reconstruct.

Lamont: what sort of files?

Triano: They are the Communication's logs for the last month. I think they were deleted purposefully. I also think they contain evidence that Captain Drew is 'not' the Saboteur. Get on it Lt.

Lamont: yes sir.

Triano sat in the 'BIG CHAIR' and waited for Lamont's Exquisite expertise in this area. ~Humm, this Chair feels wonderful, so comfortable. And sleek.~ thought Beckie. She didn't want the Temporary Command to rush to her head. So she got up and paced back and forth on the Bridge and decided that she would sit back down. After all it didn't look that good having a temp FO pacing the bridge. Others might get nervous.



Leah started to access the files that Beckie had given her. They were supposed to prove, that Drew wasn't the saboteur. Well, she would work hard on that one because she also had the feeling that he wasn't. Finally she was able to do something to prove it.

"Computer, try to access communication logs." "Unable to proceed, Logs were deleted" the computer voice said. Well, Leah hadn't assumed that it would be that easy. "On whose authorization?" "On the authorization of Captain Paul Drew." Hm, wasn't that a little too obvious? Drew would have done better than that if it had been him. Anybody with connections to an Admiral could get Drew's command codes.

Luckily "deleted" didn't really mean "deleted." The logs were still there, somewhere in the main computer, just broken up into little pieces and scattered everywhere. "Computers, scan for files with signature of communication logs and sort out those that are younger than one month." "Complete." "Now put them together in order of creation date. "Proceeding...finished" "Display the restored parts of the file!"

Numbers and letters appeared on the screen. There were lots of blanks in between, pieces that the computer hadn't been able to restore. Leah could determine various connections to Adm. Hanks, but the name of the person making the call wasn't there. The saboteur had done a good job making sure that they wouldn't find out who it is. If Drew had deleted them, he wouldn't have used his authorization codes to delete them, but then destroyed all evidence that he had made the connections. That didn't make any sense. But she still didn’t have proof. The names were all gone...

Leah closed her eyes for a moment to concentrate. What other methods were there to restore files? Those parts must have been overwritten already, there was no way finding them. They would have to find something else to prove Drew's innocence...

She reopened her eyes when suddenly something at the end of the document caught her attention. She stared at it for a moment then couldn't help but laugh.

Beckie looked up to her. "What's so funny Lt?" She asked, not in the mood for jokes.

"Drew can't be the saboteur. Look at that. There was a connection to Adm. Hanks at the same time as Drew was IN THE BRIG! I don't know who it was, but it sure wasn't our captain!"

Beckie smiled. "Good job Lt. I knew he couldn't be! We need to inform the commander. Yet, there is another problem we have: If Drew wasn't the saboteur, it means that the saboteur still is aboard the Fang!"

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A Little Detective Work

**** engineering****

the chief look at the display and sighed, whoever had sabotaged the engines had done a good job, and progress was proving difficult
he replayed the events leading up to this in his head.
Something wasn't right, he still refused to believe that drew was a traitor
his gut said something else, something *bigger* was happening here, and we just haven't figured it out yet
Ragin' walked to a nearby terminal
" compute list Mr. Springer's repost, starting with the most recent, Regarding the arrest of Captain Drew"
the summary of evidence flashed up on screen

voice print
access logs
and other items that jerry had presented
it all fitted
the chief turned around, so what has missing, something was nagging him, like a joke he didn't get, the chief kept replaying it in his mind till eventually...
"the Brig!"
Engineering crewmen look at the chief following his latest outburst
"how long till we finish the engines?"
"Another thirty minutes, sir" came the reply..
"Keep me posted" called the chief, as he ran from engineering

**electronics lab**
the chief picked up one of the booby traps from the Brig.
what had he said about these
"Marquis design"
but the marquis were mostly wiped out by the Dominion, so there can't be that many suppliers left in the galaxy.....
So in theory Drew would have had to meet with a sales man of this stuff in order to buy it....
And no marquis is going to use a middleman, for fear of loosing what little latinum they can get
the chief tapped his comm badge
"jerry?"
"Yes chief?" Came the response.
"I've got a little something here you may have missed, things may not be as clear-cut as they appear"



"Fantastic" Mr. Springer said as he meet with the Chief of Engineering. "What's your point?"

My point is
these device are only sold by a few people
drew would have to have met with one of them to buy them
we find the seller, we find out who drew is answering to, if he's the saboteur at all......

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Daniel O'Neil

After the Doctor and Counselor left them in private neither spoke for a few moments both studding the other intensely, "Daniel, it has been...a long time" KezTrek said "No kidding must be 10 years" Daniel spoke with a slight since of mirth in his voice "11 years 7 months 1 week 3 days" KezTrek recited, unbelievable that she was still counting the days after all this time. "I assume you are still with Starfleet intelligence?" KezTrek questioned "What makes you say that?" He asked, "Your records still no show reference to our 'relationship' one assumes that is because of your involvement with the intelligence branch at Starfleet HQ" Daniel smiled "Relationship that's one way to put it, marriage is another" KezTrek stiffened "No one on this ship is aware of our past relationship I want to keep it that way" KezTrek said the tone of a direct order in her voice if not her words. "Yes Commander, Congratulations on that by-the-way, always figured you'd do good in Starfleet, with the stuffy Vulcan logic to back you up you probably stick to the rules like a fly to a spiders web" Daniel almost laughed but held it back - wisely so - "Thank-you, now do you want to tell me what you were doing on the Knight?" KezTrek asked doubting he'd tell her but perhaps with the nature of their relationship he might give her something to work with. "Now you know I can't do that, why don't you just give me a shuttle and cut me loose" he asked. "I think not Lt when we brought you on board you were seriously injured and bordering on psychotic you tried to shoot me, and there is no way I am letting you of this ship". "And if your Doctor and Counselor find me perfectly healthy?" Daniel questioned knowing she had very little reason to keep him here "Then I'll find another reason to keep you on board because until I find out what's going on here I am not letting you go and that is final" KezTrek said almost vehemently. "You can't keep me here forever" Daniel said "Can't I" KezTrek responded challenge evident in her face, Daniel knew that here she was in charge and he couldn't do a dam thing about it unless he wanted to tell her what was going on which for now at least he didn't want to do. "Fine" he said lying back down and closing his eyes. KezTrek went to the Doctors office "Doctor I want you to find every possible reason to keep Mr. O'Neill in sickbay and when you can't think of anything else, enlist the Counselors help, I want him kept on this ship understood" "Yes Commander" Shipley replied perplexed by the Commander's request but willing to do as ordered for now at least.......

When Commander Keztrek left the doc's office, Anna sat down in her chair and brought up the little information they had on Mr. O'Neill on her computer. Considering each and every option she could think of she finally made a decision that would be medically trusted, all that was needed now was a counselor's opinion. "Dr. Shipley to Counselor Triano:"
"Yes Doctor" she replied "Counselor, I need you to come to sickbay at your convenience, I've had orders from the Commander that I could use your help with." "Understood doctor, Triano out"
--------in sickbay-------
Turning on her computer back to O'Neill's file, the doctor showed the counselor her theory. "Beckie, I don't see much to work with here. I believe I have enough medical evidence to support a possible borderline of insanity, but I need your confirmation or mine is only good for a length of two weeks at the most." The doctor looked up at Beckie awaiting her reply.

When Beckie received a call from Anna about Mr. O'Neil. She got up and said. " Mr. Trylophis you have the conn. I will be in sick bay."

==========sickbay==========

Beckie was listening to what Anna was saying. She agreed. It was taking a long shot. But seeing as to how they needed to get more information out of this man, there was no other choice. "I agree Doctor. He seems to be hiding some deeply seeded Insanity. I will inform the Commander."

Beckie walks over to and taps her communicator. << Triano to Commander Keztrek.>>

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Orions

 

With the Captain gone and Triano, Ragin, Springer and Anna of the bridge it left only KezTrek, Lamont and Troi on the Bridge. "Commander we have the Orions on long range sensors - at least in think its them its hard to tell at this distance" Lamont said "Very well close in on their position and se if we can get as better look" KezTrek ordered, "Aye Commander" replied Troi from the helm as Lamont sent him the coordinates of the ship..........

"How long until we catch up with them Leah?" Keztrek asked

"At this speed about one hour and a half, if we get the engines running on full power soon it might be faster."

"Alright, Mr. Troi, keep up the highest speed possible and go faster as soon as you can. We need to get the captain back. I want Mr. Springer on the bridge when we get there, I doubt that the Orions will give Drew back without a fight."

Troi sat at the helm pushing the ship as hard as it would go, he had kept pretty quite since the whole thing with Captain Drew had begun, he felt slightly guilty about his complaint to KezTrek about what he was sensing around the Captain, but KezTrek had said several crewmembers had commented on Drew’s behavior so perhaps his feeling really didn't make that much difference. "Warp engines are at 70% Commander" Lamont reported "Helm increase speed" KezTrek ordered "Aye Commander" Troi said manipulating his controls, 'lets just hope we can get the Captain back in one piece' Troi thought as they increased speed........

KezTrek was on the Bridge when Triano contacted her "Yes Counselor" KezTrek replied, this was really not a good time for a conversation, they were fast approaching the Orions and KezTrek had no doubt that this meeting would cause weapons to be fired. "The Doctor and I believe we have found away to do as you asked" Triano said knowing KezTrek would know what she meant "Good Counselor if you could fill me in later we are approaching the Orions right now and this takes president" "Of course Commander" Triano replied cutting the link. "KezTrek to Springer, Please come to the bridge" KezTrek said opening another Comm link as soon as the Counselor broke hers "Yes Commander" Springer said and KezTrek cut the link.

"Mr. Springer, have all weapons ready and standing by" KezTrek ordered as soon as Springer entered the Bridge, Springer nodded and moved to his station. "Now approaching the Orion vessel" Lamont reported "On screen" they all looked at the ship housing their Captain "Scan for Human Life-signs" KezTrek ordered "None Commander" Lamont replied a few second later, "he's either not onboard or....." she trailed of not wanting to say...Dead. "Open hailing frequencies" Lamont opened the frequencies and an Orion appeared on the screen "Where is our Captain and why did you attack one of our ships" "Your Captain is not here and as for your ship well that is my concern not yours, however if you go now you will not have to face the same fate" KezTrek was surprised since when did the Orions offer to let people go. "Not until you tell me what I want to know" "You will not leave then you will die" the Orion said cutting the link. Before anyone had chance to do anything the ship opened fire and hit them with a full volley of phaser fire "return fire knock out there weapons" KezTrek ordered and Springer opened fire - suddenly a huge fire ball appeared where the Orion ship had been. "What the, find out what happened and see if u can salvage anything from the wreckage that might tell us weather the Captain was onboard and if not where he is" KezTrek ordered I have something to do" she said leaving the Bridge heading for the ready room, "Mr.  Trylophis you have the Bridge" she said just before the door closed behind her.

Sitting down at the Captain's desk KezTrek opened a com channel to Mars, this was something she had been putting of but know with the chance the Captain could be dead she had to do this. "Hello" Louise Drew said answering the comm call "Hello Louise" KezTrek said "KezTrek, this is a pleasant surprise" Louise said "Louise, this isn't a social call" KezTrek said she really didn't want to do this "Oh, what's......what's happened, what is it Paul?"  Louise asked her voice shaking "The Captain......Paul" KezTrek rectified, although normally calling him by his first name would be against regs somehow in this case it seemed right "He was kidnapped a few days ago I didn't contact you until now because I was hoping I wouldn't have to worry you, but the ship that took him has been destroyed, we don't know for sure he was still onboard, he may not have been but....." KezTrek trailed off "He could be dead" Louise said "Yes...Louise I am so Sorry, I promise you if he is alive I will do every thing I can to find him" Louise smiled gently trying to hold back tears KezTrek could see threatening to over come her. "I'll keep you informed, Please tell the Children I am thinking of them as I will be of you" KezTrek said cutting the link and sat back in the Captains chair, she really did not enjoy that, she had met Louise and the children several times over the years and she and Louise where quite good friends which made it all the worse - hopefully Drew was alive and KezTrek would not have to tell them he was dead.........

"I gave you an question now answer me!" Commander Heckford ordered Drew "Never" Drew spit in his face" the tall bulking man reacted to Drew's insubordination with a phase wipe hitting Drew across his naked backed Drew cried out in pain as the phased energy came into contact with his skin "I warn you there are only 4 more settings on this" the man said with an evil smile "And I feel like skipping 3 of them" Drew tried to pull his head back up to look into the mans face but was met with Heckman's fist "Don’t look at me scumbag" he bowled "Now answer my question tell me about your life on Mars" Drew tried to think of any way out of this and knew there was none, it had been three days now since he had been abducted from the Fang, and as far as his crew was concerned he was a saboteur , he could understand now what had taken place a member of his senior staff had been the saboteur sent on the mission to capture him and had succeed "Answer me" Heckman barked at Drew "Name: Paul Drew Rank: Captain Starfleet Serial number 55B/33C/98Q" Drew croaked out this time when the phase wipe hit it was at a higher setting Drew's entire body cried out in pain as the unbearable pain went through him, Drew's torturer did not release the wipe but inside kept burning Drew's skin until finally Drew lost conscious

Cell

Drew woke up to find himself back in his cell he knew what had happened the same routine that had been happening since the Orion ship dropped him off here. His captors would question him and torture him every 4 hours allowing Drew little or no sleep and after three days that was beginning to take it’s tall on the Starfleet Captain. Drew thought back to his family on Mars why did Heckman keep asking questions about his home planet and his childhood? Drew just hoped that Louise and the children were being protected he had a nasty feeling that something terrible could happen to them. He presumed that his captors already knew everything about him and his family but he would rather die then give them any information that could harm his family or friends.

Light briefly flicked in his cell as the door opened and another Starfleet Security Officer walked in to drag Drew to his question time once Drew respected that uniform and would have found the presence of a security officer reassuring but not any more all that uniform represented to him today was danger and dishonour, he had read reports on Section 31 and of course had hared of them but he never thought they would do this do one of Starfleet’s own.



the chief had returned to engineering just in time to see the confrontation between the Orions and the fang.
as the Orion ship exploded into a ball of scorching white light and its debris flung across the void of space the chief got a horrible feeling in the pit of his stomach
"ohh Bugger" was the best he could manage.
the chief tapped on his comm badge "Ragin' to the bridge, did I see what I think I saw?"
Trylophis' voice filtered back to him
"I’m afraid so, the Orions ship has been completely destroyed, were still unsure if the captain was aboard"
there was silence between the two for a moment, as the chief though the unthinkable
"ok Trylophis, erm, thanks. is there anything in particular you need me to work on?"
"we'll be bringing in some of the wreckage soon, we may need a hand analyzing it, and the sensor records"
the chief cleared his throat and rubbed his eyes, he hadn't slept in a while
"very well, I’m going off duty now, just let me know when we begin sifting through the debris"
Trylophis replied that they would and the chief walked slowly out of engineering and trudged to his quarters.
once inside he sealed the door and dimmed the lights.....

KezTrek sat in the ready room for nearly an hour before going onto the Bridge, she really would have liked to talk for Beckie but for now at least she had to be strong for the crew until they knew for sure about Drew. "Lt Lamont how long till we get the last of the debris on board" KezTrek asked "Were bring the last aboard now" Lamont reported "Lt Troi as soon as we have all the Debris aboard take us back to the Knight, maybe we can find some clues we might have missed" KezTrek ordered. "Yes Commander" Troi said as KezTrek took the Captains chair.......

As the guards hang Drew back on to the chains he could tell that something was wrong, it had not yet been 4 hours since his last "session" and they all seemed worried and rushed he could hear Heckman and another man talking in whispers across the room and was almost certain he heard the name "Fang" mention taking a gamble he called out "My crew will find me" Heckman spin round and hit Drew with his phase weapon but not before Drew seen fear in the other's mans eyes they believed Drew could be right, which could only mean the Fang was now looking for him "Computer energize" Heckman called out "Energizing" the familiar voice of a Federation computer replied and the other man materialized away "So Captain you believe that your crew will try to rescue you" "I know they will" Drew replied "In that case I had better hurry up this procedure" Heckman said with an evil smile he pressed a button on his console and a helmet moved across the ceiling coming down towards Drew until it rested on his head "Captain think back to when you were just 15 years old" confused about this line of questioning Drew decided to speak out "No" Heckman hit his console with rage "I have ways"

Suddenly another force was in Drew's mind much like a Vulcan mind meld, the force was pulling through Drew's memories taking all his knowledge and secrets and Drew had no way to stop it. One memory came to Drew's mind that of him being an 15 year old boy on Mars, his family had been visiting relatives there during his Fathers shore leave that summer, that had been where he had met Louise, fallen in love with her. A dark cloud appeared in Drew's mind and the happy memories disappeared now he could remember the other part of that trip, the dark part that he had been forced to forget Drew gasped in shock he had been here before, during that trip, he had discovered a secret tunnel and had gone exploring once in side he had found Starfleet Officer’s conducting painful experiments on most races in the Federation including Humans. “That’s right Captain you discovered our operations we could not let you remember” Heckman gloated “You where there” Drew said in shock you said those exact same words to me “Yes I did” Drew could remember now the much younger Heckman leaning over him “And what do you want to be when you grow up?” he had asked “A Starship Captain” Drew had replied “Oh I would not recommend that” Heckman had told him. “You should have listened to me Captain, if you had not become a Starship Captain, then none of this would have needed to have happened, no one would ever had believed your stories, including you, but as a Starship Captain you have excess to documents and records that could prove your case, and we are going to make sure you can never do that” Heckman said as he activated a console “We tried to block your memories before now we can only prematurely erase them” he said in a tone as if it was Drew’s own fault Drew cried out in pain as his memories of what happened all those years ago where pulled from his mind “I WILL REMEMBER” he shouted out “I WILL”.

A few hours later Drew awoke in his cell feeling dizzy images begin to appear in Drew's mind of Heckman and another Officer talking saying something about the Fang before the other man beamed away something had nagged at Drew's mind then and suddenly it clicked Heckman had addressed a Starfleet computer when transporting the other officer all the computers in Starfleet where linked into one big system therefore he should be able to address the computer himself an plan begin to form in his mind.

3 Hours later
Torture Room
Drew let Heckman carry on ranting and raving for his plan to work Heckman would have to believe that he was almost broken and that he was going to fall into consciousness at any time finally Heckman ended the season and Drew was dragged back to his cell by one Officer waiting until the two were alone Drew flipped round and pulled the officer to the ground before he had time to react Drew had his phaser trained on him making sure it was set to stun Drew fired. Moving quickly Drew located a console reconfiguring Drew activated the comm system "Computer broadcast this message to the USS Fang" the Fang would be the only people that would believe his story if what he believed was true then it was only his crew he could trust "Acknowledged" the computer replied "This is Captain Paul Drew to the USS Fang I am being held hostage by rouge Starfleet Officers, I repeat this is Captain Paul Drew I am being held hostage by Starfleet Officers" alarms started to sound through out the fatality and Drew heard footsteps approaching "You there stop!" Drew looked round to see 6 officers running towards him "I repeat this is Captain Paul Drew to the USS Fang" he continued as the officers approached the Fang had to get this message "I am being held hostage..." a phaser shot ring out as Drew fall to the ground unconscious

Fang
Bridge
"Commander" Leah called out "I am receiving an transmission from Mars... Commander it has Captain Drew's codes attached" "On screen" KezTrek ordered rising from her chair "Th.. is Cap.... Paul Dr.. to the U.. Fang I am ..... he.. ..repeat" "Leah can you clear it up" KezTrek asked "I believe so" the message played again on the speakers "This is Captain Paul Drew to the USS Fang I am being held hostage by rouge Starfleet Officers I repeat this is Captain Paul Drew to the USS Fang" a different voice came through the speakers "Hey you stop" footsteps could be heard approaching "I am being held hostage by ..." a phaser shot ring out through the speakers and the message went dead. KezTrek looked at the bridge crew "Mr. Troi lay in a course for Mars warp 9" KezTrek ordered "we have to get our Captain back"

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Counselor Duties

Beckie was in the sickbay talking to Mr. O'Neil. Well more or less she was doing the talking and he was ignoring her. Mr. O'Neil was around 5'9 to 6'0, light brown hair - short cut, Blue eyes, medium build (quite well toned muscles but not bulky). He looked like a very intelligent man. Quite and reserved. But he wouldn’t say a mere word to her.....

Computer: You have 3 appointments in the next 3 and a 1\2 hours counselor.

Beckie: Thank you. [Turning back to O’Neil] I am sorry I have other duties to attend to.... The Dr. will let me know if you want to talk some more....

[Beckie was on her way to her office. She went inside and saw her assistant there, and of course she needed to get centered for her first appointment.]

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Meanwhile

meanwhile Beckie was finished with her Appointments. She was Drawn to the Brig, the last place where the captain was held. Beckie didn’t normally sense anything about the captain, But he had done nothing wrong in her eyes. While Beckie made her way to the brig the feeling became stronger. Finally she stepped in to the cell, and sat on the bed.

~what am I doing here~ Beckie thought. ~There must be some reason I am Drawn here?~ Beckie started looking around.. and in one corner....was a small..... shiny... object.... Beckie got up and walked over to the corner where the object was.. she bent down and picked it up...

~The Captain's Comm Badge~......when she touched it she felt extreme pain. She fell to the floor. Her mind.... She was loosing her mind. She felt it being ripped away from her.. her memories...his memories.. They were his memories..... they were taking his memories from him...Such pain.... The things they were doing to him... burning him.. Beating him ....

Beckie was so immersed in his pain she felt it as her own. She started to tremble and shake. She felt hot wet stickiness on her face.. she reached up to touch her cheeks and there were tears.  She was hurting...the Pain she felt.... she tried to stand up. She need to control her emotions.

Triano:*tapping her own commbadge* << Triano to Keztrek >>

KezTrek: << We are sort of busy here Counselor......>>

Triano: << Sir... The Captain... they are torturing him....*in a very shaken voice* They are trying to extract something from his mind..... PLEEESE... get him......>>

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Sabotage again

 

"Course set to Warp nine Commander KezTrek" Lt. Troi announced. "I'll still take a while to Mars though. Let's hope the captain will hold through until then... Sir, we're not accelerating. Something's wrong!"
"KezTrek to Ragin, what's going on now?"
=^= I don't know Commander. Looks like the warp drive failed again, why did you try to go to warp nine anyway?? More Sabotage...but how, the captain's gone, he couldn't have arranged that before he left =^=
"Lt. we know now that it wasn't the captain, he has been kidnapped and didn't have anything to do with the sabotage. It must have been a set up. We're heading to Mars to rescue him."
=^= I see. I'll give my best to get the warp drive back online, but as far as I see it, it might take a while. It doesn't look good, the dilithium crystals seem to be destroyed. I'll work on it. =^= With that he closed the connection
KezTrek lifted an eyebrow. Who was able to do a thing like that? He'd couldn't just be some simple crewman, a crewman wouldn't have the knowledge and access to sabotage a warp drive several times. But yet she trusted her senior crew. It just didn't make any sense. "Lt. Lamont, I want you to go to engineering to see if you can help Ragin. We need to get back on our way very soon!"
"Aye Sir" she said and left the bridge.

"KezTrek what can I do for you?" Dr Shipley asked as KezTrek walked briskly into sickbay "Nothing Thank-you Doctor, I am here to speak with your patient" she said moving over to where Daniel O'Neill was on the other side of sickbay. "KezTrek, what a pleasant surprise I don't suppose your here to spring me are you?" Daniel asked "No, I told you before that until you tell me what I want to know you are staying right here" Daniel smiled "Didn't think so, but I believe I told you I can't tell you what you want to know" he said. "Look Daniel, I know we have a history but right now I need you to prove that somewhere in there is the man I fell in love with, the man I married" KezTrek said hoping this might make him tell her. "KezTrek....I...I want to help but...." Daniel stopped "if I tell you what you want to know...you got to promise me something" KezTrek looked skeptically at him but nodded "I let me stay here on this ship with you, if I do this there is no way I can continue to work with Starfleet Intelligence you have to promise me that of I can't tell you anything, and I go after this mission" he said stunning his wife "Daniel I can't just let you stay on board if your gonna be here you'll need to become a member of the crew". "Fine, I can do that....Please" he asked "well then Welcome aboard, I will speak to Lt Com Springer about putting you into one of his security teams" KezTrek said. "Thank-you, now what do you need to know?" he asked "We have a saboteur on board, and I will gamble and say you know who it is" Daniel smiled "you always were smart but what made you think I would know?" he asked "Daniel, tell me who it is" KezTrek said her temper shortening "Ok I'll tell you it's................."

Several minutes after Lamont left KezTrek sat still contemplating the sabotaged systems, she hadn't really believed the Captain was guilty but the evidence had suggested such and now that they had definite proof of his innocence it might be too late but that meant someone else was the Saboteur, but who? KezTrek considered this and stood, "Trylophis you have the Bridge" KezTrek said as she made her way to sickbay.



As Drew was dragged back into a cell he released he was being taken somewhere new "The Commander has decided to show you how powerful we are and what little chance you have of being rescued" the guard said with a smirk Drew did not understand what he meant until he hared the voice of his follow prisoner "Commander Drew!?" Drew froze as he recognized the voice turning round he almost fainted as he recognized a member of his senior staff meaning only one thing the real saboteur was in a very high position on the Fang.



"We have a saboteur on board, and I will gamble and say you know who it is" Daniel smiled "you always were smart but what made you think I would know?" he asked "Daniel, tell me who it is" KezTrek said her temper shortening "Ok I'll tell you it's.................Your Chief Engineer Ragin."
KezTrek stared in shock "What?" she asked "oh not the real Ragin no its a changeling replacement actually, your Ragin is being held by Section 31" KezTrek was evidently shocked but more than that quite angry 'how did no one notice that Ragin was suddenly not Ragin, dam it' she thought "Are you certain?" she asked "KezTrek I have been working on this case for over three months, I’m way past certain, I’m absolutely 110% positive". "Very well, if you can excuse me a moment" KezTrek said moving to the other end of sickbay and taping her commbadge "KezTrek to Lt Com Triano"

Leah entered engineering and was looking for Ragin yet she couldn't see him on the first sight. She stepped to a young ensign who was Rain’s assistant. "Ensign, where is the chief
engineer?" Leah asked him, a little puzzled. "He had some work to do in a Jeffries tube, bypass some power lines to get the warp drive back online." the ensign replied. "I thought the dilithium crystals were broken and had to be re-crystallized. Why isn't he working on that?" "He said the bypassing needs to be done first, before we can start the re-crystallizing. I must say I don't really understand why, the process will take a while and we should start
soon to keep going again, but I guess the chief knows what he is doing." "I will go talk to him myself" Leah said. "It is very urgent to get the warp drive back." She moved to the entrance of the Jeffries tube that the ensign had showed her and started climbing up. "Ragin, are you here?" she called out. Suddenly something heavy dropped on her head, she fell back down and lost consciousness.



Beckie was still in the Brig when Commander Keztrek contacted her.]

Triano: << Yes Commander. go ahead. >>

Keztrek: << I want you to take security detail to main engineering....... We have found the saboteur........ Be careful he is a Changeling.(pause)..Counselor .......(pause)..........It is using Rain’s shape. >>

[Beckie could not believe what she was hearing. Our chief Engineer was not who he appeared. No wonder she couldn't detect who he was.]

Triano: << On my way Commander >>

====================main engineering===========================

]Beckie walked in with a complete security detail. Ragin was not here...]

Triano: Ensign (npc) Where is the chief engineer?

Ensign(npc):He had some work to do in a Jeffries tube, bypass some power lines to get the warp drive back online. Ummm Lt Lamont was just here as well looking for him. I told her where he was, she went looking for him...

Triano: ok. thank you ensign.

[Beckie turned around to the security detail]

Triano: ok chances are he knows we are on to him... I want every one to do a Phase Sweep of the whole ship...... Deck by Deck... keep a look about for Leah as well.

Security (npc): Sir, that will take a very long time... We don’t have a lot of that...

Triano: Start searching all the Jeffries tubes... fore and aft. Working all the all the way around to the middle section in engineering. head out....

Security detail; Aye sir.

==========4 and a half hours later===========

[Beckie was getting tired at this time... finally they were getting close to the middle section of the ship where engineering was.]

Security (npc): Sir we have found Lt Lamont.

[Triano walked up to where the Lt was laying. she bent down and touched Leah's neck for a pulse.]

Triano: She is alive. get her to sickbay.

Security(npc): Aye Sir.

[Triano heard a noise and turned around and she saw some metallic shimmering about 2 meters in front of her sliding around. Triano moved slightly and signaled the security detail to keep quite. She edged closer to where the substance was and waited for the Changeling to take shape. He did and she slowly raised her phaser rifle took aim and shot.]



Drew stared in shock at his chief engineer "Ragin what are you doing here", the Irish man looked at him "From what I can tell the same as you Drew" "This is impossible last time I saw you, you where on the Fang" Drew said trying to piece together the puzzle "Not me, I have been here since I left the Fang 4 months ago for my engineering course" "Then who the hell has been on the ship?" Drew asked everything now making perfect sense to him "I don't know, but it isn't me" Ragin said "Or you" he added.


Well there’s one thing I learned in the past four months, escape is not an option" said Ragin as he turned to show drew his side
Drew winced as he saw the large area of burned flesh on the chiefs side
"does it hurt" asked drew and then mentally scolded himself for asking such a question
the chief grimaced " I’ve had worse" he lied
Drew looked at the chief, and his wound, Ragin' was many things, tough and often stubborn but he wasn't super-human. the wound look infected and the chief wasn't looking very healthy
" the fang is on the way" said Drew
the chief look at him, "I used to say that too" and he closed his eyes " then I tried to make a break for it, and things got worse" the chief paused, drew was about to speak when the chief started again
"y'know I didn't think this *could* happen, not us, not the federation. maybe we're really no better than the dominion, the Cardassians or the Borg for that matter, the only real difference is we just hide it better"
drew and the chief were silent for a while. when drew thought the chief had finished he spoke
"I managed to contact the fang, they know we are here, and the *are* coming"
the chief didn't even look up "well then they'll probably move out and have us executed, I hope captain Dava says something good at my funeral"
drew didn't say anything, the chief hadn't been on the fang for the last four months and telling him of any of the recent events probably wasn't a good idea.

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the Search Begins

Mr.  Springer couldn't believe this imposter was taken on the best security team Springer had, and even knocking Leah out cold. He got there just in time to see Beckie shot a phaser shot at the imposter, only to see it miss.
"BECKIE! LOOK OUT!" Mr. SPringer shouted. Lucky enough for her, Mr. Springer quickly moved in and pushed Beckie out of the way. The changeling (is that how u spell it) picked up a tool a threw it at Mr. Springer. Jerry quickly used his skills he learnt on Klingon, and got his weapon out from the back of his pants and knocked it out the way. The Changeling and Jerry had a epic hand to hand combat which lasted 5 minutes, which seemed a lifetime for Mr. Springer. Finally, the Changeling with minor injuries was taken to the brig. Mr. Springer was just out of breath.

In the Brig.
"Commander Keztrek as told me to make you speak. Now, will you speak or will you not?" Mr. Springer demanded to the changeling in the Brig.
"What makes u think I will speak?" He replied.
"Don’t It doesn’t worry me. All I want to know is where is Captain Paul Drew?" Springer said
*evil grin* "You should know by now." The changeling replied.
"ENOUGH!" Springer shouted. "CUT THE BULL! TELL ME NOW WHERE HE IS! TELL ME!" Mr. Springer shouted out of control.
"WHAT WILL IT ACHEIVE? I WILL ALWAYS BE LOCKED UP HERE! IT DOESNT MATTER!" The changeling shouted back.
"Very well. Have it you way. we will find out. Lets go to your quarters." Springer replied, in a calm tone.
"NO! don’t. I will tell." The changeling replied. "He is in South East Section of Mars. Or Area 4 as you call it."
"But that’s about 25% of the planet to search for. “Springer replied. "Very well" Springer said and left.

-Bridge-
"Ahh MR Springer what did you find?" KezTrek asked as he came onto the bridge.
"Drew is somewhere in Area 4 on Mars." Springer replied. "That’s all I could get. I search his quarters, but much of the information is useless."
"Very Good Mr. Springer. But that’s still over 25% of the planet to search. Oh well, its a start" KezTRek replied

"Mr. Troi how far are we from Mars?" KezTrek questioned the helm officer "we'll be there in about half an hour" Troi replied "Good, Trylophis as soon as we get there I want a surface scan of Area 4, search for Captain Drew’s bio-signs, if that doesn't work I want a sub-terrain scan of the same area." KezTrek ordered Triano had not yet returned to the bridge so KezTrek taped her com badge "KezTrek to Triano, what is your location?" "I'm in my office Commander, do you need me on the bridge?" Triano asked "no Counselor I will come to you" KezTrek said standing and heading towards the turbo lift "Trylophis you have the Bridge" she said entering the lift heading for the Counselors office.



Leah woke up and tried to open her eyes. Yet she couldn't see very much and her head felt like it'd explode soon. Looked like she was in sickbay What had happened? She tried to recall it and then her memory came back. Ragin... He was the saboteur and had knocked her out. "Take Ragin into custody " she tried to say but the words didn't come out very loudly. Yet Dr. Shipley heard her and walked towards her. "Don't worry Leah, Ragin has been arrested. A changeling had taken his place and was the saboteur." Leah tried to sit up but her body protested. "You need some rest Lt. " Anna said. "No I need to go to the bridge Doctor, they need me there."
"Your not in the shape to get up yet, doctor's orders! Your head was hit quite hard." "I'm fine" Leah wanted to protest but Anna looked at her strictly so she laid back down. In that moment Dr. Shipley's communicator was activated. =^= KezTrek to sickbay. Is Leah up yet? I need her on the bridge, we'll arrive on Mars soon and we'll need her to help locate the captain. =^= "Well, actually she shouldn't be up yet Commander" Anna replied and hesitated, "but I guess if it's about the captains life I will allow it." "Thank you Doctor" Leah said and got up with a sigh and slowly made her way to the bridge still with a feeling that something was hammering on her head constantly.

 

========Counselors Office=========

Kez Trek beeped the Counselors door chime and waited for an invite which was quickly granted. "Commander what can I do for you?" the Counselor asked "I have an idea that may help us locate the Captain more quickly, at the moment we have a general idea of where the Captain maybe but it is still quite a large area to cover, seeing as you have already been able to 'since' the Captain as it were, I would like to attempt a mind meld, with both our minds linked we maybe able to hold a stronger connection and perhaps find out some more information about where he is being held helping us locate him" KezTrek said it was a long shot at best, but any chance was a chance that needed to be explored "Of course Commander if it might help find the Captain I'd be happy to do it" Triano said and both officers moved into a suitable positions from the meld seeing as KezTrek was half Vulcan she would be stronger telepathically although she had not been able to contact the Captain alone because she did not embrace her emotions just as fully as the Counselor but none the less she initiated the link "My Mind To Your Mind........."

Beckie was sitting in her office when the commander arrived. Beckie pulled out the captain's comm badge and laid it on her lap. Where she could keep in constant contact with it. Since Beckie needed her hands to tap in to Keztrek's mind as well.

"My Mind To Your Mind........." they both said in unison." My thoughts to your thoughts...... We are one... journeying together in the great universe..."

Beckie closed her eyes, and let Keztrek be her anchor, while Beckie traveled to search for their Captain. She had stuffed her feelings after the first brief rush of pain and anguish. Now she needed to open her self up to feel those again. Which were an onslaught of pain, on her senses.

Keztrek used her training to guide Beckie, Becky’s feelings were getting mixed and jumbled where she could not decipher which was Beckie's and which were the Captain's. "My thoughts to your thought's......." Keztrek said giving the counselor a more stable anchor. To 'dim' the feelings and find the Captain to connect with the Captain to see through his eyes.

Beckie began to go deeper. Getting a brief look around... She was in a cave. There was Ragin. There was a low hum in the background. Several strange looking formations in the rock in the cave.

Then she looked up and saw a man... Coming towards her. Talking to her... Then he started beating her... Asking for the information that she knew.... What information?.....She didn’t understand.

Keztrek dove deeper. Pulling the counselor back to reality. If she was not careful Beckie could get lost.

KezTrek was using all her energy top try and stop Triano from falling over the edge into an abyss that would trap her forever. 'Leave the Captains mind' KezTrek thoughts said hoping the Counselor could here her, but she could not. Pulling on her all her reserve energy KezTrek followed Triano into the Captains mind searching though the jumble of thoughts she found there. She could see and feel everything just as the Captain did, the pain, the fear, the courage he was fighting to maintain. Time slowed, thoughts became so interlinked KezTrek could no longer tell which were her own, and which belonged to the Captain and Counselor. KezTrek had know doubt the Captain knew they were there but she could not be distracted, her link was not strong enough to remain open much longer and as it stood KezTrek was the only thing between the Counselor and total oblivion, lost in the Captains mind forever. 'Counselor.....Beckie' her thoughts echoed off the walls of Drew’s' mind. Over and over she called until eventually she found her and with her last reserve pulled Beckie and her self back from the brink, at least they had some clue as to where the Captain was now even if it was not much to go on. Both officers 'woke up' at the same time "Commander" Triano said confused but before KezTrek could reply the strain of having to pull both herself and the Counselor out of Drew's mind caught her and she collapsed "Triano to Transporter room beam Commander KezTrek directly to sickbay" Triano said watching the transporter beam envelop the Commander before getting up and heading to sickbay herself.........

As Ragin spoke to Drew his mind begin to wonder he suddenly saw images of the Fang, and begin to feel the presence of others in his mind "Beckie!" he whispered as he felt his friends mind pushing through his thoughts. He clasped to the floor as Beckie’s mind begin to mod with his suddenly he felt another presence KezTrek she became to pull through Drew's thoughts trying to pull Beckie back out. The pain seemed familiar to him and suddenly memories came flooding back about what had happened to him the other day Heckman trying to wipe his memories KezTrek had broken through the blocks in her attempt to rescue Beckie as he felt there presences leaving Drew tried to send a thought to them "Help Me" he felt Beckie’s mind leave, but KezTrek seem stuck as it where still pulling away Drew's mind he could feel her trying to release herself, finally as one they both fall to the floor as there minds linked...

KezTrek was trapped, she couldn't get out somehow someway she had become trapped inside Drew’s' mind. Her body was unconscious that much she knew, and her mind was trapped here, one with Drew’s. 'Captain' she called out in her....their mind 'KezTrek' she heard reverberating back at her 'Captain we are trapped here' KezTrek said hoping to explain to Drew what was happening she her self had only ever been linked this closely with Daniel and it was high doubtful Drew had ever had this deep a link with someone. 'So how do we get un-trapped?' Drew asked his thoughts traveling through their shared mind instantly. 'Only a mind meld will 'un-trap' us' KezTrek 'said'. 'And we can't do that while I am stuck here' Drew thought 'indeed, my body is presently unconscious, however I believe Lt Com Triano will figure out what has happened and attempt to remedy the situation' KezTrek 'said'. 'What do we do till then?' Drew asked 'there is nothing we can DO Captain, except wait for assistance from an outside source'. 'Great, just great' Drew thought, this was not going to be a pleasant experience KezTrek knew, and once it was over she was never going to speak of it again, being in the Captains mind was....unsettling to say the least..........

the Changeling sat in the brig, having long ago realized that there was no way out, no place that it could slip out, and the constant watch of the security officers meant that becoming part of the wall to fool anyone wasn't an option
most species would panic in this situation
but it wasn't most species
the Chief of security had most likely turned the quarters in which it had 'lived' upside down in an effort to unearth some clues to the location of drew and ragin
not that it mattered
the changeling race was noted for its patience, and this changeling was no different.
it may be trapped in the alpha quadrant, working for some 'solids' and now trapped in a primitive brig, but this changeling was patient
and soon his time to strike would come.
if he was to die it would not be in this place

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Murder

Jerry was just knocking off from his post for a break. He had been at his station for quite a while now, without taking a break. In Fact he hadn’t left the bridge since he was attack and it finally took his toll on him. "I will be in my quarters" Mr. SPringer said to Trylophis who was in command while KezTrek was with the counselor.

*Springer Quarters*
Mr. Springer walked into his quarters only to find someone in there all ready. Immediately, Mr. Springer pulled out his phaser and set it to full stun. He also got his small battle knife, Jerry Jr. as he called it, from Klingon out also. "Who's There?" Mr. Springer demanded. There was no reply. "WHO IS THERE?" Mr. SPringer yelled. he was getting frustrated now. He got some sunglasses next to the door, which he kept for when he went to the holodeck for days at the beach, and put them on. "Computer, Turn lights onto to 1000% brightness." Mr. Springer told the computer. The Room lit up so much, that it almost blinded Jerry and he had glasses on. "Computer, dim lights to 50% brightness" Mr. Springer said. Surely no one could take such brightness and then suddenly be dark again. Surely the intruder had to be blinded. There, Mr. Springer saw who was in there. Actually, there were two people in there. "What are you doing in here?" Springer demanded. He didn’t get a reply.

Then, he saw something he wished he hadn’t saw. It was one of his security officers, murdered. "MY GOD!" Springer shouted with rage and fired his phaser at the other person, who was trying to recover from the brightness of the light before. He tapped his comm badge "Mr. Springer, to medical team. Medical emergency in my quarters." He then tapped it again to start another conversation, "Mr. SPringer to Security team One, I need assistance in my Quarters."
Within minutes, there was a medical team, taking the dead body away, and a security team taken the stunned murder away. Mr. Springer thought for a while. What if they were going to kill him next? What if they were trying to frame him? He just couldn't have it this way. He had to find out.

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Sickbay

After the doctor had completed an autopsy on the recently murdered officer, she was considering any possible reason for the attack to be in Lt. Commander Springer's quarters. Anna decided she would take the counselor and talk with him later. Forcing her to put the questions out of her mind, Anna hurried over to the biobed where Keztrek had been transported just seconds before after collapsing. The Doctor hurriedly scanned her for anything that could serve as a clue. The counselor stood beside Anna, looking worriedly down at the commander. "Calm down Beckie, and tell me what happened." Anna remained expressionless as Beckie retold everything she knew about the mind meld, and the captain. " So you're telling me Keztrek is still in a state of mind meld, but is linked with the Captain?" "That's what I believe doctor. He's being tortured, which means pain for Commander Keztrek as well, you have to do something." Beckie exclaimed. Anna looked down at the still body and opened her tricorder again, scanning Keztrek's head. Pausing a moment to enter some information into a computer, the doctor looked up at Beckie. "If you are right, which I believe you are, if she stays in this stage for too long, it could have lasting consequences not only for her, but for the Captain as well. Beckie, I can't get her out of it without the Captain being here. I have to have them close enough to connect the part of their brain that controls their memory and the process of the Vulcan mind meld. Without the captain here, there is no way to separate them which means their minds could literally collapse into one another, making it impossible to ever come out of an unconscious state. We have to find the captain, and quickly." Anna motioned for a medic to look after Keztrek "Inform me immediately of any changes Ensign" she said. "Yes doctor" the ensign replied. Counselor, I'll need you on the bridge" she led the way out of sickbay.
------------Entering the Bridge-------------
On the bridge, Anna found herself telling what almost everyone already knew about the commander, but not the severity of it. What the crew needed now was to be calm. The red planet was visible on the view screen in front of where she stood. She looked at Trylophis and back at the screen, trying not to show too much on her face "I need to know any new information on the whereabouts of our missing crew members and quickly."

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Bridge

 

Leah got back to the bridge after she had more or less recovered from her head injury. She still felt a little dizzy but she knew she had to do her work if they wanted to rescue the captain. She could see Mars on the view screen already when she arrived. Trylophis had the conn and Leah started a first scan of the area where the captain was supposed to be held captive. She couldn't detect his specific life signs but that was quite hard because he was only a human under a lot of humans. But then she found a force field that seemed to protect a whole area from sensor sweeps. It had to be the place where the captain was. Yet they could impossibly beam through the only chance to get in was to try to break the field on the surface.

Beckie entered the bridge in a hurry. "Any chance localizing the captain Lt. Lamont?" she asked. "Yes, I know where he is, but we can't beam there it is protected by a force field. We have to break through on the surface and it might be well protected there as it looks like high security area" Leah answered.
"We have to risk it, the captains and KezTrek's life depend on it. If we won't get the captain back soon they will both die! We will go down, Lt. Lamont I want you to join me, Triano to Mr. Springer meet me in the transporter room with a security team, Trylophis you have the bridge." They headed to the transporter room together.

When Beckie entered the turbo lift she taped her comm badge.

"Triano to the Doctor and Mr. Springer.  I need you both to meet me in transporter room one.  Were going to find the Captain"

"On my way. Shipley out."

" I will be there in a few minutes, I need to round up my men. Springer out."

Beckie was going over the mental pictures of the mind meld with Drew and Kez. All the telltale sign's that might give anything away. When the arrived at the transporter. Anna was already there... Soon Mr. Springer showed up..

Triano: ok lets go..

When Beckie got ready to step up to the transporter Anna grabbed on Beckie's cuff sleeve...........
Beckie stepped back and Anna let go of her sleeve "Beckie, you can't go on this mission, you have to stay with Keztrek" Beckie looked almost agitated but nodded silently. "I'm going to take charge of the away team, you are needed on board, that's an order counselor." Troi walked into the transporter room since the doctor had called him a while before. The commander looked at her first away team a little nervously "We have to get the captain back, and as quick as possible. Keztrek's condition is continuously getting worse. Without the captain, there's nothing I can do for either one of them. Keep watch, we don't know what or who is down there, and at this point in time I don't really care, as long as we get the captain and Ragin out. We can deal with the rest of them later. Are there any questions?"

Mr. Springer arrived with his top security team. Springer was still shaken by what had happen, but proceeded like Beckie had told him.
"So, why cant we beam in?" Springer asked.
"Because, they have a force field around it, so Leah has informed me." Beckie replied.
"Force field hey? I have theory that was been trailed and I believe will work." Mr. Springer said.
"Go on" Leah said.
"well, if we beam a empty container, the big ones in cargo bay, it will create a ripple in the field, and a hole basically. You need to beam about 4 or 5 of these into the fields in the spot you want to transport to, and as the field reconfics for the invasion as you might call it, it gives us about 2-3 seconds to beam in. It is risky, but if done right which I believe is possible, we could surprise the enemy and make it a quick and swift attack." Springer said.
"And how do we beam out?" Beckie and Leah both asked.
"We disable the force field generators" Springer replied.
"What do you think of it?" He asked as he awaited his reply.

"Alright we'll do it that way" Beckie said. "It will be safer than trying to break in on the surface." Beckie walked over to The Doctor... " Anna, You have command of the Away Team." turning around to the rest of the crew." We have to stick together on this. Jerry, Take care of everyone. " Leah, Mark, When you all get to the surface, I want you to see if you can disable the force field. Once you are in there, we won't be able to have any communications until that field is down. GO get 'OUR' Captain back." And with that Beckie left transporter room one to head for sick bay to looking on Keztrek.

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Beaming In

 

"Alright we'll do it that way" Beckie said. "It will be safer than trying to break in on the surface. I will go to Cmdr. KezTrek now and you be sure to bring the captain back!" with that she left the transporter room.
Jerry started calculations for the beaming in, first beamed over a container from cargo bay that he put in the middle than ordered everyone to stand around it. "I'll program the system to beam the container first and beam us two seconds later. If the force field is back already or if it didn't work it'll send us back automatically. This should minimize the risk."
"Alright let's not waste time then!" Leah said trying to build up some enthusiasm. Her, Mark Troi, Dr. Shipley, two security officers and Jerry took place on the platform.
Finally Jerry said to the transporter chief: "Energize" and they dematerialized.

Down on the surface, the away team immediately took out their phasers. "Put them on stun" Anna ordered "don't want to hurt anyone that's not supposed to be hurt." They walked down an empty corridor and stopped in front of a huge door, from outside, the team could hear voices, but couldn't understand what they were saying. Anna turned around "I want to know who and what is in there before we go any further."

"Hold on!" Mr. Springer objected. "I suggest bringing down that force field first, because if things get ugly down here, the Fang can beam us back straight away. Also, I see no point in finding out who’s in there, lets just find a map of the place then we will know." Mr. Springer said as he waited to see if Anna was shocked at hard objection to her command of this mission.

Anna was taken back for a moment, and looked at Springer. Then, in a surprisingly calm voice she said, "I agree with bringing down the force field Lt.  Commander, it is a high priority, but I want to know who is behind those doors, I for one would like to know what we are dealing with before any trouble arises and any information will help of course. If there is a faster way to get to the captain, and if it is through that door, I want to know about it." she stopped and stared at Springer "And for future reference Mr. Springer, I welcome suggestions, but I would ask that you present them in a respectful manner." Anna looked at the rest of the crew then back at Springer "Are there any other objections before we continue our mission?"

Mr. Springer was furious. How could she be so blind? he thought to himself. he toke a moment to compose himself. "Commander, Sir, you are just not listening. The whole point of taking the field down is for incase of trouble. There will always be trouble, and no matter what way we go, there will be trouble. Now, I suggest take the force field down, or I will do it myself with or without your order. I am sorry, but that’s how I feel." Springer said waiting for Anna's reply.



Inside that Room
Heckman sit at his desk looking through the computer readouts paying little attention to them really when suddenly two alarms sounded hitting his comm badge "Report!" he ordered "Sir the Fang has entered obit and we have detected transport signatures" "Dam" Heckman cursed "Send out security teams bring Drew to me" he ordered walking up to the door is comm badge chirped "Sir we are in the prisoners cell, Sir his is conscious and we are detecting a telepathic link" "Beam him straight to the control room I will meet you there" "Computer site to site transport to the control room" Heckman ordered as he was beamed away.



Anna glared at Springer for a moment before speaking "Mr. Springer, I want you and Lamont to bring down the force field, Mr. Troi and I will go in search of the captain and any other information we can uncover about these people. Report to me when your orders are complete" Commander Shipley opened her tricorder and motioned for Troi to follow her to what looked like another entrance. She intended to find the captain and Ragin as soon as possible and with as little trouble as possible. Suddenly, she turned around and with a slightly hard voice she addressed Lt. Commander Springer "I'll be sure and include your suggestions and comments in my final report to the captain." With that, Anna turned back to Troi and began walking again. Commanding even a little away mission was turning out to be more difficult than expected.

"All righty then." Mr. Springer said. "Ensign BooBoo, your with us, Ensign LaLa, go with Shipley will ya? Right, lets get going Leah." Mr. Springer said.
"Where are the generators located?" Leah asked. "Well, it would usually be um...err...." Springer started, until Leah interrupted "You don’t know do you sir?" she asked. "nope." Springer replied. So the three walked, phasers ready, looking for the generators. "Did anyone bring a tricorder?" Springer asked. "Actually, sir, I did." Replied Leah. "Excellent. scan for the generators will ya?" Mr. Springer said and with that Leah started scanning. "Any Luck?" Springer asked. "I am unable to know where we are, let alone know where the generators are." Leah replied, and then a phaser shot was shot at them and a yell "WHOS THERE?" Was the cry. "How Many Leah?" Springer asked. "Three. Shall we return fire?" Leah asked. "NO! Not yet. I have a plan." Springer replied, and he stepped out in front of the three officers, with his weapon lowered. "WHO ARE YOU?" the lead officer demanded. "I am Commander Taken. I beamed back from the Fang, as I was ordered too." Springer replied hoping that what he found from the changelings quarters would work. "Commander, I am deeply sorry for what has happen. Please, excuse us." They replied and with that, walked on. "Sir, how you know?" Leah asked. "I checked the records from the changelings computer. The person who murdered my security officer was the last one on board. his name was Commander Taken. Please, give me your pip, I can not go around with a Lt Commander rank can I? don’t worry you will get them back." Springer said. "Eye Sir." Leah replied, and they exchanged pips. "You will be Ensign Lamont, my assistance. Ensign BooBoo, you will be my escort now. Understood?" Springer asked. "Yes Sir." They both replied. "Do you have his commander codes sir?" Leah asked. "Hmm yes I do. Somewhere....ahh here they are." Springer replied taking a piece of paper out of his shoe. "here we go. Lets get going" Springer said. They found a map of the compound, and straight away found the generators. Unfortunately for them, there was two security personally on all four generators. "Time for a bit of Vulcan knowledge." Springer said to Lamont. "What do you mean?" Leah replied. "Just take out those two over on the east, Ensign BooBoo, take out the one son the North, I will take the west and the south. Get to it!" Springer ordered. With that, Leah and BooBoo had phaser battles with the security teams they were assigned too. Mr. Springer had it fairly easy as he went behind the four he was supposed to get and gave them a Vulcan neck pinch which he learnt, one of the few, when he was on Vulcan and helped Leah and BooBoo take out the final personnel. "Everything ok Leah? BooBoo?" Springer asked. "Fine here" said Leah, but no reply from BooBoo. "A Phaser on maximum should be enough to take out the generators." Jerry said. "Eye sir. I will take care of that, You take care of BooBoo." Leah replied. "Exactly my thoughts." Jerry replied.
Within a couple of minutes, the fields were down. "Springer to the Fang, we have the field down. Prepare to beam Ensign BooBoo out." Springer said over the conn. "Beaming out, Mr. Springer. Also good work. We will do what he can from up here." Beckie replied. "Springer Out." Springer said. "Right, just us two. Springer to Commander Shipley, the field is down. What shall we do?" Springer said to Anna Shipley over the comm badge, as he waited her replied.

"Good Mr. Springer, I believe we have located the Captain's bio-scan, we'll have to search but I'll send you the location, meet us there. I do think you will have a little trouble on the way though so be prepared." "Aye sir, We're on our way."

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on the bridge

 

Leah was looking after Drew's bridge while he recovered in sickbay. She was sure that the rescue would have consequences with section31. Would they just let Drew go? At least he seemed to know something they absolutely didn't want anyone to know. She wondered what might be so terrible that they would have killed a starfleet captain. Would they also distroy a starfleet vessel? The changeling was gone and wouldn't be able to do sabotage again. It was unlikely that he had had time to prepare something before he beamed down. No, section31 would try to find another way to get Drew silent. Or they had given up. Drew was back and he'd submit a report to star fleet command immediately. This might cause quite a shake up in the federation.

Leah was deep in her thoughts when something on her console started to blink. Another ship was rising from the surface close to where the captain had been held captive. It was a small civil vessel but equipped with quite good weapons. She couldn't tell yet if it was heading for the Fang or was going to pass her.
"Lt. Lamont to Sickbay, better get up here quickly!"

As Leah's voice sounded over the intercom Drew, KezTrek and Beckie all replied instantly "Report" looking at each other KezTrek and Beckie signalled for Drew to continue "Lt what’s happening?" Drew asked "A ship is approaching from the surface heavily armed" Drew tried to raise from the bio bed but find Anna stopping him "Oh no you don't, I may have healed your physical injuries but your still staying in sickbay" Anna said in a strict tone turning to KezTrek Anna begin to speak "The same goes for you Commander" "Doctor" KezTrek begin "I am not injured just tired, we have a hostile ship nearing us, the most logical action is for either myself or the Captain to take command" KezTrek told Anna as she left for the bridge with Beckie not far behide her looking round sickbay Drew noticed the officer from the Knight sitting up in his bed, and Ragin trying to convince Anna to let him leave sickbay "Come on Doc, I have been held in that cell for 4 months, can I just go to my quarters?" "You have not quarters Ragin, there was an explosion there not long ago you have still not been assigned new ones, until you are, you stay here" Anna told him. "She's a strict one that Dr. Shipley" the Knight officer reported "Your Daniel she is" Drew replied he thought for a moment, he suddenly felt like he had known this men all his life, he knew from the link that KezTrek and his self had shared who Daniel was, but it appeared there was still a part of KezTrek in his mind a part that told Drew he could trust Daniel, he wondered briefly if KezTrek still had a part of him in her

KezTrek entered the bridge. "Report Lt." she said. "The ship is hailing us." "Put it through" KezTrek said.
"This is Cmdr. Heckman. You will immediately turn Drew over to me or..."
"Or what Heckman?" KezTrek said with a slight suggestion of hate. Although she was vulcan she had felt with the captain what he had gone through because of that man and there was an echo of that hate still in her.
"...or I will distroy your ship!"
"Your threats mean nothing to us" KezTrek answered "your ship won't have a chance against the Fang even though you have good armor."
That moment, another ship approached. "Sir, it's Adm. Hank's ship." Leah reported from her station. "It is powering weapons and rising shields."
"Well Commander, now I do have a chance, don't you think. So you better think about my offer. Give us Drew and we'll let you go!"
With that he closed the connection.

The bridge was quite for several mins until Lt Lamonts console beeped "Commander their hailing us again" Lamont said "open the channel" KezTrek ordered. "Well Commander have you thought about it" KezTrek hesitated "Yes I have and I have a question, if I hand Drew over whats in it for me?" KezTrek asked and everyone on the bridge suddenly stpped moving staring at her, Heckman laughed "You get Command of the Fang and its crew, not to mention a medel for helping us capture a corupt officer such as Drew" Heckman said "Command of the Fang, I always wanted me own ship, Ok Heckman heres the deal, you can shove your offer where the sun don't shine and if you don't lower your shields in the next 30 seconds i'm gonna blow you to hell" KezTrek said motioning for Lamont to cut the link.
"Lt Com Springer" KezTrek said turing to the security officer, if that ship doesn't lower its shields or attempts to fire on us you have one order, Blow them to hell and back" KezTrek said anger and hatred clearly showing in her face and voice shocking the crew. Under most circumstances KezTrek would have held back her feeling but this past week and indeed since Drew had first been taken had taken its tole the link had drained the last of her reserves especially maunvering Drew's body with her own mind and now a man who was supposed to stand up for StarFleet principles dared to threaten this crew........there was no way he was going anywhere except jail or hell, which ever came first. "Commander" Beckie said from the side of her "I don't care Councelor, I just don't want to hear it. I know the drill, I'm irrational, not thinking clearly and maybe i'm not but i just spent quite sometime trapped in someone-elses mind a tortured someone might I add so pardon me if rational isn't on my list of things to be right about now" KezTrek said knowing that snapping at the councelor would do no good and just make her feel worse later and knowing she'd have to apoilgise but right then she didn't care, she just wanted this over with and if blowing Adm. Hanks and Commander Heckman to hell was what it took then so be it. "Aye Commander" Triano said knowing arguing with KezTrek would be pointless.
"Commander" Springer said "the Adm's ship if firing weapons, what do I do" he asked not sure weather to follow her earlier order or not "I thought I already told you what to do" KezTrek said, Springer nodded and turned to his console "Firing Phasers now".............

Anna could feel the Fang shake a little from the phasers, and could tell from the look on Drew's face, he wanted to be on his bridge. She finally gave in, "Alright Captain, you are free to go for a little while! Just long enough to get in on some of the 'action', then it's back to resting until I'm perfectly sure you're completely healed. I'll warn you though, being near Keztrek could cause some headaches, you two still aren't used to being apart yet." Drew's face practicaly lit up as he stood slowly from the biobed. "Thank you Doctor" he turned to Daniel "she might not be so bad after all." Drew smiled and hurried out of sickbay.



Beckie was getting worried about Keztrek. She seemed to be very Irate and very unresponsive. Beckie had grown to care about all the crew in the last few missions. She Didnt think that this anything good for Keztrek. Beckie figured that she would have to counsel the Captain. She hadnt considered that Keztrek would need it too, untill now. She placed her hand on the commander and said in a low voice, " Commander, I know you are feeling the residual affects of the mindmeld with the Captain, but you need to get incontrol and look at this in a logical
mannor." Keztrek looked at Beckie straight in the eye, and in the most guttoral voice she had ever heard the Commander use. "Counselor, I know what they were doing to Drew. To me. They want to keep it up." In that instant Captain Drew stepped on the Bridge. Then some one said, "Captain on the Bridge and Keztrek looked up with surprise and understanding all in the same glance. Keztrek an and Beckie both stood up and let the Captain
sit in 'HIS BIG CHAIR'. Beckie leaned over and said....." If I were the captain,(Beckie paused), I might seperate the ship and capture them." Beckie said voicing her opinion. The captain Looked at Keztrek and smiled. "interesting" said Keztrek.

Drew nodded at Beckie’s suggestion before ordering "Report" "Admiral Hanks ship and another heavily armed shuttle carrying Commander Heckman are attacking, shields are at 87%" Jerry reported "Very good" Drew reported "Leah open an channel to the Admiral" as the Fang continued to shake "Sir should I return fire?" Jerry asked "Yes" KezTrek said "No" Drew overruled "Sir???" KezTrek asked but she never got an answer as Admiral Hanks appeared on screen "Admiral so nice of you to drop by" Drew said noting the shocked expression on the Admirals face at this appearance "You have two options Admiral, surrender or I will knock out your shields and board you" Drew told the Admiral "Either way you are finished and your ship will be mine" "Go to hell" Hanks said and cut the transmission the Fang shuck as quantum torpedoes hit its shields "Sir shields down to 70%" Jerry called out "Mark, evasive pattern Drew alpha one" Drew ordered Troi "Jerry fire all phasers at the admiral's ship then on my command separate the ship" "Yes Sir!" Jerry said glad to have his captain back "Mark bring us round and head straight for the middle of the two ships" "Aye sir" Mark replied "Jerry NOW!" Drew ordered.

The Fang split into three, each section carrying enough weapons to cause the other ships problems "Send the bottom section after Heckman" Drew called out "Then fire all quantum torpedoes target there weapons and engines" the different parts of the Fang moved gracefully in the battle the Sovereign Class ship of the Admirals was unable to keep track of the three smaller and faster ships with its weapons and the Fang was berly hit "Sir the Admiral shields are down" Jerry reported "Leah beam the Admiral to the brig, Jerry take the biggest security team you have and take that ship" "Yes sir" both replied "Open an channel to Heckman" Drew ordered "Commander I suggest you stand down" the shuttle Heckman was in was no match for the Fang the commander laughed "You may have won this time Captain but victory will be mine again" suddenly the shuttle sped into high warp "Report" Drew ordered "I thought his engines where offline" "Sir, it appears to be a quantum slipstream drive that he used" "Damn" Drew cursed "Springer to Fang" Jerry's voice came over the comm "I have control of the Admiral's ship no resistance" "Very good Jerry head the ship back to Earth" "Sir" Jerry replied eager to command a Sovereign class ship even if it was only for a few minutes "Sir what should we do with the Admiral?" Leah asked "Leave him a while" Drew replied "He is going to have to used to cells"

Leaning back in his chair Drew felt at home again, he had forgotten how comfortable the chair was. He could still feel KezTreks raw emotions in his mind, and understood the way she was acting, it was the same way he was inside. “Commander, join me in my Ready Room” Drew said as he stood up “Yes Sir” KezTrek replied unsure what the Captain had in mind “Lt. Commander Triano, you have the bridge” Drew said as he and KezTrek entered the Ready Room. “KezTrek I understand how you feel, I feel the same, but on that bridge you have to leave your emotions in the turbo lift” “Sir, I understand that but these are different circumstances” KezTrek tried to explain “We are still Starfleet Officers, if we had destroyed that ship we would have killed hundreds of innocent Starfleet Officers, we do not know how many, if any where Section 31 agents” “But Admiral Hanks needs to be punished” KezTrek replied “And he will be, Infact I had an idea”

Brig
Drew and KezTrek walked into the brig to find Admiral Hanks sitting on the bed, here was a man who was considered one of Starfleet’s finest, and now he had been unmasked for the traitor he was. “Well, well, well if it ist the brave Captain and his loyal First Officer” the Admiral mocked them turning to the guard Drew spoke “Your dismissed Ensign” “Aye sir” the Ensign replied as he left the room “Computer delete audio logs in the brig authorisation Drew-Pi-110” Drew turned to face the Admiral “Now give me one good reason why I should not kill you” the Admiral looked in shock at Drew’s words “You would not have the guts” Drew deactivated the forcefield “Wouldn’t I?” he said stepping closer hovering his hand above his phaser “I could say, you killed yourself rather then be brought to justice” the Admiral backed away from Drew not used to not being in control “You don’t like it do you Admiral?, having your life threaten, unsure if you will live or not, that is what I had to go through everyday I was held in that cell” Drew told him “You where quite prepared to kill KezTrek and myself why shouldn’t we do the same?”. The Admiral stared at Drew and KezTrek unsure what to say or do “You can’t answer that can you, why should anyone have the right to take others life?” Drew reactivated the forcefield “Rot in Hell” he said as he and KezTrek left the Brig

Beckie was so happy that the Captain was back. She thought she just about burst from the emotion she felt at not having to be in command any more, But when she was left in command while he and Keztrek left the bridge, she didnt feel all that happy. she sat and contimplated what would happen if things went differently. She didnt fancy that idea to much.

Things were going in a circle at the moment and and she began sweeting some what. ~I must be in shock~ she thought. So when the Captain and Keztrek came back she stood up and said, "Sir, may I be relieved?" Drew was looking at the Counselor and noticed she was shaking somewhat, and saw the pleeding in her eye's. "Dismissed Lieutentant." he said.

Beckie left the bridge, and headed to sickbaym, when she got there she saw Anna and nearly collapsed. If her assistant hadnt been there, She would of fell right on the floor, Beckie sat in a bio bed and waited for Anna.

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The visit 

The captain was alright, the admiral was locked up, Heckman was gone. It looked to Leah that this stressful and dangerous mission was over finally and it had ended rather good, even though section31 escaped once more. Leah was just going over a few regular checks of the system but the ship didn't seem to have taken too much damage by the attack. A few days repair in earth orbit and maybe some shore leave and everything would be perfect again. Until the next mission...
A shuttle rose from the surface, and first Leah wanted to be alarmed but then noticed that it was an unarmed civil shuttle. They didn't have anything to do with corrupt admirals and shady sections of the federation. Finally was hailing.
"This is Louise Drew, I ask for permission to come aboard the Fang" a pleasant female voice sounded out of the speakers and then her pretty face appeared on the screen.
"This is Lt. Lamont. Nice to meet you Mrs. Drew" Leah replied. "You have permission to dock in shuttle bay 3, I will get you in with the tractor beam. I will send you someone to bring you to the captain immediately."
"Thanks Lt." Louise said. The shuttle was manoevered into the shuttle bay and the captain's wife and kids came aboard to meet up again with their loved husband and father.

Drew and KezTrek walked down the corridor both silent all the communication that was needed was already being said" "Typical after all you two have been through this past week and the pair of you are of cooking up some mischief already" both Drew and KezTrek stopped in there tracks as they recognised the voice "You should both be in sickbay, I will be having a word with Dr. Shipley" Drew turned round in shock "Louise what are you doing here?" "Making sure you don’t get yourself kidnapped again and put me through all that worry" Drew's wife said as she embraced her husband looking at the fresh uniforms that both Drew and KezTrek where wearing after there stay in sickbay Louise begin to protest again "Don’t tell me the two of you have been on that bridge already?" "If you would excuse me Captain" KezTrek said as she made her excuses "Its good to see you again Louise" she said as she quickly hurried down the corridor. "Where are the kids?" Drew asked "In your quarters and don't try changing the subject" Louise told Drew sternly "I never liked this idea of you being on this great big ship on your own" "I am not on my own" Drew told her "You wont be now because we are staying onboard" Louise told him in her don’t you argue with me tone, knowing when he was beat Drew just nodded his head and went to see his kids.

After leaving the Cpatian and his wife alone KezTrek walked around the ship for over an hour thinking, her time in Drews' mind had given her alot of perspective, on alot of things - including her relationship with Daniel. "Computer is Daniel O'Neill still in sickbay?" KezTrek asked "Negitive, Daniel O'Neill is in guest quarters on Deck 9, section 4Beta" the computer asked its monotone voice as unemotional as normal - something KezTrek normally apreciated but now she did not. Her 'Experience' as she had cataloged it, had let her see that emotions were sometimes an asset, if not for Drews strong will and emotional ties with family and friends neither of them would have survived. Making up her mind KezTrek began perposfully striding towards her husbands quarters

======Daneil O'Neills' Quarters======