Log 21

SD: 04120.3

Holodeck fun and games with the new crewmembers, or "Hi there", Freedom style:

You know how you realize that you’ve done something stupid right after you do it, like taking Ironbottem's twelve pieces of silver? Well, I had another one of those moments a few hours ago.

I’d been working on my sleuthing, trying to find a link from New Ca. to Ironbottem or his friend when I finally just gave out of patience. I closed and locked away the files and decided I needed to go unwind and think, and I do that best when I am shooting.

I started to take a few minutes and finish the Mauser, but I was impatient so instead I took the Enfield and went down to the holodecks. I found one that was listed as empty and stepped in. Unfortunately it was not empty and it didn’t give me the target practice range I’d asked for. Instead there seemed to be an all out war going on as if this were some sort of demented combat simulation. Here I was stepping into the middle of it with a muzzleloader! Man I wish I'd gone ahead and brought the Mauser, or better yet my phaser rifle!

I had my "done something stupid" moment when I heard the doors close behind me. I have got to remember not to trust this flying piece of junk!

I snapped out of it and dove for cover, sending a mini ball at some of the things that were shooting at me, and was I was strafed by some sort of flying bot. That was when I discovered that I wasn’t alone. K was there, with a Kzin and some other cat, and they were fighting for their lives as well! The safeties were off again!

Just where the other cats came from didn’t seem too important at the time, but I had a feeling from the red shirt on the massive Kzin that she was our new security officer. Oh isn’t that just wonderful….. not! That it was a female struck me as odd, but I guess if you want to be something and you are a female Kzin, you’ve got to be out of their space. I just wonder how bright she is. That she is a red shirt on the Freedom doesn't speak well for that aspect of her makeup.

The second was a cat type I’d never seen before, not that that is too much of a shock. I still have a lot of catching up to do. The most unusual things about him were that he was blind, and he was spraying some sort of energy weapon around like a kid with a garden hose!

Anyway it got really weird from there with every cat on the ship showing up including Dapper Dan and R'Merr I'd seen in the hall. Why R'Merr hangs with his abusive buddy, I'll never know. Anyway shortly after that, the Captain, looking a bit crispy for some reason, and Demian wandered in with a wheelbarrow of dirty diapers of all things! The program wouldn’t let us out, and when I asked the damned computer started kicking out zombies!

K nearly blew off her fingers when she tried to fire a half-chambered shotgun, and I had to put burn spray on her hands and forearms for her. But it seems having her out of the fighting became an advantage. She somehow got the zombies dancing to some horrific music, and I was able to shoot down the one that had flown off with Demian. He turned out to be the hero of the day by discovering that the zombies didn’t like dirty diapers. He also turned on the sprinklers, melting the zombies and washing the offal from the exploded diapers out of the air.

The big Kzin? I noticed that she was balled up retching. I've never seen one of the ratcats get sick in a fight. It was kind of….. spooky.

With the melting of the zombies, the malfunction ended and we were able to get off the deck. Remind me just to hit my bunk next time I feel like going out to unwind!