[Medlab]
After sending a note to the bar with his 'official Chief of Medicine's
Signature' and sending an order to have the replicator in Rylan's quarters
fixed so that it no longer served alcoholic beverages, as well as to program
all the ships replicators not to recognize any such order from tr`Tuhmek,
D`Tarik turned at the sound of the Medbay doors, and saw Emni walking in.
The girl bowed her head slightly, and said with a small sly smile,
"Jolan`tru."
"Same to au." he smiled back, "Ummm so....do au think this is going to be
awkward?"
"I don't understand..." she quickly covered a hurt expression, and crossed
the room to one of the cabinets pulling out the equipment she would need for
the day, "I can be professional...can't au?"
"Am I ever professional?"
Just as D`Tarik finished this question, the medlab started to flicker...like
the ship around them was trying to wink out of existence. The computer
voice started to go haywire, talking too fast...too loud...and in several
different languages. One moment, they had been in the medlab, and the next,
they were in an almost too-perfect forest. The sun was bright as could be -
illuminating the forest even though they stood beneath the canopy of the
trees. Though the foliage, they could see glimpses of the sky, bright
robins-egg blue. As a final touch, there were birds singing merrily in the
forest around them. If the two Rihans had known what to compare their new
surrounding to, they would've instantly thought of a too-happy Disney movie.
Emni, looking appraisingly around her, smiles at D`Tarik again, thinking he
had planned this somehow. "We're au planning on a picnic D`Tarik?"
"Umm....na....." he answers confused, "Na that I know of....computer, umm
what has happened?"
Surprisingly, the computer answers...in Ferengi. "Unable to
comply.....please repeat request."
The look of confusion only etched itself further on D`Tarik's face at the
unknown language the computer was using. "Umm....computer?" he tried again.
"Ie?" the computer supplied.
Nodding at that, D`Tarik asked, "Locate erie`Arrain tr`Tuhmek."
"Ie, rekkhai..." the computer answered, "All your calls will be
held.....blue cheese twice the oocto-pie."
"What??" Emni shakes her head in disbelief.
D`Tarik whispers back, "I think we broke it...."
Emni looks worried at that. "Umm....I just got here." she shakes her head
again. "What were au doing before I came in?"
"Now I'm worried...." he began, not hearing her question, "I wonder where
Sprink is....I was going to go back to my room and find him, but....." and
is interrupted when a huge blue, three headed thing - somewhat resembling a
Dragon - pops out of nowhere. The beast holds a huge bat'leif within the
spans of it's three mouths. It lashes out with a claw, swiping at Emni,
but D`Tarik jumps and pushes her out of the way. Emni falls to the ground
and scrambles back, just as D`Tarik's foot is suddenly pinned by the beast's
claw. "OWWWWW!!!"
The 'Dragon' turns it's attention to D`Tarik and snorts, blowing smoke from
it's three sets of nostrils. The beast almost sounds like it had been
trying to talk, but it's mumbling because of the over-sized Klingon weapon
in it's mouth. Poor D`Tarik is standing there, pointing at his foot almost
comically, about to pass out from the pain. Emni only screams, then bolts
through the forest to try and find a way out.
That seemed to have drawn the attention of the Dragon, who lifted his claw
off of DT's squished foot, and walks after the girl slowly. D`Tarik falls
to the ground, holding his foot in pain, a string of curses leaving his
mouth. From somewhere else deep in the forest, he heard Emni's voice,
"Where's the fvadt door!!!" just before she screamed again.
D`Tarik, trying not to scream himself out of pain, opens the com,
"Ry....lan?" Down in Engineering, Rylan rolls his eyes at what he thought
was D`Tarik's pitiful attempt to apologize, then goes back to working on the
diagnostic he and one of the engineers had been working on.
While he waits for a reply that wasn't coming, D`Tarik thinks to himself,
*Oh, sure....she would have sex with ME, but she's scared of a big blue
dragon....Go figure...* Angerly taping open the com again, he tries to get
the taller boy to answer "RYLAN!!!!!!" and starts trying to repair the
damage done to his foot with the equipment out of the pockets of his jacket.
Down in engineering, everybody stops what they're doing to look at the
Rekkhai questioningly. Calmly, wondering what *that* had been about, Rylan
finally answers in a casual tone, "Something wrong, DT?"
With his foot repaired, D`Tarik stands up and answers. "Rylan...ummm....can
Emni and I be beamed out of medlab?....NOW!" he hears the Erien scream
again, and starts to run that way.
He didn't get very far before Emni runs by him in a blur....the blue dragon
following behind at a leisurely pace. "Computer!" D`Tarik calls out,
"Disruptor cannon!" and finds himself holding a rubber chicken.
Ry raises a brow, handing the isd he held out to a random engineering Erien,
"Why? What'd au do now D`Tarik?" then half a beat later, in a sarcastic
tone, "Oh!! Now au want my help again!"
D`Tarik sighs then runs after Emni, passing the Dragon as he did so.
Finally catching upto her, he grabs her by the shoulder and starts to shake
her like she was an errant child. "Snap out of it!" he says angerly,
pointing back the way they had come, "That thing is slow! It won't catch
up!"
Not waiting to hear an arguement, Rylan sighs himself, realizing what he's
about to say is surely to be taken wrong, then taps open the com to the OPS
on the Oria, "Some kind of emergency .....two to beam *out* of medbay....."
Nonetheless, it had still been an order from a superior, and the Dragon
suddenly disappears.....only to wind up in the computer-core room.
Ry had gone back to check with another engineering officer when he suddenly
gets hysterical comline calls from the computer-core officers about a big
blue dragon with three heads, holding a Klingon Bat'leif in it's mouths.
Shaking his head in disbelief he heads over to the replicator and orders a
Rhennish. Not really expecting it to work, he was pleasantly surprised when
it did. He picks up the glass, drinks the liquid, then calls for a security
team to go see what's up in the computer-core room. Setting the glass back
down he decides to go find himself a turbolift to see what D`Tarik's been
up to. "I know he did something......" he grumbles to himself.
Seeing that the Dragon has disappeared, D`Tarik turns back to the girl,
"Ok...see, it's gone now. Calm down, hun....umm...here, have a rubber
chicken." he holds it out to her.
Emni stares at the chicken a moment, then bats it out of his hands. "*What*
is going on?!"
D`Tarik shakes his head, "If I knew, I would of done something about...."
then is suddenly grabed and turned around to see the original bartender
succubi just before she forcably planted a kiss on him and starts to remove
his labcoat. Emni's face turns into a mask of outraged jeliousy, and she
flings herself on the back of the succubus, trying to pull the thing's wings
off. D`Tarik pushes the demoness away from him, and the succubus falls
over, landing on Emni.
"Get this susse-thrai *off* of me!!!" Emni, now pulling on the succubus's
hair, screams enraged.
D`Tarik only stood there, scratching his head and wondering if he should do
something, or sit back and enjoy the show. The succubus reaches behind her,
and grabs Emni by the hair as well, and starts to yank on it hard. That was
enough for DT. He runs over and kicks the naked woman in the face. The
Succubus pouts dramatically, then in a flurrish of wings, grabs hold of
D`Tarik and flies off with him. "Computer!" D`Tarik calls out, then
hesitates "Umm...rubber chicken?" and is rewarded for having an anvil land
on the flying girl's back, making the succubus let go of him, and sending
the both of them to the ground. D`Tarik rolls with the landing, but the
bat-winged girl lays under the anvil, unmoving. He runs back over to Emni
to make sure she was all right.
"Who the *Areinnye* was that?!" Emni asks furiously.
"I don't konw!" D`Tarik, on the defensive, tries to explain, "She keeps
showing up in holodeck programs for some reason! Did au think I liked
that?" then adds quickly before she could answer, "Are au ok?"
"Na I'm *na* okay!" she pouts, "But thank au for helping me...." she adds as
she takes D`Tarik's hand and he helps her up.
"Au sure au are ok?" he asks again, obviously worried.
"Ie...." she smiles, "I'm okay." And to prove it, she kisses him.
When the room around them starts to flicker, and the computer voice once
more goes haywire, D`Tarik cuts the kiss short and opens the com,
"Rylan....I'm na exactly feeling safe right now...."
Rylan, who had just called out to the turbolift to take him to medlab,
answers "Ie...well I'm on my way. What's going on exactly? I got a call
about a 'blue dragon' earlier...." then asks in a warning tone, "Io of
*ninte* creations DT?"
The holodeck has gone out of whack...." D`Tarik explains, then halts, looking
around to suddenly
find that they are in 'D'Tariks Laboratory' program....but this time, it's
populated by those little critters from the bar from the holo-mishap before.
"Awww...they're cute!" Emni exclaims, stepping closer to one.
"NA!!!" he grabs her by the shoulder and pulls her back.
"What's the matter?" she asked surprised, not noticing that the creature
made a jump for her leg.
Before it can get to her, the critter meets D`Tariks' boot, and is punted
across the room. Several other of it's kind suddenly pounce on it, tearing
it to pieces. Looking around the room, D`Tarik can see dozens of the
creatures, some playing chess or cards, the rest either attacking and eating
D`Tarik's holo-pets, or their own kind.
Not sure what to make of D`Tarik's previous statement, Rylan calls out,
"Halt lift!" then opens the com again, "I don't get it...are au in the
holodeck, or the medlab?"
Still looking nervously around the room, DT answers, "Ummm...Rylan...get
to medlab... *HNAH*!!!" Pulling Emni close to him, he fends off the
critters that come too close with a boot.
Ry smirks, "Lift resume...." then opens the com again to acknowledge with,
"Fine fine fine....."
After a moment he steps out of the lift and heads to medlab. When the doors
open and he steps into 'DT's Laboratory', he stops to look around confused.
"DT??? " he pauses, seeing a critter chowing down on another, "What the
Areinnye.....?" pulling out his disruptor, he blasts it into oblivion.
"It's about fvadt time, Rylan!" D`Tarik retorts angrily, holding on to Emni
tighter, the pair of them completely surrounded by the critters.
Rylan, meanwhile, walks through the lab calmly, shooting at critters and
sees the predicament
they're in. Still with a smirk on his face, he takes out the swarming
creatures then nods, "See?? Steady as a rock!" he boasts proudly, "And
*au*," he waves the disruptor in DT's direction, "say I have a problem!
So...trying out the holoemitters eh?" he finishes, glancing around the room.
"Na!!" D`Tarik protests, still holding tightly on to Emni -- who doesn't
seem to mind -- "It's all going bezerk!!"
Rylan shrugs at that, "Elements DT...just shut it down. Computer! End
program!"
The Computer, sounding awfully close to a certain someone, comes back with
"Bite me! End your own imirrhlhhse`asi program!
"Who the Areinnye...." Rylan turns angrily to the nearest console and blasts
it with the disruptor, not caring whether it was real equipment or only a
hologram.
"Rylan!!" D`Tarik suddenly yells at the taller boy, "Au let the door shut!
We're stuck in here again!!"
Ry suddenly turns that anger on DT, "Well maybe if au had *told* me in the
first place, I would've kept the fvadt doors open!!" he yells back, then
opens the com again "tr`Tuhmek to OPS...open the doors to the medbay, hnah!"
"Stop ninte bitching, Rylan. This is na the time." D`Tarik says defiantly,
letting go of Emni; then suddenly the room starts to flicker again.
The only reply to Rylan's previous order was the sounds of Klingon war
cries, and disruptor shots going off. "This does na bode well....."
"Na, Rylan." D`Tarik agrees, "It doesn't...." he looks to Emni again, "Are
au okay?" Emni, eyes wide, only nods her head silently.
"Okay...excellent." he smiles and pats her on the head playfully, then
notices Rylan walking around the room as if searching for something.
"Rylan, we need to at least get out of the medlab....I wonder where
Sprinkels is...?"
Rylan nods at that, "Call Sprink then...until he arrives, I'm going to try
and find a way to
turn it off..." pausing in his search for the holoemitters as the room
flickers again. "But do the Tribble the favor of telling him about the
doors...." he warns.
The conversation halts as the three find themselves standing in the center
of what looks like StarFleet Academy. Cadets from the different Federation
races are obliviously walking around.
Security guards suddenly run up out of nowhere and surround the three
Rihans. Confused, D`Tarik practically ignores the guards, "What is.....Oh,
na! I know what program this is! It's a Galae program -- Get down!!" Ry
immediately hits the deck at that warning, D`Tarik goes down, pulling the
stunned Emni down with him, just before several warbirds decloak in orbit,
and release their fighters.
Ry grins, "Here come the calvery!" when a few guards are vaporized by the
attacking fighters.
"Ie! But we may want to move....once those.." he points up, indicating the
warbirds, "start
fireing....."
Rylan sees a transport and motions the other two towards it, "Make a run
for it....we can contact them as we move...."
"Au sure we can contact them with the way the holo-program is
malfuntioning?" D`Tarik asks worriedly.
Rylan covers his head as a fighter takes out a building, "Well we can't
stay here out in the open!"
"Okay!" D`Tarik suddenly agrees, "Well then, let's do it!" he scrambles
to his feet, pulling Emni with him. StarFleet, meanwhile, launches their
own fighters, the cadets around them start taking shots at the three Rihans
as they run. Ry, trying to provide cover-fire, blasts a couple of the
Cadets with a disruptor. But Emni suddenly goes down, stunned by a phaser
blast. "*NA*!" D`Tarik screams, stopping to pick her up and sling her over
his shoulder with more than a little trouble, and is significantly slowed
down by carrying the girl. "I wonder what difficulty this is set on...."
Rylan runs upto the smaller boy, grabs the girl from D`Tarik's shoulder and
slings her over his own instead, then runs with her, not slowed down at all.
"Call Sprink!!" he ordered as the Borg start beaming down and shooting at
the StarFleet cadets...and the running Romulans. "Oh just imirrhlhhse`asi
*great*!!!"
"That's *na* good!!" D`Tarik agrees, opening the com, "Sprink! Get down to
medlab, hnah!! Walk into the door but stand in the doorway! Do *NA* let the
door to medlab close!!"
"....ok...?" Sprink's uncertain squeak came back.
"Just do it!...hanh!" D`Tarik orders the Tribble as he runs after the taller
boy.
" ...ie...." Sprinkles squeaked again, then wheels himself down the ship's
corridors as fast as his little wheels would take him. Getting into a
turbolift he tries real hard to form the words, "Med!" he hesitates,
"Lab!" then coos, pleased with himself.
D`Tarik, glancing over at Rylan as they run, frowning at the fact that he
couldn't do anything to
help Emni. Shaking it off, he calls out, "Rylan, where to now?" he barely
doges a Borg claw-type thing as he runs by.
Rylan dodges a StarFleet cadet, then narrowly escapes a Borg who had been
reaching out for him by suddenly ducking under it's arm. The Borg instead
latches onto the StarFleet Cadet that had been trying to run Rylan down
instead, and plugs the unfortunate human with nano-probes. Rylan, not giving
this any thought whatsoever, keeps running towards the entrance to the
campus, "Let's get the Areinnye off the compound! Let them fight it
out....Sprink should be here shortly!"
"Okay!! Good plan...." D`Tarik calls back, dodging around another Borg.
Rylan screeches to a halt when he sees a horde of the Borg at the StarFleet
Academy's entrance. "Na!! Na good!!" he spins around, "Go back!! The other
way!!"
D`Tarik, seeing a group of Cadets being assimilated, shudders. "That creeps
me out sooooo much!" then turns and follows the taller boy back to were they
had just run from. Rylan plows straight through some StarFleet Cadets like
a linebacker on a foot ball team about to score the winning touchdown. Just
as Sprink reached the medbay doors, and stood in between them to insure
they'd stay open, the Medlab starts to flicker again. The boys find
themselves standing on a log in the middle of a swamp....
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