[Deck 4]
As the power goes out in the medlab -- and indeed, the whole deck -- D`Tarik
lays on the floor, painfully gasping for air as he had been drowning in the
holoprogram gone awry. Rylan picks the shorter boy up, "Au'rh all right, get
up...." then leaving the medical officer with Emni goes out to the corridor
to see what happened.
Aemhig has pulled out a small device and has a small green light going over
the corridor, and sees Rylan emerge from the medbay doors. "Until we can
surmise what is going on here, we must evacuate this deck." she says in a
calm and commanding tone, "We have only a limited amount of environmental
stability. Quickly check the rooms around the deck for trapped officers and
free them immediately." Aehmig reholsters her pistol, then pulled out another
from a concealed strap near her boot. "Are au all armed?"
Ry nods at that, " Ie...low on charges though. But easily fixed when we get
to the next deck." then taps a com calling for evacuation of the deck just
as DT, supported by Emni, comes running out of the medlab, "I think this
kind of thing is going on all over the ship...." then pauses as Rylan's
message is sent over the com in Klingon.
"The fvadt thing just changed my voice...." Rylan shakes his head in
frustrated disbelief.
Aehmig frowns, hearing the garbled message. "Do it personally then -- take
the fore chambers, I'll go aft."
"Alrighty...." Ry replies absently, heading off down the corridor to start
banging on some doors, as Aehmig heads off in her chosen direction. D`Tarik
looks from one to the other of the retreating figures, a confused look on his
face. Sprinkles jumps up to take his customary position on his shoulder,
just as Rylan turns around, "Au coming, DT?"
"Ie..." he nods, "I'll take the doors further up towards the lift. Emni, au
take the doors back there." he points down the corridor.
The parties move about the deck collecting trapped officers. While a slow
process (as they have to force the doors open), All the crew trapped on the
deck are eventually gathered. Wasting no time, they move to their respective
evaluation stations and move to another deck through the access tunnels.
Aemhig and her group, having gone down a deck, are now separated by two decks
space from the other group and can not raise DT and Ry on the com.
[A few minutes later on Deck 3]
Rylan, motions the gathered group of officers, and calls for a repair crew to
head down to deck four with enviro-suits, as Emni takes Sprink to her
quarters for safe keeping. Once all the officers have moved along, Ry takes
a look around himself and suddenly realizes they're on deck three. "Hey! I
know *this* deck!" he says merrily to himself, heading off down the corridor.
D`Tarik, who had been talking to Emni through the com and had just started
off to meet up with her, is suddenly cut off in the middle of their
communiqu�. Tapping his com repeatedly, he tries to get the line open again,
"Emni?? Jolan`tru?? Ah, fvadt!" he turns to see the taller boy heading off
down the corridor, "Hey! Rylan, wait up!"
Rylan doesn't turn, but answers, "What happened to the com? Emni all right?"
a small smile makes an appearance as he comes to a stop. "Au could go check
on her, au know...."
"I think, she just got cut off." D`Tarik answers, approaching closer, "But
still, I am worried... maybe..." he interrupts his thought as he looks around
his surroundings and also recognizes the deck, "Hey! Au'rh na going to the
bar, Rylan!"
Rylan tries his best to look surprised, "Who said I was?"
"I know au, Rylan." D`Tarik crosses his arms in front of him, fixing the
taller boy with a glare. After a moments thought, he remembers seeing
holoemitters in the bar. Used primarily for entertainment purposes for the
bar's patrons, musicians and singers most likely, there was a chance that
what had happened in the Medlab, could happen there as well. Thinking that
just perhaps Rylan had really been thinking the same thought after all, he
gave tr`Tuhmek the benefit of the doubt, and relented "But maybe we should
go there to see if anybody is there and does na know what's going on." then
on the heels of that his old worry came up again, "But what about Emni?
Hmm....I'm torn here....." he admits quietly.
Rylan, who hadn't been thinking anything about the holoemitters in the bar,
tries to appear insulted. "What is *that* supposed to mean...'au know me'?"
he shakes his head, then turns, heading in the opposite direction then he had
originally intended to, "If it makes au feel better, I'll go check on Emni
then..." he wasn't quick enough to hide the small, sly smirk from D`Tarik's
view.
"grrr......." DT begins to think Rylan is starting to remind him of a certain
blond he used to know, "Rylan, au bastard..." he tosses out angrily.
Ry stops and turns at that, "What? What'd I do?" he shrugs, "Au said au
were worried about her..."
"Rylan, stop it!" D`Tarik's angry voice warns. Appearing slightly confused,
Ry opens his hands in a silent gesture of 'what?', which only infuriated the
smaller of the pair even more. "It's na fair to play with my head like
this...especially when it involves Emni!"
Rylan shakes his head then heads off to the bar again, passing DT on the way,
"Fine, fine, fine....au want to babysit me go right ahead DT." he returns
angrily, "Elements...au'rh about the only person that thinks I have a
so-called 'problem' au know!" he approaches the entrance to the bar, then
halts just inside the entrance staring in disbelief at what he found, slowly
and inconspicuously drawing his pistol from it's holster.
"Fine, but *right* after this we go get Emni." D`Tarik walked after the other
boy, and opened the comline again, "Emni? I hope au can hear me....I'm being
held up on us meeting, na sure for how long. D`Tarik out....." Not really
paying attention, more concerned about whether or not Emni was all right,
D`Tarik runs into Rylan, sending the other further into the bar. D`Tarik
also took a few more steps within the room, and the doors shut behind them
both.
Standing on the bar, in a crouched position, is a 'cat-like' woman. If she had
been standing straight instead of crouching, she would've easily stood eight
feet tall. Covered in black fur, it's torso and head was protected in a
light gold-colored armor. The outlines of compartments could faintly been
seen on the breastplate, apparently for hiding more weapons. Her long legs
where also covered in that same protective shielding, with the added addition
of what appeared to be hydrolics to give the creature an enhanced jump
capability. Her arms were covered from finger to mid bicep in the armor
plating. The hand of the left arm carried a small blaster, the hand of the
right, a three-bladed claw; now dripping with green-Rihan blood.
Clutched in her left hand was the collar of the bartender, the man's body
limp, his face slashed up beyond recognition. His blood splattered
everywhere: on the bar, on the shelves and bottles behind the bar, and on the
bar's dimmed lights, reflecting an erie green glow on the cat-creature's
armor. The cat-creature turns to fix her emerald eyes on the boys as they
stumbled into the room, her long tale whipping back and forth angrily.
[The Bar....?]
As the Cat-Creature drops the bartender then tenses itself ready to spring at
the boys; Rylan, oh so quietly, whispers to D`Tarik, "Run DT...." then oh,
so slowly, reaches for a half-empty glass that was left on the table nearest
him, intent on throwing it in the face of the creature as it leapt at them.
But, as luck would have it D`Tarik misunderstood what Ry had really been
thinking, and just as Ry's hands close around the glass, D`Tarik suddenly
moves and slaps the taller boy's hand, making him drop the glass to the
floor. "Au Idiot!!" Ry yells at him, just as the Cat-Creature leaps at the
pair of them.
Rylan takes a shot with the disruptor as he dives under a table for cover,
but the disruptor blast bounces harmlessly off the armor, just as he had
suspected it would. D`Tarik jumps behind another table, pulling it down to
it's side so it would provide better cover. The Cat-Creature, her tale
slashing wildly, knocks the table over that had Rylan under it, then turns
her attention to the newly overturned table as DT pulled his hiding spot in
place.
As the Cat-Creature tosses aside DT's cover, Rylan quickly scrambles up,
running for the bar. Seeing the eight-foot, angry looking Cat-Creature stand
in front of him, DT quickly reaches into a pocket and pulls out an
odd-looking green gun somewhat like a small glue-gun. A small tube is
attached to the end of it, holding a pale green liquid inside. As the
Cat-Creature makes a swipe for him, DT's odd-looking gun is knocked out of
his hand, and slides across the floor. DT watches the weapon with a sinking
heart, then looks back at the Cat-Creature, and decides to remain perfectly
still.
Rylan meanwhile, had jumped over the bar, his feet squishing down on the dead
bartender's body. Half-ducking and half-falling for cover, he spies a bottle
on the shelf and grabs it, and tries to stand again without slipping in all
the blood behind the bar. The Cat-Creature crouches down, peering closer at
D`Tarik, her arm rising steadily, preparing to swipe at him again. Rylan
hurls the bottle of Rhennish through the air, hitting her squarly behind the
head, and dousing her with alcohol. "Ie!!!" he grins madly, "Direct hit!!"
then quickly ducks/slips back down behind the bar as the Cat-Creature leaps
on top of it again.
As the Cat-Creature is distracted, DT scrambles over and gets his fallen
weapon. Quickly taking aim, he fires it at the Creature just before she made
a swipe for Rylan, hitting her with the green-goo in the center of her belly.
From behind the bar, comes Rylan's enraged, "FVADT!! That hurt au
susse-thrai!!!" and DT sees another bottle broken open across the Creature's
face.
Calmly, DT waits for the green-goo to take effect. Just as the Creature was
ready to take another swipe at Rylan, she halts, and looks down at her
stomach in confusion. The little bit of goo that dripped down off her armor
and fell onto her skin, just above the navel, starts to bubble. Her black
fur changes to scales, on the area the goo had fallen, and a tiny little
finger starts to develop. DT looks rather chastened at this, and he says in
a half-apologetic tone to no one in particular as he shakes his head,
"Usually, I hate using that thing...but she's only a hologram."
Not hearing this, and not caring if he had, Rylan shoots the Cat-Creature
with the disruptor again, igniting her helmet and face on fire. The
Cat-Creature jumps down from the bar, batting at her face trying to put out
the flames, running through the room and screeching in pain. DT shoots her
with the green goo again, hitting her in the face, and putting out the
flames. The Creature suddenly stops on the far side of the room, crouching
down and holding her face with her hands.
A blood-covered hand reaches up from behind the bar, and grabs the top of it.
Pulling himself up into a rather shaky standing position, Rylan takes aim
with the disruptor again, then halts as his eyes fall on an open bottle.
Curling his gun arm around his stomach, he leans against the bar to hold
himself up, then grabs the bottle like a drowning man snatching at a life
preserver and downs the liquid inside.
DT sees movement from the corner of his eye, and looks over to see this,
"Rylan!" But the taller boy pays him no mind. He tosses the empty, then
reaches for another, looking rather pale at this point. In a fury that Rylan
dares to do this, DT runs and jumps over the bar, sliding along in the blood
on the floor over to the taller boy, then smacks the new bottle out of his
hands as he comes to a stop, "RYLAN!! Stop it!!"
Rylan looks at the medical officer with a worried expression. Apologetically,
he shrugs "It helps DT....." then looks down at himself. The Cat-Creature
had left him with three rather deadly looking gashes that were bleeding quite
profusely.
This doesn't seem to phase D`Tarik, though his voice was just a bit more
gentler then it was, "No. It doesn't help." he reached into a coat pocket
and pulled out that tube of odd-colored cream that he had used before. "But
this does." Quickly he smeared the stuff over the wounds, sealing it almost
instantly as it had done before.
More than just a little relived that the stuff had worked, Rylan grins,
"Hann'yyo!" then catches movement out of the corner of his eye. Turning to
see the Cat-Creature, his jaw drops open slightly to see that her eyes have
now formed into one big eye. Most of the fur on her face is now burnt off,
and is instead covered in small red spikes The Creature no longer has a
mouth. The one emerald eye narrows, and she slowly creeps closer. "Uh...."
Ry tries to warn, aiming the disruptor her way, "What to do about her....?"
DT, absently looking at his gun, contemplates quietly, "Hmmm...after seeing
this, I really should na use it on real stuff...."
"Too late for worrying about that now..." Rylan moves the smaller boy's head,
till DT's looking at the creature, "She's on the move again..." he fires
another blast at her from the disruptor, but it bounces harmlessly off the
front of her scorched helmet.
"Ie...." DT shakes his gun, "Too bad this smaller version runs out of ammo
so fast."
Inspired by that, Rylan picks up another bottle and smirks, "Na...we've
*plenty* ammo!" he hurls it at the Creature. She dodges out of the way of the
flying bottle, then disappears into nothingness. Only to reappear right next
to them, un-mutated and with brand-new armor. "Hanev!!" Ry dives over the
side of the bar. But DT wasn't as lucky. The Creature slashes him across the
face, sending the boy to the floor. Seeing that DT has went down, Rylan
screeches to a halt, then leaps for the Creature, drawing the kalen from his
belt. Landing on her back, he slashes at the Creature, stabbing her anywhere
he could that wasn't covered by armor.
The Creature plows her back against the edge of the bar; against the shelves,
sending bottles crashing to the ground; and lashes out with her claw, ripping
Ry's shoulder open; but still he holds on, doing his best to make the
Creature go down. "Get *UP* DT!! Run through the fvadt doors!!" But the
smaller boy behind the bar doesn't move, only lays there motionless.
In a fortunate turn of events, a junior security officer comes into the bar.
He takes one look at what's going on, and hits the Cat-Creature in left hip
with a disruptor blast, right where the armor didn't cover her. The leg of
the Creature vaporizes, sending both her and Ry to the floor. Ry first slams
into the floor, then scrambles back up, grabbing DT as he did so. Slipping
on the blood on the floor behind the bar, he manages to get over it and run
with DT out of the room.
Still running, DT flung over his non-wounded shoulder, he heads off down the
corridor to a lift. Not knowing where else to go as the Medlab was currently
out of commission, he headed for Emni's quarters. Coming from around the
corner, he calls out to the computer to over-ride the lock on her door,
running through it, barely before the doors had had time to fully open.
Emni was sitting on the bed, holding Sprinkles in her lap, when she saw Rylan
suddenly run in. She jumps to her feet to get out of the way as Rylan
practically threw DT on the bed. The taller boy rummages frantically around
in DT's pockets for something to help the medical officer with, but can't
find the tube of cream that DT had used earlier.
Emni takes one look at DT's torn apart face and screams. The hysterical
sound sends Rylan in a fury. He grabs the girl and shakes her, "SHUT UP!!
Do ninte fvadt job and HELP him!!" he points angrily towards the bleeding
boy. Emni takes a deep breath, then looks back to DT. Sighing, she shakes
her head, trying to think clearly. Rylan reads this wrongly as a sign that
she was unwilling to do anything, and suddenly draws his disruptor, "Au help
him or au die!"
"Rylan, stop it!!" Emni suddenly yells back, "I'm trying to think!" she
pauses just a second longer, "We have to get to the lab, we can't move him
like this. Sprink au stay here and watch him while Rylan and I get what we
need."
As she bolts for the door, intent on getting to the medbay, Rylan suddenly
latches on to her arm and runs with her towards DT's quarters instead. "All
au need is in his fvadt lab coat. We can't get to the lab anyway. The
power's out, and we'd have to take the access tunnels, na to mention lack of
life support there!"
Angered that she was being dragged off down the hallway, she slaps him, "Stop
it! If au want to save him, then beating me like au'rh my drunken husband is
na going to help!" then quickly runs away from him after she said that.
Lucky for her, she had chosen the direction of DT's room to run in. Rylan
goes after, passing the girl and calling over his shoulder, "Well if au'd
start acting more like a Rihan instead of a hysterical human I wouldn't have
done that!" Then calls out for an over-ride of DT's door.
Opening DT's closet, their faces fell when they saw way more then a hundred
different lab coats stuffed into it. "Hanev!!" Ry moans to himself, then
starts rummaging through the thousands of pockets, "What is it au will need?!
What am I looking for?!" Emni starts listing off a bunch of stuff, and
Rylan starts to pull it out as he finds it, tossing the equipment to her over
his shoulder.
They didn't get very far along in their search before the doors open once
again, and allows DT to enter, holding onto his face with Sprinkles perched
on his shoulder. Emni and Rylan looked stunned by this latest development,
and Ry asks curiously, "How come au'rh walking?"
DT motions for them to move, and points to the stuff in Emni's hands, then
motions Rylan towards another lab coat. Sprink jumps off his shoulder as the
boy sits down on the edge of his bed, and answers Rylan's question,
"I....na....stop...him!" then squeaks in a concerned way. As DT picks up the
first of the equipment, he shakes his head at that, then positions a mirror
that Emni held out to him and goes to work.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah..." Ry, finished with pulling out the various needed
medical equipment, pats the Tribble on the head then closes the closet doors.
"Go sit down Sprink...."
After about half an hour of repairing his own face, DT is still left with a
set of three large scars. Examining his reflection in the mirror, he sees
Rylan trying to sneak quietly out of the room. Stretching his jaw a moment,
he says quietly, "Rylan, stop...."
Ry sighs as he's just about had enough of hearing 'stop' next to his name,
but pauses in the doorway a moment, "Ie?"
"Au know with all that's going on we should stay as a group..." the smaller
boy begins, still examining the scars on his face, trying to get used to
them, "And thanks for basically saving me...."
Ry half heartidly smiles, "Na. I've interrupted au enough for io day.
Besides, I should get down to deck 4 and help with repairs to get ninte lab
up and running again." he continues on, calling out as he heads down the
corridor, "Don't worry DT...I'm na gonna drink anything...."
Hearing the note of Rylan's 'mood' creep into the other boy's voice as he
left, DT answered, "Okay, fine Rylan. Suit ninte-self. But watch out for
rouge programs!" he called out just as the doors shut, not knowing if Rylan
had heard him or not.
Emni, thrilled that DT was going to be all right, drops the small mirror and
hugs him, "I'm sorry I could na be of more help...."
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