Spanner in the Works

Posted on Sun Mar 1st, 2020 @ 3:43am by Captain Bolvar "Highlord" Fordragon & Commander Telios Wintersnow & Lieutenant Commander Tanya Stevenson & Lieutenant Commander Shorin Gal'jaridd & Division Admiral Celeste Yamaguchi-Hobbs & Fleet Captain Torilla Yamaguchi & Lieutenant Colonel Tienn Nerra & Zuko Omakan
Edited on on Sun Mar 1st, 2020 @ 4:13pm

Mission: Mission 33: Losing the Peace
Location: Various Locations - USS Dreamcrusher
Timeline: 1000Hrs - June 2nd, 2391

Kima, Teval's AI, watched helplessly as the Romulans conducted their experiment's on her host. They had been spending the past several days, opening Teval up, examining the implants he has, and then closing him back up again. Today, however, they actually decided to remove one of the nanoprobe generating implants. The Romulans had also finally succeeded in configuring their memory scanners to work on Kurokuri, and now they were subjecting teval to the memory scanner.

It was then that one for the Romulans made a discovery, "Commander, I am reading two neural patterns here."

The romulan commander looked at the computer screen. After looking over the results for a good minute, she said thoughtfully. "Hmmm, interesting, the second neural pattern, it reads very similar to a normal brain pattern, however its structure is very ordered like a computer program."

The lower ranked romulan looked at his commander, "you mean like some kind of AI."

The commander continued to look at the readings," Possibly, though a very advanced one. send an uplink to our main computers, and tell our computer specialist to run an analysts program on it."

The younger romulan did as he was told while Kima, seized on her chance. She was fortunate that the romulans seemed o be so unfamiliar with AI's like her, otherwise they would have been morte careful. She quickly adapted to romulan computer coding and began to write a subroutine into the computer system, one that hopefully, would attract Starfleet intelligence.

Meanwhile, on the Dreamcrusher, Seykai had been busy sifting through any romulan transmissions that he could find, after close to an hour of sorting through romulan networks, he came on something. After spending a good minute, he said to Zuko, " Hey Zuko,I think I got something."

Zuko got up out of the captains chair, and walked over to where Seykai was sitting, "What is it."

Seykai got straight to the point, "I am picking up a distress signal, its got a pattern from an Akurian AI."

Zuko looked at the signal results, and then saw a set of coordinates," Finally something we can trace. send those coordinates to the helm."

Seykai nodded as Zuko issued his orders, " Oriana, you will be getting a st of coordinates sent to your helm, set a course for maximum warp."

"Yes, commander." She replied. "Course set."

Zuko then looked back at Seykai, saying," send these coordinates to the Toronto and have them follow us."

Seykai nodded as he contacted the Toronto, while Zuko then hit the intercom, "Red alert, All hands, man your battlestations."

Captain Bolvar Fordragon nodded his head. "Understood Dreamcrusher, we'll follow you." as he turned. "Helm, you heard the man... " he tapped the com pad on the arm of his command chair. "All hands to battlestations, this is not a drill. " he said as a smile appeared on his face.

Meanwhile in Dreamcrusher's sickbay which was actually a small hospital. Commander Celeste Yamaguchi was monitoring the situation as she felt it wise to always know what was going on before it landed on her doorstep.

Zuko then tapped his combadge, saying," Zuko to Tienn, get your marine boarding teams ready, we will be on our target in 20 minute."

Tienn's voice came back. "Understood sir, the boys and girls in Green will be ready... " as she turned her head. "Squad's one and two, square away your gear and report to transporter rooms three and four." she commented. "Reserve Squad... Report to Transporter room one." she looked at LaJae. "You wanted to show me how good you were... you're part of second squad."

Bross took a big gulp. "Um, yeah." he replied with absolutely no enthusiasm.

Meanwhile, on the romulan ship that Teval was on, the ship shook suddenly and violently.The commander hit the intercom, saying," Report."

"A valdore class owned by Warlord Hakeev, just decloaked and opened fire."

The commander's orders where quick," Evasive maneuver's, return fire."

The two valdore class warbirds quickly exchanged fore with each other, however, the attacking warbird had the advantage of firing the opening volley, and she exploited it savagely. However, her victory was short lived when a D'Deridex class warbird and two supporting birds of prey decloaked and opened fire on both ships. The valdore carrying Teval and hakaya was the first to be disabled. The second valdore succeeded in destroying one of the birds of prey, but was quickly overwhelmed herself. Several more romulan ships then entered the area and began to open fire.

A few minutes out, Dreamcrusher began to detect the carnage.

"Captain!" Rojas alerted the bridge crew. "I'm picking up several Romulan war vessels. They seem to be firing on each other." Rojas added, a little confused.

Zuko nodded," Well, then that will work to our advantage, Seykai, can you tell which ship is giving out the signal."

Seykai nodded," Yes, marking the target, That warbird is disabled, she isn't going anywhere."

Just then the Dreamcrusher got a message from one of the romulan ships, "This is General Hakeev of the romulan Tal Shiar to the federation vessels, you are violating our territory, turn back now or we will open fire on you."

Telios Wintersnow blinked her eyes. "Is this dude for real?" she inquired. "Could we please kill him...?" she asked, it sounded like she was almost enthusiastic about it. "I'll feel so much better...?"

Zuko looked over at Telios saying," Why are you asking me for permission, I have every intention on putting this dillhole out of his misery."

Karass blinked his eyes. "Thats... not what I expected." he commented. "I apologize.. for I misjudged you."

Wintersnow nodded as she turned, then she turned back to Zuko. "Wait... What?" she blinked. "Ummm.. umm...say... what?"

Rojas wasted no time in bringing the Dreamcrusher's weapons on to the Romulan ship. In one large brilliant explosion the ship vaporized.

Zuko just shrugged as several of the smaller romulan ships began to scatter, while dreamcrusher traded blows with a Scimitar class warbird. A full volley of 72 Heavy Quantums, along with support fire from the Toronto, smashed the Scimitar's shields to 50%. The main phasers opened up, concentrating on the Scimitar's weakened forward shields. Dreamcrusher came about, firing off the port side mounted launchers, and then finally, the rear ones, completely flattening the Scimitar's shields and several heavy quantums hit the now exposed hull. The Scimitar class threw everything it had at Dreamcrusher. but dreamcrusher brought her starboard heavy quantum launchers to bear, and a further 24 heavy quantums, along with more phaser fire crippled the scimitar class, all within two minutes of battle. The remaining warbirds then retreated, leaving behind only the ones that where crippled and unable to go to warp, including their target.

Zuko hit the comm systems, saying, " Zuko to Tienn, You are cleared to board the Target."

"Confirmed Bridge." Tienn smiled as she looked to her guys. "Prep the package.. stand by to drop off the kids.." as a grin graced the Bajorans face as she activated the small crate of warheads. "Energize.." she commented as the consignment which measured two foot by two foot, it was in essence a giant flashbang.

Tienn counted to twenty as she waited patiently while she lifted her rifle as she tapped her combadge. "All Marines... prepare for drop.... lets do this." and with that she stepped onto the transporter pad, the other marines all stood around her clustered in a circle, all facing outwards. "Energize."

"Good luck sir.." and with that he beamed the Marines onto the Romulan ship.

Varkon, who stood at the front of the team, wasted no time in charging down the nearest romulans, whom here still disoriented. Varkon grabbed one by the arm, picked him up, and used him to beat the other romulan to death.

Tienn smiled. "Yo Varkon, if... you happen to catch the skipper of this Romulan turd pile, save me his head will ya.... I need a new pint glass." she commented as she followed the walking tank who was maming himself usefull by doing all of her work for her. "Guys, move up, cover him..."

"Cover Varlon... he don't need us"

"You heard me. cover him.." Tienn growled. "My guys, with me... move it up!"

The next room had two group of romulans shooting at each other, Varon wasted o time in rampaging through them like a steamroller. The first group didn't even register his presence until one of them went flying across the room, his body hitting the wall with a loud crack. The second tried to turn his disruptor on the brikar, but varkon casually reached out and crushed the weapon. He then picked up the surprised romulan and used his body to smash the rest of the group to the ground. meanwhile, the other group of romulans on the other side of the room started firing at the federation personnel.

Tienn and her Marines all ducked into whatever cover they could find as the small Bajoran woman sighed. "Idiots..." she produced a flashbang. "Grenade!" she called before she activated it and tossed it towards the Romulans.

Suddenly there was a white flash as well as a loud bang, as the Romulans were all blinded, then the Federation personnel began picking them off.

Meanwhile Bross was way behind. He was barely keeping up. The only reason he didn't fall behind was because he didn't want to be alone.

Tienn smiled as she moved while firing at the stunned group of Romulans, she tagged one of them in the head before Varkon moved onto the group.

She turned. "Where's....whats-his-face... Idiot boy..?"

"Sir, I got no idea.."

Tienn sighed. "Great... He's probably already dead, lets move up.."

As soon as Tienn finished her words, a beam of energy barely missed her head and hit the nearby wall. A panic stricken Bross said nothing and only whimpered as he clutched his assault phaser. It was obvious that the weapon discharge was because of his carelessness. He only stood there, shaking in his boots.

Tienn yelped in fright. "LaJay.... I am going to fucking HURT YOU!" she screamed at him.

Hausser took the assault rifle out of Bross' arms. "You've lost the privilege to carry a weapon." Hausser told the fat man.

"But I don't got a weapon Sarge!" Bross protested.

"First off, don't ever call me 'Sarge' again. I am a Master Sergeant." Hausser scolded Bross. "Second, they way I heard you talk back in the armory with all your Black Ops experience, you don't need a weapon." All Bross could do in response was whimper.

Tienn smiled in silence. "Thank you Master Sergeant. Alright guys... lets carry on..." the smaller Bajoran woman responded, as she turned and jogged after Varkon who was somewhere up ahead, dismembering Romulans.

Hausser and several other marines kept advancing. Bross followed, unarmed. Hausser looked back at Tienn. "Do you know where the brig is on this ship Sir?" He asked her.

"I haven't the foggiest." Tienn responded. "If I had to guess... I'd say deep in the ship towards the stern." she paused. "I assume you want to go there and see if any of our people are being held?" she added. "Go for it, take whoever you need and go to it."

"Alright," Hausser replied. "I'll take LaJaye, Bowen, Raja, and Mendoza."

Meanwhile Varkon, whom was already down the corridor, encountered a locked door. Looking at the door label, he recognized the markings for an interrogation room. After a couple of failed attempts to open the door with its key padd, he simply kicked the door with all his strength. The door was torn from its mount and sent flying. Varkon casually walked into the room, ad noticed no other romulans in the room, other than the one unfortunate groaning guard whom was lying on the ground with the door on top of him. Varkon ignored him as he looked around the poorly lit room, his eyes then fell on the back of the room, where on the last surgical bed, he noticed a small red and black furred being. Walking over to the bed, he froze cold when he finally recognized whom was there.

Teval was barely recognizable, at least in his current condition. from his lower chest to his waist, he was opened up down the middle, blood everywhere, and one of his internal organs, and a couple implants in a tray beside him. Varkon couldn't even really tell if he was still alive.

Tienn followed Varlon into the room. "Medic!" she called. Before anyone could stop her, she calmly lifted her rifle and vaporized the moaning guard, his dying scream filled the room.

A Marine medic rushed in. "Sir... right then." he turned as he took in the condition of Teval. "Any other Romulans around?"

"No... I disintegrated the one who was in here." Tienn said cooly.

Without a word, varkon casually left the room, picking up the detached door on his way out.

Tienn raised an eyebrow. "How is he?"

"Not good sir." the medic responded as he went to work. "Someone really tore this guy apart... its a miracle he's not dead already.." he tapped his combadge. "Dreamcrusher, this is Six, requesting extraction for myself and one critically wounded prisoner. I need transport directly to sickbay, also inform them I have a code white level medical emergency."

"Confirmed, stand by for transport." as the medic took a moment to pick up the various other items needed. "Okay. We're ready Dreamcrusher."
and with that the two of them dematerialized as they were beamed away, various items were gone too. All that was left was the blood splattered everywhere.

Varkon, meanwhile, proceeded to paint the walls an even greener color, as he swung at one romulan with the door, hitting him with such force he cut the romulan in two. He then bashed another's skull in, and beheaded a third. The rest meanwhile began to flee, but varkon threw the door at them, knocking two of them to the ground. the others, found out just how fast an enraged brikar could move, as he charged at them, crushing the two he knocked down when he stepped on them. The other tried to run as fast as they could, but varkon caught up to them, grabbing the first one and using his body to beat the others to death.

Tienn came through the door as she watched the enraged Brikar slaughter the Romulans in his path, she couldn't bring herself to protest the actions he was doing as the Romulans tried to retreat, only up end up with limbs being severed or heads being smashed in and the like.

Meanwhile Hausser and his team were following the trail of corpses. "Over here!" Mendoza shouted. The team went over to a locked chest in one of the prison cells. "My tricorder is getting a life form from inside."

"Alright Bowen, take security. Mendoza and I will cover LaJaye while he checks the box." Hausser ordered.

"Fuck you!" Bross shot back at Hausser.

"If you don't open the box I'll blow your head of LaJaye." Hausser threatened. "Now open the damn box!"

Bross carefully opened the box. He stood looking inside with his mouth open. Hausser quickly moved up and looked inside. "Hausser to Dreamcrusher, I have a casualty that needs to go to sickbay."

All hakaya knew is that she didn't want to be touched by any more romulans, she didn't care if they killed her, so without warning, she took a swipe with her claws at whomever was sticking their face in the box. she then attacked again, and continued to attack the screaming individual with her claws. It didn't even register to her that the blood falling on her was red, not green.

Hausser tapped his com again. "Dreamcrusher this is Hausser, you need to beam over LaJaye and the life signature next to him. I think both will need medic attention."

Meanwhile Bross screamed as his face was getting ripped apart. He made the mistake of trying to hold Hakaya. Bross howled in pain as his hand was severed from his arm.

"Hausser to Dreamcrusher, be advised that LaJaye has lost his hand. Could you hurry with my request?" Hausser pleaded.

"Maybe we should help LaJaye?" Mendoza asked.

"Do you want to put yourself between those two?" Hausser asked back. Mendoza was silent.

With her target now in biting range, Hakaya then proceeded to use her teeth, as she latched onto an ear, and pulled it off. spitting out the ear she then went for the nose.

"Dammit Dreamcrusher, I need that emergency transport out now!" Hausser shouted. As he did the two figures lit up and faded out.

Mendoza took a cautious peak inside the box. "Um, Master Sergeant, the Dreamcrusher missed something." Mendoza held up a severed ear.

"Put that in the med kit box." Hausser ordered. "Nobody is making a special trip for that toad's ear. He'll survive without it for now."

Celeste meanwhile was prepared or so she thought she was as the two beings appeared, one of them was a Marine who was getting mauled by what she assumed was a wild animal.

Celeste gasped as she quickly drew a hypo from her medkit as the other medics retreated out of range, she then lunged in and jabbed the other being with the sedative, a moment later she dropped away as Celeste caught her, it was then she realized that she was holding one of the missing personnel off of the USS Roanoke. "Alright guys, shows over... lets go to work... team two, deal with.... him.." she sighed. "Team three with me, lets see to her."

"Doctor, the man is missing an arm, an ear a face... and a-"

"I don't want to deal with that overweight glob of shit... deal with him..." Celeste responded as she gently set Hakaya down on the bed. "Lets see what those shitbags did to you." and with that she went to work, tending to Hakaya.

"Hey!" Bross groaned. "I'm really hurt here. I could die you stupid bitch!" He yelled at Celeste.

Celeste turned her head slowly. "Nurse, take over here... clean the blood off of her please..." she explained before she went over to LaJaye, she opened her medkit as she regarded him, then she gently gave him what he assumed was a sedative but in fact it was a stimulant. "Well....you should feel a slight tingling sensation.... it'll start getting more pronounced over the next five minutes... then you'll start to go numb."

"Do you know what your Doing?" Bross screamed. "Did you learn medicine playing with your dollies?"

Celeste growled. "Now... you listen to me very carefully and stop screaming at me like a impetulant child." she growled. "I am trying to save the lives of two others... both have worse injuries than you, this is called triage and I am not the only Doctor aboard this ship... there are three others.... one of them, will tend to you."

Bross tried to respond but the medicine was kicking in and all he could do was spray spittle out his mouth.

Celeste winced as she ducked back, the spittle splattering across her face. "Holy shit!" she hissed. "Doctor Stevanson, tend to this thing... keep him away from me, I need to go clean up." she growled. "I need a shower... and a new change of clothing." and with that she turned and departed sickbay.

Tanya Stevenson came over, she opened her medkit as she gently administered some medication to counter what Doctor Yamaguchi had forcefed the marine idiot as she gently sedated him. "Dammm girl.. you fucking this clown up real good..." she muttered.

Meanwhile another one of the Doctors, Lieutenant Shorin Gal'jaridd went to tend to Hakaya's wounds. "Easy, let me at this one..."