Enter the Trap - Part Two

Posted on Mon Feb 24th, 2020 @ 1:08pm by Division Admiral Celeste Yamaguchi-Hobbs & Commander Luhanna Wintersnow & Lieutenant Colonel Tienn Nerra & Major Daisy Rohr-McKnight & Chief Warrant Officer Ryi "Taffy" Amlari
Edited on on Mon Feb 24th, 2020 @ 1:53pm

Mission: Mission 12: Hitchhikers are Escaped Convicts
Location: Various Locations - USS Shadow
Timeline: 0810Hrs - February 16th, 2390

Another Orion turned. "Sir, they are attempting to hack into the main computer."

"Really... seems they are getting better.... nice try though, shut them out." Brakka responded.

USS Shadow

She looked out the view screen, "What the hell..." she asked as she realised what was happening. "Any suggestions on how to stop that from hitting the freighter or us for that matter?" Yoshi barked as she needed quick thinking.

"Bridge, sickbay, close to point blank range and get their attention.... we need to protect the freighter or scuttle her." Yamaguchi's voice sounded off as she sighed. "Crap, they locked me out, hacking attempt is no good. Sorry bridge.." and with that the com went dead.

She sighed as she looked around, "I am open for suggestions," she said to everyone on the bridge. They were getting hit and they kept firing, "We need to come up with something and fast....I won't let them win! So come up with a tactic that will work FAST!" She ordered

Counselors Office/Sickbay

Jaina had prepared what she could in her office to handle things whenever possible for when it came to the needs of the crew once things started with the pirates and then afterwards. Once she had things set the way she had wanted, Jaina headed off towards Sickbay to see what she could do there to help out in anyway. Jaina had just entered Sickbay when she heard the Doctor tell the Bridge that the hacking attempt she was doing didn't work and that she had been locked out. Hearing this got Jaina to thinking some.

=^="Captain, this is the Counselor," Jaina said. "This may seem a bit of an odd suggestion. What about sending out a message beacon that appears as though we are dropping one to send out a relay of messages back home to family, but in reality it is a booby trap of sorts that has a quick acting virus that would shut down the pirate ship systems allowing us to board the ships and deal with the pirates."=^=

Bridge

"Could work," David shrugged at Yoshi. It was better than anything he had at the moment.

Yoshi thought for a moment, "Well we can give it a try, hopefully they don't catch on and destroy it before it can do its job." Yoshi stated as she looked at everyone. "Well do it," Yoshi stated as her Operations officer tapped a few buttons and sent the beacon on its way. In the mean time the Shadow kept on firing at the Pirate ships. The Shadow was sustaining damage and they needed to take care of the problem before they were destroyed.

David got up and walked around the Command seats to the Operations console and helped the Officer program a virus to send through the beacon.

Meanwhile over on the Orion command ship, Captain Brakka had lost his smile as his two companion ships reported they were taking lots of damage, suddenly one of them shattered as it turned into a molten fireball, the other one took two more phaser blasts before its power core failed, turning it into an expanding ball of incandescent plasma.

She seen what was happening she opened a comm channel to the Orion Command ship. "This is the USS Shadow I suggest you stand down and surrender before you to get destroyed. You underestimated my crew and this ship. This is your final warning, stand down or be destroyed." Yoshi stated calmly.

On the Orion's bridge, Captain Brakka simply smiled. "Shadow... I don't think you quite release your predicament." he turned his head. "Bracket her with the new torpedoes..." he turned his head. "Well. whenever you're ready like..."

The henchman sighed as he pulled the trigger so to speak, a half dozen warheads left the launcher, they then activated as four headed for the Shadow, the fifth went for the freighter while the last exploded inside the launcher, doing massive damage to the pirate ship.

The Warhead impacted the freighter, shearing off her starboard nacelle clean before detonating, the kinetic energy released tore the nacelle apart before doing massive damage to the freighter herself, meanwhile Shadow was able to shoot down one of the warheads, two detonated on her shields, one aft of the port nacelle while the other was dorsal of the saucer section while the last penetrated the shields and impacted on the port nacelle strut before releasing the warhead which shattered the strut, severing the nacelle clean off from the Shadow herself before the expanding plasma cloud
shredded the nacelle and did heavy damage to the surrounding superstructure on the USS Shadow.

Maxwell rocked when the explosion hit their shields and penetrated them. How the hell had that happened? He'd look into that later and then he'd start working with the Tactical Officer to see what could be done to improve on this one. But thing was though, he came to a sitting position looking around the bridge. "Kay, Who's not dead? Sound off." He called as he noticed that they still had power to the consoles and the viewscreen, but sparks flew from the overhead exposed bulkheads. He was going to have to clean that shit up. He knew it, and the worst thing about it was that he couldn't even do the proper thing and have a beer to do it!

Nevertheless though, he turned and brought up the super structure of the vessel. His fingers danced overtop of the "Captain! Auto Core Shut Down a success! We're alive. That's the only good news I've got for you. We've lost a Warp Nacelle. Main power is down, Auxillary power is at forty three precent. I've got electrical blow outs on decks five, six and seven, I've lost internal sensors and contact with the last deck all together. Nows a good time to start having non essential personel move to their safe zones. Emergency Forcefields are deployed on the arse end of the ship. Running on Auxillary power though, they'll fail before long. " Maxwell stated before he tapped his comm. badge only to get a dead signal on it. "Communications gone to." He stated in that almost to perma-coffe induced sugar rush that he was known for. And that was he turned and moved towards the Jefferies Tube Hatch, tapped his hand against all four coners of it, before it sprung open slightly leaving him to pull open the hatch the full way.

"I'm going back to Engineering to handle damage control. When I've internal communications back up and running, I'll let you know." He commented before he started to go down the ladder. "Terry-ho, Au-revour, Chow, Saianara, Arribadachi and all that. Into the belly of the beast I go, and out the demons ass." He commented with a bit of a cackle. Could people see that he was a bit more worried than the rest of them and resorting to his regular humour to keep a sort of normalcy amongst those junior officers upon the bridge? Did he know it himself? Probably not. If Maxwell was one thing, he was a mentally questioned man. There as he tapped his access code against the jefferies tube console, he nodded his head. "Row you bully boys, we're in a hurry boy...." He began to sing that echoed up the tube and into the bridge, before the hatch shut sealing him off from the rest of the world for the time being.

Yoshi had gotten up from the floor, blood coming from her head and she moaned. "Get weapons and shields back online now!" Yoshi ordered as she looked around. "Send out a distress call to any Starfleet ships in the area requesting back up." Yoshi also ordered.

"Aye sir," came her Operations Officer who sent out a distress call to any ships in the area.