==/-\== USS Gott Deck 7==/-\== After meeting up with Lt. Scott, the large squad of men accompanied by the two female survivors continued on to main engineering. One by one the group exited the Jeffry's tube and formed up along a darkened hallway. Private Jones was on point but had stopped and was looking at his tricorder. Williams noticed the hold up and quickly made his way up to Jones' location, "What is it? ", he said quietly. "I've got some strange readings coming from up ahead", Jones whispered back to Williams. "At least 40 or more Xchi are converging on engineering". Gary frowned a bit. "Any sign of the majors team?" he asked looking over Jones's shoulder. "I read about a dozen bio signs in that direction', Jones pointed down the hall. "Most likely humanoid. Cant tell for sure, there is too much interference." Gary nodded, "And which way are the X'chi coming from?" he asked. Jones pointed in the opposite direction. "Every direction. Looks like they might be converging on the dozen bio signs." Gary sat down behind Jones and pulled out a pad. He tapped on it and pulled up a map of a standard Nova class ship and looked over the deck layout. "Hrm.. If the bio signs are there, and we are." Gary looked up to read the hall designator on the wall, "Here. Then we could get to them by going this way." He muttered to himself. Gary tapped Jones on the shoulder, "Ok how is this." He lifted the pad over Jones' shoulder to show him the path. "If we go this direction, we can get to this junction just about the time the X'chi get there." He pointed to an intersection not far form main engineering where the X'chi could out flank The dozen bio signs. "If we get there we will have a clear shooting alley to the main corridor that leads to main engineering. If we are lucky, we can kill a few of those things and pull a few of them off the main attack. And since this intersection and the one at the main corridor are the only two ways to the bio signs, we could then pull back to them , covering their flank the entire time." He rambled on in a whisper. Gary then signalled for the group to keep moving and they continued down the corridor towards Main Engineering at a light run. He wrinkled his face as the team passed another pile of feces. This one was even bigger than the others. Glancing over at Anderson he noticed he looked like he was about to throw up. A few more metres and they had reached the ambush spot. The intersection was perfect, debris and trash was piled all around and the marines quickly began setting up cover positions. Lt. Scott who assumed personally responsibility for the two women's safety took them to the rear of the line with Anderson. "Alright the objective is to get the bugs attention", Gary said while knocking out the lights that were illuminating the hallway with the butt of his rifle, "Once we've got their attention we're going to need to push back into Walsh's line." The marines nodded and prepared there weapons. No more than a few seconds later the first bunch of Xchi started piling into the intersection. Waiting until the last possible moment, the team then opened fire catching the first wave by complete surprise. And after a minute of concentrated phaser fire there wasn't much left of the rest of them, their remains littering the floor. Suddenly phaser fire started erupting from up ahead causing Gary to jump to his feet. "Alright lets move", he then yelled back to the rest of the team, "But watch what you shoot, that's Walsh's team up there". Quickly and smartly the ODA team came up behind another group of Xchi and before they knew what was happening had blow them into pieces. Thrusting his way through the Xchi carcasses now acting as a roadblock Williams was the first around the corner. What he saw astonished him and he immediately started firing his weapon into what seemed to be a blob of bugs. There was so many that it was hard to distinguish them apart, a claw here a head here a leg there. It was all the same to him and as more of his team rounded the corner, more dead bugs started falling to the ground. The Xchi were definitely caught off guard, it was as if they couldn't comprehend that they were being attacked from behind and by the time they realized they were being shot at it was too late. ==/-\== End Log ==/-\== (OOC, Thanks for the help on this one Indy) PO1 Gary Williams (NPC) ODA Ops Specialist USS Chimera