<<Part Two >> ===== Corridor near Holodeck 1 ===== He made his way directly to the maintenance hatch, Rangi was talking about. When he opened it, some debris fell from inside it, but after a short while he managed to find the tool box, so he grabbed it and climbed out. {Now to get to the Astrometrics...} but to his disappointment, the path to the lab looked blocked by some fallen girders and lot of rubble. {This is going to be harder than expected. All right Terek, let's try something else.} He was standing there for a while and suddenly he remembered that on this deck is also an entrance to the main computer core. {That's it... I can try it there.} and immediately he made his way there. After some time, he entered a small control room that was for maintenance purposes of the main core. He approached a blinking console, which only one looked at least partialy operational. Tapped a few commands to find out that most of the systems are offline. But it seemed that the main core is almost untouched. Only the circuitry in the rest of the ship was gone. He displayed a full status. {Great, almost whole ship is gone... Bioneural circuits are out, comm systems out... secondary comm out.. damn it. Sensors at minimum operational capacity. What the hell I'm supposed to do with this?} He was beginning to be desprate as for he was no engineer. He only knew some thing when he needed to repair something for himself or so, but this was work for the professionals. It was well beyond his knowledge. He was angry. {There has to be some way how to get the comm online.} He hit the wall with his fist, but then he sat on the ground to think for a minute. He sat there for about five minutes, tapping his fingers in a rythm on the floor and suddenly he remembered something. {The tapping... rythm...code... yes, that's it. But how they called it? Mars code? No... hmm yes, Morse code. This is it. We just have to hope that somebody else will know it.} He tried to find something that would allow him to send a ship wide signal or something, but all the systems connecting various parts of the ship were destroyed. He thought for another moment when he realized that if he wants to contact someone, he needs an undamaged system. Something that will work despite the all damage. {Tricorders and padds, yes, that's it. They both have their own systems, signal transmiters and recievers to connect with the ship's database. I need only to send a direct signal to another device....} Suddenly he grabbed the tools and ran back to the sickbay, as for he hadn't any tricorder with himself. "Doctor. I might have found the way how to contact others...." Rushed Terek into the holodeck. "I just need to do some modiffication on the tricorder." The holodeck had been damaged too though not on the scale of main sickbay. Maikai had worked as best she could but nothing could hide her relief at seeing the three other doctors arrival. Together they began to bring a sense of order from the chaos though it was glaringly apparant that the temporary bay would no longer provide the backup it was intended to. When the young Bajoran burst through the entrance, Rangi hurried towards him. "What have you found?" she asked eagerly. "I need the tricorder. I've remembered that it has it's own transmitter and reciever to communicate with the ship's systems and even with other tricorders. It isn't designed to send the voice, only data but I was thinking about something that we can use. Are you familiar with the Morse code?" he asked eagerly and rushed to one of the boxes Rangi had transported with her to find a tricorder. When he found on third attempt only medical supplies he turned to her and asked "Have you any tricorder here?" {Morse code?!} She watched him run past, hardly stopping to pose his question. Following him she replied."Morse code? well..I know a bit of it. Heres a tricorder." she said retrieving one from a smaller crate marked with the Chimeras registration number and other codes. It had held three osteotractors originally but now contained various medical tools salvidged from the main sickbay. "What are going to do?" she asked. "Thanks..." said Terek and grabbed a small gray box. He activated it, and stared on it for a while, then he made a decision. He activated the tricorder to tricorder connection. A small net of available devices appeared on the small screen. He sighed as for he saw that it has limited distance. It only covered this deck and part of the decks above and down, but it might be enough. "Well I've got the signal, It has a limited range, but it'll do." He choose one of the blinking dots which might have been one of the active tricorders in the astrometrics and recalled a Morse code in his mind {How it was...} He started pressing button used to send files in a code frequency so instead that it beeped only once on the other device, it started to beeping as crazy in a code frequency. Meanwhile in the Astrometrics, Alex was trying to get some systems online. She found there almost nobody. Just Petrel and Oriana, both of them unconscious. She made them as comfortable as she could and was trying to contact anyone as well. Right in the moment when she was accepting the fact that they are cut off, Petrel's tricorder began to beep like crazy. First she thought that it has some sort of malfunction, but when she grabbed it and listened to that sound for a moment she recognized it. Her father used to told her something about it. It was some ancient Earth code to transmit messages. Unfortunately she didn't know it. She just remembered few letters, but that was all. {Damn it... I have to find out what is it saying...} She raised and approached console. She tried to acces library and with the great amount of luck the ODN pathways to the main core from astrometrics weren't destroyed so she was able to access some parts of the database. {Please, please, let it be here.... Yes.} Se found the code decryption key and downloaded it to the one of the two functioning padds she salvaged from the lab. She recorded the repeating beeping pattern and then tried to translate it. After some time she made it and realized that it is coming from the holodeck and that it is Terek. So she responded. "It's working... it's working..." said Terek as his tricorder began to beep...."And it is Alex. She says, that she's in the astrometrics. Oriana and Petrel in need of the medical care." he paused to get the rest of the message. "She also send me the path how to get here. Can you give me some medical case? I'll try to get there and help them." Asked Terek. Rangi looked from the tricorder to Tereks face and back. "Thats wonderful" she said and gave a sigh of relief and flashed a smile at him."Maikai can go with you....and ensign...whats the chance of contacting the Bridge? " she added hopefully, though she knew even as she asked it that the possibility was too small. "There are almost certainly injured crew there." she said quietly " I need to know but if not, then one of us will have to try to get there." The thought of using site to site didnt fill her with much confidence... two of the supply crates had failed to transport at all. "That's great." smiled Terek at Rangi but then his face become serious again. "I won't lie to you. The range of tricorder is limited. You would need someone on the upper decks to retransmit messages or at least find active tricorder and use it as retranslation station. It isn't impossible, but you have to be patient, it may take some time before you'll find some." Terek got up to his feet and approached doctor with one tricorder and a padd. "Here, you saw how I sent that message, it's simple. And I wrote you the Morse code on this padd. Just remember to write short and simple messages. I'll keep my tricorder active and if I'll find one active on another deck I'll give you note so you can send message through me and that activated one, OK?" Rangi nodded, taking the offered padd and tricorder. "Thankyou ensign" she said. "You've done really well." She smiled at him for a moment then turned back to the room. "Theres Maikai..." she looked back to Terek " I'll get her and an extra medkit for you too.Please...sit and rest for a few moments. Are you sure you feel up to this?" "Well even if I wouldn't feel up to this... what other choice we have? Don't worry, we'll be fine." He tried to give her a reassuring expression, but didn't manage it quite right. So he sit on the crate and sent Alex another message that they are on their way and asked her to find some active tricorder on the deck above through which they could boost a signal in order to create a link to the Bridge. He received an answer in about two minutes. "Doctor, I've got a good news. Alex found a line of active tricorders from the astrometrics up to the deck one. She's now trying to establish a connection but it looks that we'll make it." In that moment tricorder began to beep again. "She's got it. She's there, all you have to do is send a message and hope that someone up there will find that beeping tricorder and will know the Morse code." {Shane knows it } she thought happily and her feeling was clearly visible on her face."Thankyou Ensign..thankyou very much." She handed him the medkit. "Dr Quiocho will follow you." "Thank you doctor and good luck." Said Terek and took the medikit from her, then he turned on Maikai. "Shall we doctor?" asked and when she nodde they left the holodeck and headed to the Astrometrics using the path through undamaged jeffries tubes and corridors almost around whole deck before they finally made it to the lab. ===== End Log ===== Ensign Terek Weranis Assistant Science Officer USS Chimera & LtCmdr Rangi Summers CMO/2XO USS Chimera