<<continued from previous log........... Ra'nar turned to Rangi with a disgusted look on his face, "why did they not inform us of that before we went into combat, I could have saved lives today!" With that ra'nar smashed his fist into the screen of the consol cracking it down the left hand side and cutting his hand for the second knuckle. After his moment of rage he managed to think a little clearly, "You know, in my experience the only reason you would not inform a someone of this information is if they were not expected to survive contact with the X'chi." ...........>> ***********USS GOTT an empty quarters on deck 4************** "Oh my god this is awesome" was the only thought Hawk had, (and he said it out loud) as he showered in an empty quarters. He spent about ten minutes taking a shower and knew that he should have only spent two minutes but he couldn't help it. Anyways the luxury that was hygiene had to end sooner than later so he replicated a new uniform and made is way out the door. As he made his way to engineering however he was intercepted by Lt Cmdr Summers ** USS Gott * Engineering ** Ra'nar clenched his fist as he regained some sense of self control. "Sorry about that. Restraint never was my strongest attribute," he said as a little blood trickled down his fist onto the deck. "I guess we had better start working on those inoculations, don't want half the crew to drop dead." Ra'nar stopped for a moment and smiled, "Although that would get me up the chain of command faster." Rangi gave a glimmer of a smile at his attempt at humour but it died immediately. "How could they keep it from us?" she asked referring to the secret document. "I have never seen that before...even when I searched for X'Chi in the database at the start of this mission. There was nothing there...so why only here on this ship?" She dropped her gaze to his hand thoughtfully. "You'd better get that seen to first and then yes..we need to find the antidote. " she said raising her head to look at him again. Her attention was caught by a tall figure striding into the room "Lt Versey!" The engineer did a sharp detour from his tracks at Rangis call. "Ma'am?" he said walking to them " Do you know where theres a lab on this ship?" she asked Ra'nar pulled a rolled up bandage from his trouser pocket. Slowly he started to bandage the hand, unrolling it as he went and as he watched Lieutenant Versey approach, "Your best bet would be up a deck or two. Nova class vessel's have all the best equipment in their science departments." he said as Hawk drew near. Hawk replied "There are no labs in working order onboard " and glancing from Rangi to Ra'nar and back added "I could help you fix something up...what do you want exactly?" "We need to find a treatment for a virus" Rangi said and looked at Ranar. Ra'nar motioned towards to damaged screen still showing the report. "We need to put together some antibodies with the virus." He frowned, " ....and whip up enough of the stuff for the whole crew before they start dropping dead." Seeing Hawks questioning expression Rangi said " We need to have access to equipment that will enable us to make a serum ... lots of it...and quickly." Hawk thought for a moment, "I could fix a lab of sorts. " he said, "Ma'am... my parents were planetary geologists, and there were several times that poisonous little cutes, scraps, and bites came up. So we got used to making a needed anti toxin from basic supplies and facilities." It was the best offer in a tight situation and in a moment Rangi nodded agreement. "The DNA sequence of the X'chi is still in the database.." she said ".... we need to work from that then. Ranar...what do think?" Rangi asked, turning to the Cardassian who followed a step behind. She paused to let him walk beside them. Ra'nar moved up, "That should be adequate. If what the report says is true we will only need a small part of the Virus, most will be antibodies." With that Hawk spoke up, "We also still have the X'chi DNA in the Transporter database if we need it." "Right." Rangi smiled to each of the men, thinking that at last something was going right and what they wanted could be achieved. They began to lay out guidelines for what needed to be done and a time frame to do it in. Hawk made a beeline for the console he had used to transport the bug into the reaction chamber. With the DNA record still in the transporter buffer memory logs it would be easy to replicate and materialize the toxin substance from the X'Chi. Ra'nar thought for a moment about who to take the antibodies from, it had to be somebody who was injured but not on there death bed. "Remember I spoke of Jenn Greene? I had to burn her wound close." Rangi nodded so he continued, "Well I had a quick look at her charts while I was in sickbay and it seems that her body is having some effect at fighting the virus. I believe that her immune system may be having better luck at fighting it. I would like to use her antibodies if you have no objections." "None at all...she's 'just' what we need!" Rangi said and a real smile lit her face. "Please do that. LtVersey and I will set up what we can here." "I can begin making the basic machinery, centrifuge, beakers, and implements." Hawk offered. and then cast a doubtful look at Rangi "You know how to work with that do you?" he asked. "Yes I do!" Rangi replied, seeing a glimmer of amusement on Ranars face. "I took a short course of the history of medicine...I'm sure I can remember it." she added dryly. Ra'nar smiled at the comment. "Well at this point I think it would be wise to leave you too alone," he said with a little hint of innuendo. "Be sure to keep me updated, I will be back in around 15 minutes with the antibodies." With that Ra'nar turned and headed back to sick bay. Rangi watched him walk away a few steps before turning back to the lieutenant. Hawk began to pull up the match to the viral cells on the console and paused. They needed a more sterile place to do this. If an accident happens they could possible spread this to an airborne issue, that would be bad to worse. "There are several crew quarters just a small distance away from here Ma'am. We could set up sterile fields in there for a small area and surround the quarters with stronger force fields and do this a little safer." Rangi watched the preparations and helped move the setup to the nearest quarters, setting the equipment and sterilizing the area took only a few minutes. Hawk was ready by the time the lab was set up and began to beam the material into the sterile field within "lab 1" as it was being called already. After a short period everything that was needed to make the antidote for the X'Chi wounds was ready. "As soon as Ra'nar returns we can set to work.Thankyou lieutenant. "Rangi said . "Your help has been invaluable." Hawk smiled and gave a nod of farewell, before moving on to other tasks after thanks from the CMO. *** End Log *** LtCmdr Rangi Summers CMO/2XO USS Chimera & LT jg Hawk Versey AEO USS Chimera & Private 1st class Ra'nar 18-D Medical Specialist USS Chimera _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN Search Toolbar now includes Desktop search! http://toolbar.msn.co.uk/