===== Bridge, USS Gott ===== Some people looked at her surprised. She looked around quickly, this ship was in a little condition only as the Chimera. She went directly to the captain: "Reporting as ordered, sir. Shane was almost half gone from the bridge when he caught a glance of a teal clad female officer entering the bridge. The lift's door closed behind him and the turbo lift sraterd to move so he was not even sure there was something ... nor less a teal clad woman. Thinking that the troubles of the last two days started to take their toll he only shrugged his shoulders and stood still in the lift waithing for it to stop on the derired deck. The captain looked tired really. Oriana could work for another 14 days without a break, but she knew, the people had not that holding time. He pointed mechanicaly to some cadet behind the tactical console. "Lieutenant. Please inform the cadet there which planet the Xchi are on. Then start reviewing the ships system for a way to return home." Oriana thought, he ended and wanted to go to cadet, when CO turned to her again: "Oh and Commander Guzman is ome where on the ship looking for you. He will be wanting you progress on returning home." Oriana wanted to add, the captain need some rest, but when she looked, where he is going, she said nothing and turned after her own work. She went quickly to the unfamiliar young human female cadet, who stood behind the tactical console. She stood beside her and tapped several buttons. "The planet is at coordinates 412,5 to 126,5, 10 lightyears from our current position. The planet is M class, no high life forms. The X!Chi eggs are grabbed at four positions 245.236 meters under the planet surface." When cadet nodded, Oriana said only: "All right, I will let you to work." Not wanting to waste any time Shane tapped the little computer console in the lift and asked: "Computer, locate Lt. Oriana" [Lieutenant Junior grade Oriana is on deck one - bridge] replied the female voice of the Gott's computer. Shane was a bit surprised that the Gott's computer knew the ranks and names of the Chimera's crew ... but then thought that it was maybe the work of LT. Foster or someone from Engineering. {geeeez} he thought, {bridge! then I am having no halucinations!}. Sighing a bit he said: "Computer, stop the lift, new destitation - deck one" Shane could feel only a very slight change as the lift stopped and started to move from where it just came. Reaching the bridge the turbo lifts door opened and Shane saw noone else then Oriana coming his way. Noding to her he motioned her to hurry. She entered the turbolift after him and stood simple and waited, when commander Guzman will start. He waited as the door closed, he said the destination and the turbolift start running. By fatigue or some chance Shane was unaware that both Harker and Palmer were on the bridge earlier and therefore as the lift's door closed Shane asked: "Where did you leave Commander Palmer? We will need her and her temporal knowledge now." {Commander Palmer again.} Oriana thought. "Sir, I saw not Commander since we researched the anomalies, in which appeared the Gott. I thought, she is in the brig still, I heard, she was arrested." Shane shook his head a bit impatiently: "I released her temporary from the custody and she as in main Engineering when I called for the evacuation. I thought she is safely here but maybe I am wrong. Anyway without her temporal knowledge is our way of finding a way how to return the Gott into pur time back more then difficult" If Oriana were a human, she would to be angry now. But Oriana was a Vulcan. The only her visible reaction of Guzman words was the quickly view at commander. Then she looked at the nowhere behind the lift wall: "Sir, I realize, that commander Palmer is real specialist in the temporal mechanics on the ship and I hope she is all right. But I promise you, I will make everything what I can to get us in our time line, if she is not all right." Maybe it was pathetic a bit, but because she said it with the emotionless face, she knew, nobody would to argue with her. Shane was quiet for a minute as the lift moved on and on. A Nova class vessel was quite smaller then an Interpid class ship, having only 9 decks but it still took some time to get to the esired point. The turbo lift suddenly halted on deck three where the science labs and stellar cartography was placed. As Oriana and Shane behind her left the lift Shane said: "I see only two alternatives how to get this ship back to our time. First is to use the Gott's temporal research and create an another artifical anomaly leading into our time or to find out if there is any natural temporal anomaly in the Spinward march in this time as well." Looking at Oriana he asked: "Did you made any progress in this with your own research?" Oriana thoughtful nodded: " Yes, I thought the same. It is probably, the research from Gott's crew was secret, but the X!Chi found it as well. Or maybe they used already running program. The Spinward Marsh is acting differently in this time. It is lastly 10 000 years younger. Our experiments will have to include that. Our chance to get home is now at 36,741 %." The turbolift stopped and the door opened, what interrupted for a while their dialogue. Shane noded as the two of them exited the lift. "Of course you are true Lieutenant, there is no march there as we know it, just several regions of some sort of 'proto-march' but still there might be some anomalies to find. And well" Shane looked at Oriana and continued: "Gott's research is sure high classified. I dont want our CSCiO to be later transferred off the ship cause she knows too much. You know those Intel freaks ..." Their conversation was again interrupted as Shane's commbadge went alive: "Lt. Wellington to Cmdr. Guzman. Be advised that the General has gone to the Chimera. For further Information Please Speak with The CMO. " {What the hell!!!!} Shane cursed mentaly {gone to the Chimera? Why??} Shane was instantly aware that Bretam's trip back to the Chimera was a dangerous one but knowing Bretam he knew that nothing he would say would prevent the General from doing what he wanted. Shane clented his teeths and replied: +TAPS+ Acknowledged Lieutenant. Thank you. +TAPS+ Still beeing annoyed about Bretam Shane remebered the young tactical officer that reported for duty on the bridge earlier. He tapped his Commbadge again: +TAPS+ Guzman to cadet C'el, find me Commander Palmer and let her escort down to deck three, Science labs. Guzman out +TAPS+ Only then he noticed that a majority of the third deck looked quite damaged ... and he remebered that it must have been this deck where 2LT. Scott met his unfortunate end in battle with the X!Chi. Turning to Oriana he said: "Lets see what's left of the science labs ..." ===== End of log ===== LtJg. Oriana CSCiO USS Chimera & Cmdr. Shane Guzman XO USS Chimera