****** Main mess hall * Two hours before the Halloween party ******* Ra’nar sat quietly at his table as crewmembers hurried around putting up last minute decorations for the party. Ra’nar found it very strange that humans had so many celebrations, it seemed that a season did not pass when humans would not dress up and give each other presents, chocolate eggs, colourful cards or even explicit love letters in cards. But even though he found this strange, since he had left the Cardassian system he had served on a freighter, in the Airborne Medical Core and in the SSF, not to mention attending a University on Mars, so in this time Ra’nar had learned to live with the celebrations and on occasion he had been known to enjoy himself. Ra’nar had spent most of the morning in sickbay contemplating his outfit and now he had decided to relax in the mess and have a long think about it. To help his mind work Ra’nar was sitting with a pencil and pad sketching one of the Ensigns who was sitting across the mess hall, Ra’nar laughed to himself that she must have fought he was checking her out due to the fact he kept steering at her. Ra’nar could have done the drawing from memory, even he had the legendry Cardassian mind training as a child, but he found that the drawing lost something much like drawing from a photo. A Ra’nar moaned to himself that her hair looked like a candle flame instead of a parted hair line a familiar face pulled up a chair at his table. Ra’nar looked up smiled then carried on drawing, “Hi Blake, hope you don’t want another fight. I am already in trouble with the XO.” Ra’nar and Corporal Blake had a fight in the old chimera mess hall some months ago which resulted in Ra’nar having two of his ribs broken and Blake having a tooth knocked out landing in someone’s onion soup. In the end they had to be pulled apart by the late Chief Williams and, the then Specialist, lynch. Since the Gott the two had required somewhat of a respect for each other and although they were not exactly best friends they could be civilised to each other. Blake smiled, “No, no fighting today.” he leaned forward, “I was thinking about my Halloween Costume.” “Me too,” replied Ra’nar glancing back up looking at the Ensign, “how can I help?” “Well.. I was thinking of going as a Romulan.” he said in a low voice. “You too, ha. You do know that Halloween is about monsters, I hope you are not trying to cause an international incident.” said Ra’nar with a smile. “Go see the quartermaster, I believe we have a few Romulan uniforms in stock.” Said Ra’nar continuing with his picture. “We have, but...” Blake looked around to make sure nobody was listening before learning forward again to continue in a low voice, “I want to look like one.” Ra’nar thought for a second, {if he wears the uniform he will, what does he want me to do? Sur...} Ra’nar figured out what he meant, “No! I am not using medical recourses to turn you into a Romulan trooper.” ******* Three and a half hours later * sickbay ******* Blake sat up and looked in the mirror, it was amazing he looked Romulan, {the ODA boys will get the shock of their life} thought Ra’nar as he looked at the Romulan sitting in front of him. There was also a part of him that was a little worried, not only had Blake convinced him to turn him into a Romulan, but Vadin had asked to be operated on to make him appear Klingon and Ra’nar himself had preformed an operation on himself to look Human! All his ridges were gone and he had a full head of black hair. Together the three looked... like diplomats at some strange Alpha quadrate meeting. To cap it all Chief Varaan from Engineering arrived also dressed like a Romulan, Ra’nar was not sure who convinced the Vulcan to dress up like one but he sure as hell did not need any surgery. The Vulcan raised an eyebrow, “I am not convinced that the Command team will approve of your medical recourses being used in such a fashion.” Ra’nar smiled nervously, “I was just thinking the same thing.” Blake laughed “We had better get going, we have already missed an hour an a half of the party.” The group all nodded in agreement before moving towards the doors. As they did the room shock sending Ra’nar flying over one of the bio beds and Vadin crashing through the glass of the Ra’nar’s office, lucky he want through back first. Ra’nar scrambled to his feet as the room trembled again. “Why is it that I always end up on my ass before we go into combat!?!?!” Shouted Ra’nar as pieces of equipment crushed about. “The comparison surely requires intensive study.” This was Varaan’s idea of a joke, he was still working on the formula of humour and given the response he was sure that he must have got it wrong. Ra’nar tapped on the nearest consol to get a damage report. There were hull breaches on deck eleven. “Right me and Vadin are going down to deck eleven, there’s been explosions and there are multiple casualties.” Ra’nar looked around for Vadin before noticing the smashed glass on his office, “Vadin Tan, get the hell out of my office.” “I will join you, as an Engineer my services will be needed.” Said Varaan, Blake nodded, “I’ll come too, since we don’t know what caused the explosions may be useful to have a Marine on the seen.” Ra’nar nodded, “Computer activate Emergency Medical Hologram.” There was a small click then out of a haze, appeared a tall human women with long red hair, it was the MkIII upgrade. “State the nature of the medical Emergency?” Asked the woman with a smile. “There have been two explosions. All the medical stuff are at a party, until they arrive you need to take cure of any injured.” Ra’nar grabbed his Medical Kit and a phaser from a draw, “I am going to the scene of the explosion. Understand?” The Hologrematical women nodded. “Is it just me or is the EMH a bit of a babe?” Asked Ra’nar as they all rushed out of sickbay. ****** End Log ****** Warrant Officer Ra’nar Chief Medical Officer USS Chimera – A (SSF) & NCP’s (Ra’nar) <<Des anyone from the medical department want a J/L???>> _________________________________________________________________ MSN Messenger 7.5 is now out. Download it for FREE here. http://messenger.msn.co.uk