<<OOC: A little back log... and some present events as well don't have much time now, exams are finally getting on me :)>> ===== Shuttle bay ===== The looks of all present people aboard the Congo eyed Terek in way that he felt almost skinned. AS his usuall reaction he went bright red and just for sure, he left that damn craft as last one. If the looks of the shuttle bay personel would have some special abilities, he would be all over the large area in small pieces. So young Bajoran just covered his face with hand and paced swiftly on the landing pad. Those were one of those seconds you don't want to remember. At last the door slid shut behind him and he found himself in almost deserted corridor. The main group of his co-passengers already disappeared behind the bend heading towards the turbolift. He rather decided to take the other one on this floor and went the opposite direction. As he walked through one cross he saw two lady officers chatting. Passing along them he caught the few sentences of their dialogue: "Have you heard it? Some freak just almost crushed the runabout into the ship..." said one in quiet, but very excited voice "Just crashed? I've heard almost half of the Chimera could be destroyed!" replied the other one in shocking tone. Bajoran just chuckled and almost run pass them leaving them behind. {Well, seems that ship's 'news' agency have one more topic to put into the papers....} said to himself estimating that the other day someone will deffinately stop him with some sentence like "Hey buddy, I've heard that Chimera could be anihilated by your driving skills...." but that's just a nature of the crew. Rumors spread in warp ten around the decks and with every repetition they get more and more unbelievable facts to it. It reminded him the situation on the academy when one guy called 'Lucky'. It seemed that the bad luck was his everlasting companion. Wild rumors vere orbiting his presence at school. Terek heard that he accidentaly blow out the department of demolitions or even that he was responsible for the breakout of the demention virus through the complex. Those were pobably just exagerrated gossips, but the poor man was so well known around the academy that he couldn't go out of the dormitory not to be wished 'good luck' by someone. The power of gossips is really unlimited. It seemed that making a camel out of the gnart is quite commont in starfleet. And this was just one of those cases. {hmmm... life goes on...} he thought as he stepped into the turbolift and ordered it to go to his quaters. This was just another overblown bubble just waiting to pop and lay flat after few days. Or he'll be lucky and someone will have something more interesting that his case and vigilance will move from him away. "Deck four, crew quaters." He ordered and the lift began its ascend. Terek closed his eyes for a momet, thinking of high tuned sonic shower, getting rid of that smell from the HEV suit he still had on him. ===== 30 minutes later Terek's quaters ===== "Now that really hepled..." mumbled terek for himself as he sipped a last few drops of strong black tea, feeling much better than when he came 'home'. Suddenly a chime beeped. "Come in please..." he said putting down the cup and padd with the report. The dorr slid open and a broad smile appeared on his face. "Miss Quinn, vitejte, prosim posadte se..." he switched for a moment into Bajoran. "Pan Weranis, jak mile vas yase videt..." he got himself a reply from Alex that surprised him. "Why that surprised look? Didn't you think that I'll let you forever mumble in your lanuage not knowing about what, did you?" He just smiled... "Hehe, it seems that I can't have any secret in front of my beloved." Her face put on and pretended serious expression. "Aaaah... now you've said it... you've been having a secrets.. how dare you? You know well that I need to be informed about everything as I'm head of Warp ten agency in science department. Informations are my life..." she grinned broadly. "Oh by the way, I've heard that 'SOME' very crazy pilot almost anihilated Chimera in shuttle bay... don't you happen to know anything about it, do you?" Spinning his eyes, he said in as calm voice as he was able, avoiding laugh. "I don't have a slightest idea of what you are talking about." "Oh, you don't? Now that's strange. As I happened to talk with one of the flight directors from shuttle bay that I've met in turbolift now.... he was just going out of the shift... and he told me that person in HEV suit came as last one from the runabout that almost crushed into the hangar bay wall." "And? What is conclusion of that? Lots of people were in the HEV suits before...." "Don't pretend, I think it is funny." She smiled. "Ah, you do, don't you? Right, but I don't. You see... it took less than half an hour and the rumor spread through the nine decks..." "Don't look so surprised, after Jemmies you're the most famous person on the ship right now, so stop sobbing and enjoy your fifteeen minutes of fame.." Laughed Alex. "I'm not sobbing. I would inform you if I would be sobbing, don't worry about that. But now to more important things. What was happening up here when we were gone?" Alex informed him briefly about last events on the ship, adding a few spicy gossips about certain crew members, that hardly seemed to be true, but were fun to listen. Then she stood up from his chair he shared with her and said that she have to go now as she only wanted to see him. Told him that she'll dorp here next morning and left. So Terek took a few moments to relax and indulge himself into the informations he acquired. Then he finnished his report, sent it to Oriana and Rangi and tehn left his quaters heading for the astrometrics. ===== 5 minutes later - Astrometrics ===== Terek entered the large room that was buyying with activity. He looked over for the Oriana, but didn't see her. So he just went to his position and started on work with the data from the compound. Shortly he realized that database with the Einhoften data was enriched by some gigaquads of the infos they didn't bring along. The signature was that it was gathered from some runabouts that got here on Chimera. He guesed that Oriana is probably there working on them. Wondering if this woman somethimes takes some rest, he asked computer for all availavble data they could retrieve and benag with slow and dull work of going through the quads and quads of data. ...4 hours later Terek found himself just staring into one file not reading it at all. It was some maintenance log of the replicator system in the Einhoften, but he absolutely didn't know what exactly it was all about. In the past four hours he read through at least hundred of reports and lists of crew and materials, but still didn't found anything of a great importance. Few material lists were interesting that loads of the forbiden chemicals and technology was listed in them. One crew report... or at least he couldn't find any more suitable word for it. It was corrupted, but one page of it, which was OK, showed that all of the personel on this list was dead by the time they got into the facility. It seemed that they were transported here throught the interval of one year. All thise files he marked as important and put aside for further investigation, but now he felt like having one strong Raktajino. Standing up, he paced to the replicator and ordered one large cup. AS the hot drink appeared he took it and get back to his place, sipping from it slowly, thinking of what he could overlook. Placing the cup on the side of the console, he call up a new file and started reading. It was some personal log fo woman called Valentine Wiggin. He has already read few of her logs, but nothing important was in it, until now. This log stroke him with much different style, somehow shorter and more narrative. It seemed like written in a rush. Bajoran reached for his cup, taking one more sip, but it almost drowned him as he hicked above one sentence... "I think we're not going to surrvive this, they gave us a hypo with some substance. Second reported to the first that the countermeasures has been applied, thus I assume that this wasn't any medicament. I hope they didn't get to the retro virus from the base. It would cause an unbelievable...." and in thes place log ended. "Do pr..kene vohrady...." Swore Terek above it and as he also spilled rest of the warm Raktajino on his lap. But taking his calm immediately back he tapped his comm badge: +taps+ "Terek to sickbay, I've just found a log from someone who might be on one of the shuttles in the hangar. It mentions something that might interest you. Sending it to you now. It may be only a false clue, but perhaps there is some patogen aboard."+taps+ He waited for the reply and sent the file. Then he tapped his badge once more: +taps+"Astrometrics to the Second officer." +taps+ Waited for response and tehn said +taps+ "Madam, we might have a bit of problem here. IFrom the data we've recovered on the planet and teams found in the shuttles I've found one personal log mentioning some virus being designed in the compound and also possible infestation of the starfleet personel aboard the shuttle. I've already informed the sickbay." +taps+ {Now if this is true, then we might have some serious troubles here.} He thought and returned to searching hoping to find something more specific about the virus. ===== End Log ===== ASCiO Lt.J.G. Terek Weranis USS-Chimera-A SCiO Ensign Alex Quinn USS -Chimera-A