==/\== Deck 4 - Terek's quaters ==/\== {OK, just this and that aaand...wait... what the... where is it?!} thought Terek peering into his away bag...."Holy Prophets, where have I put it?" mumbled for himself no noticing that door to his room opened, Alex came in and put on his bed his favourite navy cap which he use to paragliding and which he forgot in her quaters earlier, then she sneaked quietly from the room waiting outside for the reactions. {Where is it?...dam....} suddenly he turned around and saw it on the corner of bed. "Finaly...." {Hmmm... I can't recall putting it there....} In that moment Alex came in again. "You should be more mindfull of your stuff...." said with innocent smile. "Ah, good you're here? Packed already?" "Nope, just few things remain, but go ahead and get the room, I'll join you later...." "OK....wait" he stopped her as her words about minding his stuff arrived to him.... "What did you mean about that first sentence? Did I forget it at you, when I was going from holodeck yesterday?" She nodded seriously "Oh, yes, you were in such a rush to the duty in the morning that you'd forget even your uniform if you hadn't needed it." "Ha Ha, very funnt." "Yes it is, so see you in hotel..." smioled at him and walked away to finnish her packing. Terek just took of his uniform and put on his favourite casual clothes. Khaki pants, white sleeveless shirt with greenish pattern and green sweatshirt on zipper. On foot he took comfortable sneakers, knowing he has one firm trekking shoes in his bag. Then only remained to take his bag and his parachute equipment and off he went. {Ah, I've almost forgotten....} he thought as he had bag on his back and parachute equipment in his hands. On the way to the docking ports he stopped in the labs and take one science tricorder with himself and stuffed it inside his bag. ==/\== Deck 10 nera docking airlocks ==/\== {Pah Wraiths eat me.... this is impossible....} thought Terek slightly annoyed when he saw the line of the crewmembers waiting to disembark through the airlocks. It had to be the whole ship as the line went almost around whole deck and it seemed for quite some time of waiting... Something apparently happened at the security check that held the process. Terek waited for five minutes in the back of the row, but as it hasn't moved even for a slightest bit, he rolled his eyes and decided that he rather choose another type of transport. But to his great disappointment even transporter rooms on both decks were packed with inpatient crew waiting to get transported on the Hotel. The transporter operators looked prety nervous about the amount of people and Terek thought that it won't take much time for some of them to loose their nerves as some of the people waiting were quite pesky: "How long this will take? Can't you just engage emergency transporter regime to get us all ther at once?" and all those types of questions were now and then in the air and the transporter controlers had to answer them negatively again and again. So Terek decided to try one more thing to get aboard without waiting, though he wasn't sure, if this will be possible or if the Jerom will be willing to do it, but at least it was worth of the try. As he left the transporter room , he was in, he heard desperate yell: "WILL YOU ALL FINALLY SHUT UP?!!!!" and he was sure it came from one of the operators. ==/\== Deck 4 Assault transporter ==/\== He took a turbolift back to the deck four and went directly towards the assault transporter room. Luckily Lt.JG. Jerom was now on duty. And what was more important alone now, because it seemed that only emergency crew was bound to stay aboard. He approached the console where the halfbajoran was standing. He met him on the halloween party where he under influence of probably too much synteholf confessed him that he is angry for his girlfriend, which Terek hadn't honor to meet yet, which hasn't been allowing him to go on ultralight flying to holodeck, saying that it is infantile fun and forced him to go to opera instead. He bought him a strong coffe to get him out of the missery and advised him that if some woman is so high-handed, then he should reconsider his need to staying with her. Most probably he didn't remember anything next morning, only that he talked with someone, but contacted Terek lately and since then they were on few drinks together, where Terek learned that he finally broke up with that furia of his and after long time he feels free. Also he offered Terek to go with him on ultralight, for as he claimed he remembered Terek's advice from that party evening which chnaged his life. Terek nontheless doubted, that in state he was he could remember even him, but hasn't said anything just smiled. However they decided to combine their frre time activities, in that matter that jerom was on ultralight, meanwhile in the same simulation terek was paragliding. Since that time they became quite good friends, always talking after they landed and went on those sessions from now and then to both satisfaction. "Hey Jerom, how's it going. I see that you've got the duty..." "Heya buddy..." turned Jerom from the console. "No I'm not on duty for next few days, just had to finnish this one, which should be in a few hours and then I can take some R&R myself. I've heard that that hotel has great holosuite programs. I hope they'll have something good for ultralights..." "Yeah, I'm sure they'll have. I wanna to try some myself..... if Alex will let me..." he said and they both laughed. "Yeah, I'm sure she'll go crazy about you going to paraglide on holidays...." said Jerom irocnicly and Terek just smiled as he knew that Alex is now probably packing her parachute. "Now my friend, what am I grateful to that Prophets led you this way to my humble province?" "Just simple need for speed, my friend." Jerom raised his eybrows in question. "Well, I'm not sure what happened, but down at the airlocks is deck packed with departing people and it doesn't seem to get better in a short time and as well all of the transporter rooms are oveflown with 'customers'. So I....." "So you simply got idea that when you have a friend operating assault transporter systems, you could just go and violate about fifty directives and ask him for one priorty transport aboard the hotel, am I right?" said Jerom wearing very neutral expression. Terek put on the I_haven't_done_it smile and shrugged shoulders. "It was just an idea.... I'm sorry... I didn't mean... I, just...." "Oh shut up..." said Jerom with smile when he saw the confusion on Terek's face. "What are the friends for anyway?" Terek quickly changed from white to red and back and gave him a broad grin. "I can try. But if we won't be able to cover our transport from here properly, then Guzman will have both of our heads on a dinner plate in his holiday quaters, the moment he'll recieve a word of this." said Jerom with worried face. "I was thinking that you could just add my transport signal into the beam comming from the regular transporters. The crowd down there is so big, that they'll hardly recognize if one of the people on the transporter pad will have to wait for the next transport sequence and I'll be instead of him." "Hmm, that perhaps could work, the transporter systems here and those regular are not completely separate so it shouldn't be problem to overide one place down there and redirect it for a monent here. And if the control is so busy as you say, the'll hardly notice it." "They are, you can count on it." "OK, then let's get going, before someone come here." "Thank you very much Jerom, I owe you one." said Terek standing on one of the spots on the polished floor of the wide assault transporter pod which was much bigger than the usual ones. "Oh and perhaps it'll be a bit bumpy ride..." added Jerom with smart smile, but before Terek could say something, he initiated the modified sequence consisting only from dematerialization and putting the pattern to the outgoing beam and Terek was covered by blue haze ot the transporter beam and in les then twenty second all was over. Systems reported succesful transport, no alert was initiated, everything was perfectly normal. Now thye could only worry that the routine daily diagnostics of the transporter system will not discover some unusual anomaly in transport logs. ==/\== Deck 10, transporter room 3 ==/\== Meanwhile in one of the transporter rooms. Incidentaly it was the one where one of the operators had blown his nerves. The room was packed with people that it was almost cracking. about fifteen people, plus minus were stuffed on the transporter pad, and controlers were a bit desperate. Transporters were almost smoking how they were busy, but transport of this group was finally initiated and most of the people on the pad disappeared. "Transport succesful." reported operator, but the moment he said that someone was shouting at him. "No ti wasn't succesful, I'm still here!!" Some ensign who thought that when he got to the pad that he'll finally depart was pushing his way to the control console. "Transporter is capable of taking only limited amount of people in one beam, I'm sure you must be aware of it from academy ensign." said operator already enough pissed off and in no need of being pushed around by some low ranking newbie. Ensign only looked furious, but said nothing and begun to push his way back to the pad hoping that he'll finally get there and that more importantly he'll find his friend which were in that last transport, where he was supposed to be as well. ==/\== Living dream hotel ==/\== Seconds later Terek rematerialised on the transporter pad in the luxurious entrance hall, apparently in the hotel. The man next to him was looking on him as he was some ghost or something "What...who.... I I mean, where's Thomas?" asked confused ensign who was obviously expecting someone else next to him. "I'm sorry I have no idea what are you talking about..." answered Terek with polite smile and with words I have to go, rushed toward the reception desk. There he was immediately siezed by gray alien, who presented himself as Br Ouk and told him, that he's from now his personal assistant abouard the Living dream hotel. {What a service...} thought Terek surprised with this. "What are your requests sir?" asked gray one. "Ah... I just need some large well lit room for two." "That won't be problem sir, all of our rooms are large, as you'll see soon for yourself. Please follow me, I'll lead you there." before thay went, he pointed on some place near the reception desk which looked like small transporter pad. "Please put your luggage on this pad please, we'll have your luggage transported right to your room. There is no need to worry about it." With a bit hesitation, Terek did what he was asked for and alien pressed few buttons on some personal padd which suddenly appeared in his hands and Terek's bags disappeared in green glowing particle mist. Then the Br Ouk set on way through the magnificently looking interior of the hall. It was like mix of all different luxury styles from at least ten cultures. Terek saw decoration styles of Vulcan, Bajor, even something that looked like Romulan stuff. But the mix of the styles wasn't some extravagant. It seemed that those weird little aliens took the best of each style and combined it under one, adding few probably their own decorative pieces and modyfiing the rest of the styles into fitting their own. It was very pleasant mix. Really nice to look at. The moment terek arrived he noticed that behind the receprion desk in the hall which had to be at least four stories high was huge plane of glass, opening view into the center of the heaxgonal ring of the hotel. Terek could see that in all of the corners of the structure were similar large windows, thus it seemed that the hotel had six entrance halls. "This place is really magnificent..." said Terek to the Br Ouk while walking through corridor with right wall sloping and filled with windows which revealed more of the magnificence of the structure. "Oh yes it is sir. There are twelve docking pylons, six reception halls, three large arboretums, three smaller ones, six swimming pools, whole deck of holosuites...." "Oh holosuites, wonderful... I wanted to ask if you have some good programs with nice hills and strong wind...." "I'm really sorry sir, but I'm not familiar with the whole holosuite program database, which consist of 70 000 programs, but I'm sure you'll find just the place you are looking for." Pleased with what he heard, he just enjoyed the view as they arrived to the turbolift with the view outside and they slowly ascended few levels above the reception hall. then turbolift rode inside the building leaving view behind and rushing in the structure itself until suddenly it stopped. They both got out and Br Ouk took terek few bends away through the labyrinth of corridors to what seemed to be inner rim apartment. Br Ouk pushed few buttons on his padd which once again seemed to appear from thin air and the door to the room opened. "Please sir, you may enter, you'll find everything ready." So Terek came into something he never dreamed of. Huge room which almost screamed of luxury, with cemfortable sofa at the conference table looking right outside from long window with splendid sight. There was a private bar, on one side the space opened with the archway to what looked like bathroom with the biggest bath tub he ever seen. It looked more like small pool then a bath. And oposite the entrance to the bathroom was another archway leading to the bedroom, also very comfortably furnished with huge round bed in the middle of it. Briefly this appartment had everything you would ever need. But he hadn't time to see it properly as the small alien was giving him padd. "This is the layout of the decks sir. It is voice controled so you just say where you wnat to go and it'll show you way or destination." then he pressed anothe group of buttons on his personal datapad and terek's luggage arrived near the door on the same pad he put them at the reception desk. "Only one thing sir. If you'd be so kind and told me the name of your partner so we can lead her directly here once she arrives." "Why, of course, I'm sorry. She's Alex Quinn." "Thank you sir, I'll be going now, but if you'll need anything just pres the green button on the padd I gave you and I'll be here in no time." "OK, thank yo uvery much Br Ouk." With that gray alien turned on his heels and silently left the room, leaving terek to enjoy this amazing place. And meanwhile Terek was waiting on Alex, he put out of his bag a padd that gave him Versey, with frequencies he is supposed to look for and a science tricorder he managed to sneak aboard. {All right, now let's look on what we have here....} ==/\== End of Log ==/\== ASCiO Lt. Terek Weranis USS Chimera-A & NPC Jerom Worik USS Chimera-A