JL by Nick, Mike & Muma ===== Shuttle Bay 1, USS Chimera ===== Mike looked through the cockpit window and saw Lt Commander Guzman coming their way, Mike smiled and then got out of his chair, once the shuttle had been checked over and Nick and the XO had spoken, they would be able to be on their way. Lt Commander Guzman went around the shuttle and out of Mike's site, and then appeared around the back of the shuttle, and stepped slightly up the rank, "Sir" Mike said and nodded and then handed over the PADD which detailed their changes to the Shuttle, and how they would work. Shane would probably just want to check they knew what they were doing, but it was always good for him to know. Nick was outside and beneath the shuttle which was raised on an antigravity platform. Mike stepped out of the shuttle, and then walked around to where Nick was, to tell him that Commander Guzman had arrived. Shane noded to LtJg. Blackburn and glanced briefly at the PADD he handed him. There were several modifications this two guys have done on the shuttle listed one time brief and then again in detail. Just for the fun Shane tried to take a closer look at one of the modifications and beeing it the shields modulation modificator, he hoped that as an ex-Tac officer he would understand at least a part of it. But he had little luck, cause he havent managed to understand the principe of the modification ... {Geen ...... a year out of Tac business and I slowly wont recognize an quantum torpedo from a photon one. Shrugging slighlty at his own lack of education he went outside the shuttle once more and went straightly towards the engineering duo. "Lieutenant" he noded towards Nick. "There is one change in our plans gentleman" he started, "2LT. Acheson is still busy chasing rampaging aliens and the recent casualities made me to rethink my decision. I need Acheson on the ship so i turn the command over the away team to you Lieutenant" he finished looking at Nick." The ODA team will be here in less then 5 minutes, pick your copilot and in 6 minutes i want to see this shuttle flying" he looked at the shuttle called 'La Rochelle'. "Thankyou very much sir," Nick said, "I suppose I will have to make Mike my copilot or he will never talk to me again," Nick smiled, "Plus, I would rather have someone I have flown with before. Even if it is Mike.", Nick leaned against the shuttle, "So, objectives are rescue and find out what is causing these portals?" Mike sniffed, twice. He said that he was going to go to main engineering to get a phase inversion unit, it would allow them to fit it and be able to find things at difference levels of subspace which might have been hidden from them. This would be quite useful considering the mission. Mike stepped down from the 'La Rochelle' and left the shuttlebay, going for the unit. Once he arrived in Main Engineering, he found it dark, with only a single engineer working. He strongly disliked this, he was used to it being the center of the ship, a hub of activity. Once he took the small unit, he picked up three tech kits, a med kit and headed back to the shuttle bay with the extra supplied which he had decided he wanted. Shane noded to Nick's question: "Yes, Lieutenant. We need to know what happend to the first away team. Have they ever arrived on the station? If yes, why havent they contacted us and what happend to them? Of course, it there will be any chance to rescue them, by all means do that, but ..." he looked at Nick ... "no further casualities" He looked aside as the promised ODA team entered the shuttle bay and reported to him. Shane noded and pointed at Nick: "Ladies and Jets, LT. Quayle will lead this team, he will brief you on the way. Lets move into the shuttle cause i want to see it leaving the ship in less then three minutes." He ordered. For a moment there were only the shouts of a marine Sergeant to hear: "Move, move, move ..." Shane looked back at Nick and said: "Keep always an open channel with Ops for any costs. If you will loose contact with the ship, turn around and return to the ship. I dont need a second away team going missing." "I am in no particular hurry to go missing either," Nick said, he was as eager as anyone to find out what had happened to the other Away Team and Rangi. "Well, we'd best get underway. Mike, fit the phase inversion unit." Shane nodded towards Mike and Nick and watched the shuttle door to close. He looked at the stuttle bay chief and noded. The chief tapped his console and accompanied with the alarm sound, the shuttle bay door slowly began to open. "Ladies and gentlemen, our destination is the research station. As Lt.Commander Guzman said, I will brief you on the way." After an another while the handsome shuttle took slowly off the ground and very steadily made its way through the shuttle bay door ... into the uknown mysteries of deep space. Well, ok ... on the course to the research station ... but with all those transwarp tunnels around ... it was almost the same. ===== End of log ===== LT. Nick Quayle CEO USS Chimera & LtJg. Mike Blackburn AEO USS Chimera & LtCmdr. Shane Guzman XO USS Chimera