====== Engineering area, Living dream hotel ====== "Hmmmm, that's damn odd." Hawk said as he moved about in the hotels engineering area. Since Hawk arrived on the hotel he was asked to assist here and there to fix all kinds of problems. It was his element after all and he wouldn't want to be doing anything else with his time, well there was one other thing but Bev and Hawk couldn't spend 24 hours a day doing just that. They did give it a really good try though, but Hawk had to spend some time away to really appreciate the time spent with her. He knew better than to "burn himself out" so to speak. The hotel administrators allowed him to come and go as he pleased in there engineering section as he was eager to help them fix any problems they were having when he was around. They watched him pretty closely at first, and then they watched him from afar as he went along, almost felt as though they were spying on him. But now there was absolutely no one taking note of him, and there shouldn't be he thought. He wasn't a criminal after all, and if they wanted him to help then they needed to give him his space. He had spent the night working on improving the stations power flow into its sensor grid. He kept running scans of the area around the station while tuning instruments to the new power flow levels, he didn't want to overload there equipment after all. While scanning Hawk noted the Chimera docked to the base and decided to key on it since he knew about that ship and could REALLY key in on fine tuning. He hadn't really worried about his ship since he was beamed aboard the hotel, but now he realized that he had not actually planned on coming aboard. He was forced onboard and held for a few hours, he had almost completely forgotten that. Knowing that and looking over the ship he noted there wasn't a single person left on the Chimera. "What the hell is going on?" Hawk said. He kept scanning, and much too his surprise he had access to the sensors. He remembered that he and Jason were in a shuttle trying to scan, because the chimera's sensors were...down. Now he could scan however and he noted several odd things. First was that there were two fields being generated outside the station. One by the looks of it was designed to cause any warp fields to collapse. The technology used to create such a field was not known in the federation at this time. There were ways how to force a space ship's warp field to collapse, but surely not over such a distance as this technology and not that "stealthy". "That explains a lot." Hawk said as he continued to look over the scans. The second field was a very high EM band for scanning interference. Not a normal frequency for that function but it was doing the job non-the-less. Again, it was not an ordinary interfering field used by the federation of other powers in the known space, this was designed to work for over a serious distance and foremost to be VERY difficult to recognize. Usual interference fields could be detected by special equipment, but this one worked like a cloaking device. To anyone outside it appeared that there was not "nothing" in the meaning of something missing in space ... but rather "something" ... but that something was an "image" of usual background noise of the universe. There was another field generator pulsing waves within the station. This one looked to be a very unusual signal. He had no clue what it was doing so he decided to grab a padd and start downloading. He recorded all the information and decided that he needed to move along, he suddenly felt very...."out in the open". There was very little going on around him as it was later in the stations "day". They had apparently stopped tracking him that closely.....Hawk stopped his thoughts. Who the hell were...they? What was really going on here, and why was there no one on board the chimera. He suddenly felt very ill. Several attempts to contact the chimera's computer failed. There were ways of contacting the ship in case no one was aboard, but none were working. He needed to enlist some help, but exactly who was the question. He needed to figure out two things. What the field emitting on the station is for, and how to get people back onto the ship. He needed to contact the Captain, that was obvious....... +taps+ Lt Versey to Commander Guzman + This time it was in one of the several hotels' gyms that Shane was interrupted. The familiar voice of LT. Versey this time... . Shane stood up from the floor where he was stretching his legs at the moment and sighed. {Geez} he thought {I thought this is supposed to be R&R ... maybe I should leave that dammed thing in the room all the day} he said to himself meaning the Comm-badge. +TAPS+ Guzman here Lieutenant + +TAPS+ Sir I have some information I need to share with you. + +TAPS+ Lieutenant Versey ... if you want to tell me that you've been served your favorite drink without asking for it or that you've met a woman of your dreams ... don't bother, I am not interested. +TAPS+ Sir, why would I have a problem about being served any drink, and as for the woman...I already knew her + Shane sighed in relief. {Finally someone who isn't complaining?} +TAPS+ All right. It's just that i hear such stories twice a day and am fed up with stuff like that. But you wanted to say something different ... shoot Lieutenant + +TAPS+ Well sir, I have suspicions that the administrators of this facility are up to no good. The reason we lost warp and couldn't use sensors are being caused by this base. There are some other things I have recorded on a padd that are suspicious that I think you need to see. + +TAPS+ Lieutenant, I want to hear facts only. No fairy tales like that the Chimera disappeared ... + Hawk crinkled his face and stopped walking, he didn't believe what he just heard. Why did he respond like that and Hawk was telling him facts. +TAPS+ No fairy tales involved sir. The chimera is right were we left it, but don't you find it damn odd that there is no one onboard her right now. Is it standard procedure to leave a Starfleet vessel, especially an SSF one unguarded and unmanned at an alien facility? + Hawk was taking an obviously aggravated tone and didn't wait for Shane to reply before adding +TAPS+ And sir if you believe that everything is ok then take just five minutes and personally check out things onboard yourself. I will drop the subject altogether after that. + {What is the foll thinking?} Shane asked himself in disbelief {questioning my judgement or something?} +TAPS+ Lieutenant, thank to any god you worship that it is R&R and we are not talking face to face now. How do you dare to question my judgement and say what I should do? There is nothing wrong with the Chimera and I wont run on board the Chimera just to satisfy you. If you think that there isnt something right with the ship go there yourself and have a look. And Lieutenant ... after the end of R&R you will volunteer for a week of waste disposal duty. Guzman out! + {What a fool!} Shane cursed in his head, {must be drunk to bones and thinks he can bother me with his fantasies ... says there is noone on the Chimera ... that the hotel's staff is up to no good ... fool! I should have arrrest him ... next time someone will start to tell me stories about seeing white rats or meeting Santa Claus i WILL} In the deepest bit of his mind a small and weak thought arised ... {might there be a BIT truth in things they say?} That thought was swiftly dismissed as foolish ... but didnt vanish completely. ======= End of log ========= LT jg Hawk Versey Assistant Engineering Officer USS Chimera NCC 96899-A --&-- Cmdr. Shane Guzman CO USS Chimera NCC 96899-A