Zachary moved around his quarters, which were located on deck eleven. There was definitely some action going on here on the engineering deck, he could hear phaser fire! He contacted the ODA office and they said to stay put for this moment and they would get back to him. Oh how he hated to wait while a firefight was right outside his door, didn't make sense to him, but with the nature of the creatures they faced minimal crew exposure was called for. He paced the quarters, going around his roomies stuff. He received a call from ODA commander Acheson after a few moments passed. +TAPS+ "Private Rose and Technician Morgan, report to Deck 11 Section +TAPS+ Alpha. Bring a polaron rifle and your own personal gear." Wonderful, thought Z. He acknowledged the order and made his way out the door; tapping his comm badge he tried to contact Pvt. Rose. +taps+ "Tcn Morgan to Pvt. Rose, meet me at weapons locker alpha three, deck eleven-aft." Detta snuggled next to Corporal Johnson. She was much cleaner now. She had changed from her cheese covered uniform into something much more comfortable. Detta was starting to doze off. It had been a long first day and she was enjoying her time with josh. She was toying with the idea of falling asleep in his arms when she heard her name, she sat straight up. "What was that" she said a little frightened. A few moments passed before she heard her name again, she caught only her name and the location she was supposed to me someone at before her brain kicked in. Detta jumped up and apologized to Cpl. Johnson and ran to her room to change into her uniform and grab what all she thought she needed. Zackary hastily made his way to the weapons locker and retrieved 2 polaron rifles. One for him and one for Pvt. Rose obviously. He spent the time waiting for Vandetta by arranging his equipment on his side. He assumed that he would be needed to help deal with one of the aliens. He was working on a plan to deal with them when Pvt Rose appeared around the corner, out of breath. "Pvt. Rose I assume?" Z said with a smile. "Tcn Z Morgan, at your service." Z extended his hand to great the hurried Pvt. Detta smiled. She had gotten lost twice on the way there and was now completely out of breath. She held out her hand in return "nice to meet you. What is going on and what are we doing and what do you have beside you?" Z smiled and answered with, "Well Ms. Rose, this is your rifle, (Z hands her a polaron rifle) and the rest is my engineering gear." To answer her other question he told her that it was likely that 2LT Nathan Acheson was needing there assistance in handling some pesky intruders. He moved towards the fore-ward section of deck eleven to join Lt Acheson, when he decided to make contact. +taps+ "Tcn Morgan to 2LT Acheson." +taps+ "Go ahead crewman." +taps+ "We are on our way sir with 2 polaron rifles and our gear. May I ask exactly what the situation is sir." +taps+ "I require both of your assistance to locate a certain guest, Mr. Morgan" He quickened his pace towards Acheson's location. "My rifle?" she asked..."but i don't know how to use one. I don't want to use one" Detta was a very un-hostile person and could never imagine herself with any kind of weapon. What am i going to do? She thought to herself she looked at the rifle in her hand and then looked at the man in front of her, she had spoken to Acheson before and he had told her there were creatures on the ship...she was getting worried now. "Excuse me, but how do i use this?" Z halted, "What is your specific training in?" With a look of surprise on his face. Everyone knew how to use a rifle. This models design was of a different energy discharge but the basic design was almost identical to the type III (p-rifle). Z just expected her to be well versed in all weapons used on a star fleet vessel, but in actuality the fact that Z was well versed in weapons was kind of odd. He took the time to learn every energy/non energy weapon system he could. He figured that would/could assist him while working on a system or situation some day. But.. that doesn't mean that she would automatically know how to use this, especially if her training was in a non lethal area of expertise. "I apologize, that was a bit sudden. If you feel you can't use it just hand it to Lt Acheson." Z ended. Detta stared at him in disbelief. "I'm a communications specialist. My job is to make sure guys like you don't use things like this" she pointed to her rifle. "But since you think I can't use something like this, I'll show you and just keep it" she stated matter of factly. She had no clue as to how to use it, but she wouldn't let that be known. She would show him and the ODA commander just how valuable she really was. Detta stared at Z waiting for him to say something. Zack pointed at the rifle and gave her a fast lesson on how to discharge the weapon and said, "Just in case you really get into a spot I want to make sure you know how to use it. Just in case you're not familiar with this design." again ending in a smile. They continued the last 20 meters to Acheson's position and stopped beside him and "checked in" TO BE CONTINUED......... /\*************/\***************/\**********/\ Pvt. Vandetta Rose ODA Communications Specialist USS Chimera ***** & ***** Tcn Zachary Morgan ODA Eng Spec USS Chimera