===Research station=== Keylor and his companion diligently searched the station. They were looking for the shuttle bay. Keylor hoped the shuttle had been completely powered down and the aliens had not taken notice of it. The station had appeared to be crawling with aliens, or at least Keylor thought. And the appearance of the new aliens, the bigger, bulkier ones who seemed perfectly phased in to their space, Keylor worried that the aliens were up to something, but he had no idea as to what. The prudent course of action was to take what information they had collected and the survivors they had found and return to the ship. Keylor and the corporal had been searching for an hour now. They had run in to the remainder of Hathaway's team and directed them back to the infirmary. Aside from the team, all Keylor and his corporal encountered were aliens. But that did not seem to slow Keylor down. With less people to manage, he was able to move faster and quieter, at times he had to stop and wait for his companion to catch up. They were now on deck 9, or so the writing on the wall had told Keylor. He remembered from the diagrams he studied before leaving the ship, that deck 9 housed the shuttle bay, astrometrics and cargo bays. He hoped there would be little on this deck for the alien's to be interest in and that they would be able to find the shuttle bay with out many detours. It did not take them long to fid the shuttle bay. The deck they were on seemed almost devoid of aliens. Keylor was not sure why they had not seen any aliens on this deck, but thanked the prophets for the small blessing. Keylor quickly reached the runabout the Starfleet officer back in the infirmary had mentioned. He motioned to the corporal to keep watch while he himself entered the shuttle to see if it was in operating order. The first thing Keylor noticed was the sparse interior of the rear of the runabout. Gone were the usual benches and seats he was accustomed to. In its place were several cargo racks, neatly configured to house 8 quantum torpedoes. And aside form the fact that no torpedoes were present, the remainder of the area seemed to be untouched. He then moved ford to the cockpit. There again he found everything in order. Nothing seemed damaged or tampered with, but with all the systems powered down, they would not know until they powered up the shuttle. Keylor was tempted to start powering up the systems and have a check, but figured it would only attract the aliens. And with a couple decks to get everyone down form the infirmary to the shuttle bay, he thought it best not to tempt fate and make a call to the aliens by generating a power signature. Keylor stepped back out of the shuttle a few minutes after he entered. He looked at the corporal standing guard. "Well it looks like it will do. Nothing seems to be altered or damaged, it should do." He commented. The corporal pointed to the shuttle bay doors. "What about those sir? With all the power fluctuations, do you thin we will be able to get them open?" Keylor shrugged. "I hope so. We have had little trouble getting internal compartment doors open, lets hope there is enough energy to open the doors and let us escape." The corporal nodded. Keylor then pointed back to the main entrance of the shuttle bay. "Lets find out way back to the infirmary. Since the aliens don't seem to be interest in this deck, we should probably get everyone down here as quickly as we can. " The corporal nodded and started walking to the doors. Keylor followed slowly and then looked back to the shuttle. {Lets hope this works. If we get everyone inhere and the aliens come, we ill be trapped and helpless to stop them.} Keylor then picked up his pace to catch up with the corporal. ===End Log=== Col Bretam Keylor Captain USS Chimera