=/\= Kinsi =/\= Acheson hid in a partially concealing ladder shaft on one of the decks, as he noticed somebody with an SSF uniform come by. Gaalen had managed to elude security patrols in the area, he walked the station back and forth, making sure he was not followed and finally reached the point where the unknown communication had originated. He knew his time on the station was up and they where looking for them. Worst, considering the last transmission he heard in the security office, they where out to get them, which was unexplainable. "Hey" Acheson whispered-yelled, calling out to the person. "It's Acheson from the ship." He came out from his hiding carefully and walked with the retreating member. "Who are you?" "Gaalen Idrani, engineer." The andorian replied, looking about as they walked to another location. "You're the one that called?" "Yea." he looked around. "What should we do? I had to stun a security guard that saw the phaser burns I made on the wall when I had .... a hallucination." He looked to Idrani for confirmation, because he wasn't sure if similar affects were observed by him. Gaalen looked at acheson sideways. "Hallucinations? Is that what happened to me about Ph'ell?" He thought. "I did get a drink from someone in the messhall, thought." He minded before returning his attention to Acheson "What about stealing a shuttle? We can go to the shuttlebay." "Sure we can. But it's going to be mighty difficult, security have orders to lock us up, everyone from the chimera. Why I don't know. We may need that phaser of yours again, althought it will alert them of our position as soon as we use them." Then he flashed. They could be traced by the signal of their combadges. Then maybe not, they where on a different, top secret frequency. But people could do amazing things with computers, he did not want to take any chances. "I recommend to get rid of our combadges, they could pin point us in no time, if they have not done so already." Without waiting for Acheson, Gaalen removed his combadge and held it in his hand, looking for a spot to ditch them. Acheson nodded. His training told him that everything Idrani said about the combadges was very true. He pulled his off and tossed it into the ladder shaft, where it bounced around before landing on the ground a deck lower. "Let's move!" He looked around hesitantly, before pointing in a direction. "I think a shuttlebay is one deck up from here. We could try to steal a shuttle, or a fighter." "Well then, lead the way" Gaalen answered, as his combadge skipped from his hand to rescue it's fellow combadge down the ladder shaft in a glorious yet unwanted cacophony of echoing metallic clanging sounds. A minute later, they where both on the deck above. Acheson indicated a direction and they moved. Soon enough, he stopped abruptly, barely seeing guards ahead, watching over a shuttle bay door. With signs they agreed that Gaalen would distract then and Acheson take them out silently. Gaalen moved ahead, nonchalantly walking towards the two guards. He half past them when one finally realized Gaalen was on the wanted list by the Chief of Security. "Halt!" One said, as they both leveled their phaser rifles at Gaalen's torso. Gaalen raised his hands half way and moved to the side, making sure the security officers would have their backs towards Acheson as much as possible. "Now, come on, guys, don't you think we can be resonable?" The andorian started, waiting for a movement from Acheson. Acheson leaped forward and fired his hand phaser, striking a guard in the back. The guard slumped to the ground, stunned. Before he could stun the other, the man swung his rifle and knocked the phaser out of Acheson's hands. It bounced before hiting the ground. He grabbed the guard's rifle and tried to jostle for position with it, while kicking the phaser he had used toward Idrani's position. "Help!" The guard started to overpower Acheson. Perhaps he needed more time in the weight room afterall; He wasn't quite as strong as he thought. Gaalen grabbed the security officer in a chokehold and held it until he felt the whole body weight of the human lean on him and fall to the floor. He would have preferred the phaser not be used, but what was done was done. He then turned to the door. "What next, you have an idea how to get by this door?" He asked, looking at Acheson. Acheson nodded and, looking both ways down the corridor, tried to overload the door controls. They did not respond; They were set for a password combination. He bent down and tried to open the door panel, but it was secure. The override wasn't available. This starbase was well designed. =/\= END LOG (Part 1) =/\= Ens Gaalen Idrani Assistant Engineering USS Chimera & 1LT Acheson Chief Tactical USS Chimera -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm