-= SB Kinsi =- The odd pair composed of an andorian and a romulan moved swiftly down the corridors, turning left and right, putting as much distance from the spot they left the other two. "Do you still have you combadge, Xenai?" He asked her, wanting to tell her more about what he'd seen earlier, but needing to take care of station security. She paused for a moment, and shuffled the two security rifles around to free her hand. Digging around her jacket pocket, she wondered why he would need her badge. "Right here" Xenai held it up, it suddenly occurred to her, "They cant trace it... can they?" "Normally no, but I would not bet all my money on that. Any technician with some encryption training could work a miracle with a advanced communication system like we use." Some idea came to mind, and he wished he had his combadge right now. "We should head for densely populated area of the station and dump it in someone's pocket or something. Nobody could use it since it's triggered by your bio-print, but they could act as decoys for a few moments. and we have to find another shuttle bay, anything. Do you have an idea?" She raised an eyebrow, and stuck the combadge back in her pocket. {all the shuttle bays will be crawling with security...} "The transport!" she practically squealed. "The transport ship i came here on, im sure its still docked!" Xenai rushed to a nearby LCAR to confirm the fact. "with people going back and forth between the station and the ship, security shouldnt pose much of a problem." Her lips hitched into a smirk, as her fingers ran over the screen. "Im sure we could get down into engineering undetected and cause a stir." "I'm sure we could reprogram it, while her maintenance is being done. We'll need duty uniforms, to pass as engineers from this station. I don't see a problem with that." He tapped a few requests on the panel, displaying the schedule for the transport's maintenance. "We have eight hours to make it happen. Let's not waste a second, shall we?" === Docking Port === Xenai tried to look official as she scoped out the loading bay. It wasnt as crowded as she had hoped, but blessedly free of security. There were some merchants scurrying along, a few civilains here and there chattering happily, but no one who seemed particularly interested in the two of them. It was easy enough, there was passanger traffic going in and out of the ship, Gaalen thought it would be a piece of cake, maybe they wold not need to pass for station engineer personel. Maybe as passengers that forgot things in their cabin, he kept the options open, just in case. === transport === They accessed a panel together to get the directions for engineering. Once it was done, and without arousing suspicion they moved towards the main bay where they could reach the vessel's engineering department and cause some havoc there. The bay was desserted, sufficated by harsh lighting, low ceilings, and its dark sterile walls. A faintly fruity breeze of disinfectants drifted through the air from the ventellation, mixing with echoes of comms and busy computers sputtering somewhere in the background. Xenai had to admit she was happy to be back onboard. The events on the station were a little much to comprehend all at once, and she was feeling more than overwhelmed. They began towards engineering, barely making it past the first entrance. STOP! YOU... STOP! a voice boomed behind them. Xenai spunn around to find herself face to chin with a threatningly large Corvallen. "YOUR BUSINESS?" Xenai looked questioningly at Idrani, "our business? ... maintainance?" She turned to face their interigator."Maintenance! Lt... err" she glanced at his shoes. "Lt. Shoe..en..err ... Lt. Shoener requested some additional assitance in engineering" she shot idrani a smile and continued. "It seems that the Inertial Dampning Field is missaligned, preventing a uniform intensity of power from the drive coil assembly, and once it gets far enough, then the vectored exhaust director falters forcing a compensation for the abnormalities of the field with velocity changes, but only to a degree." she gestured dramatically as she spoke, "....and you know its affecting the structural integrity field too. That could reak havoc on the mechanical integrity of the ship... but once we get the genoraters in tune, and the IDF sorted out, it should be fixed in no time." She finished with a smile, clearly satisfied with her performance. The Corvallen blinked, and nodded. "You know you really ought to be in uniform when on duty" he finally added. "Yes." Gaalen took over. "But your captain seems to have connections on this starbase, we where pulled out of shore leave to fix the problem, since we are the local specialists. So if you don't mind, I'd like to get this over with asap and get back to my activities. You would not like to get your captain mad, now would you?" The Corvallen shook his head. "I'll need to see your bridge, to make some adjustments to your navigational array as well." The blue skinned saboteur said, getting a nod from the corvallen. He turned to Xenai. "We ought to check their bridge first, just in case the problem comes from there." "Don't worry, since we are hooked to the station, there is nobody on the station, you'll have peace to work." -= A few minutes later, on the bridge =- "I must say i did not believe you when you said it was deserted. You should always have someone keeping an eye on things, in case some saboteurs infiltrate your ship to cause havoc and expensive delays." Gaalen pointed out. "Yes, but this is a starfleet starbase, we don't suspect anyone crazy enough to attempt such foolish act." He idiotic corvallen replied. "You don't say." Idrani replied, nodding, smilling at Xenai when his face is out of sight of the Corvallen's eyes. "Would you give us a moment, please?" He shook his head. "Well then, stand by the door please, this should not take very long." He said, once he got an acknowledgement from their improvised escort, he moved to the navigational console. Gaalen started tapping away, starting some level five diagnostic of their engine systems and working on bypassing the basic security protocols that locked the controls to the engines. Sure enough, they could be bypassed easely, these guys either where very naive or had absolutely nothing to worry about from anything or anyone. Stealing a glance at his escort, Gaalen suspected the former. In a matter of minutes, he had programmed the computer to proceed with the departure sequence and head for a random coordinate around the SB, and maintain position once the coordinates reached. As agreed earlier, as they had made their way to the transport, Xenai was to bypass the locks of the station and encrypt the whole program so it could not be stopped before the completion of it. Gaalen gave them both seven minutes to leave the ship once Xenai would be finished. "Thats it, im all finished" Xenai smiled then pulled out her stolen rifle from behind the console. One shot, and the corvallen fell stunned to the floor. "This way it will look like he put up a fight" she shrugged. "lets go?" They strode through the narrow corridors, out of the doomed transport and toward the outer docking ring. {section 3,docking port 5} Xenai repeated in her head to the rhythm of their boots clicking softly on the hard station floor. As they approached the port, she could make out several figures near the entrance. The CMO and CTAC, and another, an unidentifiable third. {wearing a blanket?!} Xenai wondered, but there was no time to dwell on it, she gave herself a mental kick, as they joined their relieved comrades. The crew now reunited, entered the USS Pack Mule, ready for the voyage back to chimera. Ens. Gaalen Idrani Engineer Officer USS Chimera & Ens. Xenai Alshain Engineer Officer USS Chimera __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo