=/\= Mess Hall =/\= Xenai sat drinking tea and staring intently at the wall in front of her. She was completely unaware of the officer sneaking up behind her. "Hey You!" Dallas said obnoxiously loud, as he grabbed her chair to add to the shock. Slowly Xenai turned to face him, smiling vacantly, and nodding a hello. "Soooo....?" Dallas gave her a questioning look as he dropped down into an adjacent seat. "So what?" "So, we are entering the Kzenti system at this very moment, and your just nanoseconds away from being reunited with your relatives" "My relatives?" Xenai raised an eyebrow. "Just because I’m romulan doesn’t mean I am related to, or even know every other being in the star empire" His smile faded and he took a moment to let her response sink in. "I was just joking, you know you really have no sense of humor" She smiled innocently "That’s not true at all, you're just not very clever" she shrugged. Dallas rolled his eyes, "I didn’t come here to discuss my intellect" "Why did you come?" Xenai snapped. "I came because I wanted to ask you a favour." He gave her the most charming smile he could muster. "Could you take my alpha shift tomorrow? Me and Simoraldes were gunna go to the holo deck and test out his new program" Xenai thought for a moment and nodded, "I can, no problem" "Really?" Dallas chuckled, a bit taken aback at how easy it was. "Thanks, its gunna be great!" Xenai smiled and nodded. "Hey you know, when we get all the bugs worked out, you should try it out too, its amazing, its a race to the...." A sudden red glow interrupted him. {red alert? They dont waste any time?} Confused, he looked at Xenai, who looked just as bewildered. They both sprung up and headed for the door. A Loud blast rocked the entire ship, and sent them stumbling into the corridor. "Shit, talk about a welcoming committee" Dallas sneered as he called up the turbolift. "Deck Eleven" Xenai commanded the computer, and with a hiss they took off. Another blast rocked the ship, the TL stopped and the lights began to flicker. "Awe hell" Dallas huffed, as he began punching in manual commands. It began again, and with a slight shudder it managed to make it all the way to engineering. The doors slid open to reveal a battlefield of sparking conduits, and steaming bulkheads. They made their way into main engineering just as the next wave of fire hit. =/\= Engineering =/\= A Vulcan Lt. looking a little more emotional than a Vulcan should was screaming out orders. "You, Dallas and Shokizu" he pointed out, "I need you on deck seven section four, there's a blown terminal junction and the conversion regulator in the conduit isn’t responding." The two officers were off, tools and fire repellent in hand. "Kahane , Mhir'jnick , Busewll... I need you up in deck four, keep as much power going to the fusion thruster as possible, weapons can't go down!" "Revielle and Alshain, Deck 19, You need to stabilize the Anti-matter pods immediately, the sensors are showing massive field variations, so you don’t have much time!" Xenai nodded to her assigned partner, and the two rushed out the doors. Leaving the Chaos of engineering and the firey Vulcan behind, they dodged past sparks, smoke, and flames towards the Jeffries tubes. =/\= End Log =/\= Ensign Xenai Alshain AEO USS Chimera Ensign Carter Dallas AEO (NPC) USS Chimera