<< PRE OOC: Ok this was sent out earlier but did nto get delivered past the ucip emails list serv. If you receive it twice I appoligize. >> <<ooc: Ok here is basically the end of the plot. Everyone write what you can in to and around this log. By the end of the sim week we will on our way to pick up our new crew. >>> === Station engineering section == There they were, staring at each other. One group, fearful of the potential harm the other could inflict, the other wondering if they had underestimated their opponent. Keylor stood steady, neither flinching nor threatening his now very solid foe. He had two options, the first the most obvious, shoot and destroy his foe with out even thinking twice. But this was neither plausible nor particle. First they were unsure of their weapons and how effective they would be. Sure, he had shot one of them to get their attention, and it seemed to hurt, but this was brutal and not in the manner Starfleet usually dealt with first contacts. Secondly was the fact that they had no idea what the aliens could ! do. Apparently the aliens had mastery over creating portals and sustaining them, some thing the federation could not replicate. This meant if the aliens were made enemy, then they could potentially strike at the federation at will. This left Keylor with his second option, negation. They needed to try to figure out why the aliens had branched out in to this universe and why they were apparently looking to use the torpedoes on the station. Keylor could only hope that the aliens and the universal translator would hold out until a peaceful solution could be reached. Keylor slowly raised his left hand out, palm facing the aliens, he then slowly lowered his rifle and began speaking. "We don't want to fight you. We want peace with you." The aliens did physically move forward but their heads looked at one another as Keylor spoke. Keylor could only hope the translator had converted his words properly and he was not making the situation worse. After a mom! ent of silence he looked over to Pvt. Rose. "Is it working Private?" she was busy working on her translator when she replied, "I believe so sir." Keylor looked back at his counterpart who was now cradling a tentacle. As if in slow motion Keylor started to open his mouth to peak when he heard the squeaks and clicks of the aliens. Before Keylor could utter another word, the translator kicked in. "Attackers! Fight not you should we?" the translator said with a cold and mono tome voice. Keylor thought about what was said. The broken language took some thought. But what stood out in his mind was the first word. Keylor lowered his left hand, "You say we attacked you?" he asked trying to keep the statements simple. The alien standing in front of Keylor pointed at him. "You attack us. Bright lights! Murder, destroy." Keylor looked puzzled as the translator echoed the words. He tied to think why the aliens thought that he had attacked them. Keylor sh! ook his head , "No. you attack us. We defend ourselves. You hurt many of my people." He replied thinking about the bright light remark. "You make the light, you come here. We do not even know you. Who are you? What species are you?" The alien in front of him seemed to shake a bit. The Alien was angry at the thought that the interlopers would deny their damage done to their world. It pointed again and again at Keylor. "We are Inwon. We defend. You find Inwon, you destroy, explosion, murder! We control door we defend, Must stop!" Keylor looked even more puzzled. Ever since they had arrived at the station they had been met with the Inwon at every step. They invaded the chimera, they controlled the station and they appeared to be building a weapon. He tried to make sense of all of it. {They control the door?} he thought. {What door, which door?} he mulled over in his mind. Then it dawned on him. {The portal could be seen as a door. So if door meant their portal, ! then what bright lights are they talking about?} Keylor looked around the room to try to figure out what it could be that they were referring to. {Well lets see, are they talking about the main power core? No probably not. That is here in this dimension, this universe. How can that effect a species in sub space.} then, as if a light were turned on over his head, Keylor remembered the purpose of the station and its experiments. {Of course the sub space conduits. They were using quantum torpedoes to punch a hole in to sub space. Some how they must have punched in to a layer of sub space and cause these creatures some harm.} He quickly spoke. "We did not mean any harm. We did not know you were there." The Inwon leader of the group started to tremble more, he was furious at the comments. "Lie! LIE! You want hurt Inwon. We stop. We stop all 4 armed creatures!" The leader started to move forward a bit. Every rifle pointed towards the Inwon intruders rustled as ea! ch team member tightened their grip, read for the order to fire. Keylor quickly raised his rifle but did not fire. He was beginning to feel his attempts to reason with them were failing and a confrontation was bound to happen. He jerked his rifle forward sharply in a threatening manner. "I don't want to hurt you, you must believe me. We must stop the fighting, we must end this with out fighting." The Inwon leader stopped quickly, caressing it's tentacle and holding it close to its' body. "You might hurt us, but we make more doors. We murder all. Stop all from murder. Stop you." {Make more doors?} ran though Keylor's mind. {We this is what I feared. If they can make more portals, they can appear anywhere and attack at will. The federation could resist, but not before taking many casualties.} Quickly he thought over every possible thing they had learned about the Portals and the Inwon. {But they need the warp cores to create portals. He has to be bluffing, o! r may be he does not know.} Just then Keylor saw Lt Quayle and the others appear in the entry that now lay behind the 10 aliens. Keylor resisted the urge to look in their direction for fear of alerting the Inwon to their presence. Keylor needed to keep the Inwon talking so Nick and his team could shut down the core. "We meant no harm. It was an accident. Please, let us stop this now. Let us stop the killing, the fighting. I promise you that we will not do that again. We did not know you were there. Please return and we will stop." Something Keylor said did not appear to settle with the Inwon. Now all of them seemed to chatter and squeak as if talking to each other. The translator seemed to cut in and out, uttering syllables and obscure words. Keylor could only think that some how his translated words did not come across correctly to the Inwon. But the additional irritation and noise seemed to further blind the Inwon to Lt Quayle, Lcpl Kilpatrick and the ot! hers presence. He saw and Klipatrick took up position near Lt Quayle to provide cover in case they were discovered. Keylor watched form the corner of his eye as Nick quickly moved about preparing the main power for shut down. Keylor remained calm and motionless as he could as the Inwon seemed to work themselves in to a frenzy. "LIE! LIE! You are weak you are afraid. We can hurt you. You will pay." Came the clear message form the leader as the others still chattered about. Out of the corner of his eye, Keylor could make out Lt Quayle in the background. Nick gave a simple nod, indicating that he was ready. Once again Keylor lowered his rifle, "I don't lie. In fact. I control the door. If you leave now, go back, I will spare you. If you stay, You will never see home again." This seemed to get the Inwon even madder. "LIE!LIE!LIE!" was all the translator could make out. Keylor looked back to Lt Quayle and gave a simple nod. With the literal flick of a swit! ch, Nick shut down the power to the station. The lights flickered as emergency lighting kicked in. The Haze in the station began to fade, faster and faster the haze that they had become so accustomed to now disappeared before their very eyes. Then a loud "POP" came form the portal was gone and the haze along with it. The inwon stood motionless. If Keylor was correct, he thought they looked stunned. Thought he could not be sure because in all this time talking to the Inwon, he was not sure where their face was. All he could tell is where their eyes, or what he considered eyes were. It puzzled Keylor to know where all of the squeaks and clicks came from, but this would have to wait for some other time. "Not know how, but save you not. We have already found a way. We will stop you. You will see." Came the message from the leader of the Inwon. Just then the communicator badge on Keylor's armor chirped. ++Taps++ "Guzman to Bretam." ++Taps++ Bretam here. ! Go ahead commander. ++Taps++ Sir,we have secured the torpedoes and are disabling them. We should be done in a few minutes. ++taps++ Very good commander. Once you have finished tere gather your team and meet mea in main engineering. ++Taps++ Understood sir. Guzman out. Keylor then looked at his Inwon counter part. "I don't think you have a way. We know about your weapon, and we are destroying it now. You can not hurt us now." The leader trembled with anger. He let out a barely audible high pitch squeak. The noise hurt Keylor's ears and he winced a bit. In a few seconds a reply squeak could be heard. The Inwon leader stopped trembling and spoke. "We are not afraid. We will die. We will fight no matter how strong you. We will find another way. All Inwon will fight!" Keylor raised his left hand again, palm facing out. "We don't want to hurt you. Believe me, what happened was an accident. We did not mean to hurt any one. Plea! se. Let us stop the fighting. If you agree, we can help you get home. No one needs to be hurt any more." The Inwon seemed to bow its' head. "If this is no lie, then we might agree. Return us and we will talk to our leader." Keylor sighed an inner sigh of relief. It looked like they were able to avoid a fight and stop the Inwon form destroying the station. Now all that remained was to return the Inwon on the station and the chimera to their sub space. ===End Log=== Col Bretam Keylor Captain USS Chimera