===Kzenti research facility === Gary's mind, still a bit cloudy form the concussion, slowly cleared as the team jogged down the corridors, trying to find their way back t where they entered the facility. When they first left the operations room, they started at a slow trot, trying to move quickly but remain as quiet as possible. But once the explosion in the operations room shook the facility, their trot turned in to an all out run as then huffed and puffed their way back to the airlock. The lights on the station had turned from the antiseptic pale blue to flashing red. With each pulse of the red alert lights in the halls, Gary's head throbbed more and more. With each strained step and increasing pulse, the painkillers administered to Gary shortly before worked less and less. Only after a few minutes they neared the airlock where the two teams had separated. As they slowed to a brisk walk, allowing Cortez to catch up, they heard the distance muffled sound of a grenade exploding behind them. {Cortez must have run in to trouble.} Gary thought. Now the party, minus 2. paused at the air lock, everyone noticeably winded form their brisk run with all of their gear strapped to their backs. Jack, seeming confident looked back down the hall as foot steps rapidly approached. Around a corner, Cortez and another oda member appeared. "Any trouble? I heard what sounded like a grenade." He asked. Cortez answered as he slowed to rejoin the group, "Set a bobby trap sir." Jack nodded and looked back at Gary, "You think they know we are here?" he smiled. Gary nodded, still sucking n air. "I think our welcome has been worn out sir." He said in reply. Back in the distance, down the maze of corridors, heavy footsteps and the sound of voices could barely be heard. Gary pulled his tricorder out and quickly scanned the area, with little regard of detection; he active scanned the direction where the other team had head. "Sir, the other team is approximately 200 meters in that direction. I detect at least 3 Kzenti bio signs heading in their direction." He then scanned down the corridor where they had been, "And I detect 7 more coming from that direction." He pointed. Jack looked like he was in thought for a second. "Do you think we can transport through these walls Petty officer? Using the shuttles emergency transporter?" he asked. Gary, noticeably puzzled by the question thought and then replied. "Yes sir, possibly. The alloy in these walls seems to interfere with out sensors though. But if you were to use something like and active communications channel to focus in on, you should be able to do it. Why?" he asked in reply. Jack pointed out in to the air lock. "Well it is very unlikely that we will all be able to hook up with the other team, do enough damage to this facility to disable it and then all get back here to put on EVA suits and escape quickly. But if we can get the shuttle over here, under the Kzenti defense grid, we could beam out to the shuttle while we defend ourselves and plat a fw more surprises for our gracious hosts." He smiled. Gary nodded in agreement. Jack then tapped on his comm. Badge. ++Taps++ Simpson are you still there?" Jack commanded. There was no reply. Jack tried it again but it still did not work. He looked over to Gary as if asking a question. Gary instinctively raised his tricorder and tapped on his comm. badge. He then looked back to Jack. "They must be blocking out communication frequencies. " he replied. Jack looked back to the air lock and then back to Gary. "On of us will have to go get the shuttle.While the other hooks up with the rest of the away team and finds a way to get our comms to work." He said. As jack pointed at Gary and started to speak, Gary interrupted. "You go sir. Should something happen you should report back to the ship what we have seen here. Any way My head hurts too much to take much more running. And with any luck the other team has found something of the Kzenti we can use against them." He said rubbing his neck. Jack looked like he was going to argue a bit, after all it was not customary for a leader to abandon his team. Gary guess that Jack knew as well as he did that the journey back to the cave where they transported to needed to be a quick one and he hoped the look on his face told Jack all he needed to know. With a reluctant reply Jack agreed. And turned in to the air lock. Gary walked over to jack and stopped at the door to the airlock. "Closed the door and try to disable the locking mechanism. We will set a few grenades here and try to distract them to give you a chance to get away." He said pulling off of Jacks person." Jack nodded. Gary watched as Jack opened the air lock and opened the door. AS jack stepped in he quickly turned around and started to close the door. With a smile he chuckled, "Be back in a jiffy." As the door closed, Jack tossed the grenade to Cortez. "Rig this one up and lets get moving" he said pointing in the direction of the other team. Cortez caught the grenade, smiled and disappeared around a corner. Gary then motioned to the other crew standing around. "Saddle up boys we have to run fast. Pop in a fresh power cell and be prepared. There are at least 3 Kzenti between us and the other team and we don't have time to stop." As Cortez reappeared, gary motioned and they all started running down the corridore. ===4 minutes later === They had been lucky and were almost to where Gary though the other team had been. As the neared the location, they could see the body of a Kzenti soldier lying on the floor and an open door to some sort of lab. Gary could see two of the oda standing guard at the door and plenty of equipment in the room behind them. "Time to go!" he called out as they bolted through a intersection, their last obstacle before reaching the other team. Gary trotted behind two oda members when a burst form an enegy weapon zipped past his head, nearly taking his life. Gary dove forward as he tried to clear the hallway intersection. Coming to a rest on the other side, he motioned to Cortez to take up a defensive position. "Hold it ass long as you can." He remarked. Motioning to the two oda members guarding the room, he pointed to the intersection. "Take up positions here." He said now sitting on his backside. The two oda members quickly ran forward, jumping over Gary. Gary only hoped that what little man power they had could hold off the Kzenti as long as they could until Jack could arrive and bean them out. Pulling himself off the floor, he looked back in to the lab. With out wasting a moment, he went looking for Lt Mcknight to report the situation. When he ran in to the room, what he saw was almost unbelievable. There standing in front of him were the lieutenant, Ensign Oriana, and a few Romulan commandos. Puzzled at the situation, Gary stopped dead in his tracks. "Petty officer." Remarked Mcknight as he noticed Gary enter the room. "I hope you have good news about getting out of here." Ary stood still, a bit shock at seeing what appeared to be the commandos and Oriana trying to disconnect some Kzenti science experiment. "er. not really sir." Gary replied. "We are cut off from our original entry point and Kzenti are bearing down on us." Her replied as one of the romulan commandos sneered at him. "And the Captain? Where is he?" Gary shook himself back to the conversation at hand. "Oh, yes. Communications are being jammed. He went to get the shuttle. We will attempt to beam out, but we need to find a way to stop the Kzenti form jamming out comms." Just then a loud clank came from where the Romulans and Oriana were working. With a grin, one of the Romulans smiled and held up the odd looking device. Gary amazed at the site tried to guess what it was they had unearthed. But as soon as his curiosity was peaked, another romulan spoke out. "Thank you very much for helping us liberate this." The romulan then tapped on his forearm and all of them disappeared in a green shimmer of light, beaming away. Gary, now more puzzled looked at Mcknight who seemed a bit annoyed. He heard a mumble form Mcknight, but he could not make out what it was. Turning back to Gary He remarked. "Ok Ensign Oriana, see what you can do about our communications, may be the Kzenti have some thing in here we can use to our advantage. " The noise form the hallway grew louder and the number of energy weapons blasts increased dramatically. As Gary turned around he noticed several oda members backing in to the room firing. Gary reached in to his pocket and grabbed the last remaining isolinear chip and tossed it to the lieutenant. "Her sir, this seems to increase the effectiveness of your weapon. I suggest you install it quickly because I think we are about to be over run." Not waiting for a reply he turned and started to aim down the hall. As he reached the backs of the oda who were ar the door he saw two Kzenti turning the corner at firing down at the lab. In rapid succession Gary squeezed his trigger, unleashing a hail of blasts down at the Kzenti. Green bursts of energy weapons fire seem to emit form every part of their Kzenti attackers, they were in for a tough fight. Several shots flew by Gary until one grazed his shoulder and spun him around. Gary hit the floor hard, and soon he was unconscious again. ===some time later, chimera sickbay=== Gary slowly opened his eyes. The bright white light of the sickbay stung him as consciousness returned to him. He slowly started to move his head when a voice of an angel came form some where close. "Lie still petty officer, you have had a nasty phaser burn to your head. The neural damage has been repaired but I am still regenerating the tissue" the female voice said. "Where...Where am I?" he asked. "Chimera sick bay." Cam the soft and gentile reply. Gary's eyes rolled back in to his head and he slowly passed out. <<OOC: ok feel free to log what you will to get us back to the chimera. I should have left everyone something to do. Mcknight and Cortze, there should be some good combat action for you there. Oriana, please feel free to find a way to get our communications working. You can use Kzenti technology any way you would like. Also feel free to bring back some Kzenti technology back to the ship for further research if you like. Our mighty leader Jack, will get the shuttle and beam us out. >> ===End Log=== PO1 Gary Williams