===Kzenti research facility === Cortez dove to the ground and took up a prone position behind the dead Kzenti soldier who was laying just a few feet outside the door. It offered exceptional cover against the attacking Kzenti, who seemed to be firing randomly down the hall without much precision. He watched as three Kzenti Warriors advanced down the hallway and carefully aimed his rifle. "All muscle no brains", Cortez said to himself as he fired his rifle and landed a head shot on the nearest advancing Kzenti, which immediately collapsed onto the floor. Out of the corner of his eye he noticed two more ODA members come from out of the room and take up defense positions at the intersection. All of sudden an oval shaped object came bouncing down the hallway and landed about halfway between the advancing Kzenti and the ODA team. A half second later a white cloudy smoke began pouring out of the canister and started filling up the hallway. "Dammit, they're trying to get in close", Cortez yelled towards the other ODA members, who began to reload their weapons. "Everyone concentrate there fire on one of these bastards at at time". Cortez knew that hand to hand combat with these cyborgs, modified phasers or not, was practically suicidal, but the team had no choice. With no where to fallback to, they were forced to hold their ground. The two kzenti came charging through the smoke at full speed and before anybody really had any time to react, they were already in the middle of the groups defenses. The team immediately began concentrating their fire on the closest one, and after a few hits with the modified phasers, it fell to the ground dead. Unfortunately that left one of the cyborgs to freely do whatever it wanted and before the team was able to respond to it, it had already picked up and slammed Allen's body into the wall head first. The kzenti then turned around and made an attempt to fire its weapons, but the team had already begun concentrating their fire upon it, and after a few hits, it too fell to the ground dead. "Somebody, move him into the room", Cortez said pointing towards Allen. Suddenly three more Kzenti appeared from behind the team and began firing. They had just turned the corner and one of their phaser shots hit the ODA member who was pulling Allen into the room towards safety. The ODA member fell to the ground unconscious just a few feet from the entrance to the room. Cortez moved to get an angle to return fire on the Kzenti and noticed Lt. McKnight emerge from the room and began pulling the fallen team members to safety. "Suppressive Fire", Cortez yelled out, and the team immediately began laying down fire on the advancing Cyborgs. Almost immediately one of the Kzenti fell to the ground with its leg blown off while the other two continued to slowly make there way down the hall. "What are they waiting for", Cortez thought to himself, and turned to see Lt. Mcknight had finished pulling both fallen ODA members into the room. Once McKnight had finished pulling the two men to safety he headed back towards the fight. As soon as he exited the room he saw two more Kzenti emerging from the smoke filled hallway which was now on the teams left side. He began firing at the Kzenti, alerting the rest of the team at the same time. Cortez turned around and saw one of the Kzenti fall to the ground from a direct blast to the face from McKnight's weapon. As it fell both Cortez and Mcknight concentrated their fire on the other Kzenti which soon collapsed to the floor also. The two Kzenti down the other hallway had used the distraction caused by their comrades to charge the room at the same time. Fortunately they didn't get very far and were destroyed before they could reach the team. "Alright, everyone in the room", Lt. McNight yelled. "We've got communications with Captain Walsh, hes going to start beaming everyone the hell out of here". As the team began to fall back into the room, Cortez noticed Gary was on the floor knocked out again. "Damn, that guy has no luck", he said to himself and watched as he and the other wounded ODA were transported to the shuttle. "Sir", one of the team members who had been monitoring his tricorder yelled, "I'm counting multiple Kzenti converging on our position, at least 20. ETA 3 minutes." "Everyone listen up", Lt. McKnight said, then began giving orders for the defense of the room. Cortez took up a spot near the entrance and waited. He watched as the team was beamed over to the shuttle in groups of four. As the Kzenti got closer, the group got smaller until it was just Lt Mcknight and Cortez remaining in the room. Then after what seemed to be an eternity, they were both finally transported aboard the shuttle. /-\ END LOG /-\ PFC Richard Cortez ODA Weapons Specialist USS Chimera