===Station=== The landing on the shuttle bay was rather smooth. They were making good time, despite the fact that Keylor was delayed by Ens Carpenter right as everyone was boarding the shuttles on the chimera. Mercedes had requested to stay behind on the ship to help Dr. Summers treat the injured. She had appeared less than enthused to be heading back to the station. Keylor had decided that one medical officer should be sufficient and granted Mercedes request, after all it would be one less person for Keylor to worry about once on the station. Both shuttles had landed and Nick, Jason and Zachary all moved through the delta fliers air lock to pressurize the shuttle bay. Nick was quick and efficient in getting the shuttle bay in shape for the remainder of the away teams to head out on their mission. Within 9 minutes Nick had signaled that the bays were pressurized by taking off his helmet. Keylor had noticed how Nick did not seem to care for the EVA suit much. As everyone was moving out of the shuttle and on to the shuttle bay floor, the ship has shaken with a jolt at first, then settling down to a bearable vibration. {Hrm... Was Oriana a little early on that on? I had 9 minutes 59 seconds form the time we entered the bay.} he though . Soon everyone was out and ready to go. Shane took his team and immediately left for the topredo storage. Keylor and his team left a few minutes later, allowing Nick, Jason and Zachery to get out of the EVA suits. As the station vibrated Keylor and his team slowly made their way down form the shuttle bay to the primary engineering section where the stations power supply was located. Even though the station vibrated slightly form the distraction Ens Oriana had devised, it was barely noticeable now, at least to Keylor. The slow down was the engineers lugging portable power supplies with them so they would be able to keep vital systems running once they shut down the power core. They had reached the engineering deck in just as the station had stopped shaking. Keylor looked down at his wrist chronometer, {23 minutes 31seconds Typical for a Vulcan to be right in their calculations..} he thought. The team had reached the deck with no sign of the aliens. Keylor had to think that either Oriana's beam had truly distracted them. In the back of his mind he hoped that somehow the aliens had given up their attack on their universe and had quietly gone home. But this small thought would soon be quenched as they approached the main doors to the engineering section. Kilpatrick was in the lead when he raised a clinched fist signaling everyone to stop. Keylor quietly scrambled up to Jason's position, perched right to one side of the open engineering doors. Keylor slowed his ace and knelt down right behind Jason He then taped once on Jason's shoulder, signaling him to report. Jason formed a 'V' with two fingers on one hand and pointed to his eyes. Jason then pointed to the open doorway with a single finger and tapped out in the air several different points. He then held up his free hand and flashed several fingers. Keylor watched and translated the Signals in to usable thought. {Hrm... Jason sees 10 aliens in 5 different places.} Keylor thought. He then continued his thinking. {If we barge in there now we might be able to hold them back until the engineers can shut down the core. But then we would be in the dark and that would make getting the portable power up and running. Also it might give the aliens an advantage since we definitely cant see in the dark.} Keylor tapped again on Jason's shoulder and then motioned him to fall back down the hall with him. Quietly Keylor and Jason moved to the rear of the little groups, which was spread down the hall, everyone hugging the wall like it was a life boat. As Keylor reached Nick, he stopped and squatted down on one knee. Keylor pointed over to Morgan and motioned him over. Once 'Z' was in place Keylor whispered to all. "Ok there are 10 aliens in the engineering section. I think we should get the portable power supplies in place before going in there." He looked over to Nick. "Lieutenant. Is there a way we can hook up a few of the power supplies now, outside of the engineering section so that once the main power is off line we will still have some power to operate the station in?" Nick thought for a moment and then nodded. "Aye sir. If we connect a few of the power supplies up to Key junction EPS junctions, we can supply power to the station long enough to put the remaining power supplies in place after the power is down." Keylor nodded, "How many?" he asked. Nick thought for a moment. "3 should be enough. It wouldn't be glorious but it will keep the lights on until we can get things wired correctly." Keylor nodded again. "Ok LT Quayle, you take a marine and install the first one." Keylor pointed over his shoulder to Jason, "Send one engineer with Lance Corporal Kilpatrick to do the second one. And send an engineer with Technician Morgan as well for the third. I will remain here and watch our visitors in there." He paused and looked around briefly, he then continued. "Once each of you are done, Rendezvous on the left side of main engineering. There is an access there form a hall that runs perpendicular to this. It should allow you to slip in and reach the parts of engineering you need to shut down the core. When you are ready, signal me and I will take the rest of our team in and try to distract them. While I have them distracted you slip in and shut the core down." Everyone nodded. "Ok you know what to do,.move out.". Keylor stood back up and slowly moved back to the open doors to the engineering section. He looked back to see Nick giving instructions to his engineers and assigning them to either Morgan or Kilpatrick. By the time Keylor reached the open door, The 3 two-man teams had already started to move out. Keylor squatted next to the oda member at the door and waited patiently. === End Log === Col Bretam Keylor Captain USS Chimera