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Post by thirteen on Nov 24, 2004 11:34:27 GMT
Andrew listened carefully to J'Leera's words.
''My god...'' he began with.
''Personally I don't think these things are connected. If they would have been, there would have been a sign of them at the moment or even before lieutenant Thirteen was found,'' Andrew explained.
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''I have no knowledge of this 'Dark Matter', but couldn't it just be that Luke was an exception who hadn't been completely cured? And that now, due to all the stressfull things that occured to him of late, his mind had become weak enough for the little bit of Dark Matter that was still in his system to become active again,'' Andrew said.
<Tag J'Leera>
''Was it contagious by the way?'' He asked.
<Tag J'Leera>
''The disappearance of those medical files is strange indeed. However my theory is that someone somehow got a erase-timer on that padd, anyone who's good at programming could have done that. Then it was deleted at the moment Buster gave it to me. But there are more possibilities, of course,'' Andrew stated.
<Tag J'Leera>
''I think mister Buster is the person to see into this 'Dark Matter' matter going on with Luke. I'll bet there are files about the occurance,'' Andrew said to Buster.
<Tag Buster>
Andrew sighed and looked at Luke, who lay pale on the biobed. In the corner of his eye he saw J'Leera gazing at Luke as well. Andrew thought he saw a shiver running through her spine, but wasn't sure to tell.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2004 19:39:58 GMT
Luke lay strapped to the biobed. Thinking a lot. Just thinking. He wanted to help, he wanted to do something active. This stupid Dark Matter, why was this happening all over again? Why? He was cured last time. No matter what Mr. Greenvalley said he was sure someone had done this to him to cover their own tracks.
"Mr. Dowding. I believe I have figured out how to remove the Dark Matter." Buster said.
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Post by mathijsbuster on Nov 25, 2004 20:48:13 GMT
Buster was annoyed. Both by the lack of sleep and by whatever Greenvalley had just managed to do to the pad. How could Thirteen's medical data just disappear? Sure, Buster was tired, he had been woken up in the middle of the night, he had lots of work to do, but he wasn't so tired that he just hallucinated that there had been data on that pad!
He was willing to give Mr. Greenvalley the benefit of the doubt, but just this once. With these strange things going on Buster was starting to get a bit paranoid.
But Greenvalley was right, there was no way for Greenvalley to quickly erase the data at that moment. Not as far as Buster knew anyway. And he agreed when Greenvalley told him to get the data back.
Now he had to go research that Dark Matter stuff. Buster yawned and activated a search for the subject "Dark Matter" on the console. A screen popped up showing him the information he requested. He sat down and began reading it. It was hard to concentrate with everyone running about in sickbay.
Buster wished he could just get some sleep... But he couldn't. A friend of him was murdered, and although he was feeling tired, he knew he wouldn't be able to sleep well until he could figure out what had happened to Thirteen.
Buster yawned again. He noticed J'Leera looking at him and he quickly closed his mouth. When J'Leera looked the other way again he rolled his eyes and continued reading.
That Dark Matter stuff was quite interesting. Maybe Buster would do some more research into the Dark Matter after Luke was cured.
Finally he had found some data on how to cure that Dark Matter. He stood up and walked towards Luke, who was still lying strapped in the biobed.
"Mr. Dowding. I believe I have figured out how to remove the Dark Matter." he said.
Luke smiled at Buster. "That was about time, these straps aren't too comfortable".
Buster laughed. "At least you can lie down and rest a bit".
Buster pauzed, and his face became more serious. "I'll just have to prepare a bit. I hope you don't mind waiting a few minutes more? I'll be right back... Oh, and if you have any other information about the Dark Matter, I'd like to hear it. Maybe you can help me out a bit?".
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2004 14:45:21 GMT
The door chime of the ready room once again bleeped.
"Come in" Savali called out to the yet invisible person. The doors opened and Wood entered the room with a slight triumfant look on his face.
"We've made some progress, sir. Does the access code Pi Alpha-31 sound familiar?" "Not really, Commander" "That is the authorization code used to transport Thirteen to the maintenance room." Wood noticed Savali looking puzzled when he mentioned the word transport. "You mean he wasn't killed in there?"
"No sir, he was killed somewhere else, then transported to the maintenance room. Which creates some interesting questions. Why was there blood in the maintenance room? Who falsified the logs? To whom does this code belong? It's not a Starfleet code."
"Interesting... Doctor Buster has notified me he is about to begin the procedure to remove the dark matter from Dowding's brain. If he is successfull, assemble the senior staff in the conference room. We need to coordinate our efforts."
OFF: Indeed, we need to coordinate our efforts. So if you don't mind, please inform me or greenvalley of possible other subplots, so we can bring them in sync with the current plot. If you dont mind, I'd really like to bring this mission back into track with the investigation. Dont worry Luke, I'm working on a way to intergrate this whole dark matter thing, but lets please just focus on finding out who did this first..
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2004 11:25:37 GMT
With the procedure about to begin Luke felt relaxed and calm. He had been through this once before - second time practically made him a pro.
Buster seemed to be very interested in the Dark Matter. Maybe after all this, Buster and Luke could produce a theses in the matter?
Luke shuffled slightly on the bed and waited for Buster to return to begin the procedure.
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Post by blaster89 on Nov 27, 2004 13:46:05 GMT
After several hours, and a large amount of pizza, the analysis on the knife was completed. Rye and Danny were both exhausted, and after running every possible test on the murder weapon, the results had naught but Thirteen's fingerprints, and blood. However, in the analysis of the blood, Rye was able to determine the time of death from the now deactivated nanoprobes. There was also an odd resonance frequency emanating from the blood that Rye, nor the computer could identify.
"Well, we're done, and we can tell Wood and Buster the time of death, and that is about it."
"Yeah, let's go."
As Rye and Danny had been relatively isolated during the analysis, and were shocked to here the news about Luke, and the recurrance of the Dark Virus.
Rye hadn't been in Section 47 when the outbreak happenned, just the short experience with Commander S'reena on the Hanson. From what he had heard, he was something that could make anyone into a killer, even Luke. Of course, he didn't know if Luke had even done that.
When Danny and Rye talked to Wood, he thanked them, and ordered Rye to continue to attempt identifying the frequency. Rye thanked Danny for his assistance, and went down to Engineering to start the analysis. He walked in and discussed the task with Lt. Nguyen. He set the analsis, and went to his quarters for bed.
OFF - Hi everyone, I'm Back! I had made an ending for this, but it wouldn't go with the mission, so I wanted to include it here.
ALTERNATE ENDING - NOT PART OF STORY ====================================== He walked up to the door, and hit his face on it when it didn't open. Rye was confused.
"Computer. Open door to Main Engineering, Authorization TRT Beta 72."
"Unable to Comply. Power to doors offline. Rye drew his phaser, and took the manual release. He pulled it, and the seal on the door blew apart. Rye jumped back and searched for targets with his phaser. He found none, so he slowly moved into the room.
(=/\=)"Fitzpatrick to Lohnen. Please meet me in Engineering ASAP."
No answer.
Rye muttered under his breath, and moved forward. When Rye had left, he left Lt. Nguyen in charge. He now saw no sign of him. Rye got to the door of his office, and pulled the release. He entered, and got a phaser rifle down from the wall. Conveniently decorated. He activated the supply, and holstered the phaser. He walked out, and went to the primary workstation. He saw a chair tipped over, and the aft console destroyed. He had surveyed the bottom level, and found nothing, so he went to the upper level, and gasped. He looked at the twisted body of Lt. Nguyen, and was in shock. He took out his tricorder, and scanned him. Dead. He shuddered.
Rye got uup, and ran down to the bottom level, and left Engineering to find someone...anyone.
======================================= AGAIN THAT WAS NOT IN CONTEXT OF THE STORY, JUST POSTED IT FOR DRAMATICS. ANY OBJECTIONS, AND I'LL REMOVE IT
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Post by tiffani on Nov 28, 2004 2:29:15 GMT
Tiffani had been in her office going over bio reports, she had not really had time to actually go over some of the crewmembers report but she soon realized that some of them seem rather okay but she wondered if she shouldn't contact them anyway, after all things may seem okay on the outside but not on the inside, she had come across J'leera and Luke's bio and was reading them with intersted when she realized that the dark matter incident had not been mentioned in either of their bio's
Interesting ~she thought to herself~
why would that be left out
She decided to do some investigating of her own, it was rare such important details was left out of ones bio, and especially in a case such as this
computer where is Luke dowding now?
=/\=Luke dowding is in sickbay=/\=
Tiffani left her office caring a few pads with her, she was determined to come to the bottom of this, then afterwords she would concentrate on helping people cope with what happened, she knew she would more then likely have to seak peopleout but first things needed solved and one thing that needed solved was why such important information had been left off medical papers, she had been on the turbolift when she suddenly felt it jolt to a stop and she existed off and made her way into sickbay
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OFF: Below is a color chart to help people understand my post orange ~ action beige ~ thought teal ~ speaking red ~ computer
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2004 9:28:02 GMT
Luke was administered some pain relief by Buster before the op. Although a realtively pain free procedure Buster didn't want to take any chances. Buster had cleverly devised a way of crysalising the Dark Matter, making it solid so easy to remove. The only disadvantage to this was the crystals may become lodged in Luke's brain however the logs from the Hepta had mysteriously been misplaced and Buster did not have time to think of another way around it. Luke had agreed to the procedure - he just wanted the stuff out of his head. Buster had contacted Wood and got the go ahead and so Buster began. Luke was kept awake as Buster had no idea what an anaesetic would do to the Drak Matter, the pain relief doing all the work. Buster kept up a steady banter of converstaion as he methodically went through what he had to do. Luke was glad of this as he was very nervous. 5 minutes in and Buster informed him that the Dark Matter had been succesfully crysalised. Now for the removal. 10 minutes in and 3/4 of the Dark Matter had been removed and stored in a vacuumed container. Buster was just about to remove the last 1/4 when Luke's vital signs dropped, the last pieces had lodged themselves into his brain and were no longer resting on top. Luke lost conciousness. Buster recovered the situation and the Dark Matter was all removed. The container that held the dangerous stuff was sealed with a level 6 security code and then put into a safe that was sealed with a encryption code. Buster allowed Luke to rest, administering a little more pain relief and not worrying about waking him up. 30 minutes later Luke was concious again and ready to return to duty. "I think not." Buster said. "I just made a huge incision into your head. Whether you feel up to it or not you are not going back on duty at least for 2days, I would recommend more but I know you won't pay any attention." "Thanks Doc." Luke said. "I can hardly wait to spend more time here!" He added with a hint of sarcasm in his voice. The sickbay doors opened and Luke saw Danny enter. He hoped he had visited to see how Luke was but Luke had a nasty feeling that he was here to ask more questions. He was pleasantly surprised. Luke smiled. Talking to someone through a forcefield was not the easiest way to hold a conversation. "I'm well thanks Danny. A little tired but thanks to our marvellous Doctor I believe I am all cured." Luke replied. Danny looked at him. A worried expression on his face. Luke smiled. "Honestly I am fine. And of course I know I can talk to you. The Tiger Shark is my home. You guys are practically my family." Danny nodded. "I'm glad. I have to get going but we'll catch up when you're out of here." Danny left and Tiffani entered. They talked breefly and Tiffani came over. Just then Tiffani walked through the doors of Sickbay. "Luke, just the person I want to see. How are you?" She said."I am very well." Luke said. "Busters fixed me up a treat. How is evrything going with you?" He asked. <TAG Tiffani>"So, Im guessing you are not here for a social call. What can I do for you Councellor?" Luke asked. <TAG Tiffani and Buster>OFF: Sorry If you had another way of removing the Drak Matter Buster. I can alter this post if you wish! Danny your post below I have added replies to your tags on this post.
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Post by lohnen on Nov 28, 2004 11:00:02 GMT
Off: Hey everyone,
Sorry that I've been absent so long, but university has been killing me and I haven't had time to catch up with the story. Anyway, now I'm back and I'll try to keep up now. I've caught up and I had just one question: What is Dark Matter? What does it do? What has Dowding got to do with Dark Matter? Okay, those were actually three questions but anyway.
On:
Danny walked trhough the corridor. His teamwork with Fitzpatrick had been rather inconclusive to say the least, so now it was time to see how their principal suspect was holding up. Principal suspect, what an awful way of thinking about Luke Dowding. He considered him a friend and now he had to interrogate him like a suspect who had possibly committed a murder on another friend of his. Needless to say, Danny was in a rather bad mood.
The Sickbay doors opened and Danny stepped in. The Security officers guarding the door saluted and Danny returned the salute. He saw Doctor Buster working in his office and on a biobed, surrounded by a level twelve forcefield was Luke Dowding. Danny had been informed the Dark Matter had been removed, but for at least 48 hours, Buster didn't want to take any chances. Luke Dowding was to stay in quarantaine, surrounded by a forcefield and guarded by two Security officers.
Danny walked towards the office and knocked. "Enter," came a voice from inside. Danny entered and Doctor Buster looked up. "Hey Doc, how are you holding up?" "Tired, dead tired." "Why don't you get some rest? I've heard that Counselor Savali is on her way to talk to Luke. She can sit with him for a while so you can get a few hours sleep."
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Danny looked around the office. "Say Doc, I'm rather anxious about that Dark Matter stuff. What does it do? Is it contagious? I mean, Dowding has been walking around with that stuff in his head for quite some time now. Shouldn't we start an examination of every crew member aboard? I mean, what if the stuff has spread and we can expect more outbursts of hallucination and violence?"
<TAG: Buster>
Danny walked out of Buster's office and went to Luke Dowding. "Hey Luke, how are you holding up? I know this must be hard for you. You can always come to me if you want to talk, you know that don't you?
<TAG: Dowding>
Danny turned to leave Sickbay just when Counselor Savali walked in. "Hello Counselor. How are you holding up?
<TAG: Counselor Savali>
Danny left Sickbay. It was now time to get a hold of Lieutenant Greenvalley and Commander Laika to see how far they had progressed in the investigation.
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Post by thirteen on Nov 28, 2004 19:39:24 GMT
Andrew had Busters permission to witness the surgery on Luke, though he had to remain at a certain distance. J'Leera joined him there.
Looking at her worried face Andrew said: ''He'll be fine, really,'' while softly brushing her back with his hand.
Fifteen minutes later Buster had succesfully completed the operation. J'Leera walked over to Luke.
''He'll be back to normal in a short while,'' Buster said reassuring, though he thought 'way to quickly'.
Thirty minutes after the start of the operation Luke's eyes popped open. Luke spoke the words Buster had feared to deny.
A minute later Danny came in and asked Luke how he was doing, practically followed by Tiffani entering sickbay.
''I think we should let Luke rest,'' Andrew said to J'Leera, ''come on, let's continue our research, we wouldn't want to be another burden to Luke remaining in sickbay with too many people.''
J'Leera nodded, and she and Andrew exitted sickbay, both whishing Luke well soon, and went on their ways back to the astrometrics lab.
''So how are you holding out?'' Andrew asked concerned, looking at her tired face.
<Tag J'Leera>
The turbolift doors opened, and they got in. As always it gently brought them to their destination.
''Let's see, where did we stop?'' Andrew asked rethorically.
''If you start scanning the ship for object that shouldn't be likely to appear upon a ship,'' Andrew said, ''then I'll see if I can detect if anyone has messed with sensorlogs.''
''Alright,'' J'Leera said, ''by the way, how come you know so much about computers and systems while you're a specialist in astrometry?''
Andrew smiled, ''I wondered when someone was going to ask that. You know, it's pretty boring if all you ever do is look at and research things about stars. I mean, I love them, really, and I wouldn't want another job, but sometimes it's very nice if you can do something else.''
''Therefore I have done some research and read alot about computer systems, even followed some classes in computersystemengineering. That made me pretty good with shipsystems.''
''I was especially interested in the flaws of such systems. A bit like a hacker, I guess, I sought the weak links in systems, and try to do something about them. I have gotten very familiar on that area, so I can detect whether someone messed with the weak links of the systems, which are always used when messing with logs.''
J'Leera listened interestingly, ''that's pretty cool, yet so different from stars.''
''Yes indeed, and I'm glad it is,'' Andrew replied.
J'Leera began on modifying the sensors for a shipwide scan on strange objects, as Andrew began writing a small program to detect the weak links in the ship's systems.
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Post by tiffani on Nov 29, 2004 0:39:42 GMT
Danny turned to leave Sickbay just when Counselor Savali walked in.
"Hello Counselor. How are you holding up?
*Tiffani Smiled at Danny as he spoke to her, she hadn't spoke much to some of the crew and knew that she should she felt that she had been neglecting her duties, she had a hand on her stomach as the spoke*
Well i've been okay more so then normal *She chuckled and then nodded to danny as he went on*
Danny left Sickbay. It was now time to get a hold of Lieutenant Greenvalley and Commander Laika to see how far they had progressed in the investigation.
"Luke, just the person I want to see. How are you?" She said.
"I am very well." Luke said. "Busters fixed me up a treat. How is evrything going with you?" He asked.
*She smiled patting her belly briefly* Things go well. i am glad to see you doing okay.
"So, Im guessing you are not here for a social call. What can I do for you Councellor?" Luke asked.
*Tiffani thought for a moment before going on* Indeed im afraid its not just a social call, however if you do ever need to talk my door is always opened *She smiled*
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Well *She paused briefly* the reason im here is i was going over you and J'leera's Bio's and was curious about something.
<Tag Luke>
Its the Dark Matter incident *she paused momentarily* Their was nothing mentioned about it in both of yours profile *She watched him for any sort of uneasiness* any reason you know of they might of left it out?
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Post by laika on Nov 29, 2004 2:09:29 GMT
Soon the system was all set to go and J’Leera went to the monitor to watch the results as they came in. For a long while the computer found nothing unusual. She yawned quietly as she watched, being to get bored from watching the streaming data as it went across the screen.
“Found anything yet?”
“Hmm?” she turned around to see Andrew looking over. “Oh, no. Nothing yet.”
“I almost hate to say this, but I hope that we do find something…”
“Why do you say that?” she asked.
“If we don’t find anything, then we’ve hit another dead end and we’ll have to start all over again,” he sighed.
“Yeah…” she said. Suddenly the computer began beeping furiously. She jumped up to get a closer look.
“What is it?” Andrew jumped up and ran over.
“I don’t know,” she answered, quickly calling up the object for a more detailed analysis. A small bottle-like object appeared on the screen and the computer began to scan it more thoroughly. J’Leera then realized what they object was and sat back, disappointed. “Oh...”
“What is it?” he asked, clearly puzzled.
“One of the crewmembers on the lower decks has a bottle of Romulan Ale is their quarters…” she sighed.
“Oh well, we’d better try again,” he turned around and went back to his work.
Some time had passed and there still no tangible results. Andrew on the other hand was finding something unusual sensor logs. A few were missing and other had pieces missing from them. He smiled, pleased that he had finally found something to go on. However, he still had enough to work to do, since he still had to figure out where the files were located and find out what they were exactly.
J’Leera still hadn’t found anything even though she had scanned the ship for a few hours. If anyone hid anything onboard, they did a good job. While she did, she struggled to stay awake and remain focused, but she found it very difficult. Finally she went up to Andrew and looked at his work. He was so focused on his work that he didn’t see her there right away. “How’s it coming?” she asked.
“Slowly, very slowly,” he said. “I don’t have access codes to some of these files, so I’m having to access them in different ways.”
She nodded, “Why don’t you call Lt. Lohnen? He might have the codes that you need.”
“Good idea,” he said.
“Andrew, if you don’t mind, I’m going to rest for a while,” she said wearily. “It’s been a long day.”
“Of course, I understand,” he looked up, concerned. “Are you okay?”
“Just tired that’s all,” she admitted. “I’ll be back though after dinner. If anything comes up on the scan will you call me?”
“Sure,” he nodded. “You go rest.”
She nodded gratefully and went straight to her quarters. The moment she reached them, she collapsed on her bed and fell asleep. Normally she would have slept very deeply, but for some reason she couldn’t. In her dreams she kept seeing Thirteen. He would always be dead with a horrible looking expression on his face. She would always just stare in shock at the sight wanting to do something, but be unable to move. As she would stand there, large worms would burst out of his body and attack her. This happened several times, each in a different setting.
Suddenly that dream ended and another began. This time she dreamt that she was back on the Hepta reliving some of the worst moments on that mission. As she starred at Captain ONE’s skeleton as it sat on the command chair on the bridge draped in cobwebs, someone came up behind her and began shaking her furiously. She screamed and spun around to smack them away.
They didn’t let go though and only shook harder. Finally, she began to open her eyes for real and as her vision cleared up, she realized that an unknown face was starring down at her, trying to get her to wake up.
She looked around in shock as she realized that she was in the shuttlebay. “How did I get here?” she gasped aloud.
“Commander?” the man said.
She looked up again and recognized him as Ensign Holman. “I-I…” she shook her head, not knowing what to say. “I was in my quarters,” she stood up. “I was asleep…”
“Do you sleepwalk?” he asked.
She spun around, realizing that she had. “That will be enough Ensign!” she snapped angrily. “Don’t you have duties to attend to?”
“Yes, ma’am!” he quickly said in shock, but obeyed.
She watched him go still angry, but a little shaken up by her outburst. It was clear that she startled him and she wasn’t sure what he was going to do. For all she knew, he could go report this. “Why did I do that?” she asked herself. She went over to the wall and sat down, suddenly feeling very tired.
Ensign Holman in the meantime went straight to sickbay to see if anyone was there who could help.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2004 8:04:37 GMT
"Of course I know I can always come to you for a talk." Luke replied answering Tiffanis question.
Luke looked confused. "How can I help Councellor?" He asked, mildly suspiciously.
Luke looked puzzled. "I wasn't aware that it was. As far as I am aware it wasn't a classified matter, I..." Luke didn't have time to finish as a young Ensign came tearing into the Sickbay.
"Ensign what is the matter?" Tiffani asked sensing fear in him.
"Where is the Doctor." He asked panting.
"Ensign what has happened?" Luke asked.
"I need the Doctor now! Its Commander Laika. I dont know whats up with her!" He cried.
The Doctor hurried out of his office looking tired and distraught at how many people had been running around his sickbay.
<TAG Buster>
"Doc, its J'Leera. This Ensign here said theres something up with her." Luke said.
<TAG Buster>
"You are not leaving me here." Luke said.
<TAG Buster>
"Doc! She's my friend! Please let me out!"
Buster sighed. He released the forcefield and Luke jumped up.
"Come on lets go!" Luke said.
The Ensign led them to where J'Leera was and Luke crouched down by her.
"Oh God, J'Leera whats the matter?" He asked.
<TAG J'Leera, Buster and Tiffani>
OFF: I have no reason for the Dark Matter not being on my Bio. I have decided that maybe the same thing that happened to the data on Buster's padd happened to my Bio. I can change this if necessary.
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Post by mathijsbuster on Nov 29, 2004 13:08:54 GMT
Buster nodded when Danny told him to get some sleep. He closed his eyes. "Sounds good. I'll wait for Tiffani then." Buster replied.
Danny looked around the office. "Say Doc, I'm rather anxious about that Dark Matter stuff. What does it do? Is it contagious? I mean, Dowding has been walking around with that stuff in his head for quite some time now. Shouldn't we start an examination of every crew member aboard? I mean, what if the stuff has spread and we can expect more outbursts of hallucination and violence?"
"I will do some examination later. In the meanwhile, report any suspicious behaviour to me. I have no reason to believe that anyone else is infected. I'm still doing some research behind the Dark Matter, but the information is quite limited. I have no idea if it is contagious, but I will find out". Buster said.
Danny nodded and left sickbay.
Buster sighed and closed his eyes again. His head was feeling very heavy. He hoped Tiffani would come soon so he could get a bit of rest.
And at that moment Tiffani indeed entered sickbay. She walked towards Danny, who was about to leave.
Buster smiled. Maybe he could get some rest now. He shut down his personal computer, cleaned his desk and dimmed the lights in his office. He was about to walk to Tifanni and Luke to tell them he was getting some sleep for a bit, when he noticed that an ensign had joined Luke. The ensign looked rather panicked. Buster hurried towards the ensign, annoyed by the fact that he probably wasn't able to get some sleep just yet.
Luke noticed Buster walking towards them. "Doc, its J'Leera. This Ensign here said there is something up with her." he said.
"No.... not... not again" Buster grumbled.
The others looked at Buster with a strange look on their faces.
"I'm sorry" Buster apologised. "I'm tired and I'm getting a bit grumpy. Don't pay attention to me".
Buster turned towards the ensign. "Right then, what's the matter?"
The ensign seemed to want to show Buster by leading him towards J'Leera. Buster nodded and followed the ensign.
"You are not leaving me here." Luke said.
Buster turned back to Luke. "I'm sorry Luke, you really need to rest".
"Doc! She's my friend! Please let me out!"
Buster sighed and released the forcefield.
A short while later the ensign had led them towards where J'Leera was. She was sitting on the ground, leaning on the wall. Luke ran towards her and kneeled down next to her. In the meanwhile, Buster had taken his medical tricorder from his belt.
"Oh God, J'Leera whats the matter?" Luke asked.
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Post by laika on Nov 29, 2004 23:13:25 GMT
J’Leera looked up in surprise as Luke, Tiffani and Buster came running over. Luke looked almost panicked as he ran over and kneeled down next to her. "Oh God, J'Leera whats the matter?" Luke asked.
She looked at her friends’ worried faces and suddenly became very embarrassed. She had not wished to involve them in her problems, but it was too late now. Holman must have told them what she had did, so she just blurted it out. “I-I was sleepwalking that’s all,” she said, lowering her head a little, very embarrassed. “I’ve been under a lot of stress lately that’s all.”
“Thirteen’s death?” Luke asked quietly.
She nodded, “But it’s not just that. It’s…”
“It’s what?” he asked.
“Everything,” she sighed. “What happened on the Hepta, what happened to me from the Vampire virus, what happened to me in the mirror universe, Amy’s death and finally Thirteen…”
Buster listened carefully and put his tricorder down, realizing that this wasn’t a medical issue, but rather a psychological one.
J’Leera took a deep breath and continued. “I’m just so tired of all of this. I feel like I exhausted and I can’t handle all of this stress…”
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Post by thirteen on Nov 30, 2004 8:01:17 GMT
Andrew stretched his arms above his head, he decided to take a break, he'd been working on the ship's systems for two hours, and the console had become a boring sight.
He got up, and walked out of the astrometrics lab, finding his way to the messhall. Arriving there he changed his mind, he wasn't very hungry. Something inside him was gnawing, though he couldn't give it a proper place. It did waste his appetite.
A stroll to the ship would be nice, stretching his legs.
Andrew made up his mind and decided to pay Buster a visit, see if he had anything new on that Dark Matter stuff, which was something Andrew'd never heard of before.
Arriving at sickbay he found noone there, not Buster, but also not Luke, who Andrew was sure should have been here, Buster never letting him go.
A few commands and the console showed that both Buster and Luke, Tiffani, and also ensing Holman and J'Leera werein the shuttlebay.
If it would have been possible the question mark above Andrew's head grew even bigger. Wasn't J'Leera sleeping?
He couldn't let it rest, and went on his way to the shuttlebay.
The familiar hiss of opening doors emerged as the shuttlebay opened for Andrew.
He looked at the group of people. J'Leera sat on the ground, with her back against the wall. Luke sat on his knees next to her. Buster just put away his medical tricorder again, and an ensign that had to be Holman stood gazing a bit pale, talking to Tiffani.
''What happened?'' Andrew asked, a worried tone slightly deforming his voice.
Buster walked over to him. ''She had a bit of a psychological setback.'' ''My god...'' Andrew mumbled, ''she must've had a really tough time of late.''
''Yes indeed,'' Buster said, ''all kinds of nasty events that happend too quickly behind one another became a bit too much. This Darm Matter thing must've been the drop adding everything up; Amy's death, Thirteen's death, what happened on the Hepta.''
The gnawing feeling in Andrew's stomach grew bigger in a burst all of a sudden, almost causing him to jolt. ''Are you okay?'' Buster asked with an examining look.
''Yeah, yeah I'm fine,'' Andrew said.
He walked over to J'Leera, and kneeled next to her too.
''Hey,'' he said, witnessing a tear streaming down her face, ''come on, let's get you out of here.''
Andrew helped her get to her feet, putting her arm around his shoulder as support. Slowly the small caravan of officers left the shuttlebay to escort J'Leera back to her quarters.
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Post by lohnen on Nov 30, 2004 14:02:15 GMT
Danny was sick and tired of the ongoing investigation. So far, nothing even remotely conclusive had been found. He and Liam, his Marine XO, were having a cup of coffee in Danny's office. Liam had just informed him how anxious the crew was about the constant Marine patrols in the corridors of the ship. They were growing anxious at the sight of Marine guards at every critical system. Danny sighed and rubbed his temples. He was in a very bad mood. The headache he had begun to develop a couple of days ago grew worse.
Officially, headache didn't occur anymore in the 24th century. At least that wass what all the medical logs said, but Danny knew better. Not a day went by without him having a headache. These constant headaches were mostly annoying, but since Thirteen's death, they had become worse, much worse.
Suddenly, an idea occurred to him. "Computer, show me the crew's log" A long list of data appeared on the screen of his laptop. "Now show me the most recent addition to our crew". Liam looked at the screen too, comprehension dawning on his face. Stupid that they hadn't thought of that before. A single name flashed on the screen:
Stardate xxxxxxxx Lieutenant Andrew Greenvalley. (sorry, don't know the Stardate that the mission started on)
Danny stood up. He muttered "Greenvalley!" and pressed a button. "Computer, locate Lieutenant Greenvalley" #Lieutenant Greenvalley is in Sickbay#
=^=Löhnen to Lieutenant Greenvalley=^=
=^=Greenvalley here=^=
=^=I need you in my office right away.=^=
=^=Can't it wait Lieutenant? I'm kind of in the middle of something.=^=
=^=No, it can't wait. Report to the Marine CO's office on Deck 5 Alpha immediately.=^=
=^=On my way.=^=
- 10 minutes later -
Lieutenant Greenvalley entered the Marine CO's office, where Danny and Liam were already waiting for him. Danny pressed on a hidden button which locked the door and alerted a Marine guard team, who positioned themselves outside of the door, all unnoticed by Lieutenant Greenvalley. "Sit down Mr Greenvalley," Danny said to him, while Greenvalley sat down. "Okay, now start talking," Danny said in a stern voice. Greenvalley looked at him, not understanding what was going on. "I don't know what you mean Lieutenant," he answered, a little unnerved. "Don't give me that crap Lieutenant, you were the last crewmember to get on board. We have never had any sort of problems with our crew and we have never had to deal with a murder on board this ship. You're the newbie. you got here and things went sour. At the moment, you're my only lead, now I demand a explanation. I should have done this a long time ago...........Now, start talking!" "I really don't know what I'm supposed to say," Greenvalley answered, now positively anxious. "Then we could be in here for a very long time.........."
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2004 18:28:13 GMT
Luke hugged J'Leera, it wasn't the most apropriate thing to do for a Starfleet officer but he didnt care - she was his friend. A friend who had always been there for him and know it was his turn to be there for her.
"I'm sorry J'Leera, I should of been more supportive of you." He whispered. "I know how much I've put on you." He brushed a forming tear away.
J'Leera looked up at him, tears making her eyes glisten also.
Greenvalley walked over to J'Leera and crouched by her. Luke suddenly felt very protective of her but he said nothing.
The Officers left the Shuttlebay. Greenvalley supporting J'Leera.
They got halfway down the corrider when Greenvalleys comm badge beeped.
Greenvalley looked confused bu said his goodbyes all the same.
Buster looked at both J'Leera and Luke, who was now supporting J'Leera.
"I think you both need to be in Sickbay for a while. You both look exhausted." Buster said.
They both just simply nodded.
When they arrrived at the Sickbay both Buster, Luke and J'Leera just sat on the end of a bed with a sigh.
"Buster, I think you need just as much rest as we do." Luke said. "You've been more amazing than usual these past few days."
Buster nodded. "I may have a rest." He smiled and activated the EMH. "Ill be in the bunk in my office if anyone needs me."
He left Luke and J'Leera to their thoughts. They sat in silence for a while when Luke broke the silence.
"Im so sorry J'Leera. I mean ive burdened all my problems on you but never thought about how you were. Soem friend I am." He sighed. "You want to talk about anything? I am always here for you. I hope you know that." Even as he said that he felt a pang of guilt. He may not be around for much longer but that was to be discussed another time. "We've been through a heck of a lot me and you. A lot more than most people go through in their entire lives." He squeezed her shoulder gently, a sign of closeness and affection for someone who obviously felt so alone and tired. Someone who Luke cared deeply about.
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Post by thirteen on Nov 30, 2004 19:36:07 GMT
With a wondered look on his face Andrew entered Danny's office, being greeted by the threatening faces of Danny and Liam.
He sat when he was told to, listening to the preach Danny gave him.
''Are you out of your mind, mister Lohnen,'' Andrew said raising his voice a little, beginning to boil from the inside, ''after all I have done in the investigation, everyone I have supported during this difficult time.''
''Now you may say that you have never had any trouble with the crew aboard, but neither has it ever occured to me that someone was murdered when I served aboard a ship for a scientific mission,'' Andrew continued.
''That's bulldoo-doo lieutenant!'' Danny exclaimed. ''Why are you calling me lieutenant? Do you see any golden dots on my collar?'' Andrew said.
Danny looked and could indeed detect no sign of the rank Andrew held. ''Then what is you rank?''
''I do not hold a rank, I'm a scientist, not an officer!'' Andrew said raising himself from the chair.
''You sit back down immediately!'' Danny said, as Liam made moves towards the chair to push Andrew back, who got himself under control again and sat down.
What did I do wrong, Andrew thought to himself worrily.
''Look, Danny, I don't know how I got in this position, or what I did to get here,'' Andrew spoke very calmly, ''but please give me a proper explaination, because an argument like 'there were never trouble until you came aboard' is the weakest I've ever heard.''
That calm voice, which pretty much cracked Danny's best stated defence infuriated him.
''I don't believe you,'' Danny said, trying to sound stern, however sounding unsure of himself.
''Are your beliefs of any use when you want to make this official? Be rational Danny-'' ''It's lieutanent Lohnen to you!'' ''Okay lieutenant calm down. I hope we can keep this matter at a professional level.''
''I think not,'' Danny said, having gotten himself back together again.
Andrew continued with the same calm voice: ''Accusing someone you don't know of murder isn't quite the mildest thing to do.''
''I hoped I could become friends with everyone of this crew during the short period of time I'd be here. I can't believe you are willing to ruin the friendship I built up with you, for as far as it was there.''
Danny fell silent.
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Post by lohnen on Nov 30, 2004 19:57:52 GMT
Off: I got the Lieutenant part from your profile.
On: Danny sighed. Greenvalley did have a point. The situation became more and more difficult. Danny looked at Liam and saw in his eyes that Liam too realised that Greenvalley was right. There was insufficient evidence and so far, he indeed had been very helpful in the investigation. Danny sighed again. What was he going to do? Admit defeat? Admi he had been wrong? Admit he was acting paranoid? pfffff this was a difficult situation indeed, but he couldn't allow Greenvalley to be victimised by his own paranoia.
"Mr Greenvalley, Andrew, please accept my apologies. I had to try this to see what would happen if I would put on the pressure. You have convinced me of your innocence and you're free to go. I hope we can put this unfortunate incident behind is soon" Danny said.
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Danny pushed the hidden button again and the doors unlocked. He tapped his combadge.
=^=Marines, this man is free to go. Dismissed=^=
Andrew Greenvalley stood up and left the office. "Well," said Danny turning to Liam, "Back to the drawing table. We can basically start from scratch."
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2004 21:51:31 GMT
OFF: Joint post of Fitzpatrick and I..
ON:
When Fitzpatrick reported to Wood with the findings on the blood samples, Wood became obsessed with those resonance frequencies. He had spoken to Buster and checked the medical database, but it just didn't add up.
=/\=Wood to Fitzpatrick. "Fitzpatrick here, go ahead." =/\=How much do you know about resonance frequencies?
"I have been working on this for the past 3 hours. As far as I can tell, the resonance frequency could have been added several ways. The most probable one is that the weapon itself was emitting a slight pulse, usually undetected by scanners. Other than that, I would speculate that something was inside the bloodstream, but deteriorated, while leaving the resonance left in the blood"
=/\=I'd still like to do some research on this. Please report to science lab 4. "Aye, sir. Fitzpatrick out."(=/\=)
In the science lab, our favourite engineer rushed in. "Ah, Good you could make it. Let's start with analysing the frequency." Wood had a strange gleam in his eyes, he hoped he was on to something.
Rye had the computer run a spectrum analysis, and detected the frequency of 14.572kHz.
"Wood. I've isolated the frequency on the blood, and have now begun a scan throughout the ship for things with this sample. It should take about 20 minutes."
"Good... Also.." Wood thought for a moment, then continued "dissect it. Find any algorithm, hidden message, molecular signature, nanoprobe frequency, whatever you can dig up out of it."
"Aye, sir. That will take approximately 30 minutes. Should I call you if and when I find something?"
"Yes, I'll be on the bridge." And with those words, Wood left the lab.
Rye continued his work, and ran analysis after analysis After a while, the computer begun to alert him. Rye simmonned up the results, and called Wood. (=/\=)"Fizpatrick to Wood. I've found something. Please come to the Lab."
Only moments after Rye called, Wood ran into the lab. "What have you found, Commander?"
"Well sir, I have detected an algorithm inside the frequency. I put it into a computer and it activated. Look at this message."
Letter for letter popped up on the screen. Pi. Alpha.. 31... "Pi Alpha 31? There's that strange code again.."
"What is it, sir?" Rye asked
"When I researched the logs for evidence of transporter traces in the maintenance room, that code was the authorization. However, it's non-Starfleet."
"What could that mean then. Is it civilian?"
"I don't know.. It's Federation, that's all I can make out. Every trace seems to lead to that code though." "Commander, run a log search, check each and every bit of data, find all occurences of that code."
"Aye, sir. I'll endeavour for haste."
Wood smiled, only months before he saw a fresh Starfleet officer, wet behind the ears, where he now could clearly see a bright, motivated engineer. This crew has certainly come together.
"Very good, I'll notify the captain." With that, Wood once again exited to the hallway.
Rye activated the systemwide search. He input the parameters, and had all computer cores working full. He got up and picked up a coffee. Just then, the computer beeped.
"That's odd. I just activated it." Rye said to himself
(=/\=)Fitzpatrick to Wood." "I've found something in the replicator systems. It appears to be a ghost of the reonance pulse
=/\=The replicators? Shut them down, and run a diagnostic. Take them apart if you need to...
"Aye, sir. I'll let the analysis finish
"Fitzpatrick out. (=/\=)
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Post by laika on Nov 30, 2004 22:51:13 GMT
J’Leera allowed herself to be led to sickbay, not really caring what happened. She was just so confused at the moment and didn’t understand what she was feeling. Her emotions were so jumbled up, that she couldn’t tell them apart, which confused her even further. She tried to ask herself if she were angry, but she wasn’t. Sad? Not exactly. Just weird was the closest thing that she could come up with. She didn’t even notice when Andrew was suddenly called away.
All she saw was the few people standing next to her. She didn’t really want everyone to worry about her, but she felt powerless to do anything about. Even if she could, she wasn’t sure that she had the will power to do it either.
When they reached sickbay, she noticed that several people were gone. Had I been so preoccupied with myself that I didn’t notice them leave? she wondered. Luke was still there though and he led her over to a bio bed and sat down. Buster had left room, wanting to get a little rest himself and the EMH was nearby.
When Luke started talking, she turned around slowly and listened. "Im so sorry J'Leera. I mean ive burdened all my problems on you but never thought about how you were. Soem friend I am." He sighed. "You want to talk about anything? I am always here for you. I hope you know that."
She nodded. “I know…” she whispered. She started to say something else, but felt a lump forming in her throat. She tried to stop it, but just couldn’t keep the tears from coming. From off to the side, she could hear the EMH asking if he could do anything, but Luke just no.
After a while, she was so exhausted that she laid down on the bio bed and fell into a deep sleep, while Luke stayed with her. He was still very alarmed and even a little scared at her behaviour. She had never acted this way before and Luke wasn’t sure what to expect from him. When she was asleep, he went to talk to the EMH to see if there was anything that he could do.
“You’re better off allowing the ship’s counsellor talk to her,” he said. “I could offer some advice due to some of my programming, but I specialise in medical care and not counselling.”
“Of course,” Luke nodded and went to find Tiffani.
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Post by tiffani on Nov 30, 2004 23:07:39 GMT
OOC: Uh i know this is not really looked upon, but im a curious did i become invisible or something? last i checked i was with the group already :S
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Post by thirteen on Dec 1, 2004 12:28:21 GMT
"Mr Greenvalley, Andrew, please accept my apologies. I had to try this to see what would happen if I would put on the pressure. You have convinced me of your innocence and you're free to go. I hope we can put this unfortunate incident behind is soon," Danny said.
''An interesting technique of interrogation I must say,'' Andrew smiled relieved, ''apologies accepted.''
Danny pushed the hidden button again and the doors unlocked. He tapped his combadge.
=/\= Marines, this man is free to go. Dismissed. =/\=
Andrew left Danny's office, noticing a few security officers disappearing around the corner of the corridor.
J'Leera, Andrew thought, and went to find his way to sickbay immediately.
He arrived there just as Luke stepped out. ''Hey, what was wrong?'' Luke asked, ''what did Danny find?''
''Nothing significant,'' Andrew said, ''how's J'Leera?'' Andrew asked with a worried voice.
''She's asleep now, I'm going to get Tiffani to talk to her,'' Luke said.
''Alright,'' Andrew said, ''I'll keep her company until you return.''
They nodded, and Luke went off for Tiffani as Andrew entered sickbay, being greeted by the EMH.
''Hi,'' Andrew said, ''can I have I minute?'' ''Sure,'' the EMH replied, ''as long as you won't forget activating me again.''
The EMH disappeared. Andrew walked over to the biobed on which J'Leera was lying.
He gently moved her hair from her face, and gave her a kiss on the forehead.
Why didn't we meet in an other way, someplace else? Andrew asked himself, beginning to feel sad. This made things so complicated.
He gazed at the ceiling, trying to empty his mind of any thoughts, but he couldn't.
He made up his mind and got a seat from Buster's office, and placed it next to the biobed before sitting down.
Andrew looked at J'Leera's face, and felt his heart thumping in his chest. He swallowed.
''Computer reactivate the EMH,'' he sighed. The EMH popped back into existence.
''Is there anything I can do for you?'' he asked Andrew kindly.
''No, nothing you could do,'' Andrew mumbled in return, the EMH raised it's shoulders and walked over to a panel to moniter J'Leera's lifesigns.
Andrew just sat there and waited for someone to return.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2004 15:52:06 GMT
OFF: I think that you left Sickbay along with everyone else Tiffani. Only myself and J'Leera remained (not including Buster) We need your skills now anyway!
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Luke left the Sickbay with a glance at J'Leera to make sure she was alright. As he left Greenvalley entered.
"Computer locate Counsellor Savali."
=^= Counsellor Savali is in the Mess Hall =^=
Luke aknowledged this and headed towards the Mess Hall.
He arrived to find the Counsellor nursing a steaming cup. She appeared to be deep in thought.
"I am not interupting anything am I?" Luke asked.
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Luke sat down and explained the situation.
"Would it be ok if you came down to Sickbay with me and talk to her?" Luke asked.
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"Excellent. I think it would be best if we went now." He said.
Tiffani picked up her mug and they both left for the Sickbay.
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