92.0410 - One Tellarian Lizard...Or Two

[billi]

Billi walked swiftly through the corridors of the ship. malthen`rin flitted in between and back again several times by the time they had reached the turbolift.

The small dragon hated being left alone, especially when Billi was going to the bridge.

“Stay out of the way this time.” Billi admonished, malthen`rin quickly calming and curling up around her neck, her skin changing color to match Billis uniform, all but invisible by the time the lift began to rise.

Billi tapped her combadge in response to the Commanders question.

=/\= If you would like to Ma’am. =/\=

She closed the comm and settled back until the doors opened and she stepped out onto the bridge, quickly moving to one of the vacated science stations to work.

<tag grace and bridge crew>

[billi]

(Off mission post for Rin)

It was done; his part in this charade was finally complete. His family’s debt was now paid in full and he would live a good life. This was his dream and now that he held the Ambassador his dream would come true.

"We are approaching the Lintes, they are asking for her."

"Lets not keep them waiting," Cerie said and immediately transported Ambassador Rin Damis to the Trill.

Rin muttered and stood defiantly having been transported to a cell in the rear of the shuttle. Once the shuttle had landed and secured she’d been walked along a corridor to a small, dark room, the door clanging shut behind her.

She could hear the guards behind the door talking and stepped back as the light from outside blinded her as the door opened. She struggled against the hands that grabbed her and dragged her from the cell, her cries filling the air.

"Shut the hell up, woman," the agitated guard said trying to take her by the arm," just shut the hell up." His prisoner was putting up a good fight, but he could easily overpower her. It was a matter of time before they would reach the bridge.

"Here she is," the guard said as he let her go and stood at attention waiting for more orders.

Rin didn’t shut up until she was roughly pushed through the door onto the bridge, stumbling against a nearby console. She fought her way to her feet and glared at the guard behind her as well as the man before her, who seemed to be the Captain of the ship. His features were that of the Cardassian she had seen briefly from the shuttle.

“Why have you brought me here?” She demanded.

"For a very simple reason, my girl," the Cardassian responded as he got closer to Rin," a very good reason."

Rin stumbled back as the Cardassian moved towards her. She was roughly grabbed again and propelled towards what appeared to be the ready room. “You’ll pay for this, I can promise you.” She cried out as she was pushed towards the door.

"Will I?" the Cardassian said smirking," you left the safety of the Jefferson because of me, your trip to Betazed would of taken a couple of weeks on the shuttle. So because of me no one knows where you are."

“What do you mean this is happening because of you?” She turned defiantly towards the Cardassian.

"BeTazed doesn't need you back, I faked the message so that you would leave the Jefferson," the Cardassian laughed as he sat down," I told my men to do it and it was done. So you see, you're here because of me."

Rin frowned. “What do you want with me? I have nothing of value.” She continued to stand defiantly while she thought of what to do.

"You were brought here because we wanted to see our daughter," a woman behind Rin said. She let Rin take in the information and walked up next to her husband, which was removing parts of his skin.

"Don't you see, we are here for you," the man said revealing himself to be Trill.

Rin stumbled back away from the two as she took in the information. “IF you were my parents you would not have kidnapped me like this.” She was livid with angry at what was transpiring.

“I want you to return me to my ship immediately.” She ordered.

"We are your parents, my child," the women said," I gave birth to you, almost 20 years ago. I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl."

"Rin we have watched you from afar, but it’s now time for you to complete the mission we were assigned twenty years ago," the man said.

Rin paced in front of the two, furious at what was going on. “What are you talking about?” She yelled at the two turning to face them, her face filled with anger.

"You have a very small scar on the back of your neck. Under the scar is a small computer that will tell us what to do next. After that we will let you go," Rin's father said. He so very badly wanted to tell his only child of the love they felt for her, but he would jeopardize the mission that had consumed there lives.

“A what!?” She almost screamed it out as she backed away from the two until bumping into the guard behind her. Rin could not believe what she was hearing. She suddenly was frightened, what would they do to her once they retrieved the information. They couldn’t just let her go, she could and would identify them.

“Why can't I sense your thought Rin? You are half Betazed, you have my abilities," Rin's mother stated," it does not matter; your father has given you his word. You will be released once we are done with you. You won't remember much anyways."

Rin shook her head. “I don’t want to be part of your sick games.” She was still in shock with what she was hearing.

"Child you have no choice, we will get the information and then let you be," the man said motioning for the guard to do his business.

Rin let out a startled cry as she was grabbed from behind and held tight, her parents approaching menacingly.

"You will finally fulfill your purpose," the man said and injected Rin with a hypospray. "Get her prepped, we will do this and then leave her."

(OFF: Thank you to my evil counterpart for helping me with the post)

[Matthew Reynolds]

Scene: Bridge, Deck 1, USS JEFFERSON

Matt would be enternally gratefull to the bridge crew of the USS Jefferson. By now they all knew that Rin had just left the Jefferson. Matt got a gist of the reason, but that didn't make it any less harder.

Matt just took his station and blindly went to work on things that needed to be done. Not even the conversation between the Prime Minister of 74 Orionis could rouse his attention. For intened purposes, Matt was just a body on the bridge.

After about thirty minutes or so, Matt found himself pratically alone on the bridge. Alex was somewhere else on the ship, Grace was down in sickbay, and the Colonel was in his ready room. Matt was glad for the seclusion, but he was also extrememly frustrated. Rin's departure was not affecting him very well.

"Computer remind me to contact Betazed and ask them why the hell they took her in the middle of a mission," Matt said angrily.

"Computer does not recognize question, please repeat," the computer said. Matt grinded his teeth, but didn't say anything else. He had to deal with this, because his attention would be needed during this mission and it wouldn't be there until he knew that Rin was safe.

OOC: I know its short, but I have to start somewhere.

[Zhukarak Hrisvalar]

"Approaching standard geosynchronous orbit of planet Yridis, Captain." Commander Johnson applied the finishing touches on his console and the hum of the engines became less and less, as they slowed to 'park' above the planet.

"Lieutenant Reo, have we identified the Orion vessel yet?" Zhukarak was standing in front of his chair with his hands clasped behind his back, anxiously waiting.

"Yes sir, putting it on screen now. Orion Trade Vessel Sulib, captained by a Mr. Radmin, an Orion sir."

"Commander Reynolds, open a channel."

The view screen changed from the trading vessel to its commanding officer.

***
Hello, I am Radmin of the Orion Trade Vessel Sulib. How may I be of service to you?
***

"My name is Colonel Hrisvalar. I am the Captain of the USS Jefferson. We would like permission to come aboard and perhaps purchase some of your merchandise, or even trade if we have anything of value for you."

Zhukarak didn't find it necessary to divulge what they were exactly looking for, at least not yet. He noticed that this Radmin didn't seem to look too well. Zhuk was hoping that this would be to his advantage.

***
Why of course. Trade and sales is our business. Please, have as many of your people come aboard as you want. We look forward to your business.
***

The view screen went back to the image of the ship. Zhuk looked around to his bridge crew. His Chief Medical Officer was here as well as she had completed some of her studies of the Orion physiology at one of the bridge sub-stations.

"I want three teams of three going over to that ship. I have reason to believe that they won't just divulge us the location of Tellarus. It would cut into their profits of sales of the Tellarian Lizard. So, we will split up and act like we are interested in their items for sale. They may even have some of those lizards on-board. The teams will be Commanders Mitchell and Johnson with Lieutenant Reo. Commanders K'vada and Reynolds with Third Lieutenant Potter. I will take the good doctor and Mr. Pudlo, together with our firelizards. Grace, I want you and Sam to use you 'skills' for any and all information possible. Doctor Eviston, I want you to monitor readings with your tricorder to see what they may be ailing from. Let's go."

Everyone filed out to get to the transporter room while junior officers took their positions on the bridge. As everyone arrived at the transporter room, Zhuk remembered one more thing.

"By the way, this is a non-federation planet. So put your minds at ease at the things you may see, and gentlemen...don't get too close to those Orion slave girls."

Some of them had a smile, knowing what kind of trances these women could put the men under, all except for Zhuk.

[cptjeff]

OOC: This is fast, and a little backpost.

IC:
"A pleasure to formally meet you, Mr. Pudlo. I didn't get a chance to talk to you at the dinner party last evening. Did you have a good time there?"

"The food and company was Fine, but I didn't have much time."

the comnversation continued, and grace moved on to other dutys. Jeff Retreated to Engineering after calling a team to repair the dor sand the locking system. dock turkeys. And i could swear that they're getting more careless...
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Now
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Jeff stood on the Transporter pad, leaning against one of the front corners of the alcove, checking his equipment. he was wearing a discreet sensor belt- literally a belt of sensors- and carried an engineering tricorder and a Phaser. Not the phaser he designed, fro Starfleet special ops, but a standard model. Again, discreet. And a high memory Engineering Tricorder. it all checked out.
Soon the rest of the 9 appeared, and they checked their equipment as well.

"Sure the Transporter can handle all of us Lt. Hope?" Jeff joked to the Transporter Chief.

"with all that you're carrying, who knows? It may demand access to some of your design files to Bring you back." she smiled.

"This belt doesn't look THAT good..." Jeff chuckled and stood straight on the platform. "I'm ready to go. Captain?"

"Yes, we are all ready. Lieutenant Hope, any transporter problems will be directed at Commander Pudlo." Zhukarak gave a wink when he had said that, at which the others gave a chuckle.

"Energize!"

[billi]

[Bridge]

Grace and Billi had been working for a while, studying the Orions immune system when the achieved orbit around planet Yridis and met up with the Orion Trade Vessel Sulib. Billi had been concentrating hard on the research and hadn’t really noticed any of this until the Colonel spoke.

"I want three teams of three going over to that ship. I have reason to believe that they won't just divulge us the location of Tellarus. It would cut into their profits of sales of the Tellarian Lizard. So, we will split up and act like we are interested in their items for sale. They may even have some of those lizards on-board. The teams will be Commanders Mitchell and Johnson with Lieutenant Reo. Commanders K'vada and Reynolds with Third Lieutenant Potter. I will take the good doctor and Mr. Pudlo, together with our firelizards. Grace, I want you and Sam to use you 'skills' for any and all information possible. Doctor Eviston, I want you to monitor readings with your tricorder to see what they may be ailing from. Let's go."

Billi answered. “Yes Sir, I need to stop at sickbay first though.” Before she stood, and followed the others off the bridge. She stopped Enroute to the transporter room and retrieved a medical tricorder and a small medkit which she fastened at her waist.

[Transporter Room]

Once in the transporter room she, laughed slightly at the Colonels comment about the Orion Slave Girls, thankfully she wasn’t a guy.

She spoke to the Colonel and Jeff. “Watch yourselves down there. I wouldn’t want to have to sedate you.” She teased the two, knowing full well that the Colonel wouldn’t be the one she had to sedate.

<tag Pudlo>

"I insist that you wait for my order on that one, do allow me some pleasures in life, dear Doctor." Zhukarak joked back at her as she gave an indignant look.

Malthen`rin chirped in her ear, asking what an Orion Slave Girl was. “You’ll find out.” Was all that Billi said as she settled on the Pad and waited for the transport.

“What do you expect we’ll find down there Sir.” She asked Jeff who was standing next to her.

<tag Pudlo>

[Matthew Reynolds]

Scene: Transporter Room, Deck 8, USS JEFFERSON

An away mission, Matt always hated them. They somehow always ended bad for him, but right now he was almost exstatic that he would be doing something outside the ordinary. He didn't want to think about Rin right now, there was nothing he could do. At least thats what the Trill government told him a couple of hours ago.

"Is everyone ready?" Kristin asked. This question brought Matt out of his little trance and readied himself for what was ahead.

Scene: Orion Trading Vessel Sulib

As soon as Matt's body was remateralized on board the Sulib, a sweet fragrance bombarded his nostrils. It was a soft smell, like wildflowers on an evening night. Matt looked around and noticed that most of the men were also having the same reaction.

The distraction was soon identified to be Devna, an Orion slave girl.

"Colonel Hrisvalar, welcome to my ship, I am Radmin," the male Orion said introducing himself," if you please I'll have Devna perform for you before we get to buisness?"

"No thank you Radmin, we are here to trade only," Colonel Hrisvalar responded," my officers will break into three groups so that we can find the goods we want."

"Of course, as I said before trade and sales is our business, Radmin responded giving them an unfelt smile.

Matt moved closer to Commander K'Vada and Lt. Potter and waited for further instructions.

<Tag Sam/Leo>

[gracemitchell]

Grace turned to Zhuk and Radmin and said "I think Commander Johnson, Lieutenant Reo and I will go down this corridor as it has my favorite colors for lights" pointing in the direction of a corridor lit up with pink and purple lights. Grace had said this in her most girlie tone of voice.

Zhuk knew this was a ploy of Grace's to throw Radmin off her real objective. Zhuk was all too aware that Grace was using her telepathy to 'hear' anything in relation to Tellarian Lizard.

Grace turned to walk down a corridor, but when she turned to address Alex, neither him nor Josh were with her. The two were still standing on the spot where they had been transported on. Grace caught Billi's eye, both women had the same problem with the exception that Grace had two men to shush along, Billie had only one. Billi had to Jeff to shush as Zhuk was more able to keep himself in control. Grace noticed that both Matt and Sam weren't having a difficult time to keep their attention away from Devna. "Must have something to do with the fact that both of them are emotionally attached to someone." Grace thought. However, Leo was slightly mesmerized, which meant that Sam and Matt were going to have to shush Leo along.

<Tag anyone>

Grace smiled slightly then said in her most star fleet voice "Commander Johnson, Lieutenant Reo. I believe we have something else to do at the moment. Gentlemen if you would care to join me, I would appreciate it!"

Both Alex and Josh shook their heads slightly, grew a slight tinge of pink and began to follow Grace as she started to walk down the corridor with the pretty pink and purple lights.

<Tag Alex and Josh>

As they were walking Alex and Josh were commenting on Devna, Grace listened to the two of them talking but Grace had discontinued her blocking of her empathy and some of her telepathy to see if she could get an idea of where any of these lizards could be.

Even though Grace was listening to Alex and Josh, in her mind she heard a totally different conversation:

~Did you see that Tellarian Lizard Grilman had?~

~No! Where did he get it?~

~He got it from Tladenb. Grilman wants to breed it with a different species of lizard~

~Radmin will not allow that. He still trying to get the Tellarium Lizards selling.~

Grace stopped walking, Alex and Josh continued on a few more steps until they noticed Grace wasn't with them. Alex was the first to notice that Grace's face had a vacant look on it, then Grace spoke in a monotone "I think we should continue in this direction. I need to speak to a man by the name of Grilman." Then Grace turned and walked in the direction she had heard the conversation from.

At first, Josh and Alex weren't sure what to do, then Alex spoke to Josh "I think we should stay with Grace. The Colonal did say she should use her abilities, maybe she can hear something we can't."

"Alright, but she's acting kind of spooky. I've never seen anybody act like this before. But that's why I'm in Star Fleet, to experience new things." Josh said.

Josh and Alex gave Grace a wide berth as they followed her to where ever the voices were taking her.

<Tag Josh and Alex>

[Zhukarak Hrisvalar]

Zhukarak first noticed the look on Doctor Eviston's face as she was looking at Commander Pudlo. Zhuk looked over at him and realized that he had already been sent into a slight trance by one of the many Orion slave girls.

Theel'zhiin and Malthen'rin both spread their wings just a little, in a defensive position as the Orion female came a bit closer. The other two away teams had already left the area in search of the lizard or any other information on it. She came and placed her hands on Mr. Pudlo's cheeks.

"Hi! I'm Devna. I can be yours forever." Jeff just stood there in trance. His eyes looked deeply into hers.

Zhukarak grabbed Devna's arms for her to release his crewmember. "No, that is quite alright. We are not interested in purchasing slave girls."

Devna turned her attention to Zhukarak and Theel'zhiin's wings spread out even further, ready for the word. She slowly reached her hand up along Zhuk's face until she it lightly grabbed one of his antennas, gently rubbing it while wrapping one leg around his, bringing their bodies as close as was possible. "Are you sure? I am well versed in the pleasures of many different species."

Zhukarak sensed a little tension, a delightful one, as his sensory receptors were heightened at her touch. It did feel good, but he didn't have the time for this now. Zhuk could see that his engineer was still entranced by her.

"Doctor, please inject Mr. Pudlo with an olfactory blocker."

Turning his attention back to Devna, "We have other business here. However, I just might return for you....someday." He could hear a 'Hmpf' coming from Doctor Eviston, and the Orion slave girl was taken aback as well. She turned and went about her business of trying to 'trap' other unlucky souls that had come up from the planet Yridia.

"Shall we continue on?" Zhuk led the way among the many dealers and traders. "Doctor, were you able to scan her? She didn't appear sick. I'm guessing this virus hasn't spread as much yet. I want you to scan any Orion we come across. Let's see if we can trade our help for information."

[cptjeff]

“Watch yourselves down there. I wouldn’t want to have to sedate you.”

"Sedate me? Oh, but why would you do such a cruel thing doctor?" Jeff rolled his eyes. "besides, what reason could you possibly have?"

The levity continued for a bit, then it turned serious.
“What do you expect we’ll find down there Sir.”

"Standard wares, really. The girls and ornaments, I suppose. They'll no doubt hide some of their more dubious wares from us. We might find what we're looking for. In fact, unless they've already sold them, I find it highly likely."
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They beamed over. Immediately Jeff was hit with a sweet scent, and an Orion slave girl approached him.

"Hi! I'm Devna. I can be yours forever." she said. Jeff just nodded, in a trance. Zhuk was saying something, but he didn't care then the others were discussing something. But she was here.

Then a Hypospray hissed against his arm.

"Thank you doctor, I forgot to take a suppressant before hand. I haven't done much with the orions for a while. To business then."

The others nodded.

"if it's alright with the Captain, I would like to browse the selection of technical parts. I'm always looking for something to help out in engineering. Some of the technology on this ship looked like it might be worth investing in."

"By all means, Commander Pudlo. Just be sure that these devices pass Starfleet protocol, if you plan on using them on our ship."

Jeff nodded in agreement.

"of course sirs, You realize that we do not allow recordign devices." the orion trader interrupeted, motioning twords Jeff's tricorder.

"Oh, this doesn't record. It's an engineering version. It just tells me what I'm scanning right now. I has virtually no memory, bu using it helpsme determine if we can use a part or not. If it won't interface with our ship, It's worhless to us." Jef quickly replyed, poker faced.

"Very well. But You must permit us to wipe it's memeory core when you're done, no matter how much memory it may have."

"of course."

[leopotter]

Leo beamed abord the orion vessel wearing his standard phaser and tricorder on his belt, but he also was wearing a combat knife in his boot and one up his sleeve.~The orions will probably understand.~


When he materilized onboard the platform his eyes instantly darted around looking for any dangers to his other officers. The only danger he found was the orion slave girls. He did a double take when he saw them. They were beautiful. He watched the interation between the Col. and
Mr. Pudlo. He relized he was going to end up the same as Pudlo if he wasn't carful. He saw one of the girls eyeing him from the other side. He went over to the Doctor.

" Doctor, could you give me a olfactory blocker. i don't think it will be good for the me to be distracted too much with, uhh..... you know what I mean." He said.

<tag Billi >

She injected the hypo in his arm and he felt the urge leave him.~Thats better,~ he thought to himself.~Don't want the Marine to out of action if we run into trouble. He stood near to Matt and waited for his instructions for what he was supposed to do. He continued to eye everything he saw and his thought's strayed to Michelle,~ Too bad she couldn't come on this op. Wonder what I could get her.~ He looked and saw Cmdr Mitchell Eye him. He looked at her and shrugged.

<tag Matt/ anmyone>

[joshreo]

OCC: Sorry about not posting in awhile...

IC:
After the group materialized on the trade ship, they split into there three groups. Josh went with Grace and Alex. The headed down a hallway lit with purple and pink lights, which Josh found very strange.

Grace stopped walking, Alex and Josh continued on a few more steps until they noticed Grace wasn't with them. Alex was the first to notice that Grace's face had a vacant look on it, then Grace spoke in a monotone "I think we should continue in this direction. I need to speak to a man by the name of Grilman." Then Grace turned and walked in the direction she had heard the conversation from.
At first, Josh and Alex weren't sure what to do, then Alex spoke to Josh "I think we should stay with Grace. The Colonal did say she should use her abilities, maybe she can hear something we can't."
"Alright, but she's acting kind of spooky. I've never seen anybody act like this before. But that's why I'm in Star Fleet, to experience new things." Josh said.
Josh and Alex gave Grace a wide berth as they followed her to where ever the voices were taking her.

After a few more yards, they came upon a door that was open. Josh looked at Grace, she nodded, and Josh went through the door. He found that the room had three occupants, two of which were humanoid. The third looked to be some kind of hairy reptile. Josh nodded back at Grace and she came in.

<Grace>

[Matthew Reynolds]

Scene: Orion Trading Vessel Sulib

It was a very peculiar sight, to see Starfleet officers stop in there tracks because of a woman. Matt could appreciate her beauty, but it didn't do much for him. So instead of wasting the valuable time that he had just been given he searched his surroundings.

The ship had to be littered with thousands of trinkets. Most of them were worthless, but Matt was sure that one of them might be priceless. His tricorder was having a harder time finding the lizards they were looking for. It seemed that there were over two hundred species on the ship and many of them were of reptilian nature.

"Commander Matthews, have you found anything interesting?" Commander K'Vada asked.

"Yes, I have found some interesting things, but unfortunately its not what were looking for," Matt responded as he stopped and looked around at the ship once more.

"Lt. Potter, please follow us, we are going to go deeper into the ship," Commander K'Vada said as he moved along the corridors of the ship looking at objects in front of them.

"Do you think that anything here is valuable?" Lt. Potter asked.

"Don't know, but we are hear looking for something else," Matt said as he picked up an old earth looking goblet.

"Young human, I see that you like the finer things in life," an Orion male said. Matt immediately put the goblet down and looked at the Orion.

"Yes I do, but this is not real," Matt said.

"Not real!" the Orion said angry," this is an Organian goblet."

"Organian, they haven't been heard from since the First Klingon-Federation War," Sam said finally getting into the conversation.

"True, very true, but we looked far and wide to find these great artifacts," the Orion responded.

"If that is true, you won't mind me scanning it?" Matt asked picking it up.

"Go ahead, be my guest," the Orion said looking very sure of himself. It only took a couple of seconds for Matt to verify that it truly was an Organian goblet.

"I'll take it," Matt said quickly, much to the delight of the Orion.

"Commander while you enjoy your shopping Lt. Potter and I will continue on searching for what we are searching for," Commander K'Vada said.

"You should wait, I'm the only salesperson this deep inside the ship, we don't recommend you going in there alone," the Orion said," there are some animals down there."

"No problem we can handle ourselves," Leo said gripping his rifle.

"No really, I insist, just wait until we finish this transaction," the Orion said. Matt noticed that the Orion was dead set on not letting them go deeper into the ship. What could he be hiding? Could it be what they were looking for.

"You know, I'm liking this as well, what is it?" Matt said holding another piece of metal. The Orion immediately became torn. His love for profits was almost equal to that of a Ferengi and finally he let him overtake him.

"Ok, go on ahead, but don't touch anything," the Orion said.

"Commander Matthews I hope you enjoy your shopping," Commander K'Vada said as he walked deeper into the corridor.

"Now that is a famous.....

TAG Anyone

[cptjeff]

The Number of Items they had foir engineering was astounding. Transporter upgrades (below starfleet standards) directive thruster controlsthat eliminated much of the gasous wate (which Jeff was definatly interested in)

"how much for the thruster unit?"

"ah, but you must buy the set!" the orion there brightened. "there are 6, but more cna be made if needed..."

"I only want the one. For testing." Jef replied. The orion didn't flinch.

"Then only use the one. But you have to buy them as a set. and that is sx of them. not one less."

"Alright."

"Excelent. Anything else? Your free bargan has already been exauseted so I wouldn't try and haggle anymore..."

"Free Bargan?"

"you can only negotiiate one deal without incurring extra charges." Jeff rolled his eyes. when he did so, the Orion relled back, cluthing his stomach. "i'm... Fine. I really am. shall we continue the tour?"

Jeff shrugged, then followed. there wasn't much else there... other then some alien technoligy- Jeff asked about a few items, such as a romulan disrupter and a jem'hadar computer core (however they canme by that) Jeff blked at the price both times. both were recorded by the scannners he had anyway...

<anyone>

[Matthew Reynolds]

Scene: Orion Trading Vessel Sulib

The old saying that no one sells like a Ferengi had nothing on these Orions. The trader that Matt had been talking to know for the last quarter hour was actually sweating profusely. Matt was almost positive that Orion's sweat glands were almost non existence.

"Zonden, you must calm youself, I'm more than happy to buy these beautiful artifacts," Matt said hoping to calm down the huge Orion.

"Don't worry, its just the Rigellian flu going around," Zonden said," the Captain became sick a couple of days ago, but he says he's recovering."

"Yes of course," Matt said as he activated his tricorder. In his current condition, Matt was sure that Zonden would notice that he was being scanned. When the scans were complete, Matt was at a loss. His field medic training was good enough for him to know that Zonden was really sick. "Zonden, I must excuse myself, I will talk to my Captain to see if he requires anything."

"Of course, the more buisness the better," Zonden said wiping his damn bald head. Matt excused himself and hurried towards the other section of the ship. He shortly found Billi and Colonel Hrisvalar.

"Colonel, Doctor, these are some scans of the Orions," Matt said," I don't know what they mean, so I'm going to leave them with you."

TAG Zhuk/Billi

=^=Reynolds to K'Vada, which section of the ship are you and Lt. Potter located?=^=

=^=We are in the most aft accessible section of the ship, I think we may have found what we are looking for.=^=

=^=Understood, Commander we will be down there shortly=^=

"Colonel, should I contact Commander Mitchell and tell her to meet us there, or will you go down with us?" Matt asked.

TAG Everyone

[Zhukarak Hrisvalar]

Zhuk looked over the many wares that were being offered. There really wasn't anything that fancied him as he did not make much of what humans would call nick-nacks. Looking up, he spotted Commander Reynolds approaching them.

mattreynolds said:

"Colonel, Doctor, these are some scans of the Orions," Matt said," I don't know what they mean, so I'm going to leave them with you."

TAG Zhuk/Billi

=^=Reynolds to K'Vada, which section of the ship are you and Lt. Potter located?=^=

=^=We are in the most aft accessible section of the ship, I think we may have found what we are looking for.=^=

=^=Understood, Commander we will be down there shortly=^=

"Colonel, should I contact Commander Mitchell and tell her to meet us there, or will you go down with us?" Matt asked.

TAG Everyone

"Actually, why don't you take Doctor Eviston here so that she may scan the Orion with her medical tricorder. It shall provide us with more information on what these Orions may be carying. Mr. Pudlo and I will meet up with the Counselor and Lieutenant Potter."

Commander Reynolds went ahead and led Doctor Eviston back to the Orion he was dealing with earlier. Zhukarak and his chief engineer found their way to Commander K'Vada's location. Lieutenant Potter was busy hunched over a cage, looking at what just might be the Tellarian Lizard they were searching for.

<Tag Jeff/Sam/Leo>

[Deleted]

--Aft section of the ship--
Sam and Leo found the lizards. They looked great.
Blue skin with white stripes.
"Leo look at these creatures." Sam said "They are beautiful. Their movements are quite similar to lizards from earth."

<TAG: LEO>

"I know we have to secure the room before we observe but I was mesmerized by there beauty." Sam replied "Well you go first."

On that moment Lt. Eviston and Cmdr. Reynolds entered the section.

"Commander, Lieutenant over here." Sam yelled at them
The 2 officers came closer.
"Lt. look at these creatures." Sam said to Lt. Eviston "Look at there skin."

OFF: I know it's short but I'll post tomorrow another message.

[billi]

Billi rolled her eyes and filled the hypospray and heading for Jeff as the Lt. Col. Spoke.

"Doctor, please inject Mr. Pudlo with an olfactory blocker."

She was glad that the pheromones in the air didn’t affect her like it did most of their male counterparts. While she worked she scanned the Orions nearby.

"Doctor, were you able to scan her? She didn't appear sick. I'm guessing this virus hasn't spread as much yet. I want you to scan any Orion we come across. Let's see if we can trade our help for information." He asked after she had administered the hypospray to Jeff.

“Nothing yet Sir.” Billi said as she moved with the group, keeping one eye on Jeff and shaking her head.

Billi turned as Leo spoke at her elbow, he too was feeling the effects from the Orion women.

" Doctor, could you give me a olfactory blocker. i don't think it will be good for the me to be distracted too much with, uhh..... you know what I mean."

She chuckled as she filled the hypospray again and administered it. “There you go Leo, now keep your mind on work and not on them.” She said with a nod towards the slave girls.

Billi kept to herself and quiet as they moved along, scanning those that they came across. It was best she didn’t get sidetracked on this mission, having to keep half her attention on the men in the group.

They were rejoined by Matt and his team. Matt had managed to take some scans of the Orions they had come across and was going to leave them with Billi before moving off again.

"Actually, why don't you take Doctor Eviston here so that she may scan the Orion with her medical tricorder. It shall provide us with more information on what these Orions may be carrying. Mr. Pudlo and I will meet up with the Counselor and Lieutenant Potter." The Lt. Col. Spoke up.

Billi and Matt moved off a short time later, the scans that Matt had given her being downloaded into her own tricorder.

<tag Matt, Zhuk, or whomever>

[billi]

(off mission post for Rin)

[Somewhere in space, near the Jefferson]

Rin stirred, groaning as she sat up. It took her a few minutes to figure out where she was. She found herself back in her shuttle.

(Four hours before)

“You know that she will think we are her parents,” the Trill woman said placing a drugged Rin on the floor of her shuttle.

“Have you finished the trajectory?” the woman asked anxious.

“Yes, the shuttle will make it back to the Jefferson, but I won’t make to easy for her,” the man said as he short circuited the engines,” Good luck Rin Damis, you will need it.”

{Back to present time}

Rin rubbed the back of her neck, the small lump where they’d injected her with the sleep agent and the tracking device almost invisible. She muttered as she ran her fingers over the controls to no avail. She had to get communications and her engines back up or she was going to remain sitting there .. forever. The events of the last hours, nothing more than a fleeting memory at the moment.

(On the Jefferson)

“Commander our sensors are reading a ship entering this system, its been damaged and life support will not last for long,” a young crewman reported from the operations console.

“Identify the ship,” the Commander ordered

“Sir it’s the Athena, Ambassador Damis shuttle,” the crewman reported.

“Contact Colonel Hrisvalar, inform him that we are going after the Ambassador and that we will be back shortly,” the Commander ordered.

Rin slumped to the deck of the shuttle as the blue beam of a transporter filled the cockpit. The next thing she felt were hands catching and lowering her to the deck.

She felt something being pressed against her neck and slowly the world around her grew light again and she could make out the faces of a medic and two security guards peering down at her.

"Ambassador Damis, we are from the Jefferson, we picked your shuttle on our sensors," the medic said checking her vitals," please don't try to get up. We will be transported shortly to the ship."

“What happened?” she whispered as she tried to rise against the orders of the medic, who pressed her back downward.

“That’s what we’re trying to find out ma’am. Please relax.” He said. The two guards were starting to go over the shuttles logs as the tug of a tractor beam was felt by all.

"All systems are failing, if we weren't in the sector I don't think the Ambassador would of survived," the security guard next to the helm console reported," it seems that all systems were purposely destroyed."

"Ambassador, I think it best if we get to the Jefferson," the medic said and activated his comm.

Rin struggled to her feet with the help of the medic. “Let’s go.” She said weakly. The mystery of the shuttle would have to wait until she was stronger.

The small group transported back to the Jefferson and the Shuttle was transported into one of the shuttle bays where it would be checked over with a fine tooth comb.

(OFF: Thank you to my evil counterpart for helping me with the post)

[Zhukarak Hrisvalar]

Zhukarak looked over his tricorder scans of the lizard. Visually it was blue with white stripes, furry, and about 30cm long. The preliminary readings matched those that Starfleet had sent along.

"This seems to be a genuine Tellarian lizard. That means this Orion crew knows where it came from."

Zhuk turned towards the exit to go speak to the Orion that was just outside of this room.

"That's a Tellarian Lizard back in that room. Mind telling me where you got it from?"

The Orion grasped at his stomach and let out a cough. "I can't do that. If more find out, we would lose on the majority of the profits...*cough-cough*..."

Zhuk understood the logic, it was a first come first served type of business. He couldn't force the information out of him, but he knew what he could offer.

"It seems that you and your crew have come down with some sort of an affliction. If we can help you, will you tell us where we can find the origin of these creatures, Tellarus?"

"You'll have to clear that with Radmin, but I think him to be a reasonable man. We have been getting sicker by the day. There are many more of us that are normally present for the sales of our merchandise, but they have remained in their quarters as they have become more ill."

Zhukarak tapped his comm badge.

"Doctor Eviston, your assistance is needed."

=/\=
On my way, sir!
=/\=

The Orion then slumped over. Zhuk was able to catch him before he hit the floor. Doctor Eviston arrived on the scene and immediately began her medical scans.

[cptjeff]

Jeff, meanwhile, was inspecting the cage.

"standard wire cage, nothing special, except.." Jeff mumbled to himself. "what's that for?" His tricorder was reading a mesh net stretched from the openings. It was only a few molecules thick, but was pretty strong. He motioned for Potter to come over.

"Lt, do you thing that this thing might be a security risk?" he asked the marine, then shared his findings. "It doesn't look like anything special, but The mesh makes me think that it might b3e harder to contain and control then they would have us believe."

<potter>

[gracemitchell]

Josh looked at Grace, she nodded, and Josh went through the door. He found that the room had three occupants, two of which were humanoid. The third looked to be some kind of hairy reptile. Josh nodded back at Grace and she came in.

"Hello! Is that for sale?" Grace asked indicating with a open hand the lizard.

The first Orion spoke "Why no. I was planning on breeding this with another one to help increase our profits at a later date.

"What kind of lizard is that? I don't believe I've ever seen one like it." Grace asked.

"This is a Tellarian Lizard, but they are hard to come by. This ship is the only one that I know of that has them." The trader/breeder said.

"Where else on this ship could we go to purchase one of those magnificent lizards?" Grace asked.

Every question Grace asked she seem to be inching backward away from the lizard, Owen noticed. He gave a small smile, he remembered that Grace was afraid of lizards. Owen considered taking over the conversation but decided since Grace had started it she should finish it. He had to give her credit for sticking with despite her aversion to the creatures.

The trader took Grace's questions to the extreme thinking she really wanted one and the trader also thought that if he sent a customer to Mhlma, Mhlma would be more willing to breed his Tellarian lizard with his. "Yes. If you go down this corridor then turn right at the fourth corridor, you should find another trader by the name of Mhlma. I think he has some for sale. Tell him Weew sent you."

"Thank you! I appreciate this. The lizard is exactly something my nephew would like for a birthday present." Grace said, then the three of them left to go see the other trader, Mhlma.

[billi]

Rin had finally been released from sickbay and was itching to join the others. She headed for her quarters after contacting the CO on the surface. She hoped he’d give her the ok to join them and with that thought hopped into the shower.

It didn’t take her long before she was a whole new person, the previous events forgotten, just like they were supposed to be.

=^=Transporter Room to Ambassador Damis =^=

=^= Go ahead =^=

=^= If your ready, you can transport to the Orion ship, the Captain has just given his okay. =^=

=/\= On my way =/\=

Rin replied, she smiled at how quickly she was able to rejoin her friends. A few minutes later she stood on the transporter pad of the ship. Her mind turned towards the work at hand.

"Transporting now," Kristin said as the Ambassador vanished into a million little pieces.

Rin appeared near where the CO was standing, and after taking a quick look around joined him.

<tag Zhuk>

[Matthew Reynolds]

Scene: Orion Trading Vessel Sulib

"Actually, why don't you take Doctor Eviston here so that she may scan the Orion with her medical tricorder. It shall provide us with more information on what these Orions may be carrying. Mr. Pudlo and I will meet up with the Counselor and Lieutenant Potter."

“Understood,” Matt said as he moved closer to Billi. She was already getting her equipment ready. “Come on, the Orion is this way.”

Billi picked up her tricorder and nodded to Matt. “Let’s go. “ The dragon which hovered all but invisible on her shoulder was agitated to say the least but Billi was able to keep her calm and not share her agitation. “I hope we’re able to get to the bottom of this Matt.” She said as he joined her.

"Yeah, I have never seen someone so big fall like that," Matt said," he was alright one second, and then he just fell down." It was very unsettleing for him, but he just had to realize that the littlest things in the universe could kill them all.

"This is who I was talking about," Matt said as he looked at the Orion on the floor."

Billi walked with Matt and knelt beside the stricken Orion, running her tricorder over them. “Have any of the others shown any symptoms Matt?” She looked around, taking stock of where they were. “What about our own teams? How are they?”

"I haven't seen any other Orions, and everyone else is normal," Matt said," well expect some of the guys. Is there anything that I can do to help you?"

“We have to figure out what is making this one ill, and make sure it isn’t contagious. Do we know anything more than what we were told in the briefing and what we heard here?” she asked while continuing her examination of the Orion.

"Can we do that with the stuff you have here, I think the only we can help them is if the Captain of this ship allows us to take them to the Jefferson," Matt said," but then again they might be contagious."

"Doctor Eviston, your assistance is needed."

"Billi, go, I can try to help him here, and I will keep the scans going," Matt said.

Billi shook her head. “Now what?” she stood, brushed off her uniform and tapped her combadge. =/\= I’m on my way Sir. =/\=

“Matt, just keep him comfortable and I’ll be back as soon as possible.” She said before heading off back to where the CO and the others were.

OOC: JP between me and Doctor Eviston. Oh and hopefully I'm back to full active duty.

[Zhukarak Hrisvalar]

While awaiting Doctor Eviston's arrival, someone else appeared within a familiar shimmer of blue.

"Ah, Ambassador Damis, glad that you could join us once more. I trust that your excursion went well?"

The ambassador noted the note of sarcasm in Zhukarak, which was exactly what he had wanted. He had no control over ambassadors of their comings and goings, under normal circumstances, but he did like to be informed.

"That it did, Captain." That was all she answered on that subject. Zhuk couldn't quite tell if she was truthful or not, but it didn't matter at the moment.

"Ambassador, the Orions are afflicted with something making them terribly ill. It seems to have only affected their species."

Just then Doctor Eviston walked in. "Over there doctor." Zhuk indicated the to the collapsed trader, where she went to work.

He continued on with the ambassador. "I'm hoping that we can help these people, we'll have to wait on Eviston's diagnosis. What I need from you is to speak with Captain Radmin and convince him to give us the location of Tellarus, where these lizards are from, in exchange for our medical help."

Ambassador Damis looked down at the collapsed trader and at Doctor Eviston in expectation. "I shall see what I can do."

Zhuk also turned toward Eviston for a status report. After she had briefed Zhukarak, Captain Radmin appeared. Rin went to work in her diplomatic splendor.