Mission 001: The Only True Freedom

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As Parsons came to, he wasn't sure what had happened or what was happening. The last thing he remembered was entering the lab with the science team. Now his head was foggy and he was lying on the floor, barely able to move. Medics were moving around the room treating the science staff.

Parsons tried to get up and fell back. One of the medics noticed the XO and moved to his side.

The medic explained that the ship was under attack and administered a hypospray before moving on to the next patient.

After being treated with the hypospray, Adam leaned back on the floor as his head began slowly to clear.

Parsons rose with the assistance of a console and asked the medics for the Captain's location. They ignored him and moved around the room treating the other crew members. Adam grabbed one of them by the arm as hurried by and repeated his query, "I said, where is the Captain?"

"I don't know, Sir," was the response.

"Parsons to bridge."

<TAG Commander Matthew>

[Tiana Galwyn Cet]

Tiana wasn't really surprised when the Captain turned up in her lab but with the following arrivals it was starting to get a bit crowded. Still when the Captain gestured to her indicating that she should keep Tenao occupied she intercepted the newest arrival and led him towards the main workstation.

"Welcome to the Enzio's main science lab. As you can see" She paused and gestured to the screens as you can see all the data we have gathered so far is available here. Is there anything you can add to it? Is there anything you need?"

Tag: Tenao

It was strange, the starfleet officer part of Tiana was very twitchy about having Tenao in her lab but the scientist in her was curious and said that the risk was most definitely worth it to gain information. Cet was even more aware of the risks than Tiana but understood that sometimes risks were necessary. It was an uncomfortable accord at the moment but things were progressing.

[James T Matthew]

Scene: USS ENZIO: MAIN Bridge

“Another volley of heavy fire hit the ship and although the shields where holding, it made the ship shudder. Cmdr Matthew spitted some blood out and wiped the sweat off his face and hands. Some Debris had hit him in the shoulder and head causing small bruises and some scars”

"Status report!" Barked Matthew”.

Lt, Cmdr Tully blinked her eyes and wiped a string of hair from her face "Shields down to 57 %, weapon systems down to 87 %. There is minimal structural damage to upper
decks, no hull breaches reported, no deadly casualties and some injuries."

The ENZIO bucked again as a new impact hit the shields "Shields down to 48 %,
hull breach in deck 12, emergency force fields holding." Matthew looked grim as
she read the incoming damage reports, things where starting to look ugly...

“Cmdr Matthew “Tactical Vector in on the last direction of that last Torpedo and fire manually “

“I have the coordinate Tyner nodded and her fingers trailed the tactical screens to adjust the fire pattern. Firing “

Tyner All torpedoes Hit there mark “

Cmdr Matthew “Helm full revise Take us out of Weapons range “

“Tyner “You Mean Attack don’t you sir “

“Cmdr Matthew straightened himself in Center chair No Lieutenant” our sensors are Down we have no idea just how bad they are hurt And the ENZIO is a mess”

“Ensign Barr” sir we have Hull breaches on decks three and five, emergency doors and shields holding.” Lt Carver tapped some keys and checked the reports “Several dead, more wounded. Shields down to 83 % and holding.”

“Status of our position and weapons?”

Moore coughed and wiped the tears out her eyes. A console had bursted out in flames just next to her and the smoke was stinging her eyes. “We’re holding position just out of range with the one of our ventral phasors is off line, but we still can do the job!”


“Parsons rose with the assistance of a console and asked the medics for the Captain's location. They ignored him and moved around the room treating the other crew members. Adam grabbed one of them by the arm as hurried by and repeated his query, "I said, where is the Captain?"

"I don't know, Sir," was the response.

"Parsons to bridge."
“Bridge Here Cmdr Matthew “

“Our Status Commander that first Torpedo Hit tuck out our sensors our "Shields down to 57 %, weapon systems down to 87 %. There is minimal structural damage to upper
decks, no hull breaches reported, no deadly casualties and some injuries."

I ordered the Enemy ship to be targeted manually and fire four torpedoes hitting the main ship then moved the ship out of weapons ranges to complete repairs the last Known Location of the Captain was on Deck 5 Near the main Science Lab will keep you up to Date on the repairs Commander Bridge out.

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"Thank you Commander, Parsons out."

"Parsons to Security ... Security teams to Deck 5. Locate the Captain." The XO then stumbled to around the science lab looking for any sign of the Captain. Not seeing any, Adam made his way to the nearest turbolift. He staggered inside, "Bridge."

The turbolift responded and Adam tried to regain his bearing while the lift shot up to the bridge. The door swooshed open to a swirl of activity. Status reports were coming in from all over the ship and Commander Matthew was barking orders.

Steadying himself on the bulkhead beyond the turbolift, Parsons looked toward Matthew, "Ship's status?"

<TAG Matthew>

"Has the Captain been located?"

<TAG Matthew>

[Gheskori]

The corridor around Ghes shook momentarily, and he had to steady himself against a doorframe to prevent from falling to the floor. Such a disturbance was unmistakable; the ship must've been fired upon.

His hand went to his commbadge but stopped short of tapping it. He'd seen a flash of movement, an aberration of the norm in the junction ahead. With Saryn accompanying him - ghosting along the other wall of the corridor - he'd gone in search of Tenao after the latter's flight from the science lab. The plan was to intercept their unwanted guest's rendezvous with the rest of his team, to hopefully catch all the intruders in a pincer movement in coordination with Vin Wolf's security.

While Ghes desperately wanted to communicate with the bridge in order to discover who was firing on his ship, he also needed to maintain silence, if Tenao and co. were indeed up ahead. He didn't have to wait to find out.

A lancing bolt of energy streaked past him, pounding into the curving wall behind and fizzing out with a crack of burnt duranium. More shots burst out in quick succession, Ghes diving into a sub-junction in search of better cover. He looked over to Saryn, seeing the vulcan and his son likewise taking cover.

How'd they get weapons?! he thought.

The shots continued to lance past, singing the surfaces and leaving diffuse black marks across the Enzio's newly-moulded wall plating. Having not a phaser between them wasn't helping; all they could do was sit and take the fire, and then retreat where they could. Ghes couldn't help it, "Bridge, this is the Captain, who has engaged us?"

<Tag Parsons, Matthew - up to you guys, Breen or the locals >

"I'm on deck 5, four sections away from the primary science lab. The intruders are nearby. Lock on to their biosigns and beam them directly to the brig."

"... I'm sorry, sir," Ghes heard the on-duty tactical officer's voice, "I can't get a lock. It appears that Tenao and his colleagues are shifting slightly in and out of phase... I'll keep trying."

Just as the officer finished, the ship shook again, this time much more violently. Ghes was thrown off his feet by the vibrations - like the worse earthquake he'd ever experienced, or at least close to it. Unlike that other time, however - when he and his wife had been at the mercy of Denobula's violent tectonics - he was now close to a bulkhead. Without knowing it he was slammed forehead first into it; he fell, and for a moment lay there dazed, before the urgency of the situation took over and once more forced him into action.

Dragging himself up, he found Tenao and three others slumped against the far wall, themselves slowly recovering from the blast. Gheskori didn't waste the opportunity. He summoned up as much strength as he could and charged at the hunched form of Tenao, pounding him back into the wall. Before the stunned alien could react further, Ghes struck the man hard around the head. He went down, clearly out cold.

Ghes drew deep breaths, run ragged by the instant need for violence. He sunk to his knees to recover. It was then that he observed in wonder the unusual patterning across Tenao's body. The man's unconscious form seemed to shimmer, reflecting incident light that wasn't there. Light's twinkled every colour across his body, and then to Ghes's surprise the man's form disappeared completely. Not a sound.

His fellows had gone too. The phase... Ghes realised, and he shuffled forward to where Tenao's body must've lay. Then a curious sound filled the corridor, something akin to a transporter, and Ghes found nothing in the space. Saryn appeared from around the corner, seeing Ghes sweeping his hand back and forth in the space Tenao had just occupied. Ghes looked up, "Return to sickbay and treat the injured science staff," he ordered, then tapped his commbadge, "Ensign Wolf, return to the bridge. The intruders are gone."

Again the ship shook, and after standing and steadying himself against the wall, Ghes took off for the bridge.

<Tag all one last time - lets deal with our attackers and make our report to Starfleet.>

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Ghes looked over at Saryn and Savin, both standing impassively but surely with a sense of shock. He exchanged glances with them and signalled Parsons and the downed science staff. "Check them. Unconscious or worse?"

Saryn need not be told twice and knelt down to the people on the deck, quickly checking their vitals. “Unconscious,” he stated impassively, before moving on to the next. Beside him Savin did the same and reported one critically wounded and one dying. To be merciful, the young Vulcan swiftly broke his neck, ending the crewman's suffering then and there as he was beyond help. He glanced back at his father, knowing the man had seen him do it, but there was no regret in Savin's bearing, none whatsoever.

The two Vulcans quickly made their way past all that had fallen, ushering those that were able to move out of the way, sending some to sickbay with their wounded comrades. “Go with them,” Saryn ordered his son, casting him a stoic glance that indicated he tolerated no discussion on this. He would have words with the child later.

Once Savin was gone, the doctor went back to Gheskori to make his report. He himself was minorly injured in the attack, but the scrapes on his cheek were hardly noteworthy and the pain in his shoulder was easily controlled and banished to the back of his conscious mind. As Gheskori started to hurry away, Saryn sped after him, reasoning there might also be injured on the bridge.

As they entered a turbolift, Saryn pressed his captain against the wall, staring intently at him for a moment. He made no skin-contact and made no effort to otherwise touch him, it was merely a visual once-over. “Are you injured?” he finally asked, when visually he could detect nothing.

[James T Matthew]

Scene: MAIN ENGINEERING

“Lt, Masterson picked himself up off the Deck looking over at the Main Engineering LCARS Board Flashing ok Everyone let to back to work Jonson Dispatch repair teams to deck 3-4-6 and start Emergency repairs ‘

“Masterson Walk over to a Service Cabinet to get his engineering kit... Masterson Thinking to him self What a Mess ok guy’s let get the ship Propulsion and Ship sensors Back online you can fright if you can’t see or move.


Scene: MAIN BRIDGE

“OPS Station Lt Kellogg sitting at the Operations console and her fingers
flew across the work station, pulling up a quick report of the activity that
had been going on. She paused for a moment, looking over the report and
trying to think of the best place starting point. Sir” Engineering has the Engines back online as well as Ship Sensors “

“Cmdr Matthew Scan for the ship That Attack us “

“Lt, Kellogg Sir without a Doubt Breen Energy weapon”

“Cmdr Matthew That why all of the ship System’s went off line “

“Status of the been Ship “

“SEC/Tact officer Enemy Ship holding Station Just out of Weapon range our Last Torpedoes hit did a lot of Damage is reading very little Energy from them.

“Ensign Roselyn checking through sensor readings and then looked toward Cmdr Matthew,
“Sir, there no readings of an energy field or subspace
distortion. Near the Been Ship Though there are minor subspace fluctuations, I don’t detect any effect from that area. And the nav computer programs are accessible. But there engines are not online at this time...

Captain Ches’s voice rang out,

Bridge, this is the Captain, who has engaged us?"


“Bridge “Here Cmdr Matthew Captain our sensors just came back on line from what we have been able to find out our Attacker are Breen they hit us with an Energy Damping Weapon Knocking all of our Ship system’s off line for a while but most of our Main Systems are back online Captain .

“We do Have Communications /Weapons /Targeting sensors/“Forward phasers /All Forward Torpedoes Tubes /propulsion /shields holding at 75%... Captain .we where able to get off Six Torpedoes we did a lot of Damage to them as well.

< Tag Ghes /Parsons >

[Tiana Galwyn Cet]

OOC: I guess I didn't read too carefully before I made my last post...

Tenao was actually being sort of helpful. There had been nothing planet shattering in the data that had been provided so far but they were making progress.

Suddenly Tiana noticed a spike on the internal scanners. Then there was a sting sensation the back of her neck and everything greyed out.

She groaned opening her eyes and then wished she hadn't. Tiana promptly closed her eyes again and waited for the nausea to pass. She hadn't had a headache like this since the morning after her viva celebrations. She took a slow deep breath and then gradually cracked her eyes open. She was in sickbay. She had been knocked out. She sat up slowly, and was grateful when the room didn't start orbiting around her. She noted several members of her staff on biobeds. A nurse hurried to her side.

"How are they?" Tiana asked. The nurse frowned her gaze flicked from the other patients to the monitors on Tiana's biobed.

"They'll recover. How are you feeling?"

"A bit dizzy," Tiana admitted honestly. "I've been worse. Can I get back to work? I was attacked in my own lab and I have to get back there." Tiana realised that that statment had sounded better in her head but it was too late to do anything about it now. The nurse frowned. Clearly she wanted to run further tests.

Tiana rubbed the back of her neck. She remembered the sting although there was no mark there now.

"I don't think I can clear you yet. You said you were dizzy and we still don't know exactly what they did to you." The look in the nurse's eyes suggested that she at least did not know who they were.

Tiana was about to protest when the deck trembled beneath her feet. She knew that feeling all to well. Someone was attacking the Enzio. "I'm going to the bridge. I know I haven't been medically cleared but I'm the only senior member of the science staff who's on their feet at the moment and I think I'm going to be needed."

Tiana turned on her heel and left. She noted the nurse did not try to stop her. She knew she was risking her health but the ship was more important. She wanted to be a good patient but she was relieved that she didn't have to fight her way out of sickbay this time.

She made it to the bridge in record time and took the vacant science station, she noted the Captain's absence. It was the Breen. She'd read the reports from the Dominion war and even done some side projects trying to understand their weaponry. Particularly the energy dampening beam. She had only just made it off the turbo lift before it had struck. The lights flickered back into life along with her feeds from the sensors.
The Captain's voice cam over the comm asking for a status report
“Bridge Here" Cmdr Matthew said, "Captain our sensors just came back on line from what we have been able to find out our Attacker are Breen they hit us with an Energy Damping Weapon Knocking all of our Ship system’s off line for a while but most of our Main Systems are back online Captain .

“We do Have Communications /Weapons /Targeting sensors/“Forward phasers /All Forward Torpedoes Tubes /propulsion /shields holding at 75%... Captain .we where able to get off Six Torpedoes we did a lot of Damage to them as well."
Tiana interrupted before the Captain could reply.

"Commander Galwyn here sir, I've got a read on energy signature and frequency of that energy dampening beam and I should be able to retune the shields to absorb another blast. It'll drain the sheilds but the rest of the ship unaffected. Do I have your permission to go ahead, sir."

Tag: Ghes

[Gheskori]

OOC: Ok, a little shifting around of my tags to make things work..

Ghes was opening his mouth to reply to Commander Matthew's report when a voice he was very glad to hear cut in before him.

"Commander Galwyn here sir, I've got a read on energy signature and frequency of that energy dampening beam and I should be able to retune the shields to absorb another blast. It'll drain the sheilds but the rest of the ship unaffected. Do I have your permission to go ahead, sir."

"You certainly do, Commander," he replied, "And good to hear your voice; I'm pleased you're back on your feet."

<Tag Galwyn>

A curling smile augmented the edge of Ghes's mouth as the channel closed. He'd last seen Tiana in the science lab, rendered unconscious by Tenao's attack. It was good to know she was safe, and he hoped to have not lost many of the other science staff.

A vulcan physician appeared from around the final corner of the corridor en route to the turbolift, and Ghes nodded in acknowledgement of his presence as they both stepped in, before ordering for the bridge and looking at the vulcan. "Saryn," he nodded, "I take it your son has gone to sickbay. It's good you're here, we've come under attack from the Breen if you did not know."

Saryn had been passive thus far but now seemed somewhat concerned for Ghes's well-being, stepping close and backing the Captain towards the wall of the turbolift. Ghes felt slightly uncomfortable as he was pressed to the wall; Denobulans disliked physical contact with non-intimates as a rule; he thought it was the same with vulcans. "Are you injured?" Saryn asked.

Ghes smiled. "Nothing I can't cope with for the next hour or so."

The doors to the bridge swept open and both Denobulan and Vulcan exited the lift. Ghes instantly stepped down to the command area while Saryn peeled to the left, to deal with two downed officers sprawled out next to the shockingly charred Mission Ops console.

"Good to see you back on your feet Commander Parsons," Ghes addressed his XO with a friendly smile. His crew were back in the game. "Report."

<Tag Parsons>

The shaking from energy-dampened weapons fire had decreased, leading to Ghes to surmise that Tiana's shield modulation had had the desired effect. There were three warships, harrassing the Enzio in large strafing runs. Freedom for manoeuvreability had dramatically increased now that the Enzio had moved out of the choking nebula; the Breen were taking full advantage.

Ghes took his chair and drew in a breath. "Commander Matthew, take tactical," he ordered, having seen that Vin Wolf had yet to return to the bridge and wanting a more experienced officer manning the weapons. "Fire on the lead warship; target engines and weapons. The more we fire - "

"Sir," the tactical officer interjected, and Ghes cocked his head; he was surprised and slightly amused that the junior officer would attempt to question his orders while on the bridge, but that turned out to not be the man's reason for speaking. "I'm detecting a new ship on sensors... It's the USS Crozet."

Ghes started, and turned sharply to the viewscreen as Commander Matthew instantly put the new arrival up on full magnification. Sure enough, a gleaming arrow of a Federation starship was displayed there, shooting to the rescue. "Surely not...?" the Denobulan asked.

Mission ended ....

The thread will be left open so you can respond to your tags if you wish. The rest may post on the newly created shore leave thread. Thank you all for an enjoyable mission!

[Tiana Galwyn Cet]

When the Captain gave her the go ahead Tiana implemented her changes. She had simply thanked him for his concern about her and hadn't mentioned that she had left sickbay in a bit of a hurry without being completely cleared.

Ghes made it back to the bridge, Tiana had looked around when he entered, she hadn't really registered how much damage had been done to the bridge. The energuy draining weapon was fired again and an eerie thrumming was set off through the Enzio's decks the shield's dipped by about 10% of their remaining intensity but they held. Tiana allowed herself a smile as she worked to refine her changes.

"I'm detecting a new ship on sensors... It's the USS Crozet."
Ghes started, and turned sharply to the viewscreen as Commander Matthew instantly put the new arrival up on full magnification. Sure enough, a gleaming arrow of a Federation starship was displayed there, shooting to the rescue. "Surely not...?" the Denobulan asked.


Relief flowed through Tiana, she suddenly felt tired, no not tired exhausted, and a headache throbbed into being. She blinked a couple of times and then when her vision had settled again she sent the details of her shield modifications to the Crozet. She was leaning more on her station than she would admit to but so far there had been no word from sickbay that any member of staff who could take over from her had been released therefore she was here as long as she was needed.