Going in for the Kill (part 1)

Posted on Mon Feb 3rd, 2020 @ 11:13am by Captain T'mpest Michaels & Lieutenant Commander Orin ch’Valri & Lieutenant Commander Morai Keen & Lieutenant JG Jeff Butler & Chief Petty Officer Adriana Keen & Master Chief Petty Officer John 'Disaster-piece' Douglas & Chief Petty Officer Jack 'Crow' Addy
Edited on on Sun Mar 29th, 2020 @ 9:50am

1,245 words; about a 6 minute read

Mission: Repairs and Relaxation
Location: Various
Timeline: En Route to the Starbase (BACKPOST)

ON:

[Guest quarters]

After completing the LZT or lung destroyer, Mister Cozar smiled as he observed the container that was ready to be used. He carefully placed a mask over his face before he opened another container that had the alive virus that he has created. Pulling out the clear glass vial, he used his gloves to transfer it to the built LZT container and closed it.

Hans went over the plans in his head. Enter through sickbay with a duffel bag. Say I was on the holodeck and hurt my ankle. Doctor will have me sit on the biobed. When the doctor turns to go get something, take out the LZT and throw it hard on the floor will break the vial inside the container which will spray a fog into the air. It will release the virus. I will hold my breath to watch him clutch his throat and drop dead before the virus gets me.

He removed his gloves and mask. He spoke in German with anger, "My wife's revenge!"

Seeing his bag near his bed, Hans picked it up and carefully placed the LZT between a couple of clothes so that it would be nearly secure. At a mirror, he combed his hair and put on a brown, fake mustache that stuck to his upper lip to help disguise him more. Just in case, he nodded to himself.

Taking a deep breath, he picked up the duffel bag and carefully put the strap on his shoulder and walked with an ease out of his quarters into the corridor, joining a few people walking by but kept a short distance with others in front of him. He was not in a hurry. Nice and easy, he reminded himself.

As he rounded a corner, he bumped into a young woman. Or at least he thought he did, as the holographic image went straight through him. She turned around and said "Oh, my apologies, I didn't see you there!" As she did a curtsy.

[Intel]

With the information from the doctor, it took a relatively short time to find who she was looking for. Relatively short by intel standards. Ra helped a lot. Finally, Miral had three names. Only one of them was similar to an engineer that joined the Ranger shortly before it left the last starbase.

Miral tapped her combadge. "Rami to ch'Valri and Michaels, I think I found the assailant."

T'mpest was in her ready room, going over the list of needed repairs. When she heard the message, she set down her PADD. "Well done. Send me the information."

"Yes, ma'am. After that, I'll go to sickbay to let them know."

A moment later, the data appeared on T'mpest's screen. "Computer, where is Hans Cozar?"

"Hans Cozar is in sickbay."

She tapped her combadge. "Michaels to security, meet Miral in sickbay." Then she headed out the door to see how she could help.

Unfortunately, she didn't get very far before another minor incident required her attention.

{Sickbay]

Jack looked over to John and nodded his head. With a smile on his face he began to walk down the corridor toward sickbay. "This is crazy." Jack said softly, his hand on his phaser holster.

"I thought you enjoyed crazy?" John said softly.

"I enjoy my crazy. Not someone else's crazy. We got a bunch of ways to deal with stuff like this. Why are we listening to that Intel chick? Letting her on our shuttle and play with our toys." Jack said as they turned a corner.

John shook his head, smirking slightly. "It's a good play, Crow. You just don't like it because its not something we planned out. As a unit." He stopped a few doors away from the sickbay and leaned against a wall facing a console that reflected the doors of the sickbay from a distance. He tapped his combadge and softly said. "Douglas to Ra. Me and Bird Man are in position."

Jack took his position, by John, and leaned over to him. He whispered. "We should toss the bad guy in the brig, followed by the Doc for starting this whole mess. That's my vote."

"It's been your vote since we got pulled in. Relax. We got this." John replied, keeping his eyes on the reflection. "Awaiting instructions, Ra. Give us a green."

[Near Sickbay]

Hans shook his head wondering why a woman appeared to go through him. She disappeared down the corridor. Sweat was beginning to perspire on his forehead as he gripped the bag closer to his body. Thankfully that it didn't fall off his shoulder, or otherwise the LZT would release the deadly virus.

He turned and kept walking with an ease as if everything is fine.

Seeing the sickbay doors ahead of him, Hans noted no security placed outside the door. Thank goodness, he thought as he made a move towards it. Just as he got closer to the doors, he began to walk with a limp to his right foot, pretending that his ankle hurts.

"John to Ra. We have visual." John replied softly, narrowing his eyes a bit.

Jack looked to the console and watched. It was time to punch in. He removed his phaser from its holster and gave John a nudge. A nudge that signaled he was ready to move on him. "Let's get this dirtbag, D."

Hans thought he was seeing commotion behind him just as the sickbay doors opened. Maybe it was his imagination, or was it? He shrugged the thought as he found the doctor talking to a Caitian species laying on a biobed. He felt the anger boiling for a minute as he limped towards a nearby biobed, keeping his eyes on Doctor Butler.

A woman dressed in a nurse's uniform walked in from the back area. "Here's the report you asked for, doctor," she said, handing him a PADD.

"Thank you, nurse," Emma/Doctor Butler said, accepting the PADD. A flickering appeared in the right hand and the object fell to the floor. "Unusual that my...my...my," the hologram appearance was beginning to fade in and out. "coori-n-nation seems to..." Emma/ Butler tried an internal check of the systems that were taxed from the extended operations. "It is a long day." SHe had internal commands to drop the bottom of the shoes fade out as EMMA stood and no one should notice and that little bit was helping to give some solidity to her, but EMMA wonder if the illusion and added programming would allow her continued operation. In those nano seconds she ran programs trying to figure what could be dumped to allow continued operation; the Doctor's personality matrix was allowing for false information; the calculations were clashing...



"Doctor!" The nurse picked up the PADD. "Are you okay?

Hans was about to get on the biobed as he kept the bag close to his body. Seeing the doctor's strange appearance, he realized that it was a hologram. My plan is ruined, he thought. His emitter, the one that is used to tweak the holodeck programs, was left in his duffel bag with the LZT. He forgot that he had it with him.

(To be continued...)

Hans Cozer
Engineer

Lieutenant JG Rami Miral "Nurse"
Intelligence Officer

Captain T'mpest Michaels
Commanding Officer

EMMA
EMH

MCPO John "Disasterpiece" Douglas
Master-at-Arms

CPO Jack "Crow" Addy
Tactical Officer

 

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