Much To Do
Posted on Tue Dec 28th, 2010 @ 4:26am by Lieutenant Alessandro Reynaldi
751 words; about a 4 minute read
Mission: Looking for the Future in all the Wrong Places
Lieutenant Reynaldi and a team of three engineers entered the Shuttlebay quickly. They'd just gotten orders to go over to the Archimedes and provide assistance. He wasn't sure why they weren't transporting over, but he decided it wasn't important enough to question before.
The team walked up to the designated shuttle where they greeted the medical team that was coming along.
Doctor Alicton and his team were waiting for them. "Why the hell aren't we beaming over there? Wasting our time with this shuttle stuff if you ask me." Alicton said to Zhukov.
Zhukov shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know, doctor. Just following the Captain's orders." he replied to the Acting Chief Medical Officer. "She must have had a good reason." he told Alicton.
"Really? I wonder what it was." the doctor replied sarcastically. "There are certainly injured people over there who need immediate medical assistance. And instead of transporting over, we have to resort to 400 year old transportation technology and take a shuttle." the doctor said, in obvious displeasure.
Zhukov sighed. "Well, doctor, all I can tell you is that the faster you actually get IN the shuttle, the faster we can get to the Archimedes." said Vladimir. He poked his head inside the craft for a moment and said, "Chief Watson, begin pre-launch procedure."
The doctor nodded and took a deep breath before walking past Zhukov to get on the shuttle with his medical kit in hand.
Zhukov looked at Reynaldi. "Chief, you and your men care to join us?" he asked Alessandro with a smile. It was somewhat of a rhetorical question. Zhukov knew that they were there to accompany him.
Alex motioned the other engineers into the shuttle before himself, then we entered and took a seat. "I was wondering why she sent us in a shuttle myself." He said rather absent-mindedly.
Zhukov shrugged his shoulders. "Honestly," he whispered to Reynaldi, "I don't know either, but I'm not about to give the doctor anything to jabber on about if you know what I mean." he said quietly.
Alex nodded as he took a seat. "I agree. I don't feel like strangling anyone today." He was only half serious when he said it but you couldn't tell by listening to him.
Within a few minutes, the doors to the shuttlebay had opened and Zhukov was quickly flying from the Ranger to the damaged Archimedes. One thing was for sure, from the cantage point of a shuttlecraft, you could easily see the damaged areas on the Archimedes and where she was in need of the most attention from the Engineering staff.
The craft flew into the shuttlebay and landed. "All ashore that's going ashore." Zhukov said with a smile as he turned in his seat and watched the Engineering team exit first, followed by Dr. Alicton and a nurse.
"I wonder if they've even got a sickbay left." the doctor said as he walked off the shuttle. "Place looks like the Borg came through." he said to the nurse. All she did was nod. She had learned not to encourage Alicton as well.
"No greeting party?" Zhukov said as he and Chief Watson followed the doctor down the shuttlecraft ramp and onto the deck.
"With all this damage, it's no wonder there is anyone left aboard." said Alicton as he looked around.
Zhukov took a deep breath. He was senior officer present so it was up to him to make assignments.
"Alright, Lieutenant Reynaldi, take your Engineering teams and head towards Main Engineering. Doctor, I think you should try to report to Sickbay. Chief Watson and I will head for the bridge." said Zhukov.
Alicton nodded. "Hope I can find the Sickbay before I get sucked out into space." he said sarcastically.
This man was starting to annoy him. He possesed one of Alex's biggest pet peaves...sarcasm. "Alright, Alecson we get it. The ship is damaged. Best keep your mind on saving the little crew that's left, eh?" He said, his Italian accent sharpining his annoyed voice.
Zhukov nodded as he and Chief Watson headed towards the doors leading into the interior of the ship. There was clearly a lot of work that had to be done before the ship was ready to travel again. The key question was, how long ago had they lost the device and how were they going to get it back?
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Lieutenant Commander Vladimir Zhukov
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Lieutenant Alessandro Reynaldi
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Lieutenant JG Henry Alicton, M.D.
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