The Boneyard Pt4

Posted on Thu Jun 8th, 2017 @ 8:45pm by Commander Jonathan Roebuck IV & Colonel Danny Lennox & Lieutenant Nick Archer & Master Chief Petty Officer Mark Branson & First Ramata`tar & Captain Andre DaSilvor & Brigadier General David Hurd Sr & Captain Jack Solomon & Lieutenant Commander Croesus & Major Patrick McMichaels & Major Edward Maxwell & Commander Hades,MD & Commander Dalenna Coolidge - DaSilvor & Lieutenant Zhao Quan & Lieutenant David Hurd Jr & 1st Lieutenant David Henry & 1st Lieutenant Jericho Alexander & 1st Lieutenant Klaus Gunther & Sergeant Calthier & Lieutenant Thomas Locke & Lieutenant Ariel Gilmore & Lieutenant Catherine Mclintock & Lieutenant JG Dye Heron & Lieutenant JG Marshall Robinson & Ensign Brandy Ragen

2,208 words; about a 11 minute read

Mission: Episode 94 - Return to Rashanar
Location: Various Ships
Timeline: MD2 1515hrs, Following "The Boneyard Pt3"

ON:


Conqueror Bridge

The message from the Mercy came through and the comm officer relayed it to Andre. He paused to listen to the message then nodded back to the comm officer, "Make to the Kearsarge to stay with the Mercy. She's not a fighting ship and I don't want her being jumped. He then looked across at Lt Hurd, "What progress against the raiders, Lt?"

"The fight thus far is evenly matched, although one pirate vessel vessel is disabled sir".

"Okay, Lieutenant."

In the background Andre heard the comm officer hailing the Kearsarge, "Conqueror to Kearsarge.. Come in Kearsarge"


Kearsarge, Bridge

Roebuck looked over a PADD handed to him by Ramata'tar. "Good work First. Looks like all small arms from the Ranger have been recovered."

Ramta'tar nodded as he turned to face the screen. Ensign Krall then spoke up from Tactical, "We also managed to recover anything usable from their tactical and defensive systems. Anything left is debris or useless."

Before Roebuck could reply the comm beeped.

"Commander, message incoming from the Conqueror." Krall reported.

"On screen." Roebuck replied as he stood beside Ramata'tar. He's monitored the battle in progress but had kept the Kearsarge in position close to the Ark Royal and Mercy, he wondered if the incoming message was regarding that.

Andre appeared on the Kearsarge screen, "Commander. The Mercy is heading out to a distress call. I need you to stay with her. She is not a fighting ship, and I don't want her to be jumped by a raider. Contact the Ark Royal and tell them to retrieve their away parties and join us in the fight. These ships are proving harder then expected to put down. We need to end this fight and get back to our mission."

Roebuck nodded, "Understood Captain, we've completed work on the USS Ranger, we'll alter course at once. Kearsarge out."

Roebuck glanced back at Krall, "Get a fix on the USS Mercy." He then looked down at Branson, "Chief, lay in a course to the Mercy's position."

"Aye sir." Branson replied as the tapped in commands.

"I have the Mercy on sensors Commander. They are approaching a scavenger ship that appears damaged. They look to be preparing to evacuate the survivors to the Mercy." Krall reported.

Roebuck tapped the comm button on the Flight Control console, "Kearsarge to Mercy, Doctor Thr'elanon or Doctor Hades please respond."

Hades had the coms activate the viewer. =/\=Hades here. Reading you loud and clear Kearsarge. Go ahead. =/\=


Kearsarge, Bridge

"Hold position until we arrive Doctor. I know you've received a distress call from a scavenger vessel, but we want to be close by to provide tactical support and security for you." Roebuck replied.

Branson glanced back, "Commander it'll take us a few minutes to rendezvous with the Mercy, they'll get to the scavenger vessel about two minutes before we do."

Roebuck nodded, then looked back at tactical. "Ensign Krall, keep a lock on both vessels and actively scan the scavengers, let them know we're watching."

Hades gave a nod. =/\= I'm converting Cargo bay 3 and putting up a field. I will hold until you are within range. Something doesn't feel right about this.=/\=


USS Mercy, Bridge

Hades looked to Matthews "Mr. Matthews, I want you to secure cargo bay 3 with a field. If we are bringing them aboard ....I don't want to have any incidents."

Hades did the math, 8 of them 5 injured and 3 not. Something in him worried that this was some sort of trap. "Coms keep trying to hail them. Mr. Matthews you look like you are holding something in. Speak freely."

Kevin had been heading to cargo bay 3 when Hades asked him the question. "It's of no matter, Doctor. The patients are our primary concern. I'll talk about later, Sir. Ummm if that's ok" he said, a bit ashamed then glanced at Sarah.

Hades smiled, "Secure that Cargo bay Mr. Matthews."

=/\=Cargo Bay 3 =/\=

Eviess was at Cargo bay three when Matthews go there. She looked around. "What the hell is going on?"

William looked at Eviess. "We've got casualties incoming. We'll need to secure this bay for triage" he said .

Something about this wasn't sitting right with Eviess. "Alright but something in my gut is not sitting well."

Back on the bridge Hades had welcomed the Kearsarge and informed them that they were going to start bringing aboard the injured. Just as he'd finished signaling another raider ship de-cloaked, fully armed. "Shields!" Hades called.


USS Kearsarge, Bridge

"Commander! A raider is decloaking, Dagger Class, looks like they're using stolen Romulan technology." Krall reported from Tactical.

Roebuck looked up at the screen, "Chief, take us in, attack pattern Beta-Two!"

"Commander, there's something amiss with that ship." Cole reported from Science, "Their life support is at only twelve percent. Weapons are offline. I'm also only picking up a crew of five instead of the standard crew of forty."

"Confirmed Commander, their weapons and shields are down." Krall added.

"First, take a security team over there, secure that ship." Roebuck said to Ramata'tar.

"It will be done." The Jem'Hadar replied as he walked toward the turbolift. The tall Capellan Ensign at Tactical followed as another Ensign took his place at Tactical and watched the sensors. Lieutenant Archer also followed as another Ensign took over the Operations Station.

A few minutes later Ramata’tar, Archer, and Krall were aboard the Dagger class Raider.

“Air is stale.” Archer said as he pulled his tricorder.

Ramata’tar looked around, phaser in hand while Krall accessed a wall panel. “Computer is offline, but we are outside their Bridge.”

“Open the door.” Ramata’tar ordered.

“I show four life signs in there, three are faint. I can’t find the fifth.” Archer said as he looked at his tricorder’s display.

A moment later, Krall found the door release and opened it. A disruptor beam shot out passed his head followed by a faint voice telling them to stay out.

“We’re here to help.” Archer called out.

“Put down your weapons, now.” Ramata’tar added in a tone of authority.

The three Starfleet Officers cautiously entered the Bridge. One of the Pirates raised his weapon again but Krall quickly stunned him with a phaser blast to the shoulder. Another of the Pirates started to stand with his hands raised.

“You’re, you’re Starfleet? We thought you were other scavengers trying to attack our partners out there.”

“What happened here?” Archer asked while Krall checked the other Pirates laid around the Bridge. Ramata’tar attempted to access their computer systems, making sure their weapons were indeed offline.

“We’re trying to recover useable parts but I’m sure you know that. We boarded the Romulan Warbird Razalla, found their cloaking device intact and brought it and other weapons on board. We also took some computer consoles, anything we could use or sell. Shortly after installing the cloak and its controls, we started experiencing computer problems. Systems going offline, weapons, life support, then we cloaked. I sent a man to Engineering to check on everyone there and to get the cloak offline, that’s was when we saw you. He shut the cloak down but the weapons wouldn’t activate and we lost life support.” The Captain of the ship explained. “I’m Corrin.” The Human passed out and hit the deck with a thud.

Ramata’tar tapped his commbadge, “Ramata’tar to Kearsarge. Raider secured, we have four prisoners. The fifth is believed to be in their engine room.”

Nick then tapped his commbadge too, “Commander, this is Archer, these people need medical attention. Request permission to beam them to the Mercy.”

Krall then tapped his commbadge too to add in his opinion, “If we do that, then I recommend sending a security team from the Kearsarge to keep order aboard the medical ship.”

Roebuck took a moment to reply, “I’ve sent the information to Doctor Hades to have everyone from that raider beamed to their triage area. As soon as they beam out, we’ll beam you back aboard the Kearsarge. In the meantime, prepare to beam anything they salvaged to our cargo bay and power that ship down. We’ll take it in tow.”

A moment later, the pirate crew was beamed out followed by the Away Team from the Kearsarge. The powered down Dagger class raider was locked in a tractor beam by the Kearsarge as its pirate booty was beamed to the Kearsarge.


Mercy, Bridge

Hades acknowledged the message and left the bridge in capable hands. He headed down to the sickbay. Matthews and Eviess would be in the cargo bay he would handle sickbay. Within moments the injured from both the de-cloaked and the other rider beamed aboard.

The Kearsarge security crew transported in as well.

This was frontier medicine at its finest. The sickbay was full, the cargo bay with doctors tripping over one another while taking care of their charges. One surgery soon turned into another, creams, hypos, minor stitching. Hours flew by until the last person was done. The Kearsarge crew had been coming in shifts and had done an amazing job.

Hades soon left the sickbay and headed for the Ready room. He activated the viewer on the small screen and reached out to the Kearsarge CO.

"Roebuck here" The commander replied over the comm a moment later.

"I just wanted to send a personal thank you. Your crew has been a great help. We had two unruly passengers that will be coming your way, the rest are being treated."

Roebuck gave a respectful nod, "You're welcome Doctor. The Kearsarge will stay close just in case."

Hades gave a nod. "We'll be going back to our search grid in a few hours." His hand hit the buttons of his control panel, "Sending coordinates where we left off." He hesitated. "This was going to be in my report at end of day but our sensors picked something up. There is a disabled medical ship floating at the coordinates that I am sending you now. I'm going to take our ship there to salvage some supplies."

Roebuck nodded. "The USS O'Bannon is a few hundred meters from the Medical ship USS Comfort. We'll follow you over and send our teams to the O'Bannon. Kearsarge out."

Roebuck closed the channel then looked back at Ramata'tar. "Have your team standing by. The O'Bannon was an Akula Refit Class, it's saucer section is separated from its engineering hull."

Ramata'tar nodded.


USS Ark Royal, Bridge

With the away teams on the Winchester finishing up on their assigned tasks, Jack was wondering why this was all going too easy when the Operations Officer called for his attention.

"Sir, I'm receiving a message from the Conqueror via the Kearsarge...The Conqueror has ordered us to recall the away teams and to assist in dealing with the Raiders that are attacking their position," she reported.

Jack walked over to the Ops station. "Pull up a map with their position," he ordered. Once the location of the action was clear Jack tapped his combadge.

"Ark Royal to all Away Teams, finish what your doing and return to the ship," he ordered. "Another starship requires assistance... Solomon out..."

Jack headed back to the Centre seat. Looking over at the helm he ordered them to move out to the Conqueror's position once the teams were back on board.

With the away teams back on board, Jack had ordered the helm to close on the position of the Conqueror once they arrived in the area.

He looked over to the Bridge Ops officer as they arrived as requested. "Send a message to the Conqueror, alert them that we're here to assist as ordered," he said to her.

Pressing the General Comms function on his seat, Jack gave his second set of orders. "All hands, Battle Stations," he began before looking over at the Tactical Officer. "Lock targets on unfriendly ships and provide covering fire for the Conqueror...if anyone gets too close, let them know about it!"

Sitting forward in his seat, Jack watched and waited for the next moves to play out.


Conqueror Bridge

Andre looked around at Dalenna, "Dalenna, please let the Ark Royal know about the shield modulation changes requested by the Falcon. We don't want them getting caught out by whatever the Falcon has planned."

Dalenna nodded as she spoke respectively to him, "Yes sir." She did as he said.

Looking back to tactical he could see that the battle was gradually moving back towards the Falcon and the Paris Island.


USS Ark Royal, Bridge

Jack looked over as the Tactical Officer on his bridge received the message about the Shield Modulation update required.

"Sir, we're getting a hail from the Conqueror regarding a change needed to our Shields Modulation Frequencies whilst we're in the Combat Area," she reported.

Jack nodded knowing that there was a good reason for both the Conqueror and most likely the Falcon to recommend the change. "Put the new changes into effect and standby to counter any of the pirate vessels that try to stray out of the perimeter," he ordered.


tbc...

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