Killer Cybernetic Turtles...

Posted on 15 Dec 2013 @ 1:29pm by Lucas Robinson Ph.D.

1,380 words; about a 7 minute read

Mission: Episode 05 - Solstice
Location: USS Galileo - Deck 7 - Engineering Laboratory 2
Timeline: MD01 - 1700 hours

[ON]

Lucas beamed as the diagnostics completed. It had been a long wait but he could finally dive into one of the most exciting projects he had ever worked on. He spun his chair around in a full circle, feet off the deck, then tapped his combadge.

=^=Robinson to Crewman Wyatt. Wanna help me with something cool in the engineering labs?=^=

Abbey was spinning on her chair in the science lab after burning another sample. She blew bubbles from her bubble maker that she had made crudely from a thin price of wire and some cleaning agents from the lab. However the cleaning agents she found held their shape longer and the spot over her was crowded making a halo of bubbles.

Swiping the cloud popping them all the liquid feel to the floor and evaporated =^= sure why not! where are you at? =^= she had met a lot of the crew and pretty much every name merged together so she wasn't going to take a guess with this guys fall name and what he looked like.

=^=Engineering labs, Deck 7=^=

***ten minutes later***

Abbey briskly walked through the doors of the designated meeting place, she wondered what anyone in engineering could want her help with after all she wasn't even really in starfleet yet. "Yo?" She called out in her normal informal way.

"Over here," Lucas called out from just around the corner. He turned and grinned at Abbey when she came over. "Thanks for coming! You know how hard it is to get a hand with anything lately?"

Behind Lucas was a containment cube with an activated stasis field in the middle. Inside the field was a piece of frozen flesh. Blue-green scan lines roved across the specimen. On the screens on the walls were temperature readouts and specifications for nanites and lines of code streaming past.

Abbey walked past Lucas hand on hips as she looked over the dater "you're experimenting with nanites?" She turned round smiling acknowledging him for the first time.

"Of course," he grinned. "I'm a nanoengineer. But these aren't just any nanites, these are eat-your-brains Borg nanites."
Tah

Abbey looked back too the containment cube and watched it crossing her arms underneath her breasts. "So what do you need help with Mr Nanoengineer?" She grinned slyly away from his view.

Lucas caught covert glimpse at Abbey as he turned to face the screens. "I need a sensor operator. I'm going to warm the specimen up then do some tests as the nanites go active again. You up for it?"

"Sure buuuut..." Abbey nodded "wouldn't it be cooler to do it on a live subject I mean, it'll be so more accurate!" She suggested turning to face Lucas again, "what do ya think?" Abbey started to curl a lock off her that fell down the right side of her eyes.

"That would be awesome, especially if we could use turtles or something. Legions of cybernetic turtles invading the federation... Except the research ethic board would never buy it. But, this specimen was taken from the captain before they fixed her up. I just need to isolate some nanites so I can reverse them. Hack the Borg," he smirked.

"Fine, but we are totally making an army of cybernetic turtles later!" She Moved over to one of the consoles tapping on it to receive all the sensor data onto it. "Lets get this party started shall we?"

Lucas laughed. "Deal," he said and turned to the panel in front of him. "So I'm going to thaw the sample, you should see some of them start to wake. Use the magnetic probe to try and isolate as few as you can, one if possible." He started slowly raising the temperature in the containment cube. "So didn't they find you something to do with the world ending? You're like the only person I could get a hold of."

"Oh if you're dad was a respected Marine you'd find yourself as far away from any danger as possible, he has a really good way of putting me out of those situations" She said sadly "So yeah I'm just stuck around studying and researching" She started to watch the screen. "Ready when you are"

"You're dad's a respected Marine? Okay, so you're kept safe, bored and single," Lucas laughed while focusing on his controls. "Delta t in section 2-4 is at 1.3 degrees, you should see the nanites starting to seek unaffected cells. You do speak geek, right?" he asked.

Abbey frowned at him "Of course I speak geek you freak" She laughed before looking back to the console and nodded "The nanites are starting to seek out the unaffected area's but most are still dormant. Perhaps raising the temperature slightly" She smiled as she cast her thoughts back to his previous comment about her dad. Without looking up from the console "And for your information. Yes, I am bored and single but not because I am kept safe"

"It's cause you speak geek, duh," Lucas said. He glanced in her direction and then back at his readouts. "I'll go to delta t equal 1.475 degrees, but I don't want their impellers to reach full power. See if you can pull a couple into the inter-cellular fluid with the magnetic probe," he directed. "And it's cause you're like, twelve."

Abbey shot up a look of distate "Twelve! Twelve!" Her mouth was wide opened in shock "I orta throw you in there and see how long it takes for you to turn into a borg! I am twenty-one thank you very much" She turned back to the console "Stupid boys" she muttered under her breath loud enough for him to hear.

Lucas laughed and flinched away from Abbey. "See? That's you're problem, you're violent!" He watched for a moment and nodded. "You're good with the instruments, I'll give you that. Now usually the intracellular fluid in an Orion is pretty much neutral, but," he pressed a button. "If we overlay a differential electron field on the sector you're working in, the nanite's own power systems will push against the charged field and drive the nanite toward the edge of the sample. Where you will be waiting with magnetic calipers. Yeah, just use the crosshairs to guide them," he pointed to a flashing control grid that just popped up on her screen. Lucas leaned back and watched to see how she would do. It was delicate work even with the automated assist and stabilization algorithms, but so far she had done well.

Abbey nodded mindlessly as she directed the cross-hair towards the edge of the sample and waited "Magnetic calipers are in place." She looked over to him and smiled "On your mark sissy" She joked watching as he worked, he was nice... Handsome in his engineering geeky way. "Try not to mess up yeah?" She added teasingly.

Lucas snorted derisively. "I'd offer to buy you a drink for helping me, but they don't let minors in the lounge. No way you're 20... 16, tops." He watched the progress carefully then smiled. "But you know how to use the instruments, I gotta give you that... Kid," he said. Lucas pushed a final button and a status light on the wall readout turned green. "You caught yourself a Borg nanite."

Finishing of the process she leaned against the console "Do you want a bloody nose?" She asked with a devious Grin "For that comment you are taking me for a drink" She input the final data and uploaded across to his console see he now held all the data.

"Oh great, because being a nanoengineer on a tiny starship run by biologists in the middle of nowhere isn't bad enough... What I really need to do is give alcohol to a homicidal underage woman with plans for galactic domination and a Marine father."

Lucas paused to consider that.

"Sounds fun. Tomorrow at 1900?"

OK... So he is extremely cute She thought to herself giggling at his comment. "1900 tomorrow sounds perfect" She finally said shooting him a smile. "I can't wait."

[OFF]

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Lucas Robinson, PhD
Nanoengineer
USS Galileo
[PNPC - Vess]

CA Abbey Wyatt
Scientist Mate
USS Galileo
[PNPC - Wyatt]

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