No Man's Land (Part 6 of 10)

Posted on 21 Apr 2017 @ 2:42pm by Lieutenant JG Stephanie Fraiser (KIA) & Rear Admiral Lirha Saalm & Commander Aren Ban & Commander Allyndra illm Warraquim & Commander Luke Wyatt & Commander Marisa Wyatt & Ensign Miraj Derani & Ensign Mimi & Lieutenant JG Eelim Galan & Petty Officer 1st Class T'Lin & Petra Varelli Ph.D.
Edited on on 21 Apr 2017 @ 2:55pm

2,332 words; about a 12 minute read

Mission: Episode 14 - Statecraft
Location: IKS DuJa'Q, Klingon Neutral Zone
Timeline: MD 11, 2327 hrs

Previously, on No Man's Land (Part 5)...

"I think I'll leave the tying down to you." The human jogged over to the main doors, and quickly worked to seal them shut from the outside. "Hopefully he won't wake up for a long time." with deft fingers he reconnected a handful of wires, and reset a breaker. "Get through that without a plasma cutter, you ugly sods."

Varro made short work of hog-tying the Klingon. He finished just about the time Snow finished securing the door.

And Now, the Continuation...

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Deck 9, Forward Section - Science Lab

IKS DuJa'Q's single science laboratory was one of the more inconspicuous places aboard the battlecruiser that usually didn't warrant much attention from its crew. However, with Chorag's mutiny now in full-swing his loyal band of warriors were proving themselves to be very prudent and thorough while they swept the ship from bow to stern attempting to eliminate any resistance. When they reached Deck 4, the cadre of six assigned to the lower decks split up into three teams, each going room-to-room in order to pacify any resistance. Brief disruptor and hand-to-hand battles could be heard outside of the science lab, then suddenly, two Klingons burst into the room with their disruptors trained in front of them.

Lieutenant Fraiser, the research officer who'd come aboard the starship and joined the Galileo survivors at Kreanus, had the misfortune to be the closest to the door when it parted. Without any warning, the lead Klingon aimed at Fraiser's chest with his pistol and squeezed the trigger when she turned around in surprise to face him. A shower of sparks erupted from her sternum and the force of the impact sent her flying backwards onto the floor. A single gasp for air was all she could manage before her body went limp, her eyes staring lifelessly at the ceiling with a large, burned hole in her chest.

"Surrender yourselves," the lead Klingon barked, "or we will kill the rest of you!"

Petra had no weapons, no chemicals. "I'm a scientist, what do you think I'm going to do?" she asked. "Let me exit this program and I'll surrender. Okay?" She held one hand out to her side to show that she was unarmed, entered a code, and pushed the execute button. "There. See? I'm perfectly harmless."

A very loud, high-pitched sound rose from the speakers, knocking everyone unconscious.

T'Lin winched as she came to. One Klingon was stirring as well but she quickly nerve pinched him. She turned back to Petra and shook her head, then nodded in approval. She would have said quick thinking but she was pretty sure everyone was going to be a bit deaf for a few more minutes.

The second Klingon slowly came to, dazed and disoriented. His vision was blurry and he quickly began to try and find the dirsuptor that'd been in his hand. He reached out aimlessly onto the deck, patting the ground while trying to find the weapon that he assumed was somewhere nearby.

Petra grabbed the first object she could find and hit the Klingon over the head. It was a large glass jar of rocks. She didn't bother to wonder why the jar was full of rocks, but she was grateful for the weight as the Klingon slumped to the floor.

T'Lin shook her head trying to get the ringing in her more sensitive Vulcan ears to go away. She got up and went toward Fraiser. It took only a glance to see that she was dead. She shook her head in the negative. Turning she spied the weapon the Klingon had been looking for and scooped it up.

"We must prepare for more," she said calmly taking a tactical position at the door. "Perhaps since this is science lab we can make something up that should be very discouraging. I would suggest making some improvised explosives."

"Depends on what we have on hand," Petra said. She began to go through cabinets to see what they had. She'd only been through part of the lab because she usually analyzed chemicals rather than play with them. Magnesium. She could work with that. She replicated a container of water. "This will work."

"We have bleach which contains sodium hypochlorite. We also have hydrocloric acid. If we mix them we get a spontaneous chemical reaction making chlorine gas. That will certainly incapacitate any would be attacker and Klingons especially as they have much more lung surface," T'Lin replied.

"That works, too. But we'll have to be careful not to breathe any of it ourselves." She put a container of water to the side of the door and carefully set a chunk of magnesium near by. If someone dropped the magnesium would fall into the water and ignite. "If we have to combine both of them, we could cause quite an explosion."

"There are respirator masks," T'Lin replied and went to prepare. "Let us hope that we do not have to resort to any of the things."


Deck 3, Forward Section - Bridge

Dropping the disruptor Abbey crawled through the half-destroyed door. The scene which was set out in front of her was in one word, chaotic. In front of her was Lirha, collapsed on her back covered in blood and struggling to breathe with Lieutenant Franklin a few feet away. Commander Ban stood barking orders with blood over a large portion of his back and smeared across his face. The Klingon Chorag lay still on the floor with S'anara advancing towards him. There were only two more officers on the bridge beside herself and Eelim now, and that was Ensign Mimi who was the only one at her station and last but not least Miraj, the traitor. This was all possible because of her, Luke bleeding out in the corridor, the General sprawled across the floor, Ban who seemed okay despite his obvious injury and the possibly dead Klingon. She turned, pointed her phaser at Miraj and fired. Bitch, she said under her breath.

"No!" Lirha yelled as strongly as she could. She'd watched the Mirror Abbey enter the bridge, but instead of helping the others around her, her first move had been to fire on her helm officer.

When the door opened, Miraj had spun around, fearing that Chorag's men were coming in to even the odds. She was facing the door square on, and relaxed when she saw Abbey. She had only a brief moment of shock when Abbey fired her phaser on her, before the beam hit her square in her centre mass, and everything went black. She fell back like a puppet with its strings cut. There was a loud crack as her skull met the edge of the helm.

Mimi turned when she heard then saw someone crawling through the door, thinking it was one of the Klingons she readied her claws but then as the person stood up and she realised it was Abbey she relaxed a little until Abbey raised her phaser and shot Miraj. She hissed and ran at Abbey, covering the short distance in but a moment and grabbing her phaser arm.

Abbey shocked at the sudden and crazed advanced of Mimi only had a moment to adjust herself. Dropping the phaser as Mimi's claws dug into her arm she twisted and pulled her arm away causing Mimi's claw to graze all down her arm. "She's a traitor!" Abbey shouted in protest.

"Does not mean you can shoot her just like that." Mimi countered. Before Abbey could do anything else Mimi grabbed her around the hips and hooking her leg around one of Abbey's tripped her down onto her front.

Dazed and confused Abbey allowed herself to fall to the floor, the operations officer subduing her effectively. She couldn't understand how everyone was acting like she was the one who had done something wrong. Miraj was the one to put herself in a situation to kill the general and instigate a mutiny.

Eelim crawled in after Abbey. He'd heard Lirha's warning but was unable to stop Abbey from firing. Seeing that Mimi had all in hand. Eelim made his way towards the commander. "Sir?" He asked still ready for anything but not as hot headed as one might find a Cardassian to be. "Are you alright?" He kept his disruptor within sight of the Romulan just in case.

Aren was just as surprised as everyone else was at the sight of Abbey shooting Miraj. Part of the reason Aren didn't react was he thought for the briefest of moments that he was seeing things, that maybe Chorag had hit him harder in the head than he had thought. Coming out of his revelry, Aren nodded. "I am well enough. Put Ensign St. James in restraints for the moment, and keep her out of the way until we can get a better handle on the situation." He ordered.

Eelim puled out his restraints and headed Abbey's way. He didn't like it but he knew that it had to be done.


Deck 3, Forward Section - Bridge Corridor

Marisa and Allyndra found Luke on the ground outside the bridge. "I'll check on him, you continue on to the bridge," Marisa said, pulling out her tricorder.

She quickly assessed the damage and gave him a hypospray for the pain. It was awkward with her shoulder wound, but there was no time for her to allow the pain to dictate her actions--a benefit to being Vulcan.

"Can you hear me? she asked quietly.

Luke was just about conscious, he knew telling Abbey and Eelim to go on without him meant he could have possibly bled out but with Abbey's makeshift tourniquet he had survived until he could hear the voice of Sandoval. "Yes" He sighed. "I think there is more seriously injured personnel on the bridge, I'll make my way to sickbay in a moment, I'm just having a rest" He explained in a daze.

"You've got a tourniquet on your arm. If I don't treat you now, you might lose the limb," Marisa said. "Besides that, you're not lucid enough to go anywhere." She began to pull items out of her pack to mend the wound so she could remove the tourniquet. The belly wound was bad, but it had been packed well enough to come second.

"Just remember that it won't be as pretty as if Allyndra did it," she teased. "And I'm still holding you to that movie night, so don't die on me."

He chuckled before groaning and clutching the padded out stomach wound. "I don't plan on dying, but make me laugh again I just may do that" He smiled looking at the woman. "I'm pretty certain I'm looking through a kaleidoscope"

Marisa nodded. "I'll check on that. " She finished with his arm and slowly removed the tourniquet to restore blood flow. When there were no obvious problems, she ran a Feinberger over it to be sure. "There. Does that hurt?"

"No" He lied his breathing shallow. "Though the kaleidoscope has gone away, that's good right" He said looking at the work she had done. "Now go help someone else" He ordered between grunts, he hadn't even noticed she hadn't don't any work on his stomach yet where most of the blood had gone.

"You're not okay and I'm not done," she said in her most professional voice. "The vision is returning to normal, that's good. But your belly wound is going to need medical attention. I can change the bandages and wrap it up better, but you'll need Allyndra's special attention for this." She put one set of instruments away and pulled out clean bandages. "So, Mr. Wyatt, tell me about your girlfriend." It would be a great way to distract him while she worked.

He smiled at the thought of Miraj and then that smiled drained "She didn't do it did she? Abbey and Eelim got to her in time?" The question was simple enough and he winced as she began working on the bandages. Then he turned to the question she asked. Is that what they were now? A 'thing' he didn't know.

"I don't know who did what," Marisa said casually while she worked. "I don't know anything more than that there's been a mutiny and people on the bridge are injured. I'm taking care of you. Allyndra went onto the bridge to see who needed help there. Why do you think she's involved?" She didn't want to make any suppositions. Right now, she believed that the injuries were being treated and there were no fatalities. That was not something she wanted to dwell on right now.

As soon as she finished bandaging up his belly wound, she stood. "Wait here. I'll go check on Allyndra and send her out to you."

To Be Continued...

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GEN Lirha Saalm
Commanding Officer
IKS DuJa'Q

Commander Chorag
First Officer
IKS DuJa'Q
[PNPC Saalm]

Ensign Miraj Derani
Chief Flight Control Officer
IKS DuJa'Q

CPO2 Crispin Snow
Operations Officer
IKS DuJa'Q
[PNPC Derani]

Ensign Mimi
Operations Officer
IKS DuJa'Q

Cmdr Allyndra illm Warraquim
Chief Medical and Second Officer
IKS Duja'Q

PO2 T'Lin
Science Officer
IKS Duja'Q
[PNPC Warraquim]

Lieutenant JG Marisa Sandoval
Counselor
IKS Duja'Q

Petra Varelli, PhD
Forensic Anthropologist
IKS Duja'Q
[PNPC Sandoval]

Ambassador Sorel Varro
Chief Diplomatic Officer
IKS Duja'Q

Petty Officer Eviess
Medical Officer
IKS Duja'Q
[PNPC Varro]

Lt. JG Eelim Galan
Security Officer
IKS Duja'Q
[PNPC Varro]

Commander Aren Ban
Executive Officer
IKS Duja'Q

Lieutenant JG Amaranai Franklin
Assistant Chief Security / Tactical
IKS Duja'Q

Lieutenant Commander Luke Wyatt
Strategic Operations Officer
IKS Duja'Q

Ensign Abbey St James
Security Officer
IKS Duja'Q
[PNPC Wyatt]

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