Hide and Seek
Posted on Sat Nov 24th, 2012 @ 9:53am by Commodore Samantha York & Commander Alexandra Vance & Major Leroy Mangalia & Lieutenant Malcolm Hoffman & Ensign Drex (Malcolm the Super Counselor) & Ensign Mak Free [Lynx]
1,069 words; about a 5 minute read
Mission: The Enemy Within: Lying in Wait
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Sam watched the life pods fan out after leaving the Calypso, three on each side of the Borg Rhombus. "Fire on the Borg ship. All weapons. Watch out for the life pods. On my command, stop firing, turn as if to run away and cloak. Got it?"
"Loud and clear," Mak replied as he began the programming the phasers and torpedoes to avoid the pods but hit the Rhombus.
She watched carefully, her finger on the button to send the radio signal to detonate the tri-cobalt devices on the life pods. This would be close, but if it worked, it would give the Marines enough of a distraction to beam over to the Borg ship.
Closer. Closer. She held her breath, watched the meters tick down, watched the life pods pass the ship unmolested. So far so good. A few hundred meters... She pushed the button and six bombs exploded, doing serious damage to two sides of the Rhombus. "York to Mangalia, go now."
Leo looked back at the men he had gathered. The call had come in and they were on their way. "Energize," he told the man who would send them over to their fiercest fight yet. As the Transporter locked on, everyone could feel that zero g effect that all tranaporters had, then seconds later the millimeters thick drop. The air was different, thicker than what they were used to. The rhombus was alive with drones, and they seemed unseen.
"Don't fire unless its necessary, move out and find that machine. If you find our men don't attack unless they attack you. If they try to assimilate dont fight, we will bring you home." Leo looked and smiled. Taking his first step, the groups split quickly and were soon running in different directions. It wasn't going to be easy, but soon they wouldn't have to worry about it if they could find their air purification device.
[Calypso Bridge]
"Helm, veer off. Head past the planet towards deep space," Sam ordered.
"Aye sir, veering off, full impulse!" Drex acknowledged as his hands flew over the console entering commands as quickly as he could. The ship responded and moved as told
"Now, engage cloak, alter course to swing around the planet."
Drex's hands flew over the console once again this time instructing the ship to perform a high speed round about maneuver to shoot them around the planet quickly, but slow enough to allow the cloak to fully engage behind the planet to avoid detection. The cloak concealed the ship in its entirety just a few seconds before the ship circled around the dark side of the planet and revealed the blazing sun once again, and the borg ship as well, in all its damaged glory.
"Yeah!!" Malcolm shouted jumping up and down uncontrollably until he realized he was being stared at again."Sorry, just had my doubts... I'll just sit down." he then sat down in the seat to the captains right and folded his arms.
Sam looked at him, eyebrow raised, but said nothing. So far her plan was working, but they were a long way from being out of the woods.
[[Borg Rhombus]]
Multiple Tri-cobolt detenations detected. Defensive Systems at ten percent. Weapons system inoperative. Primary power grid operating at twenty-five percent. Commencing repairs.
Vance knew exactly what was going to happen and terminated all regenerations cycles. The federation crew was planning to board the vessel. Prepare for Intruders
[Elsewhere on the Borg ship]
The teams had already broken apart, looking for the device they needed to break in order for their plans to work. "Lance Corporal Fraser, you and Coleson take the left. I need you out there to play catch. The rest, with me." Leaving two men at the four way cross road, Leo went right, aiming for the first borg that he would happen upon. The halls had been empty. Suddenly, there was a fork in the road, they could go left or right. "Go left, Private Anderson, with me."
Now they were even more split up, most of his men were going the wrong way down the hall, and Leo didn't know it yet. The one thing he saw before the piercing pain in his neck from the Borg that had snuck up behind him, one of his own men, was the device they had to destroy. Now he would be the one protecting him. He didn't notice Anderson laying dead on the floor, looking behind him as he took up his post, waiting for the Federation fools to come to his area.
[Calypso Bridge]
"The Borg ship is continuing on its original course. They're no longer following us."
Sam relaxed a little. "Good. Now, swing around the planet. See if we can hail the away teams. Engineering, get the transporters back online."
She turned to the communications officer. "Any word from Athena Shipyards?"
'Yes, ma'am. Help is on its way. Estimated time of arrival, eight hours."
"Great. Now we just need to keep them off our tail for the next eight hours." It was easier said than done. "Looks like we're going to have to play hide and seek with Vance."
"That shouldn't be a problem at all." Drex said as he continued entering commands on his console carrying out the Commodores orders.
"I doubt Vance will be fooled for eight hours. She'll be back and when she is, we need to be ready for her."
She turned to communications. "Can you contact the away teams?"
"Not yet. The sandstorm is still too strong. Best guess is it will move on in about four hours."
Great. Four hours to hide from the Rhombus, and Vance. Hopefully it would be enough time for Leo and his men to destroy the air filtration device and get the doctored nanites into the Borg.
"Helm, keep the planet between us and the Rhombus," Sam ordered. "Engineering, let me know when power dips below acceptable levels." They only had a few hours under cloak before it began to take a toll on the ship's power. Now it was time for hide and seek to turn into cat and mouse. But this mouse had a few tricks up her sleeve.
OFF
Commodore Samantha York
Commanding Officer
Commander Alexandra Vance
XO of Borg
Lieutenant Malcolm Hoffman
Chief Counselor
Major Leroy Mangalia
Marine CO of Borg
Ensign Mak Free
Engineer
Ensign Drex
Helmsman
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