A Fishy Situation

Posted on Tue Feb 5th, 2013 @ 3:08pm by Lieutenant JG Elizabeth Jackson & Lieutenant Jourdan Abbott & Lieutenant Eamon Lynx & Ensign Ruka Maron [Lynx]

1,086 words; about a 5 minute read

Mission: A Pirate's Life
Location: Calypso

ON

Lizzie didn't know any of the Marines, so she stayed away from the holodeck. Not that she didn't enjoy a party, but it came in the middle of a delicate fish cleaning operation. Every other month she removed the fish from the stream in the arboretum, turned off the water and cleaned out the stream bed. In nature she was more than willing to let dead and decaying rot stay on the bottom of the waterways, but in her arboretum she wanted to control the detritis and make sure her fish didn't get sick and die.

She finished the cleaning and turned the water back on, giving it a while to cycle a few times before putting the fish back in. Now, she needed a nice cup of herb tea and a plate of cookies.

While she was eating her cookies the power went out. "Computer, turn on the lights."

"There is currently no power available in the arboretum."

"How long will it be out?"

"Indefinite."

She'd never experienced a power outage that wasn't related to an attack and went to her computer to find out what was going on. Before she got far in her search, the computer shut down. "Computer, what happened?"

Silence. That bothered her a lot. She drank the last of her tea, put her cookies away -- it wasn't too hard as the cookie jar was in front of her -- and carefully made her way out of her office. She needed to get through the arboretum to where she might find power and figure out why the arboretum was dark.

She fumbled around until she found her flashlight and headed into the arboretum. She never realized how much noise was generated by the stream, the air filtration system and the artificial sun. Now, the place was eerily silent. There wasn't even the faint sound of artificial birds. She really hoped whatever was wrong could be fixed soon. A day or two and her fish would begin to get sick from the water. The temperature would change and there would be nothing to keep the oxygen moving through the water.

When she got into the corridor she found that it, too, was dark. Not good. She pushed the computer panel in the hall to no effect. The turbolift was likely affected, too. That meant a climb to get to engineering. Well, there was nothing else for it but to find the nearest jefferies tube.

She climbed down three decks before she found power. "Good. I really didn't think I could make it 20 decks," she said, happy to hear her own voice. She tapped her combadge. "Computer, has power been restored to deck 16?"

"There are no records of anything between decks nine and nineteen."

"But the arboretum is between decks nine and nineteen."

"There is no arboretum on the Calypso."

"You are so lying," Lizzie said, not happy at all with the current state of affairs.

"I am incapable of lying."

"Never mind," she said. She needed to talk to a real person. She climbed out of the jefferies tube and headed for the turbolift. At least she ride down to engineering.

== Security Office, Deck 10 ==

"Okay now activate all the forcefields," Eamon instructed into the intercom. His computer display showing the Brigmaster using the Brig's main console then the entire room died. Eamon slouched unimpressed. "Just perfect." He muttered sarcastically.

Utter darkness greeted him and Eamon tapped his combadge before calling multiple locations. Nothing happened and he realised that the combadge didn't make the usual sound instead it made a negatory beep.

~Strange.~ Eamon thought, it clicked in his mind that the communicator must not be connected to the intercom system then. He felt around for the wristlight, found it then put it on his arm before activating it.

Eamon headed out of his office after forcing the doors open and then made his way to Main Engineering. He noted that after Deck 19 everything was still powered which he found strange.

== Main Engineering ==

Jourdan wasn't happy. The computer wasn't recognising the existence of decks 9 through 19 and it was driving her up the wall. She had already sent two engineering teams to those decks to see if they could establish power, but their comm badges didn't seem to work either.
"Come on now!" Jourdan said as she kicked the Engineering Pool table, this wasn't turning into a good day.

Eamon approached Jourdan as she kicked the console and grabbed her. "Damaging things won't help Lieutenant?"

"You're one to talk now" Jourdan replied. "What's the matter, please tell me that we haven't lost more decks, or else I swear there will be a whole new meaning to the term 'Warp Core Breach'".

"No. Well how many decks have we lost contact with?" Eamon asked.

"Ten decks" Jourdan said. "And trust me, half of those decks have critical systems on".

"Hmmmm, yes that is a problem. Back-ups?"

"Back-ups?" Jourdan snapped. "Not every system has a back-up lieutenant. Do you see a back-up warp core in here somewhere? Or how about a back-up life support control room. In a matter of two hours decks nine through nineteen will lose all life support and over two thirds of the ship's population are trapped on those decks".

"I got out. I was on Deck 10." Eamon said and simply folded his arms then stared at Jourdan. "Are you done? You will need to calm down."

"You're a security officer right. Well, why not go and do something useful. Us engineers are busy, why not be useful and start getting trapped people off those decks?" Jourdan replied as she turned back to the console.

Lizzie hurried over to the two. "The Arboretum is dark. No power anywhere and I just put the fish back."

Jourdan looked up at her, let out a sigh, put her elbows on the console, rested her head in her hands and sat down on a stool.
"I'm going to start a queuing system in here..." she muttered to herself.

"That bad?" Lizzie asked. "Can't you just fix the computer so it turns everything back on?"

"Well I will Miss Bossy Boots!" Eamon said teasing Jourdan and began heading back to Deck 19.

Lizzy looked from Jourdan to the retreating security officer. There wasn't anything more she could do and ,seeing that she was in the way, decided to head to the bridge to inform the officer in charge.

OFF

Lieutenant Jourdan Abbott
Chief Engineer

Lieutenant Eamon Lynx
Chief Security Officer

Lieutenant JG Elizabeth Jackson
Botanist

 

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