Data was thrashing around violently on his bed and from the looks of things he had been doing so of a while. All of the covers on the bed had fallen off, and Data's bedside table was broken in two and laying on its side. Data's cat, Spot, was in the corner on the far side of the room backing herself as close to the wall as she could get with her left paw out in front of her clearly broken.
Wolf went into the room and went to Data but before he could do anything Dr. Crusher and one of her nurses came in.
"What happened?" Dr. Crusher asked pulling out her tricorder and scanning Data.
"I don't know, I was sent to find out why Commander Data had not reported to deputy" Wolf answered.
"It appears as if something is attacking him from the inside" Dr. Crusher said after she had scanned him, "I going to turn Data off and hopefully that will slow down whatever is happening." Dr. Crusher reached behind Data's left shoulder blade but when she flipped the switch but nothing happened. After a brief moment of shock that nothing happened Dr. Crusher pulled out a hypospray.
"Doctor I do not believe that will work" Wolf commented when he saw the hypospray.
"It might not, but it will be easier to help him if he is not thrashing around like this" Dr. Crusher answered pressing the hypospray into Data's neck. After the hypospray was administered Data calmed down and stopped thrashing around.
"Wolf scan this room and see if you can find any clues as to what happened" Dr. Crusher said turning to Wolf.
"Aye" Wolf replied pulling out his tricorder.
Then Dr. Crusher turned to the nurse that came with her, "See what you can do for Spot." Dr. Crusher had noticed the cat as she got there, but her main concern was Data at the moment. Dr. Crusher then hit her command badge.
"Two to beam directly to sickbay."
It was little over an hour since Data had arrived in sickbay.
"There appears to be an organic compound that has found its way into Data positronic systems" Dr. Crusher told Picard standing at far from where Data was laying on a biobed, "It's reacting violently with Data's systems."
Dr. Crusher walked over to one of the sick bay computers along the wall and pulled up the ship's diagram of Data's systems.
"This is how Data's systems appear when they are functioning normally" Dr. Crusher said then she pressed a few button and a different diagram came onto the screen, "This is the scan we took of Data after we got him to sick bay."
"As you can see there has already been a great deal of damage down by this organic compound and it is continuing to spread throughout his systems" Dr. Crusher continued.
"How bad do you believe the damage is?" Picard asked.
"Well, to tell you the truth I don't know. We need to find a way to stop this compound's path and hopefully we will be able to repair most of the damage. But if this spreads to his positronic brain there will be nothing we can do for him" Dr. Crusher answered.
Picard nodded in acknowledgment and continued to look at the diagrams on the screen.
"Jean-Luc, Wolf did a complete scan of Data's quarters and found this compound only on Data's bed where we found him. With this information and with the fact we never seen this before there is a good possibility that someone put this compound into Data's systems," Dr. Crusher pointed out.
Picard pressed his command badge, "Commander LaForge, Lt. Wolf meet me in my ready room."
He then turned to Dr. Crusher, "Keep me informed."
A few minutes later in Captain Picard's ready room.
"It appears that someone on this ship had attacked Commander Data. At this moment we have no idea who did this or why they did this, but I believe it would be best if we that extra percussions" Picard addressed Geordi and Wolf.
"Wolf I want extra security added on the decks where the scientists are, I don't think it's a coincidence that just after they arrived on this ship one of my senior officers were attacked. If one of the scientists had done this I don't want to give them the chance to do it to any other officers." Picard said looking direction at Wolf.
"Aye, sir"
"Geordi I want you to see if you can find out what this compound is that is attacking Data and if there is not a way to stop it from continuing" Picard said now turning to Geordi. Geordi nodded.
"That would be all" Picard dismissed them.
Meanwhile in Sickbay
A nurse had just finished mending the bone in Spot's paw when Commander Riker walked in, and when he saw her he quickly back away a little. When he saw Dr. Crusher he went over to her.
"How is he?" He asked.
"Well he could be better" Dr. Crusher sighed, "I don't really know how to help him if it was one of my other patient I would take a sample and look to see if some of our medicines could stop it, but Data's body doesn't work like that."
"We'll find out how to fix this" Riker said looking over to where Data was on the biobed, "what I would like to know is how this happened. We have no clue as to what this is?"
"No, I haven't seen it before" Dr. Crusher answered scanning Data again with her tricorder.
Before she or Riker could say anything else Data regained conscious, noticing this Dr. Crusher put the tricorder down.
"Data can you hear me?"
"Yyyyeeess, thoooooough I apppppeeeaaar to haaaaave aa malfuuunction" Data answered having an extremely had time talking, sounding like a 21st century CD with a scratch on it.
"We're working on fixing that Data do you know what happened to you last night" Dr. Crusher asked hoping that if he did it could help find a way to help him or at the very least tell them who did it.
It was no use though Data had already lost conscious before Dr. Crusher finished her question.
