Hours later, dressed in club attire, to conceal their status. Vai lead her two reluctant officers through a narrow passageway, leading up to a supposed secret entrance to the biggest secret of the Gamma quadrant. Located on a still commissioned, though highly suspect freight ship, The Neutral Zone rave ship was a well kept secret within the Gamma quadrant. It always kept moving, and even would swap among other freight ships to keep its location secret. It has managed to have concerts throughout the four quadrants this way.

"Are you certain this is the correct place Captain?" Lal questioned, as she caught her bearings with pipes from the wall.

"I am…. Ah. Very certain, she said as she reached for a hidden door lever."

A blast of humid air enveloped them, and the hum of loud techno music assaulted their ears. Bright lights shot from the ceiling, and waves of humanoid species rhythmically bounced to the beat.

"See, told ya!" Vai yelled to her two officers. As she took them by the shoulders and walked them into the space.

Lal was currently living her nightmare, and Ten wasn't too fond of the loud music.

"My first order as your Captain is to have fun! I'll be looking for my engineer's."

With that she waved them off and ran toward the edge of the balcony and signaled to the crowd below for a dive. A few seconds later she was surfing atop the sea of dancers.

"V'tosh ka'tur." Lal sighed as she watched her Captain ride the crowd till she was deposited centrally in the orgy of dancers. Looking over to Ten she spotted signs of discomfort. "Not a fan of crowds?"

"The last time I was in a crowd was when I was enslaved on a Borg ship."

Lal cursed her father's programming, she figured she would try the human way of getting to know people, but maybe she should do some reading before she had any more conversations with Commander Ten. Feeling the time pass as they still stood in awkward silence, she forced herself to appreciate the music. Figuring the Captain may see them still standing there, Lal looked for some safe activity for the two of them. Spotting a bar, which looked depressingly vacant, her mood improved. "Wanna get a drink?"

"Yes." He replied with some urgency, as he lead the way.

Among the sweaty gyrating dancers Vai weaved from one dance partner to the other till she found her target. Goggled and fully committed to the music, she found Lieutenant Ere Emini, and close in toe her twin brother Lieutenant Yoci Trepil, whom was currently making out with a Betazoid male. Not wanting to interrupt them, she hung back and joined a group of Bajoran's free styling traditional and modern dances. The best she could come up with were ancient robot dances from her mother's people.

Eventually the DJ cut out, and the next one was taking over. Emini, the older of the twins tapped her brother on the shoulder, and motioned to join her at the bar. Her brother, for the first time in the last hour, finally detached from his partner, and followed his sister through the crowd. Vai quickly caught up to them.

"Excuse me, Ere Emini… Yoci Trepil?"

The twins stopped dead in their tracks, and looked back cautiously to Vai.

Thinking of the best way to make them feel as though they were not in trouble she decided to abbreviate her greeting. "Hello I'm Captain Page of the USS Argo, I'd like to have you as my engineer's." The twins nose and brow ridges from their joined Bajoran Cardassian lineage crinkled in disbelief at this sudden request.

After about twenty minutes of chatting with the twins Vai had gone over the mission, and shown a few schematics of the USS Argo. Ere was enthralled, and couldn't wait to board, and Yoci was quickly scanning the more in-depth data as if he were to jump in the engine room that second.

"I take it you're both interested."

"When do we launch?" They asked in unison.

"Eight days."

"We're down." Yoci chimed in. "We can launch from here right now."

"Now I just need to find my Science and First Officer." Vai said leaning back in her chair scanning over the crowd. "Ah.. looks like they had the same idea as us." She said pointing to them across the room at the other bar front.

"Oh man. That's Gimbles bar." Ere said, with pert smile.

"What's Gimble serving?"

"All his stuff is laced with hallucinogenic compounds... I learned that the hard way a few years ago." Yoci said shaking his head.

"We should go tell them. This could-"

Vai quickly grasped Ere's shoulder, "It's fine. They needed to loosen up anyway."

They continued to talk for some time at their table as the drinks kept coming. Eventually when Vai looked back for her other officers she found their seats vacant. "Oh… looks like I might need help finding my officers." She said turning back to the twins.

We'll take one side and you the other, Yoci said standing, pulling his sister's chair out for her.

Vai nodded. She couldn't help but feel nervous about what she would find.

It didn't take long to find them. Apparently some tech trippers spotted them at Gimbles, and since both of them had neck ports, and were firmly high on drinks it was an easy sale. Now they were encircled by other trippers, half naked from their heightened temperatures, more grinding than dancing to the intense wub wub music playing, and Tens neck was lined with hickeys.

With a considerable amount of convincing, Vai was able to get them out of the circle and back to the back entrance. Yoci and Ere lead the way, while Vai tried her best to keep her officers vertical. Eventually she ordered Ten to carry Lal.

"She's really heavy though Captain." Ten slurred.

"That's not very nice! I'm a laaaaaaduuuahhhy." Lal's voice was echoed toward the end of this, and she went into a safe mode, shutting herself down."

"You think you could run a diagnostic on Lal back on my ship?"

"Are the Pah Wraiths evil?" Ere countered Vai's request.

Vai raised a brow at this and smiled. She was pleased with her engineer choice.