Written by Stardrivedave
21/12/14
Chapter Nine
Meanwhile on the shuttle
"Commander we've got a hail from the San Francisco" exclaimed lieutenant Gatea,
"Good work" he said, walking over to stand behind her.
The screen showed Commander Owens with several other officers and crew standing in the background.
"Away team, the San Francisco has been compromised, the Arctions have control. We escaped the brig, but all other crew are locked in their quarters, we're in deflector control using it as a command centre and we've tricked the sensors into thinking you're at a fixed distance but we could do with your help, we" she faltered "we think the captain is dead."
Without hesitating Commander Barker responded "we're on our way, we'll dock on the underside and take a walk to the nearest airlock to you, Barker out"
As the commander stepped away from the console and walked back to his seat, he called to the lieutenant "better get an environmental suit on and we'd better take phaser rifles with us as well."
She accepted the order and walked into the rear compartment to prepare, a couple of minutes later the lieutenant felt the shuttle touch down and the commander entered the rear compartment. Once they were both suited up in EV suits, they checked the seals, holstered phaser pistols, put combat knives and tricorders in their belts and picked up phaser rifles. The commander had magnetised the shuttle next to the airlock near deflector control, they exited the airlock and walked towards the hatch, once they got inside they closed the hatch, removed the EV suits while strapping the equipment belts to their uniforms.
They ran across the corridor and entered a jefferies tube, they started crawling and shortly afterwards opened the hatch into deflector control, they crawled out and Commander Owens walked over.
