A/N: A short chapter I know but hopefully it's better written than the original. Please read and review.
Chapter 12
Infiltration
Three Starfleet officers and a SPARTAN super-soldier crept into the airlock of the Klingon vessel. Telsia and Odell were at the airlocks of the Federation and Malon ships. Ensign Alexander Munro and the Chief checked ahead and made sure there were no enemies. With the airlock secured, ensign Lathrop and Lieutenant Foster setup pattern enhancers to beam the team back but didn't activate them because the energy signature could be detected. Foster nodded to Munro and the Chief. The Chief pulled out a computer chip and held it up to a console. A moment later Cortana came over the comm.
"I'm in. Their computer security is laughable. I've already got access to internal sensors critical systems and restricted areas. I can unlock doors at your request and generate sensor ghosts to keep them of your trail if you are detected.I've tagged the locations of isodesium samples and I've also made contact with ensigns Murphy and Odell. They are proceeding to their objectives." she said
Munro nodded "Let's go Chief." he said
The Chief nodded, raised his weapon, a silenced SMG and crept forward with Munro close behind. The two men climbed a short ladder then entered what appeared to be the bridge of the Klingon ship. Munro froze.
There was a Klingon in the Captain's chair...sleeping. The Chief nodded and pulled out a knife, then crept up behind the Klingon and slit his throat. The Klingon was dead before he knew it. There was a closet nearby and the Chief stashed the body in the closet. Munro had already tapped a control to unlock the other side of the bridge and the Chief planted a spacial charge under the Captain's chair. They continued forward until they reached a long corridor with cargo containers and two patrolling Klingons and one sleeping Klingon.
The Chief and Munro pulled out silenced pistols. They aimed at one patroller each. They pulled the trigger at the same time. Two soft coughs sounded but didn't wake the sleeping Klingon.
But the sound of bodies hitting the floor did. Another cough put the sleeping Klingon down as he tried to rise. Then the Chief and Munro crept through the cargo area, disposing of one more sleeping Klingon, then stashing the bodies in dark corners. The Chief placed four more spacial charges in the cargo area then motion for Munro to move ahead. The cargo area ended in a T-junction. The corridor to the left led to a jammed door. The one to the right led to a larger cargo bay with two wide awake Klingons who were patrolling the upper deck. Munro made a hand gesture then disappeared as his active camo activated. The Chief quickly followed suit and hid with Munro behind some containers. On the floor ahead of them was some kind of creature that crawled on multiple legs. Munro thought it looked like an overgrown centipede. A Klingon noticed the creature and opened fire. A single burst from his rifle put it down. "BA! Filthy creature!" it said. The other Klingon nodded then they both moved to a large door at the back of the upper deck. The door opened to reveal a turbolift which the Klingons boarded. The Chief and Munro stepped out from their cover and checked the rest of the bay. There was a locked door near where they had entered the cargo bay.
"Munro to Cortana. Can you unlock the door in front of us?" he asked
"Standby." she replied
The door opened quietly and the two men moved through. Ahead were two Klingons. One patrolling the corridor, and the other working on a console on the wall. Munro nodded to the Chief who pulled out his silenced pistol and crept forward. The Chief and Munro crept up behind the working Klingon. Munro aimed at the working Klingon while the Chief aimed at the patroller who was about to turn around. The Chief pulled the trigger and his pistol coughed. The patroller dropped like a rock. At the same time Munro put a bullet in the working Klingon's head. Then both men hid the bodies before climbing another ladder. While they did this, Telsia and Odell checked in over the comm.
"Telsia checking in sir. I found a sample of the isodesium. Sir this area looks like a Federation ship, early 23rd century. But I don't recognize these markingsā¦"
"Ensign Murphy this is Cortana, that is the sign of the mirror universe discovered by James T. Kirk. Be advised, the humans from that universe are extremely violent. Proceed with caution."
"Understood Murphy out."
"Odell to Foster, I found some isodesium. This section looks Mallon in design: run down, lots of fog, radiation levels are high."
"Roger, Foster out."
The Chief and Munro took out two more Klingons in the area ahead, then moved through a door. They found themselves above a mess hall of some kind. One that was full of Klingons eating what Munro thought to be one of the parasite creatures he had seen earlier. As they crept along some beams of steel, they heard Odell come over the comm.
"Oh my God..." he said
"Cortana to Odell, I have a Hirogen life sign closing on your position, activate your camoflauge now!"
Then there was silence on the comm.
The Chief motioned to Munro to continue on and took down a pair of patrolling Klingons in the corridor ahead. Munro saw a NAV point on his HUD and the secure door in front of it opened. There was an energy terminal nearby along with a sample of Isodesium. Munro quickly collected the sample and contacted Lieutenant Foster.
Going back the way they came they saw an open door with a large hole in the floor. The room below held two sleeping Klingons. Two pistol coughs put both down permanently. Munro dropped down first and winced at the noise he made. He tensed for a shout of alarm, then relaxed as the Chief dropped...and made a dent in the floor. Munro moved out of the room into the corridor outside the mess hall filled with Klingons. The two men crept past quickly then down a ladder.
The area ahead was filled with cargo containers and three Klingons. One patrolled back and forth, the other two worked on consoles on the far side. Three quick coughs from a pistol put all of them down. Again the two men took the time to hide the bodies in closets and dark corners. Then moved through a door into a much larger area with three levels. Munro saw another NAV point marking the location of an Isodesium sample. He crawled into a conduit and removed the sample.
It must have been powering something because when he removed it a female Klingon on the next level growled. "What happened?" she asked
"I don't know, check the terminal." said a male.
As Munro crawled out he saw the Chief at a ladder ahead. He nodded to the Chief and the Chief climbed the short ladder, then put a pair of rounds into each Klingon. They fell with hardly a sound. The Chief planted more spacial charges in the second of the three levels. The third level held half-a-dozen Klingons working on consoles and patrolling corridors. Then Ensign Murphy came over the comm.
"Cortana, I need a diversion. This area is heavily guarded. I don't think my active camo will last long enough. Can you transfer power away from this quadrant?" she asked.
"Standby." Cortana replied
"That did it! Thanks Cortana."
The Chief and Munro climbed the ladder to the third level then hid behind some containers. A pistol coughed, taking down the Klingon closest to them. Four more pistol shots coughed and four Klingons went down.
With the area clear, the men moved down a corridor.
