Chapter 13-Encounters
Munro and Chell walked into a room with a hallway attached. There was a health and armor station nearby along with an ammo crystal. Munro recharged his armor and health and his weapons and picked up the ammo crystal. There were ten stalk-like things hovering in the entrance to the hallway. Munro shot two energy grenades at the stalks exploding them. Further ahead he saw a console with some fire-fly things hovering over it. He followed the hallway around and saw a transporter on the far end of a room. There were two consoles to his left and a line of alien teleporters along the far wall on the ground. As soon as Munro and Chell entered the room the aliens began to beam in. The two Starfleet officers opened fire with everything they had. One alien after another beamed in. But again almost as soon as it started the attack stopped. Munro looked back over at the transporter but it looked as if it had been shot. "Oops, I think I shot that transporter." Said Chell
"Great." Muttered Munro.
Then Munro had an idea.
He went back down the hallway to the console where the fire-flies were. He drew out his phaser and destroyed the console. The console was immediately regenerated by the fire-flies. He turned around and there was another console in view of the one he had just shot. He fired his phaser again. This time the fire-flies came to this console and repaired it. Munro fired twice more at the console near the entrance to the room. The fire-fly things repaired those consoles and the transporter Chell had shot.
Munro and Chell both went through. They followed the corridor they found themselves in until they came up behind one of the aliens working at a couple of consoles. There were two teleporters on both sides of the creature. Munro sniped both of these and the creature didn't hear a thing. Then Munro shot the creature twice quickly and it disappeared. They followed the corridor from the alien down to a larger area with more teleporters, some kind of flying thing that attacked them, some consoles, a group of fire-flies and a force field. As they neared the room the aliens beamed in again. The two men fought for their lives fending off wave after wave then suddenly the attack stopped. Chell walked over to the consoles. "This console will probably open that force field up there." He said "Uh, oh, hmm…The only way it's going to stay open is if one of us keeps it open from here….guess that means me huh?"
"Don't worry Chell. We're almost out of here."
"Ok…but hurry."
Munro proceeded into the room the force field was protecting and was immediately attacked. He pulled out the scavenger rifle and opened fire. He had to back up almost t the door before the attacks stopped. He went back in, more cautious this time and collected the three ammo crystals. He switched back to his compression rifle and shot the flying thing that sent electrifying attacks his way. He went through the transporter and found himself in a large room with a pod generating a field on the floor below. Unfortunately there were fire-fly aliens near the pod so even if he shot it and ran across the depression in the floor to the other side the pod would regenerate before he got there. But he saw a console on his side. He shot the console then the pod and ran as fast as he could to the other side. He had just jumped back up on the main floor when the fire-flies repaired the pod and the same kind of field that had taken Telsia reactivated. To his right he saw a weapons recharge station which he used. He proceeded down the hallway and took a right turn. Coming around the corner he heard and saw the Chief fending off what seemed like a dozen of the aliens. Munro fired on them from above. Turned just in time to see another one come around the corner on his level and shot it down too. Three more shots at the aliens below and the area was clear. "Thanks for the help Munro. Where's Chell?" Asked the Chief
"He had to stay behind but he's ok. What happened to your team?" replied Munro
"Those, alien things overwhelmed us but I managed to get away. Now we've got to move on if we're going to salvage this mission at all." Explained the Chief
Together they moved on until they came to a large room with some kind of pods and a force field at the end. "What is this place?" asked Munro "Looks like some kind of stasis pods. The aliens must have a hibernation system." The Chief came up to a control panel on the wall next to the door and turned around. "What the…its Telsia and Biessman. They're all here."
"We've got to get them out of there."
"Right, we just have to shut down the power core, then we can beam them all out of here. Maybe the doctor can do something for them if it's not too late. Come on." Replied the Chief as he worked a control panel. The force field disappeared and the two soldiers moved forward. Munro spotted a health terminal via his suit and two ammo crystals. The Chief turned to him. "I'll run over to the other end and start taking out the spawners, you take the aliens themselves."
"Got it." Replied Munro
As soon as they stepped out the aliens appeared. Munro took out the aliens and the chief took out the spawners. They both ran to the teleporter at the other end of the ledge. Not stopping they went through and found themselves on a small catwalk of sorts with a pair of control panels at the end. Cautiously they approached. Suddenly an alien beamed in but instead of attacking it spoke. "Do not stop power, my people in stasis will die." It said.
"Just a minute. You're the ones who trapped us on your ship and attacked us." Replied the Chief cautiously
"You invade us! Believed you were the others, tried to contact you. Communication methods very different you attack us!" it said
"They were trying to communicate?" whispered Munro
"We capture your people analyze them, learn your language. We are Etherians, have been trapped here twenty-five of your Sol Standard Years. Crew very large. Colony ship, our people is stasis stay alive." The alien continued
"We're sorry for the misunderstanding, for killing some of your people. We were only acting in self defense." Said Munro
"Killed? Have not killed. When injured our people return to stasis, regenerated. Your people too not killed in stasis. Analyzed." The Etherian replied
"On behalf of my teams, I apologize. We thought the vessel was abandoned. We only wanted information from your computer. We're trying to find our way out of here." Said the Chief
"Our knowledge is yours, request and receive we are allies we will lower defenses you may return to your vessel." Replied the Etherian
"Chief to Voyager."
"Chief! It's good to hear from you. What happened over there?" replied Captain Janeway
"I'll explain when we get back. Let's just say we've made an ally. But we have injuries we need to beam directly to sickbay." Reported the Chief
"Understood….Sickbay has the wounded we're ready to beam you back now."
And with that the two men were beamed out of the alien ship and appeared in sickbay.