*I was supposed to wait for my beta reader to read this, but I got to excited about having another chapter done I couldn't wait. I'm so bad, sorry.
**ok disregard the above my wonderful beta reader returned my story and I've applied the suggestions. Enjoy!
"So if I were Engineering where would I be?" Trip said under his voice.
"I heard that." Hoshi commented behind them.
They were blindly exploring the ship against their will. All they needed was to know where Engineering was. Trip was fairly certain that from there he could figure out what was going on. And he had assured Malcolm that they could find the Armory from there as well. It was the getting there part that was giving them trouble.
"Well, things are substantially different." Trip defended himself as they stealthily rounded another corner.
"You'd think there would be a map or something." Malcolm said, as he was scanning the walls looking for just that.
"Maybe that's what these panels are?" Hoshi walked up to take a closer look at the strip of reflective black that ran along the walls at eye level.
"Ok, but how do they work?" Malcolm asked as he too examined the panels.
"Let me take a look see." Trip said. He ran his hand along the panel, and after less then a second it lit up giving all kinds of statistics arbitrarily. "Ok good theory...now what?"
"Well, we just have to find the control labeled map I guess." Hoshi was examining the writing closely. "I think it's this one." She said pointing to a lit button that was marked `requests'.
"Ok, lets give it a try." Trip said, pushed the button.
"State request again, please." A female voice said in immediate response. Malcolm was just as quickly on the defensive.
"Its voice activated, clever." Trip was still trying to puzzle out how it worked. He would love to install one of these on the Enterprise.
"How do we get to Engineering from here?" Hoshi asked the voice while the two men were otherwise occupied in merely gawking at the machine.
Arrows appeared on the display, they were blinking and pointed to the left.
"So you just follow the yellow brick road, clever." Trip said, still in a state of fascination.
"Come on, let's do as it says." Hoshi prompted as she began to take her own advice.
Janeway was puzzling over her current problem. The `enemy' had yet to make any further move at them. They simply maintained their previous position. They didn't fire or advance. If they were truly malicious then they would have been attacking, instead they just sat there and watched. It was almost creepy. It seemed her only choice at this point was to let them.
B'Lanna was never just twitting her thumbs. As chief engineer she was highly in favor of cloning research. Her need to be in more then one place at a time had to be greater than anyone else on the ship. At the moment she was running a diagnostic on the antimatter flow rate, it seemed to have been thrown off kilter after the spontaneous and unprovoked alien attack.
"Would someone give me a reading on valve two please," she shouted to no one in particular.
She was still waiting for a reply when Chakotay came up behind her and about gave her a heart attack.
"Sorry, just wanted to know if you might have seen our guests around." Chakotay said when he saw her grab her chest.
"No, I thought they were in sickbay, did you try there?" she answered sarcastically as she tried to get back to her diagnostic.
"They seem to have wandered off. If you see anything let me know would you?"
"Sure, now I have work to do," she said almost pushing him out of the way to get a padd with her additional data on it.
"Thanks." He gave one last glance around to make sure he hadn't missed anything and then shaking his head turned to leave. He had been sure this would be the first place they would come. Now it was back to the drawing board.
The three misfits ducked in to an adjacent corridor when they saw Chakotay exit Engineering.
"Well, that should be Engineering." Hoshi said as they waited for more crewmembers to pass them by.
"We can't just go in through the front door, we need to find another way in." Malcolm said as he kept an eye out for anyone who may decide to turn down their corridor.
"I agree. If this is the main door, then Engineering extends this way, parallel to this wall." Trip motioned with his hands to the wall they were leaning on. "Lets follow this back till we get to an access panel, from there I should be able to find a jefferies tube into Main Engineering."
They all nodded agreement and set out on their search.
Captain Tirax glared at the alien ship on their main viewer. They had not advanced or retreated, yet they also didn't respond to the sent capsules that they had shot at the hull, or activated their viewer to receive the gestures that went with them.
"Honored One, the aliens are sending out sound waves." Scented his communications officers with an upward wave of his hand from his place of work in the parapet.
"Could that be their way of communicating?" Tirax scented to him cutting his two fingers together swiftly.
"Unknown." Was the answer.
There would not be such a need to communicate if they had not had such strong temporal reading wafting off their ship. The Trepaid were collectors of temporal anomalies and any and all information about them. It would be disrespectful to the Mighty Universe not to investigate such a large conference.
"Try to decipher what the noise means." He suggested to the office with a pat on his own head. The bridge remained utterly silent except for the occasional tap that resulted from orders being laid in. Having no ears, though, the crew took no note.
*I don't think that there are any huge mistakes, and more to come. Chapters that is not mistakes heaps of thanks to Hist_Astrea !!
**ok disregard the above my wonderful beta reader returned my story and I've applied the suggestions. Enjoy!
"So if I were Engineering where would I be?" Trip said under his voice.
"I heard that." Hoshi commented behind them.
They were blindly exploring the ship against their will. All they needed was to know where Engineering was. Trip was fairly certain that from there he could figure out what was going on. And he had assured Malcolm that they could find the Armory from there as well. It was the getting there part that was giving them trouble.
"Well, things are substantially different." Trip defended himself as they stealthily rounded another corner.
"You'd think there would be a map or something." Malcolm said, as he was scanning the walls looking for just that.
"Maybe that's what these panels are?" Hoshi walked up to take a closer look at the strip of reflective black that ran along the walls at eye level.
"Ok, but how do they work?" Malcolm asked as he too examined the panels.
"Let me take a look see." Trip said. He ran his hand along the panel, and after less then a second it lit up giving all kinds of statistics arbitrarily. "Ok good theory...now what?"
"Well, we just have to find the control labeled map I guess." Hoshi was examining the writing closely. "I think it's this one." She said pointing to a lit button that was marked `requests'.
"Ok, lets give it a try." Trip said, pushed the button.
"State request again, please." A female voice said in immediate response. Malcolm was just as quickly on the defensive.
"Its voice activated, clever." Trip was still trying to puzzle out how it worked. He would love to install one of these on the Enterprise.
"How do we get to Engineering from here?" Hoshi asked the voice while the two men were otherwise occupied in merely gawking at the machine.
Arrows appeared on the display, they were blinking and pointed to the left.
"So you just follow the yellow brick road, clever." Trip said, still in a state of fascination.
"Come on, let's do as it says." Hoshi prompted as she began to take her own advice.
Janeway was puzzling over her current problem. The `enemy' had yet to make any further move at them. They simply maintained their previous position. They didn't fire or advance. If they were truly malicious then they would have been attacking, instead they just sat there and watched. It was almost creepy. It seemed her only choice at this point was to let them.
B'Lanna was never just twitting her thumbs. As chief engineer she was highly in favor of cloning research. Her need to be in more then one place at a time had to be greater than anyone else on the ship. At the moment she was running a diagnostic on the antimatter flow rate, it seemed to have been thrown off kilter after the spontaneous and unprovoked alien attack.
"Would someone give me a reading on valve two please," she shouted to no one in particular.
She was still waiting for a reply when Chakotay came up behind her and about gave her a heart attack.
"Sorry, just wanted to know if you might have seen our guests around." Chakotay said when he saw her grab her chest.
"No, I thought they were in sickbay, did you try there?" she answered sarcastically as she tried to get back to her diagnostic.
"They seem to have wandered off. If you see anything let me know would you?"
"Sure, now I have work to do," she said almost pushing him out of the way to get a padd with her additional data on it.
"Thanks." He gave one last glance around to make sure he hadn't missed anything and then shaking his head turned to leave. He had been sure this would be the first place they would come. Now it was back to the drawing board.
The three misfits ducked in to an adjacent corridor when they saw Chakotay exit Engineering.
"Well, that should be Engineering." Hoshi said as they waited for more crewmembers to pass them by.
"We can't just go in through the front door, we need to find another way in." Malcolm said as he kept an eye out for anyone who may decide to turn down their corridor.
"I agree. If this is the main door, then Engineering extends this way, parallel to this wall." Trip motioned with his hands to the wall they were leaning on. "Lets follow this back till we get to an access panel, from there I should be able to find a jefferies tube into Main Engineering."
They all nodded agreement and set out on their search.
Captain Tirax glared at the alien ship on their main viewer. They had not advanced or retreated, yet they also didn't respond to the sent capsules that they had shot at the hull, or activated their viewer to receive the gestures that went with them.
"Honored One, the aliens are sending out sound waves." Scented his communications officers with an upward wave of his hand from his place of work in the parapet.
"Could that be their way of communicating?" Tirax scented to him cutting his two fingers together swiftly.
"Unknown." Was the answer.
There would not be such a need to communicate if they had not had such strong temporal reading wafting off their ship. The Trepaid were collectors of temporal anomalies and any and all information about them. It would be disrespectful to the Mighty Universe not to investigate such a large conference.
"Try to decipher what the noise means." He suggested to the office with a pat on his own head. The bridge remained utterly silent except for the occasional tap that resulted from orders being laid in. Having no ears, though, the crew took no note.
*I don't think that there are any huge mistakes, and more to come. Chapters that is not mistakes heaps of thanks to Hist_Astrea !!