Title: LEGACY
Author: KERIDWEN
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Chapter Two: My Story: The Test
"Run Liz Run," cried the voice of Catalina Francis M'Benga, "They are going to start without us and we will FAIL!!!!!!!"
The woman running next to her gave her a sour look.
"Look Bones, you did not have to wait for me."
"Are you kidding, miss the chance to walk into the Kobiashy Maru engineering final scenario with Cadet Shanley E Kirk, daughter of."
"Can it Bones! That shit is the whole reason why I transferred to engineering in the first place." Liz averted her eyes from her friends as she lied.
"That is a lie, Liz and you know it."
"Well if you know so much, why are we still late. Come on!"
The two women pounded their way across the courtyard.
"Well now." Cam the booming voice of admiral Hiro Tetsari, "Since every one is finally present, we may begin the Kobiashy Maru scenario. Engineers take your posts. Chief engineer for this round will be Shanley Kirk. Medical trainee in charge will be Catalina M'Benga
Supervisors will be placed at various posts, although during the scenario they will be under your command.
Liz turned to Kate and whispered. "So tell me again, Bones, why DID they let Earth women into Starfleet in the first place?"
"To whoop on the Borg, to warp through the universe and. both women whispered the last part together and smacked their wrists together in a salute. "To keep the MEN in line!"
"Cadets," came the voice of the Admiral as the giant bay doors closed, "You are now on your own. You are disabled outside of federation territory, there are three Romulan vessels within sensor range, and there is also a decompression problem in one of your sections. What do you do? Good Luck."
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RED ALERT! RED ALERT! RED ALERT! RED ALERT! RED ALERT! RED ALERT! Overload of the warp core imminent. RED ALERT! RED ALERT!
Kate dispatched the med teams to all different ends of engineering. From the "death" count, however, she realized that her medics were not getting there fast enough. "Damn!" she cried, "Unit three get out of there, attend to sections seven through twelve!"
A red shirt was running by. Kate caught him on the shoulder. "What is our status crewman?"
"STATUS!" cried the cadet, his eyes were wide and from what Kate could tell, he was far-gone into shock. "We are not going to HAVE A STATUS in a few minutes mam! The Decompression in section twelve is critical and there is no one up there to take care of it in time. We are going to blow at any second!"
Kate couldn't believe it; they were almost to federation territory where an escort was waiting for them. This scenario had lasted thirty minutes already; they couldn't fail now, not so close to the end!
"Cadet! Who is left up in that section? Who can reach those circuits in time?"
"Nobody but the Chief mam!"
"Don't you mam me," Kate was getting really tired of hearing that. She was only twenty-three for St. Peters Sake! "It is Doctor to you." She shook him for good measure. "Liz is up there, that is not just nobody!!!"
Kate craned her head to see the lone figure on the third engineering level. "Come on Liz, she thought. Even thought you hate him.we need a James T Kirk type of miracle for this one."
The smoke was pouring from everywhere. Liz coughed and wiped her eyes; it was becoming impossible to see. All though she did not know for sure, she suspected that she was the only one left on the third level.
RED ALERT! RED ALERT!
Liz was going to get very sick of that siren before this was all over. She glanced at the display board. There was a problem with that many flashing lights on her board, how could there not be a problem.
Problems were what scenarios were all about after all. Problems with instruments and couplings and dead locks. Liz wiped her eyes again and took a deep breath. She was NOT going to spaz out now! The decompression board had to be reached and the hull had to be repressurized. She saw the sequence of buttons and instructions flash through her brain. That wasn't the problem.
She looked across the chasm that separated level three A from level three B. It was a two-story drop.
Liz allowed herself a few nanoseconds of quick thinking. If she ran the sequence program she had come up with the night before, the computer would allow her to key in any command from any consol. It was not feasible in a real starship, but for the scenario, it would work.
NO!
She rejected that idea with out another thought. Although the program was made totally from her own ideas, everyone else would think of the story that made the Kobiashy Maru famous. The time when James T Kirk had reprogrammed the scenario to make it possible to rescue the ship would never be forgotten.
Liz would not have her own work branded for a copycat ploy.
Yet, How was she going to get out of this?
(00)(00)(00)(00)(00)(00)(00)(00)
Major explosions came from the third level, and for a moment Kate was afraid for her friends safety. Simulators were designed to shake cadets up a bit, but were not supposed to kill people.
Then she caught sight of Liz again. "Oh good, thought Kate, she is all."
The thought was actually cut off in her mind as she saw her friend climb up onto the guardrail that separated the two levels by a forty-foot chasm.
"What the..... said Kate in confusion. All on the lower level, medics and Cadets alike were pointing and staring.
Then Liz jumped.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Kate clutched her medkit as her heart skipped a beat.
Then Liz caught a hold of a connection cable hanging from the ceiling and swung across the gap.
"Liz. Don't!!!"
The rope was not long enough to make it.
Liz reached the end of her swing and, just when the crowd thought she was going to fall, she reached under her jacket.
And pulled out a long flat object
And placed it under her feet
And floated smoothly, defying gravity itself, to the other side.
"An anti grav board." Kate thought in amazement and disgust. "She floated across, putting herself in danger, like a neo Tony Hawk, on and ANTI GRAVIT BOARD!!!!!!"
Three seconds later the siren had turned off and a voice came through the smoke.
"Attention Starship Columbia. This is the Intrepid. You have now reached federation space; escort will now close in to protect you. Columbia, Welcome home!"
The cheer that filled the room was deafening. Kate ran to the middle of the crowd where Liz was climbing down to the first level, and being crushed by a sea of Cadets, grateful that they had not failed. Kate rushed up and hugged her friend and Shouted. "Liz, You magnificent IDIOT you! You did IT!" And in the next breath she said under her breath. "My God! You could have been killed. It was just a test! Why did you risk your neck like that?"
Liz turned her bright hazel eyes on Kate. They were merry and exhausted at the same time. Moreover, they spoke volumes to the person who put her arm around her for comfort and support.
"You know me, Bones," she said with a bright cocky smile, "I don't like to loose!"
Author: KERIDWEN
Disclaimer: I know, I am quick tav: here is the rest of the juicy stuff - anybody else -fuzzy on what is going on? REVIEW REVIEW REVIWE!!!!!
Chapter Two: My Story: The Test
"Run Liz Run," cried the voice of Catalina Francis M'Benga, "They are going to start without us and we will FAIL!!!!!!!"
The woman running next to her gave her a sour look.
"Look Bones, you did not have to wait for me."
"Are you kidding, miss the chance to walk into the Kobiashy Maru engineering final scenario with Cadet Shanley E Kirk, daughter of."
"Can it Bones! That shit is the whole reason why I transferred to engineering in the first place." Liz averted her eyes from her friends as she lied.
"That is a lie, Liz and you know it."
"Well if you know so much, why are we still late. Come on!"
The two women pounded their way across the courtyard.
"Well now." Cam the booming voice of admiral Hiro Tetsari, "Since every one is finally present, we may begin the Kobiashy Maru scenario. Engineers take your posts. Chief engineer for this round will be Shanley Kirk. Medical trainee in charge will be Catalina M'Benga
Supervisors will be placed at various posts, although during the scenario they will be under your command.
Liz turned to Kate and whispered. "So tell me again, Bones, why DID they let Earth women into Starfleet in the first place?"
"To whoop on the Borg, to warp through the universe and. both women whispered the last part together and smacked their wrists together in a salute. "To keep the MEN in line!"
"Cadets," came the voice of the Admiral as the giant bay doors closed, "You are now on your own. You are disabled outside of federation territory, there are three Romulan vessels within sensor range, and there is also a decompression problem in one of your sections. What do you do? Good Luck."
_________________________
RED ALERT! RED ALERT! RED ALERT! RED ALERT! RED ALERT! RED ALERT! Overload of the warp core imminent. RED ALERT! RED ALERT!
Kate dispatched the med teams to all different ends of engineering. From the "death" count, however, she realized that her medics were not getting there fast enough. "Damn!" she cried, "Unit three get out of there, attend to sections seven through twelve!"
A red shirt was running by. Kate caught him on the shoulder. "What is our status crewman?"
"STATUS!" cried the cadet, his eyes were wide and from what Kate could tell, he was far-gone into shock. "We are not going to HAVE A STATUS in a few minutes mam! The Decompression in section twelve is critical and there is no one up there to take care of it in time. We are going to blow at any second!"
Kate couldn't believe it; they were almost to federation territory where an escort was waiting for them. This scenario had lasted thirty minutes already; they couldn't fail now, not so close to the end!
"Cadet! Who is left up in that section? Who can reach those circuits in time?"
"Nobody but the Chief mam!"
"Don't you mam me," Kate was getting really tired of hearing that. She was only twenty-three for St. Peters Sake! "It is Doctor to you." She shook him for good measure. "Liz is up there, that is not just nobody!!!"
Kate craned her head to see the lone figure on the third engineering level. "Come on Liz, she thought. Even thought you hate him.we need a James T Kirk type of miracle for this one."
The smoke was pouring from everywhere. Liz coughed and wiped her eyes; it was becoming impossible to see. All though she did not know for sure, she suspected that she was the only one left on the third level.
RED ALERT! RED ALERT!
Liz was going to get very sick of that siren before this was all over. She glanced at the display board. There was a problem with that many flashing lights on her board, how could there not be a problem.
Problems were what scenarios were all about after all. Problems with instruments and couplings and dead locks. Liz wiped her eyes again and took a deep breath. She was NOT going to spaz out now! The decompression board had to be reached and the hull had to be repressurized. She saw the sequence of buttons and instructions flash through her brain. That wasn't the problem.
She looked across the chasm that separated level three A from level three B. It was a two-story drop.
Liz allowed herself a few nanoseconds of quick thinking. If she ran the sequence program she had come up with the night before, the computer would allow her to key in any command from any consol. It was not feasible in a real starship, but for the scenario, it would work.
NO!
She rejected that idea with out another thought. Although the program was made totally from her own ideas, everyone else would think of the story that made the Kobiashy Maru famous. The time when James T Kirk had reprogrammed the scenario to make it possible to rescue the ship would never be forgotten.
Liz would not have her own work branded for a copycat ploy.
Yet, How was she going to get out of this?
(00)(00)(00)(00)(00)(00)(00)(00)
Major explosions came from the third level, and for a moment Kate was afraid for her friends safety. Simulators were designed to shake cadets up a bit, but were not supposed to kill people.
Then she caught sight of Liz again. "Oh good, thought Kate, she is all."
The thought was actually cut off in her mind as she saw her friend climb up onto the guardrail that separated the two levels by a forty-foot chasm.
"What the..... said Kate in confusion. All on the lower level, medics and Cadets alike were pointing and staring.
Then Liz jumped.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Kate clutched her medkit as her heart skipped a beat.
Then Liz caught a hold of a connection cable hanging from the ceiling and swung across the gap.
"Liz. Don't!!!"
The rope was not long enough to make it.
Liz reached the end of her swing and, just when the crowd thought she was going to fall, she reached under her jacket.
And pulled out a long flat object
And placed it under her feet
And floated smoothly, defying gravity itself, to the other side.
"An anti grav board." Kate thought in amazement and disgust. "She floated across, putting herself in danger, like a neo Tony Hawk, on and ANTI GRAVIT BOARD!!!!!!"
Three seconds later the siren had turned off and a voice came through the smoke.
"Attention Starship Columbia. This is the Intrepid. You have now reached federation space; escort will now close in to protect you. Columbia, Welcome home!"
The cheer that filled the room was deafening. Kate ran to the middle of the crowd where Liz was climbing down to the first level, and being crushed by a sea of Cadets, grateful that they had not failed. Kate rushed up and hugged her friend and Shouted. "Liz, You magnificent IDIOT you! You did IT!" And in the next breath she said under her breath. "My God! You could have been killed. It was just a test! Why did you risk your neck like that?"
Liz turned her bright hazel eyes on Kate. They were merry and exhausted at the same time. Moreover, they spoke volumes to the person who put her arm around her for comfort and support.
"You know me, Bones," she said with a bright cocky smile, "I don't like to loose!"