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Weekends are great, aren't they? I'd like to thank my few, but wonderful and loyal reviewers and friends. You make this story worth writing!
Go read the stories of Anarra and Ladybug the 3rd, if you like my stories, you'll like theirs, too. They also update fairly regularly, unlike some people. You know who you are! On with the fic!
As Zandile had predicted earlier, getting into the Romulan compound was the easy part of the rescue. Zandile and a few of the Romulans who were known and wanted by the government were hauled into the base as prisoners by the others. The guards ate it up. All the faking rebels had to do was promise a bit of the reward money to the guards, and they let the rebels right in.
Spock, disguised enough to make him unrecognizable, immediately took charge after they entered the building and found an arsenal. He issued weapons to the rebels and Zandile pulled out he phaser she had taken back from the government cronies. Spock and five rebels left to find the control room to shut down any all barriers that would prevent escape.
Zandile took charge of the remaining five rebels who accompanied her to Captain Picard's holding room. Four rebels held out their weapons and pretended to lead Zandile and another Romulan named Taron, who was a wanted criminal. They were able to walk right past several Romulans, but they weren't able to fool the 6 guards outside the room where the Captain Picard was held.
"Hey! Unauthorized personnel aren't allowed here! Get out of here, now! The holding cells are down this hallway." The guard pointed, but kept his disrupter locked on the rebel group.
The 4 rebels acting as escorts for Zandile and Taron looked slightly puzzled, but didn't move. Zandile acted first. She got free of the loose handcuffs and pulled out her phaser in one quick movement. The guards started shooting at the same time Zandile stunned the first guard. The rebels pulled out their disrupters and started shooting.
In another part of the building, Spock's group was meeting little resistance. Spock's group used the same ploy that Zandile used. Spock and another recognizable rebel were being led by the others. Any Romulans they came across that didn't continue on their way were easily taken out with a disrupter on stun.
They soon found the control room, the door locked by a fingerprint ID system. "How do we get in, master?" Asked one of the rebels.
"Go find one of the government workers we stunned, and bring him here." Said Spock.
A few minutes later, the rebels came back dragging a Romulan with him. Spock could tell from his uniform markings that he was high- ranking. They used the unconscious man's fingerprint to open the door. Just as the door swished open, an alarm went off and several Romulans on duty in the control room saw the rebels and started shooting.
Three rebels went down. Spock used a Starfleet phaser on wide beam to stun all of the Romulans on duty. The alarm was deafening. Spock went to a panel with a flashing button on it and quickly punched the button. The alarm stopped. The 2 unhurt rebels started cleaning up the mess from the brief firefight. They pulled the unconscious Romulans into the room and took control of the stations. They locked the door to everyone trying to come in and sat tight, waiting for the signal from Zandile's group.
Zandile's group wasn't doing very well. The rebels started shooting out cameras and another guard rushing to the source of the noise. A second guard fell and two rebels also fell, stunned. An alarm went off, but was silenced seconds later. Zandile struggled with the door. The rebels were gaining the upper hand in the firefight. Unconscious Romulans littered the hallway. Those who were still able to shoot were giving the rebels a hard time. Zandile, who was getting frustrated shot the lock, and finally was able to push the door open. Zandile rushed into the room and stunned the doctors in there. Captain Picard was in the same bed he was in earlier. The IV was gone, however, and there were several "interrogation" devices in the place where the other bed had been. Captain Picard was sitting up, looking groggily at Zandile, two stunned Romulans on the floor, and the three unscathed rebels (who were dragging their injured companions into the room).
"I see you found the rebels without my help. Good job Ensign." Captain Picard tried to stand up, but got dizzy and had to sit again. Zandile moved to help him, but he waved her off.
"Captain, whatever they were drugging you with was pretty nasty. Are you OK?"
"I think so. Nothing Dr. Crusher can't handle, if worse comes to worse." He tried to stand again, and managed to walk the few steps to get to Zandile. He leaned on her for support.
"Are you guys OK?" Zandile asked the Romulan rebels. The three uninjured rebels had found stimulants and had revived the two stunned rebels. They nodded and readied their weapons. Zandile pulled out a communicator.
"Ensign Rey to Ambassador Spock. Can you hear me?"
"Yes, Ensign. Did you accomplish the rescue?" Spock sounded as if the rescue was a walk in the park, rather than the fly through the plasma storm it really was.
"I wouldn't be calling if I hadn't." Said Zandile, using a tone of voice that implied a 'duh' at the end of the statement. "The Captain is a bit woozy, but he should be fine when the drugs wear off."
"Good. Come to the control room, Ensign. We need to get the shields down, call the Klingons and get beamed back up to their ship." His tone was still bland, as if he were commenting on the weather.
"Understood, we'll be there ASAP. It would be helpful, though, if you could divert the remaining personnel from the area."
"I will do what I can. Spock out."
The Captain raised an eyebrow from the reactions he had seen and/ or heard. Zandile smiled, "Now do you know why I didn't want to learn emotional control? It's boring."
"You heard the Ambassador, let's go. The Romulans poked their guns and heads out the door and looked around. Taron nodded an all- clear. The group moved out. They prowled the corridors slowly, in military fashion, with one going ahead, looking around, then the back person going ahead and looking around. (A/N I'm sure y'all have seen it in movies or TV shows or something.) Zandile, supporting Captain Picard, went second to last, and a rebel Romulan brought up the rear.
They met little resistance, due to Spock's preventative measures. They could hear alarms going off in another part of the building, diverting the governmental flunkies from the real alarm. They got to the control room, and dove inside the door the Spock held open for them just as the Romulans figured out what was going on and converged onto the control room to retake it. "Now we shall see how well our makeshift locks hold up," said Spock, locking the door. The Romulans outside started firing disrupters on the door and the locks, but instead of opening, it only succeeded in welding the door seams shut.
Captain Picard found the communications array and opened a secure channel to the Klingon ship. "Captain Picard to Commander K'mpel, please come in."
"This is Commander K'mpel. Did you tell the Romulans anything?"
"No I did not. I have never talked for interrogators, and I won't start now."
"You are as honorable as a Klingon."
"Captain, please hurry up! The Romulans are melting through the door. Ambassador, are the shields down yet?" Zandile looked worriedly at the melting door, and held her phaser ready.
"The shields are down." Spock was as calm as a quiet lake in midsummer.
"Could you beam us up now, Commander?" Asked Captain Picard.
"They've broken through the door!"
Phasers and disrupters started firing indiscriminately. Several Romulans fell, injured or stunned. The same Romulan that had been threatening his subordinate officer when Zandile had been listening the day before swaggered into the room. Time seemed to slow down as Zandile recognized him.
He carefully aimed his disrupter at Captain Picard.
Zandile shouted at the captain, he looked up and saw the disrupter aimed at his chest. The Captain's eyes widened into a deer- in- the- headlights look.
The Romulan commander pulled the trigger.
Zandile ran through the weapons' fire and pushed Captain Picard out of the way, taking the disrupter blast on her back and knocking her head on a console.
Zandile fell limply into the captain's arms just as an orange transporter beam engulfed the room.
The Romulans looked dumbfounded at their commander as the rebels and their helpers disappeared.
Oh, I am so evil. The suspense, the drama! I won't update unless I get some sugar. Reviews would suffice, too. As they say in "Chicago": "When you're good to Mama, Mama's good to you." I love that musical!
Weekends are great, aren't they? I'd like to thank my few, but wonderful and loyal reviewers and friends. You make this story worth writing!
Go read the stories of Anarra and Ladybug the 3rd, if you like my stories, you'll like theirs, too. They also update fairly regularly, unlike some people. You know who you are! On with the fic!
As Zandile had predicted earlier, getting into the Romulan compound was the easy part of the rescue. Zandile and a few of the Romulans who were known and wanted by the government were hauled into the base as prisoners by the others. The guards ate it up. All the faking rebels had to do was promise a bit of the reward money to the guards, and they let the rebels right in.
Spock, disguised enough to make him unrecognizable, immediately took charge after they entered the building and found an arsenal. He issued weapons to the rebels and Zandile pulled out he phaser she had taken back from the government cronies. Spock and five rebels left to find the control room to shut down any all barriers that would prevent escape.
Zandile took charge of the remaining five rebels who accompanied her to Captain Picard's holding room. Four rebels held out their weapons and pretended to lead Zandile and another Romulan named Taron, who was a wanted criminal. They were able to walk right past several Romulans, but they weren't able to fool the 6 guards outside the room where the Captain Picard was held.
"Hey! Unauthorized personnel aren't allowed here! Get out of here, now! The holding cells are down this hallway." The guard pointed, but kept his disrupter locked on the rebel group.
The 4 rebels acting as escorts for Zandile and Taron looked slightly puzzled, but didn't move. Zandile acted first. She got free of the loose handcuffs and pulled out her phaser in one quick movement. The guards started shooting at the same time Zandile stunned the first guard. The rebels pulled out their disrupters and started shooting.
In another part of the building, Spock's group was meeting little resistance. Spock's group used the same ploy that Zandile used. Spock and another recognizable rebel were being led by the others. Any Romulans they came across that didn't continue on their way were easily taken out with a disrupter on stun.
They soon found the control room, the door locked by a fingerprint ID system. "How do we get in, master?" Asked one of the rebels.
"Go find one of the government workers we stunned, and bring him here." Said Spock.
A few minutes later, the rebels came back dragging a Romulan with him. Spock could tell from his uniform markings that he was high- ranking. They used the unconscious man's fingerprint to open the door. Just as the door swished open, an alarm went off and several Romulans on duty in the control room saw the rebels and started shooting.
Three rebels went down. Spock used a Starfleet phaser on wide beam to stun all of the Romulans on duty. The alarm was deafening. Spock went to a panel with a flashing button on it and quickly punched the button. The alarm stopped. The 2 unhurt rebels started cleaning up the mess from the brief firefight. They pulled the unconscious Romulans into the room and took control of the stations. They locked the door to everyone trying to come in and sat tight, waiting for the signal from Zandile's group.
Zandile's group wasn't doing very well. The rebels started shooting out cameras and another guard rushing to the source of the noise. A second guard fell and two rebels also fell, stunned. An alarm went off, but was silenced seconds later. Zandile struggled with the door. The rebels were gaining the upper hand in the firefight. Unconscious Romulans littered the hallway. Those who were still able to shoot were giving the rebels a hard time. Zandile, who was getting frustrated shot the lock, and finally was able to push the door open. Zandile rushed into the room and stunned the doctors in there. Captain Picard was in the same bed he was in earlier. The IV was gone, however, and there were several "interrogation" devices in the place where the other bed had been. Captain Picard was sitting up, looking groggily at Zandile, two stunned Romulans on the floor, and the three unscathed rebels (who were dragging their injured companions into the room).
"I see you found the rebels without my help. Good job Ensign." Captain Picard tried to stand up, but got dizzy and had to sit again. Zandile moved to help him, but he waved her off.
"Captain, whatever they were drugging you with was pretty nasty. Are you OK?"
"I think so. Nothing Dr. Crusher can't handle, if worse comes to worse." He tried to stand again, and managed to walk the few steps to get to Zandile. He leaned on her for support.
"Are you guys OK?" Zandile asked the Romulan rebels. The three uninjured rebels had found stimulants and had revived the two stunned rebels. They nodded and readied their weapons. Zandile pulled out a communicator.
"Ensign Rey to Ambassador Spock. Can you hear me?"
"Yes, Ensign. Did you accomplish the rescue?" Spock sounded as if the rescue was a walk in the park, rather than the fly through the plasma storm it really was.
"I wouldn't be calling if I hadn't." Said Zandile, using a tone of voice that implied a 'duh' at the end of the statement. "The Captain is a bit woozy, but he should be fine when the drugs wear off."
"Good. Come to the control room, Ensign. We need to get the shields down, call the Klingons and get beamed back up to their ship." His tone was still bland, as if he were commenting on the weather.
"Understood, we'll be there ASAP. It would be helpful, though, if you could divert the remaining personnel from the area."
"I will do what I can. Spock out."
The Captain raised an eyebrow from the reactions he had seen and/ or heard. Zandile smiled, "Now do you know why I didn't want to learn emotional control? It's boring."
"You heard the Ambassador, let's go. The Romulans poked their guns and heads out the door and looked around. Taron nodded an all- clear. The group moved out. They prowled the corridors slowly, in military fashion, with one going ahead, looking around, then the back person going ahead and looking around. (A/N I'm sure y'all have seen it in movies or TV shows or something.) Zandile, supporting Captain Picard, went second to last, and a rebel Romulan brought up the rear.
They met little resistance, due to Spock's preventative measures. They could hear alarms going off in another part of the building, diverting the governmental flunkies from the real alarm. They got to the control room, and dove inside the door the Spock held open for them just as the Romulans figured out what was going on and converged onto the control room to retake it. "Now we shall see how well our makeshift locks hold up," said Spock, locking the door. The Romulans outside started firing disrupters on the door and the locks, but instead of opening, it only succeeded in welding the door seams shut.
Captain Picard found the communications array and opened a secure channel to the Klingon ship. "Captain Picard to Commander K'mpel, please come in."
"This is Commander K'mpel. Did you tell the Romulans anything?"
"No I did not. I have never talked for interrogators, and I won't start now."
"You are as honorable as a Klingon."
"Captain, please hurry up! The Romulans are melting through the door. Ambassador, are the shields down yet?" Zandile looked worriedly at the melting door, and held her phaser ready.
"The shields are down." Spock was as calm as a quiet lake in midsummer.
"Could you beam us up now, Commander?" Asked Captain Picard.
"They've broken through the door!"
Phasers and disrupters started firing indiscriminately. Several Romulans fell, injured or stunned. The same Romulan that had been threatening his subordinate officer when Zandile had been listening the day before swaggered into the room. Time seemed to slow down as Zandile recognized him.
He carefully aimed his disrupter at Captain Picard.
Zandile shouted at the captain, he looked up and saw the disrupter aimed at his chest. The Captain's eyes widened into a deer- in- the- headlights look.
The Romulan commander pulled the trigger.
Zandile ran through the weapons' fire and pushed Captain Picard out of the way, taking the disrupter blast on her back and knocking her head on a console.
Zandile fell limply into the captain's arms just as an orange transporter beam engulfed the room.
The Romulans looked dumbfounded at their commander as the rebels and their helpers disappeared.
Oh, I am so evil. The suspense, the drama! I won't update unless I get some sugar. Reviews would suffice, too. As they say in "Chicago": "When you're good to Mama, Mama's good to you." I love that musical!