Engine Trouble… In More Ways Than One!

By: Moonlit Sea

Disclaimer: I don't own Enterprise or the characters all I own is this fic and the characters Lt. Karyn Kelly & Ensign Mark Matsuki

/-Thoughts-/

Chapter 4 - Amnesia.

On board the Delphin Taiyalievis was waiting for them.

"Greetings to our ship." He said, "Leader, sends his sorrows, he has to attend to ship."

"That's okay. I'm Lieutenant Kelly and this is Ensign Matsuki." Karyn said, gesturing to Mark beside her.

"Greetings to you both. Taiyalievis is my name, parts you bring to fix engine?"

"Yes we have your engine parts." Mark answered.

"Then I take you to engine." Taiyalievis said.

As they walked down the ship's 'corridor' they were amazed by the ships interior. Unlike its dark red hull the inside of the ship was bright in contrast with brightly coloured bulkheads and doors.

"Your Commander busy with ship? I thought he would like to see our beautiful place." Taiyalievis said extending his arms out at the ship.

"No he…ouch!" Mark yelped in pain as Karyn kicked him.

She didn't want to offend these people especially since they were on their ship.

"The Commander sends his apologies but he had some important work to do on Enterprise." Karyn replied she hoped it sounded better than 'the Captain ordered him to stay on Enterprise.'

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Back on Enterprise Trip was staring out the mess hall window again but this time he was looking at the Delphin and wondering if Karyn was okay. He was also thinking about what an idiot he had been during the past couple of days, especially the way he treated Karyn. He owed her an apology. In fact, he owed nearly the whole ship an apology.
Just then the mess hall doors opened and Malcolm walked in.
/-I could start by apologisin' to Malcolm-/ he thought.

"Malcolm." Trip called.

"Commander, is there something I can help you with?" Malcolm asked.

"Sit down. I wanna talk to ya." Trip said.

Malcolm sat down although a little confused about what the commander wanted to talk about. Ever since the card game he had been ignoring Malcolm and now he wanted to talk?

"I wanna apologise for being an idiot." Trip says apologetically.

Malcolm just looked at Trip confusion written all over his face.
"Sir?"

"I shouldn't have ignored you the way I have and shouted at you at the card game."

It all made sense now the commander was apologising for his actions about Karyn.

"Don't you think you should be apologising to Kar…Lieutenant Kelly."

"Don't worry I will be just as soon as she gets back." He replied looking at the Delphin wistfully.

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On the bridge Karyn was reporting in.

"How's it going?" Archer asked.

"Okay so far sir. Their engines are a little complicated. I think it would have been better if you had sent the Commander over here sir." Karyn replied.

"I'm sure you'll manage just fine Karyn. Keep us informed. Enterprise out."

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(On the Delphin.

"That reminds me Karyn." Mark said as Karyn put away her communicator.

"Hmm." she replied busy with the Samozan's engine.

"Why did you kick me earlier?" Mark asked handing her the tool she just asked for.

"Lets just say I was keeping the peace." She replied knowing that there was other Samozan's around the engine room.

"Huh?"

Karyn was just about to explain when the ship rocked, throwing her off balance.
"What was that?" she asked Mark while he helped her up from the floor.

"Hey." Mark shouted at the nearest Samozan "What's going on?"

The Samozan looked confused and the ship rocked again then they heard someone say
"Engineer we need you!"

"I think it's safe to say the ship's being attacked." Karyn said thinking back to what Malcolm had told her before she left Enterprise.

"Great just what we don't need." Mark replied sarcastically.

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(Back on Enterprise.)

"Who the hell are they?" Archer asked no one in particular.

"They won't answer our hails." Hoshi said.

"Keep trying Hoshi." Archer said staring at the ship firing at the Delphin.

"The ship doesn't match anything in the Vulcan database." T'Pol stated.

"That's helpful." Travis said sarcastically.

"I believe it's safe to assume that this is the same ship that attacked the Delphin before." T'Pol continued ignoring Travis' comment.

"The Delphin can't take much more of that sir." Malcolm reported from his station.

"Hoshi?" Archer asked.

Hoshi shook her head.
Archer sighed and walked toward his command chair while saying, "Polarize the hull plating. Malcolm bring the phase canons online."

"Phase canons ready sir." Malcolm said.

He looked at Hoshi once again in hope she would say she was getting something from the attacking ship but she shook her head again, answering his unasked question.

"Let's get their attention. Malcolm." Archer said.

"Firing phase canons… direct hit." Malcolm reported.

The attacking ship stopped firing on the Delphin and slowly turned round to face Enterprise.

"It looks like we got their attention all right." Travis said.

Then the ship started to fire at them.

"Return fire!" Archer shouted.

After few more exchanges of weapons fire the attacking ship fled, as Enterprise was too much for it.

"It looks like we showed them." Travis said.

Archer smiled at Travis' comment and said
"Enterprise to Lieutenant Kelly."
But there was no response he tried again.
"Lieutenant Kelly please respond."

There was silence on the bridge as all were wondering what was going on over on the Delphin. Archer tried once more.
"Enterprise to Ensign Matsuki."

Once again there was silence and then a voice said:

"Ensign Matsuki here sir."

Everyone breathe a sigh of relief all except Trip who had arrived on the bridge a few minutes ago.

"Are you okay?"

"Yes sir a few cuts and bruises but other than that I'm okay."

"Lieutenant Kelly?" Archer asked.

"Lieutenant Kelly been injured sir she's unconscious." Mark replied his voice shaky.

"Karyn." Malcolm and Trip said quietly at the same time.

"And the Samozans?" Archer asked trying to act and sound as captainly as he could.

"As far as I can tell they're all okay." Mark answered his voice steadying.

"How far did you get with the repairs to their engines?" T'Pol asked.

"They're injured and all you're worried about is whether they completed their repairs." Trip said with concern and anger in his voice. But he got no reply.

"We managed to fix their impulse drive before we got attacked." Mark replied.

"Sir Tralaovic is hailing us." Hoshi said.

"I want you and Karyn back as soon as possible understand?" Archer said closing the conversation.

"Yes sir."

"Good. Enterprise out." He then turned to Hoshi and said, "Put him through."

"Enterprise we thank you for defending us. We hope you are not damaged too heavily." Tralaovic says.

"Nothing too serious. How about you?" Archer replied.

Tralaovic didn't answer for a moment then said
"We have no fatalities."

"If you don't mind I'm asking my people to return to Enterprise. One of them is badly injured and we need to get her back as soon as possible." Archer stated.

"I understand Captain and I thank you for the work they have done. We will fix the warp engines when we return home." Tralaovic said understandingly.

"It was our pleasure. How far is it to your…. home?"

"Only four days away at slow speed. You are welcome to come see our home, I am sure the Opalteen council would like to thank you for saving us."
There was a voice that said something in the background but it was not loud enough to hear what was said. It was soon silenced by Tralaovic's quick outburst of 'Silence!'

"Thank you. We'd be… honoured to see your… home." Archer replied.

Tralaovic gave a nod of his head and said
"We go when your crew return." And ended the transmission.

"Archer to Phlox."

"Go ahead Captain." Phlox answered.

"Meet me in the launch bay."

"On my way. Phlox out."

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(In Sickbay.)

Archer walked into sickbay along with Trip and Malcolm.

"How are they?" Archer asked Phlox.

"Ensign Matsuki is going to be fine aside from a few bruises." Phlox replied.

"And Karyn?" Trip asked.

"Her injuries were more severe. She's got a concussion and a broken arm."

Archer walked over to Mark and asked.
"What happened?"

Mark looked at his captain then down at the floor and sighed.
"We were in the engine room when the Delphin was attacked… everything happened so quickly I…" trying to remember what happened. "…We were all trying to keep the engines from blowing up…then she crashed into a wall while trying to help me…"

"Go on." Archer said.

"I heard someone shout something… I looked over to see Karyn holding her right arm then…" he stopped as if he was reliving the moment over again.

"Then what!" Trip said impatiently suddenly appearing beside Archer.

Mark lifted his head and said.
"She was on the other side of the room, just laying there lifeless." He looked like he was going to cry. "Then Enterprise tried contacting but she wouldn't move… she wouldn't move."

"Get some rest." Archer said understandingly.

Then both he and Trip walked back to where Karyn was now surrounded by Malcolm and Phlox.

"How long will she be unconscious?" Malcolm asked.

"It's hard to say." Phlox answered.

"Keep us informed." Archer requested.

Phlox gave a nod of his head and the three of them went back towards the bridge.

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Over the next couple of days Trip and Malcolm paid regular visits to sickbay to check on Karyn but she was always in the same unconscious state.
Then as they began to approach the Samozans home world:

"Sickbay to Bridge."

"Go ahead doctor."

"Captain I believe Lieutenant Kelly is regaining consciousness." Phlox reported.

"I'm on my way. Bridge out."

When Archer entered sickbay Trip was already there.

"Captain." Phlox called out.

Archer headed over to him.

"Before you go and see her I have to warn you that I believe that she is suffering from amnesia." Phlox stated.

"How much can she remember?" Archer asked.

"I'm not quite sure to be honest." Phlox replied

Archer sighed, "Thank you doctor."

Phlox gave a nod and went to attend one of his creatures.

"How are you feeling Karyn?" Archer asked as he approached her.

"Fine thank you sir." she replied, "If you don't mind me asking why I am in sickbay?"

"You mean you don't remember being on the Samozans ship?" Trip asked.

"Samozan?" Karyn asked confused.

Archer decided to see just how far back Karyn's amnesia went so he asked her.
"Karyn do you remember getting a letter from Kian, telling you that he was going to break off your engagement?"

Karyn's eyes widen "How did you know about that? I only got that letter two days ago."

Archer sighed once again before saying "Phlox tells me that you're suffering from amnesia."

"Amnesia." Trip repeated partly shocked.

"If he's right then how do I get my memory back?" Karyn asked.

"Hopefully it will come back by itself, if you take it easy for the next couple of days." Phlox said suddenly appearing beside Karyn. "But there's no guarantee that it will come back."

"Does that mean I can leave?"

"If you take it easy." Phlox replied.

On their way out they ran into Malcolm.
"How are you feeling Karyn?" he asked.

"Fine thank you sir." She replied.

Malcolm looked confused as to why she had suddenly called him 'sir'.

Trip saw the confusion on his face.
"Malcolm I think we had better talk."

And he led Malcolm away telling him what Phlox said.

"You must be hungry." Archer suddenly said.

"Just a little." Karyn replied.

As they walked toward the mess hall Karyn asked
"Captain, how much of my memory am I missing?"

Surprised at her question he replied
"Why do you ask?"

"It was just way the Lieutenant Reed looked confused when I called him 'sir'. It was as if he was expecting me to call him something else. Then a few minutes after I 'woke up' the Commander was at my bedside apologising about something I don't even remember happening."

As they entered the mess hall Archer said
"The last thing you remember is getting the letter from Kian." She gave a nod of her head, "Then I'd say about two and a half weeks."

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"Amnesia." Malcolm repeated.

Trip nodded Malcolm had reacted with a little more shock than he had expected.

"How much can she remember?" He asked thinking back to when she called him 'sir'.

"From what I heard she thinks that her fiancé has just broken up with her." Trip answered.

"And she can't remember anything after that."

"Unless the Cap'n tells her I don't think she does."

"I see." Malcolm said.