Captain Archer surveyed the bridge. He'd come to see whether Hoshi had got any further with breaking the encryption on that message. His initial reaction when she'd told him was to haul Trip and Ensign James up in front of him for an explanation. But he'd thought it through and remembered he had no evidence against them. And so the nervous feeling in the pit of his stomach remained.

He glanced over at Hoshi, and noticed how hard she appeared to be working, hunched over her console with a look of intense concentration on her face. She'll break that code in no time.

He turned to re-enter his ready room when he heard footsteps behind him. Turning round he found himself facing T'Pol. He raised his eyebrows at her.

"Captain may I speak with you?"

"Of course." He said and gestured to the door leading to his ready room.

Once inside he sat down at his desk and looked up at her expectantly. "So, what's on your mind?"

"I thought it would be wise to report to you ," she paused.

"Yes?"

"Lieutenant Reed's odd behaviour earlier today."

"Odd?"

"Yes sir, he seemed on edge, and was very abrupt, almost rude when speaking to me."

"Sounds like the Malcolm we all know and love." He said with a smirk.

"More than usual Captain."

"OK then T'Pol, it's noted, he probably just didn't get enough sleep or something, dismissed."

"Yes sir."

He watched her leave, wondering if she would ever realise humans sometimes just had a bad day. He gazed around his ready room, and realising he didn't have much else to do, decided to go back to the bridge.

On entering he noticed Hoshi had a slight smile on her face.

"Ensign?"

She smiled at him. "I've broken the first line of the encryption."

"The first line?" he asked sceptically.

"Yes sir, in a simple code there are usually only one or two, but this code is extremely complex. There seems to be backup's that come online when you break one line of the code. However I think I've found a way of disabling them, and I've nearly got the second line."

"Great work Ensign."

"Sir, I think I-"

"What?" He asked walking over to her station. He looked down at it and his frowned with confusion.

On the screen were two fluffy pink bunny rabbits smiling and winking at them, between them written in pink and red lettering was the following message:

CONGRATULATIONS!
You broke the first and second line of code in the FPBR-3 encryption package!
Unfortunately for you the new and improved third version of Fluffy Pink
Bunny Rabbits isn't your average encryption code.

When someone breaks the first line we don't mind to much, but when they get to the second we get mad!
Once you've got two bunny rabbits, you get more and more and more.
We like to play in your computer systems, and sometimes we accidentally gnaw through conduits and power cables.
Many apologies for any trouble we may cause.
Maybe this'll teach you not to try and read other people's mail!
HAVE A NICE DAY!

"What in the hell-" he began but stopped as the lighting on the bridge flickered and then went back on. When he looked back down at Hoshi's station there were pink and red hearts raining down the screen. The rabbits were gone however.

"Captain." He turned round to see T'Pol staring down at her station with a look of disgust on her face. He quickly made his way over only to see two bunny rabbits 'frolicking' in the shower of pink and red hearts, when they began to bound away they were followed by ten smaller pink rabbits.

He looked round at Hoshi. "This can't be good."

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