Disclaimer: Don't own startrek or any of its characters! Jenna and Eddie are my own creation but if you would like to use them in one of your own fics just ask. I can't see me having a problem with it.

Well now... funny how a few days can turn into a month! Really sorry about that! But with school and work things have gotten CRAZY! I'm supposed to be doing homework right now! Meh! Oh well! I have been ignoring this for too long! Here is the next chap! I'm not going to set a time line for when it will be posted, hopefully within a week or so, but things do come up! It IS coming though! THAT I promise!

Special thanks to:

NikoMiko625: Ugh! I know! Stupid school and work always getting in my way! Oh, and as for Eddie and Jenna, I was already planning to write that in. Those two are so much fun to write.

Star Trek Freak: No prob about the time factor! It took me a MONTH to find time to finish this chap, that's sad. As for Wes, I can openly admit I embellish his character abit and I'm fairly sure I have him off in many aspects, but what can I say, I didn't always like the way they wrote him in the series! His dialogue always sucked! So I made a few minor improvements! (at least in my eyes they're improvements)

Chapter 8: Nothing to be found
Beep beep! Beep beep!

Wesley looked up from his just completed scans to a frustrated looking Jenna who looked like she was about to strangle her consol. To his relief and disappointment, his scans had shown no toxins or unusual biological organisms in the air. When he checked the air recycling records and life support systems, everything came out clean. Nothing had been added to the atmosphere recently. Hell! Nothing had even been detected within the past month. Medical records showed no one had even gotten sick for nearly two months, although there were a few reported injuries, nothing major though. This was good in that it meant the atmosphere wasn't a threat to them, but it was still bad because it meant they still didn't know what happened to all the people. It just seemed like this mystery was just getting more and more… for lack of a better term… mysterious.

Beep beep! Beep beep!

"UGH!" Jenna groaned glaring at consol. "Stupid computer! I hate you, you know that?"

"What's wrong?" Wesley asked tentatively.

"Obviously something, considering she talking to her computer consol," Eddie responded.

This unfortunately served to make Jenna more angry. "What's wrong? What's WRONG? You wanna know what's WRONG?" Jenna snapped.

"It's why he asked," Eddie replied.

"Fine! I'll tell you what's wrong!" she said throwing her hands up in defeat. "We can't access anything. And I mean ANYTHING! Mission logs, personal logs, docking schedules, cargo inventory, even recent power usage for the station is classified. Anything that's even slightly related to what ever experiments they were doing over here is classified."

"Well, actually…" Wesley said, slightly scared to risk interrupting her.

"What?" Jenna snapped, whipping around.

"Well… uh. Not everything was classified. I was able access their life support systems and even a few of their medical records. That, at least, tells us something."

"And that would be…" Eddie asked curiously.

"That it probably wasn't any type of biological or medical experiments they were doing over here. I did a scan of the atmosphere. Everything checks out. No toxins or recent changes to lifesupport system. Also, there are no reports of anyone even getting sick for the last two months."

"So we can rule out the - them getting sick and dying, and the mutated monster eating their brains theories?" Eddie asked.

Wesley raised an eyebrow. "Not entirely, but we can put them at the bottom of the list," he replied.

"So what is our current theory?" Eddie asked.

"Um…" Wesley said looking around for some sort of clue. "I … I have no idea. All we've really managed to get done so far is narrow down the list." He sighed sitting down.

"So… what now?" Jenna asked sitting down beside Wesley looking slightly more calm.

"Well, I guess we can start by taking these off," Wesley said removing his helmet. Jenna did the same. Wesley looked around. "And since we're not going to find much by going through the records, we could just search the labs ourselves. Maybe we'll get lucky and find something, say if someone left a note pad out or something."

"Works for me," Jenna shrugged.

"Hey guys…" Eddie said slyly. "I'm sure there are a lot of labs in this base…Maybe too many for just two people?"

Wesley and Jenna just looked at each other and rolled their eyes. That boy was relentless. Wesley nodded to Jenna in consent and she tapped her communicator.

"Alright Eddie! You can come down now. Just stop your whining."

"On my way," he replied. They could practically hear the skip in his step.

"I swear! It's like working with a two year old. I so did not sign up for Starfleet for this!"

"Yeah… well…I'm sure he'll mature… in…. time" Wesley said, not totally believing his words.

"Sure… you keep telling yourself that." Jenna replied sarcastically.

"It could happen," Wesley said, still not sounding very convincing. "Just talk to him a year after he gets posted. You probably won't even recognize him."

"Un huh? I'll keep that in mind," Jenna said, a smirk growing on her lips.

" It could happen!" Wesley was thensilent for a moment thinking it over. "Well... Yeah, you're right. He's never gonna change."

"It was a nice thought though." Jenna replied.

"Yeah... yeah, well... No. Oh well." Wesley said shrugging.

A few minutes later, Eddie arrived and they began their search of the compound. Each sporting tri-corders, they decided to go deck by deck, as apparently, there were quite a few science labs on the base. A lot more than they had anticipated when they decided to begin their search.

They started on deck one, and were working their way down. On the first deck they found some hydroponic experiments. The doctor of the ship had apparently been attempting to grow a new breed of tomatoes that were supposed to be, according to her notes, tastier when mixed with basil. While it was certainly an interesting experiment, they doubted the tomatoes had anything to do with disappearance of the crew. On deck two the labs were completely empty, and were currently being used for storage of food rations. Decks three and four were was just crew quarters and deck five used mainly for recreational facilities.

Finally by deck six, they appeared to have found some more promising laboratories. Unfortunately, there were four of them. Getting slightly annoyed at their slow moving search they decided to split up and each take a lab to search on their own.

"Once you're finished your search, meet back here at the turbo lift," Wesley instructed. "If anything happens, inform the group right away. Don't do anything stupid," Wesley looked in Eddie's direction, "and don't dismiss something as nothing. Something small could be more dangerous than you know."

"We know, we know," Eddie taunted. "Don't worry mom!"

"Geeze," Jenna said in a mocking tone, "and I thought I was the paranoid one. You were all gung ho to come here in the first place Wes, and now," she said turning to Eddie, "poor boy's got his panties in twist."

Eddie shook his head in a mocking reverence. "So sad when these things happen! He was so young" He said in over dramatic wail pretending to cry into his hands.

Wesley had to fight off a grin while trying to look insulted instead. "You! …. Ugh… Oh shut up! I hate you guys!"

Jenna and Eddie burst into a fit of giggles, leaning on each other for support.

"Just… just GO! Ok?" Wesley said exhasberatedlywalking off towards one of the science labs while shaking his head. "I hope that brain eating monster gets you both!" He shouted behind him. As he turned back one final time he smirked as he saw Jenna give a fairly surprised looking Eddie that smack she'd promised him over the comm. earlier. This is going to be a looonnng day Wesley thought to himself taking on a more serious tone. He had not forgotten the foot steps he had heard earlier. They still meant something, he just wasn't sure what that was yet.

To be continued…

Ok! So it's kinda filler, I know! But its necessary filler! I promise far more suspence in the next chap! I just had to set it up so I would be able to do it! ANYways! Hope you enjoyed it anyways!

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