Chapter Two
An hour later Tammy was found by Jaret and David when she was busy working on the computer and eating at the same time. She was so engrossed in her work that she never heard the two of them beam in.
"Tammy, the computer said you wanted to see us urgently, what's wrong?" asked a concerned but tired Jaret.
Tammy jumped as she heard his voice and turned around to face Jaret with a serious look," Lets go and talk in another room that way you can sit down and eat breakfast while I'll explain everything that has happened since you left.", motioned Tammy towards the direction she had made breakfast for them.
Once the three of them were comfortably seated and eating breakfast, Tammy explained," While you were gone I've managed to get life support going in some areas of the ship and a few more levels up. But good news is that, the power to the turbolifts are restored so we can go and see how bad the damages are in the upper decks. I went to bed late and was woken up with the intruder alarm blaring all the while thinking I might know who and where the intruder was. It was in Main Engineering, surprise. I wasn't as upset by the intruder until I found out who it turned out to be. It was Mrs. Kvamme, she was quite smug mind you and basically told me to tell you Captain that if we don't leave this place she'll go straight to Mr. Cryer and tell him everything! So what do we do now?" finished Tammy.
"I can't believe that Mrs. Kvamme blackmailed us but then again, how is she going to get a reaction from us otherwise. I won't let her do this though, no way am I going to back down without a fight." Jaret growled.
"Alright then Captain, what are your orders?" asked David as he too got seriously worried.
"Something that needs to be done, regardless. Like you Tammy, I have been doing some thinking too about this ship. Since you are in your uniform Tammy, I suggest that David and I find our own quarters on this level and get into our uniform. We have a lot of work ahead of us. I will contact Mr. Cryer and tell him everything. Might as well come clean anyhow, we just have to beat her to the punch. I want the two of you to start gathering crew members. I think it's high time we get this place up and running and I want the ship functioning and with a fair amount of crew members. Beam them over here and tell them about this place, if they agree to join they can and if not, escort them to the brig for I don't want any surprises yet." commanded Jaret with a new air of defiance.
"Aye Captain!" acknowledged both Tammy and David.
The two boys left the room to get ready and Tammy turned around and went back to her computer and worked on hacking into the school's computer systems for the addresses for people that she would think that made a good choice to join them. She also had the medical files of everyone in their town on stand by.
She made a plan first and got to working on it," Let's ask only the young kids since it was found by us as kids and we're coping quite well with it. I'll get the addresses of children ages fourteen and up, no adults though, if any of them are over 19 it will complicate things too much and we don't want that right now. Later on we can consider it but right now we can focus on this age group. I intend to get a crew that will remain loyal to us and to Jaret!"
David later entered main engineering not even fifteen minutes later and found himself bumping into quite a crowd that was talking amongst themselves. He was also in his uniform and thought he should inquire loudly," What is going on here Tammy?"
A head peeked around the corner in a red uniform but with only three circles on his shoulders to indicate a different rank from Jaret, "I assume you are David, head of security? It's a pleasure to meet you. I can't believe I said that for that sounded weird to say. Allow me to introduce my self, I'm Commander Ryan Livingston, Tammy's younger brother. When she beamed me over and explained everything in a heartbeat I agreed to join and since then gave her several suggestions as to who would be perfect in all aspects areas."
David whistled his surprise," Pleasure to meet you too Ryan, I'm sorry sir, Commander. So what is our status sir?"
At that point, Tammy came around the corner and in her hand she had a padd, "We have about 230 members now in all areas of the ship, most of them are in the area of technician, so they'll be working with getting the ship back to normal.. We already have some levels cleared of debris and another good portion of them is in security. So far, no one has turned us down, which is good. As to per my brothers suggestion, we have some new additions among the senior officer staff. Jaret, you, I, Ryan then we have one Lt. John Paul who is chief of Main Engineering. Who will be kicking me out soon so he can coordinate the repairs. Lastly we have Consular Tressa Behamn as Ship's consular if you will for she will be responsible for the mental welfare of the crew. We still can't seem to decide who would be adequate enough for Lt Cmdr. for Ryan can't figure out who would be good for the rank and neither can I. What do you think?"
Lt. Dyck leaned against the wall, "I can't seem to either but you've done well, what about these people here?"
"Oh, they are my staff for Medic Bay, you have a staff that is on Deck 39 so you can take the turbolift there. It's quite a big ship but we will get used to it soon enough." Smiled Tammy.
"Thanks for telling me that, I will head there. Oh, Jaret is in the ready room on the bridge. He will be back when he's done. Ryan, you might want to head that way so you can brief some officers there and also help clear debris as well. It needs it. John can coordinate repairs afterwards.", explained David before heading out.
Tammy nodded and watched David leave with some of the new people. She saw John heading her way and held up her hands to indicate that she was going to leave main engineering and leave the rest of the stuff up to him. Tammy looked to her staff and decided to get to work. She motioned for her staff to follow her. Ryan also grabbed a few officers and told them that they were going to head to the bridge to get things ready.
Meanwhile Jaret was on the bridge in his ready room, talking through the audio link to Mr. Cryer's home. He was frustrated and slammed down his hand on the computer to cut the line off. He shook his head and grumbled something to himself. He leaned back in his chair and smoothed out the wrinkles in his uniform. He sat there quietly thinking to himself, not caring about the noises outside of his door. He assumed that there were people on the bridge clearing out the debris and trying to get things running once again after how many years of not working.
Several hours later Tammy, Ryan, David, John and Tressa was on Deck 10; in a room they labeled as the mess hall, and they were eating their well earned lunch.
Tammy looked to her lunch that consisted of a regular egg salad sandwich with ice tea to drink. She was munching on it slowly, and looked to the others. Ryan was scarfing down a beef taco salad with a side of nachos with a drink of Ice tea. David was playing with his mashed potatoes and stir fry for it was evident that he was thinking on something. John was finishing up his double cheeseburger with onion rings. And Tressa was eating a salad with water.
"Ryan for heavens sake, eat slowly, I don't want you to choke! You must be hungry, and how is that, because I am bone tired." Tressa stated.
Ryan looked to his left and simply
said," I'm not tired yet, I was busy helping the technicians
clearing the debris by hand and so forth. And yes manual work, it
makes
one hungry you know. At least the entire ship clear of
debris and the repairs are on time, the crews are gathered in their
assigned rank and quarters. The only thing really left is the bridge,
repairs are taking more time than I thought, damage was extensive and
we were lucky it is still functional. How can you be tired
Tressa, your work is in the area of
counseling?"
Tressa looked at Ryan and sighed," I had some rough start with almost everyone that I have seen today. They are a bit overwhelmed by all this, and I agree with them. It's a bit to swallow all at once, but they will cope and so will I. I'm surprised that you are adjusting rather well for John has some doubts earlier but that worked out in the end. Tammy and David had a few days to accept their new roles. So that is why I'm tired and I'm getting worried."
"Worried about what Tressa?" asked John as he leaned back when he was done with his lunch.
"Jaret hasn't left his ready room yet and frankly, I'm getting nervous. I mean, no wonder why, look at what we accomplished here and not one single person said no to us. So here we are, worrying away. ", replied Tammy.
"Hey, I agree with Tammy. Actually, I'm surprise this ship even made it here." hinted John.
"What do you mean you are surprised it even made it here?" asked a confused Ryan as he took the time to stop eating as did the others.
"This ship, the Galaxy is made for space you know, not for landing on solid ground. It could be made to land in the future but I'm going off topic here. I looked in the sensor logs, it was attacked in space. They crashed here, so they are definably not from Earth. They are humans true. They are far more advanced than we are, which personally I don't mind now since we have the Galaxy under our command and it's ours to do as we wish.", explained John to the group.
"We know that entire thing John. We found it shortly after we first arrived here. The crew had to abandon the ship prior to putting the ship on autopilot to have it crash here. It was their intention that they come back for it or to leave it to us if they couldn't come back." Tammy announced.
"Okay, but another thing I want to mention, at that time when the Galaxy crashed here, I'm surprised that with the amount of damage it had on the hulls, the ship didn't break up in our atmosphere or explode into one giant fireball when it did hit the surface. All things considering, this is one solid ship that was made. I've also found out, when it crashed here, the sensors reported something odd. I've checked it out, and there is another ship on Earth." John further explained.
"Another ship? Where?" asked Ryan who's curiosity peaked at that comment.
"Never mind that now, we'll deal with that later. Now, we have to focus on the Galaxy and get this ship off the ground and still have control over it." Tammy commented.
"And it will stay that way." said a determined voice which belonged to Jaret. The gang turned around and saw Jaret with a smile on their face.
"Jaret, welcome back sir. Glad to see you came out of the ready room. We have a standing crew of 300, but this ship can carry about 1,500 people. We can get more people later once we get this ship off the ground." informed Lt. Dyck.
"I'm proud of you guys then and good work! Very good to meet you Cmdr. Livingston, Counselor Behamn, and Lt. Paul. Now, we have to talk. For I have some bad news." nodded jaret as he too grabbed a chair and sat down with the rest.
"What happened now?" asked Tammy who groaned.
"Mr. Cryer has been
informed but it seemed to me that Mrs. Kvamme beat us to the punch
anyway for she told him yesterday when she ran into us in Main
Engineering the first time, and anyhow Mr. Cryer is on his way to the
police station and is intent on filing a report. He also request that we hand the Galaxy and the technology over to the
government
and military since its wise in his esteem wisdom that children should
not have access to such things. I have no intention of letting
that happen. We are going down to the police station, just
David, Tammy and me, since we are the first to find the place and it
should be us that fight for this place. Lt. Paul, get this
place ready for space cause come hell or high water, we are going to
fly this out no matter what for I'm not handing the Galaxy over to
anyone! Not as long as I'm Captain of this ship!", said a
determined Jaret.
"Glad to know that! When do we leave?" asked Tammy.
"Yeah, when do we?" smiled David feeling very encouraged.
"Right away, I just came back only to get you three and shall we, after all we are in our uniform. Let's make some waves." spoke Jaret as he got up from his chair.
The two also got up and said their good byes to the rest of the staff and headed out the door to Transporter room three on deck 6.
A couple of minutes later, the three beamed themselves into the police station and the person at the front desk saw the three of them appeared out of nowhere. Looked around, and back at his coffee and muttered something underneath his voice. Jaret nodded to the others and walked towards the desk.
"Excuse me? Where the Chief's office, I and my comrades here have some urgent business with the chief", inquired Jaret.
The person at the desk nodded, unable to still comprehend what he just witness and extended a shaking finger that pointed the way to his boss' office.
"Thanks have a good day." smiled Tammy as the three left the desk and headed towards the door labeled with the name of the police Chief. Jaret knocked on the door and waited for a response.
"Enter!" barked the voice.
Jaret and the others nodded and in they walked inside. Once inside the three of them received a shock, inside the office, was Mr. Cryer who was also with another man whom Jaret assumed that it was Chief O'Hara.
"What the..." stuttered David in the middle of his shocked expression.
"Ahh, you are just in time. Jaret, Tammy, and David, please meet Chief O' Hara, who is the person who you will hand this Galaxy' over to and he will make sure it ends up in the right hands instead of the hands of young children.", smiled Mr. Cryer.
"We're not as young as you like to think. I have news for you, it's Captain Pieper, Dr. Livingston and Lt. Dyck to you. And as for handing the Galaxy over to you, we are not going to do it. We have together decided to take it upon ourselves to find the original people who commanded this mighty vessel. You have no clue what the Galaxy meant to those people, and they were attacked by an unknown force. They were forced to leave their only homes in the hopes that this ship would be found by us or by them when they came back. Now we know far more than you'll ever know. Speaking of which we know this has much responsibility to bear and we are sorry that we have neglected school and we will rectify this once we finish what we started. We owe those people that much weather they are dead or alive." Growled Tammy.
Jaret could only stare at Tammy, because it was much unexpected that she would speak so harshly to two adults who were currently in shock over what they have heard.
"Well, given the fact that you say that you are prepared for this, May I ask how can you three hope to get that ship off the ground, and command it?", asked Mr. Cryer calmly.
"Believe me, I have thought of that some time ago but we have prepared for everything. Right now, we have a standing crew of 300. We have also thought of what we can do as a compromise. We still want you to know that we appreciate that you know what is best for us, but believe us, we know what we still want to do, and deciding so we thought it might be prudent to still let you know what is going on. It goes both ways, we offer suggestions and opinions; same applies to you to us. ", sighed Jaret.
"Well, it seems that you have thought a great deal of this and from your speech Dr. Livingston, I can see that you guys are still determined. Very well, I accept that compromise. One question though before you go, how are you going to get that ship off the ground with my school on top of it?" asked Mr. Cryer.
"I think I'll leave that part to my chief Engineer. We must be really going, for I have much to inform and to learn. Thank you for your time. Now will you excuse us…" nodded a pleased Jaret as his hand rose to his combadge on his chest and touched it once, "Transporter room 3, three to beam up."
Before Chief O' Hara could say anything, the trio disappeared and he just stared in complete shock. Looking to Mr. Cryer and he asked," Are we doing the right thing?"
"I don't think we have a choice. They are going to do this with or without our support. I have to let Mrs. Kvamme know about this, as well as the other teachers on my staff and various schools for their students will not be in class for awhile till this gets all sorted out. " Pointed out Mr. Cryer.
The Trio arrived back on the Galaxy in the transporter room, then Jaret nodded to the officer and the two of them stepped off the pad and walked out the door. Tammy and David followed suit until they stopped at front of the turbolift's door.
Jaret then turned around and looked at Tammy," Well done Dr. Livingston, you handle it very well. Lt. Dyck, get the sensors back online because I have a feeling that this secret is going to reach the press somehow and then the enemies will be tipped off by listening in on Earth. Plus they know where the Galaxy crashed and I don't want to take any chances on meeting them unprepared." commanded Jaret.
"Aye sir, I'll get to it right away." acknowledge David.
Tammy shook her head and said, "I know, keep on working. I have to get back to my trainees anyway. So what are you up to now?"
The Turbo lift doors opened and Jaret and David stepped in and turned
to Tammy "I'm going to search the computer and read up on
James's logs and learn more about the man. After all I might
get a chance to meet him. Learning more of him helps me
to
become a wise leader." explained Jaret as the door
closed.
Tammy nodded and sighed, she headed off in another direction to take another turbolift to deck 12.
Jaret and David were on their way to the bridge. The door swished open and he stepped onto a very thriving and busy bridge. He went to his ready room and turned to David," I'm going to be busy so let me know if anything happens. Ryan, you have the bridge again." ,spoke Capt. Pieper quickly and he stepped inside his ready room and left Ryan with his jaw on the ground. David just grunted and started to work on his task.