Lost – Chapter 2
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Previously:
D'Mek responded immediately, "Record the scene K'Pell and gather what evidence you can. The Federation can sort this mess out."
K'Pell ordered the engineer on the landing party to try and download what information he could from the computer core. Perhaps the records would tell them what had happened here.
USS Enterprise
Lieutenant Commander Data was studying the latest astrophysical research on black holes, working on the training schedules for the officers rotating through the bridge crew and standing his watch as 2nd officer. Regardless he was fully aware of what was happening on the bridge and noted that Ensign Brady the duty security officer had received a communication notification from the ships computer. Data could have checked the system himself but waited allowing the young Ensign to do his job.
"Sir we are being hailed by Starfleet command, they wish to speak to the Captain."
"Understood, Data to Captain Picard"
The Captains response was almost immediate, "Picard here."
"Captain I have a priority one, communication from Starfleet command. I will redirect it to you screen."
"Thank you Data"
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Captains Quarters
Jean-Luc Picard sat at the desk in his room reading a book on Vulcan poetry. The book had been highly recommended as an insightful guide to early Vulcan poetry and was proving a riveting read.
He had just turned the page when Data announced that he had received a priority one communication. With a sigh he marked the page and put his book aside.
"Hello Jean-Luc" said a deep and rather emotionless voice that he recognised with an internal sigh.
"Admiral Saren"
The grey haired Vulcan nodded and continued in the same dry tone.
"Jean-Luc we have a problem with one of our research stations in the Tal Sigma system. The station transmitted a report stating that an experiment had gone wrong. Then twelve hours later a second signal was received by a nearby Klingon ship. The distress call asked for immediate aid. The base commander claimed the station was under attack from Romulan forces."
"Romulan?" remarked Picard. "That seems odd considering they've been behaving themselves of late".
"The Klingons found two human survivors and have agreed to rendezvous with a federation vessel. You're the closest Jean-Luc. Your secondary mission is to investigate why the Romulans if indeed it was the Romulans would attack a civilian archaeological research station."
Picard inclined his head acknowledging the order, "Understood Admiral."
"Be careful Jean-Luc, Saren out."
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IKS Kaveth Nar
The young female Klingon medic paused and then scanned the human laying in the medical bay again. She re-read the results before shaking her head. Her medical scanner's results seemed jumbled. Normally she would dismiss it as being defective except for the fact that this was the third scanner she had tried.
As she puzzled over the apparent anomaly when someone hailed medical, she placed the scanner on the table and responded.
"Medical."
"How are the humans?" asked D'Mek.
"They are still unconscious Commander. Both seem to be recovering well. Whatever they had been subjected to...well it could be described as torture. Most of the injuries are pretty recent although the boy bears quite a few scars I have treated their injuries but I they will need time to recover. Both have what I suspect is severe exhaustion. I am however having difficulty completing more comprehensive scans on either the man or the boy. I'm not sure what's causing it."
"Is it something we need to worry about?"
"No sir it seems confined to their immediate area. I would appreciate someone from engineering to check over my data."
The medic knew she was probably being overly cautious but anything unknown could be a threat was a lesson drummed in to all the science graduates of the Imperial Fleet.
"Very well an engineer will be with you soon, you will keep me informed."
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As L'kor of house Kardis walked toward sickbay she was a very satisfied young Klingon engineer. Her role as 2nd engineer aboard the Kaveth Nar was a sought after posting and she had won it on merit. It was one of her proudest personal achievements made all the more sweet by not having used her families influence.
Breaking off her musings she activated her scanner to check for energy field anomalies as reached the medical section. Almost immediately her scanner detected an unknown energy field. In fact there were two unknown fields that were overlapping. Walking slowly she tried to pinpoint the source. The readings were growing stronger as she approached the medical bay.
L'kor frowned and entered the medical bay to continue the scans. The energy field was measurably stronger but now something was interfering with the scans. A quick adjustment of the sensitivity settings allowed her to continue. She waved off the medic and continued her hunt. There was still a great deal of interference however she did manage to find the source. Surprisingly it was the two humans laying in medical.
"That makes no sense." L'kor muttered in an annoyed tone. Stepping closer she examined the man and boy. The man was handsome enough for a human with longish hair and handsome features. The boy was simply a boy although you might say young man. Dismissing their appearance as irrelevant she turned to the medic.
"Did these two have any equipment with them when we transported them?"
"No just their clothes, shoes, some sort of timekeeping device and two sticks possibly religious icons?"
"Show me" ordered L'kor.
The medic unlocked a cabinet and removed two boxes, handing them to the engineer who then scanned the contents.
"So you think that something they were wearing is interfering with my medical scans?"
"What?" grumbled the engineer without taking her eyes off the scanner, there were some strange readings coming from the sticks but at such a low level it couldn't be the source.
"I said are their clothes interfering with my scans."
"No. it's something they are generating, apparently biologically. I think I have seen this wave pattern before but where?" The last was said softly, more to herself than the medic.
L'kor quickly hailed the bridge "Engineer L'kor to D'Mek."
"D'Mek. What is it?"
"Sir you need to come to medical and see this."
"I am on my way."
"Understood Commander," L'kor closed the channel and went back to the ships computer. The database was huge and it took a few minutes for her to find her match. "I knew it! I knew I had seen these energy fields somewhere."
D'Mek marched in to medical and immediately spotted the engineer working at a terminal. The screen showed a number of overlapping wave forms and energy patterns. The engineer seemed engrossed in her work not even noticing his entrance.
"Report engineer"
L'kor didn't even turn her head.
"One moment, I've nearly got my match…..THERE by Kahless a match"
"What is it?"
Turning to face her commanding officer the engineer motioned with her hand at the screen.
"Commander, have you heard of the guardian of forever?"
D'Mek shook his head, "No, should I have?"
"When I was doing my advanced engineering course I did some research in to time travel. As you may be aware sir Starfleet has also had experience. One of those experiences was with a time portal, a gateway to other times and dimensions. If I'm correct and these energy readings match as they appear to then… "
"Time travellers?"
"That or dimensional travel," L'kor clarified.
"Any risk to the ship or crew?" D'Mek enquired. His gaze had shifted and he was now examining the two humans laying still and quiet on treatment beds.
"No I can't see them being a risk, especially unarmed. Technically they may interfere with some electronics like the medics medical scanners but I would suspect that will wear off as the energy dissipates."
D'Mek stood his face impassive as he thought through these revelations. If these scientists had been playing with time and dimensional travel had the Romulans known, had they attacked to gain this technology? If they did then this could mean ….what, why would they need this technology? He needed to report this to the high command soon, very soon.
"Commander, the boy is waking."
The medic ran a medical scan and prepared a hyperspray and a tray of human medications, including a heavy sedative just in case.
D'Mek walked over toward the younger human who was indeed stirring and making small noises. He glanced at the medic who was closely monitoring the boy. Then the boy's eyes opened, he was obviously disorientated but before anyone could speak he screamed out what sounded like 'serious watch out" before slumping back on the bed. D'Mek who had drawn his disruptor shrugged and returned it to its holster as the medic almost pushed him out of the way to get to the boy.
As all three Klingons watched the barely conscious boy they failed to notice the second figure had opened his eyes and was looking around in panic. With the attention on the younger human the elder slowly raised a hand. He whispered something and two small objects flew in to his hand.
The movement attracted the attention of L'kor who half turned trying to work out what was happening.
The human caught the two sticks and pointed both at her like they were weapons. "Get away from my godson you bastards."
Before D'Mek could speak the medic stepped forward hands raised. "Wait I am a medic. I am treating the boy, your god-son you say."
That seemed to get the humans attention but he didn't lower his sticks.
"What, is he injured?"
"No merely exhausted. You were both suffering from exhaustion. May I approach you; I assure you I mean you no harm." She placed her medical scanner on the boy's bed. As she slowly raised her hands she tapped the security alert on the medical bed with her knee.
The human shook his head as if clearing it, "Firstly who are you, no what are you and where the hell are we?"
"My name is Kuri. I am the ships medic with me are Commander D'Mek of the house of M'vell and second engineer L'kor of house Kardis. Our species is Klingon. You are aboard the Imperial Klingon ship Kaveth Nar currently on route to Federation space."
"Okay what did all that gibberish mean then?" The human looked both puzzled and annoyed.
"What it means human is that you are aboard my ship and I would appreciate you putting away your sticks before I am forced to order my guards to stun you." D'Mek finished speaking and then pointed to the hatch where three Klingons stood aiming their disruptors.
"Don't hurt the boy" pleaded the man even as he lowered his 'sticks'.
D'Mek snorted looking as he glowered at the human, waving away the crewmen who sheathed their weapons and left
"I have no intention of hurting an unconscious child. Now hand over your 'weapons' and you won't be harmed."
With a sigh the human looked in to D'Mek's eyes for a few tense moments before he held the two sticks out to D'Mek who passed them to L'kor. Kuri picked up her scanner and moved to scan the human all the while explaining what she was doing.
D'Mek acknowledged the medics cunning. She was trying to build some sort of rapport with the man, which was an excellent idea because he needed answers and he needed them very soon.
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D'Mek sat in his command chair contemplating just what he was going to report. He had spent nearly two hours debriefing first the adult and then the child. All he had learned was that the two knew little of what had happened at the base. They claimed to have been abducted only to awaken in the complex. While he was no expert on humans his instincts were telling him that they were telling him the truth for the most part. There was something being concealed but as to what that was he had no idea. There was nothing solid to point to in their stories but rather gaps at significant points. Like exactly how a man and a boy had overpowered a Romulan landing party. The man had said that he had caught them off guard when he had fought back. Again it was most likely true but still an unsatisfying answer.
The other difficulty was the fact that the evidence really did suggest that they were time travellers. When D'Mek had informed the two that they would rendezvous with a Federation starship in 14 days, he had expected more of a reaction than a shrug. But as the adult named Sirius had gone on to explain he and the boy Harry had no idea about what the Federation was.
Indeed L'kor's theory that it was either time or dimensional travel was confirmed when she told Sirius the date in the old Earth calendar and he nearly fainted while his godson stood pale and open mouthed.
However once Sirius and Harry had gotten over their shock they were both curious and began asking their own questions. Harry in particular was fascinated by the ship and its crew.
Sirius however seemed to focus on L'kor, much to the engineer's apparent annoyance. When Harry warned him to lay off Sirius had simply shrugged grinned and stated that he liked a challenge. D'Mek who had overheard the conversation clapped him on the back and had departed the mess hall before his booming laugh erupted. Indeed over the next few weeks the crew of the Kaveth Nar stood back and watched in bemusement as the strange human pursued the ships most aloof and highborn female. They were all wondering when she would pull a disruptor on him or perhaps throw him out an airlock.
This strange relationship however seemed to be going well enough that violence was avoided. It was two days before the scheduled rendezvous when things became complicated.
Sirius awoke to the sound of a glaring klaxon and flashing red light. Confused he automatically drew his wand and turned to find Harry already up and wand in hand. Not sure what to do Sirius and Harry opened their hatch finding nothing.
Harry looked up at his godfather, "Should we stay here?"
"I don't know what's going on. It sounds like an alarm. Maybe we should head to engineering L'kor is on duty. Maybe we can find out what's wrong from her. We might even be able to give her a hand."
"Should we, I mean maybe we should wait here." Harry looked worried as he fingered his wand nervously.
Sirius smiled at his godson, "Come on Pup that's not how the Marauders think. It's all hands to the Mizzen and damn to toppos."
"It's torpedos Sirius."
"Then damn them to, come on." Sirius ducked down a corridor practically dragging Harry with him. The ship lurched again and they were both thrown against the bulkhead. With a curse Sirius pulled Harry behind him.
"Merlin's balls what the hell is going on?" asked Sirius.
Moving as quickly as they could through the ship they reached the engineering hatch. Sirius was about to hit the door release when it slid open revealing a disaster area. Crew were strewn around the deck and smoke obscured everything.
Cursing Sirius pulled Harry back from the door. "Go and get some help it looks like there has been some sort of explosion down in there."
Harry nodded and took off back down the corridor looking for a communication terminal to call the bridge and medical.
Sirius quickly cast a bubblehead charm to ensure he could breathe before moving deeper in to engineering. Stopping as he found members of the crew he checked them then dragged the living out in to the corridor, he left the dead.
Eventually he reached the command station where he found Ryven the chief engineer slumped over a console, dead. It was growing incredibly hard to see even with the Bubblehead charm active and he had yet to find L'kor. He ducked as a console exploded showering the area with sparks.
Sirius placed his wand on the palm of his hand and cast the location spell. It was risky doing magic but he was growing increasingly desperate. "Point me L'kor."
His wand spun and then pointed toward the engine core. Looking over the railing he spotted a figure on the floor. Without hesitation he jumped the railing and landed next to the prone Klingon. It was L'kor apparently injured but alive. Holding the Klingon tightly he apparated to the medical section. He didn't see the two surprised crewmen who had arrived in engineering to help the injured.
Sirius and the unconscious L'kor arrived in Medical to find dozens of injured crew being treated and called for help.
"What happened?" demanded the Medic.
"I don't know found her like this in engineering. It's a bloody mess down there."
The medic gestured at the floor, "Lay her there and I'll be back in a moment."
As Sirius sat on the floor cradling the injured engineer, his thoughts turned to Harry.
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