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Old Friends; 2374 Just before the battle to retake DS9
Topic Started: Feb 10 2018, 10:09 PM (1,838 Views)
Rebecca Talon
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"Above my pay grade," Rebecca stated. "But, I hope you are wrong. You are often wrong you know. You did marry Julie after all."
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Nick Ryder
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"You really hate her don't you?" Nick chuckled. "She's not that bad. She has her moments. I do wish I could share more of my interests with her, but she does make me happy... when she's not driving me nuts sometimes." he shook his head. "I look at my girls' faces and it's worth it." He closed his eyes and shook his head. "I blame the Borg for all this, we got a lot more military since then. We're a threat to a lot more than we used to be."
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"Nicholas Ryder I do not hate anyone. Especially your succubus of a wife. But, look if you are happy with her I support it, and as far as the Borg, well in all honesty if not them it would have been the Dominion, or the Cardasians, or the Klingons. We signed up for this. The kiddos did not."
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"We didn't built straight up warships for the Klingons or Cardassians. I'm also worried that someday they're coming back. We're ripe for the Assimilation. Our resources are stretched thinner than they've been since 359." Nick sighed and rubbed his eyes. "Sorry... I get... pessimistic when we're dead core. Someday Becca, we're going to be looking back at this as the 'good old days'. Not so good but better than the days we may have ahead of us if we don't... I don't know... prepare."
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"Not a chance," she said. "Not a chance. War is never the 'good ol' days'. One day we will be in charge of this all. Admirals certainly, hell maybe even president. And then we can make the policy. For now it is our job to lower our heads, and do what is necessary, and try to stay alive."

Rebecca's combadge chirped, "Commander, the Davidson is here," Chell announced.

Rebecca tapped it and responded, "Very good. Have their teams beam to engineering, and we'll coordinate from there."

"Understood. Bridge out."

Rebecca looked at Nick and gave him a grim smile as she pulled off the outer uniform shell, and tossed it into a corner after removing the combadge. She pushed the sleeves of her crimson under shirt up, and shrugged. "It's all hands on deck, and the two of us are the best engineers here."

The hum of a transporter caught her attention and she turned to see a dozen gold clad engineers appear. Their leader looked around and Rebecca went to him. "Welcome aboard. I'm Commander Sandoval, and this is Captain Ryder."

"Lt. Commander Keval th'Zarath," the Andorian greeted. Turning to Nick he smiled, his antennae flicking as he sized Nick up, "Well, Captain where do you need us? We have construction drones already in place to shore up the hull breeches."
Edited by Rebecca Talon, Mar 19 2018, 06:10 PM.
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"Let's focus on getting warp drive and impulse engines back online." Nick said as he gestured to the dormant warp core. "Once we can actually move again, then we'll start repairs on secondary systems." he looked around. "And that big thing over there... stole that from a Jem'Hadar battlecruiser... their computer core. Can't say we didn't at least do something more than just blow up Dominion ships."
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"Impressive," the Andorian responded.

"An unacceptable risk," Rebecca replied. "Not in the middle of a battle. Look fellas, we need to get back into this fight. Warp drive is low priority. Yes, we can use the power from the core, but our priorities should be impulse engines, weapons, and shields. I'll take Jackson, and Daniels and we'll work on the structural integrity fields. Nick, I would have Lt. Lynch work on the impulse engines. She knows them as well and you or I. Have L'Kora, Simms, and Commander Chell work on the weapons systems. Simms and Chell are security, but I know they can handle repairs to the weapons."
Edited by Rebecca Talon, Mar 19 2018, 06:19 PM.
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Nick nodded his head and chuckled. "Well, the Warp Core won't take nearly as long as any of those systems. I'm more worried about structural integrity, we're using a lot of power, so there's some serious issues. That's why I want warp power online because we won't have reserve power to power the weapons or shields or anything else. We can pull it from the coils." he pointed out the people she suggested. "Do exactly what the Captain said... keep in contact with me, because we lost relays all over the ship, I don't want to get impulse online and then blow out our RCS Thrusters or we lose navigational control and last time I was on a ship with no maneuvering thrusters, we overshot our target solar system and spent days getting to the right planet."
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"The Denver'll hold together. Don't worry. The emergency bulkheads are in place, and I have all ready deactivated the force fields. Lietenant th'Zarith you think you can have crews work on shoring up the breeches? They Don't need to hold atmosphere, just add over all strength to the hull."

The Andorian nodded, " Yes, we can do that."

"Good. Jackson, Daniels , you're with me. By the way Nick. You are right. Go ahead and get warp working."

The two women looked up from their consoles, nodded and picked up their tool cases, and followed Rebecca into a Jeffery's tube.

th'Zarith looked lustfully at the departing Commander. He shook his head, leaned over one the engineering consoles, and entered commands to study the diagnostics. "An interesting command you run here Captain. I Don't think I have ever seen a first officer dress down her captain before, and contradict his orders."
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"I'm her best friend... we do that." Nick chuckled. "Her boat, I'm just her engineer." he picked up a toolkit. "Everyone knows their jobs, let's get to it and make it to tomorrow. We're not ending up like the Oddessy or the Enterprise D. This boat is going to last a bit longer than that. Although honestly... I hate this class of ship. Only good thing about it is that it can separate but you still don't have warp capability in the saucer, damn shuttle craft are smaller and warp capable, but the saucer isn't? Lame. I've got three designs on the boards that the Admirality are sitting on... one of which was created by that feisty redhead herself."

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Hours passed and a sweaty, dirty crew sat in front of the warp core that was finally humming, looking at a console display that was jury wired in, watching all the 'red' areas slowly turn to yellow and green. Nick took a swig from his thermos of some day old coffee and sighed in relief.

"SI fields are stable, power's normal through most of the ship. Emergency bulkheads are holding." Nick reported to Becca who was still crawling through Jefferies tubes. "You ladies almost done? I'm going to brew some coffee. I don't mind it cold, but I know you like your's hot Becca."
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"Ther SI fields are stable aren't they?" She walked over to Nick, "I wish I could take you up on that offer, but there's no time. How's the rest of the ship? Are we ready to jump back into it?"
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"It won't fall apart with a sneeze. But I think we can handle mop up duty..." Nick tossed her a padd. "Defiant is at DS9... looks like the Dominion backup went poof. So we got that going for us, still some Jem Hadar and Cardie stragglers."
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"Well, a piece of good news. Their lines collapsed faster than I thought. I see our Andorian friend has already left." She patted Nick on the shoulder and headed for the bridge. "I can't thank you enough."

The com broke in and Chell spoke, "Commander," his voice was choked. "Commander it's the Gibralter. The ship was destroyed."

Rebecca skipped a step, and stopped. She looked around in shock, "Uh, thank you Mr. Chell. Prepare the crew for battle."
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Nick went over to Becca and put his arms around her and whispered. "We'll avenge them. Denver's got some fight left in her, not a lot, but she'll fight."
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She stood there not moving. Her hand started to shake and she shook it out and clinched her fist to steady it.

She glanced around and stepped into the nearby Chief Engineer's office. She waited for the door to close before breaking down and sobbing into her hands.
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