Hostile Nikko Takeover (Part 1)
Posted on Sun Oct 23rd, 2022 @ 1:47am by Captain Maho Takahashi & Commander Seiji Iwaki 'Hawk' & Lieutenant Commander Tristana & Lieutenant Terrence "Terry" Johnston & Commander Ichika Misono & Commander Victor Delling MD & Master Chief Petty Officer William Pitsenbarger & Petty Officer 3rd Class Shingen Miyazawa & Petty Officer 3rd Class Kiyohira Kabuto & Petty Officer 2nd Class Mai Ichihara
1,433 words; about a 7 minute read
Mission:
Trade Troubles
Location: USS Myogi & USS Nikko
"So, have you heard the news?"
"Yep. Ship's been boarded by pirates from the My-Oh-Gee, and the ruffians have willingly fired upon Starfleet officers."
"Do you think we'll be able to contain them?"
"Of course, son; the Nikko is home to the finest officers in the fleet, and the cap'n has no intention a lettin' some ruffian low lives take our ship. Guy's ready to sacrifice every last man, woman, and child in defense of the ship."
The officer speaking lowered his voice slightly.
"Word is, he even plans to sacrifice the ship itself if he has to."
"That's our captain for you; patriotism to martyrdom."
"Boo-yah."
From their vantage point just out of the guards' line of view, Ichika and her team were carefully scoping out the area before they formulated a plan of attack.
"I'm detecting at least eight life signs; five human, two Bajoran, and one Bolian," Ichika reported as she holstered her tricorder. "They've got four standing guard out front, with another four stationed inside the armory for good measure. I would advise we go in with Phasers set to Wide Beam; shoot to stun, but kill only as a last resort. Once we have everyone subdued, we disarm them and make sure they can't call in for backup. Sound like a plan?"
William nodded his agreement "I concur, phaser on wide with the caveat of them being set on heavy stun, damn Bolian's are tough bastards."
"I would concur with that assessment," Ichika nodded. "Alright, then; everyone, on my signal: One... two... three!"
The four of them rose up and charged around the corner, phasers blasting at any and all things that moved. The four guards standing in front of the armory didn't so much as stand a chance; they were down and out for the count before they even knew what hit them.
"Don't let up!" Ichika shouted. "There's still more of them in the armory!"
The armory doors whooshed open, and two security officers, a Bajoran woman and a human man, stepped through and took aim at the boarders.
"Eat phaser, pirate scum!" The Bajoran called out before she and her comrade unleashed a hail of phaser fire in response to their fallen comrades.
William, who had removed his med pack before confronting the security officers, rolled forward and kicked up hard into the groin of the human male. As the man doubled forward gripping his groin region Pitsenbarger brought the butt-end of his phaser rifle into the man's chin knocking him unconscious.
Crewman 2nd Class Petra Silika spun around the corner and fired her phaser rifle. When the armory doors opened, she saw Senior Chief William Pitsenbarger roll forward into the human male, she therefore concentrated her fire on the Bajoran woman, dropping her and preventing the armory doors from closing, she smiled "No, you eat phaser." she replied.
When the human man and the Bajoran woman fell, the final two officers peeked out of the now-jammed armory doors. They were two nervous-looking ensigns, lower deckers in their first firefight, who were armed with only phaser pistols. Raising shaky arms, they shot vaguely in the direction of their attackers, not moving far outside their cover so as to allow Ichika's team an easy shot at them as they had their more senior comrades.
Despite shooting virtually blind, one of the ensigns' phaser bolts found their mark, hitting the team's Vulcan junior Lieutenant in the chest, who screamed in pain as he fell to the floor.
William cursed inwardly when he saw the two security ensigns stick their heads out and fire blindly, for a moment he thought for sure they would see him and that would be the end, then they fired blindly. "Hey lads should have remembered your training, sorry about this." he said as he fired a wide beam phaser shot into the two of them. They both dropped to the floor. William slowly got up in a defensive crouch.
Crewman Silika saw the Vulcan Lieutenant get hit and fall, "Medic" she hollered as she ran to the Vulcan and dragged him back to cover.
"Crap!" Ichika hissed as she quickly retreated to Silika's position. "Check his vital signs, Crewman; if he still has a pulse, we may be able to stabilize his condition long enough to get him beamed back to sickbay."
Crewman Silika Fumbled around trying to check the Vulcan's vital signs, she saw green blood oozing from a small hole on the left side of his chest, and it covered her hands, but she was unable to find a pulse. "Sir, I don't feel a pulse and there appears to be blood oozing from a hole in his left chest." replied Silika in a quavering and slightly panicked voice.
William, upon hearing the cry for a medic, and crewman Silika's report quickly got up and moved to her position. He reached down and touched the Vulcan two finger widths behind his ears and felt a strong steady beat. "He's got a pulse; remember he is a Vulcan, and their anatomy is different from a human." he said to the young crewman. "First time in actual combat?" he asked her as he brought out a medical tricorder and did a quick scan. "Yes, Chief." she replied. "Well, I would like to tell you it gets easier, but it doesn't. Just concentrate on your job and remember your training. Are you scared?" he inquired as he began probing into the wound. "Got you little bugger." he exclaimed as Silika replied to his question softly "Yes". "Good, I do not trust anybody that says they are not scared when they go into combat. Now cover me while I finish here." with that he dragged his med pack over, dug out two artery clamps and reached back into the Vulcan's wound and clamped of the veins and small artery that had been damaged, he then placed a small transporter transponder on the Vulcan =^= Myogi, Chief Pitsenbarger, one critical red injured to be transported to sickbay. Vulcan male shrapnel to left chest cavity. Removed one piece suspect more. One minor artery clamped, and two major veins clamped. Relay to sickbay. Out =^=
[USS Myogi, Sickbay]
The patient materialized on Biobed One. The phaser wound was severe, but the medic on scene had ably cut away the uniform and stabilized the worst of it.
"Patient is Vulcan male," Mai reported to Doctor Delling, reiterating what had been transmitted from the scene. "Wound from a phaser set to kill, apparently aggravated from a hit with shrapnel. One shrapnel piece was removed, one artery and two veins clamped, but the medic suspects there's more."
She activated the biobed's diagnostic and surgical toolkit, causing two quarter-circle sections to extend and cover the patient's body. Scanners activated to show the extent of the injury beneath what was visible.
"Patient received, thank you Chief." Victor said as he slid his hands through the field to sterilize them, before applying a pair of gloves. He lifted the trauma dressing that was in place and dropped it in the recycler. The green shiny flesh under and around the charred burn was oozing blood, and he suspected he'd lost a unit or two before he'd been seen by the medic. Major vessels involved there, but fortunately not the main ones that fed the Vulcan's heart. "Lets start by getting some blood replicated Nurse Ichihara."
“On it, Doctor.” Mai stepped away from the patient to the medical replicator and began producing green T-positive blood in sufficient quantities. Moments later, the first bag was ready and the first hypo line attached. “Ready, with more on the way, sir.”
"Perfect. " He spoke in a muted tone, his eyes flickering from the patient to the monitor and back. "Piggyback an isotonic crystalloid with T plasminogen activators along with that second unit once the first is in and we'll see how good Vulcan physiology is.". He picked up a scalpel and a micro regenerator and began the careful surgery.
[USS Nikko]
=A="Johnston to Misono and Tristana:"=A= Came Terry's voice over Ichika and Tristana's coms. =A="Hope your missions are going better than mine is? These fellas are really dug in, and they've got us outflanked. I could really use some backup if youse guys could spare it!"=A=
=A="Acknowledged, Johnston:"=A= Tristana responded, turning to her team. "Frederico, Lombardo, you're with me guarding the computer core. The rest of you, make for main engineering, double time!"
To be continued...
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