Mission 3: "Time is of the Essence"

[Aaron Miller]

<Aaron worked at tactical when Kelli left the bridge>

"Captain, im detecting 2 federation ships on an intercept course." Miller called out from his station.  "They are flanking us and escorting us in." Miller finished.

[Randall Sanchez]

"See if you can do better than that. Take us away, and then when you turn back, as soon as Lauren fires her torpedoes, I want you to begin to turn the ship to the port, and kill the engines immediately. We'll start a flat spin, where Tactical can then target the aft torpedoes to follow up."

[Randall Sanchez]

"By all means, Ms. Lauren, open fi--"

At that moment, several EPS conduits in the bridge walls overloaded, and sent a bulkhead crashing to the floor. The captain tried his best to dive out from under it, but wasn't quick enough and was violently slammed to the ground by the heavy duranium beam, several jagged edges jutting dangerously into his back.

[Malcolm]

Malcolm enters the engineering bay and rushes to Krenn and Lois, a medical bag in his hand.

Quickly he tries to help them.

[Techerakh]

"You could say that," the stalwart Gallifreyan replied. "Some of the Heraani bastards ambushed my Templars and I, and we were forced to delay our arrival."

"But what's done is done, and you have enemies on your vessel still. We shall now cleanse them!"

[Yaxara Grax]

"All right."

Yaxara grabbed the phaser with a faint smile. She had not even realized hers had been lost in combat with the Herran. Removing it from stun and setting it to maximum, she turned towards the turbolift.

"I am going to use the Jeffreys tubes. The Herrans aren't supposed to be hanging around there. " Another idea occurred to her, "We can simply transport them into outer space and get rid of them right away."

She didn't bother reading Malcolm's mind to see his opinions of this. It didn't really matter. This was war. And war brought on casualties. Those always looked better on the other side. Without waiting for his reply, she jumped into the tube.

It took her about ten minutes to reach transporter room. During her 'trip', she didn't encounter a single Herran, even though she could hear sounds of fighting through the walls. Crawling out and reaching the console, she tapped her commbadge.

"Grax to Malcolm. I'm at the position." While waiting for his reply, she managed to stabilise a forcefield around the transporter room with a few quick moves of her fingers.

[Malcolm]

He nods his head.

"Yes m'am." He makes his way over to the console.

[Randall Sanchez]

(OFF: This is Admiral Karelia. Due to his absence, I'll be posting for Captain Sanchez until further notice.)

Captain Sanchez sat quietly in his ready room, filing a report at his laptop terminal. "These reports are so boring," he thought to himself. "It's always crew manifest this, supply inventory that... it sometimes seems like Starfleet wants me to suffer! A little excitement wouldn't hurt anyone, honestly."

"Captain to the bridge," came the voice of Commander Lauren over the comm channel. Randall set his PADD down on the desk and stepped out onto the bridge.

"Report?"

"We're receiving a distress call," said Lauren. "It's on a Starfleet carrier wave."

This piqued Sanchez's interest immediately. "Source?"

Lauren looked up from her console. "Deep Space Five, sir. Near the border between Federation territory and the Expansion Sector."

The captain took his seat and looked to the officer ahead of him. "Helmsman," he said, "Set a course for the Ivor system, maximum warp."

"I guess they were right," Randall thought to himself. "Be careful what you wish for..."

[Lois]

OOC: Damn it's going to take awhile to get there..

Lights signaled red alert around Mark as he drank deeply from a hot cup of coffee(which he still loves since his first day in starfleet) while reviewing his mission logs. It had been an eventful week so far, though there was not much he could do at the moment but act as a back-up on the ship. Though it didn't get him anywhere rank wise, he did enjoy not having the spotlight shined on him.

Placing the cup on the table he got up from his chair and headed towards the turbolift and through on to his station.

[Spock]

((Im probly going to get into trouble for this but I dont really care, im bored http://www.expansionfleet.com/ikonboard/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>))

<Spock was doing some routine maintance on the ship when he noticed one of the holodeck's was active, he decided to eaves drop and saw Kelli and Mark, he didnt think much of it and decided to shut off the screen to let them have their privacy.>

(Edited by Will Karelia)

[James Krenn]

"Aye, Captain." James said, stopping the ship's spin and flying straight away from the battle. He brought the ship round smoothly, and flew full impulse towards the battle.

"Commander, fire when you're ready." he said, preparing to turn the ship about.

[Kelli Lauren]

"Captain!"

Kelli raced from her post and, in desperation, actually vaulted over the rail behind the captain's chair, landing beside the captain.

"Captain! Sir, can you hear me?"

There was no answer. Kelli drew her phaser and set it to full, using it to cut the bulk of the beam away. She then lifted the more manageable remainder from Sanchez.

"Ensign Kirsch," she called to the science officer, "get the captain to Sickbay, pronto!" She then stood up and turned to the captain's chair and pressed a communications button. "Bridge to Ensign Lois," she said, "we need you up here. The captain's out of commission, and I need a temporary tactical officer."

[Malcolm]

Malcolm stands up.

"Techerakh!"

He shakes his head.

"It's about time; What, did you lose your way?"

[Lois]

Mark felt oddly dizzy as he ran as quickly as he could towards Krenn, careful not to trip over anything that had fallen during the battle. He bent over, stopping in front of Krenn- wiping away something that got into his eye with his hand.

He shoved James gently, trying to awake him. With no success he stood up, suddenly feeling a wave of dizziness he reached over to grab the wall to steady himself. Glancing at his hand he saw it was covered with blood from his forehead.

Blah blah blah he fell and collapsed beside Krenn.

[Malcolm]

=A=I here you. Give me a second.=A=

He starts to scan deck by deck.

=Alright, we've got three Heraan on deck seven, none on deck six, four on deck five, and three on deck four. =A=