S3, Ep2 - Dogma, Truth and the Wheel of Fate

[Capt Grab Foot Of~Two Dawns]

He turned back to continue working on establishing internal sensors and communications when he heard Bufords comment's again. He looked back to Buford with a straight faced look, then glanced at Ann. He shook his head then thought of his own humorous comment

He looked back to Buford and spiraled his tail into a tighter loop "and here I thought someone had ordered barbequed hot dogs"

He chuckle-hisses and turns back to the security console

[gengrant]

Location: Main Engineering

Sam nodded as he received instructions from the Major, he benefited from the knowledge that Major Kinesly knew he wasn’t an engineer, but he could follow basic instructions. Sam darted off to begin removing a console for one of the engineers. Just as they began working, something seemed to move everyone in engineering at the same time, everyone looked around at each other oddly.

A young woman, Ensign Veronica, who was also a Betazoid, looked back at him and said aloud “Trust her? Trust who?” She left the thought hang in the air, as she quickly returned to work. Sam had felt it too, an odd sensation; like a dream. It was there and gone just as quickly.

He tried to shake it off, jerking his head from side to side. Just as he pulled the console down, there was a hot wave and a ‘shhh-aa-bang’ sound that followed it. Several of the engineering crew ran or dove out of the way, as a being materialized in the center of Main Engineering. Sam rose to his feet, seeing the red hair first, not the woman, but the hair. He froze a moment; klaxons were ringing and he swore he heard weapons fire.

He looked around; where crewmen had been working, they were now holding phasers and were fighting; screaming. Time itself seemed to slow down. His eyes locking back on the red hair, he called out “Jennifer! What are you doing?! I thou…” he paused in mid-sentence. He immediately noticed that this wasn’t the Terrasect, but looked like the Bull Run, the entire engine room was different. Sam shook his head, hard, trying to refocus; even hit himself to realign his thoughts. He was having another damn flashback. But why, why now? He thought he would have had one the moment he entered Main Engineering and saw all the damage, just like the battle aboard the Bull Run, but he had held together.

Recomposing, as his senses realigned, he relocked his eyes on the red hair. The women he’d mistaken for his love, Chief Jennifer E. Young, was not the young Chief at all, Sam’s stomach felt as if it was a ship that had dropped out of warp by being grasped by an angry Q’s fingers; “Kate…” he growled. This was twice now, twice, that she’d perverted herself into Samuel’s intimate thoughts, romantic relations, personal boundaries; his dander was up. He was no longer the Lieutenant Commander Samuel Joshua Grant that everyone knew, his defenses and self control down and gone, he was that which all Grant males of his family kept hidden deep away, the unchecked and uncontrolled anger that was very personal and private, the reason even his medical record stated “"Grant males may love and care for people with an almost uncanny hand and thoughtfulness, but when their anger takes hold and their tempers flare, it is said that “Even the stars dim from the roar.””; Sam lost control.

He roared as Kate shoved crewmembers aside and began accessing the consoles, her words lost on him entirely. He took several heavy, thunderous, steps towards Kate. Not seeing what she was doing or understanding her comments; his eyes locked onto her. Pure anger had filled him, he was furious; the attack on the Terrasect 18 months ago, the assaults and abuse of Ann, her actions within Ann’s body, their ‘dinner date’, constant trouble causing actions, her meddling; he wanted it to end right here and now. His Starfleet Training had been squashed, his conversation in his quarters earlier with Lt. Cmdr. Grabfoot and Major Kinesly forgotten; there’d be know talking, no questions.

Sam walked closer and closer, although it was only a few seconds, it seemed as if he was fighting a huge tidal wave that was pushing against him. His mind swam, her back was to him, she was still talking, but he wasn’t listening. He got within 5 meetings of Kate, she wasn’t aware of how close he’d gotten, which surprised him as each step closer he took he swore could be heard on the planet they’d come to observe. He reached to his holster and drew his phaser, setting it to maximum, and pointed it directly at her; he didn’t say a word, even if he wanted to he couldn’t.

He wasn’t sure if the phaser would kill her, or even have any affect, but if he hit the warp core he could rid the galaxy of her completely; stop the problems and troubles here, now. If she continued to ‘play’ in this ‘timeline’, how many people could be affected? Millions? Billions? Trillions? Isn’t the lives of a few hundred people worth it? Insuring the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one?

Sam’s finger moved to press the firing button on the phaser, but uncharacteristically hesitated; he never hesitated. As she turned to speak to him, the words sounding distorted to him, he locked eyes with her and an odd feeling came over him. There was a battle going on within him; "To shoot or not to shoot…"

Location: Main Engineering

[gengrant]

*** ^^^ Terrasect Story / Action ^^^ ***

With the crew, in their respective areas, working diligently to get the Terrasect back in working order, only a few were aware of the situation occurring in Main Engineering. Although the ship’s sensors were working properly, the computer couldn’t identify the cause of the Warp Core’s destabilization; only The Drak personnel knew this as it was a side effect of their attempts to save the Terrasect.

With both the crew in Main Engineering and on the Bridge informed of the issue by Ann and Kate, they were trying to contain it, which they would be able to do; if they had the time. Unfortunately they did not, and it was up to the Drake to pull off another ‘miracle’, that is if Lt. Cmdr. Grant would let them. As the Drak known as ‘Kate’ began using the consoles in Main Engineering, the Terrasect’s computer finally caught up to what was going on and sounded an alarm.

With communications down, it wasn’t heard ship-wide over the communications net, but was on several console screens and print outs at all senior post/s stations across the ship. The message read simply; “Warning, Warp Core destabilization in progress. Core will overload in 15 minutes.” Message repeated. If the warp core ruptured, in conjunction with the slip stream drive, they’d make such a bang the Moon they were currently orbiting could get knocked out of its axis, not to mention possibly fracture, and cause other disasters within the system.

Message repeats: “Warning, Warp Core destabilization in progress. Core will overload in 15 minutes.”

[de9cpaterrasect]

She turned around and found a weapon pointed at her face. Kate licked the end of the Phaser, as she closely looked in to Grant’s eyes. She kept her cool the entire time. She knew that Grant hated her but wasn’t aware that it was this much. She felt as if that maybe not all hate but a possibility. A possibility that he liked her more then he wanted to admit or he didn’t know it yet. When she came back she did intended to kill Grant but things always got in the way. Playing around she never thought she would like him. Not as a lover at frist but as a person he expressed but not to her as Kate but a mistaken or stolen Identity of Ann’Knox.

The feelings and expression he gave out was more, beyond the physical attraction but more deeper in to the eyes. As those where Kate’s; she looked in to his eyes blocking those all around her and them. She could hear his thoughts, as she didn’t need to read his thoughts. While they were screaming at her…. Baby, She poke to him, she started to enter his mind and tried to get him to see her as this Jennifer. Kate knew it would be evil to do this but he needed something soft to calm him down.

She didn’t know how long she could fool him but she slowly as Jennifer. Held his arm and pointed the Phaser out of her path and the auxiliary core. The dinner that they had and many few times the press lips, Kate had gave Samuel a enzyme in her saliva that helps calm males. Deeper then just a kiss Usaree females aside from their sister race the Ma’Nearains. To start a courtship a small part of her enters the choesen male. Where she and the male’s body are linked.

Weather he was fully affected or not he was for a time. Kate didn’t want to do this as mostly his angular had turned her on. As seeing someone angry tells a lot about the person. Far most this was the frist time that he and her, as in her true body was this close to him. She kissed him softly almost just a graze then a kiss. She moved slowly off his strong face and Kate quickly head butted Grant. Hopefully loosening his grip of the weapon and she jumped over him still having his arms firmly held. She pulls his arms over his back straining him. I need those codes to jettison the auxiliary core. She said softly but firm. Give me the god d@mn codes! As she knew it was going to take a while she regretted but force to take the codes from his thoughts. She made sure she wouldn’t hurt him too much but once she got it. She pushed him a side and ran to the station to enter the codes but…

[Capt Grab Foot Of~Two Dawns]

After about 45 minutes of tinkering with internal sensors, a verbal message came over the security console, and he imagined any other working console on the bridge. He read it and he cursed, his fur spiking a bit. Ann said the warp core was not stable and he wondered how unstable it was. The text message gave him his answer

with renewed determination he continued to work on getting internal communications back up. After five minutes, he thinks he got it. He makes an attempt to contact Grant or anyone that's in engineering "Lt Commander Grab Foot Of~Two Dawns to Lt Commander Grant or to whomever that maybe in Engineering alive. We are a mere 15 minutes away from a warp core breach. If you can hear me, eject the auxiliary core, I repeat, eject the auxiliary core!"

He yelped a bit as a bit of feedback came back through the line. he knew Kate was doing what she could to help the Terrasect but he didn't know if anyone else who what she was trying to do. For all he knew they could be trying to stop her and that would end up with more casualties, with the biggest casualty being the ship itself

[Lt Buford B. Hound]

Buford had been working on getting the Transporters working when a message came across his console Warning, Warp Core destabilization in progress. Core will overload in 15 minutes" Buford shakes his head as he keeps working

five minutes later he hears Grab Foot ""Lt Commander Grab Foot Of~Two Dawns to Lt Commander Grant or to whomever that maybe in Engineering alive. We are a mere 15 minutes away from a warp core breach. If you can hear me, eject the auxiliary core, I repeat, eject the auxiliary core!" Buford laughs "eject the Dang auxiliary core!, Thats all I would have said" Buford hears the feed back and cringes

Buford looks at Ann "If y'all want me to try I can transport y'all only on the bridge but you'll be free not enough power to get y'all to engineering" he says

[Capt Grab Foot Of~Two Dawns]

After hearing Buford comment again, he turned and gave him an annoyed look "I want to make sure that they hear me clearly if they can hear me at all, Mr. Hound. As far as transporting anyone anywhere, I would not suggest it. With all the damage that we've sustained, who knows how the the transporter systems will react, epecially with a de-stabilizing auxiliary warp core. Using the transporters may speed up the process and that means we go boom that much faster"

He gave Buford a somewhat undertanding look "I know you want to help Ann, so do I, but she is fine right now. She is not injured. I want to keep it that way. For now, we got bigger problems to worry about"

[Lt Buford B. Hound]

Buford hears Grab Foot and senses he is annoyed with him he looks at Grab Foot to see his annoyed look, Buford was going to comment on the Mr. Buford but decides not to"Yes Sir" he says as he Diverts the power from the Transporters to the Com "Transporter Power diverted to Com Sir" he reports looking at Ganesa "here y'all go power for the com hope it helps"he says

Buford sees Grab Foot's somewhat understanding look and senses it "Yes Ann is fine....and I want keep her from being hurt......Cause she most likely kick our tails for letting her get hurt" he says his Tail wagging

[gengrant]

Location: Main Engineering

Sam’s mind swam, with all kinds of thoughts and images, his eyes gave off the ‘1,000 light year stare’ and were firmly locked on Kate. He knew what he was doing; it was to end here. Sam, and all the Grant’s before him, were ‘crack shots’ with any weapon they used, he knew he wouldn’t miss. His eyes squinted, as if saying through body language only “game over” and moved to discharge the phaser.

Just as he did so, he caught himself and lowered the phaser; only a millimeter or two. The evil being known as Kate before him was no more, in front of him stood Chief Young; hair just as red as he remembered. His left eyebrow raised as his mind fought with itself, trying to understand what it was seeing, but his eyes wouldn’t lie to him; it was her, there in all her beauty. Unbeknownst to him at the time, nothing had changed, it was still Kate, but her mind tricks were affecting him horribly; combined with his flashback he was in trouble. Everything around him changed, he was back aboard the Bull Run. The Cardassians had overrun one of the check points and they were fighting hand-to-hand, Jennifer’s beauty had been scared by the fighting.

Jennifer stepped towards him, reached out her arm and connected with his, “Baby…” was all he heard. Sam immediately lowered the phaser, “You’re okay; but I thought yo…” The rest of Samuel’s sentence was caught up in her kiss, then quickly drowned out by a noise that came from nowhere, yet everywhere; almost completely blindsiding him.

“Lt Commander Grab Foot Of~Two Dawns to Lt Commander Grant or to whomever that maybe in Engineering alive. We are a mere 15 minutes away from a warp core breach. If you can hear me, eject the auxiliary core, I repeat, eject the auxiliary core!” His face corkscrewed slightly, there wasn’t anyone by that name or rank aboard the Bull Run. He pounded his combadge “Where is Captain Marchaius? Identify yo…”, his mind finally put two and two together. This wasn’t the Bull Run, Jennifer had been injured and assaulted horribly, during the attack. Captain Marchaius was in command, this was all wrong. Like being doused with a bucket of cold water, his vision instantly cleared and he saw who had hold of him. His personal thoughts had been perverted, again; “Ka…!” was all he could get out, as he swung the phaser back towards her, before finding himself uplifted and thrown against the ground by her. He almost bounced off the decking, accompanied by a ‘snapping’ sound, he’d hit it so hard, immediately he knew he’d broken a few ribs, in addition to a broken nose and a hell of a headache later; if there was a later.

Through the communication net, back filled by a lot of static, the Bridge crew could hear some of the commotion in Main Engineering. Lt. Cmdr. Grabfoot’s message wasn’t met with any reply, aside from a shout and thumping sound. They could hear some of the conversation, between Grant and Kate, but that was it; there was no guarantee that Sam knew what was going on or could transmit back.

Although Sam knew where he was, who Kate is and was remembering who this ‘Grabfoot’ was, he was trying to remember what message this ‘Grabfoot’ had said. While ‘off in space’ as he was trying to rebuild his house of cards, Sam found himself lifted up off the ground and restrained by Kate; his phaser had flew away from his grip in response to the heavy sweating he was doing; the strength at which he’d hit the deck hadn’t helped either.

He grunted and struggled, and struggled he did. Although only a Terran, and by no means the biggest member of the crew, Sam had an unknown strength that was unleashed when angry; just like his father, and his father’s father, and so on. He struggled fiercely with her grip, not able to break it due to the Drak’s superior strength, but almost breaking his shoulder in the process. “I need those codes to jettison the auxiliary core. Give me the god d@mn codes!” Kate ordered. Knowing he wasn’t able to break free, he tried knocking her down. He kicked back, hard, with his ‘bionic’ leg and caught Kate square on her left knee. Unsure how much damage was inflicted, regardless, it wasn’t enough as she still held him firmly. He didn’t know why she wanted the codes, she could be trying to destroy them all or doing some kind of her own diabolical scheme.

Kate, knowing this, forced the information from his mind and then threw him to the side, like a used MRE packet. Sam crashed to the ground, pain shooting through his ribs, head and now his left wrist; he spit up blood. His body, in fight or flight mode, was pumping all kinds of adrenaline and pain neutralizers through him; he wasn’t feeling anything. He forced himself to his feet, as Kate ran towards the console, and ran after her.

Leaping as he got within a few meters, he football tackled her and they both crashed to the ground, hard, away from the console. A grunt was heard, as bodies met deck plate, over the comm that was still open with the bridge, but then communication was lost; Sam’s combadge had been crushed from the hit and bounced away uselessly along the Engineering deck. He struck Kate once, twice and three times hard with right fist, the first in her face followed by two jabs to the chest as he tried to knock the wind out of her; as he found himself on top her, her back on the deck looking up at him. “How dare you!” he yelled, and reared back to strike again…


Across the ship, the message was updating itself; "Warning, Warpcore destabilization in progress. Warp Core will overload in 8 minutes."

Location: Main Engineering

[Capt Grab Foot Of~Two Dawns]

As he waited for a response from Engineering or Grant, he heard the commotion going on through the static-y comm channel. He heard Grant's voice arguing with Kate. Kate demanding for the codes to eject the core and Grant debating whether or not to shoot her and thinking of some woman named Jennifer

Who is this Jennifer he thought but then dismissed that question just as quickly as the computer kept repeating the message of the destabilizing auxiliary core. Things went south in a hurry as he heard sounds of thumps, grunts, and punches and bodies being thrown and he knew that Kate and Grant had gotten into a fight.. again

He growled to himself and punched the console he was using, muttering a few curses. He knew that standing there waiting for the ship to explode was not the answer and he doubted Kate or Grant cared at the moment. The human phrase "If you want something done, do it yourself" floated through his mind, so did another humorous comment

He turned back toward Buford "At least I got internal communications back online" Before he responded, he got an idea and his rational mind told him not to but it was a time for action, not thinking. He turned back to the Security console and re-routed some power to the transporters and before anyone could stop him, he done a site to site transport from the bridge to main engineering

He looks around for a few moments to get his bearings. He saw Doctor MacAuley tending to the dead or injured and Major Kinsely just standing there watching Kate and Grant. Grant, he was sitting on top of Kate, giving her punches to the chest and Kate looking like she was loving it. He spat out another curse and he seen Grant's arm rear back to deliver another blow. He thought about going over there and cuffing him back to reality and to stop his sexual games with Kate but then he shook his head and dismissed that idea. He's got an auxiliary core to eject

He turned to go to the nearest working main console to enter his command codes to start ejecting the core.

[de9cpaterrasect]

For some reason of all parts of Sammy, that leg was super strong nearly the strength of a Drak but she held firm. Once she got away, Kate limped to the engineering station. About to enter the command codes subsequently she blacked out for a second and saw a flash of things in font of her as Grant tackled her. She was surprised by the sudden burst of energy that this human had. Normally one would be getting a beating would be fighting back, however Kate wasn’t just any person. She started to laugh and moan this action by Grant only turned her on.

Once he was over her pressing her down with his sweaty strong body. She quivered surly not of fear but sexually aroused. She licked the blood from her lips and she moved her hands up his sides to feel him up. As she reached his upper torso Kate bit her lip as she felt the next punch building up its strike towards her. She looked strait in to his blue eyes not worried of being hit but too enveloped by the Grant’s passion. Her mind races in many places but 2 stuck out in your thoughts. She said it out loud right after the other. I think, I’m pregnant. Now you are like me. Even if he wasn’t listening you surely could read her lips as she spoke. By his actions his no different then her self but even on the floor she gave a sigh and smiled.

She gathered her strength but it was think kind to really hurt him but more of to get him to stay down for a bit. Enough for her to attempts to try to put the codes in the consul. She kneed Sam between his legs, the only thing she could think of to get a big strong male off him. Granted he wasn’t the strongest one their but his behavior made up for it. Ones Grant was on the ground next to her, she slowly lifted her self off the floor but before then she lickd his lips to taste his sweat and give him a bit of hers and blood. Once at the engineering consul she plugs in the codes while doing so she spoke. and Cat said I would find me a Klingon in the body of a Caucasian human male. Kate said in her accent as she gasped and held her mid section.

[Capt Grab Foot Of~Two Dawns]

A moment after he reached the console to enter his own codes, he turned to see Kate limping up to the console to enter Grant's codes

As she went to enter Grant's codes, he heard her mutter that "Cat" meaning Ann, he thought said that she would find a Klingon in a human male. He shook his head and spiraled his tail in humor as he entered his own codes as quick as he could

"Glad you could stop playing long enough to help me eject the core" he would comment

[de9cpaterrasect]

Half serious and very sarcastically she held up her arm and signified a gesture to the feline Furball. It was her middle finger presented before him while she entered the final series of commands, to jettison the secondary core. As she slowly dropped her arm from Grab’Foot; afterwards she leans against the station ahead of her. She then remembered about her dinner with Sammy and what they talked about. She pushed her self off the consul and entered a few more commands. She had to bypass a few things it took her a few minutes but was able to execute what she intended. By now the core should be near the asteroid but far enough from the planet and them.

She modified one of the screens to view the auxiliary warp core out to space. She hoped it would get caught in it’s gravity but it didn’t. So before Grant would attempt to stop her or whatever. Kate entered they commands to her idea, she felt strange it wasn’t in her character to do this but she tapped the last key. A strange tremble came over the Terrasect it had to do with what she had just did. She looked back at them and spoke. I needed to clean up. Ou…our mess. Kate didn’t want to say ‘OUR’ she thought it was more StarFleet then her or the Drak. Their nosy curiously almost killed them and now may have added more to the asteroid crashing down to a world she didn’t care about. It was just something within her that told her to do this.

She thought it may have what she remembered with the night she had dinner with Sammy or something else. As the strange tremble was building up she started to hold on to the closest thing. She didn’t want to fall again unless she was going to be tackled by Grant again she take that. She looks at Samuel with that thought then back towards ‘holding on.’ It began to get more violent and she thought it was better to sit on the ground. She wedged her self between the bulkhead and the workstation. With a stoic lost expression on her face she said. There no place like home. No place like home…..no place like home..

[ann]

Ann’ still in her half baked state hearing all this over the communications. She could only imagine what was going on she could only guess what Kate was doing…she pondered at least she hopes she was doing what she said she would. It’s just that hearing Samuel or at least it sounded like him but then again unsure. She then pondered of what the sounds sounded like and she shudder in repulse of the idea. Ann’ knew she has been hanging around Kate to long…next she hopes it was fighting then again she thought if its Kate it could be that too.

To get her mind out of the gutter she didn’t want to just sit there and her head in the sand. She agreed with Buford to do something then just wait here. She knew she couldn’t do much since her hand are fused to metal and she fracked. She was helpless to do anything and only watched as Grabfoot disappeared to the Main Engineering. Ann’ would have liked to be beamed with him but thought that wasn’t important.

As the Core was ejected she asked Buford to display it on the screen. Ann’ knew there was more to just ejecting the core. The core now is an unstable Gamma Cell…a storage cell that Ma’Nearain starships use to power there Gamma warp engines and IG engine but this wasn’t design to hold this kind of energy. On its own could destabilize subspace…she needed to do something but how? She can’t really guide Buford on how to do what she wanted. She looked to the other woman on the science station but would there be any time. Next she saw on the screen a beam coming from the Terrasect at the Asteroid and the Core.

Her face was in surprise more then anything…she knew exactly what that was and wasn’t what she would have done but would fix it. A human saying hitting two birds with one stone… she then thought that they must have force Kate to do this cause this isn’t like Kate. “Yah. Bugard? Hold on to something in fact all of you hold on to something…..” Ann’ stood her ground since she couldn't do much of anything. She knew it would hurt and she just prepared to get more hurt as it was.

In simple terms Kate had modified a beam to create a rip in to subspace. In what she thought Kate was doing was to get rid of the Core and the Rock at the same time by opening a temporary IG portal. Since the core is of basically an unstable singularly and the rock needed to go somewhere other then the planet…that would solve things but she hopes that the mini black hole would suck all the energy out of the auxiliary core before anything else was pulled it. Ann’ was confident that the Terrasect and the planet were far enough to not be pulled in but will be effected a lot of shaking and screaming.

The pondering random thought she had at the time was, ‘what’s up with Kate. She must be sick to help let alone go this far to save the planet and the ship. Well she only helped the Terrasect because it is home now but the planet?’ Ann’ could only guess what her sister would be thinking and this was something she would ask her about. “and who? what...with child? Why? Oooo...”

[Lt Buford B. Hound]

Buford hears whats going on in Engineering he tilts his head Jennifer must be a someone I haven't meet yet he thinks.

He then hears Grab Foot say"At least I got internal communications back online" before he can reply Grab Foot beams off the Bridge, Buford looks at Ann

As he listens to whats going on Is ears went up when he heard Kate say "I think, I’m pregnant. Now you are like me" Buford stutters "Sh...She..thinks she's pre....pregnant" as he looks at Ann then he thinks Great another Grant as he shakes his head,as hears Ann ask him to put on the View screen, which he dose

"Yah. Bugard? Hold on to something in fact all of you hold on to something…..” Ann says,Buford sees her stand her ground

Buford thought of pulling Ann on his lap but with that hull and Armor he'd never move her,so he grips his chair