Everything was dark on the Bridge,
there were bodies flung all over the deck. Almost every console had been damaged,
but worst of all the Ronin was spinning out of control and heading towards the
influence of the black hole which had recently become the graveyard of a Borg
sphere.
Commander Kira Markos was the first to come around and tried to stumble to his
feet. The spinning of the ship made it hard for him to keep his feet.
"Bridge to Engineering." Kira announced.
Nothing.
"McQueen." Kira repeated.
Suddenly the emergency lighting come on and the darkness began to disappear.
[McQueen here Commander. I've just got the emergency power back on-line and we're working on the inertial dampeners now, should be coming back online now.]
Just as McQueen said those words, the spinning in Kira's head began to ease, as did the ship.
Commander Markos looked up at the viewscreen and realised that the ship wasn 't out of the wood yet.
"McQueen, we need propulsion NOW." Kira shouted.
[The warp core's heavily damaged, I can't give you much power I doubt we'd be able to make warp.] McQueen replied.
"Well you'd better try, because in a couple of minutes we're going to fall into the black hole." Kira remarked.
[You'll have warp.] McQueen replied.
"Tricia, set a course back to Deep Space 11." Kira ordered, looking down towards the helm position.
Tricia didn't answer.
*Oh No.* Kira thought as he saw the body of the Ronin's helm officer slumped over the blazing console.
Quickly, he rose and checked for a pulse. *Weak but still there, good.*
"What happened ?" Came a voice from behind the Commander.
"We took quite a beating and unless we get warp in a minute, we'll all be following the Borg into the black hole." Kira stated as Fenris rose from behind the science console. "Check the others, Tricia's badly injured. I'll take the helm."
Quickly and carefully Commander Markos lifted the limp body of Tricia away from the Helm position and placed her on the floor. Getting her medical help was important, but escaping the black hole was top priority.
"Everyone's still alive. Commander Tyran is unconscious, the rest of the crew are starting to show signs of coming around. Mostly bumps, bruises and electrical burns from exploding consoles." Fenris said.
[McQueen to Bridge. You have warp power, it's only warp one but it should be enough to escape the black hole.]
"About time." Kira replied as he set course back to Deep Space 11. "Thanks McQueen."
Once the Ronin had escaped the black hole, it was time to assess the damage. First, they had to get Tyran and Tricia to sickbay. Transporters were down, so Kira and Fenris carried the unconsicious bodies there.
In sickbay, they laid out the two officers on bio-beds.
"Computer, activate the EMH." Kira ordered.
"Please state the nature of the medical emergency." The EMH replied.
"We have two officers here who need your help." Kira stated.
Quickly picking up a medical tri-corder, the EMH threw the damaged tri-corder back on the floor. He started to search for a working tri-corder in the disarray of the sickbay.
Eventually he found one and scanned the two bodies.
"First degree electrical burns to fifty percent of the body, a couple of broken ribs and a broken collar bone." The EMH announced as he scanned Tyran 's body. "Nothing we can't fix, if you'd see if you can find a hypo and inject 20 milligrams of dia-trithetasine that should ease the pain."
"What about Tricia ?" Fenris asked.
"She's seriously injured." The EMH replied as he started to scan her body. "She has a major skull fracture and internal bleeding. She'll be dead in a couple of hours, we need to operate now."
Suddenly the lights went out and the EMH vanished.
"Kira to McQueen, we've lost power in sickbay what's going on." Kira asked.
[We've lost the EPS conduits on the whole deck, I can get you emergency power, but that's it.] McQueen replied.
"What about the EMH ?. We need the EMH back on-line." Kira stated.
[No can do Commander, We just don't have the power or the backup systems.] McQueen replied.
"Damn." Kira said. "At our current speed it will take us two days to reach DS 11, by then Tricia will be dead."
There was silence for a few moments, then Fenris came up with an idea.
"The shuttle pods." He said.
"I'm not abandoning this ship." Kira replied sternly.
"No not us, just Tricia." Fenris replied. "They can travel at warp four, it should reach the station in less than a day."
"She'd still be dead long before it reached the station, you heard the EMH she's got hours not a day." Kira said.
"Not if we put her into stasis for the trip." Fenris replied.
"It could work, we could set the pod to fly on auto-pilot. Let's do it." Kira said.
Within half an hour Tricia was off the ship and heading towards Deep Space 11.
"Fenris, how's your medical knowledge ?" Kira asked.
"I have standard Starfleet medical training. Why ?" Fenris replied.
"Because you're now our Chief medical officer. Treat the crew as best you can." Kira said.