Nathan woke up around 0630 hours and did his normal morning work out. 20 laps around the main cargo bay, and an hour of sparing in the holodeck. After his work out Nathaniel cleaned up and was getting ready for the day's work when his comm badge beeped. Nathaniel quickly tapped it and replied." Captain Sharpe here."
[Yes sir there is a priority message for you and Major Larn. It's Admiral Pike sir.]
"Very well, tell the Major to meet me in my ready room ASAP. I am on my now as we speak Sharpe out." Captain Sharpe's heart was racing he wasn't sure what to expect but knew it was a mission of sorts. What kind he wasn't sure of just it might be something very important.
Both the officers arrived inside the Ready Room at exactly the same time. Captain Sharpe turned his computer monitor on and turned to towards the chairs that faced where Sharpe would normally sit. Sharpe quickly turned the Monitor on. And Admiral Pike appeared on screen.
"Morning Admiral."
[Morning Captain and Major. I am afraid your survey mission will be cut short. The Bajoran Colony of Porla II near the old DMZ has grown angry at the colony administration and ruling counsel you need to help quell the rioting and resolve any diplomatic problems. These colonist feel they are being used and denied any and all rights they should be as citizens of Bajor and colonist are holding several Colony leaders. And one Federation Citizen. Your to hear both sides and try and solve it peacefully You're to leave ASAP. Pike out.] Sharpe stood up and pressed his comm badge. " All senior Staff to the bridge and respective duty stations ASAP. Sharpe out."
Nathan looked over at Major Larn to ask him a question." Major why am I handling a Bajoran problem?"
"Well sir the Colonist are not too happy with their present government, so I think the appearance of Bajoran Military wouldn't help. Bajorans probably wouldn't fire or attack Star Fleet. "Larn said standing patiently by the door, waiting for Sharpe to move out of the way. Which he did shortly there after.
Upon stepping onto the bridge Nathan saw the newly promoted Lieutenant Okul take his seat next to Major Larn. Captain Lataro was standing at Tactical II station. Commander Wolf was near the Command chair speaking with Commander Chee. "Take your positions we're going to help the Bajorans with a domestic disturbance at the request of the their government. Major Larn plot a course Warp 13. Chief I need warp speed in about 20 seconds." Nathaniel said sitting down into the ship's comm channel.
[Too easy Captain.] Matthews replied.
Major Larn ran his fingers over his controls and began to plot the course. He then wait for the word as he relayed some information. " Course laid in sir."
"Very well engage." Sharpe replied hearing the chirp of the buttons from the CONN station.
The Hornet then excelled to warp 13 with in a matter of seconds. Everything seemed to be going fine until Lieutenant Okul read something on the sensors as did Lieutenant Chee from the Science station. "Captain a subspace tesseract is forming 2000 meters off the bow." She yield.
Acting calm but hiding his fear Sharpe barked an order." Halt. Raise shields." But it was too late the warp field acted as a magnet drawing the tesseract to the Hornet and pulling the ship in at Warp 13 almost tripling the ships speed. Conduits and control stations exploded through out the ship, as it was hurled across the space to its sides. Nearly all the crew flew to the deck as the ship rocked hard for a total of 3.2 seconds. Then it was quiet till some of the moans of the crew were heard.
Lataro opened his eyes and looked up as he saw the bridge lights were off and some ruptured ODN cables were dangling from the ceiling. Jonathan rolled to his side and saw an injured fellow crewman laying still. What the heck? He thought to himself.
Sharpe was laying 4 feet from his command chair when awoke and looked up to see the Engineering console blinking off and on. He then heard a few moans from what believed to be injured crewman. Sharpe stood up and quickly saw some the damage before him. "Lights." Sharpe yield as he staggered to his feet feeling a large bump on the back his head. The emergency lights came on and he saw about 6 officers getting to their feet.
"Report somebody." Sharpe said falling to the wall behind him as he slid down on his but and took a seat feeling dizzy and trying to gain his sense of baring. "Where are we?"
Major Larn managed to stumble to his feet and walked over to near his station and saw no power was getting to his controls, he then slammed his fist on the controls and cursed. "Damn."
Then a familiar voice came over the ships communications channel. [Captain? Anybody alive on the bridge?] Chief Warrant Officer Matthews asked.
Nathaniel now with a more sense of what was going on around him was helped up by Commander Wolf. Nathaniel quickly answered. "I'm here and not sure about anyone else up here it's a little too early for me tell or say." Sharpe was then interrupted by Captain Lataro.
"Sir Ensign Roberts, Lieutenant Fields and Petty Officer Murrows are dead." Lataro said from near Tactical station two. It looked as though a plasma conduit exploded behind their controls. Sharpe looked over at where the two humans and one Andorian were lying motionless.
"What's your status Chief?" Sharpe asked turning around to the Engineering station behind him.
[I've lost 2 crewman and suffered 3 injuries. The ship isn't too much better off sir.]
"How do you mean?"
[Warp Drive is off-line, as is main power. We're currently using Auxiliary power. I've got teams working on main power as we speak.]
"Good chief keep me informed. Sharpe out."
Lieutenant Commander Chee was helping with the injured it appeared that only 5 bridge officers were injured in the abrupt warp speed. He and Lataro were working together to help the wounded down to sick bay. Lieutenant Redinium must of been hard at work with the injured for he hadn't called in.
Lieutenant Okul was working with Lieutenant Chee figuring out where they were. "Lieutenant I found a local star system that may help us find our location ." Chee said to the newly promoted Chief of Operations. Most of the sensors had been damaged in the sudden jolt. So it was hard to locate exactly where the Hornet was until the sensors we're repaired. So till that happened Lieutenant Chee used the ships star charts and referenced almost every known and charted star but hopefully it would be able to locate a known star. It was a 50/50 chance.
Lieutenant Okul read over the information he read it to himself and showed no emotion. This will be a long journey. He said to himself. Meanwhile Lieutenant Chee called Captain Sharpe and Commander Wolf over to the science Station.
"Sir, ma'am. We have found out where we are." Chee said with a little sound of both sorrow and excitement.
"Well is it bad Lieutenant?" Wolf asked raising her right eyebrow.
"Depends." Okul said turning around.
"How does the 45,000 light years from earth sound?" Okul said with calm cool collectiveness.
The news hit Wolf in the stomach, however Sharpe crossed his arms and felt a great deal of excitement. "Are we in the Alpha quadrant?" Sharpe asked not quite sure of the answer.
"Yes the Runal star is about 45,000 light years from earth. It's about 2.3 light years from our port side now." Chee said showing the two senior officers on the computer screen.
"Ok Lieutenants keep this under wraps for now. Until we get a full damage report and crew assessment understand. Tell no one till I decide its time understood that is an order!" Sharpe said reaching forward and shutting the computer screen off.
Four hours had passed and the senior staff was in the conference lounge sitting around the table awaiting the word from Captain Sharpe and Chief Matthews. Sharpe then began to explain their situation. "There is no easy way to say this.
According to the computer we are 28,765 Light years from earth. We are still however in the Alpha quadrant just an unexplored region, just a very unexplored region of the Alpha quadrant. " Sharpe paused and scratched his chin he could feel the day's stubble on there. "Chief please continue." Sharpe said sitting in his chair.
Matthews stood up and walked over to computer monitor. "With the transwarp drive we could reach the edge of Cardassian Space in 36 months. The problem is that the tesseract caused our warp coils to almost burn out. Our dilithium is also almost used up. If we used Transwarp drive for two days we wear out our dilithium and warp coils.
I've launched three class VI probes to help us locate what is out here. Lieutenant Okul and I will go over the information when it comes in.
Also we must conserve as much power as possible no Replicators at all!" Matthews looked at the entire senior staff and gave a very serious look. Then finished. I'll have all our main systems back on-line in about 5 hours. That is all I have for now. " Matthews walked out and headed to the turbo lift to finish the repairs.
Sharpe then leaned back in his chair and say the look in uncertainty in his staff's face. "Listen we have nothing but ourselves to depend on I think we need to keep our sense of formality but we need to be more open in here and only in here. This will be a long journey but a beneficial one dismissed."