Nige entered engineering to get a report from Benson on the status of the port nacelle that they'd been having difficulties with. Nige found Benson sitting in the engineering officer with his head in his hands.
"Still recovering from last night eh?" asked Nige. Benson looked up and smirked.
"Afraid so sir, heres the report you wanted." he said lifting a PADD of the desk in front of him.
"Thanks, I'll take it to the captain now." Nige turned around and found himself face to face with a protector. He cried out in fear and jumped backwards, knocking Benson out of his seat.
"What the hell?" Benson asked. Nige looked back over to where the protector was standing, but nothing was there.
"Nothing" said Nige standing up gasping for breath. "I... I just thought I saw something. I'll be on the bridge if you need me. whoahh what was that all about? he thought as he left engineering.
Five weeks earlier...
"Whats going on here?" asked Benson as the troop of bridge and medical officers entered engineering. "Well?"
"You're not going to like it Bill" responded Nige. "One of the Protectors is back online. It's killed the Captain.
"My god! was anyone else hurt?"
"No, it came for the captain and that was it. No one knows why yet though."
"I do" came a voice from behind Nige. He jumped and turned around to see Tumock standing behind him. "I believe, because the captain was the one who finally stopped them the last time, I would say it is out to seek revenge. Which would mean that myself and Lieutenant Artel would be next on the list."
"Kira and I were going to round up the crew into groups and keep them safe behind force fields in secured areas of the ship. Shall we continue as planned?"
"Yes, I shall stay here and attempt to figure out a way to stop it."
"Understood sir. Nige and Kira left to round up the crew. "Here you go Markus" said Nige handing him a phaser. Markus refused it
"I'm a doctor, I don't take lives."
"Look, take the phaser and if you see the protector shoot! Or it will take yours. Remember, it killed the Captain. Now its our turn for revenge.
Present day...
Nige stepped back out onto the bridge and took his seat next to Tumock once more. "Heres Bensons engineering report. The port nacelle seems to be working perfectly now."
"Excellent, I'll look at the report later.
"Captain, we're being hailed by the USS Jordan." said Tom
"On screen"
"Captain Tumock, this is Captain Adams of the USS Jordan. We have been sent to rendezvous with you to take your 'cargo' off your hands."
"Very well, we will make preparations and transport them to you shortly."
At last thought Nige. No more checking in on them.
"Thank you Captain. Have them transported to our cargo bay. Adams out."
"Commander, see that all the necessary preparations are made and that the protectors are beamed aboard safely."
"Will do Captain" said Nige once more standing up. Damn! I don't think I've been in this chair more than five minutes yet! Nige headed for the cargo bay once more. As there was still no new appointed chief of security for the Knight, responsibilities like this still fell upon Nige. He entered the cargo bay and walked over to the monitoring consoles once more. There was still no activity. Nige just quickly walked past all of the chambers and peered through the small windows in them to make sure they were all still inside. After the last time they escaped, he wasn't going to take any chances. "Commander Tyran to Jordan."
[Jordan here, go ahead Commander.]
"I am transporting the protectors aboard now" said Nige activating the cargo bay transporters.
[Thank you Commander, we will be underway now. Jordan out.] Nige breathed a sigh of relieve now that the protectors had been taken away.