Jayme was almost through with her sixteen hour watch in the emergency/triage area. She'd been assigned an area that was treating Mullurian POW's those who'd made it to life pods and managed to escape the destruction of their ships. Most of them were minor injuries and were being transferred to a holding area where they were restrained to their bunks and the ones who showed violent tendencies were being kept sedated. She had two pairs of her marines guarding them round the clock.
Everyone looked up and paused when the red emergency lights went on and the nerve seeking klaxon sounded, and you could hear the boom, boom, boom of hard ordnance hitting the hull.
"What do we do?" one of the nurses aboard the McCoy asked Jayme Alcon when the red alert sounded. "Follow my lead," she said without hesitation. "We're not going to roll over and play dead, that's for damned sure!" she said as she grabbed a phaser from the hospital ship's small security armory.
Elsewhere on the ship, the klaxon sounded and the Medical Response Unit scrambled. Kaplan, Neil, and Zack headed to the flight deck to secure the three Hawkes. Sergeant Mullarky ran fully armed to the main transporter room where he and the techs on duty locked out the transporters and prepared to hold it against boarding parties...
Lieutenant Sidle and PFC Cummings grabbed their kits and headed to the bridge to help defend from boarders. Once they arrived Roxanne immediately took up the communications station and sent out the standard announcements. The captain of the McCoy shouted, "Just lost our shields!" and over general comm yelled, "Prepare for boarders!"
From the bridge they locked down all of the lifts, cut the power to the transporters, and the flight deck. On the flight deck, the three PFCs secured the Hawkes and then found places to hide and act as snipers since most of the boarders would have to enter from the flight deck as there were only three more access points around the ship and other marines were racing there.
Jayme looked around the triage area and said to the staff, "Everyone keep working." Doctor Alcon entered the area and frowned at Jayme as she started double checking her work. "Doctor," Jayme called as she walked toward her mother and said, "Go clear the surgical suites." Jayme ordered as she stepped between the patient on the biobed and the blue jacketed physician.
"How dare you tell me, the chief medical officer, what to do!" She crossed her arms over her chest and glared.
Jayme met the glare and gritted her teeth and then said, "We are being boarded! I am a Marine and this is one of the reasons my team was stationed here. And those patients still in surgery don't stand a chance of survival if a patrol comes in there and interrupts or fires into that oxygen enriched/sterile environment and blows us all to hell." Jayme nudged the older woman shoulder trying to propel her in the direction of the surgical team on the next level. The power flickered, the klaxon cut off, and the unit specific communicators Jayme's team used beeped. She took it out of her pocket and keyed and said, "SitRep."
"PFC Kaplan," Sara swallowed and continued, "boarding party just blew in, about one hundred troopers -- look like conscripted but heavily armed."
Jayme licked her lips and said, "Stay frosty, and when clear disable vessels, take out sentries, MCF! Out."
Dr. Alcon having heard the report headed to the next level to start closing down the surgical suites. Jayme moved around and directed the medical staff in the area back to work.
Captain Alcon stood and ran a scan of her patient using her medical tricorder... everyone around her was jumpy and when the door opened and two Marines in full combat kit arrived.
Kama entered, looking around. "Why is everyone here acting as a cat on a hot tin roof?"
Jayme moved away from her patient and over to her two marines who were toting her kit. She took the pack and moved out from in front of the door and started pulling out her personal weapons and gearing up. "Did you encounter any resistance on the way from the barrack? Boarding parties should be arriving here any minute."
"No one, nothing," she said dryly. "What are you so nervous for? You were trained for this, if they want to go passed us, they will have to be related to the Borg. You all know what you can do, I heard the stories fly, so why don't you live up to them for a change?" She grinned.
"Being nervous only costs energy, and that energy can be used better in combat."
Jayme finished gearing up an asked, "Kama, Marki, any idea where Berke, Ronning, Hasek, or Tayge are?"
"Don't ask me, I was woken up by the red alert." Kama looked at Jayme. "Have you tried to contact them?"
"Yeah I was woken up by the red alert as well, and no I haven't heard from or seen them either," Marki stated as she geared up.
"No. Maintaining communication silence," Jayme said as she looked around the room. "Everyone, it's business as usual in here even if the enemy shows." She watched people nod in acceptance. "Okay, we are going snipe hunting... Weaps on heavy stun. I'll lead, Marki you follow and Kama you have rear guard. Marki in my pack you'll find a bundle of pvc zip ties we'll restrain the ones we stun with that. Lets go," Captain Alcon said heading for the door.
"Yes Ma'am," Marki said, while she took her position behind Jayme.
Kama waited for Marki to follow and she closed the rear, keeping her eyes open, and having her tricorder and phaser ready.
Jayme hooked her tricorder to her hip and stepped out into the hall and turned and headed to the right and at the next intersecting corridor she signaled them to pause as she looked around the corner... instinctively she ducked low in the center of the hall and fired three short blasts stunning three Mullurian intruders. "Marki, move and restrain them I have you covered." Jayme moved past the three men and her team and peeked around the corner and found it cleared. She looked back over her shoulder and watched as Marki disarmed and restrained the downed men.
Marki nodded as she moved in to restrain the intruders.
"3 down..." Kama heard something in the maintenance shaft she was leaning against, she signaled the other two.
Jayme signaled Kama to investigate.
She opened the hatch, and fired 2 fast shots, a third managed to retreat in time. "There is one more!"
Jayme moved in and helped Marki secure the two Kama had just taken out. Kama was half in half out of the maintenance hatch. "Let him go." She stood and pulled Kama out of the hatch and said, "Use your phaser and spot weld the door closed. Do it Now!"
"Yes..." She set the phaser on a high setting, and melted the hatch shut. "He can go out in 6 other points..."
Jayme looked at Kama's tricorder and pointed to the screen. "Here, this small knot is our next target." Jayme took the corner and headed to the next intersection with her team following. She motioned Kama to the other side of the corridor to check. "On the count of three," Jayme ordered, and all three women jumped out and fired.
Kama rolled over the ground, they fired back and she was almost hit. A fast shot nailed her attacker to the ground.
Jayme pulled the other woman back onto her feet and against the wall the door opened to their left and several Nausicaans entered the corridor and stopped dumbfounded. Jayme fired reflexively taking out two. The third one grabbed Jayme's arm and yanked pulling her off balance. She pushed herself forward into the guy pulling on her arm and shoulder checked him.
Kama estimated the distance, and locked her phaser on them. She was not planning to let those Nausicaans take Jayme! Her sharp eyes sought for a place to hit the Nausicaan, without hurting her colleague.
Jayme's hand went to the knife strapped to her shin guard, pulled it and used her momentum to thrust the knife into the chest of the warrior what was grappling with her on the way down. She landed with the Nausicaan on top of her. She saw stars for a moment and heaved to get out from under him. "Ugh, so much for excessive use of force."
"Good work." Kama lowered her phaser. "Had he not let you go, I would have to shoot you both."
Jayme stood looked around the room and saw two unconscious medical staff on the ground... Jayme moved over and checked for pulses and found none. "Dead."
"Leave them, we have no time to clean up. I suggest we move on before it gets any worse." Kama said it calm, when on the job she was cool as ice.
"Agreed," Jayme said as she moved back to the door picking up her dropped phaser. She took a deep breath and triggered the door open and allowed Kama and Marki to lead the way. Kama glanced at the tricorder that was attached to her left forearm... She silently motioned left and held up 5 fingers. Jayme nodded, and followed to the left.
Kama kneeled and looked around the corner, 5 indeed, she motioned 3 forwards, 2 standing with their backs to them. A surprise attack should be sufficient to take them out. She signaled that one of them should walk through the cargo bay and exit on the other side, so they could surprise them on both ends...
Jayme shook her head negative, in a quiet voice said, "We have people on the other side." She motioned the other direction.
Kama nodded, made the signal on communicating, warning other side, attack as one.
Jayme, Marki, and Kama had helped the team stationed in the docking bay take out the fifteen Mullurians and Nausicaans. Afterwards the three women left Kaplan, Neil, Zacks to maintain control and stop all other intruders.
The gals headed down the portside corridor and headed to the Jeffries tube that would take them up to the next level. Marki led the way.
They crept to the next intersection...
"Careful, I hear something!" Kama warned, she wanted them to be silent so she could hear if she was right.
Marki was careful, waiting to hear what her friend may have heard.
Jayme paused, her phaser pointed to the ceiling. She crossed the hall and peered around the corner as Kama did the same on the other side... Jayme jumped as the door behind her leading to the surgical recovery area opened and the body odor of the Nausicaans that rushed out all but air from the women's lungs. Just as another team of Mullurans came up both corridors trapping them.
Kama froze, this was not happening, this could not happen, she refused to believe it! She fired at the Nausicaan that tried to grab her, but there were too many!
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