MISSION END Shout and Cry And It All Goes Quiet

Posted on Sat May 20th, 2017 @ 10:14am by Captain Rueben Gregnol & Leiddem Kea (*) & Caden Isaacks

Mission: Mission 3 - Negligence
Location: Main Engineering Empok Nor
Timeline: MD02 :: 15:00
1109 words - 2.2 OF Standard Post Measure

He entered Main Engineering and found the checklist. He wasn't planning on powering anything up, just making sure that everything was working as it should. He was an engineer and while he knew a great many things, cleverly hidden booby traps were not one of them. And so it was, that a short while later a sound echoed through the station, filling the silent places, and shaking any number of objects loose from their perches. It was, to some ears, the most distinctive sound though the recognition varied somewhat depending upon the listener. To healers, it was the call to duty. To warriors, it announced the arrival of a heretofore unseen enemy. It was both shout and cry and while those listening responded as they would, Sebastian Rudd breathed his last and fell silent.

Jeassaho turned as she heard the sudden cry and looked at Bradon concerned. It had been close by and didn't sound like the sudden cry of fright. "That sounded like Seb?" She said already starting off in the direction that the young man had been. She felt out telepathically trying to find him but there was nothing. The woman clutched her chest feeling a rising panic as the realization of what that could mean. "Bradon... I can't sense him!" She said growing concerned by the second as she couldn't find him or feel the usual chirpiness from the other Engineer. "Lei... you need to get someone down here urgently," Jeassaho said urgently into her comm set to her brother knowing full well he was with the medical lot.

Olsam Mott showed up with Leidem and Caden, having been summoned from Empok Nor's sickbay, where they'd made a discovery of a hidden cache of medical supplies. When they arrived in Main Engineering, it looked like something terrible had happened. Someone was on the floor and two people were standing over him, one looking especially panicked. The Bolian shuffled over, made some space for himself over the body, and then frowned. He looked up at the senior "officer" in the group, Bradon Gordon.

"He's dead, Gem," Olsam said. He'd taken to calling Chief Gordon 'Gem' as a sort of affectionate appellation. He was a diamond in the rough, as the humans might say. ('A pearl among sand,' for Bolians.) He'd helped him on a number of occasions and, in general, seemed to be one of them more helpful members of the crew. In short, he was a gem.

"No... I refuse to believe that... he just... he just was alive." Jeassaho shook her head as Leiddem made a grasp to move his older sister away from her dead friend. He could see the shock descending on her.

Looking over the Bolian's shoulder, Caden nodded grimly. Being the openly emotional one in the room, the last person he truly wanted to ask was Jeassaho. Sadly, she was probably one of the few in the room who was witness to the scene. The question he asked was open-ended, in the hopes he wouldn't be subject to another outburst from another member of the crew. "Did anyone see what happened to him?"

"No!" Jeassaho said as Leiddem wrapped an arm around her and pretty much picked her up to get her further back from the body. "We heard a scream, he was alive, he just blew a kiss to us... you can do something." Jeassaho had seen dead and Sebastian wasn't dead, he had literally just said goodbye to her moments ago.

Caden turned to the Bolian doctor, who at least seemed more interested in the more important matters at hand. "Doctor, what do you think? If he went from moving and interacting to dropping to no pulse, it does drastically narrow down what could have happened, correct?"

"Not necessarily," Olsam said. And then he launched into an alphabetical rundown of all the possibilities. "It could have been Altarian encephalitis, Benous syndrome, Burkee syndrome, cardiac arrest, Cartalian fever, Correllium fever, Dramia II plag-" He stopped suddenly, catching a look from Caden. He cleared his throat. "But most of those are unlikely. Maybe a booby trap of some kind, underlying genetic disease... None of you saw anything? One minute he was alive, the next he was dead?"

"All we heard was a shout!" Jeassaho muttered as Rueben walked into the compartment. He looked at the body lying on the floor and paled.

"What happened?" He demanded crouching to where the Bajoran lay unmoving and unbreathing. "Lieddem take her out of here." He instructed unable to listen to the quiet sobbing from the normally composed Engineer.

Olsam first noted the distance between the body and what he had assumed to be the area where Sebastian had been working. Then the lay of the body, assuming no one had significantly disturbed it. He frowned a little and produced his medical tricorder, taking some scans from a distance all while making confirming noises and nodding his head. Finally, he knelt down next to the body and began pulling at Sebastian's clothing - first rolling his sleeves up and then removing his shoes and rolling up his pants legs.

"He was electrocuted," Olsam finally announced. He stood up and looked down at the body without any clear emotional attachment to it. "Macroshock point of entry in his hands there. The voltage was high enough to induce dielectric breakdown in his skin, which just made everything worse. Looks like it traversed his heart, seized the whole thing up."

The doctor frowned and shook his head. He closed up his medical tricorder and replaced it in his pocket, signaling there could be no medical intervention.

"Usually it's something we can repair, but this isn't an ordinary case. Cardassian power systems use very low frequency electric current, which penetrates tissues more easily than, say, Federation systems. They operate a much higher frequency. There should have been safety backups to have shut down the power flow immediately and limit damage, but they must have been malfunctioning. I'm afraid the tissue damage, the neurological damage, is too extensive. There's nothing I can do."

"Thank you!" Rueben said standing up taking off jacket laying it over the boy. If it was too late, it was too late, he knew the man couldn't work miracles.

OFF::

Rueben Gregnol
Captain
SS Mary Rose

Leiddem Kea
Weapons Master
SS Mary Rose
(PNPC Gregnol)

Jeassaho Kea
Engineer
SS Mary Rose
(PNPC Gregnol)

Caden Issacks
Field Medic
SS Mary Rose
(PNPC Mahone)

Olsam Mott, M.D.
Ship's Doctor
SS Mary Rose

Sebastian Rudd
Engineer
SS Mary Rose
(PNPC Sanyue)