Investigating The Tiburon - Part II

Posted on 07 Aug 2026 @ 12:44am by Commander Camila Di Pasquale & Lieutenant Ranul Frex
Edited on on 07 Aug 2026 @ 12:49am

1,330 words; about a 7 minute read

Mission: Acceleration
Location: Tiburon: Engineering

Simmons and Becks gave a nod to Lieutenant Frex as they scanned the area. "Are you ready, Sir?"

"Yeah, lead the way guys," Frex said as he put his hand on the phaser that was in its holster as he waited for Simmons and Becks to lead the way.

Becks drew his tricorder while Simmons drew his phaser, then both of them headed for the turbolift. "Which way is Engineering on here, Sir?"

Frex pulled out his tricorder and ran a quick scan. Engineering was several meters away, down several hallways, twists, and turns. Frex looked back at the team and said, "Looks like we're going to be going through a bit of a maze to get down there. But, it shouldn't take too long. It looks like we've got to start down that hallway first."

Frex pointed towards a nearby corridor as he started to walk and said, "Come on guys. Lets stick together."

The two Security officers took his lead and gave an affirmative to his directive. "Aye, Sir," Simmons said as he scanned the way ahead.

Frex led the team as they slowly started to make their way to Main Engineering. As they made their way there, Frex noticed how quiet it was and said, "Not to say the Q word and jinx us, but we haven't run into a single soul here. Also, not actual Q, but the one that everyone says never to say or you'll have a million things to do."

Frex turned a corner and quickly realized he was mumbling on. He looked back at the security detail and said, "Sorry, tend to ramble sometimes if I'm a bit nervous."

"According to the readouts, there are lifesigns ahead," Simmons said as Becks took the lead.

Frex looked down at the display on his tricorder and said, "Looks like they're on the way to Engineering. We can see how they are and if we can transport them out from where they are. If not, we can see how stable they are and bring them with us to main engineering. Maybe I can get the transporters up and running to transport them back to the Black Hawk."

Frex kept moving forward as they started to get closer to where the lifesigns were coming from. The group of officers turned a corner and found the lifesigns.

Becks took the lead, his phaser held low and his torch high to illuminate two crew members who clung to each other on the floor half in and half out of a turbolift. One was gasping for air and the other, a human female and the other was a Bolian male who was looking at her oddly. Neither seemed to register the new arrivals.

"You two, identify yourselves," Simmons ordered.

The Bolian snapped out of his trancelike state and looked at the three Starfleet personnel "I'm Lieutenant Cobb, This is Ensign Kalifa."

Frex took brought his tricorder up and said, "Looks good to get them to transport out. There's no interference in this section. If you two don't tagging them and getting them out of here before we move on."

Simmons nodded and moved to put a transponder tag on each of the two crew members. "Two to beam to sick bay," he said after he tapped his combadge.

Once the two crewmembers from the ship were beamed out, Frex said, "Okay, only a few more meters and we're in Engineering." He continued onwards once he looked back and made sure his security detail were following him. It didn't take long for them to get to Main Engineering. Once there, Frex went over to one of the diagnostic tables near the middle of the Engineering section and started to pull out some tools to work with.

Frex tapped his combadge and said, "Frex to rest of away team. I've made it to Main Engineering and I'm working on some of the systems. I'll let you know if I run into any trouble. Frex out."

Frex looked at the security detail and said, "Lets hope that I can do this and get this bad boy up and running again. I might need an extra pair of hands for a few things. Mind helping out if I need ya?"

In the distance, a metal bulkhead slammed to the floor.

"What was that?" Simmons asked.

"Bulkhead," Becks replied. "They only come down in emergencies. Computer, state reason for closure of bulkhead..." he didn't know which one it was that had just came down. "...closure." he finished lamely.

Frex tapped a few commands into the nearby console and tried to pull up the reason as to why the bulkheads were starting to close. He looked back at the security detail and said, "Looks like something.....or someone is blocking my access to why the bulkheads are closing. I've still got access to other parts of the engineering systems, but not that."

"Let's get this job done and get out of here," Simmons said while Becks went to the nearest exit and looked around.

Frex kept working at it and kept trying to get everything online. Several things were easily bypassed or switched on with general codes. But, there were other things, especially relating to the warp core and propulsion systems that Frex was having trouble bypassing. "I'm trying to get past some of these lockouts, but it's taking me more time to get through them," Frex said as he kept working. He looked over at Simmons Becks and asked Becks, "What do you see over there?"

"The bulkhead in section J-17 is closed and sealed," Simmons called.

"How far is that section from here?" Frex asked Simmons as he tried to work faster, his fingers working the controls as fast as they could.

"It's just down the corridor," Simmons responded.

Frex worked a few more controls and managed to get main power back online. He tried accessing the security system, but couldn't get immediate access. "Anymore section closings yet Simmons?" Frex asked as he moved onto the security systems that were trying to close the ship down.

Suddenly a scream was heard and Becks came staggering around the corner with a wound on his right hand and his left hand firing his phaser around the junction. "Get back! Get back!" he yelled.

Simmons brought his tricorder up as something large, green, scaled and fast came around the corner and latched onto Beck's leg, causing him to scream again. Simmons dropped the tricorder and brought his phaser up as the creature dragged Beck around the corner screaming.

Frex grabbed his own tricorder and phaser out as he saw Becks coming around the corner screaming. He pointed his tricorder towards whatever was coming towards them and grabbing for Becks. Frex took his own phaser and pointed it towards the creature as he asked, "What in the heck is that thing?! I can't make heads or tails of this tricorder data!"

Simmons took off around the corner firing his phaser. "Becks!"

Frex followed quickly behind Simmons, trying to gather as much information about the creature that took Becks. He kept his phaser raised as best he could carrying both devices. He tapped his combadge and said, "Frex to Di Pasquale and rest of away team. We've got a problem in Engineering!"

Simmons came to a stop as he found Becks slumped against the wall, bleeding from several wounds. "Simmons to Black Hawk!. One for emergency transport to medical!" He tapped Becks' combadge. "Hang in there buddy," he said as the Security officer was beamed out.

He turned in a circle, then stopped when he heard a noise. "Is that thing hunting us?"

Camila's voice came over the combadges =^=Mitchell and Larado, continue on. Lieutenant Frex, get you, Becks and Simmons out of Engineering now!=^=

Frex tapped his combadge and said, "Right away! We'll get out as quickly as we can, ma'am!"

With that, Simmons called for transport and the three officers beamed off the ship.

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