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Cadet Polis looked over towards the Captain and seen him duck for cover. “He has enough on his mind right now” thought Polis, “If my idea is going to work I’m going to need to do something right now”.
Polis made a dash for the shuttlepod, keeping low. I bolt of energy shot just over his head as he slid across the last few feet of the floor and took cover behind the the shuttlepod. He tapped the control panel and the door opened. The door was facing away from the battle and the cockpit facing the alien lifeforms. Just that bit of luck he needed as he stepped inside closing the door behind.
Polis sat low in the pilot chair and powered up the controls. He kept low in the cockpit trying not to draw attention. He still needed a few minutes. He powered up the pods magnetic docking controls securing the pod to the shuttlebay floor. This wasn’t generally done within the ship but outside to secure the pod to a ship while the crew conducted a spacewalk. But it was needed now. It was a shame this was only a maintenance shuttlepod, he thought. Phasers wouldn’t go amiss right now but Polis worked with what he had and tapped several other buttons on the display getting ready for his plan.
He tapped his communicator. “Captain, if you can hear me, get everyone out now. I need a 5 second countdown to the shuttlebay being decompressed.” Now all Polis could do was wait.

Cadet Polis, Security

Polis found that he didn’t have much to work with. This shuttle would be a engineer’s toy for a while to get it back to snuff. Power levels were only at 22% and he would have trouble piloting it but the ship was still intact even if the only real LCARS console he was working on was flickering. It might be touch and go …

Meanwhile inside, Aliss tried to keep the phaser on the creature. The trouble was that as it weakened it became more indistinct and she couldn’t get a very good bead on it in the darkness. She missed more than struck it. The second, smaller one, was nowhere to be seen.

Wookiee

The cadet’s original comm signal was missed with the noise of the energy discharge. So he was surprised to see part of the shuttlepod power up, with a security cadet inside. Then he heard the next comm signal. ‘I thought I set out that the plan was to distract the aliens.’

=/\= No, cadet, we are not evacuating the shuttle bay. Letting the Drachin have free reign until then would be disastrous. =/\=

As Johnson said that, he started looking to see where the two Drachin and other officers were…

(OOC: …and I’m on a one week LOA. I’m sure Gene can find a way to temporarily disable my character <EG>)
OOC: When in doubt, blow something up <G>

-Captain Johnson, CO

As soon as Johnson said this the Drachin that Aliss was firing at moved. Her phaser blast struck a tank near a far bulkhead causing an explosion. The bay rocked, as did the shuttle, throwing everyone there back. Aliss tumbled over a low stack of containers, groaning out a ‘not good’ .. while the Captain too was thrown back hitting the deck hard, stunning him briefly ..

For some moments there was silence as everyone there was adjusting from the ringing in their ears or of being thrown back. Had that affected the Drachin too? That was hard to say .. all was silent ..
- Wookiee

OOC: I believe Marlene was here, but I cannot remember, feel free to correct me if I’m mistaken.

IC:
Marlene had been crouched down, and when the explosion hit, she was merely knocked off balance, falling onto her rear. Her eyes scanned the area, looking for injuries or casualties.

She saw the Captain hit his head, and when she regained her sense of balance, she pushed herself to her feet, rushing to his side.

“Captain, can you hear me?” She asked, taking his head in her hands gently.

-Lt. Marlene Judas, CMO

The Captain’s flickered as he slowly regained consciousness.

Cadet Polis picked himself up off the floor of the shuttlepod and regained his composure. He could see the Captain, unconscious but being tended too. He taped his communicator, “Polis to Treyarch, if we cannot blow out the shuttlebay, I may be able to hold both aliens in place.. but only for a short while. I need them close together in front of the Pod. Can you do that?” Polis powered up the controls for the pods tractor beam. 20% power, more then enough for the plan he had. The control panel cherped as he accessed the system and reversed the polarity. The system display read ‘standing by’ and Polis did the same, his finger on the button. This would only work as a surprise once.

Cadet Polis, security

Johnson’s eyes opened, but his head was dizzy. He tested his right hand almost instinctually, making sure it was responding properly. “Aliss? The Drachin?”

Johnson quickly tried to recall what had happened before the explosion. “Wait, what is Cadet Polis doing?” he asked, groaning - whether because of his head or Polis, no one would be sure.

-Captain Johnson, CO