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“Everyone take a flashlight from storage,” said Glen, “Take a safety helmet if you want, too. Maintain a full security alert. Stay together and alert, with phasers at the ready. Chief Xilla, when you are ready!”

Cross did not wait to be told twice she got both the helmet ,flashlight and phaser.While what the Captain had said …through experience the female doctor knew that when something sounded too good to be true she knew that it was not always the case.

Jasper followed Doctor Cross quietly to grab a flashlight and Helmet. And the old reliable phaser. As he quickly moved back into positiion after gathering the items. He was still not sure why he was needed on the Landing party but it better safe then sorry to have an old reliable engineer around He did feel strange that the Chief Engineer was not here instead of him.

William grabbed a torch but looked at the safety helmet and shrugged and returned it, helmets made him claustrophobic. He was only armed with a scientific scanning device and a small set of tools he thought might come in handy. He moved back to join the rest of the landing party.

Nkosenye looked at the CSO and then reached back with a long arm and grabbed the helmet he had put back and placed and held it unaggressively but firmly in the center of William’s chest. “Safety first, Mr. Grey. Being uncomfortable is better than a concussion… or worse.”

”..All set then?” Asked the chief

GM CockRoach