Act One, Scene One

[Kiera]

Deck 3: Holodeck 2

"Yes, sir." Ok, now I have orders.

"Time for us to go. Ensign Holland, you take Kiev and Grif and take care of getting the transporters offline. I don't know what else is broken on this ship, but assume the turbolifts are offline. Use the Jeffries tubes."

"Lieutenant, that's a lot of climbing," crewman Grif complained. I sighed and glared at him.

"I don't care how many decks there are. You will follow my orders, crewman," I threatened. He might have been a whole foot taller than me but he cowered as if I was a Gorn looking to make a meal out of him. I wasn't in the mood for arguing right now.

A door materialized from the foliage. Thank you, Kiev. Now we can leave. "Cutler, make sure to turn the holodeck off and join Holland. You all heard the commander. There's an intruder alert. Find a weapons locker and equip yourselves. If you find any crew tell them to gather in the mess hall and gather weapons. Security teams are to contact Commander Bonham for further orders. The rest of you with me. Let's go!"

I exited the holodeck first and immediately turned right towards the nearest Jeffries tube entrance. I stopped at a weapons locker and pulled out 3 phaser rifles and 8 phasers. I took 2 of the phaser rifles and 4 of the phasers, handing them out to my staff, then headed into the Jeffries tube first, a phaser on my hip. Luckily we were only on deck 3, with the bridge being on deck 1. I quickly led my team to the bridge, seeing a shocked flight deck crew manning the stations as I poked up from behind a console.

"Who's in charge here?" I ask.

"I am, Lieutenant. Crewman Thelev ch'Irroh. We were transported here randomly by-"

"Yes, I know already. Thank you, crewman." I dismissed him and told him to get phasers from the weapons locker. They weren't a well-trained security team, but they would have to do.

I barked orders, just like I would have if I was in Engineering. "Crewman, your crew secure the turbolift doors. Simmons, get a forcefield up around the bridge. Brown, man the conn." My brain was running 10 times as fast as I could spit out directions.

I ran to Ops and entered in a series of commands. They weren't being recognized by the console. I smashed my fist against it. I had to rush across the bridge to the Engineering console and luckily it worked when I entered the commands to shut down the main computer and lock out the command codes. The only ones who had access to the computer now were Commander Bonham, Lieutenant T'Lora, and myself. I hoped I wasn't too late.

After all the excitement I sat down in the command chair, mentally exhausted. An Ensign came up to me with some water and I drank it greedily. I handed the bottle back to him, half of it gone. "Thank you, ensign. I needed that."

I looked around the bridge and saw all stations manned, all doors secured and guarded. After knowing the bridge was secure I tapped my communicator and contacted the commander. "Bridge to Commander Bonham, bridge is secure. I shut down and locked out the computer so only you, Lieutenant T'Lora, and I have access. I sent a team to shut off the transporters. They haven't reported in yet."