<USS Avalon> The Calling of the Spider (part 2)

 
 
 
 
The  Calling of the Spider (part 2)
by K'etrall, Mary  O'Donnell, Patrick 'Mac' McEntire, Mir'ast'hera, Joshua 
Garrity, & Li  Vilya
 
K'etrall started to  run a diagnostic on some of the gel packs when she 
noticed something unusual.  She scanned it again reading the results. Oh Shit 
this 
can't be true?  She had to tell someone but who. The most logical choice would 
be the captain  but of course he was busy. She decided she would tell the 
closet person and let  them handle it. Taking her PADD and tricorder she walked 
up to Ensign  O'Donnell.
 
She whispered so the  spider lady wouldn't worry, "Ensign, we appear to have 
a problem. One of the gel  packs has been infected." She showed her the PADD 
and tricorder results. "I  don't know how it happened but it will soon infect 
the other gel packs if  something isn't done and then the ship will start to 
malfunction big time. Just  thought I would give you the good news since you 
looked bored." K'etrall just  smiled evilly.
 
Staring at the person it  had seemingly appeared from nowhere, Mary thought 
this was incredulous. Her jade  eyes flashed and she hissed, "In room of 
engineers and the Captain, you come to  a member of Security with this 
information? 
Are you deranged?"

K'etrall  just laughed at the security officer. "I have been called a lot of 
things but I  don't think deranged is one of them. I realize that this is 
engineering, I am an  engineer, however Lieutenants Garrity and Li are not 
here. I 
thought you would  be able to get the information to Mac easier than I could. 
I don't especially  want to let on to Ms. Spider that I think the she is the 
reason for the  contamination. However if you would prefer....never mind I 
will go back to the  gel packs and see what I can do."
 
Going back to the gel  packs K'etrall found that the infection was spreading. 
This was beyond her scope  of knowledge. She decided it would be best to 
inform one of the other engineers.  Taking the PADD with the information on it 
she 
wandered out into main  engineering and made her way over to Lieutenant 
McEntire. "Lieutenant, I have  been monitoring the gel packs and it appears as 
if 
something has infected them.  At first it was only one pack but now the 
infection is starting to spread. I  thought you might want to handle the 
situation 
yourself."  She handed the  PADD of information to Lieutenant McEntire and then 
returned to her  hole.
 
Mac looked at  the PADD in his hand and shook his head. "Oh, shit..." he 
whispered as he  read it through quickly. "Jericho, Prater, Garrity, 
Muslich...come on...we've  got a problem..." He considered calling Josh back, 
then realized 
it'd be better  to let him and Vilya finish it up and get their visitor off 
the ship. Just in  case. No way they had an escape pod big enough to house her. 
He headed over to  the others, thinking they could come up with a way to halt 
the infection before  it spread any further.
 
Sensing this might be a  good time to move their guest along Mary looked up 
at the spider, "Mir'ast'hera,  is there anywhere else you would like to visit?"
 
Hearing the redheaded  biped addressing her Mir'a bobbed slightly, "I'd like 
to check on the repairs to  my vessel."
 
"Very well." She tapped  her comm badge, "Transporter Chief, could you beam 
myself and our guest to the  shuttle bay please." Moments later they both 
shimmered out of engineering  leaving it far less confined.

 
Materialising  in the shuttle bay Mary heard noises coming from the alien 
craft. "Anybody  available to talk?" 
 
Vilya raised one slim auburn  brow and looked right at Josh.  "You're the 
boss.  You go and explain  your educational opportunities."
 
"Um..." he glanced at the door  and shook his head. "... no.... you go ... 
I'll .... um ... supervise ... stuff  ... " He almost laughed, though he 
quickly 
buttoned up the last of the consoles,  gathered his tools, and headed off as 
quickly as he could.
 
Vilya gave the man a friendly  glare then stepped outside.  "Just you wait, 
Joshua Garrity.  My son's  first words to you are going to be 'why' and 'how 
come'."
 
Mary looked puzzled, "Does he  always do that?"
 
Vilya shook her head fondly,  making her earring jingle.  "And then some."
 
Strange man.  "Lieutenant, our guest expressed an interest in how the work on 
her vessel was  going."
 
Vilya looked at the creature's  face(that was its face, wasn't it?) and held 
out a PADD.  "Lieutenant  Garrity and I repaired the craft and added some 
educational  opportunities."
 
Mir'ast'hera bobbed at the  woman, "Educational opportunities?"
 
Garrity, I'm going to kill  you.  "The repairs that were needed were made but 
our Chief Engineer and I  made some improvements.  Unfortunately, we're 
forbidden by our Prime  Directive to actually do them, even if it makes the 
craft 
safer and more up to  date, so we've left the upgrades in place but the PADD 
doesn't indicate how they  were performed.  That will be up to you and your 
engineers to figure it  out."

 
Mary bit her tongue and looked  at the Bajoran in disbelief. The Arachnid 
accepted the PADD, "Would you thank  your Chief for me when you see him again?" 
 
Vilya stared back at the ensign,  daring her to say something.  Since nothing 
was forthcoming, which was wise  considering the company, she faced the 
visitor and nodded.  "Of  course.  I'm sure Lieutenant Garrity will be quite  
pleased."

 
Mary looked from one to the  other and then the lights dimmed suddenly in the 
shuttle bay, "Okay, that  doesn't bode well. Any ideas what to do next 
ladies?" 
 
Vilya frowned.  Her  immediate idea was 'run away...quickly' was squashed in 
favor of tapping her  comm badge.  "Captain, have we approached our guest's 
home world yet?   Now might be a good time."

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