OOC: Been kinda lax in my posting. Let's see what kinda trouble I can get into. IC: Xristha Droin took a seat at the science station and familiarized herself with the controls. It had been quite some time since sitting in front of a computer console other than her medical computers. Her memory was hazy, but she slowly began to get the hang of it. After her brain wreck in sickbay she was lucky she could function. After deliberating for 10 minutes she decided to plant malignant carcinogenic cells and infected her friend Zena with the human immunodeficiency virus...or at least a non-human form. She also injected her with a inhibitor of the acquired imune deficiency syndrome, the final stage of the HIV disease, and a resistor to the symptoms of the HIV. Droin surmised that neither disease would have enough mitosiatic time to take over her body and with treatment Zena would recover. Droin hypothesized that the pathogens would attack any cell or blastule in Zena's body, i.e., borg nanites. This would possibly buy Zena some time. {well Andy that is the best I could do on short notice...and btw - next time I am put on the spot I will give Santos elephantitus - of the left foot ;).} As the Vanguard prepared to fire upon the lead Borg vessel a blue light engulfed them. "Report." Santos snapped. Droin ran her fingers across the console, "We are being scanned." She continued to hypothesize, "The computer does not recognize the signature." A volley of torpedoes hit the first Borg pyramid as the other two moved away and after the other ships. Droin piped up, "One of the pyramids is cloaking." The pyramid shimmered in subspace as it moved towards the Hurricane. "How far is the Hurricane?" Santos asked. She'ra replied, "Far enough for their sensors to not know a Borg pyramid is after them under cloak." Santos knew the communications were down and the ship was vulnerable heading for a safe haven. He may have signed their deaths. "Set course to intercept the cloaked Borg cube." His orders were followed. "Engage." The annoying broken chirp sounded from the computer console in front of the new helm. "Engage." "The ship is not responding." Jaav spoke. Xristha sensed the anxiety in the crew and understood their powerful emotions towards the Hurricane crew. She ran a scan, "Our warp core is flooded with verteron particles." She thought, "It was the beam. Krist--the Borg knew we would sacrifice ourselves for the Hurricane and she---they rendered us adrift." Santos breathed in heavily. "Prepare to neutralize the particles." Xristha looked down at the science station and thought to herself, "Now where is that neutralize particles button?" OOC: Anyone want to take over...sorry to throw one at you escapees, but you didn't think I would let you get away while I have to sit at a damn Science station, did you? Xristha Droin CMO Vanguard _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ********************************************************** USS Vanguard: http://vanguard.iwarp.com Gamma Fleet: http://www.gammafleet.org.uk _Free_Lists: //www.freelists.org **********************************************************