Up A Creek Without A Rifle

[WxMurray 0]

“Ah crud.”

 

Murray was inside a Jeffries tube outside the deck five turbolift to the bridge. After they had lost contact with the bridge, he had decided to go up to the bridge to see what was going on. He couldn’t even get into the turbolift; those had been cut off, too. And so had main engineering, and Kairi was trapped inside. Hoping to “back door” his way in, he had climbed into the Jeffries tube. Minutes later, though, he had a really bad feeling; pulling out his tricorder, he confirmed his fears. Something bad was happening.

 

He objurgated himself for leaving Kairi behind. He knew that it wasn’t his fault, but he couldn’t help feeling a little guilty over putting her in this situation. Still, though, it couldn’t be helped at this point. He just hoped she could hold out.

 

He had started to make his way for engineering to see if he could either get himself in or get the engineers out. He was stopped by his tricorder beeping; it was picking up transporter signatures and lifesigns: Romulans. It was then that he made the split-second decision. He wasn’t going to engineering, not straight away, anyway. He just hoped that he could make it to the armory and back to the Jeffries tube without being noticed.

 

One way to find out…