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Although she had suffered terrible damage and was split in
half, from the bridge section forward, the ship was still in one
piece while the aft section had been blown to pieces. Ensign Caldwell
crossed his fingers as he accessed his tricorder. He opened it up and
began its scanning cycle. Please, please, please, he kept saying
softly, chanting it over and over again like a mantra. His tricorder
vibrated softly in his hand to indicate that it had finished its scan
cycle. The tricorders had been modified to use vibrations to alert
the user because they would not hear the tell-tale little beeps that
had become second nature to them when the used the little scanning
device. Now that there was no little beep Ensign Caldwell suddenly
found that he missed its reassuring little sounds. Deciding that he
could not ignore his tricorder’s insistent vibrating he looked at the
read-out. He couldn’t believe his eyes at first and performed the
scan again. The exact same reading as before was there. He reacted
without thinking out of sheer enthusiasm.
“Ensign Caldwell to Hunter . The Victory has come through for
us! We have a functioning warhead here!”
He looked at the display read-out again. The tricorder had
actually found an energy signature. There was a chance that they
could salvage the warhead from the Victory for use on the Hunter
enabling them to engage their warp drive and escape. Everything
depended on them now getting the massive section of the starship
detached from the Victory , moved over to and attached to the Hunter.
But there was now a bigger chance of them being detected because
Lieutenant Granger and his assistant jetted over to assist Ensign
Caldwell. The risk was deemed worth taking if it sped up their
chances of getting away before being discovered by a marauding
Jem’Hadar, Cardassian or Breen warship.
To Be Continued....
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