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-USS Leviathan, Deck 11 between RTF Barracks and Cargo Bay 2-
(Snip)

OOC: Cross-posting Cobb’s bridge reply for continuity…

IC: =^= Ah, Mr Vonn =^= came a somewhat shaken reply, =^= I…bodies, you say? Ah…=^=
There was a pause, then a clearing of the throat as of a man attempting to pull himself together. The rest was spoken with a more authoritative air.
=^= I am reading no external breaches. Secure the area and follow standard containment procedures. I will issue an evacuation of non-RTF personnel from the surrounding decks. =^=

• Captain Zachariah Cobb

Upon being addressed, the woman weakly turned her head toward Vonn’s computer-generated voice… But that seemed to use all the strength she had left. After one more wracking sob, she went still and her head lolled back as her trajectory changed her rotation.

Something popped silently above Vonn and the ghostly corpses, showering down sparks that left no smell or burns on the Leviathan’s surfaces.

On the other side of the ghost wreckage, a voice rasped. “…Bridge… Franklin to… Bridge… St… Status…” There was a wracking cough.

Franklin, anomalous individual

Vonn froze in place and then amplified their vocal output. “Franklin. Identify yourself. Move to my voice.” and played the same words over and over; and then they activated their ship comms. =/\= Vonn to RTF. Anomaly on Deck eleven near barracks. Containment team respond to my location. Anomaly not visible in normal range, set scanners to Gamma wavelength and proceed with caution. Cross dimensional activity probable. =/\=

Vonn, RTF CO

Inside the barracks Irida sat up grabbed her kit and walked out and around the corridor. “Chief” she said to Vonn in way of reporting in. It was abrupt but respectful.

“Master Chief.” came the artificial reply.

Ensign Luna was quick to respond =/\= agnoliged on my way=/\= with in fifteen minutes Ensign Luna came up behind Vonn. Here stance was law and she was careful about where she stepped using the scanner as a guide.
Ensign Luna

Irida turned taking in the area with her own senses. She drew a head set on and flipped the eye piece down allowing her to see on different spectrums and set it for Gamma waves. The device left her hands free and she loosened her Mark VII in its holster but refrained from actually arming herself. She dropped the bag with the containment kit to the ground and knelt down to open it. The scanner engaged about that time and Irida could now see what Vonn had seen. “Poor souls” she buttered in Russian.
MCPO Irida

“Ensign, don’t move, but begin recording all faces. Scan them and run them through the computer against all known Starfleet personnel. Master Chief, same instructions but look for any identifying nomenclature on parts and debris.” Vonn said in a low volume. They continued to look for the ‘Franklin’ they had heard, so they moved very slowly through the field. “Mr. Franklin. Can you hear me?”

Vonn, RTF

Luna nodded and quietly set to work scanning and identifying each individual making shure a list of all the people were made. ” what happened” she thought. This was definitely strange.
Ensign Luna

“Aye Sir.” Irida reached into the bag and pulled out a PaDD and from her position she stood slowly. It didn’t appear that they could physically affect the debris and people but that didn’t mean anything. Anomalies were unpredictable. She stood in place and visually scanned the area, slowly. She looked for identifying marks on the hull, serial numbers for parts, badges on uniforms, any item that might be transmitting telemetry, anything that would either identify the vessel (or whatever it was) or what had happened to it.
MCPO Irida

Bodies not desiccated by vacuum would be easily identified by facial recognition. Each one would bring up an alert on the scanner, a name, DOB, and USS Augustine as the ship they were last assigned to. Several of the Bulkheads and essential components among the wreckage bore the serial number NCC-87126, which again the computer would recognize as USS Augustine. Which, the alert status would be explained by the ship having been declared MIA, lost with all hands.

The real strangeness lay in the fact that the bodies and the wreckage were floating through the Leviathan’s hull, only seeming to be constrained within by some sort of gravitic effect, or energy attraction. The state of the matter comprising the wreckage and the people was in flux…

Leviathan creaked quietly beneath their feet.

Then hell broke loose upon reality.

In the space of an instant, the wreckage and the bodies somehow cycled into the same physical reality as the Leviathan. The superstructure groaned in protest as instant mass gain took its toll on Deck 11. The deck plates rent here and there with the weight distribution changes. The same happened with the Bulkheads and ceilings. Metal squealed against metal and a deep shudder ran through the deck, quaking enough to knock someone off their feet. Conduits were severed and shorted out, systems fused with parts they weren’t meant to interact with, and ceased functioning. Bodies fell from where ever they’d been floating and crashed to the deck plates with a sickening series of thuds and smacks. The air was almost magically filled with Coolant, smoke, and other toxins, a blending of the two atmospheres.

Through the new cacophony of metallic stressors, someone was crying nearby. Just the other side of the brand-new and very real bulkhead that had materialized in the corridor between Cargo bay 2 and the RTF barracks. Things fell or collapsed around the RTF crew, now unhindered by scanner devices.

-Franklin, anomalous individual

Vonn appeared nonplussed by the change, but they were wearing a helmet. Regardless, the synth voice carried over the cacophony of sound. “Luna! Check for survivors! Irida, with me!” and Vonn began moving swiftly through the wreckage. Coming up to the divide between them and the crying, the helmet whipped around to look at Irida. “Is there a conduit from here to the other side? Somewhere you can get past this?” and the gauntleted hand slammed into the bulkhead. As the voice asked the questions, a hand went to the belt and pulled out a small, round object. Anyone with any demolitions training would recognize it instantly… a shaped thermal charge.

Vonn, RTF CO

Irida did her best to maintain her footing, eventually choosing to drop to a knee rather than remain standing during the ‘merging.’ At Vonn’s call she was after him quickly taking stock of what had happened. She looked around, “Yes Sir. There.” she pointed to the right and moved to lift the access hatch. “It runs the length of the deck with hatches every 10 meters with cross conduits every 15.” She saw the charge and mentally shrugged. If he wanted to blow up the bulk head that just landed in their ship she was all for it. She dropped into the hatch and started moving in the direction of the bulkhead to try and get past it and come up the other side.
MCPO Irida

The helmet nodded and the charge was placed back into the pouch. “Go. I will follow. Luna! Coordinate rescue efforts with any RTF members arriving. Ensure all containment protocols are in place for anyone you find.”

Luna opens her wings using then to help her stay on her feet. “Under stood sir” as she was sent into a coffins fit. It was not exactly her fault her respritoy track was a bit more sensitive to contaminats in the are but that was only because she was well adapted for flight. The fit only lasted a minute or so. Well she would definitely need to get that looked at joy. First thing was first rescuing the survivors. She carefully moved through the recipe looking for survivors. They would need to be taken to sickbay right away.
Ensign Luna

There were no survivors to find. Only six corpses. Though two showed signs of not having been deceased for very long. None were desiccated. Crash type injuries only.

=/\= Ensign Luna to mid team. There apper to be no survivors but there are two who have not been deat for long if we work fact perhaps there’s a chance to save them=/\= she said questioningly.
Ensign Luna

Not far from Luna, Lt. Parker was quietly expiring. She lay where she’d fallen when gravity returned, behind and partially beneath a pile of debris.

Vonn followed the Master Chief through the conduit, squeezing their bulk through with an unexpected grace. As they reached the hatch on what should be the other side of the phased in bulk head, Vonn said “Stop. Listen. Is there still crying on the other side?”

Vonn, RTF CO

No more crying. However, there was a voice speaking lowly. A prayer, more likely. Faint sounds of movement came through the partially open hatch as if someone were trying to drag something heavy across the broken deck plates.

The broken bulkhead above them creaked as its weight settled in the artificial gravity.

-Franklin, Anomalous Individual

Irida stilled, breath slow and stead, not making a sound as she listened. And then shook her head. She didn’t hear any crying. She whispered, unsure if Vonn was familiar with sign language. She would have to ask at a later time. “It sounds like someone is praying but I can’t make out the words, and dragging, something heavy,” she told him in a breathed whisper.

OOC: Confused bridge thread says weapons fire but none on this thread? On purpose or typo?
MCPO Irida

Ooc: Just go with what you character is experience in the thread, don’t worry about what’s happening else where unless it’s relayed to you makes thing a little less confusing lol.
Jake

The voice from Vonn’s helmet whispered back “Understood. Move in, containment unit ready.” and they prepared to follow on the MCPO’s heels.

Vonn, RTF CO

Irida nodded, made sure the side zipper on her pack was open to give her access to the emergency containment apparatus and slowly reached up and released and opened the hatch. She paused to listen again and then stretched up to look, taking in the scene before placing both hands on the deck plating, one holding the Mark VII, and vaulting herself smoothly and quietly into the room and moving, low and quietly out of Vonn’s way. There was no room for mistakes now. With any luck the rest of the Black Devils were near by: Lehiw, Uh’jaw, Niven, and Trainor.

And of course they were, working their way as a group from the barracks towards their position.
MCPO Irida

Irida’s motion brought her into Franklin’s line of sight, and she into his. He was curled over the body of a young crewman, what was left of the boy. He’d been crying, praying, dragging the body toward sickbay… He looked rough. Uniform torn, bleeding in several places. Before he’d been clean-shaven from this morning… but now there were several days beard growth on his cheeks. His eyes were the worst. Dark eyes, but bright and shining with a terrible madness. The sort of madness only known to those who have suffered the unimaginable. He looked up and saw her.

Only this wasn’t the way to Sickbay…

This wasn’t the Augustine… Was it?

What the hell is happening?!

His heart jumped in his chest, the cortisol and adrenaline pulsed through his veins with an almost audible whooshing sound.

Who’s that?! She’s not crew… She’s not ours…

“INTRUDER ALERT!” He shouted, dropping the poor lad’s arm and pulling his Phaser.

What in God’s name is that behind her?!
“WHAT IN GOD’S NAME IS THAT?!” He screamed.

He fired wildly. One beam at her feet to slow her approach, and then a second over her shoulder at the Breen coming out of the hole.

Then a third, directed at irida’s chest. A kill shot.

-Franklin, Anomalous Individual