Kellys Heros "
By: Thomas Swenson, Chief Engineer, [NPC]
Miranda, Lounge Manager, [RNPC]
Melissa Jarvis, Chief Security Officer, [RNPC]
Teilani Dane, Chief Medical Officer, [PC]
Kelly Forrester, Assistant Chief Operations Officer, [RNPC]
Ian Hunter, Commanding Officer, [PC]

Stardate: 58204.17 2230

It was dark in the doctors office, Teilani was still on duty. As she had given all her staff the rest of the day and night off she had to pull a double shift. Not that she mind, she liked sitting in the dark, only a small

light was on, highlighting the sunflower painting.

Sipping at her coffee, she was checking out some lab results as she heard the distinctive whinge of a transporterbeam.

"Computer lights on", she ordered, running out of her office.

In sickbay she saw tree persons materialize, recognized Miranda, the Zion's lounge manager the two others were unknown to her. Miranda and her companion

held up a third female person, seemingly unconscious.

"Put her on the biobed" Teilani ordered, she was in her element, what happened", she asked, grabbing a tricorder.

"This is Ensign Forrester, she has been badly beaten," said Miranda. "TJ and

I found her like this. She apparently has been abducted."

Teilani shoved TJ to the side, running the scanner over the unconscious ensign. Teilani tapped the biobeds console so that the diagnostics were displayed. Quick action was needed. The ensign was severely beaten en bruised. Teilani prepared a hypospray with 10cc inaprovaline, 5 cc of cortisone and pressed it in the ensigns neck, as well as placing a neurostimulator on the ensign forehead. She ran the scanner over the ensigns

body again. The readings were dangerously low. This was all she could do for now, she had to wait until the medicine kicked in.

Computer Teilani ordered: - run a level 1 diagnostic at cellular level on neurological trauma and bloodwork. Breakdown diagnostic in the following sequences: viruses, alpha and beta brain waves, any other anomalies.

Miranda rubbed the bruise on the top of her head and wondered just what has possessed her to slam her head into the Ferengi's. She knew she was going to have a whopper of a headache. She decided it was worth it. It was a good little fight, she thought. "We got into a little fight Doctor trying to

help Ensign Forrester. We should probably alert the captain."

Teilani turned her attention to Miranda and TJ. She nodded, "That would be a

good idea". "Right you two, she said, have a seat", pointing to the other biobed. It was more than obvious that they had been into a fight. Teilani ran her scanner over Miranda, readings indicated that she had only a major headache and some bruising on her forehead.

Teilnai took a new hypospray from the tray and prepared a small dose of inaprovaline, this would cure the headache. She gently pressed the hypo to Miranda's neck. "Your gonna be fine, she said. "In the morning you might feel like you have had too much romulan ale".

"Thanks Doctor, I did not think Ferengi's had such hard heads," she said rubbing her forehead.

Teilani chuckled, "If you ever need to know how to disable a Ferengi other than besides hitting him in the head come and see me".

As the Docter turned to TJ Miranda said, "This is TJ, he is the Chief Engineer on the Atlanta."

"Hello", Teilani said. "Nice to meet you Sir". " Although I would have preferred this under different circumstances".

TJ smiled. "Nice meeting you too Doctor."

Teilani ran her tricoder along his body. "What the h** she cursed, looking at her tricorder. According to the readings TJ did not have any lifesigns at

all. This was weird. Teilani pushed some buttons, resetting the tricoder and

ran the scan again. No luck, she walked over to the biobed console, taking another tricorder.

"Damn", she cursed, the other one was also not working. She tossed the tricorder to the side. "Sorry sir, but I need to examine you the old fashioned way. It seems that the tricoder is giving up, I do not know what is the matter with it.

"Let me see that," said TJ picking up the discarded tricorder. He opened it

and scanned the doctor. Sure enough there were no readings. TJ looked at the tricorder again and found that it had been placed in stand-by mode. Turning off standby, he again scanned the doctor. Her blood pressure and heart rate seemed slightly elevated. "Old fashioned indeed," thought TJ as he closed the tricorder and handed it back to her saying, "It appears to be working now."

"You must be kidding, Teilani said surprised looking at the tricorder. "How did you manage that?". "I have been trouble with these things all day". Teilani ran the scanner over TJ again and indeed the tricorder gave the correct readings. She continued talking. "First the climate control failed, than the replicator went nuts, instead of giving me coffee I got ghoo and now the tricorders". Teilani mumbled, "It is that I do not believe in ghosts but otherwise I would say that the Zion is hunted".

"Probably should let engineering know. It can take a while to get these new

ships settled in. The tricorder was just in stand-by mode," said TJ.

"Let me see your knuckles", she ordered. Can you make a fist for me, Sir". Teilani took a derma regenerator and fixed the bruised knuckles as well has TJ's bruised ribs. "You are going to be fine also Sir" , Teilani said putting away the regenerator and hypospray.

"Thank you Doctor."

"Excuse me, Miranda, TJ, you realize that I have to report this to the Captain".

"Yes, probably to security as well. I am not sure how the Ensign came to be

in their possession but they were planning on smuggling her off the ship. The Ferengi is a slave trader and he was looking to buy her," said TJ.

"A slave trader, Teilani said startled. "This is alarming news". She tapped her combadge Dane to Captain Hunter

"Hunter here" came the reply

Please report to sickbay urgently

"I'm on my way."

"O.K. you two" , Teilani said with a smile, you are free to go". "Miranda, if your head is still sore in the morning come back to me". "I will sent a note to your own CMO TJ, so that he knows about your injuries"

Hunter entered sickbay and came to stand beside Teilani as she continued to examine her patients.

Teilani updated Hunter. He turned to TJ and offered his hand, "Thank-you, TJ. It seems poker isn't the only thing you are good at."

TJ shook the captain's hand, "Thank you sir. Poker would have probably been less painful," smirked TJ as he rubbed his ribs.

"I will be sending my commendations to Captain Hailey. You quite possibly saved our Ops officer."

"I am just glad I saw the Ferengi in Quarks," replied TJ.

"Do you know who this ferengi is and have you contacted station security yet?"

"His name is Ramok. I know him from my pre-starfleet days. He was, or maybe still is a slave trader. We did not call base security as we wanted to get the Ensign to help as fast as possible. I hightly doubt that they will find him anyhow. TJ glanced at Miranda, "Unless Miranda managed to kill hm with that headbutt she hit him with."

Miranda smiled uncomfortably.

Hunter smiled, "Headbutt? Miranda? Well, uhm good job!"

Maranda nodded.

"TJ, I'm going to need you and Miranda to talk to our security officer, Lt Jarvis about this matter. I'll have her come right down."

Hunter turned slightly, Jarvis, please report to Sickbay.

***

Melissa was interviewing a rather beligerant Federation prisoner when the captain's call to sickbay came in.

She tapped her comm badge, "On my way Captain."

"It's your lucky day," she said to the prisioner. "We will continue our conversation another time."

"Drop dead," he said as he was being led away.

"That was very original prisoner," replied Melissa as she left and headed to sickbay. When she arrived at sickbay she was briefed by the captain about the incident on the station. As the captain was leaving she notified station security and began questioning TJ and Miranda. When she had no more question to ask TJ and Miranda left sickbay.

Melissa stood next to Ensign Forrester's bio bed and watched her. She had been hurt pretty badly. This type of thing should not happen on a starbase, she thought. Melissa returned to the security office and began reviewing her notes on the numerous prisoner interviews that she had been doing. It was getting late and she was about to go off shift when a message popped up on her screen. It was a report from the station. The Ferengi and his accomplish seemed to have vanished. Base security suspected that they got on a transport to Bajor and had alerted the Bajoran government, however, no sign on them had been found on any of the transports when they arrived.

Melissa rubbed her temples and sighed. "more bad guys get away," she said in a tires quiet voice.

***

Miranda watched as TJ beamed back over to the Atlanta and then returned to her quarters. She began getting ready for bed when she remembered something the Ferengi had said. He said that he knew TJ only called Raja Finn. Mirnada went to a console and asked the computer to pull up any inforamtion about a person called Raja Finn. "Very interesting," she said as she read through the data.