Party with the Animals

Posted on Thu Jan 1st, 2026 @ 3:48pm by Commodore Wilkan Targaryen & Lieutenant (J.G.) Rrawran & Petty Officer 1st Class Akaathaan Saarnosh & Commander Ash Randall & Lieutenant Urvasi Elandorn & Lieutenant Amber Laurell & Ensign Sayori Nakai

6,838 words; about a 34 minute read

Mission: Distress
Location: Fusion Reactor Compound, Deep Space 47
Timeline: 2439-08-12, 10:30

As the transporter beams materialized within the Central Core Cargo Bay complex one thing immediately became clear, Deep Space 47 had been a site of carnage unimaginable. While the expansive bay was dark and foreboding, the truth became more and more apparent that this was a slaughterhouse. Bodies were everywhere through the room with both Starfleet Officers and civilians being among the victims, brought here for mass slaughter by whomever was behind this atrocity. The scariest part were their injuries. The victims had brutal, haggard looking wounds to their torsos that were unlike those of Phasers or Disruptors. They were mean, bloody, barbaric messes that weren't meant for the victims to survive. It was enough to make the most steadfast sick for days.

"Enterprise to Away Team," Petty Officer Akaathaan Saarnosh's voice interrupted. "I wanted to check in with you about the transport's success."

Ash looked around her and confirmed they entirety of her away team had arrived with her, the light on her helmet illuminating each as she laid eyes on them. The Chief Engineer had insisted her away team go full EVA with tactical accoutrements because it was, likely, the only way they would get to some parts of the station would be from the outside.

Urvasi also looked and counted the away team, then took a look around her. Her brows furrowed as she took a look at the dead bodies around her. It looked like wild beasts had attacked from the wounds. She had seen Vulienrey who had been savaged by the deadly animals on Nestranstra III, however, none of these bodies were worried or torn apart. Just, attacked to kill. She waited for the check-in to end and for orders from Ash.

"All present and accounted for, though, we're a long way from the location we're supposed to beam into." Ash observed, while she took in the carnage around her.

"We got you as close as we could to the Fusion Reactors for the Station. The Commodore wanted me to make sure you knew that lockdown protocols are in place so many of the key areas are sealed. You'll have to find a way in. We're not picking up any life signs aside from those of yours and the other away teams, but stay on guard, Sir."

"I haven't done a count but it looks like the entire complement of the station, Starfleet personnel and civilians, was herded into this location and executed." Ash reported, a bit of an edge to her voice. "Whoever did this was sending a message." She added as she grabbed a small canister from the utility belt of her, tactical, EVA suit, unscrewed the top and tossed the contents into the air. A small cloud of hundreds of tiny, spherical, objects orbited around her for a few seconds before dispersing in all directions to begin, detailed, engineering scans. "Heads up, scanners out." She ordered her away team.

Grabbing her scanner from her side, Urvasi activated it and began recording what was about them. As she was in an EVA suit, she activated the Fusion Core away team comm channel and commented, "Commander Randall, this looks like it could be the work of dangerous beasts, probably groomed to do such destruction. Also, could have been done by a deliberate sawtoothed or jagged sword edges to cut and tear, which would require a lot of strength to wielded. Commander Sevek or Ensign Nakai may have a better idea, though, with their sciences tricorders."

As she beamed in and saw the scene in front of the team, Sayori couldn't help but retch. "Oh, shit," she cursed, before realising that her EV suit was set to allow outside air in. Once she fixed that, she shook her head. "Stinks in here. I mean, not surprising, considering what we're looking at. Never seen anything like it." Carefully, she moved a little closer to the nearest body - a human woman in command uniform - and activated her tricorder. "Right... matching records. We are looking at the late Ensign Jacqueline Lafitte, age 27, communications and intelligence. As for what killed her, well. Those cuts go deep. Ripped right through her ribcage, lungs, heart, even got to the spine. If whoever did this had wanted to, they could have easily sliced her in half. No material residue to tell if it was organic material or a manufactured weapon, though."

Amber looked around in horror, the whole scene was something out of a gory horror movie. “This is horrific! I agree that those who did this were wanting to make a statement, one that says they're not messing around and they don’t care who they kill.”

Lieutenant Rrawran walked cautiously around the Cardassian designed Cargo Bay, thankful for his Rorworr eyes as he maneuvered through the calamity that had befallen the room. He almost wished though that he couldn't see a thing with the horrors that they were seeing. Using the holographic interface of his wrist worn Tricorder, the Lieutenant brought up the functions of the Peripheral Module to see if there was anything out of the ordinary to worry about aside from the bodies. While it wasn't ethical, he knew some less than ethical races weren't above booby trapping a body.

Being a descendant of a canine race, the Universal Translator struggled a bit with his voice. The mechanized words echoed, "Commander Randall, I'm reading a power source in this mass grave. I recommend extreme caution. These bodies may be mined."

"Noted, Lieutenant." Ash responded, quietly. "That possibility will have to be investigated by another team. Advise Enterprise of your suspicions the bodies may be rigged. In the mean time, lets make our way to the fusion reactors. Full scans. If they booby trap bodies then doors, hallways and tube access points are not out of the question." She observed while she stared at one of the bodies. "This will not stand." She commented and began to move toward the cargo bay exit.

As Urvasi's sight extended into the infrared and ultraviolet ranges, she looked over the bodies. There was a light signature of ultraviolet coming from underneath the main stack of bodies. However, there was also slight infrared, which she was putting off to the bodies cooling.. but if they had been dead for a while, that would change what kind of device was under the bodies. She added, "Commander Randall, Lt. Rrawran is most likely right, but, I see some ultraviolet and infrared emanating from the core bodies... I would recommend going around and staying 4 meters away from the main mass so as to not intersect the infrared field. I can't really help with any vibration sensing though.. the EVA suite blocks that sense."

Sayori quickly remodulated her tricorder based on what the other three had discussed as she moved towards the exit door. "Okay, sirs, good news and bad news. With what you've been saying I have been able to somewhat narrow down the scan pattern, and I can confirm that there are actually multiple energy signatures around the room. I'd hazard a guess and say they're most likely cloaked mines of some description. The good news is, I will be able to detect their presence so long as I keep my tricorder on this setting, even if I can't pinpoint them. As for the bad news," she sighed, pointing towards the exit Ash was headed towards. "Well, I am reading at least one of them behind that door. And given the scan range, it'll be pretty close."

Ash had looked to Urvasi and nodded understanding and paused where she was after Sayori revealed the prize waiting for them behind door number one was actually a Zonk. The felinoid stared at the door for a few seconds and nodded. "Zonk behind door number one." She mused, quietly, and looked to Sayori. "Share out the 'tune' of your tricorder to everyone else and lets spread out and find ourselves a, non booby trapped egress point. The engineering drones are getting us, high intensity, scans of the station so, if all but one of us focused their scans on not getting blown up, one can do more broad scanning to try and catch anything else waiting to do us harm." The Tuansee ordered. "Lieutenant Rrawran, pass on the scan settings to your counterparts on the other teams, please. Forewarned is forearmed."

Urvasi thought for a moment about the boobytraps. She decided to volunteer for an experiment, if needed. "Commander Randall, do you think the door would be able to withstand the Zonk going off and thus clearing our way through it? I... could try and wiggle it with my Telekinetics to get it to go off. I can go through material objects, but energy shields lower the range and amount lifted by a lot. If someone can use a tricorder to watch objects on the other side, once I wiggle one, they can direct me over to where the Zonk is and I can grab it and try to set it off, or throw it down the corridor if within what I can lift and throw..."

Commander Randall considered the proposal of Lt. Urvasi, for a few seconds, her eyes and ears focused on the door in question and looked to the Lieutenant. "I like the idea, Lieutenant, however, I am not keen on testing the metal, so to speak, of that door, its fixture or any of the surrounding materials that comprise the walls, floor and ceiling. It is all, for lack of a better description, janky as hell. Not worth the risk, at this point." She explained with a glance back to the door. Ash was almost certain the mine would obliterate everything within 30 feet of it and, if she didn't miss her guess, set off all the other mines to boot. "My gut tells me these are anti-matter mines and, if we set off one, they'll all go." She added, with a swish of her, EVA encased, tail.

The Rorworr Security Officer, fresh off of sending the details to the other Security Officers aboard DS47, glanced up at the others. He'd heard the suggestion, both in fact, and concurred, "If they are anti-matter mines it's possible that we'd take out half the station if these blew. It'd be worse if the fusion reactors were online when we did."

The Lieutenant gave his closest approximation of a sigh, "This reminds me more and more of something that happened back in the Dominion War during the fighting at AR-558. The Jem'Hadar used a type of subspace based anti-personnel mines. They hid in subspace and appeared at random, making it next to impossible to predict when or where they would appear. The soldiers called them something after an old Earth illusionist. What were they called? Copperfields? Blaines?" He had a flash of inspiration, "Houdini. They called them Houdinis."

Urvasi shuddered gently. She could contain one mine and its affects with her telekinesis, but several? Hell no, not in a million years. She was stunted in her telekinetics, her focus on 1 AU subspace, gravity, and warp interactions in space. Yet, there may be the possibility of subspace mines designed to interact with Auras of living beings to cause maximum damage. Urasi decided to take the next step.

Urvasi stepped forward, quietly saying, "I.. can find the houdinis, if they are here. My senses are not standard Vulienrey... I detect Gravity, warp, and dimensional anomalies... if such Houdini mines are here... I am uniquely qualified to find them." She sighed, then looked towards Ash, "Commander Randall, with your permission?"

Sayori looked at the other officers, and shrugged. "I mean, based on the energy levels we're reading, those mines are intended for anti-personnel use. So, I would think the door would hold."

Urvasi smiled to Sayori, nodding. That was what she was thinking, however, she was not an engineer. She looked back to the others while getting ready to go searching for another way if the try at this door didn't pan out.

"that energy level would be about what you would expect to maintain containment of a nano-gram of anti-hydrogen." Ash mues and looked to Sayori for a few seconds and then to Urvasi and shook her head. "It is a giant IF that the door, or the surrounding structure, for that matter, holds against the blast. Personally, I think the door will transit the length of this cargo bay and embed itself in the opposite wall but, that will be the least of our troubles. Even if the door holds against the blast it won't stop the Gamma rays, muons and pions that will decay into gamma rays and, as discussed earlier, there's a good chance detonating one of them will set them all off...assuming they are anti-matter mine that is. They might be something as run of the mill as a simple, molecular, explosive." The Chief Engineer mused, cheerily, and focused her gaze on Lieutenant Urvasi.

"How close do you need to be to, jostle, that mine from the other side of an interposing wall? I'm thinking 10 meters is as close as you can be without being irradiated to a, potentially, lethal degree." She stated.

"If these are Houdinis," the Security Officer interrupted, "then they were intended as anti-personnel weapons. They didn't have that big of a boom and, more importantly, if they were hiding in subspace, they didn't set each other off if one detonated."

Urvasi was able to follow the conversation from her extra courses at the academy besides the cross training among the L'Tandrey. She had a thought about the energies as well. She replied, "My normal range is 75 meters. However, with the door in the way, my range would be around 40 meters. And, Commander Randall, from what I know about anti-personnel weapons, though not much, is that infrared is usually used for detection of large heat patterns, while UV is used for close in, individual targets. That alleviates the need for active cameras as well as pose a dual threat, several personnel hopefully for mass injury, or take out an individual target, all while causing havoc."

The comm channels chimed, then a message from the Computer Core away team, "Power Team, Operations Team, this is Computer Team. There are small mines hidden in subspace that come out when triggered by a presence. Lt. Barbax was injured by one and has been beamed back to the Enterprise. Solution by Engineering and Sciences: Please use scans of subspace anomalies with Science team tricorders, then map that information with the DS47 map and location information. That should give a baseline for energies as well as transport paths for moved assets/antagonists. Ensign Yumerieva out."

Urvasi nodded, then looked at Ash. "Commander Randall, after the door, if you want, I can focus and see if I can find those mines with my Empathic sense to give us a clear path of where to go..."

Rrawran listened carefully, wondering how to proceed with this assignment. He was very concerned about getting to the power core so that they could try to restore the systems and figure out this mystery.

Ash nodded. "Set off the mine on the other side of the door and then see if you can feel where the Houdini mines are located." Ash ordered Urvasi and directed the other members of the away team to fall back to a safe distance while staying clear of the booby trapped piles of bodies.

Urvasi moved over to the door and fully checked it out. She used her tricorder to analyze where the door slide side was. That would be more enforced than the door stop side. She now moved back 35 meters, shifting to be along the wall of the stop side. The door would either blow straight back or twang away along the slide side as the blast might push the door along that, then escape out via the stop side, causing the door to twist away from the stop side. She now used the tricorder to map objects on the other side of the door, then began feeling for one with her Telekinetics. As she concentrated, she felt one, raised it, and one of the mapped objects raised up. Now she knew where she was at with her TK.

Urvasi called out, "Okay, I have found the debris on the other side of the door. Messing with it now." She 'TKed' to each object, picking up and shaking, until there was a 'sting' of feedback even as the tricorder showed that particular object 'disappeared' moving others about. There was a dull 'whump' heard at the door, but it held. She called out, "Ouchie.... found the baddie. Let me get the door open."

As Urvasi moved closer to the door, the tricorder picked up shrapnel embedded into the door. She now used the tricorder to find the emergency manual door release, tripped it, then went over to the door, her TK creating a space while she now used her heavy G physique to move the door three quarters into its slide side. There was small pieces of metal splattered around the center blast area. "Urvasi made a disgusted face as she said outloud to herself, "Yeah... definitely wanting to cause as much damage as possible to any would be rescuers." She turned to call out, "Come on over, this entrance is safe now." As she waited, she closed her eyes and opened her empathic psi sense to start looking for houdini mines.

"Well, that was impressive," came the voice of a newcomer. Joining the Enterprise's away team a group of three people joined them, two Humans and one Bolian. The leader of the group was a young Japanese man that looked like he could barely be out of high school let alone Starfleet Academy. He had long black hair that curled at its tips and dark eyes that had an intensity to them that transcended his years. Wearing a Lieutenant J.G.'s badge and a Starfleet Service Uniform, it hugged his body tightly, almost a bit too snugly that it was hard not to wonder if he'd ordered the wrong size uniform intentionally.

The female Vulpinoid unconsciously shifted closer to the wall as she went into a defensive crouch at the heard voice. Urvasi opened her eyes to see starfleet uniforms, then quietly went back to a normal stance. She closed her eyes once more to look for the Houdini mines.

He introduced himself before motioning toward the others, "Chief Engineer Oshima Kiyohisa from the Defiant and these are my technicians Petty Officer Veliha Sawat and Crewman Claudine Toussaint. We have some experience with Cardassian equipment and were asked to come lend you all a hand."

Sayori turned to look at the newcomers. "The Defiant, you say? Did the Commodore call for reinforcements then? Well, always good to have more people. Ensign Sayori Nakai." She turned to Kiyohisa. "Hajimemashite, Kiyohisa-sama. It will definitely be useful to have another skilled engineer at hand."

He tried his best to remember the lessons in language his mother had shared with him, "Hajimemashite, kochira koso yoroshiku onegaishimasu." He looked around at the officers, noticing a full Commander was with the team, "DS9 was trying to contact 47 and was informed by your Commodore Targaryen of what had happened. Our Commodore Targaryen ordered us to come assist."

Ash regarded the newly arrived trio for a few seconds while introductions were made and spared a glance at the PADD she was holding onto. "Welcome to the land of Houdini mines, Lieutenant. I'm Chief Engineering Officer Randall from Enterprise." She stated in, brief, introduction and indicated the others on her team. "Lt Cmdr Savek, Lt. Elandorn, over there near the door, Lt. Laurell, Lt. Rrawran and Ensign Nakai, of course." She added and indicated the PADD. "Sensor drones have completed high intensity scans of the fusion plants. No damage but they were scrammed so we're looking at cold starts." She advised and then looked to Urvasi. "Lt. Elandorn is figuring out if she can ferret out the Houdini mines so we can navigate around them." Ash added, as she moved the direction of Urvasi and then looked back to Lieutenant Kiyohssa. "If you know any short cuts to cold starting these things I'm all ears." She finished, having a little joke at her own expense. the Tuansee knew that short cuts doing a cold start of a fusion reactor were, generally, a bad idea with Federation designs but felt it couldn't hurt to see if an expert in Cardassian technology had some insights on the subject.

"Why the Commodore didn't authorize Lieutenant Commander Pragal to come with us is still beyond me," the Defiant's Chief Engineer complained a bit as he opened his Engineering Tricorder on the bracelet he wore. The holographic emitters brought up a three-dimensional view of the power systems, "I've helped restart DS9's systems during my time as an Ensign right after the new core assembly was installed. One of the only ways where the systems are actually like ours is it takes 30 minutes to reactivate power systems when they go down. We can try an emergency restart, but it's even more dangerous on a Cardassian station, on a Starfleet ship it's 10,000 to 1, here it's about 20,000 to 1."

Urvasi's head shifted, her muzzle pointing in a specific direction. She shifted her body, crouching, then moved forward with her head pointing in another direction. Her tail was balancing her, the tip shifting subtly. She shifted towards the doorway she had opened. She opened her eyes and spoke, "Found them... smartly placed for carnage. Most are in side corridors, where a person would look for survivors. Main corridors clear. However, this is a clever ruse to diffuse looking for them elsewhere. The elsewheres are: There is one in each main area of the medical bed areas. Next, there are several in the main door locations for Main Computer room, Power Room, and Security Main Area. We will need to either draw them out and have them explode contained, or access each of those areas through side panel accesses. However, I would hazard a guess those will have antipersonnel explosives like the one that I caused to explode in the next corridor."

Urvasi looked at Ash, "Commander Randall, the houdinis are in a hyperspace field tied to their areas by a gravity tether. When there is a fluctuation of localized gravity, such as a person entering where the tether is, I would hazard a guess this disperses the hyperspace field to allow the mine to drop into normal space, then go off from a life source sensor. Sciences and Engineering will probably have a better guess than I."

Lieutenant Rrawran interrupted, "There was only an hour or so from the Enterprise getting the emergency call to our arriving here. How could someone kill all these people and capture the station so fast? All our simulations show that it would take two hours for the Jem'Hadar to overwhelm DS9's defenses and board the station, let alone capture it. Who the Hell could've done this?"

"Someone with more hutzpah than the Jem'Hadar apparently," Chief Engineer Oshima interjected. Still typing on the holographic screen, "These mines of yours are very clever from the notes you've already gathered. They're subspace weapons, hidden in rifts that jump out and go boom at the right second. Since we don't have time to build physical barriers around these rifts, or to blow up the Warp Core, we should probably look at other options."

Ash slowly nodded her head while Oshima made his observation. "Well..." She started, and paused, for a second or two while she considered whether she should voice her thoughts, or not, and shrugged, mentally. "...unfettered by rules governing temporal acrobatics one COULD generate a quantum warp bubble tuned so that time, inside the bubble, passes at a much faster pace than outside the bubble thus allowing the accomplishment in, say, an hour what would normally take several hours." She stated, with a little shrug. "There is an extra, added, benefit that whatever is caught inside the bubble becomes cut off, in all ways, from what is outside the bubble and completely undetectable unless you know what you're looking for." She continued and looked to Oshima. "That might be how things were done here and, somewhere in the near vicinity, is a quantum warp bubble making things interesting for us." She suggested.

Urvasi was thinking about the Gravity Tethers, that Lt. Barbax had been injured by one, but there must have been a delay between it appearing and it exploding. She did not even think about using a dead body to dump into a place to bring it out, the dead were sacred for having performed their duty.. but the living... they needed someone to draw the mine in, and then get out of the blast radius. She... was tree road... jumping from limb to another limb over 20 feet away in 1.8 g gravity... this was just 1 g... she could...

Urvasi spoke up, "Commander Ash, the mines are drawn in by gravity change via a body entering where the tether's are. When we get to the fusion core door... umm... I will volunteer. I am a tree dweller from a 1.8 g world. I could use myself as bait, then leap away when the mines appear to try and get out of their blast radius. Also, I am in an EVA suite to help provide protection. Would you allow me to do such a maneuver for the team?" She didn't mention that she would use her TK to help her quickly. To her race, it was understood that TK was used to always help in long, fast leaps.

Rrawran interjected, "That's a pretty big margin of error, Lieutenant, especially when dealing with a door made of solid duranium. We've already had one injury in this mission, and I don't think we're too keen on having a second. If only we had a couple field modulators we may've been able to use them to manipulate the mines."

"Thank you for offering, Lieutenant Elandorn, but it is too great a risk. As in comedy and revolving doors, timing is everything, and I'm afraid the consequences of bad timing would be a bit more severe than being heckled or having to make a second pass to exit." Ash commented while she opened her doctor bag, peered into it for a second, and then reached into it and pulled out a cylindrical object that was as long as the bag and barely fit through the opening of it, and placed it on end, on the deck, before closing the bag. "I have field modulators in inventory." She commented, with a glance to Rrawran. while she removed the power cell for a phaser rifle from her utility belt and plugged it into the side of the device and powered it on with a touch. A holographic interface popped up above the cylinder displaying what appeared to be a plasma injector sleeve and she quickly paged through images of other devices before stopping on a field modulator. "I can replicate a couple modulators with protomatter on hand and another power cell." she stated.

"Protomatter? You meant that unstable substance that practically every ethical scientist in the galaxy has denounced as dangerously unstable?" Lieutenant Oshima questioned with a smirk. "Well, I guess that the crew of the Enterprise aren't as dull as people say."

"I've made some improvements..." Ash offered, in response, while she initiated the replication cycle to produce the first of the field modulators. A few seconds later a field modulator was sitting on the deck next to the portable replicator and the Chief Engineer of Enterprise quickly swapped out the power cell to initiate the second replication. "Seems to be my life purpose to make things that are, notoriously, unstable and dangerous safe to use." She mused as the second Field modulator materialized next to the first one.

Urvasi listened to the team, perking up and smiling at the mention of and then the creation of Field Modulators. As she listened and watched, she sent a quick message directly to Rrawran over her suit comm, "Lt. Rrawran, I agree with your assessment on my volunteering. Thankfully, it sparked another avenue and now we have something to get rid of those Houdinis. Teamwork for the win."

Rrawran didn't speak openly, just nodded graciously to the Enterprise's pilot.

Oshima checked his own readings, "It really does look like you all have the best toys. Maybe I serve under the wrong Targaryen," the Engineer said with a chuckle. Checking the readings on his Tricorder, "Once we activate those field modulators we can confuse those mines enough to let us pass by. There's a manual release available in the wall mount there that we can use to open the airlock." The Lieutenant really didn't want to try to maneuver the pressure door without the manual release. They could do it, sure, but the Cardassians used a cog like wheel for their airlocks. They could be hard as Hell to move.

Urvasi moved over to be near Oshima. She hit the comm, "Lt. Oshima, I can volunteer for that. If you can point out exactly where the manual release is, I can use my TK to trigger it without having to jump through the hoops of opening the wall. And, I can help with any other hidden releases in the same way.. as long as they don't require more than 30Kg of force... I.. need to apologize.. I am rather weak in my TK force."

The Engineer from the Defiant looked up at Lieutenant Urvasi. He pointed to a small panel door next to the airlock, "It's a level in there, Lieutenant." Oshima looked over at Ash, "Are you ready, Commander?"

Ash stowed the portable replicator back in her bag and looked up at Oshima. "Always." The Tuansee replied, and flashed a, momentary, toothy, grin as she stood up, bag in hand and motioned to the door. "Times wasting. Once we're in we'll get aux power back up to make life a bit easier for the other teams and then get main power back up." She stated and looked to Urvasi and the Oshima. "Get the door open, please." And then looked to Rrawan. "You and I will work on confusing the Houdini mines." She ordered.

Rrawran nodded, the robotic sound of his universal translator speaking, "Counselor, would you like to assist me with monitoring?"

Amber nodded feeling somewhat useless compared to those with the engineering skills. “By all means.”

Urvasi moved up to the panel and scanned it with her tricorder. Her ears and whiskers pointed towards the door as her tail stilled, showing she was concentrating on something. She felt around with her TK, then would gently sway in small circles in the vertical plane. She did this three more times, then called over the comms, "Found it, and what direction to open it." She now backed away from the panel and door to let the others get into place. Once she was 15 meters away, she finished the communication with, "Tell me when..."

"Now would be good," the Lieutenant answered, "It only goes in one direction."

Urvasi looked momentarily confused, but then realized Commander Randall had already stated to get the door open. She commed, "My apologies for the wait..." as she pulled the lever fully open from the earlier just tugging till something moved more than an centimeter. The lever fully moved to release the door as a Click was heard through the space. However, as there was no power, it would now need to be manually pushed open. Urvasi growled lightly, then she remembered the shifting device she had felt earlier that went both ways. Was it... a cog?

Urvasi commed, "Door unlocked... trying to open door now..." She returned her TK to that rotational device, then began moving it one way... started and stopped... okay, the other way... and, it allowed her TK pressure to spin the gearbox to start opening the door. It wasn't fast, but it was steady, and after about 30 seconds, the door was fully open. She keyed the comms with a panting voice, "Door fully opened." People didn't realize that using Psi was the same as using muscles, both burned calories and stamina... she felt like she had just did a sprint across a tree road in getting that cog spinning and remain spinning to get the door open.

Through the circular opening the two large Electroplasma System conduits located parallel to one another in the center of the room came into view. The two massive structures, which were directly connected to the energy generators, were as dark as space itself, as were the monitoring consoles that lined the rear bulkhead. It was strange to see the central power system of an entire spacestation powered down like that and something that Lieutenant Oshima never thought that he'd see.

"Thank you, Lieutenant."

Urvasi brought up an upright thumb towards Oshima. She took in controlled deep breaths and could feel herself regaining energy, just like she would do in the tree road.

Sayori, who had silently monitored the area for signs of more surprises left behind, looked up and shook her head. The power system was completely offline. That would definitely take some time to fix. "I'm not an engineer, but that doesn't look like something we can just turn on again easily," she mused. "Whoever did this knew exactly how to power this down without blowing the station up. And we still have that little power remaining that's giving us gravity, and atmosphere. Impressive work, this."

"Don't let the Cardies hear you saying that, Ensign," Defiant's Chief Engineer teased with a touch of irritation in his tone. There was far more to Lieutenatn Oshima's family history with the Cardassians than even he liked to admit. Worse, he had to report to one on DS9 when he was off the Defiant. "It'd give them a greater sense of superiority than they already have." He glanced at his Tricorder, "It's strange, the Tricorder's not detecting any specific damage. It's almost like they just turned it off, if that's even possible?"

Ash shrugged. "Cardassian, Federation, Klingon, Romulan, Dominion..." The Senior Engineer rattled off, quickly. "...all follow and obey the same, physical, laws of self sustained fusion reaction. You don't just turn it off or you, very quickly, have a bomb. It takes time...or, one hell of a dampening field, to bring a fusion reactor from billions of degrees to cold. Even the magnetic coils have no residual polarity." She observed, quietly. "Its going to take hours to stage up and jump start these." She added while she looked around for auxiliary power controls. "My earlier hypothesis regarding temporal acrobatics, stands." She stated.

Urvasi's thoughts came in a whirl as flickers of memories from her training at the Tau-Riene Academy on what could create dampening fields and about the power sources of the various races, and coupling that with Temporal fields..... She spoke over the comms, "Commander Randall, wouldn't three singularity power sources spaced around the station and then going into rapid decay cause a catastrophic dampening field over the station? If you used temporal fields to hold them at that point, then released them, that could cause this? Orions with stolen tech, maybe? *yerf* Forgive the last.. on Existence Point Orions would always come by with stolen tech to sell.."

"Except the Orions are 60,000 light years south of us," Lieutenant Rrawran reminded as he approached the group. "The Federation is the only group from the Alpha Quadrant that's been approved to operate in the Gamma Quadrant by the Dominion. Actually, their presence here would be considered an act of war if confirmed," the Rroworr officer added, not sure if the Orions would care about such things as an intergalactic treaty.

Lieutenant Oshima interrupted, "Well it's true that you can't mix matter and antimatter cold without going up in the biggest explosion since the Big Bang, but we could balance the reactors with a controlled implosion. The old Enterprise did it once using an intermix formula that involved the relationship between time and antimatter." He brought up his PADD, accessing the data through the secure connection to the Defiant. "If I'm right we could use this same process to restore the power systems here in less than four minutes." The Defiant's Engineer handed the PADD over to the Enterprise's Engineer.

Urvasi shut up on any further conjecture. How did asking about a conjecture about a way to create the dampening pulse become a history about... then again, she did mention Orions, even though she had said to forgive the last as it was not needed. Still... yeah, she wasn't an engineer, she was just the pilot. She would quit interrupting those that are needed at this time and just be available for what was needed of her. She shifted herself to be back and out of the way and just listen for her name.

Ash studied what was on the PADD and considered what Oshima proposed. She glanced the direction of Urvasi as she clammed up. What she proposed as a possibility for HOW a dampening field of sufficient, catastrophic, effect fit the scenario but mentioning Orions as the possible source doomed her conjecture, completely, despite the fact the Lieutenant backed out her statement. The Chief Engineer thought it was a pity, really, and made a mental note to follow up with Urvasi when things were done and over.

"It is trouble with a Capital T." She mused, aloud, and looked to Oshima. "There was a, teeny-tiny, side effect when Enterprise jump started its warp engines in this way. We might find ourselves in a whole lot of deep kuso with the fun folks that investigate temporal incursions." She observed, while she tapped away on the PADD, her nimble fingers a blur as she did the calculations in her head and entered them on the PADD for Oshima to review. "I'm already on their watch list because of my personal propensity to absorb and manipulate chronitons so, if we do experience an incursion, I WILL, take the heat and no one else. Got it?" She ordered as she handed the PADD to Oshima and looked to the others assembled.

Oshima smirked, "Ready when you are."

Urvasi lightly frowned as she heard 'temporal'. She meditated within herself, then opened her eyes with her senses on high alert. Despite that Commander Randall stated she would take full responsibility, Urvasi would monitor anything temporal from her hyperstatial senses. She hoped to make sure that others would be cleared, including Ash in case investigations became predatory.

Ash nodded. "Lets get this staged then." She directed and pointed Oshima in the direction of the intermix chamber controls. "Load the calculations and I'll turn some valves." She stated, in a chipper tone, the euphemism dating back to when ships were steam powered and turning valves was a reality.

It didn't take long to get the intermix ready to go as Ash joined Oshima at the Intermix controls and stated, simply. "Pop the cork."

Lieutenant Oshima Kiyohisa was surprised that Commander Randall had surrendered the honor to him, but he was appreciative of the sentiment all the same. With a respectful nod, the Engineer turned toward the control interface and brought the sequence that Commander Randall had programmed online. He said in a near whisper, "Here goes nothing."

Activating the sequence, they watched as the power systems of Deep Space 47 came back online without incident. He turned to Ash, "You did it, Commander, you did it! We have full power!"

Urvasi was pleasantly surprised at nothing appearing on her senses while the Power systems flared up, held, then became steady. She sighed out in releasing her tension, even as she keyed to the comms, "Congrats, Commander Randall, thank you." She waited for the next orders for where they were to go or to return to the Enterprise.

Amber breathed a sigh of relief as the power came back online without any problems. “That’s a relief.”

Ash patted Oshima on the shoulder. "WE did it." Ash corrected. "It was your idea, after all." She pointed out and chuckled. "And, without blowing ourselves up or finding ourselves butt deep in Cardassians circa 2380." She added and opened a com channel to Enterprise. "Enterprise. Station power restored." She stated, simply.

There was no response from the Enterprise, which was a concern in and of itself. Oshima shrugged, "Probably the interference. Lets get to Operations. Caavan and Xoqon can keep an eye down here. Let's move out, people."

Urvasi nodded in her EVA suit and lined up at the back of the pack heading towards ops. She could use her psi senses to make sure no one was coming up on their six who was not a friend. Reading ill intent was easy from those desiring, and thus, projecting it.

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