Star Trek: Starbase 777 - jefferies-tubes

Cecilia crawled through the tubes, phaser in hand. Despite how cramped the tubes were she seemed rather agile in manoeuvring them. Though unaware at the beginning that Five had been following the ensign. Cecilia looked back at the OPS officer coming in after her. "If they can pry them open then we need to weld them shut. At least then it'll buy us some time." Cecilia called behind her, crawling pretty damn fast. "We can risk them escaping."

[COMMS] "Can you give me a direction of transit, where are they going?"

"We shouldn't weld them shut, that'll just create more problems for us down the line. The only reason they pried them open is because the power was diverted," Five insisted, sighing a little. "I don't know where they're going, Commander, we're going looking for them. Standby."

[COMMS] "It looks like the suspects are heading to an exit a few decks down from your current position."

Upon receiving information of the criminals' location she changed directions, grunting gently as she pulled herself into a different tube and began to climb downwards. She quickly holstered her phaser for ease of stability, both hands on the ladder rungs as she made her way down to the deck where they were sighted. "Hopefully we can meet security and tactical at the exit. I'll try and get someone to put a lockdown on the exit they're using."

[COMMS] "Exit is being sealed as we speak."

"Ensign, it's not safe to be in here!" Five tried again, following right after her. "We can seal the tubes from the console, all you're doing is putting yourself in danger!" God, was this what the old ACOO had to deal with all the time? Or even Allan, for that matter?

As if Five had cursed the situation with their words, the affected tube hatch was sealed with a loud clunk that reverberated throughout the tube system - and all was quiet for a few seconds. That is, until a phaser shot flew past Cecilia and Five as the criminals who did get trapped found Starfleet in the tubes.

[COMMS] "Be advised, I was able to lock down the tube, but one or two escaped."

Cecilia quickly pressed herself to the side of the tube, taking her phaser out and levelling it at the direction the phaser blast came from and fired back. For a split moment her eyes followed the phaser bolt that flew passed her and Five before directing her focus back to the criminals. "That's some luck." Cecilia ducked into one of the alcoves in the tubes before poking out again and shooting once more.

"Damn it--!!" The ACOO fumbled for her phaser, firing back a few times. This definitely wasn't her fault, thank you very much, she'd made it obvious this was a BAD idea.

Neither Cecilia or Five were combat personnel, and it showed. Both of the officer's shots missed completely, and with a well-timed peek, one of the criminals managed to clip Cecilia in the shoulder with a high-power phaser shot. It wasn't set to kill (it wasn't ever going to be, professional had standards), but it would definitely cause a world of hurt.

"Shit." Cecilia felt her arm go limp, at least, letting it go limp made it easier to try and ignore the radiating heat that seemed to burn her shoulder. Her other hand held the shoulder for a moment before she pressed her back to the very deepest part of the alcove. Holding her phaser in the other hand she blindly fired into the tube, probably less than accurate than before. If having nearly no accuracy could get any worse. In her mind it was covering fire, at least in a sense that if she fired enough they might find it too dangerous to try and shoot the MCPO.

[COMMS] ""Which exit, do we have the specific deck?"

"Steady, Ensign--" Five moved to cover Cecilia, moving to her side. "One to beam to sickbay. Sorry, Ensign, maybe follow directions next time," she sighed, standing up and firing off at the criminals a few more times as Cecilia was transported.

With Cecilia out of harm's way, the only non-criminal person in the tubes that remained was Five, who had been doing well at keeping the criminals where they got trapped.

Five straightened her shot and fired off a few more, ducking and weaving through phaser fire. This was NOT how she thought she'd be spending her shift today.

[COMMS] "ACTO to ACOO, We're moving to assist you, do what you can to keep un-stunned!"

The criminals heard this, and began to try and flee deeper into the tube system - which gave Maggie some extra opportunities for attack.

Five moved to take the opportunities given, firing off as many stun shots as they could manage. Their aim wasn't exactly fantastic, though they were doing their best to hold off!

*Five managed to stun one of the criminals as they ran away, making them faceplant onto the floor with a satisfying clunk.*

Five moved to get them beamed to where they belonged, grimacing just a little at the sound, dodging through to chase after the other.

In the resulting pursuit, another criminal wasn't looking where they were going and tripped on a bulkhead, sending them to the ground unconscious. Three more criminals remained, running through the tubes to get away from this mad starfleet officer!

Vara'l entered the Jeffries tubes in the engineering section and listened out for phaser fire while he moved. He allowed the sound of weapons fire to be the thing that informed his direction as he moved while he smoothly tapped his combadge and proceeded to say. "ACTO to ACOO, we've entered the Jeffries tubes and are moving to support you." He'd then proceeded to say over the comm.

"Down and to your left, Vara'l!" Five called over comms, quite a bit out of breath as they raced down. "I'm chasing three down right now, two unconscious, if you could tag them and get them sent to be treated in medical that would be amazing--"

"Understood, moving." He responded before he moved as directed and looked for the ones who'd been rendered unconscious. As he moved he continued to keep his phaser raised and ready, just in case someone who'd been rendered unconscious woke up or in case someone doubled back or anything.

There were two unconscious behind Five, one faceplanted thanks to their stun, the other on the ground in front of a bulkhead. Both ready to be transported before anything worse happened!

Vara'l tagged before of them before he relieved them of any weapon he located and then proceeded to say. "ACTO to medical two prisoners ready for transport, both of them currently unconscious, prisoners disarmed prior to transport." As he informed medical of the situation before he proceeded to say. "Initiate transport." Once the two unconscious behind find were transported, Vara'l then moved to assist Five in the apprehension of the criminals who remained active in the Jeffries tubes.

As the unconscious criminals beamed away, the other three realised the futility of running around like headless chickens in a tube system they didn't know - so as Vara'l and Five turned the corner they found the other three criminals putting down their weapons.

"Hi," Five managed, offering Vara'l an exhausted smile as he caught up. "Good to see you." Once the criminals had lowered their weapons, they moved to tag them, getting ready to have them transported to the brig.

"Hello" The Romulan responded. "Good to see you too, how are you, are you injured?" He asked simply as he moved in to assist with tagging them. "Also, ...you alone in here?" The Romulan then asked as he worked.

"Yes, Ensign LeBeau jumped down here in an attempt to seal off the tubes despite me telling her we could do it safely from a console. She got shot and had to be transported." Five sighed, taking a second to catch their breath. "I'm not injured. At least, I don't think so. You?"

"....I see." The Romulan responded simply as he finished assisting the other in tagging the prisoners. "And..I believe I'm alright, I received an impact from a falling cargo crate but at present it'd seem like all I'll be receiving from that's a bruise that can be dealt with at medical, there was also a near miss phaser shot but all that caused was a singed bit of hair and stuff." He decided to not mention the slight crackle it had caused his hearing implant on one side before it had corrected itself as it happened to be irrelevant. "Once they're all safely being transported to the brig, we'll be needing to make our way out, the situation's still ongoing elsewhere." Vara'l proceeded to add there as he breezed past mention of his injuries or any discomfort he happened to feel about the impact he'd sustained, it'd not been a large box and he reckoned as he considered the matter that he currently felt fine. Well.. he happened to feel fine as far as you could say you felt fine when you felt you'd introduced a part of your body to a small but heavy box. He also happened to feel very much like he was experiencing what might be described by a human as a adrenaline rush and also reckoned he could go get things seen to by medical afterward he reckoned. It was just bruises, least.. he happened to be reasonable sure it felt like just bruising. Just rather painful bruising. Not something to be concerned about (edited)

"Right, then," Five watched the criminals get beamed off, letting out a quiet sigh. "I'm due in the shuttlebay to catalogue those lost parts. As for you," they sat a hand on Vara'l's shoulder, looking him dead in the eye, "Be careful. Okay? Stay safe." They patted it before climbing back up to Engineering, then making their way to the shuttlebay.

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"Aye.." Vara'l suppressed the need to wince when the other placed their hand on his shoulder and his back proceeded to remind him that it included a spine. The Romulan successful in keeping any sign of discomfort from his face as he instead proceeded to nod as he proceeded to say. "I will do my best, I'm off down to the entertainment promenade myself, stay safe also" He had then proceeded to make his way down in the direction of the entertainment promenade. (edited)