Star Trek: Starbase 777 - inner-rainforest

It was like everything had popped out of existence and started spawning new things in, and it was still happening; trees sprouted from nowhere, frogs hopped in from nothing, and strong sheets of rain fell on everyone so abruptly it would feel like a warm shower for @Away Team Two.

[Comms] "All away teams from the Eventide. We’re picking up that three of the generators have gone down now, well done! Our scans are showing that the holo-shielding around the central area – the bit that looks like it houses the prisoners – has gone down. Can you guys head straight there? We should take the opportunity to get them out now, just in case they try to fix the place before we can even get there."

Aoife instantly snapped into combat mode once the scenery shifted unexpectedly, she crouched onto one knee and raised her rifle to her shoulder in one smooth and evidently well-practised movement, her phaser began to emit a shrill hum as it charged to a high stun setting. "Why is it always a goddamn jungle." Aoife said to herself before answering the hail. "Acknowledged Eventide, we will proceed when able. Out."

The list... the amount of listed Designates made unease crawl up and down his spine. But soon he would have to focus on another concern - namely, the world that was literally taking another shape around and before them: "Oh shit," he held the tricorder closer to his chest, the Romulan slightly spooked by the coincidence of all of this happening while he scrolled through the (concerningly long) Ensign list. As soon as he recognized this new setting to be a jungle one, the scientist fell at ease. "Oh, it's actually very--" Whatever adjective he wanted to use was promptly muffled by the rainpour. (edited)

Yoro’clis raised his weapon for combat and then found that the group was in empty nature. For now there was no real threat to the group. He used the kar’takin to clear away a few branches and scanned the area. The Honored Elder noticed that Sareen appeared Beth concerned for someone reason and wanted to see why. Everyone needed to be familiar with the situation to be ready for whatever was next. “Is something wrong lieutenant?”

Taking a quick moment to comb back his now damp hair, he simply offered the Jem'hadar his tricorder, "You can see for yourself, sir - some concerning statistics here." Giving the security officer some time to look through the list, the Romulan used that time to prepare his phaser and cutter for being quickly grabbed and used, meanwhile mulling over Zai's message. The shields around prisoners were down... but would that alert the Undines? This felt like the victory stretch, sure, but Saren had certain doubts that the rescue would be that easy...

In one place, the ground shifted like sand dunes in a storm. Elsewhere, a tree had spawned really tiny, and a frog had spawned really large. A bird left a trail of gas behind it like an aeroplane. A nearby leaf sprouted millions of small, human legs, and crawled around like a tiny caterpillar. Panther was still here, looking positively befuddled. "What the fuck is going on? What are you talking about?"

Without saying a word Aoife gave a look telling Senang to follow her lead and stun Panther while she was confused, as inconspicuously as possible she got behind Panther so she had a clean shot with a heavy stun from her rifle.

"Sorry about this one, Panther," Senang said genuinely as he raised his phaser pistol again to zap the poor Undine. From the corner of his eye, he saw Aoife raise her own phaser, and he knew they'd be able to take her down. It was set to stun, and so wouldn't be lethal, but Panther also wouldn't be able to walk away from this one.

Hit with two phaser shots, she just straight up dropped to the ground with a thump with barely any time to realise what was going on beyond 'Senang is shooting me again for some reason'. Conked out. Now they just needed to get moving towards the central area.

"Anyone have handcuffs?" Aoife asked, wanting to secure Panther before she woke up with a phaser hangover and a grudge against them.

Yoro’clis reached into his armor and pulled out a set of standard silver Starfleet manacles. As the COS he always kept a pair on him and had forgotten to remove them from his kit. He then dragged Panther over to a tree and cuffed them to it.

Aoife pulled out a transporter tag from a pouch on her armour and placed it on Panther before hitting her combadge to report to the eventide their situation. "O'Rielly to Eventide, be advised we have an undine prisoner subdued and secured, coordinates and transporter tag frequency to follow, out." She sent the coordinates and tag data to the ship a moment after finishing her message.

She was cuffed and tagged. Job done. Now they could all get moving.

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Once he was sure Panther was tagged, he started marching towards their destination. There were people that needed to be saved, and that meant that they needed to get a move on. "Let's go. We have no more time to waste."

And so they did. Knowing where they were going, it didn't take them long to arrive at #western-cave-structure ...