An academic discovery

Posted on Sat Apr 25th, 2009 @ 11:33am by

Mission: Dark Discoveries
Location: Crippled Shuttlecraft, off Iapetus' Port Bow.
Timeline: MD5 1134hrs

Raging Eagle felt the particle beam leave him, and he understood, once more, what it felt like to be solid. Looking around carefully, he furrowed his brow and pulled out his tricorder. There he felt quite thankful for the back lit screen that was provisioned by it. Sighing slowly, the Master Chief Petty Officer tried to pull a lamp off from his belt and peered out once more. He was quite confused at the sight. Sure, the vessel was supposed to be crippled, but there was supposed to be something, at least a little bit, more than simply life support and no other on board functions. However, there were not even the lights. Besides his lamp, nothing else was there beside pure starlight.

Annalyn had hurried to get her med supplies and arrive on time to go to the shuttle craft. She pulled her own hand light and shown it around, seeing two bodies. Hurrying over to them she felt for pulse's. The pilot was dead, the passenger unconscious. Pulling her tricorder out, she passed it over the passenger. "We have two people here Chief."

The aforementioned Chief ran to her side, shaking his head, "What do you need me to do? I am not pretending, by any means, that I am a doctor but I would gladly do whatever could be of any assistance in this case."

The other pilot that was still alive was breathing, and according to the tricorder her lifesigns were fading. Her hair was a mess and a small cut just above her eye leaked blood. A cadet rank of sophomore grade shone on her collar. Jade had been knocked unconscious by the attack on the shuttle.

Pulling a bulky dressing out of the medpack, "Chief you can hold this here until I can do more, Hold, don't add pressure." she released the padd as the Chief put his hand in place, then she grabbed her hypospray and gave her a shot of Morathial, a general resuscitative, then in a few she ran the tricorder over her body. Annalyn found no other major injuries in or along her main torso, but she had lost quite a bit of blood. One arm was in a bad poisiton and Annalyn could not get to it with the tricorder. She gave the Cadet a further shot of Stokaline to revive her, and then got a bandage out and bandaged the head until they could get her back to the ship and its facilities.

Raging Eagle dropped to his knees along side her and nodded, carefully holding the bandage into place without provisioning any additional pressure to the aforementioned dressing. Shaking his head carefully, he looked to her, "Do you have any idea of what happened in here?"

"Looks like they got attacked by something. I bet they figured we would not get here in time. I think this one will wake up in just a minute. With this bandage on, you can let go, and see if you can figure out what happened. Then get a tractor beam on this shuttle and get it closer to the ship, so I can beam her directly to sickbay."

Raging Eagle slowly stood, nodding to her and started to return to the computer console and started to issue commands to the smashed system, "I do not know what I can do, but I will see if I can get something useful done. Is that cadet going to be able to speak to us?"

"She has lost a lot of blood, the head wounds bleed bad, she should soon."

Jade could hear voices. They were faint, but slowly she began to come round. She managed to open one eye and peer around. Eventually she opened both of her eyes and tried to move. She winced in pain and sat still. She could see someone.
"Hel..lo.." she managed to say weakly, as pain from her left arm spread like fire through her body.

"Hello Dear, is the pain in the arm, I can't get to it to assess it. " Annalyn quickly got some Rexlin and gave her a small shot, she didn't dear use too much until they were back to the ship. "That should slow the pain down, but I can't give you more with a head wound until I can get it fixed."

Jade nodded, she understood that medical procedure. "I'm Jade, from Starfleet Medical Academy" She said weakly, trying to see what had happened to her arm.

Pulling a medical roller splint out of her med pack, Annalyn unrolled it and slipped it under the arm. Molding it she could feel the break, but the splint would protect it till she could get it set properly. Carefully she moved the arm in front and held it steady until Jade could recover from moving it. When she opened her eyes again, "Can you hold this here until I can get it bandaged in place?"

Jade, used her good arm to hold it in place. She was trying to ignore the pain.
"Where did you come from? A ship?" She asked, closing one eye due to the intense pain now flowing up her arm. It started to ease off, the drug must have started to work.

"Yes, I am Lt Annalyn LaToon, Chief Medical Officer for the USS Iapetus, with me is Master Chief Raging Eagle. We were Beamed over to check the Shuttle out. Very soon we will beam you aboard and get you to sickbay and fixed up. What are you studying at the Academy?" Annalyn was hoping to distract her from her arm, getting her to think about something else.

Jade smiled at the thought of rescue. "I was studying general medicine. Already passed the first two exams... Our class was about to start surgery next week... Tom was studying flight control... we were on our way to a distant colony, how did we end up here?" she explained. Then she looked over at Tom who laid still and silent, his head resting on the console.

"Tom... Is he going to be alright?" Jade asked looking up at the doctor.

Annalyn sadly shook her head. "No Dear, he has passed on. There is nothing I can do, we didn't find you in time."

Jade looked at the floor. "I understand" is all she said as a single tear ran down her cheek. She wiped it away with her good hand and then looked up at the doctor.
"When are we getting out of here?" She asked.

"As soon and the Chief is ready." She stood up, "Chief, are we about ready to leave?"

"I believe so," came the Chief's response, his head lowered a bit in reverence to the fallen as it had been so deemed necessary by his conscious.

Pulling two triage tags out of her med pack, she fastened one to Jade, and a different one to Tom. =/= Samport to Iapetus, 4 to beam out. Pick up the medical tags beam those directly to sickbay please. =/=

Raging Eagle turned around, "No, make that three. Do not beam me aboard the ship...I think I can get this vessel to move under her own power and I think we at least owe it to the one who died here to have it returned to the ship."

=/= Samport to Iapetus, , Make that three to beam aboard, the Chief is staying and bringing the shuttle in under her own power. =/=


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Lt. Annylyn LaToon
Chief Medical Officer

Master Chief Petty Officer Raging Eagle
Chief of the Boat

Cadet Sophomore Grade Jade Crossland
Medical Officer