Message #296661

[Flipz]

-==IC: Norton==-
A dark-skinned man wearing a green shirt and a leather vest ran up to Kaze, Pavlov, and Rakoua.  He tried to say something, but was drowned out by the alarm.  "Turn that darned thing off!" he shouted over his shoulder.  The alarms mercifully shut off.  "Patterson, Emile, we've got a cut coolant line, Barton, fix the lift, Emerson, get to work on the containment hatches.  Smith, Wesson, help me get these people out of the Jeffries tube."
A few moments later, the Engineering crew was swarming about like ants.  Kaze and Pavlov were quickly helped out of the tube, while Rakoua slipped through the sharp-edged hole unassisted and unharmed.
Pavlov grunted, and coughed up what seemed like a lungful of water.  "Aren't you going to ask what happened?"
"No, sir," Norton replied, "I believe that's your department."
Pavlov chuckled, then coughed up more water.  "Cadet Hikari, I concur with your previous statement."  He pulled out a blank Padd, plugged it into the nearest access port, and downloaded the files on the Type 2 and 3 phasers from Memory-Alpha.  He tossed the Padd to Kaze, and said, "There you go.  A bit of pleasure reading for the year Dr. McFadden's gonna try to keep us in Sickbay.  Even Kaze joined Pavlov in laughing at that, but that was a mistake; when they started to laugh, they started to cough, and the coughing wouldn't stop.
Norton grabbed Kaze, and motioned for Rakoua to grab Pavlov.
"Norton to transporter room, we've got a medical emergency, four to beam directly to sickbay!"
Engineering dissolved around them...

--Deck 13--
While the drama unfolded in main engineering, Guinan led Etain to Deck 13.
"This is where everything's happening," she said.  Then, amongst the jostling crowds, Etain bumped into two unexected figures in rapid succession: Lt. Sulu, surrounded by security guards, and Captain Flipz.
"Cadet Etain!" Flipz exclaimed.  "Any chance you could make sense of this mess?"