“I don’t think that’s too uncommon, might have to make note of it but that doesn’t help with the entity.” She paused, thinking for a moment. She wasn’t a navigator and couldn’t decide what it meant for ships to divert from usual courses, there could be a multitude of factors.
“Well that does sound unsettling. I’ve never heard of this organization but they don’t sound good and if they’re sending messages about Romulans then they might have something to do with the creature’s nature and it’s more unusual properties. Or we could be overthinking and the obvious answer is evading us. The creature could just be threatened by our presence and fighting back.”
There could be a multitude of factors but they weren’t here for that, they needed to get the relay back up and beam off the planet before they got hurt or got more people killed in the process. This situation was more than they prepared for and if they were dealing with more than just a single creature they needed to get going quickly. Hearing Clark mention the fact that the Romulans trying to sabotage the relay made sense, they never had a good history with the Federation and they could be trying to provoke something.
Soon they started their repairs with success and only a few minor hiccups here and there. After they had finished getting it back up and stable Robin got an actual splint on her leg, to take care until she was beamed back aboard the Enterprise. then shortly thereafter most of the crew it beamed back besides Robin and Clark. “Well you’ll get the chance to do your search I got permission for us and a few security officers to stay another few hours but you owe me one for that, it wasn’t easy you know.”
“You’ve trusted me this far. First tourist attraction we run into after this, I’ll get you a souvenir.”
Clark nodded to Robin, thankful she had gotten him the assistance after everything. He was going to make it count for as much as he possibly could. Now that they were in a better state to look around for the source of those strange waves that pursued the attacking entity, they were certain to find a trail. It eventually lead them to the mouth of a cavern.
Clark had insisted on it– he and a couple of security officers had sworn they caught a glint of metal, reminded them of a sniper’s nest. As they made their way towards the entrance of the cave, the green waves from before burst out– everyone had to dive for cover before it was too late. Ahead: A disheveled crew of Romulans were firing.
“It’s a trick! No one could know we were here–” cried a Romulan “Fire before that thing kills us all!”
Clark scrambled for his phaser, returning fire. Just enough that he could force them to evacuate their secret weapon, and the new away team could start to question them.
“What kind of a device is this? It looks like you’ve rigged up disruptors to a comms unit.”
One of the Romulans scoffed.
“If you had crash-landed too you’d be thankful for that thing. It was our only defense against that entity. It snuck aboard our warbird and wreaked undue havoc!”
“Defense? It’s torn up the outpost! You’ve only frenzied it.” chimed in a security officer. “And just what the hell do you think you’re doing in this sector?”
“We were merely on a route of trade, making sure our convoys were unharmed by roving Klingons. Things went bad. Paranoia is unbecoming of a Federation member, you know.”
Tensions were high as the security team kept watch in the event the Romulans tried for their own weapons. Clark nodded to Robin to help him disarm the Romulan secret weapon. It was actually an improvised device they had managed to put together after landing.
“That thing might make another pass at us, but I want to see if it relaxes now that the wave-generator weapon is offline. I imagine it’ll have to stay here for a while until anyone can figure out where it really came from…”
“Well I’ll hold you to that whenever we get shore leave, and I have a good memory Clark.”
She had put a lot on the line to actually be able to get the extra hours so she hoped that it would pay off. Eventually leading them to a cavern which intrigued Robin, but not more than what they’d find inside of it, which soon led them into a firefight with the disorganized Romulans taking shelter inside of the cave.
Eventually they had managed to get the Romulans away from their weapon which intrigued Robin enough on it’s own. It was a crude design, something obviously made with spare parts and some knowhow in engineering. She listened as to how they had gotten on this planet and more importantly how this creature had gotten to the planet. That surely would explain the recent troubles that they were having and why it hadn’t happened beforehand.
As the security team kept watch of the Romulans, though not detaining them, they hadn’t directly sabotaged an Federation equipment or broken any treaties they could find, plus the document from that strange Section 31, Robin continued to examine the weapon. After they managed to disarm it she’d have it beamed up to Engineering to be examined by better eyes than her own.
“Hopefully it’ll be mellow enough to not attack the outpost again but we can’t just leave the Romulans here we have to do something, I just don’t know what.” She sighed before turning back to the weapon. “Whoever made this happened to be really crafty I give them props. I would have never thought of creating a weapon by connecting some disruptors to a comm unit. We need to bring this back to the Enterprise, do some tests on it.”
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