Subject: Grail: "Great Brightness" - 'Renegade Detective'
<<Stardate 47307.31 - 09:00>>
<<Somewhere between decks>>
Tifa crawled in the service tunnel as the yellow alert began. Without
her boots, she hardly made a sound as she deftly made her way in the
tunnel. Finally, she reached the access hatch that was her destination.
Opening it slightly, she let the scents from the corridor below rise to
her nose. Nobody was there, good.
She dropped lightly to the floor and with two agile leaps was before
the door of her destination. A few seconds later, she had overidden the
lock.
Once inside, Tifa leaned against the wall and breathed a sigh of
relief. Everything was going as planned. She had left her commbadge in
her quarters and had made it here without anyone seeing her, and now
that they were in the Great Brightness and on yellow alert, nobody was
likely to see her when she went back. Her little visit to Janice
Hargen's quarters would go unnoticed. At first, she was reluctant to
make this illegal visit, however, she was convinced the chief engineer
wasn't who she said she was and Tifa was determined to find enough
evidence to prove it. If she was right, then her illegal visit would be
justified. And now that she was here, she was even more convinced that
something was up.
The room before her was littered with broken furniture and various
objects that had been on them. 'A fight? or an Android temper tantrum?'
Tifa thought as she bent down to examine the debris from a chair and a
table. From the looks of it, the table had been pulverised when the
chair was thrown on it... a feat that would be beyond the stength of any
human. Tifa stood up, she was definately glad she had come. She then
searched through a multitude of engineering-related equipment, which
didn't reaveal anything, but while searching through Hargen's personal
belongings, Tifa found a strange box.
Opening it up, she saw that it contained electronic devices similar
to a repair kit. Finding a repair kit in the chief engineer's quarters
was hardly unusual, but giving the circumstances and the fact that it
was in Hargen's personal stuff only added to Tifa's belief. Perharps it
was time to let Castle in on her hunch. If Janice Hargen was indeed an
android spy, every minute counted.
Tifa recorded the ravaged room with her tricorder, according special
attention to the chair and table. Then she decided to bring the repair
kit with her, but as she made her way to the door, she noticed something
from out of the corner of her eye. A smashed mirror. Walking over to it,
Tifa immediately noticed a dark stain on the carpet in fron of the
mirror. Blood? Maybe Hargen was human. After all, androids didn't have
blood, did they? Bending down, Tifa sniffed the stain. No, it wasn't
blood... not exactly. Taking out her tricorder, she took a sample and
quickly analyzed it. The preliminary readings were very similar to human
blood, but Tifa decided to to push the analysis further. This time, the
tricorder revealed it was somekind of synthetic imitation, masterfully
made. This was all the proof she needed.
"Computer, locate Lt. Castle" she ordered, all thoughts of stealth
tossed aside.
=^= Lt. Castle is in his office.=^
Tifa was out the door a moment later.
Ensign Tifa Charr
Security officer, USS Grail
emeraldas@hotmail.com