Panic in the Lift: Crew of the Station

Posted on Thursday, 23 July 2020 - 7:12pm by Commander Soral & Lieutenant T'Lanna Vali & Lieutenant JG Adrianna Eberhardt

Mission: Operation: Jabberwocky
Location: Starbase
Timeline: 2393 - MD 06

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Lieutenant Adrian Cadeau stepped onto the turbolift nervously. He hated these things. Small, airless, frightening yet if he wanted to be in Starfleet then he needed to be able to use it. As he stepped on, thankful that he was alone he counted the seconds until his stop. The only thing was...the lift stopped early.

Annabella Winchester was stood waiting for the arrival of the lift, as the doors opened she smiled politely as she stepped inside the doors closing behind her.

Nurse Beau was a bit far from the lift when it arrived on her floor. She quickened her pace, just wanting to go back to her quarters after a long shift. "Hold the lift," she called, just slipping in as the doors rudely tried to block her. Better than Indiana Jones, she thought to herself.

Cadeau shifted nervously. The lift was small and now with three people it was even smaller. He counted the seconds and just as he started to count the lift shuttered and jerked tossing its occupants to the floor.

The nurse looked up, "I'm not that fat! Everyone OK?"

Annabella looked up from where she’d been tossed. “Just about, what in the hell just happened?”

Cadeau got to his feat. "Oh my God! OH MY GOD We're stuck. The lift is gonna fall. We'll fall into space and we're done for!" He started banging on the door. "GET ME OUT OF HERE!"

Annabella stood and tried to help. “Hey, we’re not going to fall into space. It’ll be okay ... just try and relax!”

"We are in a tin can in space! We're gonna get Space Freezer burn!" He grabbed her by the shoulders giving her a shake. "We're going to get freezer burn! OH MY GOD What if it's an invasion and we've been boarded!"

Anna looked at the other woman hoping she’d give her a hand with the out of control Lieutenant.

The nurse watched the freak out and internally sighed. Then her bedside manner kicked in and she softly said, "hey, hey, look at me. We're OK. It just a hiccup. We'll be OK. Give it a few minutes." She put her hand softly on Cadeau's arm, "deep breaths."

He began to breath at first deeply and then faster as if his lungs couldn't fill with air. "The....oxygen! There's no oxygen!"

The nurse tapped his arms to refocus, "plenty of oxygen, we're just not moving. Deep breath, come on. In.......... Out........... In......"

Annabella watched as the nurse worked her magic, before moving to the lift control panel. “Let’s have a look here shall we? Don’t worry I work in Ops so I know what I’m doing.”

"See, stuck with the right people," the nurse encouraged, "almost sounds like a bad joke," a nurse and an ops officer walk into a lift..."

He seemed to calm. "Wait....communicators!" He tapped his. There was no response. He tapped again. Nothing "Mine is not working...you try."

The nurse started cursing in her brain. Like, seriously man, focus, she thought. Tapping her own badge, it didn't work, "but it's OK, ops over there is going to get us out. We're fine."

"What if this lift is the only one left?"

"Then I promise to kill you last when I inevitably go insane from telling you to relax," Nurse Beau said without even thinking.

Anna looked at both and sighed. “Look, there’s still power or the lights wouldn’t be on and that means there’s still a ship surrounding the outside this lift. It’s just a temporary glitch somewhere and I need a little quiet to concentrate on getting us out of here.”

Beau rolled her eyes. Ops, security and Intel had such God complexes in situations where they are the only ones to help. Perhaps its was a superhero fantasy. She shrugged and simply said to Adrian, "There. Told. Won't be long."

Anna hopes she was right, at the moment she couldn’t see a reason as to why the lift was stuck. “Lift malfunctions happen every now and then, it’s just one of those things.”

He sat down fear still rolling though him. Just as he was about to say something the lift jerked and he screamed. There was a hum and it started moving again.

“Oh Thank Heavens!” Annabella breathed a sigh of relief.

As the door opened Cadeau burst forth and fell to his knees kissing the ground. "Land!!!!! Beautiful land!"

“Yeah my thoughts exactly” Annabella smiled as she stepped out appreciating the extra space.

"Good lawd," the nurse muttered to herself, continuing her trip in the lift.

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