Cindy

[I was allowing a chance for Tan to interact here, but it has been a week since that last post and 4 days since mine, so I'm moving forward...]

Cindy crept to where she could get a glimpse at the lower area of Engineering. As quick glance around was all she needed. She spotted a number of intruders attacking some of the crew, who were doing their best to hold them off with items they had managed to use as shields and weapons. One had a chair and another had a door that had been ripped off of a storage cabinet. They were fighting for their lives. She had to do something.

She quickly climbed down to the lower level and was about to fire at the back of one of the intruders that was attacking the crew, but then she spotted movement at the warp core. There were two of them attacking the core itself. The entire ship was depending on that power for the shields and weapons right now. That had to take priority.

She gave a sigh and wished she had never needed to engage her targeting sub-routine outside of the holodeck, but in her vision, small target lock displays appeared over all of the intruders. She adjusted the beam to about the size of a fist, to avoid it just going through the target. She then fired at the first one on the core and a second later he had disappeared, having completely be destroyed. She fired at the second one, and it had tried to get out of the line of fire. It did not succeed. She was surprised to see she didn't entirely destroy it though. As she hit it, one of the legs dropped off and fell to the ground.

She gave a puzzled look, staring at the leg. She was trying to determine what might have caused it, when she saw small tentacles some out of the leg and it began to crawl away. Her eyes went wide.

She shook her head and mumbled, "Aw, hell no. You have got to be kidding me."

She then shot the "leg" and looked around just in time to see that from her very first shot, she had gotten the attention of the other intruders. A few of them had closed more than half the distance between where they had been and where she was. She cursed to herself and eliminated another enemy and it came at her much faster than she would have expected it to be able to move.

She fired at another, but missed as something grabbed her leg and caused her shot to go high, hitting the far wall and issuing a shower of sparks as a result. She looked down to see one of the crew, clearly in an Engineering uniform, but looking strange with gore dripping from it's mouth the eyes looking dead and clouded.

She managed to pull away from it, but it tore the leg of her uniform. Her struggle was allowing more of the intruders to close in on her and she knew she didn't have enough time to shoot them all. She quickly tried to fall back to a better position. She ran around a corner and barely got past some pipes as one of them grabbed her shirt and tore one of her sleeves off her uniform as she got away and moved behind the pipes along one wall.

She shouted out to the other crew that she hoped were still alive, "Use setting 9 on a phaser and kill them. Destroy them!"

She could hear the roars of anger and frustration from the horrific things that were trying to attack them. She tried to figure out where to go next to get a shot at the enemy before they could get to her. They were strong and fast, but having seen that leg, she wasn't really sure what the heck they were. She remembered the briefing calling them "Zombies" and she could understand that now, but she really had no idea what the hell they were, but they scared the crap out of her.

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OOC: There, moving forward but not saving the entire ship in a single post. Feel free to let me know what else I'm working with or if you want me to face them in a specific confrontation.

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XO LtCmdr Samantha Waters
Lone Wolf
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