MSPNP - Ru - The Child - Nighty-Night

[Joel Cannistraro]

((Ward A, Sickbay, Deck 10, USS Ronin))

Ru danced around the bio-bed as if he was trying to decide which direction to run when his eyes caught another side table with more Starfleet instruments on it. He darted towards the table and grabbed the first item he could. The device was not cool looking, it didn't look like anything fancy. It did however have one button on it. Just one. How boring he thought to himself as he held it up.

Ru: Hey, grumps - a - lot. What does this do?

Nelv:  Ru! Ru! Try the big one behind you!

Rox: ::tossing hypos::  Wyla, La Croix, catch!

Avae: ::she fumbled with the hypo a little but caught it:: Thanks. 

De La Croix: response

Rox:  No don't do that!

Ru looked at the device. If she wasn't going to tell him then there was only one thing to do. Press the button. A devilish smile crossed his youthful face as the surgeon seemed to be charging across the room at him and he held the device up as it was a trophy.

Ru: Stop right there or I'll push the button. We'll all see what it does and that can't be good.

The doctor kept moving straight for Ru and that's when he decided to depress the button. ::beat, double beat:: Nothing, Just a low whining sound but nothing else. He looked at the device. How incredibly boring. Who would want to be a doctor and play with such boring things? He glanced up and saw she was almost on his and dropped the device and dove up the bio-bed just missing her reaching grasp.

Nelv: Aagh they got me Ru!  

Ru looked to Nelv and watched as he kicked uselessly at the forcefield. The new person in the room spoke up catching Ru's attention, but not him directly.

Avae: Oh, both of you knock it off. Or would you prefer to stay stuck as you are? We don’t have to help fix you. 

Ru paused and glanced around. What button turned this confounded forcefield off? He started jabbing away at the different controls, giggling to himself as he did. Some poor engineer was going to have to fix all this.

De La Croix: response

Rox:  Can either of you get the Privacy Fields down?

Avae: I can try, but then they’ll just get out again. We need to make sure they’re sorted first. 

Ru: No sweetheart I can't figure it out but if you want to give me a clue....

Ru looked up and threw a wink in Rox's direction. He had always been interested in older women but this might be a little on the weird side.

De La Croix: response

Rox: How about the controls for the Alpha Wave inducer.  Maybe we could all have a nap.

Nelv: I don't want a nap!!

Avae: I don’t care! There are people you probably know in the next ward dying from radiation sickness and we can’t help them cause we’re in here dealing with you two.

Ru: Hold on Nelv, one of these stupid buttons has to release the fields.

De La Croix: response

Rox was in the middle of the room, while Avae was on one side near a console. Which was sadly on the other side of the privacy field. Ru watched as the adults tried to get free while he continued to mash away at the controls. oO Stupid computer, let us out. Oo

Rox:  This is going to be a really embarrassing call to the bridge.

Avae: No, wait. I have an idea. The privacy fields are basically containment fields. We can pump anesthezine gas into them and it’ll knock everyone inside them out for a few hours. 

Ru: ::looking to Avae:: Hey!!! That's not very nice of you. Gassing children. I think there is law or something against that.

De La Croix/Rox/Nelv: response

Ru locked eyes with Avae who now seemed determined to put him and Nelv to sleep. That was certainly going to ruin the fun for sure.

Avae: Or we could just beam these two into the isolation chamber. The last plague I was exposed to should have been cleared out of it by now. 

Ru: Go ahead and try it. You just try and it and see who will RU - IN your day. ::beat, grinning:: That's right you, I will RU - IN your day.

Ru started laughing at his own personal joke. He thought it was the cleverest thing he had said in a while.

De La Croix/Rox/Nelv: response

Avae: Computer. Flood all enabled privacy fields with anesthesia gas, enough to safely render the occupants unconscious for twelve hours. Excluding medical personnel. Authorization Avae Six Two Nine Delta. 

Computer: Authorization accepted. 

A few moments later the soft hiss of gas being released signaled their release into the privacy fields. 

Ru: Nelv!!! ::grabbing his nose:: Don't breathe it in! Hold your breath.

Ru started to bang on the control interface angrily. the computer would listen to the grown-ups but not him or Nelv. Well, two could play at this game.

Avae/De La Croix/Rox/Nelv: response

Ru: ::still holding his nose:: Computer, stop gassing us. This is a violation of our.....::beat, getting light headed:: Computer, gassing children for no reason is wrong. You will be deprogrammed. 

Ru was getting very lightheaded. Whether it was from anesthesia or him holding his breath, he was not sure but he was soon to be out like a light if he or Nelv didn't do something fast.

Avae/De La Croix/Rox/Nelv: response

Ru sank to his knees, the gas was getting to him. His vision was starting to blur and he knew it would be any moment before he succumbed to the knockout punch the gas was going to deliver. 

Ru pulled himself up to his feet, turned to the back of the small console next to the bed that he had been so desperately hammering at to shut off the privacy fields and opened the rear access panel. In his failing vision Ru grabbed at all the isolinear chips and started yanking them out as he crumbled to his knees.

Ru: Take that you mean ad.......

Ru hit the floor with a thud. The anesthezine gas had done it's job but what Ru did not know was that he had managed to disconnect the control chip to the privacy fields. Now the entire ward was filling with  anesthezine gas.

 Avae/De La Croix/Rox/Nelv: response 

[Tags/TBC]

Ru

'The Child'

Simmed by 

Lieutenant Jack Kessler

Chief Tactical/Security Officer

USS Ronin

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