Lt. JG Roxanne Queen - The cradle will rock
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((Ward A, Sickbay, Deck 10, USS Ronin))
Rox had never been at a loss for words, but she suddenly found herself there. Ward A was a very confusing scene as it was filling up with numerus children of various species. One in particular had opened a drawer and was tossing instruments over its shoulder. It was a strange reptilian creature and standing next to it was another mammalian creature with a devious look in his eyes.
Rox: Hey cut that out.
Nelv: Make me hot lips!
De La Croix: You put that down right now! That is not a toy!
Ru: Who said?
Rox hurried toward the small creature who now rushed passed her giving her a smack on her behind.
Rox: Hey!
Nelv: Yuk Yuk Yuk.
De La Croix: What is the meaning of this...this...pandemonium!? You there...larger child....who are you? Where did you come from?
Ru: That's for me to know and you to find out.
Rox: ::looking at La Croix:: This is different, but I'll be honest I'm not totally surprised.
De La Croix: Is this crew in the habit of picking up...::she snatched a laser scalpel out of one child's hands as they went running past::...strays?!
Rox was not sure how to explain that every ship in the fleet was in the habit of picking up strays, after all she and her were both there. There was something familiar about the child who had just smacked her. He wasn't a species she recognized from this quadrant, but she'd seen his kind before. The gamma quadrant perhaps?
Ru: ::Sounding mad:: Hey, we're not strays. We're victims of this whatch-a-ma-call-it.
Nelv: I lost weight and height, but not smarts.
De La Croix: Didn't the Captain mention something about wounded? Other than being annoying none of these children appear to need medical aid.
Rox: Um, ma'am I think the fact that they are kids is the injury.
Another little goblin grabbed a tricorder off a side table next to one of the bio-beds and flipped it open and aimed it at the doctor.
Ru: ::putting on a deep voice:: Female....Grumpy....old.....humorless....::looking up at Rox and then De La Croix:: I think she's broken.
On the one hand he wasn't wrong. On the other hand that was a complicated piece of equipment that I child should not have.
Nelv: She's a Bi…
Rox: ::loudly:: Oh-kay little guy. How about you two sit down and I'll get you some candy? Dr. La Croix maybe you could scan these kiddos?
Rox moved to get to the replicator, but it wasn't easy as a small arboreal creature was tightly hugging her leg. She was fairly sure it was either crying or had a very runny nose.
De La Croix: You must be joking. What in the world am I supposed to do with them? I suppose a round of sedatives would be completely out of the question? I'm a Surgeon, not a Pediatrician!
Rox did not answer the questions as the Chief Nurse, Avae walked into the room.
Avae: Pediatrician? ::seeing the children:: Awwwww. Hello there little ones I’m Chief Nurse Wyla but you can just call me Wyla and aren’t you all just the cutest bunch of little ones.
Ru: Nelv, catch.
The name caught Rox's attention. She'd heard it before and it had been in the gamma quadrant. This was the large pit fighter that Greaves had taken on in the Tzunktse ring. But now he was not giant, he was a little kid. Somehow he'd shrunk or de-aged.
Avae: Dozens, actually. I saw at least six with late stage radiation sickness in Ward B. Eight more beamed in as I was coming here.
Rox: ::shaking a finger:: No No! Don't throw that.
Nelv: ::running:: I got it, I got it.
Rox tried to coral the miniature patient, but before long he had launched the tricorder across the room. Rox watched as Nelv caught it, in his mouth, shook it roughly and growled like a dog. Ru in the meantime was addressing the chief nurse.
Ru: Hey cutie. ::beat:: If I were only 20 years older......
Avae: OW! That wasn’t nice. Now here. Here’s a plushie. ::in a more stern tone:: Go sit down and behave, and I’ll see if I can get you ice cream or treats later.
Nelv dropped the tricorder on the floor and jumped on it. The tiny instrument gave a pop and a shower of sparks before it was still, a small whisp of smoke rising from it.
Nelv: ::looking at the tricorder:: Wimp! :: He Ru! Don't let her get you.
Rox was unsure what to do. The sickbay was pandemonium and according to Wyla there were actual patients whose lives were truly at risk.
De La Croix/Wyla: response
Ru: Hey, grumps - a - lot. What does this do?
Rox watched as Ru continued to press the button that activated the EMB. Every time he did the back up Beck appeared and then disappeared before he could even say anything. Rox tried to hold it together but it was pretty funny.
Nelv: Ru! Ru! Try the big one behind you!
Rox hurried over to grab several hypos. She was certain this was morally and ethically bad, but she was about as fed up as she could be. She dialed up anesthezine. It was naptime. She reached down to the child on her leg and listened for the hiss of the hypo. At once the child fell off, happily dozing.
Rox: ::tossing hypos:: Wyla, La Croix, catch!
De La Croix/Wyla: response
As she looked around she realized Ru was near the controls for the wards Privacy fields. They would automatically raise force fields around various parts of the room.
Rox: No don't do that!
She only hoped reverse psychology would work. The fields would isolate the various groups and make it easier to subdue everyone. Thess was moving quickly toward Ru.
Ru: Stop right there or I'll push the button. We'll all see what it does and that can't be good.
The button was pressed and Rox ran into one of the angry force fields, which threw her to the floor. She used the opportunity to sedate an Andorian toddler.
Nelv: Aagh they got me Ru!
Nelv had discovered that he was trapped in the area around a biobed he was standing under. This made him cross, but no amount of kicking could break the invisible field.
De La Croix/Wyla: response
For the moment everyone was immobilized. Rox took a moment to catch her breath even as Nelv continued his tantrum.
Rox: Can either of you get the Privacy Fields down?
Ru/La Croix/Wyla: 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!!
Ru/La Croix/Wyla: response
Rox looked around her. She was in the middle of the room and not near any controls whatsoever.
Rox: This is going to be a really embarrassing call to the bridge.
Ru/La Croix/Wyla: response
Tags/TBC
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Rox had never been at a loss for words, but she suddenly found herself there. Ward A was a very confusing scene as it was filling up with numerus children of various species. One in particular had opened a drawer and was tossing instruments over its shoulder. It was a strange reptilian creature and standing next to it was another mammalian creature with a devious look in his eyes.
Rox: Hey cut that out.
Nelv: Make me hot lips!
De La Croix: You put that down right now! That is not a toy!
Ru: Who said?
Rox hurried toward the small creature who now rushed passed her giving her a smack on her behind.
Rox: Hey!
Nelv: Yuk Yuk Yuk.
De La Croix: What is the meaning of this...this...pandemonium!? You there...larger child....who are you? Where did you come from?
Ru: That's for me to know and you to find out.
Rox: ::looking at La Croix:: This is different, but I'll be honest I'm not totally surprised.
De La Croix: Is this crew in the habit of picking up...::she snatched a laser scalpel out of one child's hands as they went running past::...strays?!
Rox was not sure how to explain that every ship in the fleet was in the habit of picking up strays, after all she and her were both there. There was something familiar about the child who had just smacked her. He wasn't a species she recognized from this quadrant, but she'd seen his kind before. The gamma quadrant perhaps?
Ru: ::Sounding mad:: Hey, we're not strays. We're victims of this whatch-a-ma-call-it.
Nelv: I lost weight and height, but not smarts.
De La Croix: Didn't the Captain mention something about wounded? Other than being annoying none of these children appear to need medical aid.
Rox: Um, ma'am I think the fact that they are kids is the injury.
Another little goblin grabbed a tricorder off a side table next to one of the bio-beds and flipped it open and aimed it at the doctor.
Ru: ::putting on a deep voice:: Female....Grumpy....old.....humorless....::looking up at Rox and then De La Croix:: I think she's broken.
On the one hand he wasn't wrong. On the other hand that was a complicated piece of equipment that I child should not have.
Nelv: She's a Bi…
Rox: ::loudly:: Oh-kay little guy. How about you two sit down and I'll get you some candy? Dr. La Croix maybe you could scan these kiddos?
Rox moved to get to the replicator, but it wasn't easy as a small arboreal creature was tightly hugging her leg. She was fairly sure it was either crying or had a very runny nose.
De La Croix: You must be joking. What in the world am I supposed to do with them? I suppose a round of sedatives would be completely out of the question? I'm a Surgeon, not a Pediatrician!
Rox did not answer the questions as the Chief Nurse, Avae walked into the room.
Avae: Pediatrician? ::seeing the children:: Awwwww. Hello there little ones I’m Chief Nurse Wyla but you can just call me Wyla and aren’t you all just the cutest bunch of little ones.
Ru: Nelv, catch.
The name caught Rox's attention. She'd heard it before and it had been in the gamma quadrant. This was the large pit fighter that Greaves had taken on in the Tzunktse ring. But now he was not giant, he was a little kid. Somehow he'd shrunk or de-aged.
Avae: Dozens, actually. I saw at least six with late stage radiation sickness in Ward B. Eight more beamed in as I was coming here.
Rox: ::shaking a finger:: No No! Don't throw that.
Nelv: ::running:: I got it, I got it.
Rox tried to coral the miniature patient, but before long he had launched the tricorder across the room. Rox watched as Nelv caught it, in his mouth, shook it roughly and growled like a dog. Ru in the meantime was addressing the chief nurse.
Ru: Hey cutie. ::beat:: If I were only 20 years older......
Avae: OW! That wasn’t nice. Now here. Here’s a plushie. ::in a more stern tone:: Go sit down and behave, and I’ll see if I can get you ice cream or treats later.
Nelv dropped the tricorder on the floor and jumped on it. The tiny instrument gave a pop and a shower of sparks before it was still, a small whisp of smoke rising from it.
Nelv: ::looking at the tricorder:: Wimp! :: He Ru! Don't let her get you.
Rox was unsure what to do. The sickbay was pandemonium and according to Wyla there were actual patients whose lives were truly at risk.
De La Croix/Wyla: response
Ru: Hey, grumps - a - lot. What does this do?
Rox watched as Ru continued to press the button that activated the EMB. Every time he did the back up Beck appeared and then disappeared before he could even say anything. Rox tried to hold it together but it was pretty funny.
Nelv: Ru! Ru! Try the big one behind you!
Rox hurried over to grab several hypos. She was certain this was morally and ethically bad, but she was about as fed up as she could be. She dialed up anesthezine. It was naptime. She reached down to the child on her leg and listened for the hiss of the hypo. At once the child fell off, happily dozing.
Rox: ::tossing hypos:: Wyla, La Croix, catch!
De La Croix/Wyla: response
As she looked around she realized Ru was near the controls for the wards Privacy fields. They would automatically raise force fields around various parts of the room.
Rox: No don't do that!
She only hoped reverse psychology would work. The fields would isolate the various groups and make it easier to subdue everyone. Thess was moving quickly toward Ru.
Ru: Stop right there or I'll push the button. We'll all see what it does and that can't be good.
The button was pressed and Rox ran into one of the angry force fields, which threw her to the floor. She used the opportunity to sedate an Andorian toddler.
Nelv: Aagh they got me Ru!
Nelv had discovered that he was trapped in the area around a biobed he was standing under. This made him cross, but no amount of kicking could break the invisible field.
De La Croix/Wyla: response
For the moment everyone was immobilized. Rox took a moment to catch her breath even as Nelv continued his tantrum.
Rox: Can either of you get the Privacy Fields down?
Ru/La Croix/Wyla: 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!!
Ru/La Croix/Wyla: response
Rox looked around her. She was in the middle of the room and not near any controls whatsoever.
Rox: This is going to be a really embarrassing call to the bridge.
Ru/La Croix/Wyla: response
Tags/TBC
Lt. JG. Roxanne Queen
Nurse
USS Ronin NCC-34523
T239811VK2
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