Meeting the security chief.

Posted on Wed May 6th, 2015 @ 1:22am by Lieutenant Mickey McClane & Commander Bertrand Cuprum

Mission: Debts to be settled......
Location: Operations Office.
Timeline: Three hours before takeoff

Mickey McClane the operations officer was in his office. Mickey was running through some final notes before resuming his duty's on the bridge it had been so long sense he served. He and Acting Ensign Aladdin, the black lab had almost met everyone. He would run into the Executive officer later, but Mickey decided to meet the chief of security. One main reason is that he wouldn't mind a dog running around his ship.

"You know, Aladdin we almost just met about everyone. But i am guessing that Lieutenant Cuprum knows about you by now. But just for the sake of argument boy. We better make sure that he knows your not a security risk" Mickey said to his dog as he laid his head on his leg he then looked at an ensign in his office.

"Ensign Sharpton, can you please fetch the chief of security please?" Mickey asked of the young man nicely which he nodded and ran down to his office.

"Well, now we wait boy" Mickey said as he pet Aladdin and drank a cup of coffee while waiting.

Bertrand Cuprum had finally cleared up the issue with the assault on Station Security. He had survived a medical. Now all that remained was to drag his tired bones to his quarters and see about unpacking. Then it was off to operations to see about a computer purge...

His hand was actually on the activator when he heard his name called.

"Lieutenant Cuprum?" a young ensign jogged up the hallway to him.

Bertrand closed his eyes for a moment and breathed deeply. Then turning to the young man, he tried not to glower.

"Yes, Ensign," he asked.

"Lt McClane sent me to find you," the young man answered flushed half from his jog and half from having achieved the goal so well.

"Is there a Security issue?"

The man's face wavered, "Erm... I... I'm not sure."

Bertrand leaned forward and stared at the young man's chest, "You appear to have something on your uniform there?"

The youth looked down at his spotless uniform, "Sir?"

"Right there," Bertrand pointed to the compin. "Apparently you can use it to talk to people in other rooms or other parts of the ship without the need to run. You may want to go and look that up."

He tapped his own pin to demonstrate, "Computer, Locate Lt McClane."

A short while later the pair arrived in the Operations office. Sharpton returned to his post while Bertrand's eyes flashed quickly over the whole room. The came to rest on Ensign Aladdin.

"Dog," he said, as if asserting the fact in case there was some doubt. "With Ensign pips on his collar."

Ensign Aladdin, the black lab noticed the Chief come in. He walked to him and sat down he stood attention to let him know he was harmless.

Bertrand stood stock still. He found animals difficult and unpredictable. He couldn't work out if this was an elaborate joke or some poor member had been changed to a dog by Q.

"Well, that explains the smell in medical," he said.

Aladdin then sensed he was good as he offered his paw to the chief of security.

Bertrand could feel the creatures good will, but it only confused him more. He didn't like shaking hands. Instead he tired a very tentative pat with his gloved right hand.

"Don't mind him, Lieutenant. He's harmless" Mickey smiled as he handed the man a cup of coffee and offered him a seat to sit down too.

Bertrand took the coffee with his left hand and kept his eyes on the dog.

"Why?" he asked simply when seated.

"He is a well trained dog. Don't worry he knows this ship like the back of his hands as he and i served before on theses ships." Mickey nodded to him nicely

"Was there something in particular you wanted from Security, Lieutenant?" Bertrand tried.

"Actually, i had a gut feeling that you'd be needing to talk with me and i just wanted to meet you sir. But, it's not a trick just a meet and greet" Mickey said sensing in his mind the Lieutenant needed to speak with him

"Well, I have something I need from you, and I suspect you will not like it," Bertrand said after taking a swig of coffee and grimacing. "How can you drink this so sweet?"

"It has Cinnamon, something that Chief Engineer Cor had." Mickey then heard he needed something from him that wasn't good. "If it's about my dog, he's harmless and a loyal Labrador." Mickey said as Aladdin went to his bed scared he did something wrong.

Bertrand picked up the concern, "What? No! Nothing like that. We have a ship full of crew that are cats and dogs and rabbits and kids who pat them. Truth be told it is nice to meet someone on this ship that doesn't look like they just graduated form the academy."

"Regulations about pet ownership are well documented, I expect them to be observed. However, given he has official rank, I can hardly ban him from duty."

"No," Bertrand returned to the subject troubling him, "It is about our computers. Someone has been punching holes in the software; little access programs and command subroutines. I tracked the code used and it was the Captain's. Except that it was a code which I had been bringing with me to hand to the Captain personally. He had not yet been given it."

"So, I have asked for a new set of command codes. I also want to purge the computer and rebuild from scratch, but I am expecting you to say that we do not have time to restore that amount of data and test the systems. So I will identify systems I know are affected, things like the teleportation and replication systems. I will need them scrubbed and rebuilt. Can you do it before we get underway?"

"Of course, Lieutenant. But make sure this get's reported to the captain. I don't want any blood on my hands on my first day back in the fleet, nor do I need Captain Michaels upset with my either," Mickey said to him with concern but for the security of this ship he doesn't want any blood on his hands.

Cuprum drained his mug with a grimace and put it down, "I am not in the practice of avoiding the chain of command."

He rose to leave but paused, "Well, not usually. I'll get you the list of systems and you give me an ETA to flush and rebuild."

"Oh, Lieutenant, Aladdin has the title of Acting Ensign. His doggy uniform is just a costume. But it's to make him feel more like one of us." Mickey smiled at his dog

Cuprum didn't need his Betazoid gift to read the affection the pair had for each other. He just grunted and left for his quarters. He might even make it there this time.

Mickey hit his commbadge when cuprum had left and said to him this. =A=Lieutenant, give me 30 minutes and you'll be ready. McClane out=A= Mickey said over the com as he began the work to flush the systems.

Posting by

Lieutenant Mickey McClane
Lieutenant Bertrand Cuprum
Ensign Aladdin
USS Victory
Pegasus Fleet