Help Has Finally Arrived... and What Happened to You?
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| Arcadia # 2864 | |
| original continuity | |
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| year | 316 CE (2379) |
| posted | January 7 2003 |
| previous | Eek!! A Ringo!! |
| next | Release of Frustration |
Dante and Singletary had just walked through the doors to sickbay. A second earlier, and they might have been "captured" by Ringos as well. They found quite the sight awaiting them. Tabatha, the new doctor... Kwyn, Dante thought... and Layla were all flat on their butts. Ensign Langui looked positively horrified, as if she had seen a ghost. And Eve... well, she didn't look any better than before.
Dante leaned down next to Tabatha. "What happened?"
Tabatha managed to gasp, "Ringo... was here..."
Dante started to look around, when Tabatha said, "No... EMH... used... holoemitters..."
Dante understood. Looking around, he found a control panel. He began tapping buttons. The EMH, who had been standing there, looking royally confused, vanished.
"I've taken the sickbay holoemitters offline for the time being. I think we've had our fair share of surprises for one day."
Looking from Singletary (who looked about as confused as the EMH) back to Tab, he said, "Dr. Tabatha Brisk... this is CMO Brien Singletary... of the Bartokian vessel Detrax."
Singletary nodded, and looked over to Eve. "Doctor... if you will excuse me, I will tend to Braize Ordalani."
He walked over, waited for the forcefield to lower momentarily, and then walked over to the biobed holding Eve. He leaned over and said gently (but loud enough that anyone nearby could hear), "Eve, frin tolar colcaxi brauy trevlear."
Dante looked confused.
Turning back and seeing his look, he said, "I told her, 'Don't worry...you're going to be just fine'."
Before he could add anything, he (and everyone else in sickbay) was shocked when Eve's hand grabbed his arm. Sitting up as best she could, Eve managed to say one thing.
"Torea... torea... es tui premadet... fre min ques valorete..."
And then promptly passed out. Ringo had been right... Eve was a lot of things. But unstoppable wasn't one of them.
Opening his box, Dr. Singletary removed the Bartokian equivalent of a tricorder. Scanning Eve's injuries, he said to no one in particular, "Whoever was working on her to this point... you did an excellent job."
Putting the tricorder down, he reached back to the box and removed a large silver device. Placing it to Eve's neck, he pressed a button. He did this five more times, at her sternum, stomach, mid-thigh, ankle, and the back of her head.
Placing the item to a side, he took out a black item with a large red glowing light at one end. Putting it next to Eve, he went back and got out a silver box with a tube attached. The tube was placed on Eve's neck. He began running the red light over her body. Like magic, her wounds began healing over. After he had fixed several, he activated the box. Blue gel began flowing from the box.
It took the doctor nearly an hour, but once completed, he walked from the area. He smiled at the recovering people in sickbay.
"She will be just fine. There was a massive build-up of clorhydratol in her bloodstream... I am guessing from a major adrenaline rush. She will need several days to fully recover physically."
Dante said, "How did you do that?"
The doctor's smile vanished. "Because I've treated this before."
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