Melody the exterminatior!

Posted on Wednesday 30 January 2019 @ 09:50 by Captain Melody Jones

Mission: The New Collective
Location: Main Engineering
Timeline: Current After The invetigation continues
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While Lieutenant Regal had opted to work elsewhere, Melody had stayed in Main Engineering working on her particular part of the very complicated computer virus that was snaking its way thought the main computer. The first part was to get rid of these damn sub program that were protecting the virus.

Fractal algorithms were notoriously unstable so Melody was concentrating very hard, her hands danced over the computer interface. She spoke to herself as she worked.

"Come on. That's it, almost got..... no no no, oh Crap!"

A voice came over the comm channel. "Uh, shuttlebay two to engineering, we've lost artificial gravity down here!"

Melody responded "Right...... give me a moment." She went back to the computer "Now that wasn't very nice."

The comm voice returned "You talking to me?"

Melody blushed "Sorry no, Standby Shuttlebay two."

"I'll just float here is that's OK?"

Melody attention was back on the computer readout as she worked the problem.

"OK, reinitialize the graviton matrix and there! Gravity should be back online........ Now!"

Over the comm channel there was a loud thud, followed by a groan and then a voice that sounded in pain "....Thanks."

"Right, let's try that again shall we?" Melody went back to trying to disable the watchdog program. "This is highly adaptive but i don't see any evidence of Borg algorithms here." She frowned to herself "Whoever or Whatever wrote this, That thing inside Lieutenant O'Hara is clearly not Borg."

It may not be Borg but is sure is clever! Melody thought to herself.

"This isn't working!" Melody stopped for a moment and took a deep breath. Her eyes glazed over oddly and she seemed to zone out for a moment. She didn't seem to realize that her hands started moving again, rapidly entering a long complex series of commands. Melody was still unaware that her hands were still moving on the computer panel when the readout changed. The beeping of the computer snapped her back to the present.

"Wait..... Wait a minute..... That's it." Not seeming to question who or what had done this, she just accepted that the subroutine had been rendered inert and started the purge process "Computer, Delete file labeled Pup1."

"File has been deleted."

Melody studied the readout for a moment then let out a sight of relief. All systems were unaffected and the first of the watchdog programs had been removed.

A sudden chill ran though her body and Melody shivered while a really weird feeling took hold. Like she was trapped.... No........ she had felt like this before.......
When she was in the Borg maturation chamber...... unable to move....
As soon as it came, the feeling passed and Melody shook it off. "Whoa... Bad memory" she said out loud but there was something not right, something subtlety different, like......." She couldn't place her finger on it. She would have to talk to Caroline about it, maybe even see the Doctor.
But right now, there were bigger problems at hand. She hoped the other two were having no problems tackling their watchdog programs.

OFF:

Commander Melody Jones
Second Officer / CSO