Starship Argo-1D1S
Personnel File
Name: Casey Martinez
Rank: Ensign
Department: Security
Notes: Comes highly recommended from the United Systems Academy, top scores, spotless record.

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The Starship Argo-1D1S, the flagship of the United Systems fleet.
Designation: Exploratory.
Under the command of the renowned Captain Lee. Every Graduate of the United Systems Academy dreams of being assigned to the Argo.
Casey Martinez is no exception.

Thanks to top scores, becoming good friends with many of the professors, and the Argo being in starport for graduation of the Class of 2473 (Casey's class), he was almost assured an assignment on the Argo for it's newest diplomatic mission.

A month long round trip to a newly encountered planet and species for peace talks.
However, in the infinite possibilities of space, plans rarely go as expected.

Sirens blast over the coms!

"BZZT EVERYONE TO THEIR STATIONS!"

"Lieutenant what's going on?!" A confused Casey Martinez asks his commander.

Lieutenant Richardson puts down his communicator.
"From what I understand the Argo is being pulled into some strange field and! -"

The Argo rocks violently, making Richardson and Casey grab onto the walls for support.

The coms come on again.

"BZZT HEAVY DAMAGE TO LOWER DECKS!"

"Damn it! Martinez! Get down there! There'll be a lot of people caught in debris and in need of help!"

"Yes sir lieutenant!" Casey Martinez runs down to the lower decks and offers help to anyone he can find.

The Argo shakes violently again and again causing more debris to come down. Suddenly there are more and more security personnel down clearing rubble and helping any injured up to medbay.

The coms come on.

"BZZT HULL INTEGRITY OF DECKS ONE THROUGH THREE ARE DANGEROUSLY LOW! ALL PERSONNEL EVACUATE TO HIGHER DECKS! BREACH IMMINENT!"

"Help! I'm stuck!" A young woman cries out for help.

"I'm on my way!" Martinez yells and runs over to find a woman pinned under a support beam. Martinez strains to lift the beam enough to let the woman free but it's far too heavy.

"Damn! Hold on mam, I'll find a way to get you out of here!" Martinez fumbles for his communicator.

"Ensign Martinez to transporter room! I'm here on deck 2 and I've got a woman pinned by some rubble! Requesting emergency beam out! Please take the woman first!"

"Request granted, sit tight!" They respond and Martinez puts away his communicator.

"Don't worry mam they're gonna pick you up first!" Martinez tries to calm down the woman and she squeezes his hand tight.

Suddenly she lights up and she's gone.

The Argo shakes again even more violently and the lights begin to flicker.

"Damn it! If there's no power!-"

The ship shakes again and the power fades.

"No! No! No!" Martinez starts to run to one of the stairs but suddenly he begins to glow, then the power goes out.

Meanwhile in the transporter room.

"Crap! We lost power! Where's the ensign!?"
The two engineers in charge of transporting furiously slam at the control panel.

The woman they pulled out from under the rubble is there waiting nervously too.

"Where is he!? Is he-" her voice shakes.

"I don't know mam! Hurry up and get the auxiliary power on! We might be able to get him still!" The first engineer says to the other.

The other goes to the breakers and toggles switches until power comes back on.

"Cmon cmon! Hell yes! We've got a life signal! I'm gonna try to retrieve him!" The first engineer presses buttons and twisting dials like a madman.

"I've got him! I've got- damn! We need more juice!"

"I'm on it!" The second engineer at the breaker box starts feeding more power into the transporter console.

"I need more power! He's all scrambled! And there's pieces missing!" The engineer at the control panel yells out to the other.

"I'm giving her all she's got!" The other engineer calls back.

"I'm gonna have to fill in the missing data from the last transport! Damn and they say being a transporter is the easiest job! Fuck yeah! I've got him! Bringing him innnnn"

A bright figure begins to materialize on the transport pad.

"Almost!" The engineer still fiddling with the console.

The woman is delighted that the man who helped him wasn't dead.

However when the figure fully materializes it's not the same man who tried to rescue her earlier, but a woman who looked similar to him.

"Thanks for pulling me out of there in time.." the freshly materialized woman says before losing her strength and collapsing on the transporter room floor.

"Martinez?! Holy shit..." the engineer says just before the transporter console begins to glow red hot and explodes.

To be continued...