SD 10-12-02 - "This Really ... Bites" #1 - Ahhhhh.... That feels better ...
Felt sick as a dog earlier. I lost more blood from those rat bites than I thought. Lera had to help me to sickbay, and by the time I got there, I was ready to pass out. When I was fully awake, the EMH told me it had to give me a transfusion. It also found some odd virus in my system, but felt confident standard anti-viral treatments would get it. One odd thing, even though he tells me I'm no longer anemic, I'm still pale.
While I was "out," the ship was scene to another disaster. Demian Tempres had been in the zoo when that attack by giant man-eating rats occured. Not the most cheerful thing for someone with a known fear of rodents. He disappeared durring the attack. I just got a report of a Starfleet officer whom had been hiding in a cage attacking a zookeeper. Might have been him. We didn't any other sign of him until someone set up the ship's self-destruct systems! I had to be roused from my sleep in order to deliver the code to deactivate it. The computer couldn't locate him, he must've taken his commbadge off. But then someone tried to fly a shuttle out the shuttlebay - Demian! The doors were ordered closed, trapping him in. Then he tries shooting his way out! That set off alarms across the ship. Flare and Dammers went after him. There was a firefight that caused quite a bit of dammage, and Tempres briefly got out of the shuttlebay after ramming the shuttle through, but it was tractored back. What happened next is a bit muddled, but the result was he was taken into custody, unconscious and severely injured.
I got the detials of what happened through Flare. Flare stated he had made some mental attack on Demian. I asked for details, and he stated he had mental abilities that allowed him to read minds and influence them. He thought this was in the report of him. Well, it wasn't, and there certainly wasn't any trace of these 'abilities' of his until now.
What's going on? Why was there no trace of them, until now, when they're more powerful than any Betazoid's? Something is very wrong here.
Then came another incident, this one indirectly involving Tempres but between K'Lynxyl and Dammers. The Doctor commed me, saying Dammers was in Sickbay going beserk. Comming Dammers, he claimed she was trying to eat him! I rushed over with Lera and Flare. Lera kept saying the doctor had been trying to eat her too, and Flare was saying K'Lynxyl went after her only because she was provoked. We soon reached Medical, and found Dammers behind a forcefield. It seems K'Lynxyl has a ... quirky way of treating her paitents and Dammers overreacted. Demian was brought into the conversation, with the unconscious guy muttering "rats ... rats ... everywhere." She concluded the trama of the incident got to him. Flare admitted to being the one who beat him severely. The doctor reccomended anger managment courses for them, so I put that in in place of the confine.
K'Lynxyl insists on doing more tests on me. I feel fine now, though I did feel real faint earlier.
Demian ... so much blood. I didn't think a man could bleed that much ... the blood ...