In A Word? Badly.

We had done a perimeter sweep of section twelve to fifteen and were heading into section sixteen. We had only encountered two female ensigns, neither of whom were armed. Both of them science track so not much good in a fight without a phaser. On the other hand one of them WAS a Romulan, so she at least had her childhood MMA training to fall back on. Anyway, as we rounded the corner I saw a flash of movement out of the corner of my eye and dove sideways as a phaser bolt flashed through where I was standing just a second earlier!

Bad news was instead of hitting me, it dropped Ensign Warana, (the other science track girl,) like a sack of potatoes. She hit the bulkhead on the way down, hard. We all knew that she wouldn't wake when the stun wore off, but hours or days from then, if ever.

That was the first shot of a fire-fight with a posse of ten male crewmen which lasted five minutes while we retreated through the halls draging our wounded which increased from one to three before we managed to **** the males to retreat. I know for a fact we stunned four of them, and I THINK we clipped two more before they pulled back. Some of what happened in those halls during the infection will never be known however. One of the first things the sick crewmembers did was sabotage the internal sensors.

We got back to the area that I would come to think of as the 'green zone' in the hours to come. This was largely because of Private Valkris, who tied the two stunned women to her shoulders and dragged Ensign Warana by her arms. Ensign Sulik and I covered her as best we could, but thank all the gods there were no more incidents before we were among friendlies...