Nothing Inspires Cleanliness More ...

Posted on 06/24/2020 @ 5:42pm by Captain Cian D'Anvers

Mission: S1E3: Visit to Starbase 375
Location: Shuttle Bay
Timeline: Day 2 at 0930

The security guards assigned to the detail brought the miscreants posing as engineers into the shuttle bay and ushered them into a rag tail line before 'the shuttle'. That shuttle. The one that had most of Flight Control all but hissing as they walked by. The shuttle that wreaked and badly. In front of the shuttle were six buckets, six toothbrushes, six rags and an assortment of cleaning products.

The more senior of the two assigned to the detail jerked his head toward the supplies. "Captain's orders. You are to return this shuttle to pristine condition subject to inspection by Flight Control." He grinned cheerfully. "Best get to it."

Cash looked at the security men who brought them to the shuttle. "Oh, is THAT all?" asked Cash. "Do we at least get to have more toothbrushes?" He asked kinda miffed.

The guard, blue eyes twinkling with suppressed mirth, gestured toward a pair of crates that stood behind him. "We have spares if you need them," he said. "Captain said we should make sure you had as many as you needed."

"Well, aren't you guys all heart. We truly feel blessed." Then Cash turned to his crew. "Don't we feel blessed guys?" He asked, turning back to the security men. "From us guys may I say.....Bless You."

"You can if you want," the guard said after a moment. "Won't change a thing either way. Best you get to it, eh?"

Every man took a tooth brush. "You guys start out here. I'm going to see what can be done inside." Said Cash as he entered the shuttle.

"You aren't just being lazy, are you Cash? Asked Pig Boy.

Cash smiled. Then entered the shuttle.

The guards settled in to watch; one of the first things you learned at the Academy was how to endure long periods on guard duty. You counted rivets or holes or openings in vents. You keep your gaze in movement, from one location to another, and just ... endured.

Cash thought about the situation for a moment. Then, he snapped his fingers. "We are Engineer's damn it. Lets do this like Engineers." Cash went to a supply locker and started searching. "It's GOT to be here. It was such a cool find for......Oh, there it is." Cash said retrieving a piece of equipment from the locker. It was a fair size. And kind of heavy. But Cash could handle it on his own. "Not exactly Starfleet issue. But then again, not every ship that we needed to break down at the Scrapyard was Starfleet." He said. "And, once in a while, they got a real interesting and SWEET piece of kit. Just like this." He said. "Now, just need to hook this up."

Cash went over to the comm system and opened the maintenance hatch. He connected the device to the communications system. It was then, the device started to power up. Cash laughed. Then, he started to make sure that the programming on the machine was up to the task at hand. Because It worked beautifully when they stripped it from the Andorian ship it came from. Everything looked right. Cash gave it a little test. He turned it to a high setting, on a low setting and set it for a pulse. The machine made his hair stand on end. "Oh, Baby. This is gonna work GREAT. Now, for part 2 " He said to himself.

Cash went over to the Elisha Gray's navigation's station. and adjusted the frequency of the electromagnetic spectrum on the hull plating. It was a fine tweak. But, he managed to find what he was looking for in terms of frequency. Then, He spoke.

"Computer, I want a pulse on both the hull plating electromagnetic spectrum and the sonic inverter at exactly the same time. A 1 second pulse on the current settings on my mark." The computer gave a sound like it was ready to process orders. "Now, to open every hatch, every drawer, everything. " He said.

[Meanwhile ...]

Outside the shuttle the rest of the crew was cleaning with tooth brushes for about 15 minutes. Their progress was hopeful.

"This SUCKS" Pig Boy said brushing in little circles.

"It could have been a lot worse man. You sure poked the bear in the brig man. Fighting with a guard. You lucky that we are not outside the ship doing this.....To this ship." Said Pops sounding miffed.

"Yeah, not your best plan Pig Boy." Said Fast Eddy.

"Yeah, even your best, friend Latka tried and failed to talk some sense into that thick hot head of yours. That was a good try Latka" Said Ears.

Latka smiled "Tanku Veddymuch" Was all he said.

The group worked in silence for a couple of seconds. When Fast Eddy happened to notice something.

"Hey, where's Cash?" Fast Eddy asked.

It was then they remembered that he was in the shuttle.

"Why that LAZY son of a......" Pops never finished that sentence. It was then that Cash walked out of the shuttle carrying 2 dirty shuttle air filters. Cash walked over to his team.

"Come on guys, lets take a break." He said as they all left the shuttle and walked towards the guards.

The guards didn't shift position as they waited. The senior one had been half-expecting something like this. Jokers didn't change and seldom understood. That was just the way of a whole lot of worlds.

Cash smiled. as he tapped his com badge.

=/\= Elisha Gray computer......Mark. =/\= He said and then there was a loud hum and POP. Then, standing before them was a perfectly immaculately clean shuttle.

"Thank me later Boys." He said.

"What the.....HOW??????" asked Pops.

"Well, remember that industrial Sonic inverter we scrapped from that old Andorian ship?" Asked Cash "Well, a sonic inverter is the main component to a sonic shower. It can very easily be hooked up to a power and sonic signal source, like a ship's comm system, and then everything inside basically takes a bath. For the outside of the ship, it took fine tuning, but depolarizing the hull was once used before shield technology. All I needed to do was find the frequency that repelled the grime. Kind of like a balloon sticking with static electricity. Only in reverse. See, we were told we had to use tooth brushes. We were NOT told we couldn't use anything else. And since the air filter system wouldn't be cleaned I changed the filters. So, " Cash said looking at the guards. "1 shuttle ready for inspection." He said smiling.

The flight control officer performing the inspection came out of the shuttle and gestured for Cash to join her. She nodded toward the immaculately clean pile of debris that had been shoved into one corner. "Remove the empties and I'd say this is ready to go back into service."

"Remove the......" Said Pig Boy. "Good Lord, we ARE going to be here forever." He said. Then they all started laughing.

"Ok Guys, we got empties to get rid of."

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Commander Cian D'Anvers (as NPCs)
Commanding Officer
USS Crazy Horse

Lt jg Xander Cash
Chief Engineering Officer (for now)
USS Crazy Horse

Ensign Lucius Delmar
Engineer
USS Crazy Horse

Petty Officer 1st Class Graal Krit
Engineer
USS Crazy Horse

Petty Officer 2nd Class Eddy Felson
Engineer
USS Crazy Horse

Crewman Latka Gravas
Engineer
USS Crazy Horse

Crewman Telev Kar'eem
Engineer
USS Crazy Horse