Pacifica #56"
By: Teilani Dane, Chief Medical Officer, [PC]
Krystal, Pixie Hologram
, [RNPC]
Maxine Lucinda Tapert, Computer Specialist, [PC]
Stardate: 58205.27 0120
With a small flash Bones disappeared and Teilani looked at the readings on the console. The program looked fine, there were not any flaws what so ever, not as far as she could determine.
Teilani tapped her combadge.
"Dane to Ensign Tappert. Sorry to bother you so late Ensign but I could use your expertise with the EMH. He seems to be malfunctioning. Could you meet me in sickbay please?"
"I'll be right there, ma'am," Maxine promptly responded and grabbed her pack as she headed towards Sickbay.
"Weeee! Here we go! OH Wait.... He's the guy that tries to smack me with trays!" Krystal had to point out as she stood on Maxine's shoulder and clung to a lock of hair.
"Just behave," Maxine warned her. "Sickbay," she instructed the turbolift after stepping inside.
"I always behave," the pixie hmph'd.
"Roight... Sometimes I wonder..." the computer tech eyed the hologram.
"Hah! We're here!" Krystal announced when Maxine stepped into Sickbay a few minutes later.
"Ensign Tapert reporting, ma'am," Maxine ignored the pixie as she spoke to Dane. "What seems to be the trouble with the EMH?
"Hello Ensign, sorry for the late hour."Teilani replied. "Look this is what is happening."
"Computer activate EMH." she said a second time
"Please state the............" Computer mute," Teilani said'. As the EMH appeared he glared at Ensign Tapert and at the little Pixie. His mouth was moving but to Teilani's delight no insults etc were audiable.
"See his matrix seems to be destabilazing everytime. I have been unable to find out why."
"Oh dear..." Maxine watched the EMH with a quirked brow.
"He looks good that way," Krystal volunteered and gave the doctor a pleased grin. "You should keep him like that."
"Have you had anything unusual happen today, doc?" Max asked as she pulled open an access hatch to the control panel for the holoemitters and field generators, and began running a diagnostics on them.
"No nothing, he always worked fine," Teilani said watching Max working. The little pixie hovering next to her.
"Hmmm... I'm running a diagnostic on the holoemitters and field generators first," she explained. "In case it's an easy fix..."
Bones looked utterly displeased and gestured to his mouth. "There," Teilani said, "look it is happening again. It looks like some sort of a power failure."
Maxine moved to look critically at the EMH and hmmm'd again. "Or a disruption of some kind..." she mused thoughtfully, and accessed a terminal, pulling up the program to look at.
"Krystal, access the power grid and see if there are any fluctuations. Especially around Sickbay..." Max commanded softly.
"Aye, Aye, sir!" The little pixie saluted and the fluttered around the EMH a moment, dodging his hand before disappearing with a spray of golden dust.
Teilani smiled as she noticed the EHM trying to swat the pixie. She had to teach him that she was not a treat but only there to help him.
"The code looks good..." Maxine told Dane as her eyes scanned it. "So it has t'be something physical. Let me check the diagnostic routine I left running on the holoemitters and field generators..."
Teilani looked closely at the concentrated face of Maxine. She surely was good at her work.
"Hmmm.. Holoemitter and field generators look good too...." Tapert put away her diagnostic equipment and looked up when Krystal popped into view on top of her head and peer over to look at her upside down. "Got it...." she fluttered her wings and grinned at her creator.
"Which conduit?" Maxine asked with a quirk of her brow.
The little pixie 'hmph'd' before answering with a rather proud, "ODN Grid 5, Section S-31".
"You were right, ma'am; seems to be a misalignment of one of the ODN conduits. I'll just tweak it a bit," Maxine informed Dane and set about realigning it. "Let me know when he looks good..." Although her adjustment would be much more accurate than that.
Teilani looked at Bones which was still pacing around sickbay, his arms crossed infront of his chest and looking terribly cross. His apperance shimmered again, faded completely and then suddenly came back.
"Seems that he is fully operational again Max." Teilani said with a smile and a yawn.
She tapped a console to give Bones a voice again. "Finally he said in his prissy voice. "Do you know what it is like not hearing yourself. And what are they doin' here?"
The pixie preened her wings at the 'they' and wiggled her fingers at the EMH, making sure she stayed out of swatting range of course.
"Bones, they fixed your holomatrix. Seems like engineering made some error during routine maintenance."
Maxine put her tools away and stood next to Dane as she eyes the EMH critically. She finally grinned around the ever-present isolinear chip in her mouth. "He's kinda cute when he get all riled up like that, isn't he?" Leave it to Maxine to find a hologram attractive.
"That little fly help out as well." Bones said glaring at the pixie. "Hmmmpf suppose she could be useful."
"Hey! I'm -just-the-same-as-*you*-, you know," Krystal pointed out carefully and hmph'd at Bones. "Only you're bigger and I'm smaller and much prettier and I have wings." She preened some more and ran her little pixie fingers over the array of 'baubles' and sparkling 'trinkets' that decorated her hair and person. "I could make your hair pretty like mine," the pixie offered.
Maxine rolled her eyes and couldn't help giggling at the thought of Bones with decorated braids and dred locks.
Despite the late hour Teilani laughed. She too had the mental picture of Bones with braids and curlers.
"Thank you so much Ensign, Krystal," Teilani said. "Again I m sorry for the late hour. With a nod Max and Krystal left sickbay there was just enough time to get some rest.