Deep Space 9 Xenomorph incident(2378)

## Plot

On November 11, 2378, Henry Marlow arrived at Deep Space 9 aboard the salvage vessel *Anesidora*, requesting emergency medical attention for his wife, Catherine Foster, who was attacked by a unknown Alien. Head of Medical Dr. Julian Bashir believed he could remove the parasite himself.

On, November 12, 2378, a creature hatched from Foster, killing her. The creature escaped into the bowels of the station and soon began to establish a Hive on the lower decks, capturing people to breed new Xenomorphs. Commander Elias Vaughn who was currently in charge while Captain Kira Nery's was out attempted to cover up the disappearances whilst he and his men hunted for the culprit, but the situation soon escalated wildly out of control as more and more creatures began preying on the station's population. Vaughn evaculates nearly 90% of the General Population from the station before the station looses all contact from the outside. The escaped personal establish emergency communications with Starfleet and Starfleet ask the USS Defiant to return early from its mission to investigation the situation.

On November 13 2378, Captain Kira Nery, along with Senior Staff Chief of Operations Lt Nog and Lt Commander Thirishar ch'Thane return to the Station aboard the USS Defiant Captain Kira finds the station damaged and communications with the ship Impossible. Unable to dock due to power outage and damage, Kira, Nog and Thane transport over to the Station only for the Transporter pad malfunction and place all three in separate parts of the Station.

Alone Kira finds herself unable to contact the rest of her team. The station itself is largely deserted and damaged severely. Kira Finds Quark hiding in his Bar and he explains the current situation to best of his knowledge, that there is a "Monster" Loose and is killing everyone Kira not really convinced of his claims until they are both nearly killed by the creature, it kills Broik a employee of Quarks in front of them.

After reestablishing Communications with Nog, He tells her that Thane was injured shortly after they arrived by the same creature that Kira and Quark Encountered.

After joining her crewmates in person, Kira goes to the station's medical facility to locate Doctor Bashir they leave Thane with Bashir and Quark and secure Sickbay, Kira determined to find the rest of the crew and stop this creature sets out with Nog to continue to investigate the station, they must avoid the Xenomorph, which stalks them through the Stations corridors. They make their way to OPS and begin to get the stations systems back online to hopefully track the creature but also locate any more survivors However, just as they are about to leave the area, the Xenomorph suddenly appears, cornering Kira; she is saved when Nog straps his Overloading Phaser to the Xenomorph's back, Nog is wounded but the two escape after the injuried Xenomorph retreats.

Kira and her group are found by Commander Vaughn and Lt Commander Laren, who explain that the Xenomorph was brought aboard the station by the *Anesidora*, As a result, Vaughn has been holding the vessels' captain, Henry Marlow, at Stations Security Office. This point they establish communications with the Defiant again and Lt Sam Bowers the Tactical Officer aboard Captain Nery's directions him to begin locking onto surviving people aboard the ship and to conduct scans of each person before transporting to determine if they have been infected, if they have not been infected to beam them aboard, if they have keep them aboard the station until they can figure a way to help them.

With their explosive traps having thus far failed to harm the Xenomorph, Vaughn has developed a new plan to trap the creature in a Runabout and remote piloting it away and destroying it with the Xenomorph still aboard, killing the creature. which they attempt and are successful.

With the threat seemly disposed of, the situation aboard DS9 appears back under control before beaming everyone back over from the Defiant Nog begins to reboot the the Stations systems but finds something wrong in the lower Decks when his Engineering team does not return from the Lower Decks. It is discovered that the Xenomorph had not been killing all of the people, it was taking and reproducing more Xenomorphs, they attack the Crew killing Vaughn during the attack.

Lt Commander Laren informs Kira that Lt Evik Nath the Stations Chief of Security freed Marlow from custody because he felt the man had done nothing wrong Marlow fled to his ship. Kira gets a Channel open to him Marlow reveals he plans to detonate the *Anesidora'*s fusion reactor to destroy DS9, thereby ensuring the Xenomorphs do not Escape. Kira and Evik beam aboard his Vessel and Evik knocks Marlow unconscious but the two Starfleet Officers realize a Xenomorph has snuck aboard the vessel and it kills both Marlow and Evik, Kira cannot prevent the reactor explosion, and has barely any time to redirect the ship away from the station and is beamed off of the ship, Kira barely escapes thanks to Nog beaming her back to the station just as the ship explodes. While the reduced blast is not large enough to destroy DS9, it damages more then 50% of the station.

With time running out, Nog realign DS9 communications array to contact the Defiant for evacuation, Kira and her remaining Crew make their way to a Transporter Pad Lt Commander Than is subdued by a Facehugger and Kira is forced to leave her behind. With only a few minutes Kira ensures that her crew are beamed aboard the Defiant first, A Xenomorph appears as the last of her crew are beamed aboard, Kira escapes the clutchs of the Alien and realizes she doesn't have much time left. Kira is forced to don an EVA suit and attempt a spacewalk to the ship. However, she is attacked by a Xenomorph and dragged into an air duct. She awakens to find she has been cocooned in another nest but manages to escape before she can be impregnated with a Chestburster. As the station begins to fall apart all around her, Kira escaping moments before the station begins to disintegrate. She is beamed aboard the Defiant as she and her crew witness the Station explode killing the remaining Xenomorphs.