From:		alligator1
Date:		09 July 1996 23:04
To:		U.S.S. Lafayette
Subject:		RE: Slater Planet

<Lt j.g. Lectron, Medical Facility>

	"Barret to McRae.  Medical Emergency.  We need you in sickbay right away."

	Lectron looked at McRae.  She tapped her comm badge, "Lieutenant, acknowledged; stand by. "

	What was going through her mind?  In a second she tapped her comm badge again and talked to Beata.  Next thing he knew, she was beaming up.  

	He looked around.  The Slider technician was coming up with the power adapters.  He thanked her as he took them from her paws.  

	It didn't take long to get the power adapters installed.  Once that was done, he walked over to one of the patients and scraped tissue from one of its arms.  Putting the sample in the molecular analyzer, he adjusted the setting for protein flux anaylsis.  It would take a several minutes, so he decided to look around the medical lab.

	He stepped through a door that looked to contain research animals.  The cages seemed well kept, the animals well treated and healthy.  Then he gasped.  What was that animal--it surely didn't look like a Slider animal--in fact, it reminded him of a picture he had seen of an old terrian animal--what was it--a pygmy marmoset.  Why would they have a terrian animal in this facility?  He turned to speak to the technician and stopped short.  He was looking at the barrel of some kind of phaser and the fur-ball that held it didn't seem to be in a kidding mood.  

	"Too bad you didn't stay where you were supposed to human.  Now, I've got to figure out how to do away with you before your superior returns."

	It nodded toward the door.  Lectron moved--he was no hero--and didn't want to be a dead hero.  Once out in the main lab, Lectron said, "excuse me, but what is going on here?"  The fur ball grunted and Lectron's last thought was that of the signal light on the molecular analyzer blinking, showing it was done  with the analysis.

	The fur ball moved to a communicator and spoke.  "I have one of the Federation scientist and I need to get rid of the body.  Can you help me?" 

	"We will be there shortly.  Hide the body and bring in a new technician that can assume your form."