Baby Rush

Posted on Tue Mar 18th, 2025 @ 7:44am by Captain Yuri Nakamura & Lieutenant Amu Hinamori M.D. & Lieutenant JG Kurumi Hatanaka & Petty Officer 1st Class Yoshika Miyafuji & Commander Chisato Nishikigi & Lieutenant Talia Johnson & Lieutenant Dr. Eli Ellis M.D.

1,166 words; about a 6 minute read

Mission: Andromeda
Location: Sickbay

[Main Sickbay]

The Main Sickbay of the Tokyo had taken some damage from the explosion, and wounded were pouring in as expected. Most of the ships medical staff were hard at work helping those who had been thrown against bulkheads, experienced a blast from a console or worse.

The doors opened and Nurse Miyafuji and Ensign Syaro helped Captain Nakamura and Doctor Hinamori through the doors. "Doctor?!" they both called out.

Eli was inundated with patients. His sickbay was a mess again after the rough transit. Still, he strode out quickly at the sound of his name.

"What's happening?" He asked as he approached the group, pulling out his tricorder from his coat pocket.

The baby inside Amu seemed quite agitated, visibly moving at an alarming rate. It was evident that she was in intense pain as the child within her squirmed and moved.

Talia had made her way to Sickbay to see what she could do to help, she wasn’t a medic but as a counsellor she had some medical training.

"The Elachi did something to her baby." Yoshika explained. "It's showing signs of increased agitation and distress. It's also moving a lot causing discomfort and sometimes pain." She reported. "The doctor explained that they actually removed the foetus before putting it back. Apparently for 'study'," Yoshika told Eli as she helped lay Amu down on a biobed.

“They REMOVED the baby?” Eli said in shock as he started to scan Amu.

“Neo-natal monitors, 3D quantum scan, and let’s get a pre-term kit”

Talia moved across to Amu, hoping to provide at least some support for her as medical treatment went on. “Hold on Amu, they’ll do everything they can to help you.”

Yoshika wasted no time, she rushed over the equipment. "Here you go doctor," she said.

Eli nods, accepting the equipment. He taps furiously on the biobed's console, the scanner emerging from each side of it over Amu. it thrums as it scans.

"The baby is in distress, heartrate above normal, pulse is thready and fast." He explains.

"What exactly did they do while the baby was outside of Ms. Amu?" He inquires as he types more on the console.

"We don't know." Yoshika said.

"They took him..." Amu stated out. "Then they put him back inside me! They did something to him!" She cried out. "And he's been actively kicking me ever since!"

One of the medics who had helped carry Amu into Sickbay and quickly moved to restrain her before she hurt herself or the baby.

"Whatever they did, it also appears to be counteracting the effects of the Anesthezine whenever we try to administer it to the patient," he reported. "We gave her at least 20CC back before we left the cargo bay, and she woke up again while we were on the turbolift; we gave her a higher dosage. And she woke up before we even got here."

He shook his head. "At this rate, a surgery's looking too risky."

Eli shook his head.

“Nurse, prep for a fetal transport. We’ll need a class 1 incubator and prep for Osmotic pressure therapy.” Eli looked down at Amu.

“The baby is going to be alright but he’ll need to come out before he injures you. He’s in good hands” Eli reassured her.

"Don't take him out!" Amu said. "It's far too early!: she protested.

Talia could only stand and watch as events played out, trying to be some kind of moral support. “They didn’t seem interested in my baby because of mixed genetics, only pure genetics seemed right for them.”

One of the nurses tilted her head to one side. "So they were only Interested in human babies?" She surmised. "But why humans specifically?"

"They want to render us unable to 'spread'." Amu explained upon hearing the question. "They want us to stop reproducing!"

The triage of medics and nurses tending to Amu promptly fell silent as they reckoned with the broader implications of what she was alleging.

"They want to sterilize us?" one of the medics finally spoke up. "But what business would a bunch of mushroom people from a parallel dimension have in sterilizing a species that's unlikely to encroach on their respective ecosystem?"

“Maybe they fear what we’ll do to their ecosystem and environment.” Eli speculated.

Yoshika turned to Eli. "The baby is settling down..." she said as she monitored her tricorder. "Heart rate is returning to normal levels. And he's started to be less active."

“Let’s hold on the fetal transport but keep the baby on monitors until further notice.” Eli says to Yoshika.

Anu sighed in relief. "Thank God he's alright."

Wanting a second opinion- after all, it did seem a bit curious that after experiencing such considerable distress that it was actively visible to bystanders, the baby was just now beginning to stabilize- another medic moved over and quickly ran his tricorder over Amu's belly.

"That's strange... I'm detecting the presence of an unidentified compound in the fetal circulation with what looks to be traces of carbon," he remarked as he studied the data on the tricorder. "They seem to be reacting with the cellular receptors throughout the body, much like you would expect with hormones..."

He glanced up. "Doc, if I didn't know any better, I'd say this kid was pumped full of steroids."

"That would make sense." Yoshika said. "To assist in the removal and return from the womb. It seems that the Elachi didn't want to harm the baby, just... take a closer look?"

“For what purpose? To what end? It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to remove the baby only to return it. Something else is afoot here.” Eli postulated to the group.

Yoshika shrugged. "We don't know. But our scans don't detect anything wrong or out of the ordinary now that he's calming down. At least that we can detect."

"Even still, it may behoove us to take some samples of the compound before it completely dissipates into the fetal circulation," another medic proposed. "We have no way of determining if what they just injected into him will have long-term complications."

Amu sat back on the biobed and began to rest. With her baby now calming down and not moving as much, it showed that he was out of distress. She was just glad that he hadn't been forced to have been born early, even with their advanced medical technology the chance of his survival was low at his stage of development.

"I'm ok doctor. Go attend to the others," Amu said to Eli giving him a smile. She ran a hand over her belly. "Thankyou."

Posting by:

Captain Yuri Nakamura
Former Commander of USS Oceania

Lieutenant Amu Hinamori M.D.
Flight Deck Chief Medic

Petty Officer 1st Class Yoshika Miyafuji
Nurse

Lieutenant Talia Johnson
Chief Counsellor

Lieutenant Dr Eli Ellis M.D.
Chief Medical Officer

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