Shopping!
Diziara came out of one of the service shafts into the juncture, and quickly looked down the other shafts, her appropriated disruptor leading her gaze. Seeing it was clear, she stopped in the middle of the juncture and indicated for Noelle and Spiegel to follow her in. Noelle settled into a corner to rest, and Diziara leveled her gaze at Spiegel.
"I didn't get a chance to see the scale on those schematics you found for me.... how much farther is this going to be?" Diziara glanced over at Noelle a second, then crossed her arms and returned her gaze to Spiegel. He quickly pulled out his PADD, silently talked to himself a moment, then looked up at Diziara again.
"Probably another dozen levels," he answered with a shrug, and shoved the PADD back into his pocket.
"Is there any quicker way we can do this? There's only so long before someone notices Maddie's gone missing, regardless of what people think of her. If nothing else, that brown nosing bitch, Jessica, will go looking for her fearless leader soon," Diziara replied, and looked around the junction.
"I could probably tap into the transporter systems, but it's going to take me a short bit to hack up something to keep the people up in Ops from noticing," Spiegel explained even as he started to tear into one of the access panels in the junction.
"Just be quick about it," Diziara told him, and glanced over at Noelle. "Stash anything to eat or drink in your pockets?" Spiegel kept working with one hand as he reached into his pocket with the other. Out came a water bottle and some field rations, which he held out for Diziara. She offered them up to Noelle.
"You do know we've had someone following us, right? Probably since we entered the Jefferies Tubes," Noelle pointed out to Diziara, quietly enough that Spiegel wouldn't hear. Diziara sat down next to Noelle, nodding, and Noelle broke open the water bottle.
"It's Travis, I think he would have done something by now if he was going to. I'm not sure what his game is, but it's clearly not aligned with Maddie," Diziara explained softly. "Spiegel thinks he was doing such a good job at rear guard," she added with a small laugh. Noelle managed a half grin.
"Don't have the heart to burst his bubble?" Noelle finally asked. Diziara shook her head.
"He's been getting better over the years, but sometimes you just can't imbue combat instincts into someone. What's weird is his instincts for surviving a place like New York City means he should be picking this stuff up better than he is, but-"
"Ready to go when you are," Spiegel interrupted, and Diziara grinned.
"And what amazing voodoo are you pulling this time?" she ribbed. He narrowed his eyes at her.
"It is not voodoo," he insisted.
"Might as well be from my perspective," she grinned wider, and he muttered. "Your Klingon cursing has improved lately," she added.
"Internal sensors are going to go offline," he started to explain, pointedly ignoring Diziara's teasing. "Loudly and annoyingly to grab attention, then the transporter logs are going to quietly and discretely shut down while everyone's distracted. That should be enough to get us a site to site transport without being traced," he explained.
"Ready when you are," Noelle said, and moved to stand. Spiegel turned back to the panel, and Diziara was up to offer Noelle a hand in a flash, which provoked a forced grin from the smaller woman, even though she reluctantly accepted the help. It only was a moment more before the three of them disappeared in the whine of the transporter.
A minute later, Travis exited the service shaft the trio had come from a few minutes before, and turned his attention directly to the access panel Spiegel had been working at. He worked at it a minute, then closed it up as it'd been before. He then pulled out his PADD, fussed with it a minute, then headed into another service shaft.
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The team materialized inside a storage room, and Diziara automatically went into motion the moment the transporter beam released her. It didn't take her long to sweep the whole room and confirm that they were truly alone, and she took up watch next to the only door out. Spiegel pulled his PADD out of his pocket.
"Okay, a lot of what we need should be in here. I pulled up a manifest and skimmed it as I was working on the transporter thing. Noelle, you up for helping?" Spiegel explained as he started to walk around the room and inspect the various things on the shelves. It wasn't long before he shoved something into his pocket.